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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 13 8
Rank change year-on-year +3 -5 -2
Permanent jobs citing AWS 2,544 2,029 3,509
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 10.55% 12.49% 15.03%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.33% 35.09% 36.92%
Number of salaries quoted 1,668 1,256 2,529
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £54,351 £58,750 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £77,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% - +8.39%
75th Percentile £89,500 £110,000 £112,500
90th Percentile £106,250 £136,250 £142,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% - +3.45%

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 8,674 5,782 9,505
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 35.98% 35.59% 40.73%
Number of salaries quoted 6,370 4,175 6,576
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,659 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £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 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -

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 16 September 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 34 (1.34%) Apache Spark
2 28 (1.10%) Apache Airflow
2 28 (1.10%) Confluence
3 26 (1.02%) Apache
4 21 (0.83%) SharePoint
5 16 (0.63%) Anypoint
5 16 (0.63%) IIS
6 14 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
7 13 (0.51%) Mule
7 13 (0.51%) WordPress
8 10 (0.39%) CMS
9 8 (0.31%) Jupyter
9 8 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 6 (0.24%) SAS
11 5 (0.20%) Apache Solr
11 5 (0.20%) ArcGIS
12 4 (0.16%) Ethereum
12 4 (0.16%) GeoServer
12 4 (0.16%) Oracle Spatial
12 4 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 69 (2.71%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (0.71%) Chatbot
3 15 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
4 11 (0.43%) MS Visio
5 10 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 6 (0.24%) Moqups
7 5 (0.20%) AutoCAD
7 5 (0.20%) DaVinci Resolve
8 2 (0.079%) Elementor
8 2 (0.079%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.079%) PlantUML
8 2 (0.079%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.079%) Weka
9 1 (0.039%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.039%) Houdini
9 1 (0.039%) Lightworks
9 1 (0.039%) NUKE
9 1 (0.039%) Trello
Business Applications
1 24 (0.94%) Cloudability
2 7 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (0.24%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.079%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.079%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.039%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
5 1 (0.039%) Finacle
5 1 (0.039%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.039%) Magento
5 1 (0.039%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.039%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.039%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.039%) Shopify
5 1 (0.039%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 1,221 (48.00%) Azure
2 656 (25.79%) GCP
3 324 (12.74%) SaaS
4 225 (8.84%) Serverless
5 203 (7.98%) GitHub
6 163 (6.41%) AWS Lambda
7 154 (6.05%) Microsoft 365
8 151 (5.94%) Amazon S3
9 99 (3.89%) Amazon EKS
9 99 (3.89%) AWS CloudFormation
10 98 (3.85%) Amazon EC2
11 93 (3.66%) GitHub Actions
12 85 (3.34%) Snowflake
13 81 (3.18%) Amazon ECS
14 67 (2.63%) GitHub Copilot
15 62 (2.44%) Amazon SQS
15 62 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
16 61 (2.40%) Anthropic Claude
17 52 (2.04%) Amazon Bedrock
18 51 (2.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 104 (4.09%) Firewall
2 74 (2.91%) Network Security
3 64 (2.52%) Broadband
4 61 (2.40%) VPN
5 59 (2.32%) DNS
6 55 (2.16%) WAN
7 48 (1.89%) LAN
8 47 (1.85%) TCP/IP
9 42 (1.65%) HTTP
10 37 (1.45%) DHCP
11 29 (1.14%) SD-WAN
12 18 (0.71%) SSL
13 17 (0.67%) VLAN
13 17 (0.67%) Wi-Fi
14 16 (0.63%) Cisco ASA
15 13 (0.51%) BGP
16 11 (0.43%) Cisco Firepower
16 11 (0.43%) OSPF
17 10 (0.39%) MPLS
18 9 (0.35%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 256 (10.06%) PostgreSQL
2 224 (8.81%) MongoDB
3 107 (4.21%) SQL Server
4 98 (3.85%) Elasticsearch
5 93 (3.66%) MySQL
6 88 (3.46%) NoSQL
7 81 (3.18%) Azure SQL Database
8 67 (2.63%) DynamoDB
9 64 (2.52%) Relational Database
10 57 (2.24%) Redis
11 49 (1.93%) Data Warehouse
12 45 (1.77%) Power BI
13 44 (1.73%) Amazon Athena
14 43 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
15 35 (1.38%) Metadata
16 34 (1.34%) Data Lake
17 29 (1.14%) Amazon Redshift
17 29 (1.14%) Tableau
18 26 (1.02%) Big Data
19 20 (0.79%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 148 (5.82%) Git
2 86 (3.38%) Jenkins
3 78 (3.07%) GitLab
4 76 (2.99%) TeamCity
5 65 (2.56%) JIRA
6 59 (2.32%) Claude Code
7 53 (2.08%) Cypress.io
8 32 (1.26%) JUnit
9 27 (1.06%) Selenium
10 22 (0.86%) Postman
11 21 (0.83%) Maven
12 17 (0.67%) Mockito
13 11 (0.43%) Bitbucket
14 8 (0.31%) SonarQube
15 7 (0.28%) Cucumber
15 7 (0.28%) Gatling
15 7 (0.28%) JMeter
16 6 (0.24%) CircleCI
16 6 (0.24%) Crashlytics
16 6 (0.24%) NUnit
General
1 670 (26.34%) Social Skills
2 620 (24.37%) Finance
3 337 (13.25%) Public Sector
4 299 (11.75%) Banking
5 260 (10.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 225 (8.84%) Law
7 170 (6.68%) Analytical Skills
8 139 (5.46%) Retail
9 83 (3.26%) Legal
10 69 (2.71%) Financial Institution
11 66 (2.59%) Back Office
12 51 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
13 49 (1.93%) Games
14 48 (1.89%) Swedish Language
15 43 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
16 40 (1.57%) Marketing
17 33 (1.30%) Telecoms
18 31 (1.22%) French Language
19 26 (1.02%) Health Technology
20 24 (0.94%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 624 (24.53%) Senior
2 485 (19.06%) Developer
3 426 (16.75%) Software Engineer
4 321 (12.62%) Architect
5 307 (12.07%) Lead
6 131 (5.15%) Analyst
7 129 (5.07%) Full-Stack Developer
8 122 (4.80%) AWS Engineer
9 119 (4.68%) Senior Developer
10 113 (4.44%) Senior Software Engineer
11 111 (4.36%) DevOps Engineer
12 109 (4.28%) .NET Developer
13 98 (3.85%) Cloud Engineer
14 95 (3.73%) Consultant
14 95 (3.73%) Engineering Manager
15 87 (3.42%) Data Engineer
15 87 (3.42%) Lead Software Engineer
16 84 (3.30%) Solutions Architect
17 83 (3.26%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 83 (3.26%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 449 (17.65%) Terraform
2 392 (15.41%) React
3 336 (13.21%) Node.js
4 255 (10.02%) .NET
5 190 (7.47%) REST
6 149 (5.86%) Spring
7 127 (4.99%) RESTful
8 119 (4.68%) Vue
9 110 (4.32%) .NET Core
10 109 (4.28%) AngularJS
10 109 (4.28%) Spring Boot
11 107 (4.21%) CSS
12 106 (4.17%) ASP.NET
13 95 (3.73%) ASP.NET Core
14 81 (3.18%) Middleware
15 77 (3.03%) LangChain
16 75 (2.95%) Kafka
17 68 (2.67%) .NET Framework
18 66 (2.59%) HTML
19 61 (2.40%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 405 (15.92%) Cloud Native
2 202 (7.94%) Product Ownership
3 172 (6.76%) Distributed Systems
4 112 (4.40%) Public Cloud
5 111 (4.36%) AI Agents
6 77 (3.03%) Cyber Threat
7 68 (2.67%) Greenfield Project
8 62 (2.44%) Onboarding
9 56 (2.20%) Hybrid Cloud
10 53 (2.08%) Blog
11 45 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
12 44 (1.73%) Enterprise Software
12 44 (1.73%) Security Posture
13 43 (1.69%) Hedge funds
14 42 (1.65%) Data Centre
15 40 (1.57%) Management Information System
16 37 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
17 36 (1.42%) Mobile App
17 36 (1.42%) Video\Live Streaming
18 30 (1.18%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 210 (8.25%) Linux
2 160 (6.29%) Windows
3 62 (2.44%) Unix
4 54 (2.12%) Windows Server
5 24 (0.94%) Apple iOS
6 16 (0.63%) Android
6 16 (0.63%) Ubuntu
7 7 (0.28%) Debian
8 6 (0.24%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.12%) CentOS
9 3 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.12%) Robot Operating System
10 2 (0.079%) Solaris
10 2 (0.079%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.079%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 918 (36.08%) CI/CD
2 838 (32.94%) Agile
3 771 (30.31%) Software Engineering
4 611 (24.02%) Mentoring
5 602 (23.66%) AI
6 590 (23.19%) DevOps
7 476 (18.71%) Microservices
8 474 (18.63%) Continuous Improvement
9 453 (17.81%) Full-Stack Development
10 432 (16.98%) Problem-Solving
11 421 (16.55%) Infrastructure as Code
12 409 (16.08%) Test Automation
13 396 (15.57%) Technical Leadership
14 340 (13.36%) Roadmaps
15 290 (11.40%) Coaching
16 283 (11.12%) Scrum
17 279 (10.97%) Containerisation
18 262 (10.30%) Observability
19 251 (9.87%) Machine Learning
20 239 (9.39%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 627 (24.65%) Python
2 539 (21.19%) Java
3 421 (16.55%) SQL
4 382 (15.02%) JavaScript
5 365 (14.35%) TypeScript
6 295 (11.60%) C#
7 97 (3.81%) Go
8 93 (3.66%) Bash
9 84 (3.30%) PowerShell
10 74 (2.91%) C++
10 74 (2.91%) Ruby
11 59 (2.32%) PHP
12 35 (1.38%) Kotlin
13 32 (1.26%) Scala
14 25 (0.98%) Rust
15 21 (0.83%) PL/SQL
16 16 (0.63%) DataWeave
17 15 (0.59%) Bicep
18 12 (0.47%) C
19 11 (0.43%) R
Qualifications
1 428 (16.82%) Security Cleared
2 352 (13.84%) SC Cleared
3 281 (11.05%) Degree
4 171 (6.72%) AWS Certification
5 117 (4.60%) CISSP
6 104 (4.09%) CISM
7 83 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
8 82 (3.22%) Microsoft Certification
9 68 (2.67%) MCSE
10 64 (2.52%) Azure Certification
11 50 (1.97%) DV Cleared
11 50 (1.97%) ITIL Certification
12 39 (1.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 34 (1.34%) Cisco Certification
14 28 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
15 24 (0.94%) CCNP
16 20 (0.79%) CCNA
17 14 (0.55%) DBS Check
17 14 (0.55%) GIAC
17 14 (0.55%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 167 (6.56%) QA
2 119 (4.68%) NIST
3 101 (3.97%) Data Quality
4 99 (3.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 85 (3.34%) Accessibility
6 54 (2.12%) GDPR
7 48 (1.89%) ISO 22301
8 38 (1.49%) NCSC
9 31 (1.22%) GRC
10 23 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials
10 23 (0.90%) PCI DSS
11 18 (0.71%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 15 (0.59%) SLA
13 12 (0.47%) NIST 800
13 12 (0.47%) WCAG
14 8 (0.31%) ISO 9001
14 8 (0.31%) PMO
15 7 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
15 7 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 7 (0.28%) JSP 440
System Software
1 424 (16.67%) Docker
2 55 (2.16%) Active Directory
3 49 (1.93%) VMware Infrastructure
4 37 (1.45%) Hyper-V
5 13 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (0.51%) vSphere
6 6 (0.24%) KVM
7 4 (0.16%) Firmware
8 3 (0.12%) iptables
8 3 (0.12%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 3 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (0.12%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.079%) VMware ESXi
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
1 420 (16.51%) Kubernetes
2 132 (5.19%) Grafana
3 115 (4.52%) Ansible
4 39 (1.53%) Prometheus
5 23 (0.90%) Argo
6 22 (0.86%) Microsoft Intune
7 19 (0.75%) Progress Chef
8 13 (0.51%) CloudHub
8 13 (0.51%) Puppet
9 10 (0.39%) Proxmox
9 10 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
10 9 (0.35%) Istio
11 8 (0.31%) CASB
11 8 (0.31%) Packer
12 7 (0.28%) Podman
12 7 (0.28%) ZABBIX
13 6 (0.24%) Cisco CUCM
13 6 (0.24%) Dell DRAC
13 6 (0.24%) EMC NetWorker
13 6 (0.24%) VxRail
Vendors
1 428 (16.82%) Microsoft
2 120 (4.72%) Google
3 107 (4.21%) ServiceNow
4 74 (2.91%) VMware
5 72 (2.83%) Oracle
6 71 (2.79%) Databricks
7 50 (1.97%) Cisco
8 39 (1.53%) OpenAI
9 38 (1.49%) Adobe
10 35 (1.38%) Splunk
11 34 (1.34%) SAP
12 28 (1.10%) Palo Alto
13 27 (1.06%) Fortinet
13 27 (1.06%) Salesforce
14 25 (0.98%) Apple
15 23 (0.90%) Dynatrace
15 23 (0.90%) SolarWinds
16 22 (0.86%) Informatica
16 22 (0.86%) Okta
17 19 (0.75%) MuleSoft