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

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 12 9
Rank change year-on-year +4 -3 -2
Permanent jobs citing AWS 2,086 2,067 4,516
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 11.65% 15.44% 13.90%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.73% 34.49% 32.21%
Number of salaries quoted 1,329 1,598 3,927
10th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.07% +3.57% -3.45%
75th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £122,500 £113,750
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 6,788 5,993 14,020
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.91% 44.78% 43.16%
Number of salaries quoted 4,579 4,696 12,054
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,750 £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 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,225 £57,500
% change year-on-year -3.58% +8.22% -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 23 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 72 (3.45%) Apache Airflow
2 39 (1.87%) Apache Spark
3 25 (1.20%) Apache
4 21 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
5 17 (0.81%) CMS
6 14 (0.67%) Confluence
7 13 (0.62%) nginx
8 11 (0.53%) SharePoint
9 9 (0.43%) WordPress
10 6 (0.29%) Drupal
10 6 (0.29%) Ethereum
11 5 (0.24%) Apache Pulsar
11 5 (0.24%) Apache Solr
11 5 (0.24%) ArcGIS
11 5 (0.24%) GeoServer
11 5 (0.24%) Oracle Spatial
12 3 (0.14%) IIS
12 3 (0.14%) OpenStack
12 3 (0.14%) SAS
13 2 (0.096%) JBoss
Applications
1 93 (4.46%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (0.81%) 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%) Cloudability
2 9 (0.43%) Shopify
3 8 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
4 5 (0.24%) 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
1 877 (42.04%) Azure
2 565 (27.09%) GCP
3 278 (13.33%) Serverless
4 222 (10.64%) SaaS
5 191 (9.16%) GitHub
6 186 (8.92%) AWS Lambda
7 181 (8.68%) Amazon S3
8 144 (6.90%) Microsoft 365
9 128 (6.14%) Amazon EKS
10 94 (4.51%) AWS CloudFormation
11 90 (4.31%) GitHub Actions
12 86 (4.12%) Amazon EC2
13 81 (3.88%) Amazon SQS
14 79 (3.79%) Amazon ECS
15 64 (3.07%) Entra ID
16 60 (2.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 55 (2.64%) Azure DevOps
18 41 (1.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 39 (1.87%) dbt
20 38 (1.82%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 128 (6.14%) Firewall
2 112 (5.37%) Broadband
3 69 (3.31%) WAN
4 61 (2.92%) LAN
5 60 (2.88%) VPN
6 56 (2.68%) DNS
7 50 (2.40%) Wi-Fi
8 43 (2.06%) TCP/IP
9 41 (1.97%) Network Security
10 35 (1.68%) SD-WAN
11 34 (1.63%) HTTP
12 31 (1.49%) Cisco ASA
13 29 (1.39%) DHCP
13 29 (1.39%) VXLAN
14 27 (1.29%) Cisco Firepower
15 23 (1.10%) BGP
15 23 (1.10%) VLAN
16 19 (0.91%) OSPF
17 18 (0.86%) MPLS
17 18 (0.86%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 190 (9.11%) PostgreSQL
2 130 (6.23%) NoSQL
3 122 (5.85%) MongoDB
4 108 (5.18%) SQL Server
5 77 (3.69%) MySQL
6 68 (3.26%) Amazon RDS
7 61 (2.92%) DynamoDB
8 57 (2.73%) Relational Database
9 49 (2.35%) Data Warehouse
10 48 (2.30%) Metadata
11 42 (2.01%) Amazon Redshift
11 42 (2.01%) BigQuery
12 37 (1.77%) Elasticsearch
13 33 (1.58%) Amazon Athena
14 28 (1.34%) Tableau
15 26 (1.25%) Data Lake
16 22 (1.05%) RDBMS
16 22 (1.05%) Redis
17 20 (0.96%) Apache Iceberg
18 17 (0.81%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 135 (6.47%) Git
2 89 (4.27%) Jenkins
3 87 (4.17%) GitLab
4 55 (2.64%) Cypress.io
5 52 (2.49%) TeamCity
6 42 (2.01%) JIRA
7 22 (1.05%) Selenium
8 20 (0.96%) CircleCI
9 19 (0.91%) Jaeger
10 15 (0.72%) Bitbucket
10 15 (0.72%) JMeter
11 14 (0.67%) Cucumber
12 13 (0.62%) MLflow
12 13 (0.62%) SonarQube
13 11 (0.53%) Crashlytics
13 11 (0.53%) XCTest
14 10 (0.48%) JUnit
15 9 (0.43%) Subversion
16 8 (0.38%) Maven
16 8 (0.38%) Oracle Forms
General
1 567 (27.18%) Social Skills
2 447 (21.43%) Finance
3 221 (10.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 203 (9.73%) Public Sector
5 184 (8.82%) Banking
6 166 (7.96%) Law
7 139 (6.66%) Retail
8 126 (6.04%) Analytical Skills
9 68 (3.26%) French Language
10 53 (2.54%) Financial Institution
10 53 (2.54%) Front Office
10 53 (2.54%) Telecoms
11 51 (2.44%) Influencing Skills
12 50 (2.40%) Legal
13 48 (2.30%) Back Office
14 33 (1.58%) Games
14 33 (1.58%) Marketing
15 30 (1.44%) Health Technology
15 30 (1.44%) Tech for Good
16 27 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 482 (23.11%) Senior
2 406 (19.46%) Developer
3 352 (16.87%) Software Engineer
4 286 (13.71%) Lead
5 200 (9.59%) Architect
6 137 (6.57%) AWS Engineer
7 123 (5.90%) Analyst
8 119 (5.70%) Full-Stack Developer
8 119 (5.70%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 103 (4.94%) Senior Software Engineer
10 100 (4.79%) DevOps Engineer
10 100 (4.79%) Lead Developer
11 94 (4.51%) Data Engineer
12 86 (4.12%) Java Engineer
13 84 (4.03%) Cloud Engineer
14 79 (3.79%) Lead Software Engineer
15 78 (3.74%) Software Developer
16 77 (3.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 76 (3.64%) Service Analyst
17 76 (3.64%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 374 (17.93%) React
2 258 (12.37%) Node.js
3 147 (7.05%) .NET
4 146 (7.00%) Kafka
5 117 (5.61%) REST
6 108 (5.18%) Spring
7 107 (5.13%) CSS
8 106 (5.08%) RESTful
9 93 (4.46%) Spring Boot
10 79 (3.79%) HTML
11 71 (3.40%) Vue
12 68 (3.26%) AngularJS
12 68 (3.26%) gRPC
13 52 (2.49%) Redux
14 48 (2.30%) Django
15 46 (2.21%) .NET Core
16 43 (2.06%) Elastic Stack
17 41 (1.97%) GraphQL
18 37 (1.77%) React Native
19 36 (1.73%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 302 (14.48%) Cloud Native
2 149 (7.14%) Product Ownership
3 141 (6.76%) Distributed Systems
4 86 (4.12%) Public Cloud
5 68 (3.26%) Onboarding
6 64 (3.07%) Greenfield Project
7 59 (2.83%) Enterprise Software
8 58 (2.78%) Data Centre
9 57 (2.73%) Management Information System
10 54 (2.59%) Video\Live Streaming
11 52 (2.49%) Blog
12 50 (2.40%) Security Posture
13 47 (2.25%) Fixed Income
14 46 (2.21%) Over-the-Top Content
15 44 (2.11%) Mobile App
16 41 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
17 38 (1.82%) Hybrid Cloud
18 36 (1.73%) Data Structures
19 34 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
19 34 (1.63%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 187 (8.96%) Linux
2 101 (4.84%) Windows
3 60 (2.88%) Unix
4 51 (2.44%) Apple iOS
5 50 (2.40%) Android
6 48 (2.30%) Windows Server
7 24 (1.15%) Windows 10
8 18 (0.86%) Windows Server 2016
9 16 (0.77%) Mac OS
9 16 (0.77%) Windows Server 2012
10 15 (0.72%) Windows Server 2019
11 11 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 9 (0.43%) Ubuntu
13 5 (0.24%) CentOS
14 2 (0.096%) VMS
15 1 (0.048%) Debian
15 1 (0.048%) FreeBSD
15 1 (0.048%) Mac OS X
15 1 (0.048%) OpenBSD
15 1 (0.048%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 701 (33.60%) CI/CD
2 620 (29.72%) Agile
3 597 (28.62%) Software Engineering
4 529 (25.36%) DevOps
5 472 (22.63%) Mentoring
6 383 (18.36%) Full-Stack Development
7 381 (18.26%) Microservices
8 353 (16.92%) Problem-Solving
9 350 (16.78%) Infrastructure as Code
10 341 (16.35%) AI
11 323 (15.48%) Continuous Improvement
12 314 (15.05%) Containerisation
13 266 (12.75%) Roadmaps
14 265 (12.70%) Test Automation
15 246 (11.79%) Coaching
16 223 (10.69%) Technical Leadership
17 194 (9.30%) Clean Code
18 190 (9.11%) Machine Learning
19 173 (8.29%) Observability
20 167 (8.01%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 622 (29.82%) Python
2 523 (25.07%) Java
3 325 (15.58%) TypeScript
4 318 (15.24%) JavaScript
5 295 (14.14%) SQL
6 214 (10.26%) Go
7 202 (9.68%) C#
8 120 (5.75%) Bash
9 80 (3.84%) PHP
10 74 (3.55%) Scala
11 68 (3.26%) C++
12 39 (1.87%) PowerShell
13 36 (1.73%) Ruby
14 29 (1.39%) Kotlin
15 28 (1.34%) Rust
16 14 (0.67%) Bicep
17 12 (0.58%) Shell Script
18 11 (0.53%) Swift
19 10 (0.48%) C
20 9 (0.43%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 322 (15.44%) Degree
2 229 (10.98%) Security Cleared
3 205 (9.83%) AWS Certification
4 195 (9.35%) SC Cleared
5 120 (5.75%) Microsoft Certification
6 112 (5.37%) Computer Science Degree
7 91 (4.36%) MCSE
8 52 (2.49%) Azure Certification
8 52 (2.49%) CISSP
9 42 (2.01%) DV Cleared
10 36 (1.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 34 (1.63%) Cisco Certification
12 32 (1.53%) TOGAF Certification
13 30 (1.44%) CISM
13 30 (1.44%) DBS Check
14 29 (1.39%) CREST Certified
15 21 (1.01%) CCNP
15 21 (1.01%) OSCP
16 19 (0.91%) Master's Degree
17 17 (0.81%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 176 (8.44%) QA
2 80 (3.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 52 (2.49%) NIST
4 48 (2.30%) Accessibility
5 47 (2.25%) GDPR
6 46 (2.21%) Data Quality
7 42 (2.01%) PCI DSS
8 30 (1.44%) GRC
9 26 (1.25%) SOC 2
10 25 (1.20%) Cyber Essentials
11 17 (0.81%) NCSC
12 15 (0.72%) SLA
13 14 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 12 (0.58%) JSP 440
15 10 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
15 10 (0.48%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 9 (0.43%) ISO 9001
17 7 (0.34%) Government Security Classifications
17 7 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 42001
18 6 (0.29%) WCAG
System Software
1 410 (19.65%) Docker
2 73 (3.50%) Active Directory
3 33 (1.58%) Hyper-V
4 32 (1.53%) VMware Infrastructure
5 15 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
5 15 (0.72%) vSphere
6 7 (0.34%) Firmware
7 5 (0.24%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 5 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
8 4 (0.19%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 4 (0.19%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.096%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 2 (0.096%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.048%) KVM
10 1 (0.048%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.048%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 397 (19.03%) Terraform
2 362 (17.35%) Kubernetes
3 149 (7.14%) Ansible
4 131 (6.28%) Grafana
5 74 (3.55%) Prometheus
6 55 (2.64%) Argo
7 29 (1.39%) Single Sign-On
8 27 (1.29%) Microsoft Intune
9 19 (0.91%) Kustomize
10 18 (0.86%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 12 (0.58%) Podman
12 8 (0.38%) Cisco CUCM
12 8 (0.38%) Istio
12 8 (0.38%) Proxmox
12 8 (0.38%) Puppet
13 7 (0.34%) Progress Chef
14 6 (0.29%) Nmap
14 6 (0.29%) Packer
15 5 (0.24%) AWS Copilot
15 5 (0.24%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 301 (14.43%) Microsoft
2 131 (6.28%) Google
3 103 (4.94%) ServiceNow
4 68 (3.26%) Cisco
5 57 (2.73%) VMware
6 51 (2.44%) Oracle
7 45 (2.16%) Typelevel
8 42 (2.01%) Apple
9 36 (1.73%) Adobe
10 33 (1.58%) SolarWinds
11 32 (1.53%) Splunk
12 31 (1.49%) Palo Alto
13 29 (1.39%) Databricks
13 29 (1.39%) Fortinet
14 28 (1.34%) Red Hat
15 24 (1.15%) Salesforce
16 21 (1.01%) SAP
17 18 (0.86%) Okta
18 16 (0.77%) Arista
18 16 (0.77%) Dynatrace