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 28 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 13 8
Rank change year-on-year +3 -5 -2
Permanent jobs citing AWS 2,583 2,065 3,636
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 11.10% 12.49% 14.65%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.80% 34.68% 35.96%
Number of salaries quoted 1,686 1,300 2,828
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,225 £46,100
25th Percentile £54,551 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% - +1.69%
75th Percentile £88,750 £110,000 £108,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £135,000 £142,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year - - -3.33%

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 8,669 5,954 10,112
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.26% 36.02% 40.75%
Number of salaries quoted 6,342 4,342 7,617
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £37,101
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 £81,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.76%

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 28 August 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 (1.36%) Apache Spark
2 31 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
3 27 (1.05%) Confluence
4 25 (0.97%) Apache
5 21 (0.81%) SharePoint
6 16 (0.62%) Anypoint
6 16 (0.62%) IIS
6 16 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
7 13 (0.50%) Mule
7 13 (0.50%) WordPress
8 11 (0.43%) CMS
9 8 (0.31%) Jupyter
10 7 (0.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 6 (0.23%) SAS
12 5 (0.19%) Apache Solr
13 4 (0.15%) ArcGIS
13 4 (0.15%) Camunda
13 4 (0.15%) Ethereum
13 4 (0.15%) Sitecore CMS
14 3 (0.12%) GeoServer
Applications
1 78 (3.02%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (0.58%) Chatbot
3 14 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
4 11 (0.43%) MS Visio
5 10 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 5 (0.19%) AutoCAD
6 5 (0.19%) DaVinci Resolve
6 5 (0.19%) Moqups
7 2 (0.077%) Elementor
7 2 (0.077%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.077%) PlantUML
7 2 (0.077%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.077%) 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 (0.93%) Cloudability
2 6 (0.23%) NetSuite
2 6 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.077%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.077%) Shopify
3 2 (0.077%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.039%) Finacle
4 1 (0.039%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.039%) Magento
4 1 (0.039%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.039%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 1,223 (47.35%) Azure
2 658 (25.47%) GCP
3 315 (12.20%) SaaS
4 224 (8.67%) Serverless
5 211 (8.17%) GitHub
6 159 (6.16%) Microsoft 365
7 156 (6.04%) AWS Lambda
8 150 (5.81%) Amazon S3
9 105 (4.07%) AWS CloudFormation
10 95 (3.68%) Amazon EKS
10 95 (3.68%) GitHub Actions
11 92 (3.56%) Amazon EC2
12 80 (3.10%) Amazon ECS
13 74 (2.86%) Snowflake
14 68 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
15 67 (2.59%) Amazon SQS
16 66 (2.56%) GitHub Copilot
17 53 (2.05%) Anthropic Claude
18 50 (1.94%) Power Platform
19 46 (1.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 113 (4.37%) Firewall
2 91 (3.52%) Broadband
3 72 (2.79%) Network Security
4 67 (2.59%) DNS
4 67 (2.59%) VPN
5 62 (2.40%) WAN
6 55 (2.13%) LAN
7 51 (1.97%) TCP/IP
8 41 (1.59%) HTTP
9 39 (1.51%) DHCP
10 31 (1.20%) SD-WAN
11 22 (0.85%) Cisco ASA
12 20 (0.77%) SSL
12 20 (0.77%) VLAN
13 19 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
14 14 (0.54%) Cisco Firepower
15 13 (0.50%) BGP
16 11 (0.43%) OSPF
17 10 (0.39%) Internet
17 10 (0.39%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 256 (9.91%) PostgreSQL
2 241 (9.33%) MongoDB
3 113 (4.37%) SQL Server
4 102 (3.95%) Elasticsearch
5 98 (3.79%) MySQL
5 98 (3.79%) NoSQL
6 84 (3.25%) Azure SQL Database
7 70 (2.71%) DynamoDB
8 59 (2.28%) Relational Database
9 56 (2.17%) Redis
10 46 (1.78%) Amazon RDS
10 46 (1.78%) Data Warehouse
11 44 (1.70%) Power BI
12 36 (1.39%) Amazon Athena
13 34 (1.32%) Metadata
14 30 (1.16%) Data Lake
15 28 (1.08%) Tableau
16 27 (1.05%) Big Data
17 25 (0.97%) Amazon Redshift
18 11 (0.43%) Looker
Development Applications
1 145 (5.61%) Git
2 87 (3.37%) Jenkins
3 81 (3.14%) GitLab
4 66 (2.56%) JIRA
5 60 (2.32%) TeamCity
6 59 (2.28%) Cypress.io
7 49 (1.90%) Claude Code
8 31 (1.20%) JUnit
9 27 (1.05%) Selenium
10 21 (0.81%) Postman
11 20 (0.77%) Maven
12 16 (0.62%) Mockito
13 12 (0.46%) CircleCI
14 11 (0.43%) Bitbucket
14 11 (0.43%) Crashlytics
14 11 (0.43%) XCTest
15 8 (0.31%) Cucumber
15 8 (0.31%) JMeter
15 8 (0.31%) SonarQube
16 7 (0.27%) Gatling
General
1 678 (26.25%) Social Skills
2 608 (23.54%) Finance
3 313 (12.12%) Public Sector
4 267 (10.34%) Banking
5 242 (9.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 208 (8.05%) Law
7 160 (6.19%) Analytical Skills
8 119 (4.61%) Retail
9 79 (3.06%) Legal
10 58 (2.25%) Financial Institution
11 56 (2.17%) Games
12 54 (2.09%) Back Office
13 49 (1.90%) Presentation Skills
14 48 (1.86%) Swedish Language
15 39 (1.51%) Marketing
16 37 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
17 34 (1.32%) French Language
18 32 (1.24%) Telecoms
19 24 (0.93%) Health Technology
19 24 (0.93%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 627 (24.27%) Senior
2 513 (19.86%) Developer
3 426 (16.49%) Software Engineer
4 313 (12.12%) Lead
5 311 (12.04%) Architect
6 138 (5.34%) Full-Stack Developer
7 137 (5.30%) AWS Engineer
8 131 (5.07%) Analyst
9 123 (4.76%) Senior Developer
10 122 (4.72%) DevOps Engineer
11 115 (4.45%) Senior Software Engineer
12 110 (4.26%) .NET Developer
13 103 (3.99%) Engineering Manager
14 100 (3.87%) Cloud Engineer
15 97 (3.76%) Consultant
15 97 (3.76%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 90 (3.48%) Lead Software Engineer
17 88 (3.41%) Solutions Architect
18 82 (3.17%) Software Developer
19 80 (3.10%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 436 (16.88%) Terraform
2 422 (16.34%) React
3 362 (14.01%) Node.js
4 252 (9.76%) .NET
5 205 (7.94%) REST
6 141 (5.46%) Spring
7 127 (4.92%) RESTful
8 122 (4.72%) Vue
9 117 (4.53%) CSS
10 115 (4.45%) .NET Core
11 112 (4.34%) AngularJS
12 111 (4.30%) ASP.NET
13 100 (3.87%) Spring Boot
14 98 (3.79%) ASP.NET Core
15 90 (3.48%) Kafka
16 81 (3.14%) Middleware
17 72 (2.79%) HTML
18 71 (2.75%) .NET Framework
18 71 (2.75%) LangChain
19 63 (2.44%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 387 (14.98%) Cloud Native
2 201 (7.78%) Product Ownership
3 176 (6.81%) Distributed Systems
4 107 (4.14%) Public Cloud
5 95 (3.68%) AI Agents
6 79 (3.06%) Greenfield Project
7 73 (2.83%) Cyber Threat
8 67 (2.59%) Onboarding
9 52 (2.01%) Hybrid Cloud
10 51 (1.97%) Video\Live Streaming
11 50 (1.94%) Self-Motivation
12 49 (1.90%) Blog
13 47 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
14 45 (1.74%) Mobile App
15 44 (1.70%) Security Posture
16 42 (1.63%) Management Information System
17 41 (1.59%) Data Centre
18 38 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
19 35 (1.36%) Low-Code
20 31 (1.20%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 210 (8.13%) Linux
2 160 (6.19%) Windows
3 60 (2.32%) Unix
4 55 (2.13%) Windows Server
5 25 (0.97%) Apple iOS
6 14 (0.54%) Android
6 14 (0.54%) Ubuntu
7 6 (0.23%) Debian
8 5 (0.19%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.12%) CentOS
10 3 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (0.077%) Robot Operating System
11 2 (0.077%) Solaris
11 2 (0.077%) Windows 10
11 2 (0.077%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 910 (35.23%) CI/CD
2 864 (33.45%) Agile
3 777 (30.08%) Software Engineering
4 604 (23.38%) DevOps
5 587 (22.73%) Mentoring
6 577 (22.34%) AI
7 484 (18.74%) Full-Stack Development
8 477 (18.47%) Continuous Improvement
9 476 (18.43%) Microservices
10 443 (17.15%) Infrastructure as Code
11 421 (16.30%) Problem-Solving
12 415 (16.07%) Test Automation
13 392 (15.18%) Technical Leadership
14 338 (13.09%) Roadmaps
15 315 (12.20%) Containerisation
16 287 (11.11%) Scrum
17 273 (10.57%) Coaching
18 265 (10.26%) Observability
19 254 (9.83%) Machine Learning
20 247 (9.56%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 655 (25.36%) Python
2 512 (19.82%) Java
3 409 (15.83%) SQL
4 397 (15.37%) JavaScript
5 392 (15.18%) TypeScript
6 293 (11.34%) C#
7 127 (4.92%) Go
8 87 (3.37%) Bash
9 81 (3.14%) PowerShell
10 78 (3.02%) Ruby
11 67 (2.59%) C++
12 64 (2.48%) PHP
13 42 (1.63%) Scala
14 39 (1.51%) Kotlin
15 23 (0.89%) Rust
16 19 (0.74%) PL/SQL
17 16 (0.62%) DataWeave
18 15 (0.58%) Bicep
19 14 (0.54%) Swift
20 11 (0.43%) C
Qualifications
1 417 (16.14%) Security Cleared
2 348 (13.47%) SC Cleared
3 288 (11.15%) Degree
4 175 (6.78%) AWS Certification
5 114 (4.41%) CISSP
6 101 (3.91%) CISM
7 87 (3.37%) Microsoft Certification
8 86 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
9 74 (2.86%) MCSE
10 60 (2.32%) Azure Certification
11 57 (2.21%) DV Cleared
12 50 (1.94%) ITIL Certification
13 39 (1.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 33 (1.28%) Cisco Certification
15 28 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
16 23 (0.89%) CCNP
17 17 (0.66%) CCNA
18 15 (0.58%) CREST Certified
19 14 (0.54%) DBS Check
20 13 (0.50%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 181 (7.01%) QA
2 118 (4.57%) NIST
3 105 (4.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 87 (3.37%) Accessibility
5 82 (3.17%) Data Quality
6 52 (2.01%) GDPR
7 48 (1.86%) ISO 22301
8 34 (1.32%) NCSC
9 32 (1.24%) GRC
10 26 (1.01%) PCI DSS
11 19 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials
12 18 (0.70%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 17 (0.66%) SLA
14 13 (0.50%) WCAG
15 12 (0.46%) NIST 800
16 11 (0.43%) ISO 9001
17 8 (0.31%) JSP 440
18 7 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
18 7 (0.27%) PMO
18 7 (0.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 441 (17.07%) Docker
2 59 (2.28%) Active Directory
3 52 (2.01%) VMware Infrastructure
4 34 (1.32%) Hyper-V
5 22 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
6 17 (0.66%) vSphere
7 9 (0.35%) Firmware
8 6 (0.23%) KVM
9 5 (0.19%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 5 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (0.12%) iptables
10 3 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.12%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.039%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.039%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.039%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.039%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 412 (15.95%) Kubernetes
2 119 (4.61%) Grafana
3 113 (4.37%) Ansible
4 37 (1.43%) Prometheus
5 24 (0.93%) Argo
6 17 (0.66%) Istio
6 17 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
7 16 (0.62%) Progress Chef
8 14 (0.54%) Puppet
9 13 (0.50%) CloudHub
9 13 (0.50%) Podman
10 10 (0.39%) Proxmox
11 9 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
12 8 (0.31%) CASB
12 8 (0.31%) Cisco CUCM
13 7 (0.27%) ZABBIX
14 6 (0.23%) EMC NetWorker
14 6 (0.23%) EMC VPLEX
14 6 (0.23%) Failover Clustering
14 6 (0.23%) Packer
Vendors
1 431 (16.69%) Microsoft
2 116 (4.49%) Google
3 112 (4.34%) ServiceNow
4 75 (2.90%) VMware
5 66 (2.56%) Oracle
6 61 (2.36%) Databricks
7 59 (2.28%) Cisco
8 38 (1.47%) Adobe
9 36 (1.39%) OpenAI
10 35 (1.36%) Palo Alto
10 35 (1.36%) Splunk
11 33 (1.28%) SAP
12 31 (1.20%) Fortinet
13 30 (1.16%) Salesforce
14 25 (0.97%) Apple
15 23 (0.89%) Dynatrace
15 23 (0.89%) SolarWinds
16 21 (0.81%) Informatica
17 20 (0.77%) Okta
18 19 (0.74%) MuleSoft