Hybrid/Remote AWS Job Trends

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring AWS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 13 9
Rank change year-on-year +3 -4 -3
Permanent jobs citing AWS 2,359 2,166 4,867
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 11.58% 13.85% 14.39%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.40% 36.42% 33.97%
Number of salaries quoted 1,519 1,367 4,109
10th Percentile £45,200 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £54,526 £56,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £71,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +5.63% -2.07%
75th Percentile £90,000 £106,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,450 £135,000 £122,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +3.57% -6.67%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Work from Home

AWS falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 7,761 5,947 14,326
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.09% 38.02% 42.35%
Number of salaries quoted 5,508 4,349 11,902
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,438 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -8.95%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing AWS and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

AWS job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

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Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing AWS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing AWS

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Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing AWS over the 6 months to 26 June 2026.

AWS salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 59 (2.50%) Apache Airflow
2 41 (1.74%) Apache Spark
3 26 (1.10%) Apache
4 23 (0.97%) Microsoft Exchange
5 16 (0.68%) CMS
6 15 (0.64%) SharePoint
7 11 (0.47%) IIS
8 8 (0.34%) Confluence
9 7 (0.30%) Jupyter
9 7 (0.30%) nginx
10 6 (0.25%) Apache Solr
10 6 (0.25%) WordPress
11 5 (0.21%) Anypoint
11 5 (0.21%) Mule
12 4 (0.17%) Ethereum
13 3 (0.13%) SAS
13 3 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
14 2 (0.085%) ArcGIS
14 2 (0.085%) Oracle Application Server
14 2 (0.085%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 89 (3.77%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.30%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.21%) AutoCAD
3 5 (0.21%) Chatbot
3 5 (0.21%) DaVinci Resolve
4 4 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.13%) Adobe Illustrator
5 3 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.13%) Photoshop
6 2 (0.085%) PlantUML
7 1 (0.042%) Elementor
7 1 (0.042%) EngageOne
7 1 (0.042%) Microsoft Excel
7 1 (0.042%) Trello
Business Applications
1 24 (1.02%) Cloudability
2 5 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (0.21%) Shopify
3 4 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.085%) SAP HR
5 1 (0.042%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.042%) Magento
5 1 (0.042%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.042%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.042%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.042%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 1,000 (42.39%) Azure
2 599 (25.39%) GCP
3 255 (10.81%) Serverless
4 240 (10.17%) SaaS
5 190 (8.05%) GitHub
6 167 (7.08%) Amazon S3
7 164 (6.95%) AWS Lambda
8 152 (6.44%) Microsoft 365
9 122 (5.17%) Amazon EKS
10 103 (4.37%) AWS CloudFormation
11 102 (4.32%) Amazon EC2
12 86 (3.65%) Amazon ECS
13 83 (3.52%) GitHub Actions
14 70 (2.97%) Amazon SQS
15 57 (2.42%) Azure DevOps
16 56 (2.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 49 (2.08%) GitHub Copilot
17 49 (2.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 48 (2.03%) Entra ID
19 43 (1.82%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 139 (5.89%) Firewall
2 136 (5.77%) Broadband
3 77 (3.26%) VPN
4 75 (3.18%) WAN
5 67 (2.84%) DNS
6 65 (2.76%) LAN
7 55 (2.33%) Network Security
8 48 (2.03%) Wi-Fi
9 44 (1.87%) TCP/IP
10 42 (1.78%) DHCP
11 37 (1.57%) HTTP
12 34 (1.44%) SD-WAN
13 30 (1.27%) Cisco ASA
14 29 (1.23%) VXLAN
15 26 (1.10%) Cisco Firepower
16 23 (0.97%) VLAN
17 20 (0.85%) BGP
18 17 (0.72%) NGFW
19 16 (0.68%) MPLS
19 16 (0.68%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 247 (10.47%) PostgreSQL
2 221 (9.37%) MongoDB
3 121 (5.13%) NoSQL
4 98 (4.15%) SQL Server
5 93 (3.94%) MySQL
6 89 (3.77%) Elasticsearch
7 63 (2.67%) Amazon RDS
8 60 (2.54%) DynamoDB
9 58 (2.46%) Azure SQL Database
9 58 (2.46%) Relational Database
10 55 (2.33%) Metadata
11 43 (1.82%) Data Warehouse
12 39 (1.65%) Redis
13 38 (1.61%) Amazon Athena
14 33 (1.40%) Amazon Redshift
15 29 (1.23%) BigQuery
16 27 (1.14%) Data Lake
17 25 (1.06%) Tableau
18 23 (0.97%) Power BI
19 20 (0.85%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 127 (5.38%) Git
2 81 (3.43%) GitLab
2 81 (3.43%) Jenkins
3 63 (2.67%) TeamCity
4 50 (2.12%) Cypress.io
5 41 (1.74%) JIRA
6 25 (1.06%) Claude Code
7 17 (0.72%) Selenium
8 16 (0.68%) JUnit
9 15 (0.64%) CircleCI
10 14 (0.59%) Crashlytics
10 14 (0.59%) JMeter
10 14 (0.59%) Maven
10 14 (0.59%) XCTest
11 12 (0.51%) Jaeger
12 11 (0.47%) Postman
13 9 (0.38%) Mockito
14 8 (0.34%) MLflow
15 7 (0.30%) Cucumber
16 6 (0.25%) Bitbucket
General
1 569 (24.12%) Social Skills
2 527 (22.34%) Finance
3 259 (10.98%) Public Sector
4 227 (9.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 218 (9.24%) Banking
6 182 (7.72%) Law
7 145 (6.15%) Retail
8 127 (5.38%) Analytical Skills
9 64 (2.71%) Legal
10 54 (2.29%) Back Office
11 53 (2.25%) Financial Institution
12 51 (2.16%) Games
13 43 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
14 42 (1.78%) French Language
14 42 (1.78%) Front Office
15 35 (1.48%) Swedish Language
16 28 (1.19%) Marketing
16 28 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
17 23 (0.97%) Telecoms
18 21 (0.89%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 557 (23.61%) Senior
2 507 (21.49%) Developer
3 416 (17.63%) Software Engineer
4 316 (13.40%) Lead
5 265 (11.23%) Architect
6 157 (6.66%) AWS Engineer
7 146 (6.19%) Full-Stack Developer
8 118 (5.00%) Senior Software Engineer
9 117 (4.96%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 113 (4.79%) Analyst
11 107 (4.54%) Lead Software Engineer
12 106 (4.49%) DevOps Engineer
13 98 (4.15%) Solutions Architect
14 97 (4.11%) Cloud Engineer
15 93 (3.94%) Lead Developer
15 93 (3.94%) Software Developer
16 92 (3.90%) .NET Developer
17 89 (3.77%) Engineering Manager
17 89 (3.77%) Senior Developer
18 88 (3.73%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 407 (17.25%) React
2 343 (14.54%) Node.js
3 200 (8.48%) .NET
4 150 (6.36%) REST
5 126 (5.34%) Spring
6 125 (5.30%) RESTful
7 121 (5.13%) Kafka
8 116 (4.92%) CSS
9 114 (4.83%) Vue
10 98 (4.15%) AngularJS
11 90 (3.82%) Spring Boot
12 85 (3.60%) .NET Core
13 80 (3.39%) HTML
14 77 (3.26%) ASP.NET
15 69 (2.92%) ASP.NET Core
16 52 (2.20%) Ruby on Rails
17 50 (2.12%) Redux
18 49 (2.08%) .NET Framework
18 49 (2.08%) gRPC
19 43 (1.82%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 390 (16.53%) Cloud Native
2 194 (8.22%) Product Ownership
3 180 (7.63%) Distributed Systems
4 96 (4.07%) Public Cloud
5 79 (3.35%) Greenfield Project
5 79 (3.35%) Video\Live Streaming
6 64 (2.71%) Data Centre
7 56 (2.37%) Security Posture
8 55 (2.33%) Onboarding
9 53 (2.25%) Blog
9 53 (2.25%) Management Information System
10 46 (1.95%) Over-the-Top Content
11 44 (1.87%) Enterprise Software
11 44 (1.87%) Fixed Income
11 44 (1.87%) Hybrid Cloud
11 44 (1.87%) Self-Motivation
12 41 (1.74%) Mobile App
13 39 (1.65%) AI Agents
13 39 (1.65%) PKI
14 35 (1.48%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 204 (8.65%) Linux
2 130 (5.51%) Windows
3 56 (2.37%) Windows Server
4 53 (2.25%) Unix
5 39 (1.65%) Apple iOS
6 26 (1.10%) Android
7 16 (0.68%) Windows 10
8 13 (0.55%) Windows Server 2016
9 10 (0.42%) Mac OS
9 10 (0.42%) Windows Server 2012
10 9 (0.38%) Ubuntu
10 9 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
11 5 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 4 (0.17%) Debian
13 3 (0.13%) CentOS
14 1 (0.042%) FreeBSD
14 1 (0.042%) Mac OS X
14 1 (0.042%) OpenBSD
14 1 (0.042%) Windows 7
14 1 (0.042%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 831 (35.23%) CI/CD
2 741 (31.41%) Agile
3 733 (31.07%) Software Engineering
4 539 (22.85%) Mentoring
5 534 (22.64%) DevOps
6 491 (20.81%) Full-Stack Development
7 473 (20.05%) Microservices
8 435 (18.44%) AI
9 431 (18.27%) Infrastructure as Code
10 410 (17.38%) Continuous Improvement
11 391 (16.57%) Problem-Solving
12 354 (15.01%) Test Automation
13 339 (14.37%) Containerisation
14 332 (14.07%) Technical Leadership
15 301 (12.76%) Roadmaps
16 277 (11.74%) Coaching
17 252 (10.68%) Clean Code
18 238 (10.09%) Machine Learning
19 226 (9.58%) Observability
20 222 (9.41%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 656 (27.81%) Python
2 531 (22.51%) Java
3 388 (16.45%) TypeScript
4 367 (15.56%) JavaScript
5 335 (14.20%) SQL
6 250 (10.60%) C#
7 202 (8.56%) Go
8 109 (4.62%) Bash
9 76 (3.22%) Scala
10 70 (2.97%) C++
10 70 (2.97%) PHP
11 62 (2.63%) Ruby
12 55 (2.33%) PowerShell
13 34 (1.44%) Kotlin
14 27 (1.14%) Rust
15 17 (0.72%) Bicep
16 14 (0.59%) Swift
17 13 (0.55%) PL/SQL
18 9 (0.38%) Groovy
19 7 (0.30%) C
Qualifications
1 321 (13.61%) Security Cleared
2 287 (12.17%) Degree
3 268 (11.36%) SC Cleared
4 183 (7.76%) AWS Certification
5 96 (4.07%) Microsoft Certification
6 82 (3.48%) Computer Science Degree
6 82 (3.48%) MCSE
7 63 (2.67%) CISSP
8 55 (2.33%) Azure Certification
9 46 (1.95%) DV Cleared
10 42 (1.78%) CISM
11 37 (1.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 32 (1.36%) Cisco Certification
13 24 (1.02%) DBS Check
14 22 (0.93%) CREST Certified
15 21 (0.89%) CCNP
16 18 (0.76%) TOGAF Certification
17 17 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
18 16 (0.68%) Master's Degree
18 16 (0.68%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 185 (7.84%) QA
2 92 (3.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 66 (2.80%) NIST
4 57 (2.42%) Data Quality
5 54 (2.29%) Accessibility
6 45 (1.91%) GDPR
7 36 (1.53%) PCI DSS
8 28 (1.19%) GRC
9 27 (1.14%) NCSC
10 18 (0.76%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 16 (0.68%) SOC 2
12 15 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials
13 12 (0.51%) JSP 440
14 11 (0.47%) ISO 9001
15 10 (0.42%) SLA
16 8 (0.34%) WCAG
17 7 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
17 7 (0.30%) Government Security Classifications
18 6 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
18 6 (0.25%) PMO
System Software
1 422 (17.89%) Docker
2 63 (2.67%) Active Directory
3 41 (1.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 40 (1.70%) Hyper-V
5 20 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
6 18 (0.76%) vSphere
7 6 (0.25%) Firmware
7 6 (0.25%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 6 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
8 5 (0.21%) KVM
9 3 (0.13%) iptables
9 3 (0.13%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.085%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 2 (0.085%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.042%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.042%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 416 (17.63%) Terraform
2 379 (16.07%) Kubernetes
3 135 (5.72%) Ansible
4 119 (5.04%) Grafana
5 54 (2.29%) Prometheus
6 36 (1.53%) Argo
7 23 (0.97%) Microsoft Intune
8 16 (0.68%) Proxmox
9 14 (0.59%) Progress Chef
10 13 (0.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 13 (0.55%) Istio
11 12 (0.51%) Kustomize
11 12 (0.51%) Podman
11 12 (0.51%) Puppet
11 12 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
12 9 (0.38%) Cisco CUCM
12 9 (0.38%) Packer
13 7 (0.30%) ZABBIX
14 6 (0.25%) EMC NetWorker
14 6 (0.25%) Nmap
Vendors
1 376 (15.94%) Microsoft
2 114 (4.83%) ServiceNow
3 105 (4.45%) Google
4 69 (2.92%) VMware
5 67 (2.84%) Cisco
6 55 (2.33%) Oracle
7 45 (1.91%) Typelevel
8 39 (1.65%) Databricks
9 34 (1.44%) Apple
9 34 (1.44%) Fortinet
9 34 (1.44%) Palo Alto
9 34 (1.44%) Splunk
10 32 (1.36%) SolarWinds
11 29 (1.23%) Adobe
12 25 (1.06%) SAP
13 24 (1.02%) Salesforce
14 21 (0.89%) Aruba
15 20 (0.85%) OpenAI
16 19 (0.81%) Dynatrace
17 18 (0.76%) Dell