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

 6 months to
15 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 13 8
Rank change year-on-year +3 -5 -2
Permanent jobs citing AWS 2,552 2,011 3,504
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 10.65% 12.42% 15.11%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.55% 35.08% 37.13%
Number of salaries quoted 1,668 1,240 2,544
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,462 £46,250
25th Percentile £53,938 £58,750 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £77,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% - +7.64%
75th Percentile £89,625 £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% - +1.35%

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 8,636 5,733 9,437
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 36.03% 35.42% 40.71%
Number of salaries quoted 6,348 4,123 6,604
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £47,533
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 £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 15 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 14 (0.55%) 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 75 (2.94%) 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 (0.078%) Elementor
7 2 (0.078%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.078%) PlantUML
7 2 (0.078%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.078%) 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 (0.078%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.078%) 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 1,224 (47.96%) Azure
2 658 (25.78%) GCP
3 319 (12.50%) SaaS
4 226 (8.86%) Serverless
5 203 (7.95%) GitHub
6 163 (6.39%) AWS Lambda
7 161 (6.31%) Microsoft 365
8 151 (5.92%) Amazon S3
9 101 (3.96%) Amazon EKS
10 97 (3.80%) Amazon EC2
10 97 (3.80%) AWS CloudFormation
11 92 (3.61%) GitHub Actions
12 81 (3.17%) Snowflake
13 80 (3.13%) Amazon ECS
14 66 (2.59%) GitHub Copilot
15 63 (2.47%) Amazon SQS
15 63 (2.47%) Azure DevOps
16 59 (2.31%) Anthropic Claude
17 51 (2.00%) Power Platform
18 49 (1.92%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 105 (4.11%) Firewall
2 73 (2.86%) Network Security
3 65 (2.55%) Broadband
4 61 (2.39%) VPN
5 60 (2.35%) DNS
6 56 (2.19%) WAN
7 49 (1.92%) LAN
8 46 (1.80%) TCP/IP
9 42 (1.65%) HTTP
10 37 (1.45%) DHCP
11 29 (1.14%) SD-WAN
12 19 (0.74%) VLAN
13 18 (0.71%) SSL
14 17 (0.67%) Cisco ASA
14 17 (0.67%) Wi-Fi
15 13 (0.51%) BGP
16 12 (0.47%) Cisco Firepower
17 11 (0.43%) OSPF
18 10 (0.39%) MPLS
19 9 (0.35%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 253 (9.91%) PostgreSQL
2 225 (8.82%) MongoDB
3 107 (4.19%) SQL Server
4 97 (3.80%) Elasticsearch
5 92 (3.61%) MySQL
6 89 (3.49%) NoSQL
7 81 (3.17%) Azure SQL Database
8 68 (2.66%) DynamoDB
9 63 (2.47%) Relational Database
10 56 (2.19%) Redis
11 49 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
12 45 (1.76%) Power BI
13 44 (1.72%) Amazon Athena
14 41 (1.61%) Amazon RDS
15 35 (1.37%) Metadata
16 34 (1.33%) Data Lake
17 29 (1.14%) Amazon Redshift
17 29 (1.14%) Tableau
18 26 (1.02%) Big Data
19 20 (0.78%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 148 (5.80%) Git
2 86 (3.37%) Jenkins
3 78 (3.06%) GitLab
4 73 (2.86%) TeamCity
5 64 (2.51%) JIRA
6 55 (2.16%) Claude Code
7 54 (2.12%) Cypress.io
8 32 (1.25%) JUnit
9 27 (1.06%) Selenium
10 22 (0.86%) Postman
11 21 (0.82%) Maven
12 17 (0.67%) Mockito
13 11 (0.43%) Bitbucket
14 8 (0.31%) JMeter
14 8 (0.31%) SonarQube
15 7 (0.27%) CircleCI
15 7 (0.27%) Crashlytics
15 7 (0.27%) Cucumber
15 7 (0.27%) Gatling
15 7 (0.27%) XCTest
General
1 676 (26.49%) Social Skills
2 618 (24.22%) Finance
3 334 (13.09%) Public Sector
4 299 (11.72%) Banking
5 257 (10.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 222 (8.70%) Law
7 169 (6.62%) Analytical Skills
8 135 (5.29%) Retail
9 83 (3.25%) Legal
10 66 (2.59%) Financial Institution
11 63 (2.47%) Back Office
12 51 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
13 49 (1.92%) Games
14 48 (1.88%) Swedish Language
15 42 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
16 41 (1.61%) Marketing
17 37 (1.45%) French Language
18 34 (1.33%) Telecoms
19 26 (1.02%) Health Technology
20 24 (0.94%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 623 (24.41%) Senior
2 482 (18.89%) Developer
3 428 (16.77%) Software Engineer
4 317 (12.42%) Architect
5 304 (11.91%) Lead
6 136 (5.33%) Analyst
7 128 (5.02%) AWS Engineer
8 127 (4.98%) Full-Stack Developer
9 118 (4.62%) Senior Developer
10 116 (4.55%) DevOps Engineer
11 113 (4.43%) Senior Software Engineer
12 109 (4.27%) .NET Developer
13 98 (3.84%) Cloud Engineer
14 97 (3.80%) Engineering Manager
15 95 (3.72%) Consultant
16 87 (3.41%) Data Engineer
17 86 (3.37%) Lead Software Engineer
18 85 (3.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
19 83 (3.25%) Python Engineer
19 83 (3.25%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 450 (17.63%) Terraform
2 394 (15.44%) React
3 340 (13.32%) Node.js
4 256 (10.03%) .NET
5 190 (7.45%) REST
6 146 (5.72%) Spring
7 126 (4.94%) RESTful
8 118 (4.62%) Vue
9 110 (4.31%) .NET Core
9 110 (4.31%) AngularJS
10 107 (4.19%) CSS
11 106 (4.15%) ASP.NET
11 106 (4.15%) Spring Boot
12 95 (3.72%) ASP.NET Core
13 80 (3.13%) Kafka
13 80 (3.13%) Middleware
14 76 (2.98%) LangChain
15 68 (2.66%) .NET Framework
16 66 (2.59%) HTML
17 61 (2.39%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 401 (15.71%) Cloud Native
2 200 (7.84%) Product Ownership
3 171 (6.70%) Distributed Systems
4 111 (4.35%) Public Cloud
5 106 (4.15%) AI Agents
6 77 (3.02%) Cyber Threat
7 70 (2.74%) Greenfield Project
8 63 (2.47%) Onboarding
9 56 (2.19%) Hybrid Cloud
10 54 (2.12%) Blog
11 46 (1.80%) Self-Motivation
12 44 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
13 43 (1.68%) Security Posture
14 42 (1.65%) Data Centre
15 41 (1.61%) Hedge funds
16 40 (1.57%) Management Information System
17 37 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
17 37 (1.45%) Mobile App
18 36 (1.41%) Video\Live Streaming
19 30 (1.18%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 209 (8.19%) Linux
2 161 (6.31%) Windows
3 60 (2.35%) Unix
4 55 (2.16%) Windows Server
5 24 (0.94%) Apple iOS
6 16 (0.63%) Android
6 16 (0.63%) Ubuntu
7 7 (0.27%) Debian
8 5 (0.20%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.12%) CentOS
9 3 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.12%) Robot Operating System
10 2 (0.078%) Solaris
10 2 (0.078%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.078%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 916 (35.89%) CI/CD
2 839 (32.88%) Agile
3 769 (30.13%) Software Engineering
4 607 (23.79%) Mentoring
5 592 (23.20%) AI
5 592 (23.20%) DevOps
6 473 (18.53%) Continuous Improvement
6 473 (18.53%) Microservices
7 455 (17.83%) Full-Stack Development
8 430 (16.85%) Problem-Solving
9 420 (16.46%) Infrastructure as Code
10 411 (16.11%) Test Automation
11 395 (15.48%) Technical Leadership
12 336 (13.17%) Roadmaps
13 287 (11.25%) Coaching
14 285 (11.17%) Scrum
15 284 (11.13%) Containerisation
16 262 (10.27%) Observability
17 244 (9.56%) Machine Learning
18 239 (9.37%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 633 (24.80%) Python
2 533 (20.89%) Java
3 421 (16.50%) SQL
4 384 (15.05%) JavaScript
5 368 (14.42%) TypeScript
6 294 (11.52%) C#
7 100 (3.92%) Go
8 91 (3.57%) Bash
9 84 (3.29%) PowerShell
10 75 (2.94%) Ruby
11 74 (2.90%) C++
12 58 (2.27%) PHP
13 36 (1.41%) Kotlin
14 32 (1.25%) Scala
15 25 (0.98%) Rust
16 20 (0.78%) PL/SQL
17 16 (0.63%) DataWeave
18 15 (0.59%) Bicep
19 12 (0.47%) C
20 11 (0.43%) R
Qualifications
1 429 (16.81%) Security Cleared
2 354 (13.87%) SC Cleared
3 287 (11.25%) Degree
4 176 (6.90%) AWS Certification
5 117 (4.58%) CISSP
6 104 (4.08%) CISM
7 88 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
8 83 (3.25%) Computer Science Degree
9 74 (2.90%) 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 (0.78%) CCNA
18 14 (0.55%) DBS Check
18 14 (0.55%) Microsoft Certified Professional
19 13 (0.51%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 174 (6.82%) QA
2 120 (4.70%) NIST
3 101 (3.96%) Data Quality
3 101 (3.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 87 (3.41%) Accessibility
5 55 (2.16%) GDPR
6 48 (1.88%) ISO 22301
7 38 (1.49%) NCSC
8 32 (1.25%) GRC
9 24 (0.94%) Cyber Essentials
9 24 (0.94%) PCI DSS
10 18 (0.71%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 15 (0.59%) SLA
12 12 (0.47%) NIST 800
12 12 (0.47%) WCAG
13 8 (0.31%) ISO 9001
13 8 (0.31%) PMO
14 7 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
14 7 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 7 (0.27%) JSP 440
System Software
1 428 (16.77%) Docker
2 56 (2.19%) Active Directory
3 49 (1.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 37 (1.45%) Hyper-V
5 20 (0.78%) 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 (0.078%) 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
1 421 (16.50%) Kubernetes
2 129 (5.05%) Grafana
3 115 (4.51%) Ansible
4 38 (1.49%) Prometheus
5 23 (0.90%) Argo
6 22 (0.86%) Microsoft Intune
7 19 (0.74%) Progress Chef
8 15 (0.59%) Istio
9 13 (0.51%) CloudHub
9 13 (0.51%) Puppet
10 10 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
11 9 (0.35%) Proxmox
12 8 (0.31%) CASB
12 8 (0.31%) Packer
12 8 (0.31%) Podman
13 7 (0.27%) Cisco CUCM
13 7 (0.27%) ZABBIX
14 6 (0.24%) EMC NetWorker
14 6 (0.24%) EMC VPLEX
14 6 (0.24%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 435 (17.05%) Microsoft
2 119 (4.66%) Google
3 113 (4.43%) ServiceNow
4 74 (2.90%) VMware
5 71 (2.78%) Oracle
6 68 (2.66%) Databricks
7 51 (2.00%) Cisco
8 39 (1.53%) OpenAI
9 38 (1.49%) Adobe
10 35 (1.37%) Splunk
11 34 (1.33%) SAP
12 30 (1.18%) Palo Alto
13 29 (1.14%) Fortinet
14 28 (1.10%) Salesforce
15 25 (0.98%) Apple
16 23 (0.90%) Dynatrace
16 23 (0.90%) SolarWinds
17 22 (0.86%) Informatica
17 22 (0.86%) Okta
18 19 (0.74%) MuleSoft
4,109 hybrid/remote AWS jobs