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

 6 months to
17 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 13 8
Rank change year-on-year +3 -5 -2
Permanent jobs citing AWS 2,504 2,179 4,469
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 11.69% 13.21% 14.52%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.97% 35.58% 34.88%
Number of salaries quoted 1,605 1,385 3,746
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £43,750
25th Percentile £53,750 £56,250 £54,500
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 £107,500 £96,250
90th Percentile £104,500 £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 8,355 6,124 12,814
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 39.01% 37.14% 41.63%
Number of salaries quoted 5,935 4,518 10,509
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £44,000 £45,250
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 £81,786
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
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 17 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 (1.92%) Apache Airflow
2 41 (1.64%) Apache Spark
3 23 (0.92%) Apache
3 23 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
4 15 (0.60%) IIS
5 14 (0.56%) CMS
6 13 (0.52%) Confluence
6 13 (0.52%) SharePoint
7 12 (0.48%) Anypoint
8 10 (0.40%) 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%) EPiServer
13 3 (0.12%) Kentico
13 3 (0.12%) Umbraco
Applications
1 94 (3.75%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.36%) MS Visio
3 7 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.20%) AutoCAD
4 5 (0.20%) DaVinci Resolve
4 5 (0.20%) Microsoft Excel
5 4 (0.16%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.080%) Elementor
6 2 (0.080%) PlantUML
7 1 (0.040%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.040%) Houdini
7 1 (0.040%) Lightworks
7 1 (0.040%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.040%) Moqups
7 1 (0.040%) NUKE
7 1 (0.040%) Spreadsheet
7 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 1,121 (44.77%) Azure
2 622 (24.84%) GCP
3 283 (11.30%) SaaS
4 235 (9.38%) Serverless
5 194 (7.75%) GitHub
6 158 (6.31%) Microsoft 365
7 157 (6.27%) Amazon S3
8 153 (6.11%) AWS Lambda
9 114 (4.55%) Amazon EKS
10 95 (3.79%) Amazon EC2
10 95 (3.79%) AWS CloudFormation
11 88 (3.51%) GitHub Actions
12 86 (3.43%) Amazon ECS
13 66 (2.64%) Amazon SQS
14 61 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
15 56 (2.24%) Entra ID
15 56 (2.24%) GitHub Copilot
16 51 (2.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 48 (1.92%) Snowflake
18 42 (1.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 137 (5.47%) Firewall
2 131 (5.23%) Broadband
3 85 (3.39%) VPN
4 73 (2.92%) DNS
5 70 (2.80%) WAN
6 64 (2.56%) LAN
7 62 (2.48%) Network Security
8 50 (2.00%) TCP/IP
9 46 (1.84%) DHCP
10 38 (1.52%) HTTP
11 36 (1.44%) Wi-Fi
12 31 (1.24%) SD-WAN
13 28 (1.12%) Cisco ASA
14 24 (0.96%) Cisco Firepower
15 22 (0.88%) VLAN
16 20 (0.80%) BGP
17 19 (0.76%) SSL
17 19 (0.76%) VXLAN
18 16 (0.64%) MPLS
18 16 (0.64%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 261 (10.42%) PostgreSQL
2 251 (10.02%) MongoDB
3 113 (4.51%) NoSQL
4 109 (4.35%) Elasticsearch
5 106 (4.23%) SQL Server
6 105 (4.19%) MySQL
7 84 (3.35%) Azure SQL Database
8 62 (2.48%) Relational Database
9 58 (2.32%) Amazon RDS
10 55 (2.20%) DynamoDB
11 49 (1.96%) Redis
12 41 (1.64%) Metadata
13 34 (1.36%) Amazon Athena
13 34 (1.36%) Data Warehouse
14 28 (1.12%) Amazon Redshift
15 26 (1.04%) Big Data
16 24 (0.96%) Power BI
17 23 (0.92%) Data Lake
18 20 (0.80%) BigQuery
19 19 (0.76%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 123 (4.91%) Git
2 82 (3.27%) GitLab
2 82 (3.27%) Jenkins
3 64 (2.56%) TeamCity
4 50 (2.00%) Cypress.io
5 47 (1.88%) JIRA
6 32 (1.28%) Claude Code
7 17 (0.68%) JUnit
8 15 (0.60%) Selenium
9 14 (0.56%) Crashlytics
9 14 (0.56%) Maven
9 14 (0.56%) XCTest
10 13 (0.52%) CircleCI
10 13 (0.52%) JMeter
11 12 (0.48%) Postman
12 9 (0.36%) Mockito
13 8 (0.32%) Cucumber
14 7 (0.28%) Jaeger
15 6 (0.24%) Storybook
16 5 (0.20%) Locust
General
1 612 (24.44%) Social Skills
2 562 (22.44%) Finance
3 282 (11.26%) Public Sector
4 237 (9.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 235 (9.38%) Banking
6 217 (8.67%) Law
7 140 (5.59%) Retail
8 131 (5.23%) Analytical Skills
9 68 (2.72%) Legal
10 56 (2.24%) Back Office
11 54 (2.16%) Financial Institution
12 52 (2.08%) Games
13 48 (1.92%) Swedish Language
14 43 (1.72%) Front Office
15 39 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
16 33 (1.32%) French Language
16 33 (1.32%) Marketing
17 32 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
18 26 (1.04%) Telecoms
19 20 (0.80%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 599 (23.92%) Senior
2 546 (21.81%) Developer
3 439 (17.53%) Software Engineer
4 323 (12.90%) Lead
5 277 (11.06%) Architect
6 149 (5.95%) Full-Stack Developer
7 144 (5.75%) AWS Engineer
8 123 (4.91%) Analyst
9 122 (4.87%) Senior Software Engineer
10 119 (4.75%) DevOps Engineer
11 118 (4.71%) .NET Developer
12 113 (4.51%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 113 (4.51%) Lead Software Engineer
13 104 (4.15%) Senior Developer
14 99 (3.95%) Solutions Architect
15 95 (3.79%) Consultant
15 95 (3.79%) Engineering Manager
16 93 (3.71%) Lead Developer
17 91 (3.63%) Cloud Engineer
17 91 (3.63%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 424 (16.93%) React
2 375 (14.98%) Node.js
3 223 (8.91%) .NET
4 164 (6.55%) REST
5 133 (5.31%) RESTful
6 131 (5.23%) Vue
7 125 (4.99%) Kafka
8 124 (4.95%) CSS
8 124 (4.95%) Spring
9 109 (4.35%) AngularJS
10 108 (4.31%) .NET Core
11 103 (4.11%) ASP.NET
12 95 (3.79%) ASP.NET Core
13 91 (3.63%) Spring Boot
14 84 (3.35%) HTML
15 68 (2.72%) .NET Framework
16 67 (2.68%) Middleware
17 55 (2.20%) Ruby on Rails
18 50 (2.00%) Redux
19 49 (1.96%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 395 (15.77%) Cloud Native
2 196 (7.83%) Product Ownership
3 186 (7.43%) Distributed Systems
4 93 (3.71%) Public Cloud
5 81 (3.23%) Greenfield Project
6 79 (3.15%) Video\Live Streaming
7 67 (2.68%) Onboarding
8 63 (2.52%) Cyber Threat
9 57 (2.28%) Management Information System
10 55 (2.20%) Data Centre
11 54 (2.16%) AI Agents
12 52 (2.08%) Blog
13 51 (2.04%) Security Posture
14 46 (1.84%) Over-the-Top Content
15 44 (1.76%) Fixed Income
16 43 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
16 43 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
17 41 (1.64%) Mobile App
18 39 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
19 35 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 209 (8.35%) Linux
2 154 (6.15%) Windows
3 61 (2.44%) Windows Server
4 57 (2.28%) Unix
5 35 (1.40%) 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
1 874 (34.90%) CI/CD
2 835 (33.35%) Agile
3 766 (30.59%) Software Engineering
4 589 (23.52%) DevOps
5 553 (22.08%) Mentoring
6 499 (19.93%) Full-Stack Development
7 496 (19.81%) Microservices
8 458 (18.29%) AI
9 435 (17.37%) Infrastructure as Code
10 430 (17.17%) Continuous Improvement
11 423 (16.89%) Test Automation
12 418 (16.69%) Problem-Solving
13 348 (13.90%) Technical Leadership
14 336 (13.42%) Containerisation
15 307 (12.26%) Roadmaps
16 286 (11.42%) Coaching
17 258 (10.30%) Clean Code
17 258 (10.30%) Scrum
18 243 (9.70%) Machine Learning
19 235 (9.38%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 669 (26.72%) Python
2 521 (20.81%) Java
3 393 (15.69%) TypeScript
4 390 (15.58%) JavaScript
5 375 (14.98%) SQL
6 273 (10.90%) C#
7 191 (7.63%) Go
8 100 (3.99%) Bash
9 76 (3.04%) Scala
10 72 (2.88%) C++
11 71 (2.84%) PHP
12 68 (2.72%) PowerShell
13 66 (2.64%) Ruby
14 33 (1.32%) Kotlin
15 29 (1.16%) Rust
16 16 (0.64%) Bicep
17 14 (0.56%) Swift
18 13 (0.52%) PL/SQL
19 12 (0.48%) DataWeave
20 10 (0.40%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 352 (14.06%) Security Cleared
2 298 (11.90%) Degree
2 298 (11.90%) SC Cleared
3 178 (7.11%) AWS Certification
4 119 (4.75%) CISSP
5 96 (3.83%) Microsoft Certification
6 95 (3.79%) CISM
7 89 (3.55%) Computer Science Degree
8 83 (3.31%) MCSE
9 53 (2.12%) Azure Certification
10 46 (1.84%) ITIL Certification
11 45 (1.80%) DV Cleared
12 37 (1.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 35 (1.40%) Cisco Certification
14 24 (0.96%) 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
18 16 (0.64%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 185 (7.39%) QA
2 114 (4.55%) NIST
3 97 (3.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 57 (2.28%) Accessibility
4 57 (2.28%) Data Quality
5 52 (2.08%) GDPR
6 44 (1.76%) ISO 22301
7 33 (1.32%) PCI DSS
8 32 (1.28%) GRC
9 26 (1.04%) 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
16 6 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 433 (17.29%) Docker
2 69 (2.76%) Active Directory
3 48 (1.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 42 (1.68%) 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 (16.49%) Terraform
2 398 (15.89%) Kubernetes
3 119 (4.75%) Ansible
4 118 (4.71%) Grafana
5 45 (1.80%) Prometheus
6 29 (1.16%) Argo
7 26 (1.04%) 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
13 10 (0.40%) CloudHub
14 9 (0.36%) Cisco CUCM
15 7 (0.28%) Packer
15 7 (0.28%) ZABBIX
16 6 (0.24%) EMC VPLEX
16 6 (0.24%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 417 (16.65%) Microsoft
2 123 (4.91%) ServiceNow
3 95 (3.79%) Google
4 77 (3.08%) VMware
5 66 (2.64%) Cisco
6 59 (2.36%) Oracle
7 45 (1.80%) Typelevel
8 44 (1.76%) Databricks
9 37 (1.48%) Palo Alto
10 36 (1.44%) Fortinet
11 34 (1.36%) Apple
12 32 (1.28%) Splunk
13 30 (1.20%) Adobe
14 28 (1.12%) SAP
14 28 (1.12%) SolarWinds
15 27 (1.08%) Salesforce
16 21 (0.84%) Dell
16 21 (0.84%) OpenAI
17 20 (0.80%) Dynatrace
18 18 (0.72%) MuleSoft
1,469 hybrid/remote AWS jobs