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

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 12 9
Rank change year-on-year +4 -3 -3
Permanent jobs citing AWS 2,092 1,987 4,517
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 11.54% 14.75% 13.92%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.74% 33.80% 32.33%
Number of salaries quoted 1,330 1,570 3,910
10th Percentile £46,426 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +3.57% -3.45%
75th Percentile £90,000 £101,250 £90,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £127,500 £115,000
UK median annual salary £71,500 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -1.38% +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 6,805 5,879 13,972
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.54% 43.65% 43.05%
Number of salaries quoted 4,614 4,629 11,984
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £35,631
25th Percentile £46,140 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,859 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.17% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £108,750 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,000 £61,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +0.81% +6.96% -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 29 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 (3.44%) Apache Airflow
2 42 (2.01%) Apache Spark
3 24 (1.15%) Apache
4 20 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
5 17 (0.81%) CMS
6 14 (0.67%) Confluence
7 13 (0.62%) nginx
8 11 (0.53%) SharePoint
9 8 (0.38%) WordPress
10 7 (0.33%) Apache Solr
11 6 (0.29%) Drupal
11 6 (0.29%) Ethereum
12 5 (0.24%) Apache Pulsar
12 5 (0.24%) ArcGIS
12 5 (0.24%) GeoServer
12 5 (0.24%) Oracle Spatial
13 3 (0.14%) OpenStack
13 3 (0.14%) SAS
14 2 (0.096%) JBoss
14 2 (0.096%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 88 (4.21%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (0.81%) 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 15 (0.72%) Cloudability
2 8 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
2 8 (0.38%) Shopify
3 4 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.096%) Magento
5 2 (0.096%) SAP HR
6 1 (0.048%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.048%) Sprinklr
6 1 (0.048%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 874 (41.78%) Azure
2 572 (27.34%) GCP
3 273 (13.05%) Serverless
4 219 (10.47%) SaaS
5 186 (8.89%) GitHub
6 181 (8.65%) AWS Lambda
7 176 (8.41%) Amazon S3
8 136 (6.50%) Microsoft 365
9 123 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
10 91 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
11 88 (4.21%) GitHub Actions
12 85 (4.06%) Amazon EC2
13 80 (3.82%) Amazon ECS
14 79 (3.78%) Amazon SQS
15 59 (2.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 59 (2.82%) Entra ID
16 57 (2.72%) Azure DevOps
17 42 (2.01%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 39 (1.86%) dbt
19 38 (1.82%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 129 (6.17%) Firewall
2 113 (5.40%) Broadband
3 69 (3.30%) WAN
4 60 (2.87%) LAN
5 58 (2.77%) VPN
6 55 (2.63%) DNS
7 48 (2.29%) Wi-Fi
8 44 (2.10%) Network Security
9 42 (2.01%) TCP/IP
10 38 (1.82%) HTTP
11 35 (1.67%) SD-WAN
12 31 (1.48%) Cisco ASA
13 30 (1.43%) VXLAN
14 28 (1.34%) DHCP
15 27 (1.29%) Cisco Firepower
16 24 (1.15%) BGP
17 22 (1.05%) VLAN
18 20 (0.96%) OSPF
19 19 (0.91%) MPLS
20 18 (0.86%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 194 (9.27%) PostgreSQL
2 124 (5.93%) NoSQL
3 123 (5.88%) MongoDB
4 106 (5.07%) SQL Server
5 73 (3.49%) MySQL
6 67 (3.20%) Amazon RDS
7 59 (2.82%) DynamoDB
8 55 (2.63%) Relational Database
9 49 (2.34%) Data Warehouse
9 49 (2.34%) Metadata
10 42 (2.01%) Amazon Redshift
10 42 (2.01%) BigQuery
11 40 (1.91%) Elasticsearch
12 33 (1.58%) Amazon Athena
13 28 (1.34%) Tableau
14 27 (1.29%) Data Lake
15 25 (1.20%) Redis
16 22 (1.05%) RDBMS
17 20 (0.96%) Apache Iceberg
18 18 (0.86%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 125 (5.98%) Git
2 91 (4.35%) Jenkins
3 90 (4.30%) GitLab
4 54 (2.58%) Cypress.io
5 52 (2.49%) TeamCity
6 41 (1.96%) JIRA
7 22 (1.05%) Selenium
8 20 (0.96%) CircleCI
9 19 (0.91%) Jaeger
10 16 (0.76%) Bitbucket
11 15 (0.72%) JMeter
12 14 (0.67%) Cucumber
13 13 (0.62%) MLflow
13 13 (0.62%) SonarQube
14 12 (0.57%) Crashlytics
14 12 (0.57%) XCTest
15 10 (0.48%) JUnit
16 9 (0.43%) Subversion
17 8 (0.38%) Maven
17 8 (0.38%) Oracle Forms
General
1 548 (26.20%) Social Skills
2 449 (21.46%) Finance
3 225 (10.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 214 (10.23%) Public Sector
5 192 (9.18%) Banking
6 166 (7.93%) Law
7 138 (6.60%) Retail
8 125 (5.98%) Analytical Skills
9 63 (3.01%) French Language
10 53 (2.53%) Front Office
10 53 (2.53%) Influencing Skills
11 52 (2.49%) Financial Institution
12 51 (2.44%) Telecoms
13 50 (2.39%) Legal
14 48 (2.29%) Back Office
15 32 (1.53%) Games
16 31 (1.48%) Marketing
16 31 (1.48%) Tech for Good
17 30 (1.43%) Health Technology
18 28 (1.34%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 484 (23.14%) Senior
2 405 (19.36%) Developer
3 352 (16.83%) Software Engineer
4 288 (13.77%) Lead
5 207 (9.89%) Architect
6 139 (6.64%) AWS Engineer
7 120 (5.74%) Analyst
8 118 (5.64%) Full-Stack Developer
9 116 (5.54%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 104 (4.97%) DevOps Engineer
11 103 (4.92%) Senior Software Engineer
12 96 (4.59%) Data Engineer
12 96 (4.59%) Lead Developer
13 88 (4.21%) Java Engineer
14 83 (3.97%) Cloud Engineer
15 82 (3.92%) Lead Software Engineer
16 79 (3.78%) Software Developer
17 75 (3.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 72 (3.44%) Consultant
19 71 (3.39%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 368 (17.59%) React
2 262 (12.52%) Node.js
3 148 (7.07%) Kafka
4 143 (6.84%) .NET
5 119 (5.69%) REST
6 106 (5.07%) Spring
7 102 (4.88%) RESTful
8 101 (4.83%) CSS
9 94 (4.49%) Spring Boot
10 73 (3.49%) HTML
11 68 (3.25%) AngularJS
11 68 (3.25%) Vue
12 67 (3.20%) gRPC
13 53 (2.53%) Redux
14 46 (2.20%) Django
15 44 (2.10%) .NET Core
16 43 (2.06%) Elastic Stack
17 42 (2.01%) GraphQL
18 37 (1.77%) Jest
19 36 (1.72%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 304 (14.53%) Cloud Native
2 153 (7.31%) Product Ownership
3 142 (6.79%) Distributed Systems
4 90 (4.30%) Public Cloud
5 67 (3.20%) Greenfield Project
5 67 (3.20%) Onboarding
6 59 (2.82%) Enterprise Software
7 58 (2.77%) Data Centre
8 55 (2.63%) Management Information System
9 54 (2.58%) Video\Live Streaming
10 53 (2.53%) Blog
11 52 (2.49%) Security Posture
12 47 (2.25%) Fixed Income
13 46 (2.20%) Over-the-Top Content
14 42 (2.01%) Mobile App
15 41 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
16 39 (1.86%) Hybrid Cloud
17 35 (1.67%) PKI
18 33 (1.58%) Legacy Systems
19 32 (1.53%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 184 (8.80%) Linux
2 101 (4.83%) Windows
3 61 (2.92%) Unix
4 47 (2.25%) Apple iOS
5 45 (2.15%) Android
5 45 (2.15%) Windows Server
6 22 (1.05%) Windows 10
7 17 (0.81%) Windows Server 2016
8 15 (0.72%) Mac OS
8 15 (0.72%) Windows Server 2012
9 14 (0.67%) Windows Server 2019
10 10 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 9 (0.43%) Ubuntu
12 5 (0.24%) CentOS
13 1 (0.048%) Debian
13 1 (0.048%) FreeBSD
13 1 (0.048%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.048%) VMS
13 1 (0.048%) Windows 7
13 1 (0.048%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 698 (33.37%) CI/CD
2 622 (29.73%) Agile
3 597 (28.54%) Software Engineering
4 530 (25.33%) DevOps
5 476 (22.75%) Mentoring
6 383 (18.31%) Microservices
7 379 (18.12%) Full-Stack Development
8 350 (16.73%) AI
9 347 (16.59%) Infrastructure as Code
10 346 (16.54%) Problem-Solving
11 319 (15.25%) Continuous Improvement
12 310 (14.82%) Containerisation
13 277 (13.24%) Roadmaps
14 266 (12.72%) Test Automation
15 248 (11.85%) Coaching
16 234 (11.19%) Technical Leadership
17 198 (9.46%) Clean Code
18 193 (9.23%) Machine Learning
19 177 (8.46%) Observability
20 173 (8.27%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 616 (29.45%) Python
2 527 (25.19%) Java
3 324 (15.49%) TypeScript
4 312 (14.91%) JavaScript
5 289 (13.81%) SQL
6 212 (10.13%) Go
7 198 (9.46%) C#
8 121 (5.78%) Bash
9 76 (3.63%) Scala
10 74 (3.54%) PHP
11 67 (3.20%) C++
12 39 (1.86%) Ruby
13 37 (1.77%) PowerShell
14 29 (1.39%) Kotlin
14 29 (1.39%) Rust
15 14 (0.67%) Bicep
16 12 (0.57%) Swift
17 11 (0.53%) Shell Script
18 10 (0.48%) C
18 10 (0.48%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 312 (14.91%) Degree
2 245 (11.71%) Security Cleared
3 205 (9.80%) SC Cleared
4 202 (9.66%) AWS Certification
5 114 (5.45%) Microsoft Certification
6 108 (5.16%) Computer Science Degree
7 85 (4.06%) MCSE
8 53 (2.53%) CISSP
9 49 (2.34%) Azure Certification
10 45 (2.15%) DV Cleared
11 37 (1.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 33 (1.58%) Cisco Certification
13 31 (1.48%) CISM
14 30 (1.43%) DBS Check
14 30 (1.43%) TOGAF Certification
15 29 (1.39%) CREST Certified
16 21 (1.00%) OSCP
17 20 (0.96%) CCNP
18 19 (0.91%) Master's Degree
19 16 (0.76%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 170 (8.13%) QA
2 80 (3.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 53 (2.53%) NIST
4 49 (2.34%) Accessibility
5 48 (2.29%) Data Quality
6 47 (2.25%) GDPR
7 43 (2.06%) PCI DSS
8 31 (1.48%) GRC
9 26 (1.24%) SOC 2
10 23 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials
11 19 (0.91%) NCSC
12 14 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 13 (0.62%) JSP 440
14 12 (0.57%) SLA
15 11 (0.53%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 10 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
17 9 (0.43%) ISO 9001
18 8 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 42001
19 7 (0.33%) Government Security Classifications
20 6 (0.29%) WCAG
System Software
1 400 (19.12%) Docker
2 71 (3.39%) Active Directory
3 32 (1.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 31 (1.48%) Hyper-V
5 15 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (0.67%) vSphere
7 7 (0.33%) 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
1 394 (18.83%) Terraform
2 353 (16.87%) Kubernetes
3 149 (7.12%) Ansible
4 130 (6.21%) Grafana
5 73 (3.49%) Prometheus
6 56 (2.68%) Argo
7 29 (1.39%) Single Sign-On
8 22 (1.05%) Microsoft Intune
9 19 (0.91%) Kustomize
10 17 (0.81%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 12 (0.57%) Podman
12 8 (0.38%) Cisco CUCM
12 8 (0.38%) Istio
12 8 (0.38%) Packer
12 8 (0.38%) Proxmox
12 8 (0.38%) Puppet
13 7 (0.33%) Progress Chef
14 6 (0.29%) Nmap
15 5 (0.24%) AWS Copilot
15 5 (0.24%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 295 (14.10%) Microsoft
2 130 (6.21%) Google
3 100 (4.78%) ServiceNow
4 68 (3.25%) Cisco
5 55 (2.63%) VMware
6 49 (2.34%) Oracle
7 45 (2.15%) Typelevel
8 43 (2.06%) Apple
9 39 (1.86%) Adobe
10 33 (1.58%) SolarWinds
11 32 (1.53%) Palo Alto
11 32 (1.53%) Splunk
12 30 (1.43%) Databricks
13 29 (1.39%) Fortinet
14 27 (1.29%) Red Hat
15 24 (1.15%) Salesforce
16 20 (0.96%) SAP
17 18 (0.86%) Okta
18 17 (0.81%) Arista
18 17 (0.81%) Aruba