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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 13 8
Rank change year-on-year +3 -5 -2
Permanent jobs citing AWS 2,604 2,037 3,523
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 10.88% 12.56% 15.08%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.62% 35.09% 36.99%
Number of salaries quoted 1,699 1,261 2,593
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £53,750 £58,750 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £76,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.50% -1.29% +6.90%
75th Percentile £88,148 £110,000 £112,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £136,250 £142,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
% 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 8,792 5,805 9,525
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 36.72% 35.78% 40.76%
Number of salaries quoted 6,442 4,209 6,748
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £48,000
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 £86,000
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 10 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 35 (1.34%) Apache Spark
2 31 (1.19%) Apache Airflow
3 27 (1.04%) Apache
3 27 (1.04%) Confluence
4 21 (0.81%) SharePoint
5 16 (0.61%) Anypoint
5 16 (0.61%) IIS
6 15 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
7 13 (0.50%) Mule
7 13 (0.50%) WordPress
8 11 (0.42%) CMS
9 8 (0.31%) Jupyter
10 7 (0.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 6 (0.23%) SAS
12 5 (0.19%) Apache Solr
12 5 (0.19%) ArcGIS
13 4 (0.15%) Ethereum
13 4 (0.15%) GeoServer
13 4 (0.15%) Oracle Spatial
13 4 (0.15%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 76 (2.92%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (0.69%) Chatbot
3 15 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
4 11 (0.42%) MS Visio
5 10 (0.38%) 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
7 2 (0.077%) Weka
8 1 (0.038%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.038%) Houdini
8 1 (0.038%) Lightworks
8 1 (0.038%) NUKE
8 1 (0.038%) Trello
Business Applications
1 24 (0.92%) Cloudability
2 6 (0.23%) NetSuite
2 6 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.077%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.077%) Shopify
3 2 (0.077%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.038%) Finacle
4 1 (0.038%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.038%) Magento
4 1 (0.038%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.038%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 1,239 (47.58%) Azure
2 660 (25.35%) GCP
3 319 (12.25%) SaaS
4 230 (8.83%) Serverless
5 214 (8.22%) GitHub
6 164 (6.30%) AWS Lambda
7 161 (6.18%) Microsoft 365
8 154 (5.91%) Amazon S3
9 105 (4.03%) AWS CloudFormation
10 101 (3.88%) Amazon EC2
11 100 (3.84%) GitHub Actions
12 97 (3.73%) Amazon EKS
13 82 (3.15%) Amazon ECS
14 80 (3.07%) Snowflake
15 69 (2.65%) Azure DevOps
16 67 (2.57%) Amazon SQS
17 66 (2.53%) GitHub Copilot
18 60 (2.30%) Anthropic Claude
19 51 (1.96%) Power Platform
20 47 (1.80%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 111 (4.26%) Firewall
2 89 (3.42%) Broadband
3 73 (2.80%) Network Security
4 65 (2.50%) DNS
5 64 (2.46%) VPN
6 59 (2.27%) WAN
7 52 (2.00%) LAN
8 49 (1.88%) TCP/IP
9 42 (1.61%) HTTP
10 38 (1.46%) DHCP
11 30 (1.15%) SD-WAN
12 20 (0.77%) Cisco ASA
13 19 (0.73%) SSL
13 19 (0.73%) VLAN
14 18 (0.69%) Wi-Fi
15 13 (0.50%) BGP
15 13 (0.50%) Cisco Firepower
16 11 (0.42%) OSPF
17 10 (0.38%) MPLS
18 9 (0.35%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 260 (9.98%) PostgreSQL
2 240 (9.22%) MongoDB
3 108 (4.15%) SQL Server
4 100 (3.84%) Elasticsearch
5 99 (3.80%) NoSQL
6 96 (3.69%) MySQL
7 83 (3.19%) Azure SQL Database
8 70 (2.69%) DynamoDB
9 61 (2.34%) Relational Database
10 58 (2.23%) Redis
11 49 (1.88%) Data Warehouse
12 45 (1.73%) Power BI
13 44 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
14 42 (1.61%) Amazon Athena
15 34 (1.31%) Metadata
16 31 (1.19%) Data Lake
17 29 (1.11%) Tableau
18 27 (1.04%) Amazon Redshift
18 27 (1.04%) Big Data
19 20 (0.77%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 149 (5.72%) Git
2 86 (3.30%) Jenkins
3 83 (3.19%) GitLab
4 65 (2.50%) JIRA
5 62 (2.38%) TeamCity
6 60 (2.30%) Cypress.io
7 55 (2.11%) Claude Code
8 33 (1.27%) JUnit
9 28 (1.08%) Selenium
10 21 (0.81%) Maven
10 21 (0.81%) Postman
11 17 (0.65%) Mockito
12 12 (0.46%) CircleCI
13 11 (0.42%) Bitbucket
14 10 (0.38%) Crashlytics
14 10 (0.38%) XCTest
15 8 (0.31%) Cucumber
15 8 (0.31%) JMeter
15 8 (0.31%) SonarQube
16 7 (0.27%) NUnit
General
1 681 (26.15%) Social Skills
2 614 (23.58%) Finance
3 337 (12.94%) Public Sector
4 281 (10.79%) Banking
5 248 (9.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 209 (8.03%) Law
7 171 (6.57%) Analytical Skills
8 122 (4.69%) Retail
9 84 (3.23%) Legal
10 60 (2.30%) Financial Institution
11 57 (2.19%) Back Office
12 56 (2.15%) Games
13 51 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
14 48 (1.84%) Swedish Language
15 41 (1.57%) Influencing Skills
16 38 (1.46%) Marketing
17 35 (1.34%) French Language
17 35 (1.34%) Telecoms
18 26 (1.00%) Health Technology
19 23 (0.88%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 635 (24.39%) Senior
2 496 (19.05%) Developer
3 424 (16.28%) Software Engineer
4 322 (12.37%) Architect
5 308 (11.83%) Lead
6 132 (5.07%) Analyst
6 132 (5.07%) Full-Stack Developer
7 131 (5.03%) AWS Engineer
8 122 (4.69%) DevOps Engineer
9 120 (4.61%) Senior Developer
10 116 (4.45%) Senior Software Engineer
11 111 (4.26%) .NET Developer
12 104 (3.99%) Engineering Manager
13 101 (3.88%) Cloud Engineer
14 99 (3.80%) Consultant
15 93 (3.57%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 87 (3.34%) Solutions Architect
17 86 (3.30%) Data Engineer
18 84 (3.23%) Lead Software Engineer
19 81 (3.11%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 447 (17.17%) Terraform
2 411 (15.78%) React
3 353 (13.56%) Node.js
4 260 (9.98%) .NET
5 202 (7.76%) REST
6 146 (5.61%) Spring
7 129 (4.95%) RESTful
8 120 (4.61%) Vue
9 114 (4.38%) CSS
10 113 (4.34%) .NET Core
11 109 (4.19%) AngularJS
11 109 (4.19%) ASP.NET
12 103 (3.96%) Spring Boot
13 97 (3.73%) ASP.NET Core
14 82 (3.15%) Kafka
15 81 (3.11%) Middleware
16 73 (2.80%) LangChain
17 71 (2.73%) HTML
18 69 (2.65%) .NET Framework
19 62 (2.38%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 393 (15.09%) Cloud Native
2 203 (7.80%) Product Ownership
3 181 (6.95%) Distributed Systems
4 112 (4.30%) Public Cloud
5 103 (3.96%) AI Agents
6 77 (2.96%) Greenfield Project
7 74 (2.84%) Cyber Threat
8 66 (2.53%) Onboarding
9 58 (2.23%) Hybrid Cloud
10 52 (2.00%) Blog
11 50 (1.92%) Video\Live Streaming
12 48 (1.84%) Self-Motivation
13 43 (1.65%) Data Centre
13 43 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
13 43 (1.65%) Security Posture
14 42 (1.61%) Mobile App
15 41 (1.57%) Management Information System
16 37 (1.42%) Hedge funds
16 37 (1.42%) Legacy Systems
17 34 (1.31%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 216 (8.29%) Linux
2 166 (6.37%) Windows
3 62 (2.38%) Unix
4 56 (2.15%) Windows Server
5 25 (0.96%) Apple iOS
6 16 (0.61%) Ubuntu
7 15 (0.58%) Android
8 7 (0.27%) Debian
9 5 (0.19%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.12%) CentOS
10 3 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.12%) Robot Operating System
10 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.077%) Solaris
12 1 (0.038%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.038%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 942 (36.18%) CI/CD
2 867 (33.29%) Agile
3 781 (29.99%) Software Engineering
4 608 (23.35%) Mentoring
5 603 (23.16%) DevOps
6 597 (22.93%) AI
7 486 (18.66%) Continuous Improvement
8 482 (18.51%) Microservices
9 480 (18.43%) Full-Stack Development
10 442 (16.97%) Infrastructure as Code
11 436 (16.74%) Problem-Solving
12 422 (16.21%) Test Automation
13 399 (15.32%) Technical Leadership
14 346 (13.29%) Roadmaps
15 310 (11.90%) Containerisation
16 297 (11.41%) Coaching
17 292 (11.21%) Scrum
18 272 (10.45%) Observability
19 261 (10.02%) Machine Learning
20 250 (9.60%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 658 (25.27%) Python
2 525 (20.16%) Java
3 424 (16.28%) SQL
4 394 (15.13%) JavaScript
5 382 (14.67%) TypeScript
6 297 (11.41%) C#
7 116 (4.45%) Go
8 92 (3.53%) Bash
9 84 (3.23%) PowerShell
10 76 (2.92%) Ruby
11 74 (2.84%) C++
12 60 (2.30%) PHP
13 42 (1.61%) Scala
14 39 (1.50%) Kotlin
15 23 (0.88%) Rust
16 20 (0.77%) PL/SQL
17 17 (0.65%) Bicep
18 16 (0.61%) DataWeave
19 13 (0.50%) Swift
20 11 (0.42%) C
Qualifications
1 432 (16.59%) Security Cleared
2 356 (13.67%) SC Cleared
3 284 (10.91%) Degree
4 174 (6.68%) AWS Certification
5 118 (4.53%) CISSP
6 105 (4.03%) CISM
7 89 (3.42%) Microsoft Certification
8 85 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
9 75 (2.88%) MCSE
10 62 (2.38%) Azure Certification
11 59 (2.27%) DV Cleared
12 50 (1.92%) ITIL Certification
13 39 (1.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 36 (1.38%) Cisco Certification
15 28 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
16 26 (1.00%) CCNP
17 20 (0.77%) CCNA
18 15 (0.58%) CREST Certified
19 14 (0.54%) DBS Check
19 14 (0.54%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 181 (6.95%) QA
2 119 (4.57%) NIST
3 106 (4.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 98 (3.76%) Data Quality
5 88 (3.38%) Accessibility
6 54 (2.07%) GDPR
7 48 (1.84%) ISO 22301
8 37 (1.42%) NCSC
9 33 (1.27%) GRC
10 27 (1.04%) PCI DSS
11 23 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials
12 19 (0.73%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 17 (0.65%) SLA
14 13 (0.50%) WCAG
15 12 (0.46%) NIST 800
16 9 (0.35%) ISO 9001
17 8 (0.31%) JSP 440
17 8 (0.31%) PMO
18 7 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
18 7 (0.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 453 (17.40%) Docker
2 60 (2.30%) Active Directory
3 51 (1.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 37 (1.42%) Hyper-V
5 20 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
6 15 (0.58%) vSphere
7 7 (0.27%) Firmware
8 6 (0.23%) KVM
9 4 (0.15%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 4 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (0.12%) iptables
10 3 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.12%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.038%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.038%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.038%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.038%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 421 (16.17%) Kubernetes
2 122 (4.69%) Grafana
3 117 (4.49%) Ansible
4 37 (1.42%) Prometheus
5 24 (0.92%) Argo
6 21 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
7 16 (0.61%) Progress Chef
8 15 (0.58%) Istio
9 13 (0.50%) CloudHub
9 13 (0.50%) Podman
9 13 (0.50%) Puppet
10 10 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
11 9 (0.35%) Proxmox
12 8 (0.31%) CASB
13 7 (0.27%) Cisco CUCM
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
1 437 (16.78%) Microsoft
2 123 (4.72%) Google
3 111 (4.26%) ServiceNow
4 76 (2.92%) VMware
5 71 (2.73%) Oracle
6 67 (2.57%) Databricks
7 55 (2.11%) Cisco
8 39 (1.50%) OpenAI
9 38 (1.46%) Adobe
10 35 (1.34%) SAP
11 34 (1.31%) Splunk
12 33 (1.27%) Palo Alto
13 30 (1.15%) Fortinet
14 29 (1.11%) Salesforce
15 25 (0.96%) Apple
16 23 (0.88%) Dynatrace
16 23 (0.88%) SolarWinds
17 22 (0.84%) Informatica
17 22 (0.84%) Okta
18 19 (0.73%) MuleSoft