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

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 10 9
Rank change year-on-year +3 -1 -3
Permanent jobs citing AWS 2,185 2,207 4,642
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 11.62% 15.10% 14.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.63% 38.10% 33.15%
Number of salaries quoted 1,374 1,383 3,970
10th Percentile £46,446 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.57% -6.35%
75th Percentile £90,000 £102,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £132,500 £118,750
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 7,134 5,792 14,004
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.95% 39.64% 43.03%
Number of salaries quoted 4,893 4,178 11,916
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,175 £35,750
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 £83,000 £79,600
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £97,987
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

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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 22 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 66 (3.02%) Apache Airflow
2 39 (1.78%) Apache Spark
3 25 (1.14%) Apache
4 23 (1.05%) Microsoft Exchange
5 16 (0.73%) CMS
6 15 (0.69%) SharePoint
7 13 (0.59%) Confluence
8 9 (0.41%) nginx
9 7 (0.32%) Apache Solr
10 4 (0.18%) ArcGIS
10 4 (0.18%) Ethereum
10 4 (0.18%) GeoServer
10 4 (0.18%) Oracle Spatial
10 4 (0.18%) WordPress
11 3 (0.14%) Drupal
11 3 (0.14%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.14%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.092%) IIS
12 2 (0.092%) Oracle Application Server
12 2 (0.092%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 78 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (0.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (0.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (0.37%) MS Visio
4 6 (0.27%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
5 5 (0.23%) AutoCAD
5 5 (0.23%) DaVinci Resolve
6 3 (0.14%) Adobe Illustrator
6 3 (0.14%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.046%) EngageOne
7 1 (0.046%) PlantUML
7 1 (0.046%) Trello
Business Applications
1 24 (1.10%) Cloudability
2 6 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
3 5 (0.23%) Shopify
4 3 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.092%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.092%) SAP HR
6 1 (0.046%) Magento
6 1 (0.046%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.046%) Sprinklr
6 1 (0.046%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 901 (41.24%) Azure
2 568 (26.00%) GCP
3 272 (12.45%) Serverless
4 228 (10.43%) SaaS
5 179 (8.19%) GitHub
6 174 (7.96%) AWS Lambda
7 172 (7.87%) Amazon S3
8 132 (6.04%) Microsoft 365
9 126 (5.77%) Amazon EKS
10 94 (4.30%) Amazon EC2
11 90 (4.12%) AWS CloudFormation
12 86 (3.94%) Amazon ECS
13 84 (3.84%) GitHub Actions
14 76 (3.48%) Amazon SQS
15 55 (2.52%) Azure DevOps
16 51 (2.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 50 (2.29%) Entra ID
18 48 (2.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 43 (1.97%) Snowflake
20 35 (1.60%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 127 (5.81%) Broadband
1 127 (5.81%) Firewall
2 71 (3.25%) WAN
3 63 (2.88%) LAN
3 63 (2.88%) VPN
4 56 (2.56%) DNS
5 48 (2.20%) Wi-Fi
6 43 (1.97%) Network Security
7 40 (1.83%) TCP/IP
8 39 (1.78%) HTTP
9 35 (1.60%) SD-WAN
10 33 (1.51%) Cisco ASA
11 32 (1.46%) VXLAN
12 30 (1.37%) Cisco Firepower
13 29 (1.33%) DHCP
14 21 (0.96%) BGP
15 20 (0.92%) VLAN
16 18 (0.82%) MPLS
16 18 (0.82%) OSPF
16 18 (0.82%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 226 (10.34%) PostgreSQL
2 166 (7.60%) MongoDB
3 126 (5.77%) NoSQL
4 87 (3.98%) SQL Server
5 79 (3.62%) MySQL
6 65 (2.97%) Amazon RDS
7 63 (2.88%) DynamoDB
8 60 (2.75%) Elasticsearch
9 56 (2.56%) Relational Database
10 54 (2.47%) Metadata
11 49 (2.24%) Data Warehouse
12 39 (1.78%) Amazon Redshift
13 38 (1.74%) BigQuery
14 35 (1.60%) Amazon Athena
15 29 (1.33%) Tableau
16 26 (1.19%) Redis
17 25 (1.14%) Data Lake
18 22 (1.01%) Azure SQL Database
19 21 (0.96%) RDBMS
20 20 (0.92%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 117 (5.35%) Git
2 77 (3.52%) GitLab
2 77 (3.52%) Jenkins
3 59 (2.70%) TeamCity
4 54 (2.47%) Cypress.io
5 41 (1.88%) JIRA
6 18 (0.82%) Jaeger
7 17 (0.78%) CircleCI
8 16 (0.73%) Claude Code
8 16 (0.73%) Maven
9 14 (0.64%) JMeter
10 13 (0.59%) Crashlytics
10 13 (0.59%) MLflow
10 13 (0.59%) Selenium
10 13 (0.59%) XCTest
11 11 (0.50%) Bitbucket
12 10 (0.46%) JUnit
12 10 (0.46%) SonarQube
13 8 (0.37%) Mockito
14 7 (0.32%) Vite
General
1 514 (23.52%) Social Skills
2 476 (21.78%) Finance
3 257 (11.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 236 (10.80%) Public Sector
5 206 (9.43%) Banking
6 176 (8.05%) Law
7 137 (6.27%) Retail
8 128 (5.86%) Analytical Skills
9 54 (2.47%) Legal
10 53 (2.43%) Back Office
10 53 (2.43%) Financial Institution
11 49 (2.24%) French Language
11 49 (2.24%) Front Office
12 45 (2.06%) Influencing Skills
13 40 (1.83%) Games
14 30 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
14 30 (1.37%) Telecoms
15 27 (1.24%) Tech for Good
16 26 (1.19%) Health Technology
17 23 (1.05%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 508 (23.25%) Senior
2 439 (20.09%) Developer
3 388 (17.76%) Software Engineer
4 308 (14.10%) Lead
5 237 (10.85%) Architect
6 147 (6.73%) AWS Engineer
7 128 (5.86%) Full-Stack Developer
8 121 (5.54%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 117 (5.35%) Analyst
10 109 (4.99%) Senior Software Engineer
11 98 (4.49%) Lead Software Engineer
12 96 (4.39%) DevOps Engineer
13 94 (4.30%) Lead Developer
14 88 (4.03%) Data Engineer
15 87 (3.98%) Java Engineer
16 86 (3.94%) Solutions Architect
17 84 (3.84%) Software Developer
18 83 (3.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
19 82 (3.75%) Cloud Engineer
20 79 (3.62%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 381 (17.44%) React
2 297 (13.59%) Node.js
3 156 (7.14%) .NET
4 138 (6.32%) REST
5 129 (5.90%) Kafka
6 119 (5.45%) RESTful
7 116 (5.31%) Spring
8 102 (4.67%) CSS
9 90 (4.12%) Spring Boot
10 78 (3.57%) Vue
11 71 (3.25%) AngularJS
11 71 (3.25%) HTML
12 56 (2.56%) gRPC
13 52 (2.38%) .NET Core
14 51 (2.33%) Redux
15 43 (1.97%) GraphQL
16 42 (1.92%) Jest
17 39 (1.78%) Ruby on Rails
18 38 (1.74%) ASP.NET
18 38 (1.74%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 337 (15.42%) Cloud Native
2 173 (7.92%) Product Ownership
3 149 (6.82%) Distributed Systems
4 93 (4.26%) Public Cloud
5 70 (3.20%) Video\Live Streaming
6 69 (3.16%) Onboarding
7 68 (3.11%) Greenfield Project
8 64 (2.93%) Data Centre
9 55 (2.52%) Blog
10 54 (2.47%) Management Information System
11 53 (2.43%) Enterprise Software
12 49 (2.24%) Security Posture
13 46 (2.11%) Over-the-Top Content
14 44 (2.01%) Fixed Income
15 43 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
16 41 (1.88%) Mobile App
17 39 (1.78%) PKI
18 37 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
19 32 (1.46%) Data Structures
20 28 (1.28%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 186 (8.51%) Linux
2 103 (4.71%) Windows
3 56 (2.56%) Unix
4 46 (2.11%) Apple iOS
5 45 (2.06%) Windows Server
6 38 (1.74%) Android
7 19 (0.87%) Windows 10
8 15 (0.69%) Windows Server 2016
9 13 (0.59%) Windows Server 2012
10 12 (0.55%) Mac OS
10 12 (0.55%) Windows Server 2019
11 9 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 6 (0.27%) 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
1 733 (33.55%) CI/CD
2 649 (29.70%) Agile
3 648 (29.66%) Software Engineering
4 512 (23.43%) DevOps
5 494 (22.61%) Mentoring
6 423 (19.36%) Full-Stack Development
7 415 (18.99%) Microservices
8 386 (17.67%) AI
9 376 (17.21%) Infrastructure as Code
10 350 (16.02%) Continuous Improvement
11 344 (15.74%) Problem-Solving
12 313 (14.32%) Containerisation
13 304 (13.91%) Test Automation
14 281 (12.86%) Roadmaps
15 269 (12.31%) Technical Leadership
16 256 (11.72%) Coaching
17 226 (10.34%) Clean Code
18 207 (9.47%) Machine Learning
19 192 (8.79%) Observability
20 174 (7.96%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 622 (28.47%) Python
2 544 (24.90%) Java
3 343 (15.70%) TypeScript
4 339 (15.51%) JavaScript
5 306 (14.00%) SQL
6 205 (9.38%) Go
7 204 (9.34%) C#
8 117 (5.35%) Bash
9 76 (3.48%) Scala
10 69 (3.16%) C++
11 62 (2.84%) PHP
12 47 (2.15%) Ruby
13 36 (1.65%) PowerShell
14 30 (1.37%) Kotlin
15 28 (1.28%) Rust
16 16 (0.73%) PL/SQL
17 13 (0.59%) Swift
18 10 (0.46%) Bicep
19 9 (0.41%) Groovy
20 7 (0.32%) C
Qualifications
1 282 (12.91%) Security Cleared
2 280 (12.81%) Degree
3 236 (10.80%) SC Cleared
4 198 (9.06%) AWS Certification
5 95 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
6 83 (3.80%) Computer Science Degree
7 71 (3.25%) MCSE
8 55 (2.52%) Azure Certification
8 55 (2.52%) CISSP
9 47 (2.15%) DV Cleared
10 41 (1.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 32 (1.46%) CISM
12 28 (1.28%) DBS Check
13 27 (1.24%) CREST Certified
14 26 (1.19%) Cisco Certification
14 26 (1.19%) TOGAF Certification
15 21 (0.96%) OSCP
16 16 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
16 16 (0.73%) CCNP
16 16 (0.73%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 168 (7.69%) QA
2 78 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 57 (2.61%) NIST
4 54 (2.47%) Data Quality
5 49 (2.24%) Accessibility
6 39 (1.78%) PCI DSS
7 37 (1.69%) GDPR
8 25 (1.14%) GRC
9 23 (1.05%) NCSC
10 22 (1.01%) SOC 2
11 14 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials
11 14 (0.64%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 13 (0.59%) JSP 440
12 13 (0.59%) SLA
13 9 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
14 8 (0.37%) ISO 9001
15 7 (0.32%) Government Security Classifications
15 7 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 42001
16 6 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 6 (0.27%) WCAG
System Software
1 394 (18.03%) Docker
2 65 (2.97%) Active Directory
3 36 (1.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 31 (1.42%) Hyper-V
5 18 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
6 16 (0.73%) vSphere
7 6 (0.27%) Firmware
7 6 (0.27%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 6 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
8 4 (0.18%) KVM
8 4 (0.18%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 3 (0.14%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.092%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 2 (0.092%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.046%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 391 (17.89%) Terraform
2 353 (16.16%) Kubernetes
3 143 (6.54%) Ansible
4 121 (5.54%) Grafana
5 64 (2.93%) Prometheus
6 46 (2.11%) Argo
7 22 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
8 21 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
9 18 (0.82%) Kustomize
10 15 (0.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 12 (0.55%) Podman
12 11 (0.50%) Proxmox
13 10 (0.46%) Progress Chef
14 9 (0.41%) Cisco CUCM
14 9 (0.41%) Istio
15 8 (0.37%) Packer
16 7 (0.32%) Puppet
17 5 (0.23%) AWS Copilot
17 5 (0.23%) HP Fortify
17 5 (0.23%) Nmap
Vendors
1 321 (14.69%) Microsoft
2 120 (5.49%) Google
3 100 (4.58%) ServiceNow
4 67 (3.07%) Cisco
5 58 (2.65%) VMware
6 51 (2.33%) Apple
7 47 (2.15%) Adobe
8 46 (2.11%) Oracle
9 45 (2.06%) Typelevel
10 35 (1.60%) SolarWinds
11 33 (1.51%) Databricks
12 30 (1.37%) Fortinet
12 30 (1.37%) Palo Alto
12 30 (1.37%) Splunk
13 23 (1.05%) Salesforce
14 22 (1.01%) Red Hat
14 22 (1.01%) SAP
15 19 (0.87%) CheckPoint
16 18 (0.82%) Dynatrace
17 17 (0.78%) Arista