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 31 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 13 8
Rank change year-on-year +3 -5 -2
Permanent jobs citing AWS 2,579 2,138 3,878
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 11.64% 12.97% 14.58%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.03% 35.33% 35.47%
Number of salaries quoted 1,681 1,359 3,195
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £56,745 £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 £102,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £135,000 £142,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +3.57% -6.67%

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 8,589 6,051 10,933
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.77% 36.72% 41.10%
Number of salaries quoted 6,190 4,465 8,790
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,659 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £107,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% 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 31 July 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 42 (1.63%) Apache Spark
2 41 (1.59%) Apache Airflow
3 23 (0.89%) Apache
4 21 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
5 18 (0.70%) Confluence
6 16 (0.62%) IIS
7 15 (0.58%) Anypoint
8 13 (0.50%) SharePoint
9 12 (0.47%) Mule
10 11 (0.43%) WordPress
11 10 (0.39%) CMS
12 7 (0.27%) Jupyter
13 6 (0.23%) Apache Solr
13 6 (0.23%) SAS
14 5 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 4 (0.16%) Ethereum
15 4 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
16 3 (0.12%) Camunda
16 3 (0.12%) EPiServer
16 3 (0.12%) Kentico
Applications
1 93 (3.61%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.39%) MS Visio
3 9 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.19%) AutoCAD
4 5 (0.19%) Chatbot
4 5 (0.19%) DaVinci Resolve
5 2 (0.078%) Elementor
5 2 (0.078%) Moqups
5 2 (0.078%) PlantUML
6 1 (0.039%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.039%) Houdini
6 1 (0.039%) Lightworks
6 1 (0.039%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.039%) NUKE
6 1 (0.039%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.039%) Trello
Business Applications
1 24 (0.93%) Cloudability
2 6 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
3 5 (0.19%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.078%) Shopify
6 1 (0.039%) Magento
6 1 (0.039%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.039%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,191 (46.18%) Azure
2 645 (25.01%) GCP
3 296 (11.48%) SaaS
4 227 (8.80%) Serverless
5 203 (7.87%) GitHub
6 165 (6.40%) Microsoft 365
7 147 (5.70%) AWS Lambda
8 145 (5.62%) Amazon S3
9 103 (3.99%) AWS CloudFormation
10 96 (3.72%) Amazon EKS
11 91 (3.53%) GitHub Actions
12 90 (3.49%) Amazon EC2
13 85 (3.30%) Amazon ECS
14 68 (2.64%) Amazon SQS
15 67 (2.60%) Azure DevOps
16 61 (2.37%) GitHub Copilot
16 61 (2.37%) Snowflake
17 52 (2.02%) Entra ID
18 49 (1.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 42 (1.63%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 128 (4.96%) Firewall
2 115 (4.46%) Broadband
3 77 (2.99%) VPN
4 74 (2.87%) DNS
5 69 (2.68%) WAN
6 67 (2.60%) Network Security
7 63 (2.44%) LAN
8 55 (2.13%) TCP/IP
9 44 (1.71%) DHCP
10 38 (1.47%) HTTP
11 30 (1.16%) SD-WAN
12 28 (1.09%) Cisco ASA
13 25 (0.97%) Wi-Fi
14 22 (0.85%) Cisco Firepower
15 21 (0.81%) SSL
15 21 (0.81%) VLAN
16 14 (0.54%) BGP
17 13 (0.50%) MPLS
17 13 (0.50%) OSPF
18 11 (0.43%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 266 (10.31%) PostgreSQL
2 250 (9.69%) MongoDB
3 115 (4.46%) SQL Server
4 108 (4.19%) Elasticsearch
4 108 (4.19%) MySQL
5 103 (3.99%) NoSQL
6 84 (3.26%) Azure SQL Database
7 58 (2.25%) DynamoDB
8 56 (2.17%) Redis
9 54 (2.09%) Relational Database
10 53 (2.06%) Amazon RDS
11 37 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
12 36 (1.40%) Power BI
13 35 (1.36%) Metadata
14 32 (1.24%) Amazon Athena
15 28 (1.09%) Big Data
16 26 (1.01%) Amazon Redshift
17 25 (0.97%) Data Lake
18 22 (0.85%) Tableau
19 18 (0.70%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 137 (5.31%) Git
2 86 (3.33%) Jenkins
3 84 (3.26%) GitLab
4 58 (2.25%) TeamCity
5 55 (2.13%) JIRA
6 52 (2.02%) Cypress.io
7 39 (1.51%) Claude Code
8 25 (0.97%) JUnit
9 23 (0.89%) Selenium
10 17 (0.66%) Maven
10 17 (0.66%) Postman
11 14 (0.54%) Crashlytics
11 14 (0.54%) XCTest
12 13 (0.50%) CircleCI
12 13 (0.50%) Mockito
13 12 (0.47%) JMeter
14 11 (0.43%) Cucumber
15 10 (0.39%) Bitbucket
16 7 (0.27%) Gatling
17 6 (0.23%) SonarQube
General
1 664 (25.75%) Social Skills
2 586 (22.72%) Finance
3 285 (11.05%) Public Sector
4 232 (9.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 230 (8.92%) Banking
6 211 (8.18%) Law
7 144 (5.58%) Analytical Skills
8 125 (4.85%) Retail
9 69 (2.68%) Legal
10 54 (2.09%) Games
11 49 (1.90%) Financial Institution
12 48 (1.86%) Swedish Language
13 46 (1.78%) Back Office
14 43 (1.67%) Front Office
15 40 (1.55%) Presentation Skills
16 38 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
16 38 (1.47%) Marketing
17 37 (1.43%) French Language
18 30 (1.16%) Telecoms
19 24 (0.93%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 617 (23.92%) Senior
2 554 (21.48%) Developer
3 446 (17.29%) Software Engineer
4 327 (12.68%) Lead
5 286 (11.09%) Architect
6 152 (5.89%) Full-Stack Developer
7 145 (5.62%) AWS Engineer
8 131 (5.08%) Analyst
9 125 (4.85%) DevOps Engineer
10 120 (4.65%) .NET Developer
11 117 (4.54%) Senior Software Engineer
12 115 (4.46%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 113 (4.38%) Senior Developer
14 110 (4.27%) Lead Software Engineer
15 100 (3.88%) Engineering Manager
16 97 (3.76%) Solutions Architect
17 95 (3.68%) Lead Developer
18 94 (3.64%) Cloud Engineer
18 94 (3.64%) Consultant
19 89 (3.45%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 444 (17.22%) React
2 375 (14.54%) Node.js
3 244 (9.46%) .NET
4 188 (7.29%) REST
5 132 (5.12%) RESTful
6 129 (5.00%) Vue
7 128 (4.96%) CSS
7 128 (4.96%) Spring
8 118 (4.58%) Kafka
9 115 (4.46%) .NET Core
9 115 (4.46%) AngularJS
10 107 (4.15%) ASP.NET
11 97 (3.76%) ASP.NET Core
12 93 (3.61%) Spring Boot
13 84 (3.26%) HTML
14 72 (2.79%) .NET Framework
15 71 (2.75%) Middleware
16 59 (2.29%) Ruby on Rails
17 56 (2.17%) OAuth
18 53 (2.06%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 387 (15.01%) Cloud Native
2 191 (7.41%) Product Ownership
3 184 (7.13%) Distributed Systems
4 97 (3.76%) Public Cloud
5 85 (3.30%) Greenfield Project
6 72 (2.79%) AI Agents
7 69 (2.68%) Cyber Threat
7 69 (2.68%) Video\Live Streaming
8 65 (2.52%) Onboarding
9 55 (2.13%) Management Information System
10 48 (1.86%) Data Centre
10 48 (1.86%) Security Posture
10 48 (1.86%) Self-Motivation
11 47 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
12 45 (1.74%) Hybrid Cloud
13 44 (1.71%) Fixed Income
13 44 (1.71%) Mobile App
14 41 (1.59%) Blog
14 41 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
15 37 (1.43%) Over-the-Top Content
Operating Systems
1 214 (8.30%) Linux
2 162 (6.28%) Windows
3 63 (2.44%) Windows Server
4 61 (2.37%) Unix
5 34 (1.32%) Apple iOS
6 19 (0.74%) Android
7 11 (0.43%) Ubuntu
7 11 (0.43%) Windows 10
8 9 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
9 7 (0.27%) Mac OS
10 6 (0.23%) Windows Server 2012
11 5 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
12 4 (0.16%) Debian
13 3 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 2 (0.078%) CentOS
15 1 (0.039%) FreeBSD
15 1 (0.039%) OpenBSD
15 1 (0.039%) Solaris
15 1 (0.039%) Windows 7
15 1 (0.039%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 896 (34.74%) CI/CD
2 875 (33.93%) Agile
3 780 (30.24%) Software Engineering
4 604 (23.42%) DevOps
5 558 (21.64%) Mentoring
6 509 (19.74%) AI
7 502 (19.46%) Full-Stack Development
8 498 (19.31%) Microservices
9 454 (17.60%) Continuous Improvement
10 444 (17.22%) Infrastructure as Code
11 425 (16.48%) Test Automation
12 422 (16.36%) Problem-Solving
13 359 (13.92%) Technical Leadership
14 327 (12.68%) Containerisation
15 314 (12.18%) Roadmaps
16 277 (10.74%) Coaching
17 271 (10.51%) Scrum
18 263 (10.20%) Clean Code
19 250 (9.69%) Observability
20 249 (9.65%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 673 (26.10%) Python
2 511 (19.81%) Java
3 411 (15.94%) TypeScript
4 403 (15.63%) JavaScript
5 388 (15.04%) SQL
6 294 (11.40%) C#
7 171 (6.63%) Go
8 87 (3.37%) Bash
9 72 (2.79%) Ruby
10 71 (2.75%) PowerShell
11 70 (2.71%) PHP
12 69 (2.68%) C++
13 65 (2.52%) Scala
14 36 (1.40%) Kotlin
15 25 (0.97%) Rust
16 16 (0.62%) Bicep
16 16 (0.62%) PL/SQL
16 16 (0.62%) Swift
17 15 (0.58%) DataWeave
18 10 (0.39%) C
Qualifications
1 394 (15.28%) Security Cleared
2 337 (13.07%) SC Cleared
3 301 (11.67%) Degree
4 173 (6.71%) AWS Certification
5 119 (4.61%) CISSP
6 97 (3.76%) CISM
6 97 (3.76%) Microsoft Certification
7 87 (3.37%) Computer Science Degree
8 83 (3.22%) MCSE
9 56 (2.17%) Azure Certification
10 50 (1.94%) ITIL Certification
11 49 (1.90%) DV Cleared
12 37 (1.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 33 (1.28%) Cisco Certification
14 22 (0.85%) CCNP
15 20 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
16 17 (0.66%) CREST Certified
16 17 (0.66%) DBS Check
17 16 (0.62%) CRISC
17 16 (0.62%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 191 (7.41%) QA
2 116 (4.50%) NIST
3 95 (3.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 72 (2.79%) Accessibility
5 60 (2.33%) Data Quality
6 51 (1.98%) GDPR
7 48 (1.86%) ISO 22301
8 30 (1.16%) GRC
9 28 (1.09%) PCI DSS
10 26 (1.01%) NCSC
11 19 (0.74%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 15 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
12 15 (0.58%) WCAG
13 13 (0.50%) SLA
14 12 (0.47%) SOC 2
15 11 (0.43%) ISO 9001
16 10 (0.39%) JSP 440
16 10 (0.39%) NIST 800
17 7 (0.27%) PMO
18 6 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 449 (17.41%) Docker
2 66 (2.56%) Active Directory
3 55 (2.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 41 (1.59%) Hyper-V
5 22 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
6 20 (0.78%) vSphere
7 7 (0.27%) KVM
7 7 (0.27%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 7 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
8 6 (0.23%) Firmware
9 4 (0.16%) VMware NSX
10 3 (0.12%) iptables
11 2 (0.078%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 2 (0.078%) Virtual Desktop
11 2 (0.078%) VMware ESXi
12 1 (0.039%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 420 (16.29%) Terraform
2 401 (15.55%) Kubernetes
3 116 (4.50%) Grafana
4 112 (4.34%) Ansible
5 39 (1.51%) Prometheus
6 26 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
7 23 (0.89%) Argo
8 17 (0.66%) Progress Chef
9 15 (0.58%) Istio
9 15 (0.58%) Puppet
10 13 (0.50%) Podman
10 13 (0.50%) Proxmox
11 12 (0.47%) CloudHub
12 10 (0.39%) Cisco CUCM
13 9 (0.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 7 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
14 7 (0.27%) ZABBIX
15 6 (0.23%) CASB
15 6 (0.23%) EMC NetWorker
15 6 (0.23%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 433 (16.79%) Microsoft
2 124 (4.81%) ServiceNow
3 105 (4.07%) Google
4 83 (3.22%) VMware
5 70 (2.71%) Cisco
6 59 (2.29%) Oracle
7 52 (2.02%) Databricks
8 40 (1.55%) Palo Alto
9 36 (1.40%) Typelevel
10 35 (1.36%) Fortinet
11 33 (1.28%) Apple
11 33 (1.28%) Splunk
12 32 (1.24%) Salesforce
12 32 (1.24%) SAP
13 30 (1.16%) Adobe
14 25 (0.97%) SolarWinds
15 23 (0.89%) OpenAI
16 21 (0.81%) Dell
16 21 (0.81%) MuleSoft
16 21 (0.81%) Okta