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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 13 8
Rank change year-on-year +3 -5 -2
Permanent jobs citing AWS 2,498 2,185 4,590
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 11.70% 13.24% 14.43%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.96% 35.54% 34.70%
Number of salaries quoted 1,604 1,389 3,857
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £43,750
25th Percentile £53,750 £56,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £73,805
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +1.62% +1.80%
75th Percentile £88,750 £107,500 £96,250
90th Percentile £103,750 £135,000 £128,500
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 8,339 6,148 13,229
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 39.05% 37.24% 41.59%
Number of salaries quoted 5,923 4,539 10,887
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,720 £36,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £44,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -8.00%

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

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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 16 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 48 (1.92%) Apache Airflow
2 41 (1.64%) Apache Spark
3 23 (0.92%) Apache
3 23 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
4 15 (0.60%) IIS
5 14 (0.56%) CMS
5 14 (0.56%) SharePoint
6 13 (0.52%) Confluence
7 11 (0.44%) Anypoint
8 9 (0.36%) 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%) EPiServer
12 3 (0.12%) Immediacy CMS
12 3 (0.12%) Kentico
Applications
1 94 (3.76%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.36%) MS Visio
3 7 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.20%) AutoCAD
4 5 (0.20%) DaVinci Resolve
4 5 (0.20%) Microsoft Excel
5 4 (0.16%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.080%) Elementor
6 2 (0.080%) PlantUML
7 1 (0.040%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.040%) Houdini
7 1 (0.040%) Lightworks
7 1 (0.040%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.040%) Moqups
7 1 (0.040%) NUKE
7 1 (0.040%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.040%) Trello
Business Applications
1 24 (0.96%) Cloudability
2 6 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.12%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.080%) Shopify
6 1 (0.040%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.040%) Magento
6 1 (0.040%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.040%) SAP HR
6 1 (0.040%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,113 (44.56%) Azure
2 618 (24.74%) GCP
3 283 (11.33%) SaaS
4 235 (9.41%) Serverless
5 195 (7.81%) GitHub
6 159 (6.37%) Microsoft 365
7 156 (6.24%) Amazon S3
8 153 (6.12%) AWS Lambda
9 116 (4.64%) Amazon EKS
10 95 (3.80%) Amazon EC2
11 93 (3.72%) AWS CloudFormation
12 89 (3.56%) GitHub Actions
13 86 (3.44%) Amazon ECS
14 66 (2.64%) Amazon SQS
15 62 (2.48%) Azure DevOps
16 56 (2.24%) Entra ID
16 56 (2.24%) GitHub Copilot
17 53 (2.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 49 (1.96%) Snowflake
19 42 (1.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 138 (5.52%) Firewall
2 131 (5.24%) Broadband
3 86 (3.44%) VPN
4 73 (2.92%) DNS
5 71 (2.84%) WAN
6 64 (2.56%) LAN
7 62 (2.48%) Network Security
8 50 (2.00%) TCP/IP
9 46 (1.84%) DHCP
10 37 (1.48%) HTTP
11 36 (1.44%) Wi-Fi
12 31 (1.24%) SD-WAN
13 28 (1.12%) Cisco ASA
14 24 (0.96%) Cisco Firepower
15 22 (0.88%) VLAN
16 20 (0.80%) BGP
17 19 (0.76%) VXLAN
18 18 (0.72%) SSL
19 16 (0.64%) MPLS
19 16 (0.64%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 260 (10.41%) PostgreSQL
2 251 (10.05%) MongoDB
3 113 (4.52%) NoSQL
4 109 (4.36%) Elasticsearch
5 106 (4.24%) SQL Server
6 105 (4.20%) MySQL
7 84 (3.36%) Azure SQL Database
8 62 (2.48%) Relational Database
9 58 (2.32%) Amazon RDS
10 55 (2.20%) DynamoDB
11 49 (1.96%) Redis
12 41 (1.64%) Metadata
13 34 (1.36%) Amazon Athena
13 34 (1.36%) Data Warehouse
14 28 (1.12%) Amazon Redshift
15 26 (1.04%) Big Data
16 25 (1.00%) Power BI
17 23 (0.92%) Data Lake
18 20 (0.80%) BigQuery
19 19 (0.76%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 121 (4.84%) Git
2 82 (3.28%) Jenkins
3 80 (3.20%) GitLab
4 64 (2.56%) TeamCity
5 50 (2.00%) Cypress.io
6 47 (1.88%) JIRA
7 32 (1.28%) Claude Code
8 16 (0.64%) JUnit
9 14 (0.56%) Crashlytics
9 14 (0.56%) Maven
9 14 (0.56%) Selenium
9 14 (0.56%) XCTest
10 13 (0.52%) CircleCI
10 13 (0.52%) JMeter
11 11 (0.44%) Postman
12 9 (0.36%) Mockito
13 7 (0.28%) Cucumber
13 7 (0.28%) Jaeger
14 6 (0.24%) Storybook
15 5 (0.20%) Locust
General
1 609 (24.38%) Social Skills
2 559 (22.38%) Finance
3 281 (11.25%) Public Sector
4 238 (9.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 233 (9.33%) Banking
6 216 (8.65%) Law
7 141 (5.64%) Retail
8 130 (5.20%) Analytical Skills
9 68 (2.72%) Legal
10 56 (2.24%) Back Office
11 54 (2.16%) Financial Institution
11 54 (2.16%) Games
12 48 (1.92%) Swedish Language
13 43 (1.72%) Front Office
14 39 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
15 33 (1.32%) Marketing
16 32 (1.28%) French Language
17 31 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
18 25 (1.00%) Telecoms
19 20 (0.80%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 595 (23.82%) Senior
2 544 (21.78%) Developer
3 439 (17.57%) Software Engineer
4 320 (12.81%) Lead
5 277 (11.09%) Architect
6 149 (5.96%) Full-Stack Developer
7 148 (5.92%) AWS Engineer
8 123 (4.92%) Senior Software Engineer
9 122 (4.88%) Analyst
10 119 (4.76%) DevOps Engineer
11 118 (4.72%) .NET Developer
12 113 (4.52%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 111 (4.44%) Lead Software Engineer
14 103 (4.12%) Senior Developer
15 99 (3.96%) Solutions Architect
16 94 (3.76%) Consultant
16 94 (3.76%) Engineering Manager
17 92 (3.68%) Lead Developer
18 91 (3.64%) Cloud Engineer
18 91 (3.64%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 423 (16.93%) React
2 373 (14.93%) Node.js
3 224 (8.97%) .NET
4 162 (6.49%) REST
5 132 (5.28%) RESTful
6 131 (5.24%) Vue
7 125 (5.00%) Kafka
8 123 (4.92%) CSS
8 123 (4.92%) Spring
9 109 (4.36%) .NET Core
9 109 (4.36%) AngularJS
10 103 (4.12%) ASP.NET
11 95 (3.80%) ASP.NET Core
12 91 (3.64%) Spring Boot
13 83 (3.32%) HTML
14 68 (2.72%) .NET Framework
15 67 (2.68%) Middleware
16 55 (2.20%) Ruby on Rails
17 49 (1.96%) gRPC
17 49 (1.96%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 395 (15.81%) Cloud Native
2 194 (7.77%) Product Ownership
3 186 (7.45%) Distributed Systems
4 91 (3.64%) Public Cloud
5 81 (3.24%) Greenfield Project
6 79 (3.16%) Video\Live Streaming
7 66 (2.64%) Onboarding
8 62 (2.48%) Cyber Threat
9 57 (2.28%) Management Information System
10 55 (2.20%) Data Centre
11 54 (2.16%) AI Agents
12 52 (2.08%) Blog
13 51 (2.04%) Security Posture
14 46 (1.84%) Over-the-Top Content
15 44 (1.76%) Enterprise Software
15 44 (1.76%) Fixed Income
15 44 (1.76%) Hybrid Cloud
16 41 (1.64%) Mobile App
17 39 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
18 35 (1.40%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 208 (8.33%) Linux
2 154 (6.16%) Windows
3 61 (2.44%) Windows Server
4 57 (2.28%) Unix
5 35 (1.40%) Apple iOS
6 20 (0.80%) Android
7 14 (0.56%) Windows 10
8 11 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
9 10 (0.40%) Ubuntu
10 8 (0.32%) Mac OS
10 8 (0.32%) Windows Server 2012
11 7 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
12 4 (0.16%) Debian
13 3 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 2 (0.080%) CentOS
15 1 (0.040%) FreeBSD
15 1 (0.040%) OpenBSD
15 1 (0.040%) Solaris
15 1 (0.040%) Windows 7
15 1 (0.040%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 870 (34.83%) CI/CD
2 831 (33.27%) Agile
3 764 (30.58%) Software Engineering
4 586 (23.46%) DevOps
5 550 (22.02%) Mentoring
6 499 (19.98%) Full-Stack Development
7 494 (19.78%) Microservices
8 458 (18.33%) AI
9 431 (17.25%) Continuous Improvement
9 431 (17.25%) Infrastructure as Code
10 419 (16.77%) Test Automation
11 415 (16.61%) Problem-Solving
12 348 (13.93%) Technical Leadership
13 333 (13.33%) Containerisation
14 305 (12.21%) Roadmaps
15 285 (11.41%) Coaching
16 258 (10.33%) Clean Code
17 257 (10.29%) Scrum
18 243 (9.73%) Machine Learning
19 235 (9.41%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 668 (26.74%) Python
2 521 (20.86%) Java
3 392 (15.69%) TypeScript
4 389 (15.57%) JavaScript
5 375 (15.01%) SQL
6 275 (11.01%) C#
7 192 (7.69%) Go
8 102 (4.08%) Bash
9 76 (3.04%) Scala
10 73 (2.92%) C++
11 71 (2.84%) PHP
12 69 (2.76%) PowerShell
13 66 (2.64%) Ruby
14 33 (1.32%) Kotlin
15 30 (1.20%) Rust
16 17 (0.68%) Bicep
17 14 (0.56%) Swift
18 13 (0.52%) PL/SQL
19 11 (0.44%) DataWeave
20 10 (0.40%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 348 (13.93%) Security Cleared
2 296 (11.85%) Degree
3 295 (11.81%) SC Cleared
4 179 (7.17%) AWS Certification
5 117 (4.68%) CISSP
6 97 (3.88%) Microsoft Certification
7 93 (3.72%) CISM
8 89 (3.56%) Computer Science Degree
9 83 (3.32%) MCSE
10 53 (2.12%) Azure Certification
11 46 (1.84%) ITIL Certification
12 45 (1.80%) DV Cleared
13 37 (1.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 35 (1.40%) Cisco Certification
15 24 (0.96%) CCNP
16 20 (0.80%) Master's Degree
17 19 (0.76%) CREST Certified
18 18 (0.72%) DBS Check
19 17 (0.68%) CCNA
20 16 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 185 (7.41%) QA
2 114 (4.56%) NIST
3 95 (3.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 57 (2.28%) Data Quality
5 55 (2.20%) Accessibility
6 52 (2.08%) GDPR
7 44 (1.76%) ISO 22301
8 31 (1.24%) PCI DSS
9 30 (1.20%) GRC
10 26 (1.04%) NCSC
11 20 (0.80%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 16 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials
12 16 (0.64%) SOC 2
13 12 (0.48%) JSP 440
14 11 (0.44%) ISO 9001
15 10 (0.40%) NIST 800
15 10 (0.40%) SLA
15 10 (0.40%) WCAG
16 7 (0.28%) Government Security Classifications
17 6 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 430 (17.21%) Docker
2 69 (2.76%) Active Directory
3 48 (1.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 42 (1.68%) Hyper-V
5 20 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
6 18 (0.72%) 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 (0.080%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 2 (0.080%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.040%) VMware ESXi
12 1 (0.040%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 411 (16.45%) Terraform
2 393 (15.73%) Kubernetes
3 120 (4.80%) Grafana
4 117 (4.68%) Ansible
5 46 (1.84%) Prometheus
6 29 (1.16%) Argo
7 26 (1.04%) Microsoft Intune
8 16 (0.64%) Proxmox
9 15 (0.60%) Progress Chef
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%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 9 (0.36%) Cisco CUCM
13 9 (0.36%) CloudHub
14 7 (0.28%) Packer
14 7 (0.28%) ZABBIX
15 6 (0.24%) EMC VPLEX
15 6 (0.24%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 417 (16.69%) Microsoft
2 122 (4.88%) ServiceNow
3 93 (3.72%) Google
4 78 (3.12%) VMware
5 65 (2.60%) Cisco
6 57 (2.28%) Oracle
7 45 (1.80%) Typelevel
8 44 (1.76%) Databricks
9 37 (1.48%) Palo Alto
10 36 (1.44%) Fortinet
11 34 (1.36%) Apple
12 32 (1.28%) Splunk
13 30 (1.20%) Adobe
14 28 (1.12%) SAP
14 28 (1.12%) SolarWinds
15 26 (1.04%) Salesforce
16 21 (0.84%) Dell
16 21 (0.84%) OpenAI
17 20 (0.80%) Dynatrace
18 17 (0.68%) MuleSoft