AWS Certification Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certification
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid work with a requirement for AWS Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 270 356 361
Rank change year-on-year +86 +5 -20
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 145 252 359
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.97% 0.74% 0.84%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.08% 2.65% 3.30%
Number of salaries quoted 99 131 286
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £48,165 £60,000 £56,407
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £78,750 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% +8.62% -6.45%
75th Percentile £85,000 £84,919 £92,188
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £75,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -13.33% -3.23% +3.33%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Work from Home

AWS Certification falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 4,707 9,495 10,870
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 31.45% 28.05% 25.46%
Number of salaries quoted 3,039 5,938 6,645
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% -5.00% +0.45%
75th Percentile £70,600 £72,500 £77,715
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £54,000 £59,000
% change year-on-year +1.85% -8.47% +7.27%

AWS Certification
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing AWS Certification as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

AWS Certification trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

AWS Certification
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing AWS Certification.

AWS Certification salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

AWS Certification
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing AWS Certification over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

AWS Certification salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

AWS Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (3.45%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.76%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.07%) Jupyter
3 3 (2.07%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.38%) Apache
5 1 (0.69%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 145 (100.00%) AWS
2 57 (39.31%) Azure
3 35 (24.14%) Serverless
4 32 (22.07%) AWS Lambda
5 29 (20.00%) GCP
6 20 (13.79%) AWS CloudFormation
7 15 (10.34%) Amazon EC2
8 14 (9.66%) AWS KMS
9 13 (8.97%) Microsoft 365
10 12 (8.28%) Amazon S3
11 9 (6.21%) Entra ID
12 8 (5.52%) GitHub
13 7 (4.83%) Amazon ECS
13 7 (4.83%) Cloud Computing
13 7 (4.83%) GitHub Actions
14 6 (4.14%) Amazon GuardDuty
14 6 (4.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 5 (3.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 5 (3.45%) Snowflake
16 4 (2.76%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 26 (17.93%) Firewall
2 18 (12.41%) Network Security
3 10 (6.90%) VPN
4 6 (4.14%) VLAN
4 6 (4.14%) WAN
5 5 (3.45%) DNS
5 5 (3.45%) IPv4
6 4 (2.76%) HTTPS
6 4 (2.76%) SD-WAN
6 4 (2.76%) TCP/IP
7 2 (1.38%) DHCP
7 2 (1.38%) Internet
7 2 (1.38%) LAN
7 2 (1.38%) MPLS
7 2 (1.38%) OSPF
7 2 (1.38%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (1.38%) WLAN
8 1 (0.69%) IPv6
8 1 (0.69%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (8.28%) NoSQL
2 11 (7.59%) Amazon Redshift
3 8 (5.52%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (5.52%) DynamoDB
4 7 (4.83%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (4.14%) Data Lake
5 6 (4.14%) MongoDB
5 6 (4.14%) MySQL
5 6 (4.14%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (2.76%) BigQuery
6 4 (2.76%) Hadoop
7 3 (2.07%) Big Data
8 2 (1.38%) Geospatial Data
8 2 (1.38%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (4.14%) Git
1 6 (4.14%) Gradle
1 6 (4.14%) Jenkins
1 6 (4.14%) Maven
2 4 (2.76%) GitLab
3 2 (1.38%) JIRA
4 1 (0.69%) Appium
4 1 (0.69%) Mocha
4 1 (0.69%) Selenium
General
1 42 (28.97%) Social Skills
2 22 (15.17%) Finance
3 16 (11.03%) Law
4 12 (8.28%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (7.59%) Retail
6 8 (5.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (5.52%) Public Sector
7 6 (4.14%) Games
8 5 (3.45%) Telecoms
9 4 (2.76%) Humanities
10 3 (2.07%) Marketing
11 1 (0.69%) Advertising
11 1 (0.69%) Banking
11 1 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.69%) Electronics
11 1 (0.69%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.69%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 43 (29.66%) Architect
2 31 (21.38%) Senior
3 29 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 27 (18.62%) AWS Engineer
5 23 (15.86%) AWS Architect
6 22 (15.17%) Security Engineer
7 20 (13.79%) Solutions Architect
8 15 (10.34%) Cloud Security Engineer
9 14 (9.66%) Cloud Architect
10 12 (8.28%) Lead
11 10 (6.90%) Server Support
12 9 (6.21%) Data Engineer
12 9 (6.21%) Developer
12 9 (6.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 9 (6.21%) Senior DevOps
13 8 (5.52%) Administrator
13 8 (5.52%) AWS Administrator
13 8 (5.52%) AWS DevOps
14 7 (4.83%) Citrix Administrator
14 7 (4.83%) Server Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (17.93%) Kafka
2 22 (15.17%) Elastic Stack
3 10 (6.90%) RESTful
4 7 (4.83%) Spring
5 6 (4.14%) RabbitMQ
6 5 (3.45%) React
7 3 (2.07%) Azure Blueprints
7 3 (2.07%) NumPy
7 3 (2.07%) Pandas
7 3 (2.07%) PyTorch
7 3 (2.07%) scikit-learn
7 3 (2.07%) TensorFlow
8 2 (1.38%) AWS CDK
8 2 (1.38%) AWS SAM
8 2 (1.38%) HTML
8 2 (1.38%) PySpark
9 1 (0.69%) Jest
9 1 (0.69%) OAuth2
9 1 (0.69%) OpenAPI
9 1 (0.69%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 35 (24.14%) Management Information System
2 23 (15.86%) Security Posture
3 22 (15.17%) Cloud Native
4 18 (12.41%) Cloud Security Posture
5 16 (11.03%) Data Centre
6 9 (6.21%) Public Cloud
7 6 (4.14%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (4.14%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (4.14%) Mobile Games
8 4 (2.76%) Clustering
8 4 (2.76%) Data Fabric
9 3 (2.07%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (2.07%) Operational Technology
10 2 (1.38%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.69%) Distributed Systems
11 1 (0.69%) Driving Licence
11 1 (0.69%) IoT
11 1 (0.69%) Linux Command Line
11 1 (0.69%) Private Cloud
11 1 (0.69%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 36 (24.83%) Linux
2 26 (17.93%) Windows
3 16 (11.03%) Windows Server
4 7 (4.83%) AIX
4 7 (4.83%) Windows 10
5 6 (4.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (4.14%) Unix
6 3 (2.07%) CentOS
6 3 (2.07%) Ubuntu
6 3 (2.07%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (55.86%) DevOps
2 61 (42.07%) CI/CD
3 42 (28.97%) Containerisation
4 38 (26.21%) Computer Science
5 37 (25.52%) Cloud Security
6 36 (24.83%) Microservices
7 32 (22.07%) Agile
8 30 (20.69%) Roadmaps
9 29 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
9 29 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
10 27 (18.62%) Continuous Improvement
10 27 (18.62%) Software Engineering
11 24 (16.55%) Disaster Recovery
11 24 (16.55%) Technology Roadmap
11 24 (16.55%) TOGAF
12 23 (15.86%) ITIL
12 23 (15.86%) Mentoring
12 23 (15.86%) Security Operations
12 23 (15.86%) Vulnerability Management
13 22 (15.17%) Cost Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 38 (26.21%) Python
2 35 (24.14%) Java
3 22 (15.17%) PowerShell
4 21 (14.48%) SQL
5 17 (11.72%) Bash
6 6 (4.14%) C#
7 5 (3.45%) Shell Script
8 4 (2.76%) R
8 4 (2.76%) TypeScript
9 3 (2.07%) JavaScript
10 2 (1.38%) Go
10 2 (1.38%) Scala
Qualifications
1 46 (31.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 45 (31.03%) Degree
3 38 (26.21%) Azure Certification
4 37 (25.52%) Security Cleared
5 33 (22.76%) SC Cleared
6 26 (17.93%) Computer Science Degree
7 17 (11.72%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 15 (10.34%) Cisco Certification
8 15 (10.34%) ITIL Certification
8 15 (10.34%) TOGAF Certification
9 11 (7.59%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (5.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 7 (4.83%) CISSP
11 7 (4.83%) CompTIA Security+
11 7 (4.83%) IBM AIX Certification
12 6 (4.14%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 6 (4.14%) RHCE
13 4 (2.76%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 4 (2.76%) Postgraduate
14 3 (2.07%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (18.62%) GDPR
2 23 (15.86%) HIPAA
3 12 (8.28%) SLA
4 10 (6.90%) NIST
4 10 (6.90%) QA
5 5 (3.45%) Data Quality
6 3 (2.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (2.07%) PCI DSS
6 3 (2.07%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.69%) NCSC
7 1 (0.69%) SOC 2
System Software
1 35 (24.14%) Docker
2 18 (12.41%) Active Directory
3 16 (11.03%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (4.83%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (4.14%) Hyper-V
6 4 (2.76%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 3 (2.07%) Dovecot
7 3 (2.07%) Postfix
8 2 (1.38%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 46 (31.72%) Kubernetes
2 31 (21.38%) Terraform
3 20 (13.79%) Prometheus
4 16 (11.03%) Ansible
5 15 (10.34%) Grafana
6 9 (6.21%) SCCM
7 7 (4.83%) Argo
8 6 (4.14%) Microsoft Intune
8 6 (4.14%) Puppet
9 3 (2.07%) CASB
9 3 (2.07%) Istio
9 3 (2.07%) linkerd
10 2 (1.38%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
10 2 (1.38%) Progress Chef
10 2 (1.38%) SCOM
10 2 (1.38%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (1.38%) WSUS
Vendors
1 31 (21.38%) Microsoft
2 22 (15.17%) Google
3 16 (11.03%) VMware
4 12 (8.28%) Red Hat
5 10 (6.90%) Cisco
6 7 (4.83%) Citrix
7 6 (4.14%) New Relic
8 4 (2.76%) Databricks
8 4 (2.76%) SAP
8 4 (2.76%) Symantec
8 4 (2.76%) Veritas
9 3 (2.07%) Okta
9 3 (2.07%) Ping Identity
10 2 (1.38%) Cloudera
10 2 (1.38%) Informatica
10 2 (1.38%) Meraki
10 2 (1.38%) Oracle
11 1 (0.69%) Dell