AWS: market
AWS is the largest cloud platform and the second most frequent technology anchor in the IT postings we track: 25 981 open positions list AWS in the requirements, 24 660 of them fresh. AWS stopped being an admin-only niche long ago: EC2, S3, Lambda, EKS and RDS appear in backend, data and ML requirements as often as in infrastructure roles. The bulk of demand comes from DevOps, Data and Fullstack roles. Alongside AWS, employers most often name Azure, Python and GCP. 43% of the postings allow remote work. This page shows live demand for engineers with AWS skills — trend, countries, seniority and the adjacent stack.
The AWS market currently has 25,981 open roles, 24,660 of them freshly observed. Median salary $8,750/mo. Observed candidate pool — 2,554.
43% of AWS postings allow fully remote work: cloud infrastructure is not tied to an office, yet the share stays below 100% — some roles require working inside the customer's environment.
⚠ salary known for 1676 of 25981 jobs; remote share from 19811 with a stated format; 24660 counted as fresh observations; trend and hiring difficulty are not shown
Demand and observed supply
| Open demand | 25,981 |
| Observed supply | 2,554 |
⚠ candidates matching a vacancy are not counted yet: demand and the observed pool are shown
Salary distribution
One in ten earns under $4,271, one in ten over $17,708. Half the market falls between $6,009 and $14,166. Sample: 1,676.
The range distribution for AWS postings uses only postings with an explicit compensation range; the median is computed over that same sample.
Demand geography
| country | jobs |
|---|---|
| US | 6,810 |
| PL | 4,399 |
| IN | 1,728 |
| GB | 1,600 |
| DE | 858 |
| SG | 676 |
| CA | 650 |
| BR | 404 |
| MX | 301 |
| ES | 269 |
The biggest AWS demand is in the US (6 810 positions); the per-country split is below.
⚠ job counts only: salary by country is not published
Used together with
AWS most often appears next to Azure, Python and GCP — employers ask for the platform together with a language and a container stack, not on its own.
Roles that use it
| role | jobs |
|---|---|
| DevOps | 4,736 |
| Data | 2,769 |
| Fullstack | 2,474 |
| Architect | 2,474 |
| Backend | 2,183 |
| Platform Engineer | 1,776 |
| Security | 1,480 |
| AI Engineer | 1,070 |
| ML/AI | 1,055 |
| SRE | 600 |
⚠ the `Other` and `IT` buckets are excluded as non-roles
Demand by grade
| grade | jobs |
|---|---|
| senior | 9,758 |
| principal | 1,767 |
| lead | 1,568 |
| middle | 902 |
| junior | 408 |
AWS is a senior-leaning skill: senior-and-above roles are about 91% of 14 403 postings with an explicit grade; junior openings with AWS are rare.
⚠ demand side only: the grade of the observed pool is unknown for most of it
Employers
Demand is spread across 6,561 employers. The largest accounts for 7.2%, the top ten for 20.5%; the remaining 79.5% is long tail.
| share | value |
|---|---|
| top-1 | 7.2% |
| top-3 | 15.8% |
| top-10 | 20.5% |
| long tail | 79.5% |
⚠ names are not shown: staffing agencies and end employers are not yet told apart by the classifier
Where Zorky sees this market
Observed across 212 sources; the largest accounts for 23.2% — this market does not rest on a single channel.
AWS postings arrive mostly from job boards & aggregators and ATS & career sites.
Recent openings
- Lead Fullstack Engineer (Typescript/Node.js) with German · PL
- Project Manager · HK
- Senior IT Manager (cloud migration) · HK
- Software Engineer · PT
- QA AI Automation Staff Engineer · PT
- Full-Stack Engineer · PL
- QA Automation Engineer · PT
- AI/ML Engineer · PL
Adjacent markets
⚠ adjacent markets for comparison are not defined yet
How this is measured
- Vacancy
- an open job that cleared the quality gate and lists at least two technologies
- Observed candidate
- a candidate whose stack contains this technology; an aggregate — not a single record leaves the perimeter
- Matchable candidate
- not counted yet
- Window
- jobs open at the moment the snapshot was built
About the data
- Some breakdowns are hidden: their data coverage is not yet sufficient.
- Statistics are shown only where the sample clears a quality gate.
- A missing block does not mean a value of zero.
Breakdowns currently hidden: 7.
Data as of 2026-10-20
Frequently asked questions
Frequently asked questions about the AWS market — short answers from the same slice.
Which roles need AWS?
Demand is widest in DevOps, Data, Fullstack and Architect roles. DevOps and platform engineers use AWS as their primary environment, backend engineers for serverless and managed services, data engineers for S3/Glue/Redshift pipelines, ML teams for SageMaker and GPU instances.
What is required together with AWS?
Most often — Azure, Python, GCP and Kubernetes. The typical combo: Terraform for infrastructure as code, Kubernetes (EKS) for orchestration, Python or Go as the working language, plus CI/CD.
Do I need AWS certifications to get shortlisted?
Certifications (Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer) appear in a share of postings as a plus rather than a filter: hands-on experience with specific services is required notably more often than a certificate.
Can I work with AWS remotely?
Yes: 43% of postings with an explicit format allow fully remote work; the slice tracks 25 981 open AWS positions. The exception is roles with access to restricted environments — those more often require presence.