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 14 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 10 9
Rank change year-on-year +3 -1 -3
Permanent jobs citing AWS 2,151 2,325 4,589
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 11.62% 16.00% 14.14%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.56% 38.00% 32.93%
Number of salaries quoted 1,362 1,484 3,945
10th Percentile £46,446 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £71,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.11% +1.43% -3.45%
75th Percentile £90,000 £102,500 £91,250
90th Percentile £101,150 £130,875 £117,500
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 7,039 6,118 13,937
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.03% 42.09% 42.93%
Number of salaries quoted 4,812 4,457 11,917
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £35,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,609 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £79,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £108,750 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -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 14 May 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 69 (3.21%) Apache Airflow
2 42 (1.95%) Apache Spark
3 26 (1.21%) Apache
4 21 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
5 17 (0.79%) CMS
6 14 (0.65%) Confluence
6 14 (0.65%) SharePoint
7 11 (0.51%) nginx
8 7 (0.33%) Apache Solr
9 6 (0.28%) WordPress
10 4 (0.19%) ArcGIS
10 4 (0.19%) Drupal
10 4 (0.19%) Ethereum
10 4 (0.19%) GeoServer
10 4 (0.19%) Oracle Spatial
11 3 (0.14%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.14%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.093%) Camunda
12 2 (0.093%) Headless CMS
12 2 (0.093%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 74 (3.44%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
3 18 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.33%) MS Visio
5 6 (0.28%) Chatbot
5 6 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (0.23%) AutoCAD
6 5 (0.23%) DaVinci Resolve
7 4 (0.19%) Adobe Illustrator
7 4 (0.19%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.046%) EngageOne
8 1 (0.046%) PlantUML
8 1 (0.046%) Trello
Business Applications
1 24 (1.12%) Cloudability
2 7 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
3 6 (0.28%) Shopify
4 5 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
5 3 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.093%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.093%) SAP HR
7 1 (0.046%) Magento
7 1 (0.046%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (0.046%) Sprinklr
7 1 (0.046%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 897 (41.70%) Azure
2 570 (26.50%) GCP
3 274 (12.74%) Serverless
4 227 (10.55%) SaaS
5 182 (8.46%) GitHub
6 177 (8.23%) AWS Lambda
7 173 (8.04%) Amazon S3
8 125 (5.81%) Microsoft 365
9 119 (5.53%) Amazon EKS
10 92 (4.28%) Amazon EC2
11 87 (4.04%) GitHub Actions
12 86 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
13 80 (3.72%) Amazon ECS
14 78 (3.63%) Amazon SQS
15 58 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
16 52 (2.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 52 (2.42%) Entra ID
17 45 (2.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 43 (2.00%) Snowflake
19 38 (1.77%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 131 (6.09%) Firewall
2 127 (5.90%) Broadband
3 72 (3.35%) WAN
4 64 (2.98%) LAN
5 63 (2.93%) VPN
6 54 (2.51%) DNS
7 48 (2.23%) Wi-Fi
8 46 (2.14%) Network Security
9 40 (1.86%) HTTP
9 40 (1.86%) TCP/IP
10 37 (1.72%) SD-WAN
11 34 (1.58%) Cisco ASA
12 32 (1.49%) VXLAN
13 30 (1.39%) Cisco Firepower
14 28 (1.30%) DHCP
15 22 (1.02%) BGP
16 21 (0.98%) VLAN
17 19 (0.88%) MPLS
17 19 (0.88%) OSPF
18 18 (0.84%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 218 (10.13%) PostgreSQL
2 160 (7.44%) MongoDB
3 119 (5.53%) NoSQL
4 95 (4.42%) SQL Server
5 74 (3.44%) MySQL
6 64 (2.98%) Amazon RDS
7 62 (2.88%) DynamoDB
8 60 (2.79%) Elasticsearch
9 54 (2.51%) Relational Database
10 52 (2.42%) Metadata
11 46 (2.14%) Data Warehouse
12 41 (1.91%) BigQuery
13 39 (1.81%) Amazon Redshift
14 34 (1.58%) Amazon Athena
15 28 (1.30%) Redis
16 27 (1.26%) Tableau
17 24 (1.12%) Data Lake
18 22 (1.02%) Azure SQL Database
19 21 (0.98%) RDBMS
20 20 (0.93%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 122 (5.67%) Git
2 81 (3.77%) Jenkins
3 79 (3.67%) GitLab
4 55 (2.56%) Cypress.io
5 53 (2.46%) TeamCity
6 41 (1.91%) JIRA
7 20 (0.93%) CircleCI
8 18 (0.84%) Jaeger
9 14 (0.65%) JMeter
9 14 (0.65%) Selenium
10 13 (0.60%) Crashlytics
10 13 (0.60%) Maven
10 13 (0.60%) MLflow
10 13 (0.60%) XCTest
11 12 (0.56%) Bitbucket
11 12 (0.56%) Claude Code
12 10 (0.46%) SonarQube
13 8 (0.37%) Vite
14 7 (0.33%) Locust
14 7 (0.33%) Storybook
General
1 514 (23.90%) Social Skills
2 467 (21.71%) Finance
3 248 (11.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 226 (10.51%) Public Sector
5 197 (9.16%) Banking
6 173 (8.04%) Law
7 132 (6.14%) Retail
8 122 (5.67%) Analytical Skills
9 53 (2.46%) Legal
10 50 (2.32%) Front Office
10 50 (2.32%) Influencing Skills
11 49 (2.28%) French Language
12 47 (2.19%) Back Office
12 47 (2.19%) Financial Institution
13 41 (1.91%) Games
14 37 (1.72%) Telecoms
15 31 (1.44%) Tech for Good
16 30 (1.39%) Health Technology
17 29 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
18 26 (1.21%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 508 (23.62%) Senior
2 437 (20.32%) Developer
3 369 (17.15%) Software Engineer
4 304 (14.13%) Lead
5 230 (10.69%) Architect
6 143 (6.65%) AWS Engineer
7 127 (5.90%) Full-Stack Developer
8 120 (5.58%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 114 (5.30%) Analyst
10 107 (4.97%) Senior Software Engineer
11 97 (4.51%) DevOps Engineer
11 97 (4.51%) Lead Developer
12 91 (4.23%) Lead Software Engineer
13 89 (4.14%) Data Engineer
14 87 (4.04%) Java Engineer
15 84 (3.91%) Software Developer
15 84 (3.91%) Solutions Architect
16 81 (3.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 78 (3.63%) Consultant
18 77 (3.58%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 383 (17.81%) React
2 292 (13.58%) Node.js
3 159 (7.39%) .NET
4 134 (6.23%) Kafka
5 133 (6.18%) REST
6 120 (5.58%) RESTful
7 108 (5.02%) Spring
8 104 (4.83%) CSS
9 88 (4.09%) Spring Boot
10 79 (3.67%) Vue
11 74 (3.44%) HTML
12 72 (3.35%) AngularJS
13 60 (2.79%) gRPC
14 55 (2.56%) .NET Core
15 53 (2.46%) Redux
16 45 (2.09%) GraphQL
17 42 (1.95%) Jest
18 38 (1.77%) ASP.NET
18 38 (1.77%) JSON
19 36 (1.67%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 329 (15.30%) Cloud Native
2 163 (7.58%) Product Ownership
3 148 (6.88%) Distributed Systems
4 92 (4.28%) Public Cloud
5 70 (3.25%) Greenfield Project
5 70 (3.25%) Video\Live Streaming
6 69 (3.21%) Onboarding
7 64 (2.98%) Data Centre
8 56 (2.60%) Blog
9 55 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
10 54 (2.51%) Management Information System
11 51 (2.37%) Security Posture
12 46 (2.14%) Over-the-Top Content
13 44 (2.05%) Fixed Income
14 42 (1.95%) Mobile App
14 42 (1.95%) Self-Motivation
15 39 (1.81%) PKI
16 38 (1.77%) Hybrid Cloud
17 31 (1.44%) Data Structures
18 28 (1.30%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 181 (8.41%) Linux
2 98 (4.56%) Windows
3 57 (2.65%) Unix
4 48 (2.23%) Apple iOS
5 42 (1.95%) Windows Server
6 41 (1.91%) Android
7 20 (0.93%) Windows 10
8 15 (0.70%) Windows Server 2016
9 13 (0.60%) Windows Server 2012
10 12 (0.56%) Mac OS
10 12 (0.56%) Windows Server 2019
11 9 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 6 (0.28%) Ubuntu
13 3 (0.14%) CentOS
14 1 (0.046%) Debian
14 1 (0.046%) FreeBSD
14 1 (0.046%) Mac OS X
14 1 (0.046%) VMS
14 1 (0.046%) Windows 7
14 1 (0.046%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 720 (33.47%) CI/CD
2 649 (30.17%) Agile
3 622 (28.92%) Software Engineering
4 512 (23.80%) DevOps
5 499 (23.20%) Mentoring
6 424 (19.71%) Full-Stack Development
7 405 (18.83%) Microservices
8 375 (17.43%) AI
9 365 (16.97%) Infrastructure as Code
10 342 (15.90%) Continuous Improvement
11 335 (15.57%) Problem-Solving
12 304 (14.13%) Containerisation
13 295 (13.71%) Test Automation
14 284 (13.20%) Roadmaps
15 256 (11.90%) Technical Leadership
16 253 (11.76%) Coaching
17 217 (10.09%) Clean Code
18 205 (9.53%) Machine Learning
19 192 (8.93%) Observability
20 174 (8.09%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 626 (29.10%) Python
2 535 (24.87%) Java
3 340 (15.81%) TypeScript
4 332 (15.43%) JavaScript
5 306 (14.23%) SQL
6 211 (9.81%) Go
7 206 (9.58%) C#
8 118 (5.49%) Bash
9 76 (3.53%) Scala
10 69 (3.21%) PHP
11 68 (3.16%) C++
12 45 (2.09%) Ruby
13 34 (1.58%) PowerShell
14 29 (1.35%) Kotlin
15 28 (1.30%) Rust
16 14 (0.65%) PL/SQL
17 13 (0.60%) Swift
18 11 (0.51%) Bicep
19 9 (0.42%) Shell Script
20 8 (0.37%) C
Qualifications
1 282 (13.11%) Degree
2 268 (12.46%) Security Cleared
3 222 (10.32%) SC Cleared
4 192 (8.93%) AWS Certification
5 93 (4.32%) Computer Science Degree
6 92 (4.28%) Microsoft Certification
7 67 (3.11%) MCSE
8 54 (2.51%) CISSP
9 51 (2.37%) Azure Certification
10 45 (2.09%) DV Cleared
11 43 (2.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 31 (1.44%) CISM
13 28 (1.30%) Cisco Certification
13 28 (1.30%) DBS Check
14 27 (1.26%) CREST Certified
14 27 (1.26%) TOGAF Certification
15 21 (0.98%) OSCP
16 17 (0.79%) CCNP
16 17 (0.79%) Master's Degree
17 13 (0.60%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 165 (7.67%) QA
2 75 (3.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 54 (2.51%) NIST
4 52 (2.42%) Data Quality
5 49 (2.28%) Accessibility
6 41 (1.91%) PCI DSS
7 40 (1.86%) GDPR
8 27 (1.26%) GRC
9 22 (1.02%) NCSC
9 22 (1.02%) SOC 2
10 15 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
11 14 (0.65%) JSP 440
12 13 (0.60%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 12 (0.56%) SLA
14 9 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
15 8 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 8 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 42001
16 7 (0.33%) Government Security Classifications
16 7 (0.33%) ISO 9001
17 6 (0.28%) WCAG
System Software
1 391 (18.18%) Docker
2 66 (3.07%) Active Directory
3 33 (1.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 29 (1.35%) Hyper-V
5 16 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
6 15 (0.70%) vSphere
7 6 (0.28%) Firmware
7 6 (0.28%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 6 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
8 4 (0.19%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 3 (0.14%) KVM
9 3 (0.14%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.093%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 2 (0.093%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.046%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 385 (17.90%) Terraform
2 344 (15.99%) Kubernetes
3 143 (6.65%) Ansible
4 118 (5.49%) Grafana
5 66 (3.07%) Prometheus
6 49 (2.28%) Argo
7 25 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
8 21 (0.98%) Microsoft Intune
9 18 (0.84%) Kustomize
10 15 (0.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 12 (0.56%) Podman
12 10 (0.46%) Proxmox
13 9 (0.42%) Cisco CUCM
13 9 (0.42%) Progress Chef
14 8 (0.37%) Istio
14 8 (0.37%) Packer
15 7 (0.33%) Puppet
16 5 (0.23%) AWS Copilot
16 5 (0.23%) HP Fortify
16 5 (0.23%) Nmap
Vendors
1 308 (14.32%) Microsoft
2 119 (5.53%) Google
3 95 (4.42%) ServiceNow
4 68 (3.16%) Cisco
5 54 (2.51%) VMware
6 51 (2.37%) Apple
7 47 (2.19%) Adobe
8 45 (2.09%) Typelevel
9 42 (1.95%) Oracle
10 34 (1.58%) SolarWinds
11 32 (1.49%) Palo Alto
12 31 (1.44%) Databricks
12 31 (1.44%) Fortinet
13 29 (1.35%) Splunk
14 24 (1.12%) Red Hat
15 22 (1.02%) Salesforce
16 20 (0.93%) SAP
17 19 (0.88%) CheckPoint
18 18 (0.84%) Dynatrace
19 17 (0.79%) Okta