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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 13 8
Rank change year-on-year +3 -5 -2
Permanent jobs citing AWS 2,512 2,168 4,357
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 11.67% 13.12% 14.48%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.02% 35.42% 34.82%
Number of salaries quoted 1,615 1,378 3,648
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £43,750
25th Percentile £53,750 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £73,805
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +1.62% -0.93%
75th Percentile £88,750 £108,563 £97,500
90th Percentile £103,750 £135,000 £135,000
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 8,368 6,121 12,513
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.87% 37.04% 41.58%
Number of salaries quoted 5,978 4,520 10,250
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,950 £46,199
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 £105,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £58,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +2.56% -6.40%

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

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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 20 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 47 (1.87%) Apache Airflow
2 40 (1.59%) Apache Spark
3 23 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
4 22 (0.88%) Apache
5 15 (0.60%) IIS
6 14 (0.56%) CMS
7 13 (0.52%) Anypoint
7 13 (0.52%) Confluence
7 13 (0.52%) SharePoint
8 11 (0.44%) Mule
9 9 (0.36%) WordPress
10 7 (0.28%) Jupyter
11 6 (0.24%) Apache Solr
11 6 (0.24%) SAS
12 4 (0.16%) Ethereum
12 4 (0.16%) nginx
12 4 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
13 3 (0.12%) Kentico
13 3 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 3 (0.12%) Sitefinity
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%) Trello
Business Applications
1 24 (0.96%) 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 1,131 (45.02%) Azure
2 625 (24.88%) GCP
3 286 (11.39%) SaaS
4 233 (9.28%) Serverless
5 193 (7.68%) GitHub
6 161 (6.41%) Microsoft 365
7 155 (6.17%) Amazon S3
8 151 (6.01%) AWS Lambda
9 114 (4.54%) Amazon EKS
10 97 (3.86%) AWS CloudFormation
11 94 (3.74%) Amazon EC2
12 87 (3.46%) GitHub Actions
13 86 (3.42%) Amazon ECS
14 66 (2.63%) Amazon SQS
15 62 (2.47%) Azure DevOps
16 57 (2.27%) Entra ID
17 56 (2.23%) GitHub Copilot
18 51 (2.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 49 (1.95%) Snowflake
20 42 (1.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 137 (5.45%) Firewall
2 128 (5.10%) Broadband
3 86 (3.42%) VPN
4 74 (2.95%) DNS
5 71 (2.83%) WAN
6 65 (2.59%) LAN
7 63 (2.51%) Network Security
8 52 (2.07%) TCP/IP
9 47 (1.87%) DHCP
10 38 (1.51%) HTTP
11 37 (1.47%) Wi-Fi
12 31 (1.23%) SD-WAN
13 28 (1.11%) Cisco ASA
14 24 (0.96%) Cisco Firepower
15 23 (0.92%) VLAN
16 20 (0.80%) BGP
16 20 (0.80%) SSL
17 19 (0.76%) VXLAN
18 16 (0.64%) MPLS
18 16 (0.64%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 260 (10.35%) PostgreSQL
2 251 (9.99%) MongoDB
3 110 (4.38%) NoSQL
4 109 (4.34%) Elasticsearch
5 107 (4.26%) MySQL
5 107 (4.26%) SQL Server
6 84 (3.34%) Azure SQL Database
7 61 (2.43%) Relational Database
8 58 (2.31%) Amazon RDS
9 54 (2.15%) DynamoDB
10 50 (1.99%) Redis
11 41 (1.63%) Metadata
12 35 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
13 34 (1.35%) Amazon Athena
14 28 (1.11%) Amazon Redshift
15 26 (1.04%) Power BI
16 25 (1.00%) Big Data
17 24 (0.96%) Data Lake
18 21 (0.84%) Tableau
19 20 (0.80%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 125 (4.98%) Git
2 83 (3.30%) Jenkins
3 82 (3.26%) GitLab
4 64 (2.55%) TeamCity
5 50 (1.99%) Cypress.io
6 48 (1.91%) JIRA
7 32 (1.27%) Claude Code
8 18 (0.72%) JUnit
9 17 (0.68%) Selenium
10 15 (0.60%) Maven
11 14 (0.56%) Crashlytics
11 14 (0.56%) XCTest
12 13 (0.52%) CircleCI
12 13 (0.52%) JMeter
13 12 (0.48%) Postman
14 10 (0.40%) Mockito
15 8 (0.32%) Cucumber
16 6 (0.24%) Bitbucket
16 6 (0.24%) MLflow
16 6 (0.24%) Storybook
General
1 616 (24.52%) Social Skills
2 564 (22.45%) Finance
3 282 (11.23%) Public Sector
4 237 (9.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 235 (9.36%) Banking
6 218 (8.68%) Law
7 141 (5.61%) Retail
8 133 (5.29%) Analytical Skills
9 68 (2.71%) Legal
10 56 (2.23%) Back Office
11 54 (2.15%) Financial Institution
12 50 (1.99%) Games
13 48 (1.91%) Swedish Language
14 43 (1.71%) Front Office
15 38 (1.51%) Influencing Skills
16 34 (1.35%) Marketing
17 33 (1.31%) French Language
17 33 (1.31%) Presentation Skills
18 25 (1.00%) Telecoms
19 21 (0.84%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 604 (24.04%) Senior
2 548 (21.82%) Developer
3 438 (17.44%) Software Engineer
4 322 (12.82%) Lead
5 275 (10.95%) Architect
6 149 (5.93%) Full-Stack Developer
7 146 (5.81%) AWS Engineer
8 124 (4.94%) Analyst
9 121 (4.82%) DevOps Engineer
9 121 (4.82%) Senior Software Engineer
10 118 (4.70%) .NET Developer
11 114 (4.54%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 112 (4.46%) Lead Software Engineer
13 107 (4.26%) Senior Developer
14 99 (3.94%) Solutions Architect
15 95 (3.78%) Consultant
15 95 (3.78%) Engineering Manager
16 93 (3.70%) Lead Developer
17 91 (3.62%) Cloud Engineer
18 90 (3.58%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 422 (16.80%) React
2 374 (14.89%) Node.js
3 225 (8.96%) .NET
4 168 (6.69%) REST
5 132 (5.25%) RESTful
6 131 (5.21%) Vue
7 125 (4.98%) Spring
8 124 (4.94%) CSS
8 124 (4.94%) Kafka
9 110 (4.38%) AngularJS
10 107 (4.26%) .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 (2.71%) .NET Framework
16 67 (2.67%) Middleware
17 56 (2.23%) Ruby on Rails
18 50 (1.99%) Redux
19 49 (1.95%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 396 (15.76%) Cloud Native
2 196 (7.80%) Product Ownership
3 188 (7.48%) Distributed Systems
4 93 (3.70%) Public Cloud
5 81 (3.22%) Greenfield Project
6 78 (3.11%) Video\Live Streaming
7 68 (2.71%) Onboarding
8 63 (2.51%) Cyber Threat
9 58 (2.31%) Management Information System
10 55 (2.19%) AI Agents
10 55 (2.19%) Data Centre
11 51 (2.03%) Blog
12 50 (1.99%) Security Posture
13 46 (1.83%) Over-the-Top Content
14 45 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
15 44 (1.75%) Fixed Income
16 43 (1.71%) Hybrid Cloud
17 41 (1.63%) Mobile App
17 41 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
18 35 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 211 (8.40%) Linux
2 156 (6.21%) Windows
3 62 (2.47%) Windows Server
4 58 (2.31%) Unix
5 35 (1.39%) Apple iOS
6 20 (0.80%) Android
7 14 (0.56%) Windows 10
8 11 (0.44%) Ubuntu
8 11 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
9 8 (0.32%) Mac OS
9 8 (0.32%) Windows Server 2012
10 7 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
11 4 (0.16%) Debian
12 3 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 2 (0.080%) CentOS
14 1 (0.040%) FreeBSD
14 1 (0.040%) OpenBSD
14 1 (0.040%) Solaris
14 1 (0.040%) Windows 7
14 1 (0.040%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 878 (34.95%) CI/CD
2 839 (33.40%) Agile
3 767 (30.53%) Software Engineering
4 593 (23.61%) DevOps
5 557 (22.17%) Mentoring
6 499 (19.86%) Full-Stack Development
6 499 (19.86%) Microservices
7 462 (18.39%) AI
8 434 (17.28%) Infrastructure as Code
9 430 (17.12%) Continuous Improvement
10 425 (16.92%) Test Automation
11 422 (16.80%) Problem-Solving
12 347 (13.81%) Technical Leadership
13 334 (13.30%) Containerisation
14 304 (12.10%) Roadmaps
15 288 (11.46%) Coaching
16 262 (10.43%) Clean Code
17 260 (10.35%) Scrum
18 243 (9.67%) Machine Learning
19 235 (9.36%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 667 (26.55%) Python
2 520 (20.70%) Java
3 392 (15.61%) TypeScript
4 390 (15.53%) JavaScript
5 376 (14.97%) SQL
6 274 (10.91%) C#
7 189 (7.52%) Go
8 100 (3.98%) Bash
9 74 (2.95%) Scala
10 72 (2.87%) PHP
11 71 (2.83%) C++
12 70 (2.79%) PowerShell
13 68 (2.71%) Ruby
14 33 (1.31%) Kotlin
15 28 (1.11%) 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
1 355 (14.13%) Security Cleared
2 302 (12.02%) SC Cleared
3 297 (11.82%) Degree
4 176 (7.01%) AWS Certification
5 119 (4.74%) CISSP
6 96 (3.82%) Microsoft Certification
7 95 (3.78%) CISM
8 88 (3.50%) Computer Science Degree
9 83 (3.30%) MCSE
10 53 (2.11%) Azure Certification
11 46 (1.83%) ITIL Certification
12 44 (1.75%) DV Cleared
13 37 (1.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 35 (1.39%) Cisco Certification
15 24 (0.96%) CCNP
16 19 (0.76%) CREST Certified
17 18 (0.72%) Master's Degree
18 17 (0.68%) CCNA
18 17 (0.68%) CRISC
18 17 (0.68%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 185 (7.36%) QA
2 113 (4.50%) NIST
3 96 (3.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 58 (2.31%) Accessibility
5 57 (2.27%) Data Quality
6 51 (2.03%) GDPR
7 44 (1.75%) ISO 22301
8 32 (1.27%) PCI DSS
9 31 (1.23%) GRC
10 25 (1.00%) NCSC
11 20 (0.80%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 16 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials
12 16 (0.64%) SOC 2
13 12 (0.48%) WCAG
14 11 (0.44%) ISO 9001
14 11 (0.44%) JSP 440
15 10 (0.40%) NIST 800
15 10 (0.40%) SLA
16 7 (0.28%) Government Security Classifications
16 7 (0.28%) PMO
System Software
1 438 (17.44%) Docker
2 71 (2.83%) Active Directory
3 50 (1.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 44 (1.75%) 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
1 415 (16.52%) Terraform
2 403 (16.04%) Kubernetes
3 118 (4.70%) Ansible
3 118 (4.70%) Grafana
4 44 (1.75%) Prometheus
5 28 (1.11%) Argo
6 27 (1.07%) Microsoft Intune
7 16 (0.64%) Progress Chef
8 15 (0.60%) Proxmox
9 14 (0.56%) Puppet
9 14 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
10 13 (0.52%) Istio
10 13 (0.52%) Podman
11 11 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 11 (0.44%) CloudHub
12 9 (0.36%) Cisco CUCM
13 7 (0.28%) Packer
13 7 (0.28%) ZABBIX
14 6 (0.24%) Dell DRAC
14 6 (0.24%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 421 (16.76%) Microsoft
2 124 (4.94%) ServiceNow
3 99 (3.94%) Google
4 79 (3.14%) VMware
5 67 (2.67%) 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 22 (0.88%) OpenAI
16 21 (0.84%) Dell
17 20 (0.80%) Dynatrace
18 19 (0.76%) MuleSoft