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

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 8 8
Rank change year-on-year -7 0 -2
Permanent jobs citing AWS 1,640 3,287 3,689
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 10.80% 16.81% 17.02%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.57% 37.85% 35.45%
Number of salaries quoted 1,253 2,164 3,084
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,150 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.20% +7.36% -3.45%
75th Percentile £105,000 £105,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £136,000 £138,750 £112,500
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 5,547 8,684 10,405
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 36.54% 44.41% 48.00%
Number of salaries quoted 4,152 5,598 8,900
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 £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% -

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 18 November 2025.

AWS salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

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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
1 149 (9.09%) Apache Airflow
2 89 (5.43%) Apache
3 28 (1.71%) Apache Spark
4 21 (1.28%) Confluence
5 17 (1.04%) Tomcat
6 16 (0.98%) WebSphere
6 16 (0.98%) WebSphere Application Server
7 15 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
8 14 (0.85%) SharePoint
9 12 (0.73%) IIS
10 9 (0.55%) Headless CMS
11 7 (0.43%) Ethereum
12 5 (0.30%) Anypoint
12 5 (0.30%) nginx
13 4 (0.24%) Apache Pulsar
13 4 (0.24%) Drupal
13 4 (0.24%) WordPress
14 3 (0.18%) GeoServer
14 3 (0.18%) Luigi
14 3 (0.18%) SAS
Applications
1 98 (5.98%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.12%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.12%) Trello
4 1 (0.061%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.061%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.061%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.061%) Notion
4 1 (0.061%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 16 (0.98%) Shopify
2 14 (0.85%) Oracle ERP
3 11 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
4 8 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.12%) Magento
7 1 (0.061%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 737 (44.94%) Azure
2 438 (26.71%) GCP
3 212 (12.93%) SaaS
4 204 (12.44%) Serverless
5 152 (9.27%) AWS Lambda
6 151 (9.21%) Microsoft 365
7 146 (8.90%) dbt
8 143 (8.72%) GitHub
9 111 (6.77%) Amazon S3
10 104 (6.34%) Snowflake
11 94 (5.73%) AWS CloudFormation
12 78 (4.76%) Amazon EKS
13 75 (4.57%) GitHub Actions
14 70 (4.27%) Amazon ECS
15 60 (3.66%) Azure DevOps
16 54 (3.29%) Amazon EC2
16 54 (3.29%) Entra ID
17 53 (3.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 47 (2.87%) OCI
19 37 (2.26%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 84 (5.12%) Firewall
2 58 (3.54%) VPN
3 45 (2.74%) Network Security
4 41 (2.50%) DNS
5 33 (2.01%) WAN
6 31 (1.89%) TCP/IP
7 26 (1.59%) LAN
8 22 (1.34%) SD-WAN
8 22 (1.34%) SSL
8 22 (1.34%) VLAN
9 20 (1.22%) Broadband
9 20 (1.22%) DHCP
9 20 (1.22%) Wi-Fi
10 15 (0.91%) VoIP
11 14 (0.85%) BGP
12 9 (0.55%) HTTP
12 9 (0.55%) Internet
12 9 (0.55%) Intrusion Detection
13 8 (0.49%) OSPF
14 7 (0.43%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 197 (12.01%) PostgreSQL
2 129 (7.87%) Amazon Athena
3 121 (7.38%) Apache Iceberg
4 116 (7.07%) Apache Arrow
4 116 (7.07%) Dremio
5 98 (5.98%) SQL Server
6 96 (5.85%) Data Lake
7 92 (5.61%) NoSQL
8 91 (5.55%) MongoDB
9 73 (4.45%) MySQL
10 65 (3.96%) Elasticsearch
11 64 (3.90%) Apache Ignite
12 63 (3.84%) Data Warehouse
13 61 (3.72%) DynamoDB
14 59 (3.60%) Amazon RDS
15 37 (2.26%) Amazon Redshift
16 34 (2.07%) Relational Database
17 33 (2.01%) Power BI
18 26 (1.59%) Azure SQL Database
19 24 (1.46%) Redis
Development Applications
1 115 (7.01%) Jenkins
2 97 (5.91%) Git
3 72 (4.39%) GitLab
4 44 (2.68%) JIRA
5 41 (2.50%) TeamCity
6 26 (1.59%) Cypress.io
7 15 (0.91%) JUnit
8 14 (0.85%) Oracle Forms
9 12 (0.73%) Selenium
10 11 (0.67%) Cucumber
11 10 (0.61%) Bitbucket
12 9 (0.55%) SonarQube
13 8 (0.49%) Sonatype Nexus
13 8 (0.49%) Subversion
14 7 (0.43%) Burp Suite
14 7 (0.43%) CircleCI
14 7 (0.43%) Metasploit
15 6 (0.37%) ER Studio
15 6 (0.37%) Jasmine
15 6 (0.37%) NUnit
General
1 503 (30.67%) Social Skills
2 471 (28.72%) Finance
3 163 (9.94%) Banking
4 156 (9.51%) Front Office
5 95 (5.79%) French Language
5 95 (5.79%) Swedish Language
6 93 (5.67%) Analytical Skills
7 90 (5.49%) Public Sector
8 88 (5.37%) Retail
9 85 (5.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 71 (4.33%) Investment Banking
11 68 (4.15%) Law
12 62 (3.78%) Telecoms
13 50 (3.05%) Games
14 46 (2.80%) Financial Institution
15 39 (2.38%) Tech for Good
16 38 (2.32%) Marketing
17 34 (2.07%) Legal
18 32 (1.95%) Back Office
19 30 (1.83%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 414 (25.24%) Senior
2 411 (25.06%) Developer
3 293 (17.87%) Software Engineer
4 185 (11.28%) Lead
5 168 (10.24%) AWS Engineer
6 167 (10.18%) Architect
7 131 (7.99%) Python Engineer
8 130 (7.93%) Analyst
9 124 (7.56%) AWS Software Engineer
10 112 (6.83%) Java Engineer
10 112 (6.83%) Python Software Engineer
11 106 (6.46%) Senior Software Engineer
12 102 (6.22%) Java Software Engineer
13 101 (6.16%) Senior Developer
14 98 (5.98%) Python Developer
15 97 (5.91%) AWS Developer
16 95 (5.79%) Service Analyst
16 95 (5.79%) Service Desk Analyst
17 91 (5.55%) Full-Stack Developer
18 89 (5.43%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 370 (22.56%) React
2 227 (13.84%) Node.js
3 204 (12.44%) .NET
4 142 (8.66%) AngularJS
5 131 (7.99%) Vue
6 129 (7.87%) RESTful
7 128 (7.80%) Pandas
8 123 (7.50%) NumPy
9 116 (7.07%) SciPy
10 113 (6.89%) Kafka
11 86 (5.24%) REST
12 82 (5.00%) Spring
13 77 (4.70%) gRPC
14 76 (4.63%) CSS
14 76 (4.63%) Spring Boot
15 67 (4.09%) HTML
16 61 (3.72%) Protocol Buffers
17 57 (3.48%) .NET Core
18 56 (3.41%) GraphQL
19 48 (2.93%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 210 (12.80%) Cloud Native
2 153 (9.33%) Fixed Income
3 126 (7.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 125 (7.62%) Equities
5 91 (5.55%) Distributed Systems
6 75 (4.57%) Hedge funds
7 62 (3.78%) Derivative
8 61 (3.72%) Pricing Data
8 61 (3.72%) Product Ownership
9 51 (3.11%) Management Information System
9 51 (3.11%) Public Cloud
10 42 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
11 37 (2.26%) Data Centre
11 37 (2.26%) Legacy Systems
12 36 (2.20%) Hybrid Cloud
13 27 (1.65%) Onboarding
14 26 (1.59%) Security Posture
15 23 (1.40%) Data Structures
15 23 (1.40%) Linux Command Line
16 22 (1.34%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 184 (11.22%) Linux
2 128 (7.80%) Windows
3 50 (3.05%) Unix
4 35 (2.13%) Windows Server
5 33 (2.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 17 (1.04%) Android
7 14 (0.85%) CentOS
8 12 (0.73%) Apple iOS
9 10 (0.61%) Mac OS
9 10 (0.61%) Ubuntu
10 7 (0.43%) Windows 10
11 5 (0.30%) Debian
11 5 (0.30%) Mac OS X
11 5 (0.30%) Windows Server 2012
11 5 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (0.24%) HPUX
12 4 (0.24%) Oracle Linux
12 4 (0.24%) Solaris
12 4 (0.24%) VMS
12 4 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 642 (39.15%) Agile
2 497 (30.30%) CI/CD
3 481 (29.33%) Software Engineering
4 436 (26.59%) DevOps
5 303 (18.48%) Mentoring
6 278 (16.95%) Problem-Solving
7 264 (16.10%) Microservices
8 260 (15.85%) Infrastructure as Code
9 243 (14.82%) AI
10 232 (14.15%) Full-Stack Development
11 206 (12.56%) Continuous Improvement
12 200 (12.20%) ITIL
13 190 (11.59%) Roadmaps
14 171 (10.43%) Containerisation
15 153 (9.33%) Asset Management
15 153 (9.33%) Investment Management
16 130 (7.93%) Computer Science
17 129 (7.87%) Analytics
17 129 (7.87%) Fintech
18 126 (7.68%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 604 (36.83%) Python
2 416 (25.37%) TypeScript
3 398 (24.27%) JavaScript
4 375 (22.87%) Java
5 314 (19.15%) SQL
6 201 (12.26%) C#
7 88 (5.37%) Go
8 83 (5.06%) Bash
8 83 (5.06%) PowerShell
9 53 (3.23%) PHP
10 23 (1.40%) Shell Script
11 20 (1.22%) Scala
12 18 (1.10%) Bicep
12 18 (1.10%) PL/SQL
13 17 (1.04%) C++
14 16 (0.98%) Kotlin
15 13 (0.79%) Ruby
16 9 (0.55%) Rust
17 8 (0.49%) Delphi
17 8 (0.49%) R
Qualifications
1 307 (18.72%) Degree
2 257 (15.67%) AWS Certification
3 184 (11.22%) Security Cleared
4 153 (9.33%) SC Cleared
5 144 (8.78%) Microsoft Certification
6 115 (7.01%) MCSE
7 97 (5.91%) Computer Science Degree
8 83 (5.06%) Azure Certification
9 51 (3.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 47 (2.87%) Cisco Certification
11 30 (1.83%) DV Cleared
12 29 (1.77%) CISSP
13 27 (1.65%) CCNP
13 27 (1.65%) Master's Degree
14 26 (1.59%) ITIL Certification
14 26 (1.59%) TOGAF Certification
15 18 (1.10%) CISM
15 18 (1.10%) MCP
16 16 (0.98%) CompTIA Security+
17 14 (0.85%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 173 (10.55%) QA
2 82 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 60 (3.66%) GDPR
4 55 (3.35%) NIST
5 29 (1.77%) SLA
6 28 (1.71%) Data Quality
7 27 (1.65%) PCI DSS
8 25 (1.52%) Accessibility
8 25 (1.52%) Cyber Essentials
9 21 (1.28%) SOC 2
10 14 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 14 (0.85%) GRC
11 10 (0.61%) HIPAA
12 8 (0.49%) NCSC
13 7 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
14 6 (0.37%) EU AI Act
14 6 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 42001
15 5 (0.30%) ISO 9001
16 3 (0.18%) JSP 440
17 2 (0.12%) HL7
System Software
1 260 (15.85%) Docker
2 59 (3.60%) Active Directory
3 30 (1.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (1.40%) Hyper-V
5 16 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
6 12 (0.73%) vSphere
7 6 (0.37%) Firmware
8 4 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.18%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.061%) Dovecot
10 1 (0.061%) HDFS
10 1 (0.061%) Postfix
10 1 (0.061%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.061%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 305 (18.60%) Terraform
2 286 (17.44%) Kubernetes
3 120 (7.32%) Ansible
4 88 (5.37%) Grafana
5 46 (2.80%) Prometheus
6 22 (1.34%) Microsoft Intune
7 21 (1.28%) Argo
8 18 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
9 9 (0.55%) Progress Chef
10 8 (0.49%) Kibana
11 7 (0.43%) Nmap
11 7 (0.43%) SCOM
12 6 (0.37%) Puppet
13 5 (0.30%) Cilium
13 5 (0.30%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
13 5 (0.30%) Proxmox
13 5 (0.30%) SCCM
13 5 (0.30%) WSUS
14 4 (0.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 4 (0.24%) Autotask
Vendors
1 268 (16.34%) Microsoft
2 109 (6.65%) ServiceNow
3 90 (5.49%) Google
4 88 (5.37%) Oracle
5 51 (3.11%) VMware
6 41 (2.50%) Red Hat
7 33 (2.01%) IBM
8 30 (1.83%) Cisco
9 29 (1.77%) Databricks
10 22 (1.34%) SAP
11 19 (1.16%) Apple
11 19 (1.16%) Splunk
12 16 (0.98%) Palo Alto
13 15 (0.91%) Informatica
13 15 (0.91%) Okta
14 14 (0.85%) Salesforce
14 14 (0.85%) Talend
15 12 (0.73%) OpenAI
15 12 (0.73%) SolarWinds
16 9 (0.55%) Atlassian