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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 16 8
Rank change year-on-year +6 -8 -2
Permanent jobs citing AWS 2,536 1,987 3,460
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 10.19% 11.85% 15.81%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.23% 34.78% 37.51%
Number of salaries quoted 1,675 1,202 2,377
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,250 £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 £137,375 £142,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year - -3.33% +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 8,676 5,713 9,224
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 34.85% 34.08% 42.15%
Number of salaries quoted 6,364 4,041 6,080
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £36,738
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 £63,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -5.51% +1.60%

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 6 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 36 (1.42%) Apache Spark
2 32 (1.26%) Confluence
3 27 (1.06%) Apache Airflow
4 26 (1.03%) 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 (0.35%) Jupyter
11 9 (0.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 6 (0.24%) SAS
12 6 (0.24%) WebLogic
13 5 (0.20%) Camunda
13 5 (0.20%) nginx
14 4 (0.16%) Apache Solr
14 4 (0.16%) ArcGIS
14 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 (47.24%) Azure
2 656 (25.87%) GCP
3 333 (13.13%) SaaS
4 215 (8.48%) Serverless
5 206 (8.12%) GitHub
6 160 (6.31%) AWS Lambda
7 159 (6.27%) Microsoft 365
8 148 (5.84%) Amazon S3
9 112 (4.42%) Amazon EKS
10 101 (3.98%) AWS CloudFormation
11 97 (3.82%) Amazon EC2
12 92 (3.63%) GitHub Actions
13 91 (3.59%) Snowflake
14 79 (3.12%) Amazon ECS
15 71 (2.80%) GitHub Copilot
16 68 (2.68%) Anthropic Claude
17 64 (2.52%) Amazon Bedrock
18 61 (2.41%) Amazon SQS
19 58 (2.29%) Azure DevOps
20 55 (2.17%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 100 (3.94%) Firewall
2 72 (2.84%) Network Security
3 65 (2.56%) VPN
4 53 (2.09%) Broadband
4 53 (2.09%) DNS
5 52 (2.05%) 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 19 (0.75%) BGP
11 16 (0.63%) VLAN
12 15 (0.59%) SSL
12 15 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
13 14 (0.55%) Cisco ASA
14 11 (0.43%) AMQP
14 11 (0.43%) IP Telephony
14 11 (0.43%) SMS
15 10 (0.39%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 283 (11.16%) PostgreSQL
2 222 (8.75%) MongoDB
3 104 (4.10%) SQL Server
4 96 (3.79%) Elasticsearch
5 94 (3.71%) MySQL
6 85 (3.35%) NoSQL
7 81 (3.19%) Azure SQL Database
8 73 (2.88%) Relational Database
9 66 (2.60%) DynamoDB
10 57 (2.25%) Amazon RDS
10 57 (2.25%) Redis
11 49 (1.93%) Power BI
12 48 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
13 42 (1.66%) Amazon Athena
14 37 (1.46%) Metadata
15 33 (1.30%) Data Lake
16 31 (1.22%) Tableau
17 27 (1.06%) Amazon Redshift
18 26 (1.03%) Big Data
19 22 (0.87%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 151 (5.95%) Git
2 90 (3.55%) TeamCity
3 88 (3.47%) Jenkins
4 87 (3.43%) GitLab
5 69 (2.72%) Claude Code
6 65 (2.56%) JIRA
7 49 (1.93%) Cypress.io
8 37 (1.46%) JUnit
9 27 (1.06%) 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
1 689 (27.17%) Social Skills
2 618 (24.37%) Finance
3 358 (14.12%) Public Sector
4 306 (12.07%) Banking
5 270 (10.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 232 (9.15%) Law
7 185 (7.29%) Analytical Skills
8 154 (6.07%) Retail
9 84 (3.31%) Legal
10 80 (3.15%) Financial Institution
11 78 (3.08%) 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 (1.81%) 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 (25.04%) Senior
2 475 (18.73%) Developer
3 442 (17.43%) Software Engineer
4 313 (12.34%) Architect
5 295 (11.63%) Lead
6 134 (5.28%) Analyst
7 124 (4.89%) Full-Stack Developer
8 122 (4.81%) AWS Engineer
8 122 (4.81%) DevOps Engineer
8 122 (4.81%) Senior Developer
9 117 (4.61%) Senior Software Engineer
10 101 (3.98%) .NET Developer
11 99 (3.90%) Python Engineer
12 95 (3.75%) Cloud Engineer
13 90 (3.55%) Consultant
14 88 (3.47%) Lead Software Engineer
15 87 (3.43%) Data Engineer
16 81 (3.19%) Engineering Manager
17 80 (3.15%) Software Developer
18 79 (3.12%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 461 (18.18%) Terraform
2 378 (14.91%) React
3 326 (12.85%) Node.js
4 258 (10.17%) .NET
5 187 (7.37%) REST
6 159 (6.27%) Spring
7 137 (5.40%) 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 (2.44%) LangGraph
19 62 (2.44%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 414 (16.32%) Cloud Native
2 186 (7.33%) Product Ownership
3 178 (7.02%) Distributed Systems
4 126 (4.97%) AI Agents
5 101 (3.98%) Public Cloud
6 77 (3.04%) Cyber Threat
7 65 (2.56%) Greenfield Project
8 60 (2.37%) Blog
9 58 (2.29%) Onboarding
10 55 (2.17%) Hybrid Cloud
11 53 (2.09%) Hedge funds
12 46 (1.81%) Enterprise Software
12 46 (1.81%) Security Posture
13 41 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
14 40 (1.58%) Data Centre
15 39 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
16 37 (1.46%) Management Information System
17 29 (1.14%) Mobile App
18 28 (1.10%) Low-Code
18 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
1 936 (36.91%) CI/CD
2 833 (32.85%) Agile
3 773 (30.48%) Software Engineering
4 638 (25.16%) AI
5 606 (23.90%) Mentoring
6 601 (23.70%) DevOps
7 484 (19.09%) Continuous Improvement
8 471 (18.57%) Microservices
9 450 (17.74%) Problem-Solving
10 436 (17.19%) Full-Stack Development
11 432 (17.03%) Infrastructure as Code
12 410 (16.17%) Test Automation
13 388 (15.30%) Technical Leadership
14 320 (12.62%) Roadmaps
15 292 (11.51%) Coaching
16 282 (11.12%) Scrum
17 276 (10.88%) Containerisation
18 269 (10.61%) Observability
19 247 (9.74%) Machine Learning
20 228 (8.99%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 649 (25.59%) Python
2 549 (21.65%) Java
3 429 (16.92%) SQL
4 382 (15.06%) JavaScript
5 351 (13.84%) TypeScript
6 283 (11.16%) C#
7 106 (4.18%) Bash
8 98 (3.86%) Go
9 85 (3.35%) PowerShell
10 69 (2.72%) Ruby
11 61 (2.41%) C++
12 53 (2.09%) 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
1 437 (17.23%) Security Cleared
2 362 (14.27%) SC Cleared
3 274 (10.80%) Degree
4 172 (6.78%) AWS Certification
5 116 (4.57%) 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 (2.48%) 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 30 (1.18%) 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 (4.69%) NIST
3 107 (4.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 102 (4.02%) Data Quality
5 77 (3.04%) Accessibility
6 59 (2.33%) GDPR
7 48 (1.89%) ISO 22301
8 37 (1.46%) NCSC
9 33 (1.30%) PCI DSS
10 29 (1.14%) GRC
11 27 (1.06%) Cyber Essentials
12 15 (0.59%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 14 (0.55%) SOC 2
14 13 (0.51%) SLA
15 12 (0.47%) NIST 800
16 11 (0.43%) WCAG
17 9 (0.35%) ISO 9001
17 9 (0.35%) PMO
18 8 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
19 7 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 426 (16.80%) 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
1 443 (17.47%) Kubernetes
2 146 (5.76%) Grafana
3 110 (4.34%) Ansible
4 44 (1.74%) Prometheus
5 25 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
6 24 (0.95%) Argo
7 19 (0.75%) Progress Chef
8 13 (0.51%) CloudHub
8 13 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
9 11 (0.43%) Packer
10 10 (0.39%) Proxmox
10 10 (0.39%) Puppet
11 9 (0.35%) 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 (15.89%) Microsoft
2 136 (5.36%) Google
3 105 (4.14%) ServiceNow
4 80 (3.15%) 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