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

 6 months to
21 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 12 8
Rank change year-on-year +2 -4 -2
Permanent jobs citing AWS 2,529 2,038 3,523
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 10.36% 12.57% 15.20%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.14% 35.36% 37.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1,666 1,268 2,520
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% - +9.81%
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 8,680 5,763 9,522
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 35.55% 35.56% 41.07%
Number of salaries quoted 6,377 4,149 6,527
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,975 £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 21 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 (1.30%) Apache Spark
2 28 (1.11%) Apache Airflow
3 27 (1.07%) Confluence
4 25 (0.99%) Apache
5 21 (0.83%) 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 (0.40%) CMS
11 8 (0.32%) Jupyter
11 8 (0.32%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 6 (0.24%) SAS
13 5 (0.20%) Apache Solr
13 5 (0.20%) ArcGIS
14 4 (0.16%) Ethereum
14 4 (0.16%) nginx
14 4 (0.16%) Oracle Spatial
14 4 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 70 (2.77%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (0.67%) Chatbot
3 16 (0.63%) Microsoft Excel
4 11 (0.43%) MS Visio
5 10 (0.40%) 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 (0.040%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.040%) Houdini
9 1 (0.040%) Lightworks
9 1 (0.040%) NUKE
9 1 (0.040%) Trello
Business Applications
1 24 (0.95%) 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 (0.040%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
4 1 (0.040%) Finacle
4 1 (0.040%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.040%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.040%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.040%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.040%) Shopify
4 1 (0.040%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 1,213 (47.96%) Azure
2 654 (25.86%) GCP
3 321 (12.69%) SaaS
4 221 (8.74%) Serverless
5 205 (8.11%) GitHub
6 163 (6.45%) AWS Lambda
7 155 (6.13%) Microsoft 365
8 150 (5.93%) Amazon S3
9 101 (3.99%) Amazon EKS
10 99 (3.91%) Amazon EC2
10 99 (3.91%) AWS CloudFormation
11 94 (3.72%) GitHub Actions
12 86 (3.40%) Snowflake
13 80 (3.16%) Amazon ECS
14 69 (2.73%) GitHub Copilot
15 62 (2.45%) Amazon SQS
16 61 (2.41%) Anthropic Claude
16 61 (2.41%) Azure DevOps
17 56 (2.21%) Amazon Bedrock
18 51 (2.02%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 102 (4.03%) Firewall
2 71 (2.81%) Network Security
3 62 (2.45%) Broadband
4 61 (2.41%) VPN
5 58 (2.29%) DNS
6 54 (2.14%) WAN
7 46 (1.82%) LAN
7 46 (1.82%) TCP/IP
8 40 (1.58%) HTTP
9 36 (1.42%) DHCP
10 27 (1.07%) SD-WAN
11 17 (0.67%) SSL
11 17 (0.67%) VLAN
12 16 (0.63%) Cisco ASA
12 16 (0.63%) Wi-Fi
13 12 (0.47%) BGP
14 11 (0.43%) Cisco Firepower
15 10 (0.40%) MPLS
15 10 (0.40%) OSPF
15 10 (0.40%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 261 (10.32%) PostgreSQL
2 223 (8.82%) MongoDB
3 103 (4.07%) SQL Server
4 97 (3.84%) Elasticsearch
5 94 (3.72%) MySQL
6 87 (3.44%) NoSQL
7 81 (3.20%) Azure SQL Database
8 67 (2.65%) DynamoDB
9 66 (2.61%) Relational Database
10 57 (2.25%) Redis
11 49 (1.94%) Data Warehouse
12 46 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
13 45 (1.78%) Power BI
14 43 (1.70%) Amazon Athena
15 35 (1.38%) Data Lake
15 35 (1.38%) Metadata
16 29 (1.15%) Amazon Redshift
16 29 (1.15%) Tableau
17 26 (1.03%) Big Data
18 20 (0.79%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 150 (5.93%) Git
2 88 (3.48%) Jenkins
3 80 (3.16%) GitLab
4 77 (3.04%) TeamCity
5 62 (2.45%) JIRA
6 60 (2.37%) Claude Code
7 53 (2.10%) Cypress.io
8 33 (1.30%) JUnit
9 27 (1.07%) Selenium
10 22 (0.87%) Postman
11 21 (0.83%) Maven
12 18 (0.71%) Mockito
13 12 (0.47%) Bitbucket
14 8 (0.32%) SonarQube
15 7 (0.28%) Cucumber
16 6 (0.24%) CircleCI
16 6 (0.24%) Gatling
16 6 (0.24%) JMeter
16 6 (0.24%) NUnit
17 5 (0.20%) Crashlytics
General
1 666 (26.33%) Social Skills
2 611 (24.16%) Finance
3 341 (13.48%) Public Sector
4 298 (11.78%) Banking
5 262 (10.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 227 (8.98%) Law
7 170 (6.72%) Analytical Skills
8 139 (5.50%) Retail
9 82 (3.24%) Legal
10 70 (2.77%) Financial Institution
11 68 (2.69%) Back Office
12 52 (2.06%) Presentation Skills
13 48 (1.90%) Games
13 48 (1.90%) Swedish Language
14 45 (1.78%) Influencing Skills
15 44 (1.74%) Marketing
16 33 (1.30%) Telecoms
17 31 (1.23%) French Language
18 28 (1.11%) Health Technology
19 26 (1.03%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 616 (24.36%) Senior
2 481 (19.02%) Developer
3 425 (16.81%) Software Engineer
4 317 (12.53%) Architect
5 304 (12.02%) Lead
6 132 (5.22%) Analyst
7 124 (4.90%) Full-Stack Developer
8 121 (4.78%) AWS Engineer
9 119 (4.71%) Senior Developer
10 113 (4.47%) DevOps Engineer
11 108 (4.27%) Senior Software Engineer
12 106 (4.19%) .NET Developer
13 98 (3.88%) Cloud Engineer
14 93 (3.68%) Consultant
15 90 (3.56%) Engineering Manager
16 87 (3.44%) Data Engineer
16 87 (3.44%) Lead Software Engineer
17 85 (3.36%) Python Engineer
18 82 (3.24%) Full-Stack Engineer
19 81 (3.20%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 446 (17.64%) Terraform
2 390 (15.42%) React
3 331 (13.09%) Node.js
4 256 (10.12%) .NET
5 188 (7.43%) REST
6 148 (5.85%) Spring
7 129 (5.10%) RESTful
8 116 (4.59%) Vue
9 112 (4.43%) .NET Core
10 110 (4.35%) AngularJS
11 109 (4.31%) Spring Boot
12 106 (4.19%) ASP.NET
13 99 (3.91%) CSS
14 95 (3.76%) ASP.NET Core
15 82 (3.24%) Middleware
16 80 (3.16%) LangChain
17 74 (2.93%) Kafka
18 67 (2.65%) .NET Framework
19 63 (2.49%) HTML
20 61 (2.41%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 401 (15.86%) Cloud Native
2 198 (7.83%) Product Ownership
3 174 (6.88%) Distributed Systems
4 114 (4.51%) AI Agents
5 110 (4.35%) Public Cloud
6 76 (3.01%) Cyber Threat
7 68 (2.69%) Greenfield Project
8 60 (2.37%) Onboarding
9 56 (2.21%) Hybrid Cloud
10 52 (2.06%) Blog
11 47 (1.86%) Hedge funds
12 44 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
13 43 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
14 41 (1.62%) Data Centre
14 41 (1.62%) Security Posture
15 38 (1.50%) Management Information System
16 37 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
17 35 (1.38%) Video\Live Streaming
18 34 (1.34%) Mobile App
19 29 (1.15%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 212 (8.38%) Linux
2 162 (6.41%) Windows
3 65 (2.57%) Unix
4 54 (2.14%) Windows Server
5 23 (0.91%) 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
1 918 (36.30%) CI/CD
2 826 (32.66%) Agile
3 768 (30.37%) Software Engineering
4 607 (24.00%) AI
5 602 (23.80%) Mentoring
6 591 (23.37%) DevOps
7 475 (18.78%) Continuous Improvement
8 474 (18.74%) Microservices
9 448 (17.71%) Full-Stack Development
10 435 (17.20%) Problem-Solving
11 420 (16.61%) Infrastructure as Code
12 400 (15.82%) Test Automation
13 393 (15.54%) Technical Leadership
14 335 (13.25%) Roadmaps
15 291 (11.51%) Coaching
16 279 (11.03%) Containerisation
16 279 (11.03%) Scrum
17 265 (10.48%) Observability
18 248 (9.81%) Machine Learning
19 235 (9.29%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 623 (24.63%) Python
2 532 (21.04%) Java
3 415 (16.41%) SQL
4 384 (15.18%) JavaScript
5 361 (14.27%) TypeScript
6 287 (11.35%) C#
7 97 (3.84%) Go
8 95 (3.76%) Bash
9 84 (3.32%) PowerShell
10 73 (2.89%) Ruby
11 65 (2.57%) C++
12 54 (2.14%) PHP
13 34 (1.34%) Kotlin
14 31 (1.23%) Scala
15 24 (0.95%) Rust
16 21 (0.83%) PL/SQL
17 16 (0.63%) DataWeave
17 16 (0.63%) R
18 15 (0.59%) Bicep
19 11 (0.43%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 428 (16.92%) Security Cleared
2 352 (13.92%) SC Cleared
3 276 (10.91%) Degree
4 170 (6.72%) AWS Certification
5 116 (4.59%) CISSP
6 103 (4.07%) CISM
7 82 (3.24%) Microsoft Certification
8 79 (3.12%) Computer Science Degree
9 69 (2.73%) MCSE
10 63 (2.49%) Azure Certification
11 50 (1.98%) ITIL Certification
12 49 (1.94%) DV Cleared
13 38 (1.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 34 (1.34%) Cisco Certification
15 29 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
16 24 (0.95%) 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
1 165 (6.52%) QA
2 118 (4.67%) NIST
3 101 (3.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 100 (3.95%) Data Quality
5 84 (3.32%) Accessibility
6 56 (2.21%) GDPR
7 48 (1.90%) ISO 22301
8 37 (1.46%) NCSC
9 30 (1.19%) GRC
10 24 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials
11 23 (0.91%) PCI DSS
12 17 (0.67%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 14 (0.55%) SLA
14 12 (0.47%) NIST 800
14 12 (0.47%) WCAG
15 8 (0.32%) ISO 9001
15 8 (0.32%) PMO
16 7 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 7 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 42001
16 7 (0.28%) SOC 2
System Software
1 425 (16.81%) Docker
2 54 (2.14%) Active Directory
3 49 (1.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 38 (1.50%) Hyper-V
5 13 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (0.51%) vSphere
6 6 (0.24%) KVM
7 4 (0.16%) Firmware
8 3 (0.12%) iptables
8 3 (0.12%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 3 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (0.12%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.079%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.079%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.040%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.040%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.040%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 420 (16.61%) Kubernetes
2 133 (5.26%) Grafana
3 115 (4.55%) Ansible
4 39 (1.54%) Prometheus
5 24 (0.95%) Argo
6 23 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
7 18 (0.71%) Progress Chef
8 13 (0.51%) CloudHub
9 12 (0.47%) Puppet
10 10 (0.40%) Proxmox
10 10 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
11 9 (0.36%) Istio
12 8 (0.32%) CASB
13 7 (0.28%) Packer
13 7 (0.28%) Podman
13 7 (0.28%) ZABBIX
14 6 (0.24%) Cisco CUCM
14 6 (0.24%) Dell DRAC
14 6 (0.24%) EMC NetWorker
14 6 (0.24%) VxRail
Vendors
1 420 (16.61%) Microsoft
2 121 (4.78%) Google
3 107 (4.23%) ServiceNow
4 75 (2.97%) VMware
5 71 (2.81%) Databricks
5 71 (2.81%) Oracle
6 48 (1.90%) Cisco
7 41 (1.62%) OpenAI
8 38 (1.50%) Adobe
9 34 (1.34%) SAP
9 34 (1.34%) Splunk
10 27 (1.07%) Palo Alto
10 27 (1.07%) Salesforce
11 26 (1.03%) Fortinet
12 25 (0.99%) Apple
13 23 (0.91%) Dynatrace
14 22 (0.87%) Informatica
14 22 (0.87%) Okta
14 22 (0.87%) SolarWinds
15 19 (0.75%) MuleSoft
4,580 hybrid/remote AWS jobs