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

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 10 9
Rank change year-on-year +2 -1 -3
Permanent jobs citing AWS 2,112 2,259 4,561
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 11.57% 15.88% 14.04%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.57% 36.91% 32.67%
Number of salaries quoted 1,332 1,526 3,935
10th Percentile £46,446 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,750 £71,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.75% +2.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £90,000 £102,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £103,750 £130,000 £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 6,909 6,120 13,960
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.86% 43.03% 42.98%
Number of salaries quoted 4,693 4,570 11,968
10th Percentile £34,460 £32,500 £35,750
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 £83,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £108,875 £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 8 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 73 (3.46%) Apache Airflow
2 42 (1.99%) Apache Spark
3 26 (1.23%) Apache
4 21 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
5 17 (0.80%) CMS
6 14 (0.66%) Confluence
7 13 (0.62%) SharePoint
8 12 (0.57%) nginx
9 7 (0.33%) Apache Solr
9 7 (0.33%) WordPress
10 5 (0.24%) ArcGIS
10 5 (0.24%) Drupal
10 5 (0.24%) Ethereum
10 5 (0.24%) GeoServer
10 5 (0.24%) Oracle Spatial
11 3 (0.14%) Apache Pulsar
11 3 (0.14%) OpenStack
11 3 (0.14%) SAS
12 2 (0.095%) JBoss
12 2 (0.095%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 83 (3.93%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
3 18 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.33%) MS Visio
5 6 (0.28%) Chatbot
5 6 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (0.24%) AutoCAD
6 5 (0.24%) DaVinci Resolve
7 4 (0.19%) Adobe Illustrator
7 4 (0.19%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.047%) EngageOne
8 1 (0.047%) Notion
8 1 (0.047%) Trello
Business Applications
1 20 (0.95%) Cloudability
2 7 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
3 6 (0.28%) Shopify
4 4 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
5 3 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.095%) SAP HR
7 1 (0.047%) Magento
7 1 (0.047%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (0.047%) Sprinklr
7 1 (0.047%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 876 (41.48%) Azure
2 567 (26.85%) GCP
3 269 (12.74%) Serverless
4 226 (10.70%) SaaS
5 181 (8.57%) GitHub
6 175 (8.29%) AWS Lambda
7 171 (8.10%) Amazon S3
8 132 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
9 118 (5.59%) Amazon EKS
10 90 (4.26%) AWS CloudFormation
11 89 (4.21%) Amazon EC2
12 87 (4.12%) GitHub Actions
13 80 (3.79%) Amazon ECS
14 76 (3.60%) Amazon SQS
15 57 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
16 53 (2.51%) Entra ID
17 52 (2.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 45 (2.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 41 (1.94%) Snowflake
20 39 (1.85%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 131 (6.20%) Firewall
2 129 (6.11%) Broadband
3 74 (3.50%) WAN
4 65 (3.08%) LAN
5 63 (2.98%) VPN
6 55 (2.60%) DNS
7 49 (2.32%) Wi-Fi
8 48 (2.27%) Network Security
9 42 (1.99%) TCP/IP
10 39 (1.85%) SD-WAN
11 38 (1.80%) HTTP
12 35 (1.66%) Cisco ASA
13 32 (1.52%) VXLAN
14 30 (1.42%) Cisco Firepower
15 28 (1.33%) DHCP
16 24 (1.14%) BGP
17 23 (1.09%) VLAN
18 21 (0.99%) MPLS
19 20 (0.95%) OSPF
20 19 (0.90%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 206 (9.75%) PostgreSQL
2 149 (7.05%) MongoDB
3 119 (5.63%) NoSQL
4 99 (4.69%) SQL Server
5 72 (3.41%) MySQL
6 65 (3.08%) Amazon RDS
7 60 (2.84%) DynamoDB
8 54 (2.56%) Relational Database
9 53 (2.51%) Metadata
10 52 (2.46%) Elasticsearch
11 49 (2.32%) Data Warehouse
12 42 (1.99%) BigQuery
13 41 (1.94%) Amazon Redshift
14 35 (1.66%) Amazon Athena
15 28 (1.33%) Tableau
16 26 (1.23%) Data Lake
16 26 (1.23%) Redis
17 22 (1.04%) RDBMS
18 20 (0.95%) Apache Iceberg
19 18 (0.85%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 123 (5.82%) Git
2 85 (4.02%) Jenkins
3 80 (3.79%) GitLab
4 55 (2.60%) Cypress.io
5 52 (2.46%) TeamCity
6 41 (1.94%) JIRA
7 20 (0.95%) CircleCI
8 19 (0.90%) Jaeger
9 15 (0.71%) JMeter
10 14 (0.66%) Bitbucket
10 14 (0.66%) Selenium
11 13 (0.62%) MLflow
12 12 (0.57%) Crashlytics
12 12 (0.57%) SonarQube
12 12 (0.57%) XCTest
13 11 (0.52%) Claude Code
14 10 (0.47%) Maven
15 8 (0.38%) Vite
16 7 (0.33%) Locust
16 7 (0.33%) Storybook
General
1 528 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 449 (21.26%) Finance
3 234 (11.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 218 (10.32%) Public Sector
5 189 (8.95%) Banking
6 167 (7.91%) Law
7 134 (6.34%) Retail
8 122 (5.78%) Analytical Skills
9 58 (2.75%) French Language
10 51 (2.41%) Front Office
10 51 (2.41%) Legal
11 49 (2.32%) Back Office
11 49 (2.32%) Financial Institution
11 49 (2.32%) Influencing Skills
12 42 (1.99%) Telecoms
13 41 (1.94%) Games
14 31 (1.47%) Tech for Good
15 30 (1.42%) Health Technology
16 29 (1.37%) Marketing
16 29 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 491 (23.25%) Senior
2 414 (19.60%) Developer
3 349 (16.52%) Software Engineer
4 286 (13.54%) Lead
5 223 (10.56%) Architect
6 142 (6.72%) AWS Engineer
7 123 (5.82%) Full-Stack Developer
8 119 (5.63%) Analyst
9 116 (5.49%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 101 (4.78%) Senior Software Engineer
11 99 (4.69%) DevOps Engineer
12 94 (4.45%) Data Engineer
13 92 (4.36%) Lead Developer
14 87 (4.12%) Java Engineer
15 84 (3.98%) Lead Software Engineer
16 82 (3.88%) Cloud Engineer
17 80 (3.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 79 (3.74%) Solutions Architect
19 78 (3.69%) Software Developer
20 73 (3.46%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 369 (17.47%) React
2 270 (12.78%) Node.js
3 151 (7.15%) .NET
4 139 (6.58%) Kafka
5 120 (5.68%) REST
6 116 (5.49%) RESTful
7 103 (4.88%) CSS
8 97 (4.59%) Spring
9 83 (3.93%) Spring Boot
10 75 (3.55%) HTML
11 73 (3.46%) Vue
12 69 (3.27%) AngularJS
13 63 (2.98%) gRPC
14 52 (2.46%) Redux
15 47 (2.23%) .NET Core
16 43 (2.04%) GraphQL
17 40 (1.89%) Jest
18 36 (1.70%) Django
18 36 (1.70%) JSON
18 36 (1.70%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 322 (15.25%) Cloud Native
2 156 (7.39%) Product Ownership
3 149 (7.05%) Distributed Systems
4 87 (4.12%) Public Cloud
5 70 (3.31%) Video\Live Streaming
6 69 (3.27%) Onboarding
7 66 (3.13%) Greenfield Project
8 63 (2.98%) Data Centre
9 56 (2.65%) Enterprise Software
10 55 (2.60%) Management Information System
11 53 (2.51%) Blog
12 51 (2.41%) Security Posture
13 46 (2.18%) Over-the-Top Content
14 45 (2.13%) Fixed Income
15 41 (1.94%) Mobile App
15 41 (1.94%) Self-Motivation
16 39 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
17 36 (1.70%) PKI
18 32 (1.52%) Data Structures
19 29 (1.37%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 186 (8.81%) Linux
2 101 (4.78%) Windows
3 58 (2.75%) Unix
4 46 (2.18%) Apple iOS
5 43 (2.04%) Windows Server
6 42 (1.99%) Android
7 21 (0.99%) Windows 10
8 16 (0.76%) Windows Server 2016
9 14 (0.66%) Windows Server 2012
10 13 (0.62%) Mac OS
10 13 (0.62%) Windows Server 2019
11 10 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 9 (0.43%) Ubuntu
13 5 (0.24%) CentOS
14 1 (0.047%) Debian
14 1 (0.047%) FreeBSD
14 1 (0.047%) Mac OS X
14 1 (0.047%) VMS
14 1 (0.047%) Windows 7
14 1 (0.047%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 708 (33.52%) CI/CD
2 628 (29.73%) Agile
3 596 (28.22%) Software Engineering
4 511 (24.20%) DevOps
5 477 (22.59%) Mentoring
6 406 (19.22%) Full-Stack Development
7 387 (18.32%) Microservices
8 369 (17.47%) Infrastructure as Code
9 360 (17.05%) AI
10 335 (15.86%) Continuous Improvement
11 333 (15.77%) Problem-Solving
12 301 (14.25%) Containerisation
13 283 (13.40%) Test Automation
14 276 (13.07%) Roadmaps
15 243 (11.51%) Coaching
16 234 (11.08%) Technical Leadership
17 208 (9.85%) Clean Code
18 203 (9.61%) Machine Learning
19 189 (8.95%) Observability
20 170 (8.05%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 630 (29.83%) Python
2 515 (24.38%) Java
3 327 (15.48%) TypeScript
4 318 (15.06%) JavaScript
5 296 (14.02%) SQL
6 217 (10.27%) Go
7 200 (9.47%) C#
8 123 (5.82%) Bash
9 77 (3.65%) Scala
10 70 (3.31%) PHP
11 68 (3.22%) C++
12 42 (1.99%) Ruby
13 36 (1.70%) PowerShell
14 28 (1.33%) Kotlin
14 28 (1.33%) Rust
15 13 (0.62%) Bicep
16 12 (0.57%) Swift
17 11 (0.52%) PL/SQL
18 9 (0.43%) C
18 9 (0.43%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 292 (13.83%) Degree
2 260 (12.31%) Security Cleared
3 216 (10.23%) SC Cleared
4 198 (9.38%) AWS Certification
5 103 (4.88%) Microsoft Certification
6 96 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
7 76 (3.60%) MCSE
8 52 (2.46%) CISSP
9 50 (2.37%) Azure Certification
10 47 (2.23%) DV Cleared
11 40 (1.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 30 (1.42%) CISM
12 30 (1.42%) DBS Check
13 29 (1.37%) Cisco Certification
14 28 (1.33%) TOGAF Certification
15 26 (1.23%) CREST Certified
16 20 (0.95%) OSCP
17 18 (0.85%) CCNP
17 18 (0.85%) Master's Degree
18 14 (0.66%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 173 (8.19%) QA
2 76 (3.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 52 (2.46%) Data Quality
3 52 (2.46%) NIST
4 50 (2.37%) Accessibility
5 42 (1.99%) PCI DSS
6 40 (1.89%) GDPR
7 29 (1.37%) GRC
8 25 (1.18%) SOC 2
9 20 (0.95%) NCSC
10 17 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials
11 13 (0.62%) JSP 440
12 12 (0.57%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 12 (0.57%) SLA
13 10 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 9 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
15 7 (0.33%) Government Security Classifications
15 7 (0.33%) ISO 9001
15 7 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 42001
16 6 (0.28%) WCAG
System Software
1 389 (18.42%) Docker
2 67 (3.17%) Active Directory
3 34 (1.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 30 (1.42%) Hyper-V
5 16 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
6 15 (0.71%) vSphere
7 6 (0.28%) Firmware
7 6 (0.28%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 6 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
8 4 (0.19%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 3 (0.14%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.095%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 2 (0.095%) KVM
10 2 (0.095%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.047%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 391 (18.51%) Terraform
2 339 (16.05%) Kubernetes
3 151 (7.15%) Ansible
4 119 (5.63%) Grafana
5 70 (3.31%) Prometheus
6 52 (2.46%) Argo
7 26 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
8 21 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
9 19 (0.90%) Kustomize
10 16 (0.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 12 (0.57%) Podman
12 9 (0.43%) Cisco CUCM
12 9 (0.43%) Progress Chef
12 9 (0.43%) Proxmox
13 8 (0.38%) Istio
13 8 (0.38%) Packer
13 8 (0.38%) Puppet
14 5 (0.24%) AWS Copilot
14 5 (0.24%) HP Fortify
14 5 (0.24%) Nmap
Vendors
1 306 (14.49%) Microsoft
2 126 (5.97%) Google
3 100 (4.73%) ServiceNow
4 70 (3.31%) Cisco
5 55 (2.60%) VMware
6 48 (2.27%) Apple
7 45 (2.13%) Typelevel
8 43 (2.04%) Adobe
9 42 (1.99%) Oracle
10 35 (1.66%) SolarWinds
11 34 (1.61%) Palo Alto
12 33 (1.56%) Splunk
13 32 (1.52%) Fortinet
14 31 (1.47%) Databricks
15 27 (1.28%) Red Hat
16 23 (1.09%) Salesforce
17 21 (0.99%) SAP
18 19 (0.90%) CheckPoint
19 18 (0.85%) Dynatrace
20 17 (0.80%) Arista