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

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 7 7
Rank change year-on-year -6 0 -1
Permanent jobs citing AWS 1,972 3,381 3,925
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 12.24% 16.92% 17.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 34.47% 38.55% 36.13%
Number of salaries quoted 1,194 2,242 3,272
10th Percentile £46,500 £46,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £58,750 £57,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,000 £76,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.57% -3.45%
75th Percentile £107,500 £108,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £136,250 £142,500 £112,500
UK median annual salary £73,801 £72,500 £71,649
% change year-on-year +1.79% +1.19% -1.17%

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 5,721 8,770 10,864
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 35.50% 43.90% 47.94%
Number of salaries quoted 4,044 5,722 9,277
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,275 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £47,611 £48,091
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 £112,500 £97,500
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 27 October 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
1 179 (9.08%) Confluence
2 168 (8.52%) Apache Airflow
3 102 (5.17%) Apache
4 30 (1.52%) Apache Spark
5 16 (0.81%) Tomcat
6 15 (0.76%) WebSphere
6 15 (0.76%) WebSphere Application Server
7 13 (0.66%) IIS
7 13 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
7 13 (0.66%) SharePoint
8 9 (0.46%) Headless CMS
9 5 (0.25%) Ethereum
10 4 (0.20%) Anypoint
11 3 (0.15%) Luigi
11 3 (0.15%) nginx
12 2 (0.10%) BizTalk Server
12 2 (0.10%) Drupal
12 2 (0.10%) GeoServer
12 2 (0.10%) WordPress
13 1 (0.051%) MetaMask
Applications
1 79 (4.01%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (0.61%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.10%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.10%) Trello
4 1 (0.051%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.051%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 13 (0.66%) Shopify
2 12 (0.61%) Oracle ERP
2 12 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.10%) Magento
6 1 (0.051%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 1,106 (56.09%) Azure
2 748 (37.93%) GCP
3 210 (10.65%) SaaS
4 189 (9.58%) Serverless
5 170 (8.62%) dbt
6 148 (7.51%) AWS Lambda
7 132 (6.69%) Microsoft 365
8 117 (5.93%) Snowflake
9 112 (5.68%) GitHub
10 100 (5.07%) Amazon S3
11 88 (4.46%) AWS CloudFormation
12 72 (3.65%) Azure DevOps
13 69 (3.50%) Amazon EKS
14 68 (3.45%) Amazon ECS
15 67 (3.40%) GitHub Actions
16 59 (2.99%) Amazon EC2
17 55 (2.79%) Entra ID
18 54 (2.74%) Power Platform
19 48 (2.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
20 47 (2.38%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 105 (5.32%) Firewall
2 79 (4.01%) VPN
3 57 (2.89%) DNS
4 51 (2.59%) WAN
5 43 (2.18%) Network Security
6 39 (1.98%) SD-WAN
7 30 (1.52%) TCP/IP
8 27 (1.37%) LAN
9 22 (1.12%) DHCP
9 22 (1.12%) VLAN
9 22 (1.12%) Wi-Fi
10 21 (1.06%) SSL
11 19 (0.96%) BGP
12 18 (0.91%) Broadband
13 14 (0.71%) OSPF
13 14 (0.71%) VoIP
14 11 (0.56%) Wireless
15 10 (0.51%) Internet
16 8 (0.41%) Intrusion Detection
17 7 (0.35%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 320 (16.23%) SQL Server
2 190 (9.63%) PostgreSQL
3 150 (7.61%) Amazon Athena
4 144 (7.30%) Apache Iceberg
5 139 (7.05%) Apache Arrow
5 139 (7.05%) Dremio
6 118 (5.98%) Data Lake
7 86 (4.36%) MongoDB
8 85 (4.31%) MySQL
9 81 (4.11%) NoSQL
10 73 (3.70%) Elasticsearch
11 72 (3.65%) Apache Ignite
12 64 (3.25%) Data Warehouse
13 61 (3.09%) DynamoDB
14 58 (2.94%) Amazon RDS
15 50 (2.54%) Power BI
16 40 (2.03%) Amazon Redshift
17 33 (1.67%) Relational Database
18 26 (1.32%) Azure SQL Database
19 23 (1.17%) Redis
Development Applications
1 305 (15.47%) GitLab
2 294 (14.91%) JIRA
3 257 (13.03%) Sonatype Nexus
4 256 (12.98%) SonarQube
5 254 (12.88%) Maven
6 253 (12.83%) Bitbucket
6 253 (12.83%) Selenium
7 252 (12.78%) Cucumber
8 110 (5.58%) Jenkins
9 103 (5.22%) Git
10 38 (1.93%) TeamCity
11 25 (1.27%) Cypress.io
12 12 (0.61%) Oracle Forms
13 11 (0.56%) JUnit
14 8 (0.41%) ER Studio
14 8 (0.41%) Jasmine
14 8 (0.41%) NUnit
15 7 (0.35%) CircleCI
16 6 (0.30%) Burp Suite
16 6 (0.30%) Metasploit
General
1 711 (36.05%) Finance
2 502 (25.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 425 (21.55%) Social Skills
4 397 (20.13%) Banking
5 181 (9.18%) Front Office
6 168 (8.52%) Investment Banking
7 163 (8.27%) Retail
8 90 (4.56%) Corporate Banking
9 88 (4.46%) Analytical Skills
10 82 (4.16%) Public Sector
11 76 (3.85%) French Language
11 76 (3.85%) Swedish Language
12 57 (2.89%) Law
13 50 (2.54%) Games
14 41 (2.08%) Telecoms
15 39 (1.98%) Tech for Good
16 37 (1.88%) Marketing
17 36 (1.83%) Financial Institution
18 28 (1.42%) Back Office
19 25 (1.27%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 724 (36.71%) Software Engineer
2 571 (28.96%) Senior
3 398 (20.18%) Developer
4 280 (14.20%) Senior Software Engineer
5 192 (9.74%) AWS Engineer
6 171 (8.67%) Lead
7 170 (8.62%) Architect
8 146 (7.40%) Python Engineer
9 145 (7.35%) AWS Software Engineer
10 128 (6.49%) Python Software Engineer
11 120 (6.09%) Java Engineer
12 113 (5.73%) Java Software Engineer
13 112 (5.68%) Analyst
14 108 (5.48%) Developer/Software Engineer
15 101 (5.12%) Python Developer
15 101 (5.12%) Senior Developer
16 99 (5.02%) AWS Developer
17 90 (4.56%) DevOps Engineer
18 85 (4.31%) Full-Stack Developer
19 78 (3.96%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 615 (31.19%) React
2 410 (20.79%) Node.js
3 368 (18.66%) .NET
4 346 (17.55%) Kafka
5 312 (15.82%) Spring
6 309 (15.67%) CSS
7 308 (15.62%) HTML
7 308 (15.62%) Spring Boot
8 294 (14.91%) Redux
9 248 (12.58%) JPA
10 204 (10.34%) RESTful
11 172 (8.72%) REST
12 163 (8.27%) Hibernate
13 154 (7.81%) AngularJS
14 150 (7.61%) Pandas
15 146 (7.40%) NumPy
16 144 (7.30%) Vue
17 139 (7.05%) SciPy
18 115 (5.83%) Jest
19 105 (5.32%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 301 (15.26%) Product Ownership
2 287 (14.55%) Enterprise Software
3 199 (10.09%) Linux Command Line
4 197 (9.99%) Self-Motivation
5 187 (9.48%) Cloud Native
6 185 (9.38%) Cyberattack
7 178 (9.03%) Fixed Income
8 154 (7.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 153 (7.76%) Equities
10 83 (4.21%) Hedge funds
11 73 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
12 70 (3.55%) Derivative
13 69 (3.50%) Pricing Data
14 61 (3.09%) Management Information System
15 55 (2.79%) Data Centre
16 43 (2.18%) Public Cloud
17 36 (1.83%) Hybrid Cloud
18 27 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
19 24 (1.22%) Onboarding
20 22 (1.12%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 375 (19.02%) Linux
2 133 (6.74%) Windows
3 49 (2.48%) Unix
4 42 (2.13%) Windows Server
5 33 (1.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 13 (0.66%) CentOS
7 10 (0.51%) Ubuntu
8 9 (0.46%) Mac OS
9 6 (0.30%) Debian
10 5 (0.25%) Mac OS X
10 5 (0.25%) Windows 10
10 5 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
10 5 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
11 4 (0.20%) Android
11 4 (0.20%) Apple iOS
11 4 (0.20%) HPUX
11 4 (0.20%) Oracle Linux
11 4 (0.20%) Solaris
11 4 (0.20%) VMS
12 3 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,061 (53.80%) Agile
2 883 (44.78%) Software Engineering
3 716 (36.31%) CI/CD
4 666 (33.77%) DevOps
5 656 (33.27%) Microservices
6 530 (26.88%) Mentoring
7 459 (23.28%) Full-Stack Development
8 400 (20.28%) Containerisation
9 358 (18.15%) User Experience
10 343 (17.39%) Test Automation
11 330 (16.73%) Continuous Improvement
12 320 (16.23%) SDLC
13 294 (14.91%) Performance Optimisation
14 281 (14.25%) Scrum
15 278 (14.10%) Front End Development
16 276 (14.00%) TDD
17 273 (13.84%) Machine Learning
18 268 (13.59%) Cloud Security
19 262 (13.29%) Infrastructure as Code
20 254 (12.88%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 831 (42.14%) JavaScript
2 790 (40.06%) Python
3 764 (38.74%) Java
4 563 (28.55%) SQL
5 519 (26.32%) TypeScript
6 248 (12.58%) Go
7 185 (9.38%) C++
7 185 (9.38%) Rust
8 171 (8.67%) C#
9 100 (5.07%) PowerShell
10 79 (4.01%) Bash
11 40 (2.03%) PHP
12 30 (1.52%) Bicep
13 21 (1.06%) Shell Script
14 20 (1.01%) Scala
15 16 (0.81%) PL/SQL
16 14 (0.71%) Kotlin
17 11 (0.56%) R
18 9 (0.46%) Ruby
19 7 (0.35%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 413 (20.94%) AWS Certification
2 349 (17.70%) Security Cleared
3 253 (12.83%) Degree
4 229 (11.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 206 (10.45%) DV Cleared
6 182 (9.23%) AWS Certified Developer
7 143 (7.25%) SC Cleared
8 122 (6.19%) Microsoft Certification
9 98 (4.97%) MCSE
10 97 (4.92%) Azure Certification
11 65 (3.30%) Computer Science Degree
12 44 (2.23%) Cisco Certification
13 30 (1.52%) Master's Degree
14 29 (1.47%) CCNP
15 26 (1.32%) CISSP
16 25 (1.27%) ITIL Certification
17 24 (1.22%) TOGAF Certification
18 21 (1.06%) MCP
19 19 (0.96%) DBS Check
20 17 (0.86%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 401 (20.33%) QA
2 109 (5.53%) Accessibility
3 71 (3.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 55 (2.79%) GDPR
5 54 (2.74%) NIST
6 31 (1.57%) SLA
7 28 (1.42%) Data Quality
8 23 (1.17%) PCI DSS
9 19 (0.96%) SOC 2
10 15 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials
10 15 (0.76%) HIPAA
11 8 (0.41%) GRC
11 8 (0.41%) NCSC
12 6 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
12 6 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 5 (0.25%) EU AI Act
13 5 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 3 (0.15%) JSP 440
15 2 (0.10%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 2 (0.10%) HL7
System Software
1 480 (24.34%) Docker
2 55 (2.79%) Active Directory
3 33 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 31 (1.57%) Virtual Machines
5 22 (1.12%) Hyper-V
6 12 (0.61%) vSphere
7 7 (0.35%) Firmware
8 6 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.20%) VMware NSX
10 3 (0.15%) KVM
10 3 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.051%) Corosync
11 1 (0.051%) Dovecot
11 1 (0.051%) HDFS
11 1 (0.051%) Kamailio
11 1 (0.051%) Postfix
11 1 (0.051%) Varnish
11 1 (0.051%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.051%) Xen
Systems Management
1 508 (25.76%) Kubernetes
2 295 (14.96%) Terraform
3 128 (6.49%) Ansible
4 74 (3.75%) Grafana
5 47 (2.38%) Prometheus
6 28 (1.42%) Single Sign-On
7 17 (0.86%) Microsoft Intune
8 14 (0.71%) Argo
9 10 (0.51%) Kibana
9 10 (0.51%) Progress Chef
10 9 (0.46%) SCOM
11 7 (0.35%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 7 (0.35%) Puppet
11 7 (0.35%) SCCM
11 7 (0.35%) WSUS
12 6 (0.30%) Nmap
13 5 (0.25%) Proxmox
14 4 (0.20%) Autotask
14 4 (0.20%) Cilium
14 4 (0.20%) Nessus
Vendors
1 250 (12.68%) Solace
2 241 (12.22%) Microsoft
3 89 (4.51%) ServiceNow
4 84 (4.26%) Google
5 79 (4.01%) Oracle
6 55 (2.79%) VMware
7 46 (2.33%) Databricks
8 38 (1.93%) Red Hat
9 33 (1.67%) IBM
10 32 (1.62%) Cisco
11 28 (1.42%) SAP
12 20 (1.01%) Meraki
13 16 (0.81%) Apple
14 15 (0.76%) SolarWinds
15 14 (0.71%) Splunk
16 13 (0.66%) Okta
16 13 (0.66%) Palo Alto
17 12 (0.61%) Informatica
17 12 (0.61%) OpenAI
17 12 (0.61%) Talend