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

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 11 9
Rank change year-on-year +4 -2 -3
Permanent jobs citing AWS 2,158 2,309 4,616
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 11.52% 15.30% 14.16%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.38% 37.83% 33.02%
Number of salaries quoted 1,360 1,476 3,950
10th Percentile £46,446 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £54,472 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% - -6.67%
75th Percentile £90,000 £102,500 £92,373
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 7,103 6,103 13,979
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.90% 40.43% 42.89%
Number of salaries quoted 4,863 4,464 11,919
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £35,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,719 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £79,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £108,292 £97,500
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

AWS
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing AWS over the 6 months to 19 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 66 (3.06%) Apache Airflow
2 39 (1.81%) Apache Spark
3 25 (1.16%) Apache
4 22 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
5 16 (0.74%) CMS
6 15 (0.70%) SharePoint
7 14 (0.65%) Confluence
8 9 (0.42%) nginx
9 7 (0.32%) Apache Solr
10 5 (0.23%) WordPress
11 4 (0.19%) ArcGIS
11 4 (0.19%) Ethereum
11 4 (0.19%) GeoServer
11 4 (0.19%) Oracle Spatial
12 3 (0.14%) Drupal
12 3 (0.14%) Jupyter
12 3 (0.14%) OpenStack
13 2 (0.093%) Headless CMS
13 2 (0.093%) JBoss
13 2 (0.093%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 74 (3.43%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
3 18 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.32%) MS Visio
5 6 (0.28%) Chatbot
5 6 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (0.23%) AutoCAD
6 5 (0.23%) DaVinci Resolve
7 3 (0.14%) Adobe Illustrator
7 3 (0.14%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.046%) EngageOne
8 1 (0.046%) PlantUML
8 1 (0.046%) Trello
Business Applications
1 24 (1.11%) Cloudability
2 6 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
3 5 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.23%) Shopify
4 3 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.093%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.093%) SAP HR
6 1 (0.046%) Magento
6 1 (0.046%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.046%) Sprinklr
6 1 (0.046%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 893 (41.38%) Azure
2 565 (26.18%) GCP
3 270 (12.51%) Serverless
4 229 (10.61%) SaaS
5 179 (8.29%) GitHub
6 173 (8.02%) AWS Lambda
7 171 (7.92%) Amazon S3
8 126 (5.84%) Amazon EKS
8 126 (5.84%) Microsoft 365
9 92 (4.26%) Amazon EC2
10 89 (4.12%) AWS CloudFormation
11 86 (3.99%) GitHub Actions
12 82 (3.80%) Amazon ECS
13 77 (3.57%) Amazon SQS
14 58 (2.69%) Azure DevOps
15 53 (2.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 52 (2.41%) Entra ID
17 46 (2.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 44 (2.04%) Snowflake
19 36 (1.67%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 131 (6.07%) Firewall
2 127 (5.89%) Broadband
3 73 (3.38%) WAN
4 65 (3.01%) LAN
4 65 (3.01%) VPN
5 56 (2.59%) DNS
6 48 (2.22%) Wi-Fi
7 45 (2.09%) Network Security
8 41 (1.90%) TCP/IP
9 40 (1.85%) HTTP
10 37 (1.71%) SD-WAN
11 34 (1.58%) Cisco ASA
12 32 (1.48%) VXLAN
13 30 (1.39%) Cisco Firepower
14 29 (1.34%) DHCP
15 22 (1.02%) BGP
16 21 (0.97%) VLAN
17 19 (0.88%) MPLS
17 19 (0.88%) OSPF
18 18 (0.83%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 219 (10.15%) PostgreSQL
2 161 (7.46%) MongoDB
3 121 (5.61%) NoSQL
4 89 (4.12%) SQL Server
5 75 (3.48%) MySQL
6 65 (3.01%) Amazon RDS
7 62 (2.87%) DynamoDB
8 60 (2.78%) Elasticsearch
9 54 (2.50%) Relational Database
10 52 (2.41%) Metadata
11 48 (2.22%) Data Warehouse
12 39 (1.81%) Amazon Redshift
12 39 (1.81%) BigQuery
13 34 (1.58%) Amazon Athena
14 27 (1.25%) Redis
14 27 (1.25%) Tableau
15 25 (1.16%) Data Lake
16 22 (1.02%) Azure SQL Database
17 21 (0.97%) RDBMS
18 20 (0.93%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 122 (5.65%) Git
2 78 (3.61%) Jenkins
3 77 (3.57%) GitLab
4 57 (2.64%) TeamCity
5 53 (2.46%) Cypress.io
6 42 (1.95%) JIRA
7 18 (0.83%) Jaeger
8 17 (0.79%) CircleCI
9 14 (0.65%) JMeter
9 14 (0.65%) Maven
10 13 (0.60%) Claude Code
10 13 (0.60%) Crashlytics
10 13 (0.60%) MLflow
10 13 (0.60%) Selenium
10 13 (0.60%) XCTest
11 12 (0.56%) Bitbucket
12 10 (0.46%) SonarQube
13 8 (0.37%) JUnit
14 7 (0.32%) Storybook
14 7 (0.32%) Vite
General
1 508 (23.54%) Social Skills
2 473 (21.92%) Finance
3 251 (11.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 227 (10.52%) Public Sector
5 204 (9.45%) Banking
6 173 (8.02%) Law
7 136 (6.30%) Retail
8 121 (5.61%) Analytical Skills
9 51 (2.36%) Back Office
9 51 (2.36%) Financial Institution
9 51 (2.36%) Legal
10 50 (2.32%) Front Office
11 49 (2.27%) French Language
12 48 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
13 41 (1.90%) Games
14 31 (1.44%) Telecoms
15 29 (1.34%) Presentation Skills
16 28 (1.30%) Health Technology
16 28 (1.30%) Tech for Good
17 25 (1.16%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 509 (23.59%) Senior
2 437 (20.25%) Developer
3 379 (17.56%) Software Engineer
4 306 (14.18%) Lead
5 233 (10.80%) Architect
6 147 (6.81%) AWS Engineer
7 127 (5.89%) Full-Stack Developer
8 122 (5.65%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 112 (5.19%) Analyst
10 109 (5.05%) Senior Software Engineer
11 96 (4.45%) DevOps Engineer
12 95 (4.40%) Lead Software Engineer
13 94 (4.36%) Lead Developer
14 88 (4.08%) Data Engineer
15 87 (4.03%) Java Engineer
16 85 (3.94%) Solutions Architect
17 83 (3.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 83 (3.85%) Software Developer
18 79 (3.66%) Cloud Engineer
18 79 (3.66%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 380 (17.61%) React
2 288 (13.35%) Node.js
3 160 (7.41%) .NET
4 135 (6.26%) REST
5 130 (6.02%) Kafka
6 119 (5.51%) RESTful
7 110 (5.10%) Spring
8 104 (4.82%) CSS
9 88 (4.08%) Spring Boot
10 78 (3.61%) Vue
11 74 (3.43%) HTML
12 69 (3.20%) AngularJS
13 57 (2.64%) gRPC
14 56 (2.59%) .NET Core
15 53 (2.46%) Redux
16 45 (2.09%) GraphQL
17 41 (1.90%) Jest
18 39 (1.81%) AWS CDK
19 38 (1.76%) ASP.NET
20 37 (1.71%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 332 (15.38%) Cloud Native
2 168 (7.78%) Product Ownership
3 149 (6.90%) Distributed Systems
4 93 (4.31%) Public Cloud
5 70 (3.24%) Greenfield Project
5 70 (3.24%) Video\Live Streaming
6 68 (3.15%) Onboarding
7 65 (3.01%) Data Centre
8 55 (2.55%) Blog
9 53 (2.46%) Enterprise Software
9 53 (2.46%) Management Information System
10 49 (2.27%) Security Posture
11 46 (2.13%) Over-the-Top Content
12 45 (2.09%) Fixed Income
13 41 (1.90%) Mobile App
13 41 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
14 39 (1.81%) Hybrid Cloud
14 39 (1.81%) PKI
15 31 (1.44%) Data Structures
16 27 (1.25%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 180 (8.34%) Linux
2 100 (4.63%) Windows
3 57 (2.64%) Unix
4 46 (2.13%) Apple iOS
5 42 (1.95%) Windows Server
6 38 (1.76%) Android
7 20 (0.93%) Windows 10
8 15 (0.70%) Windows Server 2016
9 13 (0.60%) Windows Server 2012
10 12 (0.56%) Mac OS
10 12 (0.56%) Windows Server 2019
11 9 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 6 (0.28%) Ubuntu
13 3 (0.14%) CentOS
14 1 (0.046%) Debian
14 1 (0.046%) FreeBSD
14 1 (0.046%) Mac OS X
14 1 (0.046%) VMS
14 1 (0.046%) Windows 7
14 1 (0.046%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 723 (33.50%) CI/CD
2 644 (29.84%) Agile
3 631 (29.24%) Software Engineering
4 513 (23.77%) DevOps
5 497 (23.03%) Mentoring
6 422 (19.56%) Full-Stack Development
7 407 (18.86%) Microservices
8 373 (17.28%) AI
9 371 (17.19%) Infrastructure as Code
10 347 (16.08%) Continuous Improvement
11 334 (15.48%) Problem-Solving
12 303 (14.04%) Containerisation
13 297 (13.76%) Test Automation
14 278 (12.88%) Roadmaps
15 266 (12.33%) Technical Leadership
16 253 (11.72%) Coaching
17 222 (10.29%) Clean Code
18 204 (9.45%) Machine Learning
19 188 (8.71%) Observability
20 173 (8.02%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 616 (28.54%) Python
2 534 (24.75%) Java
3 342 (15.85%) TypeScript
4 330 (15.29%) JavaScript
5 301 (13.95%) SQL
6 207 (9.59%) Go
7 204 (9.45%) C#
8 117 (5.42%) Bash
9 76 (3.52%) Scala
10 68 (3.15%) C++
11 65 (3.01%) PHP
12 43 (1.99%) Ruby
13 35 (1.62%) PowerShell
14 29 (1.34%) Kotlin
15 28 (1.30%) Rust
16 14 (0.65%) PL/SQL
17 13 (0.60%) Swift
18 10 (0.46%) Bicep
19 8 (0.37%) Groovy
19 8 (0.37%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 275 (12.74%) Degree
2 269 (12.47%) Security Cleared
3 223 (10.33%) SC Cleared
4 192 (8.90%) AWS Certification
5 91 (4.22%) Microsoft Certification
6 85 (3.94%) Computer Science Degree
7 67 (3.10%) MCSE
8 54 (2.50%) Azure Certification
9 53 (2.46%) CISSP
10 45 (2.09%) DV Cleared
11 41 (1.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 30 (1.39%) CISM
13 28 (1.30%) DBS Check
14 27 (1.25%) Cisco Certification
14 27 (1.25%) CREST Certified
15 26 (1.20%) TOGAF Certification
16 21 (0.97%) OSCP
17 17 (0.79%) CCNP
17 17 (0.79%) Master's Degree
18 14 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 165 (7.65%) QA
2 73 (3.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 53 (2.46%) NIST
4 51 (2.36%) Data Quality
5 49 (2.27%) Accessibility
6 39 (1.81%) PCI DSS
7 37 (1.71%) GDPR
8 25 (1.16%) GRC
9 22 (1.02%) SOC 2
10 21 (0.97%) NCSC
11 13 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
11 13 (0.60%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 13 (0.60%) JSP 440
11 13 (0.60%) SLA
12 9 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
13 8 (0.37%) ISO 9001
14 7 (0.32%) Government Security Classifications
14 7 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 42001
15 6 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 6 (0.28%) WCAG
System Software
1 386 (17.89%) Docker
2 67 (3.10%) Active Directory
3 35 (1.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 31 (1.44%) Hyper-V
5 17 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
6 16 (0.74%) vSphere
7 6 (0.28%) Firmware
7 6 (0.28%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 6 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
8 4 (0.19%) KVM
8 4 (0.19%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 3 (0.14%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.093%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 2 (0.093%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.046%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 388 (17.98%) Terraform
2 345 (15.99%) Kubernetes
3 145 (6.72%) Ansible
4 120 (5.56%) Grafana
5 64 (2.97%) Prometheus
6 46 (2.13%) Argo
7 23 (1.07%) Single Sign-On
8 22 (1.02%) Microsoft Intune
9 18 (0.83%) Kustomize
10 15 (0.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 12 (0.56%) Podman
12 11 (0.51%) Proxmox
13 9 (0.42%) Cisco CUCM
13 9 (0.42%) Progress Chef
14 8 (0.37%) Istio
14 8 (0.37%) Packer
15 7 (0.32%) Puppet
16 5 (0.23%) AWS Copilot
16 5 (0.23%) HP Fortify
16 5 (0.23%) Nmap
Vendors
1 313 (14.50%) Microsoft
2 119 (5.51%) Google
3 95 (4.40%) ServiceNow
4 68 (3.15%) Cisco
5 56 (2.59%) VMware
6 51 (2.36%) Apple
7 47 (2.18%) Adobe
8 45 (2.09%) Typelevel
9 42 (1.95%) Oracle
10 34 (1.58%) SolarWinds
11 33 (1.53%) Databricks
12 31 (1.44%) Fortinet
12 31 (1.44%) Palo Alto
13 29 (1.34%) Splunk
14 22 (1.02%) Red Hat
14 22 (1.02%) Salesforce
15 20 (0.93%) SAP
16 19 (0.88%) CheckPoint
17 18 (0.83%) Dynatrace
18 17 (0.79%) Arista