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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 13 8
Rank change year-on-year +3 -5 -2
Permanent jobs citing AWS 2,502 2,184 4,600
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 11.72% 13.25% 14.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.01% 35.55% 34.63%
Number of salaries quoted 1,606 1,387 3,864
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 £88,600 £107,500 £96,250
90th Percentile £102,875 £135,000 £129,250
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 8,338 6,144 13,285
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 39.06% 37.26% 41.62%
Number of salaries quoted 5,920 4,533 10,941
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,500 £36,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £44,000 £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%

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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 15 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 51 (2.04%) Apache Airflow
2 43 (1.72%) Apache Spark
3 25 (1.00%) Apache
4 23 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
5 15 (0.60%) IIS
6 14 (0.56%) CMS
6 14 (0.56%) SharePoint
7 11 (0.44%) Anypoint
8 10 (0.40%) Confluence
9 9 (0.36%) Mule
9 9 (0.36%) WordPress
10 7 (0.28%) Jupyter
11 6 (0.24%) Apache Solr
11 6 (0.24%) SAS
12 4 (0.16%) Ethereum
12 4 (0.16%) nginx
12 4 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
13 3 (0.12%) EPiServer
13 3 (0.12%) Immediacy CMS
13 3 (0.12%) Umbraco
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%) 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 1,120 (44.76%) Azure
2 622 (24.86%) GCP
3 285 (11.39%) SaaS
4 236 (9.43%) Serverless
5 194 (7.75%) GitHub
6 157 (6.27%) Amazon S3
6 157 (6.27%) Microsoft 365
7 154 (6.16%) AWS Lambda
8 119 (4.76%) Amazon EKS
9 96 (3.84%) AWS CloudFormation
10 95 (3.80%) Amazon EC2
11 87 (3.48%) Amazon ECS
11 87 (3.48%) GitHub Actions
12 67 (2.68%) Amazon SQS
13 61 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
14 56 (2.24%) Entra ID
14 56 (2.24%) GitHub Copilot
15 53 (2.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 51 (2.04%) Snowflake
17 41 (1.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 141 (5.64%) Firewall
2 131 (5.24%) Broadband
3 85 (3.40%) VPN
4 71 (2.84%) DNS
4 71 (2.84%) WAN
5 64 (2.56%) LAN
6 61 (2.44%) Network Security
7 49 (1.96%) TCP/IP
8 46 (1.84%) DHCP
9 40 (1.60%) Wi-Fi
10 37 (1.48%) HTTP
11 31 (1.24%) SD-WAN
12 28 (1.12%) Cisco ASA
13 24 (0.96%) Cisco Firepower
14 23 (0.92%) VXLAN
15 22 (0.88%) VLAN
16 20 (0.80%) BGP
17 18 (0.72%) SSL
18 16 (0.64%) MPLS
18 16 (0.64%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 260 (10.39%) PostgreSQL
2 253 (10.11%) MongoDB
3 112 (4.48%) NoSQL
4 111 (4.44%) Elasticsearch
5 106 (4.24%) MySQL
6 104 (4.16%) SQL Server
7 84 (3.36%) Azure SQL Database
8 61 (2.44%) Relational Database
9 57 (2.28%) Amazon RDS
10 54 (2.16%) DynamoDB
11 48 (1.92%) Metadata
11 48 (1.92%) Redis
12 36 (1.44%) Data Warehouse
13 34 (1.36%) Amazon Athena
14 30 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
15 27 (1.08%) Big Data
16 24 (0.96%) Power BI
17 23 (0.92%) Data Lake
18 21 (0.84%) BigQuery
19 20 (0.80%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 122 (4.88%) Git
2 84 (3.36%) Jenkins
3 80 (3.20%) GitLab
4 65 (2.60%) TeamCity
5 50 (2.00%) Cypress.io
6 44 (1.76%) JIRA
7 32 (1.28%) Claude Code
8 16 (0.64%) JUnit
9 15 (0.60%) JMeter
9 15 (0.60%) Selenium
10 14 (0.56%) Crashlytics
10 14 (0.56%) Maven
10 14 (0.56%) XCTest
11 13 (0.52%) CircleCI
12 11 (0.44%) Postman
13 9 (0.36%) Mockito
14 7 (0.28%) Cucumber
14 7 (0.28%) Jaeger
15 6 (0.24%) MLflow
15 6 (0.24%) Storybook
General
1 610 (24.38%) Social Skills
2 555 (22.18%) Finance
3 284 (11.35%) Public Sector
4 239 (9.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 231 (9.23%) Banking
6 217 (8.67%) Law
7 143 (5.72%) Retail
8 131 (5.24%) 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 32 (1.28%) French Language
15 32 (1.28%) Marketing
16 31 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
17 25 (1.00%) Telecoms
18 21 (0.84%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 596 (23.82%) Senior
2 546 (21.82%) Developer
3 437 (17.47%) Software Engineer
4 320 (12.79%) Lead
5 283 (11.31%) Architect
6 150 (6.00%) Full-Stack Developer
7 147 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
8 122 (4.88%) Analyst
8 122 (4.88%) Senior Software Engineer
9 118 (4.72%) .NET Developer
10 117 (4.68%) DevOps Engineer
11 113 (4.52%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 112 (4.48%) Lead Software Engineer
13 104 (4.16%) Senior Developer
14 99 (3.96%) Solutions Architect
15 94 (3.76%) Consultant
16 93 (3.72%) Engineering Manager
17 92 (3.68%) Lead Developer
18 90 (3.60%) Cloud Engineer
18 90 (3.60%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 423 (16.91%) React
2 373 (14.91%) Node.js
3 224 (8.95%) .NET
4 161 (6.43%) REST
5 132 (5.28%) RESTful
6 130 (5.20%) Vue
7 126 (5.04%) Kafka
8 125 (5.00%) Spring
9 123 (4.92%) CSS
10 111 (4.44%) AngularJS
11 110 (4.40%) .NET Core
12 103 (4.12%) ASP.NET
13 95 (3.80%) ASP.NET Core
14 93 (3.72%) Spring Boot
15 83 (3.32%) HTML
16 68 (2.72%) .NET Framework
17 67 (2.68%) Middleware
18 56 (2.24%) Ruby on Rails
19 50 (2.00%) gRPC
20 49 (1.96%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 396 (15.83%) Cloud Native
2 194 (7.75%) Product Ownership
3 184 (7.35%) Distributed Systems
4 95 (3.80%) Public Cloud
5 80 (3.20%) Greenfield Project
6 79 (3.16%) Video\Live Streaming
7 66 (2.64%) Onboarding
8 62 (2.48%) Cyber Threat
9 59 (2.36%) Data Centre
10 56 (2.24%) Management Information System
11 53 (2.12%) AI Agents
11 53 (2.12%) Blog
12 52 (2.08%) Security Posture
13 46 (1.84%) Over-the-Top Content
14 44 (1.76%) Enterprise Software
14 44 (1.76%) Fixed Income
15 43 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
15 43 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
16 42 (1.68%) Mobile App
17 38 (1.52%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 208 (8.31%) Linux
2 151 (6.04%) Windows
3 61 (2.44%) Windows Server
4 56 (2.24%) Unix
5 36 (1.44%) Apple iOS
6 22 (0.88%) 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%) Debian
12 5 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 4 (0.16%) CentOS
14 1 (0.040%) FreeBSD
14 1 (0.040%) OpenBSD
14 1 (0.040%) Solaris
14 1 (0.040%) Windows 7
14 1 (0.040%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 869 (34.73%) CI/CD
2 834 (33.33%) Agile
3 759 (30.34%) Software Engineering
4 588 (23.50%) DevOps
5 556 (22.22%) Mentoring
6 502 (20.06%) Full-Stack Development
7 494 (19.74%) Microservices
8 455 (18.19%) AI
9 432 (17.27%) Infrastructure as Code
10 430 (17.19%) Continuous Improvement
11 417 (16.67%) Test Automation
12 416 (16.63%) Problem-Solving
13 343 (13.71%) Technical Leadership
14 339 (13.55%) Containerisation
15 305 (12.19%) Roadmaps
16 290 (11.59%) Coaching
17 259 (10.35%) Clean Code
18 255 (10.19%) Scrum
19 243 (9.71%) Machine Learning
20 233 (9.31%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 670 (26.78%) Python
2 525 (20.98%) Java
3 392 (15.67%) TypeScript
4 391 (15.63%) JavaScript
5 375 (14.99%) SQL
6 276 (11.03%) C#
7 195 (7.79%) Go
8 103 (4.12%) Bash
9 75 (3.00%) Scala
10 73 (2.92%) C++
11 72 (2.88%) PHP
12 68 (2.72%) PowerShell
13 67 (2.68%) 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 (13.91%) Security Cleared
2 296 (11.83%) Degree
3 293 (11.71%) SC Cleared
4 178 (7.11%) AWS Certification
5 115 (4.60%) CISSP
6 97 (3.88%) Microsoft Certification
7 93 (3.72%) CISM
8 88 (3.52%) Computer Science Degree
9 83 (3.32%) MCSE
10 52 (2.08%) Azure Certification
11 47 (1.88%) DV Cleared
12 46 (1.84%) ITIL Certification
13 37 (1.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 34 (1.36%) Cisco Certification
15 24 (0.96%) CCNP
16 20 (0.80%) CREST Certified
16 20 (0.80%) Master's Degree
17 18 (0.72%) DBS Check
18 17 (0.68%) CCNA
19 16 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 185 (7.39%) QA
2 115 (4.60%) NIST
3 95 (3.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 57 (2.28%) Data Quality
5 56 (2.24%) Accessibility
6 51 (2.04%) 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 17 (0.68%) SOC 2
13 16 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials
14 12 (0.48%) JSP 440
15 11 (0.44%) ISO 9001
16 10 (0.40%) NIST 800
16 10 (0.40%) SLA
16 10 (0.40%) WCAG
17 7 (0.28%) Government Security Classifications
18 6 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 432 (17.27%) Docker
2 68 (2.72%) Active Directory
3 47 (1.88%) 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
1 417 (16.67%) Terraform
2 396 (15.83%) Kubernetes
3 125 (5.00%) Ansible
4 120 (4.80%) Grafana
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
9 15 (0.60%) Puppet
10 13 (0.52%) Istio
10 13 (0.52%) Podman
10 13 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
11 11 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 9 (0.36%) Cisco CUCM
12 9 (0.36%) CloudHub
13 8 (0.32%) Packer
14 7 (0.28%) ZABBIX
15 6 (0.24%) EMC NetWorker
15 6 (0.24%) EMC VPLEX
Vendors
1 418 (16.71%) Microsoft
2 121 (4.84%) ServiceNow
3 96 (3.84%) Google
4 77 (3.08%) VMware
5 64 (2.56%) Cisco
6 61 (2.44%) Oracle
7 45 (1.80%) Typelevel
8 44 (1.76%) Databricks
9 37 (1.48%) Palo Alto
10 35 (1.40%) Fortinet
11 34 (1.36%) Apple
11 34 (1.36%) Splunk
12 30 (1.20%) Adobe
13 29 (1.16%) SAP
14 28 (1.12%) SolarWinds
15 25 (1.00%) Salesforce
16 21 (0.84%) Dell
16 21 (0.84%) OpenAI
17 19 (0.76%) Dynatrace
18 17 (0.68%) MuleSoft