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 11 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 8 9
Rank change year-on-year -2 +1 -2
Permanent jobs citing AWS 1,904 2,385 4,385
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 11.45% 17.10% 14.66%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.82% 36.01% 32.31%
Number of salaries quoted 1,265 1,666 3,844
10th Percentile £46,250 £46,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £53,750 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +7.41% -6.90%
75th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £117,000 £118,750 £110,000
UK median annual salary £71,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -2.07% +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 6,177 6,623 13,571
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.15% 47.47% 45.36%
Number of salaries quoted 4,201 4,754 11,803
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.92% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

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

AWS
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing AWS over the 6 months to 11 March 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 75 (3.94%) Apache Airflow
2 40 (2.10%) Apache Spark
3 31 (1.63%) Apache
4 26 (1.37%) Microsoft Exchange
5 15 (0.79%) CMS
5 15 (0.79%) SharePoint
6 12 (0.63%) Confluence
7 11 (0.58%) nginx
8 8 (0.42%) Tomcat
8 8 (0.42%) WebSphere
8 8 (0.42%) WebSphere Application Server
8 8 (0.42%) WordPress
9 5 (0.26%) Anypoint
9 5 (0.26%) Apache Pulsar
9 5 (0.26%) Drupal
9 5 (0.26%) Ethereum
10 4 (0.21%) ArcGIS
10 4 (0.21%) GeoServer
10 4 (0.21%) Oracle Spatial
10 4 (0.21%) SAS
Applications
1 123 (6.46%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (0.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
5 4 (0.21%) Adobe Illustrator
5 4 (0.21%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.21%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.053%) EngageOne
6 1 (0.053%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.053%) Notion
Business Applications
1 14 (0.74%) Oracle ERP
2 11 (0.58%) Shopify
3 8 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.11%) SAP HR
6 1 (0.053%) Magento
6 1 (0.053%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.053%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.053%) Sprinklr
6 1 (0.053%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 815 (42.80%) Azure
2 506 (26.58%) GCP
3 268 (14.08%) Serverless
4 247 (12.97%) SaaS
5 190 (9.98%) GitHub
6 181 (9.51%) Microsoft 365
7 180 (9.45%) AWS Lambda
8 171 (8.98%) Amazon S3
9 132 (6.93%) Amazon EKS
10 106 (5.57%) AWS CloudFormation
11 90 (4.73%) GitHub Actions
12 80 (4.20%) Amazon ECS
13 75 (3.94%) Amazon EC2
13 75 (3.94%) Entra ID
14 70 (3.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 69 (3.62%) Amazon SQS
16 56 (2.94%) dbt
17 49 (2.57%) Azure DevOps
18 47 (2.47%) Snowflake
19 40 (2.10%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 117 (6.14%) Firewall
2 63 (3.31%) Broadband
3 60 (3.15%) VPN
4 53 (2.78%) WAN
5 47 (2.47%) Wi-Fi
6 46 (2.42%) TCP/IP
7 43 (2.26%) LAN
8 42 (2.21%) DNS
9 40 (2.10%) Network Security
10 27 (1.42%) SD-WAN
11 26 (1.37%) VXLAN
12 25 (1.31%) DHCP
13 22 (1.16%) Cisco ASA
13 22 (1.16%) VLAN
14 21 (1.10%) BGP
15 20 (1.05%) SSL
16 19 (1.00%) Cisco Firepower
17 18 (0.95%) NGFW
18 17 (0.89%) HTTP
19 16 (0.84%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 177 (9.30%) PostgreSQL
2 112 (5.88%) NoSQL
3 96 (5.04%) SQL Server
4 86 (4.52%) MongoDB
5 82 (4.31%) MySQL
6 69 (3.62%) Amazon RDS
7 61 (3.20%) Relational Database
8 53 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
9 49 (2.57%) DynamoDB
10 48 (2.52%) Metadata
11 44 (2.31%) BigQuery
12 42 (2.21%) Amazon Redshift
12 42 (2.21%) Elasticsearch
13 35 (1.84%) Amazon Athena
14 34 (1.79%) Data Lake
14 34 (1.79%) Tableau
15 30 (1.58%) Apache Iceberg
16 28 (1.47%) Redis
17 23 (1.21%) RDBMS
18 22 (1.16%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 116 (6.09%) Git
2 110 (5.78%) Jenkins
3 74 (3.89%) GitLab
4 58 (3.05%) TeamCity
5 35 (1.84%) Cypress.io
6 29 (1.52%) JIRA
7 19 (1.00%) Jaeger
7 19 (1.00%) Selenium
8 15 (0.79%) Cucumber
9 14 (0.74%) Bitbucket
9 14 (0.74%) JMeter
9 14 (0.74%) Oracle Forms
10 13 (0.68%) SonarQube
11 12 (0.63%) MLflow
12 11 (0.58%) JUnit
13 9 (0.47%) CircleCI
13 9 (0.47%) Subversion
14 8 (0.42%) Burp Suite
14 8 (0.42%) Metasploit
15 7 (0.37%) Vite
General
1 592 (31.09%) Social Skills
2 425 (22.32%) Finance
3 210 (11.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 177 (9.30%) Public Sector
5 171 (8.98%) Banking
6 157 (8.25%) Retail
7 155 (8.14%) Law
8 118 (6.20%) Analytical Skills
9 104 (5.46%) French Language
10 73 (3.83%) Swedish Language
11 72 (3.78%) Financial Institution
12 59 (3.10%) Front Office
13 58 (3.05%) Back Office
14 53 (2.78%) Telecoms
15 48 (2.52%) Legal
16 46 (2.42%) Games
16 46 (2.42%) Influencing Skills
17 34 (1.79%) Tech for Good
18 33 (1.73%) Marketing
19 30 (1.58%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 441 (23.16%) Senior
2 360 (18.91%) Developer
3 301 (15.81%) Software Engineer
4 263 (13.81%) Lead
5 192 (10.08%) Architect
6 146 (7.67%) Analyst
7 113 (5.93%) Full-Stack Developer
8 109 (5.72%) AWS Engineer
9 104 (5.46%) Service Analyst
9 104 (5.46%) Service Desk Analyst
10 100 (5.25%) Lead Developer
11 96 (5.04%) Senior Software Engineer
12 91 (4.78%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 87 (4.57%) Java Engineer
14 85 (4.46%) Data Engineer
15 83 (4.36%) Cloud Engineer
16 81 (4.25%) DevOps Engineer
17 71 (3.73%) Java Software Engineer
18 69 (3.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
19 66 (3.47%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 348 (18.28%) React
2 216 (11.34%) Node.js
3 151 (7.93%) .NET
4 148 (7.77%) Kafka
5 131 (6.88%) RESTful
6 108 (5.67%) Spring
7 97 (5.09%) Spring Boot
8 89 (4.67%) REST
9 87 (4.57%) CSS
10 76 (3.99%) HTML
11 69 (3.62%) AngularJS
12 67 (3.52%) Vue
13 58 (3.05%) Django
14 55 (2.89%) gRPC
15 54 (2.84%) Redux
16 48 (2.52%) .NET Core
17 46 (2.42%) Elastic Stack
18 43 (2.26%) GraphQL
19 38 (2.00%) JSON
20 33 (1.73%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 301 (15.81%) Cloud Native
2 136 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
3 101 (5.30%) Product Ownership
4 68 (3.57%) Public Cloud
5 67 (3.52%) Enterprise Software
6 61 (3.20%) Data Centre
7 59 (3.10%) Management Information System
8 55 (2.89%) Onboarding
9 53 (2.78%) Fixed Income
10 49 (2.57%) Blog
11 45 (2.36%) Security Posture
12 41 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
13 36 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
13 36 (1.89%) PKI
14 35 (1.84%) Self-Motivation
15 34 (1.79%) Hybrid Cloud
16 33 (1.73%) Data Structures
17 31 (1.63%) Video\Live Streaming
18 29 (1.52%) Mobile App
19 28 (1.47%) Over-the-Top Content
Operating Systems
1 193 (10.14%) Linux
2 100 (5.25%) Windows
3 73 (3.83%) Unix
4 51 (2.68%) Windows Server
5 49 (2.57%) Android
6 44 (2.31%) Apple iOS
7 25 (1.31%) Windows 10
8 20 (1.05%) Mac OS
9 18 (0.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 17 (0.89%) Windows Server 2012
11 16 (0.84%) Windows Server 2016
12 15 (0.79%) Windows Server 2019
13 10 (0.53%) Ubuntu
14 7 (0.37%) CentOS
15 5 (0.26%) VMS
16 1 (0.053%) Debian
16 1 (0.053%) FreeBSD
16 1 (0.053%) Mac OS X
16 1 (0.053%) OpenBSD
16 1 (0.053%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 647 (33.98%) CI/CD
2 558 (29.31%) Agile
3 521 (27.36%) DevOps
4 508 (26.68%) Software Engineering
5 436 (22.90%) Mentoring
6 343 (18.01%) Microservices
7 325 (17.07%) Infrastructure as Code
8 324 (17.02%) Problem-Solving
9 320 (16.81%) Full-Stack Development
10 298 (15.65%) AI
11 284 (14.92%) Continuous Improvement
12 259 (13.60%) Containerisation
13 227 (11.92%) Coaching
14 213 (11.19%) Roadmaps
15 208 (10.92%) Test Automation
16 186 (9.77%) ITIL
17 185 (9.72%) Technical Leadership
18 167 (8.77%) Observability
19 166 (8.72%) Computer Science
20 156 (8.19%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 585 (30.72%) Python
2 486 (25.53%) Java
3 311 (16.33%) JavaScript
3 311 (16.33%) TypeScript
4 283 (14.86%) SQL
5 190 (9.98%) C#
6 181 (9.51%) Go
7 126 (6.62%) Bash
8 70 (3.68%) PHP
9 59 (3.10%) PowerShell
10 52 (2.73%) Scala
11 43 (2.26%) C++
12 24 (1.26%) Kotlin
13 23 (1.21%) Ruby
14 20 (1.05%) Rust
15 19 (1.00%) Shell Script
16 15 (0.79%) PL/SQL
17 14 (0.74%) Bicep
18 8 (0.42%) Delphi
19 7 (0.37%) R
Qualifications
1 358 (18.80%) Degree
2 255 (13.39%) AWS Certification
3 216 (11.34%) Security Cleared
4 184 (9.66%) SC Cleared
5 162 (8.51%) Microsoft Certification
6 124 (6.51%) MCSE
7 115 (6.04%) Computer Science Degree
8 71 (3.73%) Azure Certification
9 51 (2.68%) CISSP
10 39 (2.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 37 (1.94%) TOGAF Certification
12 36 (1.89%) Cisco Certification
13 31 (1.63%) DV Cleared
14 29 (1.52%) CREST Certified
15 27 (1.42%) CISM
16 26 (1.37%) Master's Degree
17 23 (1.21%) DBS Check
18 21 (1.10%) OSCP
19 20 (1.05%) CCNP
20 19 (1.00%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 189 (9.93%) QA
2 89 (4.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 61 (3.20%) GDPR
4 55 (2.89%) NIST
5 47 (2.47%) PCI DSS
6 43 (2.26%) Data Quality
7 34 (1.79%) SOC 2
8 33 (1.73%) Accessibility
9 30 (1.58%) Cyber Essentials
9 30 (1.58%) GRC
10 28 (1.47%) SLA
11 18 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 15 (0.79%) NCSC
13 13 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
14 11 (0.58%) JSP 440
15 10 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 42001
16 9 (0.47%) ISO 9001
17 6 (0.32%) EU AI Act
18 5 (0.26%) WCAG
19 4 (0.21%) HL7
System Software
1 367 (19.28%) Docker
2 79 (4.15%) Active Directory
3 35 (1.84%) Hyper-V
4 31 (1.63%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (0.63%) vSphere
6 7 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (0.32%) VMware NSX
8 5 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.21%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 3 (0.16%) Firmware
10 3 (0.16%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 3 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.053%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.053%) KVM
11 1 (0.053%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.053%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 386 (20.27%) Terraform
2 353 (18.54%) Kubernetes
3 154 (8.09%) Ansible
4 138 (7.25%) Grafana
5 78 (4.10%) Prometheus
6 45 (2.36%) Argo
7 34 (1.79%) Single Sign-On
8 30 (1.58%) Microsoft Intune
9 19 (1.00%) Kustomize
10 16 (0.84%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 10 (0.53%) Proxmox
12 8 (0.42%) Nmap
13 7 (0.37%) Kibana
14 5 (0.26%) AWS Copilot
14 5 (0.26%) Cilium
14 5 (0.26%) Progress Chef
15 4 (0.21%) Autotask
15 4 (0.21%) HP Fortify
15 4 (0.21%) Packer
15 4 (0.21%) Puppet
Vendors
1 280 (14.71%) Microsoft
2 124 (6.51%) ServiceNow
3 122 (6.41%) Google
4 59 (3.10%) Oracle
5 58 (3.05%) VMware
6 56 (2.94%) Cisco
7 36 (1.89%) Databricks
8 30 (1.58%) Apple
9 29 (1.52%) Red Hat
10 28 (1.47%) Typelevel
11 24 (1.26%) Salesforce
12 23 (1.21%) SAP
12 23 (1.21%) Splunk
13 22 (1.16%) IBM
13 22 (1.16%) Okta
14 20 (1.05%) Fortinet
15 19 (1.00%) Adobe
15 19 (1.00%) Palo Alto
15 19 (1.00%) SolarWinds
16 17 (0.89%) Dell