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

 6 months to
6 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 10 9
Rank change year-on-year +2 -1 -3
Permanent jobs citing AWS 2,114 2,298 4,542
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 11.54% 16.27% 13.99%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.64% 37.14% 32.53%
Number of salaries quoted 1,339 1,564 3,920
10th Percentile £46,446 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,000 £71,750 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.74% +2.50% -3.45%
75th Percentile £90,000 £102,410 £90,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £127,500 £115,000
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 6,899 6,187 13,961
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.65% 43.80% 42.99%
Number of salaries quoted 4,685 4,627 11,963
10th Percentile £34,704 £32,500 £35,640
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £108,750 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £61,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +2.46% +6.09% -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

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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 6 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 73 (3.45%) Apache Airflow
2 42 (1.99%) Apache Spark
3 26 (1.23%) Apache
4 21 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
5 17 (0.80%) CMS
6 15 (0.71%) Confluence
7 13 (0.61%) SharePoint
8 12 (0.57%) nginx
9 7 (0.33%) Apache Solr
9 7 (0.33%) WordPress
10 5 (0.24%) ArcGIS
10 5 (0.24%) Drupal
10 5 (0.24%) Ethereum
10 5 (0.24%) GeoServer
10 5 (0.24%) Oracle Spatial
11 4 (0.19%) Apache Pulsar
12 3 (0.14%) OpenStack
12 3 (0.14%) SAS
13 2 (0.095%) JBoss
13 2 (0.095%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 83 (3.93%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (0.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.28%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.28%) MS Visio
4 6 (0.28%) 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 (0.047%) EngageOne
7 1 (0.047%) Notion
7 1 (0.047%) Trello
Business Applications
1 19 (0.90%) Cloudability
2 8 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
3 6 (0.28%) Shopify
4 4 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
5 3 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.095%) SAP HR
7 1 (0.047%) Magento
7 1 (0.047%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (0.047%) Sprinklr
7 1 (0.047%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 879 (41.58%) Azure
2 574 (27.15%) GCP
3 274 (12.96%) Serverless
4 222 (10.50%) SaaS
5 189 (8.94%) GitHub
6 179 (8.47%) AWS Lambda
7 174 (8.23%) Amazon S3
8 132 (6.24%) Microsoft 365
9 122 (5.77%) Amazon EKS
10 93 (4.40%) AWS CloudFormation
11 90 (4.26%) Amazon EC2
12 89 (4.21%) GitHub Actions
13 81 (3.83%) Amazon ECS
14 77 (3.64%) Amazon SQS
15 60 (2.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 57 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
16 57 (2.70%) Entra ID
17 44 (2.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 42 (1.99%) Snowflake
19 39 (1.84%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 131 (6.20%) Firewall
2 120 (5.68%) Broadband
3 72 (3.41%) WAN
4 63 (2.98%) LAN
5 62 (2.93%) VPN
6 55 (2.60%) DNS
7 48 (2.27%) Network Security
7 48 (2.27%) Wi-Fi
8 42 (1.99%) TCP/IP
9 39 (1.84%) HTTP
10 38 (1.80%) SD-WAN
11 33 (1.56%) Cisco ASA
12 31 (1.47%) VXLAN
13 28 (1.32%) Cisco Firepower
13 28 (1.32%) DHCP
14 24 (1.14%) BGP
15 22 (1.04%) VLAN
16 20 (0.95%) MPLS
16 20 (0.95%) OSPF
17 19 (0.90%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 205 (9.70%) PostgreSQL
2 134 (6.34%) MongoDB
3 120 (5.68%) NoSQL
4 106 (5.01%) SQL Server
5 71 (3.36%) MySQL
6 67 (3.17%) Amazon RDS
7 60 (2.84%) DynamoDB
8 55 (2.60%) Relational Database
9 53 (2.51%) Metadata
10 49 (2.32%) Data Warehouse
11 45 (2.13%) Elasticsearch
12 42 (1.99%) BigQuery
13 41 (1.94%) Amazon Redshift
14 35 (1.66%) Amazon Athena
15 28 (1.32%) Tableau
16 27 (1.28%) Redis
17 26 (1.23%) Data Lake
18 22 (1.04%) RDBMS
19 20 (0.95%) Apache Iceberg
20 18 (0.85%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 129 (6.10%) Git
2 94 (4.45%) Jenkins
3 90 (4.26%) GitLab
4 55 (2.60%) Cypress.io
5 52 (2.46%) TeamCity
6 42 (1.99%) JIRA
7 22 (1.04%) Selenium
8 20 (0.95%) CircleCI
9 19 (0.90%) Jaeger
10 15 (0.71%) Bitbucket
10 15 (0.71%) JMeter
11 14 (0.66%) Cucumber
12 13 (0.61%) MLflow
12 13 (0.61%) SonarQube
13 12 (0.57%) Crashlytics
13 12 (0.57%) XCTest
14 10 (0.47%) Claude Code
14 10 (0.47%) JUnit
15 8 (0.38%) Oracle Forms
15 8 (0.38%) Vite
General
1 540 (25.54%) Social Skills
2 453 (21.43%) Finance
3 234 (11.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 216 (10.22%) Public Sector
5 193 (9.13%) Banking
6 170 (8.04%) Law
7 134 (6.34%) Retail
8 124 (5.87%) Analytical Skills
9 58 (2.74%) French Language
10 52 (2.46%) Front Office
11 51 (2.41%) Financial Institution
11 51 (2.41%) Influencing Skills
12 50 (2.37%) Legal
13 48 (2.27%) Back Office
14 46 (2.18%) Telecoms
15 33 (1.56%) Games
16 31 (1.47%) Tech for Good
17 30 (1.42%) Health Technology
18 29 (1.37%) Marketing
19 28 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 491 (23.23%) Senior
2 406 (19.21%) Developer
3 351 (16.60%) Software Engineer
4 288 (13.62%) Lead
5 223 (10.55%) Architect
6 144 (6.81%) AWS Engineer
7 123 (5.82%) Full-Stack Developer
8 119 (5.63%) Analyst
9 115 (5.44%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 101 (4.78%) DevOps Engineer
10 101 (4.78%) Senior Software Engineer
11 94 (4.45%) Data Engineer
12 91 (4.30%) Lead Developer
13 88 (4.16%) Java Engineer
14 84 (3.97%) Cloud Engineer
14 84 (3.97%) Lead Software Engineer
15 81 (3.83%) Software Developer
16 79 (3.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 77 (3.64%) Solutions Architect
18 74 (3.50%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 363 (17.17%) React
2 268 (12.68%) Node.js
3 144 (6.81%) .NET
4 143 (6.76%) Kafka
5 120 (5.68%) REST
6 108 (5.11%) RESTful
7 105 (4.97%) Spring
8 100 (4.73%) CSS
9 92 (4.35%) Spring Boot
10 72 (3.41%) HTML
11 68 (3.22%) Vue
12 66 (3.12%) AngularJS
13 65 (3.07%) gRPC
14 52 (2.46%) Redux
15 45 (2.13%) Django
16 43 (2.03%) GraphQL
17 42 (1.99%) .NET Core
17 42 (1.99%) Elastic Stack
18 40 (1.89%) Jest
19 36 (1.70%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 319 (15.09%) Cloud Native
2 157 (7.43%) Product Ownership
3 147 (6.95%) Distributed Systems
4 91 (4.30%) Public Cloud
5 66 (3.12%) Greenfield Project
5 66 (3.12%) Onboarding
6 63 (2.98%) Data Centre
7 61 (2.89%) Video\Live Streaming
8 59 (2.79%) Enterprise Software
9 55 (2.60%) Management Information System
10 53 (2.51%) Blog
11 51 (2.41%) Security Posture
12 46 (2.18%) Fixed Income
12 46 (2.18%) Over-the-Top Content
13 41 (1.94%) Mobile App
13 41 (1.94%) Self-Motivation
14 39 (1.84%) Hybrid Cloud
15 36 (1.70%) PKI
16 32 (1.51%) Data Structures
16 32 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 184 (8.70%) Linux
2 101 (4.78%) Windows
3 58 (2.74%) Unix
4 46 (2.18%) Apple iOS
5 43 (2.03%) Android
6 42 (1.99%) Windows Server
7 21 (0.99%) Windows 10
8 16 (0.76%) Windows Server 2016
9 14 (0.66%) Mac OS
9 14 (0.66%) Windows Server 2012
10 13 (0.61%) Windows Server 2019
11 10 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 9 (0.43%) Ubuntu
13 5 (0.24%) CentOS
14 1 (0.047%) Debian
14 1 (0.047%) FreeBSD
14 1 (0.047%) Mac OS X
14 1 (0.047%) VMS
14 1 (0.047%) Windows 7
14 1 (0.047%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 706 (33.40%) CI/CD
2 625 (29.56%) Agile
3 598 (28.29%) Software Engineering
4 527 (24.93%) DevOps
5 485 (22.94%) Mentoring
6 391 (18.50%) Microservices
7 389 (18.40%) Full-Stack Development
8 364 (17.22%) Infrastructure as Code
9 356 (16.84%) AI
10 341 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
11 326 (15.42%) Continuous Improvement
12 310 (14.66%) Containerisation
13 280 (13.25%) Roadmaps
13 280 (13.25%) Test Automation
14 249 (11.78%) Coaching
15 243 (11.49%) Technical Leadership
16 206 (9.74%) Clean Code
17 195 (9.22%) Machine Learning
18 183 (8.66%) Observability
19 173 (8.18%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 635 (30.04%) Python
2 528 (24.98%) Java
3 326 (15.42%) TypeScript
4 314 (14.85%) JavaScript
5 288 (13.62%) SQL
6 212 (10.03%) Go
7 196 (9.27%) C#
8 123 (5.82%) Bash
9 77 (3.64%) Scala
10 71 (3.36%) PHP
11 67 (3.17%) C++
12 41 (1.94%) Ruby
13 37 (1.75%) PowerShell
14 28 (1.32%) Kotlin
14 28 (1.32%) Rust
15 14 (0.66%) Bicep
16 12 (0.57%) Swift
17 10 (0.47%) C
17 10 (0.47%) PL/SQL
17 10 (0.47%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 299 (14.14%) Degree
2 259 (12.25%) Security Cleared
3 215 (10.17%) SC Cleared
4 198 (9.37%) AWS Certification
5 106 (5.01%) Microsoft Certification
6 101 (4.78%) Computer Science Degree
7 77 (3.64%) MCSE
8 52 (2.46%) CISSP
9 51 (2.41%) Azure Certification
10 47 (2.22%) DV Cleared
11 41 (1.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 31 (1.47%) Cisco Certification
12 31 (1.47%) CISM
13 30 (1.42%) DBS Check
13 30 (1.42%) TOGAF Certification
14 27 (1.28%) CREST Certified
15 20 (0.95%) OSCP
16 19 (0.90%) CCNP
17 18 (0.85%) Master's Degree
18 14 (0.66%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 173 (8.18%) QA
2 79 (3.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 53 (2.51%) NIST
4 52 (2.46%) Data Quality
5 50 (2.37%) Accessibility
6 44 (2.08%) GDPR
7 43 (2.03%) PCI DSS
8 31 (1.47%) GRC
9 26 (1.23%) SOC 2
10 20 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials
10 20 (0.95%) NCSC
11 13 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 13 (0.61%) JSP 440
12 12 (0.57%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 12 (0.57%) SLA
13 9 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
14 8 (0.38%) ISO 9001
14 8 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 42001
15 7 (0.33%) Government Security Classifications
16 6 (0.28%) WCAG
System Software
1 397 (18.78%) Docker
2 69 (3.26%) Active Directory
3 34 (1.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 30 (1.42%) Hyper-V
5 16 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
6 15 (0.71%) vSphere
7 6 (0.28%) 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 (0.095%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 2 (0.095%) KVM
11 2 (0.095%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.047%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 395 (18.68%) Terraform
2 347 (16.41%) Kubernetes
3 150 (7.10%) Ansible
4 128 (6.05%) Grafana
5 72 (3.41%) Prometheus
6 55 (2.60%) Argo
7 28 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
8 21 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
9 19 (0.90%) Kustomize
10 16 (0.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 12 (0.57%) Podman
12 9 (0.43%) Progress Chef
12 9 (0.43%) Proxmox
13 8 (0.38%) Cisco CUCM
13 8 (0.38%) Istio
13 8 (0.38%) Packer
13 8 (0.38%) Puppet
14 5 (0.24%) AWS Copilot
14 5 (0.24%) HP Fortify
14 5 (0.24%) Nmap
Vendors
1 302 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 129 (6.10%) Google
3 99 (4.68%) ServiceNow
4 70 (3.31%) Cisco
5 55 (2.60%) VMware
6 48 (2.27%) Oracle
7 47 (2.22%) Apple
8 45 (2.13%) Typelevel
9 42 (1.99%) Adobe
10 34 (1.61%) Palo Alto
10 34 (1.61%) SolarWinds
11 32 (1.51%) Databricks
12 31 (1.47%) Fortinet
12 31 (1.47%) Splunk
13 27 (1.28%) Red Hat
14 23 (1.09%) Salesforce
15 20 (0.95%) SAP
16 18 (0.85%) CheckPoint
16 18 (0.85%) Okta
17 17 (0.80%) Arista
1,087 hybrid/remote AWS jobs