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

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 12 9
Rank change year-on-year +4 -3 -2
Permanent jobs citing AWS 2,268 2,153 4,835
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 11.66% 14.24% 14.15%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.75% 36.90% 33.43%
Number of salaries quoted 1,421 1,352 4,091
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 £90,000 £102,563 £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 7,375 5,834 14,465
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.91% 38.59% 42.32%
Number of salaries quoted 5,084 4,241 12,117
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £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% -10.16%

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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 10 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 67 (2.95%) Apache Airflow
2 43 (1.90%) Apache Spark
3 28 (1.23%) Apache
4 24 (1.06%) Microsoft Exchange
5 15 (0.66%) SharePoint
6 14 (0.62%) CMS
7 11 (0.49%) Confluence
8 7 (0.31%) Jupyter
8 7 (0.31%) nginx
9 6 (0.26%) Apache Solr
9 6 (0.26%) 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%) Oracle Spatial
11 3 (0.13%) WordPress
12 2 (0.088%) Oracle Application Server
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 (41.62%) Azure
2 577 (25.44%) GCP
3 258 (11.38%) Serverless
4 228 (10.05%) SaaS
5 179 (7.89%) GitHub
6 167 (7.36%) Amazon S3
7 166 (7.32%) AWS Lambda
8 140 (6.17%) Microsoft 365
9 119 (5.25%) Amazon EKS
10 97 (4.28%) Amazon EC2
11 95 (4.19%) AWS CloudFormation
12 85 (3.75%) Amazon ECS
13 84 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
14 70 (3.09%) Amazon SQS
15 57 (2.51%) Azure DevOps
16 54 (2.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 48 (2.12%) Entra ID
17 48 (2.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 43 (1.90%) Snowflake
19 36 (1.59%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 139 (6.13%) Broadband
2 136 (6.00%) Firewall
3 73 (3.22%) WAN
4 69 (3.04%) VPN
5 64 (2.82%) LAN
6 61 (2.69%) DNS
7 49 (2.16%) Network Security
7 49 (2.16%) Wi-Fi
8 40 (1.76%) TCP/IP
9 39 (1.72%) HTTP
10 35 (1.54%) DHCP
10 35 (1.54%) SD-WAN
11 32 (1.41%) Cisco ASA
12 31 (1.37%) VXLAN
13 28 (1.23%) 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 (10.58%) PostgreSQL
2 191 (8.42%) MongoDB
3 125 (5.51%) NoSQL
4 87 (3.84%) MySQL
5 86 (3.79%) SQL Server
6 66 (2.91%) Elasticsearch
7 65 (2.87%) Relational Database
8 62 (2.73%) Amazon RDS
9 61 (2.69%) DynamoDB
10 56 (2.47%) Metadata
11 46 (2.03%) Data Warehouse
12 38 (1.68%) Amazon Athena
13 37 (1.63%) Amazon Redshift
14 33 (1.46%) BigQuery
15 32 (1.41%) Azure SQL Database
16 30 (1.32%) Tableau
17 29 (1.28%) Redis
18 26 (1.15%) Data Lake
19 24 (1.06%) RDBMS
20 21 (0.93%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 119 (5.25%) Git
2 83 (3.66%) GitLab
3 73 (3.22%) Jenkins
4 59 (2.60%) TeamCity
5 50 (2.20%) Cypress.io
6 43 (1.90%) JIRA
7 19 (0.84%) Claude Code
8 18 (0.79%) Jaeger
9 15 (0.66%) 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%) Burp Suite
15 7 (0.31%) Storybook
General
1 543 (23.94%) Social Skills
2 487 (21.47%) Finance
3 252 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 247 (10.89%) Public Sector
5 214 (9.44%) Banking
6 176 (7.76%) Law
7 139 (6.13%) 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 49 (2.16%) Games
13 45 (1.98%) Front Office
14 44 (1.94%) French Language
15 43 (1.90%) Influencing Skills
16 27 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
17 26 (1.15%) Marketing
17 26 (1.15%) Telecoms
18 23 (1.01%) Tech for Good
19 22 (0.97%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 532 (23.46%) Senior
2 462 (20.37%) Developer
3 401 (17.68%) Software Engineer
4 313 (13.80%) Lead
5 252 (11.11%) Architect
6 159 (7.01%) AWS Engineer
7 133 (5.86%) Full-Stack Developer
8 118 (5.20%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 114 (5.03%) Analyst
10 107 (4.72%) Senior Software Engineer
11 103 (4.54%) DevOps Engineer
12 102 (4.50%) Lead Software Engineer
13 93 (4.10%) Lead Developer
14 92 (4.06%) Cloud Engineer
15 91 (4.01%) Data Engineer
16 89 (3.92%) Software Developer
16 89 (3.92%) Solutions Architect
17 88 (3.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 86 (3.79%) Java Engineer
19 84 (3.70%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 392 (17.28%) React
2 309 (13.62%) Node.js
3 166 (7.32%) .NET
4 147 (6.48%) REST
5 125 (5.51%) Kafka
6 124 (5.47%) RESTful
7 121 (5.34%) Spring
8 110 (4.85%) CSS
9 87 (3.84%) Vue
10 85 (3.75%) Spring Boot
11 79 (3.48%) AngularJS
12 74 (3.26%) HTML
13 57 (2.51%) .NET Core
14 52 (2.29%) gRPC
15 51 (2.25%) Redux
16 48 (2.12%) ASP.NET
17 47 (2.07%) Ruby on Rails
18 42 (1.85%) GraphQL
19 40 (1.76%) ASP.NET Core
20 39 (1.72%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 374 (16.49%) Cloud Native
2 189 (8.33%) Product Ownership
3 172 (7.58%) Distributed Systems
4 96 (4.23%) Public Cloud
5 79 (3.48%) Video\Live Streaming
6 73 (3.22%) Greenfield Project
7 62 (2.73%) Data Centre
8 60 (2.65%) Onboarding
9 57 (2.51%) Security Posture
10 55 (2.43%) Blog
11 50 (2.20%) 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 41 (1.81%) Hybrid Cloud
16 41 (1.81%) Mobile App
16 41 (1.81%) PKI
17 37 (1.63%) Low-Code
18 32 (1.41%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 190 (8.38%) Linux
2 111 (4.89%) Windows
3 52 (2.29%) Windows Server
4 51 (2.25%) Unix
5 44 (1.94%) Apple iOS
6 33 (1.46%) 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 5 (0.22%) 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
1 780 (34.39%) CI/CD
2 690 (30.42%) Software Engineering
3 689 (30.38%) Agile
4 517 (22.80%) DevOps
5 513 (22.62%) Mentoring
6 452 (19.93%) Full-Stack Development
7 430 (18.96%) Microservices
8 413 (18.21%) Infrastructure as Code
9 409 (18.03%) AI
10 390 (17.20%) Continuous Improvement
11 375 (16.53%) Problem-Solving
12 334 (14.73%) Containerisation
13 331 (14.59%) Test Automation
14 306 (13.49%) Technical Leadership
15 301 (13.27%) Roadmaps
16 264 (11.64%) Coaching
17 239 (10.54%) Clean Code
18 226 (9.96%) Machine Learning
19 218 (9.61%) Observability
20 185 (8.16%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 639 (28.17%) Python
2 543 (23.94%) Java
3 362 (15.96%) TypeScript
4 347 (15.30%) JavaScript
5 314 (13.84%) SQL
6 220 (9.70%) C#
7 216 (9.52%) Go
8 120 (5.29%) Bash
9 76 (3.35%) Scala
10 73 (3.22%) C++
11 68 (3.00%) PHP
12 55 (2.43%) Ruby
13 47 (2.07%) PowerShell
14 32 (1.41%) Kotlin
15 28 (1.23%) 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
1 304 (13.40%) Security Cleared
2 281 (12.39%) Degree
3 257 (11.33%) SC Cleared
4 191 (8.42%) AWS Certification
5 93 (4.10%) Microsoft Certification
6 79 (3.48%) Computer Science Degree
7 74 (3.26%) MCSE
8 58 (2.56%) Azure Certification
8 58 (2.56%) CISSP
9 47 (2.07%) DV Cleared
10 36 (1.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 35 (1.54%) CISM
12 30 (1.32%) Cisco Certification
13 27 (1.19%) CREST Certified
13 27 (1.19%) DBS Check
14 21 (0.93%) OSCP
14 21 (0.93%) TOGAF Certification
15 18 (0.79%) CCNP
16 17 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
17 15 (0.66%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 169 (7.45%) QA
2 88 (3.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 62 (2.73%) NIST
4 59 (2.60%) Data Quality
5 50 (2.20%) 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%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 15 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
13 13 (0.57%) JSP 440
14 11 (0.49%) ISO 9001
15 9 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
15 9 (0.40%) SLA
16 8 (0.35%) WCAG
17 7 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 7 (0.31%) Government Security Classifications
17 7 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 405 (17.86%) Docker
2 65 (2.87%) Active Directory
3 37 (1.63%) Hyper-V
3 37 (1.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
5 18 (0.79%) 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 2 (0.088%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 2 (0.088%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.088%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.044%) iptables
9 1 (0.044%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.044%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 407 (17.95%) Terraform
2 362 (15.96%) Kubernetes
3 135 (5.95%) Ansible
4 117 (5.16%) Grafana
5 62 (2.73%) Prometheus
6 44 (1.94%) 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
1 337 (14.86%) Microsoft
2 111 (4.89%) Google
3 103 (4.54%) ServiceNow
4 70 (3.09%) Cisco
5 62 (2.73%) VMware
6 48 (2.12%) Oracle
7 45 (1.98%) 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 24 (1.06%) Salesforce
14 23 (1.01%) SAP
15 19 (0.84%) Aruba
16 18 (0.79%) CheckPoint
17 17 (0.75%) Dynatrace
17 17 (0.75%) Meraki