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

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 13 9
Rank change year-on-year +4 -4 -3
Permanent jobs citing AWS 2,340 2,175 4,927
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 11.58% 14.04% 14.18%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.47% 36.72% 33.65%
Number of salaries quoted 1,490 1,374 4,152
10th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £54,663 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,079 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.56% +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £90,000 £106,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £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 7,680 5,923 14,641
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.01% 38.23% 42.14%
Number of salaries quoted 5,414 4,315 12,172
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,750 £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% -8.82%

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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 21 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 61 (2.61%) Apache Airflow
2 42 (1.79%) Apache Spark
3 27 (1.15%) Apache
4 24 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
5 15 (0.64%) CMS
5 15 (0.64%) SharePoint
6 9 (0.38%) IIS
7 8 (0.34%) Confluence
8 7 (0.30%) Jupyter
8 7 (0.30%) nginx
9 6 (0.26%) Apache Solr
10 5 (0.21%) WordPress
11 4 (0.17%) Anypoint
11 4 (0.17%) Ethereum
11 4 (0.17%) Mule
12 2 (0.085%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.085%) Camunda
12 2 (0.085%) Headless CMS
12 2 (0.085%) Palantir Foundry
12 2 (0.085%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 81 (3.46%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (0.30%) MS Visio
4 6 (0.26%) Microsoft Excel
4 6 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
5 5 (0.21%) AutoCAD
5 5 (0.21%) Chatbot
5 5 (0.21%) DaVinci Resolve
6 3 (0.13%) Adobe Illustrator
6 3 (0.13%) Photoshop
7 2 (0.085%) PlantUML
8 1 (0.043%) EngageOne
8 1 (0.043%) Trello
Business Applications
1 24 (1.03%) Cloudability
2 5 (0.21%) Shopify
3 4 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.085%) SAP HR
5 1 (0.043%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.043%) Magento
5 1 (0.043%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.043%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.043%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 991 (42.35%) Azure
2 590 (25.21%) GCP
3 259 (11.07%) Serverless
4 232 (9.91%) SaaS
5 186 (7.95%) GitHub
6 169 (7.22%) Amazon S3
7 167 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
8 144 (6.15%) Microsoft 365
9 117 (5.00%) Amazon EKS
10 102 (4.36%) Amazon EC2
10 102 (4.36%) AWS CloudFormation
11 86 (3.68%) Amazon ECS
12 81 (3.46%) GitHub Actions
13 71 (3.03%) Amazon SQS
14 56 (2.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 56 (2.39%) Azure DevOps
15 50 (2.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 47 (2.01%) Entra ID
17 46 (1.97%) GitHub Copilot
18 42 (1.79%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 141 (6.03%) Broadband
2 139 (5.94%) Firewall
3 75 (3.21%) VPN
3 75 (3.21%) WAN
4 65 (2.78%) DNS
4 65 (2.78%) LAN
5 56 (2.39%) Network Security
6 49 (2.09%) Wi-Fi
7 42 (1.79%) TCP/IP
8 39 (1.67%) DHCP
8 39 (1.67%) HTTP
9 35 (1.50%) SD-WAN
10 31 (1.32%) Cisco ASA
11 30 (1.28%) VXLAN
12 27 (1.15%) Cisco Firepower
13 23 (0.98%) VLAN
14 21 (0.90%) BGP
15 17 (0.73%) MPLS
15 17 (0.73%) NGFW
15 17 (0.73%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 241 (10.30%) PostgreSQL
2 214 (9.15%) MongoDB
3 129 (5.51%) NoSQL
4 92 (3.93%) SQL Server
5 90 (3.85%) MySQL
6 85 (3.63%) Elasticsearch
7 65 (2.78%) Relational Database
8 64 (2.74%) Amazon RDS
9 62 (2.65%) DynamoDB
10 57 (2.44%) Metadata
11 53 (2.26%) Azure SQL Database
12 45 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
13 40 (1.71%) Amazon Athena
14 36 (1.54%) Redis
15 35 (1.50%) Amazon Redshift
16 31 (1.32%) BigQuery
17 27 (1.15%) Tableau
18 26 (1.11%) Data Lake
19 25 (1.07%) RDBMS
20 22 (0.94%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 126 (5.38%) Git
2 83 (3.55%) GitLab
3 80 (3.42%) Jenkins
4 60 (2.56%) TeamCity
5 51 (2.18%) Cypress.io
6 41 (1.75%) JIRA
7 24 (1.03%) Claude Code
8 18 (0.77%) Jaeger
9 16 (0.68%) Selenium
10 15 (0.64%) CircleCI
10 15 (0.64%) JUnit
11 14 (0.60%) Crashlytics
11 14 (0.60%) JMeter
11 14 (0.60%) Maven
11 14 (0.60%) XCTest
12 10 (0.43%) Postman
13 9 (0.38%) MLflow
13 9 (0.38%) Mockito
14 7 (0.30%) Cucumber
14 7 (0.30%) Metasploit
General
1 554 (23.68%) Social Skills
2 510 (21.79%) Finance
3 254 (10.85%) Public Sector
4 239 (10.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 216 (9.23%) Banking
6 175 (7.48%) Law
7 142 (6.07%) Retail
8 130 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
9 64 (2.74%) Legal
10 52 (2.22%) Back Office
11 51 (2.18%) Financial Institution
11 51 (2.18%) Games
12 44 (1.88%) Influencing Skills
13 42 (1.79%) Front Office
14 41 (1.75%) French Language
15 28 (1.20%) Marketing
16 27 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
16 27 (1.15%) Swedish Language
17 23 (0.98%) Telecoms
18 21 (0.90%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 546 (23.33%) Senior
2 495 (21.15%) Developer
3 410 (17.52%) Software Engineer
4 322 (13.76%) Lead
5 262 (11.20%) Architect
6 157 (6.71%) AWS Engineer
7 140 (5.98%) Full-Stack Developer
8 117 (5.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 114 (4.87%) Senior Software Engineer
10 111 (4.74%) Analyst
11 106 (4.53%) Lead Software Engineer
12 103 (4.40%) DevOps Engineer
13 98 (4.19%) Cloud Engineer
14 95 (4.06%) Solutions Architect
15 94 (4.02%) Lead Developer
16 93 (3.97%) Software Developer
17 88 (3.76%) Consultant
17 88 (3.76%) Data Engineer
17 88 (3.76%) Engineering Manager
18 87 (3.72%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 405 (17.31%) React
2 337 (14.40%) Node.js
3 193 (8.25%) .NET
4 151 (6.45%) REST
5 126 (5.38%) Spring
6 123 (5.26%) Kafka
7 122 (5.21%) RESTful
8 114 (4.87%) CSS
9 109 (4.66%) Vue
10 95 (4.06%) AngularJS
11 90 (3.85%) Spring Boot
12 81 (3.46%) .NET Core
13 78 (3.33%) HTML
14 71 (3.03%) ASP.NET
15 63 (2.69%) ASP.NET Core
16 51 (2.18%) Redux
16 51 (2.18%) Ruby on Rails
17 49 (2.09%) gRPC
18 44 (1.88%) .NET Framework
19 42 (1.79%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 385 (16.45%) Cloud Native
2 193 (8.25%) Product Ownership
3 175 (7.48%) Distributed Systems
4 98 (4.19%) Public Cloud
5 79 (3.38%) Video\Live Streaming
6 77 (3.29%) Greenfield Project
7 64 (2.74%) Data Centre
8 59 (2.52%) Security Posture
9 57 (2.44%) Onboarding
10 52 (2.22%) Blog
10 52 (2.22%) Management Information System
11 46 (1.97%) Enterprise Software
11 46 (1.97%) Over-the-Top Content
12 45 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
13 44 (1.88%) Fixed Income
14 42 (1.79%) Hybrid Cloud
14 42 (1.79%) Mobile App
15 40 (1.71%) PKI
16 36 (1.54%) AI Agents
17 35 (1.50%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 205 (8.76%) Linux
2 123 (5.26%) Windows
3 55 (2.35%) Unix
4 53 (2.26%) Windows Server
5 41 (1.75%) Apple iOS
6 28 (1.20%) Android
7 17 (0.73%) Windows 10
8 14 (0.60%) Windows Server 2016
9 11 (0.47%) Mac OS
9 11 (0.47%) Windows Server 2012
10 10 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
11 9 (0.38%) Ubuntu
12 5 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 4 (0.17%) Debian
14 3 (0.13%) CentOS
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
1 820 (35.04%) CI/CD
2 733 (31.32%) Agile
3 717 (30.64%) Software Engineering
4 535 (22.86%) Mentoring
5 532 (22.74%) DevOps
6 481 (20.56%) Full-Stack Development
7 462 (19.74%) Microservices
8 434 (18.55%) AI
9 427 (18.25%) Infrastructure as Code
10 400 (17.09%) Continuous Improvement
11 389 (16.62%) Problem-Solving
12 343 (14.66%) Test Automation
13 342 (14.62%) Containerisation
14 325 (13.89%) Technical Leadership
15 305 (13.03%) Roadmaps
16 270 (11.54%) Coaching
17 245 (10.47%) Clean Code
18 235 (10.04%) Machine Learning
19 222 (9.49%) Observability
20 211 (9.02%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 651 (27.82%) Python
2 537 (22.95%) Java
3 385 (16.45%) TypeScript
4 365 (15.60%) JavaScript
5 328 (14.02%) SQL
6 244 (10.43%) C#
7 208 (8.89%) Go
8 117 (5.00%) Bash
9 76 (3.25%) Scala
10 70 (2.99%) C++
11 67 (2.86%) PHP
12 60 (2.56%) Ruby
13 50 (2.14%) PowerShell
14 34 (1.45%) Kotlin
15 27 (1.15%) Rust
16 15 (0.64%) Bicep
17 14 (0.60%) Swift
18 13 (0.56%) PL/SQL
19 9 (0.38%) Groovy
20 7 (0.30%) C
Qualifications
1 318 (13.59%) Security Cleared
2 278 (11.88%) Degree
3 265 (11.32%) SC Cleared
4 189 (8.08%) AWS Certification
5 91 (3.89%) Microsoft Certification
6 80 (3.42%) Computer Science Degree
7 75 (3.21%) MCSE
8 62 (2.65%) CISSP
9 56 (2.39%) Azure Certification
10 47 (2.01%) DV Cleared
11 40 (1.71%) CISM
12 37 (1.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 32 (1.37%) Cisco Certification
14 26 (1.11%) DBS Check
15 23 (0.98%) CREST Certified
16 20 (0.85%) CCNP
17 19 (0.81%) TOGAF Certification
18 17 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
18 17 (0.73%) OSCP
19 16 (0.68%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 175 (7.48%) QA
2 92 (3.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 66 (2.82%) NIST
4 57 (2.44%) Data Quality
5 53 (2.26%) Accessibility
6 43 (1.84%) GDPR
7 38 (1.62%) PCI DSS
8 28 (1.20%) GRC
9 27 (1.15%) NCSC
10 17 (0.73%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 16 (0.68%) SOC 2
12 15 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials
13 13 (0.56%) JSP 440
14 11 (0.47%) ISO 9001
15 9 (0.38%) SLA
16 8 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
16 8 (0.34%) WCAG
17 7 (0.30%) Government Security Classifications
17 7 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 42001
18 6 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 427 (18.25%) Docker
2 62 (2.65%) Active Directory
3 39 (1.67%) Hyper-V
3 39 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
5 18 (0.77%) vSphere
6 6 (0.26%) Firmware
6 6 (0.26%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 6 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
7 5 (0.21%) KVM
8 3 (0.13%) iptables
8 3 (0.13%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.085%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 2 (0.085%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.043%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.043%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 415 (17.74%) Terraform
2 379 (16.20%) Kubernetes
3 145 (6.20%) Ansible
4 119 (5.09%) Grafana
5 63 (2.69%) Prometheus
6 42 (1.79%) Argo
7 22 (0.94%) Microsoft Intune
8 18 (0.77%) Kustomize
9 16 (0.68%) Proxmox
10 14 (0.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 14 (0.60%) Progress Chef
11 12 (0.51%) Istio
11 12 (0.51%) Podman
11 12 (0.51%) Puppet
11 12 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
12 9 (0.38%) Cisco CUCM
12 9 (0.38%) Packer
13 7 (0.30%) Nmap
13 7 (0.30%) ZABBIX
14 6 (0.26%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 365 (15.60%) Microsoft
2 113 (4.83%) Google
3 105 (4.49%) ServiceNow
4 69 (2.95%) Cisco
5 67 (2.86%) VMware
6 51 (2.18%) Oracle
7 45 (1.92%) Typelevel
8 40 (1.71%) Apple
9 37 (1.58%) Databricks
10 35 (1.50%) Adobe
10 35 (1.50%) Fortinet
11 34 (1.45%) Palo Alto
11 34 (1.45%) Splunk
12 33 (1.41%) SolarWinds
13 25 (1.07%) Salesforce
14 23 (0.98%) SAP
15 21 (0.90%) Aruba
16 18 (0.77%) CheckPoint
16 18 (0.77%) Dell
16 18 (0.77%) Dynatrace