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

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 13 8
Rank change year-on-year +3 -5 -2
Permanent jobs citing AWS 2,586 2,061 3,600
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 11.24% 12.44% 14.58%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.79% 34.60% 35.68%
Number of salaries quoted 1,692 1,289 2,844
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,200 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £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 £110,000 £108,750
90th Percentile £106,125 £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 8,681 5,956 10,089
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.72% 35.96% 40.86%
Number of salaries quoted 6,335 4,345 7,722
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £37,000
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 £81,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £111,250
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 22 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 36 (1.39%) Apache Spark
2 32 (1.24%) Apache Airflow
3 27 (1.04%) Confluence
4 25 (0.97%) Apache
5 18 (0.70%) SharePoint
6 17 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
7 16 (0.62%) Anypoint
7 16 (0.62%) IIS
8 13 (0.50%) Mule
8 13 (0.50%) WordPress
9 12 (0.46%) CMS
10 8 (0.31%) Jupyter
11 7 (0.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 6 (0.23%) Apache Solr
12 6 (0.23%) SAS
13 4 (0.15%) ArcGIS
13 4 (0.15%) Camunda
13 4 (0.15%) Ethereum
13 4 (0.15%) Sitecore CMS
14 3 (0.12%) GeoServer
Applications
1 79 (3.05%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (0.58%) Chatbot
3 14 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
4 11 (0.43%) MS Visio
5 10 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 5 (0.19%) AutoCAD
6 5 (0.19%) DaVinci Resolve
6 5 (0.19%) Moqups
7 2 (0.077%) Elementor
7 2 (0.077%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.077%) PlantUML
7 2 (0.077%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.039%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.039%) Houdini
8 1 (0.039%) Lightworks
8 1 (0.039%) NUKE
8 1 (0.039%) Trello
8 1 (0.039%) Weka
Business Applications
1 24 (0.93%) Cloudability
2 6 (0.23%) NetSuite
2 6 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.12%) Shopify
4 2 (0.077%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.039%) Finacle
5 1 (0.039%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.039%) Magento
5 1 (0.039%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.039%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 1,213 (46.91%) Azure
2 663 (25.64%) GCP
3 313 (12.10%) SaaS
4 228 (8.82%) Serverless
5 209 (8.08%) GitHub
6 156 (6.03%) Microsoft 365
7 154 (5.96%) AWS Lambda
8 151 (5.84%) Amazon S3
9 106 (4.10%) AWS CloudFormation
10 92 (3.56%) Amazon EKS
10 92 (3.56%) GitHub Actions
11 89 (3.44%) Amazon EC2
12 80 (3.09%) Amazon ECS
13 72 (2.78%) Snowflake
14 68 (2.63%) Amazon SQS
15 67 (2.59%) Azure DevOps
16 66 (2.55%) GitHub Copilot
17 51 (1.97%) Anthropic Claude
18 49 (1.89%) Power Platform
19 45 (1.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 111 (4.29%) Firewall
2 100 (3.87%) Broadband
3 70 (2.71%) Network Security
4 68 (2.63%) DNS
5 67 (2.59%) VPN
6 65 (2.51%) WAN
7 58 (2.24%) LAN
8 52 (2.01%) TCP/IP
9 40 (1.55%) DHCP
9 40 (1.55%) HTTP
10 31 (1.20%) SD-WAN
11 23 (0.89%) Cisco ASA
12 21 (0.81%) VLAN
13 20 (0.77%) SSL
13 20 (0.77%) Wi-Fi
14 16 (0.62%) Cisco Firepower
15 13 (0.50%) BGP
16 11 (0.43%) Internet
16 11 (0.43%) OSPF
17 10 (0.39%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 262 (10.13%) PostgreSQL
2 245 (9.47%) MongoDB
3 116 (4.49%) SQL Server
4 104 (4.02%) Elasticsearch
5 101 (3.91%) NoSQL
6 98 (3.79%) MySQL
7 84 (3.25%) Azure SQL Database
8 69 (2.67%) DynamoDB
9 59 (2.28%) Relational Database
10 57 (2.20%) Redis
11 48 (1.86%) Amazon RDS
12 45 (1.74%) Data Warehouse
13 43 (1.66%) Power BI
14 34 (1.31%) Amazon Athena
15 30 (1.16%) Data Lake
15 30 (1.16%) Metadata
16 27 (1.04%) Big Data
16 27 (1.04%) Tableau
17 26 (1.01%) Amazon Redshift
18 11 (0.43%) Looker
Development Applications
1 146 (5.65%) Git
2 86 (3.33%) Jenkins
3 82 (3.17%) GitLab
4 67 (2.59%) JIRA
5 59 (2.28%) Cypress.io
6 57 (2.20%) TeamCity
7 47 (1.82%) Claude Code
8 30 (1.16%) JUnit
9 27 (1.04%) Selenium
10 21 (0.81%) Postman
11 20 (0.77%) Maven
12 16 (0.62%) Mockito
13 12 (0.46%) Bitbucket
13 12 (0.46%) CircleCI
14 11 (0.43%) Crashlytics
14 11 (0.43%) Cucumber
14 11 (0.43%) JMeter
14 11 (0.43%) XCTest
15 8 (0.31%) SonarQube
16 7 (0.27%) Gatling
General
1 676 (26.14%) Social Skills
2 609 (23.55%) Finance
3 298 (11.52%) Public Sector
4 255 (9.86%) Banking
5 239 (9.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 204 (7.89%) Law
7 153 (5.92%) Analytical Skills
8 115 (4.45%) Retail
9 78 (3.02%) Legal
10 56 (2.17%) Games
11 53 (2.05%) Financial Institution
12 50 (1.93%) Back Office
13 49 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
14 48 (1.86%) Swedish Language
15 40 (1.55%) Marketing
16 37 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
17 34 (1.31%) French Language
18 31 (1.20%) Telecoms
19 26 (1.01%) Front Office
20 24 (0.93%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 620 (23.98%) Senior
2 533 (20.61%) Developer
3 436 (16.86%) Software Engineer
4 322 (12.45%) Lead
5 301 (11.64%) Architect
6 146 (5.65%) Full-Stack Developer
7 138 (5.34%) AWS Engineer
8 130 (5.03%) Analyst
9 123 (4.76%) DevOps Engineer
10 122 (4.72%) Senior Developer
11 115 (4.45%) Senior Software Engineer
12 114 (4.41%) .NET Developer
13 103 (3.98%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 102 (3.94%) Engineering Manager
15 98 (3.79%) Cloud Engineer
15 98 (3.79%) Lead Software Engineer
16 95 (3.67%) Consultant
17 91 (3.52%) Solutions Architect
18 85 (3.29%) Software Developer
19 82 (3.17%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 435 (16.82%) React
2 434 (16.78%) Terraform
3 375 (14.50%) Node.js
4 250 (9.67%) .NET
5 199 (7.70%) REST
6 142 (5.49%) Spring
7 129 (4.99%) RESTful
8 127 (4.91%) Vue
9 123 (4.76%) CSS
10 117 (4.52%) .NET Core
10 117 (4.52%) AngularJS
11 111 (4.29%) ASP.NET
12 101 (3.91%) Spring Boot
13 98 (3.79%) ASP.NET Core
13 98 (3.79%) Kafka
14 78 (3.02%) HTML
15 77 (2.98%) Middleware
16 73 (2.82%) .NET Framework
17 68 (2.63%) LangChain
18 64 (2.47%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 386 (14.93%) Cloud Native
2 195 (7.54%) Product Ownership
3 183 (7.08%) Distributed Systems
4 106 (4.10%) Public Cloud
5 92 (3.56%) AI Agents
6 78 (3.02%) Greenfield Project
7 72 (2.78%) Cyber Threat
8 68 (2.63%) Onboarding
9 60 (2.32%) Video\Live Streaming
10 51 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
11 47 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
12 46 (1.78%) Hybrid Cloud
13 45 (1.74%) Blog
13 45 (1.74%) Mobile App
14 42 (1.62%) Data Centre
14 42 (1.62%) Management Information System
14 42 (1.62%) Security Posture
15 38 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
16 35 (1.35%) Low-Code
17 30 (1.16%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 205 (7.93%) Linux
2 156 (6.03%) Windows
3 57 (2.20%) Unix
4 55 (2.13%) Windows Server
5 25 (0.97%) Apple iOS
6 14 (0.54%) Android
7 13 (0.50%) Ubuntu
8 6 (0.23%) Mac OS
9 5 (0.19%) Debian
9 5 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.12%) Windows 10
10 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.077%) CentOS
11 2 (0.077%) Solaris
12 1 (0.039%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 911 (35.23%) CI/CD
2 868 (33.57%) Agile
3 788 (30.47%) Software Engineering
4 607 (23.47%) DevOps
5 568 (21.96%) AI
6 567 (21.93%) Mentoring
7 492 (19.03%) Full-Stack Development
8 487 (18.83%) Microservices
9 482 (18.64%) Continuous Improvement
10 451 (17.44%) Infrastructure as Code
11 428 (16.55%) Problem-Solving
12 416 (16.09%) Test Automation
13 382 (14.77%) Technical Leadership
14 328 (12.68%) Roadmaps
15 324 (12.53%) Containerisation
16 289 (11.18%) Scrum
17 267 (10.32%) Observability
18 262 (10.13%) Coaching
19 258 (9.98%) Machine Learning
20 253 (9.78%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 676 (26.14%) Python
2 511 (19.76%) Java
3 407 (15.74%) SQL
4 406 (15.70%) TypeScript
5 404 (15.62%) JavaScript
6 292 (11.29%) C#
7 143 (5.53%) Go
8 85 (3.29%) Bash
9 79 (3.05%) PowerShell
9 79 (3.05%) Ruby
10 64 (2.47%) PHP
11 61 (2.36%) C++
12 52 (2.01%) Scala
13 36 (1.39%) Kotlin
14 24 (0.93%) Rust
15 19 (0.73%) PL/SQL
16 16 (0.62%) DataWeave
17 14 (0.54%) Bicep
17 14 (0.54%) Swift
18 11 (0.43%) C
Qualifications
1 420 (16.24%) Security Cleared
2 354 (13.69%) SC Cleared
3 290 (11.21%) Degree
4 174 (6.73%) AWS Certification
5 114 (4.41%) CISSP
6 100 (3.87%) CISM
7 85 (3.29%) Computer Science Degree
7 85 (3.29%) Microsoft Certification
8 72 (2.78%) MCSE
9 59 (2.28%) Azure Certification
10 54 (2.09%) DV Cleared
11 50 (1.93%) ITIL Certification
12 38 (1.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 32 (1.24%) Cisco Certification
14 28 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
15 21 (0.81%) CCNP
16 15 (0.58%) CCNA
16 15 (0.58%) CREST Certified
17 14 (0.54%) DBS Check
18 13 (0.50%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 188 (7.27%) QA
2 115 (4.45%) NIST
3 100 (3.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 85 (3.29%) Accessibility
5 70 (2.71%) Data Quality
6 50 (1.93%) GDPR
7 48 (1.86%) ISO 22301
8 32 (1.24%) NCSC
9 30 (1.16%) GRC
10 24 (0.93%) PCI DSS
11 18 (0.70%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 17 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
12 17 (0.66%) SLA
13 16 (0.62%) WCAG
14 11 (0.43%) ISO 9001
14 11 (0.43%) NIST 800
15 7 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
15 7 (0.27%) JSP 440
15 7 (0.27%) PMO
15 7 (0.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 458 (17.71%) Docker
2 60 (2.32%) Active Directory
3 53 (2.05%) VMware Infrastructure
4 33 (1.28%) Hyper-V
5 22 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
6 18 (0.70%) vSphere
7 8 (0.31%) Firmware
8 6 (0.23%) KVM
8 6 (0.23%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 6 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.12%) iptables
9 3 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.12%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.039%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.039%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.039%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.039%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 413 (15.97%) Kubernetes
2 119 (4.60%) Grafana
3 116 (4.49%) Ansible
4 37 (1.43%) Prometheus
5 24 (0.93%) Argo
6 17 (0.66%) Istio
7 16 (0.62%) Progress Chef
8 15 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
9 14 (0.54%) Puppet
10 13 (0.50%) CloudHub
10 13 (0.50%) Podman
11 10 (0.39%) Proxmox
12 9 (0.35%) Cisco CUCM
13 8 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
14 7 (0.27%) CASB
14 7 (0.27%) ZABBIX
15 6 (0.23%) Avamar
15 6 (0.23%) EMC VPLEX
15 6 (0.23%) Failover Clustering
15 6 (0.23%) Packer
Vendors
1 428 (16.55%) Microsoft
2 115 (4.45%) Google
3 112 (4.33%) ServiceNow
4 74 (2.86%) VMware
5 63 (2.44%) Oracle
6 61 (2.36%) Cisco
6 61 (2.36%) Databricks
7 37 (1.43%) Palo Alto
8 36 (1.39%) OpenAI
9 35 (1.35%) Adobe
9 35 (1.35%) SAP
9 35 (1.35%) Splunk
10 32 (1.24%) Fortinet
11 31 (1.20%) Salesforce
12 27 (1.04%) Typelevel
13 25 (0.97%) Apple
14 23 (0.89%) Dynatrace
14 23 (0.89%) SolarWinds
15 21 (0.81%) Informatica
16 20 (0.77%) Okta