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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 8 6
Rank change year-on-year -5 -2 -2
Permanent jobs citing AWS 2,029 3,509 4,527
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.49% 15.03% 18.22%
As % of the Cloud Services category 35.12% 36.92% 37.94%
Number of salaries quoted 1,256 2,529 3,834
10th Percentile £46,500 £46,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £77,500 £71,500
Median % change year-on-year - +8.39% -4.67%
75th Percentile £110,000 £112,500 £91,250
90th Percentile £136,250 £142,500 £115,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year - +3.45% -3.07%

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 5,778 9,504 11,931
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 35.57% 40.72% 48.02%
Number of salaries quoted 4,172 6,575 10,321
10th Percentile £31,614 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - -
75th Percentile £82,500 £86,250 £83,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £115,000 £101,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -

AWS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing AWS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

AWS trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

AWS
Salary Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing AWS

AWS
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing AWS over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

AWS salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

AWS
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
1 213 (10.50%) Apache Airflow
2 180 (8.87%) Confluence
3 125 (6.16%) Apache
4 34 (1.68%) Apache Spark
5 16 (0.79%) IIS
6 15 (0.74%) Headless CMS
7 10 (0.49%) Tomcat
8 9 (0.44%) WebSphere
8 9 (0.44%) WebSphere Application Server
9 7 (0.34%) CMS
9 7 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
10 5 (0.25%) nginx
10 5 (0.25%) SharePoint
11 3 (0.15%) Drupal
11 3 (0.15%) Luigi
12 2 (0.099%) BizTalk Server
12 2 (0.099%) Ethereum
13 1 (0.049%) Oracle Application Server
13 1 (0.049%) WebLogic
13 1 (0.049%) WordPress
Applications
1 31 (1.53%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (0.64%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.20%) Adobe XD
3 4 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (0.20%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.099%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.099%) Trello
Business Applications
1 13 (0.64%) SAP S/4HANA
1 13 (0.64%) Shopify
2 6 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
3 5 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.099%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 1,139 (56.14%) Azure
2 754 (37.16%) GCP
3 208 (10.25%) dbt
4 186 (9.17%) SaaS
5 181 (8.92%) Serverless
6 161 (7.93%) AWS Lambda
7 146 (7.20%) Snowflake
8 120 (5.91%) AWS CloudFormation
9 98 (4.83%) Amazon EKS
10 95 (4.68%) Amazon S3
11 73 (3.60%) GitHub
11 73 (3.60%) Microsoft 365
12 67 (3.30%) Amazon EC2
13 66 (3.25%) Azure DevOps
14 54 (2.66%) Power Platform
15 53 (2.61%) Amazon ECS
16 51 (2.51%) GitHub Actions
17 49 (2.41%) OCI
18 48 (2.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 47 (2.32%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 106 (5.22%) Firewall
2 77 (3.79%) VPN
3 59 (2.91%) DNS
4 54 (2.66%) WAN
5 44 (2.17%) SD-WAN
6 34 (1.68%) Network Security
7 25 (1.23%) LAN
7 25 (1.23%) Wi-Fi
8 22 (1.08%) BGP
8 22 (1.08%) TCP/IP
9 21 (1.03%) DHCP
10 20 (0.99%) OSPF
11 18 (0.89%) VLAN
12 17 (0.84%) Broadband
12 17 (0.84%) Cisco ASA
13 16 (0.79%) Cisco Firepower
13 16 (0.79%) SSL
14 12 (0.59%) Internet
15 11 (0.54%) MPLS
15 11 (0.54%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 327 (16.12%) SQL Server
2 201 (9.91%) PostgreSQL
3 199 (9.81%) Amazon Athena
4 186 (9.17%) Apache Arrow
4 186 (9.17%) Apache Iceberg
4 186 (9.17%) Dremio
5 144 (7.10%) Data Lake
6 129 (6.36%) Elasticsearch
7 91 (4.48%) Apache Ignite
8 88 (4.34%) MySQL
9 82 (4.04%) MongoDB
10 79 (3.89%) NoSQL
11 72 (3.55%) Data Warehouse
12 68 (3.35%) DynamoDB
13 52 (2.56%) Power BI
14 47 (2.32%) Amazon RDS
15 43 (2.12%) Amazon Redshift
16 26 (1.28%) Azure SQL Database
16 26 (1.28%) Relational Database
17 21 (1.03%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 311 (15.33%) GitLab
2 297 (14.64%) JIRA
3 260 (12.81%) Sonatype Nexus
4 259 (12.76%) Selenium
5 258 (12.72%) SonarQube
6 257 (12.67%) Maven
7 255 (12.57%) Cucumber
8 251 (12.37%) Bitbucket
9 107 (5.27%) Git
10 91 (4.48%) Jenkins
11 23 (1.13%) TeamCity
12 21 (1.03%) Cypress.io
13 15 (0.74%) JUnit
14 11 (0.54%) Jasmine
15 10 (0.49%) Mockito
16 9 (0.44%) NUnit
17 7 (0.34%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
18 6 (0.30%) Appium
18 6 (0.30%) IntelliJ
18 6 (0.30%) Oracle Forms
General
1 720 (35.49%) Finance
2 542 (26.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 387 (19.07%) Banking
4 346 (17.05%) Social Skills
5 241 (11.88%) Front Office
6 184 (9.07%) Investment Banking
7 149 (7.34%) Analytical Skills
8 133 (6.55%) Retail
9 90 (4.44%) Corporate Banking
10 70 (3.45%) Public Sector
11 45 (2.22%) Marketing
12 44 (2.17%) Tech for Good
13 38 (1.87%) Games
14 33 (1.63%) Telecoms
15 32 (1.58%) Health Technology
15 32 (1.58%) Law
16 31 (1.53%) French Language
16 31 (1.53%) Swedish Language
17 29 (1.43%) Publishing
18 16 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 780 (38.44%) Software Engineer
2 596 (29.37%) Senior
3 502 (24.74%) Developer
4 296 (14.59%) Senior Software Engineer
5 250 (12.32%) AWS Engineer
6 193 (9.51%) AWS Software Engineer
7 182 (8.97%) Python Engineer
8 171 (8.43%) Lead
9 163 (8.03%) Python Software Engineer
10 161 (7.93%) Architect
11 159 (7.84%) Java Engineer
12 151 (7.44%) Java Software Engineer
13 149 (7.34%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 126 (6.21%) AWS Developer
14 126 (6.21%) Software Developer
15 115 (5.67%) Python Developer
15 115 (5.67%) Senior Developer
16 99 (4.88%) Senior Java Engineer
17 98 (4.83%) DevOps Engineer
18 96 (4.73%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 645 (31.79%) React
2 490 (24.15%) Node.js
3 412 (20.31%) .NET
4 348 (17.15%) Kafka
5 317 (15.62%) Spring
6 306 (15.08%) HTML
7 305 (15.03%) Spring Boot
8 304 (14.98%) CSS
9 303 (14.93%) Redux
10 248 (12.22%) JPA
11 246 (12.12%) Pandas
12 192 (9.46%) NumPy
13 190 (9.36%) AngularJS
13 190 (9.36%) RESTful
14 186 (9.17%) SciPy
15 179 (8.82%) Vue
16 172 (8.48%) REST
17 164 (8.08%) Hibernate
18 115 (5.67%) Jest
19 108 (5.32%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 303 (14.93%) Product Ownership
2 276 (13.60%) Enterprise Software
3 237 (11.68%) Fixed Income
4 230 (11.34%) Cyberattack
5 208 (10.25%) Self-Motivation
6 206 (10.15%) Equities
6 206 (10.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 189 (9.31%) Linux Command Line
8 138 (6.80%) Cloud Native
9 104 (5.13%) Hedge funds
10 90 (4.44%) Derivative
11 89 (4.39%) Pricing Data
12 80 (3.94%) Management Information System
13 69 (3.40%) Data Centre
14 59 (2.91%) Distributed Systems
15 33 (1.63%) Public Cloud
16 32 (1.58%) Hybrid Cloud
17 23 (1.13%) Onboarding
18 22 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
19 19 (0.94%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 417 (20.55%) Linux
2 129 (6.36%) Windows
3 52 (2.56%) Android
4 42 (2.07%) Windows Server
5 28 (1.38%) Unix
6 26 (1.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 11 (0.54%) CentOS
8 9 (0.44%) Mac OS
9 8 (0.39%) Debian
9 8 (0.39%) Ubuntu
9 8 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
10 5 (0.25%) Mac OS X
10 5 (0.25%) Windows Server 2008
10 5 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
11 4 (0.20%) HPUX
11 4 (0.20%) Oracle Linux
11 4 (0.20%) Solaris
11 4 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
12 3 (0.15%) Apple iOS
13 1 (0.049%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,166 (57.47%) Agile
2 986 (48.60%) Software Engineering
3 722 (35.58%) CI/CD
4 676 (33.32%) DevOps
5 647 (31.89%) Microservices
6 479 (23.61%) Mentoring
7 456 (22.47%) Containerisation
8 455 (22.42%) Full-Stack Development
9 368 (18.14%) User Experience
10 326 (16.07%) Test Automation
11 324 (15.97%) SDLC
12 305 (15.03%) Performance Optimisation
13 296 (14.59%) TDD
14 292 (14.39%) Continuous Improvement
15 290 (14.29%) Scrum
16 278 (13.70%) Front End Development
17 264 (13.01%) Cloud Security
18 260 (12.81%) Machine Learning
19 255 (12.57%) Data Engineering
20 250 (12.32%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 949 (46.77%) JavaScript
2 865 (42.63%) Python
3 823 (40.56%) Java
4 579 (28.54%) SQL
5 573 (28.24%) TypeScript
6 291 (14.34%) Go
7 238 (11.73%) C++
8 232 (11.43%) Rust
9 167 (8.23%) C#
10 93 (4.58%) PowerShell
11 75 (3.70%) Bash
12 37 (1.82%) PHP
13 26 (1.28%) Bicep
14 25 (1.23%) Scala
15 14 (0.69%) PL/SQL
15 14 (0.69%) R
16 13 (0.64%) T-SQL
17 11 (0.54%) Shell Script
18 10 (0.49%) Ruby
19 7 (0.34%) C
Qualifications
1 372 (18.33%) Security Cleared
2 357 (17.59%) AWS Certification
3 253 (12.47%) DV Cleared
4 223 (10.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 194 (9.56%) Degree
6 183 (9.02%) AWS Certified Developer
7 121 (5.96%) SC Cleared
8 83 (4.09%) Azure Certification
9 77 (3.79%) Microsoft Certification
10 57 (2.81%) Computer Science Degree
11 55 (2.71%) MCSE
12 40 (1.97%) Cisco Certification
13 32 (1.58%) Master's Degree
14 27 (1.33%) CCNP
14 27 (1.33%) TOGAF Certification
15 26 (1.28%) CISSP
15 26 (1.28%) MCSA
16 23 (1.13%) ITIL Certification
17 21 (1.03%) MCP
18 18 (0.89%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 378 (18.63%) QA
2 111 (5.47%) Accessibility
3 53 (2.61%) GDPR
4 52 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 47 (2.32%) NIST
6 26 (1.28%) Data Quality
7 24 (1.18%) SLA
8 21 (1.03%) HIPAA
9 11 (0.54%) PCI DSS
9 11 (0.54%) SOC 2
10 9 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
11 5 (0.25%) NCSC
12 4 (0.20%) GRC
12 4 (0.20%) WCAG
13 3 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 2 (0.099%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 1 (0.049%) COBIT
15 1 (0.049%) ISO/IEC 42001
15 1 (0.049%) MiFID
15 1 (0.049%) PMO
System Software
1 547 (26.96%) Docker
2 46 (2.27%) Active Directory
3 39 (1.92%) Virtual Machines
3 39 (1.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (1.13%) Hyper-V
5 12 (0.59%) Firmware
6 9 (0.44%) vSphere
7 7 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (0.25%) HDFS
9 4 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (0.15%) KVM
11 2 (0.099%) Virtual Desktop
11 2 (0.099%) VMware NSX
12 1 (0.049%) Corosync
12 1 (0.049%) Dovecot
12 1 (0.049%) Kamailio
12 1 (0.049%) Postfix
12 1 (0.049%) Varnish
12 1 (0.049%) Xen
Systems Management
1 558 (27.50%) Kubernetes
2 319 (15.72%) Terraform
3 165 (8.13%) Ansible
4 62 (3.06%) Grafana
5 47 (2.32%) Prometheus
6 22 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (0.64%) Argo
8 12 (0.59%) Microsoft Intune
9 10 (0.49%) Progress Chef
9 10 (0.49%) Puppet
10 9 (0.44%) SCOM
11 8 (0.39%) Kibana
12 7 (0.34%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
12 7 (0.34%) PaperCut
12 7 (0.34%) SCCM
12 7 (0.34%) WSUS
13 5 (0.25%) Istio
14 4 (0.20%) Nessus
14 4 (0.20%) Nmap
15 3 (0.15%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 249 (12.27%) Solace
2 220 (10.84%) Microsoft
3 91 (4.48%) Google
4 76 (3.75%) Oracle
5 63 (3.10%) VMware
6 52 (2.56%) Databricks
7 47 (2.32%) Cisco
8 40 (1.97%) ServiceNow
9 34 (1.68%) SAP
10 31 (1.53%) Red Hat
11 26 (1.28%) Meraki
12 23 (1.13%) IBM
13 22 (1.08%) SolarWinds
14 19 (0.94%) Apple
15 17 (0.84%) CheckPoint
16 16 (0.79%) Fortinet
17 13 (0.64%) Splunk
18 12 (0.59%) Infoblox
19 11 (0.54%) Palo Alto
20 10 (0.49%) Dynatrace