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

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 12 9
Rank change year-on-year +4 -3 -3
Permanent jobs citing AWS 2,083 2,039 4,520
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 11.58% 15.09% 13.91%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.66% 34.29% 32.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1,326 1,589 3,929
10th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,901 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.93% +3.57% -3.45%
75th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £123,250 £115,000
UK median annual salary £70,932 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -2.16% +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 6,793 5,946 14,022
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.76% 44.02% 43.15%
Number of salaries quoted 4,580 4,665 12,050
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,104 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,076 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £108,750 £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 25 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 72 (3.46%) Apache Airflow
2 40 (1.92%) Apache Spark
3 25 (1.20%) Apache
4 21 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
5 17 (0.82%) CMS
6 14 (0.67%) Confluence
7 13 (0.62%) nginx
8 12 (0.58%) SharePoint
9 8 (0.38%) WordPress
10 6 (0.29%) Apache Solr
10 6 (0.29%) Drupal
11 5 (0.24%) Apache Pulsar
11 5 (0.24%) ArcGIS
11 5 (0.24%) Ethereum
11 5 (0.24%) GeoServer
11 5 (0.24%) Oracle Spatial
12 3 (0.14%) IIS
12 3 (0.14%) OpenStack
12 3 (0.14%) SAS
13 2 (0.096%) JBoss
Applications
1 93 (4.46%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (0.91%) 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%) Cloudability
2 9 (0.43%) Shopify
3 8 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
4 5 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
5 4 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
6 3 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.096%) Magento
7 2 (0.096%) SAP HR
8 1 (0.048%) Oracle Assets
8 1 (0.048%) Sprinklr
8 1 (0.048%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 873 (41.91%) Azure
2 565 (27.12%) GCP
3 275 (13.20%) Serverless
4 221 (10.61%) SaaS
5 189 (9.07%) GitHub
6 185 (8.88%) AWS Lambda
7 179 (8.59%) Amazon S3
8 141 (6.77%) Microsoft 365
9 127 (6.10%) Amazon EKS
10 93 (4.46%) AWS CloudFormation
11 90 (4.32%) GitHub Actions
12 84 (4.03%) Amazon EC2
13 80 (3.84%) Amazon SQS
14 79 (3.79%) Amazon ECS
15 63 (3.02%) Entra ID
16 60 (2.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 55 (2.64%) Azure DevOps
18 41 (1.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 39 (1.87%) dbt
20 38 (1.82%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 127 (6.10%) Firewall
2 112 (5.38%) Broadband
3 68 (3.26%) WAN
4 60 (2.88%) LAN
4 60 (2.88%) VPN
5 55 (2.64%) DNS
6 48 (2.30%) Wi-Fi
7 42 (2.02%) TCP/IP
8 41 (1.97%) Network Security
9 37 (1.78%) HTTP
10 34 (1.63%) SD-WAN
11 31 (1.49%) Cisco ASA
12 29 (1.39%) VXLAN
13 28 (1.34%) DHCP
14 27 (1.30%) Cisco Firepower
15 23 (1.10%) BGP
16 22 (1.06%) VLAN
17 19 (0.91%) OSPF
18 18 (0.86%) MPLS
18 18 (0.86%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 190 (9.12%) PostgreSQL
2 127 (6.10%) NoSQL
3 121 (5.81%) MongoDB
4 108 (5.18%) SQL Server
5 74 (3.55%) MySQL
6 67 (3.22%) Amazon RDS
7 61 (2.93%) DynamoDB
8 56 (2.69%) Relational Database
9 48 (2.30%) Data Warehouse
9 48 (2.30%) Metadata
10 42 (2.02%) Amazon Redshift
10 42 (2.02%) BigQuery
11 39 (1.87%) Elasticsearch
12 33 (1.58%) Amazon Athena
13 28 (1.34%) Tableau
14 26 (1.25%) Data Lake
15 23 (1.10%) Redis
16 22 (1.06%) RDBMS
17 20 (0.96%) Apache Iceberg
18 18 (0.86%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 132 (6.34%) Git
2 90 (4.32%) Jenkins
3 87 (4.18%) GitLab
4 55 (2.64%) Cypress.io
5 52 (2.50%) TeamCity
6 41 (1.97%) JIRA
7 22 (1.06%) Selenium
8 20 (0.96%) CircleCI
9 19 (0.91%) Jaeger
10 15 (0.72%) Bitbucket
10 15 (0.72%) JMeter
11 14 (0.67%) Cucumber
12 13 (0.62%) MLflow
12 13 (0.62%) SonarQube
13 11 (0.53%) Crashlytics
13 11 (0.53%) XCTest
14 10 (0.48%) JUnit
15 9 (0.43%) Subversion
16 8 (0.38%) Maven
16 8 (0.38%) Oracle Forms
General
1 562 (26.98%) Social Skills
2 452 (21.70%) Finance
3 220 (10.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 202 (9.70%) Public Sector
5 189 (9.07%) Banking
6 167 (8.02%) Law
7 138 (6.63%) Retail
8 124 (5.95%) Analytical Skills
9 68 (3.26%) French Language
10 53 (2.54%) Financial Institution
10 53 (2.54%) Front Office
11 52 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
11 52 (2.50%) Telecoms
12 50 (2.40%) Legal
13 48 (2.30%) Back Office
14 33 (1.58%) Games
15 32 (1.54%) Marketing
16 31 (1.49%) Health Technology
16 31 (1.49%) Tech for Good
17 28 (1.34%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 482 (23.14%) Senior
2 404 (19.40%) Developer
3 356 (17.09%) Software Engineer
4 288 (13.83%) Lead
5 200 (9.60%) Architect
6 137 (6.58%) AWS Engineer
7 122 (5.86%) Analyst
8 119 (5.71%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 118 (5.66%) Full-Stack Developer
10 104 (4.99%) Senior Software Engineer
11 99 (4.75%) DevOps Engineer
12 98 (4.70%) Lead Developer
13 95 (4.56%) Data Engineer
14 86 (4.13%) Java Engineer
15 83 (3.98%) Cloud Engineer
16 81 (3.89%) Lead Software Engineer
17 79 (3.79%) Software Developer
18 77 (3.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
19 76 (3.65%) Service Analyst
19 76 (3.65%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 372 (17.86%) React
2 257 (12.34%) Node.js
3 146 (7.01%) .NET
3 146 (7.01%) Kafka
4 120 (5.76%) REST
5 108 (5.18%) Spring
6 106 (5.09%) RESTful
7 103 (4.94%) CSS
8 93 (4.46%) Spring Boot
9 75 (3.60%) HTML
10 69 (3.31%) Vue
11 68 (3.26%) AngularJS
11 68 (3.26%) gRPC
12 52 (2.50%) Redux
13 46 (2.21%) .NET Core
13 46 (2.21%) Django
14 43 (2.06%) Elastic Stack
15 41 (1.97%) GraphQL
16 36 (1.73%) Jest
16 36 (1.73%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 302 (14.50%) Cloud Native
2 149 (7.15%) Product Ownership
3 141 (6.77%) Distributed Systems
4 89 (4.27%) Public Cloud
5 67 (3.22%) Onboarding
6 66 (3.17%) Greenfield Project
7 58 (2.78%) Data Centre
7 58 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
8 57 (2.74%) Management Information System
9 54 (2.59%) Video\Live Streaming
10 52 (2.50%) Blog
11 50 (2.40%) Security Posture
12 47 (2.26%) Fixed Income
13 46 (2.21%) Over-the-Top Content
14 43 (2.06%) Mobile App
15 41 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
16 38 (1.82%) Hybrid Cloud
17 34 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
17 34 (1.63%) PKI
18 33 (1.58%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 184 (8.83%) Linux
2 99 (4.75%) Windows
3 60 (2.88%) Unix
4 51 (2.45%) Apple iOS
5 50 (2.40%) Android
6 45 (2.16%) Windows Server
7 22 (1.06%) Windows 10
8 17 (0.82%) Windows Server 2016
9 15 (0.72%) Mac OS
9 15 (0.72%) Windows Server 2012
10 14 (0.67%) Windows Server 2019
11 11 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 9 (0.43%) Ubuntu
13 5 (0.24%) CentOS
14 1 (0.048%) Debian
14 1 (0.048%) FreeBSD
14 1 (0.048%) Mac OS X
14 1 (0.048%) VMS
14 1 (0.048%) Windows 7
14 1 (0.048%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 699 (33.56%) CI/CD
2 619 (29.72%) Agile
3 599 (28.76%) Software Engineering
4 529 (25.40%) DevOps
5 471 (22.61%) Mentoring
6 383 (18.39%) Full-Stack Development
7 380 (18.24%) Microservices
8 351 (16.85%) Problem-Solving
9 347 (16.66%) Infrastructure as Code
10 342 (16.42%) AI
11 320 (15.36%) Continuous Improvement
12 312 (14.98%) Containerisation
13 268 (12.87%) Roadmaps
14 266 (12.77%) Test Automation
15 248 (11.91%) Coaching
16 230 (11.04%) Technical Leadership
17 194 (9.31%) Clean Code
18 190 (9.12%) Machine Learning
19 174 (8.35%) Observability
20 166 (7.97%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 617 (29.62%) Python
2 525 (25.20%) Java
3 323 (15.51%) TypeScript
4 314 (15.07%) JavaScript
5 295 (14.16%) SQL
6 211 (10.13%) Go
7 201 (9.65%) C#
8 120 (5.76%) Bash
9 77 (3.70%) PHP
10 74 (3.55%) Scala
11 69 (3.31%) C++
12 38 (1.82%) PowerShell
13 36 (1.73%) Ruby
14 29 (1.39%) Kotlin
15 27 (1.30%) Rust
16 14 (0.67%) Bicep
17 12 (0.58%) Shell Script
18 11 (0.53%) Swift
19 10 (0.48%) C
19 10 (0.48%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 320 (15.36%) Degree
2 233 (11.19%) Security Cleared
3 203 (9.75%) AWS Certification
4 197 (9.46%) SC Cleared
5 118 (5.66%) Microsoft Certification
6 109 (5.23%) Computer Science Degree
7 90 (4.32%) MCSE
8 52 (2.50%) CISSP
9 49 (2.35%) Azure Certification
10 43 (2.06%) DV Cleared
11 34 (1.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 33 (1.58%) Cisco Certification
13 30 (1.44%) CISM
13 30 (1.44%) DBS Check
13 30 (1.44%) TOGAF Certification
14 29 (1.39%) CREST Certified
15 21 (1.01%) OSCP
16 20 (0.96%) CCNP
17 19 (0.91%) Master's Degree
18 16 (0.77%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 176 (8.45%) QA
2 79 (3.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 51 (2.45%) NIST
4 48 (2.30%) Accessibility
5 47 (2.26%) GDPR
6 46 (2.21%) Data Quality
7 42 (2.02%) PCI DSS
8 30 (1.44%) GRC
9 26 (1.25%) SOC 2
10 23 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials
11 17 (0.82%) NCSC
12 14 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 14 (0.67%) SLA
13 12 (0.58%) JSP 440
14 10 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
14 10 (0.48%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 9 (0.43%) ISO 9001
16 7 (0.34%) Government Security Classifications
16 7 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 42001
17 6 (0.29%) WCAG
System Software
1 405 (19.44%) Docker
2 71 (3.41%) Active Directory
3 32 (1.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 31 (1.49%) Hyper-V
5 15 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (0.67%) vSphere
7 7 (0.34%) Firmware
8 5 (0.24%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 5 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
9 4 (0.19%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 3 (0.14%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.096%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 2 (0.096%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.048%) KVM
12 1 (0.048%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 1 (0.048%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 393 (18.87%) Terraform
2 359 (17.23%) Kubernetes
3 149 (7.15%) Ansible
4 131 (6.29%) Grafana
5 74 (3.55%) Prometheus
6 55 (2.64%) Argo
7 29 (1.39%) Single Sign-On
8 26 (1.25%) Microsoft Intune
9 19 (0.91%) Kustomize
10 17 (0.82%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 12 (0.58%) Podman
12 8 (0.38%) Cisco CUCM
12 8 (0.38%) Istio
12 8 (0.38%) Proxmox
12 8 (0.38%) Puppet
13 7 (0.34%) Packer
13 7 (0.34%) Progress Chef
14 6 (0.29%) Nmap
15 5 (0.24%) AWS Copilot
15 5 (0.24%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 299 (14.35%) Microsoft
2 129 (6.19%) Google
3 103 (4.94%) ServiceNow
4 68 (3.26%) Cisco
5 55 (2.64%) VMware
6 50 (2.40%) Oracle
7 45 (2.16%) Typelevel
8 42 (2.02%) Apple
9 36 (1.73%) Adobe
10 33 (1.58%) SolarWinds
11 32 (1.54%) Splunk
12 31 (1.49%) Palo Alto
13 30 (1.44%) Databricks
14 29 (1.39%) Fortinet
15 28 (1.34%) Red Hat
16 25 (1.20%) Salesforce
17 21 (1.01%) SAP
18 18 (0.86%) Okta
19 16 (0.77%) Arista
19 16 (0.77%) Dynatrace