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 7 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 16 8
Rank change year-on-year +6 -8 -2
Permanent jobs citing AWS 2,540 2,001 3,456
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 10.19% 11.91% 15.81%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.26% 34.88% 37.53%
Number of salaries quoted 1,681 1,207 2,372
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,389 £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 £110,000
90th Percentile £108,750 £137,500 £142,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £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 8,682 5,737 9,209
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 34.82% 34.13% 42.13%
Number of salaries quoted 6,375 4,053 6,067
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £36,738
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 £63,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -5.51% +1.60%

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

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Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing AWS over the 6 months to 7 October 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 37 (1.46%) Apache Spark
2 32 (1.26%) Confluence
3 27 (1.06%) Apache Airflow
4 26 (1.02%) Apache
5 17 (0.67%) SharePoint
6 16 (0.63%) Anypoint
7 15 (0.59%) IIS
7 15 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
8 13 (0.51%) Mule
9 12 (0.47%) WordPress
10 10 (0.39%) CMS
11 9 (0.35%) Jupyter
11 9 (0.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 6 (0.24%) SAS
12 6 (0.24%) WebLogic
13 5 (0.20%) Camunda
13 5 (0.20%) nginx
14 4 (0.16%) Apache Solr
14 4 (0.16%) ArcGIS
14 4 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 70 (2.76%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (0.71%) Chatbot
3 16 (0.63%) Microsoft Excel
4 10 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (0.28%) Moqups
5 7 (0.28%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.079%) Elementor
6 2 (0.079%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.079%) PlantUML
6 2 (0.079%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.079%) Weka
7 1 (0.039%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.039%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.039%) DaVinci Resolve
7 1 (0.039%) Houdini
7 1 (0.039%) Lightworks
7 1 (0.039%) NUKE
7 1 (0.039%) Trello
Business Applications
1 19 (0.75%) Cloudability
2 6 (0.24%) NetSuite
2 6 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.079%) Oracle Applications
3 2 (0.079%) Oracle EBS R12
3 2 (0.079%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.079%) 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%) Shopify
4 1 (0.039%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 1,194 (47.01%) Azure
2 657 (25.87%) GCP
3 336 (13.23%) SaaS
4 216 (8.50%) Serverless
5 206 (8.11%) GitHub
6 161 (6.34%) AWS Lambda
7 159 (6.26%) Microsoft 365
8 149 (5.87%) Amazon S3
9 114 (4.49%) Amazon EKS
10 101 (3.98%) AWS CloudFormation
11 98 (3.86%) Amazon EC2
12 92 (3.62%) GitHub Actions
13 91 (3.58%) Snowflake
14 79 (3.11%) Amazon ECS
15 71 (2.80%) GitHub Copilot
16 68 (2.68%) Anthropic Claude
17 64 (2.52%) Amazon Bedrock
18 61 (2.40%) Amazon SQS
19 58 (2.28%) Azure DevOps
20 55 (2.17%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 100 (3.94%) Firewall
2 72 (2.83%) Network Security
3 66 (2.60%) VPN
4 53 (2.09%) Broadband
4 53 (2.09%) DNS
4 53 (2.09%) TCP/IP
5 48 (1.89%) WAN
6 40 (1.57%) LAN
7 34 (1.34%) DHCP
8 32 (1.26%) HTTP
9 24 (0.94%) SD-WAN
10 20 (0.79%) BGP
11 17 (0.67%) VLAN
12 15 (0.59%) SSL
12 15 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
13 14 (0.55%) Cisco ASA
14 12 (0.47%) AMQP
14 12 (0.47%) SMS
15 11 (0.43%) IP Telephony
16 10 (0.39%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 286 (11.26%) PostgreSQL
2 222 (8.74%) MongoDB
3 105 (4.13%) SQL Server
4 97 (3.82%) Elasticsearch
5 95 (3.74%) MySQL
6 85 (3.35%) NoSQL
7 81 (3.19%) Azure SQL Database
8 74 (2.91%) Relational Database
9 66 (2.60%) DynamoDB
10 58 (2.28%) Amazon RDS
11 57 (2.24%) Redis
12 49 (1.93%) Power BI
13 48 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
14 42 (1.65%) Amazon Athena
15 38 (1.50%) Metadata
16 33 (1.30%) Data Lake
17 31 (1.22%) Tableau
18 27 (1.06%) Amazon Redshift
19 26 (1.02%) Big Data
20 23 (0.91%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 153 (6.02%) Git
2 92 (3.62%) TeamCity
3 88 (3.46%) GitLab
3 88 (3.46%) Jenkins
4 69 (2.72%) Claude Code
5 64 (2.52%) JIRA
6 49 (1.93%) Cypress.io
7 37 (1.46%) JUnit
8 27 (1.06%) Selenium
9 23 (0.91%) Postman
10 21 (0.83%) Mockito
11 20 (0.79%) Maven
12 12 (0.47%) Bitbucket
13 8 (0.31%) SonarQube
14 6 (0.24%) CircleCI
14 6 (0.24%) Cucumber
14 6 (0.24%) Gatling
15 5 (0.20%) Burp Suite
15 5 (0.20%) Crashlytics
15 5 (0.20%) XCTest
General
1 693 (27.28%) Social Skills
2 620 (24.41%) Finance
3 357 (14.06%) Public Sector
4 306 (12.05%) Banking
5 270 (10.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 232 (9.13%) Law
7 186 (7.32%) Analytical Skills
8 156 (6.14%) Retail
9 84 (3.31%) Legal
10 82 (3.23%) Financial Institution
11 80 (3.15%) Back Office
12 51 (2.01%) Marketing
12 51 (2.01%) Presentation Skills
13 48 (1.89%) Games
13 48 (1.89%) Swedish Language
14 45 (1.77%) Influencing Skills
15 33 (1.30%) Telecoms
16 31 (1.22%) French Language
16 31 (1.22%) Health Technology
16 31 (1.22%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 637 (25.08%) Senior
2 479 (18.86%) Developer
3 442 (17.40%) Software Engineer
4 313 (12.32%) Architect
5 294 (11.57%) Lead
6 132 (5.20%) Analyst
7 124 (4.88%) Full-Stack Developer
8 123 (4.84%) DevOps Engineer
8 123 (4.84%) Senior Developer
9 122 (4.80%) AWS Engineer
10 117 (4.61%) Senior Software Engineer
11 102 (4.02%) .NET Developer
12 99 (3.90%) Python Engineer
13 96 (3.78%) Cloud Engineer
14 88 (3.46%) Consultant
14 88 (3.46%) Data Engineer
15 87 (3.43%) Lead Software Engineer
16 81 (3.19%) Engineering Manager
17 80 (3.15%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 80 (3.15%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 465 (18.31%) Terraform
2 380 (14.96%) React
3 327 (12.87%) Node.js
4 259 (10.20%) .NET
5 185 (7.28%) REST
6 161 (6.34%) Spring
7 139 (5.47%) RESTful
8 123 (4.84%) Spring Boot
9 114 (4.49%) .NET Core
9 114 (4.49%) Vue
10 109 (4.29%) AngularJS
11 107 (4.21%) ASP.NET
12 95 (3.74%) ASP.NET Core
13 87 (3.43%) LangChain
14 86 (3.39%) CSS
15 84 (3.31%) Middleware
16 75 (2.95%) Kafka
17 67 (2.64%) .NET Framework
18 62 (2.44%) LangGraph
18 62 (2.44%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 418 (16.46%) Cloud Native
2 186 (7.32%) Product Ownership
3 179 (7.05%) Distributed Systems
4 126 (4.96%) AI Agents
5 99 (3.90%) Public Cloud
6 77 (3.03%) Cyber Threat
7 65 (2.56%) Greenfield Project
8 60 (2.36%) Blog
9 59 (2.32%) Onboarding
10 55 (2.17%) Hybrid Cloud
11 53 (2.09%) Hedge funds
12 46 (1.81%) Security Posture
13 45 (1.77%) Enterprise Software
14 41 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
15 40 (1.57%) Data Centre
16 39 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
17 37 (1.46%) Management Information System
18 29 (1.14%) Mobile App
19 28 (1.10%) Data Structures
19 28 (1.10%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 219 (8.62%) Linux
2 159 (6.26%) Windows
3 71 (2.80%) Unix
4 55 (2.17%) Windows Server
5 26 (1.02%) Apple iOS
6 19 (0.75%) Android
7 15 (0.59%) Ubuntu
8 8 (0.31%) Mac OS
9 7 (0.28%) Debian
10 3 (0.12%) CentOS
10 3 (0.12%) Robot Operating System
10 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (0.079%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 2 (0.079%) Solaris
12 1 (0.039%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 941 (37.05%) CI/CD
2 833 (32.80%) Agile
3 778 (30.63%) Software Engineering
4 637 (25.08%) AI
5 605 (23.82%) Mentoring
6 603 (23.74%) DevOps
7 485 (19.09%) Continuous Improvement
8 472 (18.58%) Microservices
9 451 (17.76%) Problem-Solving
10 437 (17.20%) Full-Stack Development
11 433 (17.05%) Infrastructure as Code
12 413 (16.26%) Test Automation
13 386 (15.20%) Technical Leadership
14 319 (12.56%) Roadmaps
15 293 (11.54%) Coaching
16 282 (11.10%) Scrum
17 276 (10.87%) Containerisation
18 272 (10.71%) Observability
19 248 (9.76%) Machine Learning
20 231 (9.09%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 653 (25.71%) Python
2 552 (21.73%) Java
3 432 (17.01%) SQL
4 384 (15.12%) JavaScript
5 353 (13.90%) TypeScript
6 284 (11.18%) C#
7 107 (4.21%) Bash
8 99 (3.90%) Go
9 86 (3.39%) PowerShell
10 69 (2.72%) Ruby
11 61 (2.40%) C++
12 54 (2.13%) PHP
13 34 (1.34%) Kotlin
14 24 (0.94%) Rust
15 23 (0.91%) R
15 23 (0.91%) Scala
16 21 (0.83%) PL/SQL
17 16 (0.63%) DataWeave
18 13 (0.51%) Bicep
19 11 (0.43%) C
Qualifications
1 438 (17.24%) Security Cleared
2 362 (14.25%) SC Cleared
3 276 (10.87%) Degree
4 172 (6.77%) AWS Certification
5 116 (4.57%) CISSP
6 104 (4.09%) CISM
7 86 (3.39%) Microsoft Certification
8 78 (3.07%) Computer Science Degree
9 71 (2.80%) MCSE
10 64 (2.52%) Azure Certification
11 50 (1.97%) ITIL Certification
12 47 (1.85%) DV Cleared
13 38 (1.50%) Cisco Certification
14 33 (1.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 30 (1.18%) BPSS Clearance
16 25 (0.98%) CCNP
17 23 (0.91%) CCNA
18 18 (0.71%) Microsoft Certified Professional
19 15 (0.59%) GIAC
19 15 (0.59%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 162 (6.38%) QA
2 119 (4.69%) NIST
3 108 (4.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 103 (4.06%) Data Quality
5 76 (2.99%) Accessibility
6 59 (2.32%) GDPR
7 48 (1.89%) ISO 22301
8 37 (1.46%) NCSC
9 33 (1.30%) PCI DSS
10 29 (1.14%) GRC
11 28 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials
12 16 (0.63%) SOC 2
13 15 (0.59%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 13 (0.51%) SLA
15 12 (0.47%) NIST 800
16 11 (0.43%) WCAG
17 9 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 9 (0.35%) ISO 9001
17 9 (0.35%) PMO
18 7 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 427 (16.81%) Docker
2 52 (2.05%) Active Directory
3 48 (1.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 41 (1.61%) Hyper-V
5 15 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
6 11 (0.43%) vSphere
7 6 (0.24%) KVM
8 3 (0.12%) Firmware
8 3 (0.12%) iptables
8 3 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.12%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.079%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 2 (0.079%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.079%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.039%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.039%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.039%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 445 (17.52%) Kubernetes
2 148 (5.83%) Grafana
3 111 (4.37%) Ansible
4 45 (1.77%) Prometheus
5 25 (0.98%) Microsoft Intune
6 24 (0.94%) Argo
7 19 (0.75%) Progress Chef
8 14 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
9 13 (0.51%) CloudHub
10 11 (0.43%) Packer
11 10 (0.39%) Proxmox
11 10 (0.39%) Puppet
12 9 (0.35%) Istio
13 8 (0.31%) CASB
14 7 (0.28%) Podman
14 7 (0.28%) ZABBIX
15 6 (0.24%) Avamar
15 6 (0.24%) Dell DRAC
15 6 (0.24%) EMC VPLEX
15 6 (0.24%) VxRail
Vendors
1 401 (15.79%) Microsoft
2 138 (5.43%) Google
3 103 (4.06%) ServiceNow
4 80 (3.15%) Databricks
5 75 (2.95%) VMware
6 71 (2.80%) Oracle
7 43 (1.69%) Cisco
8 42 (1.65%) OpenAI
9 33 (1.30%) SAP
10 31 (1.22%) Adobe
11 27 (1.06%) Splunk
12 24 (0.94%) Dynatrace
12 24 (0.94%) Salesforce
13 22 (0.87%) Informatica
13 22 (0.87%) Palo Alto
14 21 (0.83%) Fortinet
15 20 (0.79%) Apple
15 20 (0.79%) MuleSoft
15 20 (0.79%) Okta
16 16 (0.63%) Ping Identity