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

6 months to
14 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 10 9
Rank change year-on-year +2 -1 -3
Permanent jobs citing AWS 2,083 2,087 4,450
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 11.94% 15.88% 13.96%
As % of the Cloud Services category 31.03% 34.69% 32.04%
Number of salaries quoted 1,321 1,606 3,885
10th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,750 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.79% +3.57% -3.45%
75th Percentile £90,000 £98,474 £88,750
90th Percentile £107,500 £122,500 £112,500
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 6,712 6,016 13,890
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.48% 45.78% 43.58%
Number of salaries quoted 4,514 4,703 12,028
10th Percentile £33,500 £33,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +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 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -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 14 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 75 (3.60%) Apache Airflow
2 37 (1.78%) Apache Spark
3 22 (1.06%) Apache
3 22 (1.06%) Microsoft Exchange
4 16 (0.77%) CMS
5 15 (0.72%) Confluence
6 12 (0.58%) nginx
6 12 (0.58%) SharePoint
7 9 (0.43%) WordPress
8 6 (0.29%) Drupal
8 6 (0.29%) Ethereum
9 5 (0.24%) Anypoint
9 5 (0.24%) Apache Pulsar
9 5 (0.24%) Apache Solr
10 4 (0.19%) ArcGIS
10 4 (0.19%) GeoServer
10 4 (0.19%) Oracle Spatial
10 4 (0.19%) SAS
11 3 (0.14%) IIS
12 2 (0.096%) Tomcat
Applications
1 103 (4.94%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (0.82%) 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%) Shopify
2 9 (0.43%) Cloudability
3 8 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
4 6 (0.29%) 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 (42.10%) Azure
2 589 (28.28%) GCP
3 280 (13.44%) Serverless
4 245 (11.76%) SaaS
5 196 (9.41%) GitHub
6 187 (8.98%) AWS Lambda
7 184 (8.83%) Amazon S3
8 156 (7.49%) Microsoft 365
9 140 (6.72%) Amazon EKS
10 103 (4.94%) AWS CloudFormation
11 97 (4.66%) GitHub Actions
12 88 (4.22%) Amazon EC2
13 86 (4.13%) Amazon ECS
14 79 (3.79%) Amazon SQS
15 67 (3.22%) Entra ID
16 66 (3.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 49 (2.35%) Azure DevOps
18 48 (2.30%) dbt
19 41 (1.97%) Snowflake
20 39 (1.87%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 126 (6.05%) Firewall
2 105 (5.04%) Broadband
3 61 (2.93%) WAN
4 59 (2.83%) VPN
5 54 (2.59%) LAN
6 53 (2.54%) DNS
7 50 (2.40%) TCP/IP
8 47 (2.26%) Wi-Fi
9 44 (2.11%) Network Security
10 29 (1.39%) SD-WAN
11 28 (1.34%) DHCP
11 28 (1.34%) HTTP
12 27 (1.30%) Cisco ASA
13 26 (1.25%) VXLAN
14 23 (1.10%) VLAN
15 22 (1.06%) BGP
15 22 (1.06%) Cisco Firepower
16 18 (0.86%) NGFW
16 18 (0.86%) SSL
17 16 (0.77%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 186 (8.93%) PostgreSQL
2 135 (6.48%) NoSQL
3 113 (5.42%) MongoDB
4 105 (5.04%) SQL Server
5 80 (3.84%) MySQL
6 75 (3.60%) Amazon RDS
7 59 (2.83%) Relational Database
8 57 (2.74%) DynamoDB
9 51 (2.45%) Data Warehouse
10 47 (2.26%) Metadata
11 44 (2.11%) Elasticsearch
12 43 (2.06%) BigQuery
13 42 (2.02%) Amazon Redshift
14 32 (1.54%) Amazon Athena
15 30 (1.44%) Tableau
16 29 (1.39%) Redis
17 28 (1.34%) Data Lake
18 23 (1.10%) RDBMS
19 20 (0.96%) Apache Iceberg
20 18 (0.86%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 130 (6.24%) Git
2 92 (4.42%) Jenkins
3 83 (3.98%) GitLab
4 63 (3.02%) TeamCity
5 54 (2.59%) Cypress.io
6 42 (2.02%) JIRA
7 21 (1.01%) Selenium
8 20 (0.96%) CircleCI
9 19 (0.91%) Jaeger
10 16 (0.77%) Bitbucket
11 15 (0.72%) JMeter
12 14 (0.67%) Cucumber
12 14 (0.67%) SonarQube
13 13 (0.62%) MLflow
14 10 (0.48%) Crashlytics
14 10 (0.48%) Subversion
14 10 (0.48%) XCTest
15 9 (0.43%) JUnit
16 8 (0.38%) Metasploit
16 8 (0.38%) Oracle Forms
General
1 604 (29.00%) Social Skills
2 460 (22.08%) Finance
3 235 (11.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 201 (9.65%) Banking
5 194 (9.31%) Public Sector
6 185 (8.88%) Law
7 163 (7.83%) Retail
8 128 (6.14%) Analytical Skills
9 77 (3.70%) French Language
10 74 (3.55%) Financial Institution
11 65 (3.12%) Back Office
12 56 (2.69%) Telecoms
13 54 (2.59%) Legal
14 53 (2.54%) Front Office
15 47 (2.26%) Influencing Skills
16 37 (1.78%) Games
17 36 (1.73%) Swedish Language
18 34 (1.63%) Tech for Good
19 33 (1.58%) Marketing
20 31 (1.49%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 479 (23.00%) Senior
2 398 (19.11%) Developer
3 347 (16.66%) Software Engineer
4 280 (13.44%) Lead
5 199 (9.55%) Architect
6 133 (6.39%) Analyst
7 131 (6.29%) AWS Engineer
8 119 (5.71%) Full-Stack Developer
9 112 (5.38%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 103 (4.94%) Senior Software Engineer
11 97 (4.66%) Lead Developer
12 94 (4.51%) DevOps Engineer
13 92 (4.42%) Data Engineer
14 86 (4.13%) Java Engineer
15 85 (4.08%) Service Analyst
15 85 (4.08%) Service Desk Analyst
16 80 (3.84%) Cloud Engineer
17 79 (3.79%) Software Developer
18 73 (3.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 73 (3.50%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 371 (17.81%) React
2 243 (11.67%) Node.js
3 146 (7.01%) .NET
3 146 (7.01%) Kafka
4 117 (5.62%) REST
5 115 (5.52%) RESTful
6 110 (5.28%) CSS
6 110 (5.28%) Spring
7 94 (4.51%) Spring Boot
8 82 (3.94%) HTML
9 73 (3.50%) Vue
10 68 (3.26%) gRPC
11 63 (3.02%) AngularJS
12 57 (2.74%) Django
13 53 (2.54%) Redux
14 47 (2.26%) Elastic Stack
15 46 (2.21%) .NET Core
16 40 (1.92%) GraphQL
16 40 (1.92%) JSON
17 37 (1.78%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 320 (15.36%) Cloud Native
2 149 (7.15%) Distributed Systems
3 142 (6.82%) Product Ownership
4 84 (4.03%) Public Cloud
5 65 (3.12%) Onboarding
6 60 (2.88%) Data Centre
6 60 (2.88%) Management Information System
7 57 (2.74%) Blog
7 57 (2.74%) Enterprise Software
8 56 (2.69%) Security Posture
9 54 (2.59%) Greenfield Project
9 54 (2.59%) Video\Live Streaming
10 47 (2.26%) Fixed Income
11 45 (2.16%) Over-the-Top Content
12 44 (2.11%) Mobile App
12 44 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
13 38 (1.82%) Hybrid Cloud
14 35 (1.68%) Data Structures
15 33 (1.58%) PKI
16 32 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 198 (9.51%) Linux
2 105 (5.04%) Windows
3 67 (3.22%) Unix
4 52 (2.50%) Android
4 52 (2.50%) Apple iOS
5 51 (2.45%) Windows Server
6 25 (1.20%) Windows 10
7 21 (1.01%) Mac OS
8 18 (0.86%) Windows Server 2016
9 17 (0.82%) Windows Server 2012
10 15 (0.72%) Windows Server 2019
11 13 (0.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 9 (0.43%) Ubuntu
13 6 (0.29%) 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
1 709 (34.04%) CI/CD
2 608 (29.19%) Agile
3 599 (28.76%) Software Engineering
4 538 (25.83%) DevOps
5 457 (21.94%) Mentoring
6 377 (18.10%) Microservices
7 374 (17.95%) Full-Stack Development
8 363 (17.43%) Problem-Solving
9 362 (17.38%) Infrastructure as Code
10 339 (16.27%) AI
11 324 (15.55%) Continuous Improvement
12 313 (15.03%) Containerisation
13 259 (12.43%) Test Automation
14 254 (12.19%) Roadmaps
15 238 (11.43%) Coaching
16 210 (10.08%) Technical Leadership
17 203 (9.75%) Clean Code
18 184 (8.83%) Machine Learning
19 175 (8.40%) Observability
20 174 (8.35%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 631 (30.29%) Python
2 520 (24.96%) Java
3 318 (15.27%) JavaScript
4 315 (15.12%) TypeScript
5 301 (14.45%) SQL
6 217 (10.42%) Go
7 205 (9.84%) C#
8 125 (6.00%) Bash
9 80 (3.84%) PHP
10 71 (3.41%) Scala
11 65 (3.12%) C++
12 47 (2.26%) PowerShell
13 35 (1.68%) Ruby
14 33 (1.58%) Kotlin
15 25 (1.20%) Rust
16 14 (0.67%) Shell Script
17 13 (0.62%) Bicep
18 10 (0.48%) Swift
19 9 (0.43%) PL/SQL
20 8 (0.38%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 343 (16.47%) Degree
2 229 (10.99%) Security Cleared
3 220 (10.56%) AWS Certification
4 198 (9.51%) SC Cleared
5 134 (6.43%) Microsoft Certification
6 120 (5.76%) Computer Science Degree
7 104 (4.99%) MCSE
8 60 (2.88%) Azure Certification
9 53 (2.54%) CISSP
10 41 (1.97%) DV Cleared
11 37 (1.78%) Cisco Certification
11 37 (1.78%) CREST Certified
12 36 (1.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 33 (1.58%) TOGAF Certification
14 30 (1.44%) CISM
15 27 (1.30%) OSCP
16 26 (1.25%) DBS Check
17 21 (1.01%) CCNP
18 20 (0.96%) CCNA
18 20 (0.96%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 183 (8.79%) QA
2 93 (4.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 57 (2.74%) GDPR
4 56 (2.69%) NIST
5 50 (2.40%) PCI DSS
6 48 (2.30%) Accessibility
7 44 (2.11%) Data Quality
8 33 (1.58%) GRC
8 33 (1.58%) SOC 2
9 28 (1.34%) Cyber Essentials
10 20 (0.96%) SLA
11 16 (0.77%) Actionable Recommendations
11 16 (0.77%) NCSC
12 15 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 12 (0.58%) JSP 440
14 10 (0.48%) ISO 9001
15 9 (0.43%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 9 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 42001
16 7 (0.34%) Government Security Classifications
17 6 (0.29%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 418 (20.07%) Docker
2 74 (3.55%) Active Directory
3 33 (1.58%) Hyper-V
4 28 (1.34%) VMware Infrastructure
5 15 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
6 13 (0.62%) vSphere
7 7 (0.34%) Firmware
8 5 (0.24%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 5 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
9 4 (0.19%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 4 (0.19%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.096%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 2 (0.096%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.048%) KVM
11 1 (0.048%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.048%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 414 (19.88%) Terraform
2 381 (18.29%) Kubernetes
3 149 (7.15%) Ansible
4 143 (6.87%) Grafana
5 80 (3.84%) Prometheus
6 48 (2.30%) Argo
7 29 (1.39%) Microsoft Intune
7 29 (1.39%) Single Sign-On
8 19 (0.91%) Kustomize
9 18 (0.86%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 12 (0.58%) Podman
11 8 (0.38%) Istio
11 8 (0.38%) Nmap
11 8 (0.38%) Proxmox
12 7 (0.34%) Puppet
13 6 (0.29%) Cisco CUCM
13 6 (0.29%) Kibana
13 6 (0.29%) Packer
13 6 (0.29%) Progress Chef
14 5 (0.24%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 307 (14.74%) Microsoft
2 138 (6.63%) Google
3 110 (5.28%) ServiceNow
4 63 (3.02%) Cisco
5 55 (2.64%) Oracle
5 55 (2.64%) VMware
6 45 (2.16%) Typelevel
7 39 (1.87%) Apple
8 34 (1.63%) Splunk
9 33 (1.58%) Adobe
10 29 (1.39%) Databricks
11 28 (1.34%) Red Hat
12 27 (1.30%) Fortinet
12 27 (1.30%) Palo Alto
12 27 (1.30%) SolarWinds
13 26 (1.25%) Salesforce
14 25 (1.20%) SAP
15 18 (0.86%) Okta
16 17 (0.82%) Dell
17 15 (0.72%) NetScout