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 12 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 13 8
Rank change year-on-year +3 -5 -2
Permanent jobs citing AWS 2,521 1,990 3,461
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 10.11% 12.04% 16.11%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.16% 34.88% 37.90%
Number of salaries quoted 1,653 1,202 2,343
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £54,551 £60,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £77,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% - +10.71%
75th Percentile £90,000 £110,000 £108,750
90th Percentile £110,000 £137,375 £142,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% - +3.45%

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 8,645 5,706 9,131
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 34.69% 34.53% 42.51%
Number of salaries quoted 6,312 4,040 5,974
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £36,500
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 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £58,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.76% -10.77% +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 12 October 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 (1.35%) Apache Spark
2 31 (1.23%) Confluence
3 27 (1.07%) Apache Airflow
4 26 (1.03%) Apache
5 16 (0.63%) Anypoint
6 15 (0.60%) IIS
6 15 (0.60%) SharePoint
7 13 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
7 13 (0.52%) Mule
8 12 (0.48%) WordPress
9 10 (0.40%) CMS
10 9 (0.36%) Jupyter
10 9 (0.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 9 (0.36%) WebLogic
11 6 (0.24%) nginx
11 6 (0.24%) SAS
12 5 (0.20%) ArcGIS
12 5 (0.20%) Camunda
13 4 (0.16%) GeoServer
13 4 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 60 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (0.71%) Chatbot
3 17 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
4 10 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (0.28%) Moqups
6 6 (0.24%) MS Visio
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 (0.040%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.040%) Houdini
8 1 (0.040%) Lightworks
8 1 (0.040%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 19 (0.75%) Cloudability
2 6 (0.24%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.079%) Oracle Applications
4 2 (0.079%) Oracle EBS R12
4 2 (0.079%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.079%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.040%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
5 1 (0.040%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.040%) Finacle
5 1 (0.040%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.040%) Shopify
5 1 (0.040%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 1,178 (46.73%) Azure
2 661 (26.22%) GCP
3 350 (13.88%) SaaS
4 211 (8.37%) GitHub
5 208 (8.25%) Serverless
6 157 (6.23%) AWS Lambda
7 149 (5.91%) Amazon S3
8 146 (5.79%) Microsoft 365
9 127 (5.04%) Amazon EKS
10 99 (3.93%) AWS CloudFormation
11 97 (3.85%) Amazon EC2
12 96 (3.81%) Snowflake
13 93 (3.69%) GitHub Actions
14 78 (3.09%) Amazon ECS
15 72 (2.86%) GitHub Copilot
16 69 (2.74%) Anthropic Claude
17 67 (2.66%) Amazon Bedrock
18 59 (2.34%) Amazon SQS
18 59 (2.34%) Power Platform
19 54 (2.14%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 102 (4.05%) Firewall
2 74 (2.94%) Network Security
3 72 (2.86%) VPN
4 59 (2.34%) TCP/IP
5 51 (2.02%) DNS
6 50 (1.98%) Broadband
7 47 (1.86%) WAN
8 39 (1.55%) LAN
9 33 (1.31%) DHCP
10 32 (1.27%) HTTP
11 27 (1.07%) BGP
12 24 (0.95%) SD-WAN
13 22 (0.87%) VLAN
14 15 (0.60%) Cisco ASA
14 15 (0.60%) SSL
14 15 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
15 13 (0.52%) AMQP
16 12 (0.48%) SMS
17 11 (0.44%) IP Telephony
18 10 (0.40%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 291 (11.54%) PostgreSQL
2 214 (8.49%) MongoDB
3 101 (4.01%) SQL Server
4 98 (3.89%) Elasticsearch
5 94 (3.73%) MySQL
6 81 (3.21%) Azure SQL Database
7 80 (3.17%) NoSQL
8 72 (2.86%) Relational Database
9 67 (2.66%) Amazon RDS
10 62 (2.46%) DynamoDB
11 59 (2.34%) Redis
12 53 (2.10%) Power BI
13 49 (1.94%) Data Warehouse
14 42 (1.67%) Amazon Athena
15 39 (1.55%) Metadata
16 32 (1.27%) Data Lake
17 31 (1.23%) Tableau
18 28 (1.11%) Amazon Redshift
19 24 (0.95%) Big Data
20 23 (0.91%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 149 (5.91%) Git
2 104 (4.13%) TeamCity
3 90 (3.57%) Jenkins
4 87 (3.45%) GitLab
5 70 (2.78%) Claude Code
6 63 (2.50%) JIRA
7 47 (1.86%) Cypress.io
8 41 (1.63%) JUnit
9 27 (1.07%) Selenium
10 24 (0.95%) Mockito
11 23 (0.91%) Postman
12 20 (0.79%) Maven
13 10 (0.40%) Bitbucket
14 8 (0.32%) SonarQube
15 7 (0.28%) Burp Suite
15 7 (0.28%) Metasploit
16 6 (0.24%) Cucumber
16 6 (0.24%) Gatling
17 5 (0.20%) Android Studio
17 5 (0.20%) CircleCI
General
1 682 (27.05%) Social Skills
2 628 (24.91%) Finance
3 357 (14.16%) Public Sector
4 317 (12.57%) Banking
5 281 (11.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 236 (9.36%) Law
7 195 (7.74%) Analytical Skills
8 167 (6.62%) Retail
9 91 (3.61%) Financial Institution
10 89 (3.53%) Back Office
11 84 (3.33%) Legal
12 56 (2.22%) Marketing
13 51 (2.02%) Presentation Skills
14 48 (1.90%) Games
15 44 (1.75%) Swedish Language
16 42 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
17 34 (1.35%) Telecoms
18 31 (1.23%) Front Office
19 30 (1.19%) French Language
20 29 (1.15%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 641 (25.43%) Senior
2 480 (19.04%) Developer
3 450 (17.85%) Software Engineer
4 305 (12.10%) Architect
5 297 (11.78%) Lead
6 129 (5.12%) Analyst
7 126 (5.00%) Full-Stack Developer
7 126 (5.00%) Senior Developer
8 125 (4.96%) Senior Software Engineer
9 122 (4.84%) DevOps Engineer
10 119 (4.72%) AWS Engineer
11 101 (4.01%) .NET Developer
12 100 (3.97%) Python Engineer
13 97 (3.85%) Cloud Engineer
14 89 (3.53%) Consultant
15 88 (3.49%) Data Engineer
15 88 (3.49%) Lead Software Engineer
16 81 (3.21%) Software Developer
17 78 (3.09%) Java Engineer
18 77 (3.05%) Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 479 (19.00%) Terraform
2 368 (14.60%) React
3 317 (12.57%) Node.js
4 257 (10.19%) .NET
5 191 (7.58%) REST
6 164 (6.51%) Spring
7 141 (5.59%) RESTful
8 126 (5.00%) Spring Boot
9 114 (4.52%) .NET Core
9 114 (4.52%) Vue
10 109 (4.32%) AngularJS
11 107 (4.24%) ASP.NET
12 94 (3.73%) ASP.NET Core
13 91 (3.61%) LangChain
14 83 (3.29%) Middleware
15 81 (3.21%) CSS
16 76 (3.01%) Kafka
17 67 (2.66%) .NET Framework
18 66 (2.62%) LangGraph
19 62 (2.46%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 429 (17.02%) Cloud Native
2 187 (7.42%) Distributed Systems
3 179 (7.10%) Product Ownership
4 130 (5.16%) AI Agents
5 97 (3.85%) Public Cloud
6 77 (3.05%) Cyber Threat
7 70 (2.78%) Blog
8 63 (2.50%) Onboarding
9 60 (2.38%) Greenfield Project
10 55 (2.18%) Hedge funds
10 55 (2.18%) Hybrid Cloud
11 50 (1.98%) Security Posture
12 45 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
13 43 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
14 41 (1.63%) Data Centre
15 39 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
15 39 (1.55%) Management Information System
16 30 (1.19%) Mobile App
17 28 (1.11%) Low-Code
18 27 (1.07%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 225 (8.93%) Linux
2 156 (6.19%) Windows
3 70 (2.78%) Unix
4 53 (2.10%) Windows Server
5 24 (0.95%) Apple iOS
6 18 (0.71%) Android
7 17 (0.67%) Ubuntu
8 9 (0.36%) macOS
9 7 (0.28%) Debian
10 4 (0.16%) CentOS
11 3 (0.12%) Robot Operating System
11 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.079%) Solaris
13 1 (0.040%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 1 (0.040%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 947 (37.56%) CI/CD
2 820 (32.53%) Agile
3 786 (31.18%) Software Engineering
4 644 (25.55%) AI
5 603 (23.92%) Mentoring
6 602 (23.88%) DevOps
7 481 (19.08%) Continuous Improvement
8 475 (18.84%) Microservices
9 463 (18.37%) Problem-Solving
10 437 (17.33%) Infrastructure as Code
11 425 (16.86%) Full-Stack Development
11 425 (16.86%) Test Automation
12 391 (15.51%) Technical Leadership
13 312 (12.38%) Roadmaps
14 296 (11.74%) Coaching
15 277 (10.99%) Scrum
16 274 (10.87%) Containerisation
17 265 (10.51%) Observability
18 248 (9.84%) Machine Learning
19 232 (9.20%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 661 (26.22%) Python
2 557 (22.09%) Java
3 432 (17.14%) SQL
4 382 (15.15%) JavaScript
5 346 (13.72%) TypeScript
6 279 (11.07%) C#
7 111 (4.40%) Bash
8 108 (4.28%) Go
9 84 (3.33%) PowerShell
10 67 (2.66%) Ruby
11 55 (2.18%) C++
12 52 (2.06%) PHP
13 32 (1.27%) Kotlin
14 26 (1.03%) R
15 23 (0.91%) Rust
15 23 (0.91%) Scala
16 21 (0.83%) PL/SQL
17 16 (0.63%) DataWeave
18 13 (0.52%) Bicep
19 10 (0.40%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 437 (17.33%) Security Cleared
2 360 (14.28%) SC Cleared
3 264 (10.47%) Degree
4 165 (6.55%) AWS Certification
5 121 (4.80%) CISSP
6 109 (4.32%) CISM
7 75 (2.98%) Computer Science Degree
8 74 (2.94%) Microsoft Certification
9 69 (2.74%) Azure Certification
10 61 (2.42%) MCSE
11 50 (1.98%) ITIL Certification
12 46 (1.82%) DV Cleared
13 41 (1.63%) Cisco Certification
14 33 (1.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 29 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
16 24 (0.95%) CCNP
17 22 (0.87%) CCNA
18 17 (0.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
19 16 (0.63%) Microsoft Certified Professional
19 16 (0.63%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 153 (6.07%) QA
2 123 (4.88%) NIST
3 114 (4.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 104 (4.13%) Data Quality
5 78 (3.09%) Accessibility
6 60 (2.38%) GDPR
7 48 (1.90%) ISO 22301
8 40 (1.59%) PCI DSS
9 36 (1.43%) NCSC
10 30 (1.19%) GRC
11 27 (1.07%) Cyber Essentials
12 24 (0.95%) SOC 2
13 14 (0.56%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 14 (0.56%) SLA
14 12 (0.48%) NIST 800
15 11 (0.44%) WCAG
16 9 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 9 (0.36%) ISO 9001
16 9 (0.36%) PMO
17 7 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 431 (17.10%) Docker
2 51 (2.02%) Active Directory
3 49 (1.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 41 (1.63%) Hyper-V
5 15 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
6 12 (0.48%) vSphere
7 6 (0.24%) KVM
8 3 (0.12%) Firmware
8 3 (0.12%) iptables
8 3 (0.12%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 3 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (0.12%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.079%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.079%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.040%) LXC
10 1 (0.040%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.040%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 462 (18.33%) Kubernetes
2 160 (6.35%) Grafana
3 115 (4.56%) Ansible
4 46 (1.82%) Prometheus
5 23 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
6 21 (0.83%) Argo
7 20 (0.79%) Progress Chef
8 18 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
9 13 (0.52%) CloudHub
10 11 (0.44%) Packer
10 11 (0.44%) Puppet
11 10 (0.40%) Proxmox
12 9 (0.36%) Istio
13 8 (0.32%) CASB
13 8 (0.32%) Cilium
14 7 (0.28%) Nmap
14 7 (0.28%) ZABBIX
15 6 (0.24%) Avamar
15 6 (0.24%) EMC NetWorker
15 6 (0.24%) EMC VPLEX
Vendors
1 384 (15.23%) Microsoft
2 152 (6.03%) Google
3 99 (3.93%) ServiceNow
4 83 (3.29%) Databricks
5 75 (2.98%) Oracle
5 75 (2.98%) VMware
6 44 (1.75%) Cisco
7 42 (1.67%) OpenAI
8 33 (1.31%) SAP
9 30 (1.19%) Adobe
10 29 (1.15%) Splunk
11 24 (0.95%) Dynatrace
11 24 (0.95%) Salesforce
12 23 (0.91%) Palo Alto
13 22 (0.87%) Fortinet
13 22 (0.87%) Informatica
14 20 (0.79%) Apple
14 20 (0.79%) MuleSoft
14 20 (0.79%) Okta
15 16 (0.63%) Ping Identity