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 13 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 10 9
Rank change year-on-year +2 -1 -3
Permanent jobs citing AWS 2,085 2,090 4,467
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 11.93% 15.95% 14.07%
As % of the Cloud Services category 31.04% 34.74% 32.12%
Number of salaries quoted 1,328 1,607 3,898
10th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.79% +3.57% -3.45%
75th Percentile £90,000 £98,474 £88,750
90th Percentile £107,500 £122,500 £112,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +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 6,718 6,016 13,907
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.45% 45.91% 43.82%
Number of salaries quoted 4,529 4,700 12,059
10th Percentile £33,568 £33,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -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

AWS
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing AWS over the 6 months to 13 April 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 76 (3.65%) Apache Airflow
2 39 (1.87%) Apache Spark
3 24 (1.15%) Apache
4 22 (1.06%) Microsoft Exchange
5 16 (0.77%) CMS
6 15 (0.72%) Confluence
7 12 (0.58%) nginx
7 12 (0.58%) SharePoint
8 9 (0.43%) WordPress
9 6 (0.29%) Drupal
9 6 (0.29%) Ethereum
10 5 (0.24%) Anypoint
10 5 (0.24%) Apache Pulsar
10 5 (0.24%) Apache Solr
11 4 (0.19%) ArcGIS
11 4 (0.19%) Oracle Spatial
11 4 (0.19%) SAS
11 4 (0.19%) Tomcat
11 4 (0.19%) WebSphere
11 4 (0.19%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 103 (4.94%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (0.82%) 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 12 (0.58%) Shopify
2 9 (0.43%) Cloudability
3 8 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
4 6 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
5 4 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
6 3 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.096%) Magento
7 2 (0.096%) SAP HR
8 1 (0.048%) Oracle Assets
8 1 (0.048%) Sprinklr
8 1 (0.048%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 881 (42.25%) Azure
2 584 (28.01%) GCP
3 282 (13.53%) Serverless
4 245 (11.75%) SaaS
5 198 (9.50%) GitHub
6 188 (9.02%) AWS Lambda
7 185 (8.87%) Amazon S3
8 156 (7.48%) Microsoft 365
9 141 (6.76%) Amazon EKS
10 106 (5.08%) AWS CloudFormation
11 97 (4.65%) GitHub Actions
12 88 (4.22%) Amazon EC2
13 86 (4.12%) Amazon ECS
14 78 (3.74%) Amazon SQS
15 67 (3.21%) Entra ID
16 66 (3.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 51 (2.45%) Azure DevOps
18 49 (2.35%) dbt
19 41 (1.97%) Snowflake
20 40 (1.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 128 (6.14%) Firewall
2 100 (4.80%) Broadband
3 61 (2.93%) WAN
4 60 (2.88%) VPN
5 54 (2.59%) LAN
6 53 (2.54%) DNS
7 51 (2.45%) TCP/IP
8 47 (2.25%) Wi-Fi
9 45 (2.16%) Network Security
10 29 (1.39%) SD-WAN
11 28 (1.34%) DHCP
11 28 (1.34%) HTTP
12 27 (1.29%) Cisco ASA
13 26 (1.25%) VXLAN
14 24 (1.15%) VLAN
15 22 (1.06%) BGP
15 22 (1.06%) Cisco Firepower
16 20 (0.96%) SSL
17 18 (0.86%) NGFW
18 16 (0.77%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 188 (9.02%) PostgreSQL
2 131 (6.28%) NoSQL
3 108 (5.18%) MongoDB
4 107 (5.13%) SQL Server
5 80 (3.84%) MySQL
6 77 (3.69%) Amazon RDS
7 59 (2.83%) Relational Database
8 57 (2.73%) DynamoDB
9 52 (2.49%) Data Warehouse
10 47 (2.25%) Metadata
11 45 (2.16%) Elasticsearch
12 43 (2.06%) Amazon Redshift
12 43 (2.06%) BigQuery
13 32 (1.53%) Amazon Athena
14 30 (1.44%) Data Lake
14 30 (1.44%) Redis
14 30 (1.44%) Tableau
15 23 (1.10%) RDBMS
16 20 (0.96%) Apache Iceberg
17 18 (0.86%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 131 (6.28%) Git
2 94 (4.51%) Jenkins
3 85 (4.08%) GitLab
4 63 (3.02%) TeamCity
5 49 (2.35%) Cypress.io
6 42 (2.01%) JIRA
7 21 (1.01%) Selenium
8 19 (0.91%) Jaeger
9 16 (0.77%) Bitbucket
9 16 (0.77%) CircleCI
10 15 (0.72%) JMeter
11 14 (0.67%) Cucumber
11 14 (0.67%) SonarQube
12 13 (0.62%) MLflow
13 10 (0.48%) Crashlytics
13 10 (0.48%) Subversion
13 10 (0.48%) XCTest
14 9 (0.43%) JUnit
15 8 (0.38%) Metasploit
15 8 (0.38%) Oracle Forms
General
1 606 (29.06%) Social Skills
2 460 (22.06%) Finance
3 235 (11.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 204 (9.78%) Banking
5 196 (9.40%) Public Sector
6 185 (8.87%) Law
7 163 (7.82%) Retail
8 128 (6.14%) Analytical Skills
9 77 (3.69%) French Language
10 74 (3.55%) Financial Institution
11 65 (3.12%) Back Office
12 56 (2.69%) Telecoms
13 54 (2.59%) Legal
14 53 (2.54%) Front Office
15 47 (2.25%) Influencing Skills
16 37 (1.77%) Games
17 36 (1.73%) Swedish Language
18 35 (1.68%) Tech for Good
19 33 (1.58%) Marketing
20 31 (1.49%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 481 (23.07%) Senior
2 397 (19.04%) Developer
3 344 (16.50%) Software Engineer
4 281 (13.48%) Lead
5 199 (9.54%) Architect
6 133 (6.38%) Analyst
7 130 (6.24%) AWS Engineer
8 117 (5.61%) Full-Stack Developer
9 111 (5.32%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 103 (4.94%) Senior Software Engineer
11 98 (4.70%) Lead Developer
12 95 (4.56%) DevOps Engineer
13 94 (4.51%) Data Engineer
14 86 (4.12%) Java Engineer
15 85 (4.08%) Service Analyst
15 85 (4.08%) Service Desk Analyst
16 81 (3.88%) Cloud Engineer
17 79 (3.79%) Software Developer
18 74 (3.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
19 73 (3.50%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 367 (17.60%) React
2 238 (11.41%) Node.js
3 147 (7.05%) Kafka
4 146 (7.00%) .NET
5 117 (5.61%) REST
6 115 (5.52%) RESTful
7 111 (5.32%) CSS
8 109 (5.23%) Spring
9 94 (4.51%) Spring Boot
10 83 (3.98%) HTML
11 74 (3.55%) Vue
12 68 (3.26%) gRPC
13 63 (3.02%) AngularJS
14 59 (2.83%) Django
15 53 (2.54%) Redux
16 47 (2.25%) Elastic Stack
17 46 (2.21%) .NET Core
18 41 (1.97%) JSON
19 40 (1.92%) GraphQL
20 37 (1.77%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 322 (15.44%) Cloud Native
2 150 (7.19%) Distributed Systems
3 140 (6.71%) Product Ownership
4 84 (4.03%) Public Cloud
5 65 (3.12%) Onboarding
6 62 (2.97%) Management Information System
7 60 (2.88%) Data Centre
8 58 (2.78%) Blog
9 57 (2.73%) Enterprise Software
9 57 (2.73%) Security Posture
10 54 (2.59%) Greenfield Project
10 54 (2.59%) Video\Live Streaming
11 47 (2.25%) Fixed Income
12 45 (2.16%) Over-the-Top Content
13 44 (2.11%) Mobile App
13 44 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
14 38 (1.82%) Hybrid Cloud
15 36 (1.73%) Data Structures
16 34 (1.63%) PKI
17 32 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 202 (9.69%) Linux
2 108 (5.18%) Windows
3 70 (3.36%) Unix
4 52 (2.49%) Android
4 52 (2.49%) Apple iOS
4 52 (2.49%) Windows Server
5 25 (1.20%) Windows 10
6 21 (1.01%) Mac OS
7 18 (0.86%) Windows Server 2016
8 17 (0.82%) Windows Server 2012
9 16 (0.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 15 (0.72%) Windows Server 2019
11 10 (0.48%) Ubuntu
12 7 (0.34%) CentOS
13 2 (0.096%) VMS
14 1 (0.048%) Debian
14 1 (0.048%) FreeBSD
14 1 (0.048%) Mac OS X
14 1 (0.048%) OpenBSD
14 1 (0.048%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 710 (34.05%) CI/CD
2 607 (29.11%) Agile
3 596 (28.59%) Software Engineering
4 542 (26.00%) DevOps
5 459 (22.01%) Mentoring
6 376 (18.03%) Microservices
7 369 (17.70%) Full-Stack Development
8 368 (17.65%) Infrastructure as Code
9 363 (17.41%) Problem-Solving
10 339 (16.26%) AI
11 321 (15.40%) Continuous Improvement
12 311 (14.92%) Containerisation
13 258 (12.37%) Test Automation
14 252 (12.09%) Roadmaps
15 238 (11.41%) Coaching
16 209 (10.02%) Technical Leadership
17 204 (9.78%) Clean Code
18 183 (8.78%) Machine Learning
19 178 (8.54%) Observability
20 174 (8.35%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 641 (30.74%) Python
2 519 (24.89%) Java
3 315 (15.11%) JavaScript
4 314 (15.06%) TypeScript
5 303 (14.53%) SQL
6 217 (10.41%) Go
7 205 (9.83%) C#
8 126 (6.04%) Bash
9 80 (3.84%) PHP
10 71 (3.41%) Scala
11 65 (3.12%) C++
12 49 (2.35%) PowerShell
13 34 (1.63%) Ruby
14 33 (1.58%) Kotlin
15 25 (1.20%) Rust
16 14 (0.67%) Bicep
16 14 (0.67%) Shell Script
17 10 (0.48%) Swift
18 9 (0.43%) PL/SQL
19 8 (0.38%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 345 (16.55%) Degree
2 234 (11.22%) Security Cleared
3 222 (10.65%) AWS Certification
4 201 (9.64%) SC Cleared
5 134 (6.43%) Microsoft Certification
6 120 (5.76%) Computer Science Degree
7 104 (4.99%) MCSE
8 60 (2.88%) Azure Certification
9 53 (2.54%) CISSP
10 43 (2.06%) DV Cleared
11 37 (1.77%) Cisco Certification
11 37 (1.77%) CREST Certified
12 36 (1.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 33 (1.58%) TOGAF Certification
14 30 (1.44%) CISM
15 27 (1.29%) OSCP
16 26 (1.25%) DBS Check
17 21 (1.01%) CCNP
18 20 (0.96%) CCNA
18 20 (0.96%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 183 (8.78%) QA
2 94 (4.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 58 (2.78%) GDPR
4 57 (2.73%) NIST
5 51 (2.45%) PCI DSS
6 48 (2.30%) Accessibility
7 45 (2.16%) Data Quality
8 34 (1.63%) GRC
9 33 (1.58%) SOC 2
10 28 (1.34%) Cyber Essentials
11 23 (1.10%) SLA
12 17 (0.82%) NCSC
13 16 (0.77%) Actionable Recommendations
14 15 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 13 (0.62%) JSP 440
16 10 (0.48%) ISO 9001
16 10 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 42001
17 9 (0.43%) HMG Security Policy Framework
18 7 (0.34%) Government Security Classifications
19 6 (0.29%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 418 (20.05%) Docker
2 75 (3.60%) Active Directory
3 33 (1.58%) Hyper-V
4 29 (1.39%) VMware Infrastructure
5 15 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (0.67%) vSphere
7 7 (0.34%) Firmware
8 5 (0.24%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 5 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
8 5 (0.24%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.19%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 2 (0.096%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 2 (0.096%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.096%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.048%) KVM
11 1 (0.048%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 419 (20.10%) Terraform
2 382 (18.32%) Kubernetes
3 151 (7.24%) Ansible
4 143 (6.86%) Grafana
5 80 (3.84%) Prometheus
6 48 (2.30%) Argo
7 29 (1.39%) Microsoft Intune
7 29 (1.39%) Single Sign-On
8 19 (0.91%) Kustomize
9 18 (0.86%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 8 (0.38%) Istio
10 8 (0.38%) Nmap
10 8 (0.38%) Podman
10 8 (0.38%) Proxmox
11 7 (0.34%) Puppet
12 6 (0.29%) Cisco CUCM
12 6 (0.29%) Kibana
12 6 (0.29%) Packer
12 6 (0.29%) Progress Chef
13 5 (0.24%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 307 (14.72%) Microsoft
2 135 (6.47%) Google
3 111 (5.32%) ServiceNow
4 64 (3.07%) Cisco
5 56 (2.69%) VMware
6 55 (2.64%) Oracle
7 45 (2.16%) Typelevel
8 39 (1.87%) Apple
9 35 (1.68%) Splunk
10 33 (1.58%) Adobe
11 30 (1.44%) Databricks
11 30 (1.44%) Red Hat
12 28 (1.34%) Fortinet
12 28 (1.34%) Palo Alto
13 27 (1.29%) SolarWinds
14 26 (1.25%) Salesforce
15 25 (1.20%) SAP
16 18 (0.86%) Okta
17 17 (0.82%) Dell
18 15 (0.72%) NetScout