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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 12 9
Rank change year-on-year +4 -3 -2
Permanent jobs citing AWS 2,267 2,155 4,805
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 11.65% 14.28% 14.11%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.84% 36.96% 33.36%
Number of salaries quoted 1,422 1,353 4,061
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 £95,000
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 7,351 5,831 14,405
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.77% 38.63% 42.30%
Number of salaries quoted 5,061 4,238 12,059
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,500 £36,102
25th Percentile £46,104 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,076 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.73% +3.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -10.20%

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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 9 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 (3.00%) Apache Airflow
2 43 (1.90%) Apache Spark
3 28 (1.24%) Apache
4 23 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
5 15 (0.66%) SharePoint
6 14 (0.62%) CMS
7 11 (0.49%) Confluence
8 7 (0.31%) Apache Solr
8 7 (0.31%) Jupyter
8 7 (0.31%) nginx
9 5 (0.22%) IIS
10 4 (0.18%) Ethereum
11 3 (0.13%) Anypoint
11 3 (0.13%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.13%) GeoServer
11 3 (0.13%) Mule
11 3 (0.13%) OpenStack
11 3 (0.13%) Oracle Spatial
11 3 (0.13%) WordPress
12 2 (0.088%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 80 (3.53%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (0.35%) MS Visio
4 6 (0.26%) 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 (0.088%) 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
5 2 (0.088%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.088%) 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
1 944 (41.64%) Azure
2 578 (25.50%) GCP
3 264 (11.65%) Serverless
4 228 (10.06%) SaaS
5 179 (7.90%) GitHub
6 168 (7.41%) Amazon S3
6 168 (7.41%) AWS Lambda
7 139 (6.13%) Microsoft 365
8 121 (5.34%) Amazon EKS
9 97 (4.28%) Amazon EC2
10 96 (4.23%) AWS CloudFormation
11 87 (3.84%) Amazon ECS
12 85 (3.75%) GitHub Actions
13 72 (3.18%) Amazon SQS
14 56 (2.47%) Azure DevOps
15 55 (2.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 48 (2.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 47 (2.07%) Entra ID
18 42 (1.85%) Snowflake
19 34 (1.50%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 136 (6.00%) Broadband
1 136 (6.00%) Firewall
2 73 (3.22%) WAN
3 69 (3.04%) VPN
4 64 (2.82%) LAN
5 59 (2.60%) DNS
6 49 (2.16%) Network Security
6 49 (2.16%) Wi-Fi
7 40 (1.76%) TCP/IP
8 39 (1.72%) HTTP
9 35 (1.54%) SD-WAN
10 34 (1.50%) DHCP
11 32 (1.41%) Cisco ASA
12 31 (1.37%) VXLAN
13 28 (1.24%) Cisco Firepower
14 21 (0.93%) VLAN
15 20 (0.88%) BGP
16 17 (0.75%) MPLS
16 17 (0.75%) NGFW
16 17 (0.75%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 240 (10.59%) PostgreSQL
2 184 (8.12%) MongoDB
3 129 (5.69%) NoSQL
4 86 (3.79%) MySQL
4 86 (3.79%) SQL Server
5 64 (2.82%) Relational Database
6 63 (2.78%) Elasticsearch
7 62 (2.73%) Amazon RDS
7 62 (2.73%) DynamoDB
8 55 (2.43%) Metadata
9 46 (2.03%) Data Warehouse
10 38 (1.68%) Amazon Athena
11 37 (1.63%) Amazon Redshift
12 35 (1.54%) BigQuery
13 30 (1.32%) Tableau
14 28 (1.24%) Azure SQL Database
15 27 (1.19%) Redis
16 26 (1.15%) Data Lake
17 24 (1.06%) RDBMS
18 21 (0.93%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 124 (5.47%) Git
2 83 (3.66%) GitLab
3 77 (3.40%) Jenkins
4 59 (2.60%) TeamCity
5 50 (2.21%) Cypress.io
6 43 (1.90%) JIRA
7 19 (0.84%) Claude Code
8 18 (0.79%) Jaeger
9 17 (0.75%) CircleCI
10 14 (0.62%) Crashlytics
10 14 (0.62%) JUnit
10 14 (0.62%) Maven
10 14 (0.62%) Selenium
10 14 (0.62%) XCTest
11 13 (0.57%) 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
1 540 (23.82%) Social Skills
2 489 (21.57%) Finance
3 253 (11.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 248 (10.94%) Public Sector
5 214 (9.44%) Banking
6 179 (7.90%) Law
7 138 (6.09%) Retail
8 132 (5.82%) Analytical Skills
9 61 (2.69%) Legal
10 52 (2.29%) Back Office
11 51 (2.25%) Financial Institution
12 47 (2.07%) Games
13 45 (1.99%) Front Office
14 44 (1.94%) French Language
15 43 (1.90%) Influencing Skills
16 29 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
17 26 (1.15%) Telecoms
18 25 (1.10%) Marketing
19 22 (0.97%) Health Technology
19 22 (0.97%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 530 (23.38%) Senior
2 460 (20.29%) Developer
3 402 (17.73%) Software Engineer
4 311 (13.72%) Lead
5 252 (11.12%) Architect
6 159 (7.01%) AWS Engineer
7 135 (5.96%) Full-Stack Developer
8 120 (5.29%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 114 (5.03%) Analyst
10 108 (4.76%) Senior Software Engineer
11 103 (4.54%) DevOps Engineer
12 101 (4.46%) Lead Software Engineer
13 92 (4.06%) Lead Developer
14 91 (4.01%) Cloud Engineer
14 91 (4.01%) Data Engineer
15 89 (3.93%) Solutions Architect
16 88 (3.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 88 (3.88%) Software Developer
17 86 (3.79%) Java Engineer
18 84 (3.71%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 399 (17.60%) React
2 308 (13.59%) Node.js
3 164 (7.23%) .NET
4 148 (6.53%) REST
5 126 (5.56%) Kafka
6 123 (5.43%) Spring
7 122 (5.38%) RESTful
8 110 (4.85%) CSS
9 86 (3.79%) Spring Boot
10 84 (3.71%) Vue
11 76 (3.35%) AngularJS
12 74 (3.26%) HTML
13 57 (2.51%) .NET Core
14 52 (2.29%) gRPC
15 51 (2.25%) Redux
16 46 (2.03%) Ruby on Rails
17 45 (1.99%) ASP.NET
18 42 (1.85%) GraphQL
19 39 (1.72%) Jest
20 38 (1.68%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 373 (16.45%) Cloud Native
2 189 (8.34%) Product Ownership
3 171 (7.54%) Distributed Systems
4 96 (4.23%) Public Cloud
5 76 (3.35%) Video\Live Streaming
6 72 (3.18%) Greenfield Project
7 64 (2.82%) Data Centre
8 61 (2.69%) Onboarding
9 57 (2.51%) Security Posture
10 55 (2.43%) Blog
11 52 (2.29%) Management Information System
12 47 (2.07%) Enterprise Software
13 46 (2.03%) Over-the-Top Content
14 44 (1.94%) Self-Motivation
15 43 (1.90%) Fixed Income
16 42 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
17 41 (1.81%) Mobile App
17 41 (1.81%) PKI
18 34 (1.50%) Low-Code
19 33 (1.46%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 191 (8.43%) Linux
2 110 (4.85%) Windows
3 52 (2.29%) Unix
4 50 (2.21%) Windows Server
5 46 (2.03%) Apple iOS
6 35 (1.54%) Android
7 18 (0.79%) Windows 10
8 15 (0.66%) Windows Server 2016
9 12 (0.53%) Mac OS
9 12 (0.53%) Windows Server 2012
10 11 (0.49%) Windows Server 2019
11 7 (0.31%) Ubuntu
12 6 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 3 (0.13%) CentOS
14 2 (0.088%) 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
1 778 (34.32%) CI/CD
2 688 (30.35%) Software Engineering
3 686 (30.26%) Agile
4 520 (22.94%) DevOps
5 514 (22.67%) Mentoring
6 447 (19.72%) Full-Stack Development
7 431 (19.01%) Microservices
8 413 (18.22%) Infrastructure as Code
9 404 (17.82%) AI
10 385 (16.98%) Continuous Improvement
11 376 (16.59%) Problem-Solving
12 334 (14.73%) Containerisation
13 329 (14.51%) Test Automation
14 306 (13.50%) Technical Leadership
15 301 (13.28%) Roadmaps
16 263 (11.60%) Coaching
17 235 (10.37%) Clean Code
18 223 (9.84%) Machine Learning
19 216 (9.53%) Observability
20 182 (8.03%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 637 (28.10%) Python
2 544 (24.00%) Java
3 359 (15.84%) TypeScript
4 350 (15.44%) JavaScript
5 311 (13.72%) SQL
6 217 (9.57%) C#
7 213 (9.40%) Go
8 120 (5.29%) Bash
9 76 (3.35%) Scala
10 73 (3.22%) C++
11 68 (3.00%) PHP
12 54 (2.38%) Ruby
13 47 (2.07%) PowerShell
14 32 (1.41%) Kotlin
15 28 (1.24%) Rust
16 14 (0.62%) PL/SQL
16 14 (0.62%) Swift
17 13 (0.57%) Bicep
18 8 (0.35%) Groovy
19 7 (0.31%) C
Qualifications
1 305 (13.45%) Security Cleared
2 283 (12.48%) Degree
3 258 (11.38%) SC Cleared
4 194 (8.56%) AWS Certification
5 94 (4.15%) Microsoft Certification
6 79 (3.48%) Computer Science Degree
7 74 (3.26%) MCSE
8 60 (2.65%) Azure Certification
9 59 (2.60%) CISSP
10 47 (2.07%) DV Cleared
11 37 (1.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 36 (1.59%) CISM
13 30 (1.32%) Cisco Certification
14 27 (1.19%) CREST Certified
14 27 (1.19%) DBS Check
15 23 (1.01%) TOGAF Certification
16 21 (0.93%) OSCP
17 18 (0.79%) CCNP
18 17 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
19 16 (0.71%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 169 (7.45%) QA
2 89 (3.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 63 (2.78%) NIST
4 58 (2.56%) Data Quality
5 50 (2.21%) Accessibility
6 41 (1.81%) PCI DSS
7 38 (1.68%) GDPR
8 27 (1.19%) GRC
9 26 (1.15%) NCSC
10 20 (0.88%) SOC 2
11 16 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials
11 16 (0.71%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 13 (0.57%) JSP 440
13 11 (0.49%) ISO 9001
14 10 (0.44%) SLA
15 9 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
16 8 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 8 (0.35%) WCAG
17 7 (0.31%) Government Security Classifications
17 7 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 410 (18.09%) Docker
2 64 (2.82%) Active Directory
3 38 (1.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 37 (1.63%) Hyper-V
5 19 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
6 18 (0.79%) vSphere
7 6 (0.26%) Firmware
7 6 (0.26%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 6 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
8 5 (0.22%) KVM
9 2 (0.088%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 2 (0.088%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.088%) 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 (18.13%) Terraform
2 364 (16.06%) Kubernetes
3 139 (6.13%) Ansible
4 117 (5.16%) Grafana
5 62 (2.73%) Prometheus
6 46 (2.03%) Argo
7 22 (0.97%) Microsoft Intune
8 18 (0.79%) Kustomize
9 16 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
10 15 (0.66%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 14 (0.62%) Proxmox
12 12 (0.53%) Podman
12 12 (0.53%) Progress Chef
13 11 (0.49%) Istio
14 9 (0.40%) Cisco CUCM
14 9 (0.40%) Packer
14 9 (0.40%) Puppet
15 7 (0.31%) Nmap
16 6 (0.26%) EMC NetWorker
16 6 (0.26%) EMC VPLEX
Vendors
1 331 (14.60%) Microsoft
2 112 (4.94%) Google
3 103 (4.54%) ServiceNow
4 70 (3.09%) Cisco
5 63 (2.78%) VMware
6 47 (2.07%) Oracle
7 45 (1.99%) Typelevel
8 44 (1.94%) Apple
9 39 (1.72%) Adobe
10 35 (1.54%) Databricks
11 33 (1.46%) Fortinet
11 33 (1.46%) SolarWinds
12 32 (1.41%) Palo Alto
12 32 (1.41%) Splunk
13 23 (1.01%) Salesforce
14 22 (0.97%) SAP
15 19 (0.84%) Aruba
16 18 (0.79%) CheckPoint
17 17 (0.75%) Meraki
17 17 (0.75%) Red Hat