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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 13 8
Rank change year-on-year +3 -5 -2
Permanent jobs citing AWS 2,547 2,017 3,518
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 10.66% 12.39% 15.11%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.52% 34.91% 37.05%
Number of salaries quoted 1,660 1,250 2,571
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,462 £46,250
25th Percentile £53,750 £58,750 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £77,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -0.65% +6.90%
75th Percentile £88,938 £110,000 £112,500
90th Percentile £105,125 £136,250 £142,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £74,750
% change year-on-year -3.33% +0.33% +0.34%

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 8,628 5,777 9,496
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 36.10% 35.50% 40.77%
Number of salaries quoted 6,329 4,169 6,677
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,500 £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 £86,000
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

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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 14 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 34 (1.33%) Apache Spark
2 28 (1.10%) Apache Airflow
3 27 (1.06%) Confluence
4 26 (1.02%) Apache
5 21 (0.82%) SharePoint
6 16 (0.63%) Anypoint
6 16 (0.63%) IIS
7 15 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
8 13 (0.51%) Mule
8 13 (0.51%) WordPress
9 10 (0.39%) CMS
10 8 (0.31%) Jupyter
11 7 (0.27%) 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%) GeoServer
14 4 (0.16%) Oracle Spatial
14 4 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 76 (2.98%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (0.71%) Chatbot
3 15 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
4 11 (0.43%) MS Visio
5 10 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 5 (0.20%) AutoCAD
6 5 (0.20%) DaVinci Resolve
6 5 (0.20%) Moqups
7 2 (0.079%) Elementor
7 2 (0.079%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.079%) PlantUML
7 2 (0.079%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.079%) 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 (0.94%) 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 (0.039%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
4 1 (0.039%) Finacle
4 1 (0.039%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.039%) Magento
4 1 (0.039%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.039%) Shopify
4 1 (0.039%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 1,221 (47.94%) Azure
2 655 (25.72%) GCP
3 317 (12.45%) SaaS
4 225 (8.83%) Serverless
5 202 (7.93%) GitHub
6 162 (6.36%) AWS Lambda
6 162 (6.36%) Microsoft 365
7 149 (5.85%) Amazon S3
8 97 (3.81%) Amazon EKS
9 96 (3.77%) Amazon EC2
9 96 (3.77%) AWS CloudFormation
10 91 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
11 80 (3.14%) Amazon ECS
11 80 (3.14%) Snowflake
12 66 (2.59%) GitHub Copilot
13 63 (2.47%) Amazon SQS
13 63 (2.47%) Azure DevOps
14 59 (2.32%) Anthropic Claude
15 51 (2.00%) Power Platform
16 49 (1.92%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 105 (4.12%) Firewall
2 75 (2.94%) Broadband
3 73 (2.87%) Network Security
4 61 (2.39%) DNS
4 61 (2.39%) VPN
5 57 (2.24%) WAN
6 50 (1.96%) LAN
7 47 (1.85%) TCP/IP
8 42 (1.65%) HTTP
9 38 (1.49%) DHCP
10 29 (1.14%) SD-WAN
11 19 (0.75%) VLAN
12 18 (0.71%) SSL
12 18 (0.71%) Wi-Fi
13 17 (0.67%) Cisco ASA
14 13 (0.51%) BGP
15 12 (0.47%) Cisco Firepower
16 11 (0.43%) OSPF
17 10 (0.39%) MPLS
18 9 (0.35%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 252 (9.89%) PostgreSQL
2 231 (9.07%) MongoDB
3 106 (4.16%) SQL Server
4 97 (3.81%) Elasticsearch
5 92 (3.61%) MySQL
5 92 (3.61%) NoSQL
6 81 (3.18%) Azure SQL Database
7 68 (2.67%) DynamoDB
8 61 (2.39%) Relational Database
9 56 (2.20%) Redis
10 49 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
11 45 (1.77%) Power BI
12 44 (1.73%) Amazon Athena
13 40 (1.57%) Amazon RDS
14 34 (1.33%) Data Lake
14 34 (1.33%) Metadata
15 29 (1.14%) Amazon Redshift
15 29 (1.14%) Tableau
16 26 (1.02%) Big Data
17 20 (0.79%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 147 (5.77%) Git
2 85 (3.34%) Jenkins
3 77 (3.02%) GitLab
4 69 (2.71%) TeamCity
5 62 (2.43%) JIRA
6 56 (2.20%) Cypress.io
7 55 (2.16%) Claude Code
8 32 (1.26%) JUnit
9 27 (1.06%) Selenium
10 21 (0.82%) Maven
10 21 (0.82%) Postman
11 17 (0.67%) Mockito
12 11 (0.43%) Bitbucket
13 10 (0.39%) CircleCI
14 8 (0.31%) SonarQube
15 7 (0.27%) Crashlytics
15 7 (0.27%) Cucumber
15 7 (0.27%) Gatling
15 7 (0.27%) JMeter
15 7 (0.27%) XCTest
General
1 673 (26.42%) Social Skills
2 614 (24.11%) Finance
3 332 (13.03%) Public Sector
4 294 (11.54%) Banking
5 252 (9.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 216 (8.48%) Law
7 173 (6.79%) Analytical Skills
8 129 (5.06%) Retail
9 82 (3.22%) Legal
10 64 (2.51%) Financial Institution
11 61 (2.39%) Back Office
12 52 (2.04%) Games
13 51 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
14 48 (1.88%) Swedish Language
15 41 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
16 40 (1.57%) Marketing
17 37 (1.45%) French Language
18 34 (1.33%) Telecoms
19 26 (1.02%) Health Technology
20 23 (0.90%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 620 (24.34%) Senior
2 482 (18.92%) Developer
3 424 (16.65%) Software Engineer
4 316 (12.41%) Architect
5 305 (11.97%) Lead
6 136 (5.34%) Analyst
7 128 (5.03%) AWS Engineer
7 128 (5.03%) Full-Stack Developer
8 118 (4.63%) Senior Developer
9 116 (4.55%) DevOps Engineer
10 110 (4.32%) Senior Software Engineer
11 109 (4.28%) .NET Developer
12 98 (3.85%) Cloud Engineer
12 98 (3.85%) Engineering Manager
13 94 (3.69%) Consultant
14 87 (3.42%) Data Engineer
15 86 (3.38%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 86 (3.38%) Lead Software Engineer
16 83 (3.26%) Solutions Architect
17 82 (3.22%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 442 (17.35%) Terraform
2 396 (15.55%) React
3 343 (13.47%) Node.js
4 256 (10.05%) .NET
5 192 (7.54%) REST
6 146 (5.73%) Spring
7 125 (4.91%) RESTful
8 118 (4.63%) Vue
9 110 (4.32%) .NET Core
10 108 (4.24%) AngularJS
11 107 (4.20%) CSS
12 106 (4.16%) ASP.NET
12 106 (4.16%) Spring Boot
13 95 (3.73%) ASP.NET Core
14 80 (3.14%) Kafka
14 80 (3.14%) Middleware
15 76 (2.98%) LangChain
16 68 (2.67%) .NET Framework
17 66 (2.59%) HTML
18 61 (2.39%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 395 (15.51%) Cloud Native
2 201 (7.89%) Product Ownership
3 170 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
4 111 (4.36%) Public Cloud
5 105 (4.12%) AI Agents
6 74 (2.91%) Cyber Threat
7 69 (2.71%) Greenfield Project
8 63 (2.47%) Onboarding
9 56 (2.20%) Hybrid Cloud
10 51 (2.00%) Blog
11 46 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
12 44 (1.73%) Enterprise Software
13 43 (1.69%) Security Posture
14 42 (1.65%) Data Centre
15 41 (1.61%) Hedge funds
16 40 (1.57%) Management Information System
17 39 (1.53%) Video\Live Streaming
18 37 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
19 36 (1.41%) Mobile App
20 32 (1.26%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 207 (8.13%) Linux
2 162 (6.36%) Windows
3 60 (2.36%) Unix
4 56 (2.20%) Windows Server
5 23 (0.90%) Apple iOS
6 16 (0.63%) Ubuntu
7 15 (0.59%) Android
8 7 (0.27%) Debian
9 6 (0.24%) 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 (0.079%) Solaris
12 1 (0.039%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.039%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 911 (35.77%) CI/CD
2 841 (33.02%) Agile
3 766 (30.07%) Software Engineering
4 603 (23.67%) Mentoring
5 592 (23.24%) AI
6 588 (23.09%) DevOps
7 478 (18.77%) Continuous Improvement
8 470 (18.45%) Microservices
9 460 (18.06%) Full-Stack Development
10 431 (16.92%) Problem-Solving
11 421 (16.53%) Infrastructure as Code
12 410 (16.10%) Test Automation
13 394 (15.47%) Technical Leadership
14 336 (13.19%) Roadmaps
15 287 (11.27%) Containerisation
15 287 (11.27%) Scrum
16 285 (11.19%) Coaching
17 261 (10.25%) Observability
18 249 (9.78%) Machine Learning
19 236 (9.27%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 637 (25.01%) Python
2 531 (20.85%) Java
3 417 (16.37%) SQL
4 385 (15.12%) JavaScript
5 366 (14.37%) TypeScript
6 293 (11.50%) C#
7 103 (4.04%) Go
8 91 (3.57%) Bash
9 84 (3.30%) PowerShell
10 75 (2.94%) Ruby
11 73 (2.87%) C++
12 58 (2.28%) PHP
13 36 (1.41%) Kotlin
14 32 (1.26%) Scala
15 23 (0.90%) Rust
16 20 (0.79%) PL/SQL
17 16 (0.63%) DataWeave
18 15 (0.59%) Bicep
19 12 (0.47%) C
20 11 (0.43%) R
Qualifications
1 426 (16.73%) Security Cleared
2 351 (13.78%) SC Cleared
3 284 (11.15%) Degree
4 176 (6.91%) AWS Certification
5 117 (4.59%) CISSP
6 104 (4.08%) CISM
7 88 (3.46%) Microsoft Certification
8 83 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
9 74 (2.91%) MCSE
10 64 (2.51%) Azure Certification
11 52 (2.04%) DV Cleared
12 50 (1.96%) ITIL Certification
13 39 (1.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 34 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
15 28 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
16 24 (0.94%) CCNP
17 20 (0.79%) CCNA
18 14 (0.55%) DBS Check
18 14 (0.55%) Microsoft Certified Professional
19 13 (0.51%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 176 (6.91%) QA
2 120 (4.71%) NIST
3 101 (3.97%) Data Quality
3 101 (3.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 87 (3.42%) Accessibility
5 54 (2.12%) GDPR
6 48 (1.88%) ISO 22301
7 37 (1.45%) NCSC
8 32 (1.26%) GRC
9 24 (0.94%) PCI DSS
10 23 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials
11 18 (0.71%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 15 (0.59%) SLA
13 12 (0.47%) NIST 800
13 12 (0.47%) WCAG
14 8 (0.31%) ISO 9001
14 8 (0.31%) PMO
15 7 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
15 7 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 42001
15 7 (0.27%) JSP 440
System Software
1 430 (16.88%) Docker
2 57 (2.24%) Active Directory
3 49 (1.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 38 (1.49%) Hyper-V
5 20 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (0.55%) vSphere
7 6 (0.24%) KVM
8 4 (0.16%) Firmware
8 4 (0.16%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 4 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.12%) iptables
9 3 (0.12%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.079%) VMware ESXi
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
1 415 (16.29%) Kubernetes
2 124 (4.87%) Grafana
3 113 (4.44%) Ansible
4 37 (1.45%) Prometheus
5 23 (0.90%) Argo
6 22 (0.86%) Microsoft Intune
7 18 (0.71%) Progress Chef
8 15 (0.59%) Istio
9 13 (0.51%) CloudHub
9 13 (0.51%) Puppet
10 11 (0.43%) Podman
11 10 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
12 9 (0.35%) Proxmox
13 8 (0.31%) CASB
13 8 (0.31%) Packer
14 7 (0.27%) Cisco CUCM
14 7 (0.27%) ZABBIX
15 6 (0.24%) Avamar
15 6 (0.24%) EMC VPLEX
15 6 (0.24%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 434 (17.04%) Microsoft
2 126 (4.95%) Google
3 113 (4.44%) ServiceNow
4 74 (2.91%) VMware
5 70 (2.75%) Oracle
6 68 (2.67%) Databricks
7 51 (2.00%) Cisco
8 39 (1.53%) OpenAI
9 38 (1.49%) Adobe
10 34 (1.33%) SAP
10 34 (1.33%) Splunk
11 30 (1.18%) Palo Alto
12 29 (1.14%) Fortinet
13 28 (1.10%) Salesforce
14 25 (0.98%) Apple
15 23 (0.90%) Dynatrace
15 23 (0.90%) SolarWinds
16 22 (0.86%) Informatica
16 22 (0.86%) Okta
17 19 (0.75%) MuleSoft