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

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 13 8
Rank change year-on-year +3 -5 -2
Permanent jobs citing AWS 2,586 2,049 3,613
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 11.17% 12.38% 14.56%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.78% 34.52% 35.77%
Number of salaries quoted 1,687 1,284 2,835
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,075 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% - -
75th Percentile £89,500 £109,063 £108,750
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 8,685 5,936 10,100
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.50% 35.87% 40.71%
Number of salaries quoted 6,339 4,337 7,667
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £37,101
25th Percentile £45,000 £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 £81,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.99%

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 25 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 36 (1.39%) Apache Spark
2 31 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
3 27 (1.04%) Confluence
4 24 (0.93%) Apache
5 20 (0.77%) SharePoint
6 17 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
7 16 (0.62%) Anypoint
7 16 (0.62%) IIS
8 13 (0.50%) Mule
8 13 (0.50%) WordPress
9 12 (0.46%) CMS
10 8 (0.31%) Jupyter
11 7 (0.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 6 (0.23%) SAS
13 5 (0.19%) Apache Solr
14 4 (0.15%) ArcGIS
14 4 (0.15%) Camunda
14 4 (0.15%) Ethereum
14 4 (0.15%) Sitecore CMS
15 3 (0.12%) GeoServer
Applications
1 79 (3.05%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (0.58%) Chatbot
3 14 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
4 11 (0.43%) MS Visio
5 10 (0.39%) 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 (0.039%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.039%) Houdini
8 1 (0.039%) Lightworks
8 1 (0.039%) NUKE
8 1 (0.039%) Trello
Business Applications
1 24 (0.93%) Cloudability
2 6 (0.23%) NetSuite
2 6 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.12%) Shopify
4 2 (0.077%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.077%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.039%) Finacle
5 1 (0.039%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.039%) Magento
5 1 (0.039%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.039%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 1,216 (47.02%) Azure
2 663 (25.64%) GCP
3 317 (12.26%) SaaS
4 223 (8.62%) Serverless
5 210 (8.12%) GitHub
6 158 (6.11%) Microsoft 365
7 152 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
8 149 (5.76%) Amazon S3
9 106 (4.10%) AWS CloudFormation
10 94 (3.63%) Amazon EKS
10 94 (3.63%) GitHub Actions
11 88 (3.40%) Amazon EC2
12 79 (3.05%) Amazon ECS
13 74 (2.86%) Snowflake
14 68 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
15 66 (2.55%) Amazon SQS
15 66 (2.55%) GitHub Copilot
16 54 (2.09%) Anthropic Claude
17 49 (1.89%) Power Platform
18 45 (1.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 112 (4.33%) Firewall
2 99 (3.83%) Broadband
3 71 (2.75%) Network Security
4 68 (2.63%) DNS
4 68 (2.63%) VPN
5 64 (2.47%) WAN
6 57 (2.20%) LAN
7 52 (2.01%) TCP/IP
8 40 (1.55%) DHCP
8 40 (1.55%) HTTP
9 31 (1.20%) SD-WAN
10 22 (0.85%) Cisco ASA
11 20 (0.77%) SSL
11 20 (0.77%) VLAN
11 20 (0.77%) Wi-Fi
12 15 (0.58%) Cisco Firepower
13 13 (0.50%) BGP
14 11 (0.43%) Internet
14 11 (0.43%) OSPF
15 10 (0.39%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 257 (9.94%) PostgreSQL
2 241 (9.32%) MongoDB
3 116 (4.49%) SQL Server
4 103 (3.98%) Elasticsearch
5 99 (3.83%) NoSQL
6 98 (3.79%) MySQL
7 84 (3.25%) Azure SQL Database
8 68 (2.63%) DynamoDB
9 59 (2.28%) Relational Database
10 57 (2.20%) Redis
11 48 (1.86%) Amazon RDS
12 45 (1.74%) Data Warehouse
13 43 (1.66%) Power BI
14 34 (1.31%) Amazon Athena
15 31 (1.20%) Metadata
16 30 (1.16%) Data Lake
17 27 (1.04%) Big Data
17 27 (1.04%) Tableau
18 25 (0.97%) Amazon Redshift
19 11 (0.43%) Looker
Development Applications
1 145 (5.61%) Git
2 86 (3.33%) Jenkins
3 83 (3.21%) GitLab
4 67 (2.59%) JIRA
5 59 (2.28%) TeamCity
6 58 (2.24%) Cypress.io
7 50 (1.93%) Claude Code
8 30 (1.16%) JUnit
9 27 (1.04%) Selenium
10 21 (0.81%) Postman
11 20 (0.77%) Maven
12 16 (0.62%) Mockito
13 12 (0.46%) Bitbucket
13 12 (0.46%) CircleCI
14 11 (0.43%) Crashlytics
14 11 (0.43%) Cucumber
14 11 (0.43%) JMeter
14 11 (0.43%) XCTest
15 8 (0.31%) SonarQube
16 7 (0.27%) Gatling
General
1 679 (26.26%) Social Skills
2 604 (23.36%) Finance
3 302 (11.68%) Public Sector
4 262 (10.13%) Banking
5 244 (9.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 207 (8.00%) Law
7 153 (5.92%) Analytical Skills
8 119 (4.60%) Retail
9 78 (3.02%) Legal
10 57 (2.20%) Financial Institution
11 56 (2.17%) Games
12 53 (2.05%) Back Office
13 49 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
14 48 (1.86%) Swedish Language
15 40 (1.55%) Marketing
16 37 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
17 34 (1.31%) French Language
18 31 (1.20%) Telecoms
19 24 (0.93%) Health Technology
19 24 (0.93%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 620 (23.98%) Senior
2 521 (20.15%) Developer
3 426 (16.47%) Software Engineer
4 316 (12.22%) Lead
5 309 (11.95%) Architect
6 142 (5.49%) Full-Stack Developer
7 135 (5.22%) AWS Engineer
8 130 (5.03%) Analyst
9 124 (4.80%) Senior Developer
10 123 (4.76%) DevOps Engineer
11 114 (4.41%) .NET Developer
12 113 (4.37%) Senior Software Engineer
13 101 (3.91%) Engineering Manager
14 99 (3.83%) Cloud Engineer
14 99 (3.83%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 96 (3.71%) Consultant
16 91 (3.52%) Solutions Architect
17 90 (3.48%) Lead Software Engineer
18 85 (3.29%) Software Developer
19 79 (3.05%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 438 (16.94%) Terraform
2 420 (16.24%) React
3 362 (14.00%) Node.js
4 251 (9.71%) .NET
5 201 (7.77%) REST
6 141 (5.45%) Spring
7 128 (4.95%) RESTful
8 125 (4.83%) Vue
9 121 (4.68%) CSS
10 117 (4.52%) .NET Core
11 115 (4.45%) AngularJS
12 111 (4.29%) ASP.NET
13 101 (3.91%) Spring Boot
14 98 (3.79%) ASP.NET Core
15 90 (3.48%) Kafka
16 80 (3.09%) Middleware
17 76 (2.94%) HTML
18 73 (2.82%) .NET Framework
19 70 (2.71%) LangChain
20 63 (2.44%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 386 (14.93%) Cloud Native
2 197 (7.62%) Product Ownership
3 184 (7.12%) Distributed Systems
4 105 (4.06%) Public Cloud
5 95 (3.67%) AI Agents
6 79 (3.05%) Greenfield Project
7 72 (2.78%) Cyber Threat
8 67 (2.59%) Onboarding
9 59 (2.28%) Video\Live Streaming
10 51 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
11 48 (1.86%) Blog
12 47 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
12 47 (1.82%) Hybrid Cloud
13 45 (1.74%) Mobile App
14 43 (1.66%) Security Posture
15 42 (1.62%) Data Centre
15 42 (1.62%) Management Information System
16 38 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
17 35 (1.35%) Low-Code
18 31 (1.20%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 208 (8.04%) Linux
2 158 (6.11%) Windows
3 58 (2.24%) Unix
4 55 (2.13%) Windows Server
5 25 (0.97%) Apple iOS
6 14 (0.54%) Android
6 14 (0.54%) Ubuntu
7 6 (0.23%) Debian
7 6 (0.23%) Mac OS
8 5 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (0.12%) CentOS
10 3 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.12%) Windows 10
10 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.077%) Robot Operating System
11 2 (0.077%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 915 (35.38%) CI/CD
2 862 (33.33%) Agile
3 780 (30.16%) Software Engineering
4 606 (23.43%) DevOps
5 575 (22.24%) Mentoring
6 574 (22.20%) AI
7 485 (18.75%) Microservices
8 484 (18.72%) Full-Stack Development
9 479 (18.52%) Continuous Improvement
10 447 (17.29%) Infrastructure as Code
11 426 (16.47%) Problem-Solving
12 418 (16.16%) Test Automation
13 387 (14.97%) Technical Leadership
14 331 (12.80%) Roadmaps
15 328 (12.68%) Containerisation
16 289 (11.18%) Scrum
17 268 (10.36%) Coaching
17 268 (10.36%) Observability
18 261 (10.09%) Machine Learning
19 255 (9.86%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 664 (25.68%) Python
2 507 (19.61%) Java
3 405 (15.66%) SQL
4 393 (15.20%) TypeScript
5 390 (15.08%) JavaScript
6 292 (11.29%) C#
7 136 (5.26%) Go
8 88 (3.40%) Bash
9 81 (3.13%) PowerShell
10 78 (3.02%) Ruby
11 64 (2.47%) PHP
12 62 (2.40%) C++
13 51 (1.97%) Scala
14 37 (1.43%) Kotlin
15 24 (0.93%) Rust
16 19 (0.73%) PL/SQL
17 16 (0.62%) DataWeave
18 15 (0.58%) Bicep
19 14 (0.54%) Swift
20 11 (0.43%) C
Qualifications
1 416 (16.09%) Security Cleared
2 347 (13.42%) SC Cleared
3 290 (11.21%) Degree
4 173 (6.69%) AWS Certification
5 113 (4.37%) CISSP
6 99 (3.83%) CISM
7 86 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
7 86 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
8 73 (2.82%) MCSE
9 58 (2.24%) Azure Certification
10 56 (2.17%) DV Cleared
11 50 (1.93%) ITIL Certification
12 38 (1.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 32 (1.24%) Cisco Certification
14 28 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
15 22 (0.85%) CCNP
16 16 (0.62%) CCNA
17 15 (0.58%) CREST Certified
18 14 (0.54%) DBS Check
19 13 (0.50%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 186 (7.19%) QA
2 116 (4.49%) NIST
3 102 (3.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 87 (3.36%) Accessibility
5 72 (2.78%) Data Quality
6 51 (1.97%) GDPR
7 48 (1.86%) ISO 22301
8 33 (1.28%) NCSC
9 31 (1.20%) GRC
10 25 (0.97%) PCI DSS
11 18 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
11 18 (0.70%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 17 (0.66%) SLA
13 16 (0.62%) WCAG
14 11 (0.43%) ISO 9001
14 11 (0.43%) NIST 800
15 8 (0.31%) JSP 440
16 7 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
16 7 (0.27%) PMO
16 7 (0.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 457 (17.67%) Docker
2 60 (2.32%) Active Directory
3 52 (2.01%) VMware Infrastructure
4 34 (1.31%) Hyper-V
5 22 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
6 17 (0.66%) vSphere
7 9 (0.35%) Firmware
8 6 (0.23%) KVM
9 5 (0.19%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 5 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (0.12%) iptables
10 3 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.12%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.039%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.039%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.039%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.039%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 418 (16.16%) Kubernetes
2 122 (4.72%) Grafana
3 115 (4.45%) Ansible
4 38 (1.47%) Prometheus
5 24 (0.93%) Argo
6 17 (0.66%) Istio
7 16 (0.62%) Microsoft Intune
7 16 (0.62%) Progress Chef
8 14 (0.54%) Puppet
9 13 (0.50%) CloudHub
9 13 (0.50%) Podman
10 10 (0.39%) Proxmox
11 8 (0.31%) Cisco CUCM
11 8 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
12 7 (0.27%) CASB
12 7 (0.27%) ZABBIX
13 6 (0.23%) Avamar
13 6 (0.23%) Dell DRAC
13 6 (0.23%) Failover Clustering
13 6 (0.23%) VxRail
Vendors
1 429 (16.59%) Microsoft
2 116 (4.49%) Google
3 112 (4.33%) ServiceNow
4 74 (2.86%) VMware
5 64 (2.47%) Oracle
6 62 (2.40%) Databricks
7 60 (2.32%) Cisco
8 37 (1.43%) Adobe
9 36 (1.39%) OpenAI
9 36 (1.39%) Palo Alto
10 35 (1.35%) Splunk
11 34 (1.31%) SAP
12 31 (1.20%) Fortinet
12 31 (1.20%) Salesforce
13 26 (1.01%) Typelevel
14 25 (0.97%) Apple
15 23 (0.89%) Dynatrace
15 23 (0.89%) SolarWinds
16 21 (0.81%) Informatica
17 20 (0.77%) Okta