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

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 7 9
Rank change year-on-year -3 +2 -2
Permanent jobs citing AWS 1,845 2,681 4,216
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 11.43% 17.09% 15.25%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.40% 36.45% 33.30%
Number of salaries quoted 1,266 1,715 3,681
10th Percentile £46,446 £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% -6.90%
75th Percentile £94,688 £95,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £118,750 £117,500 £107,500
UK median annual salary £71,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -5.33% +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 6,069 7,355 12,660
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.59% 46.88% 45.80%
Number of salaries quoted 4,172 4,761 11,075
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £35,500
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 13 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 88 (4.77%) Apache Airflow
2 45 (2.44%) Apache
3 37 (2.01%) Apache Spark
4 22 (1.19%) Microsoft Exchange
5 16 (0.87%) Confluence
6 15 (0.81%) SharePoint
7 14 (0.76%) CMS
8 12 (0.65%) Tomcat
8 12 (0.65%) WebSphere
8 12 (0.65%) WebSphere Application Server
9 11 (0.60%) nginx
10 7 (0.38%) Ethereum
10 7 (0.38%) WordPress
11 5 (0.27%) Anypoint
11 5 (0.27%) Apache Pulsar
11 5 (0.27%) Drupal
12 4 (0.22%) ArcGIS
12 4 (0.22%) GeoServer
12 4 (0.22%) Oracle Spatial
12 4 (0.22%) SAS
Applications
1 133 (7.21%) Microsoft Office
2 22 (1.19%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (0.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
5 4 (0.22%) Adobe Illustrator
5 4 (0.22%) Photoshop
6 2 (0.11%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.054%) EngageOne
7 1 (0.054%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.054%) Notion
Business Applications
1 20 (1.08%) Oracle ERP
2 10 (0.54%) Shopify
3 8 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.11%) SAP HR
6 1 (0.054%) Magento
6 1 (0.054%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.054%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.054%) Sprinklr
6 1 (0.054%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 820 (44.44%) Azure
2 480 (26.02%) GCP
3 257 (13.93%) SaaS
4 252 (13.66%) Serverless
5 190 (10.30%) Microsoft 365
6 182 (9.86%) GitHub
7 174 (9.43%) AWS Lambda
8 162 (8.78%) Amazon S3
9 132 (7.15%) Amazon EKS
10 107 (5.80%) AWS CloudFormation
11 83 (4.50%) GitHub Actions
12 74 (4.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 73 (3.96%) Entra ID
14 72 (3.90%) Amazon ECS
15 68 (3.69%) Amazon EC2
16 64 (3.47%) dbt
17 62 (3.36%) Amazon SQS
18 61 (3.31%) Azure DevOps
19 57 (3.09%) Snowflake
20 52 (2.82%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 102 (5.53%) Firewall
2 53 (2.87%) VPN
3 49 (2.66%) Broadband
4 46 (2.49%) WAN
4 46 (2.49%) Wi-Fi
5 42 (2.28%) Network Security
6 36 (1.95%) DNS
6 36 (1.95%) LAN
7 35 (1.90%) TCP/IP
8 28 (1.52%) SD-WAN
9 25 (1.36%) VXLAN
10 22 (1.19%) DHCP
11 21 (1.14%) SSL
12 20 (1.08%) BGP
13 18 (0.98%) NGFW
13 18 (0.98%) VLAN
14 16 (0.87%) HTTP
14 16 (0.87%) Wireshark
15 15 (0.81%) MPLS
15 15 (0.81%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 172 (9.32%) PostgreSQL
2 100 (5.42%) NoSQL
3 88 (4.77%) SQL Server
4 82 (4.44%) MongoDB
5 76 (4.12%) MySQL
6 63 (3.41%) Amazon RDS
7 61 (3.31%) Data Warehouse
8 59 (3.20%) Relational Database
9 58 (3.14%) Amazon Athena
10 51 (2.76%) Apache Iceberg
11 50 (2.71%) Data Lake
11 50 (2.71%) DynamoDB
12 44 (2.38%) Amazon Redshift
13 43 (2.33%) Elasticsearch
13 43 (2.33%) Metadata
14 39 (2.11%) BigQuery
15 37 (2.01%) Tableau
16 28 (1.52%) Apache Arrow
16 28 (1.52%) Dremio
16 28 (1.52%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 121 (6.56%) Jenkins
2 106 (5.75%) Git
3 70 (3.79%) GitLab
4 57 (3.09%) TeamCity
5 32 (1.73%) JIRA
6 31 (1.68%) Cypress.io
7 20 (1.08%) Oracle Forms
8 19 (1.03%) Jaeger
8 19 (1.03%) Selenium
9 14 (0.76%) Bitbucket
9 14 (0.76%) SonarQube
10 12 (0.65%) JUnit
10 12 (0.65%) MLflow
11 11 (0.60%) Cucumber
12 10 (0.54%) Burp Suite
12 10 (0.54%) CircleCI
12 10 (0.54%) Metasploit
13 9 (0.49%) JMeter
13 9 (0.49%) Subversion
14 7 (0.38%) Vite
General
1 580 (31.44%) Social Skills
2 416 (22.55%) Finance
3 183 (9.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 174 (9.43%) Banking
5 157 (8.51%) Public Sector
6 145 (7.86%) Retail
7 128 (6.94%) Law
8 119 (6.45%) French Language
9 116 (6.29%) Analytical Skills
10 95 (5.15%) Swedish Language
11 73 (3.96%) Financial Institution
12 55 (2.98%) Back Office
13 53 (2.87%) Telecoms
14 51 (2.76%) Front Office
15 46 (2.49%) Games
15 46 (2.49%) Influencing Skills
16 40 (2.17%) Legal
17 39 (2.11%) Tech for Good
18 29 (1.57%) Health Technology
19 26 (1.41%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 407 (22.06%) Senior
2 352 (19.08%) Developer
3 271 (14.69%) Software Engineer
4 230 (12.47%) Lead
5 193 (10.46%) Architect
6 166 (9.00%) Analyst
7 119 (6.45%) Service Analyst
7 119 (6.45%) Service Desk Analyst
8 117 (6.34%) AWS Engineer
9 96 (5.20%) Cloud Engineer
9 96 (5.20%) Full-Stack Developer
10 93 (5.04%) Senior Software Engineer
11 86 (4.66%) Java Engineer
12 83 (4.50%) Software Developer
13 80 (4.34%) Data Engineer
13 80 (4.34%) DevOps Engineer
14 78 (4.23%) Lead Developer
15 72 (3.90%) AWS Developer
16 71 (3.85%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 68 (3.69%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 332 (17.99%) React
2 193 (10.46%) Node.js
3 182 (9.86%) .NET
4 133 (7.21%) RESTful
5 120 (6.50%) Kafka
6 108 (5.85%) Spring
7 96 (5.20%) Spring Boot
8 83 (4.50%) REST
9 80 (4.34%) AngularJS
10 77 (4.17%) Vue
11 68 (3.69%) CSS
12 64 (3.47%) HTML
13 53 (2.87%) gRPC
14 51 (2.76%) .NET Core
15 49 (2.66%) Django
16 46 (2.49%) Elastic Stack
17 38 (2.06%) JSON
18 36 (1.95%) XML
19 32 (1.73%) Pandas
19 32 (1.73%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 284 (15.39%) Cloud Native
2 130 (7.05%) Distributed Systems
3 90 (4.88%) Product Ownership
4 69 (3.74%) Enterprise Software
4 69 (3.74%) Public Cloud
5 65 (3.52%) Data Centre
6 51 (2.76%) Management Information System
7 49 (2.66%) Onboarding
8 45 (2.44%) Fixed Income
9 44 (2.38%) Blog
10 38 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
10 38 (2.06%) Security Posture
11 37 (2.01%) PKI
12 36 (1.95%) Hybrid Cloud
13 31 (1.68%) Equities
14 30 (1.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 28 (1.52%) Data Structures
16 26 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
17 25 (1.36%) Linux Command Line
18 24 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 196 (10.62%) Linux
2 104 (5.64%) Windows
3 71 (3.85%) Unix
4 44 (2.38%) Android
5 41 (2.22%) Windows Server
6 36 (1.95%) Apple iOS
7 24 (1.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 20 (1.08%) Windows 10
9 17 (0.92%) Mac OS
10 14 (0.76%) Windows Server 2012
11 13 (0.70%) Windows Server 2016
12 12 (0.65%) Ubuntu
12 12 (0.65%) Windows Server 2019
13 9 (0.49%) CentOS
14 5 (0.27%) Debian
14 5 (0.27%) VMS
15 1 (0.054%) AIX
15 1 (0.054%) Mac OS X
15 1 (0.054%) Windows 7
15 1 (0.054%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 615 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 531 (28.78%) Agile
3 498 (26.99%) DevOps
3 498 (26.99%) Software Engineering
4 416 (22.55%) Mentoring
5 335 (18.16%) Microservices
6 319 (17.29%) Problem-Solving
7 300 (16.26%) Infrastructure as Code
8 299 (16.21%) AI
9 284 (15.39%) Full-Stack Development
10 258 (13.98%) Continuous Improvement
11 230 (12.47%) Containerisation
11 230 (12.47%) Roadmaps
12 210 (11.38%) Coaching
13 203 (11.00%) ITIL
14 178 (9.65%) Test Automation
15 163 (8.83%) Computer Science
15 163 (8.83%) Technical Leadership
16 155 (8.40%) ITSM
17 151 (8.18%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 567 (30.73%) Python
2 455 (24.66%) Java
3 321 (17.40%) JavaScript
4 315 (17.07%) TypeScript
5 280 (15.18%) SQL
6 195 (10.57%) C#
7 142 (7.70%) Go
8 128 (6.94%) Bash
9 64 (3.47%) PHP
9 64 (3.47%) PowerShell
10 42 (2.28%) Scala
11 29 (1.57%) C++
12 25 (1.36%) Shell Script
13 22 (1.19%) PL/SQL
14 20 (1.08%) Kotlin
15 18 (0.98%) Bicep
15 18 (0.98%) Rust
16 15 (0.81%) Ruby
17 9 (0.49%) R
18 8 (0.43%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 358 (19.40%) Degree
2 300 (16.26%) AWS Certification
3 205 (11.11%) Security Cleared
4 178 (9.65%) Microsoft Certification
5 174 (9.43%) SC Cleared
6 136 (7.37%) MCSE
7 114 (6.18%) Computer Science Degree
8 81 (4.39%) Azure Certification
9 50 (2.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 41 (2.22%) CISSP
11 40 (2.17%) TOGAF Certification
12 35 (1.90%) Cisco Certification
13 29 (1.57%) DV Cleared
13 29 (1.57%) Master's Degree
14 25 (1.36%) CISM
14 25 (1.36%) CREST Certified
15 19 (1.03%) DBS Check
16 18 (0.98%) CCNP
16 18 (0.98%) OSCP
17 17 (0.92%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 190 (10.30%) QA
2 93 (5.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 64 (3.47%) GDPR
4 52 (2.82%) NIST
5 51 (2.76%) PCI DSS
6 45 (2.44%) Data Quality
7 35 (1.90%) SOC 2
8 31 (1.68%) SLA
9 30 (1.63%) Cyber Essentials
10 27 (1.46%) GRC
11 24 (1.30%) Accessibility
12 18 (0.98%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 17 (0.92%) NCSC
14 13 (0.70%) Actionable Recommendations
15 11 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 42001
16 9 (0.49%) JSP 440
17 7 (0.38%) ISO 9001
18 6 (0.33%) EU AI Act
19 3 (0.16%) HL7
20 2 (0.11%) WCAG
System Software
1 336 (18.21%) Docker
2 78 (4.23%) Active Directory
3 29 (1.57%) Hyper-V
4 26 (1.41%) VMware Infrastructure
5 10 (0.54%) vSphere
6 5 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.27%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.22%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 4 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.11%) Firmware
10 1 (0.054%) HDFS
10 1 (0.054%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 386 (20.92%) Terraform
2 353 (19.13%) Kubernetes
3 156 (8.46%) Ansible
4 130 (7.05%) Grafana
5 75 (4.07%) Prometheus
6 45 (2.44%) Argo
7 39 (2.11%) Single Sign-On
8 26 (1.41%) Microsoft Intune
9 19 (1.03%) Kustomize
10 13 (0.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 10 (0.54%) Nmap
12 7 (0.38%) Kibana
12 7 (0.38%) Proxmox
13 6 (0.33%) Progress Chef
14 5 (0.27%) Autotask
14 5 (0.27%) Cilium
14 5 (0.27%) Packer
14 5 (0.27%) Puppet
15 4 (0.22%) HP Fortify
15 4 (0.22%) Nessus
Vendors
1 293 (15.88%) Microsoft
2 139 (7.53%) ServiceNow
3 106 (5.75%) Google
4 71 (3.85%) Oracle
5 47 (2.55%) VMware
6 41 (2.22%) Cisco
7 37 (2.01%) Databricks
7 37 (2.01%) Red Hat
8 26 (1.41%) Apple
8 26 (1.41%) IBM
9 25 (1.36%) Okta
10 23 (1.25%) SAP
11 21 (1.14%) Adobe
12 20 (1.08%) Splunk
13 19 (1.03%) Salesforce
13 19 (1.03%) SolarWinds
14 18 (0.98%) Typelevel
15 16 (0.87%) Informatica
16 15 (0.81%) Fortinet
16 15 (0.81%) NetScout