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

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 12 9
Rank change year-on-year +4 -3 -3
Permanent jobs citing AWS 2,256 2,156 4,728
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 11.72% 14.52% 14.11%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.82% 37.29% 33.21%
Number of salaries quoted 1,413 1,354 4,016
10th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.57% -6.67%
75th Percentile £89,500 £102,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £132,500 £120,000
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 7,319 5,782 14,236
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.03% 38.95% 42.47%
Number of salaries quoted 5,022 4,188 12,023
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,599 £35,750
25th Percentile £46,104 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,076 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +2.50% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £108,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.54%

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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 4 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 68 (3.01%) Apache Airflow
2 43 (1.91%) Apache Spark
3 28 (1.24%) Apache
4 22 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
5 14 (0.62%) SharePoint
6 13 (0.58%) CMS
7 11 (0.49%) Confluence
8 7 (0.31%) Apache Solr
8 7 (0.31%) Jupyter
8 7 (0.31%) nginx
9 4 (0.18%) Ethereum
10 3 (0.13%) Anypoint
10 3 (0.13%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.13%) Camunda
10 3 (0.13%) GeoServer
10 3 (0.13%) IIS
10 3 (0.13%) Mule
10 3 (0.13%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.13%) Oracle Spatial
10 3 (0.13%) WordPress
Applications
1 81 (3.59%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (0.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (0.35%) MS Visio
4 6 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
5 5 (0.22%) AutoCAD
5 5 (0.22%) Chatbot
5 5 (0.22%) DaVinci Resolve
6 3 (0.13%) Adobe Illustrator
6 3 (0.13%) Photoshop
7 2 (0.089%) PlantUML
8 1 (0.044%) EngageOne
8 1 (0.044%) Trello
Business Applications
1 24 (1.06%) Cloudability
2 5 (0.22%) Shopify
3 4 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.089%) SAP HR
6 1 (0.044%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.044%) Magento
6 1 (0.044%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.044%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 935 (41.45%) Azure
2 573 (25.40%) GCP
3 267 (11.84%) Serverless
4 225 (9.97%) SaaS
5 179 (7.93%) GitHub
6 171 (7.58%) Amazon S3
7 170 (7.54%) AWS Lambda
8 139 (6.16%) Microsoft 365
9 122 (5.41%) Amazon EKS
10 97 (4.30%) Amazon EC2
10 97 (4.30%) AWS CloudFormation
11 86 (3.81%) Amazon ECS
11 86 (3.81%) GitHub Actions
12 75 (3.32%) Amazon SQS
13 56 (2.48%) Azure DevOps
14 55 (2.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 48 (2.13%) Entra ID
16 47 (2.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 42 (1.86%) Snowflake
18 34 (1.51%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 134 (5.94%) Firewall
2 130 (5.76%) Broadband
3 72 (3.19%) WAN
4 67 (2.97%) VPN
5 63 (2.79%) LAN
6 56 (2.48%) DNS
7 47 (2.08%) Network Security
7 47 (2.08%) Wi-Fi
8 39 (1.73%) HTTP
9 38 (1.68%) TCP/IP
10 35 (1.55%) SD-WAN
11 33 (1.46%) Cisco ASA
12 31 (1.37%) DHCP
12 31 (1.37%) VXLAN
13 29 (1.29%) Cisco Firepower
14 21 (0.93%) BGP
14 21 (0.93%) VLAN
15 18 (0.80%) NGFW
16 17 (0.75%) MPLS
16 17 (0.75%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 233 (10.33%) PostgreSQL
2 177 (7.85%) MongoDB
3 127 (5.63%) NoSQL
4 85 (3.77%) MySQL
4 85 (3.77%) SQL Server
5 63 (2.79%) Amazon RDS
5 63 (2.79%) DynamoDB
5 63 (2.79%) Elasticsearch
5 63 (2.79%) Relational Database
6 53 (2.35%) Metadata
7 46 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
8 38 (1.68%) Amazon Athena
9 37 (1.64%) Amazon Redshift
10 35 (1.55%) BigQuery
11 27 (1.20%) Azure SQL Database
11 27 (1.20%) Redis
11 27 (1.20%) Tableau
12 26 (1.15%) Data Lake
13 23 (1.02%) RDBMS
14 19 (0.84%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 123 (5.45%) Git
2 84 (3.72%) GitLab
3 78 (3.46%) Jenkins
4 58 (2.57%) TeamCity
5 51 (2.26%) Cypress.io
6 41 (1.82%) JIRA
7 18 (0.80%) Claude Code
7 18 (0.80%) Jaeger
8 17 (0.75%) CircleCI
9 15 (0.66%) Maven
10 14 (0.62%) Crashlytics
10 14 (0.62%) JUnit
10 14 (0.62%) Selenium
10 14 (0.62%) XCTest
11 13 (0.58%) JMeter
12 11 (0.49%) MLflow
13 9 (0.40%) Mockito
14 8 (0.35%) Postman
15 7 (0.31%) Storybook
15 7 (0.31%) Vite
General
1 534 (23.67%) Social Skills
2 489 (21.68%) Finance
3 257 (11.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 244 (10.82%) Public Sector
5 215 (9.53%) Banking
6 178 (7.89%) Law
7 137 (6.07%) Retail
8 130 (5.76%) Analytical Skills
9 58 (2.57%) Legal
10 52 (2.30%) Back Office
11 51 (2.26%) Financial Institution
12 49 (2.17%) French Language
13 47 (2.08%) Front Office
14 45 (1.99%) Influencing Skills
15 41 (1.82%) Games
16 28 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
17 26 (1.15%) Telecoms
18 25 (1.11%) Marketing
19 24 (1.06%) Health Technology
19 24 (1.06%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 526 (23.32%) Senior
2 456 (20.21%) Developer
3 402 (17.82%) Software Engineer
4 313 (13.87%) Lead
5 248 (10.99%) Architect
6 158 (7.00%) AWS Engineer
7 133 (5.90%) Full-Stack Developer
8 122 (5.41%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 119 (5.27%) Analyst
10 108 (4.79%) Senior Software Engineer
11 104 (4.61%) DevOps Engineer
12 101 (4.48%) Lead Software Engineer
13 93 (4.12%) Lead Developer
14 90 (3.99%) Cloud Engineer
14 90 (3.99%) Data Engineer
15 89 (3.95%) Software Developer
15 89 (3.95%) Solutions Architect
16 88 (3.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 87 (3.86%) Java Engineer
18 81 (3.59%) Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 397 (17.60%) React
2 305 (13.52%) Node.js
3 163 (7.23%) .NET
4 147 (6.52%) REST
5 128 (5.67%) Kafka
6 126 (5.59%) Spring
7 119 (5.27%) RESTful
8 110 (4.88%) CSS
9 89 (3.95%) Spring Boot
10 82 (3.63%) Vue
11 74 (3.28%) AngularJS
11 74 (3.28%) HTML
12 56 (2.48%) .NET Core
13 53 (2.35%) gRPC
14 52 (2.30%) Redux
15 45 (1.99%) Ruby on Rails
16 44 (1.95%) ASP.NET
17 42 (1.86%) GraphQL
18 40 (1.77%) Jest
19 39 (1.73%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 363 (16.09%) Cloud Native
2 188 (8.33%) Product Ownership
3 160 (7.09%) Distributed Systems
4 100 (4.43%) Public Cloud
5 73 (3.24%) Greenfield Project
6 70 (3.10%) Video\Live Streaming
7 65 (2.88%) Onboarding
8 63 (2.79%) Data Centre
9 55 (2.44%) Blog
9 55 (2.44%) Security Posture
10 51 (2.26%) Management Information System
11 49 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
12 46 (2.04%) Over-the-Top Content
13 43 (1.91%) Fixed Income
13 43 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
14 41 (1.82%) Mobile App
15 40 (1.77%) Hybrid Cloud
15 40 (1.77%) PKI
16 33 (1.46%) Data Structures
17 28 (1.24%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 188 (8.33%) Linux
2 108 (4.79%) Windows
3 52 (2.30%) Unix
4 49 (2.17%) Windows Server
5 46 (2.04%) Apple iOS
6 35 (1.55%) Android
7 18 (0.80%) Windows 10
8 14 (0.62%) Windows Server 2016
9 12 (0.53%) Windows Server 2012
10 11 (0.49%) Mac OS
10 11 (0.49%) Windows Server 2019
11 7 (0.31%) Ubuntu
12 6 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 3 (0.13%) CentOS
14 2 (0.089%) Debian
15 1 (0.044%) FreeBSD
15 1 (0.044%) Mac OS X
15 1 (0.044%) OpenBSD
15 1 (0.044%) Windows 7
15 1 (0.044%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 770 (34.13%) CI/CD
2 680 (30.14%) Agile
3 678 (30.05%) Software Engineering
4 521 (23.09%) DevOps
5 509 (22.56%) Mentoring
6 439 (19.46%) Full-Stack Development
7 428 (18.97%) Microservices
8 404 (17.91%) Infrastructure as Code
9 401 (17.77%) AI
10 369 (16.36%) Continuous Improvement
11 366 (16.22%) Problem-Solving
12 333 (14.76%) Containerisation
13 323 (14.32%) Test Automation
14 298 (13.21%) Roadmaps
15 297 (13.16%) Technical Leadership
16 264 (11.70%) Coaching
17 234 (10.37%) Clean Code
18 214 (9.49%) Machine Learning
19 206 (9.13%) Observability
20 182 (8.07%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 629 (27.88%) Python
2 549 (24.34%) Java
3 358 (15.87%) TypeScript
4 347 (15.38%) JavaScript
5 311 (13.79%) SQL
6 216 (9.57%) C#
7 209 (9.26%) Go
8 120 (5.32%) Bash
9 76 (3.37%) Scala
10 73 (3.24%) C++
11 68 (3.01%) PHP
12 53 (2.35%) Ruby
13 44 (1.95%) PowerShell
14 32 (1.42%) Kotlin
15 28 (1.24%) Rust
16 15 (0.66%) PL/SQL
17 14 (0.62%) Swift
18 13 (0.58%) Bicep
19 9 (0.40%) Groovy
20 7 (0.31%) C
Qualifications
1 300 (13.30%) Security Cleared
2 282 (12.50%) Degree
3 253 (11.21%) SC Cleared
4 197 (8.73%) AWS Certification
5 96 (4.26%) Microsoft Certification
6 80 (3.55%) Computer Science Degree
7 75 (3.32%) MCSE
8 60 (2.66%) Azure Certification
9 55 (2.44%) CISSP
10 48 (2.13%) DV Cleared
11 37 (1.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 32 (1.42%) CISM
13 28 (1.24%) Cisco Certification
14 27 (1.20%) CREST Certified
14 27 (1.20%) DBS Check
15 23 (1.02%) TOGAF Certification
16 21 (0.93%) OSCP
17 17 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
17 17 (0.75%) CCNP
18 15 (0.66%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 173 (7.67%) QA
2 84 (3.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 59 (2.62%) NIST
4 55 (2.44%) Data Quality
5 51 (2.26%) Accessibility
6 40 (1.77%) PCI DSS
7 36 (1.60%) GDPR
8 26 (1.15%) GRC
9 24 (1.06%) NCSC
10 20 (0.89%) SOC 2
11 15 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
11 15 (0.66%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 13 (0.58%) JSP 440
13 11 (0.49%) ISO 9001
14 10 (0.44%) SLA
15 9 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
16 8 (0.35%) WCAG
17 7 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 7 (0.31%) Government Security Classifications
17 7 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 411 (18.22%) Docker
2 65 (2.88%) Active Directory
3 38 (1.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 35 (1.55%) Hyper-V
5 19 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
6 18 (0.80%) vSphere
7 6 (0.27%) Firmware
7 6 (0.27%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 6 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
8 5 (0.22%) KVM
9 2 (0.089%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 2 (0.089%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.089%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.044%) iptables
10 1 (0.044%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 1 (0.044%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.044%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 410 (18.17%) Terraform
2 367 (16.27%) Kubernetes
3 140 (6.21%) Ansible
4 119 (5.27%) Grafana
5 63 (2.79%) Prometheus
6 48 (2.13%) Argo
7 21 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
8 18 (0.80%) Kustomize
9 17 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
10 14 (0.62%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 14 (0.62%) Proxmox
11 12 (0.53%) Podman
11 12 (0.53%) Progress Chef
12 11 (0.49%) Istio
13 9 (0.40%) Cisco CUCM
13 9 (0.40%) Packer
13 9 (0.40%) Puppet
14 6 (0.27%) EMC NetWorker
14 6 (0.27%) EMC VPLEX
14 6 (0.27%) Nmap
Vendors
1 331 (14.67%) Microsoft
2 114 (5.05%) Google
3 104 (4.61%) ServiceNow
4 70 (3.10%) Cisco
5 61 (2.70%) VMware
6 47 (2.08%) Apple
7 46 (2.04%) Oracle
8 45 (1.99%) Typelevel
9 43 (1.91%) Adobe
10 34 (1.51%) Databricks
11 33 (1.46%) SolarWinds
12 32 (1.42%) Fortinet
12 32 (1.42%) Palo Alto
13 31 (1.37%) Splunk
14 23 (1.02%) Salesforce
15 22 (0.98%) SAP
16 18 (0.80%) Aruba
16 18 (0.80%) CheckPoint
17 17 (0.75%) Meraki
17 17 (0.75%) Red Hat