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 3 months leading up to 18 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 3 months to
18 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 12 11
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 -4
Permanent jobs citing AWS 1,250 726 1,577
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 9.97% 10.75% 15.89%
As % of the Cloud Services category 28.81% 28.71% 36.98%
Number of salaries quoted 836 588 1,028
10th Percentile £42,750 £46,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £55,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +6.67% +10.38%
75th Percentile £92,813 £115,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £137,500 £128,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% - +7.14%

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 4,339 2,529 4,265
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 34.62% 37.43% 42.97%
Number of salaries quoted 3,203 1,975 2,617
10th Percentile £34,250 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% +3.19%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £114,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +4.00%

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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 3 months to 18 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 34 (1.34%) Apache Spark
2 28 (1.10%) Apache Airflow
2 28 (1.10%) Confluence
3 26 (1.02%) Apache
4 21 (0.83%) SharePoint
5 16 (0.63%) Anypoint
5 16 (0.63%) IIS
6 15 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
7 13 (0.51%) Mule
7 13 (0.51%) WordPress
8 10 (0.39%) CMS
9 8 (0.31%) Jupyter
9 8 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 6 (0.24%) SAS
11 5 (0.20%) Apache Solr
11 5 (0.20%) ArcGIS
11 5 (0.20%) nginx
12 4 (0.16%) Ethereum
12 4 (0.16%) Oracle Spatial
12 4 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 70 (2.76%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (0.67%) Chatbot
3 16 (0.63%) Microsoft Excel
4 11 (0.43%) MS Visio
5 10 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 6 (0.24%) Moqups
7 5 (0.20%) AutoCAD
7 5 (0.20%) DaVinci Resolve
8 2 (0.079%) Elementor
8 2 (0.079%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.079%) PlantUML
8 2 (0.079%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.079%) 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 (0.24%) NetSuite
2 6 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
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%) Finacle
4 1 (0.039%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.039%) Magento
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 1,220 (48.03%) Azure
2 654 (25.75%) GCP
3 326 (12.83%) SaaS
4 222 (8.74%) Serverless
5 207 (8.15%) GitHub
6 162 (6.38%) AWS Lambda
7 155 (6.10%) Microsoft 365
8 151 (5.94%) Amazon S3
9 101 (3.98%) Amazon EKS
10 100 (3.94%) Amazon EC2
10 100 (3.94%) AWS CloudFormation
11 95 (3.74%) GitHub Actions
12 85 (3.35%) Snowflake
13 81 (3.19%) Amazon ECS
14 69 (2.72%) GitHub Copilot
15 63 (2.48%) Azure DevOps
16 62 (2.44%) Amazon SQS
17 61 (2.40%) Anthropic Claude
18 53 (2.09%) Amazon Bedrock
19 51 (2.01%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 103 (4.06%) Firewall
2 71 (2.80%) Network Security
3 63 (2.48%) Broadband
4 62 (2.44%) VPN
5 59 (2.32%) DNS
6 54 (2.13%) WAN
7 47 (1.85%) LAN
7 47 (1.85%) TCP/IP
8 41 (1.61%) HTTP
9 37 (1.46%) DHCP
10 28 (1.10%) SD-WAN
11 18 (0.71%) SSL
12 17 (0.67%) VLAN
12 17 (0.67%) Wi-Fi
13 16 (0.63%) Cisco ASA
14 13 (0.51%) BGP
15 11 (0.43%) Cisco Firepower
15 11 (0.43%) OSPF
16 10 (0.39%) MPLS
17 9 (0.35%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 260 (10.24%) PostgreSQL
2 224 (8.82%) MongoDB
3 109 (4.29%) SQL Server
4 98 (3.86%) Elasticsearch
5 94 (3.70%) MySQL
6 87 (3.43%) NoSQL
7 81 (3.19%) Azure SQL Database
8 67 (2.64%) DynamoDB
9 65 (2.56%) Relational Database
10 57 (2.24%) Redis
11 49 (1.93%) Data Warehouse
12 46 (1.81%) Amazon RDS
13 45 (1.77%) Power BI
14 43 (1.69%) Amazon Athena
15 35 (1.38%) Metadata
16 34 (1.34%) Data Lake
17 29 (1.14%) Amazon Redshift
17 29 (1.14%) Tableau
18 26 (1.02%) Big Data
19 20 (0.79%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 150 (5.91%) Git
2 88 (3.46%) Jenkins
3 79 (3.11%) GitLab
4 77 (3.03%) TeamCity
5 64 (2.52%) JIRA
6 60 (2.36%) Claude Code
7 53 (2.09%) Cypress.io
8 32 (1.26%) JUnit
9 27 (1.06%) Selenium
10 22 (0.87%) Postman
11 21 (0.83%) Maven
12 17 (0.67%) Mockito
13 12 (0.47%) Bitbucket
14 8 (0.31%) SonarQube
15 7 (0.28%) Cucumber
15 7 (0.28%) Gatling
15 7 (0.28%) JMeter
16 6 (0.24%) CircleCI
16 6 (0.24%) Crashlytics
16 6 (0.24%) NUnit
General
1 670 (26.38%) Social Skills
2 614 (24.17%) Finance
3 340 (13.39%) Public Sector
4 295 (11.61%) Banking
5 262 (10.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 227 (8.94%) Law
7 169 (6.65%) Analytical Skills
8 140 (5.51%) Retail
9 83 (3.27%) Legal
10 70 (2.76%) Financial Institution
11 68 (2.68%) Back Office
12 52 (2.05%) Presentation Skills
13 49 (1.93%) Games
14 48 (1.89%) Swedish Language
15 44 (1.73%) Influencing Skills
16 40 (1.57%) Marketing
17 33 (1.30%) Telecoms
18 31 (1.22%) French Language
19 26 (1.02%) Health Technology
20 24 (0.94%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 619 (24.37%) Senior
2 486 (19.13%) Developer
3 424 (16.69%) Software Engineer
4 318 (12.52%) Architect
5 304 (11.97%) Lead
6 131 (5.16%) Analyst
7 129 (5.08%) Full-Stack Developer
8 121 (4.76%) AWS Engineer
8 121 (4.76%) Senior Developer
9 113 (4.45%) DevOps Engineer
10 109 (4.29%) .NET Developer
10 109 (4.29%) Senior Software Engineer
11 99 (3.90%) Cloud Engineer
12 95 (3.74%) Consultant
13 94 (3.70%) Engineering Manager
14 87 (3.43%) Data Engineer
15 85 (3.35%) Lead Software Engineer
16 83 (3.27%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 82 (3.23%) Python Engineer
17 82 (3.23%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 447 (17.60%) Terraform
2 392 (15.43%) React
3 332 (13.07%) Node.js
4 259 (10.20%) .NET
5 191 (7.52%) REST
6 146 (5.75%) Spring
7 128 (5.04%) RESTful
8 120 (4.72%) Vue
9 111 (4.37%) .NET Core
10 109 (4.29%) AngularJS
11 108 (4.25%) CSS
12 106 (4.17%) ASP.NET
12 106 (4.17%) Spring Boot
13 95 (3.74%) ASP.NET Core
14 81 (3.19%) Middleware
15 77 (3.03%) LangChain
16 74 (2.91%) Kafka
17 68 (2.68%) .NET Framework
18 67 (2.64%) HTML
19 61 (2.40%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 404 (15.91%) Cloud Native
2 201 (7.91%) Product Ownership
3 175 (6.89%) Distributed Systems
4 111 (4.37%) AI Agents
5 110 (4.33%) Public Cloud
6 76 (2.99%) Cyber Threat
7 69 (2.72%) Greenfield Project
8 62 (2.44%) Onboarding
9 56 (2.20%) Hybrid Cloud
10 52 (2.05%) Blog
11 44 (1.73%) Enterprise Software
11 44 (1.73%) Self-Motivation
12 43 (1.69%) Hedge funds
13 42 (1.65%) Security Posture
14 41 (1.61%) Data Centre
15 38 (1.50%) Management Information System
16 37 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
17 36 (1.42%) Video\Live Streaming
18 35 (1.38%) Mobile App
19 30 (1.18%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 215 (8.46%) Linux
2 164 (6.46%) Windows
3 65 (2.56%) Unix
4 55 (2.17%) Windows Server
5 24 (0.94%) Apple iOS
6 16 (0.63%) Android
6 16 (0.63%) Ubuntu
7 7 (0.28%) Debian
8 6 (0.24%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.12%) CentOS
9 3 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.12%) Robot Operating System
10 2 (0.079%) Solaris
10 2 (0.079%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.079%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 921 (36.26%) CI/CD
2 831 (32.72%) Agile
3 770 (30.31%) Software Engineering
4 608 (23.94%) Mentoring
5 605 (23.82%) AI
6 592 (23.31%) DevOps
7 479 (18.86%) Continuous Improvement
8 475 (18.70%) Microservices
9 452 (17.80%) Full-Stack Development
10 435 (17.13%) Problem-Solving
11 422 (16.61%) Infrastructure as Code
12 405 (15.94%) Test Automation
13 395 (15.55%) Technical Leadership
14 337 (13.27%) Roadmaps
15 293 (11.54%) Coaching
16 280 (11.02%) Containerisation
17 279 (10.98%) Scrum
18 266 (10.47%) Observability
19 250 (9.84%) Machine Learning
20 241 (9.49%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 628 (24.72%) Python
2 534 (21.02%) Java
3 420 (16.54%) SQL
4 383 (15.08%) JavaScript
5 362 (14.25%) TypeScript
6 296 (11.65%) C#
7 98 (3.86%) Go
8 95 (3.74%) Bash
9 84 (3.31%) PowerShell
10 73 (2.87%) Ruby
11 72 (2.83%) C++
12 59 (2.32%) PHP
13 35 (1.38%) Kotlin
14 32 (1.26%) Scala
15 24 (0.94%) Rust
16 21 (0.83%) PL/SQL
17 16 (0.63%) Bicep
17 16 (0.63%) DataWeave
18 12 (0.47%) R
19 11 (0.43%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 426 (16.77%) Security Cleared
2 350 (13.78%) SC Cleared
3 281 (11.06%) Degree
4 171 (6.73%) AWS Certification
5 116 (4.57%) CISSP
6 103 (4.06%) CISM
7 85 (3.35%) Computer Science Degree
8 83 (3.27%) Microsoft Certification
9 69 (2.72%) MCSE
10 64 (2.52%) Azure Certification
11 50 (1.97%) ITIL Certification
12 49 (1.93%) DV Cleared
13 39 (1.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 34 (1.34%) Cisco Certification
15 28 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
16 24 (0.94%) CCNP
17 21 (0.83%) CCNA
18 15 (0.59%) Microsoft Certified Professional
19 14 (0.55%) DBS Check
19 14 (0.55%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 166 (6.54%) QA
2 118 (4.65%) NIST
3 100 (3.94%) Data Quality
4 99 (3.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 85 (3.35%) Accessibility
6 55 (2.17%) GDPR
7 48 (1.89%) ISO 22301
8 38 (1.50%) NCSC
9 30 (1.18%) GRC
10 24 (0.94%) Cyber Essentials
11 23 (0.91%) PCI DSS
12 17 (0.67%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 15 (0.59%) SLA
14 12 (0.47%) NIST 800
14 12 (0.47%) WCAG
15 8 (0.31%) ISO 9001
15 8 (0.31%) PMO
16 7 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 7 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 42001
17 6 (0.24%) SOC 2
System Software
1 424 (16.69%) Docker
2 55 (2.17%) Active Directory
3 49 (1.93%) VMware Infrastructure
4 38 (1.50%) Hyper-V
5 14 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
6 13 (0.51%) vSphere
7 6 (0.24%) 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 (0.079%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.079%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.039%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.039%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.039%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 420 (16.54%) Kubernetes
2 133 (5.24%) Grafana
3 115 (4.53%) Ansible
4 39 (1.54%) Prometheus
5 24 (0.94%) Argo
6 23 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
7 19 (0.75%) Progress Chef
8 13 (0.51%) CloudHub
8 13 (0.51%) Puppet
9 10 (0.39%) Proxmox
9 10 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
10 9 (0.35%) Istio
11 8 (0.31%) CASB
11 8 (0.31%) Packer
12 7 (0.28%) Podman
12 7 (0.28%) ZABBIX
13 6 (0.24%) Cisco CUCM
13 6 (0.24%) Dell DRAC
13 6 (0.24%) EMC NetWorker
13 6 (0.24%) VxRail
Vendors
1 427 (16.81%) Microsoft
2 119 (4.69%) Google
3 107 (4.21%) ServiceNow
4 75 (2.95%) VMware
5 71 (2.80%) Databricks
5 71 (2.80%) Oracle
6 49 (1.93%) Cisco
7 41 (1.61%) OpenAI
8 38 (1.50%) Adobe
9 35 (1.38%) Splunk
10 34 (1.34%) SAP
11 27 (1.06%) Palo Alto
11 27 (1.06%) Salesforce
12 26 (1.02%) Fortinet
13 25 (0.98%) Apple
14 23 (0.91%) Dynatrace
14 23 (0.91%) SolarWinds
15 22 (0.87%) Informatica
15 22 (0.87%) Okta
16 19 (0.75%) MuleSoft
3,492 hybrid/remote AWS jobs