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 13 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 13 8
Rank change year-on-year +3 -5 -2
Permanent jobs citing AWS 2,567 2,029 3,531
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 10.72% 12.46% 15.09%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.52% 34.93% 36.98%
Number of salaries quoted 1,672 1,259 2,587
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,439 £46,250
25th Percentile £53,750 £58,750 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £77,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% - +6.90%
75th Percentile £88,938 £110,000 £112,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £136,250 £142,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £74,500
% change year-on-year -3.33% +0.67% -

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 8,695 5,808 9,548
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 36.33% 35.66% 40.80%
Number of salaries quoted 6,367 4,200 6,728
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £47,943
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 £86,063
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -

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

AWS
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing AWS over the 6 months to 13 September 2026.

AWS salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

AWS
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 35 (1.36%) Apache Spark
2 30 (1.17%) Apache Airflow
3 27 (1.05%) Apache
3 27 (1.05%) Confluence
4 21 (0.82%) SharePoint
5 16 (0.62%) Anypoint
5 16 (0.62%) IIS
6 15 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
7 13 (0.51%) Mule
7 13 (0.51%) WordPress
8 10 (0.39%) CMS
9 8 (0.31%) Jupyter
10 7 (0.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 6 (0.23%) SAS
12 5 (0.19%) Apache Solr
12 5 (0.19%) ArcGIS
13 4 (0.16%) Ethereum
13 4 (0.16%) GeoServer
13 4 (0.16%) Oracle Spatial
13 4 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 76 (2.96%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (0.70%) Chatbot
3 15 (0.58%) 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 (0.078%) Elementor
7 2 (0.078%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.078%) PlantUML
7 2 (0.078%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.078%) Weka
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
Business Applications
1 24 (0.93%) Cloudability
2 6 (0.23%) NetSuite
2 6 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.078%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.078%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.039%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
4 1 (0.039%) Finacle
4 1 (0.039%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.039%) Magento
4 1 (0.039%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.039%) Shopify
4 1 (0.039%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 1,229 (47.88%) Azure
2 660 (25.71%) GCP
3 318 (12.39%) SaaS
4 227 (8.84%) Serverless
5 203 (7.91%) GitHub
6 163 (6.35%) AWS Lambda
7 162 (6.31%) Microsoft 365
8 151 (5.88%) Amazon S3
9 99 (3.86%) Amazon EKS
10 98 (3.82%) AWS CloudFormation
11 96 (3.74%) Amazon EC2
12 92 (3.58%) GitHub Actions
13 82 (3.19%) Amazon ECS
14 80 (3.12%) Snowflake
15 66 (2.57%) GitHub Copilot
16 64 (2.49%) Amazon SQS
16 64 (2.49%) Azure DevOps
17 59 (2.30%) Anthropic Claude
18 51 (1.99%) Power Platform
19 49 (1.91%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 106 (4.13%) Firewall
2 79 (3.08%) Broadband
3 73 (2.84%) Network Security
4 62 (2.42%) DNS
5 61 (2.38%) VPN
6 57 (2.22%) WAN
7 50 (1.95%) LAN
8 49 (1.91%) TCP/IP
9 42 (1.64%) HTTP
10 38 (1.48%) DHCP
11 29 (1.13%) SD-WAN
12 19 (0.74%) SSL
12 19 (0.74%) VLAN
13 18 (0.70%) Wi-Fi
14 17 (0.66%) Cisco ASA
15 13 (0.51%) BGP
16 12 (0.47%) Cisco Firepower
17 11 (0.43%) OSPF
18 10 (0.39%) MPLS
19 9 (0.35%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 257 (10.01%) PostgreSQL
2 234 (9.12%) MongoDB
3 106 (4.13%) SQL Server
4 98 (3.82%) Elasticsearch
5 95 (3.70%) NoSQL
6 93 (3.62%) MySQL
7 81 (3.16%) Azure SQL Database
8 68 (2.65%) DynamoDB
9 61 (2.38%) Relational Database
10 57 (2.22%) Redis
11 49 (1.91%) Data Warehouse
12 45 (1.75%) Power BI
13 44 (1.71%) Amazon Athena
14 41 (1.60%) Amazon RDS
15 35 (1.36%) Data Lake
16 34 (1.32%) Metadata
17 29 (1.13%) Amazon Redshift
17 29 (1.13%) Tableau
18 26 (1.01%) Big Data
19 20 (0.78%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 149 (5.80%) Git
2 86 (3.35%) Jenkins
3 78 (3.04%) GitLab
4 69 (2.69%) TeamCity
5 63 (2.45%) JIRA
6 57 (2.22%) Cypress.io
7 55 (2.14%) Claude Code
8 32 (1.25%) JUnit
9 27 (1.05%) Selenium
10 21 (0.82%) Maven
10 21 (0.82%) Postman
11 17 (0.66%) Mockito
12 11 (0.43%) Bitbucket
12 11 (0.43%) CircleCI
13 8 (0.31%) Crashlytics
13 8 (0.31%) SonarQube
13 8 (0.31%) XCTest
14 7 (0.27%) Cucumber
14 7 (0.27%) Gatling
14 7 (0.27%) JMeter
General
1 678 (26.41%) Social Skills
2 618 (24.07%) Finance
3 333 (12.97%) Public Sector
4 294 (11.45%) Banking
5 252 (9.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 217 (8.45%) Law
7 175 (6.82%) Analytical Skills
8 130 (5.06%) Retail
9 82 (3.19%) Legal
10 64 (2.49%) Financial Institution
11 61 (2.38%) Back Office
12 54 (2.10%) Games
13 51 (1.99%) Presentation Skills
14 48 (1.87%) Swedish Language
15 41 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
16 40 (1.56%) Marketing
17 37 (1.44%) French Language
18 34 (1.32%) Telecoms
19 26 (1.01%) Health Technology
20 23 (0.90%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 625 (24.35%) Senior
2 487 (18.97%) Developer
3 424 (16.52%) Software Engineer
4 320 (12.47%) Architect
5 308 (12.00%) Lead
6 136 (5.30%) Analyst
7 129 (5.03%) Full-Stack Developer
8 128 (4.99%) AWS Engineer
9 119 (4.64%) Senior Developer
10 117 (4.56%) DevOps Engineer
11 111 (4.32%) Senior Software Engineer
12 109 (4.25%) .NET Developer
13 99 (3.86%) Engineering Manager
14 98 (3.82%) Cloud Engineer
15 95 (3.70%) Consultant
16 87 (3.39%) Data Engineer
16 87 (3.39%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 86 (3.35%) Lead Software Engineer
18 85 (3.31%) Solutions Architect
19 84 (3.27%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 446 (17.37%) Terraform
2 400 (15.58%) React
3 346 (13.48%) Node.js
4 257 (10.01%) .NET
5 196 (7.64%) REST
6 146 (5.69%) Spring
7 127 (4.95%) RESTful
8 118 (4.60%) Vue
9 111 (4.32%) .NET Core
10 108 (4.21%) AngularJS
11 107 (4.17%) CSS
12 106 (4.13%) ASP.NET
13 105 (4.09%) Spring Boot
14 95 (3.70%) ASP.NET Core
15 80 (3.12%) Kafka
15 80 (3.12%) Middleware
16 76 (2.96%) LangChain
17 68 (2.65%) .NET Framework
18 66 (2.57%) HTML
19 62 (2.42%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 398 (15.50%) Cloud Native
2 203 (7.91%) Product Ownership
3 171 (6.66%) Distributed Systems
4 111 (4.32%) Public Cloud
5 105 (4.09%) AI Agents
6 74 (2.88%) Cyber Threat
7 70 (2.73%) Greenfield Project
8 64 (2.49%) Onboarding
9 56 (2.18%) Hybrid Cloud
10 52 (2.03%) Blog
11 46 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
12 44 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
12 44 (1.71%) Security Posture
13 42 (1.64%) Data Centre
14 41 (1.60%) Hedge funds
14 41 (1.60%) Video\Live Streaming
15 40 (1.56%) Management Information System
16 37 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
16 37 (1.44%) Mobile App
17 34 (1.32%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 209 (8.14%) Linux
2 163 (6.35%) Windows
3 60 (2.34%) Unix
4 56 (2.18%) Windows Server
5 24 (0.93%) Apple iOS
6 16 (0.62%) Ubuntu
7 15 (0.58%) Android
8 7 (0.27%) Debian
9 6 (0.23%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.12%) CentOS
10 3 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.12%) Robot Operating System
10 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.078%) Solaris
12 1 (0.039%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.039%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 920 (35.84%) CI/CD
2 847 (33.00%) Agile
3 774 (30.15%) Software Engineering
4 605 (23.57%) Mentoring
5 599 (23.33%) AI
6 593 (23.10%) DevOps
7 481 (18.74%) Continuous Improvement
8 472 (18.39%) Microservices
9 465 (18.11%) Full-Stack Development
10 434 (16.91%) Problem-Solving
11 428 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
12 414 (16.13%) Test Automation
13 395 (15.39%) Technical Leadership
14 337 (13.13%) Roadmaps
15 293 (11.41%) Containerisation
16 290 (11.30%) Scrum
17 286 (11.14%) Coaching
18 263 (10.25%) Observability
19 254 (9.89%) Machine Learning
20 238 (9.27%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 645 (25.13%) Python
2 531 (20.69%) Java
3 419 (16.32%) SQL
4 386 (15.04%) JavaScript
5 369 (14.37%) TypeScript
6 294 (11.45%) C#
7 106 (4.13%) Go
8 91 (3.54%) Bash
9 84 (3.27%) PowerShell
10 76 (2.96%) Ruby
11 73 (2.84%) C++
12 58 (2.26%) PHP
13 37 (1.44%) Kotlin
14 33 (1.29%) Scala
15 23 (0.90%) Rust
16 20 (0.78%) PL/SQL
17 16 (0.62%) DataWeave
18 15 (0.58%) Bicep
19 12 (0.47%) C
20 11 (0.43%) R
Qualifications
1 427 (16.63%) Security Cleared
2 352 (13.71%) SC Cleared
3 285 (11.10%) Degree
4 176 (6.86%) AWS Certification
5 117 (4.56%) CISSP
6 104 (4.05%) CISM
7 88 (3.43%) Microsoft Certification
8 84 (3.27%) Computer Science Degree
9 74 (2.88%) MCSE
10 64 (2.49%) Azure Certification
11 53 (2.06%) DV Cleared
12 50 (1.95%) ITIL Certification
13 39 (1.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 34 (1.32%) Cisco Certification
15 28 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
16 24 (0.93%) CCNP
17 20 (0.78%) CCNA
18 14 (0.55%) DBS Check
18 14 (0.55%) Microsoft Certified Professional
19 13 (0.51%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 178 (6.93%) QA
2 120 (4.67%) NIST
3 102 (3.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 101 (3.93%) Data Quality
5 88 (3.43%) Accessibility
6 54 (2.10%) GDPR
7 48 (1.87%) ISO 22301
8 37 (1.44%) NCSC
9 32 (1.25%) GRC
10 25 (0.97%) PCI DSS
11 23 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials
12 18 (0.70%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 16 (0.62%) SLA
14 12 (0.47%) NIST 800
14 12 (0.47%) WCAG
15 8 (0.31%) ISO 9001
15 8 (0.31%) PMO
16 7 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
16 7 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 42001
16 7 (0.27%) JSP 440
System Software
1 435 (16.95%) Docker
2 58 (2.26%) Active Directory
3 49 (1.91%) VMware Infrastructure
4 38 (1.48%) Hyper-V
5 20 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (0.55%) vSphere
7 6 (0.23%) KVM
8 5 (0.19%) Firmware
9 4 (0.16%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 4 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (0.12%) iptables
10 3 (0.12%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.078%) VMware ESXi
12 1 (0.039%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 1 (0.039%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.039%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.039%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 421 (16.40%) Kubernetes
2 125 (4.87%) Grafana
3 113 (4.40%) Ansible
4 37 (1.44%) Prometheus
5 23 (0.90%) Argo
6 22 (0.86%) Microsoft Intune
7 18 (0.70%) Progress Chef
8 15 (0.58%) Istio
9 13 (0.51%) CloudHub
9 13 (0.51%) Puppet
10 12 (0.47%) Podman
11 10 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
12 9 (0.35%) Proxmox
13 8 (0.31%) CASB
13 8 (0.31%) Packer
14 7 (0.27%) Cisco CUCM
14 7 (0.27%) ZABBIX
15 6 (0.23%) EMC NetWorker
15 6 (0.23%) EMC VPLEX
15 6 (0.23%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 434 (16.91%) Microsoft
2 128 (4.99%) Google
3 113 (4.40%) ServiceNow
4 74 (2.88%) VMware
5 71 (2.77%) Oracle
6 68 (2.65%) Databricks
7 51 (1.99%) Cisco
8 39 (1.52%) OpenAI
9 38 (1.48%) Adobe
10 35 (1.36%) Splunk
11 34 (1.32%) SAP
12 30 (1.17%) Palo Alto
13 29 (1.13%) Fortinet
14 28 (1.09%) Salesforce
15 25 (0.97%) Apple
16 23 (0.90%) Dynatrace
16 23 (0.90%) SolarWinds
17 22 (0.86%) Informatica
17 22 (0.86%) Okta
18 19 (0.74%) MuleSoft