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

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 11 8
Rank change year-on-year +1 -3 -2
Permanent jobs citing AWS 2,541 2,033 3,496
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 10.38% 12.60% 15.36%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.13% 35.44% 37.39%
Number of salaries quoted 1,672 1,256 2,484
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,500 £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 £112,500
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 8,722 5,736 9,350
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 35.62% 35.54% 41.07%
Number of salaries quoted 6,410 4,118 6,406
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,569 £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 22 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 (1.30%) Apache Spark
2 28 (1.10%) Apache Airflow
2 28 (1.10%) Confluence
3 25 (0.98%) Apache
4 21 (0.83%) SharePoint
5 16 (0.63%) Anypoint
6 15 (0.59%) IIS
6 15 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
7 13 (0.51%) Mule
8 12 (0.47%) WordPress
9 10 (0.39%) CMS
10 8 (0.31%) Jupyter
10 8 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 6 (0.24%) SAS
12 5 (0.20%) Apache Solr
12 5 (0.20%) ArcGIS
13 4 (0.16%) Ethereum
13 4 (0.16%) nginx
13 4 (0.16%) Oracle Spatial
13 4 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 70 (2.75%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (0.67%) Chatbot
3 16 (0.63%) Microsoft Excel
4 11 (0.43%) MS Visio
5 10 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 6 (0.24%) Moqups
7 5 (0.20%) AutoCAD
7 5 (0.20%) DaVinci Resolve
8 2 (0.079%) Elementor
8 2 (0.079%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.079%) PlantUML
8 2 (0.079%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.079%) 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 (0.24%) NetSuite
2 6 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
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%) 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 1,219 (47.97%) Azure
2 661 (26.01%) GCP
3 325 (12.79%) SaaS
4 224 (8.82%) Serverless
5 207 (8.15%) GitHub
6 164 (6.45%) AWS Lambda
7 155 (6.10%) Microsoft 365
8 151 (5.94%) Amazon S3
9 102 (4.01%) Amazon EKS
10 99 (3.90%) Amazon EC2
10 99 (3.90%) AWS CloudFormation
11 94 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
12 87 (3.42%) Snowflake
13 81 (3.19%) Amazon ECS
14 69 (2.72%) GitHub Copilot
15 63 (2.48%) Amazon SQS
16 62 (2.44%) Anthropic Claude
16 62 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
17 56 (2.20%) Amazon Bedrock
18 51 (2.01%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 102 (4.01%) Firewall
2 72 (2.83%) Network Security
3 62 (2.44%) Broadband
4 61 (2.40%) VPN
5 57 (2.24%) DNS
6 54 (2.13%) WAN
7 46 (1.81%) LAN
7 46 (1.81%) TCP/IP
8 40 (1.57%) HTTP
9 35 (1.38%) DHCP
10 27 (1.06%) SD-WAN
11 17 (0.67%) SSL
11 17 (0.67%) VLAN
12 16 (0.63%) Cisco ASA
12 16 (0.63%) Wi-Fi
13 12 (0.47%) BGP
14 11 (0.43%) Cisco Firepower
15 10 (0.39%) MPLS
15 10 (0.39%) OSPF
15 10 (0.39%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 261 (10.27%) PostgreSQL
2 223 (8.78%) MongoDB
3 103 (4.05%) SQL Server
4 97 (3.82%) Elasticsearch
5 94 (3.70%) MySQL
6 87 (3.42%) NoSQL
7 81 (3.19%) Azure SQL Database
8 68 (2.68%) DynamoDB
8 68 (2.68%) Relational Database
9 57 (2.24%) Redis
10 50 (1.97%) Data Warehouse
11 46 (1.81%) Amazon RDS
12 45 (1.77%) Power BI
13 43 (1.69%) Amazon Athena
14 35 (1.38%) Data Lake
14 35 (1.38%) Metadata
15 29 (1.14%) Amazon Redshift
15 29 (1.14%) Tableau
16 26 (1.02%) Big Data
17 20 (0.79%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 150 (5.90%) Git
2 88 (3.46%) Jenkins
3 80 (3.15%) GitLab
4 78 (3.07%) TeamCity
5 64 (2.52%) JIRA
6 60 (2.36%) Claude Code
7 53 (2.09%) Cypress.io
8 33 (1.30%) JUnit
9 26 (1.02%) Selenium
10 22 (0.87%) Postman
11 21 (0.83%) Maven
12 18 (0.71%) Mockito
13 12 (0.47%) Bitbucket
14 8 (0.31%) SonarQube
15 7 (0.28%) Cucumber
16 6 (0.24%) CircleCI
16 6 (0.24%) Gatling
16 6 (0.24%) JMeter
17 5 (0.20%) Crashlytics
17 5 (0.20%) Poetry
General
1 672 (26.45%) Social Skills
2 613 (24.12%) Finance
3 343 (13.50%) Public Sector
4 302 (11.89%) Banking
5 267 (10.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 230 (9.05%) Law
7 172 (6.77%) Analytical Skills
8 143 (5.63%) Retail
9 80 (3.15%) Legal
10 72 (2.83%) Financial Institution
11 70 (2.75%) Back Office
12 52 (2.05%) Presentation Skills
13 48 (1.89%) Games
13 48 (1.89%) Swedish Language
14 45 (1.77%) Influencing Skills
15 44 (1.73%) Marketing
16 33 (1.30%) Telecoms
17 31 (1.22%) French Language
18 28 (1.10%) Health Technology
19 26 (1.02%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 619 (24.36%) Senior
2 481 (18.93%) Developer
3 429 (16.88%) Software Engineer
4 319 (12.55%) Architect
5 304 (11.96%) Lead
6 133 (5.23%) Analyst
7 124 (4.88%) Full-Stack Developer
8 121 (4.76%) AWS Engineer
9 119 (4.68%) Senior Developer
10 113 (4.45%) DevOps Engineer
11 109 (4.29%) Senior Software Engineer
12 106 (4.17%) .NET Developer
13 97 (3.82%) Cloud Engineer
14 93 (3.66%) Consultant
15 89 (3.50%) Engineering Manager
16 88 (3.46%) Data Engineer
16 88 (3.46%) Lead Software Engineer
16 88 (3.46%) Python Engineer
17 83 (3.27%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 80 (3.15%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 450 (17.71%) Terraform
2 393 (15.47%) React
3 331 (13.03%) Node.js
4 256 (10.07%) .NET
5 189 (7.44%) REST
6 150 (5.90%) Spring
7 128 (5.04%) RESTful
8 117 (4.60%) Vue
9 112 (4.41%) .NET Core
10 111 (4.37%) Spring Boot
11 110 (4.33%) AngularJS
12 105 (4.13%) ASP.NET
13 99 (3.90%) CSS
14 95 (3.74%) ASP.NET Core
15 82 (3.23%) Middleware
16 80 (3.15%) LangChain
17 74 (2.91%) Kafka
18 67 (2.64%) .NET Framework
19 63 (2.48%) HTML
20 61 (2.40%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 403 (15.86%) Cloud Native
2 199 (7.83%) Product Ownership
3 175 (6.89%) Distributed Systems
4 115 (4.53%) AI Agents
5 111 (4.37%) Public Cloud
6 78 (3.07%) Cyber Threat
7 68 (2.68%) Greenfield Project
8 60 (2.36%) Onboarding
9 56 (2.20%) Hybrid Cloud
10 52 (2.05%) Blog
11 47 (1.85%) Hedge funds
12 45 (1.77%) Enterprise Software
13 43 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
14 42 (1.65%) Security Posture
15 41 (1.61%) Data Centre
16 38 (1.50%) Management Information System
17 37 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
18 35 (1.38%) Video\Live Streaming
19 34 (1.34%) Mobile App
20 30 (1.18%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 215 (8.46%) Linux
2 164 (6.45%) Windows
3 66 (2.60%) Unix
4 55 (2.16%) Windows Server
5 25 (0.98%) Apple iOS
6 17 (0.67%) Android
7 16 (0.63%) Ubuntu
8 7 (0.28%) Debian
8 7 (0.28%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.12%) CentOS
9 3 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.12%) Robot Operating System
10 2 (0.079%) Solaris
10 2 (0.079%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.079%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 925 (36.40%) CI/CD
2 829 (32.62%) Agile
3 774 (30.46%) Software Engineering
4 614 (24.16%) AI
5 608 (23.93%) Mentoring
6 594 (23.38%) DevOps
7 480 (18.89%) Continuous Improvement
8 475 (18.69%) Microservices
9 449 (17.67%) Full-Stack Development
10 442 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
11 423 (16.65%) Infrastructure as Code
12 401 (15.78%) Test Automation
13 394 (15.51%) Technical Leadership
14 334 (13.14%) Roadmaps
15 293 (11.53%) Coaching
16 281 (11.06%) Containerisation
16 281 (11.06%) Scrum
17 268 (10.55%) Observability
18 248 (9.76%) Machine Learning
19 236 (9.29%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 629 (24.75%) Python
2 537 (21.13%) Java
3 418 (16.45%) SQL
4 384 (15.11%) JavaScript
5 365 (14.36%) TypeScript
6 286 (11.26%) C#
7 99 (3.90%) Go
8 97 (3.82%) Bash
9 85 (3.35%) PowerShell
10 73 (2.87%) Ruby
11 66 (2.60%) C++
12 54 (2.13%) PHP
13 34 (1.34%) Kotlin
14 31 (1.22%) Scala
15 26 (1.02%) Rust
16 21 (0.83%) PL/SQL
17 16 (0.63%) DataWeave
17 16 (0.63%) R
18 14 (0.55%) Bicep
19 11 (0.43%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 429 (16.88%) Security Cleared
2 353 (13.89%) SC Cleared
3 278 (10.94%) Degree
4 172 (6.77%) AWS Certification
5 114 (4.49%) CISSP
6 102 (4.01%) CISM
7 82 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
8 79 (3.11%) Computer Science Degree
9 69 (2.72%) MCSE
10 64 (2.52%) Azure Certification
11 50 (1.97%) ITIL Certification
12 49 (1.93%) DV Cleared
13 38 (1.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 34 (1.34%) Cisco Certification
15 29 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
16 24 (0.94%) CCNP
17 21 (0.83%) CCNA
18 15 (0.59%) Microsoft Certified Professional
19 14 (0.55%) DBS Check
19 14 (0.55%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 165 (6.49%) QA
2 117 (4.60%) NIST
3 101 (3.97%) Data Quality
3 101 (3.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 84 (3.31%) Accessibility
5 57 (2.24%) GDPR
6 48 (1.89%) ISO 22301
7 38 (1.50%) NCSC
8 31 (1.22%) GRC
9 24 (0.94%) Cyber Essentials
9 24 (0.94%) PCI DSS
10 16 (0.63%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 14 (0.55%) SLA
12 12 (0.47%) NIST 800
12 12 (0.47%) WCAG
13 8 (0.31%) ISO 9001
13 8 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 8 (0.31%) PMO
14 7 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 7 (0.28%) SOC 2
System Software
1 427 (16.80%) Docker
2 53 (2.09%) Active Directory
3 49 (1.93%) VMware Infrastructure
4 38 (1.50%) Hyper-V
5 13 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (0.51%) vSphere
6 6 (0.24%) KVM
7 4 (0.16%) 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 (0.079%) Virtual Desktop
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
1 425 (16.73%) Kubernetes
2 136 (5.35%) Grafana
3 114 (4.49%) Ansible
4 40 (1.57%) Prometheus
5 24 (0.94%) Argo
6 23 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
7 20 (0.79%) Progress Chef
8 13 (0.51%) CloudHub
9 12 (0.47%) Puppet
10 10 (0.39%) Proxmox
10 10 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
11 9 (0.35%) Istio
11 9 (0.35%) Packer
12 8 (0.31%) CASB
13 7 (0.28%) Podman
13 7 (0.28%) ZABBIX
14 6 (0.24%) Cisco CUCM
14 6 (0.24%) Dell DRAC
14 6 (0.24%) EMC NetWorker
14 6 (0.24%) VxRail
Vendors
1 421 (16.57%) Microsoft
2 121 (4.76%) Google
3 107 (4.21%) ServiceNow
4 76 (2.99%) VMware
5 71 (2.79%) Databricks
5 71 (2.79%) Oracle
6 49 (1.93%) Cisco
7 41 (1.61%) OpenAI
8 38 (1.50%) Adobe
9 35 (1.38%) Splunk
10 34 (1.34%) SAP
11 27 (1.06%) Palo Alto
11 27 (1.06%) Salesforce
12 26 (1.02%) Fortinet
13 25 (0.98%) Apple
14 23 (0.91%) Dynatrace
15 22 (0.87%) Informatica
15 22 (0.87%) SolarWinds
16 21 (0.83%) Okta
17 19 (0.75%) MuleSoft