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

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 9 9
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 -3
Permanent jobs citing AWS 2,081 2,095 4,476
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 12.03% 16.13% 14.14%
As % of the Cloud Services category 31.12% 34.85% 32.16%
Number of salaries quoted 1,331 1,610 3,905
10th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £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 £97,500 £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 6,688 6,011 13,920
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.65% 46.29% 43.98%
Number of salaries quoted 4,513 4,695 12,065
10th Percentile £33,585 £33,600 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,500 £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 10 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 79 (3.80%) Apache Airflow
2 39 (1.87%) Apache Spark
3 28 (1.35%) Apache
4 22 (1.06%) Microsoft Exchange
5 16 (0.77%) CMS
6 15 (0.72%) Confluence
7 13 (0.62%) SharePoint
8 12 (0.58%) nginx
9 9 (0.43%) WordPress
10 6 (0.29%) Drupal
10 6 (0.29%) Ethereum
11 5 (0.24%) Anypoint
11 5 (0.24%) Apache Pulsar
11 5 (0.24%) Apache Solr
12 4 (0.19%) ArcGIS
12 4 (0.19%) Oracle Spatial
12 4 (0.19%) SAS
12 4 (0.19%) Tomcat
12 4 (0.19%) WebSphere
12 4 (0.19%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 102 (4.90%) 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 8 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
3 6 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.24%) Cloudability
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
1 882 (42.38%) Azure
2 579 (27.82%) GCP
3 284 (13.65%) Serverless
4 246 (11.82%) SaaS
5 198 (9.51%) GitHub
6 188 (9.03%) AWS Lambda
7 185 (8.89%) Amazon S3
8 157 (7.54%) Microsoft 365
9 143 (6.87%) Amazon EKS
10 107 (5.14%) AWS CloudFormation
11 98 (4.71%) GitHub Actions
12 88 (4.23%) Amazon EC2
12 88 (4.23%) Amazon ECS
13 78 (3.75%) Amazon SQS
14 67 (3.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 67 (3.22%) Entra ID
15 53 (2.55%) dbt
16 52 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
17 45 (2.16%) Snowflake
18 40 (1.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 129 (6.20%) Firewall
2 100 (4.81%) Broadband
3 62 (2.98%) WAN
4 61 (2.93%) VPN
5 55 (2.64%) LAN
6 54 (2.59%) DNS
7 51 (2.45%) TCP/IP
8 47 (2.26%) Wi-Fi
9 44 (2.11%) Network Security
10 29 (1.39%) SD-WAN
11 28 (1.35%) DHCP
11 28 (1.35%) HTTP
12 27 (1.30%) Cisco ASA
13 26 (1.25%) VXLAN
14 24 (1.15%) VLAN
15 22 (1.06%) BGP
15 22 (1.06%) Cisco Firepower
16 20 (0.96%) SSL
17 18 (0.86%) NGFW
18 16 (0.77%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 192 (9.23%) PostgreSQL
2 130 (6.25%) NoSQL
3 107 (5.14%) MongoDB
3 107 (5.14%) SQL Server
4 82 (3.94%) MySQL
5 77 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
6 62 (2.98%) Relational Database
7 56 (2.69%) DynamoDB
8 52 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
9 47 (2.26%) Metadata
10 45 (2.16%) Elasticsearch
11 43 (2.07%) Amazon Redshift
11 43 (2.07%) BigQuery
12 36 (1.73%) Amazon Athena
13 33 (1.59%) Data Lake
14 30 (1.44%) Redis
14 30 (1.44%) Tableau
15 24 (1.15%) Apache Iceberg
16 23 (1.11%) RDBMS
17 19 (0.91%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 132 (6.34%) Git
2 98 (4.71%) Jenkins
3 85 (4.08%) GitLab
4 62 (2.98%) TeamCity
5 49 (2.35%) Cypress.io
6 43 (2.07%) JIRA
7 21 (1.01%) Selenium
8 19 (0.91%) Jaeger
9 16 (0.77%) CircleCI
10 15 (0.72%) Bitbucket
10 15 (0.72%) JMeter
11 14 (0.67%) Cucumber
11 14 (0.67%) SonarQube
12 13 (0.62%) MLflow
13 10 (0.48%) Crashlytics
13 10 (0.48%) JUnit
13 10 (0.48%) Subversion
13 10 (0.48%) XCTest
14 8 (0.38%) Metasploit
14 8 (0.38%) Oracle Forms
General
1 608 (29.22%) Social Skills
2 464 (22.30%) Finance
3 228 (10.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 205 (9.85%) Banking
5 195 (9.37%) Public Sector
6 182 (8.75%) Law
7 160 (7.69%) Retail
8 129 (6.20%) Analytical Skills
9 80 (3.84%) French Language
10 73 (3.51%) Financial Institution
11 64 (3.08%) Back Office
12 57 (2.74%) Front Office
13 56 (2.69%) Telecoms
14 55 (2.64%) Legal
15 47 (2.26%) Influencing Skills
16 41 (1.97%) Swedish Language
17 37 (1.78%) Games
18 34 (1.63%) Tech for Good
19 33 (1.59%) Marketing
20 30 (1.44%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 478 (22.97%) Senior
2 397 (19.08%) Developer
3 344 (16.53%) Software Engineer
4 282 (13.55%) Lead
5 201 (9.66%) Architect
6 130 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
7 128 (6.15%) Analyst
8 118 (5.67%) Full-Stack Developer
9 108 (5.19%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 105 (5.05%) Senior Software Engineer
11 98 (4.71%) Lead Developer
12 95 (4.57%) DevOps Engineer
13 93 (4.47%) Data Engineer
14 88 (4.23%) Java Engineer
15 84 (4.04%) Service Analyst
15 84 (4.04%) Service Desk Analyst
16 82 (3.94%) Cloud Engineer
17 78 (3.75%) Software Developer
18 76 (3.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
19 73 (3.51%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 367 (17.64%) React
2 239 (11.48%) Node.js
3 146 (7.02%) Kafka
4 145 (6.97%) .NET
5 119 (5.72%) REST
6 116 (5.57%) RESTful
7 112 (5.38%) Spring
8 111 (5.33%) CSS
9 97 (4.66%) Spring Boot
10 83 (3.99%) HTML
11 74 (3.56%) Vue
12 72 (3.46%) gRPC
13 67 (3.22%) AngularJS
14 59 (2.84%) Django
15 52 (2.50%) Redux
16 48 (2.31%) Elastic Stack
17 45 (2.16%) .NET Core
18 41 (1.97%) JSON
19 40 (1.92%) GraphQL
20 38 (1.83%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 319 (15.33%) Cloud Native
2 151 (7.26%) Distributed Systems
3 140 (6.73%) Product Ownership
4 83 (3.99%) Public Cloud
5 65 (3.12%) Onboarding
6 62 (2.98%) Management Information System
7 60 (2.88%) Data Centre
8 59 (2.84%) Enterprise Software
9 58 (2.79%) Blog
10 57 (2.74%) Security Posture
11 54 (2.59%) Greenfield Project
11 54 (2.59%) Video\Live Streaming
12 51 (2.45%) Fixed Income
13 45 (2.16%) Mobile App
13 45 (2.16%) Over-the-Top Content
14 44 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
15 38 (1.83%) Hybrid Cloud
16 35 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
17 34 (1.63%) Data Structures
18 33 (1.59%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 203 (9.75%) Linux
2 110 (5.29%) Windows
3 70 (3.36%) Unix
4 53 (2.55%) Windows Server
5 51 (2.45%) Android
5 51 (2.45%) Apple iOS
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 16 (0.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 15 (0.72%) Windows Server 2019
12 10 (0.48%) Ubuntu
13 7 (0.34%) 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
1 710 (34.12%) CI/CD
2 613 (29.46%) Agile
3 596 (28.64%) Software Engineering
4 547 (26.29%) DevOps
5 454 (21.82%) Mentoring
6 379 (18.21%) Microservices
7 368 (17.68%) Infrastructure as Code
8 366 (17.59%) Full-Stack Development
9 365 (17.54%) Problem-Solving
10 339 (16.29%) AI
11 322 (15.47%) Continuous Improvement
12 312 (14.99%) Containerisation
13 255 (12.25%) Test Automation
14 254 (12.21%) Roadmaps
15 239 (11.48%) Coaching
16 210 (10.09%) Technical Leadership
17 202 (9.71%) Clean Code
18 185 (8.89%) Machine Learning
19 176 (8.46%) Observability
20 175 (8.41%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 642 (30.85%) Python
2 522 (25.08%) Java
3 320 (15.38%) JavaScript
4 315 (15.14%) TypeScript
5 304 (14.61%) SQL
6 216 (10.38%) Go
7 206 (9.90%) C#
8 127 (6.10%) Bash
9 83 (3.99%) PHP
10 71 (3.41%) Scala
11 64 (3.08%) C++
12 50 (2.40%) PowerShell
13 34 (1.63%) Ruby
14 32 (1.54%) Kotlin
15 24 (1.15%) Rust
16 15 (0.72%) Bicep
17 14 (0.67%) Shell Script
18 10 (0.48%) Swift
19 9 (0.43%) PL/SQL
20 8 (0.38%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 346 (16.63%) Degree
2 234 (11.24%) Security Cleared
3 219 (10.52%) AWS Certification
4 201 (9.66%) SC Cleared
5 135 (6.49%) Microsoft Certification
6 122 (5.86%) Computer Science Degree
7 104 (5.00%) MCSE
8 62 (2.98%) Azure Certification
9 52 (2.50%) CISSP
10 43 (2.07%) DV Cleared
11 37 (1.78%) Cisco Certification
12 36 (1.73%) CREST Certified
13 33 (1.59%) TOGAF Certification
14 32 (1.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 29 (1.39%) CISM
16 26 (1.25%) DBS Check
16 26 (1.25%) OSCP
17 21 (1.01%) CCNP
18 20 (0.96%) CCNA
18 20 (0.96%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 182 (8.75%) QA
2 93 (4.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 58 (2.79%) GDPR
4 56 (2.69%) NIST
5 51 (2.45%) PCI DSS
6 48 (2.31%) Accessibility
7 44 (2.11%) Data Quality
8 34 (1.63%) GRC
9 33 (1.59%) SOC 2
10 28 (1.35%) Cyber Essentials
11 23 (1.11%) SLA
12 16 (0.77%) Actionable Recommendations
12 16 (0.77%) NCSC
13 15 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 13 (0.62%) JSP 440
15 10 (0.48%) ISO 9001
15 10 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 42001
16 8 (0.38%) HMG Security Policy Framework
17 7 (0.34%) Government Security Classifications
18 6 (0.29%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 421 (20.23%) Docker
2 75 (3.60%) Active Directory
3 34 (1.63%) Hyper-V
4 30 (1.44%) VMware Infrastructure
5 15 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (0.67%) vSphere
7 7 (0.34%) Firmware
8 5 (0.24%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 5 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
8 5 (0.24%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.19%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 2 (0.096%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 2 (0.096%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.096%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.048%) KVM
11 1 (0.048%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 419 (20.13%) Terraform
2 381 (18.31%) Kubernetes
3 154 (7.40%) Ansible
4 142 (6.82%) Grafana
5 79 (3.80%) Prometheus
6 48 (2.31%) 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 8 (0.38%) Istio
10 8 (0.38%) Nmap
10 8 (0.38%) Podman
10 8 (0.38%) Proxmox
11 7 (0.34%) Puppet
12 6 (0.29%) Cisco CUCM
12 6 (0.29%) Kibana
12 6 (0.29%) Packer
12 6 (0.29%) Progress Chef
13 5 (0.24%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 303 (14.56%) Microsoft
2 136 (6.54%) Google
3 106 (5.09%) ServiceNow
4 64 (3.08%) Cisco
5 58 (2.79%) VMware
6 56 (2.69%) Oracle
7 45 (2.16%) Typelevel
8 35 (1.68%) Apple
8 35 (1.68%) Splunk
9 30 (1.44%) Databricks
9 30 (1.44%) Red Hat
10 29 (1.39%) Adobe
11 28 (1.35%) Fortinet
11 28 (1.35%) 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