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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 12 9
Rank change year-on-year +5 -3 -3
Permanent jobs citing AWS 2,230 2,161 4,666
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 11.70% 14.89% 14.19%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.62% 37.74% 33.14%
Number of salaries quoted 1,407 1,348 3,988
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% -6.67%
75th Percentile £90,000 £102,500 £93,750
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 7,282 5,726 14,080
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.21% 39.45% 42.82%
Number of salaries quoted 5,004 4,116 11,977
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,750 £35,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,272 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,085 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.54% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,000 £79,600
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £98,750
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 27 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 (2.96%) Apache Airflow
2 40 (1.79%) Apache Spark
3 26 (1.17%) Apache
4 23 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
5 15 (0.67%) SharePoint
6 14 (0.63%) CMS
7 13 (0.58%) Confluence
8 8 (0.36%) nginx
9 7 (0.31%) Apache Solr
10 5 (0.22%) Jupyter
11 4 (0.18%) ArcGIS
11 4 (0.18%) Ethereum
11 4 (0.18%) GeoServer
11 4 (0.18%) Oracle Spatial
12 3 (0.13%) Camunda
12 3 (0.13%) OpenStack
12 3 (0.13%) WordPress
13 2 (0.090%) Anypoint
13 2 (0.090%) Headless CMS
13 2 (0.090%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 82 (3.68%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (0.36%) MS Visio
4 6 (0.27%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
5 5 (0.22%) AutoCAD
5 5 (0.22%) DaVinci Resolve
6 3 (0.13%) Adobe Illustrator
6 3 (0.13%) Photoshop
7 2 (0.090%) PlantUML
8 1 (0.045%) EngageOne
8 1 (0.045%) Trello
Business Applications
1 24 (1.08%) Cloudability
2 6 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
3 5 (0.22%) Shopify
4 3 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.090%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.090%) SAP HR
6 1 (0.045%) Magento
6 1 (0.045%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.045%) Sprinklr
6 1 (0.045%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 923 (41.39%) Azure
2 577 (25.87%) GCP
3 270 (12.11%) Serverless
4 233 (10.45%) SaaS
5 181 (8.12%) GitHub
6 175 (7.85%) Amazon S3
7 174 (7.80%) AWS Lambda
8 137 (6.14%) Microsoft 365
9 127 (5.70%) Amazon EKS
10 100 (4.48%) Amazon EC2
11 94 (4.22%) AWS CloudFormation
12 87 (3.90%) Amazon ECS
13 85 (3.81%) GitHub Actions
14 77 (3.45%) Amazon SQS
15 57 (2.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 57 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
16 51 (2.29%) Entra ID
16 51 (2.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 42 (1.88%) Snowflake
18 34 (1.52%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 129 (5.78%) Firewall
2 127 (5.70%) Broadband
3 72 (3.23%) WAN
4 65 (2.91%) VPN
5 64 (2.87%) LAN
6 58 (2.60%) DNS
7 49 (2.20%) Wi-Fi
8 44 (1.97%) Network Security
9 39 (1.75%) HTTP
9 39 (1.75%) TCP/IP
10 35 (1.57%) SD-WAN
11 33 (1.48%) Cisco ASA
12 32 (1.43%) VXLAN
13 30 (1.35%) Cisco Firepower
13 30 (1.35%) DHCP
14 21 (0.94%) BGP
14 21 (0.94%) VLAN
15 18 (0.81%) MPLS
15 18 (0.81%) OSPF
15 18 (0.81%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 230 (10.31%) PostgreSQL
2 171 (7.67%) MongoDB
3 130 (5.83%) NoSQL
4 87 (3.90%) SQL Server
5 80 (3.59%) MySQL
6 67 (3.00%) Amazon RDS
7 62 (2.78%) DynamoDB
8 59 (2.65%) Elasticsearch
8 59 (2.65%) Relational Database
9 54 (2.42%) Metadata
10 47 (2.11%) Data Warehouse
11 39 (1.75%) Amazon Redshift
12 37 (1.66%) Amazon Athena
13 36 (1.61%) BigQuery
14 27 (1.21%) Redis
14 27 (1.21%) Tableau
15 26 (1.17%) Data Lake
16 23 (1.03%) Azure SQL Database
17 21 (0.94%) RDBMS
18 19 (0.85%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 124 (5.56%) Git
2 81 (3.63%) GitLab
3 80 (3.59%) Jenkins
4 59 (2.65%) TeamCity
5 51 (2.29%) Cypress.io
6 43 (1.93%) JIRA
7 18 (0.81%) Jaeger
8 17 (0.76%) CircleCI
8 17 (0.76%) Claude Code
9 15 (0.67%) Maven
10 14 (0.63%) JMeter
11 13 (0.58%) Crashlytics
11 13 (0.58%) MLflow
11 13 (0.58%) Selenium
11 13 (0.58%) XCTest
12 12 (0.54%) JUnit
13 10 (0.45%) Bitbucket
14 9 (0.40%) Mockito
15 8 (0.36%) SonarQube
16 7 (0.31%) Vite
General
1 526 (23.59%) Social Skills
2 478 (21.43%) Finance
3 260 (11.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 239 (10.72%) Public Sector
5 208 (9.33%) Banking
6 177 (7.94%) Law
7 136 (6.10%) Retail
8 131 (5.87%) Analytical Skills
9 55 (2.47%) Legal
10 53 (2.38%) Back Office
10 53 (2.38%) Financial Institution
11 49 (2.20%) French Language
11 49 (2.20%) Front Office
11 49 (2.20%) Influencing Skills
12 41 (1.84%) Games
13 29 (1.30%) Telecoms
14 28 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
15 26 (1.17%) Health Technology
15 26 (1.17%) Marketing
15 26 (1.17%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 516 (23.14%) Senior
2 452 (20.27%) Developer
3 392 (17.58%) Software Engineer
4 311 (13.95%) Lead
5 249 (11.17%) Architect
6 154 (6.91%) AWS Engineer
7 130 (5.83%) Full-Stack Developer
8 122 (5.47%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 121 (5.43%) Analyst
10 108 (4.84%) Senior Software Engineer
11 100 (4.48%) DevOps Engineer
11 100 (4.48%) Lead Software Engineer
12 96 (4.30%) Lead Developer
13 90 (4.04%) Cloud Engineer
14 89 (3.99%) Data Engineer
15 88 (3.95%) Java Engineer
15 88 (3.95%) Software Developer
15 88 (3.95%) Solutions Architect
16 86 (3.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 82 (3.68%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 387 (17.35%) React
2 300 (13.45%) Node.js
3 161 (7.22%) .NET
4 142 (6.37%) REST
5 130 (5.83%) Kafka
6 122 (5.47%) RESTful
6 122 (5.47%) Spring
7 106 (4.75%) CSS
8 91 (4.08%) Spring Boot
9 79 (3.54%) Vue
10 74 (3.32%) HTML
11 72 (3.23%) AngularJS
12 55 (2.47%) gRPC
13 53 (2.38%) .NET Core
14 52 (2.33%) Redux
15 42 (1.88%) GraphQL
15 42 (1.88%) Ruby on Rails
16 40 (1.79%) ASP.NET
16 40 (1.79%) Jest
17 38 (1.70%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 352 (15.78%) Cloud Native
2 177 (7.94%) Product Ownership
3 156 (7.00%) Distributed Systems
4 97 (4.35%) Public Cloud
5 71 (3.18%) Onboarding
6 70 (3.14%) Video\Live Streaming
7 69 (3.09%) Greenfield Project
8 64 (2.87%) Data Centre
9 55 (2.47%) Blog
10 54 (2.42%) Management Information System
11 52 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
12 50 (2.24%) Security Posture
13 46 (2.06%) Over-the-Top Content
14 44 (1.97%) Fixed Income
15 42 (1.88%) Self-Motivation
16 40 (1.79%) Mobile App
16 40 (1.79%) PKI
17 39 (1.75%) Hybrid Cloud
18 32 (1.43%) Data Structures
19 28 (1.26%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 186 (8.34%) Linux
2 104 (4.66%) Windows
3 52 (2.33%) Unix
4 45 (2.02%) Apple iOS
4 45 (2.02%) Windows Server
5 36 (1.61%) Android
6 19 (0.85%) Windows 10
7 15 (0.67%) Windows Server 2016
8 13 (0.58%) Windows Server 2012
9 12 (0.54%) Mac OS
9 12 (0.54%) Windows Server 2019
10 7 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 7 (0.31%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.13%) CentOS
12 1 (0.045%) Debian
12 1 (0.045%) FreeBSD
12 1 (0.045%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.045%) VMS
12 1 (0.045%) Windows 7
12 1 (0.045%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 758 (33.99%) CI/CD
2 663 (29.73%) Agile
3 657 (29.46%) Software Engineering
4 522 (23.41%) DevOps
5 502 (22.51%) Mentoring
6 427 (19.15%) Full-Stack Development
7 422 (18.92%) Microservices
8 403 (18.07%) AI
9 393 (17.62%) Infrastructure as Code
10 366 (16.41%) Continuous Improvement
11 354 (15.87%) Problem-Solving
12 327 (14.66%) Containerisation
13 311 (13.95%) Test Automation
14 289 (12.96%) Roadmaps
15 286 (12.83%) Technical Leadership
16 260 (11.66%) Coaching
17 231 (10.36%) Clean Code
18 212 (9.51%) Machine Learning
19 202 (9.06%) Observability
20 179 (8.03%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 630 (28.25%) Python
2 547 (24.53%) Java
3 348 (15.61%) TypeScript
4 344 (15.43%) JavaScript
5 309 (13.86%) SQL
6 206 (9.24%) C#
6 206 (9.24%) Go
7 123 (5.52%) Bash
8 76 (3.41%) Scala
9 69 (3.09%) C++
10 63 (2.83%) PHP
11 50 (2.24%) Ruby
12 43 (1.93%) PowerShell
13 31 (1.39%) Kotlin
14 28 (1.26%) Rust
15 17 (0.76%) PL/SQL
16 13 (0.58%) Swift
17 12 (0.54%) Bicep
18 8 (0.36%) Groovy
19 7 (0.31%) C
Qualifications
1 289 (12.96%) Security Cleared
2 283 (12.69%) Degree
3 243 (10.90%) SC Cleared
4 201 (9.01%) AWS Certification
5 96 (4.30%) Microsoft Certification
6 77 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
7 75 (3.36%) MCSE
8 57 (2.56%) Azure Certification
9 55 (2.47%) CISSP
10 48 (2.15%) DV Cleared
11 38 (1.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 32 (1.43%) CISM
13 27 (1.21%) Cisco Certification
13 27 (1.21%) CREST Certified
13 27 (1.21%) DBS Check
14 24 (1.08%) TOGAF Certification
15 21 (0.94%) OSCP
16 17 (0.76%) CCNP
17 16 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
17 16 (0.72%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 174 (7.80%) QA
2 81 (3.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 57 (2.56%) NIST
4 55 (2.47%) Data Quality
5 49 (2.20%) Accessibility
6 39 (1.75%) PCI DSS
7 36 (1.61%) GDPR
8 25 (1.12%) GRC
9 23 (1.03%) NCSC
10 22 (0.99%) SOC 2
11 14 (0.63%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 13 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
12 13 (0.58%) JSP 440
13 12 (0.54%) ISO 9001
14 11 (0.49%) SLA
15 9 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
16 7 (0.31%) Government Security Classifications
16 7 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 42001
17 6 (0.27%) PMO
17 6 (0.27%) WCAG
System Software
1 408 (18.30%) Docker
2 67 (3.00%) Active Directory
3 37 (1.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 35 (1.57%) Hyper-V
5 20 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
6 18 (0.81%) vSphere
7 6 (0.27%) Firmware
7 6 (0.27%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 6 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
8 5 (0.22%) KVM
9 3 (0.13%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.090%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 2 (0.090%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 2 (0.090%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.045%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.045%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 406 (18.21%) Terraform
2 367 (16.46%) Kubernetes
3 140 (6.28%) Ansible
4 126 (5.65%) Grafana
5 69 (3.09%) Prometheus
6 50 (2.24%) Argo
7 22 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
8 21 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
9 18 (0.81%) Kustomize
10 15 (0.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 12 (0.54%) Podman
11 12 (0.54%) Proxmox
12 11 (0.49%) Istio
12 11 (0.49%) Progress Chef
13 9 (0.40%) Cisco CUCM
14 8 (0.36%) Packer
14 8 (0.36%) Puppet
15 6 (0.27%) Avamar
15 6 (0.27%) EMC VPLEX
15 6 (0.27%) VxRail
Vendors
1 327 (14.66%) Microsoft
2 117 (5.25%) Google
3 105 (4.71%) ServiceNow
4 68 (3.05%) Cisco
5 61 (2.74%) VMware
6 50 (2.24%) Apple
7 49 (2.20%) Oracle
8 47 (2.11%) Adobe
9 45 (2.02%) Typelevel
10 35 (1.57%) SolarWinds
11 33 (1.48%) Databricks
12 31 (1.39%) Fortinet
12 31 (1.39%) Palo Alto
12 31 (1.39%) Splunk
13 24 (1.08%) Salesforce
14 23 (1.03%) SAP
15 19 (0.85%) CheckPoint
15 19 (0.85%) Dynatrace
15 19 (0.85%) Red Hat
16 18 (0.81%) Aruba