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

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 13 8
Rank change year-on-year +3 -5 -2
Permanent jobs citing AWS 2,559 2,005 3,472
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 10.30% 12.11% 15.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.34% 35.13% 37.06%
Number of salaries quoted 1,689 1,218 2,408
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,006 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £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 £107,500 £137,500 £142,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £74,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -2.03% -1.33% +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 8,723 5,708 9,368
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 35.12% 34.47% 41.69%
Number of salaries quoted 6,394 4,052 6,208
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £37,000
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 £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 29 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 (1.37%) Apache Spark
2 31 (1.21%) Apache Airflow
3 30 (1.17%) Confluence
4 25 (0.98%) Apache
5 20 (0.78%) 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 (0.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 8 (0.31%) Jupyter
13 6 (0.23%) SAS
14 5 (0.20%) Apache Solr
14 5 (0.20%) ArcGIS
14 5 (0.20%) Camunda
14 5 (0.20%) nginx
15 4 (0.16%) Ethereum
15 4 (0.16%) GeoServer
Applications
1 70 (2.74%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (0.66%) Chatbot
3 16 (0.63%) Microsoft Excel
4 10 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.39%) MS Visio
5 7 (0.27%) Moqups
6 4 (0.16%) AutoCAD
6 4 (0.16%) DaVinci Resolve
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 (0.94%) Cloudability
2 7 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (0.23%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.078%) Oracle Applications
4 2 (0.078%) Oracle EBS R12
4 2 (0.078%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.078%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.039%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
5 1 (0.039%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.039%) Finacle
5 1 (0.039%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.039%) Shopify
5 1 (0.039%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 1,213 (47.40%) Azure
2 666 (26.03%) GCP
3 335 (13.09%) SaaS
4 223 (8.71%) Serverless
5 208 (8.13%) GitHub
6 162 (6.33%) AWS Lambda
7 155 (6.06%) Microsoft 365
8 150 (5.86%) Amazon S3
9 114 (4.45%) Amazon EKS
10 100 (3.91%) AWS CloudFormation
11 96 (3.75%) Amazon EC2
12 95 (3.71%) GitHub Actions
13 93 (3.63%) Snowflake
14 82 (3.20%) Amazon ECS
15 70 (2.74%) GitHub Copilot
16 67 (2.62%) Anthropic Claude
17 63 (2.46%) Amazon SQS
18 62 (2.42%) Amazon Bedrock
19 60 (2.34%) Azure DevOps
20 54 (2.11%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 101 (3.95%) Firewall
2 72 (2.81%) Network Security
3 64 (2.50%) VPN
4 55 (2.15%) DNS
5 53 (2.07%) Broadband
6 51 (1.99%) WAN
7 49 (1.91%) TCP/IP
8 43 (1.68%) LAN
9 37 (1.45%) HTTP
10 35 (1.37%) DHCP
11 26 (1.02%) SD-WAN
12 17 (0.66%) VLAN
13 16 (0.63%) BGP
13 16 (0.63%) SSL
13 16 (0.63%) Wi-Fi
14 15 (0.59%) Cisco ASA
15 11 (0.43%) AMQP
15 11 (0.43%) SMS
16 10 (0.39%) MPLS
16 10 (0.39%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 279 (10.90%) PostgreSQL
2 223 (8.71%) MongoDB
3 104 (4.06%) SQL Server
4 97 (3.79%) Elasticsearch
5 95 (3.71%) MySQL
6 86 (3.36%) NoSQL
7 81 (3.17%) Azure SQL Database
8 75 (2.93%) Relational Database
9 68 (2.66%) DynamoDB
10 58 (2.27%) Redis
11 51 (1.99%) Data Warehouse
12 50 (1.95%) Amazon RDS
13 48 (1.88%) Power BI
14 42 (1.64%) Amazon Athena
15 36 (1.41%) Metadata
16 35 (1.37%) Data Lake
17 30 (1.17%) Amazon Redshift
17 30 (1.17%) Tableau
18 26 (1.02%) Big Data
19 21 (0.82%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 157 (6.14%) Git
2 89 (3.48%) Jenkins
3 86 (3.36%) TeamCity
4 85 (3.32%) GitLab
5 67 (2.62%) Claude Code
6 63 (2.46%) JIRA
7 50 (1.95%) Cypress.io
8 34 (1.33%) JUnit
9 27 (1.06%) Selenium
10 23 (0.90%) Postman
11 20 (0.78%) Maven
12 19 (0.74%) Mockito
13 12 (0.47%) Bitbucket
14 8 (0.31%) SonarQube
15 6 (0.23%) CircleCI
15 6 (0.23%) Cucumber
15 6 (0.23%) Gatling
16 5 (0.20%) Crashlytics
16 5 (0.20%) Poetry
16 5 (0.20%) XCTest
General
1 688 (26.89%) Social Skills
2 620 (24.23%) Finance
3 350 (13.68%) Public Sector
4 309 (12.08%) Banking
5 275 (10.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 239 (9.34%) Law
7 180 (7.03%) Analytical Skills
8 154 (6.02%) Retail
9 85 (3.32%) Legal
10 77 (3.01%) Financial Institution
11 75 (2.93%) Back Office
12 51 (1.99%) Presentation Skills
13 48 (1.88%) Games
13 48 (1.88%) Marketing
13 48 (1.88%) Swedish Language
14 46 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
15 32 (1.25%) Telecoms
16 31 (1.21%) French Language
17 30 (1.17%) Health Technology
17 30 (1.17%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 634 (24.78%) Senior
2 479 (18.72%) Developer
3 442 (17.27%) Software Engineer
4 320 (12.50%) Architect
5 302 (11.80%) Lead
6 135 (5.28%) Analyst
7 128 (5.00%) AWS Engineer
8 124 (4.85%) Full-Stack Developer
9 121 (4.73%) Senior Developer
10 116 (4.53%) DevOps Engineer
10 116 (4.53%) Senior Software Engineer
11 104 (4.06%) .NET Developer
12 99 (3.87%) Python Engineer
13 98 (3.83%) Cloud Engineer
14 91 (3.56%) Data Engineer
15 90 (3.52%) Consultant
15 90 (3.52%) Lead Software Engineer
16 84 (3.28%) Engineering Manager
16 84 (3.28%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 81 (3.17%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 464 (18.13%) Terraform
2 392 (15.32%) React
3 329 (12.86%) Node.js
4 260 (10.16%) .NET
5 192 (7.50%) REST
6 157 (6.14%) Spring
7 133 (5.20%) RESTful
8 120 (4.69%) Spring Boot
9 118 (4.61%) Vue
10 114 (4.45%) .NET Core
11 112 (4.38%) AngularJS
12 106 (4.14%) ASP.NET
13 95 (3.71%) ASP.NET Core
14 89 (3.48%) CSS
15 85 (3.32%) Middleware
16 84 (3.28%) LangChain
17 78 (3.05%) Kafka
18 68 (2.66%) .NET Framework
19 60 (2.34%) HTML
19 60 (2.34%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 415 (16.22%) Cloud Native
2 193 (7.54%) Product Ownership
3 176 (6.88%) Distributed Systems
4 122 (4.77%) AI Agents
5 106 (4.14%) Public Cloud
6 77 (3.01%) Cyber Threat
7 66 (2.58%) Greenfield Project
8 60 (2.34%) Onboarding
9 58 (2.27%) Blog
10 57 (2.23%) Hybrid Cloud
11 53 (2.07%) Hedge funds
12 46 (1.80%) Enterprise Software
13 43 (1.68%) Security Posture
14 42 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
15 40 (1.56%) Data Centre
16 39 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
17 37 (1.45%) Management Information System
18 31 (1.21%) Mobile App
19 29 (1.13%) PKI
20 28 (1.09%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 216 (8.44%) Linux
2 163 (6.37%) Windows
3 67 (2.62%) Unix
4 54 (2.11%) Windows Server
5 27 (1.06%) Apple iOS
6 18 (0.70%) Android
7 16 (0.63%) Ubuntu
8 8 (0.31%) Mac OS
9 7 (0.27%) Debian
10 3 (0.12%) CentOS
10 3 (0.12%) Robot Operating System
11 2 (0.078%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 2 (0.078%) Solaris
11 2 (0.078%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.039%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 932 (36.42%) CI/CD
2 837 (32.71%) Agile
3 786 (30.72%) Software Engineering
4 635 (24.81%) AI
5 602 (23.52%) Mentoring
6 599 (23.41%) DevOps
7 489 (19.11%) Continuous Improvement
8 477 (18.64%) Microservices
9 449 (17.55%) Full-Stack Development
10 447 (17.47%) Problem-Solving
11 432 (16.88%) Infrastructure as Code
12 405 (15.83%) Test Automation
13 391 (15.28%) Technical Leadership
14 328 (12.82%) Roadmaps
15 287 (11.22%) Coaching
16 283 (11.06%) Scrum
17 276 (10.79%) Containerisation
18 275 (10.75%) Observability
19 246 (9.61%) Machine Learning
20 230 (8.99%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 644 (25.17%) Python
2 549 (21.45%) Java
3 428 (16.73%) SQL
4 387 (15.12%) JavaScript
5 364 (14.22%) TypeScript
6 285 (11.14%) C#
7 103 (4.03%) Bash
8 95 (3.71%) Go
9 85 (3.32%) PowerShell
10 71 (2.77%) Ruby
11 62 (2.42%) C++
12 53 (2.07%) PHP
13 34 (1.33%) Kotlin
14 26 (1.02%) Rust
15 22 (0.86%) PL/SQL
15 22 (0.86%) Scala
16 20 (0.78%) R
17 16 (0.63%) DataWeave
18 14 (0.55%) Bicep
19 12 (0.47%) C
Qualifications
1 436 (17.04%) Security Cleared
2 360 (14.07%) SC Cleared
3 277 (10.82%) Degree
4 174 (6.80%) AWS Certification
5 115 (4.49%) CISSP
6 103 (4.03%) CISM
7 83 (3.24%) Microsoft Certification
8 76 (2.97%) Computer Science Degree
9 69 (2.70%) MCSE
10 64 (2.50%) Azure Certification
11 50 (1.95%) ITIL Certification
12 48 (1.88%) DV Cleared
13 38 (1.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 34 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
15 30 (1.17%) BPSS Clearance
16 23 (0.90%) CCNP
17 21 (0.82%) CCNA
18 16 (0.63%) Microsoft Certified Professional
19 15 (0.59%) GIAC
20 14 (0.55%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 167 (6.53%) QA
2 119 (4.65%) NIST
3 105 (4.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 103 (4.03%) Data Quality
5 81 (3.17%) Accessibility
6 59 (2.31%) GDPR
7 48 (1.88%) ISO 22301
8 38 (1.48%) NCSC
9 30 (1.17%) GRC
10 28 (1.09%) PCI DSS
11 26 (1.02%) Cyber Essentials
12 16 (0.63%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 13 (0.51%) SLA
14 12 (0.47%) NIST 800
15 11 (0.43%) WCAG
16 10 (0.39%) SOC 2
17 9 (0.35%) ISO 9001
17 9 (0.35%) PMO
18 8 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
18 8 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 429 (16.76%) Docker
2 52 (2.03%) Active Directory
3 47 (1.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 39 (1.52%) Hyper-V
5 14 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
6 11 (0.43%) vSphere
7 6 (0.23%) 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 (0.078%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 2 (0.078%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.078%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.039%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.039%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.039%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 445 (17.39%) Kubernetes
2 145 (5.67%) Grafana
3 115 (4.49%) Ansible
4 43 (1.68%) Prometheus
5 25 (0.98%) Argo
6 23 (0.90%) Microsoft Intune
7 19 (0.74%) Progress Chef
8 13 (0.51%) CloudHub
9 11 (0.43%) Puppet
9 11 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
10 10 (0.39%) Packer
10 10 (0.39%) Proxmox
11 9 (0.35%) Istio
12 8 (0.31%) CASB
13 7 (0.27%) Podman
13 7 (0.27%) ZABBIX
14 6 (0.23%) Avamar
14 6 (0.23%) Dell DRAC
14 6 (0.23%) EMC NetWorker
14 6 (0.23%) VxRail
Vendors
1 416 (16.26%) Microsoft
2 129 (5.04%) Google
3 108 (4.22%) ServiceNow
4 79 (3.09%) Databricks
5 74 (2.89%) VMware
6 73 (2.85%) Oracle
7 46 (1.80%) Cisco
8 42 (1.64%) OpenAI
9 37 (1.45%) Adobe
10 33 (1.29%) SAP
11 31 (1.21%) Splunk
12 26 (1.02%) Salesforce
13 25 (0.98%) Apple
14 24 (0.94%) Dynatrace
14 24 (0.94%) Palo Alto
15 23 (0.90%) Fortinet
16 22 (0.86%) Informatica
17 21 (0.82%) SolarWinds
18 20 (0.78%) MuleSoft
18 20 (0.78%) Okta