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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 13 8
Rank change year-on-year +3 -5 -2
Permanent jobs citing AWS 2,586 2,079 3,587
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 11.28% 12.55% 14.54%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.90% 34.95% 35.66%
Number of salaries quoted 1,690 1,310 2,846
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,750 £45,375
25th Percentile £55,000 £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 £110,000 £107,500
90th Percentile £106,250 £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 8,648 5,948 10,060
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.72% 35.92% 40.78%
Number of salaries quoted 6,292 4,361 7,767
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,489 £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 £81,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £111,250
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

AWS
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 20 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 36 (1.39%) Apache Spark
2 32 (1.24%) Apache Airflow
3 27 (1.04%) Confluence
4 25 (0.97%) Apache
5 18 (0.70%) SharePoint
6 17 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
7 16 (0.62%) Anypoint
7 16 (0.62%) IIS
8 13 (0.50%) Mule
8 13 (0.50%) WordPress
9 12 (0.46%) CMS
10 8 (0.31%) Jupyter
11 7 (0.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 6 (0.23%) Apache Solr
12 6 (0.23%) SAS
13 4 (0.15%) ArcGIS
13 4 (0.15%) Camunda
13 4 (0.15%) Ethereum
13 4 (0.15%) Sitecore CMS
14 3 (0.12%) GeoServer
Applications
1 80 (3.09%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (0.46%) Chatbot
4 11 (0.43%) MS Visio
5 10 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 5 (0.19%) AutoCAD
6 5 (0.19%) DaVinci Resolve
6 5 (0.19%) Moqups
7 2 (0.077%) Elementor
7 2 (0.077%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.077%) PlantUML
7 2 (0.077%) Spreadsheet
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
8 1 (0.039%) Weka
Business Applications
1 24 (0.93%) Cloudability
2 6 (0.23%) NetSuite
2 6 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.12%) Shopify
4 2 (0.077%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.039%) Finacle
5 1 (0.039%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.039%) Magento
5 1 (0.039%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.039%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 1,213 (46.91%) Azure
2 659 (25.48%) GCP
3 312 (12.06%) SaaS
4 231 (8.93%) Serverless
5 210 (8.12%) GitHub
6 157 (6.07%) Microsoft 365
7 155 (5.99%) AWS Lambda
8 152 (5.88%) Amazon S3
9 107 (4.14%) AWS CloudFormation
10 92 (3.56%) GitHub Actions
11 91 (3.52%) Amazon EKS
12 89 (3.44%) Amazon EC2
13 80 (3.09%) Amazon ECS
14 72 (2.78%) Snowflake
15 69 (2.67%) Amazon SQS
16 67 (2.59%) Azure DevOps
17 66 (2.55%) GitHub Copilot
18 51 (1.97%) Anthropic Claude
19 49 (1.89%) Power Platform
20 45 (1.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 114 (4.41%) Firewall
2 100 (3.87%) Broadband
3 71 (2.75%) Network Security
4 69 (2.67%) DNS
4 69 (2.67%) VPN
5 65 (2.51%) WAN
6 57 (2.20%) LAN
7 52 (2.01%) TCP/IP
8 41 (1.59%) DHCP
9 40 (1.55%) HTTP
10 31 (1.20%) SD-WAN
11 23 (0.89%) Cisco ASA
12 21 (0.81%) SSL
12 21 (0.81%) VLAN
13 20 (0.77%) Wi-Fi
14 17 (0.66%) Cisco Firepower
15 13 (0.50%) BGP
16 11 (0.43%) Internet
16 11 (0.43%) OSPF
17 10 (0.39%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 261 (10.09%) PostgreSQL
2 244 (9.44%) MongoDB
3 116 (4.49%) SQL Server
4 104 (4.02%) Elasticsearch
5 98 (3.79%) MySQL
5 98 (3.79%) NoSQL
6 84 (3.25%) Azure SQL Database
7 70 (2.71%) DynamoDB
8 59 (2.28%) Relational Database
9 57 (2.20%) Redis
10 48 (1.86%) Amazon RDS
11 45 (1.74%) Data Warehouse
12 43 (1.66%) Power BI
13 34 (1.31%) Amazon Athena
14 30 (1.16%) Data Lake
14 30 (1.16%) Metadata
15 27 (1.04%) Big Data
15 27 (1.04%) Tableau
16 26 (1.01%) Amazon Redshift
17 11 (0.43%) Looker
Development Applications
1 147 (5.68%) Git
2 87 (3.36%) Jenkins
3 82 (3.17%) GitLab
4 68 (2.63%) JIRA
5 59 (2.28%) Cypress.io
6 57 (2.20%) TeamCity
7 47 (1.82%) Claude Code
8 30 (1.16%) JUnit
9 27 (1.04%) Selenium
10 21 (0.81%) Postman
11 20 (0.77%) Maven
12 16 (0.62%) Mockito
13 12 (0.46%) Bitbucket
13 12 (0.46%) CircleCI
13 12 (0.46%) Crashlytics
13 12 (0.46%) XCTest
14 11 (0.43%) Cucumber
14 11 (0.43%) JMeter
15 8 (0.31%) SonarQube
16 7 (0.27%) Gatling
General
1 682 (26.37%) Social Skills
2 607 (23.47%) Finance
3 294 (11.37%) Public Sector
4 251 (9.71%) Banking
5 236 (9.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 202 (7.81%) Law
7 152 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
8 115 (4.45%) Retail
9 80 (3.09%) Legal
10 56 (2.17%) Games
11 53 (2.05%) Financial Institution
12 50 (1.93%) Back Office
13 49 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
14 48 (1.86%) Swedish Language
15 40 (1.55%) Marketing
16 37 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
17 33 (1.28%) French Language
18 31 (1.20%) Telecoms
19 26 (1.01%) Front Office
20 24 (0.93%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 621 (24.01%) Senior
2 532 (20.57%) Developer
3 433 (16.74%) Software Engineer
4 323 (12.49%) Lead
5 300 (11.60%) Architect
6 146 (5.65%) Full-Stack Developer
7 139 (5.38%) AWS Engineer
8 130 (5.03%) Analyst
9 124 (4.80%) DevOps Engineer
10 121 (4.68%) Senior Developer
11 116 (4.49%) Senior Software Engineer
12 114 (4.41%) .NET Developer
13 105 (4.06%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 101 (3.91%) Engineering Manager
15 98 (3.79%) Cloud Engineer
15 98 (3.79%) Consultant
15 98 (3.79%) Lead Software Engineer
16 91 (3.52%) Solutions Architect
17 85 (3.29%) Software Developer
18 81 (3.13%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 437 (16.90%) React
2 432 (16.71%) Terraform
3 374 (14.46%) Node.js
4 250 (9.67%) .NET
5 200 (7.73%) REST
6 139 (5.38%) Spring
7 129 (4.99%) RESTful
8 127 (4.91%) Vue
9 123 (4.76%) CSS
10 117 (4.52%) .NET Core
10 117 (4.52%) AngularJS
11 111 (4.29%) ASP.NET
12 99 (3.83%) Spring Boot
13 98 (3.79%) ASP.NET Core
13 98 (3.79%) Kafka
14 78 (3.02%) HTML
15 77 (2.98%) Middleware
16 73 (2.82%) .NET Framework
17 67 (2.59%) LangChain
18 64 (2.47%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 386 (14.93%) Cloud Native
2 193 (7.46%) Product Ownership
3 183 (7.08%) Distributed Systems
4 106 (4.10%) Public Cloud
5 92 (3.56%) AI Agents
6 81 (3.13%) Greenfield Project
7 73 (2.82%) Cyber Threat
8 68 (2.63%) Onboarding
9 60 (2.32%) Video\Live Streaming
10 51 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
11 47 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
12 46 (1.78%) Mobile App
13 45 (1.74%) Blog
13 45 (1.74%) Hybrid Cloud
13 45 (1.74%) Security Posture
14 43 (1.66%) Management Information System
15 42 (1.62%) Data Centre
16 38 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
17 35 (1.35%) Low-Code
18 30 (1.16%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 211 (8.16%) Linux
2 160 (6.19%) Windows
3 57 (2.20%) Unix
4 56 (2.17%) Windows Server
5 26 (1.01%) Apple iOS
6 14 (0.54%) Android
7 13 (0.50%) Ubuntu
8 6 (0.23%) Mac OS
9 5 (0.19%) Debian
9 5 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (0.15%) Windows 10
11 3 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
11 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.077%) CentOS
12 2 (0.077%) Solaris
13 1 (0.039%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 909 (35.15%) CI/CD
2 867 (33.53%) Agile
3 783 (30.28%) Software Engineering
4 609 (23.55%) DevOps
5 569 (22.00%) Mentoring
6 565 (21.85%) AI
7 493 (19.06%) Full-Stack Development
8 487 (18.83%) Microservices
9 480 (18.56%) Continuous Improvement
10 454 (17.56%) Infrastructure as Code
11 428 (16.55%) Problem-Solving
12 416 (16.09%) Test Automation
13 382 (14.77%) Technical Leadership
14 328 (12.68%) Roadmaps
15 324 (12.53%) Containerisation
16 287 (11.10%) Scrum
17 266 (10.29%) Observability
18 264 (10.21%) Coaching
19 256 (9.90%) Machine Learning
20 253 (9.78%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 671 (25.95%) Python
2 507 (19.61%) Java
3 409 (15.82%) TypeScript
4 404 (15.62%) SQL
5 403 (15.58%) JavaScript
6 292 (11.29%) C#
7 143 (5.53%) Go
8 86 (3.33%) Bash
9 79 (3.05%) Ruby
10 78 (3.02%) PowerShell
11 64 (2.47%) PHP
12 61 (2.36%) C++
13 51 (1.97%) Scala
14 37 (1.43%) Kotlin
15 24 (0.93%) Rust
16 19 (0.73%) PL/SQL
17 16 (0.62%) DataWeave
18 15 (0.58%) Swift
19 14 (0.54%) Bicep
20 11 (0.43%) C
Qualifications
1 419 (16.20%) Security Cleared
2 353 (13.65%) SC Cleared
3 289 (11.18%) Degree
4 174 (6.73%) AWS Certification
5 116 (4.49%) CISSP
6 100 (3.87%) CISM
7 86 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
8 85 (3.29%) Computer Science Degree
9 73 (2.82%) MCSE
10 60 (2.32%) Azure Certification
11 55 (2.13%) DV Cleared
12 50 (1.93%) ITIL Certification
13 38 (1.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 34 (1.31%) Cisco Certification
15 28 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
16 23 (0.89%) CCNP
17 16 (0.62%) CCNA
17 16 (0.62%) CREST Certified
18 14 (0.54%) DBS Check
18 14 (0.54%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 188 (7.27%) QA
2 116 (4.49%) NIST
3 100 (3.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 84 (3.25%) Accessibility
5 70 (2.71%) Data Quality
6 50 (1.93%) GDPR
7 48 (1.86%) ISO 22301
8 31 (1.20%) NCSC
9 30 (1.16%) GRC
10 24 (0.93%) PCI DSS
11 18 (0.70%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 17 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
13 16 (0.62%) SLA
13 16 (0.62%) WCAG
14 11 (0.43%) ISO 9001
14 11 (0.43%) NIST 800
15 8 (0.31%) JSP 440
16 7 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
16 7 (0.27%) PMO
16 7 (0.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 455 (17.59%) Docker
2 63 (2.44%) Active Directory
3 54 (2.09%) VMware Infrastructure
4 34 (1.31%) Hyper-V
5 23 (0.89%) Virtual Machines
6 19 (0.73%) vSphere
7 8 (0.31%) Firmware
8 6 (0.23%) KVM
8 6 (0.23%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 6 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.12%) iptables
9 3 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.12%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.039%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.039%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.039%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.039%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 410 (15.85%) Kubernetes
2 117 (4.52%) Grafana
3 115 (4.45%) Ansible
4 37 (1.43%) Prometheus
5 24 (0.93%) Argo
6 17 (0.66%) Istio
7 16 (0.62%) Microsoft Intune
7 16 (0.62%) Progress Chef
8 14 (0.54%) Puppet
9 13 (0.50%) CloudHub
9 13 (0.50%) Podman
10 10 (0.39%) Proxmox
11 9 (0.35%) Cisco CUCM
12 8 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
13 7 (0.27%) CASB
13 7 (0.27%) ZABBIX
14 6 (0.23%) EMC NetWorker
14 6 (0.23%) EMC VPLEX
14 6 (0.23%) Failover Clustering
14 6 (0.23%) Packer
Vendors
1 430 (16.63%) Microsoft
2 117 (4.52%) Google
3 112 (4.33%) ServiceNow
4 76 (2.94%) VMware
5 63 (2.44%) Cisco
5 63 (2.44%) Oracle
6 61 (2.36%) Databricks
7 37 (1.43%) Palo Alto
8 35 (1.35%) Adobe
9 34 (1.31%) SAP
9 34 (1.31%) Splunk
10 33 (1.28%) OpenAI
11 32 (1.24%) Fortinet
12 31 (1.20%) Salesforce
13 27 (1.04%) Typelevel
14 25 (0.97%) Apple
15 23 (0.89%) SolarWinds
16 22 (0.85%) Dynatrace
17 21 (0.81%) Informatica
17 21 (0.81%) Okta