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

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 13 9
Rank change year-on-year +3 -4 -3
Permanent jobs citing AWS 2,408 2,174 4,814
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 11.64% 13.76% 14.40%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.39% 36.38% 33.93%
Number of salaries quoted 1,562 1,375 4,063
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £56,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £71,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +4.90% -1.38%
75th Percentile £90,000 £107,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,225 £135,000 £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 7,924 5,975 14,190
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.31% 37.83% 42.44%
Number of salaries quoted 5,659 4,384 11,781
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,375 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% -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% -8.73%

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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 30 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 59 (2.45%) Apache Airflow
2 42 (1.74%) Apache Spark
3 26 (1.08%) Apache
4 23 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
5 16 (0.66%) CMS
6 15 (0.62%) SharePoint
7 12 (0.50%) IIS
8 8 (0.33%) Confluence
8 8 (0.33%) WordPress
9 7 (0.29%) Jupyter
10 6 (0.25%) Anypoint
10 6 (0.25%) Apache Solr
10 6 (0.25%) Mule
10 6 (0.25%) nginx
11 4 (0.17%) Ethereum
11 4 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.12%) DNN
12 3 (0.12%) EPiServer
12 3 (0.12%) Immediacy CMS
12 3 (0.12%) Umbraco
Applications
1 89 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.29%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.21%) AutoCAD
3 5 (0.21%) Chatbot
3 5 (0.21%) DaVinci Resolve
4 4 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.083%) Adobe Illustrator
6 2 (0.083%) Elementor
6 2 (0.083%) Photoshop
6 2 (0.083%) PlantUML
7 1 (0.042%) EngageOne
7 1 (0.042%) Microsoft Excel
7 1 (0.042%) Trello
Business Applications
1 24 (1.00%) Cloudability
2 6 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.17%) Shopify
4 2 (0.083%) SAP HR
5 1 (0.042%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.042%) Magento
5 1 (0.042%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.042%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.042%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.042%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 1,030 (42.77%) Azure
2 605 (25.12%) GCP
3 254 (10.55%) Serverless
4 239 (9.93%) SaaS
5 198 (8.22%) GitHub
6 167 (6.94%) Amazon S3
7 164 (6.81%) AWS Lambda
8 154 (6.40%) Microsoft 365
9 121 (5.02%) Amazon EKS
10 102 (4.24%) AWS CloudFormation
11 100 (4.15%) Amazon EC2
12 88 (3.65%) Amazon ECS
13 86 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
14 70 (2.91%) Amazon SQS
15 60 (2.49%) Azure DevOps
16 55 (2.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 54 (2.24%) GitHub Copilot
18 49 (2.03%) Entra ID
19 47 (1.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
20 44 (1.83%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 140 (5.81%) Firewall
2 136 (5.65%) Broadband
3 78 (3.24%) VPN
4 75 (3.11%) WAN
5 67 (2.78%) DNS
6 65 (2.70%) LAN
7 56 (2.33%) Network Security
8 47 (1.95%) Wi-Fi
9 43 (1.79%) TCP/IP
10 41 (1.70%) DHCP
11 37 (1.54%) HTTP
12 35 (1.45%) SD-WAN
13 30 (1.25%) Cisco ASA
14 29 (1.20%) VXLAN
15 26 (1.08%) Cisco Firepower
16 23 (0.96%) VLAN
17 20 (0.83%) BGP
18 17 (0.71%) NGFW
19 16 (0.66%) MPLS
19 16 (0.66%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 254 (10.55%) PostgreSQL
2 240 (9.97%) MongoDB
3 121 (5.02%) NoSQL
4 103 (4.28%) Elasticsearch
5 98 (4.07%) MySQL
6 97 (4.03%) SQL Server
7 72 (2.99%) Azure SQL Database
8 63 (2.62%) Relational Database
9 61 (2.53%) Amazon RDS
10 60 (2.49%) DynamoDB
11 55 (2.28%) Metadata
12 43 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
13 39 (1.62%) Redis
14 38 (1.58%) Amazon Athena
15 34 (1.41%) Amazon Redshift
16 29 (1.20%) BigQuery
17 27 (1.12%) Data Lake
18 25 (1.04%) Tableau
19 24 (1.00%) Power BI
20 20 (0.83%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 127 (5.27%) Git
2 84 (3.49%) Jenkins
3 81 (3.36%) GitLab
4 63 (2.62%) TeamCity
5 50 (2.08%) Cypress.io
6 41 (1.70%) JIRA
7 26 (1.08%) Claude Code
8 17 (0.71%) Selenium
9 16 (0.66%) JUnit
10 15 (0.62%) CircleCI
11 14 (0.58%) Crashlytics
11 14 (0.58%) JMeter
11 14 (0.58%) Maven
11 14 (0.58%) XCTest
12 12 (0.50%) Jaeger
13 11 (0.46%) Postman
14 9 (0.37%) MLflow
14 9 (0.37%) Mockito
15 7 (0.29%) Cucumber
16 6 (0.25%) Metasploit
General
1 576 (23.92%) Social Skills
2 536 (22.26%) Finance
3 275 (11.42%) Public Sector
4 227 (9.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 218 (9.05%) Banking
6 183 (7.60%) Law
7 145 (6.02%) Retail
8 129 (5.36%) Analytical Skills
9 65 (2.70%) Legal
10 54 (2.24%) Back Office
11 53 (2.20%) Financial Institution
11 53 (2.20%) Games
12 42 (1.74%) French Language
12 42 (1.74%) Front Office
12 42 (1.74%) Influencing Skills
13 36 (1.50%) Swedish Language
14 28 (1.16%) Marketing
14 28 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
15 23 (0.96%) Telecoms
16 21 (0.87%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 570 (23.67%) Senior
2 528 (21.93%) Developer
3 426 (17.69%) Software Engineer
4 325 (13.50%) Lead
5 265 (11.00%) Architect
6 155 (6.44%) AWS Engineer
7 150 (6.23%) Full-Stack Developer
8 122 (5.07%) Senior Software Engineer
9 118 (4.90%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 117 (4.86%) DevOps Engineer
11 114 (4.73%) Analyst
12 111 (4.61%) Lead Software Engineer
13 106 (4.40%) .NET Developer
14 98 (4.07%) Cloud Engineer
14 98 (4.07%) Solutions Architect
15 95 (3.95%) Lead Developer
16 94 (3.90%) Software Developer
17 91 (3.78%) Senior Developer
18 90 (3.74%) Consultant
19 89 (3.70%) Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 418 (17.36%) React
2 364 (15.12%) Node.js
3 216 (8.97%) .NET
4 152 (6.31%) REST
5 126 (5.23%) RESTful
5 126 (5.23%) Spring
6 123 (5.11%) Kafka
7 122 (5.07%) Vue
8 121 (5.02%) CSS
9 108 (4.49%) AngularJS
10 99 (4.11%) .NET Core
11 91 (3.78%) ASP.NET
11 91 (3.78%) Spring Boot
12 84 (3.49%) HTML
13 83 (3.45%) ASP.NET Core
14 59 (2.45%) .NET Framework
15 52 (2.16%) Ruby on Rails
16 50 (2.08%) Redux
17 49 (2.03%) gRPC
18 44 (1.83%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 395 (16.40%) Cloud Native
2 194 (8.06%) Product Ownership
3 184 (7.64%) Distributed Systems
4 97 (4.03%) Public Cloud
5 80 (3.32%) Greenfield Project
6 79 (3.28%) Video\Live Streaming
7 64 (2.66%) Data Centre
8 55 (2.28%) Management Information System
8 55 (2.28%) Onboarding
8 55 (2.28%) Security Posture
9 54 (2.24%) Blog
10 46 (1.91%) Over-the-Top Content
11 45 (1.87%) Enterprise Software
12 44 (1.83%) AI Agents
12 44 (1.83%) Fixed Income
12 44 (1.83%) Hybrid Cloud
12 44 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
13 42 (1.74%) Mobile App
14 38 (1.58%) PKI
15 35 (1.45%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 212 (8.80%) Linux
2 138 (5.73%) Windows
3 61 (2.53%) Unix
4 56 (2.33%) Windows Server
5 39 (1.62%) Apple iOS
6 26 (1.08%) Android
7 15 (0.62%) Windows 10
8 12 (0.50%) Windows Server 2016
9 9 (0.37%) Mac OS
9 9 (0.37%) Ubuntu
9 9 (0.37%) Windows Server 2012
10 8 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
11 5 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 4 (0.17%) Debian
13 3 (0.12%) CentOS
14 1 (0.042%) FreeBSD
14 1 (0.042%) Mac OS X
14 1 (0.042%) OpenBSD
14 1 (0.042%) Windows 7
14 1 (0.042%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 852 (35.38%) CI/CD
2 771 (32.02%) Agile
3 748 (31.06%) Software Engineering
4 561 (23.30%) Mentoring
5 550 (22.84%) DevOps
6 511 (21.22%) Full-Stack Development
7 494 (20.51%) Microservices
8 441 (18.31%) AI
9 440 (18.27%) Infrastructure as Code
10 415 (17.23%) Continuous Improvement
11 405 (16.82%) Problem-Solving
12 367 (15.24%) Test Automation
13 346 (14.37%) Containerisation
14 337 (14.00%) Technical Leadership
15 302 (12.54%) Roadmaps
16 291 (12.08%) Coaching
17 252 (10.47%) Clean Code
18 240 (9.97%) Machine Learning
19 239 (9.93%) Scrum
20 233 (9.68%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 668 (27.74%) Python
2 540 (22.43%) Java
3 398 (16.53%) TypeScript
4 385 (15.99%) JavaScript
5 353 (14.66%) SQL
6 266 (11.05%) C#
7 204 (8.47%) Go
8 107 (4.44%) Bash
9 76 (3.16%) Scala
10 71 (2.95%) C++
10 71 (2.95%) PHP
11 63 (2.62%) Ruby
12 54 (2.24%) PowerShell
13 34 (1.41%) Kotlin
14 28 (1.16%) Rust
15 17 (0.71%) Bicep
16 14 (0.58%) Swift
17 13 (0.54%) PL/SQL
18 10 (0.42%) Groovy
19 7 (0.29%) C
Qualifications
1 324 (13.46%) Security Cleared
2 288 (11.96%) Degree
3 270 (11.21%) SC Cleared
4 182 (7.56%) AWS Certification
5 97 (4.03%) Microsoft Certification
6 83 (3.45%) MCSE
7 82 (3.41%) Computer Science Degree
8 63 (2.62%) CISSP
9 54 (2.24%) Azure Certification
10 46 (1.91%) DV Cleared
11 42 (1.74%) CISM
12 37 (1.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 33 (1.37%) Cisco Certification
14 24 (1.00%) DBS Check
15 22 (0.91%) CCNP
15 22 (0.91%) CREST Certified
16 17 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
16 17 (0.71%) CCNA
16 17 (0.71%) TOGAF Certification
17 16 (0.66%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 187 (7.77%) QA
2 92 (3.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 66 (2.74%) NIST
4 57 (2.37%) Data Quality
5 55 (2.28%) Accessibility
6 46 (1.91%) GDPR
7 35 (1.45%) PCI DSS
8 28 (1.16%) GRC
9 26 (1.08%) NCSC
10 18 (0.75%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 16 (0.66%) SOC 2
12 15 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
13 12 (0.50%) JSP 440
14 11 (0.46%) ISO 9001
15 10 (0.42%) SLA
16 8 (0.33%) WCAG
17 7 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
17 7 (0.29%) Government Security Classifications
18 6 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
18 6 (0.25%) PMO
System Software
1 428 (17.77%) Docker
2 62 (2.57%) Active Directory
3 41 (1.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 39 (1.62%) Hyper-V
5 20 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
6 18 (0.75%) vSphere
7 6 (0.25%) Firmware
7 6 (0.25%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 6 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
8 5 (0.21%) KVM
9 3 (0.12%) iptables
9 3 (0.12%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.083%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 2 (0.083%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.042%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.042%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 420 (17.44%) Terraform
2 391 (16.24%) Kubernetes
3 135 (5.61%) Ansible
4 119 (4.94%) Grafana
5 54 (2.24%) Prometheus
6 36 (1.50%) Argo
7 23 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
8 16 (0.66%) Proxmox
9 15 (0.62%) Progress Chef
10 13 (0.54%) Istio
11 12 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 12 (0.50%) Kustomize
11 12 (0.50%) Podman
11 12 (0.50%) Puppet
11 12 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
12 9 (0.37%) Cisco CUCM
12 9 (0.37%) Packer
13 7 (0.29%) ZABBIX
14 6 (0.25%) EMC NetWorker
14 6 (0.25%) Nmap
Vendors
1 392 (16.28%) Microsoft
2 117 (4.86%) ServiceNow
3 105 (4.36%) Google
4 69 (2.87%) VMware
5 68 (2.82%) Cisco
6 57 (2.37%) Oracle
7 45 (1.87%) Typelevel
8 42 (1.74%) Databricks
9 35 (1.45%) Fortinet
9 35 (1.45%) Palo Alto
10 34 (1.41%) Apple
10 34 (1.41%) Splunk
11 32 (1.33%) SolarWinds
12 29 (1.20%) Adobe
13 26 (1.08%) SAP
14 25 (1.04%) Salesforce
15 21 (0.87%) Aruba
15 21 (0.87%) OpenAI
16 19 (0.79%) Dell
16 19 (0.79%) Dynatrace