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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 9 8
Rank change year-on-year -3 -1 -1
Permanent jobs citing AWS 1,659 3,333 3,508
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 10.85% 16.79% 16.79%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.70% 37.58% 35.26%
Number of salaries quoted 1,260 2,211 2,961
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £56,750 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £135,000 £130,000 £111,250
UK median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% +7.14% -3.45%

All Cloud 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 5,585 8,870 9,949
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 36.54% 44.69% 47.61%
Number of salaries quoted 4,167 5,791 8,522
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £36,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - -
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £110,000 £98,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £64,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -6.25% +2.40% -0.79%

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 November 2025.

AWS salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

AWS
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
1 138 (8.32%) Apache Airflow
2 81 (4.88%) Apache
3 30 (1.81%) Apache Spark
4 20 (1.21%) Confluence
5 17 (1.02%) Tomcat
6 16 (0.96%) WebSphere
6 16 (0.96%) WebSphere Application Server
7 14 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
8 13 (0.78%) SharePoint
9 10 (0.60%) IIS
10 9 (0.54%) Headless CMS
11 7 (0.42%) Ethereum
12 6 (0.36%) nginx
12 6 (0.36%) WordPress
13 5 (0.30%) Anypoint
13 5 (0.30%) Drupal
14 4 (0.24%) Apache Pulsar
14 4 (0.24%) CMS
15 3 (0.18%) Luigi
15 3 (0.18%) SAS
Applications
1 98 (5.91%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.12%) Trello
4 1 (0.060%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.060%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.060%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.060%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.060%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.060%) Notion
4 1 (0.060%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 16 (0.96%) Shopify
2 15 (0.90%) Oracle ERP
3 10 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
4 8 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.12%) Magento
7 1 (0.060%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 760 (45.81%) Azure
2 446 (26.88%) GCP
3 212 (12.78%) SaaS
4 205 (12.36%) Serverless
5 150 (9.04%) AWS Lambda
5 150 (9.04%) GitHub
5 150 (9.04%) Microsoft 365
6 137 (8.26%) dbt
7 115 (6.93%) Amazon S3
8 95 (5.73%) Snowflake
9 94 (5.67%) AWS CloudFormation
10 79 (4.76%) Amazon EKS
11 78 (4.70%) GitHub Actions
12 72 (4.34%) Amazon ECS
13 60 (3.62%) Azure DevOps
14 58 (3.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 55 (3.32%) Entra ID
16 51 (3.07%) Amazon EC2
17 45 (2.71%) OCI
18 40 (2.41%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 81 (4.88%) Firewall
2 54 (3.25%) VPN
3 46 (2.77%) Network Security
4 38 (2.29%) DNS
5 35 (2.11%) WAN
6 29 (1.75%) TCP/IP
7 28 (1.69%) LAN
8 24 (1.45%) SD-WAN
9 20 (1.21%) SSL
9 20 (1.21%) Wi-Fi
10 19 (1.15%) DHCP
10 19 (1.15%) VLAN
11 16 (0.96%) Broadband
12 15 (0.90%) VoIP
13 11 (0.66%) BGP
14 10 (0.60%) HTTP
15 9 (0.54%) Intrusion Detection
16 8 (0.48%) Internet
17 7 (0.42%) IP Telephony
17 7 (0.42%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 200 (12.06%) PostgreSQL
2 117 (7.05%) Amazon Athena
3 109 (6.57%) Apache Iceberg
4 103 (6.21%) Apache Arrow
4 103 (6.21%) Dremio
5 101 (6.09%) SQL Server
6 96 (5.79%) NoSQL
7 91 (5.49%) MongoDB
8 89 (5.36%) Data Lake
9 78 (4.70%) MySQL
10 63 (3.80%) Data Warehouse
11 62 (3.74%) Elasticsearch
12 59 (3.56%) DynamoDB
13 56 (3.38%) Amazon RDS
13 56 (3.38%) Apache Ignite
14 37 (2.23%) Amazon Redshift
15 36 (2.17%) Power BI
16 34 (2.05%) Relational Database
17 26 (1.57%) Azure SQL Database
17 26 (1.57%) Redis
Development Applications
1 121 (7.29%) Jenkins
2 104 (6.27%) Git
3 75 (4.52%) GitLab
4 43 (2.59%) JIRA
5 38 (2.29%) TeamCity
6 30 (1.81%) Cypress.io
7 15 (0.90%) JUnit
7 15 (0.90%) Oracle Forms
8 14 (0.84%) Selenium
9 12 (0.72%) Bitbucket
9 12 (0.72%) Cucumber
10 11 (0.66%) SonarQube
11 10 (0.60%) Subversion
12 8 (0.48%) CircleCI
12 8 (0.48%) Sonatype Nexus
13 7 (0.42%) Burp Suite
13 7 (0.42%) Metasploit
14 6 (0.36%) ER Studio
14 6 (0.36%) Maven
15 5 (0.30%) git-flow
General
1 504 (30.38%) Social Skills
2 473 (28.51%) Finance
3 160 (9.64%) Banking
4 143 (8.62%) Front Office
5 100 (6.03%) Analytical Skills
6 95 (5.73%) French Language
6 95 (5.73%) Swedish Language
7 94 (5.67%) Public Sector
8 91 (5.49%) Retail
9 88 (5.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 69 (4.16%) Law
11 65 (3.92%) Telecoms
12 63 (3.80%) Investment Banking
13 48 (2.89%) Games
14 47 (2.83%) Financial Institution
15 40 (2.41%) Marketing
16 39 (2.35%) Tech for Good
17 35 (2.11%) Legal
18 34 (2.05%) Influencing Skills
19 31 (1.87%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 410 (24.71%) Developer
2 407 (24.53%) Senior
3 285 (17.18%) Software Engineer
4 199 (12.00%) Lead
5 167 (10.07%) Architect
6 153 (9.22%) AWS Engineer
7 132 (7.96%) Analyst
8 121 (7.29%) Python Engineer
9 111 (6.69%) AWS Software Engineer
10 103 (6.21%) Senior Software Engineer
11 102 (6.15%) Python Software Engineer
12 99 (5.97%) Java Engineer
12 99 (5.97%) Senior Developer
13 96 (5.79%) Python Developer
14 95 (5.73%) Service Analyst
14 95 (5.73%) Service Desk Analyst
15 94 (5.67%) AWS Developer
16 92 (5.55%) Full-Stack Developer
17 89 (5.36%) Java Software Engineer
17 89 (5.36%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 369 (22.24%) React
2 231 (13.92%) Node.js
3 207 (12.48%) .NET
4 140 (8.44%) AngularJS
5 133 (8.02%) RESTful
6 127 (7.66%) Vue
7 118 (7.11%) Kafka
8 115 (6.93%) Pandas
9 110 (6.63%) NumPy
10 103 (6.21%) SciPy
11 89 (5.36%) REST
12 81 (4.88%) Spring
13 77 (4.64%) CSS
13 77 (4.64%) Spring Boot
14 71 (4.28%) gRPC
15 69 (4.16%) HTML
16 61 (3.68%) .NET Core
17 56 (3.38%) GraphQL
18 53 (3.19%) Protocol Buffers
19 50 (3.01%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 220 (13.26%) Cloud Native
2 139 (8.38%) Fixed Income
3 111 (6.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 110 (6.63%) Equities
5 94 (5.67%) Distributed Systems
6 66 (3.98%) Hedge funds
7 63 (3.80%) Product Ownership
8 54 (3.25%) Derivative
8 54 (3.25%) Public Cloud
9 53 (3.19%) Pricing Data
10 50 (3.01%) Management Information System
11 45 (2.71%) Enterprise Software
12 39 (2.35%) Data Centre
13 36 (2.17%) Hybrid Cloud
13 36 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
14 29 (1.75%) Security Posture
15 26 (1.57%) Greenfield Project
15 26 (1.57%) Onboarding
16 24 (1.45%) Data Structures
17 23 (1.39%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 184 (11.09%) Linux
2 124 (7.47%) Windows
3 52 (3.13%) Unix
4 34 (2.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 32 (1.93%) Windows Server
6 19 (1.15%) Android
7 13 (0.78%) Apple iOS
7 13 (0.78%) CentOS
8 10 (0.60%) Mac OS
8 10 (0.60%) Ubuntu
9 8 (0.48%) Windows 10
10 5 (0.30%) Debian
10 5 (0.30%) Mac OS X
10 5 (0.30%) Windows Server 2012
11 4 (0.24%) VMS
11 4 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
11 4 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
12 3 (0.18%) HPUX
12 3 (0.18%) Oracle Linux
12 3 (0.18%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 628 (37.85%) Agile
2 503 (30.32%) CI/CD
3 481 (28.99%) Software Engineering
4 442 (26.64%) DevOps
5 321 (19.35%) Mentoring
6 280 (16.88%) Problem-Solving
7 269 (16.21%) Microservices
8 261 (15.73%) Infrastructure as Code
9 248 (14.95%) AI
10 242 (14.59%) Full-Stack Development
11 212 (12.78%) Continuous Improvement
12 202 (12.18%) ITIL
13 196 (11.81%) Roadmaps
14 172 (10.37%) Containerisation
15 140 (8.44%) Investment Management
16 139 (8.38%) Asset Management
16 139 (8.38%) Computer Science
17 134 (8.08%) Analytics
18 127 (7.66%) Technical Leadership
19 124 (7.47%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 590 (35.56%) Python
2 403 (24.29%) TypeScript
3 389 (23.45%) JavaScript
4 378 (22.78%) Java
5 321 (19.35%) SQL
6 208 (12.54%) C#
7 88 (5.30%) Go
8 84 (5.06%) Bash
9 79 (4.76%) PowerShell
10 56 (3.38%) PHP
11 24 (1.45%) Shell Script
12 21 (1.27%) Scala
13 19 (1.15%) Bicep
13 19 (1.15%) PL/SQL
14 18 (1.08%) C++
15 16 (0.96%) Kotlin
16 14 (0.84%) Ruby
17 10 (0.60%) R
18 9 (0.54%) Rust
19 8 (0.48%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 316 (19.05%) Degree
2 260 (15.67%) AWS Certification
3 180 (10.85%) Security Cleared
4 146 (8.80%) Microsoft Certification
4 146 (8.80%) SC Cleared
5 114 (6.87%) MCSE
6 105 (6.33%) Computer Science Degree
7 86 (5.18%) Azure Certification
8 52 (3.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 48 (2.89%) Cisco Certification
10 29 (1.75%) CISSP
10 29 (1.75%) DV Cleared
11 28 (1.69%) CCNP
11 28 (1.69%) ITIL Certification
11 28 (1.69%) Master's Degree
11 28 (1.69%) TOGAF Certification
12 18 (1.08%) CISM
12 18 (1.08%) MCP
13 15 (0.90%) CompTIA Security+
14 14 (0.84%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 172 (10.37%) QA
2 83 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 63 (3.80%) GDPR
4 54 (3.25%) NIST
5 31 (1.87%) SLA
6 30 (1.81%) Data Quality
7 28 (1.69%) PCI DSS
8 27 (1.63%) Accessibility
9 25 (1.51%) Cyber Essentials
10 22 (1.33%) SOC 2
11 16 (0.96%) GRC
12 14 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 10 (0.60%) HIPAA
13 10 (0.60%) NCSC
14 8 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 42001
15 7 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
16 6 (0.36%) EU AI Act
16 6 (0.36%) ISO 9001
17 5 (0.30%) JSP 440
18 2 (0.12%) HL7
System Software
1 264 (15.91%) Docker
2 57 (3.44%) Active Directory
3 30 (1.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (1.33%) Hyper-V
5 15 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
6 11 (0.66%) vSphere
7 6 (0.36%) Firmware
8 4 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.18%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.12%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 1 (0.060%) Dovecot
11 1 (0.060%) HDFS
11 1 (0.060%) Postfix
11 1 (0.060%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.060%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 300 (18.08%) Terraform
2 286 (17.24%) Kubernetes
3 119 (7.17%) Ansible
4 87 (5.24%) Grafana
5 44 (2.65%) Prometheus
6 22 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
7 21 (1.27%) Argo
7 21 (1.27%) Microsoft Intune
8 8 (0.48%) Progress Chef
9 7 (0.42%) Kibana
9 7 (0.42%) Nmap
9 7 (0.42%) SCOM
10 6 (0.36%) Puppet
11 5 (0.30%) Cilium
11 5 (0.30%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 5 (0.30%) SCCM
11 5 (0.30%) WSUS
12 4 (0.24%) Autotask
12 4 (0.24%) Proxmox
13 3 (0.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 268 (16.15%) Microsoft
2 108 (6.51%) ServiceNow
3 96 (5.79%) Google
4 86 (5.18%) Oracle
5 48 (2.89%) VMware
6 45 (2.71%) Red Hat
7 33 (1.99%) IBM
8 31 (1.87%) Cisco
9 29 (1.75%) Databricks
10 21 (1.27%) SAP
11 20 (1.21%) Apple
12 17 (1.02%) Palo Alto
13 16 (0.96%) Okta
13 16 (0.96%) Splunk
14 15 (0.90%) Informatica
14 15 (0.90%) Talend
15 14 (0.84%) Salesforce
16 12 (0.72%) OpenAI
17 11 (0.66%) Atlassian
17 11 (0.66%) SolarWinds