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

 6 months to
21 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 11 9
Rank change year-on-year +4 -2 -3
Permanent jobs citing AWS 2,183 2,283 4,628
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 11.63% 15.23% 14.22%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.62% 37.82% 33.07%
Number of salaries quoted 1,373 1,452 3,957
10th Percentile £46,446 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £71,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.11% +1.43% -6.67%
75th Percentile £90,000 £102,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £131,125 £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 7,129 6,036 13,994
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.97% 40.27% 43.00%
Number of salaries quoted 4,872 4,401 11,914
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,000 £35,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,272 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £79,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £108,750 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.54%

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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 21 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 (3.02%) Apache Airflow
2 39 (1.79%) Apache Spark
3 25 (1.15%) Apache
4 23 (1.05%) Microsoft Exchange
5 16 (0.73%) CMS
6 15 (0.69%) SharePoint
7 13 (0.60%) Confluence
8 9 (0.41%) nginx
9 7 (0.32%) Apache Solr
10 4 (0.18%) ArcGIS
10 4 (0.18%) Ethereum
10 4 (0.18%) GeoServer
10 4 (0.18%) Oracle Spatial
10 4 (0.18%) WordPress
11 3 (0.14%) Drupal
11 3 (0.14%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.14%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.092%) IIS
12 2 (0.092%) Oracle Application Server
12 2 (0.092%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 78 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (0.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (0.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (0.37%) MS Visio
4 6 (0.27%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
5 5 (0.23%) AutoCAD
5 5 (0.23%) DaVinci Resolve
6 3 (0.14%) Adobe Illustrator
6 3 (0.14%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.046%) EngageOne
7 1 (0.046%) PlantUML
7 1 (0.046%) Trello
Business Applications
1 24 (1.10%) Cloudability
2 6 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
2 6 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.23%) Shopify
4 3 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.092%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.092%) 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
1 903 (41.37%) Azure
2 566 (25.93%) GCP
3 275 (12.60%) Serverless
4 227 (10.40%) SaaS
5 183 (8.38%) GitHub
6 178 (8.15%) AWS Lambda
7 175 (8.02%) Amazon S3
8 132 (6.05%) Microsoft 365
9 126 (5.77%) Amazon EKS
10 94 (4.31%) Amazon EC2
11 91 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
12 87 (3.99%) GitHub Actions
13 85 (3.89%) Amazon ECS
14 79 (3.62%) Amazon SQS
15 58 (2.66%) Azure DevOps
16 53 (2.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 51 (2.34%) Entra ID
18 47 (2.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 43 (1.97%) Snowflake
20 35 (1.60%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 128 (5.86%) Firewall
2 127 (5.82%) Broadband
3 71 (3.25%) WAN
4 64 (2.93%) VPN
5 63 (2.89%) LAN
6 56 (2.57%) DNS
7 48 (2.20%) Wi-Fi
8 43 (1.97%) Network Security
9 40 (1.83%) TCP/IP
10 39 (1.79%) HTTP
11 35 (1.60%) SD-WAN
12 33 (1.51%) Cisco ASA
13 32 (1.47%) VXLAN
14 30 (1.37%) Cisco Firepower
15 29 (1.33%) DHCP
16 21 (0.96%) BGP
17 20 (0.92%) VLAN
18 18 (0.82%) MPLS
18 18 (0.82%) OSPF
18 18 (0.82%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 225 (10.31%) PostgreSQL
2 166 (7.60%) MongoDB
3 126 (5.77%) NoSQL
4 86 (3.94%) SQL Server
5 79 (3.62%) MySQL
6 66 (3.02%) Amazon RDS
7 64 (2.93%) DynamoDB
8 60 (2.75%) Elasticsearch
9 55 (2.52%) Relational Database
10 53 (2.43%) Metadata
11 49 (2.24%) Data Warehouse
12 39 (1.79%) Amazon Redshift
13 38 (1.74%) BigQuery
14 35 (1.60%) Amazon Athena
15 28 (1.28%) Tableau
16 26 (1.19%) Redis
17 25 (1.15%) Data Lake
18 22 (1.01%) Azure SQL Database
19 21 (0.96%) RDBMS
20 20 (0.92%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 119 (5.45%) Git
2 79 (3.62%) Jenkins
3 77 (3.53%) GitLab
4 58 (2.66%) TeamCity
5 54 (2.47%) Cypress.io
6 42 (1.92%) JIRA
7 18 (0.82%) Jaeger
8 17 (0.78%) CircleCI
9 16 (0.73%) Claude Code
9 16 (0.73%) Maven
10 14 (0.64%) JMeter
11 13 (0.60%) Crashlytics
11 13 (0.60%) MLflow
11 13 (0.60%) Selenium
11 13 (0.60%) XCTest
12 11 (0.50%) Bitbucket
13 10 (0.46%) JUnit
13 10 (0.46%) SonarQube
14 8 (0.37%) Mockito
15 7 (0.32%) Vite
General
1 518 (23.73%) Social Skills
2 476 (21.80%) Finance
3 254 (11.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 234 (10.72%) Public Sector
5 206 (9.44%) Banking
6 176 (8.06%) Law
7 136 (6.23%) Retail
8 125 (5.73%) Analytical Skills
9 54 (2.47%) Legal
10 52 (2.38%) Back Office
10 52 (2.38%) Financial Institution
11 50 (2.29%) Front Office
12 49 (2.24%) French Language
13 47 (2.15%) Influencing Skills
14 40 (1.83%) Games
15 30 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
15 30 (1.37%) Telecoms
16 28 (1.28%) Health Technology
16 28 (1.28%) Tech for Good
17 23 (1.05%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 508 (23.27%) Senior
2 441 (20.20%) Developer
3 386 (17.68%) Software Engineer
4 310 (14.20%) Lead
5 235 (10.77%) Architect
6 147 (6.73%) AWS Engineer
7 128 (5.86%) Full-Stack Developer
8 121 (5.54%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 117 (5.36%) Analyst
10 109 (4.99%) Senior Software Engineer
11 98 (4.49%) Lead Software Engineer
12 96 (4.40%) DevOps Engineer
12 96 (4.40%) Lead Developer
13 88 (4.03%) Data Engineer
14 87 (3.99%) Java Engineer
15 85 (3.89%) Software Developer
15 85 (3.89%) Solutions Architect
16 84 (3.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 82 (3.76%) Cloud Engineer
18 79 (3.62%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 381 (17.45%) React
2 295 (13.51%) Node.js
3 156 (7.15%) .NET
4 137 (6.28%) REST
5 130 (5.96%) Kafka
6 124 (5.68%) RESTful
7 116 (5.31%) Spring
8 102 (4.67%) CSS
9 90 (4.12%) Spring Boot
10 78 (3.57%) Vue
11 71 (3.25%) AngularJS
11 71 (3.25%) HTML
12 57 (2.61%) gRPC
13 53 (2.43%) .NET Core
14 51 (2.34%) Redux
15 43 (1.97%) GraphQL
16 42 (1.92%) Jest
17 39 (1.79%) AWS CDK
17 39 (1.79%) Ruby on Rails
18 38 (1.74%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 335 (15.35%) Cloud Native
2 171 (7.83%) Product Ownership
3 149 (6.83%) Distributed Systems
4 93 (4.26%) Public Cloud
5 70 (3.21%) Video\Live Streaming
6 69 (3.16%) Onboarding
7 68 (3.11%) Greenfield Project
8 64 (2.93%) Data Centre
9 55 (2.52%) Blog
10 54 (2.47%) Management Information System
11 53 (2.43%) Enterprise Software
12 50 (2.29%) Security Posture
13 46 (2.11%) Over-the-Top Content
14 45 (2.06%) Fixed Income
15 43 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
16 41 (1.88%) Mobile App
17 39 (1.79%) PKI
18 37 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
19 32 (1.47%) Data Structures
20 28 (1.28%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 185 (8.47%) Linux
2 103 (4.72%) Windows
3 56 (2.57%) Unix
4 46 (2.11%) Apple iOS
5 45 (2.06%) Windows Server
6 38 (1.74%) Android
7 19 (0.87%) Windows 10
8 15 (0.69%) Windows Server 2016
9 13 (0.60%) Windows Server 2012
10 12 (0.55%) Mac OS
10 12 (0.55%) Windows Server 2019
11 9 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 6 (0.27%) 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
1 734 (33.62%) CI/CD
2 651 (29.82%) Agile
3 644 (29.50%) Software Engineering
4 511 (23.41%) DevOps
5 498 (22.81%) Mentoring
6 423 (19.38%) Full-Stack Development
7 416 (19.06%) Microservices
8 384 (17.59%) AI
9 375 (17.18%) Infrastructure as Code
10 351 (16.08%) Continuous Improvement
11 341 (15.62%) Problem-Solving
12 312 (14.29%) Containerisation
13 303 (13.88%) Test Automation
14 282 (12.92%) Roadmaps
15 269 (12.32%) Technical Leadership
16 258 (11.82%) Coaching
17 225 (10.31%) Clean Code
18 206 (9.44%) Machine Learning
19 193 (8.84%) Observability
20 177 (8.11%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 625 (28.63%) Python
2 544 (24.92%) Java
3 343 (15.71%) TypeScript
4 337 (15.44%) JavaScript
5 307 (14.06%) SQL
6 206 (9.44%) Go
7 202 (9.25%) C#
8 117 (5.36%) Bash
9 76 (3.48%) Scala
10 69 (3.16%) C++
11 63 (2.89%) PHP
12 47 (2.15%) Ruby
13 37 (1.69%) PowerShell
14 30 (1.37%) Kotlin
15 28 (1.28%) Rust
16 16 (0.73%) PL/SQL
17 13 (0.60%) Swift
18 10 (0.46%) Bicep
19 9 (0.41%) Groovy
20 8 (0.37%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 278 (12.73%) Degree
1 278 (12.73%) Security Cleared
2 232 (10.63%) SC Cleared
3 199 (9.12%) AWS Certification
4 95 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
5 83 (3.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 71 (3.25%) MCSE
7 55 (2.52%) Azure Certification
8 54 (2.47%) CISSP
9 47 (2.15%) DV Cleared
10 41 (1.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 31 (1.42%) CISM
12 28 (1.28%) DBS Check
13 27 (1.24%) CREST Certified
14 26 (1.19%) Cisco Certification
14 26 (1.19%) TOGAF Certification
15 21 (0.96%) OSCP
16 16 (0.73%) CCNP
16 16 (0.73%) Master's Degree
17 15 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 170 (7.79%) QA
2 76 (3.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 55 (2.52%) NIST
4 53 (2.43%) Data Quality
5 49 (2.24%) Accessibility
6 39 (1.79%) PCI DSS
7 37 (1.69%) GDPR
8 25 (1.15%) GRC
9 22 (1.01%) NCSC
9 22 (1.01%) SOC 2
10 14 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials
11 13 (0.60%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 13 (0.60%) JSP 440
11 13 (0.60%) SLA
12 9 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
13 8 (0.37%) ISO 9001
14 7 (0.32%) Government Security Classifications
14 7 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 42001
15 6 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 6 (0.27%) WCAG
System Software
1 394 (18.05%) Docker
2 66 (3.02%) Active Directory
3 35 (1.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 31 (1.42%) Hyper-V
5 17 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
6 16 (0.73%) vSphere
7 6 (0.27%) Firmware
7 6 (0.27%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 6 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
8 4 (0.18%) KVM
8 4 (0.18%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 3 (0.14%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.092%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 2 (0.092%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.046%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 390 (17.87%) Terraform
2 352 (16.12%) Kubernetes
3 142 (6.50%) Ansible
4 120 (5.50%) Grafana
5 64 (2.93%) Prometheus
6 47 (2.15%) Argo
7 22 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
7 22 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
8 18 (0.82%) Kustomize
9 15 (0.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 12 (0.55%) Podman
11 11 (0.50%) Proxmox
12 10 (0.46%) Progress Chef
13 9 (0.41%) Cisco CUCM
13 9 (0.41%) 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
1 321 (14.70%) Microsoft
2 119 (5.45%) Google
3 100 (4.58%) ServiceNow
4 67 (3.07%) Cisco
5 57 (2.61%) VMware
6 51 (2.34%) Apple
7 47 (2.15%) Adobe
8 46 (2.11%) Oracle
9 45 (2.06%) Typelevel
10 35 (1.60%) SolarWinds
11 33 (1.51%) Databricks
12 30 (1.37%) Fortinet
12 30 (1.37%) Palo Alto
12 30 (1.37%) Splunk
13 23 (1.05%) Salesforce
14 22 (1.01%) Red Hat
14 22 (1.01%) SAP
15 19 (0.87%) CheckPoint
16 18 (0.82%) Dynatrace
17 17 (0.78%) Arista
1,015 hybrid/remote AWS jobs