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

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 7 9
Rank change year-on-year -3 +2 -2
Permanent jobs citing AWS 1,751 2,818 3,802
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 11.27% 17.19% 15.59%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.75% 36.83% 33.53%
Number of salaries quoted 1,243 1,775 3,270
10th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £43,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,125 £52,007
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -6.90%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £86,188
90th Percentile £120,000 £118,750 £110,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% +7.14% -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 5,695 7,652 11,338
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 36.64% 46.68% 46.51%
Number of salaries quoted 3,994 4,868 9,839
10th Percentile £32,038 £35,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,750 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £64,600 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.12% +7.67% -7.69%

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 January 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 99 (5.65%) Apache Airflow
2 53 (3.03%) Apache
3 37 (2.11%) Apache Spark
4 19 (1.09%) Microsoft Exchange
5 17 (0.97%) Confluence
6 16 (0.91%) Tomcat
6 16 (0.91%) WebSphere
6 16 (0.91%) WebSphere Application Server
7 14 (0.80%) SharePoint
8 9 (0.51%) CMS
8 9 (0.51%) nginx
9 7 (0.40%) Ethereum
9 7 (0.40%) WordPress
10 5 (0.29%) Anypoint
10 5 (0.29%) Apache Pulsar
10 5 (0.29%) Drupal
11 4 (0.23%) ArcGIS
11 4 (0.23%) GeoServer
11 4 (0.23%) Oracle Spatial
11 4 (0.23%) SAS
Applications
1 124 (7.08%) Microsoft Office
2 24 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (0.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
5 4 (0.23%) Adobe Illustrator
5 4 (0.23%) Photoshop
6 2 (0.11%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.057%) EngageOne
7 1 (0.057%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.057%) Notion
Business Applications
1 20 (1.14%) Oracle ERP
2 11 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
3 10 (0.57%) Shopify
4 5 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.11%) SAP HR
6 1 (0.057%) Magento
6 1 (0.057%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.057%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.057%) Sprinklr
6 1 (0.057%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 796 (45.46%) Azure
2 442 (25.24%) GCP
3 252 (14.39%) Serverless
4 242 (13.82%) SaaS
5 181 (10.34%) Microsoft 365
6 178 (10.17%) AWS Lambda
7 176 (10.05%) GitHub
8 154 (8.79%) Amazon S3
9 112 (6.40%) Amazon EKS
10 108 (6.17%) AWS CloudFormation
11 83 (4.74%) dbt
12 82 (4.68%) GitHub Actions
13 72 (4.11%) Amazon ECS
14 71 (4.05%) Snowflake
15 66 (3.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 66 (3.77%) Amazon EC2
16 64 (3.66%) Azure DevOps
17 62 (3.54%) Entra ID
18 60 (3.43%) Amazon SQS
19 46 (2.63%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 89 (5.08%) Firewall
2 48 (2.74%) VPN
3 46 (2.63%) Network Security
4 44 (2.51%) WAN
5 41 (2.34%) Wi-Fi
6 38 (2.17%) DNS
7 35 (2.00%) LAN
8 32 (1.83%) Broadband
8 32 (1.83%) TCP/IP
9 28 (1.60%) SD-WAN
10 26 (1.48%) SSL
11 18 (1.03%) DHCP
12 17 (0.97%) BGP
12 17 (0.97%) HTTP
12 17 (0.97%) VLAN
12 17 (0.97%) VXLAN
13 16 (0.91%) VoIP
14 14 (0.80%) NGFW
15 12 (0.69%) Wireshark
16 11 (0.63%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 175 (9.99%) PostgreSQL
2 101 (5.77%) SQL Server
3 96 (5.48%) NoSQL
4 80 (4.57%) MongoDB
5 71 (4.05%) MySQL
6 67 (3.83%) Amazon Athena
6 67 (3.83%) Amazon RDS
7 66 (3.77%) Data Warehouse
8 63 (3.60%) Apache Iceberg
8 63 (3.60%) Data Lake
9 61 (3.48%) DynamoDB
10 56 (3.20%) Relational Database
11 52 (2.97%) Elasticsearch
12 49 (2.80%) Amazon Redshift
13 43 (2.46%) Apache Arrow
13 43 (2.46%) Dremio
14 39 (2.23%) BigQuery
14 39 (2.23%) Metadata
15 37 (2.11%) Tableau
16 34 (1.94%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 127 (7.25%) Jenkins
2 106 (6.05%) Git
3 68 (3.88%) GitLab
4 42 (2.40%) TeamCity
5 32 (1.83%) Cypress.io
5 32 (1.83%) JIRA
6 21 (1.20%) Selenium
7 20 (1.14%) Oracle Forms
8 19 (1.09%) Jaeger
9 15 (0.86%) Bitbucket
10 14 (0.80%) JUnit
11 13 (0.74%) SonarQube
12 12 (0.69%) CircleCI
12 12 (0.69%) Cucumber
13 11 (0.63%) Burp Suite
13 11 (0.63%) Metasploit
14 10 (0.57%) MLflow
15 9 (0.51%) JMeter
15 9 (0.51%) Subversion
16 7 (0.40%) Vite
General
1 564 (32.21%) Social Skills
2 408 (23.30%) Finance
3 162 (9.25%) Banking
4 157 (8.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 126 (7.20%) Public Sector
6 120 (6.85%) Retail
7 115 (6.57%) French Language
8 110 (6.28%) Analytical Skills
9 99 (5.65%) Law
10 95 (5.43%) Swedish Language
11 59 (3.37%) Financial Institution
12 56 (3.20%) Front Office
12 56 (3.20%) Telecoms
13 47 (2.68%) Tech for Good
14 45 (2.57%) Influencing Skills
15 42 (2.40%) Games
16 41 (2.34%) Back Office
17 40 (2.28%) Legal
18 37 (2.11%) Health Technology
19 34 (1.94%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 391 (22.33%) Senior
2 340 (19.42%) Developer
3 240 (13.71%) Software Engineer
4 217 (12.39%) Lead
5 183 (10.45%) Architect
6 167 (9.54%) Analyst
7 122 (6.97%) AWS Engineer
8 115 (6.57%) Service Analyst
8 115 (6.57%) Service Desk Analyst
9 91 (5.20%) Cloud Engineer
9 91 (5.20%) Senior Software Engineer
10 85 (4.85%) Full-Stack Developer
11 83 (4.74%) Software Developer
12 81 (4.63%) Data Engineer
12 81 (4.63%) DevOps Engineer
13 79 (4.51%) AWS Developer
14 76 (4.34%) Java Engineer
15 72 (4.11%) Python Developer
15 72 (4.11%) Senior Developer
16 71 (4.05%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 327 (18.68%) React
2 185 (10.57%) .NET
3 178 (10.17%) Node.js
4 132 (7.54%) RESTful
5 105 (6.00%) Kafka
6 100 (5.71%) Spring
7 88 (5.03%) AngularJS
7 88 (5.03%) Spring Boot
8 83 (4.74%) REST
9 79 (4.51%) Vue
10 68 (3.88%) CSS
11 63 (3.60%) HTML
12 54 (3.08%) .NET Core
12 54 (3.08%) Pandas
13 52 (2.97%) Django
14 50 (2.86%) NumPy
15 49 (2.80%) Elastic Stack
16 44 (2.51%) gRPC
17 43 (2.46%) SciPy
18 36 (2.06%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 249 (14.22%) Cloud Native
2 103 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
3 76 (4.34%) Product Ownership
4 70 (4.00%) Public Cloud
5 65 (3.71%) Enterprise Software
6 55 (3.14%) Data Centre
7 50 (2.86%) Fixed Income
8 48 (2.74%) Management Information System
9 45 (2.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 44 (2.51%) Equities
11 42 (2.40%) Onboarding
12 38 (2.17%) Security Posture
13 37 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
14 32 (1.83%) PKI
15 31 (1.77%) Hedge funds
15 31 (1.77%) Hybrid Cloud
16 30 (1.71%) Blog
17 26 (1.48%) Linux Command Line
18 25 (1.43%) Data Structures
19 24 (1.37%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 196 (11.19%) Linux
2 109 (6.23%) Windows
3 73 (4.17%) Unix
4 36 (2.06%) Android
5 32 (1.83%) Windows Server
6 28 (1.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 27 (1.54%) Apple iOS
8 15 (0.86%) Mac OS
9 13 (0.74%) Ubuntu
9 13 (0.74%) Windows 10
10 11 (0.63%) Windows Server 2012
11 10 (0.57%) Windows Server 2019
12 9 (0.51%) CentOS
12 9 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
13 6 (0.34%) Debian
14 5 (0.29%) VMS
15 2 (0.11%) Mac OS X
16 1 (0.057%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 560 (31.98%) CI/CD
2 530 (30.27%) Agile
3 495 (28.27%) DevOps
4 442 (25.24%) Software Engineering
5 387 (22.10%) Mentoring
6 299 (17.08%) AI
6 299 (17.08%) Microservices
7 284 (16.22%) Infrastructure as Code
8 280 (15.99%) Problem-Solving
9 266 (15.19%) Full-Stack Development
10 245 (13.99%) Continuous Improvement
11 228 (13.02%) Roadmaps
12 207 (11.82%) ITIL
13 198 (11.31%) Containerisation
14 162 (9.25%) Coaching
15 161 (9.19%) Computer Science
16 158 (9.02%) Technical Leadership
17 150 (8.57%) ITSM
18 145 (8.28%) Test Automation
19 142 (8.11%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 544 (31.07%) Python
2 419 (23.93%) Java
3 325 (18.56%) JavaScript
3 325 (18.56%) TypeScript
4 289 (16.50%) SQL
5 196 (11.19%) C#
6 118 (6.74%) Bash
7 104 (5.94%) Go
8 63 (3.60%) PowerShell
9 58 (3.31%) PHP
10 26 (1.48%) C++
10 26 (1.48%) Scala
11 25 (1.43%) Shell Script
12 23 (1.31%) PL/SQL
13 19 (1.09%) Bicep
14 17 (0.97%) Kotlin
15 16 (0.91%) Ruby
16 14 (0.80%) Rust
17 8 (0.46%) Delphi
17 8 (0.46%) R
Qualifications
1 348 (19.87%) Degree
2 306 (17.48%) AWS Certification
3 192 (10.97%) Security Cleared
4 175 (9.99%) Microsoft Certification
5 157 (8.97%) SC Cleared
6 134 (7.65%) MCSE
7 113 (6.45%) Computer Science Degree
8 82 (4.68%) Azure Certification
9 56 (3.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 40 (2.28%) Cisco Certification
11 39 (2.23%) CISSP
11 39 (2.23%) TOGAF Certification
12 30 (1.71%) DV Cleared
12 30 (1.71%) Master's Degree
13 23 (1.31%) CISM
14 22 (1.26%) CCNP
14 22 (1.26%) CREST Certified
14 22 (1.26%) ITIL Certification
15 20 (1.14%) MCP
16 18 (1.03%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 193 (11.02%) QA
2 90 (5.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 63 (3.60%) GDPR
4 52 (2.97%) NIST
5 43 (2.46%) Data Quality
5 43 (2.46%) PCI DSS
6 35 (2.00%) SLA
7 28 (1.60%) Cyber Essentials
7 28 (1.60%) SOC 2
8 23 (1.31%) Accessibility
9 22 (1.26%) GRC
10 18 (1.03%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 18 (1.03%) NCSC
11 12 (0.69%) Actionable Recommendations
12 11 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 9 (0.51%) JSP 440
14 7 (0.40%) ISO 9001
15 6 (0.34%) EU AI Act
16 3 (0.17%) HL7
17 2 (0.11%) ISO 14001
System Software
1 307 (17.53%) Docker
2 67 (3.83%) Active Directory
3 27 (1.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (1.26%) Hyper-V
5 10 (0.57%) vSphere
6 5 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.29%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.23%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 4 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.17%) Firmware
8 3 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.057%) HDFS
9 1 (0.057%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.057%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 356 (20.33%) Terraform
2 324 (18.50%) Kubernetes
3 152 (8.68%) Ansible
4 110 (6.28%) Grafana
5 71 (4.05%) Prometheus
6 47 (2.68%) Argo
7 34 (1.94%) Single Sign-On
8 19 (1.09%) Kustomize
9 18 (1.03%) Microsoft Intune
10 11 (0.63%) Nmap
11 9 (0.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 7 (0.40%) Progress Chef
13 6 (0.34%) Autotask
13 6 (0.34%) Kibana
13 6 (0.34%) Puppet
14 5 (0.29%) Cilium
15 4 (0.23%) HP Fortify
15 4 (0.23%) Nessus
15 4 (0.23%) Proxmox
16 3 (0.17%) Packer
Vendors
1 294 (16.79%) Microsoft
2 133 (7.60%) ServiceNow
3 110 (6.28%) Google
4 73 (4.17%) Oracle
5 41 (2.34%) VMware
6 40 (2.28%) Cisco
6 40 (2.28%) Red Hat
7 35 (2.00%) Databricks
8 30 (1.71%) IBM
9 25 (1.43%) Okta
10 23 (1.31%) Adobe
11 22 (1.26%) Salesforce
12 21 (1.20%) Apple
12 21 (1.20%) SAP
13 20 (1.14%) Splunk
14 17 (0.97%) SolarWinds
15 15 (0.86%) Informatica
16 13 (0.74%) OpenAI
16 13 (0.74%) Talend
17 12 (0.69%) Atlassian