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

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 12 9
Rank change year-on-year +5 -3 -3
Permanent jobs citing AWS 2,243 2,165 4,672
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 11.70% 14.85% 14.19%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.60% 37.67% 33.13%
Number of salaries quoted 1,418 1,351 3,996
10th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,750 £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 7,329 5,747 14,104
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.24% 39.41% 42.83%
Number of salaries quoted 5,031 4,134 12,000
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,750 £35,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,250 £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 £82,751 £79,600
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
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 28 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 67 (2.99%) Apache Airflow
2 40 (1.78%) Apache Spark
3 27 (1.20%) Apache
4 23 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
5 15 (0.67%) SharePoint
6 14 (0.62%) CMS
7 12 (0.53%) 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
11 4 (0.18%) WordPress
12 3 (0.13%) Camunda
12 3 (0.13%) OpenStack
13 2 (0.089%) Anypoint
13 2 (0.089%) Headless CMS
13 2 (0.089%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 82 (3.66%) 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 (0.089%) PlantUML
8 1 (0.045%) EngageOne
8 1 (0.045%) Trello
Business Applications
1 24 (1.07%) 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 (0.089%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.089%) 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
1 933 (41.60%) Azure
2 575 (25.64%) GCP
3 271 (12.08%) Serverless
4 232 (10.34%) SaaS
5 180 (8.02%) GitHub
6 176 (7.85%) Amazon S3
7 175 (7.80%) AWS Lambda
8 139 (6.20%) Microsoft 365
9 127 (5.66%) Amazon EKS
10 100 (4.46%) Amazon EC2
11 94 (4.19%) AWS CloudFormation
12 87 (3.88%) Amazon ECS
13 84 (3.74%) GitHub Actions
14 78 (3.48%) Amazon SQS
15 58 (2.59%) Azure DevOps
16 57 (2.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 51 (2.27%) Entra ID
17 51 (2.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 43 (1.92%) Snowflake
19 34 (1.52%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 131 (5.84%) Firewall
2 128 (5.71%) Broadband
3 72 (3.21%) WAN
4 66 (2.94%) VPN
5 64 (2.85%) LAN
6 57 (2.54%) DNS
7 49 (2.18%) Wi-Fi
8 45 (2.01%) Network Security
9 39 (1.74%) HTTP
9 39 (1.74%) TCP/IP
10 35 (1.56%) SD-WAN
11 33 (1.47%) Cisco ASA
12 32 (1.43%) VXLAN
13 30 (1.34%) Cisco Firepower
13 30 (1.34%) DHCP
14 21 (0.94%) BGP
14 21 (0.94%) VLAN
15 18 (0.80%) MPLS
15 18 (0.80%) OSPF
15 18 (0.80%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 230 (10.25%) PostgreSQL
2 176 (7.85%) MongoDB
3 129 (5.75%) NoSQL
4 87 (3.88%) SQL Server
5 79 (3.52%) MySQL
6 68 (3.03%) Amazon RDS
7 63 (2.81%) Elasticsearch
8 61 (2.72%) DynamoDB
9 59 (2.63%) Relational Database
10 54 (2.41%) Metadata
11 46 (2.05%) Data Warehouse
12 39 (1.74%) Amazon Redshift
13 37 (1.65%) Amazon Athena
14 36 (1.60%) BigQuery
15 27 (1.20%) Azure SQL Database
15 27 (1.20%) Redis
15 27 (1.20%) Tableau
16 26 (1.16%) Data Lake
17 21 (0.94%) RDBMS
18 20 (0.89%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 126 (5.62%) Git
2 82 (3.66%) GitLab
3 79 (3.52%) Jenkins
4 59 (2.63%) TeamCity
5 51 (2.27%) Cypress.io
6 42 (1.87%) JIRA
7 18 (0.80%) Jaeger
8 17 (0.76%) CircleCI
8 17 (0.76%) Claude Code
9 15 (0.67%) Maven
9 15 (0.67%) Selenium
10 14 (0.62%) JMeter
10 14 (0.62%) JUnit
11 13 (0.58%) Crashlytics
11 13 (0.58%) MLflow
11 13 (0.58%) XCTest
12 9 (0.40%) Bitbucket
12 9 (0.40%) Mockito
13 8 (0.36%) Postman
13 8 (0.36%) SonarQube
General
1 533 (23.76%) Social Skills
2 481 (21.44%) Finance
3 259 (11.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 240 (10.70%) Public Sector
5 207 (9.23%) Banking
6 177 (7.89%) Law
7 136 (6.06%) Retail
8 128 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
9 58 (2.59%) Legal
10 53 (2.36%) Back Office
11 52 (2.32%) Financial Institution
12 50 (2.23%) Influencing Skills
13 49 (2.18%) French Language
14 48 (2.14%) Front Office
15 41 (1.83%) Games
16 28 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
16 28 (1.25%) Telecoms
17 27 (1.20%) Marketing
18 26 (1.16%) Health Technology
18 26 (1.16%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 519 (23.14%) Senior
2 459 (20.46%) Developer
3 392 (17.48%) Software Engineer
4 311 (13.87%) Lead
5 250 (11.15%) Architect
6 156 (6.95%) AWS Engineer
7 130 (5.80%) Full-Stack Developer
8 121 (5.39%) Analyst
8 121 (5.39%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 107 (4.77%) Senior Software Engineer
10 102 (4.55%) DevOps Engineer
11 100 (4.46%) Lead Software Engineer
12 95 (4.24%) Lead Developer
13 91 (4.06%) Data Engineer
14 90 (4.01%) Cloud Engineer
14 90 (4.01%) Software Developer
15 88 (3.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 88 (3.92%) Solutions Architect
16 87 (3.88%) Java Engineer
17 81 (3.61%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 392 (17.48%) React
2 305 (13.60%) Node.js
3 164 (7.31%) .NET
4 145 (6.46%) REST
5 130 (5.80%) Kafka
6 122 (5.44%) RESTful
7 121 (5.39%) Spring
8 107 (4.77%) CSS
9 90 (4.01%) Spring Boot
10 80 (3.57%) Vue
11 75 (3.34%) HTML
12 73 (3.25%) AngularJS
13 56 (2.50%) .NET Core
14 55 (2.45%) gRPC
15 52 (2.32%) Redux
16 44 (1.96%) ASP.NET
16 44 (1.96%) Ruby on Rails
17 42 (1.87%) GraphQL
18 40 (1.78%) Jest
19 38 (1.69%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 355 (15.83%) Cloud Native
2 176 (7.85%) Product Ownership
3 158 (7.04%) Distributed Systems
4 96 (4.28%) Public Cloud
5 71 (3.17%) Onboarding
6 70 (3.12%) Video\Live Streaming
7 69 (3.08%) Greenfield Project
8 63 (2.81%) Data Centre
9 55 (2.45%) Blog
10 53 (2.36%) Management Information System
11 52 (2.32%) Enterprise Software
11 52 (2.32%) Security Posture
12 46 (2.05%) Over-the-Top Content
13 44 (1.96%) Fixed Income
14 43 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
15 40 (1.78%) Mobile App
15 40 (1.78%) PKI
16 39 (1.74%) Hybrid Cloud
17 32 (1.43%) Data Structures
18 28 (1.25%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 191 (8.52%) Linux
2 107 (4.77%) Windows
3 52 (2.32%) Unix
4 47 (2.10%) Windows Server
5 45 (2.01%) Apple iOS
6 36 (1.60%) Android
7 19 (0.85%) Windows 10
8 15 (0.67%) Windows Server 2016
9 13 (0.58%) Windows Server 2012
10 12 (0.53%) Mac OS
10 12 (0.53%) Windows Server 2019
11 8 (0.36%) Ubuntu
12 7 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 3 (0.13%) CentOS
14 2 (0.089%) Debian
15 1 (0.045%) FreeBSD
15 1 (0.045%) Mac OS X
15 1 (0.045%) OpenBSD
15 1 (0.045%) VMS
15 1 (0.045%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 764 (34.06%) CI/CD
2 672 (29.96%) Agile
3 660 (29.42%) Software Engineering
4 526 (23.45%) DevOps
5 505 (22.51%) Mentoring
6 433 (19.30%) Full-Stack Development
7 426 (18.99%) Microservices
8 400 (17.83%) AI
9 395 (17.61%) Infrastructure as Code
10 367 (16.36%) Continuous Improvement
11 358 (15.96%) Problem-Solving
12 329 (14.67%) Containerisation
13 313 (13.95%) Test Automation
14 286 (12.75%) Roadmaps
15 283 (12.62%) Technical Leadership
16 264 (11.77%) Coaching
17 232 (10.34%) Clean Code
18 212 (9.45%) Machine Learning
19 204 (9.09%) Observability
20 182 (8.11%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 632 (28.18%) Python
2 544 (24.25%) Java
3 352 (15.69%) TypeScript
4 349 (15.56%) JavaScript
5 312 (13.91%) SQL
6 209 (9.32%) C#
6 209 (9.32%) Go
7 123 (5.48%) Bash
8 76 (3.39%) Scala
9 70 (3.12%) C++
10 64 (2.85%) PHP
11 52 (2.32%) Ruby
12 43 (1.92%) PowerShell
13 31 (1.38%) Kotlin
14 28 (1.25%) Rust
15 17 (0.76%) PL/SQL
16 13 (0.58%) Swift
17 12 (0.53%) Bicep
18 8 (0.36%) Groovy
19 7 (0.31%) C
Qualifications
1 291 (12.97%) Security Cleared
2 283 (12.62%) Degree
3 245 (10.92%) SC Cleared
4 201 (8.96%) AWS Certification
5 97 (4.32%) Microsoft Certification
6 78 (3.48%) Computer Science Degree
7 75 (3.34%) MCSE
8 58 (2.59%) Azure Certification
9 54 (2.41%) CISSP
10 48 (2.14%) DV Cleared
11 38 (1.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 31 (1.38%) CISM
13 27 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
13 27 (1.20%) CREST Certified
13 27 (1.20%) DBS Check
14 24 (1.07%) TOGAF Certification
15 21 (0.94%) OSCP
16 17 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
16 17 (0.76%) CCNP
17 16 (0.71%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 174 (7.76%) QA
2 81 (3.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 57 (2.54%) Data Quality
3 57 (2.54%) NIST
4 51 (2.27%) Accessibility
5 39 (1.74%) PCI DSS
6 35 (1.56%) GDPR
7 25 (1.11%) GRC
8 23 (1.03%) NCSC
9 21 (0.94%) SOC 2
10 14 (0.62%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 13 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
11 13 (0.58%) JSP 440
12 12 (0.53%) ISO 9001
13 11 (0.49%) SLA
14 9 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
15 8 (0.36%) WCAG
16 7 (0.31%) Government Security Classifications
16 7 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 42001
17 6 (0.27%) PMO
System Software
1 413 (18.41%) Docker
2 66 (2.94%) Active Directory
3 38 (1.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 36 (1.60%) Hyper-V
5 20 (0.89%) Virtual Machines
6 18 (0.80%) 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 (0.089%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 2 (0.089%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 2 (0.089%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.045%) iptables
11 1 (0.045%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.045%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 408 (18.19%) Terraform
2 373 (16.63%) Kubernetes
3 141 (6.29%) Ansible
4 126 (5.62%) Grafana
5 69 (3.08%) Prometheus
6 50 (2.23%) Argo
7 22 (0.98%) Microsoft Intune
8 20 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
9 18 (0.80%) Kustomize
10 15 (0.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 13 (0.58%) Proxmox
12 12 (0.53%) Podman
13 11 (0.49%) Istio
13 11 (0.49%) Progress Chef
14 9 (0.40%) Cisco CUCM
14 9 (0.40%) Puppet
15 8 (0.36%) Packer
16 6 (0.27%) Avamar
16 6 (0.27%) EMC VPLEX
16 6 (0.27%) VxRail
Vendors
1 335 (14.94%) Microsoft
2 117 (5.22%) Google
3 105 (4.68%) ServiceNow
4 69 (3.08%) Cisco
5 62 (2.76%) VMware
6 50 (2.23%) Apple
7 49 (2.18%) Oracle
8 47 (2.10%) Adobe
9 45 (2.01%) Typelevel
10 35 (1.56%) SolarWinds
11 33 (1.47%) Databricks
12 31 (1.38%) Fortinet
12 31 (1.38%) Palo Alto
12 31 (1.38%) Splunk
13 24 (1.07%) Salesforce
14 23 (1.03%) SAP
15 19 (0.85%) CheckPoint
15 19 (0.85%) Dynatrace
15 19 (0.85%) Red Hat
16 18 (0.80%) Aruba