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 23 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 11 8
Rank change year-on-year +1 -3 -2
Permanent jobs citing AWS 2,564 2,036 3,468
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 10.42% 12.60% 15.38%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.27% 35.47% 37.46%
Number of salaries quoted 1,686 1,258 2,458
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £54,551 £58,750 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £77,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% - +10.71%
75th Percentile £90,000 £110,000 £112,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £136,250 £142,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% - +3.45%

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 8,761 5,740 9,259
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 35.62% 35.52% 41.06%
Number of salaries quoted 6,440 4,121 6,329
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £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 £82,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -

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 23 September 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 33 (1.29%) Apache Spark
2 28 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
2 28 (1.09%) Confluence
3 25 (0.98%) Apache
4 21 (0.82%) SharePoint
5 16 (0.62%) Anypoint
6 15 (0.59%) IIS
6 15 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
7 13 (0.51%) Mule
8 12 (0.47%) WordPress
9 10 (0.39%) CMS
10 8 (0.31%) Jupyter
10 8 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 6 (0.23%) SAS
12 5 (0.20%) Apache Solr
12 5 (0.20%) ArcGIS
13 4 (0.16%) Ethereum
13 4 (0.16%) nginx
13 4 (0.16%) Oracle Spatial
13 4 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 70 (2.73%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (0.66%) Chatbot
3 16 (0.62%) Microsoft Excel
4 11 (0.43%) MS Visio
5 10 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 6 (0.23%) Moqups
7 5 (0.20%) AutoCAD
7 5 (0.20%) DaVinci Resolve
8 2 (0.078%) Elementor
8 2 (0.078%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.078%) PlantUML
8 2 (0.078%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.078%) Weka
9 1 (0.039%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.039%) Houdini
9 1 (0.039%) Lightworks
9 1 (0.039%) NUKE
9 1 (0.039%) Trello
Business Applications
1 24 (0.94%) Cloudability
2 6 (0.23%) NetSuite
2 6 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.078%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.078%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.039%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
4 1 (0.039%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.039%) Finacle
4 1 (0.039%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.039%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.039%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.039%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.039%) Shopify
4 1 (0.039%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 1,225 (47.78%) Azure
2 670 (26.13%) GCP
3 332 (12.95%) SaaS
4 225 (8.78%) Serverless
5 211 (8.23%) GitHub
6 165 (6.44%) AWS Lambda
7 156 (6.08%) Microsoft 365
8 152 (5.93%) Amazon S3
9 106 (4.13%) Amazon EKS
10 100 (3.90%) Amazon EC2
11 99 (3.86%) AWS CloudFormation
12 96 (3.74%) GitHub Actions
13 90 (3.51%) Snowflake
14 83 (3.24%) Amazon ECS
15 71 (2.77%) GitHub Copilot
16 66 (2.57%) Anthropic Claude
17 64 (2.50%) Amazon SQS
18 62 (2.42%) Azure DevOps
19 59 (2.30%) Amazon Bedrock
20 51 (1.99%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 104 (4.06%) Firewall
2 73 (2.85%) Network Security
3 64 (2.50%) VPN
4 62 (2.42%) Broadband
5 57 (2.22%) DNS
6 54 (2.11%) WAN
7 49 (1.91%) TCP/IP
8 46 (1.79%) LAN
9 40 (1.56%) HTTP
10 35 (1.37%) DHCP
11 27 (1.05%) SD-WAN
12 19 (0.74%) VLAN
13 17 (0.66%) SSL
14 16 (0.62%) Cisco ASA
14 16 (0.62%) Wi-Fi
15 15 (0.59%) BGP
16 11 (0.43%) Cisco Firepower
17 10 (0.39%) MPLS
17 10 (0.39%) OSPF
17 10 (0.39%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 268 (10.45%) PostgreSQL
2 224 (8.74%) MongoDB
3 104 (4.06%) SQL Server
4 97 (3.78%) Elasticsearch
5 95 (3.71%) MySQL
6 87 (3.39%) NoSQL
7 81 (3.16%) Azure SQL Database
8 70 (2.73%) DynamoDB
8 70 (2.73%) Relational Database
9 57 (2.22%) Redis
10 50 (1.95%) Amazon RDS
10 50 (1.95%) Data Warehouse
11 45 (1.76%) Power BI
12 43 (1.68%) Amazon Athena
13 35 (1.37%) Data Lake
13 35 (1.37%) Metadata
14 29 (1.13%) Amazon Redshift
14 29 (1.13%) Tableau
15 26 (1.01%) Big Data
16 20 (0.78%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 150 (5.85%) Git
2 89 (3.47%) Jenkins
3 83 (3.24%) TeamCity
4 81 (3.16%) GitLab
5 65 (2.54%) Claude Code
6 64 (2.50%) JIRA
7 53 (2.07%) Cypress.io
8 33 (1.29%) JUnit
9 26 (1.01%) Selenium
10 22 (0.86%) Postman
11 21 (0.82%) Maven
12 18 (0.70%) Mockito
13 12 (0.47%) Bitbucket
14 8 (0.31%) SonarQube
15 7 (0.27%) Cucumber
16 6 (0.23%) CircleCI
16 6 (0.23%) Gatling
16 6 (0.23%) JMeter
17 5 (0.20%) Crashlytics
17 5 (0.20%) Poetry
General
1 683 (26.64%) Social Skills
2 625 (24.38%) Finance
3 345 (13.46%) Public Sector
4 311 (12.13%) Banking
5 273 (10.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 235 (9.17%) Law
7 174 (6.79%) Analytical Skills
8 149 (5.81%) Retail
9 81 (3.16%) Legal
10 76 (2.96%) Financial Institution
11 74 (2.89%) Back Office
12 52 (2.03%) Presentation Skills
13 48 (1.87%) Games
13 48 (1.87%) Swedish Language
14 45 (1.76%) Influencing Skills
15 44 (1.72%) Marketing
16 34 (1.33%) Telecoms
17 31 (1.21%) French Language
18 28 (1.09%) Health Technology
18 28 (1.09%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 625 (24.38%) Senior
2 483 (18.84%) Developer
3 436 (17.00%) Software Engineer
4 321 (12.52%) Architect
5 305 (11.90%) Lead
6 135 (5.27%) Analyst
7 125 (4.88%) Full-Stack Developer
8 123 (4.80%) AWS Engineer
9 119 (4.64%) Senior Developer
10 115 (4.49%) DevOps Engineer
11 111 (4.33%) Senior Software Engineer
12 106 (4.13%) .NET Developer
13 98 (3.82%) Cloud Engineer
14 92 (3.59%) Consultant
15 89 (3.47%) Engineering Manager
15 89 (3.47%) Lead Software Engineer
15 89 (3.47%) Python Engineer
16 88 (3.43%) Data Engineer
17 83 (3.24%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 80 (3.12%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 459 (17.90%) Terraform
2 398 (15.52%) React
3 332 (12.95%) Node.js
4 260 (10.14%) .NET
5 190 (7.41%) REST
6 152 (5.93%) Spring
7 131 (5.11%) RESTful
8 119 (4.64%) Vue
9 114 (4.45%) .NET Core
10 113 (4.41%) AngularJS
10 113 (4.41%) Spring Boot
11 106 (4.13%) ASP.NET
12 100 (3.90%) CSS
13 95 (3.71%) ASP.NET Core
14 82 (3.20%) Middleware
15 80 (3.12%) LangChain
16 75 (2.93%) Kafka
17 68 (2.65%) .NET Framework
18 64 (2.50%) HTML
19 61 (2.38%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 411 (16.03%) Cloud Native
2 200 (7.80%) Product Ownership
3 181 (7.06%) Distributed Systems
4 118 (4.60%) AI Agents
5 112 (4.37%) Public Cloud
6 78 (3.04%) Cyber Threat
7 68 (2.65%) Greenfield Project
8 62 (2.42%) Onboarding
9 56 (2.18%) Blog
9 56 (2.18%) Hybrid Cloud
10 50 (1.95%) Hedge funds
11 45 (1.76%) Enterprise Software
12 43 (1.68%) Security Posture
12 43 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
13 41 (1.60%) Data Centre
14 40 (1.56%) Management Information System
15 37 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
16 35 (1.37%) Mobile App
16 35 (1.37%) Video\Live Streaming
17 30 (1.17%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 217 (8.46%) Linux
2 166 (6.47%) Windows
3 66 (2.57%) Unix
4 56 (2.18%) Windows Server
5 27 (1.05%) Apple iOS
6 18 (0.70%) Android
7 16 (0.62%) Ubuntu
8 8 (0.31%) Mac OS
9 7 (0.27%) Debian
10 3 (0.12%) CentOS
10 3 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.12%) Robot Operating System
11 2 (0.078%) Solaris
11 2 (0.078%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (0.078%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 934 (36.43%) CI/CD
2 834 (32.53%) Agile
3 785 (30.62%) Software Engineering
4 624 (24.34%) AI
5 612 (23.87%) Mentoring
6 599 (23.36%) DevOps
7 483 (18.84%) Continuous Improvement
7 483 (18.84%) Microservices
8 452 (17.63%) Full-Stack Development
9 448 (17.47%) Problem-Solving
10 429 (16.73%) Infrastructure as Code
11 404 (15.76%) Test Automation
12 395 (15.41%) Technical Leadership
13 340 (13.26%) Roadmaps
14 296 (11.54%) Coaching
15 284 (11.08%) Containerisation
16 282 (11.00%) Scrum
17 271 (10.57%) Observability
18 252 (9.83%) Machine Learning
19 239 (9.32%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 636 (24.80%) Python
2 546 (21.29%) Java
3 425 (16.58%) SQL
4 388 (15.13%) JavaScript
5 369 (14.39%) TypeScript
6 288 (11.23%) C#
7 104 (4.06%) Go
8 101 (3.94%) Bash
9 85 (3.32%) PowerShell
10 73 (2.85%) Ruby
11 66 (2.57%) C++
12 55 (2.15%) PHP
13 35 (1.37%) Kotlin
14 31 (1.21%) Scala
15 26 (1.01%) Rust
16 21 (0.82%) PL/SQL
17 16 (0.62%) DataWeave
17 16 (0.62%) R
18 14 (0.55%) Bicep
19 11 (0.43%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 429 (16.73%) Security Cleared
2 353 (13.77%) SC Cleared
3 280 (10.92%) Degree
4 172 (6.71%) AWS Certification
5 115 (4.49%) CISSP
6 103 (4.02%) CISM
7 83 (3.24%) Microsoft Certification
8 79 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
9 70 (2.73%) MCSE
10 65 (2.54%) Azure Certification
11 50 (1.95%) ITIL Certification
12 49 (1.91%) DV Cleared
13 38 (1.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 36 (1.40%) Cisco Certification
15 30 (1.17%) BPSS Clearance
16 25 (0.98%) CCNP
17 22 (0.86%) CCNA
18 16 (0.62%) Microsoft Certified Professional
19 15 (0.59%) GIAC
20 14 (0.55%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 167 (6.51%) QA
2 119 (4.64%) NIST
3 104 (4.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 101 (3.94%) Data Quality
5 84 (3.28%) Accessibility
6 57 (2.22%) GDPR
7 48 (1.87%) ISO 22301
8 38 (1.48%) NCSC
9 31 (1.21%) GRC
10 28 (1.09%) PCI DSS
11 25 (0.98%) Cyber Essentials
12 16 (0.62%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 14 (0.55%) SLA
14 12 (0.47%) NIST 800
14 12 (0.47%) WCAG
15 10 (0.39%) SOC 2
16 8 (0.31%) ISO 9001
16 8 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 42001
16 8 (0.31%) PMO
17 7 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 430 (16.77%) Docker
2 53 (2.07%) Active Directory
3 49 (1.91%) VMware Infrastructure
4 39 (1.52%) Hyper-V
5 14 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
6 13 (0.51%) vSphere
7 6 (0.23%) KVM
8 4 (0.16%) Firmware
9 3 (0.12%) iptables
9 3 (0.12%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 3 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.12%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.078%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.078%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.039%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.039%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.039%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 433 (16.89%) Kubernetes
2 141 (5.50%) Grafana
3 115 (4.49%) Ansible
4 43 (1.68%) Prometheus
5 24 (0.94%) Argo
5 24 (0.94%) Microsoft Intune
6 20 (0.78%) Progress Chef
7 13 (0.51%) CloudHub
8 12 (0.47%) Puppet
8 12 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
9 10 (0.39%) Packer
9 10 (0.39%) Proxmox
10 9 (0.35%) Istio
11 8 (0.31%) CASB
12 7 (0.27%) Podman
12 7 (0.27%) ZABBIX
13 6 (0.23%) Cisco CUCM
13 6 (0.23%) Dell DRAC
13 6 (0.23%) EMC NetWorker
13 6 (0.23%) VxRail
Vendors
1 424 (16.54%) Microsoft
2 125 (4.88%) Google
3 107 (4.17%) ServiceNow
4 77 (3.00%) VMware
5 74 (2.89%) Databricks
6 71 (2.77%) Oracle
7 49 (1.91%) Cisco
8 41 (1.60%) OpenAI
9 38 (1.48%) Adobe
10 35 (1.37%) Splunk
11 34 (1.33%) SAP
12 27 (1.05%) Palo Alto
12 27 (1.05%) Salesforce
13 26 (1.01%) Fortinet
14 25 (0.98%) Apple
15 23 (0.90%) Dynatrace
16 22 (0.86%) Informatica
16 22 (0.86%) SolarWinds
17 21 (0.82%) Okta
18 19 (0.74%) MuleSoft