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

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 12 9
Rank change year-on-year +4 -3 -2
Permanent jobs citing AWS 2,251 2,153 4,754
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 11.67% 14.48% 14.15%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.81% 37.20% 33.29%
Number of salaries quoted 1,409 1,352 4,036
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 0.00% +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 7,305 5,787 14,282
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.88% 38.93% 42.50%
Number of salaries quoted 5,020 4,197 12,049
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,500 £36,000
25th Percentile £46,104 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,076 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +2.50% -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% -11.12%

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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 5 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 43 (1.91%) Apache Spark
3 28 (1.24%) Apache
4 23 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
5 15 (0.67%) SharePoint
6 13 (0.58%) CMS
7 11 (0.49%) 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%) 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
11 2 (0.089%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 81 (3.60%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (0.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (0.36%) 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 (1.07%) Cloudability
2 5 (0.22%) Shopify
3 4 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.089%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.089%) 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
1 933 (41.45%) Azure
2 572 (25.41%) GCP
3 264 (11.73%) Serverless
4 226 (10.04%) SaaS
5 177 (7.86%) GitHub
6 168 (7.46%) Amazon S3
6 168 (7.46%) AWS Lambda
7 140 (6.22%) Microsoft 365
8 120 (5.33%) Amazon EKS
9 97 (4.31%) AWS CloudFormation
10 96 (4.26%) Amazon EC2
11 87 (3.86%) Amazon ECS
12 84 (3.73%) GitHub Actions
13 72 (3.20%) Amazon SQS
14 55 (2.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 55 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
15 47 (2.09%) Entra ID
15 47 (2.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 42 (1.87%) Snowflake
17 34 (1.51%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 134 (5.95%) Firewall
2 130 (5.78%) Broadband
3 72 (3.20%) WAN
4 67 (2.98%) VPN
5 63 (2.80%) LAN
6 57 (2.53%) DNS
7 48 (2.13%) Wi-Fi
8 47 (2.09%) Network Security
9 39 (1.73%) HTTP
9 39 (1.73%) TCP/IP
10 35 (1.55%) SD-WAN
11 33 (1.47%) Cisco ASA
12 32 (1.42%) DHCP
13 31 (1.38%) VXLAN
14 29 (1.29%) Cisco Firepower
15 21 (0.93%) BGP
15 21 (0.93%) VLAN
16 18 (0.80%) NGFW
17 17 (0.76%) MPLS
17 17 (0.76%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 233 (10.35%) PostgreSQL
2 175 (7.77%) MongoDB
3 126 (5.60%) NoSQL
4 85 (3.78%) MySQL
5 84 (3.73%) SQL Server
6 63 (2.80%) DynamoDB
6 63 (2.80%) Elasticsearch
6 63 (2.80%) Relational Database
7 62 (2.75%) Amazon RDS
8 53 (2.35%) Metadata
9 46 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
10 38 (1.69%) Amazon Athena
11 37 (1.64%) Amazon Redshift
12 34 (1.51%) BigQuery
13 27 (1.20%) Azure SQL Database
13 27 (1.20%) Redis
13 27 (1.20%) Tableau
14 26 (1.16%) Data Lake
15 23 (1.02%) RDBMS
16 19 (0.84%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 123 (5.46%) Git
2 83 (3.69%) GitLab
3 77 (3.42%) Jenkins
4 58 (2.58%) TeamCity
5 51 (2.27%) Cypress.io
6 42 (1.87%) JIRA
7 19 (0.84%) Claude Code
8 18 (0.80%) Jaeger
9 17 (0.76%) CircleCI
10 15 (0.67%) Maven
11 14 (0.62%) Crashlytics
11 14 (0.62%) JUnit
11 14 (0.62%) Selenium
11 14 (0.62%) XCTest
12 13 (0.58%) JMeter
13 11 (0.49%) MLflow
14 9 (0.40%) Mockito
15 8 (0.36%) Postman
16 7 (0.31%) Storybook
16 7 (0.31%) Vite
General
1 532 (23.63%) Social Skills
2 486 (21.59%) Finance
3 258 (11.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 244 (10.84%) Public Sector
5 213 (9.46%) Banking
6 178 (7.91%) Law
7 137 (6.09%) Retail
8 131 (5.82%) Analytical Skills
9 59 (2.62%) Legal
10 52 (2.31%) Back Office
11 51 (2.27%) Financial Institution
12 49 (2.18%) French Language
13 45 (2.00%) Front Office
14 43 (1.91%) Influencing Skills
15 41 (1.82%) Games
16 29 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
17 26 (1.16%) Telecoms
18 25 (1.11%) Marketing
19 22 (0.98%) Health Technology
19 22 (0.98%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 525 (23.32%) Senior
2 455 (20.21%) Developer
3 400 (17.77%) Software Engineer
4 308 (13.68%) Lead
5 248 (11.02%) Architect
6 159 (7.06%) AWS Engineer
7 134 (5.95%) Full-Stack Developer
8 122 (5.42%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 119 (5.29%) Analyst
10 107 (4.75%) Senior Software Engineer
11 102 (4.53%) DevOps Engineer
12 101 (4.49%) Lead Software Engineer
13 91 (4.04%) Lead Developer
14 90 (4.00%) Data Engineer
15 89 (3.95%) Cloud Engineer
15 89 (3.95%) Solutions Architect
16 88 (3.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 88 (3.91%) Software Developer
17 86 (3.82%) Java Engineer
18 82 (3.64%) Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 396 (17.59%) React
2 305 (13.55%) Node.js
3 163 (7.24%) .NET
4 147 (6.53%) REST
5 126 (5.60%) Kafka
6 124 (5.51%) Spring
7 116 (5.15%) RESTful
8 110 (4.89%) CSS
9 87 (3.86%) Spring Boot
10 82 (3.64%) Vue
11 74 (3.29%) AngularJS
11 74 (3.29%) HTML
12 56 (2.49%) .NET Core
13 52 (2.31%) gRPC
14 51 (2.27%) Redux
15 46 (2.04%) Ruby on Rails
16 44 (1.95%) ASP.NET
17 42 (1.87%) GraphQL
18 40 (1.78%) Jest
19 39 (1.73%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 363 (16.13%) Cloud Native
2 188 (8.35%) Product Ownership
3 160 (7.11%) Distributed Systems
4 100 (4.44%) Public Cloud
5 72 (3.20%) Greenfield Project
6 70 (3.11%) Video\Live Streaming
7 65 (2.89%) Onboarding
8 63 (2.80%) Data Centre
9 55 (2.44%) Blog
9 55 (2.44%) Security Posture
10 50 (2.22%) Management Information System
11 47 (2.09%) 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
14 41 (1.82%) PKI
15 40 (1.78%) Hybrid Cloud
16 33 (1.47%) Data Structures
17 28 (1.24%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 188 (8.35%) Linux
2 109 (4.84%) Windows
3 52 (2.31%) Unix
4 49 (2.18%) 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%) Mac OS
9 12 (0.53%) Windows Server 2012
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
1 762 (33.85%) CI/CD
2 676 (30.03%) Agile
3 674 (29.94%) Software Engineering
4 516 (22.92%) DevOps
5 505 (22.43%) Mentoring
6 439 (19.50%) Full-Stack Development
7 427 (18.97%) Microservices
8 403 (17.90%) Infrastructure as Code
9 402 (17.86%) AI
10 369 (16.39%) Continuous Improvement
11 366 (16.26%) Problem-Solving
12 332 (14.75%) Containerisation
13 322 (14.30%) Test Automation
14 298 (13.24%) Roadmaps
15 297 (13.19%) Technical Leadership
16 262 (11.64%) Coaching
17 234 (10.40%) Clean Code
18 214 (9.51%) Machine Learning
19 204 (9.06%) Observability
20 181 (8.04%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 624 (27.72%) Python
2 543 (24.12%) Java
3 358 (15.90%) TypeScript
4 348 (15.46%) JavaScript
5 308 (13.68%) SQL
6 215 (9.55%) C#
7 206 (9.15%) Go
8 120 (5.33%) Bash
9 76 (3.38%) Scala
10 73 (3.24%) C++
11 68 (3.02%) PHP
12 54 (2.40%) Ruby
13 45 (2.00%) PowerShell
14 32 (1.42%) Kotlin
15 28 (1.24%) Rust
16 14 (0.62%) PL/SQL
16 14 (0.62%) Swift
17 13 (0.58%) Bicep
18 9 (0.40%) Groovy
19 7 (0.31%) C
Qualifications
1 300 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 281 (12.48%) Degree
3 253 (11.24%) SC Cleared
4 198 (8.80%) AWS Certification
5 95 (4.22%) Microsoft Certification
6 78 (3.47%) Computer Science Degree
7 75 (3.33%) MCSE
8 60 (2.67%) Azure Certification
9 56 (2.49%) CISSP
10 47 (2.09%) DV Cleared
11 36 (1.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 33 (1.47%) CISM
13 28 (1.24%) Cisco Certification
14 27 (1.20%) CREST Certified
14 27 (1.20%) DBS Check
15 23 (1.02%) TOGAF Certification
16 21 (0.93%) OSCP
17 17 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
17 17 (0.76%) CCNP
18 15 (0.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 170 (7.55%) QA
2 85 (3.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 60 (2.67%) NIST
4 55 (2.44%) Data Quality
5 50 (2.22%) Accessibility
6 41 (1.82%) PCI DSS
7 37 (1.64%) GDPR
8 26 (1.16%) GRC
9 25 (1.11%) NCSC
10 20 (0.89%) SOC 2
11 15 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
11 15 (0.67%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 13 (0.58%) JSP 440
13 11 (0.49%) ISO 9001
14 10 (0.44%) SLA
15 9 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
16 8 (0.36%) WCAG
17 7 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 7 (0.31%) Government Security Classifications
17 7 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 407 (18.08%) Docker
2 64 (2.84%) Active Directory
3 38 (1.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 35 (1.55%) Hyper-V
5 19 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
6 18 (0.80%) 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
1 407 (18.08%) Terraform
2 361 (16.04%) Kubernetes
3 139 (6.18%) Ansible
4 118 (5.24%) Grafana
5 62 (2.75%) Prometheus
6 46 (2.04%) Argo
7 22 (0.98%) Microsoft Intune
8 18 (0.80%) Kustomize
9 17 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
10 14 (0.62%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 14 (0.62%) Proxmox
11 12 (0.53%) Podman
11 12 (0.53%) Progress Chef
12 11 (0.49%) Istio
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
1 331 (14.70%) Microsoft
2 113 (5.02%) Google
3 104 (4.62%) ServiceNow
4 70 (3.11%) Cisco
5 61 (2.71%) VMware
6 48 (2.13%) Apple
7 45 (2.00%) Oracle
7 45 (2.00%) Typelevel
8 43 (1.91%) Adobe
9 34 (1.51%) Databricks
10 33 (1.47%) SolarWinds
11 32 (1.42%) Fortinet
11 32 (1.42%) Palo Alto
12 31 (1.38%) Splunk
13 23 (1.02%) Salesforce
14 22 (0.98%) SAP
15 18 (0.80%) Aruba
15 18 (0.80%) CheckPoint
16 17 (0.76%) Meraki
16 17 (0.76%) Red Hat