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

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 7 9
Rank change year-on-year -3 +2 -2
Permanent jobs citing AWS 1,898 2,659 4,214
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 11.65% 17.11% 15.19%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.94% 36.55% 33.10%
Number of salaries quoted 1,294 1,694 3,686
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 £93,750 £95,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £118,750 £117,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £70,932 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -5.42% +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 6,134 7,275 12,732
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.65% 46.81% 45.90%
Number of salaries quoted 4,214 4,695 11,146
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 17 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 89 (4.69%) Apache Airflow
2 41 (2.16%) Apache Spark
3 40 (2.11%) Apache
4 22 (1.16%) Microsoft Exchange
5 15 (0.79%) Confluence
5 15 (0.79%) SharePoint
6 14 (0.74%) CMS
7 12 (0.63%) Tomcat
7 12 (0.63%) WebSphere
7 12 (0.63%) WebSphere Application Server
8 11 (0.58%) nginx
9 7 (0.37%) Ethereum
9 7 (0.37%) WordPress
10 5 (0.26%) Anypoint
10 5 (0.26%) Apache Pulsar
10 5 (0.26%) Drupal
11 4 (0.21%) ArcGIS
11 4 (0.21%) GeoServer
11 4 (0.21%) Oracle Spatial
11 4 (0.21%) SAS
Applications
1 138 (7.27%) Microsoft Office
2 21 (1.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (0.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
5 4 (0.21%) Adobe Illustrator
5 4 (0.21%) Photoshop
6 2 (0.11%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.053%) EngageOne
7 1 (0.053%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.053%) Notion
Business Applications
1 19 (1.00%) Oracle ERP
2 10 (0.53%) Shopify
3 8 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.11%) SAP HR
6 1 (0.053%) Magento
6 1 (0.053%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.053%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.053%) Sprinklr
6 1 (0.053%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 842 (44.36%) Azure
2 510 (26.87%) GCP
3 258 (13.59%) SaaS
3 258 (13.59%) Serverless
4 196 (10.33%) Microsoft 365
5 187 (9.85%) GitHub
6 176 (9.27%) AWS Lambda
7 166 (8.75%) Amazon S3
8 137 (7.22%) Amazon EKS
9 114 (6.01%) AWS CloudFormation
10 88 (4.64%) GitHub Actions
11 79 (4.16%) Amazon ECS
12 76 (4.00%) Entra ID
13 74 (3.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 71 (3.74%) Amazon EC2
15 70 (3.69%) dbt
16 63 (3.32%) Amazon SQS
17 59 (3.11%) Azure DevOps
18 55 (2.90%) Snowflake
19 51 (2.69%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 108 (5.69%) Firewall
2 56 (2.95%) VPN
3 53 (2.79%) Broadband
4 48 (2.53%) WAN
5 46 (2.42%) Wi-Fi
6 43 (2.27%) Network Security
7 41 (2.16%) TCP/IP
8 39 (2.05%) DNS
9 38 (2.00%) LAN
10 28 (1.48%) SD-WAN
11 25 (1.32%) VXLAN
12 23 (1.21%) DHCP
13 22 (1.16%) SSL
14 20 (1.05%) BGP
14 20 (1.05%) VLAN
15 18 (0.95%) NGFW
16 17 (0.90%) HTTP
17 16 (0.84%) Cisco ASA
17 16 (0.84%) Wireshark
18 15 (0.79%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 183 (9.64%) PostgreSQL
2 105 (5.53%) NoSQL
3 88 (4.64%) SQL Server
4 86 (4.53%) MongoDB
5 78 (4.11%) MySQL
6 69 (3.64%) Amazon RDS
7 61 (3.21%) Data Warehouse
8 60 (3.16%) Relational Database
9 55 (2.90%) Amazon Athena
10 50 (2.63%) DynamoDB
11 48 (2.53%) Metadata
12 47 (2.48%) Apache Iceberg
12 47 (2.48%) Elasticsearch
13 46 (2.42%) Data Lake
14 45 (2.37%) Amazon Redshift
15 44 (2.32%) BigQuery
16 37 (1.95%) Tableau
17 28 (1.48%) Power BI
18 27 (1.42%) Redis
19 24 (1.26%) Dremio
Development Applications
1 120 (6.32%) Jenkins
2 109 (5.74%) Git
3 70 (3.69%) GitLab
4 60 (3.16%) TeamCity
5 32 (1.69%) Cypress.io
5 32 (1.69%) JIRA
6 19 (1.00%) Jaeger
6 19 (1.00%) Oracle Forms
6 19 (1.00%) Selenium
7 14 (0.74%) SonarQube
8 13 (0.68%) Bitbucket
9 12 (0.63%) MLflow
10 11 (0.58%) Cucumber
10 11 (0.58%) JUnit
11 10 (0.53%) CircleCI
12 9 (0.47%) Burp Suite
12 9 (0.47%) JMeter
12 9 (0.47%) Metasploit
12 9 (0.47%) Subversion
13 7 (0.37%) Vite
General
1 599 (31.56%) Social Skills
2 430 (22.66%) Finance
3 194 (10.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 177 (9.33%) Banking
5 170 (8.96%) Public Sector
6 155 (8.17%) Retail
7 141 (7.43%) Law
8 124 (6.53%) French Language
9 117 (6.16%) Analytical Skills
10 95 (5.01%) Swedish Language
11 75 (3.95%) Financial Institution
12 58 (3.06%) Back Office
13 57 (3.00%) Front Office
14 53 (2.79%) Telecoms
15 46 (2.42%) Games
15 46 (2.42%) Influencing Skills
16 44 (2.32%) Legal
17 39 (2.05%) Tech for Good
18 29 (1.53%) Health Technology
19 27 (1.42%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 428 (22.55%) Senior
2 364 (19.18%) Developer
3 288 (15.17%) Software Engineer
4 240 (12.64%) Lead
5 196 (10.33%) Architect
6 169 (8.90%) Analyst
7 124 (6.53%) Service Analyst
7 124 (6.53%) Service Desk Analyst
8 113 (5.95%) AWS Engineer
9 101 (5.32%) Full-Stack Developer
10 95 (5.01%) Cloud Engineer
10 95 (5.01%) Senior Software Engineer
11 88 (4.64%) Java Engineer
12 85 (4.48%) Lead Developer
13 84 (4.43%) Data Engineer
14 83 (4.37%) Software Developer
15 81 (4.27%) DevOps Engineer
16 74 (3.90%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 73 (3.85%) AWS Developer
18 70 (3.69%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 347 (18.28%) React
2 206 (10.85%) Node.js
3 183 (9.64%) .NET
4 137 (7.22%) RESTful
5 134 (7.06%) Kafka
6 109 (5.74%) Spring
7 97 (5.11%) Spring Boot
8 82 (4.32%) AngularJS
9 81 (4.27%) REST
10 80 (4.21%) Vue
11 68 (3.58%) CSS
12 64 (3.37%) HTML
13 54 (2.85%) Django
14 52 (2.74%) .NET Core
15 49 (2.58%) gRPC
16 46 (2.42%) Elastic Stack
17 37 (1.95%) JSON
18 35 (1.84%) Redux
19 34 (1.79%) XML
20 32 (1.69%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 296 (15.60%) Cloud Native
2 131 (6.90%) Distributed Systems
3 94 (4.95%) Product Ownership
4 70 (3.69%) Enterprise Software
4 70 (3.69%) Public Cloud
5 66 (3.48%) Data Centre
6 54 (2.85%) Management Information System
7 51 (2.69%) Fixed Income
8 49 (2.58%) Onboarding
9 46 (2.42%) Blog
10 41 (2.16%) Security Posture
11 40 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
12 38 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
13 37 (1.95%) PKI
14 32 (1.69%) Data Structures
15 30 (1.58%) Linux Command Line
16 29 (1.53%) Equities
17 27 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
18 26 (1.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
18 26 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 202 (10.64%) Linux
2 104 (5.48%) Windows
3 76 (4.00%) Unix
4 49 (2.58%) Android
5 43 (2.27%) Windows Server
6 42 (2.21%) Apple iOS
7 24 (1.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 20 (1.05%) Windows 10
9 17 (0.90%) Mac OS
10 14 (0.74%) Windows Server 2012
11 13 (0.68%) Windows Server 2016
12 12 (0.63%) Ubuntu
12 12 (0.63%) Windows Server 2019
13 9 (0.47%) CentOS
14 5 (0.26%) Debian
14 5 (0.26%) VMS
15 1 (0.053%) AIX
15 1 (0.053%) FreeBSD
15 1 (0.053%) Mac OS X
15 1 (0.053%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 635 (33.46%) CI/CD
2 562 (29.61%) Agile
3 516 (27.19%) DevOps
4 511 (26.92%) Software Engineering
5 436 (22.97%) Mentoring
6 347 (18.28%) Microservices
7 325 (17.12%) Problem-Solving
8 317 (16.70%) Infrastructure as Code
9 304 (16.02%) AI
10 295 (15.54%) Full-Stack Development
11 267 (14.07%) Continuous Improvement
12 240 (12.64%) Containerisation
13 239 (12.59%) Roadmaps
14 224 (11.80%) Coaching
15 210 (11.06%) ITIL
16 190 (10.01%) Test Automation
17 169 (8.90%) Technical Leadership
18 165 (8.69%) Computer Science
19 160 (8.43%) ITSM
20 158 (8.32%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 587 (30.93%) Python
2 475 (25.03%) Java
3 331 (17.44%) JavaScript
4 326 (17.18%) TypeScript
5 287 (15.12%) SQL
6 194 (10.22%) C#
7 152 (8.01%) Go
8 128 (6.74%) Bash
9 64 (3.37%) PHP
10 63 (3.32%) PowerShell
11 46 (2.42%) Scala
12 33 (1.74%) C++
13 24 (1.26%) Shell Script
14 21 (1.11%) Kotlin
14 21 (1.11%) PL/SQL
15 19 (1.00%) Rust
16 17 (0.90%) Bicep
16 17 (0.90%) Ruby
17 10 (0.53%) R
18 8 (0.42%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 369 (19.44%) Degree
2 305 (16.07%) AWS Certification
3 215 (11.33%) Security Cleared
4 184 (9.69%) Microsoft Certification
5 183 (9.64%) SC Cleared
6 142 (7.48%) MCSE
7 115 (6.06%) Computer Science Degree
8 80 (4.21%) Azure Certification
9 50 (2.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 44 (2.32%) CISSP
11 40 (2.11%) TOGAF Certification
12 34 (1.79%) Cisco Certification
13 30 (1.58%) DV Cleared
14 29 (1.53%) Master's Degree
15 27 (1.42%) CREST Certified
16 26 (1.37%) CISM
17 21 (1.11%) DBS Check
18 20 (1.05%) OSCP
19 18 (0.95%) CCNP
20 17 (0.90%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 197 (10.38%) QA
2 93 (4.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 65 (3.42%) GDPR
4 54 (2.85%) NIST
5 51 (2.69%) PCI DSS
6 46 (2.42%) Data Quality
7 35 (1.84%) SOC 2
8 32 (1.69%) SLA
9 30 (1.58%) Cyber Essentials
10 28 (1.48%) GRC
11 24 (1.26%) Accessibility
12 18 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 17 (0.90%) NCSC
14 13 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
15 11 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 42001
16 10 (0.53%) JSP 440
17 7 (0.37%) ISO 9001
18 6 (0.32%) EU AI Act
19 3 (0.16%) HL7
19 3 (0.16%) SEPA
System Software
1 348 (18.34%) Docker
2 78 (4.11%) Active Directory
3 30 (1.58%) Hyper-V
4 28 (1.48%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (0.58%) vSphere
6 6 (0.32%) 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 (0.11%) Firmware
10 1 (0.053%) HDFS
10 1 (0.053%) KVM
10 1 (0.053%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.053%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 401 (21.13%) Terraform
2 364 (19.18%) Kubernetes
3 161 (8.48%) Ansible
4 136 (7.17%) Grafana
5 77 (4.06%) Prometheus
6 45 (2.37%) Argo
7 38 (2.00%) Single Sign-On
8 29 (1.53%) Microsoft Intune
9 19 (1.00%) Kustomize
10 13 (0.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 9 (0.47%) Nmap
11 9 (0.47%) Proxmox
12 6 (0.32%) Kibana
12 6 (0.32%) Progress Chef
13 5 (0.26%) Autotask
13 5 (0.26%) AWS Copilot
13 5 (0.26%) Cilium
13 5 (0.26%) Packer
13 5 (0.26%) Puppet
14 4 (0.21%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 304 (16.02%) Microsoft
2 144 (7.59%) ServiceNow
3 117 (6.16%) Google
4 70 (3.69%) Oracle
5 51 (2.69%) VMware
6 42 (2.21%) Cisco
7 37 (1.95%) Red Hat
8 36 (1.90%) Databricks
9 29 (1.53%) Apple
10 26 (1.37%) IBM
11 25 (1.32%) Okta
12 23 (1.21%) SAP
13 21 (1.11%) Salesforce
13 21 (1.11%) Splunk
14 20 (1.05%) Adobe
15 19 (1.00%) SolarWinds
16 18 (0.95%) Typelevel
17 16 (0.84%) Fortinet
17 16 (0.84%) Informatica
18 15 (0.79%) NetScout