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

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 13 8
Rank change year-on-year +3 -5 -2
Permanent jobs citing AWS 2,475 2,209 4,754
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 11.71% 13.59% 14.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.03% 36.17% 34.34%
Number of salaries quoted 1,600 1,402 4,004
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 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +3.45% -
75th Percentile £88,750 £107,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £101,250 £135,000 £122,500
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 8,243 6,108 13,844
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 39.01% 37.57% 42.32%
Number of salaries quoted 5,866 4,498 11,452
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,500 £36,000
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 £84,500 £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 8 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 55 (2.22%) Apache Airflow
2 40 (1.62%) Apache Spark
3 25 (1.01%) Apache
4 23 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
5 15 (0.61%) CMS
5 15 (0.61%) IIS
5 15 (0.61%) 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
9 5 (0.20%) nginx
9 5 (0.20%) SAS
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 89 (3.60%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.28%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.20%) AutoCAD
3 5 (0.20%) Chatbot
3 5 (0.20%) DaVinci Resolve
4 4 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.081%) Elementor
5 2 (0.081%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.081%) PlantUML
6 1 (0.040%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.040%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.040%) EngageOne
6 1 (0.040%) Houdini
6 1 (0.040%) Lightworks
6 1 (0.040%) NUKE
6 1 (0.040%) Photoshop
6 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 1,093 (44.16%) Azure
2 621 (25.09%) GCP
3 271 (10.95%) SaaS
4 248 (10.02%) Serverless
5 197 (7.96%) GitHub
6 160 (6.46%) Amazon S3
7 159 (6.42%) AWS Lambda
8 153 (6.18%) Microsoft 365
9 120 (4.85%) Amazon EKS
10 100 (4.04%) AWS CloudFormation
11 97 (3.92%) Amazon EC2
12 87 (3.52%) Amazon ECS
13 85 (3.43%) GitHub Actions
14 68 (2.75%) Amazon SQS
15 62 (2.51%) Azure DevOps
16 57 (2.30%) GitHub Copilot
17 53 (2.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 51 (2.06%) Entra ID
19 48 (1.94%) Snowflake
20 44 (1.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 144 (5.82%) Firewall
2 137 (5.54%) Broadband
3 82 (3.31%) VPN
4 73 (2.95%) WAN
5 71 (2.87%) DNS
6 63 (2.55%) LAN
7 57 (2.30%) Network Security
8 48 (1.94%) TCP/IP
9 45 (1.82%) DHCP
10 44 (1.78%) Wi-Fi
11 37 (1.49%) HTTP
12 33 (1.33%) 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 20 (0.81%) BGP
18 17 (0.69%) NGFW
18 17 (0.69%) SSL
19 16 (0.65%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 258 (10.42%) PostgreSQL
2 254 (10.26%) MongoDB
3 119 (4.81%) NoSQL
4 113 (4.57%) Elasticsearch
5 105 (4.24%) SQL Server
6 103 (4.16%) MySQL
7 84 (3.39%) Azure SQL Database
8 66 (2.67%) Relational Database
9 59 (2.38%) DynamoDB
10 58 (2.34%) Amazon RDS
11 53 (2.14%) Metadata
12 44 (1.78%) Redis
13 40 (1.62%) Data Warehouse
14 36 (1.45%) Amazon Athena
15 32 (1.29%) Amazon Redshift
16 25 (1.01%) BigQuery
16 25 (1.01%) Data Lake
16 25 (1.01%) Power BI
17 23 (0.93%) Tableau
18 21 (0.85%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 122 (4.93%) Git
2 81 (3.27%) Jenkins
3 78 (3.15%) GitLab
4 63 (2.55%) TeamCity
5 49 (1.98%) Cypress.io
6 43 (1.74%) JIRA
7 29 (1.17%) Claude Code
8 17 (0.69%) Selenium
9 16 (0.65%) JUnit
10 15 (0.61%) CircleCI
11 14 (0.57%) Crashlytics
11 14 (0.57%) JMeter
11 14 (0.57%) Maven
11 14 (0.57%) XCTest
12 13 (0.53%) Jaeger
13 11 (0.44%) Postman
14 9 (0.36%) Mockito
15 8 (0.32%) MLflow
16 7 (0.28%) Cucumber
17 6 (0.24%) Bitbucket
General
1 596 (24.08%) Social Skills
2 546 (22.06%) Finance
3 279 (11.27%) Public Sector
4 238 (9.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 220 (8.89%) Banking
6 216 (8.73%) Law
7 144 (5.82%) Retail
8 133 (5.37%) Analytical Skills
9 65 (2.63%) Legal
10 54 (2.18%) Back Office
11 53 (2.14%) Financial Institution
11 53 (2.14%) Games
12 42 (1.70%) French Language
12 42 (1.70%) Front Office
13 41 (1.66%) Influencing Skills
14 36 (1.45%) Swedish Language
15 30 (1.21%) Marketing
16 29 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
17 24 (0.97%) Telecoms
18 20 (0.81%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 590 (23.84%) Senior
2 539 (21.78%) Developer
3 429 (17.33%) Software Engineer
4 329 (13.29%) Lead
5 273 (11.03%) Architect
6 151 (6.10%) AWS Engineer
7 149 (6.02%) Full-Stack Developer
8 123 (4.97%) Senior Software Engineer
9 120 (4.85%) Analyst
9 120 (4.85%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 118 (4.77%) .NET Developer
11 116 (4.69%) DevOps Engineer
12 113 (4.57%) Lead Software Engineer
13 97 (3.92%) Cloud Engineer
13 97 (3.92%) Senior Developer
13 97 (3.92%) Solutions Architect
14 94 (3.80%) Lead Developer
15 92 (3.72%) Software Developer
16 90 (3.64%) Consultant
16 90 (3.64%) Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 428 (17.29%) React
2 376 (15.19%) Node.js
3 228 (9.21%) .NET
4 154 (6.22%) REST
5 131 (5.29%) Vue
6 130 (5.25%) RESTful
7 126 (5.09%) Spring
8 122 (4.93%) CSS
8 122 (4.93%) Kafka
9 114 (4.61%) AngularJS
10 111 (4.48%) .NET Core
11 103 (4.16%) ASP.NET
12 95 (3.84%) ASP.NET Core
13 90 (3.64%) Spring Boot
14 83 (3.35%) HTML
15 68 (2.75%) .NET Framework
16 54 (2.18%) Ruby on Rails
17 51 (2.06%) Middleware
18 50 (2.02%) gRPC
18 50 (2.02%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 401 (16.20%) Cloud Native
2 192 (7.76%) Product Ownership
3 185 (7.47%) Distributed Systems
4 97 (3.92%) Public Cloud
5 79 (3.19%) Greenfield Project
5 79 (3.19%) Video\Live Streaming
6 64 (2.59%) Data Centre
7 58 (2.34%) Onboarding
8 56 (2.26%) Management Information System
9 54 (2.18%) Blog
9 54 (2.18%) Security Posture
10 48 (1.94%) AI Agents
11 46 (1.86%) Over-the-Top Content
12 45 (1.82%) Hybrid Cloud
13 44 (1.78%) Fixed Income
14 43 (1.74%) Cyber Threat
14 43 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
14 43 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
15 42 (1.70%) Mobile App
16 37 (1.49%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 218 (8.81%) Linux
2 148 (5.98%) Windows
3 63 (2.55%) Unix
4 60 (2.42%) Windows Server
5 38 (1.54%) Apple iOS
6 25 (1.01%) Android
7 14 (0.57%) Windows 10
8 11 (0.44%) Ubuntu
8 11 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
9 8 (0.32%) Mac OS
9 8 (0.32%) Windows Server 2012
10 7 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
11 5 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 4 (0.16%) CentOS
12 4 (0.16%) Debian
13 1 (0.040%) FreeBSD
13 1 (0.040%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.040%) OpenBSD
13 1 (0.040%) Solaris
13 1 (0.040%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 868 (35.07%) CI/CD
2 829 (33.49%) Agile
3 752 (30.38%) Software Engineering
4 587 (23.72%) DevOps
5 564 (22.79%) Mentoring
6 517 (20.89%) Full-Stack Development
7 502 (20.28%) Microservices
8 447 (18.06%) AI
9 442 (17.86%) Infrastructure as Code
10 426 (17.21%) Continuous Improvement
11 416 (16.81%) Problem-Solving
12 401 (16.20%) Test Automation
13 352 (14.22%) Containerisation
14 339 (13.70%) Technical Leadership
15 302 (12.20%) Roadmaps
16 290 (11.72%) Coaching
17 257 (10.38%) Clean Code
18 255 (10.30%) Scrum
19 243 (9.82%) Machine Learning
20 233 (9.41%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 668 (26.99%) Python
2 534 (21.58%) Java
3 401 (16.20%) TypeScript
4 397 (16.04%) JavaScript
5 371 (14.99%) SQL
6 279 (11.27%) C#
7 203 (8.20%) Go
8 106 (4.28%) Bash
9 75 (3.03%) Scala
10 72 (2.91%) C++
11 71 (2.87%) PHP
12 65 (2.63%) Ruby
13 59 (2.38%) PowerShell
14 33 (1.33%) Kotlin
15 28 (1.13%) Rust
16 17 (0.69%) Bicep
17 14 (0.57%) Swift
18 13 (0.53%) PL/SQL
19 10 (0.40%) Groovy
20 8 (0.32%) DataWeave
Qualifications
1 333 (13.45%) Security Cleared
2 289 (11.68%) Degree
3 278 (11.23%) SC Cleared
4 180 (7.27%) AWS Certification
5 94 (3.80%) CISSP
6 92 (3.72%) Microsoft Certification
7 84 (3.39%) Computer Science Degree
8 81 (3.27%) MCSE
9 75 (3.03%) CISM
10 52 (2.10%) Azure Certification
11 47 (1.90%) DV Cleared
12 35 (1.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 32 (1.29%) Cisco Certification
14 31 (1.25%) ITIL Certification
15 24 (0.97%) DBS Check
16 23 (0.93%) CCNP
17 20 (0.81%) CREST Certified
18 19 (0.77%) Master's Degree
19 17 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
20 16 (0.65%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 187 (7.56%) QA
2 99 (4.00%) NIST
3 95 (3.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 57 (2.30%) Data Quality
5 55 (2.22%) Accessibility
6 48 (1.94%) GDPR
7 34 (1.37%) PCI DSS
8 29 (1.17%) GRC
8 29 (1.17%) ISO 22301
9 26 (1.05%) NCSC
10 19 (0.77%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 17 (0.69%) SOC 2
12 16 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
13 12 (0.48%) JSP 440
14 11 (0.44%) ISO 9001
15 9 (0.36%) SLA
16 8 (0.32%) NIST 800
16 8 (0.32%) WCAG
17 7 (0.28%) Government Security Classifications
18 6 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 444 (17.94%) Docker
2 62 (2.51%) Active Directory
3 46 (1.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 41 (1.66%) Hyper-V
5 20 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
6 19 (0.77%) 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 4 (0.16%) 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
1 427 (17.25%) Terraform
2 406 (16.40%) Kubernetes
3 135 (5.45%) Ansible
4 117 (4.73%) Grafana
5 51 (2.06%) Prometheus
6 36 (1.45%) Argo
7 24 (0.97%) Microsoft Intune
8 16 (0.65%) Proxmox
9 15 (0.61%) Progress Chef
10 14 (0.57%) Puppet
11 13 (0.53%) Istio
12 12 (0.48%) Kustomize
12 12 (0.48%) Podman
12 12 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
13 11 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 9 (0.36%) Cisco CUCM
14 9 (0.36%) Packer
15 7 (0.28%) CloudHub
15 7 (0.28%) ZABBIX
16 6 (0.24%) EMC VPLEX
Vendors
1 408 (16.48%) Microsoft
2 118 (4.77%) ServiceNow
3 104 (4.20%) Google
4 75 (3.03%) VMware
5 66 (2.67%) Cisco
6 58 (2.34%) Oracle
7 45 (1.82%) Typelevel
8 43 (1.74%) Databricks
9 36 (1.45%) Palo Alto
10 35 (1.41%) Fortinet
10 35 (1.41%) Splunk
11 34 (1.37%) Apple
12 31 (1.25%) SolarWinds
13 30 (1.21%) Adobe
14 27 (1.09%) SAP
15 24 (0.97%) Salesforce
16 22 (0.89%) OpenAI
17 21 (0.85%) Aruba
17 21 (0.85%) Dell
18 19 (0.77%) Dynatrace