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 11 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 13 8
Rank change year-on-year +3 -5 -2
Permanent jobs citing AWS 2,622 2,097 3,645
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 11.56% 12.75% 14.61%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.21% 35.11% 35.59%
Number of salaries quoted 1,707 1,327 2,921
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% - -
75th Percentile £90,000 £107,500 £105,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £135,000 £142,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year - - -3.33%

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 8,680 5,973 10,241
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.25% 36.33% 41.06%
Number of salaries quoted 6,287 4,408 8,008
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,750 £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 £84,964
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -6.25%

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 11 August 2026.

AWS salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

AWS
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 41 (1.56%) Apache Spark
2 36 (1.37%) Apache Airflow
3 24 (0.92%) Apache
3 24 (0.92%) Confluence
4 19 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
5 16 (0.61%) Anypoint
5 16 (0.61%) IIS
6 14 (0.53%) WordPress
7 13 (0.50%) Mule
7 13 (0.50%) SharePoint
8 10 (0.38%) CMS
9 7 (0.27%) Jupyter
9 7 (0.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 6 (0.23%) Apache Solr
10 6 (0.23%) SAS
11 4 (0.15%) Camunda
11 4 (0.15%) Ethereum
11 4 (0.15%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.11%) Kentico
12 3 (0.11%) nginx
Applications
1 87 (3.32%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (0.42%) MS Visio
4 10 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 9 (0.34%) Chatbot
6 5 (0.19%) AutoCAD
6 5 (0.19%) DaVinci Resolve
7 4 (0.15%) Moqups
8 2 (0.076%) Elementor
8 2 (0.076%) PlantUML
8 2 (0.076%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.038%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.038%) Houdini
9 1 (0.038%) Lightworks
9 1 (0.038%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.038%) NUKE
9 1 (0.038%) Trello
Business Applications
1 24 (0.92%) Cloudability
2 6 (0.23%) NetSuite
2 6 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.11%) Shopify
4 2 (0.076%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.038%) Magento
5 1 (0.038%) Oracle Assets
Cloud Services
1 1,224 (46.68%) Azure
2 665 (25.36%) GCP
3 304 (11.59%) SaaS
4 232 (8.85%) Serverless
5 209 (7.97%) GitHub
6 161 (6.14%) Microsoft 365
7 151 (5.76%) AWS Lambda
8 146 (5.57%) Amazon S3
9 111 (4.23%) AWS CloudFormation
10 92 (3.51%) Amazon EKS
11 91 (3.47%) GitHub Actions
12 89 (3.39%) Amazon EC2
13 85 (3.24%) Amazon ECS
14 69 (2.63%) Snowflake
15 68 (2.59%) Amazon SQS
16 67 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
17 65 (2.48%) GitHub Copilot
18 49 (1.87%) Entra ID
19 47 (1.79%) Anthropic Claude
19 47 (1.79%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 126 (4.81%) Firewall
2 114 (4.35%) Broadband
3 74 (2.82%) DNS
3 74 (2.82%) VPN
4 69 (2.63%) Network Security
5 68 (2.59%) WAN
6 60 (2.29%) LAN
7 58 (2.21%) TCP/IP
8 43 (1.64%) DHCP
9 40 (1.53%) HTTP
10 30 (1.14%) SD-WAN
11 27 (1.03%) Cisco ASA
12 22 (0.84%) SSL
12 22 (0.84%) VLAN
12 22 (0.84%) Wi-Fi
13 21 (0.80%) Cisco Firepower
14 14 (0.53%) BGP
15 12 (0.46%) MPLS
15 12 (0.46%) OSPF
16 11 (0.42%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 271 (10.34%) PostgreSQL
2 249 (9.50%) MongoDB
3 120 (4.58%) SQL Server
4 110 (4.20%) MySQL
5 108 (4.12%) Elasticsearch
6 106 (4.04%) NoSQL
7 84 (3.20%) Azure SQL Database
8 63 (2.40%) DynamoDB
9 62 (2.36%) Redis
10 56 (2.14%) Relational Database
11 53 (2.02%) Amazon RDS
12 41 (1.56%) Power BI
13 38 (1.45%) Data Warehouse
14 34 (1.30%) Metadata
15 32 (1.22%) Amazon Athena
16 29 (1.11%) Big Data
17 26 (0.99%) Data Lake
18 24 (0.92%) Amazon Redshift
18 24 (0.92%) Tableau
19 16 (0.61%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 147 (5.61%) Git
2 87 (3.32%) Jenkins
3 82 (3.13%) GitLab
4 64 (2.44%) JIRA
5 57 (2.17%) Cypress.io
6 56 (2.14%) TeamCity
7 44 (1.68%) Claude Code
8 28 (1.07%) JUnit
9 26 (0.99%) Selenium
10 20 (0.76%) Postman
11 19 (0.72%) Maven
12 15 (0.57%) Mockito
13 13 (0.50%) CircleCI
13 13 (0.50%) Crashlytics
13 13 (0.50%) XCTest
14 12 (0.46%) JMeter
15 11 (0.42%) Bitbucket
15 11 (0.42%) Cucumber
16 7 (0.27%) NUnit
16 7 (0.27%) SonarQube
General
1 684 (26.09%) Social Skills
2 606 (23.11%) Finance
3 295 (11.25%) Public Sector
4 239 (9.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 238 (9.08%) Banking
6 210 (8.01%) Law
7 146 (5.57%) Analytical Skills
8 118 (4.50%) Retail
9 79 (3.01%) Legal
10 54 (2.06%) Games
11 50 (1.91%) Financial Institution
12 48 (1.83%) Swedish Language
13 46 (1.75%) Back Office
14 45 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
15 42 (1.60%) Marketing
16 39 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
17 36 (1.37%) French Language
18 34 (1.30%) Front Office
19 33 (1.26%) Telecoms
20 24 (0.92%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 629 (23.99%) Senior
2 555 (21.17%) Developer
3 445 (16.97%) Software Engineer
4 329 (12.55%) Lead
5 290 (11.06%) Architect
6 153 (5.84%) Full-Stack Developer
7 141 (5.38%) AWS Engineer
8 130 (4.96%) Analyst
9 126 (4.81%) DevOps Engineer
10 119 (4.54%) Senior Developer
11 118 (4.50%) .NET Developer
12 116 (4.42%) Senior Software Engineer
13 109 (4.16%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 105 (4.00%) Lead Software Engineer
15 101 (3.85%) Engineering Manager
16 98 (3.74%) Consultant
17 97 (3.70%) Cloud Engineer
18 93 (3.55%) Solutions Architect
19 91 (3.47%) Lead Developer
19 91 (3.47%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 448 (17.09%) React
2 374 (14.26%) Node.js
3 251 (9.57%) .NET
4 198 (7.55%) REST
5 137 (5.23%) Spring
6 135 (5.15%) RESTful
7 130 (4.96%) Vue
8 129 (4.92%) CSS
9 121 (4.61%) .NET Core
10 120 (4.58%) AngularJS
11 110 (4.20%) ASP.NET
12 109 (4.16%) Kafka
13 99 (3.78%) Spring Boot
14 98 (3.74%) ASP.NET Core
15 82 (3.13%) HTML
16 74 (2.82%) .NET Framework
17 72 (2.75%) Middleware
18 63 (2.40%) LangChain
18 63 (2.40%) Ruby on Rails
19 62 (2.36%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 390 (14.87%) Cloud Native
2 192 (7.32%) Product Ownership
3 185 (7.06%) Distributed Systems
4 105 (4.00%) Public Cloud
5 87 (3.32%) AI Agents
6 82 (3.13%) Greenfield Project
7 71 (2.71%) Cyber Threat
8 68 (2.59%) Video\Live Streaming
9 66 (2.52%) Onboarding
10 54 (2.06%) Management Information System
11 52 (1.98%) Self-Motivation
12 50 (1.91%) Security Posture
13 49 (1.87%) Enterprise Software
14 47 (1.79%) Data Centre
14 47 (1.79%) Mobile App
15 45 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
16 44 (1.68%) Blog
17 41 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
18 36 (1.37%) Low-Code
18 36 (1.37%) Over-the-Top Content
Operating Systems
1 219 (8.35%) Linux
2 161 (6.14%) Windows
3 63 (2.40%) Unix
4 59 (2.25%) Windows Server
5 34 (1.30%) Apple iOS
6 20 (0.76%) Android
7 11 (0.42%) Ubuntu
8 7 (0.27%) Mac OS
9 6 (0.23%) Windows 10
9 6 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (0.15%) Debian
10 4 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
10 4 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.076%) CentOS
11 2 (0.076%) Solaris
12 1 (0.038%) FreeBSD
12 1 (0.038%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 919 (35.05%) CI/CD
2 891 (33.98%) Agile
3 789 (30.09%) Software Engineering
4 613 (23.38%) DevOps
5 572 (21.82%) Mentoring
6 542 (20.67%) AI
7 503 (19.18%) Full-Stack Development
7 503 (19.18%) Microservices
8 479 (18.27%) Continuous Improvement
9 458 (17.47%) Infrastructure as Code
10 432 (16.48%) Problem-Solving
11 426 (16.25%) Test Automation
12 377 (14.38%) Technical Leadership
13 336 (12.81%) Containerisation
14 328 (12.51%) Roadmaps
15 284 (10.83%) Scrum
16 282 (10.76%) Coaching
17 269 (10.26%) Clean Code
18 261 (9.95%) Observability
19 258 (9.84%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 678 (25.86%) Python
2 520 (19.83%) Java
3 416 (15.87%) TypeScript
4 411 (15.68%) JavaScript
5 405 (15.45%) SQL
6 298 (11.37%) C#
7 161 (6.14%) Go
8 85 (3.24%) Bash
9 78 (2.97%) Ruby
10 75 (2.86%) PowerShell
11 70 (2.67%) C++
11 70 (2.67%) PHP
12 64 (2.44%) Scala
13 37 (1.41%) Kotlin
14 24 (0.92%) Rust
15 19 (0.72%) PL/SQL
16 16 (0.61%) DataWeave
16 16 (0.61%) Swift
17 15 (0.57%) Bicep
18 11 (0.42%) C
Qualifications
1 423 (16.13%) Security Cleared
2 360 (13.73%) SC Cleared
3 302 (11.52%) Degree
4 176 (6.71%) AWS Certification
5 122 (4.65%) CISSP
6 99 (3.78%) CISM
7 92 (3.51%) Microsoft Certification
8 90 (3.43%) Computer Science Degree
9 79 (3.01%) MCSE
10 59 (2.25%) Azure Certification
11 55 (2.10%) DV Cleared
12 50 (1.91%) ITIL Certification
13 36 (1.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 34 (1.30%) Cisco Certification
15 25 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
16 23 (0.88%) CCNP
17 17 (0.65%) CREST Certified
17 17 (0.65%) DBS Check
18 16 (0.61%) CCNA
18 16 (0.61%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 189 (7.21%) QA
2 119 (4.54%) NIST
3 97 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 81 (3.09%) Accessibility
5 64 (2.44%) Data Quality
6 56 (2.14%) GDPR
7 48 (1.83%) ISO 22301
8 29 (1.11%) GRC
9 28 (1.07%) NCSC
9 28 (1.07%) PCI DSS
10 19 (0.72%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 17 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
12 16 (0.61%) WCAG
13 14 (0.53%) SLA
14 11 (0.42%) ISO 9001
15 10 (0.38%) JSP 440
15 10 (0.38%) NIST 800
15 10 (0.38%) SOC 2
16 7 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
16 7 (0.27%) PMO
System Software
1 463 (17.66%) Docker
2 67 (2.56%) Active Directory
3 56 (2.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 36 (1.37%) Hyper-V
5 23 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
6 20 (0.76%) vSphere
7 7 (0.27%) Firmware
7 7 (0.27%) KVM
7 7 (0.27%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 7 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
8 4 (0.15%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.11%) iptables
9 3 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.076%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 2 (0.076%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.038%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.038%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 428 (16.32%) Terraform
2 409 (15.60%) Kubernetes
3 114 (4.35%) Grafana
4 113 (4.31%) Ansible
5 37 (1.41%) Prometheus
6 23 (0.88%) Argo
7 22 (0.84%) Microsoft Intune
8 17 (0.65%) Progress Chef
9 16 (0.61%) Istio
10 14 (0.53%) Puppet
11 13 (0.50%) CloudHub
11 13 (0.50%) Podman
12 12 (0.46%) Proxmox
13 10 (0.38%) Cisco CUCM
14 7 (0.27%) CASB
14 7 (0.27%) Packer
14 7 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
14 7 (0.27%) ZABBIX
15 6 (0.23%) EMC VPLEX
15 6 (0.23%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 437 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 122 (4.65%) Google
3 120 (4.58%) ServiceNow
4 80 (3.05%) VMware
5 71 (2.71%) Cisco
6 65 (2.48%) Oracle
7 56 (2.14%) Databricks
8 40 (1.53%) Palo Alto
9 35 (1.33%) Fortinet
9 35 (1.33%) Typelevel
10 34 (1.30%) Salesforce
10 34 (1.30%) SAP
11 33 (1.26%) Splunk
12 31 (1.18%) Apple
13 30 (1.14%) Adobe
14 29 (1.11%) OpenAI
15 24 (0.92%) SolarWinds
16 23 (0.88%) Okta
17 21 (0.80%) Dynatrace
17 21 (0.80%) MuleSoft