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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 12 9
Rank change year-on-year +4 -3 -2
Permanent jobs citing AWS 2,302 2,147 4,855
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 11.69% 14.20% 14.16%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.84% 36.77% 33.43%
Number of salaries quoted 1,451 1,349 4,104
10th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,500 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.38% +3.57% -6.67%
75th Percentile £90,000 £102,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £132,500 £122,500
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 7,465 5,839 14,521
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.91% 38.60% 42.35%
Number of salaries quoted 5,174 4,238 12,149
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,104 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,695 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.12% +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% -10.16%

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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 12 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 65 (2.82%) Apache Airflow
2 42 (1.82%) Apache Spark
3 28 (1.22%) Apache
4 24 (1.04%) Microsoft Exchange
5 15 (0.65%) CMS
5 15 (0.65%) SharePoint
6 10 (0.43%) Confluence
7 7 (0.30%) Jupyter
7 7 (0.30%) nginx
8 6 (0.26%) Apache Solr
8 6 (0.26%) IIS
9 4 (0.17%) Ethereum
9 4 (0.17%) WordPress
10 3 (0.13%) Anypoint
10 3 (0.13%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.13%) GeoServer
10 3 (0.13%) Mule
10 3 (0.13%) Oracle Spatial
11 2 (0.087%) Oracle Application Server
11 2 (0.087%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 80 (3.48%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 11 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
4 8 (0.35%) MS Visio
5 6 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (0.22%) AutoCAD
6 5 (0.22%) Chatbot
6 5 (0.22%) DaVinci Resolve
7 3 (0.13%) Adobe Illustrator
7 3 (0.13%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.087%) PlantUML
9 1 (0.043%) EngageOne
9 1 (0.043%) Trello
Business Applications
1 24 (1.04%) Cloudability
2 5 (0.22%) Shopify
3 4 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.087%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.087%) SAP HR
6 1 (0.043%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.043%) Magento
6 1 (0.043%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.043%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 964 (41.88%) Azure
2 582 (25.28%) GCP
3 261 (11.34%) Serverless
4 232 (10.08%) SaaS
5 182 (7.91%) GitHub
6 171 (7.43%) Amazon S3
7 169 (7.34%) AWS Lambda
8 142 (6.17%) Microsoft 365
9 118 (5.13%) Amazon EKS
10 98 (4.26%) Amazon EC2
10 98 (4.26%) AWS CloudFormation
11 86 (3.74%) Amazon ECS
12 82 (3.56%) GitHub Actions
13 72 (3.13%) Amazon SQS
14 57 (2.48%) Azure DevOps
15 55 (2.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 49 (2.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 47 (2.04%) Entra ID
18 43 (1.87%) Snowflake
19 40 (1.74%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 140 (6.08%) Broadband
2 137 (5.95%) Firewall
3 75 (3.26%) WAN
4 70 (3.04%) VPN
5 65 (2.82%) LAN
6 61 (2.65%) DNS
7 49 (2.13%) Network Security
7 49 (2.13%) Wi-Fi
8 41 (1.78%) TCP/IP
9 39 (1.69%) HTTP
10 37 (1.61%) SD-WAN
11 35 (1.52%) DHCP
12 32 (1.39%) Cisco ASA
13 31 (1.35%) VXLAN
14 28 (1.22%) Cisco Firepower
15 21 (0.91%) BGP
15 21 (0.91%) VLAN
16 19 (0.83%) MPLS
17 17 (0.74%) OSPF
17 17 (0.74%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 242 (10.51%) PostgreSQL
2 199 (8.64%) MongoDB
3 126 (5.47%) NoSQL
4 90 (3.91%) SQL Server
5 88 (3.82%) MySQL
6 73 (3.17%) Elasticsearch
7 65 (2.82%) Relational Database
8 63 (2.74%) Amazon RDS
8 63 (2.74%) DynamoDB
9 56 (2.43%) Metadata
10 44 (1.91%) Data Warehouse
11 40 (1.74%) Azure SQL Database
12 38 (1.65%) Amazon Athena
13 36 (1.56%) Amazon Redshift
14 32 (1.39%) BigQuery
15 31 (1.35%) Redis
16 28 (1.22%) Tableau
17 26 (1.13%) Data Lake
18 24 (1.04%) RDBMS
19 21 (0.91%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 121 (5.26%) Git
2 83 (3.61%) GitLab
3 75 (3.26%) Jenkins
4 59 (2.56%) TeamCity
5 51 (2.22%) Cypress.io
6 42 (1.82%) JIRA
7 20 (0.87%) Claude Code
8 18 (0.78%) Jaeger
9 15 (0.65%) CircleCI
9 15 (0.65%) Maven
10 14 (0.61%) Crashlytics
10 14 (0.61%) JMeter
10 14 (0.61%) JUnit
10 14 (0.61%) Selenium
10 14 (0.61%) XCTest
11 10 (0.43%) MLflow
12 9 (0.39%) Mockito
12 9 (0.39%) Postman
13 7 (0.30%) Cucumber
13 7 (0.30%) Metasploit
General
1 550 (23.89%) Social Skills
2 496 (21.55%) Finance
3 252 (10.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 247 (10.73%) Public Sector
5 217 (9.43%) Banking
6 176 (7.65%) Law
7 139 (6.04%) Retail
8 133 (5.78%) Analytical Skills
9 62 (2.69%) Legal
10 52 (2.26%) Back Office
11 51 (2.22%) Financial Institution
12 50 (2.17%) Games
13 45 (1.95%) French Language
13 45 (1.95%) Front Office
14 44 (1.91%) Influencing Skills
15 27 (1.17%) Marketing
15 27 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
16 26 (1.13%) Telecoms
17 23 (1.00%) Tech for Good
18 22 (0.96%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 536 (23.28%) Senior
2 476 (20.68%) Developer
3 404 (17.55%) Software Engineer
4 317 (13.77%) Lead
5 252 (10.95%) Architect
6 160 (6.95%) AWS Engineer
7 138 (5.99%) Full-Stack Developer
8 119 (5.17%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 114 (4.95%) Analyst
10 108 (4.69%) Senior Software Engineer
11 103 (4.47%) DevOps Engineer
12 102 (4.43%) Lead Software Engineer
13 95 (4.13%) Lead Developer
14 94 (4.08%) Cloud Engineer
15 92 (4.00%) Software Developer
16 91 (3.95%) Data Engineer
17 88 (3.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 88 (3.82%) Solutions Architect
18 86 (3.74%) Java Engineer
19 85 (3.69%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 403 (17.51%) React
2 323 (14.03%) Node.js
3 175 (7.60%) .NET
4 147 (6.39%) REST
5 125 (5.43%) Kafka
6 124 (5.39%) RESTful
7 121 (5.26%) Spring
8 112 (4.87%) CSS
9 94 (4.08%) Vue
10 86 (3.74%) Spring Boot
11 85 (3.69%) AngularJS
12 75 (3.26%) HTML
13 66 (2.87%) .NET Core
14 57 (2.48%) ASP.NET
15 52 (2.26%) gRPC
16 51 (2.22%) Redux
17 49 (2.13%) ASP.NET Core
18 48 (2.09%) Ruby on Rails
19 42 (1.82%) GraphQL
20 40 (1.74%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 381 (16.55%) Cloud Native
2 189 (8.21%) Product Ownership
3 174 (7.56%) Distributed Systems
4 97 (4.21%) Public Cloud
5 79 (3.43%) Video\Live Streaming
6 75 (3.26%) Greenfield Project
7 64 (2.78%) Data Centre
8 60 (2.61%) Onboarding
9 58 (2.52%) Security Posture
10 55 (2.39%) Blog
11 50 (2.17%) Management Information System
12 47 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
13 46 (2.00%) Over-the-Top Content
14 44 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
15 43 (1.87%) Fixed Income
16 42 (1.82%) Hybrid Cloud
16 42 (1.82%) Mobile App
17 41 (1.78%) PKI
18 36 (1.56%) Low-Code
19 32 (1.39%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 193 (8.38%) Linux
2 115 (5.00%) Windows
3 52 (2.26%) Windows Server
4 51 (2.22%) Unix
5 44 (1.91%) Apple iOS
6 33 (1.43%) Android
7 18 (0.78%) Windows 10
8 15 (0.65%) Windows Server 2016
9 12 (0.52%) Mac OS
9 12 (0.52%) Windows Server 2012
10 11 (0.48%) Windows Server 2019
11 7 (0.30%) Ubuntu
12 5 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 3 (0.13%) CentOS
14 2 (0.087%) Debian
15 1 (0.043%) FreeBSD
15 1 (0.043%) Mac OS X
15 1 (0.043%) OpenBSD
15 1 (0.043%) Windows 7
15 1 (0.043%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 792 (34.40%) CI/CD
2 704 (30.58%) Agile
3 698 (30.32%) Software Engineering
4 522 (22.68%) DevOps
5 520 (22.59%) Mentoring
6 468 (20.33%) Full-Stack Development
7 442 (19.20%) Microservices
8 420 (18.25%) AI
8 420 (18.25%) Infrastructure as Code
9 394 (17.12%) Continuous Improvement
10 379 (16.46%) Problem-Solving
11 336 (14.60%) Containerisation
12 335 (14.55%) Test Automation
13 310 (13.47%) Technical Leadership
14 302 (13.12%) Roadmaps
15 264 (11.47%) Coaching
16 242 (10.51%) Clean Code
17 231 (10.03%) Machine Learning
18 220 (9.56%) Observability
19 193 (8.38%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 645 (28.02%) Python
2 544 (23.63%) Java
3 376 (16.33%) TypeScript
4 357 (15.51%) JavaScript
5 321 (13.94%) SQL
6 229 (9.95%) C#
7 215 (9.34%) Go
8 120 (5.21%) Bash
9 75 (3.26%) Scala
10 73 (3.17%) C++
11 68 (2.95%) PHP
12 56 (2.43%) Ruby
13 47 (2.04%) PowerShell
14 32 (1.39%) Kotlin
15 28 (1.22%) Rust
16 15 (0.65%) PL/SQL
17 14 (0.61%) Swift
18 13 (0.56%) Bicep
19 9 (0.39%) Groovy
20 7 (0.30%) C
Qualifications
1 304 (13.21%) Security Cleared
2 280 (12.16%) Degree
3 257 (11.16%) SC Cleared
4 192 (8.34%) AWS Certification
5 92 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 81 (3.52%) Computer Science Degree
7 74 (3.21%) MCSE
8 59 (2.56%) CISSP
9 57 (2.48%) Azure Certification
10 47 (2.04%) DV Cleared
11 36 (1.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 36 (1.56%) CISM
12 31 (1.35%) Cisco Certification
13 27 (1.17%) CREST Certified
13 27 (1.17%) DBS Check
14 21 (0.91%) OSCP
14 21 (0.91%) TOGAF Certification
15 19 (0.83%) CCNP
16 17 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
17 15 (0.65%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 170 (7.38%) QA
2 89 (3.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 63 (2.74%) NIST
4 59 (2.56%) Data Quality
5 51 (2.22%) Accessibility
6 41 (1.78%) PCI DSS
7 40 (1.74%) GDPR
8 27 (1.17%) GRC
9 26 (1.13%) NCSC
10 19 (0.83%) SOC 2
11 16 (0.70%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 15 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
13 13 (0.56%) JSP 440
14 11 (0.48%) ISO 9001
15 9 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
15 9 (0.39%) SLA
16 8 (0.35%) WCAG
17 7 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 7 (0.30%) Government Security Classifications
17 7 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 411 (17.85%) Docker
2 65 (2.82%) Active Directory
3 37 (1.61%) Hyper-V
3 37 (1.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
5 18 (0.78%) vSphere
6 6 (0.26%) Firmware
6 6 (0.26%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 6 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
7 5 (0.22%) KVM
8 3 (0.13%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.087%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 2 (0.087%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.043%) iptables
10 1 (0.043%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.043%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 415 (18.03%) Terraform
2 369 (16.03%) Kubernetes
3 141 (6.13%) Ansible
4 117 (5.08%) Grafana
5 62 (2.69%) Prometheus
6 44 (1.91%) Argo
7 22 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
8 18 (0.78%) Kustomize
9 15 (0.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 15 (0.65%) Proxmox
9 15 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
10 12 (0.52%) Podman
10 12 (0.52%) Progress Chef
11 11 (0.48%) Istio
12 9 (0.39%) Cisco CUCM
12 9 (0.39%) Packer
12 9 (0.39%) Puppet
13 7 (0.30%) Nmap
14 6 (0.26%) EMC NetWorker
14 6 (0.26%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 345 (14.99%) Microsoft
2 112 (4.87%) Google
3 103 (4.47%) ServiceNow
4 71 (3.08%) Cisco
5 63 (2.74%) VMware
6 49 (2.13%) Oracle
7 45 (1.95%) Typelevel
8 44 (1.91%) Apple
9 39 (1.69%) Adobe
10 35 (1.52%) Databricks
11 34 (1.48%) Fortinet
12 33 (1.43%) Palo Alto
13 32 (1.39%) SolarWinds
13 32 (1.39%) Splunk
14 24 (1.04%) Salesforce
15 22 (0.96%) SAP
16 19 (0.83%) Aruba
16 19 (0.83%) CheckPoint
17 17 (0.74%) Dell
17 17 (0.74%) Meraki