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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 13 8
Rank change year-on-year +3 -5 -2
Permanent jobs citing AWS 2,635 2,120 3,714
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 11.69% 12.86% 14.71%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.27% 35.25% 35.79%
Number of salaries quoted 1,714 1,344 3,006
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,825 £45,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £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 £110,000 £105,000
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 8,705 6,014 10,378
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.63% 36.49% 41.10%
Number of salaries quoted 6,284 4,432 8,195
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,500 £36,750
25th Percentile £45,489 £43,750 £47,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £64,488
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -6.96% -0.79%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £84,964
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.76%

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 6 August 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 39 (1.48%) Apache Spark
2 38 (1.44%) Apache Airflow
3 23 (0.87%) Apache
4 21 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
5 19 (0.72%) Confluence
6 16 (0.61%) Anypoint
6 16 (0.61%) IIS
7 14 (0.53%) SharePoint
7 14 (0.53%) WordPress
8 13 (0.49%) Mule
9 10 (0.38%) CMS
10 7 (0.27%) Jupyter
10 7 (0.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 6 (0.23%) Apache Solr
11 6 (0.23%) SAS
12 4 (0.15%) Camunda
12 4 (0.15%) Ethereum
12 4 (0.15%) Sitecore CMS
13 3 (0.11%) EPiServer
13 3 (0.11%) Kentico
Applications
1 92 (3.49%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (0.38%) MS Visio
4 9 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (0.23%) Chatbot
6 5 (0.19%) AutoCAD
6 5 (0.19%) DaVinci Resolve
7 3 (0.11%) Moqups
8 2 (0.076%) Elementor
8 2 (0.076%) PlantUML
8 2 (0.076%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.038%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.038%) Houdini
9 1 (0.038%) Lightworks
9 1 (0.038%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.038%) NUKE
9 1 (0.038%) Trello
Business Applications
1 24 (0.91%) Cloudability
2 6 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
3 5 (0.19%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
5 3 (0.11%) Shopify
6 1 (0.038%) Magento
6 1 (0.038%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.038%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,214 (46.07%) Azure
2 661 (25.09%) GCP
3 300 (11.39%) SaaS
4 233 (8.84%) Serverless
5 207 (7.86%) GitHub
6 167 (6.34%) Microsoft 365
7 151 (5.73%) AWS Lambda
8 149 (5.65%) Amazon S3
9 111 (4.21%) AWS CloudFormation
10 99 (3.76%) Amazon EKS
11 93 (3.53%) Amazon EC2
11 93 (3.53%) GitHub Actions
12 86 (3.26%) Amazon ECS
13 69 (2.62%) Amazon SQS
14 67 (2.54%) Azure DevOps
15 65 (2.47%) Snowflake
16 64 (2.43%) GitHub Copilot
17 51 (1.94%) Entra ID
18 47 (1.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 46 (1.75%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 126 (4.78%) Firewall
2 114 (4.33%) Broadband
3 77 (2.92%) DNS
4 75 (2.85%) VPN
5 69 (2.62%) WAN
6 67 (2.54%) Network Security
7 62 (2.35%) LAN
8 59 (2.24%) TCP/IP
9 45 (1.71%) DHCP
10 39 (1.48%) HTTP
11 30 (1.14%) SD-WAN
12 27 (1.02%) Cisco ASA
13 24 (0.91%) Wi-Fi
14 22 (0.83%) SSL
15 21 (0.80%) Cisco Firepower
15 21 (0.80%) VLAN
16 13 (0.49%) BGP
17 12 (0.46%) MPLS
17 12 (0.46%) OSPF
18 11 (0.42%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 272 (10.32%) PostgreSQL
2 251 (9.53%) MongoDB
3 116 (4.40%) SQL Server
4 112 (4.25%) MySQL
5 107 (4.06%) Elasticsearch
6 103 (3.91%) NoSQL
7 84 (3.19%) Azure SQL Database
8 62 (2.35%) DynamoDB
9 60 (2.28%) Redis
10 55 (2.09%) Relational Database
11 54 (2.05%) Amazon RDS
12 40 (1.52%) Power BI
13 37 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
14 34 (1.29%) Metadata
15 32 (1.21%) Amazon Athena
16 28 (1.06%) Big Data
17 25 (0.95%) Amazon Redshift
17 25 (0.95%) Data Lake
18 24 (0.91%) Tableau
19 16 (0.61%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 140 (5.31%) Git
2 85 (3.23%) Jenkins
3 82 (3.11%) GitLab
4 61 (2.31%) TeamCity
5 58 (2.20%) JIRA
6 56 (2.13%) Cypress.io
7 42 (1.59%) Claude Code
8 28 (1.06%) JUnit
9 25 (0.95%) Selenium
10 19 (0.72%) Maven
10 19 (0.72%) Postman
11 15 (0.57%) Mockito
12 14 (0.53%) Crashlytics
12 14 (0.53%) XCTest
13 13 (0.49%) CircleCI
14 12 (0.46%) JMeter
15 11 (0.42%) Bitbucket
15 11 (0.42%) Cucumber
16 7 (0.27%) Gatling
16 7 (0.27%) NUnit
General
1 684 (25.96%) Social Skills
2 609 (23.11%) Finance
3 294 (11.16%) Public Sector
4 240 (9.11%) Banking
5 239 (9.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 215 (8.16%) Law
7 149 (5.65%) Analytical Skills
8 127 (4.82%) Retail
9 75 (2.85%) Legal
10 55 (2.09%) Games
11 51 (1.94%) Financial Institution
12 48 (1.82%) Back Office
12 48 (1.82%) Swedish Language
13 43 (1.63%) Presentation Skills
14 42 (1.59%) Front Office
15 40 (1.52%) Marketing
16 39 (1.48%) French Language
16 39 (1.48%) Influencing Skills
17 31 (1.18%) Telecoms
18 23 (0.87%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 632 (23.98%) Senior
2 562 (21.33%) Developer
3 457 (17.34%) Software Engineer
4 330 (12.52%) Lead
5 288 (10.93%) Architect
6 154 (5.84%) Full-Stack Developer
7 144 (5.46%) AWS Engineer
8 133 (5.05%) Analyst
9 124 (4.71%) DevOps Engineer
10 120 (4.55%) Senior Software Engineer
11 119 (4.52%) Senior Developer
12 118 (4.48%) .NET Developer
13 113 (4.29%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 110 (4.17%) Lead Software Engineer
15 102 (3.87%) Engineering Manager
16 99 (3.76%) Cloud Engineer
17 97 (3.68%) Consultant
18 96 (3.64%) Solutions Architect
19 94 (3.57%) Lead Developer
20 90 (3.42%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 457 (17.34%) React
2 378 (14.35%) Node.js
3 248 (9.41%) .NET
4 196 (7.44%) REST
5 135 (5.12%) RESTful
6 133 (5.05%) Spring
7 129 (4.90%) Vue
8 128 (4.86%) CSS
9 120 (4.55%) AngularJS
10 117 (4.44%) .NET Core
10 117 (4.44%) Kafka
11 107 (4.06%) ASP.NET
12 98 (3.72%) Spring Boot
13 96 (3.64%) ASP.NET Core
14 83 (3.15%) HTML
15 73 (2.77%) .NET Framework
16 72 (2.73%) Middleware
17 63 (2.39%) Ruby on Rails
18 59 (2.24%) LangChain
18 59 (2.24%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 395 (14.99%) Cloud Native
2 192 (7.29%) Product Ownership
3 187 (7.10%) Distributed Systems
4 103 (3.91%) Public Cloud
5 87 (3.30%) Greenfield Project
6 81 (3.07%) AI Agents
7 71 (2.69%) Cyber Threat
8 69 (2.62%) Video\Live Streaming
9 67 (2.54%) Onboarding
10 55 (2.09%) Management Information System
11 52 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
12 49 (1.86%) Security Posture
13 48 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
14 47 (1.78%) Data Centre
14 47 (1.78%) Hybrid Cloud
15 46 (1.75%) Mobile App
16 44 (1.67%) Blog
17 42 (1.59%) Fixed Income
18 41 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
19 37 (1.40%) Over-the-Top Content
Operating Systems
1 217 (8.24%) Linux
2 163 (6.19%) Windows
3 63 (2.39%) Unix
4 62 (2.35%) Windows Server
5 35 (1.33%) Apple iOS
6 20 (0.76%) Android
7 11 (0.42%) Ubuntu
8 10 (0.38%) Windows 10
9 8 (0.30%) Mac OS
9 8 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
10 6 (0.23%) Windows Server 2012
11 5 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
12 4 (0.15%) Debian
13 3 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 2 (0.076%) CentOS
15 1 (0.038%) FreeBSD
15 1 (0.038%) OpenBSD
15 1 (0.038%) Solaris
15 1 (0.038%) Windows 7
15 1 (0.038%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 928 (35.22%) CI/CD
2 897 (34.04%) Agile
3 799 (30.32%) Software Engineering
4 617 (23.42%) DevOps
5 577 (21.90%) Mentoring
6 531 (20.15%) AI
7 506 (19.20%) Full-Stack Development
7 506 (19.20%) Microservices
8 471 (17.87%) Continuous Improvement
9 460 (17.46%) Infrastructure as Code
10 436 (16.55%) Problem-Solving
11 435 (16.51%) Test Automation
12 369 (14.00%) Technical Leadership
13 334 (12.68%) Containerisation
14 322 (12.22%) Roadmaps
15 285 (10.82%) Coaching
16 281 (10.66%) Scrum
17 275 (10.44%) Clean Code
18 262 (9.94%) Observability
19 254 (9.64%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 689 (26.15%) Python
2 529 (20.08%) Java
3 422 (16.02%) TypeScript
4 415 (15.75%) JavaScript
5 400 (15.18%) SQL
6 296 (11.23%) C#
7 172 (6.53%) Go
8 89 (3.38%) Bash
9 78 (2.96%) Ruby
10 75 (2.85%) PowerShell
11 70 (2.66%) C++
11 70 (2.66%) PHP
12 65 (2.47%) Scala
13 36 (1.37%) Kotlin
14 25 (0.95%) Rust
15 18 (0.68%) PL/SQL
16 16 (0.61%) Bicep
16 16 (0.61%) DataWeave
16 16 (0.61%) Swift
17 11 (0.42%) C
Qualifications
1 417 (15.83%) Security Cleared
2 356 (13.51%) SC Cleared
3 305 (11.57%) Degree
4 178 (6.76%) AWS Certification
5 121 (4.59%) CISSP
6 99 (3.76%) CISM
7 97 (3.68%) Microsoft Certification
8 89 (3.38%) Computer Science Degree
9 83 (3.15%) MCSE
10 57 (2.16%) Azure Certification
11 53 (2.01%) DV Cleared
12 50 (1.90%) ITIL Certification
13 37 (1.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 33 (1.25%) Cisco Certification
15 22 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
15 22 (0.83%) CCNP
16 17 (0.65%) CREST Certified
16 17 (0.65%) DBS Check
17 16 (0.61%) CRISC
17 16 (0.61%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 194 (7.36%) QA
2 119 (4.52%) NIST
3 98 (3.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 78 (2.96%) Accessibility
5 63 (2.39%) Data Quality
6 53 (2.01%) GDPR
7 48 (1.82%) ISO 22301
8 30 (1.14%) GRC
9 29 (1.10%) PCI DSS
10 28 (1.06%) NCSC
11 19 (0.72%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 16 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
12 16 (0.61%) WCAG
13 14 (0.53%) SLA
14 12 (0.46%) SOC 2
15 11 (0.42%) ISO 9001
16 10 (0.38%) JSP 440
16 10 (0.38%) NIST 800
17 7 (0.27%) PMO
18 6 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 452 (17.15%) Docker
2 68 (2.58%) Active Directory
3 56 (2.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 40 (1.52%) Hyper-V
5 22 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
6 20 (0.76%) vSphere
7 7 (0.27%) Firmware
7 7 (0.27%) KVM
7 7 (0.27%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 7 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
8 4 (0.15%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.11%) iptables
10 2 (0.076%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 2 (0.076%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.076%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.038%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 432 (16.39%) Terraform
2 408 (15.48%) Kubernetes
3 121 (4.59%) Grafana
4 115 (4.36%) Ansible
5 38 (1.44%) Prometheus
6 25 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
7 23 (0.87%) Argo
8 17 (0.65%) Progress Chef
9 16 (0.61%) Istio
10 14 (0.53%) Puppet
11 13 (0.49%) CloudHub
11 13 (0.49%) Podman
11 13 (0.49%) Proxmox
12 10 (0.38%) Cisco CUCM
13 8 (0.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 7 (0.27%) CASB
14 7 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
14 7 (0.27%) ZABBIX
15 6 (0.23%) EMC NetWorker
15 6 (0.23%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 441 (16.74%) Microsoft
2 124 (4.71%) ServiceNow
3 118 (4.48%) Google
4 82 (3.11%) VMware
5 70 (2.66%) Cisco
6 62 (2.35%) Oracle
7 55 (2.09%) Databricks
8 40 (1.52%) Palo Alto
9 36 (1.37%) Typelevel
10 34 (1.29%) Fortinet
10 34 (1.29%) Salesforce
10 34 (1.29%) SAP
11 33 (1.25%) Apple
11 33 (1.25%) Splunk
12 30 (1.14%) Adobe
13 25 (0.95%) OpenAI
14 24 (0.91%) SolarWinds
15 22 (0.83%) Okta
16 21 (0.80%) Dynatrace
16 21 (0.80%) MuleSoft