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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 13 8
Rank change year-on-year +3 -5 -2
Permanent jobs citing AWS 2,526 2,161 4,161
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 11.65% 13.11% 14.48%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.89% 35.53% 35.10%
Number of salaries quoted 1,636 1,373 3,469
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% - +0.67%
75th Percentile £90,000 £108,750 £97,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £135,000 £140,500
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 8,450 6,082 11,854
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.99% 36.89% 41.24%
Number of salaries quoted 6,038 4,483 9,649
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £44,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -2.44% -5.38%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £105,000
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 23 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 46 (1.82%) Apache Airflow
2 41 (1.62%) Apache Spark
3 22 (0.87%) Apache
3 22 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
4 15 (0.59%) IIS
5 14 (0.55%) Anypoint
5 14 (0.55%) Confluence
6 13 (0.51%) CMS
6 13 (0.51%) SharePoint
7 11 (0.44%) Mule
8 9 (0.36%) WordPress
9 7 (0.28%) Jupyter
10 6 (0.24%) Apache Solr
10 6 (0.24%) SAS
11 4 (0.16%) Ethereum
11 4 (0.16%) nginx
11 4 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.12%) Kentico
12 3 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 3 (0.12%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 94 (3.72%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.36%) MS Visio
3 8 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.28%) Microsoft Excel
5 5 (0.20%) AutoCAD
5 5 (0.20%) DaVinci Resolve
6 4 (0.16%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.079%) Elementor
7 2 (0.079%) PlantUML
8 1 (0.040%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.040%) Houdini
8 1 (0.040%) Lightworks
8 1 (0.040%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.040%) Moqups
8 1 (0.040%) NUKE
8 1 (0.040%) Trello
Business Applications
1 24 (0.95%) Cloudability
2 6 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (0.16%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.079%) Shopify
5 1 (0.040%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.040%) Magento
5 1 (0.040%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.040%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,145 (45.33%) Azure
2 629 (24.90%) GCP
3 290 (11.48%) SaaS
4 234 (9.26%) Serverless
5 196 (7.76%) GitHub
6 163 (6.45%) Microsoft 365
7 152 (6.02%) Amazon S3
7 152 (6.02%) AWS Lambda
8 107 (4.24%) Amazon EKS
9 94 (3.72%) Amazon EC2
9 94 (3.72%) AWS CloudFormation
10 90 (3.56%) GitHub Actions
11 85 (3.37%) Amazon ECS
12 69 (2.73%) Amazon SQS
13 63 (2.49%) Azure DevOps
14 57 (2.26%) GitHub Copilot
15 56 (2.22%) Snowflake
16 55 (2.18%) Entra ID
17 54 (2.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 43 (1.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 134 (5.30%) Firewall
2 123 (4.87%) Broadband
3 84 (3.33%) VPN
4 73 (2.89%) DNS
5 70 (2.77%) WAN
6 65 (2.57%) Network Security
7 64 (2.53%) LAN
8 51 (2.02%) TCP/IP
9 45 (1.78%) DHCP
10 38 (1.50%) HTTP
11 32 (1.27%) Wi-Fi
12 31 (1.23%) SD-WAN
13 28 (1.11%) Cisco ASA
14 23 (0.91%) Cisco Firepower
15 22 (0.87%) VLAN
16 20 (0.79%) SSL
17 18 (0.71%) BGP
18 15 (0.59%) MPLS
18 15 (0.59%) OSPF
18 15 (0.59%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 262 (10.37%) PostgreSQL
2 252 (9.98%) MongoDB
3 109 (4.32%) Elasticsearch
4 108 (4.28%) SQL Server
5 107 (4.24%) MySQL
6 105 (4.16%) NoSQL
7 84 (3.33%) Azure SQL Database
8 58 (2.30%) Amazon RDS
9 54 (2.14%) DynamoDB
9 54 (2.14%) Relational Database
10 53 (2.10%) Redis
11 39 (1.54%) Metadata
12 35 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
13 33 (1.31%) Amazon Athena
14 27 (1.07%) Amazon Redshift
14 27 (1.07%) Big Data
14 27 (1.07%) Power BI
15 24 (0.95%) Data Lake
16 19 (0.75%) BigQuery
16 19 (0.75%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 130 (5.15%) Git
2 84 (3.33%) GitLab
2 84 (3.33%) Jenkins
3 60 (2.38%) TeamCity
4 50 (1.98%) JIRA
5 49 (1.94%) Cypress.io
6 35 (1.39%) Claude Code
7 19 (0.75%) JUnit
8 17 (0.67%) Selenium
9 14 (0.55%) Crashlytics
9 14 (0.55%) Maven
9 14 (0.55%) XCTest
10 13 (0.51%) CircleCI
10 13 (0.51%) JMeter
10 13 (0.51%) Postman
11 10 (0.40%) Mockito
12 9 (0.36%) Cucumber
13 7 (0.28%) Bitbucket
14 5 (0.20%) Gatling
14 5 (0.20%) MLflow
General
1 628 (24.86%) Social Skills
2 566 (22.41%) Finance
3 279 (11.05%) Public Sector
4 230 (9.11%) Banking
5 229 (9.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 213 (8.43%) Law
7 134 (5.30%) Analytical Skills
7 134 (5.30%) Retail
8 64 (2.53%) Legal
9 52 (2.06%) Games
10 51 (2.02%) Back Office
11 50 (1.98%) Financial Institution
12 48 (1.90%) Swedish Language
13 43 (1.70%) Front Office
14 38 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
15 35 (1.39%) Marketing
15 35 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
16 34 (1.35%) French Language
17 28 (1.11%) Telecoms
18 21 (0.83%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 605 (23.95%) Senior
2 548 (21.69%) Developer
3 437 (17.30%) Software Engineer
4 318 (12.59%) Lead
5 279 (11.05%) Architect
6 149 (5.90%) Full-Stack Developer
7 145 (5.74%) AWS Engineer
8 125 (4.95%) Analyst
8 125 (4.95%) DevOps Engineer
9 119 (4.71%) .NET Developer
9 119 (4.71%) Senior Software Engineer
10 114 (4.51%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 111 (4.39%) Lead Software Engineer
12 106 (4.20%) Senior Developer
13 98 (3.88%) Solutions Architect
14 97 (3.84%) Engineering Manager
15 93 (3.68%) Consultant
15 93 (3.68%) Lead Developer
16 90 (3.56%) Cloud Engineer
16 90 (3.56%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 424 (16.79%) React
2 373 (14.77%) Node.js
3 229 (9.07%) .NET
4 172 (6.81%) REST
5 133 (5.27%) RESTful
6 130 (5.15%) Vue
7 124 (4.91%) Kafka
7 124 (4.91%) Spring
8 123 (4.87%) CSS
9 110 (4.35%) AngularJS
10 109 (4.32%) .NET Core
11 104 (4.12%) ASP.NET
12 96 (3.80%) ASP.NET Core
13 91 (3.60%) Spring Boot
14 82 (3.25%) HTML
15 71 (2.81%) Middleware
16 69 (2.73%) .NET Framework
17 57 (2.26%) Ruby on Rails
18 52 (2.06%) OAuth
19 50 (1.98%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 391 (15.48%) Cloud Native
2 194 (7.68%) Product Ownership
3 185 (7.32%) Distributed Systems
4 93 (3.68%) Public Cloud
5 83 (3.29%) Greenfield Project
6 78 (3.09%) Video\Live Streaming
7 67 (2.65%) Cyber Threat
8 65 (2.57%) Onboarding
9 61 (2.41%) AI Agents
10 56 (2.22%) Management Information System
11 52 (2.06%) Data Centre
12 49 (1.94%) Security Posture
13 46 (1.82%) Over-the-Top Content
14 44 (1.74%) Blog
14 44 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
14 44 (1.74%) Fixed Income
15 43 (1.70%) Hybrid Cloud
16 42 (1.66%) Mobile App
17 41 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
18 35 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 207 (8.19%) Linux
2 159 (6.29%) Windows
3 62 (2.45%) Windows Server
4 54 (2.14%) Unix
5 35 (1.39%) Apple iOS
6 20 (0.79%) Android
7 13 (0.51%) Windows 10
8 11 (0.44%) Ubuntu
9 10 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
10 7 (0.28%) Mac OS
10 7 (0.28%) Windows Server 2012
11 6 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
12 4 (0.16%) Debian
13 3 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 2 (0.079%) CentOS
15 1 (0.040%) FreeBSD
15 1 (0.040%) Mac OS X
15 1 (0.040%) OpenBSD
15 1 (0.040%) Windows 7
15 1 (0.040%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 880 (34.84%) CI/CD
2 846 (33.49%) Agile
3 766 (30.32%) Software Engineering
4 590 (23.36%) DevOps
5 542 (21.46%) Mentoring
6 500 (19.79%) Microservices
7 496 (19.64%) Full-Stack Development
8 479 (18.96%) AI
9 437 (17.30%) Continuous Improvement
10 431 (17.06%) Infrastructure as Code
11 424 (16.79%) Problem-Solving
12 422 (16.71%) Test Automation
13 344 (13.62%) Technical Leadership
14 335 (13.26%) Containerisation
15 302 (11.96%) Roadmaps
16 279 (11.05%) Coaching
17 262 (10.37%) Scrum
18 261 (10.33%) Clean Code
19 248 (9.82%) Machine Learning
20 239 (9.46%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 667 (26.41%) Python
2 506 (20.03%) Java
3 396 (15.68%) TypeScript
4 388 (15.36%) JavaScript
5 376 (14.89%) SQL
6 279 (11.05%) C#
7 181 (7.17%) Go
8 93 (3.68%) Bash
9 73 (2.89%) Scala
10 71 (2.81%) C++
11 69 (2.73%) PowerShell
11 69 (2.73%) Ruby
12 68 (2.69%) PHP
13 34 (1.35%) Kotlin
14 27 (1.07%) Rust
15 16 (0.63%) Bicep
16 15 (0.59%) Swift
17 14 (0.55%) DataWeave
17 14 (0.55%) PL/SQL
18 10 (0.40%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 362 (14.33%) Security Cleared
2 310 (12.27%) SC Cleared
3 299 (11.84%) Degree
4 171 (6.77%) AWS Certification
5 119 (4.71%) CISSP
6 97 (3.84%) CISM
7 96 (3.80%) Microsoft Certification
8 89 (3.52%) Computer Science Degree
9 83 (3.29%) MCSE
10 53 (2.10%) Azure Certification
11 50 (1.98%) ITIL Certification
12 47 (1.86%) DV Cleared
13 37 (1.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 34 (1.35%) Cisco Certification
15 23 (0.91%) CCNP
16 19 (0.75%) CREST Certified
17 17 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
17 17 (0.67%) DBS Check
17 17 (0.67%) Master's Degree
18 16 (0.63%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 187 (7.40%) QA
2 115 (4.55%) NIST
3 96 (3.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 63 (2.49%) Accessibility
5 56 (2.22%) Data Quality
6 49 (1.94%) GDPR
7 48 (1.90%) ISO 22301
8 31 (1.23%) GRC
9 30 (1.19%) PCI DSS
10 24 (0.95%) NCSC
11 19 (0.75%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 16 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
13 15 (0.59%) SOC 2
14 13 (0.51%) WCAG
15 11 (0.44%) ISO 9001
15 11 (0.44%) SLA
16 10 (0.40%) JSP 440
16 10 (0.40%) NIST 800
17 7 (0.28%) PMO
18 6 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 443 (17.54%) Docker
2 69 (2.73%) Active Directory
3 51 (2.02%) VMware Infrastructure
4 43 (1.70%) Hyper-V
5 21 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
6 18 (0.71%) vSphere
7 7 (0.28%) KVM
8 6 (0.24%) Firmware
8 6 (0.24%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 6 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
9 4 (0.16%) VMware NSX
10 3 (0.12%) iptables
11 2 (0.079%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 2 (0.079%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.040%) VMware ESXi
12 1 (0.040%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 407 (16.11%) Terraform
2 400 (15.84%) Kubernetes
3 118 (4.67%) Grafana
4 110 (4.35%) Ansible
5 42 (1.66%) Prometheus
6 27 (1.07%) Microsoft Intune
7 23 (0.91%) Argo
8 17 (0.67%) Progress Chef
9 15 (0.59%) Proxmox
9 15 (0.59%) Puppet
10 14 (0.55%) Istio
11 13 (0.51%) Podman
12 11 (0.44%) CloudHub
12 11 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
13 10 (0.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 9 (0.36%) Cisco CUCM
15 7 (0.28%) Packer
15 7 (0.28%) ZABBIX
16 6 (0.24%) EMC VPLEX
16 6 (0.24%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 424 (16.79%) Microsoft
2 125 (4.95%) ServiceNow
3 90 (3.56%) Google
4 81 (3.21%) VMware
5 68 (2.69%) Cisco
6 59 (2.34%) Oracle
7 48 (1.90%) Databricks
8 45 (1.78%) Typelevel
9 38 (1.50%) Palo Alto
10 36 (1.43%) Fortinet
11 34 (1.35%) Apple
12 32 (1.27%) Splunk
13 31 (1.23%) SAP
14 30 (1.19%) Adobe
15 29 (1.15%) Salesforce
16 27 (1.07%) SolarWinds
17 21 (0.83%) Dell
17 21 (0.83%) OpenAI
18 20 (0.79%) Dynatrace
18 20 (0.79%) MuleSoft