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

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 13 8
Rank change year-on-year +3 -5 -2
Permanent jobs citing AWS 2,574 2,139 3,890
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 11.69% 13.00% 14.59%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.05% 35.42% 35.46%
Number of salaries quoted 1,677 1,359 3,202
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £54,468 £56,250 £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 £102,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £135,000 £142,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +3.57% -6.67%

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 8,567 6,039 10,969
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.89% 36.69% 41.13%
Number of salaries quoted 6,169 4,456 8,816
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,549 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £107,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% 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 30 July 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 42 (1.63%) Apache Airflow
1 42 (1.63%) Apache Spark
2 23 (0.89%) Apache
3 21 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
4 18 (0.70%) Confluence
5 16 (0.62%) IIS
6 15 (0.58%) Anypoint
7 13 (0.51%) SharePoint
8 12 (0.47%) Mule
9 11 (0.43%) CMS
10 10 (0.39%) WordPress
11 7 (0.27%) Jupyter
12 6 (0.23%) Apache Solr
12 6 (0.23%) SAS
13 5 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 4 (0.16%) Ethereum
14 4 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
15 3 (0.12%) Camunda
15 3 (0.12%) EPiServer
15 3 (0.12%) Kentico
Applications
1 92 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (0.39%) MS Visio
3 9 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
4 8 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.19%) AutoCAD
5 5 (0.19%) Chatbot
5 5 (0.19%) DaVinci Resolve
6 2 (0.078%) Elementor
6 2 (0.078%) Moqups
6 2 (0.078%) PlantUML
7 1 (0.039%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.039%) Houdini
7 1 (0.039%) Lightworks
7 1 (0.039%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.039%) NUKE
7 1 (0.039%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.039%) Trello
Business Applications
1 24 (0.93%) Cloudability
2 6 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (0.16%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.078%) Shopify
5 1 (0.039%) Magento
5 1 (0.039%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.039%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,188 (46.15%) Azure
2 645 (25.06%) GCP
3 294 (11.42%) SaaS
4 229 (8.90%) Serverless
5 205 (7.96%) GitHub
6 164 (6.37%) Microsoft 365
7 147 (5.71%) AWS Lambda
8 145 (5.63%) Amazon S3
9 104 (4.04%) AWS CloudFormation
10 98 (3.81%) Amazon EKS
11 93 (3.61%) GitHub Actions
12 91 (3.54%) Amazon EC2
13 84 (3.26%) Amazon ECS
14 68 (2.64%) Amazon SQS
15 67 (2.60%) Azure DevOps
16 61 (2.37%) GitHub Copilot
17 60 (2.33%) Snowflake
18 52 (2.02%) Entra ID
19 50 (1.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
20 42 (1.63%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 129 (5.01%) Firewall
2 115 (4.47%) Broadband
3 78 (3.03%) VPN
4 74 (2.87%) DNS
5 69 (2.68%) WAN
6 66 (2.56%) Network Security
7 63 (2.45%) LAN
8 55 (2.14%) TCP/IP
9 44 (1.71%) DHCP
10 38 (1.48%) HTTP
11 30 (1.17%) SD-WAN
12 28 (1.09%) Cisco ASA
13 25 (0.97%) Wi-Fi
14 22 (0.85%) Cisco Firepower
15 21 (0.82%) SSL
15 21 (0.82%) VLAN
16 14 (0.54%) BGP
17 13 (0.51%) MPLS
17 13 (0.51%) OSPF
18 11 (0.43%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 266 (10.33%) PostgreSQL
2 250 (9.71%) MongoDB
3 115 (4.47%) SQL Server
4 107 (4.16%) Elasticsearch
4 107 (4.16%) MySQL
5 103 (4.00%) NoSQL
6 84 (3.26%) Azure SQL Database
7 57 (2.21%) DynamoDB
8 56 (2.18%) Redis
9 55 (2.14%) Relational Database
10 53 (2.06%) Amazon RDS
11 37 (1.44%) Data Warehouse
12 36 (1.40%) Metadata
13 33 (1.28%) Power BI
14 32 (1.24%) Amazon Athena
15 28 (1.09%) Big Data
16 26 (1.01%) Amazon Redshift
17 25 (0.97%) Data Lake
18 22 (0.85%) Tableau
19 18 (0.70%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 137 (5.32%) Git
2 87 (3.38%) Jenkins
3 84 (3.26%) GitLab
4 58 (2.25%) TeamCity
5 55 (2.14%) JIRA
6 53 (2.06%) Cypress.io
7 39 (1.52%) Claude Code
8 24 (0.93%) JUnit
9 22 (0.85%) Selenium
10 17 (0.66%) Maven
11 16 (0.62%) Postman
12 14 (0.54%) Crashlytics
12 14 (0.54%) XCTest
13 13 (0.51%) CircleCI
13 13 (0.51%) JMeter
13 13 (0.51%) Mockito
14 10 (0.39%) Bitbucket
14 10 (0.39%) Cucumber
15 6 (0.23%) NUnit
15 6 (0.23%) SonarQube
General
1 662 (25.72%) Social Skills
2 584 (22.69%) Finance
3 283 (10.99%) Public Sector
4 230 (8.94%) Banking
4 230 (8.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 210 (8.16%) Law
6 143 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
7 126 (4.90%) Retail
8 69 (2.68%) Legal
9 54 (2.10%) Games
10 49 (1.90%) Financial Institution
11 48 (1.86%) Swedish Language
12 46 (1.79%) Back Office
13 43 (1.67%) Front Office
14 40 (1.55%) Presentation Skills
15 39 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
16 37 (1.44%) French Language
16 37 (1.44%) Marketing
17 30 (1.17%) Telecoms
18 24 (0.93%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 619 (24.05%) Senior
2 553 (21.48%) Developer
3 447 (17.37%) Software Engineer
4 325 (12.63%) Lead
5 283 (10.99%) Architect
6 151 (5.87%) Full-Stack Developer
7 146 (5.67%) AWS Engineer
8 130 (5.05%) Analyst
9 125 (4.86%) DevOps Engineer
10 120 (4.66%) .NET Developer
11 118 (4.58%) Senior Software Engineer
12 115 (4.47%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 114 (4.43%) Senior Developer
14 110 (4.27%) Lead Software Engineer
15 99 (3.85%) Engineering Manager
16 96 (3.73%) Solutions Architect
17 94 (3.65%) Cloud Engineer
17 94 (3.65%) Consultant
17 94 (3.65%) Lead Developer
18 90 (3.50%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 443 (17.21%) React
2 376 (14.61%) Node.js
3 243 (9.44%) .NET
4 188 (7.30%) REST
5 133 (5.17%) RESTful
6 130 (5.05%) Spring
7 129 (5.01%) Vue
8 127 (4.93%) CSS
9 119 (4.62%) Kafka
10 115 (4.47%) .NET Core
10 115 (4.47%) AngularJS
11 107 (4.16%) ASP.NET
12 97 (3.77%) ASP.NET Core
13 94 (3.65%) Spring Boot
14 83 (3.22%) HTML
15 72 (2.80%) .NET Framework
16 71 (2.76%) Middleware
17 59 (2.29%) Ruby on Rails
18 56 (2.18%) OAuth
19 52 (2.02%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 388 (15.07%) Cloud Native
2 192 (7.46%) Product Ownership
3 184 (7.15%) Distributed Systems
4 97 (3.77%) Public Cloud
5 86 (3.34%) Greenfield Project
6 71 (2.76%) AI Agents
7 69 (2.68%) Cyber Threat
7 69 (2.68%) Video\Live Streaming
8 65 (2.53%) Onboarding
9 54 (2.10%) Management Information System
10 48 (1.86%) Data Centre
10 48 (1.86%) Security Posture
10 48 (1.86%) Self-Motivation
11 46 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
11 46 (1.79%) Hybrid Cloud
12 44 (1.71%) Fixed Income
12 44 (1.71%) Mobile App
13 41 (1.59%) Blog
14 40 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
15 37 (1.44%) Over-the-Top Content
Operating Systems
1 215 (8.35%) Linux
2 162 (6.29%) Windows
3 63 (2.45%) Windows Server
4 61 (2.37%) Unix
5 35 (1.36%) Apple iOS
6 20 (0.78%) Android
7 11 (0.43%) Ubuntu
7 11 (0.43%) Windows 10
8 9 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
9 7 (0.27%) Mac OS
10 6 (0.23%) Windows Server 2012
11 5 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
12 4 (0.16%) Debian
13 3 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 2 (0.078%) CentOS
15 1 (0.039%) FreeBSD
15 1 (0.039%) OpenBSD
15 1 (0.039%) Solaris
15 1 (0.039%) Windows 7
15 1 (0.039%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 897 (34.85%) CI/CD
2 874 (33.95%) Agile
3 782 (30.38%) Software Engineering
4 606 (23.54%) DevOps
5 558 (21.68%) Mentoring
6 506 (19.66%) AI
7 502 (19.50%) Full-Stack Development
8 501 (19.46%) Microservices
9 455 (17.68%) Continuous Improvement
10 445 (17.29%) Infrastructure as Code
11 426 (16.55%) Test Automation
12 423 (16.43%) Problem-Solving
13 356 (13.83%) Technical Leadership
14 328 (12.74%) Containerisation
15 309 (12.00%) Roadmaps
16 276 (10.72%) Coaching
17 273 (10.61%) Scrum
18 262 (10.18%) Clean Code
19 251 (9.75%) Observability
20 248 (9.63%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 677 (26.30%) Python
2 512 (19.89%) Java
3 412 (16.01%) TypeScript
4 403 (15.66%) JavaScript
5 387 (15.03%) SQL
6 293 (11.38%) C#
7 172 (6.68%) Go
8 88 (3.42%) Bash
9 72 (2.80%) Ruby
10 71 (2.76%) PowerShell
11 69 (2.68%) C++
11 69 (2.68%) PHP
12 65 (2.53%) Scala
13 36 (1.40%) Kotlin
14 26 (1.01%) Rust
15 16 (0.62%) Bicep
15 16 (0.62%) PL/SQL
15 16 (0.62%) Swift
16 15 (0.58%) DataWeave
17 10 (0.39%) C
Qualifications
1 393 (15.27%) Security Cleared
2 336 (13.05%) SC Cleared
3 302 (11.73%) Degree
4 174 (6.76%) AWS Certification
5 119 (4.62%) CISSP
6 97 (3.77%) CISM
6 97 (3.77%) Microsoft Certification
7 87 (3.38%) Computer Science Degree
8 83 (3.22%) MCSE
9 55 (2.14%) Azure Certification
10 50 (1.94%) ITIL Certification
11 48 (1.86%) DV Cleared
12 37 (1.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 33 (1.28%) Cisco Certification
14 22 (0.85%) CCNP
15 19 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
16 17 (0.66%) CREST Certified
16 17 (0.66%) DBS Check
17 16 (0.62%) CRISC
17 16 (0.62%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 192 (7.46%) QA
2 116 (4.51%) NIST
3 95 (3.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 68 (2.64%) Accessibility
5 61 (2.37%) Data Quality
6 51 (1.98%) GDPR
7 48 (1.86%) ISO 22301
8 30 (1.17%) GRC
9 28 (1.09%) PCI DSS
10 26 (1.01%) NCSC
11 19 (0.74%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 15 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
13 14 (0.54%) WCAG
14 12 (0.47%) SLA
14 12 (0.47%) SOC 2
15 11 (0.43%) ISO 9001
16 10 (0.39%) JSP 440
16 10 (0.39%) NIST 800
17 7 (0.27%) PMO
18 6 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 451 (17.52%) Docker
2 66 (2.56%) Active Directory
3 55 (2.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 41 (1.59%) Hyper-V
5 22 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
6 20 (0.78%) vSphere
7 7 (0.27%) KVM
7 7 (0.27%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 7 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
8 6 (0.23%) Firmware
9 4 (0.16%) VMware NSX
10 3 (0.12%) iptables
11 2 (0.078%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 2 (0.078%) Virtual Desktop
11 2 (0.078%) VMware ESXi
12 1 (0.039%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 421 (16.36%) Terraform
2 405 (15.73%) Kubernetes
3 118 (4.58%) Grafana
4 114 (4.43%) Ansible
5 41 (1.59%) Prometheus
6 26 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
7 23 (0.89%) Argo
8 18 (0.70%) Progress Chef
9 15 (0.58%) Istio
9 15 (0.58%) Puppet
10 14 (0.54%) Proxmox
11 13 (0.51%) Podman
12 12 (0.47%) CloudHub
13 10 (0.39%) Cisco CUCM
14 9 (0.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 7 (0.27%) Packer
15 7 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
15 7 (0.27%) ZABBIX
16 6 (0.23%) CASB
16 6 (0.23%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 431 (16.74%) Microsoft
2 124 (4.82%) ServiceNow
3 104 (4.04%) Google
4 84 (3.26%) VMware
5 70 (2.72%) Cisco
6 59 (2.29%) Oracle
7 52 (2.02%) Databricks
8 40 (1.55%) Palo Alto
9 36 (1.40%) Typelevel
10 35 (1.36%) Fortinet
11 33 (1.28%) Apple
11 33 (1.28%) Splunk
12 32 (1.24%) SAP
13 31 (1.20%) Salesforce
14 30 (1.17%) Adobe
15 25 (0.97%) SolarWinds
16 22 (0.85%) OpenAI
17 21 (0.82%) Dell
17 21 (0.82%) MuleSoft
17 21 (0.82%) Okta