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

 6 months to
26 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 11 9
Rank change year-on-year +4 -2 -3
Permanent jobs citing AWS 2,209 2,177 4,668
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 11.66% 14.96% 14.20%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.66% 37.91% 33.14%
Number of salaries quoted 1,389 1,363 3,991
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 7,205 5,742 14,087
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.04% 39.46% 42.86%
Number of salaries quoted 4,938 4,137 11,984
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,825 £35,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,625 £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 £80,000
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%

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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 26 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 (3.03%) Apache Airflow
2 40 (1.81%) Apache Spark
3 27 (1.22%) Apache
4 23 (1.04%) Microsoft Exchange
5 15 (0.68%) SharePoint
6 14 (0.63%) CMS
7 13 (0.59%) Confluence
8 8 (0.36%) nginx
9 7 (0.32%) Apache Solr
10 5 (0.23%) Jupyter
11 4 (0.18%) ArcGIS
11 4 (0.18%) Ethereum
11 4 (0.18%) GeoServer
11 4 (0.18%) Oracle Spatial
12 3 (0.14%) OpenStack
12 3 (0.14%) WordPress
13 2 (0.091%) Drupal
13 2 (0.091%) Mule
13 2 (0.091%) Oracle Application Server
13 2 (0.091%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 82 (3.71%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (0.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (0.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (0.36%) MS Visio
4 6 (0.27%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
5 5 (0.23%) AutoCAD
5 5 (0.23%) DaVinci Resolve
6 3 (0.14%) Adobe Illustrator
6 3 (0.14%) Photoshop
7 2 (0.091%) PlantUML
8 1 (0.045%) EngageOne
8 1 (0.045%) Trello
Business Applications
1 24 (1.09%) Cloudability
2 6 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
3 5 (0.23%) Shopify
4 3 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.091%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.091%) 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
1 912 (41.29%) Azure
2 571 (25.85%) GCP
3 270 (12.22%) Serverless
4 228 (10.32%) SaaS
5 182 (8.24%) GitHub
6 173 (7.83%) Amazon S3
7 172 (7.79%) AWS Lambda
8 137 (6.20%) Microsoft 365
9 125 (5.66%) Amazon EKS
10 97 (4.39%) Amazon EC2
11 94 (4.26%) AWS CloudFormation
12 85 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
13 84 (3.80%) Amazon ECS
14 75 (3.40%) Amazon SQS
15 56 (2.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 55 (2.49%) Azure DevOps
17 51 (2.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 50 (2.26%) Entra ID
19 42 (1.90%) Snowflake
20 34 (1.54%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 128 (5.79%) Firewall
2 127 (5.75%) Broadband
3 71 (3.21%) WAN
4 64 (2.90%) VPN
5 63 (2.85%) LAN
6 56 (2.54%) DNS
7 48 (2.17%) Wi-Fi
8 43 (1.95%) Network Security
9 40 (1.81%) TCP/IP
10 39 (1.77%) HTTP
11 35 (1.58%) SD-WAN
12 33 (1.49%) Cisco ASA
13 32 (1.45%) VXLAN
14 30 (1.36%) Cisco Firepower
15 29 (1.31%) DHCP
16 21 (0.95%) BGP
17 20 (0.91%) VLAN
18 18 (0.81%) MPLS
18 18 (0.81%) OSPF
18 18 (0.81%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 229 (10.37%) PostgreSQL
2 169 (7.65%) MongoDB
3 126 (5.70%) NoSQL
4 86 (3.89%) SQL Server
5 80 (3.62%) MySQL
6 66 (2.99%) Amazon RDS
7 62 (2.81%) DynamoDB
8 58 (2.63%) Elasticsearch
8 58 (2.63%) Relational Database
9 55 (2.49%) Metadata
10 47 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
11 40 (1.81%) Amazon Redshift
12 38 (1.72%) Amazon Athena
13 36 (1.63%) BigQuery
14 28 (1.27%) Tableau
15 26 (1.18%) Redis
16 25 (1.13%) Data Lake
17 22 (1.00%) Azure SQL Database
18 20 (0.91%) Apache Iceberg
18 20 (0.91%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 122 (5.52%) Git
2 82 (3.71%) GitLab
3 79 (3.58%) Jenkins
4 59 (2.67%) TeamCity
5 51 (2.31%) Cypress.io
6 42 (1.90%) JIRA
7 18 (0.81%) Jaeger
8 17 (0.77%) CircleCI
8 17 (0.77%) Claude Code
9 14 (0.63%) JMeter
9 14 (0.63%) Maven
10 13 (0.59%) Crashlytics
10 13 (0.59%) MLflow
10 13 (0.59%) XCTest
11 12 (0.54%) Selenium
12 11 (0.50%) JUnit
13 10 (0.45%) Bitbucket
14 8 (0.36%) Mockito
14 8 (0.36%) SonarQube
15 7 (0.32%) Vite
General
1 521 (23.59%) Social Skills
2 476 (21.55%) Finance
3 259 (11.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 237 (10.73%) Public Sector
5 208 (9.42%) Banking
6 176 (7.97%) Law
7 137 (6.20%) Retail
8 132 (5.98%) Analytical Skills
9 55 (2.49%) Legal
10 53 (2.40%) Back Office
10 53 (2.40%) Financial Institution
11 49 (2.22%) French Language
11 49 (2.22%) Front Office
12 47 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
13 41 (1.86%) Games
14 29 (1.31%) Telecoms
15 27 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
16 26 (1.18%) Health Technology
16 26 (1.18%) Tech for Good
17 25 (1.13%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 513 (23.22%) Senior
2 443 (20.05%) Developer
3 387 (17.52%) Software Engineer
4 312 (14.12%) Lead
5 246 (11.14%) Architect
6 152 (6.88%) AWS Engineer
7 129 (5.84%) Full-Stack Developer
8 121 (5.48%) Analyst
8 121 (5.48%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 107 (4.84%) Senior Software Engineer
10 100 (4.53%) DevOps Engineer
10 100 (4.53%) Lead Software Engineer
11 95 (4.30%) Lead Developer
12 90 (4.07%) Data Engineer
13 87 (3.94%) Cloud Engineer
13 87 (3.94%) Java Engineer
14 86 (3.89%) Solutions Architect
15 85 (3.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 84 (3.80%) Software Developer
17 82 (3.71%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 382 (17.29%) React
2 297 (13.44%) Node.js
3 156 (7.06%) .NET
4 140 (6.34%) REST
5 129 (5.84%) Kafka
6 119 (5.39%) RESTful
6 119 (5.39%) Spring
7 104 (4.71%) CSS
8 90 (4.07%) Spring Boot
9 79 (3.58%) Vue
10 72 (3.26%) HTML
11 70 (3.17%) AngularJS
12 55 (2.49%) gRPC
13 52 (2.35%) .NET Core
14 51 (2.31%) Redux
15 42 (1.90%) GraphQL
16 41 (1.86%) Ruby on Rails
17 40 (1.81%) Jest
18 38 (1.72%) ASP.NET
19 37 (1.67%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 350 (15.84%) Cloud Native
2 177 (8.01%) Product Ownership
3 153 (6.93%) Distributed Systems
4 97 (4.39%) Public Cloud
5 70 (3.17%) Onboarding
5 70 (3.17%) Video\Live Streaming
6 66 (2.99%) Greenfield Project
7 64 (2.90%) Data Centre
8 55 (2.49%) Blog
9 54 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
9 54 (2.44%) Management Information System
10 49 (2.22%) Security Posture
11 46 (2.08%) Over-the-Top Content
12 44 (1.99%) Fixed Income
13 43 (1.95%) Self-Motivation
14 40 (1.81%) Mobile App
14 40 (1.81%) PKI
15 38 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
16 32 (1.45%) Data Structures
17 28 (1.27%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 186 (8.42%) Linux
2 104 (4.71%) Windows
3 53 (2.40%) Unix
4 45 (2.04%) Apple iOS
4 45 (2.04%) Windows Server
5 36 (1.63%) Android
6 19 (0.86%) Windows 10
7 15 (0.68%) Windows Server 2016
8 13 (0.59%) Windows Server 2012
9 12 (0.54%) Mac OS
9 12 (0.54%) Windows Server 2019
10 7 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 7 (0.32%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.14%) 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
1 750 (33.95%) CI/CD
2 658 (29.79%) Agile
3 651 (29.47%) Software Engineering
4 520 (23.54%) DevOps
5 494 (22.36%) Mentoring
6 423 (19.15%) Full-Stack Development
7 418 (18.92%) Microservices
8 396 (17.93%) AI
9 390 (17.66%) Infrastructure as Code
10 358 (16.21%) Continuous Improvement
11 353 (15.98%) Problem-Solving
12 326 (14.76%) Containerisation
13 309 (13.99%) Test Automation
14 288 (13.04%) Roadmaps
15 279 (12.63%) Technical Leadership
16 258 (11.68%) Coaching
17 228 (10.32%) Clean Code
18 211 (9.55%) Machine Learning
19 200 (9.05%) Observability
20 176 (7.97%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 631 (28.56%) Python
2 547 (24.76%) Java
3 345 (15.62%) TypeScript
4 341 (15.44%) JavaScript
5 307 (13.90%) SQL
6 205 (9.28%) Go
7 203 (9.19%) C#
8 123 (5.57%) Bash
9 75 (3.40%) Scala
10 68 (3.08%) C++
11 62 (2.81%) PHP
12 49 (2.22%) Ruby
13 42 (1.90%) PowerShell
14 30 (1.36%) Kotlin
15 28 (1.27%) Rust
16 16 (0.72%) PL/SQL
17 13 (0.59%) Swift
18 12 (0.54%) Bicep
19 8 (0.36%) Groovy
20 7 (0.32%) C
Qualifications
1 288 (13.04%) Security Cleared
2 282 (12.77%) Degree
3 242 (10.96%) SC Cleared
4 201 (9.10%) AWS Certification
5 98 (4.44%) Microsoft Certification
6 79 (3.58%) Computer Science Degree
7 75 (3.40%) MCSE
8 57 (2.58%) Azure Certification
9 55 (2.49%) CISSP
10 47 (2.13%) DV Cleared
11 40 (1.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 32 (1.45%) CISM
13 27 (1.22%) CREST Certified
13 27 (1.22%) DBS Check
14 26 (1.18%) Cisco Certification
14 26 (1.18%) TOGAF Certification
15 21 (0.95%) OSCP
16 16 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
16 16 (0.72%) CCNP
16 16 (0.72%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 173 (7.83%) QA
2 80 (3.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 57 (2.58%) NIST
4 56 (2.54%) Data Quality
5 49 (2.22%) Accessibility
6 39 (1.77%) PCI DSS
7 37 (1.67%) GDPR
8 25 (1.13%) GRC
9 23 (1.04%) NCSC
10 22 (1.00%) SOC 2
11 14 (0.63%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 13 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
12 13 (0.59%) JSP 440
13 11 (0.50%) SLA
14 10 (0.45%) ISO 9001
15 9 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
16 7 (0.32%) Government Security Classifications
16 7 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 42001
17 6 (0.27%) PMO
17 6 (0.27%) WCAG
System Software
1 403 (18.24%) Docker
2 65 (2.94%) Active Directory
3 38 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 34 (1.54%) Hyper-V
5 19 (0.86%) 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 (0.23%) KVM
9 3 (0.14%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.091%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 2 (0.091%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 2 (0.091%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.045%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 401 (18.15%) Terraform
2 361 (16.34%) Kubernetes
3 142 (6.43%) Ansible
4 126 (5.70%) Grafana
5 69 (3.12%) Prometheus
6 50 (2.26%) Argo
7 21 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
7 21 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
8 18 (0.81%) Kustomize
9 15 (0.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 12 (0.54%) Podman
10 12 (0.54%) Proxmox
11 11 (0.50%) Progress Chef
12 10 (0.45%) Istio
13 9 (0.41%) 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
1 326 (14.76%) Microsoft
2 117 (5.30%) Google
3 105 (4.75%) ServiceNow
4 67 (3.03%) Cisco
5 60 (2.72%) VMware
6 50 (2.26%) Apple
7 48 (2.17%) Oracle
8 47 (2.13%) Adobe
9 45 (2.04%) Typelevel
10 35 (1.58%) SolarWinds
11 33 (1.49%) Databricks
12 30 (1.36%) Fortinet
12 30 (1.36%) Palo Alto
12 30 (1.36%) Splunk
13 24 (1.09%) Salesforce
14 23 (1.04%) SAP
15 20 (0.91%) Red Hat
16 19 (0.86%) CheckPoint
17 18 (0.81%) Dynatrace
18 17 (0.77%) Arista
999 hybrid/remote AWS jobs