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 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 13 8
Rank change year-on-year +3 -5 -2
Permanent jobs citing AWS 2,598 2,063 3,578
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 11.35% 12.47% 14.52%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.96% 34.73% 35.63%
Number of salaries quoted 1,700 1,294 2,859
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,075 £46,250
25th Percentile £54,538 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% - -
75th Percentile £90,000 £107,500 £107,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £135,000 £142,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year - - -3.33%

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 8,673 5,940 10,043
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.88% 35.92% 40.76%
Number of salaries quoted 6,303 4,355 7,809
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,749 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -6.25%

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 18 August 2026.

AWS salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

AWS
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 37 (1.42%) Apache Spark
2 31 (1.19%) Apache Airflow
3 27 (1.04%) Confluence
4 25 (0.96%) Apache
5 19 (0.73%) Microsoft Exchange
6 18 (0.69%) SharePoint
7 16 (0.62%) Anypoint
7 16 (0.62%) IIS
8 14 (0.54%) WordPress
9 13 (0.50%) Mule
10 12 (0.46%) CMS
11 8 (0.31%) Jupyter
12 7 (0.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 6 (0.23%) Apache Solr
13 6 (0.23%) SAS
14 4 (0.15%) ArcGIS
14 4 (0.15%) Camunda
14 4 (0.15%) Ethereum
14 4 (0.15%) Sitecore CMS
15 3 (0.12%) GeoServer
Applications
1 82 (3.16%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (0.46%) Chatbot
4 11 (0.42%) MS Visio
5 10 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 5 (0.19%) AutoCAD
6 5 (0.19%) DaVinci Resolve
6 5 (0.19%) Moqups
7 2 (0.077%) Elementor
7 2 (0.077%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.077%) PlantUML
7 2 (0.077%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.038%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.038%) Houdini
8 1 (0.038%) Lightworks
8 1 (0.038%) NUKE
8 1 (0.038%) Trello
8 1 (0.038%) Weka
Business Applications
1 24 (0.92%) Cloudability
2 6 (0.23%) NetSuite
2 6 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.12%) Shopify
4 2 (0.077%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.038%) Finacle
5 1 (0.038%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.038%) Magento
5 1 (0.038%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.038%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 1,226 (47.19%) Azure
2 658 (25.33%) GCP
3 309 (11.89%) SaaS
4 232 (8.93%) Serverless
5 211 (8.12%) GitHub
6 159 (6.12%) Microsoft 365
7 156 (6.00%) AWS Lambda
8 149 (5.74%) Amazon S3
9 107 (4.12%) AWS CloudFormation
10 92 (3.54%) GitHub Actions
11 89 (3.43%) Amazon EC2
12 88 (3.39%) Amazon EKS
13 80 (3.08%) Amazon ECS
14 72 (2.77%) Snowflake
15 68 (2.62%) Amazon SQS
15 68 (2.62%) Azure DevOps
16 66 (2.54%) GitHub Copilot
17 51 (1.96%) Anthropic Claude
18 47 (1.81%) Power Platform
19 46 (1.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 119 (4.58%) Firewall
2 100 (3.85%) Broadband
3 72 (2.77%) VPN
4 71 (2.73%) DNS
4 71 (2.73%) Network Security
5 68 (2.62%) WAN
6 60 (2.31%) LAN
7 53 (2.04%) TCP/IP
8 43 (1.66%) DHCP
9 39 (1.50%) HTTP
10 32 (1.23%) SD-WAN
11 25 (0.96%) Cisco ASA
12 22 (0.85%) Wi-Fi
13 21 (0.81%) SSL
13 21 (0.81%) VLAN
14 19 (0.73%) Cisco Firepower
15 14 (0.54%) BGP
16 12 (0.46%) OSPF
17 11 (0.42%) Internet
17 11 (0.42%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 262 (10.08%) PostgreSQL
2 244 (9.39%) MongoDB
3 123 (4.73%) SQL Server
4 105 (4.04%) MySQL
5 104 (4.00%) Elasticsearch
6 101 (3.89%) NoSQL
7 84 (3.23%) Azure SQL Database
8 68 (2.62%) DynamoDB
9 59 (2.27%) Relational Database
10 57 (2.19%) Redis
11 48 (1.85%) Amazon RDS
12 45 (1.73%) Data Warehouse
13 41 (1.58%) Power BI
14 32 (1.23%) Amazon Athena
15 30 (1.15%) Data Lake
15 30 (1.15%) Metadata
16 28 (1.08%) Big Data
17 26 (1.00%) Amazon Redshift
18 25 (0.96%) Tableau
19 11 (0.42%) Looker
Development Applications
1 149 (5.74%) Git
2 90 (3.46%) Jenkins
3 82 (3.16%) GitLab
4 69 (2.66%) JIRA
5 58 (2.23%) Cypress.io
6 55 (2.12%) TeamCity
7 47 (1.81%) Claude Code
8 29 (1.12%) JUnit
9 27 (1.04%) Selenium
10 21 (0.81%) Postman
11 20 (0.77%) Maven
12 16 (0.62%) Mockito
13 13 (0.50%) CircleCI
14 12 (0.46%) Bitbucket
14 12 (0.46%) Crashlytics
14 12 (0.46%) XCTest
15 11 (0.42%) Cucumber
15 11 (0.42%) JMeter
16 8 (0.31%) SonarQube
17 7 (0.27%) Gatling
General
1 688 (26.48%) Social Skills
2 609 (23.44%) Finance
3 296 (11.39%) Public Sector
4 243 (9.35%) Banking
5 233 (8.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 201 (7.74%) Law
7 149 (5.74%) Analytical Skills
8 112 (4.31%) Retail
9 81 (3.12%) Legal
10 56 (2.16%) Games
11 50 (1.92%) Financial Institution
12 48 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
12 48 (1.85%) Swedish Language
13 47 (1.81%) Back Office
14 40 (1.54%) Marketing
15 38 (1.46%) Influencing Skills
16 33 (1.27%) French Language
17 32 (1.23%) Telecoms
18 26 (1.00%) Front Office
19 25 (0.96%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 620 (23.86%) Senior
2 542 (20.86%) Developer
3 429 (16.51%) Software Engineer
4 321 (12.36%) Lead
5 303 (11.66%) Architect
6 149 (5.74%) Full-Stack Developer
7 140 (5.39%) AWS Engineer
8 128 (4.93%) Analyst
9 126 (4.85%) DevOps Engineer
10 121 (4.66%) Senior Developer
11 116 (4.46%) .NET Developer
12 115 (4.43%) Senior Software Engineer
13 106 (4.08%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 100 (3.85%) Engineering Manager
15 99 (3.81%) Consultant
16 98 (3.77%) Cloud Engineer
17 96 (3.70%) Lead Software Engineer
18 93 (3.58%) Solutions Architect
19 90 (3.46%) Software Developer
20 82 (3.16%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 437 (16.82%) React
2 371 (14.28%) Node.js
3 253 (9.74%) .NET
4 199 (7.66%) REST
5 140 (5.39%) Spring
6 131 (5.04%) CSS
7 129 (4.97%) RESTful
8 128 (4.93%) Vue
9 120 (4.62%) AngularJS
10 119 (4.58%) .NET Core
11 111 (4.27%) ASP.NET
12 100 (3.85%) Spring Boot
13 98 (3.77%) ASP.NET Core
13 98 (3.77%) Kafka
14 83 (3.19%) HTML
15 77 (2.96%) Middleware
16 75 (2.89%) .NET Framework
17 67 (2.58%) LangChain
18 63 (2.42%) Ruby on Rails
19 62 (2.39%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 385 (14.82%) Cloud Native
2 192 (7.39%) Product Ownership
3 183 (7.04%) Distributed Systems
4 105 (4.04%) Public Cloud
5 91 (3.50%) AI Agents
6 81 (3.12%) Greenfield Project
7 72 (2.77%) Cyber Threat
8 68 (2.62%) Onboarding
9 60 (2.31%) Video\Live Streaming
10 52 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
11 48 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
11 48 (1.85%) Management Information System
12 46 (1.77%) Blog
12 46 (1.77%) Security Posture
13 45 (1.73%) Hybrid Cloud
13 45 (1.73%) Mobile App
14 44 (1.69%) Data Centre
15 39 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
16 35 (1.35%) Low-Code
17 31 (1.19%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 215 (8.28%) Linux
2 162 (6.24%) Windows
3 58 (2.23%) Unix
3 58 (2.23%) Windows Server
4 26 (1.00%) Apple iOS
5 13 (0.50%) Android
5 13 (0.50%) Ubuntu
6 7 (0.27%) Mac OS
7 6 (0.23%) Windows 10
7 6 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (0.19%) Debian
9 4 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
9 4 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.077%) CentOS
10 2 (0.077%) Solaris
11 1 (0.038%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 911 (35.07%) CI/CD
2 876 (33.72%) Agile
3 777 (29.91%) Software Engineering
4 616 (23.71%) DevOps
5 564 (21.71%) Mentoring
6 562 (21.63%) AI
7 496 (19.09%) Full-Stack Development
8 486 (18.71%) Microservices
9 478 (18.40%) Continuous Improvement
10 455 (17.51%) Infrastructure as Code
11 428 (16.47%) Problem-Solving
12 415 (15.97%) Test Automation
13 383 (14.74%) Technical Leadership
14 327 (12.59%) Containerisation
15 326 (12.55%) Roadmaps
16 289 (11.12%) Scrum
17 267 (10.28%) Observability
18 265 (10.20%) Coaching
19 254 (9.78%) Machine Learning
20 253 (9.74%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 670 (25.79%) Python
2 505 (19.44%) Java
3 409 (15.74%) TypeScript
4 404 (15.55%) SQL
5 403 (15.51%) JavaScript
6 298 (11.47%) C#
7 143 (5.50%) Go
8 89 (3.43%) Bash
9 79 (3.04%) PowerShell
10 78 (3.00%) Ruby
11 70 (2.69%) PHP
12 65 (2.50%) C++
13 51 (1.96%) Scala
14 36 (1.39%) Kotlin
15 24 (0.92%) Rust
16 19 (0.73%) PL/SQL
17 16 (0.62%) DataWeave
18 15 (0.58%) Bicep
18 15 (0.58%) Swift
19 11 (0.42%) C
Qualifications
1 421 (16.20%) Security Cleared
2 354 (13.63%) SC Cleared
3 297 (11.43%) Degree
4 173 (6.66%) AWS Certification
5 120 (4.62%) CISSP
6 101 (3.89%) CISM
7 90 (3.46%) Computer Science Degree
8 86 (3.31%) Microsoft Certification
9 73 (2.81%) MCSE
10 59 (2.27%) Azure Certification
11 56 (2.16%) DV Cleared
12 50 (1.92%) ITIL Certification
13 38 (1.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 34 (1.31%) Cisco Certification
15 28 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
16 23 (0.89%) CCNP
17 16 (0.62%) CCNA
17 16 (0.62%) CREST Certified
18 15 (0.58%) CRISC
18 15 (0.58%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 188 (7.24%) QA
2 117 (4.50%) NIST
3 99 (3.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 84 (3.23%) Accessibility
5 66 (2.54%) Data Quality
6 53 (2.04%) GDPR
7 48 (1.85%) ISO 22301
8 31 (1.19%) NCSC
9 29 (1.12%) GRC
10 25 (0.96%) PCI DSS
11 19 (0.73%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 17 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
13 16 (0.62%) SLA
13 16 (0.62%) WCAG
14 11 (0.42%) ISO 9001
15 10 (0.38%) NIST 800
16 9 (0.35%) JSP 440
17 8 (0.31%) SOC 2
18 7 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
18 7 (0.27%) PMO
System Software
1 456 (17.55%) Docker
2 67 (2.58%) Active Directory
3 55 (2.12%) VMware Infrastructure
4 36 (1.39%) Hyper-V
5 23 (0.89%) Virtual Machines
6 19 (0.73%) vSphere
7 8 (0.31%) Firmware
8 6 (0.23%) KVM
8 6 (0.23%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 6 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.12%) iptables
9 3 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.12%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.077%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 2 (0.077%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.038%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.038%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 430 (16.55%) Terraform
2 409 (15.74%) Kubernetes
3 115 (4.43%) Ansible
4 113 (4.35%) Grafana
5 37 (1.42%) Prometheus
6 24 (0.92%) Argo
7 17 (0.65%) Istio
7 17 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
8 16 (0.62%) Progress Chef
9 14 (0.54%) Puppet
10 13 (0.50%) CloudHub
10 13 (0.50%) Podman
11 10 (0.38%) Proxmox
12 9 (0.35%) Cisco CUCM
13 8 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
14 7 (0.27%) CASB
14 7 (0.27%) ZABBIX
15 6 (0.23%) EMC NetWorker
15 6 (0.23%) EMC VPLEX
15 6 (0.23%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 432 (16.63%) Microsoft
2 122 (4.70%) Google
3 113 (4.35%) ServiceNow
4 78 (3.00%) VMware
5 66 (2.54%) Cisco
5 66 (2.54%) Oracle
6 61 (2.35%) Databricks
7 39 (1.50%) Palo Alto
8 35 (1.35%) Adobe
9 34 (1.31%) SAP
9 34 (1.31%) Splunk
10 33 (1.27%) Fortinet
10 33 (1.27%) OpenAI
11 31 (1.19%) Salesforce
12 27 (1.04%) Typelevel
13 26 (1.00%) Apple
14 24 (0.92%) SolarWinds
15 22 (0.85%) Dynatrace
15 22 (0.85%) Okta
16 21 (0.81%) Informatica