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 5 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 16 8
Rank change year-on-year +6 -8 -2
Permanent jobs citing AWS 2,534 2,002 3,499
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 10.20% 11.91% 15.76%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.25% 34.84% 37.42%
Number of salaries quoted 1,673 1,214 2,399
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £54,551 £58,750 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £77,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% - +10.71%
75th Percentile £90,000 £110,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £108,750 £136,250 £142,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £73,250 £75,000
% change year-on-year -1.02% -2.33% +3.45%

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 8,663 5,746 9,351
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 34.88% 34.19% 42.11%
Number of salaries quoted 6,353 4,068 6,162
10th Percentile £34,689 £31,250 £36,750
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 £82,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £63,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.76% +0.80%

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 5 October 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 35 (1.38%) Apache Spark
2 32 (1.26%) Confluence
3 26 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
4 25 (0.99%) Apache
5 18 (0.71%) SharePoint
6 16 (0.63%) Anypoint
7 15 (0.59%) IIS
7 15 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
8 13 (0.51%) Mule
9 12 (0.47%) WordPress
10 10 (0.39%) CMS
11 9 (0.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 8 (0.32%) Jupyter
13 6 (0.24%) SAS
13 6 (0.24%) WebLogic
14 5 (0.20%) Camunda
14 5 (0.20%) nginx
15 4 (0.16%) Apache Solr
15 4 (0.16%) ArcGIS
15 4 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 70 (2.76%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (0.71%) Chatbot
3 16 (0.63%) Microsoft Excel
4 10 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (0.32%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.28%) Moqups
7 2 (0.079%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.079%) DaVinci Resolve
7 2 (0.079%) Elementor
7 2 (0.079%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.079%) PlantUML
7 2 (0.079%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.079%) 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 21 (0.83%) Cloudability
2 6 (0.24%) NetSuite
2 6 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.079%) Oracle Applications
3 2 (0.079%) Oracle EBS R12
3 2 (0.079%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.079%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.039%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
4 1 (0.039%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.039%) Finacle
4 1 (0.039%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.039%) Shopify
4 1 (0.039%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 1,198 (47.28%) Azure
2 656 (25.89%) GCP
3 331 (13.06%) SaaS
4 216 (8.52%) Serverless
5 206 (8.13%) GitHub
6 161 (6.35%) AWS Lambda
7 159 (6.27%) Microsoft 365
8 148 (5.84%) Amazon S3
9 111 (4.38%) Amazon EKS
10 101 (3.99%) AWS CloudFormation
11 95 (3.75%) Amazon EC2
12 92 (3.63%) GitHub Actions
13 91 (3.59%) Snowflake
14 78 (3.08%) Amazon ECS
15 71 (2.80%) GitHub Copilot
16 67 (2.64%) Anthropic Claude
17 64 (2.53%) Amazon Bedrock
18 61 (2.41%) Amazon SQS
19 58 (2.29%) Azure DevOps
20 55 (2.17%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 100 (3.95%) Firewall
2 72 (2.84%) Network Security
3 64 (2.53%) VPN
4 53 (2.09%) Broadband
4 53 (2.09%) DNS
5 51 (2.01%) TCP/IP
6 48 (1.89%) WAN
7 40 (1.58%) LAN
8 34 (1.34%) DHCP
8 34 (1.34%) HTTP
9 24 (0.95%) SD-WAN
10 18 (0.71%) BGP
11 15 (0.59%) SSL
11 15 (0.59%) VLAN
11 15 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
12 14 (0.55%) Cisco ASA
13 11 (0.43%) AMQP
13 11 (0.43%) IP Telephony
13 11 (0.43%) SMS
14 10 (0.39%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 282 (11.13%) PostgreSQL
2 222 (8.76%) MongoDB
3 104 (4.10%) SQL Server
4 96 (3.79%) Elasticsearch
5 94 (3.71%) MySQL
6 85 (3.35%) NoSQL
7 81 (3.20%) Azure SQL Database
8 73 (2.88%) Relational Database
9 66 (2.60%) DynamoDB
10 57 (2.25%) Redis
11 56 (2.21%) Amazon RDS
12 49 (1.93%) Power BI
13 48 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
14 42 (1.66%) Amazon Athena
15 37 (1.46%) Metadata
16 33 (1.30%) Data Lake
17 30 (1.18%) Tableau
18 27 (1.07%) Amazon Redshift
19 26 (1.03%) Big Data
20 22 (0.87%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 151 (5.96%) Git
2 89 (3.51%) TeamCity
3 88 (3.47%) Jenkins
4 85 (3.35%) GitLab
5 68 (2.68%) Claude Code
6 66 (2.60%) JIRA
7 49 (1.93%) Cypress.io
8 37 (1.46%) JUnit
9 27 (1.07%) Selenium
10 23 (0.91%) Postman
11 21 (0.83%) Mockito
12 20 (0.79%) Maven
13 12 (0.47%) Bitbucket
14 7 (0.28%) SonarQube
15 6 (0.24%) CircleCI
15 6 (0.24%) Cucumber
15 6 (0.24%) Gatling
16 5 (0.20%) JMeter
16 5 (0.20%) Metasploit
16 5 (0.20%) NUnit
General
1 688 (27.15%) Social Skills
2 618 (24.39%) Finance
3 355 (14.01%) Public Sector
4 305 (12.04%) Banking
5 269 (10.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 232 (9.16%) Law
7 185 (7.30%) Analytical Skills
8 153 (6.04%) Retail
9 84 (3.31%) Legal
10 79 (3.12%) Financial Institution
11 77 (3.04%) Back Office
12 51 (2.01%) Marketing
12 51 (2.01%) Presentation Skills
13 48 (1.89%) Games
13 48 (1.89%) Swedish Language
14 46 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
15 33 (1.30%) Telecoms
16 31 (1.22%) French Language
17 30 (1.18%) Health Technology
17 30 (1.18%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 635 (25.06%) Senior
2 475 (18.75%) Developer
3 441 (17.40%) Software Engineer
4 314 (12.39%) Architect
5 296 (11.68%) Lead
6 134 (5.29%) Analyst
7 124 (4.89%) Full-Stack Developer
8 123 (4.85%) AWS Engineer
8 123 (4.85%) DevOps Engineer
9 122 (4.81%) Senior Developer
10 117 (4.62%) Senior Software Engineer
11 101 (3.99%) .NET Developer
12 99 (3.91%) Python Engineer
13 95 (3.75%) Cloud Engineer
14 89 (3.51%) Consultant
15 88 (3.47%) Lead Software Engineer
16 86 (3.39%) Data Engineer
17 81 (3.20%) Engineering Manager
18 80 (3.16%) Software Developer
19 79 (3.12%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 457 (18.03%) Terraform
2 377 (14.88%) React
3 325 (12.83%) Node.js
4 258 (10.18%) .NET
5 187 (7.38%) REST
6 159 (6.27%) Spring
7 136 (5.37%) RESTful
8 122 (4.81%) Spring Boot
9 114 (4.50%) Vue
10 113 (4.46%) .NET Core
11 108 (4.26%) AngularJS
12 107 (4.22%) ASP.NET
13 95 (3.75%) ASP.NET Core
14 87 (3.43%) LangChain
15 85 (3.35%) CSS
16 84 (3.31%) Middleware
17 75 (2.96%) Kafka
18 67 (2.64%) .NET Framework
19 62 (2.45%) LangGraph
19 62 (2.45%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 412 (16.26%) Cloud Native
2 187 (7.38%) Product Ownership
3 177 (6.99%) Distributed Systems
4 125 (4.93%) AI Agents
5 101 (3.99%) Public Cloud
6 77 (3.04%) Cyber Threat
7 65 (2.57%) Greenfield Project
8 59 (2.33%) Blog
9 57 (2.25%) Onboarding
10 55 (2.17%) Hybrid Cloud
11 53 (2.09%) Hedge funds
12 47 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
13 46 (1.82%) Security Posture
14 41 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
15 40 (1.58%) Data Centre
16 39 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
17 36 (1.42%) Management Information System
18 29 (1.14%) Mobile App
19 28 (1.10%) Low-Code
19 28 (1.10%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 220 (8.68%) Linux
2 161 (6.35%) Windows
3 71 (2.80%) Unix
4 55 (2.17%) Windows Server
5 26 (1.03%) Apple iOS
6 19 (0.75%) Android
7 15 (0.59%) Ubuntu
8 8 (0.32%) Mac OS
9 7 (0.28%) Debian
10 3 (0.12%) CentOS
10 3 (0.12%) Robot Operating System
10 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (0.079%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 2 (0.079%) Solaris
12 1 (0.039%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 934 (36.86%) CI/CD
2 832 (32.83%) Agile
3 772 (30.47%) Software Engineering
4 636 (25.10%) AI
5 607 (23.95%) Mentoring
6 600 (23.68%) DevOps
7 485 (19.14%) Continuous Improvement
8 471 (18.59%) Microservices
9 449 (17.72%) Problem-Solving
10 436 (17.21%) Full-Stack Development
11 430 (16.97%) Infrastructure as Code
12 410 (16.18%) Test Automation
13 388 (15.31%) Technical Leadership
14 319 (12.59%) Roadmaps
15 292 (11.52%) Coaching
16 282 (11.13%) Scrum
17 273 (10.77%) Containerisation
18 268 (10.58%) Observability
19 248 (9.79%) Machine Learning
20 227 (8.96%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 646 (25.49%) Python
2 548 (21.63%) Java
3 427 (16.85%) SQL
4 382 (15.07%) JavaScript
5 350 (13.81%) TypeScript
6 283 (11.17%) C#
7 105 (4.14%) Bash
8 97 (3.83%) Go
9 85 (3.35%) PowerShell
10 69 (2.72%) Ruby
11 61 (2.41%) C++
12 52 (2.05%) PHP
13 34 (1.34%) Kotlin
14 23 (0.91%) R
14 23 (0.91%) Rust
15 22 (0.87%) Scala
16 21 (0.83%) PL/SQL
17 16 (0.63%) DataWeave
18 13 (0.51%) Bicep
19 11 (0.43%) C
Qualifications
1 436 (17.21%) Security Cleared
2 361 (14.25%) SC Cleared
3 275 (10.85%) Degree
4 172 (6.79%) AWS Certification
5 116 (4.58%) CISSP
6 104 (4.10%) CISM
7 86 (3.39%) Microsoft Certification
8 76 (3.00%) Computer Science Degree
9 71 (2.80%) MCSE
10 63 (2.49%) Azure Certification
11 50 (1.97%) ITIL Certification
12 48 (1.89%) DV Cleared
13 38 (1.50%) Cisco Certification
14 35 (1.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 31 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
16 25 (0.99%) CCNP
17 23 (0.91%) CCNA
18 18 (0.71%) Microsoft Certified Professional
19 15 (0.59%) GIAC
19 15 (0.59%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 161 (6.35%) QA
2 119 (4.70%) NIST
3 106 (4.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 100 (3.95%) Data Quality
5 77 (3.04%) Accessibility
6 59 (2.33%) GDPR
7 48 (1.89%) ISO 22301
8 37 (1.46%) NCSC
9 32 (1.26%) PCI DSS
10 29 (1.14%) GRC
11 27 (1.07%) Cyber Essentials
12 15 (0.59%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 13 (0.51%) SLA
13 13 (0.51%) SOC 2
14 12 (0.47%) NIST 800
15 11 (0.43%) WCAG
16 9 (0.36%) ISO 9001
16 9 (0.36%) PMO
17 8 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
18 7 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 425 (16.77%) Docker
2 53 (2.09%) Active Directory
3 48 (1.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 41 (1.62%) Hyper-V
5 15 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
6 11 (0.43%) vSphere
7 6 (0.24%) KVM
8 3 (0.12%) Firmware
8 3 (0.12%) iptables
8 3 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.12%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.079%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 2 (0.079%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.079%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.039%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.039%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.039%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 442 (17.44%) Kubernetes
2 145 (5.72%) Grafana
3 109 (4.30%) Ansible
4 43 (1.70%) Prometheus
5 25 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
6 24 (0.95%) Argo
7 19 (0.75%) Progress Chef
8 13 (0.51%) CloudHub
9 12 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
10 10 (0.39%) Packer
10 10 (0.39%) Proxmox
10 10 (0.39%) Puppet
11 9 (0.36%) Istio
12 8 (0.32%) CASB
13 7 (0.28%) Podman
13 7 (0.28%) ZABBIX
14 6 (0.24%) Avamar
14 6 (0.24%) Dell DRAC
14 6 (0.24%) EMC NetWorker
14 6 (0.24%) VxRail
Vendors
1 403 (15.90%) Microsoft
2 135 (5.33%) Google
3 105 (4.14%) ServiceNow
4 80 (3.16%) Databricks
5 75 (2.96%) VMware
6 71 (2.80%) Oracle
7 43 (1.70%) Cisco
8 42 (1.66%) OpenAI
9 33 (1.30%) Adobe
9 33 (1.30%) SAP
10 28 (1.10%) Splunk
11 24 (0.95%) Dynatrace
11 24 (0.95%) Salesforce
12 22 (0.87%) Apple
12 22 (0.87%) Informatica
12 22 (0.87%) Palo Alto
13 21 (0.83%) Fortinet
14 20 (0.79%) MuleSoft
14 20 (0.79%) Okta
15 17 (0.67%) SolarWinds