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

6 months to
9 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 13 8
Rank change year-on-year +3 -5 -2
Permanent jobs citing AWS 2,638 2,118 3,651
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 11.64% 12.80% 14.67%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.24% 35.17% 35.75%
Number of salaries quoted 1,708 1,344 2,952
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% - -
75th Percentile £90,000 £107,625 £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 8,723 6,023 10,214
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.48% 36.41% 41.04%
Number of salaries quoted 6,288 4,448 8,059
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,500 £36,750
25th Percentile £45,500 £42,500 £47,500
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 £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% - -5.51%

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 9 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 (1.55%) Apache Spark
2 36 (1.36%) Apache Airflow
3 24 (0.91%) Apache
4 23 (0.87%) Confluence
5 19 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
6 16 (0.61%) Anypoint
6 16 (0.61%) IIS
7 14 (0.53%) WordPress
8 13 (0.49%) Mule
8 13 (0.49%) SharePoint
9 10 (0.38%) CMS
10 7 (0.27%) Jupyter
10 7 (0.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 6 (0.23%) Apache Solr
11 6 (0.23%) SAS
12 4 (0.15%) Camunda
12 4 (0.15%) Ethereum
12 4 (0.15%) Sitecore CMS
13 3 (0.11%) Kentico
13 3 (0.11%) nginx
Applications
1 88 (3.34%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (0.42%) MS Visio
4 10 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 9 (0.34%) Chatbot
6 5 (0.19%) AutoCAD
6 5 (0.19%) DaVinci Resolve
7 4 (0.15%) Moqups
8 2 (0.076%) Elementor
8 2 (0.076%) PlantUML
8 2 (0.076%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.038%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.038%) Houdini
9 1 (0.038%) Lightworks
9 1 (0.038%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.038%) NUKE
9 1 (0.038%) Trello
Business Applications
1 24 (0.91%) Cloudability
2 6 (0.23%) NetSuite
2 6 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.11%) Shopify
5 2 (0.076%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.038%) Magento
6 1 (0.038%) Oracle Assets
Cloud Services
1 1,225 (46.44%) Azure
2 668 (25.32%) GCP
3 305 (11.56%) SaaS
4 235 (8.91%) Serverless
5 208 (7.88%) GitHub
6 161 (6.10%) Microsoft 365
7 153 (5.80%) AWS Lambda
8 150 (5.69%) Amazon S3
9 114 (4.32%) AWS CloudFormation
10 98 (3.71%) Amazon EKS
11 93 (3.53%) GitHub Actions
12 92 (3.49%) Amazon EC2
13 86 (3.26%) Amazon ECS
14 69 (2.62%) Amazon SQS
15 67 (2.54%) Azure DevOps
16 66 (2.50%) Snowflake
17 64 (2.43%) GitHub Copilot
18 52 (1.97%) Entra ID
19 48 (1.82%) Power Platform
20 47 (1.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 127 (4.81%) Firewall
2 115 (4.36%) Broadband
3 75 (2.84%) DNS
3 75 (2.84%) VPN
4 69 (2.62%) Network Security
5 68 (2.58%) WAN
6 61 (2.31%) LAN
7 58 (2.20%) TCP/IP
8 44 (1.67%) DHCP
9 40 (1.52%) HTTP
10 30 (1.14%) SD-WAN
11 27 (1.02%) Cisco ASA
12 23 (0.87%) Wi-Fi
13 22 (0.83%) SSL
13 22 (0.83%) VLAN
14 21 (0.80%) Cisco Firepower
15 13 (0.49%) BGP
16 12 (0.45%) MPLS
16 12 (0.45%) OSPF
17 11 (0.42%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 273 (10.35%) PostgreSQL
2 251 (9.51%) MongoDB
3 119 (4.51%) SQL Server
4 112 (4.25%) MySQL
5 108 (4.09%) Elasticsearch
5 108 (4.09%) NoSQL
6 84 (3.18%) Azure SQL Database
7 62 (2.35%) DynamoDB
8 61 (2.31%) Redis
9 55 (2.08%) Relational Database
10 54 (2.05%) Amazon RDS
11 42 (1.59%) Power BI
12 39 (1.48%) Data Warehouse
13 34 (1.29%) Metadata
14 33 (1.25%) Amazon Athena
15 29 (1.10%) Big Data
16 26 (0.99%) Data Lake
17 25 (0.95%) Tableau
18 24 (0.91%) Amazon Redshift
19 16 (0.61%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 145 (5.50%) Git
2 86 (3.26%) Jenkins
3 81 (3.07%) GitLab
4 62 (2.35%) JIRA
5 61 (2.31%) TeamCity
6 57 (2.16%) Cypress.io
7 41 (1.55%) Claude Code
8 28 (1.06%) JUnit
9 26 (0.99%) Selenium
10 20 (0.76%) Postman
11 19 (0.72%) Maven
12 15 (0.57%) Mockito
13 14 (0.53%) Crashlytics
13 14 (0.53%) XCTest
14 13 (0.49%) CircleCI
15 12 (0.45%) JMeter
16 11 (0.42%) Bitbucket
16 11 (0.42%) Cucumber
17 7 (0.27%) Gatling
17 7 (0.27%) SonarQube
General
1 685 (25.97%) Social Skills
2 609 (23.09%) Finance
3 299 (11.33%) Public Sector
4 244 (9.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 241 (9.14%) Banking
6 216 (8.19%) Law
7 148 (5.61%) Analytical Skills
8 126 (4.78%) Retail
9 78 (2.96%) Legal
10 56 (2.12%) Games
11 52 (1.97%) Financial Institution
12 48 (1.82%) Back Office
12 48 (1.82%) Swedish Language
13 43 (1.63%) Presentation Skills
14 41 (1.55%) Marketing
15 39 (1.48%) Influencing Skills
16 36 (1.36%) French Language
17 34 (1.29%) Front Office
18 32 (1.21%) Telecoms
19 24 (0.91%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 634 (24.03%) Senior
2 556 (21.08%) Developer
3 452 (17.13%) Software Engineer
4 327 (12.40%) Lead
5 290 (10.99%) Architect
6 152 (5.76%) Full-Stack Developer
7 141 (5.34%) AWS Engineer
8 130 (4.93%) Analyst
9 125 (4.74%) DevOps Engineer
10 120 (4.55%) Senior Software Engineer
11 119 (4.51%) .NET Developer
11 119 (4.51%) Senior Developer
12 112 (4.25%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 106 (4.02%) Lead Software Engineer
14 102 (3.87%) Engineering Manager
15 98 (3.71%) Cloud Engineer
15 98 (3.71%) Consultant
16 96 (3.64%) Solutions Architect
17 90 (3.41%) Lead Developer
17 90 (3.41%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 453 (17.17%) React
2 372 (14.10%) Node.js
3 252 (9.55%) .NET
4 196 (7.43%) REST
5 137 (5.19%) Spring
6 136 (5.16%) RESTful
7 129 (4.89%) CSS
7 129 (4.89%) Vue
8 121 (4.59%) .NET Core
9 120 (4.55%) AngularJS
10 110 (4.17%) ASP.NET
11 109 (4.13%) Kafka
12 99 (3.75%) Spring Boot
13 98 (3.71%) ASP.NET Core
14 83 (3.15%) HTML
15 74 (2.81%) .NET Framework
16 72 (2.73%) Middleware
17 63 (2.39%) Ruby on Rails
18 61 (2.31%) OAuth
19 59 (2.24%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 394 (14.94%) Cloud Native
2 193 (7.32%) Product Ownership
3 187 (7.09%) Distributed Systems
4 105 (3.98%) Public Cloud
5 87 (3.30%) Greenfield Project
6 82 (3.11%) AI Agents
7 71 (2.69%) Cyber Threat
8 69 (2.62%) Video\Live Streaming
9 68 (2.58%) Onboarding
10 55 (2.08%) Management Information System
11 53 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
12 50 (1.90%) Security Posture
13 48 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
14 47 (1.78%) Blog
14 47 (1.78%) Mobile App
15 46 (1.74%) Data Centre
16 45 (1.71%) Hybrid Cloud
17 41 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
18 37 (1.40%) Over-the-Top Content
19 35 (1.33%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 218 (8.26%) Linux
2 162 (6.14%) Windows
3 63 (2.39%) Unix
4 61 (2.31%) Windows Server
5 36 (1.36%) Apple iOS
6 21 (0.80%) Android
7 11 (0.42%) Ubuntu
8 8 (0.30%) Windows 10
9 7 (0.27%) Mac OS
9 7 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
10 5 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
11 4 (0.15%) Debian
11 4 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 4 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.076%) CentOS
12 2 (0.076%) Solaris
13 1 (0.038%) FreeBSD
13 1 (0.038%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.038%) OpenBSD
13 1 (0.038%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 927 (35.14%) CI/CD
2 895 (33.93%) Agile
3 796 (30.17%) Software Engineering
4 617 (23.39%) DevOps
5 579 (21.95%) Mentoring
6 537 (20.36%) AI
7 509 (19.29%) Microservices
8 504 (19.11%) Full-Stack Development
9 478 (18.12%) Continuous Improvement
10 457 (17.32%) Infrastructure as Code
11 438 (16.60%) Problem-Solving
12 437 (16.57%) Test Automation
13 375 (14.22%) Technical Leadership
14 337 (12.77%) Containerisation
15 326 (12.36%) Roadmaps
16 288 (10.92%) Coaching
17 282 (10.69%) Scrum
18 276 (10.46%) Clean Code
19 262 (9.93%) Observability
20 257 (9.74%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 684 (25.93%) Python
2 530 (20.09%) Java
3 420 (15.92%) TypeScript
4 411 (15.58%) JavaScript
5 408 (15.47%) SQL
6 301 (11.41%) C#
7 163 (6.18%) Go
8 87 (3.30%) Bash
9 78 (2.96%) Ruby
10 75 (2.84%) PowerShell
11 71 (2.69%) C++
11 71 (2.69%) PHP
12 65 (2.46%) Scala
13 38 (1.44%) Kotlin
14 25 (0.95%) Rust
15 19 (0.72%) PL/SQL
16 17 (0.64%) Swift
17 16 (0.61%) DataWeave
18 15 (0.57%) Bicep
19 11 (0.42%) C
Qualifications
1 424 (16.07%) Security Cleared
2 361 (13.68%) SC Cleared
3 302 (11.45%) Degree
4 175 (6.63%) AWS Certification
5 121 (4.59%) CISSP
6 99 (3.75%) CISM
7 93 (3.53%) Microsoft Certification
8 89 (3.37%) Computer Science Degree
9 79 (2.99%) MCSE
10 59 (2.24%) Azure Certification
11 54 (2.05%) DV Cleared
12 50 (1.90%) ITIL Certification
13 36 (1.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 34 (1.29%) Cisco Certification
15 24 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
16 23 (0.87%) CCNP
17 17 (0.64%) CREST Certified
17 17 (0.64%) DBS Check
18 16 (0.61%) CRISC
18 16 (0.61%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 190 (7.20%) QA
2 120 (4.55%) NIST
3 99 (3.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 80 (3.03%) Accessibility
5 64 (2.43%) Data Quality
6 55 (2.08%) GDPR
7 48 (1.82%) ISO 22301
8 30 (1.14%) GRC
9 29 (1.10%) PCI DSS
10 28 (1.06%) NCSC
11 19 (0.72%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 17 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials
13 16 (0.61%) WCAG
14 15 (0.57%) SLA
15 12 (0.45%) SOC 2
16 11 (0.42%) ISO 9001
17 10 (0.38%) JSP 440
17 10 (0.38%) NIST 800
18 7 (0.27%) PMO
19 6 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 463 (17.55%) Docker
2 68 (2.58%) Active Directory
3 56 (2.12%) VMware Infrastructure
4 38 (1.44%) Hyper-V
5 22 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
6 20 (0.76%) 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
9 3 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.076%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 2 (0.076%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.038%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.038%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 432 (16.38%) Terraform
2 413 (15.66%) Kubernetes
3 120 (4.55%) Grafana
4 115 (4.36%) Ansible
5 36 (1.36%) Prometheus
6 25 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
7 23 (0.87%) Argo
8 17 (0.64%) Progress Chef
9 16 (0.61%) Istio
10 14 (0.53%) Puppet
11 13 (0.49%) CloudHub
11 13 (0.49%) Podman
12 12 (0.45%) Proxmox
13 10 (0.38%) Cisco CUCM
14 7 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 7 (0.27%) CASB
14 7 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
14 7 (0.27%) ZABBIX
15 6 (0.23%) Dell DRAC
15 6 (0.23%) VxRail
Vendors
1 438 (16.60%) Microsoft
2 120 (4.55%) Google
2 120 (4.55%) ServiceNow
3 81 (3.07%) VMware
4 70 (2.65%) Cisco
5 65 (2.46%) Oracle
6 54 (2.05%) Databricks
7 40 (1.52%) Palo Alto
8 36 (1.36%) Typelevel
9 35 (1.33%) SAP
10 34 (1.29%) Fortinet
10 34 (1.29%) Salesforce
11 33 (1.25%) Apple
11 33 (1.25%) Splunk
12 30 (1.14%) Adobe
13 28 (1.06%) OpenAI
14 24 (0.91%) SolarWinds
15 23 (0.87%) Okta
16 21 (0.80%) Dynatrace
16 21 (0.80%) MuleSoft