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

6 months to
19 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 2,067 3,599
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 11.30% 12.53% 14.54%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.89% 34.86% 35.61%
Number of salaries quoted 1,690 1,297 2,859
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,900 £46,150
25th Percentile £54,663 £57,500 £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 £107,500
90th Percentile £105,125 £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 8,659 5,930 10,106
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.82% 35.96% 40.82%
Number of salaries quoted 6,293 4,346 7,812
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,750 £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 £110,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -6.25%

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 19 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 37 (1.43%) Apache Spark
2 31 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
3 27 (1.04%) Confluence
4 25 (0.97%) Apache
5 18 (0.70%) Microsoft Exchange
5 18 (0.70%) SharePoint
6 16 (0.62%) Anypoint
6 16 (0.62%) IIS
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%) Apache Solr
11 6 (0.23%) SAS
12 4 (0.15%) ArcGIS
12 4 (0.15%) Camunda
12 4 (0.15%) Ethereum
12 4 (0.15%) Sitecore CMS
13 3 (0.12%) GeoServer
Applications
1 80 (3.09%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (0.46%) Chatbot
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
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
8 1 (0.039%) Weka
Business Applications
1 24 (0.93%) Cloudability
2 6 (0.23%) NetSuite
2 6 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.12%) Shopify
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 1,215 (46.95%) Azure
2 659 (25.46%) GCP
3 311 (12.02%) SaaS
4 231 (8.93%) Serverless
5 209 (8.08%) GitHub
6 158 (6.11%) Microsoft 365
7 155 (5.99%) AWS Lambda
8 149 (5.76%) Amazon S3
9 106 (4.10%) AWS CloudFormation
10 91 (3.52%) Amazon EKS
10 91 (3.52%) GitHub Actions
11 89 (3.44%) Amazon EC2
12 80 (3.09%) Amazon ECS
13 72 (2.78%) Snowflake
14 69 (2.67%) Amazon SQS
15 68 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
16 66 (2.55%) GitHub Copilot
17 51 (1.97%) Anthropic Claude
18 48 (1.85%) Power Platform
19 45 (1.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 116 (4.48%) Firewall
2 100 (3.86%) Broadband
3 71 (2.74%) Network Security
4 69 (2.67%) DNS
4 69 (2.67%) VPN
5 65 (2.51%) WAN
6 57 (2.20%) LAN
7 52 (2.01%) TCP/IP
8 41 (1.58%) DHCP
9 39 (1.51%) HTTP
10 31 (1.20%) SD-WAN
11 24 (0.93%) Cisco ASA
12 21 (0.81%) SSL
12 21 (0.81%) VLAN
13 20 (0.77%) Wi-Fi
14 17 (0.66%) 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
1 263 (10.16%) PostgreSQL
2 245 (9.47%) MongoDB
3 117 (4.52%) SQL Server
4 104 (4.02%) Elasticsearch
5 101 (3.90%) MySQL
6 99 (3.83%) NoSQL
7 84 (3.25%) Azure SQL Database
8 68 (2.63%) DynamoDB
9 59 (2.28%) Relational Database
10 57 (2.20%) Redis
11 48 (1.85%) Amazon RDS
12 43 (1.66%) Data Warehouse
13 42 (1.62%) Power BI
14 32 (1.24%) Amazon Athena
15 30 (1.16%) Data Lake
15 30 (1.16%) Metadata
16 28 (1.08%) Big Data
17 26 (1.00%) Amazon Redshift
17 26 (1.00%) Tableau
18 11 (0.43%) Looker
Development Applications
1 147 (5.68%) Git
2 88 (3.40%) Jenkins
3 83 (3.21%) GitLab
4 68 (2.63%) JIRA
5 59 (2.28%) Cypress.io
6 57 (2.20%) TeamCity
7 47 (1.82%) Claude Code
8 29 (1.12%) 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
13 12 (0.46%) Crashlytics
13 12 (0.46%) XCTest
14 11 (0.43%) Cucumber
14 11 (0.43%) JMeter
15 8 (0.31%) SonarQube
16 7 (0.27%) Gatling
General
1 684 (26.43%) Social Skills
2 606 (23.42%) Finance
3 297 (11.48%) Public Sector
4 247 (9.54%) Banking
5 235 (9.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 203 (7.84%) Law
7 151 (5.83%) Analytical Skills
8 115 (4.44%) Retail
9 82 (3.17%) Legal
10 56 (2.16%) Games
11 53 (2.05%) Financial Institution
12 50 (1.93%) Back Office
13 48 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
13 48 (1.85%) Swedish Language
14 40 (1.55%) Marketing
15 37 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
16 33 (1.28%) French Language
17 32 (1.24%) Telecoms
18 26 (1.00%) Front Office
19 25 (0.97%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 621 (24.00%) Senior
2 534 (20.63%) Developer
3 431 (16.65%) Software Engineer
4 322 (12.44%) Lead
5 302 (11.67%) Architect
6 147 (5.68%) Full-Stack Developer
7 139 (5.37%) AWS Engineer
8 129 (4.98%) Analyst
9 125 (4.83%) DevOps Engineer
10 121 (4.68%) Senior Developer
11 116 (4.48%) Senior Software Engineer
12 114 (4.40%) .NET Developer
13 106 (4.10%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 101 (3.90%) Engineering Manager
15 99 (3.83%) Consultant
16 98 (3.79%) Cloud Engineer
17 97 (3.75%) Lead Software Engineer
18 92 (3.55%) Solutions Architect
19 85 (3.28%) Software Developer
20 82 (3.17%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 438 (16.92%) React
2 372 (14.37%) Node.js
3 250 (9.66%) .NET
4 199 (7.69%) REST
5 138 (5.33%) Spring
6 129 (4.98%) RESTful
7 128 (4.95%) Vue
8 123 (4.75%) CSS
9 117 (4.52%) .NET Core
10 116 (4.48%) AngularJS
11 111 (4.29%) ASP.NET
12 98 (3.79%) ASP.NET Core
12 98 (3.79%) Kafka
12 98 (3.79%) Spring Boot
13 79 (3.05%) HTML
14 77 (2.98%) Middleware
15 73 (2.82%) .NET Framework
16 67 (2.59%) LangChain
17 64 (2.47%) Ruby on Rails
18 61 (2.36%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 387 (14.95%) Cloud Native
2 193 (7.46%) Product Ownership
3 183 (7.07%) Distributed Systems
4 105 (4.06%) Public Cloud
5 92 (3.55%) AI Agents
6 81 (3.13%) Greenfield Project
7 73 (2.82%) Cyber Threat
8 68 (2.63%) Onboarding
9 60 (2.32%) Video\Live Streaming
10 52 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
11 48 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
12 46 (1.78%) Management Information System
13 45 (1.74%) Blog
13 45 (1.74%) Hybrid Cloud
13 45 (1.74%) Mobile App
13 45 (1.74%) Security Posture
14 42 (1.62%) Data Centre
15 39 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
16 35 (1.35%) Low-Code
17 30 (1.16%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 213 (8.23%) Linux
2 160 (6.18%) Windows
3 58 (2.24%) Unix
4 56 (2.16%) Windows Server
5 26 (1.00%) Apple iOS
6 13 (0.50%) Android
6 13 (0.50%) Ubuntu
7 6 (0.23%) Mac OS
8 5 (0.19%) Debian
8 5 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (0.15%) Windows 10
10 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.077%) CentOS
11 2 (0.077%) Solaris
12 1 (0.039%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 910 (35.16%) CI/CD
2 869 (33.58%) Agile
3 780 (30.14%) Software Engineering
4 615 (23.76%) DevOps
5 570 (22.02%) Mentoring
6 564 (21.79%) AI
7 494 (19.09%) Full-Stack Development
8 488 (18.86%) Microservices
9 480 (18.55%) Continuous Improvement
10 454 (17.54%) Infrastructure as Code
11 426 (16.46%) Problem-Solving
12 418 (16.15%) Test Automation
13 385 (14.88%) Technical Leadership
14 327 (12.64%) Roadmaps
15 326 (12.60%) Containerisation
16 288 (11.13%) Scrum
17 266 (10.28%) Coaching
17 266 (10.28%) Observability
18 255 (9.85%) Clean Code
18 255 (9.85%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 671 (25.93%) Python
2 503 (19.44%) Java
3 407 (15.73%) TypeScript
4 405 (15.65%) JavaScript
5 400 (15.46%) SQL
6 292 (11.28%) C#
7 143 (5.53%) Go
8 87 (3.36%) Bash
9 79 (3.05%) Ruby
10 78 (3.01%) PowerShell
11 65 (2.51%) PHP
12 61 (2.36%) C++
13 51 (1.97%) Scala
14 35 (1.35%) Kotlin
15 24 (0.93%) Rust
16 19 (0.73%) PL/SQL
17 16 (0.62%) DataWeave
18 15 (0.58%) Bicep
18 15 (0.58%) Swift
19 11 (0.43%) C
Qualifications
1 420 (16.23%) Security Cleared
2 353 (13.64%) SC Cleared
3 291 (11.24%) Degree
4 174 (6.72%) AWS Certification
5 118 (4.56%) CISSP
6 100 (3.86%) CISM
7 86 (3.32%) Microsoft Certification
8 85 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
9 73 (2.82%) MCSE
10 60 (2.32%) Azure Certification
11 56 (2.16%) DV Cleared
12 50 (1.93%) ITIL Certification
13 38 (1.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 34 (1.31%) Cisco Certification
15 28 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
16 23 (0.89%) CCNP
17 16 (0.62%) CCNA
17 16 (0.62%) CREST Certified
18 15 (0.58%) DBS Check
19 14 (0.54%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 188 (7.26%) QA
2 116 (4.48%) NIST
3 100 (3.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 84 (3.25%) Accessibility
5 67 (2.59%) Data Quality
6 52 (2.01%) GDPR
7 48 (1.85%) ISO 22301
8 31 (1.20%) NCSC
9 30 (1.16%) GRC
10 24 (0.93%) PCI DSS
11 18 (0.70%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 17 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
13 16 (0.62%) SLA
13 16 (0.62%) WCAG
14 11 (0.43%) ISO 9001
14 11 (0.43%) NIST 800
15 8 (0.31%) JSP 440
16 7 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
16 7 (0.27%) PMO
16 7 (0.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 454 (17.54%) Docker
2 64 (2.47%) Active Directory
3 55 (2.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 34 (1.31%) Hyper-V
5 23 (0.89%) Virtual Machines
6 19 (0.73%) vSphere
7 8 (0.31%) Firmware
8 6 (0.23%) KVM
8 6 (0.23%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 6 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.12%) iptables
9 3 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.12%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.077%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 2 (0.077%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.039%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.039%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 431 (16.65%) Terraform
2 411 (15.88%) Kubernetes
3 116 (4.48%) Grafana
4 114 (4.40%) Ansible
5 37 (1.43%) Prometheus
6 24 (0.93%) Argo
7 17 (0.66%) Istio
8 16 (0.62%) Microsoft Intune
8 16 (0.62%) Progress Chef
9 14 (0.54%) Puppet
10 13 (0.50%) CloudHub
10 13 (0.50%) Podman
11 10 (0.39%) Proxmox
12 9 (0.35%) Cisco CUCM
12 9 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
13 7 (0.27%) CASB
13 7 (0.27%) ZABBIX
14 6 (0.23%) EMC VPLEX
14 6 (0.23%) Failover Clustering
14 6 (0.23%) Packer
Vendors
1 431 (16.65%) Microsoft
2 119 (4.60%) Google
3 112 (4.33%) ServiceNow
4 77 (2.98%) VMware
5 64 (2.47%) Cisco
5 64 (2.47%) Oracle
6 61 (2.36%) Databricks
7 38 (1.47%) Palo Alto
8 35 (1.35%) Adobe
9 34 (1.31%) SAP
9 34 (1.31%) Splunk
10 33 (1.28%) OpenAI
11 32 (1.24%) Fortinet
12 31 (1.20%) Salesforce
13 27 (1.04%) Typelevel
14 25 (0.97%) Apple
15 23 (0.89%) SolarWinds
16 21 (0.81%) Dynatrace
16 21 (0.81%) Informatica
16 21 (0.81%) Okta