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

 6 months to
5 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 11 9
Rank change year-on-year +3 -2 -3
Permanent jobs citing AWS 2,109 2,111 4,537
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 11.51% 15.18% 13.98%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.57% 35.17% 32.51%
Number of salaries quoted 1,337 1,567 3,918
10th Percentile £46,250 £46,150 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £71,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.22% +2.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £90,000 £102,410 £90,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £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 6,898 6,003 13,955
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.66% 43.17% 42.98%
Number of salaries quoted 4,674 4,633 11,960
10th Percentile £34,000 £32,500 £35,639
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 £108,750 £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 5 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 73 (3.46%) Apache Airflow
2 41 (1.94%) Apache Spark
3 26 (1.23%) Apache
4 21 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
5 17 (0.81%) CMS
6 15 (0.71%) 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 (0.095%) JBoss
13 2 (0.095%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 83 (3.94%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.28%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.28%) MS Visio
4 6 (0.28%) 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 (0.047%) EngageOne
7 1 (0.047%) Notion
7 1 (0.047%) Trello
Business Applications
1 19 (0.90%) Cloudability
2 8 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
3 6 (0.28%) Shopify
4 4 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
5 3 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.095%) SAP HR
7 1 (0.047%) Magento
7 1 (0.047%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (0.047%) Sprinklr
7 1 (0.047%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 877 (41.58%) Azure
2 571 (27.07%) GCP
3 275 (13.04%) Serverless
4 223 (10.57%) SaaS
5 188 (8.91%) GitHub
6 181 (8.58%) AWS Lambda
7 176 (8.35%) Amazon S3
8 133 (6.31%) Microsoft 365
9 122 (5.78%) Amazon EKS
10 93 (4.41%) AWS CloudFormation
11 92 (4.36%) Amazon EC2
12 88 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
13 81 (3.84%) Amazon ECS
14 79 (3.75%) Amazon SQS
15 60 (2.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 58 (2.75%) Entra ID
17 57 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
18 43 (2.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 41 (1.94%) Snowflake
20 39 (1.85%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 131 (6.21%) Firewall
2 120 (5.69%) Broadband
3 71 (3.37%) WAN
4 62 (2.94%) LAN
5 61 (2.89%) VPN
6 55 (2.61%) DNS
7 48 (2.28%) Wi-Fi
8 45 (2.13%) Network Security
9 42 (1.99%) TCP/IP
10 38 (1.80%) HTTP
11 37 (1.75%) SD-WAN
12 32 (1.52%) Cisco ASA
13 31 (1.47%) VXLAN
14 28 (1.33%) Cisco Firepower
14 28 (1.33%) DHCP
15 24 (1.14%) BGP
16 22 (1.04%) VLAN
17 20 (0.95%) MPLS
17 20 (0.95%) OSPF
18 18 (0.85%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 203 (9.63%) PostgreSQL
2 132 (6.26%) MongoDB
3 122 (5.78%) NoSQL
4 110 (5.22%) SQL Server
5 74 (3.51%) MySQL
6 68 (3.22%) Amazon RDS
7 61 (2.89%) DynamoDB
8 55 (2.61%) Relational Database
9 53 (2.51%) Metadata
10 49 (2.32%) Data Warehouse
11 44 (2.09%) Elasticsearch
12 42 (1.99%) BigQuery
13 41 (1.94%) Amazon Redshift
14 35 (1.66%) Amazon Athena
15 28 (1.33%) Tableau
16 27 (1.28%) Redis
17 26 (1.23%) Data Lake
18 22 (1.04%) RDBMS
19 20 (0.95%) Apache Iceberg
20 18 (0.85%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 127 (6.02%) Git
2 94 (4.46%) Jenkins
3 91 (4.31%) GitLab
4 55 (2.61%) Cypress.io
5 52 (2.47%) TeamCity
6 42 (1.99%) JIRA
7 22 (1.04%) Selenium
8 20 (0.95%) CircleCI
9 19 (0.90%) Jaeger
10 15 (0.71%) Bitbucket
10 15 (0.71%) JMeter
11 14 (0.66%) Cucumber
12 13 (0.62%) MLflow
12 13 (0.62%) SonarQube
13 12 (0.57%) Crashlytics
13 12 (0.57%) XCTest
14 10 (0.47%) JUnit
15 9 (0.43%) Claude Code
16 8 (0.38%) Oracle Forms
16 8 (0.38%) Vite
General
1 540 (25.60%) Social Skills
2 454 (21.53%) Finance
3 232 (11.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 214 (10.15%) Public Sector
5 192 (9.10%) Banking
6 168 (7.97%) Law
7 133 (6.31%) Retail
8 123 (5.83%) Analytical Skills
9 58 (2.75%) French Language
10 52 (2.47%) Front Office
10 52 (2.47%) Influencing Skills
11 51 (2.42%) Financial Institution
12 49 (2.32%) Legal
13 48 (2.28%) Back Office
14 47 (2.23%) Telecoms
15 34 (1.61%) Games
16 32 (1.52%) Tech for Good
17 31 (1.47%) Health Technology
18 30 (1.42%) Marketing
19 28 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 489 (23.19%) Senior
2 408 (19.35%) Developer
3 349 (16.55%) Software Engineer
4 290 (13.75%) Lead
5 220 (10.43%) Architect
6 142 (6.73%) AWS Engineer
7 122 (5.78%) Full-Stack Developer
8 119 (5.64%) Analyst
9 116 (5.50%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 102 (4.84%) DevOps Engineer
11 100 (4.74%) Senior Software Engineer
12 94 (4.46%) Lead Developer
13 93 (4.41%) Data Engineer
14 89 (4.22%) Java Engineer
15 85 (4.03%) Software Developer
16 83 (3.94%) Cloud Engineer
16 83 (3.94%) Lead Software Engineer
17 78 (3.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 76 (3.60%) Solutions Architect
19 73 (3.46%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 363 (17.21%) React
2 266 (12.61%) Node.js
3 143 (6.78%) .NET
3 143 (6.78%) Kafka
4 118 (5.60%) REST
5 110 (5.22%) RESTful
6 105 (4.98%) Spring
7 103 (4.88%) CSS
8 92 (4.36%) Spring Boot
9 72 (3.41%) HTML
10 70 (3.32%) Vue
11 69 (3.27%) AngularJS
12 65 (3.08%) gRPC
13 51 (2.42%) Redux
14 45 (2.13%) Django
15 43 (2.04%) GraphQL
16 42 (1.99%) Elastic Stack
17 41 (1.94%) .NET Core
18 40 (1.90%) Jest
19 37 (1.75%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 318 (15.08%) Cloud Native
2 155 (7.35%) Product Ownership
3 145 (6.88%) Distributed Systems
4 90 (4.27%) Public Cloud
5 66 (3.13%) Greenfield Project
5 66 (3.13%) Onboarding
6 62 (2.94%) Data Centre
7 61 (2.89%) Video\Live Streaming
8 60 (2.84%) Enterprise Software
9 55 (2.61%) Management Information System
10 53 (2.51%) Blog
11 51 (2.42%) Security Posture
12 46 (2.18%) Fixed Income
12 46 (2.18%) Over-the-Top Content
13 41 (1.94%) Mobile App
13 41 (1.94%) Self-Motivation
14 39 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
15 36 (1.71%) PKI
16 32 (1.52%) Data Structures
16 32 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 185 (8.77%) Linux
2 102 (4.84%) Windows
3 58 (2.75%) Unix
4 47 (2.23%) Apple iOS
5 44 (2.09%) Android
6 43 (2.04%) Windows Server
7 21 (1.00%) Windows 10
8 16 (0.76%) Windows Server 2016
9 14 (0.66%) Mac OS
9 14 (0.66%) Windows Server 2012
10 13 (0.62%) Windows Server 2019
11 10 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 9 (0.43%) Ubuntu
13 5 (0.24%) CentOS
14 1 (0.047%) Debian
14 1 (0.047%) FreeBSD
14 1 (0.047%) Mac OS X
14 1 (0.047%) VMS
14 1 (0.047%) Windows 7
14 1 (0.047%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 706 (33.48%) CI/CD
2 626 (29.68%) Agile
3 596 (28.26%) Software Engineering
4 527 (24.99%) DevOps
5 481 (22.81%) Mentoring
6 390 (18.49%) Microservices
7 389 (18.44%) Full-Stack Development
8 363 (17.21%) Infrastructure as Code
9 353 (16.74%) AI
10 339 (16.07%) Problem-Solving
11 325 (15.41%) Continuous Improvement
12 308 (14.60%) Containerisation
13 281 (13.32%) Test Automation
14 280 (13.28%) Roadmaps
15 248 (11.76%) Coaching
16 241 (11.43%) Technical Leadership
17 206 (9.77%) Clean Code
18 195 (9.25%) Machine Learning
19 184 (8.72%) Observability
20 174 (8.25%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 631 (29.92%) Python
2 533 (25.27%) Java
3 323 (15.32%) TypeScript
4 313 (14.84%) JavaScript
5 293 (13.89%) SQL
6 212 (10.05%) Go
7 200 (9.48%) C#
8 122 (5.78%) Bash
9 76 (3.60%) PHP
9 76 (3.60%) Scala
10 70 (3.32%) C++
11 41 (1.94%) Ruby
12 37 (1.75%) PowerShell
13 29 (1.38%) Kotlin
14 28 (1.33%) Rust
15 14 (0.66%) Bicep
16 12 (0.57%) Swift
17 10 (0.47%) C
17 10 (0.47%) PL/SQL
17 10 (0.47%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 301 (14.27%) Degree
2 253 (12.00%) Security Cleared
3 210 (9.96%) SC Cleared
4 198 (9.39%) AWS Certification
5 107 (5.07%) Microsoft Certification
6 105 (4.98%) Computer Science Degree
7 78 (3.70%) MCSE
8 51 (2.42%) Azure Certification
8 51 (2.42%) CISSP
9 45 (2.13%) DV Cleared
10 41 (1.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 32 (1.52%) Cisco Certification
12 30 (1.42%) CISM
12 30 (1.42%) DBS Check
12 30 (1.42%) TOGAF Certification
13 27 (1.28%) CREST Certified
14 20 (0.95%) CCNP
14 20 (0.95%) OSCP
15 18 (0.85%) Master's Degree
16 14 (0.66%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 173 (8.20%) QA
2 78 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 52 (2.47%) NIST
4 50 (2.37%) Data Quality
5 49 (2.32%) Accessibility
6 44 (2.09%) GDPR
7 43 (2.04%) PCI DSS
8 31 (1.47%) GRC
9 26 (1.23%) SOC 2
10 21 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials
11 19 (0.90%) NCSC
12 13 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 13 (0.62%) JSP 440
13 12 (0.57%) SLA
14 11 (0.52%) 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 (0.28%) WCAG
System Software
1 396 (18.78%) Docker
2 69 (3.27%) Active Directory
3 34 (1.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 31 (1.47%) Hyper-V
5 16 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
6 15 (0.71%) vSphere
7 6 (0.28%) 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 (0.095%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 2 (0.095%) KVM
11 2 (0.095%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.047%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 395 (18.73%) Terraform
2 347 (16.45%) Kubernetes
3 149 (7.06%) Ansible
4 128 (6.07%) Grafana
5 72 (3.41%) Prometheus
6 55 (2.61%) Argo
7 28 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
8 22 (1.04%) Microsoft Intune
9 19 (0.90%) Kustomize
10 16 (0.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 12 (0.57%) Podman
12 9 (0.43%) Progress Chef
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%) Puppet
14 5 (0.24%) AWS Copilot
14 5 (0.24%) HP Fortify
14 5 (0.24%) Nmap
Vendors
1 300 (14.22%) Microsoft
2 129 (6.12%) Google
3 99 (4.69%) ServiceNow
4 69 (3.27%) Cisco
5 56 (2.66%) VMware
6 48 (2.28%) Oracle
7 47 (2.23%) Apple
8 45 (2.13%) Typelevel
9 42 (1.99%) Adobe
10 34 (1.61%) SolarWinds
11 33 (1.56%) Palo Alto
12 31 (1.47%) Databricks
12 31 (1.47%) Splunk
13 30 (1.42%) Fortinet
14 27 (1.28%) Red Hat
15 23 (1.09%) Salesforce
16 20 (0.95%) SAP
17 18 (0.85%) CheckPoint
17 18 (0.85%) Okta
18 17 (0.81%) Arista
1,033 hybrid/remote AWS jobs