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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 15 8
Rank change year-on-year +5 -7 -2
Permanent jobs citing AWS 2,503 2,019 3,471
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 10.10% 12.02% 16.02%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.20% 35.11% 37.74%
Number of salaries quoted 1,659 1,223 2,377
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £54,551 £59,375 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £77,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% - +10.71%
75th Percentile £90,000 £110,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £109,000 £136,250 £142,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £74,915 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.22% -0.11% +3.45%

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 8,572 5,750 9,196
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 34.59% 34.24% 42.43%
Number of salaries quoted 6,289 4,073 6,052
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £36,750
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 £82,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £59,186 £65,000
% change year-on-year +5.60% -8.94% +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 9 October 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 34 (1.36%) Apache Spark
2 30 (1.20%) Confluence
3 26 (1.04%) Apache Airflow
4 25 (1.00%) Apache
5 16 (0.64%) Anypoint
6 15 (0.60%) IIS
6 15 (0.60%) SharePoint
7 13 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
7 13 (0.52%) Mule
8 12 (0.48%) WordPress
9 10 (0.40%) CMS
10 9 (0.36%) Jupyter
10 9 (0.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 8 (0.32%) WebLogic
12 6 (0.24%) SAS
13 5 (0.20%) ArcGIS
13 5 (0.20%) Camunda
13 5 (0.20%) nginx
14 4 (0.16%) GeoServer
14 4 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 60 (2.40%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (0.68%) Chatbot
3 16 (0.64%) Microsoft Excel
4 10 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (0.28%) Moqups
6 6 (0.24%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.080%) Elementor
7 2 (0.080%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.080%) PlantUML
7 2 (0.080%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.080%) Weka
8 1 (0.040%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.040%) Houdini
8 1 (0.040%) Lightworks
8 1 (0.040%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 19 (0.76%) Cloudability
2 6 (0.24%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.080%) Oracle Applications
4 2 (0.080%) Oracle EBS R12
4 2 (0.080%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.080%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.040%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
5 1 (0.040%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.040%) Finacle
5 1 (0.040%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.040%) Shopify
5 1 (0.040%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 1,173 (46.86%) Azure
2 649 (25.93%) GCP
3 340 (13.58%) SaaS
4 209 (8.35%) Serverless
5 207 (8.27%) GitHub
6 154 (6.15%) AWS Lambda
7 145 (5.79%) Amazon S3
7 145 (5.79%) Microsoft 365
8 121 (4.83%) Amazon EKS
9 99 (3.96%) AWS CloudFormation
10 96 (3.84%) Amazon EC2
11 93 (3.72%) GitHub Actions
12 91 (3.64%) Snowflake
13 77 (3.08%) Amazon ECS
14 71 (2.84%) GitHub Copilot
15 68 (2.72%) Anthropic Claude
16 64 (2.56%) Amazon Bedrock
17 58 (2.32%) Amazon SQS
18 56 (2.24%) Azure DevOps
19 55 (2.20%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 100 (4.00%) Firewall
2 73 (2.92%) Network Security
3 69 (2.76%) VPN
4 57 (2.28%) TCP/IP
5 52 (2.08%) DNS
6 50 (2.00%) Broadband
7 47 (1.88%) WAN
8 39 (1.56%) LAN
9 34 (1.36%) DHCP
10 31 (1.24%) HTTP
11 24 (0.96%) BGP
11 24 (0.96%) SD-WAN
12 18 (0.72%) VLAN
13 15 (0.60%) SSL
13 15 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
14 14 (0.56%) Cisco ASA
15 12 (0.48%) AMQP
15 12 (0.48%) SMS
16 11 (0.44%) IP Telephony
17 10 (0.40%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 285 (11.39%) PostgreSQL
2 217 (8.67%) MongoDB
3 99 (3.96%) SQL Server
4 97 (3.88%) Elasticsearch
5 93 (3.72%) MySQL
6 82 (3.28%) NoSQL
7 81 (3.24%) Azure SQL Database
8 73 (2.92%) Relational Database
9 63 (2.52%) DynamoDB
10 62 (2.48%) Amazon RDS
11 55 (2.20%) Redis
12 49 (1.96%) Power BI
13 48 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
14 41 (1.64%) Amazon Athena
15 38 (1.52%) Metadata
16 33 (1.32%) Data Lake
17 31 (1.24%) Tableau
18 26 (1.04%) Amazon Redshift
19 24 (0.96%) Big Data
20 23 (0.92%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 150 (5.99%) Git
2 98 (3.92%) TeamCity
3 87 (3.48%) Jenkins
4 85 (3.40%) GitLab
5 69 (2.76%) Claude Code
6 60 (2.40%) JIRA
7 46 (1.84%) Cypress.io
8 39 (1.56%) JUnit
9 27 (1.08%) Selenium
10 23 (0.92%) Mockito
10 23 (0.92%) Postman
11 20 (0.80%) Maven
12 11 (0.44%) Bitbucket
13 8 (0.32%) SonarQube
14 6 (0.24%) Burp Suite
14 6 (0.24%) Cucumber
14 6 (0.24%) Gatling
14 6 (0.24%) Metasploit
15 5 (0.20%) JMeter
15 5 (0.20%) NUnit
General
1 674 (26.93%) Social Skills
2 617 (24.65%) Finance
3 356 (14.22%) Public Sector
4 307 (12.27%) Banking
5 274 (10.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 231 (9.23%) Law
7 187 (7.47%) Analytical Skills
8 160 (6.39%) Retail
9 87 (3.48%) Financial Institution
10 85 (3.40%) Back Office
11 80 (3.20%) Legal
12 51 (2.04%) Marketing
12 51 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
13 48 (1.92%) Games
14 44 (1.76%) Swedish Language
15 43 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
16 33 (1.32%) Telecoms
17 30 (1.20%) Tech for Good
18 29 (1.16%) Health Technology
19 28 (1.12%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 635 (25.37%) Senior
2 472 (18.86%) Developer
3 442 (17.66%) Software Engineer
4 306 (12.23%) Architect
5 295 (11.79%) Lead
6 124 (4.95%) Analyst
7 123 (4.91%) DevOps Engineer
7 123 (4.91%) Full-Stack Developer
8 122 (4.87%) Senior Developer
9 120 (4.79%) AWS Engineer
10 118 (4.71%) Senior Software Engineer
11 101 (4.04%) .NET Developer
12 97 (3.88%) Cloud Engineer
13 96 (3.84%) Python Engineer
14 88 (3.52%) Consultant
15 87 (3.48%) Lead Software Engineer
16 85 (3.40%) Data Engineer
17 79 (3.16%) Engineering Manager
18 78 (3.12%) Software Developer
19 77 (3.08%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 466 (18.62%) Terraform
2 374 (14.94%) React
3 320 (12.78%) Node.js
4 257 (10.27%) .NET
5 188 (7.51%) REST
6 162 (6.47%) Spring
7 137 (5.47%) RESTful
8 124 (4.95%) Spring Boot
9 115 (4.59%) .NET Core
10 112 (4.47%) Vue
11 109 (4.35%) AngularJS
12 106 (4.23%) ASP.NET
13 94 (3.76%) ASP.NET Core
14 88 (3.52%) LangChain
15 83 (3.32%) Middleware
16 81 (3.24%) CSS
17 75 (3.00%) Kafka
18 67 (2.68%) .NET Framework
19 63 (2.52%) LangGraph
19 63 (2.52%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 423 (16.90%) Cloud Native
2 182 (7.27%) Distributed Systems
3 181 (7.23%) Product Ownership
4 126 (5.03%) AI Agents
5 96 (3.84%) Public Cloud
6 77 (3.08%) Cyber Threat
7 66 (2.64%) Blog
8 62 (2.48%) Greenfield Project
9 59 (2.36%) Onboarding
10 55 (2.20%) Hybrid Cloud
11 53 (2.12%) Hedge funds
12 48 (1.92%) Security Posture
13 45 (1.80%) Enterprise Software
14 42 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
15 40 (1.60%) Data Centre
16 39 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
17 38 (1.52%) Management Information System
18 30 (1.20%) Mobile App
19 28 (1.12%) Data Structures
19 28 (1.12%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 219 (8.75%) Linux
2 155 (6.19%) Windows
3 71 (2.84%) Unix
4 53 (2.12%) Windows Server
5 26 (1.04%) Apple iOS
6 19 (0.76%) Android
7 16 (0.64%) Ubuntu
8 8 (0.32%) Mac OS
9 7 (0.28%) Debian
10 3 (0.12%) CentOS
10 3 (0.12%) Robot Operating System
10 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (0.080%) Solaris
12 1 (0.040%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 1 (0.040%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 937 (37.44%) CI/CD
2 822 (32.84%) Agile
3 778 (31.08%) Software Engineering
4 634 (25.33%) AI
5 598 (23.89%) Mentoring
6 596 (23.81%) DevOps
7 477 (19.06%) Continuous Improvement
8 472 (18.86%) Microservices
9 452 (18.06%) Problem-Solving
10 431 (17.22%) Full-Stack Development
10 431 (17.22%) Infrastructure as Code
11 416 (16.62%) Test Automation
12 381 (15.22%) Technical Leadership
13 310 (12.39%) Roadmaps
14 292 (11.67%) Coaching
15 280 (11.19%) Scrum
16 270 (10.79%) Observability
17 269 (10.75%) Containerisation
18 247 (9.87%) Machine Learning
19 229 (9.15%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 648 (25.89%) Python
2 550 (21.97%) Java
3 425 (16.98%) SQL
4 379 (15.14%) JavaScript
5 350 (13.98%) TypeScript
6 278 (11.11%) C#
7 107 (4.27%) Bash
8 103 (4.12%) Go
9 85 (3.40%) PowerShell
10 66 (2.64%) Ruby
11 56 (2.24%) C++
12 51 (2.04%) PHP
13 33 (1.32%) Kotlin
14 24 (0.96%) Rust
15 23 (0.92%) R
15 23 (0.92%) Scala
16 21 (0.84%) PL/SQL
17 16 (0.64%) DataWeave
18 13 (0.52%) Bicep
19 11 (0.44%) C
Qualifications
1 436 (17.42%) Security Cleared
2 360 (14.38%) SC Cleared
3 261 (10.43%) Degree
4 162 (6.47%) AWS Certification
5 119 (4.75%) CISSP
6 107 (4.27%) CISM
7 74 (2.96%) Microsoft Certification
8 73 (2.92%) Computer Science Degree
9 66 (2.64%) Azure Certification
10 61 (2.44%) MCSE
11 50 (2.00%) ITIL Certification
12 46 (1.84%) DV Cleared
13 41 (1.64%) Cisco Certification
14 33 (1.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 29 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
16 25 (1.00%) CCNP
17 23 (0.92%) CCNA
18 18 (0.72%) Microsoft Certified Professional
19 16 (0.64%) (ISC)2 CCSP
19 16 (0.64%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 153 (6.11%) QA
2 122 (4.87%) NIST
3 111 (4.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 100 (4.00%) Data Quality
5 75 (3.00%) Accessibility
6 59 (2.36%) GDPR
7 48 (1.92%) ISO 22301
8 37 (1.48%) NCSC
8 37 (1.48%) PCI DSS
9 29 (1.16%) GRC
10 27 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials
11 20 (0.80%) SOC 2
12 15 (0.60%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 13 (0.52%) SLA
14 12 (0.48%) NIST 800
15 11 (0.44%) WCAG
16 9 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 9 (0.36%) ISO 9001
16 9 (0.36%) PMO
17 7 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 424 (16.94%) Docker
2 51 (2.04%) Active Directory
3 48 (1.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 41 (1.64%) Hyper-V
5 15 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
6 11 (0.44%) vSphere
7 6 (0.24%) KVM
8 3 (0.12%) Firmware
8 3 (0.12%) iptables
8 3 (0.12%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.080%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 2 (0.080%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.080%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.080%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.040%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.040%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 450 (17.98%) Kubernetes
2 154 (6.15%) Grafana
3 112 (4.47%) Ansible
4 45 (1.80%) Prometheus
5 23 (0.92%) Argo
5 23 (0.92%) Microsoft Intune
6 19 (0.76%) Progress Chef
7 15 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
8 13 (0.52%) CloudHub
9 11 (0.44%) Packer
10 10 (0.40%) Proxmox
10 10 (0.40%) Puppet
11 9 (0.36%) Istio
12 8 (0.32%) CASB
13 7 (0.28%) Cilium
13 7 (0.28%) ZABBIX
14 6 (0.24%) Dell DRAC
14 6 (0.24%) EMC NetWorker
14 6 (0.24%) EMC VPLEX
14 6 (0.24%) Nmap
Vendors
1 382 (15.26%) Microsoft
2 141 (5.63%) Google
3 95 (3.80%) ServiceNow
4 80 (3.20%) Databricks
5 74 (2.96%) VMware
6 73 (2.92%) Oracle
7 43 (1.72%) Cisco
8 42 (1.68%) OpenAI
9 33 (1.32%) SAP
10 30 (1.20%) Adobe
11 27 (1.08%) Splunk
12 24 (0.96%) Dynatrace
12 24 (0.96%) Salesforce
13 22 (0.88%) Informatica
13 22 (0.88%) Palo Alto
14 21 (0.84%) Fortinet
15 20 (0.80%) Apple
15 20 (0.80%) MuleSoft
15 20 (0.80%) Okta
16 16 (0.64%) Ping Identity