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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 13 8
Rank change year-on-year +3 -5 -2
Permanent jobs citing AWS 2,515 2,158 4,431
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 11.70% 13.13% 14.47%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.99% 35.46% 34.78%
Number of salaries quoted 1,614 1,371 3,714
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £43,750
25th Percentile £53,750 £56,250 £53,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £73,805
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +1.62% +1.80%
75th Percentile £88,750 £107,750 £96,250
90th Percentile £103,750 £135,000 £130,000
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 8,386 6,086 12,740
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 39.02% 37.04% 41.60%
Number of salaries quoted 5,964 4,492 10,449
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,510 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £44,000 £45,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £103,750
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -8.00%

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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

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Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing AWS over the 6 months to 18 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 48 (1.91%) Apache Airflow
2 41 (1.63%) Apache Spark
3 23 (0.91%) Apache
3 23 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
4 15 (0.60%) IIS
5 14 (0.56%) CMS
6 13 (0.52%) Anypoint
6 13 (0.52%) Confluence
6 13 (0.52%) 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%) EPiServer
12 3 (0.12%) Immediacy CMS
12 3 (0.12%) Kentico
Applications
1 94 (3.74%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.36%) MS Visio
3 7 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.24%) Microsoft Excel
5 5 (0.20%) AutoCAD
5 5 (0.20%) DaVinci Resolve
6 4 (0.16%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.080%) Elementor
7 2 (0.080%) 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%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.040%) Trello
Business Applications
1 24 (0.95%) Cloudability
2 6 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.12%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.080%) Shopify
6 1 (0.040%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.040%) Magento
6 1 (0.040%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.040%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,128 (44.85%) Azure
2 624 (24.81%) GCP
3 284 (11.29%) SaaS
4 235 (9.34%) Serverless
5 194 (7.71%) GitHub
6 160 (6.36%) Microsoft 365
7 157 (6.24%) Amazon S3
8 153 (6.08%) AWS Lambda
9 114 (4.53%) Amazon EKS
10 95 (3.78%) Amazon EC2
10 95 (3.78%) AWS CloudFormation
11 88 (3.50%) GitHub Actions
12 86 (3.42%) Amazon ECS
13 66 (2.62%) Amazon SQS
14 62 (2.47%) Azure DevOps
15 56 (2.23%) Entra ID
15 56 (2.23%) GitHub Copilot
16 51 (2.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 48 (1.91%) Snowflake
18 42 (1.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 138 (5.49%) Firewall
2 131 (5.21%) Broadband
3 86 (3.42%) VPN
4 73 (2.90%) DNS
5 70 (2.78%) WAN
6 64 (2.54%) LAN
6 64 (2.54%) Network Security
7 50 (1.99%) TCP/IP
8 46 (1.83%) DHCP
9 38 (1.51%) HTTP
10 36 (1.43%) Wi-Fi
11 31 (1.23%) SD-WAN
12 28 (1.11%) Cisco ASA
13 24 (0.95%) Cisco Firepower
14 23 (0.91%) VLAN
15 20 (0.80%) BGP
15 20 (0.80%) SSL
16 19 (0.76%) VXLAN
17 16 (0.64%) MPLS
17 16 (0.64%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 261 (10.38%) PostgreSQL
2 251 (9.98%) MongoDB
3 113 (4.49%) NoSQL
4 109 (4.33%) Elasticsearch
5 106 (4.21%) SQL Server
6 105 (4.17%) MySQL
7 84 (3.34%) Azure SQL Database
8 62 (2.47%) Relational Database
9 58 (2.31%) Amazon RDS
10 55 (2.19%) DynamoDB
11 49 (1.95%) Redis
12 42 (1.67%) Metadata
13 35 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
14 34 (1.35%) Amazon Athena
15 28 (1.11%) Amazon Redshift
16 26 (1.03%) Big Data
16 26 (1.03%) Power BI
17 24 (0.95%) Data Lake
18 21 (0.83%) Tableau
19 20 (0.80%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 123 (4.89%) Git
2 82 (3.26%) GitLab
2 82 (3.26%) Jenkins
3 64 (2.54%) TeamCity
4 50 (1.99%) Cypress.io
5 48 (1.91%) JIRA
6 32 (1.27%) Claude Code
7 18 (0.72%) JUnit
8 15 (0.60%) Maven
8 15 (0.60%) Selenium
9 14 (0.56%) Crashlytics
9 14 (0.56%) XCTest
10 13 (0.52%) CircleCI
10 13 (0.52%) JMeter
11 12 (0.48%) Postman
12 10 (0.40%) Mockito
13 8 (0.32%) Cucumber
14 7 (0.28%) Jaeger
15 6 (0.24%) Storybook
16 5 (0.20%) Locust
General
1 615 (24.45%) Social Skills
2 565 (22.47%) Finance
3 282 (11.21%) Public Sector
4 237 (9.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 235 (9.34%) Banking
6 218 (8.67%) Law
7 141 (5.61%) Retail
8 133 (5.29%) Analytical Skills
9 68 (2.70%) Legal
10 56 (2.23%) Back Office
11 54 (2.15%) Financial Institution
12 52 (2.07%) Games
13 48 (1.91%) Swedish Language
14 43 (1.71%) Front Office
15 39 (1.55%) Influencing Skills
16 34 (1.35%) Marketing
17 33 (1.31%) French Language
17 33 (1.31%) Presentation Skills
18 26 (1.03%) Telecoms
19 21 (0.83%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 603 (23.98%) Senior
2 549 (21.83%) Developer
3 440 (17.50%) Software Engineer
4 325 (12.92%) Lead
5 277 (11.01%) Architect
6 150 (5.96%) Full-Stack Developer
7 146 (5.81%) AWS Engineer
8 123 (4.89%) Analyst
8 123 (4.89%) Senior Software Engineer
9 121 (4.81%) DevOps Engineer
10 118 (4.69%) .NET Developer
11 114 (4.53%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 113 (4.49%) Lead Software Engineer
13 106 (4.21%) Senior Developer
14 99 (3.94%) Solutions Architect
15 96 (3.82%) Consultant
16 95 (3.78%) Engineering Manager
17 94 (3.74%) Lead Developer
18 91 (3.62%) Cloud Engineer
18 91 (3.62%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 427 (16.98%) React
2 375 (14.91%) Node.js
3 224 (8.91%) .NET
4 166 (6.60%) REST
5 133 (5.29%) RESTful
6 131 (5.21%) Vue
7 125 (4.97%) Kafka
7 125 (4.97%) Spring
8 124 (4.93%) CSS
9 110 (4.37%) AngularJS
10 108 (4.29%) .NET Core
11 103 (4.10%) ASP.NET
12 95 (3.78%) ASP.NET Core
13 91 (3.62%) Spring Boot
14 84 (3.34%) HTML
15 68 (2.70%) .NET Framework
16 67 (2.66%) Middleware
17 55 (2.19%) Ruby on Rails
18 50 (1.99%) Redux
19 49 (1.95%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 396 (15.75%) Cloud Native
2 196 (7.79%) Product Ownership
3 187 (7.44%) Distributed Systems
4 93 (3.70%) Public Cloud
5 81 (3.22%) Greenfield Project
6 79 (3.14%) Video\Live Streaming
7 67 (2.66%) Onboarding
8 63 (2.50%) Cyber Threat
9 58 (2.31%) Management Information System
10 55 (2.19%) Data Centre
11 54 (2.15%) AI Agents
12 52 (2.07%) Blog
13 51 (2.03%) Security Posture
14 46 (1.83%) Over-the-Top Content
15 44 (1.75%) Fixed Income
16 43 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
16 43 (1.71%) Hybrid Cloud
17 41 (1.63%) Mobile App
18 40 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
19 36 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 211 (8.39%) Linux
2 155 (6.16%) Windows
3 61 (2.43%) Windows Server
4 57 (2.27%) Unix
5 35 (1.39%) Apple iOS
6 20 (0.80%) Android
7 14 (0.56%) Windows 10
8 11 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
9 10 (0.40%) Ubuntu
10 8 (0.32%) Mac OS
10 8 (0.32%) Windows Server 2012
11 7 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
12 4 (0.16%) Debian
13 3 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 2 (0.080%) CentOS
15 1 (0.040%) FreeBSD
15 1 (0.040%) OpenBSD
15 1 (0.040%) Solaris
15 1 (0.040%) Windows 7
15 1 (0.040%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 878 (34.91%) CI/CD
2 839 (33.36%) Agile
3 767 (30.50%) Software Engineering
4 593 (23.58%) DevOps
5 557 (22.15%) Mentoring
6 501 (19.92%) Full-Stack Development
7 498 (19.80%) Microservices
8 460 (18.29%) AI
9 435 (17.30%) Infrastructure as Code
10 431 (17.14%) Continuous Improvement
11 424 (16.86%) Test Automation
12 421 (16.74%) Problem-Solving
13 349 (13.88%) Technical Leadership
14 337 (13.40%) Containerisation
15 307 (12.21%) Roadmaps
16 286 (11.37%) Coaching
17 260 (10.34%) Scrum
18 258 (10.26%) Clean Code
19 243 (9.66%) Machine Learning
20 235 (9.34%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 670 (26.64%) Python
2 523 (20.80%) Java
3 394 (15.67%) TypeScript
4 393 (15.63%) JavaScript
5 377 (14.99%) SQL
6 274 (10.89%) C#
7 191 (7.59%) Go
8 102 (4.06%) Bash
9 76 (3.02%) Scala
10 72 (2.86%) C++
11 71 (2.82%) PHP
12 69 (2.74%) PowerShell
13 67 (2.66%) Ruby
14 33 (1.31%) Kotlin
15 29 (1.15%) Rust
16 16 (0.64%) Bicep
17 14 (0.56%) PL/SQL
17 14 (0.56%) Swift
18 13 (0.52%) DataWeave
19 10 (0.40%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 356 (14.16%) Security Cleared
2 302 (12.01%) SC Cleared
3 300 (11.93%) Degree
4 178 (7.08%) AWS Certification
5 120 (4.77%) CISSP
6 96 (3.82%) CISM
6 96 (3.82%) Microsoft Certification
7 89 (3.54%) Computer Science Degree
8 83 (3.30%) MCSE
9 54 (2.15%) Azure Certification
10 46 (1.83%) ITIL Certification
11 45 (1.79%) DV Cleared
12 37 (1.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 35 (1.39%) Cisco Certification
14 24 (0.95%) CCNP
15 19 (0.76%) CREST Certified
15 19 (0.76%) Master's Degree
16 18 (0.72%) DBS Check
17 17 (0.68%) CCNA
17 17 (0.68%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 186 (7.40%) QA
2 115 (4.57%) NIST
3 98 (3.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 58 (2.31%) Accessibility
4 58 (2.31%) Data Quality
5 53 (2.11%) GDPR
6 44 (1.75%) ISO 22301
7 34 (1.35%) PCI DSS
8 32 (1.27%) GRC
9 27 (1.07%) NCSC
10 20 (0.80%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 16 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials
11 16 (0.64%) SOC 2
12 12 (0.48%) JSP 440
12 12 (0.48%) WCAG
13 11 (0.44%) ISO 9001
14 10 (0.40%) NIST 800
14 10 (0.40%) SLA
15 7 (0.28%) Government Security Classifications
15 7 (0.28%) PMO
System Software
1 435 (17.30%) Docker
2 70 (2.78%) Active Directory
3 49 (1.95%) VMware Infrastructure
4 43 (1.71%) Hyper-V
5 20 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
6 18 (0.72%) 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 (0.080%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 2 (0.080%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.040%) VMware ESXi
12 1 (0.040%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 413 (16.42%) Terraform
2 400 (15.90%) Kubernetes
3 119 (4.73%) Ansible
4 118 (4.69%) Grafana
5 45 (1.79%) Prometheus
6 29 (1.15%) Argo
7 26 (1.03%) Microsoft Intune
8 16 (0.64%) Progress Chef
9 15 (0.60%) Proxmox
10 14 (0.56%) Puppet
10 14 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
11 13 (0.52%) Istio
11 13 (0.52%) Podman
12 11 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 11 (0.44%) CloudHub
13 9 (0.36%) Cisco CUCM
14 7 (0.28%) Packer
14 7 (0.28%) ZABBIX
15 6 (0.24%) EMC VPLEX
15 6 (0.24%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 420 (16.70%) Microsoft
2 124 (4.93%) ServiceNow
3 97 (3.86%) Google
4 78 (3.10%) VMware
5 67 (2.66%) Cisco
6 60 (2.39%) Oracle
7 45 (1.79%) Typelevel
8 44 (1.75%) Databricks
9 37 (1.47%) Palo Alto
10 36 (1.43%) Fortinet
11 34 (1.35%) Apple
12 32 (1.27%) Splunk
13 30 (1.19%) Adobe
13 30 (1.19%) SAP
14 28 (1.11%) Salesforce
14 28 (1.11%) SolarWinds
15 21 (0.83%) Dell
15 21 (0.83%) OpenAI
16 20 (0.80%) Dynatrace
17 19 (0.76%) MuleSoft