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

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 12 9
Rank change year-on-year +4 -3 -3
Permanent jobs citing AWS 2,092 1,975 4,544
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 11.53% 14.67% 13.97%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.62% 33.67% 32.46%
Number of salaries quoted 1,327 1,565 3,935
10th Percentile £46,250 £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 £102,410 £90,000
90th Percentile £105,500 £127,500 £115,000
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 6,833 5,865 13,999
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.67% 43.55% 43.03%
Number of salaries quoted 4,628 4,635 12,011
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £35,640
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £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 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £108,750 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £61,182 £57,500
% change year-on-year +2.16% +6.40% -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

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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 2 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 74 (3.54%) Apache Airflow
2 41 (1.96%) Apache Spark
3 26 (1.24%) Apache
4 22 (1.05%) Microsoft Exchange
5 17 (0.81%) CMS
6 14 (0.67%) Confluence
7 13 (0.62%) nginx
7 13 (0.62%) SharePoint
8 8 (0.38%) WordPress
9 7 (0.33%) Apache Solr
10 6 (0.29%) Drupal
11 5 (0.24%) ArcGIS
11 5 (0.24%) Ethereum
11 5 (0.24%) GeoServer
11 5 (0.24%) Oracle Spatial
12 4 (0.19%) Apache Pulsar
13 3 (0.14%) OpenStack
13 3 (0.14%) SAS
14 2 (0.096%) Camunda
14 2 (0.096%) Jupyter
Applications
1 83 (3.97%) 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 16 (0.76%) Cloudability
2 8 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
3 7 (0.33%) Shopify
4 4 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
5 3 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.096%) SAP HR
7 1 (0.048%) Magento
7 1 (0.048%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (0.048%) Sprinklr
7 1 (0.048%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 872 (41.68%) Azure
2 567 (27.10%) GCP
3 273 (13.05%) Serverless
4 224 (10.71%) SaaS
5 184 (8.80%) GitHub
6 179 (8.56%) AWS Lambda
7 174 (8.32%) Amazon S3
8 135 (6.45%) Microsoft 365
9 121 (5.78%) Amazon EKS
10 92 (4.40%) AWS CloudFormation
11 89 (4.25%) Amazon EC2
12 87 (4.16%) GitHub Actions
13 79 (3.78%) Amazon ECS
14 78 (3.73%) Amazon SQS
15 60 (2.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 59 (2.82%) Entra ID
17 57 (2.72%) Azure DevOps
18 43 (2.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 39 (1.86%) dbt
19 39 (1.86%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 131 (6.26%) Firewall
2 119 (5.69%) Broadband
3 71 (3.39%) WAN
4 62 (2.96%) LAN
5 61 (2.92%) VPN
6 56 (2.68%) DNS
7 49 (2.34%) Wi-Fi
8 44 (2.10%) Network Security
9 43 (2.06%) TCP/IP
10 38 (1.82%) HTTP
11 36 (1.72%) SD-WAN
12 32 (1.53%) Cisco ASA
13 31 (1.48%) VXLAN
14 29 (1.39%) DHCP
15 28 (1.34%) Cisco Firepower
16 24 (1.15%) BGP
17 22 (1.05%) VLAN
18 20 (0.96%) MPLS
18 20 (0.96%) OSPF
19 18 (0.86%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 198 (9.46%) PostgreSQL
2 128 (6.12%) MongoDB
3 123 (5.88%) NoSQL
4 110 (5.26%) SQL Server
5 73 (3.49%) MySQL
6 67 (3.20%) Amazon RDS
7 61 (2.92%) DynamoDB
8 55 (2.63%) Relational Database
9 53 (2.53%) Metadata
10 49 (2.34%) Data Warehouse
11 42 (2.01%) Amazon Redshift
11 42 (2.01%) Elasticsearch
12 41 (1.96%) BigQuery
13 35 (1.67%) Amazon Athena
14 28 (1.34%) Tableau
15 26 (1.24%) Data Lake
16 24 (1.15%) Redis
17 22 (1.05%) RDBMS
18 20 (0.96%) Apache Iceberg
19 18 (0.86%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 125 (5.98%) Git
2 92 (4.40%) Jenkins
3 91 (4.35%) GitLab
4 54 (2.58%) Cypress.io
5 52 (2.49%) TeamCity
6 41 (1.96%) 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 12 (0.57%) Crashlytics
13 12 (0.57%) XCTest
14 10 (0.48%) JUnit
15 8 (0.38%) Maven
15 8 (0.38%) Oracle Forms
15 8 (0.38%) Subversion
General
1 541 (25.86%) Social Skills
2 453 (21.65%) Finance
3 228 (10.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 214 (10.23%) Public Sector
5 191 (9.13%) Banking
6 168 (8.03%) Law
7 134 (6.41%) Retail
8 123 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
9 58 (2.77%) French Language
10 52 (2.49%) Financial Institution
10 52 (2.49%) Front Office
10 52 (2.49%) Influencing Skills
11 51 (2.44%) Legal
12 48 (2.29%) Back Office
13 47 (2.25%) Telecoms
14 34 (1.63%) Games
15 32 (1.53%) Tech for Good
16 31 (1.48%) Health Technology
16 31 (1.48%) Marketing
17 27 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 482 (23.04%) Senior
2 401 (19.17%) Developer
3 349 (16.68%) Software Engineer
4 288 (13.77%) Lead
5 213 (10.18%) Architect
6 140 (6.69%) AWS Engineer
7 118 (5.64%) Full-Stack Developer
8 116 (5.54%) Analyst
8 116 (5.54%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 102 (4.88%) DevOps Engineer
10 101 (4.83%) Senior Software Engineer
11 94 (4.49%) Data Engineer
12 92 (4.40%) Lead Developer
13 89 (4.25%) Java Engineer
14 83 (3.97%) Cloud Engineer
14 83 (3.97%) Lead Software Engineer
14 83 (3.97%) Software Developer
15 77 (3.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 73 (3.49%) Solutions Architect
17 72 (3.44%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 362 (17.30%) React
2 262 (12.52%) Node.js
3 143 (6.84%) Kafka
4 141 (6.74%) .NET
5 116 (5.54%) REST
6 106 (5.07%) RESTful
7 104 (4.97%) Spring
8 102 (4.88%) CSS
9 92 (4.40%) Spring Boot
10 71 (3.39%) HTML
11 67 (3.20%) AngularJS
12 66 (3.15%) Vue
13 65 (3.11%) gRPC
14 51 (2.44%) Redux
15 44 (2.10%) Django
16 42 (2.01%) .NET Core
16 42 (2.01%) Elastic Stack
17 41 (1.96%) GraphQL
18 38 (1.82%) Jest
19 37 (1.77%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 316 (15.11%) Cloud Native
2 153 (7.31%) Product Ownership
3 143 (6.84%) Distributed Systems
4 89 (4.25%) Public Cloud
5 67 (3.20%) Onboarding
6 66 (3.15%) Greenfield Project
7 61 (2.92%) Data Centre
8 60 (2.87%) Enterprise Software
8 60 (2.87%) Video\Live Streaming
9 55 (2.63%) Management Information System
10 53 (2.53%) Blog
11 51 (2.44%) Security Posture
12 46 (2.20%) Fixed Income
12 46 (2.20%) Over-the-Top Content
13 41 (1.96%) Mobile App
13 41 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
14 39 (1.86%) Hybrid Cloud
15 36 (1.72%) PKI
16 32 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
17 31 (1.48%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 185 (8.84%) Linux
2 104 (4.97%) Windows
3 59 (2.82%) Unix
4 47 (2.25%) Apple iOS
5 45 (2.15%) Windows Server
6 44 (2.10%) Android
7 22 (1.05%) Windows 10
8 17 (0.81%) Windows Server 2016
9 15 (0.72%) Mac OS
9 15 (0.72%) Windows Server 2012
10 14 (0.67%) Windows Server 2019
11 10 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 9 (0.43%) Ubuntu
13 5 (0.24%) CentOS
14 1 (0.048%) Debian
14 1 (0.048%) FreeBSD
14 1 (0.048%) Mac OS X
14 1 (0.048%) VMS
14 1 (0.048%) Windows 7
14 1 (0.048%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 700 (33.46%) CI/CD
2 623 (29.78%) Agile
3 593 (28.35%) Software Engineering
4 523 (25.00%) DevOps
5 476 (22.75%) Mentoring
6 383 (18.31%) Full-Stack Development
7 382 (18.26%) Microservices
8 358 (17.11%) Infrastructure as Code
9 347 (16.59%) AI
10 341 (16.30%) Problem-Solving
11 321 (15.34%) Continuous Improvement
12 306 (14.63%) Containerisation
13 278 (13.29%) Test Automation
14 277 (13.24%) Roadmaps
15 247 (11.81%) Coaching
16 238 (11.38%) Technical Leadership
17 202 (9.66%) Clean Code
18 194 (9.27%) Machine Learning
19 182 (8.70%) Observability
20 173 (8.27%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 625 (29.88%) Python
2 532 (25.43%) Java
3 322 (15.39%) TypeScript
4 309 (14.77%) JavaScript
5 292 (13.96%) SQL
6 211 (10.09%) Go
7 201 (9.61%) C#
8 122 (5.83%) Bash
9 76 (3.63%) PHP
9 76 (3.63%) Scala
10 70 (3.35%) C++
11 39 (1.86%) Ruby
12 37 (1.77%) PowerShell
13 29 (1.39%) Kotlin
14 28 (1.34%) Rust
15 14 (0.67%) Bicep
16 12 (0.57%) Swift
17 11 (0.53%) Shell Script
18 10 (0.48%) C
18 10 (0.48%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 298 (14.24%) Degree
2 247 (11.81%) Security Cleared
3 204 (9.75%) SC Cleared
4 195 (9.32%) AWS Certification
5 108 (5.16%) Microsoft Certification
6 102 (4.88%) Computer Science Degree
7 79 (3.78%) MCSE
8 51 (2.44%) CISSP
9 50 (2.39%) Azure Certification
10 45 (2.15%) DV Cleared
11 38 (1.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 32 (1.53%) Cisco Certification
13 30 (1.43%) CISM
13 30 (1.43%) DBS Check
13 30 (1.43%) TOGAF Certification
14 27 (1.29%) CREST Certified
15 20 (0.96%) CCNP
15 20 (0.96%) OSCP
16 18 (0.86%) Master's Degree
17 15 (0.72%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 172 (8.22%) QA
2 78 (3.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 52 (2.49%) NIST
4 50 (2.39%) Data Quality
5 49 (2.34%) Accessibility
6 45 (2.15%) GDPR
7 43 (2.06%) PCI DSS
8 31 (1.48%) GRC
9 26 (1.24%) SOC 2
10 23 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials
11 19 (0.91%) NCSC
12 14 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 13 (0.62%) JSP 440
14 12 (0.57%) SLA
15 11 (0.53%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 9 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
16 9 (0.43%) ISO 9001
17 8 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 42001
18 7 (0.33%) Government Security Classifications
19 6 (0.29%) WCAG
System Software
1 395 (18.88%) Docker
2 70 (3.35%) Active Directory
3 34 (1.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 33 (1.58%) Hyper-V
5 16 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
6 15 (0.72%) vSphere
7 6 (0.29%) Firmware
8 5 (0.24%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 5 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
9 4 (0.19%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 3 (0.14%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.096%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 2 (0.096%) KVM
11 2 (0.096%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.048%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 392 (18.74%) Terraform
2 347 (16.59%) Kubernetes
3 147 (7.03%) Ansible
4 128 (6.12%) Grafana
5 72 (3.44%) Prometheus
6 55 (2.63%) Argo
7 28 (1.34%) Single Sign-On
8 23 (1.10%) Microsoft Intune
9 19 (0.91%) Kustomize
10 17 (0.81%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 12 (0.57%) Podman
12 9 (0.43%) Proxmox
13 8 (0.38%) Cisco CUCM
13 8 (0.38%) Istio
13 8 (0.38%) Packer
13 8 (0.38%) Progress Chef
13 8 (0.38%) Puppet
14 5 (0.24%) AWS Copilot
14 5 (0.24%) HP Fortify
14 5 (0.24%) Nmap
Vendors
1 298 (14.24%) Microsoft
2 129 (6.17%) Google
3 96 (4.59%) ServiceNow
4 68 (3.25%) Cisco
5 57 (2.72%) VMware
6 49 (2.34%) Oracle
7 45 (2.15%) Typelevel
8 44 (2.10%) Apple
9 39 (1.86%) Adobe
10 34 (1.63%) SolarWinds
11 32 (1.53%) Palo Alto
12 31 (1.48%) Databricks
12 31 (1.48%) Splunk
13 29 (1.39%) Fortinet
14 27 (1.29%) Red Hat
15 24 (1.15%) Salesforce
16 21 (1.00%) SAP
17 18 (0.86%) Okta
18 17 (0.81%) Arista
18 17 (0.81%) Dynatrace