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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 13 8
Rank change year-on-year +3 -5 -2
Permanent jobs citing AWS 2,598 2,033 3,535
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 10.83% 12.52% 15.07%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.61% 34.98% 36.95%
Number of salaries quoted 1,694 1,256 2,601
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £53,750 £58,750 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £76,250 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.20% -1.61% +6.90%
75th Percentile £88,148 £110,000 £112,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £136,250 £142,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
% 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 8,775 5,812 9,567
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 36.60% 35.78% 40.78%
Number of salaries quoted 6,435 4,193 6,772
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £47,770
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 £86,000
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

AWS
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 11 September 2026.

AWS salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

AWS
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 35 (1.35%) Apache Spark
2 31 (1.19%) Apache Airflow
3 27 (1.04%) Apache
3 27 (1.04%) Confluence
4 21 (0.81%) SharePoint
5 16 (0.62%) Anypoint
5 16 (0.62%) IIS
6 15 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
7 13 (0.50%) Mule
7 13 (0.50%) WordPress
8 11 (0.42%) CMS
9 8 (0.31%) Jupyter
10 7 (0.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 6 (0.23%) SAS
12 5 (0.19%) Apache Solr
12 5 (0.19%) ArcGIS
13 4 (0.15%) Ethereum
13 4 (0.15%) GeoServer
13 4 (0.15%) Oracle Spatial
13 4 (0.15%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 76 (2.93%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (0.69%) Chatbot
3 15 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
4 11 (0.42%) MS Visio
5 10 (0.38%) 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 (0.038%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.038%) Houdini
8 1 (0.038%) Lightworks
8 1 (0.038%) NUKE
8 1 (0.038%) Trello
Business Applications
1 24 (0.92%) Cloudability
2 6 (0.23%) NetSuite
2 6 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.077%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.077%) Shopify
3 2 (0.077%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.038%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
4 1 (0.038%) Finacle
4 1 (0.038%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.038%) Magento
4 1 (0.038%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.038%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 1,238 (47.65%) Azure
2 664 (25.56%) GCP
3 319 (12.28%) SaaS
4 230 (8.85%) Serverless
5 211 (8.12%) GitHub
6 164 (6.31%) AWS Lambda
7 162 (6.24%) Microsoft 365
8 154 (5.93%) Amazon S3
9 102 (3.93%) AWS CloudFormation
10 101 (3.89%) Amazon EC2
11 98 (3.77%) Amazon EKS
11 98 (3.77%) GitHub Actions
12 82 (3.16%) Amazon ECS
13 80 (3.08%) Snowflake
14 68 (2.62%) Azure DevOps
15 67 (2.58%) GitHub Copilot
16 66 (2.54%) Amazon SQS
17 60 (2.31%) Anthropic Claude
18 51 (1.96%) Power Platform
19 47 (1.81%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 111 (4.27%) Firewall
2 88 (3.39%) Broadband
3 74 (2.85%) Network Security
4 64 (2.46%) DNS
5 63 (2.42%) VPN
6 59 (2.27%) WAN
7 52 (2.00%) LAN
8 49 (1.89%) TCP/IP
9 42 (1.62%) HTTP
10 38 (1.46%) DHCP
11 30 (1.15%) SD-WAN
12 19 (0.73%) Cisco ASA
12 19 (0.73%) SSL
12 19 (0.73%) VLAN
13 18 (0.69%) Wi-Fi
14 13 (0.50%) BGP
15 12 (0.46%) Cisco Firepower
16 11 (0.42%) OSPF
17 10 (0.38%) MPLS
18 9 (0.35%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 262 (10.08%) PostgreSQL
2 239 (9.20%) MongoDB
3 108 (4.16%) SQL Server
4 100 (3.85%) Elasticsearch
5 99 (3.81%) NoSQL
6 96 (3.70%) MySQL
7 83 (3.19%) Azure SQL Database
8 69 (2.66%) DynamoDB
9 61 (2.35%) Relational Database
10 58 (2.23%) Redis
11 50 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
12 45 (1.73%) Amazon RDS
12 45 (1.73%) Power BI
13 43 (1.66%) Amazon Athena
14 34 (1.31%) Metadata
15 33 (1.27%) Data Lake
16 29 (1.12%) Tableau
17 28 (1.08%) Amazon Redshift
18 26 (1.00%) Big Data
19 20 (0.77%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 149 (5.74%) Git
2 86 (3.31%) Jenkins
3 82 (3.16%) GitLab
4 66 (2.54%) TeamCity
5 64 (2.46%) JIRA
6 60 (2.31%) Cypress.io
7 56 (2.16%) Claude Code
8 33 (1.27%) JUnit
9 28 (1.08%) Selenium
10 21 (0.81%) Maven
10 21 (0.81%) Postman
11 17 (0.65%) Mockito
12 12 (0.46%) CircleCI
13 11 (0.42%) Bitbucket
14 9 (0.35%) Crashlytics
14 9 (0.35%) XCTest
15 8 (0.31%) SonarQube
16 7 (0.27%) Cucumber
16 7 (0.27%) Gatling
16 7 (0.27%) NUnit
General
1 680 (26.17%) Social Skills
2 613 (23.60%) Finance
3 337 (12.97%) Public Sector
4 287 (11.05%) Banking
5 252 (9.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 214 (8.24%) Law
7 172 (6.62%) Analytical Skills
8 127 (4.89%) Retail
9 84 (3.23%) Legal
10 61 (2.35%) Financial Institution
11 58 (2.23%) Back Office
12 55 (2.12%) Games
13 51 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
14 48 (1.85%) Swedish Language
15 41 (1.58%) Influencing Skills
16 38 (1.46%) Marketing
17 36 (1.39%) Telecoms
18 35 (1.35%) French Language
19 26 (1.00%) Health Technology
20 23 (0.89%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 632 (24.33%) Senior
2 494 (19.01%) Developer
3 425 (16.36%) Software Engineer
4 321 (12.36%) Architect
5 307 (11.82%) Lead
6 133 (5.12%) Analyst
7 131 (5.04%) AWS Engineer
7 131 (5.04%) Full-Stack Developer
8 121 (4.66%) DevOps Engineer
8 121 (4.66%) Senior Developer
9 114 (4.39%) Senior Software Engineer
10 111 (4.27%) .NET Developer
11 102 (3.93%) Engineering Manager
12 100 (3.85%) Cloud Engineer
13 98 (3.77%) Consultant
14 89 (3.43%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 88 (3.39%) Data Engineer
16 86 (3.31%) Solutions Architect
17 84 (3.23%) Lead Software Engineer
18 81 (3.12%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 452 (17.40%) Terraform
2 409 (15.74%) React
3 352 (13.55%) Node.js
4 260 (10.01%) .NET
5 201 (7.74%) REST
6 148 (5.70%) Spring
7 129 (4.97%) RESTful
8 120 (4.62%) Vue
9 113 (4.35%) .NET Core
10 112 (4.31%) CSS
11 109 (4.20%) AngularJS
11 109 (4.20%) ASP.NET
12 105 (4.04%) Spring Boot
13 97 (3.73%) ASP.NET Core
14 82 (3.16%) Kafka
15 81 (3.12%) Middleware
16 73 (2.81%) LangChain
17 69 (2.66%) .NET Framework
17 69 (2.66%) HTML
18 62 (2.39%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 398 (15.32%) Cloud Native
2 200 (7.70%) Product Ownership
3 179 (6.89%) Distributed Systems
4 112 (4.31%) Public Cloud
5 103 (3.96%) AI Agents
6 74 (2.85%) Cyber Threat
7 73 (2.81%) Greenfield Project
8 65 (2.50%) Onboarding
9 57 (2.19%) Hybrid Cloud
10 54 (2.08%) Blog
11 49 (1.89%) Video\Live Streaming
12 47 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
13 45 (1.73%) Security Posture
14 43 (1.66%) Enterprise Software
15 42 (1.62%) Data Centre
16 41 (1.58%) Management Information System
17 40 (1.54%) Mobile App
18 37 (1.42%) Hedge funds
18 37 (1.42%) Legacy Systems
19 34 (1.31%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 214 (8.24%) Linux
2 166 (6.39%) Windows
3 62 (2.39%) Unix
4 57 (2.19%) Windows Server
5 25 (0.96%) Apple iOS
6 16 (0.62%) Ubuntu
7 15 (0.58%) Android
8 7 (0.27%) Debian
9 6 (0.23%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.12%) CentOS
10 3 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.12%) Robot Operating System
10 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.077%) Solaris
12 1 (0.038%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.038%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 940 (36.18%) CI/CD
2 860 (33.10%) Agile
3 781 (30.06%) Software Engineering
4 607 (23.36%) Mentoring
5 603 (23.21%) DevOps
6 598 (23.02%) AI
7 484 (18.63%) Continuous Improvement
8 482 (18.55%) Microservices
9 473 (18.21%) Full-Stack Development
10 439 (16.90%) Infrastructure as Code
11 437 (16.82%) Problem-Solving
12 419 (16.13%) Test Automation
13 399 (15.36%) Technical Leadership
14 344 (13.24%) Roadmaps
15 307 (11.82%) Containerisation
16 295 (11.35%) Coaching
17 293 (11.28%) Scrum
18 268 (10.32%) Observability
19 263 (10.12%) Machine Learning
20 250 (9.62%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 655 (25.21%) Python
2 529 (20.36%) Java
3 425 (16.36%) SQL
4 392 (15.09%) JavaScript
5 378 (14.55%) TypeScript
6 296 (11.39%) C#
7 114 (4.39%) Go
8 92 (3.54%) Bash
9 84 (3.23%) PowerShell
10 76 (2.93%) Ruby
11 72 (2.77%) C++
12 60 (2.31%) PHP
13 41 (1.58%) Scala
14 38 (1.46%) Kotlin
15 22 (0.85%) Rust
16 20 (0.77%) PL/SQL
17 17 (0.65%) Bicep
18 16 (0.62%) DataWeave
19 12 (0.46%) Swift
20 11 (0.42%) C
Qualifications
1 432 (16.63%) Security Cleared
2 356 (13.70%) SC Cleared
3 282 (10.85%) Degree
4 174 (6.70%) AWS Certification
5 118 (4.54%) CISSP
6 105 (4.04%) CISM
7 90 (3.46%) Microsoft Certification
8 85 (3.27%) Computer Science Degree
9 76 (2.93%) MCSE
10 62 (2.39%) Azure Certification
11 58 (2.23%) DV Cleared
12 50 (1.92%) ITIL Certification
13 39 (1.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 36 (1.39%) Cisco Certification
15 28 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
16 26 (1.00%) CCNP
17 21 (0.81%) CCNA
18 15 (0.58%) Microsoft Certified Professional
19 14 (0.54%) CRISC
19 14 (0.54%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 179 (6.89%) QA
2 119 (4.58%) NIST
3 106 (4.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 100 (3.85%) Data Quality
5 87 (3.35%) Accessibility
6 54 (2.08%) GDPR
7 48 (1.85%) ISO 22301
8 37 (1.42%) NCSC
9 33 (1.27%) GRC
10 26 (1.00%) PCI DSS
11 24 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials
12 19 (0.73%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 16 (0.62%) SLA
14 12 (0.46%) NIST 800
14 12 (0.46%) WCAG
15 9 (0.35%) ISO 9001
16 8 (0.31%) JSP 440
16 8 (0.31%) PMO
17 7 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
17 7 (0.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 451 (17.36%) Docker
2 59 (2.27%) Active Directory
3 50 (1.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 38 (1.46%) Hyper-V
5 19 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
6 15 (0.58%) vSphere
7 7 (0.27%) Firmware
8 6 (0.23%) KVM
9 4 (0.15%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 4 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (0.12%) iptables
10 3 (0.12%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.077%) VMware ESXi
12 1 (0.038%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 1 (0.038%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.038%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.038%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 425 (16.36%) Kubernetes
2 124 (4.77%) Grafana
3 115 (4.43%) Ansible
4 38 (1.46%) Prometheus
5 24 (0.92%) Argo
6 22 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
7 18 (0.69%) Progress Chef
8 15 (0.58%) Istio
9 13 (0.50%) CloudHub
9 13 (0.50%) Podman
9 13 (0.50%) Puppet
10 10 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
11 9 (0.35%) Proxmox
12 8 (0.31%) CASB
12 8 (0.31%) Packer
13 7 (0.27%) 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
Vendors
1 436 (16.78%) Microsoft
2 124 (4.77%) Google
3 111 (4.27%) ServiceNow
4 76 (2.93%) VMware
5 71 (2.73%) Oracle
6 68 (2.62%) Databricks
7 54 (2.08%) Cisco
8 39 (1.50%) OpenAI
9 38 (1.46%) Adobe
10 35 (1.35%) SAP
10 35 (1.35%) Splunk
11 32 (1.23%) Palo Alto
12 29 (1.12%) Fortinet
12 29 (1.12%) Salesforce
13 25 (0.96%) Apple
14 23 (0.89%) Dynatrace
14 23 (0.89%) SolarWinds
15 22 (0.85%) Informatica
15 22 (0.85%) Okta
16 19 (0.73%) MuleSoft