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 6 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 197 352 355
Rank change year-on-year +155 +3 -15
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 261 253 355
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.66% 0.75% 0.84%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.33% 2.67% 3.29%
Number of salaries quoted 100 132 280
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,375 £51,250
25th Percentile £49,541 £60,000 £56,407
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £76,375 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.44% +1.83% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £84,919 £92,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £99,875 £115,000
UK median annual salary £68,525 £75,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -8.63% -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 4,898 9,485 10,774
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 31.18% 28.07% 25.42%
Number of salaries quoted 3,088 5,912 6,583
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,494 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £70,600 £72,500 £77,715
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £54,000 £59,526
% change year-on-year +1.85% -9.28% +8.23%

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 6 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 (1.92%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.53%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.15%) Jupyter
3 3 (1.15%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.77%) Apache
5 1 (0.38%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 261 (100.00%) AWS
2 174 (66.67%) Azure
3 146 (55.94%) GCP
4 37 (14.18%) Serverless
5 34 (13.03%) AWS Lambda
6 20 (7.66%) AWS CloudFormation
7 16 (6.13%) Amazon EC2
8 14 (5.36%) AWS KMS
9 13 (4.98%) Amazon S3
10 12 (4.60%) Microsoft 365
11 9 (3.45%) Entra ID
11 9 (3.45%) GitHub
12 8 (3.07%) Amazon ECS
12 8 (3.07%) GitHub Actions
13 7 (2.68%) Cloud Computing
13 7 (2.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 6 (2.30%) Amazon GuardDuty
15 5 (1.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 5 (1.92%) Route 53
15 5 (1.92%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 25 (9.58%) Firewall
2 18 (6.90%) Network Security
3 11 (4.21%) VPN
4 6 (2.30%) VLAN
4 6 (2.30%) WAN
5 5 (1.92%) DNS
5 5 (1.92%) IPv4
6 4 (1.53%) HTTPS
6 4 (1.53%) SD-WAN
6 4 (1.53%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.77%) DHCP
7 2 (0.77%) Internet
7 2 (0.77%) LAN
7 2 (0.77%) MPLS
7 2 (0.77%) OSPF
7 2 (0.77%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.77%) WLAN
8 1 (0.38%) IPv6
8 1 (0.38%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (4.98%) NoSQL
2 11 (4.21%) Amazon Redshift
3 8 (3.07%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (3.07%) DynamoDB
4 7 (2.68%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (2.30%) Data Lake
5 6 (2.30%) MongoDB
5 6 (2.30%) MySQL
5 6 (2.30%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (1.53%) BigQuery
6 4 (1.53%) Hadoop
7 3 (1.15%) Big Data
8 2 (0.77%) Geospatial Data
8 2 (0.77%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (2.68%) Jenkins
2 6 (2.30%) Git
2 6 (2.30%) Gradle
2 6 (2.30%) Maven
3 4 (1.53%) GitLab
4 2 (0.77%) JIRA
5 1 (0.38%) Appium
5 1 (0.38%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.38%) Mocha
5 1 (0.38%) Selenium
General
1 123 (47.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 42 (16.09%) Social Skills
3 21 (8.05%) Finance
4 15 (5.75%) Law
5 12 (4.60%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (4.21%) Retail
7 8 (3.07%) Public Sector
8 6 (2.30%) Games
9 5 (1.92%) Telecoms
10 4 (1.53%) Humanities
11 3 (1.15%) Marketing
12 1 (0.38%) Advertising
12 1 (0.38%) Banking
12 1 (0.38%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.38%) Electronics
12 1 (0.38%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.38%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.38%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 147 (56.32%) Senior
2 117 (44.83%) Software Engineer
3 115 (44.06%) Senior Software Engineer
4 45 (17.24%) Architect
5 28 (10.73%) Cloud Engineer
6 27 (10.34%) AWS Engineer
7 25 (9.58%) AWS Architect
8 21 (8.05%) Security Engineer
8 21 (8.05%) Solutions Architect
9 14 (5.36%) Cloud Architect
9 14 (5.36%) Cloud Security Engineer
10 12 (4.60%) Lead
11 10 (3.83%) AWS DevOps
11 10 (3.83%) Senior DevOps
12 9 (3.45%) Data Engineer
12 9 (3.45%) Developer
12 9 (3.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 9 (3.45%) Server Support
13 7 (2.68%) Administrator
13 7 (2.68%) Senior Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (44.06%) .NET
1 115 (44.06%) Node.js
2 27 (10.34%) Kafka
3 22 (8.43%) Elastic Stack
4 10 (3.83%) RESTful
5 7 (2.68%) Spring
6 6 (2.30%) RabbitMQ
7 5 (1.92%) React
8 3 (1.15%) Azure Blueprints
8 3 (1.15%) NumPy
8 3 (1.15%) Pandas
8 3 (1.15%) PyTorch
8 3 (1.15%) scikit-learn
8 3 (1.15%) TensorFlow
9 2 (0.77%) AWS CDK
9 2 (0.77%) AWS SAM
9 2 (0.77%) HTML
9 2 (0.77%) PySpark
10 1 (0.38%) Jest
10 1 (0.38%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 116 (44.44%) Linux Command Line
1 116 (44.44%) Self-Motivation
2 115 (44.06%) Cyberattack
3 36 (13.79%) Management Information System
4 24 (9.20%) Cloud Native
5 22 (8.43%) Security Posture
6 17 (6.51%) Cloud Security Posture
7 15 (5.75%) Data Centre
8 9 (3.45%) Public Cloud
9 6 (2.30%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (2.30%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (2.30%) Mobile Games
10 4 (1.53%) Clustering
10 4 (1.53%) Data Fabric
11 3 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (1.15%) Operational Technology
12 2 (0.77%) Virtual Team
13 1 (0.38%) Distributed Systems
13 1 (0.38%) Driving Licence
13 1 (0.38%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 150 (57.47%) Linux
2 25 (9.58%) Windows
3 15 (5.75%) Windows Server
4 6 (2.30%) AIX
4 6 (2.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (2.30%) Unix
4 6 (2.30%) Windows 10
5 3 (1.15%) CentOS
5 3 (1.15%) Ubuntu
5 3 (1.15%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (58.62%) Microservices
2 152 (58.24%) Cloud Security
3 148 (56.70%) Agile
4 143 (54.79%) Software Engineering
5 140 (53.64%) Mentoring
6 135 (51.72%) Data Engineering
7 120 (45.98%) Machine Learning
7 120 (45.98%) Scrum
8 117 (44.83%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 115 (44.06%) User Experience
10 82 (31.42%) DevOps
11 64 (24.52%) CI/CD
12 45 (17.24%) Containerisation
13 39 (14.94%) Computer Science
14 31 (11.88%) Infrastructure as Code
15 30 (11.49%) Roadmaps
16 29 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
17 26 (9.96%) Continuous Improvement
18 25 (9.58%) Disaster Recovery
18 25 (9.58%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 155 (59.39%) Python
2 152 (58.24%) Java
3 118 (45.21%) JavaScript
4 117 (44.83%) Go
5 115 (44.06%) C++
5 115 (44.06%) Rust
6 22 (8.43%) PowerShell
6 22 (8.43%) SQL
7 17 (6.51%) Bash
8 7 (2.68%) C#
9 5 (1.92%) Shell Script
10 4 (1.53%) R
10 4 (1.53%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.77%) Scala
12 1 (0.38%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 163 (62.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 153 (58.62%) Security Cleared
3 118 (45.21%) AWS Certified Developer
4 117 (44.83%) DV Cleared
5 46 (17.62%) Degree
6 39 (14.94%) Azure Certification
7 33 (12.64%) SC Cleared
8 27 (10.34%) Computer Science Degree
9 16 (6.13%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 15 (5.75%) TOGAF Certification
11 14 (5.36%) Cisco Certification
11 14 (5.36%) ITIL Certification
12 11 (4.21%) Microsoft Certification
13 8 (3.07%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 7 (2.68%) CISSP
14 7 (2.68%) CompTIA Security+
15 6 (2.30%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 6 (2.30%) IBM AIX Certification
15 6 (2.30%) RHCE
16 4 (1.53%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (11.11%) GDPR
2 25 (9.58%) HIPAA
3 11 (4.21%) NIST
3 11 (4.21%) SLA
4 10 (3.83%) QA
5 5 (1.92%) Data Quality
5 5 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.15%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.77%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.38%) NCSC
System Software
1 38 (14.56%) Docker
2 17 (6.51%) Active Directory
3 15 (5.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (2.68%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (2.30%) Hyper-V
6 4 (1.53%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 3 (1.15%) Dovecot
7 3 (1.15%) Postfix
8 2 (0.77%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 49 (18.77%) Kubernetes
2 32 (12.26%) Terraform
3 21 (8.05%) Prometheus
4 16 (6.13%) Ansible
4 16 (6.13%) Grafana
5 8 (3.07%) SCCM
6 7 (2.68%) Argo
7 6 (2.30%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (2.30%) Puppet
8 3 (1.15%) CASB
8 3 (1.15%) Istio
8 3 (1.15%) linkerd
9 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
9 2 (0.77%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.77%) SCOM
9 2 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.77%) WSUS
Vendors
1 30 (11.49%) Microsoft
2 23 (8.81%) Google
3 15 (5.75%) VMware
4 12 (4.60%) Red Hat
5 9 (3.45%) Cisco
6 6 (2.30%) Citrix
6 6 (2.30%) New Relic
7 4 (1.53%) Databricks
7 4 (1.53%) SAP
7 4 (1.53%) Symantec
7 4 (1.53%) Veritas
8 3 (1.15%) Okta
8 3 (1.15%) Ping Identity
9 2 (0.77%) Cloudera
9 2 (0.77%) Informatica
9 2 (0.77%) Meraki
9 2 (0.77%) Oracle
10 1 (0.38%) Dell