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

 6 months to
16 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 8 9
Rank change year-on-year -2 +1 -2
Permanent jobs citing AWS 1,948 2,334 4,370
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 11.55% 17.10% 14.56%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.73% 35.95% 32.16%
Number of salaries quoted 1,281 1,659 3,846
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 £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +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 6,339 6,493 13,588
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.59% 47.58% 45.29%
Number of salaries quoted 4,284 4,774 11,830
10th Percentile £32,500 £34,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,259 £47,231 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,100 £64,875 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.36% +8.13% -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 16 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 77 (3.95%) Apache Airflow
2 40 (2.05%) Apache Spark
3 31 (1.59%) Apache
4 26 (1.33%) Microsoft Exchange
5 16 (0.82%) CMS
6 14 (0.72%) SharePoint
7 12 (0.62%) Confluence
8 11 (0.56%) nginx
9 8 (0.41%) Tomcat
9 8 (0.41%) WebSphere
9 8 (0.41%) WebSphere Application Server
9 8 (0.41%) WordPress
10 5 (0.26%) Anypoint
10 5 (0.26%) Apache Pulsar
10 5 (0.26%) Drupal
10 5 (0.26%) Ethereum
11 4 (0.21%) ArcGIS
11 4 (0.21%) GeoServer
11 4 (0.21%) Oracle Spatial
11 4 (0.21%) SAS
Applications
1 115 (5.90%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (0.98%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (0.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
5 4 (0.21%) Adobe Illustrator
5 4 (0.21%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.21%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.051%) EngageOne
6 1 (0.051%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.051%) Notion
Business Applications
1 14 (0.72%) Oracle ERP
2 12 (0.62%) Shopify
3 8 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.21%) 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
1 832 (42.71%) Azure
2 522 (26.80%) GCP
3 271 (13.91%) Serverless
4 246 (12.63%) SaaS
5 198 (10.16%) GitHub
6 181 (9.29%) AWS Lambda
7 176 (9.03%) Amazon S3
8 170 (8.73%) Microsoft 365
9 134 (6.88%) Amazon EKS
10 110 (5.65%) AWS CloudFormation
11 96 (4.93%) GitHub Actions
12 80 (4.11%) Amazon EC2
13 79 (4.06%) Amazon ECS
14 74 (3.80%) Entra ID
15 72 (3.70%) Amazon SQS
16 68 (3.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 56 (2.87%) dbt
18 54 (2.77%) Azure DevOps
19 47 (2.41%) Snowflake
20 40 (2.05%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 123 (6.31%) Firewall
2 87 (4.47%) Broadband
3 62 (3.18%) VPN
4 56 (2.87%) WAN
5 49 (2.52%) TCP/IP
6 48 (2.46%) Wi-Fi
7 47 (2.41%) DNS
8 46 (2.36%) LAN
9 41 (2.10%) Network Security
10 28 (1.44%) SD-WAN
11 26 (1.33%) DHCP
11 26 (1.33%) VXLAN
12 24 (1.23%) Cisco ASA
13 22 (1.13%) VLAN
14 21 (1.08%) BGP
14 21 (1.08%) SSL
15 19 (0.98%) Cisco Firepower
16 18 (0.92%) NGFW
17 17 (0.87%) HTTP
17 17 (0.87%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 186 (9.55%) PostgreSQL
2 122 (6.26%) NoSQL
3 100 (5.13%) MongoDB
4 97 (4.98%) SQL Server
5 85 (4.36%) MySQL
6 74 (3.80%) Amazon RDS
7 61 (3.13%) Relational Database
8 54 (2.77%) Data Warehouse
9 50 (2.57%) DynamoDB
10 48 (2.46%) Metadata
11 44 (2.26%) BigQuery
11 44 (2.26%) Elasticsearch
12 43 (2.21%) Amazon Redshift
13 36 (1.85%) Amazon Athena
14 35 (1.80%) Data Lake
15 34 (1.75%) Tableau
16 30 (1.54%) Apache Iceberg
17 29 (1.49%) Redis
18 22 (1.13%) Power BI
18 22 (1.13%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 120 (6.16%) Git
2 109 (5.60%) Jenkins
3 79 (4.06%) GitLab
4 60 (3.08%) TeamCity
5 42 (2.16%) Cypress.io
6 31 (1.59%) JIRA
7 19 (0.98%) Jaeger
7 19 (0.98%) Selenium
8 15 (0.77%) CircleCI
9 14 (0.72%) Bitbucket
9 14 (0.72%) Cucumber
9 14 (0.72%) Oracle Forms
10 13 (0.67%) JMeter
10 13 (0.67%) MLflow
10 13 (0.67%) SonarQube
11 11 (0.56%) JUnit
12 9 (0.46%) Subversion
13 8 (0.41%) Burp Suite
13 8 (0.41%) Metasploit
14 7 (0.36%) Crashlytics
General
1 595 (30.54%) Social Skills
2 426 (21.87%) Finance
3 216 (11.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 180 (9.24%) Public Sector
5 173 (8.88%) Banking
6 161 (8.26%) Retail
7 158 (8.11%) Law
8 126 (6.47%) Analytical Skills
9 95 (4.88%) French Language
10 73 (3.75%) Financial Institution
11 64 (3.29%) Swedish Language
12 60 (3.08%) Back Office
13 59 (3.03%) Front Office
14 55 (2.82%) Telecoms
15 50 (2.57%) Games
16 48 (2.46%) Legal
17 45 (2.31%) Influencing Skills
18 34 (1.75%) Marketing
19 33 (1.69%) Tech for Good
20 30 (1.54%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 451 (23.15%) Senior
2 370 (18.99%) Developer
3 306 (15.71%) Software Engineer
4 268 (13.76%) Lead
5 198 (10.16%) Architect
6 134 (6.88%) Analyst
7 115 (5.90%) Full-Stack Developer
8 110 (5.65%) AWS Engineer
9 101 (5.18%) Lead Developer
10 97 (4.98%) Senior Software Engineer
11 95 (4.88%) Service Analyst
11 95 (4.88%) Service Desk Analyst
12 92 (4.72%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 89 (4.57%) Java Engineer
14 88 (4.52%) Data Engineer
15 84 (4.31%) Cloud Engineer
15 84 (4.31%) DevOps Engineer
16 73 (3.75%) Java Software Engineer
17 70 (3.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 66 (3.39%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 357 (18.33%) React
2 230 (11.81%) Node.js
3 146 (7.49%) .NET
4 144 (7.39%) Kafka
5 133 (6.83%) RESTful
6 106 (5.44%) Spring
7 99 (5.08%) REST
8 93 (4.77%) Spring Boot
9 90 (4.62%) CSS
10 77 (3.95%) HTML
11 68 (3.49%) Vue
12 67 (3.44%) AngularJS
13 64 (3.29%) gRPC
14 59 (3.03%) Django
15 54 (2.77%) Redux
16 49 (2.52%) .NET Core
17 46 (2.36%) Elastic Stack
18 43 (2.21%) GraphQL
19 41 (2.10%) JSON
20 36 (1.85%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 307 (15.76%) Cloud Native
2 144 (7.39%) Distributed Systems
3 107 (5.49%) Product Ownership
4 69 (3.54%) Public Cloud
5 66 (3.39%) Enterprise Software
6 61 (3.13%) Data Centre
7 59 (3.03%) Management Information System
8 54 (2.77%) Onboarding
9 53 (2.72%) Fixed Income
10 52 (2.67%) Blog
11 47 (2.41%) Security Posture
12 44 (2.26%) Video\Live Streaming
13 41 (2.10%) Legacy Systems
14 40 (2.05%) Greenfield Project
15 38 (1.95%) Self-Motivation
16 36 (1.85%) Over-the-Top Content
17 35 (1.80%) Hybrid Cloud
17 35 (1.80%) PKI
18 34 (1.75%) Data Structures
19 33 (1.69%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 198 (10.16%) Linux
2 104 (5.34%) Windows
3 74 (3.80%) Unix
4 52 (2.67%) Windows Server
5 49 (2.52%) Android
6 46 (2.36%) Apple iOS
7 26 (1.33%) Windows 10
8 21 (1.08%) Mac OS
9 18 (0.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 18 (0.92%) Windows Server 2012
10 17 (0.87%) Windows Server 2016
11 16 (0.82%) Windows Server 2019
12 10 (0.51%) Ubuntu
13 7 (0.36%) CentOS
14 5 (0.26%) 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
1 675 (34.65%) CI/CD
2 575 (29.52%) Agile
3 530 (27.21%) DevOps
4 529 (27.16%) Software Engineering
5 444 (22.79%) Mentoring
6 356 (18.28%) Microservices
7 342 (17.56%) Infrastructure as Code
8 340 (17.45%) Problem-Solving
9 334 (17.15%) Full-Stack Development
10 307 (15.76%) AI
11 298 (15.30%) Continuous Improvement
12 282 (14.48%) Containerisation
13 237 (12.17%) Coaching
14 223 (11.45%) Test Automation
15 213 (10.93%) Roadmaps
16 189 (9.70%) Technical Leadership
17 177 (9.09%) ITIL
18 172 (8.83%) Clean Code
19 168 (8.62%) Observability
20 167 (8.57%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 612 (31.42%) Python
2 490 (25.15%) Java
3 310 (15.91%) JavaScript
3 310 (15.91%) TypeScript
4 289 (14.84%) SQL
5 193 (9.91%) Go
6 190 (9.75%) C#
7 127 (6.52%) Bash
8 72 (3.70%) PHP
9 61 (3.13%) Scala
10 58 (2.98%) PowerShell
11 43 (2.21%) C++
12 26 (1.33%) Kotlin
13 24 (1.23%) Ruby
14 20 (1.03%) Rust
15 19 (0.98%) Shell Script
16 16 (0.82%) Bicep
17 15 (0.77%) PL/SQL
18 8 (0.41%) Delphi
19 7 (0.36%) Swift
Qualifications
1 349 (17.92%) Degree
2 244 (12.53%) AWS Certification
3 218 (11.19%) Security Cleared
4 186 (9.55%) SC Cleared
5 153 (7.85%) Microsoft Certification
6 117 (6.01%) MCSE
7 116 (5.95%) Computer Science Degree
8 71 (3.64%) Azure Certification
9 50 (2.57%) CISSP
10 38 (1.95%) Cisco Certification
10 38 (1.95%) TOGAF Certification
11 37 (1.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 37 (1.90%) DV Cleared
12 31 (1.59%) CREST Certified
13 28 (1.44%) CISM
14 25 (1.28%) Master's Degree
15 23 (1.18%) DBS Check
16 22 (1.13%) CCNP
17 21 (1.08%) OSCP
18 20 (1.03%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 185 (9.50%) QA
2 93 (4.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 59 (3.03%) GDPR
4 55 (2.82%) NIST
5 50 (2.57%) PCI DSS
6 44 (2.26%) Data Quality
7 35 (1.80%) Accessibility
8 33 (1.69%) SOC 2
9 29 (1.49%) Cyber Essentials
9 29 (1.49%) GRC
10 27 (1.39%) SLA
11 17 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 15 (0.77%) NCSC
13 13 (0.67%) Actionable Recommendations
14 12 (0.62%) JSP 440
15 10 (0.51%) ISO 9001
15 10 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 42001
16 6 (0.31%) EU AI Act
17 5 (0.26%) Government Security Classifications
17 5 (0.26%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 387 (19.87%) Docker
2 81 (4.16%) Active Directory
3 36 (1.85%) Hyper-V
4 31 (1.59%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.67%) vSphere
6 7 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (0.31%) Firmware
7 6 (0.31%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.21%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 4 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.15%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 3 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.051%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.051%) KVM
10 1 (0.051%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.051%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 398 (20.43%) Terraform
2 362 (18.58%) Kubernetes
3 154 (7.91%) Ansible
4 140 (7.19%) Grafana
5 79 (4.06%) Prometheus
6 46 (2.36%) Argo
7 34 (1.75%) Single Sign-On
8 30 (1.54%) Microsoft Intune
9 19 (0.98%) Kustomize
10 17 (0.87%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 9 (0.46%) Proxmox
12 8 (0.41%) Nmap
13 6 (0.31%) Kibana
13 6 (0.31%) Podman
14 5 (0.26%) AWS Copilot
14 5 (0.26%) Cilium
15 4 (0.21%) Autotask
15 4 (0.21%) HP Fortify
15 4 (0.21%) Packer
15 4 (0.21%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 276 (14.17%) Microsoft
2 134 (6.88%) Google
3 115 (5.90%) ServiceNow
4 60 (3.08%) Oracle
5 59 (3.03%) Cisco
6 58 (2.98%) VMware
7 36 (1.85%) Typelevel
8 35 (1.80%) Databricks
9 31 (1.59%) Red Hat
10 30 (1.54%) Apple
11 25 (1.28%) Salesforce
12 24 (1.23%) SAP
12 24 (1.23%) Splunk
13 22 (1.13%) Okta
13 22 (1.13%) Palo Alto
14 21 (1.08%) Fortinet
14 21 (1.08%) IBM
15 19 (0.98%) Adobe
15 19 (0.98%) SolarWinds
16 17 (0.87%) Dell
1,041 hybrid/remote AWS jobs