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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 13 8
Rank change year-on-year +3 -5 -2
Permanent jobs citing AWS 2,520 2,154 4,088
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 11.61% 13.08% 14.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.83% 35.54% 35.06%
Number of salaries quoted 1,632 1,370 3,399
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% - +1.69%
75th Percentile £90,000 £108,563 £100,000
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 8,447 6,060 11,661
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.92% 36.80% 41.22%
Number of salaries quoted 6,035 4,472 9,464
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,614 £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 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £105,000
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 24 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 44 (1.75%) Apache Airflow
2 42 (1.67%) Apache Spark
3 23 (0.91%) Apache
4 22 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
5 16 (0.63%) Confluence
6 15 (0.60%) IIS
7 14 (0.56%) Anypoint
7 14 (0.56%) CMS
8 13 (0.52%) SharePoint
9 11 (0.44%) Mule
10 10 (0.40%) WordPress
11 7 (0.28%) Jupyter
12 6 (0.24%) Apache Solr
12 6 (0.24%) SAS
13 4 (0.16%) Ethereum
13 4 (0.16%) nginx
13 4 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
14 3 (0.12%) Kentico
14 3 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 3 (0.12%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 93 (3.69%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (0.40%) MS Visio
3 8 (0.32%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.20%) AutoCAD
4 5 (0.20%) Chatbot
4 5 (0.20%) DaVinci Resolve
5 2 (0.079%) Elementor
5 2 (0.079%) Moqups
5 2 (0.079%) PlantUML
6 1 (0.040%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.040%) Houdini
6 1 (0.040%) Lightworks
6 1 (0.040%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.040%) NUKE
6 1 (0.040%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.040%) Trello
Business Applications
1 24 (0.95%) Cloudability
2 6 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (0.16%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.079%) Shopify
5 1 (0.040%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.040%) Magento
5 1 (0.040%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.040%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,145 (45.44%) Azure
2 625 (24.80%) GCP
3 288 (11.43%) SaaS
4 232 (9.21%) Serverless
5 195 (7.74%) GitHub
6 162 (6.43%) Microsoft 365
7 150 (5.95%) AWS Lambda
8 149 (5.91%) Amazon S3
9 99 (3.93%) Amazon EKS
10 94 (3.73%) AWS CloudFormation
11 92 (3.65%) Amazon EC2
12 88 (3.49%) GitHub Actions
13 84 (3.33%) Amazon ECS
14 69 (2.74%) Amazon SQS
15 63 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
16 58 (2.30%) GitHub Copilot
17 56 (2.22%) Snowflake
18 52 (2.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 52 (2.06%) Entra ID
19 41 (1.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 130 (5.16%) Firewall
2 123 (4.88%) Broadband
3 81 (3.21%) VPN
4 74 (2.94%) DNS
5 70 (2.78%) WAN
6 65 (2.58%) Network Security
7 64 (2.54%) LAN
8 52 (2.06%) TCP/IP
9 45 (1.79%) DHCP
10 38 (1.51%) HTTP
11 31 (1.23%) SD-WAN
12 30 (1.19%) Wi-Fi
13 28 (1.11%) Cisco ASA
14 23 (0.91%) Cisco Firepower
15 21 (0.83%) VLAN
16 20 (0.79%) SSL
17 17 (0.67%) BGP
18 15 (0.60%) MPLS
18 15 (0.60%) OSPF
19 13 (0.52%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 261 (10.36%) PostgreSQL
2 252 (10.00%) MongoDB
3 108 (4.29%) Elasticsearch
3 108 (4.29%) SQL Server
4 107 (4.25%) MySQL
5 105 (4.17%) NoSQL
6 84 (3.33%) Azure SQL Database
7 56 (2.22%) Amazon RDS
8 55 (2.18%) DynamoDB
9 53 (2.10%) Redis
9 53 (2.10%) Relational Database
10 38 (1.51%) Metadata
11 36 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
12 33 (1.31%) Amazon Athena
13 27 (1.07%) Amazon Redshift
13 27 (1.07%) Big Data
13 27 (1.07%) Power BI
14 25 (0.99%) Data Lake
15 19 (0.75%) BigQuery
15 19 (0.75%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 131 (5.20%) Git
2 83 (3.29%) GitLab
3 82 (3.25%) Jenkins
4 56 (2.22%) TeamCity
5 52 (2.06%) JIRA
6 50 (1.98%) Cypress.io
7 35 (1.39%) Claude Code
8 20 (0.79%) JUnit
9 19 (0.75%) Selenium
10 15 (0.60%) Postman
11 14 (0.56%) Crashlytics
11 14 (0.56%) Maven
11 14 (0.56%) XCTest
12 13 (0.52%) CircleCI
12 13 (0.52%) JMeter
13 10 (0.40%) Cucumber
13 10 (0.40%) Mockito
14 7 (0.28%) Bitbucket
15 6 (0.24%) Gatling
16 5 (0.20%) MLflow
General
1 625 (24.80%) Social Skills
2 567 (22.50%) Finance
3 279 (11.07%) Public Sector
4 225 (8.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 224 (8.89%) Banking
6 206 (8.17%) Law
7 134 (5.32%) Analytical Skills
8 126 (5.00%) Retail
9 68 (2.70%) Legal
10 51 (2.02%) Games
11 48 (1.90%) Swedish Language
12 46 (1.83%) Back Office
12 46 (1.83%) Financial Institution
13 43 (1.71%) Front Office
14 38 (1.51%) Influencing Skills
15 36 (1.43%) Marketing
15 36 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
16 35 (1.39%) French Language
17 29 (1.15%) Telecoms
18 21 (0.83%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 606 (24.05%) Senior
2 549 (21.79%) Developer
3 435 (17.26%) Software Engineer
4 318 (12.62%) Lead
5 277 (10.99%) Architect
6 149 (5.91%) Full-Stack Developer
7 142 (5.63%) AWS Engineer
8 127 (5.04%) Analyst
9 123 (4.88%) DevOps Engineer
10 119 (4.72%) .NET Developer
11 118 (4.68%) Senior Software Engineer
12 115 (4.56%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 110 (4.37%) Lead Software Engineer
14 109 (4.33%) Senior Developer
15 97 (3.85%) Engineering Manager
15 97 (3.85%) Solutions Architect
16 94 (3.73%) Consultant
17 93 (3.69%) Lead Developer
18 90 (3.57%) Cloud Engineer
18 90 (3.57%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 426 (16.90%) React
2 376 (14.92%) Node.js
3 231 (9.17%) .NET
4 175 (6.94%) REST
5 131 (5.20%) RESTful
6 130 (5.16%) Vue
7 125 (4.96%) Spring
8 124 (4.92%) CSS
8 124 (4.92%) Kafka
9 110 (4.37%) AngularJS
10 109 (4.33%) .NET Core
11 104 (4.13%) ASP.NET
12 96 (3.81%) ASP.NET Core
13 92 (3.65%) Spring Boot
14 83 (3.29%) HTML
15 71 (2.82%) Middleware
16 69 (2.74%) .NET Framework
17 57 (2.26%) Ruby on Rails
18 52 (2.06%) OAuth
19 50 (1.98%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 384 (15.24%) Cloud Native
2 193 (7.66%) Product Ownership
3 188 (7.46%) Distributed Systems
4 94 (3.73%) Public Cloud
5 83 (3.29%) Greenfield Project
6 78 (3.10%) Video\Live Streaming
7 68 (2.70%) Cyber Threat
8 63 (2.50%) Onboarding
9 62 (2.46%) AI Agents
10 55 (2.18%) Management Information System
11 50 (1.98%) Data Centre
12 48 (1.90%) Security Posture
13 46 (1.83%) Over-the-Top Content
14 44 (1.75%) Fixed Income
15 43 (1.71%) Blog
15 43 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
15 43 (1.71%) Mobile App
16 41 (1.63%) Hybrid Cloud
17 40 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
18 35 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 208 (8.25%) Linux
2 159 (6.31%) Windows
3 61 (2.42%) Windows Server
4 56 (2.22%) Unix
5 35 (1.39%) Apple iOS
6 20 (0.79%) Android
7 12 (0.48%) Windows 10
8 11 (0.44%) Ubuntu
9 10 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
10 7 (0.28%) Mac OS
10 7 (0.28%) Windows Server 2012
11 6 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
12 4 (0.16%) Debian
13 3 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 2 (0.079%) CentOS
15 1 (0.040%) FreeBSD
15 1 (0.040%) OpenBSD
15 1 (0.040%) Solaris
15 1 (0.040%) Windows 7
15 1 (0.040%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 880 (34.92%) CI/CD
2 851 (33.77%) Agile
3 764 (30.32%) Software Engineering
4 588 (23.33%) DevOps
5 538 (21.35%) Mentoring
6 498 (19.76%) Microservices
7 497 (19.72%) Full-Stack Development
8 480 (19.05%) AI
9 439 (17.42%) Continuous Improvement
10 428 (16.98%) Infrastructure as Code
11 426 (16.90%) Problem-Solving
12 419 (16.63%) Test Automation
13 343 (13.61%) Technical Leadership
14 334 (13.25%) Containerisation
15 299 (11.87%) Roadmaps
16 279 (11.07%) Coaching
17 267 (10.60%) Scrum
18 259 (10.28%) Clean Code
19 249 (9.88%) Machine Learning
20 238 (9.44%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 666 (26.43%) Python
2 502 (19.92%) Java
3 398 (15.79%) TypeScript
4 392 (15.56%) JavaScript
5 376 (14.92%) SQL
6 279 (11.07%) C#
7 178 (7.06%) Go
8 90 (3.57%) Bash
9 73 (2.90%) Scala
10 70 (2.78%) C++
11 69 (2.74%) PHP
11 69 (2.74%) Ruby
12 68 (2.70%) PowerShell
13 34 (1.35%) Kotlin
14 26 (1.03%) Rust
15 16 (0.63%) Bicep
16 15 (0.60%) Swift
17 14 (0.56%) DataWeave
17 14 (0.56%) PL/SQL
18 10 (0.40%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 372 (14.76%) Security Cleared
2 319 (12.66%) SC Cleared
3 299 (11.87%) Degree
4 169 (6.71%) AWS Certification
5 119 (4.72%) CISSP
6 97 (3.85%) CISM
7 96 (3.81%) Microsoft Certification
8 88 (3.49%) Computer Science Degree
9 83 (3.29%) MCSE
10 53 (2.10%) Azure Certification
11 50 (1.98%) ITIL Certification
12 46 (1.83%) DV Cleared
13 37 (1.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 34 (1.35%) Cisco Certification
15 23 (0.91%) CCNP
16 18 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
16 18 (0.71%) CREST Certified
17 17 (0.67%) DBS Check
18 16 (0.63%) CRISC
18 16 (0.63%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 189 (7.50%) QA
2 113 (4.48%) NIST
3 94 (3.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 65 (2.58%) Accessibility
5 57 (2.26%) Data Quality
6 50 (1.98%) GDPR
7 48 (1.90%) ISO 22301
8 31 (1.23%) GRC
9 28 (1.11%) PCI DSS
10 26 (1.03%) NCSC
11 19 (0.75%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 15 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
12 15 (0.60%) WCAG
13 13 (0.52%) SOC 2
14 11 (0.44%) ISO 9001
14 11 (0.44%) SLA
15 10 (0.40%) JSP 440
15 10 (0.40%) NIST 800
16 7 (0.28%) PMO
17 6 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 445 (17.66%) Docker
2 67 (2.66%) Active Directory
3 52 (2.06%) VMware Infrastructure
4 42 (1.67%) Hyper-V
5 21 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
6 18 (0.71%) vSphere
7 7 (0.28%) KVM
8 6 (0.24%) Firmware
8 6 (0.24%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 6 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
9 4 (0.16%) VMware NSX
10 3 (0.12%) iptables
11 2 (0.079%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 2 (0.079%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.040%) VMware ESXi
12 1 (0.040%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 401 (15.91%) Terraform
2 393 (15.60%) Kubernetes
3 113 (4.48%) Grafana
4 108 (4.29%) Ansible
5 40 (1.59%) Prometheus
6 26 (1.03%) Microsoft Intune
7 23 (0.91%) Argo
8 17 (0.67%) Progress Chef
9 15 (0.60%) Puppet
10 14 (0.56%) Istio
10 14 (0.56%) Proxmox
11 13 (0.52%) Podman
12 11 (0.44%) CloudHub
13 10 (0.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 9 (0.36%) Cisco CUCM
14 9 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
15 7 (0.28%) Packer
15 7 (0.28%) ZABBIX
16 6 (0.24%) EMC VPLEX
16 6 (0.24%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 426 (16.90%) Microsoft
2 125 (4.96%) ServiceNow
3 92 (3.65%) Google
4 80 (3.17%) VMware
5 69 (2.74%) Cisco
6 58 (2.30%) Oracle
7 49 (1.94%) Databricks
8 45 (1.79%) Typelevel
9 38 (1.51%) Palo Alto
10 36 (1.43%) Fortinet
11 34 (1.35%) Apple
12 32 (1.27%) Splunk
13 30 (1.19%) Adobe
13 30 (1.19%) Salesforce
13 30 (1.19%) SAP
14 27 (1.07%) SolarWinds
15 21 (0.83%) Dell
15 21 (0.83%) OpenAI
16 20 (0.79%) Dynatrace
16 20 (0.79%) MuleSoft