Hybrid/Remote AWS Certification Job Trends

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 12 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 279 176 408
Rank change year-on-year -103 +232 -53
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 171 311 164
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.80% 1.88% 0.51%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.82% 5.61% 1.90%
Number of salaries quoted 46 88 117
10th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £54,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,371 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £79,842
Median % change year-on-year - -18.59% -3.22%
75th Percentile £90,000 £79,313 £84,919
90th Percentile £102,625 £98,250 £96,250
UK median annual salary £48,000 £69,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -30.43% -10.97% +2.42%

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 4,475 5,542 8,617
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 20.94% 33.52% 26.98%
Number of salaries quoted 3,071 2,491 5,515
10th Percentile £33,250 £29,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £56,650
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +5.91% -5.58%
75th Percentile £78,750 £73,174 £72,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £90,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £53,555
% change year-on-year +9.09% +2.70% -10.74%

AWS Certification
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing AWS Certification and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

AWS Certification job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

AWS Certification
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing AWS Certification.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing AWS Certification

AWS Certification
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing AWS Certification over the 6 months to 12 July 2026.

AWS Certification salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

AWS Certification
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 2 (1.17%) Apache
1 2 (1.17%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.58%) Confluence
2 1 (0.58%) Drupal
2 1 (0.58%) IIS
2 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.58%) nginx
2 1 (0.58%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.58%) WordPress
Applications
1 69 (40.35%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 24 (14.04%) Cloudability
2 1 (0.58%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 171 (100.00%) AWS
2 72 (42.11%) Azure
3 70 (40.94%) Microsoft 365
4 43 (25.15%) GCP
5 14 (8.19%) GitHub
6 11 (6.43%) Amazon EKS
7 10 (5.85%) AWS CloudFormation
7 10 (5.85%) GitHub Actions
8 9 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 9 (5.26%) Serverless
9 7 (4.09%) Amazon S3
10 6 (3.51%) Azure Sentinel
10 6 (3.51%) Pulumi
11 5 (2.92%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (2.34%) Amazon ECS
13 3 (1.75%) Amazon EC2
13 3 (1.75%) AWS Step Functions
13 3 (1.75%) OCI
13 3 (1.75%) SaaS
13 3 (1.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 16 (9.36%) Firewall
2 11 (6.43%) VPN
3 6 (3.51%) Broadband
3 6 (3.51%) Network Security
4 3 (1.75%) LAN
4 3 (1.75%) SD-WAN
4 3 (1.75%) Software-Defined Networking
4 3 (1.75%) WAN
4 3 (1.75%) Wireless
5 2 (1.17%) DNS
6 1 (0.58%) DHCP
6 1 (0.58%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.68%) NoSQL
2 6 (3.51%) RDBMS
2 6 (3.51%) Relational Database
3 5 (2.92%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.17%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (1.17%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.17%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.58%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (0.58%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.58%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.58%) InterSystems Cache
5 1 (0.58%) Metadata
5 1 (0.58%) Redis
5 1 (0.58%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (5.26%) Jenkins
2 7 (4.09%) GitLab
3 6 (3.51%) Jaeger
4 2 (1.17%) Cypress.io
4 2 (1.17%) JIRA
4 2 (1.17%) Maven
4 2 (1.17%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.58%) Gatling
5 1 (0.58%) JMeter
5 1 (0.58%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.58%) Vagrant
General
1 97 (56.73%) Social Skills
2 40 (23.39%) Swedish Language
3 34 (19.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 29 (16.96%) French Language
5 12 (7.02%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (7.02%) Retail
6 11 (6.43%) Finance
7 8 (4.68%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (4.09%) Public Sector
9 5 (2.92%) Banking
10 4 (2.34%) Legal
11 3 (1.75%) Telecoms
12 2 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.58%) Advertising
13 1 (0.58%) Law
13 1 (0.58%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 99 (57.89%) Analyst
2 69 (40.35%) Service Analyst
2 69 (40.35%) Service Desk Analyst
3 38 (22.22%) Senior
4 35 (20.47%) Architect
5 27 (15.79%) Senior Analyst
6 10 (5.85%) Solutions Architect
7 8 (4.68%) Chief Architect
7 8 (4.68%) Cloud Engineer
8 7 (4.09%) Administrator
8 7 (4.09%) DevOps Administrator
8 7 (4.09%) Lead
8 7 (4.09%) Security Architect
8 7 (4.09%) Senior DevOps
8 7 (4.09%) Senior Systems Administrator
8 7 (4.09%) Systems Administrator
9 5 (2.92%) Cloud Architect
9 5 (2.92%) Security Analyst
9 5 (2.92%) Software Engineer
10 4 (2.34%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.51%) Elastic Stack
1 6 (3.51%) OpenTelemetry
2 5 (2.92%) .NET
2 5 (2.92%) Spring Boot
3 4 (2.34%) Middleware
3 4 (2.34%) OpenAPI
3 4 (2.34%) React
4 3 (1.75%) Ruby on Rails
4 3 (1.75%) Spring
5 2 (1.17%) .NET Core
5 2 (1.17%) AngularJS
5 2 (1.17%) ASP.NET Web API
5 2 (1.17%) AWS CDK
5 2 (1.17%) Gherkin
5 2 (1.17%) Jest
5 2 (1.17%) REST
5 2 (1.17%) RESTful
5 2 (1.17%) WebSockets
6 1 (0.58%) PyTorch
6 1 (0.58%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 12 (7.02%) Cloud Native
1 12 (7.02%) Hybrid Cloud
2 8 (4.68%) Data Centre
3 7 (4.09%) Private Cloud
4 6 (3.51%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (2.92%) PKI
6 3 (1.75%) Driving Licence
7 2 (1.17%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (1.17%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.17%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.58%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.58%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.58%) IoT
8 1 (0.58%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.58%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 22 (12.87%) Linux
2 10 (5.85%) Windows
3 6 (3.51%) Unix
4 3 (1.75%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.58%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.58%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (47.95%) ITIL
2 70 (40.94%) ITSM
3 69 (40.35%) Customer Service
3 69 (40.35%) Performance Metrics
4 38 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
5 37 (21.64%) AI
6 35 (20.47%) Mentoring
7 33 (19.30%) Infrastructure as Code
8 31 (18.13%) CI/CD
8 31 (18.13%) Cost Optimisation
9 29 (16.96%) Cloud Security
10 27 (15.79%) DevOps
11 26 (15.20%) Agile
11 26 (15.20%) Cost Management
12 24 (14.04%) Continuous Improvement
12 24 (14.04%) FinOps
12 24 (14.04%) Software Licensing
13 22 (12.87%) Technical Leadership
14 21 (12.28%) TOGAF
15 19 (11.11%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 26 (15.20%) Python
2 16 (9.36%) Bash
2 16 (9.36%) Java
3 14 (8.19%) Go
4 9 (5.26%) JavaScript
5 6 (3.51%) C#
6 5 (2.92%) TypeScript
7 4 (2.34%) SQL
8 3 (1.75%) Ruby
9 2 (1.17%) Groovy
9 2 (1.17%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.58%) Bicep
10 1 (0.58%) PHP
Qualifications
1 89 (52.05%) Degree
2 76 (44.44%) Microsoft Certification
3 69 (40.35%) MCSE
4 38 (22.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 38 (22.22%) Azure Certification
5 24 (14.04%) Security Cleared
6 20 (11.70%) SC Cleared
7 11 (6.43%) CISSP
8 9 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (5.26%) TOGAF Certification
9 7 (4.09%) CISM
10 6 (3.51%) Cisco Certification
11 5 (2.92%) DV Cleared
12 3 (1.75%) CCIE
12 3 (1.75%) CCNP
12 3 (1.75%) CCSA
12 3 (1.75%) CCSE
12 3 (1.75%) GCIA
12 3 (1.75%) JNCIE
12 3 (1.75%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (40.94%) QA
2 16 (9.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (5.85%) GDPR
4 8 (4.68%) ISO 9001
5 6 (3.51%) NCSC
5 6 (3.51%) NIST
5 6 (3.51%) PCI DSS
6 5 (2.92%) Accessibility
7 4 (2.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (1.17%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.58%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.58%) HIPAA
System Software
1 19 (11.11%) Docker
2 4 (2.34%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 28 (16.37%) Terraform
2 26 (15.20%) Kubernetes
3 23 (13.45%) Ansible
4 17 (9.94%) Prometheus
5 10 (5.85%) Grafana
6 7 (4.09%) Argo
6 7 (4.09%) Proxmox
7 6 (3.51%) Kustomize
8 3 (1.75%) QRadar
9 2 (1.17%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.58%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.58%) Consul
10 1 (0.58%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.58%) Kibana
10 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.58%) Nagios
10 1 (0.58%) Packer
10 1 (0.58%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.58%) Puppet
10 1 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 104 (60.82%) Microsoft
2 94 (54.97%) ServiceNow
3 25 (14.62%) Apple
4 24 (14.04%) Adobe
5 9 (5.26%) Google
5 9 (5.26%) VMware
6 4 (2.34%) Epicor
6 4 (2.34%) IFS
6 4 (2.34%) Infor
6 4 (2.34%) Oracle
6 4 (2.34%) SAP
6 4 (2.34%) Splunk
7 3 (1.75%) CheckPoint
7 3 (1.75%) Cisco
7 3 (1.75%) CrowdStrike
7 3 (1.75%) Fortinet
7 3 (1.75%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.58%) Commvault
8 1 (0.58%) IBM
8 1 (0.58%) New Relic