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 17 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 8 9
Rank change year-on-year -2 +1 -2
Permanent jobs citing AWS 1,967 2,318 4,372
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 11.64% 17.07% 14.57%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.98% 35.92% 32.17%
Number of salaries quoted 1,286 1,644 3,848
10th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £53,750 £51,716
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +7.41% -6.90%
75th Percentile £91,250 £96,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £113,750 £118,750 £110,000
UK median annual salary £70,079 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.34% +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 6,350 6,453 13,590
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.59% 47.53% 45.28%
Number of salaries quoted 4,279 4,736 11,834
10th Percentile £32,500 £34,899 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,231 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,100 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.54% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

AWS
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

AWS
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing AWS over the 6 months to 17 March 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 74 (3.76%) Apache Airflow
2 40 (2.03%) Apache Spark
3 30 (1.53%) Apache
4 25 (1.27%) Microsoft Exchange
5 16 (0.81%) CMS
6 13 (0.66%) SharePoint
7 12 (0.61%) Confluence
8 11 (0.56%) nginx
9 8 (0.41%) WordPress
10 7 (0.36%) Tomcat
10 7 (0.36%) WebSphere
10 7 (0.36%) WebSphere Application Server
11 5 (0.25%) Anypoint
11 5 (0.25%) Apache Pulsar
11 5 (0.25%) Drupal
11 5 (0.25%) Ethereum
12 4 (0.20%) ArcGIS
12 4 (0.20%) GeoServer
12 4 (0.20%) Oracle Spatial
12 4 (0.20%) SAS
Applications
1 121 (6.15%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (0.97%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (0.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
5 4 (0.20%) Adobe Illustrator
5 4 (0.20%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.20%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.051%) EngageOne
6 1 (0.051%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.051%) Notion
Business Applications
1 14 (0.71%) Oracle ERP
2 12 (0.61%) Shopify
3 8 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.10%) SAP HR
6 1 (0.051%) Magento
6 1 (0.051%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.051%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.051%) Sprinklr
6 1 (0.051%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 842 (42.81%) Azure
2 526 (26.74%) GCP
3 273 (13.88%) Serverless
4 247 (12.56%) SaaS
5 200 (10.17%) GitHub
6 182 (9.25%) AWS Lambda
7 178 (9.05%) Amazon S3
8 176 (8.95%) Microsoft 365
9 140 (7.12%) Amazon EKS
10 109 (5.54%) AWS CloudFormation
11 96 (4.88%) GitHub Actions
12 81 (4.12%) Amazon EC2
13 80 (4.07%) Amazon ECS
14 75 (3.81%) Entra ID
15 74 (3.76%) Amazon SQS
16 67 (3.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 54 (2.75%) Azure DevOps
18 52 (2.64%) dbt
19 45 (2.29%) Snowflake
20 40 (2.03%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 124 (6.30%) Firewall
2 87 (4.42%) Broadband
3 62 (3.15%) VPN
4 57 (2.90%) WAN
5 49 (2.49%) TCP/IP
6 48 (2.44%) Wi-Fi
7 47 (2.39%) LAN
8 46 (2.34%) DNS
9 41 (2.08%) Network Security
10 28 (1.42%) SD-WAN
11 26 (1.32%) VXLAN
12 25 (1.27%) Cisco ASA
12 25 (1.27%) DHCP
13 23 (1.17%) VLAN
14 21 (1.07%) BGP
15 20 (1.02%) Cisco Firepower
15 20 (1.02%) SSL
16 18 (0.92%) NGFW
17 17 (0.86%) VoIP
18 16 (0.81%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 183 (9.30%) PostgreSQL
2 122 (6.20%) NoSQL
3 101 (5.13%) MongoDB
4 96 (4.88%) SQL Server
5 84 (4.27%) MySQL
6 74 (3.76%) Amazon RDS
7 61 (3.10%) Relational Database
8 54 (2.75%) Data Warehouse
9 50 (2.54%) DynamoDB
10 47 (2.39%) Metadata
11 44 (2.24%) Elasticsearch
12 43 (2.19%) BigQuery
13 42 (2.14%) Amazon Redshift
14 34 (1.73%) Data Lake
14 34 (1.73%) Tableau
15 33 (1.68%) Amazon Athena
16 29 (1.47%) Redis
17 27 (1.37%) Apache Iceberg
18 22 (1.12%) Power BI
18 22 (1.12%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 121 (6.15%) Git
2 109 (5.54%) Jenkins
3 79 (4.02%) GitLab
4 60 (3.05%) TeamCity
5 44 (2.24%) Cypress.io
6 31 (1.58%) JIRA
7 20 (1.02%) Selenium
8 19 (0.97%) Jaeger
9 15 (0.76%) CircleCI
10 14 (0.71%) Bitbucket
10 14 (0.71%) Cucumber
10 14 (0.71%) JMeter
10 14 (0.71%) Oracle Forms
11 13 (0.66%) MLflow
11 13 (0.66%) SonarQube
12 11 (0.56%) JUnit
13 9 (0.46%) Subversion
14 8 (0.41%) Burp Suite
14 8 (0.41%) Crashlytics
14 8 (0.41%) Metasploit
General
1 605 (30.76%) Social Skills
2 428 (21.76%) Finance
3 217 (11.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 182 (9.25%) Public Sector
5 178 (9.05%) Banking
6 162 (8.24%) Retail
7 159 (8.08%) Law
8 127 (6.46%) Analytical Skills
9 101 (5.13%) French Language
10 73 (3.71%) Financial Institution
11 64 (3.25%) Swedish Language
12 60 (3.05%) Back Office
13 57 (2.90%) Front Office
14 56 (2.85%) Telecoms
15 50 (2.54%) Games
16 49 (2.49%) Legal
17 45 (2.29%) Influencing Skills
18 35 (1.78%) Marketing
19 33 (1.68%) Tech for Good
20 30 (1.53%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 452 (22.98%) Senior
2 370 (18.81%) Developer
3 306 (15.56%) Software Engineer
4 268 (13.62%) Lead
5 198 (10.07%) Architect
6 140 (7.12%) Analyst
7 116 (5.90%) Full-Stack Developer
8 113 (5.74%) AWS Engineer
9 101 (5.13%) Lead Developer
9 101 (5.13%) Service Analyst
9 101 (5.13%) Service Desk Analyst
10 96 (4.88%) Senior Software Engineer
11 94 (4.78%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 88 (4.47%) Data Engineer
12 88 (4.47%) DevOps Engineer
13 87 (4.42%) Java Engineer
14 84 (4.27%) Cloud Engineer
15 72 (3.66%) Java Software Engineer
16 71 (3.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 66 (3.36%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 358 (18.20%) React
2 231 (11.74%) Node.js
3 150 (7.63%) Kafka
4 146 (7.42%) .NET
5 133 (6.76%) RESTful
6 105 (5.34%) Spring
7 101 (5.13%) REST
8 92 (4.68%) Spring Boot
9 91 (4.63%) CSS
10 78 (3.97%) HTML
11 66 (3.36%) AngularJS
11 66 (3.36%) Vue
12 63 (3.20%) gRPC
13 60 (3.05%) Django
14 54 (2.75%) Redux
15 49 (2.49%) .NET Core
16 46 (2.34%) Elastic Stack
17 42 (2.14%) GraphQL
17 42 (2.14%) JSON
18 36 (1.83%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 306 (15.56%) Cloud Native
2 143 (7.27%) Distributed Systems
3 107 (5.44%) Product Ownership
4 69 (3.51%) Public Cloud
5 66 (3.36%) Enterprise Software
6 61 (3.10%) Data Centre
7 58 (2.95%) Management Information System
8 57 (2.90%) Onboarding
9 53 (2.69%) Blog
10 51 (2.59%) Fixed Income
11 47 (2.39%) Security Posture
12 44 (2.24%) Video\Live Streaming
13 42 (2.14%) Greenfield Project
14 40 (2.03%) Legacy Systems
15 39 (1.98%) Self-Motivation
16 36 (1.83%) Hybrid Cloud
16 36 (1.83%) Over-the-Top Content
17 35 (1.78%) PKI
18 34 (1.73%) Data Structures
18 34 (1.73%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 199 (10.12%) Linux
2 105 (5.34%) Windows
3 73 (3.71%) Unix
4 53 (2.69%) Windows Server
5 49 (2.49%) Android
6 47 (2.39%) Apple iOS
7 26 (1.32%) Windows 10
8 21 (1.07%) Mac OS
9 18 (0.92%) Windows Server 2012
10 17 (0.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 17 (0.86%) Windows Server 2016
11 16 (0.81%) Windows Server 2019
12 10 (0.51%) Ubuntu
13 7 (0.36%) CentOS
14 5 (0.25%) VMS
15 1 (0.051%) Debian
15 1 (0.051%) FreeBSD
15 1 (0.051%) Mac OS X
15 1 (0.051%) OpenBSD
15 1 (0.051%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 676 (34.37%) CI/CD
2 576 (29.28%) Agile
3 537 (27.30%) DevOps
4 528 (26.84%) Software Engineering
5 443 (22.52%) Mentoring
6 357 (18.15%) Microservices
7 343 (17.44%) Infrastructure as Code
8 341 (17.34%) Problem-Solving
9 338 (17.18%) Full-Stack Development
10 308 (15.66%) AI
11 300 (15.25%) Continuous Improvement
12 290 (14.74%) Containerisation
13 238 (12.10%) Coaching
14 228 (11.59%) Test Automation
15 215 (10.93%) Roadmaps
16 190 (9.66%) Technical Leadership
17 182 (9.25%) ITIL
18 174 (8.85%) Clean Code
19 168 (8.54%) Observability
20 167 (8.49%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 617 (31.37%) Python
2 488 (24.81%) Java
3 310 (15.76%) JavaScript
3 310 (15.76%) TypeScript
4 288 (14.64%) SQL
5 199 (10.12%) Go
6 189 (9.61%) C#
7 127 (6.46%) Bash
8 71 (3.61%) PHP
9 61 (3.10%) Scala
10 57 (2.90%) PowerShell
11 43 (2.19%) C++
12 27 (1.37%) Kotlin
13 26 (1.32%) Ruby
14 20 (1.02%) Rust
15 19 (0.97%) Shell Script
16 16 (0.81%) Bicep
17 15 (0.76%) PL/SQL
18 8 (0.41%) Delphi
18 8 (0.41%) Swift
Qualifications
1 354 (18.00%) Degree
2 249 (12.66%) AWS Certification
3 219 (11.13%) Security Cleared
4 187 (9.51%) SC Cleared
5 158 (8.03%) Microsoft Certification
6 122 (6.20%) MCSE
7 116 (5.90%) Computer Science Degree
8 72 (3.66%) Azure Certification
9 50 (2.54%) CISSP
10 39 (1.98%) DV Cleared
11 38 (1.93%) Cisco Certification
11 38 (1.93%) TOGAF Certification
12 37 (1.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 32 (1.63%) CREST Certified
14 28 (1.42%) CISM
15 25 (1.27%) Master's Degree
16 23 (1.17%) DBS Check
17 22 (1.12%) CCNP
18 21 (1.07%) OSCP
19 20 (1.02%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 194 (9.86%) QA
2 94 (4.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 59 (3.00%) GDPR
4 55 (2.80%) NIST
5 51 (2.59%) PCI DSS
6 44 (2.24%) Data Quality
7 37 (1.88%) Accessibility
8 33 (1.68%) SOC 2
9 30 (1.53%) GRC
10 29 (1.47%) Cyber Essentials
11 26 (1.32%) SLA
12 17 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 15 (0.76%) NCSC
14 13 (0.66%) Actionable Recommendations
15 12 (0.61%) JSP 440
16 10 (0.51%) ISO 9001
16 10 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 42001
17 6 (0.31%) EU AI Act
18 5 (0.25%) Government Security Classifications
18 5 (0.25%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 394 (20.03%) Docker
2 82 (4.17%) Active Directory
3 36 (1.83%) Hyper-V
4 32 (1.63%) VMware Infrastructure
5 14 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
5 14 (0.71%) vSphere
6 6 (0.31%) Firmware
6 6 (0.31%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.20%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 4 (0.20%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 4 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
7 4 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.051%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 1 (0.051%) KVM
8 1 (0.051%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.051%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 403 (20.49%) Terraform
2 367 (18.66%) Kubernetes
3 155 (7.88%) Ansible
4 140 (7.12%) Grafana
5 79 (4.02%) Prometheus
6 46 (2.34%) Argo
7 34 (1.73%) Single Sign-On
8 30 (1.53%) Microsoft Intune
9 19 (0.97%) Kustomize
10 17 (0.86%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 9 (0.46%) Proxmox
12 8 (0.41%) Istio
12 8 (0.41%) Nmap
13 6 (0.31%) Kibana
13 6 (0.31%) Podman
14 5 (0.25%) AWS Copilot
14 5 (0.25%) Cilium
15 4 (0.20%) Autotask
15 4 (0.20%) HP Fortify
15 4 (0.20%) Packer
Vendors
1 285 (14.49%) Microsoft
2 133 (6.76%) Google
3 120 (6.10%) ServiceNow
4 60 (3.05%) Cisco
4 60 (3.05%) Oracle
5 59 (3.00%) VMware
6 36 (1.83%) Typelevel
7 34 (1.73%) Databricks
8 30 (1.53%) Apple
8 30 (1.53%) Red Hat
9 26 (1.32%) Salesforce
10 25 (1.27%) Splunk
11 24 (1.22%) SAP
12 23 (1.17%) Palo Alto
13 22 (1.12%) Fortinet
13 22 (1.12%) Okta
14 20 (1.02%) IBM
15 19 (0.97%) Adobe
15 19 (0.97%) SolarWinds
16 17 (0.86%) Dell