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

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 9 9
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 -3
Permanent jobs citing AWS 2,121 2,381 4,589
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 11.50% 16.29% 14.10%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.33% 37.86% 32.83%
Number of salaries quoted 1,351 1,537 3,949
10th Percentile £46,446 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.57% -3.45%
75th Percentile £90,000 £102,500 £91,250
90th Percentile £103,250 £132,500 £115,000
UK median annual salary £72,250 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -0.34% +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 6,993 6,289 13,977
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.93% 43.03% 42.95%
Number of salaries quoted 4,803 4,612 11,959
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £35,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £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 £83,000 £79,125
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,250 £57,500
% change year-on-year +3.73% +4.78% -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 11 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 72 (3.39%) Apache Airflow
2 41 (1.93%) Apache Spark
3 26 (1.23%) Apache
4 21 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
5 17 (0.80%) CMS
6 15 (0.71%) Confluence
7 14 (0.66%) SharePoint
8 11 (0.52%) nginx
9 7 (0.33%) Apache Solr
10 6 (0.28%) WordPress
11 4 (0.19%) ArcGIS
11 4 (0.19%) Drupal
11 4 (0.19%) Ethereum
11 4 (0.19%) GeoServer
11 4 (0.19%) Oracle Spatial
12 3 (0.14%) Apache Pulsar
12 3 (0.14%) OpenStack
12 3 (0.14%) SAS
13 2 (0.094%) JBoss
13 2 (0.094%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 76 (3.58%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
3 18 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.33%) MS Visio
5 6 (0.28%) Chatbot
5 6 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (0.24%) AutoCAD
6 5 (0.24%) DaVinci Resolve
7 4 (0.19%) Adobe Illustrator
7 4 (0.19%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.047%) EngageOne
8 1 (0.047%) Notion
8 1 (0.047%) Trello
Business Applications
1 24 (1.13%) Cloudability
2 7 (0.33%) 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 (0.094%) 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
1 894 (42.15%) Azure
2 567 (26.73%) GCP
3 272 (12.82%) Serverless
4 224 (10.56%) SaaS
5 184 (8.68%) GitHub
6 177 (8.35%) AWS Lambda
7 171 (8.06%) Amazon S3
8 127 (5.99%) Microsoft 365
9 113 (5.33%) Amazon EKS
10 90 (4.24%) Amazon EC2
11 87 (4.10%) AWS CloudFormation
12 85 (4.01%) GitHub Actions
13 77 (3.63%) Amazon ECS
14 75 (3.54%) Amazon SQS
15 58 (2.73%) Azure DevOps
16 53 (2.50%) Entra ID
17 51 (2.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 45 (2.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 42 (1.98%) Snowflake
20 39 (1.84%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 133 (6.27%) Firewall
2 127 (5.99%) Broadband
3 74 (3.49%) WAN
4 65 (3.06%) LAN
5 64 (3.02%) VPN
6 54 (2.55%) DNS
7 48 (2.26%) Network Security
7 48 (2.26%) Wi-Fi
8 41 (1.93%) TCP/IP
9 39 (1.84%) SD-WAN
10 38 (1.79%) HTTP
11 35 (1.65%) Cisco ASA
12 32 (1.51%) VXLAN
13 30 (1.41%) Cisco Firepower
14 28 (1.32%) DHCP
15 23 (1.08%) BGP
16 22 (1.04%) VLAN
17 21 (0.99%) MPLS
18 20 (0.94%) OSPF
19 19 (0.90%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 209 (9.85%) PostgreSQL
2 155 (7.31%) MongoDB
3 118 (5.56%) NoSQL
4 98 (4.62%) SQL Server
5 71 (3.35%) MySQL
6 66 (3.11%) Amazon RDS
7 60 (2.83%) DynamoDB
7 60 (2.83%) Elasticsearch
8 54 (2.55%) Relational Database
9 53 (2.50%) Metadata
10 48 (2.26%) Data Warehouse
11 42 (1.98%) BigQuery
12 40 (1.89%) Amazon Redshift
13 35 (1.65%) Amazon Athena
14 28 (1.32%) Tableau
15 27 (1.27%) Redis
16 25 (1.18%) Data Lake
17 22 (1.04%) Azure SQL Database
18 21 (0.99%) RDBMS
19 20 (0.94%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 123 (5.80%) Git
2 82 (3.87%) Jenkins
3 78 (3.68%) GitLab
4 54 (2.55%) Cypress.io
5 47 (2.22%) TeamCity
6 42 (1.98%) JIRA
7 20 (0.94%) CircleCI
8 18 (0.85%) Jaeger
9 14 (0.66%) JMeter
9 14 (0.66%) Selenium
10 13 (0.61%) Bitbucket
10 13 (0.61%) MLflow
11 12 (0.57%) Crashlytics
11 12 (0.57%) Maven
11 12 (0.57%) XCTest
12 11 (0.52%) Claude Code
13 10 (0.47%) SonarQube
14 8 (0.38%) Vite
15 7 (0.33%) Locust
15 7 (0.33%) Storybook
General
1 516 (24.33%) Social Skills
2 452 (21.31%) Finance
3 233 (10.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 219 (10.33%) Public Sector
5 185 (8.72%) Banking
6 162 (7.64%) Law
7 125 (5.89%) Retail
8 121 (5.70%) Analytical Skills
9 51 (2.40%) French Language
9 51 (2.40%) Front Office
10 50 (2.36%) Influencing Skills
10 50 (2.36%) Legal
11 43 (2.03%) Back Office
11 43 (2.03%) Financial Institution
12 42 (1.98%) Telecoms
13 41 (1.93%) Games
14 31 (1.46%) Tech for Good
15 30 (1.41%) Health Technology
16 29 (1.37%) Marketing
17 28 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 498 (23.48%) Senior
2 432 (20.37%) Developer
3 349 (16.45%) Software Engineer
4 289 (13.63%) Lead
5 225 (10.61%) Architect
6 142 (6.69%) AWS Engineer
7 126 (5.94%) Full-Stack Developer
8 116 (5.47%) Analyst
8 116 (5.47%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 100 (4.71%) Senior Software Engineer
10 97 (4.57%) DevOps Engineer
11 95 (4.48%) Lead Developer
12 93 (4.38%) Data Engineer
13 85 (4.01%) Java Engineer
14 84 (3.96%) Lead Software Engineer
15 83 (3.91%) Software Developer
16 82 (3.87%) Solutions Architect
17 81 (3.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 80 (3.77%) Cloud Engineer
19 75 (3.54%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 377 (17.77%) React
2 283 (13.34%) Node.js
3 160 (7.54%) .NET
4 138 (6.51%) Kafka
5 127 (5.99%) REST
6 116 (5.47%) RESTful
7 105 (4.95%) CSS
8 103 (4.86%) Spring
9 86 (4.05%) Spring Boot
10 77 (3.63%) Vue
11 76 (3.58%) HTML
12 73 (3.44%) AngularJS
13 63 (2.97%) gRPC
14 55 (2.59%) .NET Core
15 53 (2.50%) Redux
16 44 (2.07%) GraphQL
17 40 (1.89%) Jest
18 39 (1.84%) ASP.NET
19 36 (1.70%) JSON
19 36 (1.70%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 323 (15.23%) Cloud Native
2 159 (7.50%) Product Ownership
3 149 (7.02%) Distributed Systems
4 89 (4.20%) Public Cloud
5 69 (3.25%) Video\Live Streaming
6 68 (3.21%) Onboarding
7 66 (3.11%) Greenfield Project
8 64 (3.02%) Data Centre
9 56 (2.64%) Enterprise Software
10 54 (2.55%) Management Information System
11 52 (2.45%) Blog
11 52 (2.45%) Security Posture
12 46 (2.17%) Over-the-Top Content
13 45 (2.12%) Fixed Income
14 41 (1.93%) Mobile App
15 40 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
16 38 (1.79%) Hybrid Cloud
16 38 (1.79%) PKI
17 31 (1.46%) Data Structures
18 29 (1.37%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 180 (8.49%) Linux
2 99 (4.67%) Windows
3 57 (2.69%) Unix
4 46 (2.17%) Apple iOS
5 42 (1.98%) Android
5 42 (1.98%) Windows Server
6 20 (0.94%) Windows 10
7 15 (0.71%) Windows Server 2016
8 13 (0.61%) Windows Server 2012
9 12 (0.57%) Mac OS
9 12 (0.57%) Windows Server 2019
10 9 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 6 (0.28%) Ubuntu
12 3 (0.14%) CentOS
13 1 (0.047%) Debian
13 1 (0.047%) FreeBSD
13 1 (0.047%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.047%) VMS
13 1 (0.047%) Windows 7
13 1 (0.047%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 710 (33.47%) CI/CD
2 637 (30.03%) Agile
3 597 (28.15%) Software Engineering
4 513 (24.19%) DevOps
5 487 (22.96%) Mentoring
6 419 (19.75%) Full-Stack Development
7 395 (18.62%) Microservices
8 367 (17.30%) AI
9 363 (17.11%) Infrastructure as Code
10 336 (15.84%) Continuous Improvement
11 328 (15.46%) Problem-Solving
12 301 (14.19%) Containerisation
13 280 (13.20%) Test Automation
14 276 (13.01%) Roadmaps
15 246 (11.60%) Technical Leadership
16 242 (11.41%) Coaching
17 205 (9.67%) Clean Code
18 203 (9.57%) Machine Learning
19 188 (8.86%) Observability
20 172 (8.11%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 626 (29.51%) Python
2 517 (24.38%) Java
3 334 (15.75%) TypeScript
4 324 (15.28%) JavaScript
5 304 (14.33%) SQL
6 212 (10.00%) Go
7 209 (9.85%) C#
8 120 (5.66%) Bash
9 76 (3.58%) Scala
10 70 (3.30%) C++
10 70 (3.30%) PHP
11 42 (1.98%) Ruby
12 35 (1.65%) PowerShell
13 28 (1.32%) Kotlin
13 28 (1.32%) Rust
14 13 (0.61%) Bicep
14 13 (0.61%) PL/SQL
15 12 (0.57%) Swift
16 9 (0.42%) Shell Script
17 8 (0.38%) C
Qualifications
1 283 (13.34%) Degree
2 262 (12.35%) Security Cleared
3 217 (10.23%) SC Cleared
4 191 (9.01%) AWS Certification
5 96 (4.53%) Computer Science Degree
6 95 (4.48%) Microsoft Certification
7 69 (3.25%) MCSE
8 52 (2.45%) CISSP
9 49 (2.31%) Azure Certification
10 46 (2.17%) DV Cleared
11 44 (2.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 30 (1.41%) CISM
13 29 (1.37%) Cisco Certification
14 28 (1.32%) DBS Check
14 28 (1.32%) TOGAF Certification
15 26 (1.23%) CREST Certified
16 20 (0.94%) OSCP
17 18 (0.85%) CCNP
17 18 (0.85%) Master's Degree
18 13 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 167 (7.87%) QA
2 73 (3.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 53 (2.50%) NIST
4 52 (2.45%) Data Quality
5 51 (2.40%) Accessibility
6 41 (1.93%) GDPR
6 41 (1.93%) PCI DSS
7 28 (1.32%) GRC
8 23 (1.08%) SOC 2
9 21 (0.99%) NCSC
10 16 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
11 14 (0.66%) JSP 440
12 12 (0.57%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 12 (0.57%) SLA
13 9 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
13 9 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 8 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 42001
15 7 (0.33%) Government Security Classifications
16 6 (0.28%) ISO 9001
16 6 (0.28%) WCAG
System Software
1 393 (18.53%) Docker
2 67 (3.16%) Active Directory
3 33 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 29 (1.37%) Hyper-V
5 16 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
6 15 (0.71%) vSphere
7 6 (0.28%) Firmware
7 6 (0.28%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 6 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
8 4 (0.19%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 3 (0.14%) KVM
9 3 (0.14%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.094%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 2 (0.094%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.047%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 379 (17.87%) Terraform
2 338 (15.94%) Kubernetes
3 146 (6.88%) Ansible
4 112 (5.28%) Grafana
5 66 (3.11%) Prometheus
6 51 (2.40%) Argo
7 26 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
8 21 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
9 18 (0.85%) Kustomize
10 15 (0.71%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 12 (0.57%) Podman
12 10 (0.47%) Proxmox
13 9 (0.42%) Cisco CUCM
13 9 (0.42%) Progress Chef
14 8 (0.38%) Istio
14 8 (0.38%) Packer
14 8 (0.38%) Puppet
15 5 (0.24%) AWS Copilot
15 5 (0.24%) HP Fortify
15 5 (0.24%) Nmap
Vendors
1 311 (14.66%) Microsoft
2 121 (5.70%) Google
3 97 (4.57%) ServiceNow
4 70 (3.30%) Cisco
5 54 (2.55%) VMware
6 52 (2.45%) Apple
7 47 (2.22%) Adobe
8 45 (2.12%) Typelevel
9 42 (1.98%) Oracle
10 34 (1.60%) Palo Alto
10 34 (1.60%) SolarWinds
11 32 (1.51%) Fortinet
12 31 (1.46%) Databricks
13 29 (1.37%) Splunk
14 25 (1.18%) Red Hat
15 23 (1.08%) Salesforce
16 21 (0.99%) SAP
17 19 (0.90%) CheckPoint
18 18 (0.85%) Dynatrace
19 17 (0.80%) Arista