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

6 months to
23 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 9 9
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 -2
Permanent jobs citing AWS 1,977 2,251 4,397
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 11.57% 16.73% 14.37%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.91% 35.30% 31.91%
Number of salaries quoted 1,287 1,627 3,866
10th Percentile £45,750 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £68,250
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +6.23% -5.86%
75th Percentile £90,625 £96,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £110,500 £118,750 £112,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +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 6,397 6,376 13,781
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.44% 47.40% 45.04%
Number of salaries quoted 4,311 4,747 11,948
10th Percentile £32,500 £34,100 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,750 £64,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.63% +7.92% -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 23 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 73 (3.69%) Apache Airflow
2 39 (1.97%) Apache Spark
3 28 (1.42%) Apache
4 23 (1.16%) Microsoft Exchange
5 16 (0.81%) CMS
6 12 (0.61%) Confluence
6 12 (0.61%) nginx
7 11 (0.56%) SharePoint
8 9 (0.46%) WordPress
9 7 (0.35%) Tomcat
9 7 (0.35%) WebSphere
9 7 (0.35%) WebSphere Application Server
10 6 (0.30%) Drupal
11 5 (0.25%) Anypoint
11 5 (0.25%) Apache Pulsar
11 5 (0.25%) Ethereum
12 4 (0.20%) ArcGIS
12 4 (0.20%) GeoServer
12 4 (0.20%) Oracle Spatial
12 4 (0.20%) SAS
Applications
1 111 (5.61%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (0.96%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (0.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
5 5 (0.25%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.20%) Adobe Illustrator
6 4 (0.20%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.051%) EngageOne
7 1 (0.051%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.051%) Notion
Business Applications
1 12 (0.61%) Oracle ERP
1 12 (0.61%) Shopify
2 8 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.10%) Magento
4 2 (0.10%) SAP HR
5 1 (0.051%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.051%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.051%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.051%) Sprinklr
5 1 (0.051%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 851 (43.05%) Azure
2 536 (27.11%) GCP
3 275 (13.91%) Serverless
4 248 (12.54%) SaaS
5 195 (9.86%) GitHub
6 182 (9.21%) AWS Lambda
7 180 (9.10%) Amazon S3
8 165 (8.35%) Microsoft 365
9 140 (7.08%) Amazon EKS
10 107 (5.41%) AWS CloudFormation
11 94 (4.75%) GitHub Actions
12 81 (4.10%) Amazon EC2
13 79 (4.00%) Amazon ECS
14 74 (3.74%) Amazon SQS
15 72 (3.64%) Entra ID
16 66 (3.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 54 (2.73%) Azure DevOps
18 52 (2.63%) dbt
19 44 (2.23%) Snowflake
20 39 (1.97%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 125 (6.32%) Firewall
2 89 (4.50%) Broadband
3 60 (3.03%) VPN
4 56 (2.83%) WAN
5 50 (2.53%) TCP/IP
6 48 (2.43%) DNS
6 48 (2.43%) LAN
6 48 (2.43%) Wi-Fi
7 45 (2.28%) Network Security
8 28 (1.42%) SD-WAN
9 27 (1.37%) DHCP
10 26 (1.32%) VXLAN
11 25 (1.26%) Cisco ASA
12 22 (1.11%) VLAN
13 21 (1.06%) BGP
13 21 (1.06%) SSL
14 20 (1.01%) Cisco Firepower
15 18 (0.91%) HTTP
15 18 (0.91%) NGFW
16 16 (0.81%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 183 (9.26%) PostgreSQL
2 123 (6.22%) NoSQL
3 103 (5.21%) SQL Server
4 100 (5.06%) MongoDB
5 84 (4.25%) MySQL
6 74 (3.74%) Amazon RDS
7 61 (3.09%) Relational Database
8 53 (2.68%) Data Warehouse
9 50 (2.53%) DynamoDB
10 47 (2.38%) Metadata
11 45 (2.28%) Elasticsearch
12 43 (2.18%) BigQuery
13 41 (2.07%) Amazon Redshift
14 34 (1.72%) Tableau
15 33 (1.67%) Amazon Athena
16 32 (1.62%) Data Lake
17 29 (1.47%) Redis
18 27 (1.37%) Apache Iceberg
19 22 (1.11%) Power BI
19 22 (1.11%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 121 (6.12%) Git
2 104 (5.26%) Jenkins
3 78 (3.95%) GitLab
4 61 (3.09%) TeamCity
5 44 (2.23%) Cypress.io
6 33 (1.67%) JIRA
7 21 (1.06%) Selenium
8 19 (0.96%) Jaeger
9 15 (0.76%) CircleCI
10 14 (0.71%) Bitbucket
10 14 (0.71%) JMeter
11 13 (0.66%) Cucumber
11 13 (0.66%) MLflow
11 13 (0.66%) SonarQube
12 12 (0.61%) Oracle Forms
13 10 (0.51%) JUnit
14 9 (0.46%) Crashlytics
14 9 (0.46%) Subversion
14 9 (0.46%) XCTest
15 8 (0.40%) Burp Suite
General
1 604 (30.55%) Social Skills
2 435 (22.00%) Finance
3 217 (10.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 185 (9.36%) Public Sector
5 182 (9.21%) Banking
6 164 (8.30%) Retail
7 161 (8.14%) Law
8 129 (6.53%) Analytical Skills
9 92 (4.65%) French Language
10 71 (3.59%) Financial Institution
11 61 (3.09%) Back Office
12 57 (2.88%) Front Office
13 55 (2.78%) Swedish Language
13 55 (2.78%) Telecoms
14 53 (2.68%) Legal
15 50 (2.53%) Games
16 45 (2.28%) Influencing Skills
17 35 (1.77%) Marketing
18 33 (1.67%) Tech for Good
19 30 (1.52%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 456 (23.07%) Senior
2 380 (19.22%) Developer
3 312 (15.78%) Software Engineer
4 274 (13.86%) Lead
5 202 (10.22%) Architect
6 131 (6.63%) Analyst
7 121 (6.12%) Full-Stack Developer
8 115 (5.82%) AWS Engineer
9 100 (5.06%) Lead Developer
10 98 (4.96%) Senior Software Engineer
11 95 (4.81%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 92 (4.65%) Service Analyst
12 92 (4.65%) Service Desk Analyst
13 87 (4.40%) DevOps Engineer
13 87 (4.40%) Java Engineer
14 85 (4.30%) Data Engineer
15 80 (4.05%) Cloud Engineer
16 71 (3.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 71 (3.59%) Java Software Engineer
16 71 (3.59%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 355 (17.96%) React
2 231 (11.68%) Node.js
3 150 (7.59%) .NET
4 147 (7.44%) Kafka
5 132 (6.68%) RESTful
6 105 (5.31%) REST
6 105 (5.31%) Spring
7 100 (5.06%) CSS
8 94 (4.75%) Spring Boot
9 82 (4.15%) HTML
10 70 (3.54%) Vue
11 65 (3.29%) AngularJS
12 63 (3.19%) gRPC
13 61 (3.09%) Django
14 55 (2.78%) Redux
15 49 (2.48%) .NET Core
16 46 (2.33%) Elastic Stack
17 41 (2.07%) JSON
18 40 (2.02%) GraphQL
19 35 (1.77%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 306 (15.48%) Cloud Native
2 142 (7.18%) Distributed Systems
3 111 (5.61%) Product Ownership
4 68 (3.44%) Public Cloud
5 62 (3.14%) Enterprise Software
6 61 (3.09%) Management Information System
7 60 (3.03%) Data Centre
8 59 (2.98%) Onboarding
9 55 (2.78%) Blog
10 51 (2.58%) Fixed Income
10 51 (2.58%) Security Posture
11 45 (2.28%) Video\Live Streaming
12 43 (2.18%) Greenfield Project
13 41 (2.07%) Self-Motivation
14 40 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
15 36 (1.82%) Hybrid Cloud
15 36 (1.82%) Mobile App
15 36 (1.82%) Over-the-Top Content
16 35 (1.77%) PKI
17 34 (1.72%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 200 (10.12%) Linux
2 103 (5.21%) Windows
3 73 (3.69%) Unix
4 52 (2.63%) Windows Server
5 49 (2.48%) Android
6 48 (2.43%) Apple iOS
7 26 (1.32%) Windows 10
8 21 (1.06%) Mac OS
9 18 (0.91%) Windows Server 2012
10 17 (0.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 17 (0.86%) Windows Server 2016
11 16 (0.81%) Windows Server 2019
12 10 (0.51%) Ubuntu
13 7 (0.35%) CentOS
14 4 (0.20%) VMS
15 1 (0.051%) Debian
15 1 (0.051%) FreeBSD
15 1 (0.051%) Mac OS X
15 1 (0.051%) OpenBSD
15 1 (0.051%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 679 (34.34%) CI/CD
2 587 (29.69%) Agile
3 539 (27.26%) Software Engineering
4 533 (26.96%) DevOps
5 448 (22.66%) Mentoring
6 364 (18.41%) Microservices
7 345 (17.45%) Full-Stack Development
8 342 (17.30%) Infrastructure as Code
9 339 (17.15%) Problem-Solving
10 310 (15.68%) AI
11 305 (15.43%) Continuous Improvement
12 291 (14.72%) Containerisation
13 241 (12.19%) Test Automation
14 238 (12.04%) Coaching
15 224 (11.33%) Roadmaps
16 192 (9.71%) Technical Leadership
17 181 (9.16%) Clean Code
18 172 (8.70%) ITIL
19 170 (8.60%) Computer Science
20 169 (8.55%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 620 (31.36%) Python
2 491 (24.84%) Java
3 310 (15.68%) JavaScript
4 302 (15.28%) TypeScript
5 293 (14.82%) SQL
6 201 (10.17%) C#
6 201 (10.17%) Go
7 125 (6.32%) Bash
8 77 (3.89%) PHP
9 62 (3.14%) Scala
10 54 (2.73%) PowerShell
11 53 (2.68%) C++
12 28 (1.42%) Kotlin
13 27 (1.37%) Ruby
14 21 (1.06%) Rust
15 17 (0.86%) Bicep
15 17 (0.86%) Shell Script
16 13 (0.66%) PL/SQL
17 9 (0.46%) Swift
18 8 (0.40%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 348 (17.60%) Degree
2 235 (11.89%) AWS Certification
3 223 (11.28%) Security Cleared
4 190 (9.61%) SC Cleared
5 147 (7.44%) Microsoft Certification
6 120 (6.07%) Computer Science Degree
7 113 (5.72%) MCSE
8 69 (3.49%) Azure Certification
9 52 (2.63%) CISSP
10 40 (2.02%) DV Cleared
11 37 (1.87%) Cisco Certification
12 36 (1.82%) TOGAF Certification
13 34 (1.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 33 (1.67%) CREST Certified
15 29 (1.47%) CISM
16 24 (1.21%) Master's Degree
17 23 (1.16%) DBS Check
18 22 (1.11%) OSCP
19 21 (1.06%) CCNP
20 20 (1.01%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 188 (9.51%) QA
2 91 (4.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 57 (2.88%) GDPR
4 56 (2.83%) NIST
5 51 (2.58%) PCI DSS
6 43 (2.18%) Data Quality
7 36 (1.82%) Accessibility
8 32 (1.62%) GRC
8 32 (1.62%) SOC 2
9 28 (1.42%) Cyber Essentials
10 27 (1.37%) SLA
11 16 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 16 (0.81%) NCSC
12 14 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
13 13 (0.66%) JSP 440
14 10 (0.51%) ISO 9001
15 9 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 42001
16 7 (0.35%) Government Security Classifications
16 7 (0.35%) HMG Security Policy Framework
17 6 (0.30%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 397 (20.08%) Docker
2 80 (4.05%) Active Directory
3 36 (1.82%) Hyper-V
4 31 (1.57%) VMware Infrastructure
5 15 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (0.71%) vSphere
7 6 (0.30%) Firmware
7 6 (0.30%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.20%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 4 (0.20%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 4 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.051%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.051%) KVM
10 1 (0.051%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.051%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 401 (20.28%) Terraform
2 368 (18.61%) Kubernetes
3 151 (7.64%) Ansible
4 137 (6.93%) Grafana
5 75 (3.79%) Prometheus
6 44 (2.23%) Argo
7 32 (1.62%) Single Sign-On
8 29 (1.47%) Microsoft Intune
9 19 (0.96%) Kustomize
10 17 (0.86%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 8 (0.40%) Istio
11 8 (0.40%) Nmap
11 8 (0.40%) Proxmox
12 6 (0.30%) Kibana
12 6 (0.30%) Podman
13 5 (0.25%) AWS Copilot
13 5 (0.25%) Packer
13 5 (0.25%) Puppet
14 4 (0.20%) Cisco CUCM
14 4 (0.20%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 279 (14.11%) Microsoft
2 136 (6.88%) Google
3 111 (5.61%) ServiceNow
4 59 (2.98%) Cisco
4 59 (2.98%) Oracle
5 57 (2.88%) VMware
6 36 (1.82%) Typelevel
7 33 (1.67%) Databricks
8 30 (1.52%) Apple
8 30 (1.52%) Red Hat
9 26 (1.32%) Salesforce
9 26 (1.32%) Splunk
10 24 (1.21%) SAP
11 23 (1.16%) Fortinet
11 23 (1.16%) Palo Alto
12 21 (1.06%) Okta
13 20 (1.01%) SolarWinds
14 19 (0.96%) Adobe
14 19 (0.96%) IBM
15 17 (0.86%) Dell