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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 13 8
Rank change year-on-year +3 -5 -2
Permanent jobs citing AWS 2,611 2,096 3,639
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 11.51% 12.76% 14.59%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.15% 35.09% 35.57%
Number of salaries quoted 1,703 1,324 2,918
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 £107,500 £105,000
90th Percentile £106,000 £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 8,661 5,973 10,230
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.18% 36.36% 41.03%
Number of salaries quoted 6,278 4,407 8,001
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,063 £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% - -6.25%

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 12 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 (1.57%) Apache Spark
2 36 (1.38%) Apache Airflow
3 24 (0.92%) Apache
3 24 (0.92%) Confluence
4 19 (0.73%) Microsoft Exchange
5 16 (0.61%) Anypoint
5 16 (0.61%) IIS
6 14 (0.54%) WordPress
7 13 (0.50%) Mule
7 13 (0.50%) SharePoint
8 10 (0.38%) CMS
9 7 (0.27%) Jupyter
9 7 (0.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 6 (0.23%) Apache Solr
10 6 (0.23%) SAS
11 4 (0.15%) ArcGIS
11 4 (0.15%) Camunda
11 4 (0.15%) Ethereum
11 4 (0.15%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.11%) GeoServer
Applications
1 87 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (0.42%) MS Visio
4 10 (0.38%) Chatbot
4 10 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.19%) AutoCAD
5 5 (0.19%) DaVinci Resolve
6 4 (0.15%) Moqups
7 2 (0.077%) Elementor
7 2 (0.077%) PlantUML
7 2 (0.077%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.038%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.038%) Houdini
8 1 (0.038%) Lightworks
8 1 (0.038%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.038%) NUKE
8 1 (0.038%) Trello
8 1 (0.038%) Weka
Business Applications
1 24 (0.92%) Cloudability
2 6 (0.23%) NetSuite
2 6 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.11%) Shopify
4 2 (0.077%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.038%) Magento
5 1 (0.038%) Oracle Assets
Cloud Services
1 1,224 (46.88%) Azure
2 662 (25.35%) GCP
3 299 (11.45%) SaaS
4 233 (8.92%) Serverless
5 209 (8.00%) GitHub
6 160 (6.13%) Microsoft 365
7 152 (5.82%) AWS Lambda
8 147 (5.63%) Amazon S3
9 112 (4.29%) AWS CloudFormation
10 92 (3.52%) GitHub Actions
11 91 (3.49%) Amazon EKS
12 90 (3.45%) Amazon EC2
13 86 (3.29%) Amazon ECS
14 69 (2.64%) Amazon SQS
14 69 (2.64%) Snowflake
15 67 (2.57%) Azure DevOps
16 65 (2.49%) GitHub Copilot
17 48 (1.84%) Anthropic Claude
18 47 (1.80%) Entra ID
18 47 (1.80%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 125 (4.79%) Firewall
2 106 (4.06%) Broadband
3 75 (2.87%) VPN
4 74 (2.83%) DNS
5 70 (2.68%) Network Security
6 68 (2.60%) WAN
7 60 (2.30%) LAN
8 58 (2.22%) TCP/IP
9 43 (1.65%) DHCP
10 40 (1.53%) HTTP
11 30 (1.15%) SD-WAN
12 27 (1.03%) Cisco ASA
13 23 (0.88%) VLAN
14 22 (0.84%) SSL
14 22 (0.84%) Wi-Fi
15 20 (0.77%) Cisco Firepower
16 14 (0.54%) BGP
17 12 (0.46%) OSPF
18 11 (0.42%) Internet
18 11 (0.42%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 270 (10.34%) PostgreSQL
2 247 (9.46%) MongoDB
3 121 (4.63%) SQL Server
4 108 (4.14%) Elasticsearch
5 107 (4.10%) MySQL
6 102 (3.91%) NoSQL
7 84 (3.22%) Azure SQL Database
8 63 (2.41%) DynamoDB
9 62 (2.37%) Redis
10 57 (2.18%) Relational Database
11 53 (2.03%) Amazon RDS
12 41 (1.57%) Power BI
13 39 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
14 34 (1.30%) Metadata
15 31 (1.19%) Amazon Athena
16 29 (1.11%) Big Data
17 26 (1.00%) Data Lake
18 24 (0.92%) Amazon Redshift
18 24 (0.92%) Tableau
19 16 (0.61%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 147 (5.63%) Git
2 86 (3.29%) Jenkins
3 82 (3.14%) GitLab
4 64 (2.45%) JIRA
5 58 (2.22%) Cypress.io
6 55 (2.11%) TeamCity
7 44 (1.69%) Claude Code
8 28 (1.07%) JUnit
9 26 (1.00%) Selenium
10 20 (0.77%) Postman
11 19 (0.73%) Maven
12 15 (0.57%) Mockito
13 13 (0.50%) CircleCI
13 13 (0.50%) Crashlytics
13 13 (0.50%) XCTest
14 12 (0.46%) JMeter
15 11 (0.42%) Bitbucket
15 11 (0.42%) Cucumber
16 7 (0.27%) Gatling
16 7 (0.27%) SonarQube
General
1 687 (26.31%) Social Skills
2 607 (23.25%) Finance
3 293 (11.22%) Public Sector
4 237 (9.08%) Banking
4 237 (9.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 208 (7.97%) Law
6 146 (5.59%) Analytical Skills
7 116 (4.44%) Retail
8 80 (3.06%) Legal
9 53 (2.03%) Games
10 48 (1.84%) Financial Institution
10 48 (1.84%) Swedish Language
11 46 (1.76%) Presentation Skills
12 44 (1.69%) Back Office
13 42 (1.61%) Marketing
14 39 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
15 36 (1.38%) French Language
16 34 (1.30%) Front Office
17 33 (1.26%) Telecoms
18 24 (0.92%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 629 (24.09%) Senior
2 551 (21.10%) Developer
3 438 (16.78%) Software Engineer
4 331 (12.68%) Lead
5 290 (11.11%) Architect
6 153 (5.86%) Full-Stack Developer
7 140 (5.36%) AWS Engineer
8 130 (4.98%) Analyst
9 126 (4.83%) DevOps Engineer
10 118 (4.52%) Senior Developer
11 117 (4.48%) .NET Developer
12 115 (4.40%) Senior Software Engineer
13 109 (4.17%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 104 (3.98%) Lead Software Engineer
15 101 (3.87%) Engineering Manager
16 98 (3.75%) Cloud Engineer
16 98 (3.75%) Consultant
17 91 (3.49%) Lead Developer
17 91 (3.49%) Solutions Architect
18 90 (3.45%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 450 (17.23%) React
2 376 (14.40%) Node.js
3 251 (9.61%) .NET
4 199 (7.62%) REST
5 137 (5.25%) Spring
6 132 (5.06%) RESTful
7 130 (4.98%) Vue
8 129 (4.94%) CSS
9 120 (4.60%) .NET Core
9 120 (4.60%) AngularJS
10 110 (4.21%) ASP.NET
11 109 (4.17%) Kafka
12 98 (3.75%) ASP.NET Core
12 98 (3.75%) Spring Boot
13 82 (3.14%) HTML
14 74 (2.83%) .NET Framework
15 72 (2.76%) Middleware
16 64 (2.45%) Ruby on Rails
17 63 (2.41%) LangChain
18 62 (2.37%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 387 (14.82%) Cloud Native
2 192 (7.35%) Product Ownership
3 176 (6.74%) Distributed Systems
4 106 (4.06%) Public Cloud
5 87 (3.33%) AI Agents
6 82 (3.14%) Greenfield Project
7 71 (2.72%) Cyber Threat
8 66 (2.53%) Onboarding
9 60 (2.30%) Video\Live Streaming
10 52 (1.99%) Management Information System
10 52 (1.99%) Self-Motivation
11 49 (1.88%) Enterprise Software
11 49 (1.88%) Security Posture
12 47 (1.80%) Mobile App
13 45 (1.72%) Data Centre
13 45 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
14 44 (1.69%) Blog
15 41 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
16 36 (1.38%) Low-Code
17 34 (1.30%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 220 (8.43%) Linux
2 161 (6.17%) Windows
3 63 (2.41%) Unix
4 59 (2.26%) Windows Server
5 32 (1.23%) Apple iOS
6 18 (0.69%) Android
7 12 (0.46%) Ubuntu
8 7 (0.27%) Mac OS
9 6 (0.23%) Windows 10
9 6 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (0.15%) Debian
10 4 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
10 4 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.077%) CentOS
11 2 (0.077%) Solaris
12 1 (0.038%) FreeBSD
12 1 (0.038%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 911 (34.89%) CI/CD
2 893 (34.20%) Agile
3 780 (29.87%) Software Engineering
4 616 (23.59%) DevOps
5 570 (21.83%) Mentoring
6 548 (20.99%) AI
7 503 (19.26%) Full-Stack Development
8 494 (18.92%) Microservices
9 478 (18.31%) Continuous Improvement
10 459 (17.58%) Infrastructure as Code
11 422 (16.16%) Problem-Solving
11 422 (16.16%) Test Automation
12 379 (14.52%) Technical Leadership
13 331 (12.68%) Roadmaps
14 328 (12.56%) Containerisation
15 287 (10.99%) Scrum
16 269 (10.30%) Coaching
17 262 (10.03%) Observability
18 260 (9.96%) Clean Code
19 252 (9.65%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 676 (25.89%) Python
2 514 (19.69%) Java
3 418 (16.01%) TypeScript
4 413 (15.82%) JavaScript
5 403 (15.43%) SQL
6 297 (11.37%) C#
7 153 (5.86%) Go
8 86 (3.29%) Bash
9 79 (3.03%) Ruby
10 75 (2.87%) PowerShell
11 70 (2.68%) C++
11 70 (2.68%) PHP
12 56 (2.14%) Scala
13 37 (1.42%) Kotlin
14 24 (0.92%) Rust
15 19 (0.73%) PL/SQL
16 16 (0.61%) DataWeave
16 16 (0.61%) Swift
17 15 (0.57%) Bicep
18 11 (0.42%) C
Qualifications
1 424 (16.24%) Security Cleared
2 361 (13.83%) SC Cleared
3 304 (11.64%) Degree
4 177 (6.78%) AWS Certification
5 121 (4.63%) CISSP
6 99 (3.79%) CISM
7 92 (3.52%) Microsoft Certification
8 90 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
9 79 (3.03%) MCSE
10 59 (2.26%) Azure Certification
11 55 (2.11%) DV Cleared
12 50 (1.91%) ITIL Certification
13 36 (1.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 34 (1.30%) Cisco Certification
15 25 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
16 23 (0.88%) CCNP
17 17 (0.65%) CREST Certified
17 17 (0.65%) DBS Check
18 16 (0.61%) CCNA
18 16 (0.61%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 190 (7.28%) QA
2 118 (4.52%) NIST
3 98 (3.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 81 (3.10%) Accessibility
5 65 (2.49%) Data Quality
6 55 (2.11%) GDPR
7 48 (1.84%) ISO 22301
8 30 (1.15%) GRC
9 29 (1.11%) NCSC
10 26 (1.00%) PCI DSS
11 19 (0.73%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 16 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
12 16 (0.61%) WCAG
13 14 (0.54%) SLA
14 11 (0.42%) ISO 9001
15 10 (0.38%) JSP 440
15 10 (0.38%) NIST 800
16 9 (0.34%) SOC 2
17 7 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
17 7 (0.27%) PMO
System Software
1 456 (17.46%) Docker
2 67 (2.57%) Active Directory
3 56 (2.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 36 (1.38%) Hyper-V
5 23 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
6 20 (0.77%) vSphere
7 8 (0.31%) Firmware
8 7 (0.27%) KVM
8 7 (0.27%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 7 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
9 4 (0.15%) VMware NSX
10 3 (0.11%) iptables
10 3 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.077%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 2 (0.077%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.038%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.038%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 429 (16.43%) Terraform
2 408 (15.63%) Kubernetes
3 115 (4.40%) Ansible
4 113 (4.33%) Grafana
5 37 (1.42%) Prometheus
6 23 (0.88%) Argo
7 20 (0.77%) Microsoft Intune
8 17 (0.65%) Progress Chef
9 16 (0.61%) Istio
10 14 (0.54%) Puppet
11 13 (0.50%) CloudHub
11 13 (0.50%) Podman
12 12 (0.46%) Proxmox
13 10 (0.38%) Cisco CUCM
14 7 (0.27%) CASB
14 7 (0.27%) Packer
14 7 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
14 7 (0.27%) ZABBIX
15 6 (0.23%) EMC VPLEX
15 6 (0.23%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 436 (16.70%) Microsoft
2 123 (4.71%) Google
3 119 (4.56%) ServiceNow
4 80 (3.06%) VMware
5 71 (2.72%) Cisco
6 66 (2.53%) Oracle
7 56 (2.14%) Databricks
8 41 (1.57%) Palo Alto
9 34 (1.30%) Fortinet
9 34 (1.30%) Salesforce
9 34 (1.30%) SAP
10 33 (1.26%) Splunk
11 30 (1.15%) Adobe
12 29 (1.11%) Apple
12 29 (1.11%) OpenAI
13 27 (1.03%) Typelevel
14 23 (0.88%) Okta
14 23 (0.88%) SolarWinds
15 21 (0.80%) MuleSoft
16 20 (0.77%) Dynatrace