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

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 12 8
Rank change year-on-year +2 -4 -2
Permanent jobs citing AWS 2,566 2,046 3,528
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 10.41% 12.51% 15.38%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.28% 35.33% 37.31%
Number of salaries quoted 1,688 1,267 2,473
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,933 £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 £111,250
90th Percentile £107,500 £136,250 £142,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £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 8,763 5,791 9,455
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 35.57% 35.41% 41.22%
Number of salaries quoted 6,442 4,168 6,379
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,599 £37,500
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 24 September 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 33 (1.29%) Apache Spark
2 30 (1.17%) Confluence
3 28 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
4 25 (0.97%) Apache
5 21 (0.82%) SharePoint
6 16 (0.62%) Anypoint
7 15 (0.58%) IIS
7 15 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
8 13 (0.51%) Mule
9 12 (0.47%) WordPress
10 10 (0.39%) CMS
11 8 (0.31%) Jupyter
11 8 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 6 (0.23%) SAS
13 5 (0.19%) Apache Solr
13 5 (0.19%) ArcGIS
14 4 (0.16%) Camunda
14 4 (0.16%) Ethereum
14 4 (0.16%) GeoServer
14 4 (0.16%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 70 (2.73%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (0.66%) Chatbot
3 16 (0.62%) Microsoft Excel
4 11 (0.43%) MS Visio
5 10 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 7 (0.27%) Moqups
7 5 (0.19%) AutoCAD
7 5 (0.19%) DaVinci Resolve
8 2 (0.078%) Elementor
8 2 (0.078%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.078%) PlantUML
8 2 (0.078%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.078%) Weka
9 1 (0.039%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.039%) Houdini
9 1 (0.039%) Lightworks
9 1 (0.039%) NUKE
9 1 (0.039%) Trello
Business Applications
1 24 (0.94%) 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%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.039%) Finacle
4 1 (0.039%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.039%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.039%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.039%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.039%) Shopify
4 1 (0.039%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 1,221 (47.58%) Azure
2 668 (26.03%) GCP
3 335 (13.06%) SaaS
4 225 (8.77%) Serverless
5 211 (8.22%) GitHub
6 164 (6.39%) AWS Lambda
7 155 (6.04%) Microsoft 365
8 151 (5.88%) Amazon S3
9 107 (4.17%) Amazon EKS
10 99 (3.86%) Amazon EC2
10 99 (3.86%) AWS CloudFormation
11 96 (3.74%) GitHub Actions
12 90 (3.51%) Snowflake
13 82 (3.20%) Amazon ECS
14 71 (2.77%) GitHub Copilot
15 66 (2.57%) Anthropic Claude
16 63 (2.46%) Amazon SQS
17 61 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
18 59 (2.30%) Amazon Bedrock
19 52 (2.03%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 102 (3.98%) Firewall
2 72 (2.81%) Network Security
3 63 (2.46%) VPN
4 62 (2.42%) Broadband
5 56 (2.18%) DNS
6 52 (2.03%) WAN
7 49 (1.91%) TCP/IP
8 44 (1.71%) LAN
9 40 (1.56%) HTTP
10 35 (1.36%) DHCP
11 26 (1.01%) SD-WAN
12 19 (0.74%) VLAN
13 17 (0.66%) SSL
14 16 (0.62%) Cisco ASA
14 16 (0.62%) Wi-Fi
15 15 (0.58%) BGP
16 11 (0.43%) Cisco Firepower
17 10 (0.39%) AMQP
17 10 (0.39%) MPLS
17 10 (0.39%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 268 (10.44%) PostgreSQL
2 223 (8.69%) MongoDB
3 106 (4.13%) SQL Server
4 97 (3.78%) Elasticsearch
5 95 (3.70%) MySQL
6 87 (3.39%) NoSQL
7 81 (3.16%) Azure SQL Database
8 71 (2.77%) Relational Database
9 70 (2.73%) DynamoDB
10 57 (2.22%) Redis
11 50 (1.95%) Amazon RDS
11 50 (1.95%) Data Warehouse
12 46 (1.79%) Power BI
13 43 (1.68%) Amazon Athena
14 36 (1.40%) Data Lake
15 35 (1.36%) Metadata
16 29 (1.13%) Amazon Redshift
16 29 (1.13%) Tableau
17 26 (1.01%) Big Data
18 20 (0.78%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 151 (5.88%) Git
2 89 (3.47%) Jenkins
3 84 (3.27%) TeamCity
4 81 (3.16%) GitLab
5 66 (2.57%) JIRA
6 65 (2.53%) Claude Code
7 53 (2.07%) Cypress.io
8 33 (1.29%) JUnit
9 27 (1.05%) Selenium
10 23 (0.90%) Postman
11 21 (0.82%) Maven
12 18 (0.70%) Mockito
13 12 (0.47%) Bitbucket
14 8 (0.31%) SonarQube
15 7 (0.27%) Cucumber
16 6 (0.23%) CircleCI
16 6 (0.23%) Gatling
16 6 (0.23%) JMeter
17 5 (0.19%) Crashlytics
17 5 (0.19%) XCTest
General
1 686 (26.73%) Social Skills
2 627 (24.43%) Finance
3 345 (13.45%) Public Sector
4 312 (12.16%) Banking
5 274 (10.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 236 (9.20%) Law
7 174 (6.78%) Analytical Skills
8 151 (5.88%) Retail
9 82 (3.20%) Legal
10 77 (3.00%) Financial Institution
11 75 (2.92%) Back Office
12 52 (2.03%) Presentation Skills
13 48 (1.87%) Games
13 48 (1.87%) Swedish Language
14 46 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
15 44 (1.71%) Marketing
16 33 (1.29%) Telecoms
17 31 (1.21%) French Language
18 29 (1.13%) Health Technology
18 29 (1.13%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 627 (24.43%) Senior
2 483 (18.82%) Developer
3 439 (17.11%) Software Engineer
4 319 (12.43%) Architect
5 306 (11.93%) Lead
6 135 (5.26%) Analyst
7 125 (4.87%) AWS Engineer
8 124 (4.83%) Full-Stack Developer
9 119 (4.64%) Senior Developer
10 115 (4.48%) DevOps Engineer
11 113 (4.40%) Senior Software Engineer
12 106 (4.13%) .NET Developer
13 96 (3.74%) Cloud Engineer
14 91 (3.55%) Consultant
14 91 (3.55%) Python Engineer
15 90 (3.51%) Data Engineer
16 89 (3.47%) Lead Software Engineer
17 87 (3.39%) Engineering Manager
18 83 (3.23%) Full-Stack Engineer
19 80 (3.12%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 456 (17.77%) Terraform
2 395 (15.39%) React
3 331 (12.90%) Node.js
4 261 (10.17%) .NET
5 191 (7.44%) REST
6 152 (5.92%) Spring
7 131 (5.11%) RESTful
8 119 (4.64%) Vue
9 114 (4.44%) .NET Core
9 114 (4.44%) AngularJS
9 114 (4.44%) Spring Boot
10 106 (4.13%) ASP.NET
11 99 (3.86%) CSS
12 95 (3.70%) ASP.NET Core
13 83 (3.23%) Middleware
14 80 (3.12%) LangChain
15 76 (2.96%) Kafka
16 68 (2.65%) .NET Framework
17 63 (2.46%) HTML
18 60 (2.34%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 413 (16.10%) Cloud Native
2 198 (7.72%) Product Ownership
3 181 (7.05%) Distributed Systems
4 118 (4.60%) AI Agents
5 110 (4.29%) Public Cloud
6 78 (3.04%) Cyber Threat
7 68 (2.65%) Greenfield Project
8 61 (2.38%) Onboarding
9 58 (2.26%) Hybrid Cloud
10 56 (2.18%) Blog
11 50 (1.95%) Hedge funds
12 46 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
13 44 (1.71%) Security Posture
14 43 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
15 40 (1.56%) Data Centre
15 40 (1.56%) Management Information System
16 38 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
17 35 (1.36%) Mobile App
17 35 (1.36%) Video\Live Streaming
18 30 (1.17%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 216 (8.42%) Linux
2 165 (6.43%) Windows
3 66 (2.57%) Unix
4 55 (2.14%) Windows Server
5 27 (1.05%) Apple iOS
6 18 (0.70%) Android
7 16 (0.62%) Ubuntu
8 8 (0.31%) Mac OS
9 7 (0.27%) Debian
10 3 (0.12%) CentOS
10 3 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.12%) Robot Operating System
11 2 (0.078%) Solaris
11 2 (0.078%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (0.078%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 935 (36.44%) CI/CD
2 835 (32.54%) Agile
3 786 (30.63%) Software Engineering
4 628 (24.47%) AI
5 613 (23.89%) Mentoring
6 598 (23.30%) DevOps
7 484 (18.86%) Microservices
8 482 (18.78%) Continuous Improvement
9 451 (17.58%) Full-Stack Development
10 448 (17.46%) Problem-Solving
11 428 (16.68%) Infrastructure as Code
12 403 (15.71%) Test Automation
13 391 (15.24%) Technical Leadership
14 335 (13.06%) Roadmaps
15 295 (11.50%) Coaching
16 284 (11.07%) Containerisation
17 280 (10.91%) Scrum
18 270 (10.52%) Observability
19 252 (9.82%) Machine Learning
20 239 (9.31%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 640 (24.94%) Python
2 550 (21.43%) Java
3 427 (16.64%) SQL
4 387 (15.08%) JavaScript
5 369 (14.38%) TypeScript
6 289 (11.26%) C#
7 104 (4.05%) Go
8 101 (3.94%) Bash
9 85 (3.31%) PowerShell
10 72 (2.81%) Ruby
11 67 (2.61%) C++
12 55 (2.14%) PHP
13 35 (1.36%) Kotlin
14 31 (1.21%) Scala
15 26 (1.01%) Rust
16 21 (0.82%) PL/SQL
17 16 (0.62%) DataWeave
17 16 (0.62%) R
18 14 (0.55%) Bicep
19 12 (0.47%) C
Qualifications
1 428 (16.68%) Security Cleared
2 353 (13.76%) SC Cleared
3 282 (10.99%) Degree
4 171 (6.66%) AWS Certification
5 115 (4.48%) CISSP
6 103 (4.01%) CISM
7 83 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
8 80 (3.12%) Computer Science Degree
9 69 (2.69%) MCSE
10 64 (2.49%) Azure Certification
11 50 (1.95%) ITIL Certification
12 49 (1.91%) 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 (0.62%) Microsoft Certified Professional
19 15 (0.58%) GIAC
20 14 (0.55%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 168 (6.55%) QA
2 120 (4.68%) NIST
3 106 (4.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 101 (3.94%) Data Quality
5 83 (3.23%) Accessibility
6 57 (2.22%) GDPR
7 48 (1.87%) ISO 22301
8 38 (1.48%) NCSC
9 30 (1.17%) GRC
10 28 (1.09%) PCI DSS
11 26 (1.01%) Cyber Essentials
12 16 (0.62%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 14 (0.55%) SLA
14 12 (0.47%) NIST 800
14 12 (0.47%) WCAG
15 10 (0.39%) SOC 2
16 9 (0.35%) ISO 9001
16 9 (0.35%) PMO
17 8 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 8 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 429 (16.72%) Docker
2 54 (2.10%) Active Directory
3 48 (1.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 39 (1.52%) Hyper-V
5 14 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
6 12 (0.47%) vSphere
7 6 (0.23%) KVM
8 3 (0.12%) Firmware
8 3 (0.12%) iptables
8 3 (0.12%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 3 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (0.12%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.078%) Virtual Desktop
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
1 434 (16.91%) Kubernetes
2 142 (5.53%) Grafana
3 113 (4.40%) Ansible
4 43 (1.68%) Prometheus
5 24 (0.94%) Argo
5 24 (0.94%) Microsoft Intune
6 20 (0.78%) Progress Chef
7 13 (0.51%) CloudHub
8 12 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
9 11 (0.43%) Puppet
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%) Cisco CUCM
14 6 (0.23%) Dell DRAC
14 6 (0.23%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 425 (16.56%) Microsoft
2 126 (4.91%) Google
3 107 (4.17%) ServiceNow
4 76 (2.96%) VMware
5 75 (2.92%) Databricks
6 71 (2.77%) Oracle
7 46 (1.79%) Cisco
8 41 (1.60%) OpenAI
9 38 (1.48%) Adobe
10 35 (1.36%) Splunk
11 34 (1.33%) SAP
12 27 (1.05%) Salesforce
13 26 (1.01%) Palo Alto
14 25 (0.97%) Apple
14 25 (0.97%) Fortinet
15 23 (0.90%) Dynatrace
16 22 (0.86%) Informatica
16 22 (0.86%) SolarWinds
17 21 (0.82%) Okta
18 20 (0.78%) MuleSoft