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

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 11 9
Rank change year-on-year +4 -2 -3
Permanent jobs citing AWS 2,169 2,300 4,617
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 11.54% 15.23% 14.18%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.50% 37.72% 33.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1,364 1,465 3,950
10th Percentile £46,446 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £54,388 £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 7,111 6,097 13,990
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.84% 40.39% 42.95%
Number of salaries quoted 4,863 4,452 11,920
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £35,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,464 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,169 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.67% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £79,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £108,717 £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 20 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 (3.04%) Apache Airflow
2 39 (1.80%) Apache Spark
3 25 (1.15%) Apache
4 23 (1.06%) Microsoft Exchange
5 16 (0.74%) CMS
6 15 (0.69%) SharePoint
7 14 (0.65%) 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%) Headless CMS
12 2 (0.092%) IIS
12 2 (0.092%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 78 (3.60%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (0.37%) MS Visio
4 6 (0.28%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.28%) 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 (1.11%) 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 (0.092%) 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
1 894 (41.22%) Azure
2 563 (25.96%) GCP
3 271 (12.49%) Serverless
4 229 (10.56%) SaaS
5 181 (8.34%) GitHub
6 174 (8.02%) AWS Lambda
7 172 (7.93%) Amazon S3
8 131 (6.04%) Microsoft 365
9 126 (5.81%) Amazon EKS
10 93 (4.29%) Amazon EC2
11 90 (4.15%) AWS CloudFormation
12 87 (4.01%) GitHub Actions
13 83 (3.83%) Amazon ECS
14 78 (3.60%) Amazon SQS
15 58 (2.67%) Azure DevOps
16 53 (2.44%) Entra ID
17 52 (2.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 47 (2.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 43 (1.98%) Snowflake
20 35 (1.61%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 130 (5.99%) Firewall
2 127 (5.86%) Broadband
3 72 (3.32%) WAN
4 65 (3.00%) VPN
5 64 (2.95%) LAN
6 56 (2.58%) DNS
7 48 (2.21%) Wi-Fi
8 44 (2.03%) Network Security
9 41 (1.89%) TCP/IP
10 40 (1.84%) HTTP
11 36 (1.66%) SD-WAN
12 34 (1.57%) Cisco ASA
13 32 (1.48%) VXLAN
14 30 (1.38%) Cisco Firepower
15 29 (1.34%) DHCP
16 22 (1.01%) BGP
17 21 (0.97%) VLAN
18 19 (0.88%) MPLS
18 19 (0.88%) OSPF
19 18 (0.83%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 222 (10.24%) PostgreSQL
2 163 (7.51%) MongoDB
3 122 (5.62%) NoSQL
4 88 (4.06%) SQL Server
5 75 (3.46%) MySQL
6 64 (2.95%) Amazon RDS
7 62 (2.86%) DynamoDB
8 60 (2.77%) Elasticsearch
9 54 (2.49%) Relational Database
10 53 (2.44%) Metadata
11 48 (2.21%) Data Warehouse
12 39 (1.80%) Amazon Redshift
13 38 (1.75%) BigQuery
14 34 (1.57%) Amazon Athena
15 28 (1.29%) Redis
15 28 (1.29%) Tableau
16 25 (1.15%) Data Lake
17 22 (1.01%) Azure SQL Database
18 21 (0.97%) RDBMS
19 20 (0.92%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 119 (5.49%) Git
2 78 (3.60%) Jenkins
3 77 (3.55%) GitLab
4 57 (2.63%) TeamCity
5 54 (2.49%) Cypress.io
6 42 (1.94%) JIRA
7 18 (0.83%) Jaeger
8 17 (0.78%) 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 (0.55%) Bitbucket
12 10 (0.46%) SonarQube
13 8 (0.37%) JUnit
14 7 (0.32%) Storybook
14 7 (0.32%) Vite
General
1 516 (23.79%) Social Skills
2 473 (21.81%) Finance
3 253 (11.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 230 (10.60%) Public Sector
5 205 (9.45%) Banking
6 174 (8.02%) Law
7 135 (6.22%) Retail
8 123 (5.67%) Analytical Skills
9 53 (2.44%) Legal
10 51 (2.35%) Back Office
10 51 (2.35%) Financial Institution
11 50 (2.31%) Front Office
12 49 (2.26%) French Language
13 48 (2.21%) Influencing Skills
14 40 (1.84%) Games
15 31 (1.43%) Telecoms
16 30 (1.38%) Presentation Skills
17 28 (1.29%) Health Technology
17 28 (1.29%) Tech for Good
18 23 (1.06%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 509 (23.47%) Senior
2 438 (20.19%) Developer
3 379 (17.47%) Software Engineer
4 305 (14.06%) Lead
5 233 (10.74%) Architect
6 147 (6.78%) AWS Engineer
7 128 (5.90%) Full-Stack Developer
8 121 (5.58%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 117 (5.39%) Analyst
10 110 (5.07%) Senior Software Engineer
11 97 (4.47%) DevOps Engineer
12 95 (4.38%) Lead Software Engineer
13 94 (4.33%) Lead Developer
14 87 (4.01%) Data Engineer
14 87 (4.01%) Java Engineer
15 85 (3.92%) Solutions Architect
16 84 (3.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 84 (3.87%) Software Developer
17 81 (3.73%) Cloud Engineer
18 79 (3.64%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 380 (17.52%) React
2 289 (13.32%) Node.js
3 158 (7.28%) .NET
4 135 (6.22%) REST
5 129 (5.95%) Kafka
6 120 (5.53%) RESTful
7 113 (5.21%) Spring
8 101 (4.66%) CSS
9 89 (4.10%) Spring Boot
10 78 (3.60%) Vue
11 71 (3.27%) HTML
12 70 (3.23%) AngularJS
13 57 (2.63%) gRPC
14 55 (2.54%) .NET Core
15 51 (2.35%) Redux
16 45 (2.07%) GraphQL
17 42 (1.94%) Jest
18 39 (1.80%) AWS CDK
18 39 (1.80%) Ruby on Rails
19 38 (1.75%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 334 (15.40%) Cloud Native
2 170 (7.84%) Product Ownership
3 148 (6.82%) Distributed Systems
4 94 (4.33%) Public Cloud
5 70 (3.23%) Video\Live Streaming
6 69 (3.18%) Greenfield Project
7 68 (3.14%) Onboarding
8 64 (2.95%) Data Centre
9 55 (2.54%) Blog
10 53 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
10 53 (2.44%) Management Information System
11 49 (2.26%) Security Posture
12 46 (2.12%) Over-the-Top Content
13 45 (2.07%) Fixed Income
14 41 (1.89%) Mobile App
14 41 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
15 39 (1.80%) PKI
16 37 (1.71%) Hybrid Cloud
17 32 (1.48%) Data Structures
18 27 (1.24%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 182 (8.39%) Linux
2 101 (4.66%) Windows
3 57 (2.63%) Unix
4 46 (2.12%) Apple iOS
5 43 (1.98%) Windows Server
6 38 (1.75%) Android
7 19 (0.88%) 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 (0.28%) 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
1 726 (33.47%) CI/CD
2 646 (29.78%) Agile
3 635 (29.28%) Software Engineering
4 512 (23.61%) DevOps
5 494 (22.78%) Mentoring
6 422 (19.46%) Full-Stack Development
7 409 (18.86%) Microservices
8 374 (17.24%) AI
9 372 (17.15%) Infrastructure as Code
10 349 (16.09%) Continuous Improvement
11 338 (15.58%) Problem-Solving
12 304 (14.02%) Containerisation
13 299 (13.79%) Test Automation
14 281 (12.96%) Roadmaps
15 268 (12.36%) Technical Leadership
16 254 (11.71%) Coaching
17 221 (10.19%) Clean Code
18 203 (9.36%) Machine Learning
19 190 (8.76%) Observability
20 174 (8.02%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 618 (28.49%) Python
2 536 (24.71%) Java
3 340 (15.68%) TypeScript
4 328 (15.12%) JavaScript
5 299 (13.79%) SQL
6 207 (9.54%) Go
7 203 (9.36%) C#
8 117 (5.39%) Bash
9 76 (3.50%) Scala
10 68 (3.14%) C++
11 63 (2.90%) PHP
12 47 (2.17%) Ruby
13 35 (1.61%) PowerShell
14 29 (1.34%) Kotlin
15 28 (1.29%) Rust
16 14 (0.65%) PL/SQL
17 13 (0.60%) Swift
18 10 (0.46%) Bicep
19 9 (0.41%) Groovy
20 8 (0.37%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 277 (12.77%) Degree
2 274 (12.63%) Security Cleared
3 227 (10.47%) SC Cleared
4 198 (9.13%) AWS Certification
5 95 (4.38%) Microsoft Certification
6 83 (3.83%) Computer Science Degree
7 71 (3.27%) MCSE
8 54 (2.49%) Azure Certification
9 53 (2.44%) CISSP
10 46 (2.12%) DV Cleared
11 41 (1.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 30 (1.38%) CISM
13 28 (1.29%) DBS Check
14 27 (1.24%) Cisco Certification
14 27 (1.24%) CREST Certified
15 26 (1.20%) TOGAF Certification
16 21 (0.97%) OSCP
17 17 (0.78%) CCNP
17 17 (0.78%) Master's Degree
18 15 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 170 (7.84%) QA
2 73 (3.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 53 (2.44%) NIST
4 52 (2.40%) Data Quality
5 49 (2.26%) Accessibility
6 39 (1.80%) PCI DSS
7 37 (1.71%) GDPR
8 25 (1.15%) GRC
9 22 (1.01%) 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 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
13 8 (0.37%) ISO 9001
14 7 (0.32%) Government Security Classifications
14 7 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 42001
15 6 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 6 (0.28%) WCAG
System Software
1 389 (17.93%) Docker
2 67 (3.09%) Active Directory
3 35 (1.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 31 (1.43%) Hyper-V
5 17 (0.78%) 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 (0.18%) 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
1 391 (18.03%) Terraform
2 347 (16.00%) Kubernetes
3 144 (6.64%) Ansible
4 120 (5.53%) Grafana
5 64 (2.95%) Prometheus
6 46 (2.12%) Argo
7 23 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
8 22 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
9 18 (0.83%) Kustomize
10 15 (0.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 12 (0.55%) Podman
12 11 (0.51%) Proxmox
13 10 (0.46%) Progress Chef
14 9 (0.41%) Cisco CUCM
14 9 (0.41%) Istio
15 8 (0.37%) Packer
16 7 (0.32%) Puppet
17 5 (0.23%) AWS Copilot
17 5 (0.23%) HP Fortify
17 5 (0.23%) Nmap
Vendors
1 319 (14.71%) Microsoft
2 118 (5.44%) Google
3 99 (4.56%) ServiceNow
4 68 (3.14%) Cisco
5 56 (2.58%) VMware
6 51 (2.35%) Apple
7 47 (2.17%) Adobe
8 45 (2.07%) Typelevel
9 43 (1.98%) Oracle
10 34 (1.57%) SolarWinds
11 33 (1.52%) Databricks
12 31 (1.43%) Fortinet
12 31 (1.43%) Palo Alto
13 29 (1.34%) Splunk
14 22 (1.01%) Red Hat
14 22 (1.01%) Salesforce
15 20 (0.92%) SAP
16 19 (0.88%) CheckPoint
17 18 (0.83%) Dynatrace
18 17 (0.78%) Arista