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

 6 months to
3 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 11 9
Rank change year-on-year +3 -2 -3
Permanent jobs citing AWS 2,094 2,059 4,539
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 11.50% 15.14% 13.96%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.57% 34.67% 32.44%
Number of salaries quoted 1,328 1,565 3,930
10th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,901 £72,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.64% +2.86% -3.45%
75th Percentile £90,000 £102,410 £90,000
90th Percentile £105,375 £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 6,849 5,938 13,992
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.63% 43.65% 43.03%
Number of salaries quoted 4,638 4,630 12,001
10th Percentile £33,750 £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 £108,875 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £61,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +2.46% +6.09% -11.54%

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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 3 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 74 (3.53%) Apache Airflow
2 41 (1.96%) Apache Spark
3 26 (1.24%) Apache
4 21 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
5 17 (0.81%) CMS
6 14 (0.67%) Confluence
7 13 (0.62%) 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 (0.096%) JBoss
13 2 (0.096%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 83 (3.96%) 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 17 (0.81%) Cloudability
2 8 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
3 7 (0.33%) Shopify
4 4 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
5 3 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.096%) SAP HR
7 1 (0.048%) Magento
7 1 (0.048%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (0.048%) Sprinklr
7 1 (0.048%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 872 (41.64%) Azure
2 569 (27.17%) GCP
3 274 (13.09%) Serverless
4 225 (10.74%) SaaS
5 184 (8.79%) GitHub
6 180 (8.60%) AWS Lambda
7 175 (8.36%) Amazon S3
8 133 (6.35%) Microsoft 365
9 121 (5.78%) Amazon EKS
10 92 (4.39%) AWS CloudFormation
11 90 (4.30%) Amazon EC2
12 87 (4.15%) GitHub Actions
13 79 (3.77%) Amazon ECS
14 78 (3.72%) Amazon SQS
15 60 (2.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 58 (2.77%) Entra ID
17 57 (2.72%) Azure DevOps
18 43 (2.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 40 (1.91%) Snowflake
20 39 (1.86%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 130 (6.21%) Firewall
2 120 (5.73%) Broadband
3 70 (3.34%) WAN
4 61 (2.91%) LAN
4 61 (2.91%) VPN
5 55 (2.63%) DNS
6 48 (2.29%) Wi-Fi
7 44 (2.10%) Network Security
8 42 (2.01%) TCP/IP
9 38 (1.81%) HTTP
10 36 (1.72%) SD-WAN
11 32 (1.53%) Cisco ASA
12 31 (1.48%) VXLAN
13 28 (1.34%) Cisco Firepower
13 28 (1.34%) DHCP
14 24 (1.15%) BGP
15 22 (1.05%) VLAN
16 20 (0.96%) MPLS
16 20 (0.96%) OSPF
17 18 (0.86%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 199 (9.50%) PostgreSQL
2 129 (6.16%) MongoDB
3 123 (5.87%) NoSQL
4 111 (5.30%) SQL Server
5 74 (3.53%) MySQL
6 68 (3.25%) Amazon RDS
7 61 (2.91%) DynamoDB
8 55 (2.63%) Relational Database
9 53 (2.53%) Metadata
10 49 (2.34%) Data Warehouse
11 42 (2.01%) Amazon Redshift
11 42 (2.01%) Elasticsearch
12 41 (1.96%) BigQuery
13 35 (1.67%) Amazon Athena
14 28 (1.34%) Tableau
15 26 (1.24%) Data Lake
16 25 (1.19%) Redis
17 22 (1.05%) RDBMS
18 20 (0.96%) Apache Iceberg
19 18 (0.86%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 125 (5.97%) Git
2 92 (4.39%) Jenkins
3 91 (4.35%) GitLab
4 54 (2.58%) Cypress.io
5 52 (2.48%) TeamCity
6 41 (1.96%) JIRA
7 22 (1.05%) Selenium
8 20 (0.96%) CircleCI
9 19 (0.91%) Jaeger
10 15 (0.72%) Bitbucket
10 15 (0.72%) JMeter
11 14 (0.67%) Cucumber
12 13 (0.62%) MLflow
12 13 (0.62%) SonarQube
13 12 (0.57%) Crashlytics
13 12 (0.57%) XCTest
14 10 (0.48%) JUnit
15 9 (0.43%) Claude Code
16 8 (0.38%) Oracle Forms
16 8 (0.38%) Vite
General
1 540 (25.79%) Social Skills
2 453 (21.63%) Finance
3 230 (10.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 214 (10.22%) Public Sector
5 191 (9.12%) Banking
6 169 (8.07%) Law
7 134 (6.40%) Retail
8 123 (5.87%) Analytical Skills
9 58 (2.77%) French Language
10 52 (2.48%) Financial Institution
10 52 (2.48%) Front Office
10 52 (2.48%) Influencing Skills
11 51 (2.44%) Legal
12 48 (2.29%) Back Office
13 46 (2.20%) Telecoms
14 35 (1.67%) Games
15 32 (1.53%) Tech for Good
16 31 (1.48%) Health Technology
16 31 (1.48%) Marketing
17 28 (1.34%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 484 (23.11%) Senior
2 402 (19.20%) Developer
3 349 (16.67%) Software Engineer
4 289 (13.80%) Lead
5 215 (10.27%) Architect
6 140 (6.69%) AWS Engineer
7 119 (5.68%) Full-Stack Developer
8 117 (5.59%) Analyst
9 116 (5.54%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 102 (4.87%) DevOps Engineer
11 101 (4.82%) Senior Software Engineer
12 94 (4.49%) Data Engineer
13 93 (4.44%) Lead Developer
14 89 (4.25%) Java Engineer
15 84 (4.01%) Software Developer
16 83 (3.96%) Cloud Engineer
16 83 (3.96%) Lead Software Engineer
17 77 (3.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 74 (3.53%) Solutions Architect
19 72 (3.44%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 362 (17.29%) React
2 263 (12.56%) Node.js
3 143 (6.83%) Kafka
4 142 (6.78%) .NET
5 117 (5.59%) REST
6 108 (5.16%) RESTful
7 104 (4.97%) Spring
8 102 (4.87%) CSS
9 92 (4.39%) Spring Boot
10 71 (3.39%) HTML
11 67 (3.20%) AngularJS
11 67 (3.20%) Vue
12 65 (3.10%) gRPC
13 51 (2.44%) Redux
14 44 (2.10%) Django
15 42 (2.01%) .NET Core
15 42 (2.01%) Elastic Stack
16 41 (1.96%) GraphQL
17 38 (1.81%) Jest
18 37 (1.77%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 318 (15.19%) Cloud Native
2 153 (7.31%) Product Ownership
3 145 (6.92%) Distributed Systems
4 89 (4.25%) Public Cloud
5 67 (3.20%) Onboarding
6 66 (3.15%) Greenfield Project
7 61 (2.91%) Data Centre
7 61 (2.91%) Video\Live Streaming
8 60 (2.87%) Enterprise Software
9 55 (2.63%) Management Information System
10 53 (2.53%) Blog
11 51 (2.44%) Security Posture
12 46 (2.20%) Fixed Income
12 46 (2.20%) Over-the-Top Content
13 41 (1.96%) Mobile App
13 41 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
14 39 (1.86%) Hybrid Cloud
15 36 (1.72%) PKI
16 32 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
17 31 (1.48%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 184 (8.79%) Linux
2 102 (4.87%) Windows
3 59 (2.82%) Unix
4 47 (2.24%) Apple iOS
5 44 (2.10%) Android
6 43 (2.05%) Windows Server
7 21 (1.00%) Windows 10
8 16 (0.76%) Windows Server 2016
9 14 (0.67%) Mac OS
9 14 (0.67%) Windows Server 2012
10 13 (0.62%) Windows Server 2019
11 10 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 9 (0.43%) Ubuntu
13 5 (0.24%) CentOS
14 1 (0.048%) Debian
14 1 (0.048%) FreeBSD
14 1 (0.048%) Mac OS X
14 1 (0.048%) VMS
14 1 (0.048%) Windows 7
14 1 (0.048%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 702 (33.52%) CI/CD
2 624 (29.80%) Agile
3 594 (28.37%) Software Engineering
4 523 (24.98%) DevOps
5 478 (22.83%) Mentoring
6 385 (18.39%) Full-Stack Development
7 384 (18.34%) Microservices
8 359 (17.14%) Infrastructure as Code
9 351 (16.76%) AI
10 339 (16.19%) Problem-Solving
11 323 (15.43%) Continuous Improvement
12 306 (14.61%) Containerisation
13 279 (13.32%) Test Automation
14 276 (13.18%) Roadmaps
15 247 (11.80%) Coaching
16 239 (11.41%) Technical Leadership
17 203 (9.69%) Clean Code
18 195 (9.31%) Machine Learning
19 184 (8.79%) Observability
20 171 (8.17%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 627 (29.94%) Python
2 532 (25.41%) Java
3 323 (15.43%) TypeScript
4 311 (14.85%) JavaScript
5 293 (13.99%) SQL
6 212 (10.12%) Go
7 202 (9.65%) C#
8 122 (5.83%) Bash
9 76 (3.63%) PHP
9 76 (3.63%) Scala
10 70 (3.34%) C++
11 39 (1.86%) Ruby
12 37 (1.77%) PowerShell
13 29 (1.38%) Kotlin
14 28 (1.34%) 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
1 300 (14.33%) Degree
2 249 (11.89%) Security Cleared
3 206 (9.84%) SC Cleared
4 195 (9.31%) AWS Certification
5 107 (5.11%) Microsoft Certification
6 103 (4.92%) Computer Science Degree
7 78 (3.72%) MCSE
8 51 (2.44%) CISSP
9 50 (2.39%) Azure Certification
10 45 (2.15%) DV Cleared
11 39 (1.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 31 (1.48%) Cisco Certification
13 30 (1.43%) CISM
13 30 (1.43%) DBS Check
13 30 (1.43%) TOGAF Certification
14 27 (1.29%) CREST Certified
15 20 (0.96%) OSCP
16 19 (0.91%) CCNP
17 18 (0.86%) Master's Degree
18 14 (0.67%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 172 (8.21%) QA
2 78 (3.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 52 (2.48%) NIST
4 50 (2.39%) Data Quality
5 49 (2.34%) Accessibility
6 45 (2.15%) GDPR
7 43 (2.05%) PCI DSS
8 31 (1.48%) GRC
9 26 (1.24%) SOC 2
10 21 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials
11 19 (0.91%) NCSC
12 13 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 13 (0.62%) JSP 440
13 12 (0.57%) SLA
14 11 (0.53%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 9 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
16 8 (0.38%) ISO 9001
16 8 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 42001
17 7 (0.33%) Government Security Classifications
18 6 (0.29%) WCAG
System Software
1 394 (18.82%) Docker
2 69 (3.30%) Active Directory
3 34 (1.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 31 (1.48%) Hyper-V
5 16 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
6 15 (0.72%) vSphere
7 6 (0.29%) 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%) KVM
11 2 (0.096%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.048%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 392 (18.72%) Terraform
2 347 (16.57%) Kubernetes
3 147 (7.02%) Ansible
4 128 (6.11%) Grafana
5 72 (3.44%) Prometheus
6 55 (2.63%) Argo
7 28 (1.34%) Single Sign-On
8 22 (1.05%) Microsoft Intune
9 19 (0.91%) Kustomize
10 16 (0.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 12 (0.57%) Podman
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%) Progress Chef
13 8 (0.38%) Puppet
14 5 (0.24%) AWS Copilot
14 5 (0.24%) HP Fortify
14 5 (0.24%) Nmap
Vendors
1 298 (14.23%) Microsoft
2 128 (6.11%) Google
3 97 (4.63%) ServiceNow
4 68 (3.25%) Cisco
5 56 (2.67%) VMware
6 49 (2.34%) Oracle
7 45 (2.15%) Apple
7 45 (2.15%) Typelevel
8 40 (1.91%) Adobe
9 34 (1.62%) SolarWinds
10 32 (1.53%) Palo Alto
11 31 (1.48%) Databricks
11 31 (1.48%) Splunk
12 29 (1.38%) Fortinet
13 27 (1.29%) Red Hat
14 24 (1.15%) Salesforce
15 21 (1.00%) SAP
16 18 (0.86%) Okta
17 17 (0.81%) Arista
17 17 (0.81%) Dynatrace
1,118 hybrid/remote AWS jobs