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 13 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 13 9
Rank change year-on-year +5 -4 -2
Permanent jobs citing AWS 2,299 2,137 4,871
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 11.64% 14.02% 14.16%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.80% 36.57% 33.44%
Number of salaries quoted 1,451 1,343 4,106
10th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.16% +3.57% -6.67%
75th Percentile £89,500 £102,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £132,500 £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 7,465 5,843 14,568
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.80% 38.34% 42.35%
Number of salaries quoted 5,193 4,244 12,151
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £61,375 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.83% +2.29% -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% -10.16%

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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 13 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 65 (2.83%) Apache Airflow
2 42 (1.83%) Apache Spark
3 28 (1.22%) Apache
4 24 (1.04%) Microsoft Exchange
5 15 (0.65%) CMS
5 15 (0.65%) SharePoint
6 9 (0.39%) Confluence
7 7 (0.30%) Jupyter
7 7 (0.30%) nginx
8 6 (0.26%) Apache Solr
8 6 (0.26%) IIS
9 4 (0.17%) Ethereum
9 4 (0.17%) WordPress
10 3 (0.13%) Anypoint
10 3 (0.13%) Mule
11 2 (0.087%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.087%) Oracle Application Server
11 2 (0.087%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.087%) Oracle Spatial
11 2 (0.087%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 80 (3.48%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 11 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
4 8 (0.35%) MS Visio
5 6 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (0.22%) AutoCAD
6 5 (0.22%) Chatbot
6 5 (0.22%) DaVinci Resolve
7 3 (0.13%) Adobe Illustrator
7 3 (0.13%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.087%) PlantUML
9 1 (0.043%) EngageOne
9 1 (0.043%) Trello
Business Applications
1 24 (1.04%) Cloudability
2 5 (0.22%) Shopify
3 4 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.087%) SAP HR
6 1 (0.043%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.043%) Magento
6 1 (0.043%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.043%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.043%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 964 (41.93%) Azure
2 582 (25.32%) GCP
3 261 (11.35%) Serverless
4 230 (10.00%) SaaS
5 179 (7.79%) GitHub
6 171 (7.44%) Amazon S3
7 169 (7.35%) AWS Lambda
8 143 (6.22%) Microsoft 365
9 115 (5.00%) Amazon EKS
10 98 (4.26%) Amazon EC2
10 98 (4.26%) AWS CloudFormation
11 86 (3.74%) Amazon ECS
12 80 (3.48%) GitHub Actions
13 72 (3.13%) Amazon SQS
14 56 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
15 55 (2.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 48 (2.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 46 (2.00%) Entra ID
18 43 (1.87%) Snowflake
19 41 (1.78%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 140 (6.09%) Broadband
2 135 (5.87%) Firewall
3 75 (3.26%) WAN
4 70 (3.04%) VPN
5 65 (2.83%) LAN
6 62 (2.70%) DNS
7 51 (2.22%) Network Security
8 49 (2.13%) Wi-Fi
9 41 (1.78%) TCP/IP
10 39 (1.70%) HTTP
11 36 (1.57%) DHCP
11 36 (1.57%) SD-WAN
12 31 (1.35%) Cisco ASA
13 30 (1.30%) VXLAN
14 27 (1.17%) Cisco Firepower
15 22 (0.96%) VLAN
16 20 (0.87%) BGP
17 18 (0.78%) MPLS
18 17 (0.74%) NGFW
19 16 (0.70%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 241 (10.48%) PostgreSQL
2 200 (8.70%) MongoDB
3 127 (5.52%) NoSQL
4 87 (3.78%) MySQL
5 86 (3.74%) SQL Server
6 75 (3.26%) Elasticsearch
7 65 (2.83%) Relational Database
8 63 (2.74%) Amazon RDS
8 63 (2.74%) DynamoDB
9 56 (2.44%) Metadata
10 44 (1.91%) Data Warehouse
11 42 (1.83%) Azure SQL Database
12 38 (1.65%) Amazon Athena
13 35 (1.52%) Amazon Redshift
14 32 (1.39%) BigQuery
15 31 (1.35%) Redis
16 28 (1.22%) Tableau
17 26 (1.13%) Data Lake
18 24 (1.04%) RDBMS
19 21 (0.91%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 123 (5.35%) Git
2 83 (3.61%) GitLab
3 74 (3.22%) Jenkins
4 58 (2.52%) TeamCity
5 51 (2.22%) Cypress.io
6 41 (1.78%) JIRA
7 21 (0.91%) Claude Code
8 18 (0.78%) Jaeger
9 15 (0.65%) CircleCI
9 15 (0.65%) JUnit
9 15 (0.65%) Maven
10 14 (0.61%) Crashlytics
10 14 (0.61%) JMeter
10 14 (0.61%) Selenium
10 14 (0.61%) XCTest
11 10 (0.43%) MLflow
12 9 (0.39%) Mockito
12 9 (0.39%) Postman
13 7 (0.30%) Cucumber
13 7 (0.30%) Metasploit
General
1 554 (24.10%) Social Skills
2 498 (21.66%) Finance
3 251 (10.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 249 (10.83%) Public Sector
5 214 (9.31%) Banking
6 176 (7.66%) Law
7 140 (6.09%) Retail
8 135 (5.87%) Analytical Skills
9 63 (2.74%) Legal
10 52 (2.26%) Back Office
11 51 (2.22%) Financial Institution
12 49 (2.13%) Games
13 45 (1.96%) French Language
13 45 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
14 43 (1.87%) Front Office
15 28 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
16 27 (1.17%) Marketing
17 23 (1.00%) Tech for Good
17 23 (1.00%) Telecoms
18 22 (0.96%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 535 (23.27%) Senior
2 480 (20.88%) Developer
3 407 (17.70%) Software Engineer
4 316 (13.75%) Lead
5 251 (10.92%) Architect
6 159 (6.92%) AWS Engineer
7 138 (6.00%) Full-Stack Developer
8 117 (5.09%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 115 (5.00%) Analyst
10 111 (4.83%) Senior Software Engineer
11 102 (4.44%) Lead Software Engineer
12 100 (4.35%) DevOps Engineer
13 95 (4.13%) Lead Developer
14 93 (4.05%) Cloud Engineer
15 92 (4.00%) Software Developer
16 90 (3.91%) Data Engineer
17 89 (3.87%) Solutions Architect
18 86 (3.74%) Java Engineer
19 85 (3.70%) Consultant
19 85 (3.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 400 (17.40%) React
2 324 (14.09%) Node.js
3 176 (7.66%) .NET
4 145 (6.31%) REST
5 122 (5.31%) Spring
6 121 (5.26%) Kafka
6 121 (5.26%) RESTful
7 113 (4.92%) CSS
8 95 (4.13%) Vue
9 87 (3.78%) Spring Boot
10 85 (3.70%) AngularJS
11 76 (3.31%) HTML
12 67 (2.91%) .NET Core
13 59 (2.57%) ASP.NET
14 51 (2.22%) ASP.NET Core
14 51 (2.22%) Redux
15 49 (2.13%) gRPC
15 49 (2.13%) Ruby on Rails
16 42 (1.83%) GraphQL
17 40 (1.74%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 380 (16.53%) Cloud Native
2 189 (8.22%) Product Ownership
3 172 (7.48%) Distributed Systems
4 97 (4.22%) Public Cloud
5 79 (3.44%) Video\Live Streaming
6 76 (3.31%) Greenfield Project
7 63 (2.74%) Data Centre
8 60 (2.61%) Onboarding
9 59 (2.57%) Security Posture
10 54 (2.35%) Blog
11 50 (2.17%) Management Information System
12 46 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
12 46 (2.00%) Over-the-Top Content
13 45 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
14 43 (1.87%) Fixed Income
15 42 (1.83%) Hybrid Cloud
16 41 (1.78%) Mobile App
16 41 (1.78%) PKI
17 36 (1.57%) Low-Code
18 32 (1.39%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 193 (8.39%) Linux
2 112 (4.87%) Windows
3 51 (2.22%) Unix
4 50 (2.17%) Windows Server
5 43 (1.87%) Apple iOS
6 30 (1.30%) Android
7 18 (0.78%) Windows 10
8 15 (0.65%) Windows Server 2016
9 12 (0.52%) Mac OS
9 12 (0.52%) Windows Server 2012
10 11 (0.48%) Windows Server 2019
11 7 (0.30%) Ubuntu
12 5 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 3 (0.13%) CentOS
14 2 (0.087%) Debian
15 1 (0.043%) FreeBSD
15 1 (0.043%) Mac OS X
15 1 (0.043%) OpenBSD
15 1 (0.043%) Windows 7
15 1 (0.043%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 787 (34.23%) CI/CD
2 707 (30.75%) Agile
3 703 (30.58%) Software Engineering
4 521 (22.66%) Mentoring
5 517 (22.49%) DevOps
6 469 (20.40%) Full-Stack Development
7 441 (19.18%) Microservices
8 419 (18.23%) AI
8 419 (18.23%) Infrastructure as Code
9 394 (17.14%) Continuous Improvement
10 382 (16.62%) Problem-Solving
11 334 (14.53%) Containerisation
11 334 (14.53%) Test Automation
12 312 (13.57%) Technical Leadership
13 301 (13.09%) Roadmaps
14 265 (11.53%) Coaching
15 240 (10.44%) Clean Code
16 227 (9.87%) Machine Learning
17 221 (9.61%) Observability
18 196 (8.53%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 640 (27.84%) Python
2 544 (23.66%) Java
3 376 (16.35%) TypeScript
4 358 (15.57%) JavaScript
5 320 (13.92%) SQL
6 230 (10.00%) C#
7 210 (9.13%) Go
8 119 (5.18%) Bash
9 75 (3.26%) Scala
10 71 (3.09%) C++
11 67 (2.91%) PHP
12 57 (2.48%) Ruby
13 46 (2.00%) PowerShell
14 32 (1.39%) Kotlin
15 28 (1.22%) Rust
16 14 (0.61%) PL/SQL
16 14 (0.61%) Swift
17 13 (0.57%) Bicep
18 9 (0.39%) Groovy
19 7 (0.30%) C
Qualifications
1 307 (13.35%) Security Cleared
2 280 (12.18%) Degree
3 259 (11.27%) SC Cleared
4 192 (8.35%) AWS Certification
5 92 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 80 (3.48%) Computer Science Degree
7 74 (3.22%) MCSE
8 61 (2.65%) CISSP
9 57 (2.48%) Azure Certification
10 47 (2.04%) DV Cleared
11 38 (1.65%) CISM
12 36 (1.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 33 (1.44%) Cisco Certification
14 27 (1.17%) DBS Check
15 26 (1.13%) CREST Certified
16 21 (0.91%) TOGAF Certification
17 20 (0.87%) CCNP
17 20 (0.87%) OSCP
18 17 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
19 16 (0.70%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 169 (7.35%) QA
2 90 (3.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 64 (2.78%) NIST
4 59 (2.57%) Data Quality
5 53 (2.31%) Accessibility
6 42 (1.83%) PCI DSS
7 41 (1.78%) GDPR
8 27 (1.17%) GRC
8 27 (1.17%) NCSC
9 19 (0.83%) SOC 2
10 16 (0.70%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 15 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
12 13 (0.57%) JSP 440
13 11 (0.48%) ISO 9001
14 9 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
14 9 (0.39%) SLA
15 8 (0.35%) WCAG
16 7 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 7 (0.30%) Government Security Classifications
16 7 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 412 (17.92%) Docker
2 62 (2.70%) Active Directory
3 38 (1.65%) Hyper-V
4 37 (1.61%) VMware Infrastructure
5 19 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
6 18 (0.78%) vSphere
7 6 (0.26%) Firmware
7 6 (0.26%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 6 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
8 5 (0.22%) KVM
9 3 (0.13%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.087%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 2 (0.087%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.043%) iptables
11 1 (0.043%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.043%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 410 (17.83%) Terraform
2 368 (16.01%) Kubernetes
3 139 (6.05%) Ansible
4 116 (5.05%) Grafana
5 62 (2.70%) Prometheus
6 42 (1.83%) Argo
7 22 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
8 18 (0.78%) Kustomize
9 15 (0.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 15 (0.65%) Proxmox
10 14 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
11 12 (0.52%) Podman
11 12 (0.52%) Progress Chef
12 11 (0.48%) Istio
13 9 (0.39%) Cisco CUCM
13 9 (0.39%) Packer
13 9 (0.39%) Puppet
14 7 (0.30%) Nmap
15 6 (0.26%) EMC NetWorker
15 6 (0.26%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 349 (15.18%) Microsoft
2 113 (4.92%) Google
3 102 (4.44%) ServiceNow
4 69 (3.00%) Cisco
5 64 (2.78%) VMware
6 47 (2.04%) Oracle
7 45 (1.96%) Typelevel
8 44 (1.91%) Apple
9 39 (1.70%) Adobe
10 35 (1.52%) Databricks
11 34 (1.48%) Fortinet
11 34 (1.48%) Palo Alto
12 32 (1.39%) Splunk
13 31 (1.35%) SolarWinds
14 24 (1.04%) Salesforce
15 21 (0.91%) SAP
16 20 (0.87%) Aruba
17 18 (0.78%) CheckPoint
18 17 (0.74%) Arista
18 17 (0.74%) Dell