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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 13 8
Rank change year-on-year +3 -5 -2
Permanent jobs citing AWS 2,484 2,221 4,724
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 11.72% 13.54% 14.50%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.03% 36.03% 34.47%
Number of salaries quoted 1,606 1,413 3,971
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 £73,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +2.74% +0.69%
75th Percentile £88,750 £108,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £101,875 £135,000 £125,000
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 8,271 6,165 13,705
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 39.01% 37.58% 42.06%
Number of salaries quoted 5,886 4,539 11,311
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,720 £35,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £84,750 £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 9 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 53 (2.13%) Apache Airflow
2 39 (1.57%) Apache Spark
3 24 (0.97%) Apache
4 23 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
5 15 (0.60%) CMS
5 15 (0.60%) IIS
5 15 (0.60%) SharePoint
6 8 (0.32%) Anypoint
6 8 (0.32%) Confluence
6 8 (0.32%) WordPress
7 7 (0.28%) Jupyter
7 7 (0.28%) Mule
8 6 (0.24%) Apache Solr
8 6 (0.24%) SAS
9 5 (0.20%) nginx
10 4 (0.16%) Ethereum
10 4 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.12%) EPiServer
11 3 (0.12%) Immediacy CMS
11 3 (0.12%) Kentico
Applications
1 90 (3.62%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.36%) MS Visio
3 6 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.20%) AutoCAD
4 5 (0.20%) Chatbot
4 5 (0.20%) DaVinci Resolve
5 4 (0.16%) Microsoft Excel
5 4 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.081%) Elementor
6 2 (0.081%) PlantUML
7 1 (0.040%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.040%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.040%) EngageOne
7 1 (0.040%) Houdini
7 1 (0.040%) Lightworks
7 1 (0.040%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.040%) NUKE
7 1 (0.040%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.040%) Trello
Business Applications
1 24 (0.97%) Cloudability
2 6 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.12%) Shopify
5 2 (0.081%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.081%) SAP HR
6 1 (0.040%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.040%) Magento
6 1 (0.040%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.040%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.040%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 1,097 (44.16%) Azure
2 624 (25.12%) GCP
3 270 (10.87%) SaaS
4 247 (9.94%) Serverless
5 197 (7.93%) GitHub
6 158 (6.36%) Amazon S3
6 158 (6.36%) AWS Lambda
7 152 (6.12%) Microsoft 365
8 121 (4.87%) Amazon EKS
9 100 (4.03%) AWS CloudFormation
10 96 (3.86%) Amazon EC2
11 86 (3.46%) Amazon ECS
12 85 (3.42%) GitHub Actions
13 67 (2.70%) Amazon SQS
14 62 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
15 57 (2.29%) GitHub Copilot
16 53 (2.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 51 (2.05%) Entra ID
18 48 (1.93%) Snowflake
19 44 (1.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 145 (5.84%) Firewall
2 137 (5.52%) Broadband
3 83 (3.34%) VPN
4 74 (2.98%) WAN
5 71 (2.86%) DNS
6 64 (2.58%) LAN
7 58 (2.33%) Network Security
8 49 (1.97%) TCP/IP
9 45 (1.81%) DHCP
10 44 (1.77%) Wi-Fi
11 37 (1.49%) HTTP
12 34 (1.37%) SD-WAN
13 29 (1.17%) Cisco ASA
14 28 (1.13%) VXLAN
15 25 (1.01%) Cisco Firepower
16 23 (0.93%) VLAN
17 21 (0.85%) BGP
18 17 (0.68%) MPLS
18 17 (0.68%) OSPF
18 17 (0.68%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 258 (10.39%) PostgreSQL
2 253 (10.19%) MongoDB
3 119 (4.79%) NoSQL
4 112 (4.51%) Elasticsearch
5 105 (4.23%) SQL Server
6 104 (4.19%) MySQL
7 84 (3.38%) Azure SQL Database
8 66 (2.66%) Relational Database
9 59 (2.38%) DynamoDB
10 58 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
11 52 (2.09%) Metadata
12 45 (1.81%) Redis
13 39 (1.57%) Data Warehouse
14 35 (1.41%) Amazon Athena
15 30 (1.21%) Amazon Redshift
16 26 (1.05%) Data Lake
17 25 (1.01%) Power BI
18 24 (0.97%) BigQuery
19 21 (0.85%) Big Data
19 21 (0.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 121 (4.87%) Git
2 83 (3.34%) Jenkins
3 78 (3.14%) GitLab
4 65 (2.62%) TeamCity
5 48 (1.93%) Cypress.io
6 43 (1.73%) JIRA
7 29 (1.17%) Claude Code
8 17 (0.68%) Selenium
9 16 (0.64%) JMeter
9 16 (0.64%) JUnit
10 15 (0.60%) CircleCI
11 14 (0.56%) Crashlytics
11 14 (0.56%) Maven
11 14 (0.56%) XCTest
12 13 (0.52%) Jaeger
12 13 (0.52%) Postman
13 9 (0.36%) Mockito
14 7 (0.28%) Cucumber
14 7 (0.28%) MLflow
15 6 (0.24%) Storybook
General
1 599 (24.11%) Social Skills
2 550 (22.14%) Finance
3 280 (11.27%) Public Sector
4 241 (9.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 225 (9.06%) Banking
6 218 (8.78%) Law
7 148 (5.96%) Retail
8 136 (5.48%) Analytical Skills
9 65 (2.62%) Legal
10 55 (2.21%) Back Office
11 54 (2.17%) Financial Institution
12 53 (2.13%) Games
13 42 (1.69%) Front Office
14 41 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
15 40 (1.61%) Swedish Language
16 37 (1.49%) French Language
17 31 (1.25%) Marketing
18 29 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
19 25 (1.01%) Telecoms
20 20 (0.81%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 593 (23.87%) Senior
2 539 (21.70%) Developer
3 432 (17.39%) Software Engineer
4 328 (13.20%) Lead
5 278 (11.19%) Architect
6 149 (6.00%) AWS Engineer
7 148 (5.96%) Full-Stack Developer
8 125 (5.03%) Senior Software Engineer
9 120 (4.83%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 119 (4.79%) Analyst
11 118 (4.75%) .NET Developer
12 116 (4.67%) DevOps Engineer
13 113 (4.55%) Lead Software Engineer
14 99 (3.99%) Solutions Architect
15 98 (3.95%) Cloud Engineer
15 98 (3.95%) Senior Developer
16 93 (3.74%) Lead Developer
17 92 (3.70%) Software Developer
18 91 (3.66%) Consultant
19 90 (3.62%) Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 428 (17.23%) React
2 375 (15.10%) Node.js
3 229 (9.22%) .NET
4 154 (6.20%) REST
5 131 (5.27%) Vue
6 130 (5.23%) RESTful
7 126 (5.07%) Spring
8 123 (4.95%) CSS
9 121 (4.87%) Kafka
10 114 (4.59%) AngularJS
11 111 (4.47%) .NET Core
12 103 (4.15%) ASP.NET
13 95 (3.82%) ASP.NET Core
14 90 (3.62%) Spring Boot
15 84 (3.38%) HTML
16 68 (2.74%) .NET Framework
17 54 (2.17%) Ruby on Rails
18 52 (2.09%) Middleware
19 50 (2.01%) gRPC
19 50 (2.01%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 403 (16.22%) Cloud Native
2 193 (7.77%) Product Ownership
3 185 (7.45%) Distributed Systems
4 97 (3.90%) Public Cloud
5 79 (3.18%) Greenfield Project
5 79 (3.18%) Video\Live Streaming
6 65 (2.62%) Data Centre
7 59 (2.38%) Onboarding
8 57 (2.29%) Management Information System
9 55 (2.21%) Blog
10 54 (2.17%) Security Posture
11 49 (1.97%) AI Agents
12 46 (1.85%) Over-the-Top Content
13 45 (1.81%) Hybrid Cloud
14 44 (1.77%) Fixed Income
15 43 (1.73%) Cyber Threat
15 43 (1.73%) Enterprise Software
16 42 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
17 41 (1.65%) Mobile App
18 37 (1.49%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 219 (8.82%) Linux
2 151 (6.08%) Windows
3 63 (2.54%) Unix
4 60 (2.42%) Windows Server
5 37 (1.49%) Apple iOS
6 24 (0.97%) Android
7 14 (0.56%) Windows 10
8 12 (0.48%) Ubuntu
9 11 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
10 8 (0.32%) Mac OS
10 8 (0.32%) Windows Server 2012
11 7 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
12 5 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 4 (0.16%) CentOS
13 4 (0.16%) Debian
14 1 (0.040%) FreeBSD
14 1 (0.040%) Mac OS X
14 1 (0.040%) OpenBSD
14 1 (0.040%) Solaris
14 1 (0.040%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 873 (35.14%) CI/CD
2 834 (33.57%) Agile
3 755 (30.39%) Software Engineering
4 590 (23.75%) DevOps
5 565 (22.75%) Mentoring
6 516 (20.77%) Full-Stack Development
7 503 (20.25%) Microservices
8 449 (18.08%) AI
9 444 (17.87%) Infrastructure as Code
10 428 (17.23%) Continuous Improvement
11 418 (16.83%) Problem-Solving
12 405 (16.30%) Test Automation
13 352 (14.17%) Containerisation
14 339 (13.65%) Technical Leadership
15 302 (12.16%) Roadmaps
16 290 (11.67%) Coaching
17 259 (10.43%) Clean Code
18 257 (10.35%) Scrum
19 243 (9.78%) Machine Learning
20 235 (9.46%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 673 (27.09%) Python
2 536 (21.58%) Java
3 401 (16.14%) TypeScript
4 398 (16.02%) JavaScript
5 371 (14.94%) SQL
6 280 (11.27%) C#
7 202 (8.13%) Go
8 106 (4.27%) Bash
9 74 (2.98%) Scala
10 72 (2.90%) C++
11 71 (2.86%) PHP
12 65 (2.62%) Ruby
13 63 (2.54%) PowerShell
14 33 (1.33%) Kotlin
15 28 (1.13%) Rust
16 17 (0.68%) Bicep
17 14 (0.56%) Swift
18 13 (0.52%) PL/SQL
19 10 (0.40%) Groovy
20 8 (0.32%) DataWeave
Qualifications
1 335 (13.49%) Security Cleared
2 289 (11.63%) Degree
3 280 (11.27%) SC Cleared
4 180 (7.25%) AWS Certification
5 95 (3.82%) CISSP
6 92 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
7 85 (3.42%) Computer Science Degree
8 80 (3.22%) MCSE
9 76 (3.06%) CISM
10 53 (2.13%) Azure Certification
11 47 (1.89%) DV Cleared
12 36 (1.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 33 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
14 31 (1.25%) ITIL Certification
15 24 (0.97%) CCNP
15 24 (0.97%) DBS Check
16 20 (0.81%) CREST Certified
16 20 (0.81%) Master's Degree
17 17 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
17 17 (0.68%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 189 (7.61%) QA
2 100 (4.03%) NIST
3 95 (3.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 56 (2.25%) Data Quality
5 55 (2.21%) Accessibility
6 50 (2.01%) GDPR
7 34 (1.37%) PCI DSS
8 30 (1.21%) GRC
9 29 (1.17%) ISO 22301
10 26 (1.05%) NCSC
11 19 (0.76%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 17 (0.68%) SOC 2
13 16 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials
14 12 (0.48%) JSP 440
15 11 (0.44%) ISO 9001
16 9 (0.36%) NIST 800
16 9 (0.36%) SLA
17 8 (0.32%) WCAG
18 7 (0.28%) Government Security Classifications
19 6 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 444 (17.87%) Docker
2 62 (2.50%) Active Directory
3 46 (1.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 41 (1.65%) Hyper-V
5 20 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
6 19 (0.76%) vSphere
7 6 (0.24%) Firmware
7 6 (0.24%) KVM
7 6 (0.24%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 6 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
8 5 (0.20%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.12%) iptables
10 2 (0.081%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 2 (0.081%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.040%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.040%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 432 (17.39%) Terraform
2 408 (16.43%) Kubernetes
3 138 (5.56%) Ansible
4 120 (4.83%) Grafana
5 52 (2.09%) Prometheus
6 36 (1.45%) Argo
7 24 (0.97%) Microsoft Intune
8 16 (0.64%) Proxmox
9 15 (0.60%) Progress Chef
9 15 (0.60%) Puppet
10 13 (0.52%) Istio
11 12 (0.48%) Kustomize
11 12 (0.48%) Podman
11 12 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
12 11 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 9 (0.36%) Cisco CUCM
13 9 (0.36%) Packer
14 7 (0.28%) CloudHub
14 7 (0.28%) ZABBIX
15 6 (0.24%) EMC VPLEX
Vendors
1 409 (16.47%) Microsoft
2 117 (4.71%) ServiceNow
3 104 (4.19%) Google
4 76 (3.06%) VMware
5 67 (2.70%) Cisco
6 61 (2.46%) Oracle
7 45 (1.81%) Typelevel
8 42 (1.69%) Databricks
9 37 (1.49%) Palo Alto
10 36 (1.45%) Fortinet
11 35 (1.41%) Splunk
12 34 (1.37%) Apple
13 31 (1.25%) SolarWinds
14 30 (1.21%) Adobe
15 28 (1.13%) SAP
16 24 (0.97%) Salesforce
17 22 (0.89%) OpenAI
18 21 (0.85%) Aruba
18 21 (0.85%) Dell
19 20 (0.81%) Dynatrace