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

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 12 9
Rank change year-on-year +5 -3 -3
Permanent jobs citing AWS 2,255 2,156 4,742
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 11.76% 14.52% 14.13%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.85% 37.27% 33.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1,418 1,352 4,031
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 £90,000 £102,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £132,500 £118,750
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 7,310 5,785 14,265
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.11% 38.96% 42.49%
Number of salaries quoted 5,024 4,181 12,054
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,750 £35,920
25th Percentile £46,213 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,076 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.40% +1.67% -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 3 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 (3.02%) Apache Airflow
2 42 (1.86%) Apache Spark
3 28 (1.24%) Apache
4 22 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
5 14 (0.62%) SharePoint
6 13 (0.58%) CMS
7 12 (0.53%) 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 19 (0.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (0.84%) 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%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.22%) Shopify
3 3 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.089%) SAP HR
5 1 (0.044%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.044%) Magento
5 1 (0.044%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.044%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 941 (41.73%) Azure
2 574 (25.45%) GCP
3 266 (11.80%) Serverless
4 229 (10.16%) SaaS
5 177 (7.85%) GitHub
6 170 (7.54%) Amazon S3
7 169 (7.49%) AWS Lambda
8 139 (6.16%) Microsoft 365
9 125 (5.54%) Amazon EKS
10 98 (4.35%) Amazon EC2
11 95 (4.21%) AWS CloudFormation
12 86 (3.81%) Amazon ECS
13 84 (3.73%) GitHub Actions
14 74 (3.28%) Amazon SQS
15 57 (2.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 56 (2.48%) Azure DevOps
17 50 (2.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 49 (2.17%) Entra ID
19 42 (1.86%) Snowflake
20 34 (1.51%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 135 (5.99%) Firewall
2 130 (5.76%) Broadband
3 72 (3.19%) WAN
4 67 (2.97%) VPN
5 64 (2.84%) LAN
6 56 (2.48%) DNS
7 48 (2.13%) Wi-Fi
8 47 (2.08%) Network Security
9 38 (1.69%) HTTP
9 38 (1.69%) TCP/IP
10 36 (1.60%) SD-WAN
11 34 (1.51%) Cisco ASA
12 32 (1.42%) VXLAN
13 30 (1.33%) Cisco Firepower
13 30 (1.33%) DHCP
14 21 (0.93%) BGP
14 21 (0.93%) VLAN
15 18 (0.80%) MPLS
15 18 (0.80%) OSPF
15 18 (0.80%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 234 (10.38%) PostgreSQL
2 176 (7.80%) MongoDB
3 127 (5.63%) NoSQL
4 87 (3.86%) SQL Server
5 85 (3.77%) MySQL
6 65 (2.88%) Amazon RDS
7 63 (2.79%) Elasticsearch
7 63 (2.79%) Relational Database
8 62 (2.75%) DynamoDB
9 53 (2.35%) Metadata
10 46 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
11 38 (1.69%) Amazon Athena
12 37 (1.64%) Amazon Redshift
13 35 (1.55%) BigQuery
14 28 (1.24%) Redis
15 27 (1.20%) Azure SQL Database
15 27 (1.20%) Tableau
16 26 (1.15%) Data Lake
17 23 (1.02%) RDBMS
18 19 (0.84%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 124 (5.50%) Git
2 84 (3.73%) GitLab
3 77 (3.41%) Jenkins
4 59 (2.62%) TeamCity
5 51 (2.26%) Cypress.io
6 42 (1.86%) JIRA
7 18 (0.80%) Claude Code
7 18 (0.80%) Jaeger
8 17 (0.75%) CircleCI
9 15 (0.67%) Maven
9 15 (0.67%) Selenium
10 14 (0.62%) Crashlytics
10 14 (0.62%) JUnit
10 14 (0.62%) XCTest
11 13 (0.58%) JMeter
12 11 (0.49%) MLflow
13 9 (0.40%) Mockito
14 8 (0.35%) Bitbucket
14 8 (0.35%) Postman
15 7 (0.31%) Cucumber
General
1 539 (23.90%) Social Skills
2 486 (21.55%) Finance
3 261 (11.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 245 (10.86%) Public Sector
5 210 (9.31%) Banking
6 179 (7.94%) Law
7 137 (6.08%) Retail
8 131 (5.81%) Analytical Skills
9 58 (2.57%) Legal
10 53 (2.35%) Back Office
11 52 (2.31%) Financial Institution
12 49 (2.17%) French Language
13 47 (2.08%) Front Office
14 45 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
15 41 (1.82%) Games
16 28 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
17 27 (1.20%) Telecoms
18 25 (1.11%) Marketing
19 24 (1.06%) Health Technology
19 24 (1.06%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 523 (23.19%) Senior
2 457 (20.27%) Developer
3 401 (17.78%) Software Engineer
4 313 (13.88%) Lead
5 248 (11.00%) Architect
6 161 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
7 133 (5.90%) Full-Stack Developer
8 121 (5.37%) Analyst
9 120 (5.32%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 108 (4.79%) Senior Software Engineer
11 104 (4.61%) DevOps Engineer
12 102 (4.52%) Lead Software Engineer
13 93 (4.12%) Lead Developer
14 91 (4.04%) Cloud Engineer
15 89 (3.95%) Data Engineer
15 89 (3.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 89 (3.95%) Software Developer
16 88 (3.90%) Solutions Architect
17 87 (3.86%) Java Engineer
18 82 (3.64%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 396 (17.56%) React
2 304 (13.48%) Node.js
3 164 (7.27%) .NET
4 146 (6.47%) REST
5 127 (5.63%) Kafka
6 125 (5.54%) Spring
7 119 (5.28%) RESTful
8 111 (4.92%) CSS
9 90 (3.99%) Spring Boot
10 82 (3.64%) Vue
11 75 (3.33%) HTML
12 74 (3.28%) AngularJS
13 57 (2.53%) .NET Core
14 53 (2.35%) gRPC
15 52 (2.31%) Redux
16 45 (2.00%) Ruby on Rails
17 44 (1.95%) ASP.NET
18 42 (1.86%) GraphQL
19 40 (1.77%) Jest
20 38 (1.69%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 361 (16.01%) Cloud Native
2 184 (8.16%) Product Ownership
3 160 (7.10%) Distributed Systems
4 99 (4.39%) Public Cloud
5 71 (3.15%) Greenfield Project
6 70 (3.10%) Video\Live Streaming
7 69 (3.06%) Onboarding
8 64 (2.84%) Data Centre
9 55 (2.44%) Blog
9 55 (2.44%) Security Posture
10 52 (2.31%) Management Information System
11 50 (2.22%) 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 (8.34%) Linux
2 107 (4.75%) Windows
3 52 (2.31%) Unix
4 48 (2.13%) 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 (34.15%) CI/CD
2 678 (30.07%) Agile
3 674 (29.89%) Software Engineering
4 526 (23.33%) DevOps
5 510 (22.62%) Mentoring
6 437 (19.38%) Full-Stack Development
7 430 (19.07%) Microservices
8 403 (17.87%) AI
9 402 (17.83%) Infrastructure as Code
10 369 (16.36%) Continuous Improvement
11 364 (16.14%) Problem-Solving
12 332 (14.72%) Containerisation
13 320 (14.19%) Test Automation
14 293 (12.99%) Roadmaps
14 293 (12.99%) Technical Leadership
15 265 (11.75%) Coaching
16 234 (10.38%) Clean Code
17 213 (9.45%) Machine Learning
18 205 (9.09%) Observability
19 182 (8.07%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 628 (27.85%) Python
2 549 (24.35%) Java
3 357 (15.83%) TypeScript
4 347 (15.39%) JavaScript
5 313 (13.88%) SQL
6 218 (9.67%) C#
7 209 (9.27%) Go
8 122 (5.41%) Bash
9 76 (3.37%) Scala
10 73 (3.24%) C++
11 69 (3.06%) PHP
12 53 (2.35%) Ruby
13 44 (1.95%) PowerShell
14 32 (1.42%) Kotlin
15 28 (1.24%) Rust
16 15 (0.67%) PL/SQL
17 14 (0.62%) Swift
18 13 (0.58%) Bicep
19 8 (0.35%) Groovy
20 7 (0.31%) C
Qualifications
1 296 (13.13%) Security Cleared
2 286 (12.68%) Degree
3 249 (11.04%) SC Cleared
4 201 (8.91%) AWS Certification
5 97 (4.30%) Microsoft Certification
6 81 (3.59%) Computer Science Degree
7 75 (3.33%) MCSE
8 60 (2.66%) Azure Certification
9 56 (2.48%) CISSP
10 48 (2.13%) DV Cleared
11 38 (1.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 33 (1.46%) CISM
13 28 (1.24%) Cisco Certification
14 27 (1.20%) CREST Certified
14 27 (1.20%) DBS Check
15 24 (1.06%) TOGAF Certification
16 21 (0.93%) OSCP
17 17 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
17 17 (0.75%) CCNP
18 15 (0.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 172 (7.63%) QA
2 84 (3.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 60 (2.66%) NIST
4 55 (2.44%) Data Quality
5 51 (2.26%) Accessibility
6 40 (1.77%) PCI DSS
7 37 (1.64%) GDPR
8 26 (1.15%) GRC
9 24 (1.06%) NCSC
10 21 (0.93%) SOC 2
11 15 (0.67%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 14 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
13 13 (0.58%) JSP 440
14 11 (0.49%) ISO 9001
15 10 (0.44%) SLA
16 9 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
17 8 (0.35%) WCAG
18 7 (0.31%) Government Security Classifications
18 7 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 42001
19 6 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 410 (18.18%) Docker
2 65 (2.88%) Active Directory
3 37 (1.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 35 (1.55%) Hyper-V
5 20 (0.89%) Virtual Machines
6 17 (0.75%) 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
1 411 (18.23%) Terraform
2 368 (16.32%) Kubernetes
3 140 (6.21%) Ansible
4 122 (5.41%) Grafana
5 65 (2.88%) Prometheus
6 48 (2.13%) Argo
7 21 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
8 18 (0.80%) Kustomize
8 18 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
9 14 (0.62%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 13 (0.58%) Proxmox
11 12 (0.53%) Podman
12 11 (0.49%) Istio
12 11 (0.49%) Progress Chef
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
1 335 (14.86%) Microsoft
2 114 (5.06%) Google
3 105 (4.66%) ServiceNow
4 71 (3.15%) Cisco
5 60 (2.66%) VMware
6 50 (2.22%) Apple
7 46 (2.04%) Adobe
7 46 (2.04%) Oracle
8 45 (2.00%) Typelevel
9 34 (1.51%) SolarWinds
10 33 (1.46%) Databricks
10 33 (1.46%) Fortinet
11 32 (1.42%) Palo Alto
12 31 (1.37%) Splunk
13 23 (1.02%) Salesforce
13 23 (1.02%) SAP
14 19 (0.84%) CheckPoint
15 18 (0.80%) Aruba
15 18 (0.80%) Dynatrace
15 18 (0.80%) Meraki