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

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 7 9
Rank change year-on-year -3 +2 -2
Permanent jobs citing AWS 1,913 2,657 4,174
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 11.63% 17.11% 15.19%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.89% 36.57% 33.10%
Number of salaries quoted 1,303 1,714 3,647
10th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -5.59%
75th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £118,750 £117,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +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 6,192 7,265 12,610
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.65% 46.79% 45.88%
Number of salaries quoted 4,250 4,751 11,033
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £35,235
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -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 19 February 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 90 (4.70%) Apache Airflow
2 42 (2.20%) Apache Spark
3 40 (2.09%) Apache
4 23 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
5 15 (0.78%) Confluence
5 15 (0.78%) SharePoint
6 14 (0.73%) CMS
7 12 (0.63%) Tomcat
7 12 (0.63%) WebSphere
7 12 (0.63%) WebSphere Application Server
8 11 (0.58%) nginx
9 8 (0.42%) WordPress
10 7 (0.37%) Ethereum
11 5 (0.26%) Anypoint
11 5 (0.26%) Apache Pulsar
11 5 (0.26%) Drupal
12 4 (0.21%) ArcGIS
12 4 (0.21%) GeoServer
12 4 (0.21%) Oracle Spatial
12 4 (0.21%) SAS
Applications
1 136 (7.11%) Microsoft Office
2 21 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (0.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
5 4 (0.21%) Adobe Illustrator
5 4 (0.21%) Photoshop
6 3 (0.16%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.052%) EngageOne
7 1 (0.052%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.052%) Notion
Business Applications
1 19 (0.99%) Oracle ERP
2 10 (0.52%) Shopify
3 8 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.10%) SAP HR
6 1 (0.052%) Magento
6 1 (0.052%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.052%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.052%) Sprinklr
6 1 (0.052%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 848 (44.33%) Azure
2 508 (26.56%) GCP
3 259 (13.54%) Serverless
4 255 (13.33%) SaaS
5 194 (10.14%) Microsoft 365
6 189 (9.88%) GitHub
7 177 (9.25%) AWS Lambda
8 166 (8.68%) Amazon S3
9 137 (7.16%) Amazon EKS
10 114 (5.96%) AWS CloudFormation
11 88 (4.60%) GitHub Actions
12 79 (4.13%) Amazon ECS
13 78 (4.08%) Entra ID
14 75 (3.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 71 (3.71%) Amazon EC2
15 71 (3.71%) dbt
16 63 (3.29%) Amazon SQS
17 59 (3.08%) Azure DevOps
18 54 (2.82%) Snowflake
19 51 (2.67%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 112 (5.85%) Firewall
2 59 (3.08%) VPN
3 54 (2.82%) Broadband
4 51 (2.67%) WAN
5 48 (2.51%) Wi-Fi
6 44 (2.30%) Network Security
7 42 (2.20%) TCP/IP
8 41 (2.14%) DNS
8 41 (2.14%) LAN
9 29 (1.52%) SD-WAN
10 26 (1.36%) VXLAN
11 25 (1.31%) DHCP
12 22 (1.15%) SSL
13 21 (1.10%) BGP
14 20 (1.05%) VLAN
15 18 (0.94%) NGFW
16 17 (0.89%) Cisco ASA
16 17 (0.89%) HTTP
17 16 (0.84%) MPLS
17 16 (0.84%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 183 (9.57%) PostgreSQL
2 107 (5.59%) NoSQL
3 92 (4.81%) SQL Server
4 85 (4.44%) MongoDB
5 81 (4.23%) MySQL
6 68 (3.55%) Amazon RDS
7 62 (3.24%) Data Warehouse
8 60 (3.14%) Relational Database
9 56 (2.93%) Amazon Athena
10 49 (2.56%) DynamoDB
10 49 (2.56%) Metadata
11 47 (2.46%) Apache Iceberg
12 46 (2.40%) Data Lake
12 46 (2.40%) Elasticsearch
13 45 (2.35%) BigQuery
14 44 (2.30%) Amazon Redshift
15 37 (1.93%) Tableau
16 28 (1.46%) Power BI
17 27 (1.41%) Redis
18 24 (1.25%) Apache Arrow
Development Applications
1 121 (6.33%) Jenkins
2 110 (5.75%) Git
3 70 (3.66%) GitLab
4 61 (3.19%) TeamCity
5 33 (1.73%) Cypress.io
5 33 (1.73%) JIRA
6 19 (0.99%) Jaeger
6 19 (0.99%) Oracle Forms
6 19 (0.99%) Selenium
7 14 (0.73%) SonarQube
8 13 (0.68%) Bitbucket
9 12 (0.63%) MLflow
10 11 (0.58%) CircleCI
10 11 (0.58%) Cucumber
10 11 (0.58%) JUnit
11 10 (0.52%) JMeter
12 9 (0.47%) Burp Suite
12 9 (0.47%) Metasploit
12 9 (0.47%) Subversion
13 7 (0.37%) Vite
General
1 603 (31.52%) Social Skills
2 431 (22.53%) Finance
3 199 (10.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 177 (9.25%) Banking
5 170 (8.89%) Public Sector
6 155 (8.10%) Retail
7 144 (7.53%) Law
8 120 (6.27%) French Language
9 116 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
10 91 (4.76%) Swedish Language
11 74 (3.87%) Financial Institution
12 58 (3.03%) Back Office
13 57 (2.98%) Front Office
14 53 (2.77%) Telecoms
15 48 (2.51%) Influencing Skills
16 46 (2.40%) Games
17 45 (2.35%) Legal
18 39 (2.04%) Tech for Good
19 30 (1.57%) Marketing
20 29 (1.52%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 434 (22.69%) Senior
2 365 (19.08%) Developer
3 290 (15.16%) Software Engineer
4 238 (12.44%) Lead
5 197 (10.30%) Architect
6 165 (8.63%) Analyst
7 120 (6.27%) Service Analyst
7 120 (6.27%) Service Desk Analyst
8 115 (6.01%) AWS Engineer
9 104 (5.44%) Full-Stack Developer
10 95 (4.97%) Cloud Engineer
10 95 (4.97%) Senior Software Engineer
11 88 (4.60%) Java Engineer
12 87 (4.55%) Data Engineer
13 85 (4.44%) Lead Developer
14 82 (4.29%) DevOps Engineer
14 82 (4.29%) Software Developer
15 74 (3.87%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 72 (3.76%) AWS Developer
17 71 (3.71%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 348 (18.19%) React
2 207 (10.82%) Node.js
3 180 (9.41%) .NET
4 137 (7.16%) RESTful
5 135 (7.06%) Kafka
6 110 (5.75%) Spring
7 98 (5.12%) Spring Boot
8 85 (4.44%) AngularJS
9 83 (4.34%) REST
10 79 (4.13%) Vue
11 75 (3.92%) CSS
12 67 (3.50%) HTML
13 55 (2.88%) .NET Core
14 54 (2.82%) Django
15 49 (2.56%) gRPC
16 46 (2.40%) Elastic Stack
17 40 (2.09%) JSON
18 36 (1.88%) XML
19 35 (1.83%) Redux
20 32 (1.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 298 (15.58%) Cloud Native
2 131 (6.85%) Distributed Systems
3 95 (4.97%) Product Ownership
4 70 (3.66%) Enterprise Software
4 70 (3.66%) Public Cloud
5 68 (3.55%) Data Centre
6 56 (2.93%) Management Information System
7 51 (2.67%) Fixed Income
8 49 (2.56%) Onboarding
9 47 (2.46%) Blog
10 42 (2.20%) Security Posture
11 40 (2.09%) Legacy Systems
12 38 (1.99%) Hybrid Cloud
13 36 (1.88%) PKI
14 33 (1.73%) Data Structures
15 31 (1.62%) Linux Command Line
16 29 (1.52%) Equities
17 28 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
18 27 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
19 26 (1.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 203 (10.61%) Linux
2 105 (5.49%) Windows
3 76 (3.97%) Unix
4 50 (2.61%) Android
5 45 (2.35%) Windows Server
6 43 (2.25%) Apple iOS
7 23 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 22 (1.15%) Windows 10
9 18 (0.94%) Mac OS
10 15 (0.78%) Windows Server 2012
11 14 (0.73%) Windows Server 2016
12 13 (0.68%) Windows Server 2019
13 12 (0.63%) Ubuntu
14 9 (0.47%) CentOS
15 5 (0.26%) Debian
15 5 (0.26%) VMS
16 1 (0.052%) FreeBSD
16 1 (0.052%) Mac OS X
16 1 (0.052%) OpenBSD
16 1 (0.052%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 639 (33.40%) CI/CD
2 563 (29.43%) Agile
3 518 (27.08%) DevOps
4 507 (26.50%) Software Engineering
5 436 (22.79%) Mentoring
6 346 (18.09%) Microservices
7 330 (17.25%) Problem-Solving
8 318 (16.62%) Infrastructure as Code
9 302 (15.79%) AI
10 296 (15.47%) Full-Stack Development
11 269 (14.06%) Continuous Improvement
12 241 (12.60%) Containerisation
13 235 (12.28%) Roadmaps
14 225 (11.76%) Coaching
15 207 (10.82%) ITIL
16 191 (9.98%) Test Automation
17 171 (8.94%) Computer Science
18 169 (8.83%) Technical Leadership
19 159 (8.31%) Observability
20 156 (8.15%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 591 (30.89%) Python
2 480 (25.09%) Java
3 324 (16.94%) JavaScript
4 322 (16.83%) TypeScript
5 292 (15.26%) SQL
6 199 (10.40%) C#
7 152 (7.95%) Go
8 130 (6.80%) Bash
9 68 (3.55%) PHP
10 64 (3.35%) PowerShell
11 47 (2.46%) Scala
12 38 (1.99%) C++
13 24 (1.25%) Shell Script
14 22 (1.15%) Kotlin
15 21 (1.10%) PL/SQL
16 19 (0.99%) Rust
17 17 (0.89%) Bicep
17 17 (0.89%) Ruby
18 10 (0.52%) R
19 8 (0.42%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 372 (19.45%) Degree
2 298 (15.58%) AWS Certification
3 219 (11.45%) Security Cleared
4 186 (9.72%) SC Cleared
5 180 (9.41%) Microsoft Certification
6 138 (7.21%) MCSE
7 120 (6.27%) Computer Science Degree
8 79 (4.13%) Azure Certification
9 50 (2.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 46 (2.40%) CISSP
11 39 (2.04%) TOGAF Certification
12 34 (1.78%) Cisco Certification
13 31 (1.62%) DV Cleared
14 29 (1.52%) Master's Degree
15 27 (1.41%) CISM
15 27 (1.41%) CREST Certified
16 21 (1.10%) DBS Check
17 20 (1.05%) OSCP
18 18 (0.94%) CCNP
19 17 (0.89%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 194 (10.14%) QA
2 93 (4.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 65 (3.40%) GDPR
4 55 (2.88%) NIST
5 51 (2.67%) PCI DSS
6 46 (2.40%) Data Quality
7 36 (1.88%) SOC 2
8 32 (1.67%) SLA
9 30 (1.57%) Cyber Essentials
10 28 (1.46%) GRC
11 24 (1.25%) Accessibility
12 18 (0.94%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 16 (0.84%) NCSC
14 13 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
15 11 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 42001
15 11 (0.58%) JSP 440
16 7 (0.37%) ISO 9001
17 6 (0.31%) EU AI Act
18 3 (0.16%) Government Security Classifications
18 3 (0.16%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 350 (18.30%) Docker
2 81 (4.23%) Active Directory
3 32 (1.67%) Hyper-V
4 28 (1.46%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (0.58%) vSphere
6 6 (0.31%) VMware NSX
7 5 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.21%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 4 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
8 4 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.10%) Firmware
10 1 (0.052%) HDFS
10 1 (0.052%) KVM
10 1 (0.052%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.052%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 403 (21.07%) Terraform
2 366 (19.13%) Kubernetes
3 162 (8.47%) Ansible
4 136 (7.11%) Grafana
5 77 (4.03%) Prometheus
6 45 (2.35%) Argo
7 38 (1.99%) Single Sign-On
8 30 (1.57%) Microsoft Intune
9 19 (0.99%) Kustomize
10 14 (0.73%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 9 (0.47%) Nmap
11 9 (0.47%) Proxmox
12 7 (0.37%) Kibana
13 6 (0.31%) Progress Chef
14 5 (0.26%) Autotask
14 5 (0.26%) AWS Copilot
14 5 (0.26%) Cilium
14 5 (0.26%) Packer
14 5 (0.26%) Puppet
15 4 (0.21%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 306 (16.00%) Microsoft
2 142 (7.42%) ServiceNow
3 120 (6.27%) Google
4 71 (3.71%) Oracle
5 52 (2.72%) VMware
6 48 (2.51%) Cisco
7 36 (1.88%) Databricks
7 36 (1.88%) Red Hat
8 30 (1.57%) Apple
9 26 (1.36%) IBM
9 26 (1.36%) Okta
10 24 (1.25%) SAP
11 22 (1.15%) Salesforce
12 21 (1.10%) Splunk
13 20 (1.05%) Adobe
13 20 (1.05%) SolarWinds
14 18 (0.94%) Typelevel
15 17 (0.89%) Fortinet
16 16 (0.84%) Informatica
17 15 (0.78%) NetScout