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

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 12 9
Rank change year-on-year +4 -3 -2
Permanent jobs citing AWS 2,094 2,074 4,481
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 11.72% 15.54% 13.85%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.79% 34.66% 32.13%
Number of salaries quoted 1,327 1,602 3,900
10th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.07% +3.57% -3.45%
75th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £122,500 £112,500
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 6,801 5,984 13,945
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.07% 44.84% 43.10%
Number of salaries quoted 4,569 4,688 11,987
10th Percentile £33,750 £33,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £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 £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

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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 21 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 73 (3.49%) Apache Airflow
2 38 (1.81%) Apache Spark
3 23 (1.10%) Apache
4 21 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
5 16 (0.76%) CMS
6 15 (0.72%) Confluence
7 12 (0.57%) nginx
8 11 (0.53%) SharePoint
9 9 (0.43%) WordPress
10 6 (0.29%) Drupal
10 6 (0.29%) Ethereum
11 5 (0.24%) Apache Pulsar
11 5 (0.24%) Apache Solr
11 5 (0.24%) ArcGIS
11 5 (0.24%) GeoServer
11 5 (0.24%) Oracle Spatial
12 3 (0.14%) Anypoint
12 3 (0.14%) IIS
12 3 (0.14%) OpenStack
12 3 (0.14%) SAS
Applications
1 93 (4.44%) 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 12 (0.57%) Cloudability
2 10 (0.48%) 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
1 875 (41.79%) Azure
2 588 (28.08%) GCP
3 281 (13.42%) Serverless
4 235 (11.22%) SaaS
5 195 (9.31%) GitHub
6 188 (8.98%) AWS Lambda
7 183 (8.74%) Amazon S3
8 146 (6.97%) Microsoft 365
9 138 (6.59%) Amazon EKS
10 101 (4.82%) AWS CloudFormation
11 93 (4.44%) GitHub Actions
12 88 (4.20%) Amazon ECS
13 87 (4.15%) Amazon EC2
14 82 (3.92%) Amazon SQS
15 66 (3.15%) Entra ID
16 62 (2.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 50 (2.39%) Azure DevOps
18 47 (2.24%) dbt
19 39 (1.86%) Snowflake
19 39 (1.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 127 (6.06%) Firewall
2 112 (5.35%) Broadband
3 67 (3.20%) WAN
4 59 (2.82%) LAN
4 59 (2.82%) VPN
5 54 (2.58%) DNS
6 49 (2.34%) TCP/IP
7 48 (2.29%) Wi-Fi
8 42 (2.01%) Network Security
9 33 (1.58%) HTTP
9 33 (1.58%) SD-WAN
10 29 (1.38%) Cisco ASA
10 29 (1.38%) DHCP
11 27 (1.29%) VXLAN
12 25 (1.19%) Cisco Firepower
13 24 (1.15%) BGP
13 24 (1.15%) VLAN
14 19 (0.91%) OSPF
15 18 (0.86%) NGFW
16 17 (0.81%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 192 (9.17%) PostgreSQL
2 131 (6.26%) NoSQL
3 118 (5.64%) MongoDB
4 108 (5.16%) SQL Server
5 77 (3.68%) MySQL
6 75 (3.58%) Amazon RDS
7 59 (2.82%) DynamoDB
8 57 (2.72%) Relational Database
9 50 (2.39%) Data Warehouse
10 49 (2.34%) Metadata
11 43 (2.05%) Elasticsearch
12 42 (2.01%) BigQuery
13 41 (1.96%) Amazon Redshift
14 34 (1.62%) Amazon Athena
15 28 (1.34%) Redis
15 28 (1.34%) Tableau
16 27 (1.29%) Data Lake
17 22 (1.05%) RDBMS
18 19 (0.91%) Apache Iceberg
19 17 (0.81%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 133 (6.35%) Git
2 92 (4.39%) Jenkins
3 84 (4.01%) GitLab
4 61 (2.91%) TeamCity
5 56 (2.67%) Cypress.io
6 43 (2.05%) JIRA
7 22 (1.05%) Selenium
8 20 (0.96%) CircleCI
9 19 (0.91%) Jaeger
10 17 (0.81%) Bitbucket
11 16 (0.76%) JMeter
12 14 (0.67%) Cucumber
12 14 (0.67%) SonarQube
13 13 (0.62%) MLflow
14 10 (0.48%) Crashlytics
14 10 (0.48%) JUnit
14 10 (0.48%) Subversion
14 10 (0.48%) XCTest
15 8 (0.38%) Maven
15 8 (0.38%) Oracle Forms
General
1 584 (27.89%) Social Skills
2 459 (21.92%) Finance
3 236 (11.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 200 (9.55%) Banking
5 195 (9.31%) Public Sector
6 180 (8.60%) Law
7 155 (7.40%) Retail
8 126 (6.02%) Analytical Skills
9 68 (3.25%) Financial Institution
9 68 (3.25%) French Language
10 61 (2.91%) Back Office
11 55 (2.63%) Telecoms
12 53 (2.53%) Front Office
13 51 (2.44%) Legal
14 49 (2.34%) Influencing Skills
15 35 (1.67%) Games
16 33 (1.58%) Marketing
17 32 (1.53%) Tech for Good
18 31 (1.48%) Health Technology
19 27 (1.29%) Swedish Language
Job Titles
1 487 (23.26%) Senior
2 406 (19.39%) Developer
3 358 (17.10%) Software Engineer
4 289 (13.80%) Lead
5 198 (9.46%) Architect
6 137 (6.54%) AWS Engineer
7 124 (5.92%) Analyst
8 118 (5.64%) Full-Stack Developer
9 117 (5.59%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 105 (5.01%) Senior Software Engineer
11 102 (4.87%) Lead Developer
12 95 (4.54%) DevOps Engineer
13 92 (4.39%) Data Engineer
14 88 (4.20%) Java Engineer
15 84 (4.01%) Cloud Engineer
16 79 (3.77%) Software Developer
17 78 (3.72%) Lead Software Engineer
18 77 (3.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
19 76 (3.63%) Service Analyst
19 76 (3.63%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 375 (17.91%) React
2 254 (12.13%) Node.js
3 147 (7.02%) Kafka
4 146 (6.97%) .NET
5 119 (5.68%) REST
6 112 (5.35%) RESTful
7 109 (5.21%) Spring
8 108 (5.16%) CSS
9 94 (4.49%) Spring Boot
10 80 (3.82%) HTML
11 72 (3.44%) Vue
12 69 (3.30%) AngularJS
13 68 (3.25%) gRPC
14 55 (2.63%) Django
15 53 (2.53%) Redux
16 46 (2.20%) .NET Core
17 45 (2.15%) Elastic Stack
18 40 (1.91%) GraphQL
19 37 (1.77%) Jest
19 37 (1.77%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 317 (15.14%) Cloud Native
2 150 (7.16%) Distributed Systems
2 150 (7.16%) Product Ownership
3 86 (4.11%) Public Cloud
4 68 (3.25%) Onboarding
5 60 (2.87%) Greenfield Project
6 59 (2.82%) Data Centre
6 59 (2.82%) Enterprise Software
7 57 (2.72%) Management Information System
8 55 (2.63%) Blog
9 54 (2.58%) Security Posture
9 54 (2.58%) Video\Live Streaming
10 48 (2.29%) Fixed Income
11 46 (2.20%) Over-the-Top Content
12 43 (2.05%) Mobile App
12 43 (2.05%) Self-Motivation
13 40 (1.91%) Hybrid Cloud
14 37 (1.77%) Data Structures
15 35 (1.67%) PKI
16 32 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 192 (9.17%) Linux
2 101 (4.82%) Windows
3 63 (3.01%) Unix
4 51 (2.44%) Android
4 51 (2.44%) Apple iOS
5 49 (2.34%) Windows Server
6 24 (1.15%) Windows 10
7 19 (0.91%) Mac OS
8 18 (0.86%) Windows Server 2016
9 17 (0.81%) Windows Server 2012
10 15 (0.72%) Windows Server 2019
11 11 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 9 (0.43%) Ubuntu
13 5 (0.24%) CentOS
14 2 (0.096%) VMS
15 1 (0.048%) Debian
15 1 (0.048%) FreeBSD
15 1 (0.048%) Mac OS X
15 1 (0.048%) OpenBSD
15 1 (0.048%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 713 (34.05%) CI/CD
2 613 (29.27%) Agile
3 607 (28.99%) Software Engineering
4 535 (25.55%) DevOps
5 467 (22.30%) Mentoring
6 385 (18.39%) Microservices
7 382 (18.24%) Full-Stack Development
8 363 (17.34%) Infrastructure as Code
9 359 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
10 346 (16.52%) AI
11 330 (15.76%) Continuous Improvement
12 317 (15.14%) Containerisation
13 264 (12.61%) Test Automation
14 258 (12.32%) Roadmaps
15 243 (11.60%) Coaching
16 220 (10.51%) Technical Leadership
17 205 (9.79%) Clean Code
18 191 (9.12%) Machine Learning
19 179 (8.55%) Observability
20 169 (8.07%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 630 (30.09%) Python
2 528 (25.21%) Java
3 324 (15.47%) TypeScript
4 319 (15.23%) JavaScript
5 292 (13.94%) SQL
6 216 (10.32%) Go
7 205 (9.79%) C#
8 123 (5.87%) Bash
9 80 (3.82%) PHP
10 74 (3.53%) Scala
11 67 (3.20%) C++
12 42 (2.01%) PowerShell
13 36 (1.72%) Ruby
14 31 (1.48%) Kotlin
15 27 (1.29%) Rust
16 14 (0.67%) Bicep
17 12 (0.57%) Shell Script
18 10 (0.48%) Swift
19 9 (0.43%) C
19 9 (0.43%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 327 (15.62%) Degree
2 234 (11.17%) Security Cleared
3 210 (10.03%) AWS Certification
4 200 (9.55%) SC Cleared
5 123 (5.87%) Microsoft Certification
6 115 (5.49%) Computer Science Degree
7 93 (4.44%) MCSE
8 54 (2.58%) Azure Certification
9 53 (2.53%) CISSP
10 42 (2.01%) DV Cleared
11 37 (1.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 37 (1.77%) Cisco Certification
12 33 (1.58%) CREST Certified
13 32 (1.53%) TOGAF Certification
14 31 (1.48%) CISM
15 29 (1.38%) DBS Check
16 24 (1.15%) OSCP
17 22 (1.05%) CCNP
18 19 (0.91%) CCNA
18 19 (0.91%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 178 (8.50%) QA
2 89 (4.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 55 (2.63%) NIST
4 51 (2.44%) GDPR
5 48 (2.29%) Accessibility
6 47 (2.24%) PCI DSS
7 44 (2.10%) Data Quality
8 32 (1.53%) GRC
9 31 (1.48%) SOC 2
10 27 (1.29%) Cyber Essentials
11 17 (0.81%) NCSC
11 17 (0.81%) SLA
12 15 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 13 (0.62%) Actionable Recommendations
14 12 (0.57%) JSP 440
15 10 (0.48%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 10 (0.48%) ISO 9001
16 8 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 42001
17 7 (0.33%) Government Security Classifications
18 6 (0.29%) WCAG
System Software
1 419 (20.01%) Docker
2 73 (3.49%) Active Directory
3 33 (1.58%) Hyper-V
4 30 (1.43%) VMware Infrastructure
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
9 4 (0.19%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.096%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 2 (0.096%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.048%) KVM
11 1 (0.048%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.048%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 413 (19.72%) Terraform
2 379 (18.10%) Kubernetes
3 153 (7.31%) Ansible
4 141 (6.73%) Grafana
5 77 (3.68%) Prometheus
6 51 (2.44%) Argo
7 29 (1.38%) Single Sign-On
8 28 (1.34%) Microsoft Intune
9 19 (0.91%) Kustomize
10 18 (0.86%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 12 (0.57%) Podman
12 8 (0.38%) Cisco CUCM
12 8 (0.38%) Istio
12 8 (0.38%) Proxmox
12 8 (0.38%) Puppet
13 7 (0.33%) Nmap
13 7 (0.33%) Progress Chef
14 6 (0.29%) Packer
15 5 (0.24%) HP Fortify
15 5 (0.24%) Kibana
Vendors
1 303 (14.47%) Microsoft
2 136 (6.49%) Google
3 103 (4.92%) ServiceNow
4 67 (3.20%) Cisco
5 56 (2.67%) VMware
6 53 (2.53%) Oracle
7 45 (2.15%) Typelevel
8 42 (2.01%) Apple
9 36 (1.72%) Adobe
10 33 (1.58%) Splunk
11 31 (1.48%) Palo Alto
11 31 (1.48%) SolarWinds
12 29 (1.38%) Fortinet
13 28 (1.34%) Databricks
13 28 (1.34%) Red Hat
14 24 (1.15%) Salesforce
15 22 (1.05%) SAP
16 18 (0.86%) Okta
17 16 (0.76%) Arista
17 16 (0.76%) Dell