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 27 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 13 8
Rank change year-on-year +3 -5 -2
Permanent jobs citing AWS 2,588 2,069 3,634
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 11.13% 12.50% 14.64%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.83% 34.72% 35.88%
Number of salaries quoted 1,692 1,304 2,833
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £54,551 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% - +0.67%
75th Percentile £88,750 £110,000 £108,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £135,000 £142,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year - - -3.33%

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 8,675 5,959 10,127
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.32% 36.01% 40.79%
Number of salaries quoted 6,348 4,366 7,655
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £37,140
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 £81,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.76%

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 27 August 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 36 (1.39%) Apache Spark
2 30 (1.16%) Apache Airflow
3 27 (1.04%) Confluence
4 24 (0.93%) Apache
5 21 (0.81%) SharePoint
6 16 (0.62%) Anypoint
6 16 (0.62%) IIS
6 16 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
7 13 (0.50%) Mule
7 13 (0.50%) WordPress
8 12 (0.46%) CMS
9 8 (0.31%) Jupyter
10 7 (0.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 6 (0.23%) SAS
12 5 (0.19%) Apache Solr
13 4 (0.15%) ArcGIS
13 4 (0.15%) Camunda
13 4 (0.15%) Ethereum
13 4 (0.15%) Sitecore CMS
14 3 (0.12%) GeoServer
Applications
1 78 (3.01%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (0.58%) Chatbot
3 14 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
4 11 (0.43%) MS Visio
5 10 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 5 (0.19%) AutoCAD
6 5 (0.19%) DaVinci Resolve
6 5 (0.19%) Moqups
7 2 (0.077%) Elementor
7 2 (0.077%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.077%) PlantUML
7 2 (0.077%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.077%) Weka
8 1 (0.039%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.039%) Houdini
8 1 (0.039%) Lightworks
8 1 (0.039%) NUKE
8 1 (0.039%) Trello
Business Applications
1 24 (0.93%) Cloudability
2 6 (0.23%) NetSuite
2 6 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.12%) Shopify
4 2 (0.077%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.077%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.039%) Finacle
5 1 (0.039%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.039%) Magento
5 1 (0.039%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.039%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 1,222 (47.22%) Azure
2 659 (25.46%) GCP
3 320 (12.36%) SaaS
4 226 (8.73%) Serverless
5 210 (8.11%) GitHub
6 158 (6.11%) Microsoft 365
7 157 (6.07%) AWS Lambda
8 151 (5.83%) Amazon S3
9 105 (4.06%) AWS CloudFormation
10 95 (3.67%) Amazon EKS
11 94 (3.63%) GitHub Actions
12 93 (3.59%) Amazon EC2
13 80 (3.09%) Amazon ECS
14 74 (2.86%) Snowflake
15 68 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
16 67 (2.59%) Amazon SQS
17 66 (2.55%) GitHub Copilot
18 53 (2.05%) Anthropic Claude
19 50 (1.93%) Power Platform
20 46 (1.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 112 (4.33%) Firewall
2 91 (3.52%) Broadband
3 72 (2.78%) Network Security
4 67 (2.59%) DNS
4 67 (2.59%) VPN
5 62 (2.40%) WAN
6 55 (2.13%) LAN
7 51 (1.97%) TCP/IP
8 40 (1.55%) HTTP
9 39 (1.51%) DHCP
10 31 (1.20%) SD-WAN
11 22 (0.85%) Cisco ASA
12 20 (0.77%) SSL
12 20 (0.77%) VLAN
13 19 (0.73%) Wi-Fi
14 14 (0.54%) Cisco Firepower
15 13 (0.50%) BGP
16 11 (0.43%) Internet
16 11 (0.43%) OSPF
17 10 (0.39%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 256 (9.89%) PostgreSQL
2 242 (9.35%) MongoDB
3 113 (4.37%) SQL Server
4 103 (3.98%) Elasticsearch
5 99 (3.83%) NoSQL
6 98 (3.79%) MySQL
7 84 (3.25%) Azure SQL Database
8 70 (2.70%) DynamoDB
9 59 (2.28%) Relational Database
10 56 (2.16%) Redis
11 47 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
12 45 (1.74%) Data Warehouse
13 44 (1.70%) Power BI
14 35 (1.35%) Amazon Athena
15 34 (1.31%) Metadata
16 30 (1.16%) Data Lake
17 28 (1.08%) Tableau
18 27 (1.04%) Big Data
19 25 (0.97%) Amazon Redshift
20 11 (0.43%) Looker
Development Applications
1 144 (5.56%) Git
2 86 (3.32%) Jenkins
3 82 (3.17%) GitLab
4 66 (2.55%) JIRA
5 60 (2.32%) TeamCity
6 59 (2.28%) Cypress.io
7 49 (1.89%) Claude Code
8 31 (1.20%) JUnit
9 27 (1.04%) Selenium
10 21 (0.81%) Postman
11 20 (0.77%) Maven
12 16 (0.62%) Mockito
13 12 (0.46%) Bitbucket
13 12 (0.46%) CircleCI
14 11 (0.43%) Crashlytics
14 11 (0.43%) Cucumber
14 11 (0.43%) JMeter
14 11 (0.43%) XCTest
15 8 (0.31%) SonarQube
16 7 (0.27%) Gatling
General
1 679 (26.24%) Social Skills
2 607 (23.45%) Finance
3 314 (12.13%) Public Sector
4 264 (10.20%) Banking
5 246 (9.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 209 (8.08%) Law
7 160 (6.18%) Analytical Skills
8 120 (4.64%) Retail
9 79 (3.05%) Legal
10 58 (2.24%) Financial Institution
11 56 (2.16%) Games
12 54 (2.09%) Back Office
13 49 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
14 48 (1.85%) Swedish Language
15 40 (1.55%) Marketing
16 37 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
17 34 (1.31%) French Language
18 31 (1.20%) Telecoms
19 24 (0.93%) Health Technology
19 24 (0.93%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 626 (24.19%) Senior
2 516 (19.94%) Developer
3 424 (16.38%) Software Engineer
4 314 (12.13%) Architect
4 314 (12.13%) Lead
5 140 (5.41%) Full-Stack Developer
6 136 (5.26%) AWS Engineer
7 131 (5.06%) Analyst
8 123 (4.75%) DevOps Engineer
8 123 (4.75%) Senior Developer
9 114 (4.40%) Senior Software Engineer
10 112 (4.33%) .NET Developer
11 103 (3.98%) Engineering Manager
12 100 (3.86%) Cloud Engineer
13 99 (3.83%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 97 (3.75%) Consultant
15 90 (3.48%) Solutions Architect
16 89 (3.44%) Lead Software Engineer
17 82 (3.17%) Software Developer
18 80 (3.09%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 438 (16.92%) Terraform
2 422 (16.31%) React
3 363 (14.03%) Node.js
4 254 (9.81%) .NET
5 203 (7.84%) REST
6 141 (5.45%) Spring
7 128 (4.95%) RESTful
8 124 (4.79%) Vue
9 119 (4.60%) CSS
10 115 (4.44%) .NET Core
11 113 (4.37%) AngularJS
12 111 (4.29%) ASP.NET
13 100 (3.86%) Spring Boot
14 98 (3.79%) ASP.NET Core
15 89 (3.44%) Kafka
16 81 (3.13%) Middleware
17 74 (2.86%) HTML
18 71 (2.74%) .NET Framework
19 70 (2.70%) LangChain
20 63 (2.43%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 388 (14.99%) Cloud Native
2 198 (7.65%) Product Ownership
3 177 (6.84%) Distributed Systems
4 106 (4.10%) Public Cloud
5 95 (3.67%) AI Agents
6 79 (3.05%) Greenfield Project
7 73 (2.82%) Cyber Threat
8 67 (2.59%) Onboarding
9 52 (2.01%) Hybrid Cloud
10 51 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
10 51 (1.97%) Video\Live Streaming
11 49 (1.89%) Blog
12 47 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
13 46 (1.78%) Mobile App
14 44 (1.70%) Security Posture
15 43 (1.66%) Management Information System
16 41 (1.58%) Data Centre
17 38 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
18 35 (1.35%) Low-Code
19 31 (1.20%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 210 (8.11%) Linux
2 159 (6.14%) Windows
3 60 (2.32%) Unix
4 54 (2.09%) Windows Server
5 25 (0.97%) Apple iOS
6 15 (0.58%) Android
7 14 (0.54%) Ubuntu
8 6 (0.23%) Debian
9 5 (0.19%) Mac OS
10 4 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.12%) CentOS
11 3 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.077%) Robot Operating System
12 2 (0.077%) Solaris
12 2 (0.077%) Windows 10
12 2 (0.077%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 914 (35.32%) CI/CD
2 868 (33.54%) Agile
3 774 (29.91%) Software Engineering
4 608 (23.49%) DevOps
5 587 (22.68%) Mentoring
6 576 (22.26%) AI
7 487 (18.82%) Full-Stack Development
8 483 (18.66%) Continuous Improvement
9 479 (18.51%) Microservices
10 446 (17.23%) Infrastructure as Code
11 422 (16.31%) Problem-Solving
12 418 (16.15%) Test Automation
13 392 (15.15%) Technical Leadership
14 336 (12.98%) Roadmaps
15 320 (12.36%) Containerisation
16 287 (11.09%) Scrum
17 273 (10.55%) Coaching
18 267 (10.32%) Observability
19 253 (9.78%) Machine Learning
20 247 (9.54%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 657 (25.39%) Python
2 513 (19.82%) Java
3 408 (15.77%) SQL
4 398 (15.38%) JavaScript
5 393 (15.19%) TypeScript
6 295 (11.40%) C#
7 127 (4.91%) Go
8 88 (3.40%) Bash
9 81 (3.13%) PowerShell
10 78 (3.01%) Ruby
11 67 (2.59%) C++
12 64 (2.47%) PHP
13 43 (1.66%) Scala
14 39 (1.51%) Kotlin
15 23 (0.89%) Rust
16 19 (0.73%) PL/SQL
17 16 (0.62%) DataWeave
18 15 (0.58%) Bicep
19 14 (0.54%) Swift
20 11 (0.43%) C
Qualifications
1 417 (16.11%) Security Cleared
2 348 (13.45%) SC Cleared
3 289 (11.17%) Degree
4 175 (6.76%) AWS Certification
5 115 (4.44%) CISSP
6 101 (3.90%) CISM
7 86 (3.32%) Computer Science Degree
7 86 (3.32%) Microsoft Certification
8 73 (2.82%) MCSE
9 60 (2.32%) Azure Certification
10 57 (2.20%) DV Cleared
11 50 (1.93%) ITIL Certification
12 39 (1.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 32 (1.24%) Cisco Certification
14 28 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
15 22 (0.85%) CCNP
16 16 (0.62%) CCNA
17 15 (0.58%) CREST Certified
18 14 (0.54%) DBS Check
19 13 (0.50%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 184 (7.11%) QA
2 118 (4.56%) NIST
3 105 (4.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 91 (3.52%) Accessibility
5 81 (3.13%) Data Quality
6 52 (2.01%) GDPR
7 48 (1.85%) ISO 22301
8 34 (1.31%) NCSC
9 32 (1.24%) GRC
10 26 (1.00%) PCI DSS
11 18 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
11 18 (0.70%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 17 (0.66%) SLA
13 16 (0.62%) WCAG
14 12 (0.46%) NIST 800
15 11 (0.43%) ISO 9001
16 8 (0.31%) JSP 440
17 7 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
17 7 (0.27%) PMO
17 7 (0.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 446 (17.23%) Docker
2 59 (2.28%) Active Directory
3 52 (2.01%) VMware Infrastructure
4 33 (1.28%) Hyper-V
5 22 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
6 17 (0.66%) vSphere
7 9 (0.35%) Firmware
8 6 (0.23%) KVM
9 5 (0.19%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 5 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (0.12%) iptables
10 3 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.12%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.039%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.039%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.039%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.039%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 417 (16.11%) Kubernetes
2 122 (4.71%) Grafana
3 114 (4.40%) Ansible
4 37 (1.43%) Prometheus
5 24 (0.93%) Argo
6 17 (0.66%) Istio
7 16 (0.62%) Microsoft Intune
7 16 (0.62%) Progress Chef
8 14 (0.54%) Puppet
9 13 (0.50%) CloudHub
9 13 (0.50%) Podman
10 10 (0.39%) Proxmox
11 9 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
12 8 (0.31%) CASB
12 8 (0.31%) Cisco CUCM
13 7 (0.27%) ZABBIX
14 6 (0.23%) EMC NetWorker
14 6 (0.23%) EMC VPLEX
14 6 (0.23%) Failover Clustering
14 6 (0.23%) Packer
Vendors
1 431 (16.65%) Microsoft
2 116 (4.48%) Google
3 112 (4.33%) ServiceNow
4 74 (2.86%) VMware
5 66 (2.55%) Oracle
6 61 (2.36%) Databricks
7 59 (2.28%) Cisco
8 38 (1.47%) Adobe
9 36 (1.39%) OpenAI
10 35 (1.35%) Palo Alto
10 35 (1.35%) Splunk
11 34 (1.31%) SAP
12 31 (1.20%) Fortinet
12 31 (1.20%) Salesforce
13 25 (0.97%) Apple
14 23 (0.89%) Dynatrace
14 23 (0.89%) SolarWinds
15 21 (0.81%) Informatica
16 20 (0.77%) Okta
17 19 (0.73%) MuleSoft