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

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 13 8
Rank change year-on-year +3 -5 -2
Permanent jobs citing AWS 2,509 2,005 3,465
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 10.10% 12.02% 16.00%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.12% 34.94% 37.78%
Number of salaries quoted 1,658 1,211 2,355
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,222 £46,250
25th Percentile £54,551 £60,000 £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 £108,750
90th Percentile £110,000 £136,250 £142,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% - +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 8,617 5,738 9,171
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 34.67% 34.41% 42.36%
Number of salaries quoted 6,317 4,064 6,015
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £36,738
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 £59,000 £64,000
% change year-on-year +5.93% -7.81% +2.40%

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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

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Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing AWS over the 6 months to 10 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 31 (1.24%) Confluence
3 27 (1.08%) 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
10 9 (0.36%) WebLogic
11 6 (0.24%) SAS
12 5 (0.20%) ArcGIS
12 5 (0.20%) Camunda
12 5 (0.20%) nginx
13 4 (0.16%) GeoServer
13 4 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 60 (2.39%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (0.72%) 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 1,177 (46.91%) Azure
2 659 (26.27%) GCP
3 347 (13.83%) SaaS
4 212 (8.45%) GitHub
5 206 (8.21%) Serverless
6 155 (6.18%) AWS Lambda
7 146 (5.82%) Amazon S3
7 146 (5.82%) Microsoft 365
8 124 (4.94%) Amazon EKS
9 98 (3.91%) AWS CloudFormation
10 96 (3.83%) Amazon EC2
11 95 (3.79%) Snowflake
12 93 (3.71%) GitHub Actions
13 76 (3.03%) Amazon ECS
14 72 (2.87%) GitHub Copilot
15 68 (2.71%) Anthropic Claude
16 67 (2.67%) Amazon Bedrock
17 59 (2.35%) Amazon SQS
18 57 (2.27%) Power Platform
19 54 (2.15%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 101 (4.03%) Firewall
2 74 (2.95%) Network Security
3 70 (2.79%) VPN
4 58 (2.31%) TCP/IP
5 51 (2.03%) DNS
6 50 (1.99%) Broadband
7 47 (1.87%) WAN
8 39 (1.55%) LAN
9 33 (1.32%) DHCP
10 31 (1.24%) HTTP
11 26 (1.04%) BGP
12 24 (0.96%) SD-WAN
13 22 (0.88%) VLAN
14 15 (0.60%) Cisco ASA
14 15 (0.60%) SSL
14 15 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
15 12 (0.48%) AMQP
15 12 (0.48%) SMS
16 11 (0.44%) IP Telephony
17 10 (0.40%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 287 (11.44%) PostgreSQL
2 215 (8.57%) MongoDB
3 101 (4.03%) SQL Server
4 96 (3.83%) Elasticsearch
5 94 (3.75%) MySQL
6 81 (3.23%) Azure SQL Database
6 81 (3.23%) NoSQL
7 73 (2.91%) Relational Database
8 64 (2.55%) Amazon RDS
9 63 (2.51%) DynamoDB
10 57 (2.27%) Redis
11 51 (2.03%) Power BI
12 48 (1.91%) Data Warehouse
13 41 (1.63%) Amazon Athena
14 39 (1.55%) Metadata
15 33 (1.32%) Data Lake
16 31 (1.24%) Tableau
17 26 (1.04%) Amazon Redshift
18 24 (0.96%) Big Data
19 23 (0.92%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 151 (6.02%) Git
2 102 (4.07%) TeamCity
3 87 (3.47%) Jenkins
4 85 (3.39%) GitLab
5 69 (2.75%) Claude Code
6 62 (2.47%) JIRA
7 47 (1.87%) Cypress.io
8 40 (1.59%) JUnit
9 27 (1.08%) Selenium
10 24 (0.96%) Mockito
11 23 (0.92%) Postman
12 20 (0.80%) Maven
13 11 (0.44%) Bitbucket
14 8 (0.32%) SonarQube
15 7 (0.28%) Burp Suite
15 7 (0.28%) Metasploit
16 6 (0.24%) Cucumber
16 6 (0.24%) Gatling
17 5 (0.20%) NUnit
17 5 (0.20%) Poetry
General
1 683 (27.22%) Social Skills
2 622 (24.79%) Finance
3 355 (14.15%) Public Sector
4 315 (12.55%) Banking
5 279 (11.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 236 (9.41%) Law
7 189 (7.53%) Analytical Skills
8 167 (6.66%) Retail
9 89 (3.55%) Financial Institution
10 87 (3.47%) Back Office
11 83 (3.31%) Legal
12 55 (2.19%) Marketing
13 51 (2.03%) Presentation Skills
14 48 (1.91%) Games
15 44 (1.75%) Swedish Language
16 42 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
17 34 (1.36%) Telecoms
18 31 (1.24%) Front Office
19 30 (1.20%) Health Technology
19 30 (1.20%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 636 (25.35%) Senior
2 478 (19.05%) Developer
3 446 (17.78%) Software Engineer
4 306 (12.20%) Architect
5 295 (11.76%) Lead
6 125 (4.98%) Analyst
6 125 (4.98%) Full-Stack Developer
7 124 (4.94%) Senior Developer
8 121 (4.82%) Senior Software Engineer
9 120 (4.78%) AWS Engineer
9 120 (4.78%) DevOps Engineer
10 102 (4.07%) .NET Developer
11 100 (3.99%) Python Engineer
12 96 (3.83%) Cloud Engineer
13 89 (3.55%) Consultant
14 88 (3.51%) Data Engineer
15 87 (3.47%) Lead Software Engineer
16 81 (3.23%) Software Developer
17 79 (3.15%) Java Engineer
18 77 (3.07%) Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 473 (18.85%) Terraform
2 369 (14.71%) React
3 318 (12.67%) Node.js
4 258 (10.28%) .NET
5 188 (7.49%) REST
6 163 (6.50%) Spring
7 141 (5.62%) RESTful
8 125 (4.98%) Spring Boot
9 115 (4.58%) .NET Core
10 113 (4.50%) Vue
11 109 (4.34%) AngularJS
12 107 (4.26%) ASP.NET
13 94 (3.75%) ASP.NET Core
14 91 (3.63%) LangChain
15 83 (3.31%) Middleware
16 82 (3.27%) CSS
17 76 (3.03%) Kafka
18 67 (2.67%) .NET Framework
19 66 (2.63%) LangGraph
20 62 (2.47%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 426 (16.98%) Cloud Native
2 185 (7.37%) Distributed Systems
3 178 (7.09%) Product Ownership
4 129 (5.14%) AI Agents
5 96 (3.83%) Public Cloud
6 77 (3.07%) Cyber Threat
7 69 (2.75%) Blog
8 62 (2.47%) Onboarding
9 59 (2.35%) Greenfield Project
10 56 (2.23%) Hedge funds
11 55 (2.19%) Hybrid Cloud
12 49 (1.95%) Security Posture
13 43 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
14 42 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
15 41 (1.63%) Data Centre
16 39 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
17 38 (1.51%) Management Information System
18 29 (1.16%) Data Structures
18 29 (1.16%) Mobile App
19 28 (1.12%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 223 (8.89%) Linux
2 155 (6.18%) Windows
3 70 (2.79%) Unix
4 53 (2.11%) Windows Server
5 25 (1.00%) Apple iOS
6 18 (0.72%) Android
7 17 (0.68%) Ubuntu
8 9 (0.36%) Mac OS
9 7 (0.28%) Debian
10 4 (0.16%) CentOS
11 3 (0.12%) Robot Operating System
11 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.080%) Solaris
13 1 (0.040%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 1 (0.040%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 940 (37.47%) CI/CD
2 818 (32.60%) Agile
3 783 (31.21%) Software Engineering
4 638 (25.43%) AI
5 599 (23.87%) Mentoring
6 595 (23.71%) DevOps
7 476 (18.97%) Continuous Improvement
8 471 (18.77%) Microservices
9 455 (18.13%) Problem-Solving
10 433 (17.26%) Infrastructure as Code
11 427 (17.02%) Full-Stack Development
12 419 (16.70%) Test Automation
13 384 (15.30%) Technical Leadership
14 310 (12.36%) Roadmaps
15 291 (11.60%) Coaching
16 277 (11.04%) Scrum
17 271 (10.80%) Containerisation
18 266 (10.60%) Observability
19 246 (9.80%) Machine Learning
20 230 (9.17%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 656 (26.15%) Python
2 551 (21.96%) Java
3 430 (17.14%) SQL
4 380 (15.15%) JavaScript
5 347 (13.83%) TypeScript
6 280 (11.16%) C#
7 110 (4.38%) Bash
8 105 (4.18%) Go
9 84 (3.35%) PowerShell
10 66 (2.63%) Ruby
11 56 (2.23%) C++
12 52 (2.07%) PHP
13 32 (1.28%) Kotlin
14 26 (1.04%) R
15 24 (0.96%) Rust
16 23 (0.92%) Scala
17 21 (0.84%) PL/SQL
18 16 (0.64%) DataWeave
19 13 (0.52%) Bicep
20 11 (0.44%) C
Qualifications
1 436 (17.38%) Security Cleared
2 359 (14.31%) SC Cleared
3 262 (10.44%) Degree
4 162 (6.46%) AWS Certification
5 120 (4.78%) CISSP
6 108 (4.30%) CISM
7 74 (2.95%) Computer Science Degree
7 74 (2.95%) Microsoft Certification
8 66 (2.63%) Azure Certification
9 61 (2.43%) MCSE
10 50 (1.99%) ITIL Certification
11 46 (1.83%) DV Cleared
12 40 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
13 33 (1.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 29 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
15 24 (0.96%) CCNP
16 22 (0.88%) CCNA
17 16 (0.64%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 16 (0.64%) GIAC
17 16 (0.64%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 153 (6.10%) QA
2 122 (4.86%) NIST
3 113 (4.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 102 (4.07%) Data Quality
5 76 (3.03%) Accessibility
6 59 (2.35%) GDPR
7 48 (1.91%) ISO 22301
8 39 (1.55%) PCI DSS
9 37 (1.47%) NCSC
10 29 (1.16%) GRC
11 27 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials
12 23 (0.92%) SOC 2
13 15 (0.60%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 14 (0.56%) SLA
15 12 (0.48%) NIST 800
16 11 (0.44%) WCAG
17 9 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 9 (0.36%) ISO 9001
17 9 (0.36%) PMO
18 7 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 427 (17.02%) Docker
2 50 (1.99%) Active Directory
3 49 (1.95%) VMware Infrastructure
4 41 (1.63%) Hyper-V
5 15 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
6 12 (0.48%) vSphere
7 6 (0.24%) KVM
8 3 (0.12%) Firmware
8 3 (0.12%) iptables
8 3 (0.12%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 3 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (0.12%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.080%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.080%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.040%) LXC
10 1 (0.040%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.040%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 458 (18.25%) Kubernetes
2 159 (6.34%) Grafana
3 115 (4.58%) Ansible
4 47 (1.87%) Prometheus
5 23 (0.92%) Microsoft Intune
6 21 (0.84%) Argo
7 20 (0.80%) Progress Chef
8 17 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
9 13 (0.52%) CloudHub
10 11 (0.44%) Packer
10 11 (0.44%) Puppet
11 10 (0.40%) Proxmox
12 9 (0.36%) Istio
13 8 (0.32%) CASB
14 7 (0.28%) Cilium
14 7 (0.28%) Nmap
14 7 (0.28%) ZABBIX
15 6 (0.24%) Avamar
15 6 (0.24%) EMC NetWorker
15 6 (0.24%) VxRail
Vendors
1 382 (15.23%) Microsoft
2 148 (5.90%) Google
3 96 (3.83%) ServiceNow
4 82 (3.27%) Databricks
5 75 (2.99%) Oracle
5 75 (2.99%) VMware
6 44 (1.75%) Cisco
7 42 (1.67%) OpenAI
8 33 (1.32%) SAP
9 30 (1.20%) Adobe
10 29 (1.16%) Splunk
11 24 (0.96%) Dynatrace
11 24 (0.96%) Salesforce
12 23 (0.92%) Palo Alto
13 22 (0.88%) Fortinet
13 22 (0.88%) Informatica
14 20 (0.80%) Apple
14 20 (0.80%) MuleSoft
14 20 (0.80%) Okta
15 16 (0.64%) Ping Identity