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

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 13 9
Rank change year-on-year +3 -4 -3
Permanent jobs citing AWS 2,406 2,183 4,810
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 11.61% 13.74% 14.39%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.34% 36.40% 33.91%
Number of salaries quoted 1,560 1,381 4,062
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £56,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £71,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +4.90% -1.38%
75th Percentile £90,000 £107,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £135,000 £122,500
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 7,930 5,998 14,186
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.27% 37.75% 42.43%
Number of salaries quoted 5,674 4,404 11,780
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,644 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -8.73%

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

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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 1 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 59 (2.45%) Apache Airflow
2 42 (1.75%) Apache Spark
3 26 (1.08%) Apache
4 23 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
5 16 (0.67%) CMS
6 15 (0.62%) SharePoint
7 13 (0.54%) IIS
8 8 (0.33%) Confluence
8 8 (0.33%) WordPress
9 7 (0.29%) Jupyter
10 6 (0.25%) Anypoint
10 6 (0.25%) Apache Solr
10 6 (0.25%) Mule
10 6 (0.25%) nginx
11 4 (0.17%) Ethereum
11 4 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.12%) DNN
12 3 (0.12%) EPiServer
12 3 (0.12%) Immediacy CMS
12 3 (0.12%) Umbraco
Applications
1 89 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.29%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.21%) AutoCAD
3 5 (0.21%) Chatbot
3 5 (0.21%) DaVinci Resolve
4 4 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.083%) Adobe Illustrator
6 2 (0.083%) Elementor
6 2 (0.083%) Photoshop
6 2 (0.083%) PlantUML
7 1 (0.042%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.042%) EngageOne
7 1 (0.042%) Houdini
7 1 (0.042%) Lightworks
7 1 (0.042%) Microsoft Excel
7 1 (0.042%) NUKE
7 1 (0.042%) Trello
Business Applications
1 24 (1.00%) Cloudability
2 6 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.17%) Shopify
4 2 (0.083%) SAP HR
5 1 (0.042%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.042%) Magento
5 1 (0.042%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.042%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.042%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.042%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 1,031 (42.85%) Azure
2 609 (25.31%) GCP
3 248 (10.31%) Serverless
4 238 (9.89%) SaaS
5 197 (8.19%) GitHub
6 164 (6.82%) Amazon S3
7 160 (6.65%) AWS Lambda
8 153 (6.36%) Microsoft 365
9 121 (5.03%) Amazon EKS
10 102 (4.24%) AWS CloudFormation
11 100 (4.16%) Amazon EC2
12 87 (3.62%) Amazon ECS
13 86 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
14 68 (2.83%) Amazon SQS
15 60 (2.49%) Azure DevOps
16 54 (2.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 54 (2.24%) GitHub Copilot
17 50 (2.08%) Entra ID
18 47 (1.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 45 (1.87%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 141 (5.86%) Firewall
2 137 (5.69%) Broadband
3 81 (3.37%) VPN
4 74 (3.08%) WAN
5 70 (2.91%) DNS
6 64 (2.66%) LAN
7 56 (2.33%) Network Security
8 46 (1.91%) TCP/IP
8 46 (1.91%) Wi-Fi
9 44 (1.83%) DHCP
10 39 (1.62%) HTTP
11 33 (1.37%) SD-WAN
12 30 (1.25%) Cisco ASA
13 29 (1.21%) VXLAN
14 26 (1.08%) Cisco Firepower
15 23 (0.96%) VLAN
16 20 (0.83%) BGP
17 17 (0.71%) NGFW
17 17 (0.71%) SSL
18 16 (0.67%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 256 (10.64%) PostgreSQL
2 240 (9.98%) MongoDB
3 119 (4.95%) NoSQL
4 102 (4.24%) Elasticsearch
5 100 (4.16%) MySQL
6 99 (4.11%) SQL Server
7 72 (2.99%) Azure SQL Database
8 63 (2.62%) Relational Database
9 60 (2.49%) Amazon RDS
10 58 (2.41%) DynamoDB
11 54 (2.24%) Metadata
12 43 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
13 40 (1.66%) Redis
14 37 (1.54%) Amazon Athena
15 34 (1.41%) Amazon Redshift
16 28 (1.16%) BigQuery
17 27 (1.12%) Data Lake
18 25 (1.04%) Tableau
19 24 (1.00%) Power BI
20 20 (0.83%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 124 (5.15%) Git
2 83 (3.45%) Jenkins
3 80 (3.33%) GitLab
4 63 (2.62%) TeamCity
5 50 (2.08%) Cypress.io
6 41 (1.70%) JIRA
7 26 (1.08%) Claude Code
8 17 (0.71%) Selenium
9 16 (0.67%) JUnit
10 15 (0.62%) CircleCI
11 14 (0.58%) Crashlytics
11 14 (0.58%) JMeter
11 14 (0.58%) Maven
11 14 (0.58%) XCTest
12 12 (0.50%) Jaeger
13 11 (0.46%) Postman
14 9 (0.37%) MLflow
14 9 (0.37%) Mockito
15 7 (0.29%) Cucumber
16 6 (0.25%) Bitbucket
General
1 577 (23.98%) Social Skills
2 538 (22.36%) Finance
3 276 (11.47%) Public Sector
4 227 (9.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 217 (9.02%) Banking
6 183 (7.61%) Law
7 143 (5.94%) Retail
8 130 (5.40%) Analytical Skills
9 64 (2.66%) Legal
10 54 (2.24%) Back Office
11 53 (2.20%) Financial Institution
11 53 (2.20%) Games
12 43 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
13 42 (1.75%) French Language
13 42 (1.75%) Front Office
14 36 (1.50%) Swedish Language
15 28 (1.16%) Marketing
15 28 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
16 23 (0.96%) Telecoms
17 21 (0.87%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 575 (23.90%) Senior
2 525 (21.82%) Developer
3 426 (17.71%) Software Engineer
4 322 (13.38%) Lead
5 261 (10.85%) Architect
6 155 (6.44%) AWS Engineer
7 150 (6.23%) Full-Stack Developer
8 122 (5.07%) Senior Software Engineer
9 118 (4.90%) Analyst
9 118 (4.90%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 116 (4.82%) DevOps Engineer
11 111 (4.61%) Lead Software Engineer
12 106 (4.41%) .NET Developer
13 98 (4.07%) Cloud Engineer
14 97 (4.03%) Solutions Architect
15 93 (3.87%) Lead Developer
16 92 (3.82%) Senior Developer
16 92 (3.82%) Software Developer
17 89 (3.70%) Consultant
17 89 (3.70%) Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 417 (17.33%) React
2 360 (14.96%) Node.js
3 216 (8.98%) .NET
4 153 (6.36%) REST
5 126 (5.24%) RESTful
5 126 (5.24%) Spring
6 122 (5.07%) Kafka
6 122 (5.07%) Vue
7 120 (4.99%) CSS
8 107 (4.45%) AngularJS
9 99 (4.11%) .NET Core
10 91 (3.78%) ASP.NET
10 91 (3.78%) Spring Boot
11 83 (3.45%) ASP.NET Core
11 83 (3.45%) HTML
12 59 (2.45%) .NET Framework
13 53 (2.20%) Ruby on Rails
14 50 (2.08%) gRPC
14 50 (2.08%) Redux
15 44 (1.83%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 393 (16.33%) Cloud Native
2 194 (8.06%) Product Ownership
3 184 (7.65%) Distributed Systems
4 98 (4.07%) Public Cloud
5 79 (3.28%) Greenfield Project
5 79 (3.28%) Video\Live Streaming
6 64 (2.66%) Data Centre
7 56 (2.33%) Management Information System
7 56 (2.33%) Onboarding
8 55 (2.29%) Security Posture
9 54 (2.24%) Blog
10 46 (1.91%) Over-the-Top Content
11 45 (1.87%) Hybrid Cloud
12 44 (1.83%) AI Agents
12 44 (1.83%) Fixed Income
12 44 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
13 43 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
14 42 (1.75%) Mobile App
15 38 (1.58%) PKI
16 35 (1.45%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 213 (8.85%) Linux
2 141 (5.86%) Windows
3 61 (2.54%) Unix
4 58 (2.41%) Windows Server
5 39 (1.62%) Apple iOS
6 26 (1.08%) Android
7 15 (0.62%) Windows 10
8 12 (0.50%) Windows Server 2016
9 9 (0.37%) Mac OS
9 9 (0.37%) Ubuntu
9 9 (0.37%) Windows Server 2012
10 8 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
11 5 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 4 (0.17%) Debian
13 3 (0.12%) CentOS
14 1 (0.042%) FreeBSD
14 1 (0.042%) Mac OS X
14 1 (0.042%) OpenBSD
14 1 (0.042%) Windows 7
14 1 (0.042%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 851 (35.37%) CI/CD
2 772 (32.09%) Agile
3 749 (31.13%) Software Engineering
4 556 (23.11%) Mentoring
5 548 (22.78%) DevOps
6 509 (21.16%) Full-Stack Development
7 490 (20.37%) Microservices
8 441 (18.33%) Infrastructure as Code
9 439 (18.25%) AI
10 414 (17.21%) Continuous Improvement
11 408 (16.96%) Problem-Solving
12 368 (15.30%) Test Automation
13 348 (14.46%) Containerisation
14 337 (14.01%) Technical Leadership
15 299 (12.43%) Roadmaps
16 291 (12.09%) Coaching
17 253 (10.52%) Clean Code
18 241 (10.02%) Machine Learning
19 240 (9.98%) Scrum
20 232 (9.64%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 664 (27.60%) Python
2 537 (22.32%) Java
3 395 (16.42%) TypeScript
4 381 (15.84%) JavaScript
5 353 (14.67%) SQL
6 264 (10.97%) C#
7 204 (8.48%) Go
8 107 (4.45%) Bash
9 76 (3.16%) Scala
10 71 (2.95%) C++
10 71 (2.95%) PHP
11 64 (2.66%) Ruby
12 57 (2.37%) PowerShell
13 33 (1.37%) Kotlin
14 28 (1.16%) Rust
15 17 (0.71%) Bicep
16 14 (0.58%) Swift
17 13 (0.54%) PL/SQL
18 10 (0.42%) Groovy
19 7 (0.29%) C
Qualifications
1 323 (13.42%) Security Cleared
2 285 (11.85%) Degree
3 269 (11.18%) SC Cleared
4 181 (7.52%) AWS Certification
5 94 (3.91%) Microsoft Certification
6 82 (3.41%) MCSE
7 79 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
8 63 (2.62%) CISSP
9 52 (2.16%) Azure Certification
10 46 (1.91%) DV Cleared
11 43 (1.79%) CISM
12 35 (1.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 32 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
14 24 (1.00%) DBS Check
15 22 (0.91%) CCNP
16 21 (0.87%) CREST Certified
17 17 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
17 17 (0.71%) Master's Degree
18 16 (0.67%) CCNA
19 15 (0.62%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 187 (7.77%) QA
2 93 (3.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 67 (2.78%) NIST
4 58 (2.41%) Data Quality
5 55 (2.29%) Accessibility
6 47 (1.95%) GDPR
7 35 (1.45%) PCI DSS
8 27 (1.12%) GRC
9 26 (1.08%) NCSC
10 18 (0.75%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 16 (0.67%) SOC 2
12 15 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
13 12 (0.50%) JSP 440
14 11 (0.46%) ISO 9001
15 8 (0.33%) SLA
15 8 (0.33%) WCAG
16 7 (0.29%) Government Security Classifications
17 6 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
17 6 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 6 (0.25%) PMO
System Software
1 429 (17.83%) Docker
2 61 (2.54%) Active Directory
3 44 (1.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 41 (1.70%) Hyper-V
5 20 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
6 19 (0.79%) vSphere
7 6 (0.25%) Firmware
7 6 (0.25%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 6 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
8 5 (0.21%) KVM
9 3 (0.12%) iptables
9 3 (0.12%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.083%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 2 (0.083%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.042%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.042%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 422 (17.54%) Terraform
2 392 (16.29%) Kubernetes
3 134 (5.57%) Ansible
4 119 (4.95%) Grafana
5 53 (2.20%) Prometheus
6 36 (1.50%) Argo
7 24 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
8 16 (0.67%) Proxmox
9 15 (0.62%) Progress Chef
10 13 (0.54%) Istio
11 12 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 12 (0.50%) Kustomize
11 12 (0.50%) Podman
11 12 (0.50%) Puppet
11 12 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
12 9 (0.37%) Cisco CUCM
12 9 (0.37%) Packer
13 7 (0.29%) ZABBIX
14 6 (0.25%) EMC NetWorker
14 6 (0.25%) EMC VPLEX
Vendors
1 391 (16.25%) Microsoft
2 117 (4.86%) ServiceNow
3 106 (4.41%) Google
4 72 (2.99%) VMware
5 67 (2.78%) Cisco
6 57 (2.37%) Oracle
7 45 (1.87%) Typelevel
8 42 (1.75%) Databricks
9 35 (1.45%) Fortinet
9 35 (1.45%) Palo Alto
10 34 (1.41%) Apple
11 33 (1.37%) Splunk
12 32 (1.33%) SolarWinds
13 30 (1.25%) Adobe
14 26 (1.08%) SAP
15 25 (1.04%) Salesforce
16 21 (0.87%) Aruba
16 21 (0.87%) OpenAI
17 19 (0.79%) Dell
17 19 (0.79%) Dynatrace