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 9 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 9 9
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 -3
Permanent jobs citing AWS 2,064 2,098 4,477
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 11.98% 16.23% 14.11%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.96% 34.89% 32.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1,319 1,600 3,906
10th Percentile £45,600 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,000 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.79% +3.57% -3.45%
75th Percentile £90,000 £97,500 £88,750
90th Percentile £107,500 £122,500 £112,500
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 6,666 6,014 13,991
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.70% 46.52% 44.08%
Number of salaries quoted 4,497 4,690 12,076
10th Percentile £33,450 £33,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,309 £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 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £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 9 April 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 79 (3.83%) Apache Airflow
2 39 (1.89%) Apache Spark
3 28 (1.36%) Apache
4 22 (1.07%) Microsoft Exchange
5 16 (0.78%) CMS
6 15 (0.73%) Confluence
7 13 (0.63%) SharePoint
8 12 (0.58%) nginx
9 9 (0.44%) WordPress
10 6 (0.29%) Drupal
10 6 (0.29%) Ethereum
11 5 (0.24%) Anypoint
11 5 (0.24%) Apache Pulsar
12 4 (0.19%) Apache Solr
12 4 (0.19%) ArcGIS
12 4 (0.19%) GeoServer
12 4 (0.19%) Oracle Spatial
12 4 (0.19%) SAS
12 4 (0.19%) Tomcat
12 4 (0.19%) WebSphere
Applications
1 102 (4.94%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.29%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.29%) MS Visio
4 6 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
5 5 (0.24%) AutoCAD
5 5 (0.24%) DaVinci Resolve
6 4 (0.19%) Adobe Illustrator
6 4 (0.19%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.048%) EngageOne
7 1 (0.048%) Notion
7 1 (0.048%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (0.58%) Shopify
2 8 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
3 6 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.24%) Cloudability
5 4 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
6 3 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.097%) Magento
7 2 (0.097%) SAP HR
8 1 (0.048%) Oracle Assets
8 1 (0.048%) Sprinklr
8 1 (0.048%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 883 (42.78%) Azure
2 579 (28.05%) GCP
3 279 (13.52%) Serverless
4 246 (11.92%) SaaS
5 198 (9.59%) GitHub
6 187 (9.06%) AWS Lambda
7 184 (8.91%) Amazon S3
8 156 (7.56%) Microsoft 365
9 142 (6.88%) Amazon EKS
10 105 (5.09%) AWS CloudFormation
11 98 (4.75%) GitHub Actions
12 88 (4.26%) Amazon EC2
13 87 (4.22%) Amazon ECS
14 77 (3.73%) Amazon SQS
15 67 (3.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 67 (3.25%) Entra ID
16 53 (2.57%) dbt
17 50 (2.42%) Azure DevOps
18 45 (2.18%) Snowflake
19 40 (1.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 129 (6.25%) Firewall
2 100 (4.84%) Broadband
3 61 (2.96%) VPN
3 61 (2.96%) WAN
4 54 (2.62%) LAN
5 53 (2.57%) DNS
6 50 (2.42%) TCP/IP
7 47 (2.28%) Network Security
7 47 (2.28%) Wi-Fi
8 29 (1.41%) SD-WAN
9 28 (1.36%) HTTP
10 27 (1.31%) Cisco ASA
10 27 (1.31%) DHCP
11 26 (1.26%) VXLAN
12 24 (1.16%) VLAN
13 22 (1.07%) BGP
13 22 (1.07%) Cisco Firepower
14 20 (0.97%) SSL
15 18 (0.87%) NGFW
16 16 (0.78%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 187 (9.06%) PostgreSQL
2 129 (6.25%) NoSQL
3 107 (5.18%) SQL Server
4 103 (4.99%) MongoDB
5 82 (3.97%) MySQL
6 77 (3.73%) Amazon RDS
7 62 (3.00%) Relational Database
8 55 (2.66%) DynamoDB
9 52 (2.52%) Data Warehouse
10 47 (2.28%) Metadata
11 44 (2.13%) Elasticsearch
12 43 (2.08%) Amazon Redshift
12 43 (2.08%) BigQuery
13 36 (1.74%) Amazon Athena
14 33 (1.60%) Data Lake
15 30 (1.45%) Redis
15 30 (1.45%) Tableau
16 24 (1.16%) Apache Iceberg
17 23 (1.11%) RDBMS
18 19 (0.92%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 132 (6.40%) Git
2 98 (4.75%) Jenkins
3 83 (4.02%) GitLab
4 62 (3.00%) TeamCity
5 49 (2.37%) Cypress.io
6 43 (2.08%) JIRA
7 21 (1.02%) Selenium
8 19 (0.92%) Jaeger
9 16 (0.78%) CircleCI
10 15 (0.73%) Bitbucket
10 15 (0.73%) JMeter
11 14 (0.68%) Cucumber
11 14 (0.68%) SonarQube
12 13 (0.63%) MLflow
13 10 (0.48%) JUnit
13 10 (0.48%) Subversion
14 9 (0.44%) Crashlytics
14 9 (0.44%) XCTest
15 8 (0.39%) Burp Suite
15 8 (0.39%) Oracle Forms
General
1 604 (29.26%) Social Skills
2 463 (22.43%) Finance
3 225 (10.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 204 (9.88%) Banking
5 191 (9.25%) Public Sector
6 180 (8.72%) Law
7 159 (7.70%) Retail
8 129 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
9 80 (3.88%) French Language
10 72 (3.49%) Financial Institution
11 63 (3.05%) Back Office
12 57 (2.76%) Front Office
13 56 (2.71%) Legal
13 56 (2.71%) Telecoms
14 45 (2.18%) Influencing Skills
15 41 (1.99%) Swedish Language
16 37 (1.79%) Games
17 34 (1.65%) Tech for Good
18 33 (1.60%) Marketing
19 30 (1.45%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 472 (22.87%) Senior
2 396 (19.19%) Developer
3 339 (16.42%) Software Engineer
4 278 (13.47%) Lead
5 201 (9.74%) Architect
6 129 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
7 128 (6.20%) Analyst
8 119 (5.77%) Full-Stack Developer
9 104 (5.04%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 104 (5.04%) Senior Software Engineer
10 96 (4.65%) Lead Developer
11 93 (4.51%) Data Engineer
12 92 (4.46%) DevOps Engineer
13 88 (4.26%) Java Engineer
14 84 (4.07%) Service Analyst
14 84 (4.07%) Service Desk Analyst
15 81 (3.92%) Cloud Engineer
16 77 (3.73%) Software Developer
17 76 (3.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 72 (3.49%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 362 (17.54%) React
2 234 (11.34%) Node.js
3 146 (7.07%) .NET
3 146 (7.07%) Kafka
4 118 (5.72%) REST
5 116 (5.62%) RESTful
6 112 (5.43%) Spring
7 111 (5.38%) CSS
8 97 (4.70%) Spring Boot
9 83 (4.02%) HTML
10 74 (3.59%) Vue
11 72 (3.49%) gRPC
12 67 (3.25%) AngularJS
13 58 (2.81%) Django
14 52 (2.52%) Redux
15 48 (2.33%) Elastic Stack
16 46 (2.23%) .NET Core
17 41 (1.99%) JSON
18 40 (1.94%) GraphQL
19 38 (1.84%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 313 (15.16%) Cloud Native
2 151 (7.32%) Distributed Systems
3 136 (6.59%) Product Ownership
4 83 (4.02%) Public Cloud
5 65 (3.15%) Onboarding
6 62 (3.00%) Management Information System
7 60 (2.91%) Data Centre
8 58 (2.81%) Blog
9 57 (2.76%) Enterprise Software
10 56 (2.71%) Security Posture
11 54 (2.62%) Video\Live Streaming
12 51 (2.47%) Fixed Income
13 50 (2.42%) Greenfield Project
14 45 (2.18%) Over-the-Top Content
15 44 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
16 43 (2.08%) Mobile App
17 37 (1.79%) Hybrid Cloud
18 35 (1.70%) Legacy Systems
19 34 (1.65%) Data Structures
20 33 (1.60%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 201 (9.74%) Linux
2 107 (5.18%) Windows
3 68 (3.29%) Unix
4 52 (2.52%) Windows Server
5 50 (2.42%) Android
6 49 (2.37%) Apple iOS
7 25 (1.21%) Windows 10
8 21 (1.02%) Mac OS
9 18 (0.87%) Windows Server 2016
10 17 (0.82%) Windows Server 2012
11 16 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 15 (0.73%) Windows Server 2019
13 10 (0.48%) Ubuntu
14 7 (0.34%) CentOS
15 2 (0.097%) VMS
16 1 (0.048%) Debian
16 1 (0.048%) Mac OS X
16 1 (0.048%) OpenBSD
16 1 (0.048%) Windows 7
16 1 (0.048%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 701 (33.96%) CI/CD
2 604 (29.26%) Agile
3 590 (28.59%) Software Engineering
4 542 (26.26%) DevOps
5 450 (21.80%) Mentoring
6 374 (18.12%) Microservices
7 363 (17.59%) Infrastructure as Code
8 362 (17.54%) Problem-Solving
9 361 (17.49%) Full-Stack Development
10 333 (16.13%) AI
11 317 (15.36%) Continuous Improvement
12 312 (15.12%) Containerisation
13 252 (12.21%) Roadmaps
13 252 (12.21%) Test Automation
14 235 (11.39%) Coaching
15 208 (10.08%) Technical Leadership
16 197 (9.54%) Clean Code
17 183 (8.87%) Machine Learning
18 176 (8.53%) Computer Science
19 170 (8.24%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 636 (30.81%) Python
2 516 (25.00%) Java
3 318 (15.41%) JavaScript
4 310 (15.02%) TypeScript
5 306 (14.83%) SQL
6 215 (10.42%) Go
7 207 (10.03%) C#
8 127 (6.15%) Bash
9 83 (4.02%) PHP
10 71 (3.44%) Scala
11 64 (3.10%) C++
12 50 (2.42%) PowerShell
13 34 (1.65%) Ruby
14 31 (1.50%) Kotlin
15 24 (1.16%) Rust
16 15 (0.73%) Bicep
17 14 (0.68%) Shell Script
18 9 (0.44%) PL/SQL
18 9 (0.44%) Swift
19 8 (0.39%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 347 (16.81%) Degree
2 231 (11.19%) Security Cleared
3 220 (10.66%) AWS Certification
4 198 (9.59%) SC Cleared
5 135 (6.54%) Microsoft Certification
6 122 (5.91%) Computer Science Degree
7 104 (5.04%) MCSE
8 62 (3.00%) Azure Certification
9 52 (2.52%) CISSP
10 43 (2.08%) DV Cleared
11 37 (1.79%) CREST Certified
12 36 (1.74%) Cisco Certification
13 33 (1.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 33 (1.60%) TOGAF Certification
14 29 (1.41%) CISM
15 25 (1.21%) OSCP
16 23 (1.11%) DBS Check
17 20 (0.97%) CCNP
17 20 (0.97%) Master's Degree
18 19 (0.92%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 180 (8.72%) QA
2 94 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 58 (2.81%) NIST
4 57 (2.76%) GDPR
5 51 (2.47%) PCI DSS
6 48 (2.33%) Accessibility
7 44 (2.13%) Data Quality
8 34 (1.65%) GRC
9 33 (1.60%) SOC 2
10 28 (1.36%) Cyber Essentials
11 23 (1.11%) SLA
12 16 (0.78%) Actionable Recommendations
12 16 (0.78%) NCSC
13 15 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 13 (0.63%) JSP 440
15 10 (0.48%) ISO 9001
15 10 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 42001
16 8 (0.39%) HMG Security Policy Framework
17 7 (0.34%) Government Security Classifications
18 6 (0.29%) WCAG
System Software
1 419 (20.30%) Docker
2 74 (3.59%) Active Directory
3 34 (1.65%) Hyper-V
4 30 (1.45%) VMware Infrastructure
5 15 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (0.68%) vSphere
7 7 (0.34%) Firmware
8 5 (0.24%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 5 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
8 5 (0.24%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.19%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 2 (0.097%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 2 (0.097%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.097%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.048%) KVM
11 1 (0.048%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 415 (20.11%) Terraform
2 382 (18.51%) Kubernetes
3 154 (7.46%) Ansible
4 142 (6.88%) Grafana
5 79 (3.83%) Prometheus
6 46 (2.23%) Argo
7 29 (1.41%) Microsoft Intune
7 29 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
8 19 (0.92%) Kustomize
9 18 (0.87%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 8 (0.39%) Istio
10 8 (0.39%) Nmap
10 8 (0.39%) Podman
10 8 (0.39%) Proxmox
11 7 (0.34%) Puppet
12 6 (0.29%) Cisco CUCM
12 6 (0.29%) Kibana
12 6 (0.29%) Packer
12 6 (0.29%) Progress Chef
13 5 (0.24%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 301 (14.58%) Microsoft
2 136 (6.59%) Google
3 106 (5.14%) ServiceNow
4 65 (3.15%) Cisco
5 58 (2.81%) VMware
6 56 (2.71%) Oracle
7 45 (2.18%) Typelevel
8 35 (1.70%) Apple
8 35 (1.70%) Splunk
9 30 (1.45%) Databricks
9 30 (1.45%) Red Hat
10 29 (1.41%) Adobe
11 28 (1.36%) Fortinet
11 28 (1.36%) Palo Alto
12 26 (1.26%) Salesforce
12 26 (1.26%) SolarWinds
13 25 (1.21%) SAP
14 18 (0.87%) Okta
15 17 (0.82%) Dell
16 15 (0.73%) Aruba