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

6 months to
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 8 9
Rank change year-on-year -2 +1 -2
Permanent jobs citing AWS 1,924 2,429 4,285
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 11.58% 16.79% 15.04%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.85% 35.86% 32.90%
Number of salaries quoted 1,294 1,623 3,743
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% -4.26%
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £85,625
90th Percentile £119,625 £117,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £71,000 £74,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -4.70% +6.43% -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 6,237 6,774 13,026
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.55% 46.82% 45.73%
Number of salaries quoted 4,258 4,627 11,359
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £35,000
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 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +9.57% -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 4 March 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 79 (4.11%) Apache Airflow
2 41 (2.13%) Apache Spark
3 34 (1.77%) Apache
4 25 (1.30%) Microsoft Exchange
5 15 (0.78%) CMS
5 15 (0.78%) SharePoint
6 13 (0.68%) Confluence
7 11 (0.57%) nginx
8 10 (0.52%) Tomcat
8 10 (0.52%) WebSphere
8 10 (0.52%) WebSphere Application Server
9 8 (0.42%) WordPress
10 6 (0.31%) 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
1 138 (7.17%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (0.99%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (0.88%) 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 17 (0.88%) Oracle ERP
2 11 (0.57%) 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
1 837 (43.50%) Azure
2 519 (26.98%) GCP
3 266 (13.83%) Serverless
4 253 (13.15%) SaaS
5 196 (10.19%) Microsoft 365
6 186 (9.67%) GitHub
7 178 (9.25%) AWS Lambda
8 168 (8.73%) Amazon S3
9 132 (6.86%) Amazon EKS
10 108 (5.61%) AWS CloudFormation
11 87 (4.52%) GitHub Actions
12 82 (4.26%) Amazon ECS
13 77 (4.00%) Entra ID
14 73 (3.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 72 (3.74%) Amazon EC2
16 67 (3.48%) Amazon SQS
17 62 (3.22%) dbt
18 53 (2.75%) Azure DevOps
19 49 (2.55%) Snowflake
20 48 (2.49%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 115 (5.98%) Firewall
2 61 (3.17%) Broadband
2 61 (3.17%) VPN
3 55 (2.86%) WAN
4 48 (2.49%) Wi-Fi
5 44 (2.29%) LAN
6 43 (2.23%) DNS
6 43 (2.23%) TCP/IP
7 42 (2.18%) Network Security
8 29 (1.51%) SD-WAN
9 27 (1.40%) DHCP
10 26 (1.35%) VXLAN
11 21 (1.09%) BGP
11 21 (1.09%) SSL
11 21 (1.09%) VLAN
12 19 (0.99%) Cisco ASA
13 18 (0.94%) NGFW
14 17 (0.88%) Cisco Firepower
14 17 (0.88%) HTTP
15 16 (0.83%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 182 (9.46%) PostgreSQL
2 109 (5.67%) NoSQL
3 93 (4.83%) SQL Server
4 86 (4.47%) MongoDB
5 79 (4.11%) MySQL
6 69 (3.59%) Amazon RDS
7 61 (3.17%) Relational Database
8 56 (2.91%) Data Warehouse
9 49 (2.55%) Metadata
10 47 (2.44%) DynamoDB
11 44 (2.29%) BigQuery
12 43 (2.23%) Amazon Redshift
12 43 (2.23%) Elasticsearch
13 42 (2.18%) Amazon Athena
14 37 (1.92%) Data Lake
14 37 (1.92%) Tableau
15 36 (1.87%) Apache Iceberg
16 28 (1.46%) Redis
17 26 (1.35%) Power BI
18 23 (1.20%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 115 (5.98%) Jenkins
2 112 (5.82%) Git
3 72 (3.74%) GitLab
4 58 (3.01%) TeamCity
5 34 (1.77%) Cypress.io
6 27 (1.40%) JIRA
7 19 (0.99%) Jaeger
7 19 (0.99%) Selenium
8 17 (0.88%) Oracle Forms
9 14 (0.73%) Bitbucket
9 14 (0.73%) Cucumber
10 13 (0.68%) JMeter
10 13 (0.68%) SonarQube
11 12 (0.62%) MLflow
12 11 (0.57%) JUnit
13 9 (0.47%) CircleCI
13 9 (0.47%) Subversion
14 8 (0.42%) Burp Suite
14 8 (0.42%) Metasploit
15 7 (0.36%) Vite
General
1 607 (31.55%) Social Skills
2 443 (23.02%) Finance
3 204 (10.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 176 (9.15%) Public Sector
5 171 (8.89%) Banking
6 155 (8.06%) Retail
7 149 (7.74%) Law
8 120 (6.24%) French Language
9 114 (5.93%) Analytical Skills
10 91 (4.73%) Swedish Language
11 73 (3.79%) Financial Institution
12 65 (3.38%) Front Office
13 58 (3.01%) Back Office
14 52 (2.70%) Telecoms
15 48 (2.49%) Influencing Skills
16 47 (2.44%) Games
16 47 (2.44%) Legal
17 34 (1.77%) Tech for Good
18 30 (1.56%) Health Technology
18 30 (1.56%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 439 (22.82%) Senior
2 374 (19.44%) Developer
3 306 (15.90%) Software Engineer
4 260 (13.51%) Lead
5 198 (10.29%) Architect
6 162 (8.42%) Analyst
7 120 (6.24%) Service Analyst
7 120 (6.24%) Service Desk Analyst
8 112 (5.82%) Full-Stack Developer
9 108 (5.61%) AWS Engineer
10 100 (5.20%) Lead Developer
11 93 (4.83%) Senior Software Engineer
12 90 (4.68%) Cloud Engineer
13 89 (4.63%) Java Engineer
14 88 (4.57%) Data Engineer
15 87 (4.52%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 80 (4.16%) DevOps Engineer
17 75 (3.90%) Software Developer
18 73 (3.79%) Java Software Engineer
19 71 (3.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 356 (18.50%) React
2 220 (11.43%) Node.js
3 168 (8.73%) .NET
4 150 (7.80%) Kafka
5 135 (7.02%) RESTful
6 113 (5.87%) Spring
7 102 (5.30%) Spring Boot
8 84 (4.37%) REST
9 81 (4.21%) CSS
10 79 (4.11%) AngularJS
11 77 (4.00%) Vue
12 73 (3.79%) HTML
13 56 (2.91%) Django
14 54 (2.81%) Redux
15 53 (2.75%) gRPC
16 50 (2.60%) .NET Core
17 46 (2.39%) Elastic Stack
18 44 (2.29%) GraphQL
19 39 (2.03%) JSON
20 35 (1.82%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 300 (15.59%) Cloud Native
2 138 (7.17%) Distributed Systems
3 94 (4.89%) Product Ownership
4 69 (3.59%) Public Cloud
5 68 (3.53%) Enterprise Software
6 63 (3.27%) Data Centre
7 59 (3.07%) Fixed Income
8 57 (2.96%) Management Information System
9 51 (2.65%) Onboarding
10 48 (2.49%) Blog
11 44 (2.29%) Security Posture
12 42 (2.18%) Legacy Systems
13 37 (1.92%) PKI
14 34 (1.77%) Hybrid Cloud
15 32 (1.66%) Data Structures
16 30 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
17 29 (1.51%) Linux Command Line
17 29 (1.51%) Self-Motivation
17 29 (1.51%) Video\Live Streaming
18 27 (1.40%) Over-the-Top Content
Operating Systems
1 191 (9.93%) Linux
2 101 (5.25%) Windows
3 74 (3.85%) Unix
4 51 (2.65%) Android
5 49 (2.55%) Windows Server
6 44 (2.29%) Apple iOS
7 24 (1.25%) Windows 10
8 21 (1.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 19 (0.99%) Mac OS
10 16 (0.83%) Windows Server 2012
11 15 (0.78%) Windows Server 2016
12 14 (0.73%) Windows Server 2019
13 10 (0.52%) Ubuntu
14 8 (0.42%) CentOS
15 5 (0.26%) VMS
16 2 (0.10%) Debian
17 1 (0.052%) FreeBSD
17 1 (0.052%) Mac OS X
17 1 (0.052%) OpenBSD
17 1 (0.052%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 649 (33.73%) CI/CD
2 564 (29.31%) Agile
3 523 (27.18%) DevOps
4 522 (27.13%) Software Engineering
5 442 (22.97%) Mentoring
6 351 (18.24%) Microservices
7 329 (17.10%) Problem-Solving
8 318 (16.53%) Full-Stack Development
8 318 (16.53%) Infrastructure as Code
9 301 (15.64%) AI
10 280 (14.55%) Continuous Improvement
11 254 (13.20%) Containerisation
12 231 (12.01%) Coaching
13 222 (11.54%) Roadmaps
14 204 (10.60%) ITIL
15 199 (10.34%) Test Automation
16 181 (9.41%) Technical Leadership
17 165 (8.58%) Computer Science
18 164 (8.52%) Observability
19 158 (8.21%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 587 (30.51%) Python
2 492 (25.57%) Java
3 329 (17.10%) JavaScript
4 327 (17.00%) TypeScript
5 285 (14.81%) SQL
6 193 (10.03%) C#
7 174 (9.04%) Go
8 126 (6.55%) Bash
9 67 (3.48%) PHP
10 59 (3.07%) PowerShell
11 52 (2.70%) Scala
12 37 (1.92%) C++
13 23 (1.20%) Kotlin
14 22 (1.14%) Shell Script
15 20 (1.04%) Ruby
16 19 (0.99%) Rust
17 18 (0.94%) PL/SQL
18 15 (0.78%) Bicep
19 8 (0.42%) Delphi
19 8 (0.42%) R
Qualifications
1 369 (19.18%) Degree
2 282 (14.66%) AWS Certification
3 220 (11.43%) Security Cleared
4 186 (9.67%) SC Cleared
5 179 (9.30%) Microsoft Certification
6 139 (7.22%) MCSE
7 116 (6.03%) Computer Science Degree
8 76 (3.95%) Azure Certification
9 50 (2.60%) CISSP
10 42 (2.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 38 (1.98%) TOGAF Certification
12 35 (1.82%) Cisco Certification
13 31 (1.61%) DV Cleared
14 28 (1.46%) CREST Certified
15 27 (1.40%) CISM
15 27 (1.40%) Master's Degree
16 22 (1.14%) DBS Check
17 21 (1.09%) OSCP
18 19 (0.99%) CCNP
19 18 (0.94%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 198 (10.29%) QA
2 88 (4.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 62 (3.22%) GDPR
4 56 (2.91%) NIST
5 48 (2.49%) PCI DSS
6 42 (2.18%) Data Quality
7 35 (1.82%) SOC 2
8 30 (1.56%) Cyber Essentials
8 30 (1.56%) SLA
9 28 (1.46%) GRC
10 25 (1.30%) Accessibility
11 18 (0.94%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 16 (0.83%) NCSC
13 13 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
14 12 (0.62%) JSP 440
15 11 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 42001
16 7 (0.36%) ISO 9001
17 6 (0.31%) EU AI Act
18 4 (0.21%) Government Security Classifications
18 4 (0.21%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 365 (18.97%) Docker
2 84 (4.37%) Active Directory
3 34 (1.77%) Hyper-V
4 29 (1.51%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (0.57%) vSphere
6 6 (0.31%) VMware NSX
7 5 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
8 4 (0.21%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 4 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.10%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.052%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.052%) Firmware
10 1 (0.052%) KVM
10 1 (0.052%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.052%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 387 (20.11%) Terraform
2 357 (18.56%) Kubernetes
3 155 (8.06%) Ansible
4 137 (7.12%) Grafana
5 77 (4.00%) Prometheus
6 45 (2.34%) Argo
7 37 (1.92%) Single Sign-On
8 30 (1.56%) Microsoft Intune
9 19 (0.99%) Kustomize
10 15 (0.78%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 9 (0.47%) Proxmox
12 8 (0.42%) Nmap
13 7 (0.36%) Kibana
14 5 (0.26%) Autotask
14 5 (0.26%) AWS Copilot
14 5 (0.26%) Cilium
15 4 (0.21%) HP Fortify
15 4 (0.21%) Nessus
15 4 (0.21%) Packer
15 4 (0.21%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 300 (15.59%) Microsoft
2 140 (7.28%) ServiceNow
3 122 (6.34%) Google
4 68 (3.53%) Oracle
5 55 (2.86%) VMware
6 52 (2.70%) Cisco
7 37 (1.92%) Databricks
8 32 (1.66%) Red Hat
9 30 (1.56%) Apple
10 27 (1.40%) Typelevel
11 25 (1.30%) Okta
11 25 (1.30%) SAP
12 24 (1.25%) IBM
13 23 (1.20%) Salesforce
14 22 (1.14%) Splunk
15 19 (0.99%) Adobe
15 19 (0.99%) SolarWinds
16 18 (0.94%) Fortinet
17 17 (0.88%) Palo Alto
18 16 (0.83%) Informatica