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

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 13 8
Rank change year-on-year +3 -5 -2
Permanent jobs citing AWS 2,612 2,146 3,690
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 11.71% 12.92% 14.67%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.27% 35.28% 35.78%
Number of salaries quoted 1,698 1,364 3,012
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £56,745 £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 £105,000
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 8,630 6,082 10,313
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.69% 36.62% 40.99%
Number of salaries quoted 6,214 4,489 8,201
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,720 £36,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £47,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £63,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.76% -3.08%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £84,964
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.00%

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 3 August 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 41 (1.57%) Apache Spark
2 40 (1.53%) Apache Airflow
3 23 (0.88%) Apache
4 21 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
5 19 (0.73%) Confluence
6 16 (0.61%) IIS
7 15 (0.57%) Anypoint
8 13 (0.50%) SharePoint
8 13 (0.50%) WordPress
9 12 (0.46%) Mule
10 11 (0.42%) CMS
11 7 (0.27%) Jupyter
12 6 (0.23%) Apache Solr
12 6 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 6 (0.23%) SAS
13 4 (0.15%) Ethereum
13 4 (0.15%) Sitecore CMS
14 3 (0.11%) Camunda
14 3 (0.11%) EPiServer
14 3 (0.11%) Kentico
Applications
1 92 (3.52%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.38%) MS Visio
3 9 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.23%) Chatbot
5 5 (0.19%) AutoCAD
5 5 (0.19%) DaVinci Resolve
6 3 (0.11%) Moqups
7 2 (0.077%) Elementor
7 2 (0.077%) PlantUML
7 2 (0.077%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.038%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.038%) Houdini
8 1 (0.038%) Lightworks
8 1 (0.038%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.038%) NUKE
8 1 (0.038%) Trello
Business Applications
1 24 (0.92%) Cloudability
2 6 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
3 5 (0.19%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.077%) Shopify
6 1 (0.038%) Magento
6 1 (0.038%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.038%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,209 (46.29%) Azure
2 658 (25.19%) GCP
3 300 (11.49%) SaaS
4 228 (8.73%) Serverless
5 206 (7.89%) GitHub
6 164 (6.28%) Microsoft 365
7 147 (5.63%) AWS Lambda
8 146 (5.59%) Amazon S3
9 108 (4.13%) AWS CloudFormation
10 99 (3.79%) Amazon EKS
11 92 (3.52%) Amazon EC2
11 92 (3.52%) GitHub Actions
12 85 (3.25%) Amazon ECS
13 68 (2.60%) Amazon SQS
13 68 (2.60%) Azure DevOps
14 62 (2.37%) GitHub Copilot
15 61 (2.34%) Snowflake
16 51 (1.95%) Entra ID
17 48 (1.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 43 (1.65%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 126 (4.82%) Firewall
2 115 (4.40%) Broadband
3 75 (2.87%) DNS
3 75 (2.87%) VPN
4 68 (2.60%) WAN
5 66 (2.53%) Network Security
6 62 (2.37%) LAN
7 57 (2.18%) TCP/IP
8 45 (1.72%) DHCP
9 39 (1.49%) HTTP
10 29 (1.11%) SD-WAN
11 27 (1.03%) Cisco ASA
12 24 (0.92%) Wi-Fi
13 21 (0.80%) Cisco Firepower
13 21 (0.80%) SSL
13 21 (0.80%) VLAN
14 13 (0.50%) BGP
15 12 (0.46%) MPLS
15 12 (0.46%) OSPF
16 11 (0.42%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 270 (10.34%) PostgreSQL
2 251 (9.61%) MongoDB
3 115 (4.40%) SQL Server
4 110 (4.21%) MySQL
5 108 (4.13%) Elasticsearch
6 105 (4.02%) NoSQL
7 84 (3.22%) Azure SQL Database
8 59 (2.26%) DynamoDB
9 57 (2.18%) Redis
10 54 (2.07%) Amazon RDS
11 53 (2.03%) Relational Database
12 39 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
13 37 (1.42%) Power BI
14 35 (1.34%) Metadata
15 32 (1.23%) Amazon Athena
16 28 (1.07%) Big Data
17 26 (1.00%) Amazon Redshift
18 25 (0.96%) Data Lake
19 23 (0.88%) Tableau
20 18 (0.69%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 140 (5.36%) Git
2 86 (3.29%) GitLab
2 86 (3.29%) Jenkins
3 60 (2.30%) TeamCity
4 58 (2.22%) JIRA
5 55 (2.11%) Cypress.io
6 39 (1.49%) Claude Code
7 27 (1.03%) JUnit
8 25 (0.96%) Selenium
9 19 (0.73%) Postman
10 18 (0.69%) Maven
11 14 (0.54%) Crashlytics
11 14 (0.54%) Mockito
11 14 (0.54%) XCTest
12 13 (0.50%) CircleCI
13 12 (0.46%) JMeter
14 11 (0.42%) Cucumber
15 10 (0.38%) Bitbucket
16 7 (0.27%) Gatling
16 7 (0.27%) NUnit
General
1 680 (26.03%) Social Skills
2 599 (22.93%) Finance
3 292 (11.18%) Public Sector
4 238 (9.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 235 (9.00%) Banking
6 215 (8.23%) Law
7 145 (5.55%) Analytical Skills
8 128 (4.90%) Retail
9 73 (2.79%) Legal
10 54 (2.07%) Games
11 50 (1.91%) Financial Institution
12 48 (1.84%) Back Office
12 48 (1.84%) Swedish Language
13 43 (1.65%) Front Office
13 43 (1.65%) Presentation Skills
14 38 (1.45%) French Language
14 38 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
14 38 (1.45%) Marketing
15 32 (1.23%) Telecoms
16 24 (0.92%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 629 (24.08%) Senior
2 559 (21.40%) Developer
3 453 (17.34%) Software Engineer
4 331 (12.67%) Lead
5 288 (11.03%) Architect
6 152 (5.82%) Full-Stack Developer
7 144 (5.51%) AWS Engineer
8 132 (5.05%) Analyst
9 126 (4.82%) DevOps Engineer
10 119 (4.56%) .NET Developer
11 117 (4.48%) Senior Software Engineer
12 116 (4.44%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 116 (4.44%) Senior Developer
13 112 (4.29%) Lead Software Engineer
14 101 (3.87%) Engineering Manager
15 97 (3.71%) Consultant
16 96 (3.68%) Solutions Architect
17 95 (3.64%) Lead Developer
18 94 (3.60%) Cloud Engineer
19 89 (3.41%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 452 (17.30%) React
2 380 (14.55%) Node.js
3 247 (9.46%) .NET
4 195 (7.47%) REST
5 135 (5.17%) RESTful
6 130 (4.98%) Spring
7 129 (4.94%) Vue
8 128 (4.90%) CSS
9 117 (4.48%) AngularJS
9 117 (4.48%) Kafka
10 116 (4.44%) .NET Core
11 107 (4.10%) ASP.NET
12 97 (3.71%) ASP.NET Core
13 94 (3.60%) Spring Boot
14 84 (3.22%) HTML
15 72 (2.76%) .NET Framework
16 71 (2.72%) Middleware
17 60 (2.30%) Ruby on Rails
18 58 (2.22%) OAuth
19 55 (2.11%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 394 (15.08%) Cloud Native
2 194 (7.43%) Product Ownership
3 184 (7.04%) Distributed Systems
4 102 (3.91%) Public Cloud
5 86 (3.29%) Greenfield Project
6 75 (2.87%) AI Agents
7 70 (2.68%) Cyber Threat
8 69 (2.64%) Video\Live Streaming
9 67 (2.57%) Onboarding
10 54 (2.07%) Management Information System
11 50 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
12 48 (1.84%) Enterprise Software
12 48 (1.84%) Security Posture
13 47 (1.80%) Data Centre
14 46 (1.76%) Hybrid Cloud
14 46 (1.76%) Mobile App
15 44 (1.68%) Fixed Income
16 43 (1.65%) Blog
17 42 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
18 37 (1.42%) Over-the-Top Content
Operating Systems
1 219 (8.38%) Linux
2 162 (6.20%) Windows
3 63 (2.41%) Unix
3 63 (2.41%) Windows Server
4 35 (1.34%) Apple iOS
5 20 (0.77%) Android
6 11 (0.42%) Ubuntu
7 10 (0.38%) Windows 10
8 9 (0.34%) 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 (0.15%) Debian
13 3 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 2 (0.077%) CentOS
15 1 (0.038%) FreeBSD
15 1 (0.038%) OpenBSD
15 1 (0.038%) Solaris
15 1 (0.038%) Windows 7
15 1 (0.038%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 917 (35.11%) CI/CD
2 890 (34.07%) Agile
3 792 (30.32%) Software Engineering
4 614 (23.51%) DevOps
5 571 (21.86%) Mentoring
6 518 (19.83%) AI
7 506 (19.37%) Full-Stack Development
8 502 (19.22%) Microservices
9 467 (17.88%) Continuous Improvement
10 451 (17.27%) Infrastructure as Code
11 431 (16.50%) Problem-Solving
12 430 (16.46%) Test Automation
13 365 (13.97%) Technical Leadership
14 331 (12.67%) Containerisation
15 318 (12.17%) Roadmaps
16 283 (10.83%) Coaching
17 278 (10.64%) Scrum
18 269 (10.30%) Clean Code
19 256 (9.80%) Observability
20 250 (9.57%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 684 (26.19%) Python
2 522 (19.98%) Java
3 418 (16.00%) TypeScript
4 413 (15.81%) JavaScript
5 394 (15.08%) SQL
6 295 (11.29%) C#
7 174 (6.66%) Go
8 89 (3.41%) Bash
9 73 (2.79%) Ruby
10 72 (2.76%) PHP
11 71 (2.72%) PowerShell
12 70 (2.68%) C++
13 66 (2.53%) Scala
14 36 (1.38%) Kotlin
15 26 (1.00%) Rust
16 17 (0.65%) PL/SQL
17 16 (0.61%) Bicep
17 16 (0.61%) Swift
18 15 (0.57%) DataWeave
19 10 (0.38%) C
Qualifications
1 410 (15.70%) Security Cleared
2 350 (13.40%) SC Cleared
3 303 (11.60%) Degree
4 177 (6.78%) AWS Certification
5 120 (4.59%) CISSP
6 98 (3.75%) CISM
7 97 (3.71%) Microsoft Certification
8 86 (3.29%) Computer Science Degree
9 83 (3.18%) MCSE
10 57 (2.18%) Azure Certification
11 52 (1.99%) DV Cleared
12 50 (1.91%) ITIL Certification
13 37 (1.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 33 (1.26%) Cisco Certification
15 22 (0.84%) CCNP
16 21 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
17 17 (0.65%) CREST Certified
17 17 (0.65%) DBS Check
18 16 (0.61%) CRISC
18 16 (0.61%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 194 (7.43%) QA
2 117 (4.48%) NIST
3 95 (3.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 76 (2.91%) Accessibility
5 61 (2.34%) Data Quality
6 52 (1.99%) GDPR
7 48 (1.84%) ISO 22301
8 30 (1.15%) GRC
9 28 (1.07%) NCSC
9 28 (1.07%) PCI DSS
10 19 (0.73%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 16 (0.61%) WCAG
12 15 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
13 13 (0.50%) SLA
14 12 (0.46%) SOC 2
15 11 (0.42%) ISO 9001
16 10 (0.38%) JSP 440
16 10 (0.38%) NIST 800
17 7 (0.27%) PMO
18 6 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 453 (17.34%) Docker
2 67 (2.57%) Active Directory
3 55 (2.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 40 (1.53%) Hyper-V
5 22 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
6 20 (0.77%) vSphere
7 7 (0.27%) Firmware
7 7 (0.27%) KVM
7 7 (0.27%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 7 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
8 4 (0.15%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.11%) iptables
10 2 (0.077%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 2 (0.077%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.077%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.038%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 427 (16.35%) Terraform
2 407 (15.58%) Kubernetes
3 120 (4.59%) Grafana
4 112 (4.29%) Ansible
5 40 (1.53%) Prometheus
6 25 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
7 23 (0.88%) Argo
8 17 (0.65%) Progress Chef
9 16 (0.61%) Istio
10 15 (0.57%) Puppet
11 13 (0.50%) Podman
11 13 (0.50%) Proxmox
12 12 (0.46%) CloudHub
13 10 (0.38%) Cisco CUCM
14 9 (0.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 7 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
15 7 (0.27%) ZABBIX
16 6 (0.23%) CASB
16 6 (0.23%) EMC NetWorker
16 6 (0.23%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 437 (16.73%) Microsoft
2 123 (4.71%) ServiceNow
3 111 (4.25%) Google
4 82 (3.14%) VMware
5 70 (2.68%) Cisco
6 61 (2.34%) Oracle
7 53 (2.03%) Databricks
8 40 (1.53%) Palo Alto
9 36 (1.38%) Typelevel
10 34 (1.30%) Fortinet
11 33 (1.26%) Apple
11 33 (1.26%) Splunk
12 32 (1.23%) Salesforce
12 32 (1.23%) SAP
13 30 (1.15%) Adobe
14 24 (0.92%) OpenAI
14 24 (0.92%) SolarWinds
15 21 (0.80%) Dell
15 21 (0.80%) MuleSoft
15 21 (0.80%) Okta