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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 13 8
Rank change year-on-year +3 -5 -2
Permanent jobs citing AWS 2,521 2,155 4,216
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 11.67% 13.08% 14.47%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.00% 35.37% 35.08%
Number of salaries quoted 1,629 1,366 3,525
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% - +0.67%
75th Percentile £89,500 £108,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £135,000 £138,750
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 8,403 6,093 12,017
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.90% 36.99% 41.23%
Number of salaries quoted 5,999 4,492 9,798
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -2.44% -5.38%
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 21 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 47 (1.86%) Apache Airflow
2 40 (1.59%) Apache Spark
3 22 (0.87%) Apache
3 22 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
4 15 (0.60%) IIS
5 14 (0.56%) Anypoint
5 14 (0.56%) CMS
6 13 (0.52%) Confluence
6 13 (0.52%) SharePoint
7 11 (0.44%) Mule
8 9 (0.36%) WordPress
9 7 (0.28%) Jupyter
10 6 (0.24%) Apache Solr
10 6 (0.24%) SAS
11 4 (0.16%) Ethereum
11 4 (0.16%) nginx
11 4 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.12%) DNN
12 3 (0.12%) EPiServer
12 3 (0.12%) Umbraco
Applications
1 93 (3.69%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.36%) MS Visio
3 7 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.24%) Microsoft Excel
5 5 (0.20%) AutoCAD
5 5 (0.20%) DaVinci Resolve
6 4 (0.16%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.079%) Elementor
7 2 (0.079%) PlantUML
8 1 (0.040%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.040%) Houdini
8 1 (0.040%) Lightworks
8 1 (0.040%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.040%) Moqups
8 1 (0.040%) NUKE
8 1 (0.040%) Trello
Business Applications
1 24 (0.95%) Cloudability
2 6 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.12%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.079%) Shopify
6 1 (0.040%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.040%) Magento
6 1 (0.040%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.040%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,138 (45.14%) Azure
2 630 (24.99%) GCP
3 287 (11.38%) SaaS
4 234 (9.28%) Serverless
5 191 (7.58%) GitHub
6 161 (6.39%) Microsoft 365
7 156 (6.19%) Amazon S3
8 151 (5.99%) AWS Lambda
9 114 (4.52%) Amazon EKS
10 96 (3.81%) Amazon EC2
10 96 (3.81%) AWS CloudFormation
11 87 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
12 86 (3.41%) Amazon ECS
13 68 (2.70%) Amazon SQS
14 63 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
15 57 (2.26%) Entra ID
16 56 (2.22%) GitHub Copilot
17 52 (2.06%) Snowflake
18 51 (2.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 42 (1.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 138 (5.47%) Firewall
2 123 (4.88%) Broadband
3 86 (3.41%) VPN
4 74 (2.94%) DNS
5 70 (2.78%) WAN
6 64 (2.54%) LAN
7 63 (2.50%) Network Security
8 52 (2.06%) TCP/IP
9 46 (1.82%) DHCP
10 38 (1.51%) HTTP
11 36 (1.43%) Wi-Fi
12 31 (1.23%) SD-WAN
13 28 (1.11%) Cisco ASA
14 24 (0.95%) Cisco Firepower
15 23 (0.91%) VLAN
16 20 (0.79%) BGP
16 20 (0.79%) SSL
17 19 (0.75%) VXLAN
18 16 (0.63%) MPLS
18 16 (0.63%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 261 (10.35%) PostgreSQL
2 252 (10.00%) MongoDB
3 109 (4.32%) Elasticsearch
4 107 (4.24%) MySQL
4 107 (4.24%) SQL Server
5 104 (4.13%) NoSQL
6 84 (3.33%) Azure SQL Database
7 58 (2.30%) Amazon RDS
8 56 (2.22%) Relational Database
9 53 (2.10%) DynamoDB
10 50 (1.98%) Redis
11 41 (1.63%) Metadata
12 35 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
13 33 (1.31%) Amazon Athena
14 28 (1.11%) Amazon Redshift
15 26 (1.03%) Power BI
16 25 (0.99%) Big Data
17 24 (0.95%) Data Lake
18 21 (0.83%) Tableau
19 20 (0.79%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 126 (5.00%) Git
2 82 (3.25%) GitLab
2 82 (3.25%) Jenkins
3 64 (2.54%) TeamCity
4 51 (2.02%) Cypress.io
5 48 (1.90%) JIRA
6 35 (1.39%) Claude Code
7 18 (0.71%) JUnit
8 17 (0.67%) Selenium
9 15 (0.60%) Maven
10 14 (0.56%) Crashlytics
10 14 (0.56%) XCTest
11 13 (0.52%) CircleCI
11 13 (0.52%) JMeter
12 12 (0.48%) Postman
13 10 (0.40%) Mockito
14 8 (0.32%) Cucumber
15 6 (0.24%) Bitbucket
15 6 (0.24%) MLflow
15 6 (0.24%) Storybook
General
1 622 (24.67%) Social Skills
2 570 (22.61%) Finance
3 286 (11.34%) Public Sector
4 238 (9.44%) Banking
5 235 (9.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 220 (8.73%) Law
7 142 (5.63%) Retail
8 134 (5.32%) Analytical Skills
9 69 (2.74%) Legal
10 56 (2.22%) Back Office
11 54 (2.14%) Financial Institution
12 50 (1.98%) Games
13 48 (1.90%) Swedish Language
14 43 (1.71%) Front Office
15 38 (1.51%) Influencing Skills
16 34 (1.35%) Marketing
16 34 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
17 33 (1.31%) French Language
18 26 (1.03%) Telecoms
19 21 (0.83%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 607 (24.08%) Senior
2 549 (21.78%) Developer
3 440 (17.45%) Software Engineer
4 318 (12.61%) Lead
5 281 (11.15%) Architect
6 151 (5.99%) Full-Stack Developer
7 147 (5.83%) AWS Engineer
8 125 (4.96%) Analyst
9 121 (4.80%) DevOps Engineer
9 121 (4.80%) Senior Software Engineer
10 119 (4.72%) .NET Developer
11 115 (4.56%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 112 (4.44%) Lead Software Engineer
13 107 (4.24%) Senior Developer
14 100 (3.97%) Solutions Architect
15 96 (3.81%) Engineering Manager
16 95 (3.77%) Consultant
17 93 (3.69%) Lead Developer
18 90 (3.57%) Software Developer
19 88 (3.49%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 426 (16.90%) React
2 373 (14.80%) Node.js
3 229 (9.08%) .NET
4 170 (6.74%) REST
5 133 (5.28%) RESTful
6 131 (5.20%) Vue
7 126 (5.00%) Spring
8 125 (4.96%) Kafka
9 124 (4.92%) CSS
10 110 (4.36%) AngularJS
11 109 (4.32%) .NET Core
12 104 (4.13%) ASP.NET
13 96 (3.81%) ASP.NET Core
14 91 (3.61%) Spring Boot
15 84 (3.33%) HTML
16 69 (2.74%) .NET Framework
17 68 (2.70%) Middleware
18 57 (2.26%) Ruby on Rails
19 50 (1.98%) OAuth
19 50 (1.98%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 398 (15.79%) Cloud Native
2 196 (7.77%) Product Ownership
3 188 (7.46%) Distributed Systems
4 93 (3.69%) Public Cloud
5 81 (3.21%) Greenfield Project
6 78 (3.09%) Video\Live Streaming
7 68 (2.70%) Onboarding
8 64 (2.54%) Cyber Threat
9 58 (2.30%) AI Agents
9 58 (2.30%) Management Information System
10 55 (2.18%) Data Centre
11 51 (2.02%) Blog
12 50 (1.98%) Security Posture
13 46 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
13 46 (1.82%) Over-the-Top Content
14 44 (1.75%) Fixed Income
15 43 (1.71%) Hybrid Cloud
16 42 (1.67%) Mobile App
17 41 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
18 34 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 207 (8.21%) Linux
2 157 (6.23%) Windows
3 62 (2.46%) Windows Server
4 53 (2.10%) Unix
5 35 (1.39%) Apple iOS
6 20 (0.79%) Android
7 13 (0.52%) 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%) Mac OS X
15 1 (0.040%) OpenBSD
15 1 (0.040%) Windows 7
15 1 (0.040%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 880 (34.91%) CI/CD
2 838 (33.24%) Agile
3 767 (30.42%) Software Engineering
4 591 (23.44%) DevOps
5 554 (21.98%) Mentoring
6 502 (19.91%) Full-Stack Development
7 500 (19.83%) Microservices
8 465 (18.45%) AI
9 433 (17.18%) Continuous Improvement
10 431 (17.10%) Infrastructure as Code
11 425 (16.86%) Test Automation
12 423 (16.78%) Problem-Solving
13 346 (13.72%) Technical Leadership
14 332 (13.17%) Containerisation
15 304 (12.06%) Roadmaps
16 288 (11.42%) Coaching
17 262 (10.39%) Clean Code
18 261 (10.35%) Scrum
19 245 (9.72%) Machine Learning
20 236 (9.36%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 664 (26.34%) Python
2 514 (20.39%) Java
3 391 (15.51%) TypeScript
4 388 (15.39%) JavaScript
5 377 (14.95%) SQL
6 278 (11.03%) C#
7 184 (7.30%) Go
8 96 (3.81%) Bash
9 74 (2.94%) Scala
10 71 (2.82%) C++
10 71 (2.82%) PHP
10 71 (2.82%) PowerShell
11 69 (2.74%) Ruby
12 32 (1.27%) Kotlin
13 28 (1.11%) Rust
14 16 (0.63%) Bicep
15 14 (0.56%) DataWeave
15 14 (0.56%) PL/SQL
15 14 (0.56%) Swift
16 10 (0.40%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 358 (14.20%) Security Cleared
2 305 (12.10%) SC Cleared
3 300 (11.90%) Degree
4 171 (6.78%) AWS Certification
5 120 (4.76%) CISSP
6 96 (3.81%) Microsoft Certification
7 95 (3.77%) CISM
8 89 (3.53%) Computer Science Degree
9 83 (3.29%) MCSE
10 53 (2.10%) Azure Certification
11 47 (1.86%) ITIL Certification
12 44 (1.75%) DV Cleared
13 37 (1.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 35 (1.39%) Cisco Certification
15 24 (0.95%) CCNP
16 19 (0.75%) CREST Certified
17 18 (0.71%) Master's Degree
18 17 (0.67%) CCNA
18 17 (0.67%) CRISC
18 17 (0.67%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 185 (7.34%) QA
2 113 (4.48%) NIST
3 96 (3.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 58 (2.30%) Accessibility
5 57 (2.26%) Data Quality
6 50 (1.98%) GDPR
7 45 (1.79%) ISO 22301
8 31 (1.23%) PCI DSS
9 30 (1.19%) GRC
10 24 (0.95%) NCSC
11 20 (0.79%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 17 (0.67%) SOC 2
13 16 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
14 12 (0.48%) WCAG
15 11 (0.44%) ISO 9001
15 11 (0.44%) JSP 440
16 10 (0.40%) NIST 800
16 10 (0.40%) SLA
17 7 (0.28%) Government Security Classifications
17 7 (0.28%) PMO
System Software
1 436 (17.29%) Docker
2 71 (2.82%) Active Directory
3 50 (1.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 43 (1.71%) Hyper-V
5 20 (0.79%) 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
1 412 (16.34%) Terraform
2 403 (15.99%) Kubernetes
3 118 (4.68%) Grafana
4 113 (4.48%) Ansible
5 39 (1.55%) Prometheus
6 27 (1.07%) Microsoft Intune
7 23 (0.91%) Argo
8 16 (0.63%) Progress Chef
9 15 (0.60%) Proxmox
10 14 (0.56%) Puppet
10 14 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
11 13 (0.52%) Istio
11 13 (0.52%) Podman
12 11 (0.44%) CloudHub
13 10 (0.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 9 (0.36%) Cisco CUCM
15 7 (0.28%) Packer
15 7 (0.28%) ZABBIX
16 6 (0.24%) EMC VPLEX
16 6 (0.24%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 422 (16.74%) Microsoft
2 124 (4.92%) ServiceNow
3 94 (3.73%) Google
4 80 (3.17%) VMware
5 68 (2.70%) Cisco
6 60 (2.38%) Oracle
7 47 (1.86%) Databricks
8 45 (1.79%) Typelevel
9 37 (1.47%) Fortinet
9 37 (1.47%) Palo Alto
10 34 (1.35%) Apple
11 32 (1.27%) Splunk
12 30 (1.19%) Adobe
12 30 (1.19%) SAP
13 28 (1.11%) Salesforce
13 28 (1.11%) SolarWinds
14 21 (0.83%) Dell
14 21 (0.83%) OpenAI
15 20 (0.79%) Dynatrace
15 20 (0.79%) MuleSoft