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

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 13 8
Rank change year-on-year +3 -5 -2
Permanent jobs citing AWS 2,606 2,076 3,608
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 11.42% 12.53% 14.59%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.03% 34.81% 35.61%
Number of salaries quoted 1,693 1,308 2,886
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,925 £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 £107,500
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 8,677 5,964 10,133
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.04% 35.99% 40.98%
Number of salaries quoted 6,286 4,380 7,901
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £36,750
25th Percentile £45,500 £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 £81,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.76%

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 15 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 42 (1.61%) Apache Spark
2 37 (1.42%) Apache Airflow
3 26 (1.00%) Confluence
4 25 (0.96%) Apache
5 19 (0.73%) Microsoft Exchange
6 17 (0.65%) SharePoint
7 16 (0.61%) Anypoint
7 16 (0.61%) IIS
8 14 (0.54%) WordPress
9 13 (0.50%) Mule
10 11 (0.42%) CMS
11 8 (0.31%) Jupyter
12 7 (0.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 6 (0.23%) Apache Solr
13 6 (0.23%) SAS
14 4 (0.15%) ArcGIS
14 4 (0.15%) Camunda
14 4 (0.15%) Ethereum
14 4 (0.15%) Sitecore CMS
15 3 (0.12%) GeoServer
Applications
1 87 (3.34%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
3 13 (0.50%) Chatbot
4 11 (0.42%) MS Visio
5 10 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 5 (0.19%) AutoCAD
6 5 (0.19%) DaVinci Resolve
7 4 (0.15%) Moqups
8 2 (0.077%) Elementor
8 2 (0.077%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.077%) PlantUML
8 2 (0.077%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.038%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.038%) Houdini
9 1 (0.038%) Lightworks
9 1 (0.038%) NUKE
9 1 (0.038%) Trello
9 1 (0.038%) Weka
Business Applications
1 24 (0.92%) 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 (0.038%) Finacle
5 1 (0.038%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.038%) Magento
5 1 (0.038%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.038%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 1,223 (46.93%) Azure
2 657 (25.21%) GCP
3 306 (11.74%) SaaS
4 232 (8.90%) Serverless
5 212 (8.14%) GitHub
6 164 (6.29%) Microsoft 365
7 154 (5.91%) AWS Lambda
8 148 (5.68%) Amazon S3
9 105 (4.03%) AWS CloudFormation
10 93 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
11 90 (3.45%) Amazon EC2
12 87 (3.34%) Amazon EKS
13 80 (3.07%) Amazon ECS
14 69 (2.65%) Amazon SQS
15 68 (2.61%) Azure DevOps
15 68 (2.61%) Snowflake
16 65 (2.49%) GitHub Copilot
17 48 (1.84%) Anthropic Claude
18 47 (1.80%) Power Platform
19 45 (1.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 120 (4.60%) Firewall
2 106 (4.07%) Broadband
3 73 (2.80%) VPN
4 71 (2.72%) DNS
5 70 (2.69%) Network Security
6 67 (2.57%) WAN
7 59 (2.26%) LAN
8 52 (2.00%) TCP/IP
9 42 (1.61%) DHCP
10 40 (1.53%) HTTP
11 30 (1.15%) SD-WAN
12 26 (1.00%) Cisco ASA
13 23 (0.88%) VLAN
14 22 (0.84%) SSL
14 22 (0.84%) Wi-Fi
15 20 (0.77%) Cisco Firepower
16 14 (0.54%) BGP
17 12 (0.46%) OSPF
18 11 (0.42%) Internet
18 11 (0.42%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 263 (10.09%) PostgreSQL
2 245 (9.40%) MongoDB
3 123 (4.72%) SQL Server
4 104 (3.99%) Elasticsearch
4 104 (3.99%) MySQL
5 101 (3.88%) NoSQL
6 84 (3.22%) Azure SQL Database
7 66 (2.53%) DynamoDB
8 60 (2.30%) Relational Database
9 57 (2.19%) Redis
10 47 (1.80%) Amazon RDS
11 41 (1.57%) Data Warehouse
11 41 (1.57%) Power BI
12 33 (1.27%) Metadata
13 30 (1.15%) Big Data
14 29 (1.11%) Amazon Athena
15 27 (1.04%) Data Lake
16 25 (0.96%) Amazon Redshift
17 24 (0.92%) Tableau
18 15 (0.58%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 151 (5.79%) Git
2 88 (3.38%) Jenkins
3 83 (3.18%) GitLab
4 68 (2.61%) JIRA
5 59 (2.26%) Cypress.io
6 54 (2.07%) TeamCity
7 44 (1.69%) Claude Code
8 29 (1.11%) JUnit
9 26 (1.00%) Selenium
10 20 (0.77%) Maven
10 20 (0.77%) Postman
11 16 (0.61%) Mockito
12 13 (0.50%) CircleCI
12 13 (0.50%) Crashlytics
12 13 (0.50%) XCTest
13 12 (0.46%) Bitbucket
13 12 (0.46%) JMeter
14 11 (0.42%) Cucumber
15 8 (0.31%) SonarQube
16 7 (0.27%) NUnit
General
1 695 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 601 (23.06%) Finance
3 292 (11.20%) Public Sector
4 235 (9.02%) Banking
5 231 (8.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 203 (7.79%) Law
7 149 (5.72%) Analytical Skills
8 111 (4.26%) Retail
9 80 (3.07%) Legal
10 55 (2.11%) Games
11 48 (1.84%) Financial Institution
11 48 (1.84%) Presentation Skills
11 48 (1.84%) Swedish Language
12 45 (1.73%) Back Office
13 43 (1.65%) Marketing
14 39 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
15 38 (1.46%) French Language
16 33 (1.27%) Telecoms
17 26 (1.00%) Front Office
18 25 (0.96%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 629 (24.14%) Senior
2 542 (20.80%) Developer
3 429 (16.46%) Software Engineer
4 320 (12.28%) Lead
5 296 (11.36%) Architect
6 151 (5.79%) Full-Stack Developer
7 141 (5.41%) AWS Engineer
8 133 (5.10%) Analyst
9 126 (4.83%) DevOps Engineer
10 120 (4.60%) Senior Developer
11 117 (4.49%) Senior Software Engineer
12 116 (4.45%) .NET Developer
13 107 (4.11%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 101 (3.88%) Engineering Manager
15 99 (3.80%) Consultant
16 98 (3.76%) Cloud Engineer
17 95 (3.65%) Lead Software Engineer
18 92 (3.53%) Solutions Architect
19 90 (3.45%) Software Developer
20 82 (3.15%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 442 (16.96%) React
2 370 (14.20%) Node.js
3 254 (9.75%) .NET
4 200 (7.67%) REST
5 139 (5.33%) Spring
6 131 (5.03%) CSS
7 129 (4.95%) Vue
8 128 (4.91%) RESTful
9 120 (4.60%) .NET Core
10 119 (4.57%) AngularJS
11 111 (4.26%) ASP.NET
12 103 (3.95%) Kafka
13 99 (3.80%) Spring Boot
14 98 (3.76%) ASP.NET Core
15 83 (3.18%) HTML
16 76 (2.92%) Middleware
17 75 (2.88%) .NET Framework
18 65 (2.49%) LangChain
19 64 (2.46%) Ruby on Rails
20 62 (2.38%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 379 (14.54%) Cloud Native
2 191 (7.33%) Product Ownership
3 178 (6.83%) Distributed Systems
4 106 (4.07%) Public Cloud
5 87 (3.34%) AI Agents
6 84 (3.22%) Greenfield Project
7 72 (2.76%) Cyber Threat
8 67 (2.57%) Onboarding
9 60 (2.30%) Video\Live Streaming
10 53 (2.03%) Self-Motivation
11 48 (1.84%) Enterprise Software
11 48 (1.84%) Management Information System
12 47 (1.80%) Security Posture
13 46 (1.77%) Mobile App
14 45 (1.73%) Blog
14 45 (1.73%) Data Centre
15 44 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
16 40 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
17 36 (1.38%) Low-Code
18 31 (1.19%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 215 (8.25%) Linux
2 161 (6.18%) Windows
3 58 (2.23%) Unix
3 58 (2.23%) Windows Server
4 27 (1.04%) Apple iOS
5 13 (0.50%) Android
5 13 (0.50%) Ubuntu
6 7 (0.27%) Mac OS
7 6 (0.23%) Windows 10
7 6 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (0.19%) Debian
9 4 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
9 4 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.077%) CentOS
10 2 (0.077%) Solaris
11 1 (0.038%) FreeBSD
11 1 (0.038%) OpenBSD
11 1 (0.038%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 910 (34.92%) CI/CD
2 875 (33.58%) Agile
3 776 (29.78%) Software Engineering
4 615 (23.60%) DevOps
5 563 (21.60%) Mentoring
6 557 (21.37%) AI
7 497 (19.07%) Full-Stack Development
8 486 (18.65%) Microservices
9 478 (18.34%) Continuous Improvement
10 453 (17.38%) Infrastructure as Code
11 427 (16.39%) Problem-Solving
12 415 (15.92%) Test Automation
13 380 (14.58%) Technical Leadership
14 327 (12.55%) Containerisation
15 325 (12.47%) Roadmaps
16 292 (11.20%) Scrum
17 265 (10.17%) Observability
18 264 (10.13%) Coaching
19 254 (9.75%) Clean Code
20 251 (9.63%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 676 (25.94%) Python
2 500 (19.19%) Java
3 409 (15.69%) TypeScript
4 406 (15.58%) SQL
5 404 (15.50%) JavaScript
6 299 (11.47%) C#
7 142 (5.45%) Go
8 88 (3.38%) Bash
9 80 (3.07%) Ruby
10 78 (2.99%) PowerShell
11 70 (2.69%) C++
11 70 (2.69%) PHP
12 57 (2.19%) Scala
13 37 (1.42%) Kotlin
14 24 (0.92%) Rust
15 19 (0.73%) PL/SQL
16 16 (0.61%) DataWeave
16 16 (0.61%) Swift
17 15 (0.58%) Bicep
18 11 (0.42%) C
Qualifications
1 421 (16.16%) Security Cleared
2 356 (13.66%) SC Cleared
3 306 (11.74%) Degree
4 176 (6.75%) AWS Certification
5 119 (4.57%) CISSP
6 100 (3.84%) CISM
7 91 (3.49%) Computer Science Degree
7 91 (3.49%) Microsoft Certification
8 78 (2.99%) MCSE
9 59 (2.26%) Azure Certification
10 55 (2.11%) DV Cleared
11 50 (1.92%) ITIL Certification
12 36 (1.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 34 (1.30%) Cisco Certification
14 26 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
15 23 (0.88%) CCNP
16 16 (0.61%) CCNA
17 15 (0.58%) CREST Certified
17 15 (0.58%) CRISC
17 15 (0.58%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 194 (7.44%) QA
2 116 (4.45%) NIST
3 98 (3.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 83 (3.18%) Accessibility
5 66 (2.53%) Data Quality
6 53 (2.03%) GDPR
7 48 (1.84%) ISO 22301
8 31 (1.19%) NCSC
9 29 (1.11%) GRC
10 25 (0.96%) PCI DSS
11 19 (0.73%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 16 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
12 16 (0.61%) SLA
12 16 (0.61%) WCAG
13 11 (0.42%) ISO 9001
14 10 (0.38%) NIST 800
15 9 (0.35%) JSP 440
16 8 (0.31%) SOC 2
17 7 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
17 7 (0.27%) PMO
System Software
1 457 (17.54%) Docker
2 66 (2.53%) Active Directory
3 56 (2.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 36 (1.38%) Hyper-V
5 23 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
6 20 (0.77%) vSphere
7 8 (0.31%) Firmware
8 7 (0.27%) KVM
8 7 (0.27%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 7 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
9 4 (0.15%) VMware NSX
10 3 (0.12%) iptables
10 3 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.077%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 2 (0.077%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.038%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.038%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 428 (16.42%) Terraform
2 408 (15.66%) Kubernetes
3 117 (4.49%) Ansible
4 113 (4.34%) Grafana
5 37 (1.42%) Prometheus
6 24 (0.92%) Argo
7 17 (0.65%) Istio
7 17 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
8 16 (0.61%) Progress Chef
9 14 (0.54%) Puppet
10 13 (0.50%) CloudHub
10 13 (0.50%) Podman
11 11 (0.42%) Proxmox
12 10 (0.38%) Cisco CUCM
13 7 (0.27%) CASB
13 7 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
13 7 (0.27%) ZABBIX
14 6 (0.23%) EMC VPLEX
14 6 (0.23%) Failover Clustering
14 6 (0.23%) Packer
Vendors
1 438 (16.81%) Microsoft
2 119 (4.57%) Google
2 119 (4.57%) ServiceNow
3 79 (3.03%) VMware
4 71 (2.72%) Cisco
5 66 (2.53%) Oracle
6 56 (2.15%) Databricks
7 40 (1.53%) Palo Alto
8 35 (1.34%) SAP
9 34 (1.30%) Adobe
9 34 (1.30%) Fortinet
9 34 (1.30%) Salesforce
9 34 (1.30%) Splunk
10 33 (1.27%) OpenAI
11 27 (1.04%) Typelevel
12 26 (1.00%) Apple
13 23 (0.88%) SolarWinds
14 22 (0.84%) Dynatrace
14 22 (0.84%) Okta
15 21 (0.81%) MuleSoft