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

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 13 7
Rank change year-on-year +3 -6 0
Permanent jobs citing AWS 2,526 2,002 3,455
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 10.05% 12.11% 16.59%
As % of the Cloud Services category 28.96% 34.92% 38.10%
Number of salaries quoted 1,670 1,213 2,341
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £54,663 £60,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £77,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% - +10.71%
75th Percentile £90,000 £110,000 £108,750
90th Percentile £110,000 £137,250 £142,500
UK median annual salary £72,250 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.67% - +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 8,723 5,733 9,068
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 34.69% 34.68% 43.54%
Number of salaries quoted 6,378 4,060 5,948
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £36,425
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 £58,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +6.84% -10.00% +4.00%

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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 15 October 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 35 (1.39%) Apache Spark
2 31 (1.23%) Confluence
3 29 (1.15%) Apache Airflow
4 27 (1.07%) Apache
5 16 (0.63%) Anypoint
6 15 (0.59%) IIS
6 15 (0.59%) SharePoint
7 13 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
7 13 (0.51%) Mule
8 12 (0.48%) WordPress
9 10 (0.40%) CMS
9 10 (0.40%) WebLogic
10 9 (0.36%) Jupyter
10 9 (0.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 6 (0.24%) nginx
11 6 (0.24%) SAS
12 5 (0.20%) ArcGIS
12 5 (0.20%) Camunda
13 4 (0.16%) GeoServer
13 4 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 50 (1.98%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (0.71%) Chatbot
3 17 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
4 10 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (0.28%) Moqups
6 6 (0.24%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.079%) Elementor
7 2 (0.079%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.079%) PlantUML
7 2 (0.079%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.079%) Weka
8 1 (0.040%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.040%) Houdini
8 1 (0.040%) Lightworks
8 1 (0.040%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 15 (0.59%) Cloudability
2 6 (0.24%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.079%) Oracle Applications
4 2 (0.079%) Oracle EBS R12
4 2 (0.079%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.079%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.040%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
5 1 (0.040%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.040%) Finacle
5 1 (0.040%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.040%) Shopify
5 1 (0.040%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 1,180 (46.71%) Azure
2 658 (26.05%) GCP
3 356 (14.09%) SaaS
4 216 (8.55%) GitHub
5 210 (8.31%) Serverless
6 158 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
7 152 (6.02%) Amazon S3
8 137 (5.42%) Microsoft 365
9 130 (5.15%) Amazon EKS
10 99 (3.92%) AWS CloudFormation
11 97 (3.84%) Amazon EC2
12 96 (3.80%) Snowflake
13 95 (3.76%) GitHub Actions
14 77 (3.05%) Amazon ECS
15 72 (2.85%) GitHub Copilot
16 69 (2.73%) Anthropic Claude
17 67 (2.65%) Amazon Bedrock
18 59 (2.34%) Power Platform
19 58 (2.30%) Amazon SQS
20 54 (2.14%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 105 (4.16%) Firewall
2 77 (3.05%) Network Security
3 74 (2.93%) VPN
4 61 (2.41%) TCP/IP
5 52 (2.06%) DNS
6 47 (1.86%) WAN
7 45 (1.78%) Broadband
8 39 (1.54%) LAN
9 33 (1.31%) DHCP
10 31 (1.23%) HTTP
11 29 (1.15%) BGP
12 24 (0.95%) SD-WAN
13 23 (0.91%) VLAN
14 15 (0.59%) Cisco ASA
14 15 (0.59%) SSL
14 15 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
15 14 (0.55%) AMQP
16 13 (0.51%) SMS
17 12 (0.48%) IP Telephony
18 10 (0.40%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 296 (11.72%) PostgreSQL
2 209 (8.27%) MongoDB
3 101 (4.00%) SQL Server
4 99 (3.92%) Elasticsearch
5 96 (3.80%) MySQL
6 81 (3.21%) Azure SQL Database
7 77 (3.05%) NoSQL
8 72 (2.85%) Relational Database
9 69 (2.73%) Amazon RDS
10 62 (2.45%) DynamoDB
11 60 (2.38%) Redis
12 53 (2.10%) Power BI
13 50 (1.98%) Data Warehouse
14 43 (1.70%) Amazon Athena
15 41 (1.62%) Metadata
16 33 (1.31%) Data Lake
17 31 (1.23%) Tableau
18 29 (1.15%) Amazon Redshift
19 24 (0.95%) Big Data
19 24 (0.95%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 150 (5.94%) Git
2 106 (4.20%) TeamCity
3 91 (3.60%) Jenkins
4 88 (3.48%) GitLab
5 71 (2.81%) Claude Code
6 63 (2.49%) JIRA
7 42 (1.66%) Cypress.io
7 42 (1.66%) JUnit
8 27 (1.07%) Selenium
9 25 (0.99%) Mockito
10 23 (0.91%) Postman
11 20 (0.79%) Maven
12 10 (0.40%) Bitbucket
13 8 (0.32%) Burp Suite
13 8 (0.32%) Metasploit
13 8 (0.32%) SonarQube
14 6 (0.24%) Cucumber
14 6 (0.24%) Gatling
15 5 (0.20%) Android Studio
15 5 (0.20%) NUnit
General
1 682 (27.00%) Social Skills
2 634 (25.10%) Finance
3 360 (14.25%) Public Sector
4 319 (12.63%) Banking
5 278 (11.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 237 (9.38%) Law
7 196 (7.76%) Analytical Skills
8 169 (6.69%) Retail
9 93 (3.68%) Financial Institution
10 91 (3.60%) Back Office
11 84 (3.33%) Legal
12 56 (2.22%) Marketing
13 51 (2.02%) Presentation Skills
14 49 (1.94%) Games
15 41 (1.62%) Influencing Skills
16 40 (1.58%) Swedish Language
17 35 (1.39%) Telecoms
18 32 (1.27%) Front Office
19 31 (1.23%) Health Technology
20 30 (1.19%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 643 (25.46%) Senior
2 479 (18.96%) Developer
3 453 (17.93%) Software Engineer
4 307 (12.15%) Architect
5 302 (11.96%) Lead
6 127 (5.03%) Senior Developer
7 125 (4.95%) Senior Software Engineer
8 124 (4.91%) DevOps Engineer
8 124 (4.91%) Full-Stack Developer
9 119 (4.71%) AWS Engineer
10 116 (4.59%) Analyst
11 101 (4.00%) .NET Developer
12 100 (3.96%) Python Engineer
13 98 (3.88%) Cloud Engineer
14 91 (3.60%) Data Engineer
15 89 (3.52%) Consultant
15 89 (3.52%) Lead Software Engineer
16 82 (3.25%) Java Engineer
17 81 (3.21%) Software Developer
18 77 (3.05%) Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 488 (19.32%) Terraform
2 362 (14.33%) React
3 315 (12.47%) Node.js
4 258 (10.21%) .NET
5 190 (7.52%) REST
6 167 (6.61%) Spring
7 142 (5.62%) RESTful
8 130 (5.15%) Spring Boot
9 114 (4.51%) .NET Core
10 113 (4.47%) Vue
11 109 (4.32%) AngularJS
12 106 (4.20%) ASP.NET
13 93 (3.68%) ASP.NET Core
14 91 (3.60%) LangChain
15 82 (3.25%) Middleware
16 81 (3.21%) CSS
17 79 (3.13%) Kafka
18 67 (2.65%) .NET Framework
19 66 (2.61%) LangGraph
20 63 (2.49%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 440 (17.42%) Cloud Native
2 190 (7.52%) Distributed Systems
3 180 (7.13%) Product Ownership
4 131 (5.19%) AI Agents
5 95 (3.76%) Public Cloud
6 77 (3.05%) Cyber Threat
7 73 (2.89%) Blog
8 65 (2.57%) Onboarding
9 60 (2.38%) Greenfield Project
10 55 (2.18%) Hedge funds
11 54 (2.14%) Hybrid Cloud
11 54 (2.14%) Security Posture
12 45 (1.78%) Enterprise Software
12 45 (1.78%) Self-Motivation
13 43 (1.70%) Data Centre
14 40 (1.58%) Management Information System
15 39 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
16 30 (1.19%) Mobile App
17 28 (1.11%) Low-Code
17 28 (1.11%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 231 (9.14%) Linux
2 157 (6.22%) Windows
3 70 (2.77%) Unix
4 54 (2.14%) Windows Server
5 24 (0.95%) Apple iOS
6 18 (0.71%) Android
7 17 (0.67%) Ubuntu
8 9 (0.36%) macOS
9 7 (0.28%) Debian
10 4 (0.16%) CentOS
11 3 (0.12%) Robot Operating System
11 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.079%) Solaris
13 1 (0.040%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 1 (0.040%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 955 (37.81%) CI/CD
2 819 (32.42%) Agile
3 793 (31.39%) Software Engineering
4 647 (25.61%) AI
5 610 (24.15%) DevOps
6 602 (23.83%) Mentoring
7 483 (19.12%) Continuous Improvement
8 477 (18.88%) Microservices
9 467 (18.49%) Problem-Solving
10 443 (17.54%) Infrastructure as Code
11 430 (17.02%) Test Automation
12 417 (16.51%) Full-Stack Development
13 393 (15.56%) Technical Leadership
14 316 (12.51%) Roadmaps
15 297 (11.76%) Coaching
16 273 (10.81%) Containerisation
16 273 (10.81%) Scrum
17 271 (10.73%) Observability
18 248 (9.82%) Machine Learning
19 233 (9.22%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 669 (26.48%) Python
2 562 (22.25%) Java
3 441 (17.46%) SQL
4 377 (14.92%) JavaScript
5 345 (13.66%) TypeScript
6 279 (11.05%) C#
7 113 (4.47%) Bash
8 111 (4.39%) Go
9 85 (3.37%) PowerShell
10 66 (2.61%) Ruby
11 54 (2.14%) C++
11 54 (2.14%) PHP
12 32 (1.27%) Kotlin
13 26 (1.03%) R
14 24 (0.95%) Scala
15 23 (0.91%) Rust
16 21 (0.83%) PL/SQL
17 16 (0.63%) DataWeave
18 13 (0.51%) Bicep
19 10 (0.40%) C
Qualifications
1 441 (17.46%) Security Cleared
2 363 (14.37%) SC Cleared
3 255 (10.10%) Degree
4 154 (6.10%) AWS Certification
5 122 (4.83%) CISSP
6 110 (4.35%) CISM
7 75 (2.97%) Computer Science Degree
8 70 (2.77%) Azure Certification
9 65 (2.57%) Microsoft Certification
10 52 (2.06%) MCSE
11 50 (1.98%) ITIL Certification
12 47 (1.86%) DV Cleared
13 43 (1.70%) Cisco Certification
14 29 (1.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 29 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
15 25 (0.99%) CCNP
16 23 (0.91%) CCNA
17 18 (0.71%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 18 (0.71%) TOGAF Certification
18 17 (0.67%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 147 (5.82%) QA
2 125 (4.95%) NIST
3 117 (4.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 105 (4.16%) Data Quality
5 79 (3.13%) Accessibility
6 61 (2.41%) GDPR
7 48 (1.90%) ISO 22301
8 43 (1.70%) PCI DSS
9 37 (1.46%) NCSC
10 31 (1.23%) GRC
11 28 (1.11%) Cyber Essentials
12 26 (1.03%) SOC 2
13 14 (0.55%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 14 (0.55%) SLA
14 12 (0.48%) NIST 800
15 11 (0.44%) WCAG
16 9 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 9 (0.36%) ISO 9001
16 9 (0.36%) PMO
17 8 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 438 (17.34%) Docker
2 51 (2.02%) Active Directory
3 49 (1.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 43 (1.70%) Hyper-V
5 15 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
6 12 (0.48%) vSphere
7 6 (0.24%) KVM
8 3 (0.12%) 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%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.079%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.040%) LXC
10 1 (0.040%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.040%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 471 (18.65%) Kubernetes
2 163 (6.45%) Grafana
3 117 (4.63%) Ansible
4 47 (1.86%) Prometheus
5 24 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
6 22 (0.87%) Argo
7 20 (0.79%) Progress Chef
8 19 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
9 13 (0.51%) CloudHub
10 11 (0.44%) Packer
10 11 (0.44%) Puppet
11 10 (0.40%) Proxmox
12 9 (0.36%) Cilium
12 9 (0.36%) Istio
13 8 (0.32%) CASB
13 8 (0.32%) Nmap
14 7 (0.28%) ZABBIX
15 6 (0.24%) EMC NetWorker
15 6 (0.24%) EMC VPLEX
15 6 (0.24%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 373 (14.77%) Microsoft
2 152 (6.02%) Google
3 86 (3.40%) ServiceNow
4 84 (3.33%) Databricks
5 77 (3.05%) Oracle
6 76 (3.01%) VMware
7 44 (1.74%) Cisco
8 42 (1.66%) OpenAI
9 33 (1.31%) SAP
10 29 (1.15%) Splunk
11 27 (1.07%) Adobe
12 24 (0.95%) Dynatrace
12 24 (0.95%) Salesforce
13 23 (0.91%) Palo Alto
14 22 (0.87%) Fortinet
14 22 (0.87%) Informatica
15 20 (0.79%) MuleSoft
15 20 (0.79%) Okta
16 16 (0.63%) Apple
16 16 (0.63%) Ping Identity