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

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 8 9
Rank change year-on-year -4 +1 -2
Permanent jobs citing AWS 1,621 3,248 3,466
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 10.73% 16.83% 16.64%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.62% 37.48% 35.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1,222 2,154 2,933
10th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £58,750 £56,250 £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 £132,125 £111,250
UK median annual salary £73,801 £75,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year -1.60% +6.27% -2.85%

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 5,472 8,666 9,903
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 36.21% 44.91% 47.56%
Number of salaries quoted 4,049 5,665 8,502
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £36,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.38% - -
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £110,000 £98,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -5.51% +1.60% -2.14%

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 1 December 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
1 132 (8.14%) Apache Airflow
2 80 (4.94%) Apache
3 30 (1.85%) Apache Spark
4 18 (1.11%) Confluence
5 17 (1.05%) Tomcat
6 16 (0.99%) WebSphere
6 16 (0.99%) WebSphere Application Server
7 14 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
8 13 (0.80%) SharePoint
9 8 (0.49%) Headless CMS
10 7 (0.43%) Ethereum
10 7 (0.43%) WordPress
11 6 (0.37%) Drupal
11 6 (0.37%) nginx
12 5 (0.31%) Anypoint
12 5 (0.31%) IIS
13 4 (0.25%) Apache Pulsar
13 4 (0.25%) CMS
13 4 (0.25%) GeoServer
14 3 (0.19%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 98 (6.05%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.062%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.062%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.062%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.062%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.062%) Notion
3 1 (0.062%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.062%) Trello
Business Applications
1 17 (1.05%) Oracle ERP
2 16 (0.99%) Shopify
3 10 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
4 8 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
5 3 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.062%) Magento
6 1 (0.062%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.062%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 746 (46.02%) Azure
2 427 (26.34%) GCP
3 208 (12.83%) SaaS
4 207 (12.77%) Serverless
5 153 (9.44%) AWS Lambda
6 151 (9.32%) GitHub
7 149 (9.19%) Microsoft 365
8 131 (8.08%) dbt
9 120 (7.40%) Amazon S3
10 94 (5.80%) AWS CloudFormation
11 92 (5.68%) Snowflake
12 81 (5.00%) Amazon EKS
13 77 (4.75%) GitHub Actions
14 73 (4.50%) Amazon ECS
15 60 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
16 59 (3.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 57 (3.52%) Entra ID
18 53 (3.27%) Amazon EC2
19 46 (2.84%) OCI
20 42 (2.59%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 80 (4.94%) Firewall
2 53 (3.27%) VPN
3 46 (2.84%) Network Security
4 38 (2.34%) DNS
5 35 (2.16%) WAN
6 28 (1.73%) LAN
7 27 (1.67%) TCP/IP
8 24 (1.48%) SD-WAN
9 20 (1.23%) SSL
9 20 (1.23%) Wi-Fi
10 19 (1.17%) DHCP
11 18 (1.11%) VLAN
12 16 (0.99%) Broadband
13 15 (0.93%) VoIP
14 11 (0.68%) HTTP
15 10 (0.62%) BGP
16 9 (0.56%) Intrusion Detection
17 8 (0.49%) Internet
18 7 (0.43%) IP Telephony
18 7 (0.43%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 187 (11.54%) PostgreSQL
2 112 (6.91%) Amazon Athena
3 104 (6.42%) Apache Iceberg
4 98 (6.05%) Apache Arrow
4 98 (6.05%) Dremio
5 93 (5.74%) NoSQL
6 91 (5.61%) SQL Server
7 89 (5.49%) Data Lake
8 87 (5.37%) MongoDB
9 67 (4.13%) MySQL
10 63 (3.89%) Data Warehouse
11 58 (3.58%) Amazon RDS
12 57 (3.52%) DynamoDB
13 56 (3.45%) Apache Ignite
14 55 (3.39%) Elasticsearch
15 37 (2.28%) Amazon Redshift
16 35 (2.16%) Power BI
17 32 (1.97%) Relational Database
18 26 (1.60%) Azure SQL Database
19 23 (1.42%) Redis
Development Applications
1 122 (7.53%) Jenkins
2 94 (5.80%) Git
3 73 (4.50%) GitLab
4 39 (2.41%) JIRA
5 32 (1.97%) TeamCity
6 29 (1.79%) Cypress.io
7 17 (1.05%) Oracle Forms
8 15 (0.93%) Selenium
9 14 (0.86%) JUnit
10 12 (0.74%) Bitbucket
10 12 (0.74%) Cucumber
11 11 (0.68%) SonarQube
12 10 (0.62%) Subversion
13 8 (0.49%) CircleCI
14 7 (0.43%) Burp Suite
14 7 (0.43%) Metasploit
14 7 (0.43%) Sonatype Nexus
15 6 (0.37%) ER Studio
15 6 (0.37%) JMeter
15 6 (0.37%) Maven
General
1 494 (30.48%) Social Skills
2 454 (28.01%) Finance
3 157 (9.69%) Banking
4 136 (8.39%) Front Office
5 95 (5.86%) Analytical Skills
5 95 (5.86%) French Language
5 95 (5.86%) Swedish Language
6 91 (5.61%) Public Sector
7 88 (5.43%) Retail
8 87 (5.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 69 (4.26%) Law
10 64 (3.95%) Telecoms
11 63 (3.89%) Investment Banking
12 47 (2.90%) Financial Institution
13 42 (2.59%) Games
14 41 (2.53%) Tech for Good
15 39 (2.41%) Marketing
16 35 (2.16%) Influencing Skills
17 34 (2.10%) Legal
18 31 (1.91%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 396 (24.43%) Senior
2 380 (23.44%) Developer
3 277 (17.09%) Software Engineer
4 197 (12.15%) Lead
5 165 (10.18%) Architect
6 147 (9.07%) AWS Engineer
7 131 (8.08%) Analyst
8 117 (7.22%) Python Engineer
9 106 (6.54%) AWS Software Engineer
10 104 (6.42%) Senior Software Engineer
11 99 (6.11%) Python Software Engineer
12 97 (5.98%) Java Engineer
13 95 (5.86%) Service Analyst
13 95 (5.86%) Service Desk Analyst
14 91 (5.61%) AWS Developer
15 90 (5.55%) Software Developer
16 89 (5.49%) Python Developer
16 89 (5.49%) Senior Developer
17 87 (5.37%) Java Software Engineer
18 84 (5.18%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 346 (21.34%) React
2 219 (13.51%) Node.js
3 192 (11.84%) .NET
4 125 (7.71%) AngularJS
4 125 (7.71%) RESTful
5 116 (7.16%) Kafka
6 112 (6.91%) Vue
7 109 (6.72%) Pandas
8 104 (6.42%) NumPy
9 98 (6.05%) SciPy
10 82 (5.06%) REST
11 81 (5.00%) Spring
12 76 (4.69%) Spring Boot
13 72 (4.44%) gRPC
14 66 (4.07%) CSS
15 58 (3.58%) HTML
16 57 (3.52%) .NET Core
17 54 (3.33%) GraphQL
18 53 (3.27%) Protocol Buffers
19 51 (3.15%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 219 (13.51%) Cloud Native
2 133 (8.20%) Fixed Income
3 104 (6.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 103 (6.35%) Equities
5 91 (5.61%) Distributed Systems
6 64 (3.95%) Hedge funds
7 59 (3.64%) Product Ownership
8 54 (3.33%) Derivative
8 54 (3.33%) Public Cloud
9 53 (3.27%) Pricing Data
10 49 (3.02%) Management Information System
11 47 (2.90%) Enterprise Software
12 37 (2.28%) Data Centre
13 35 (2.16%) Hybrid Cloud
14 34 (2.10%) Legacy Systems
15 28 (1.73%) Security Posture
16 27 (1.67%) Onboarding
17 25 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
18 24 (1.48%) Data Structures
19 23 (1.42%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 183 (11.29%) Linux
2 122 (7.53%) Windows
3 51 (3.15%) Unix
4 33 (2.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 31 (1.91%) Windows Server
6 19 (1.17%) Android
7 13 (0.80%) Apple iOS
8 12 (0.74%) CentOS
9 11 (0.68%) Ubuntu
10 10 (0.62%) Mac OS
11 7 (0.43%) Windows 10
12 5 (0.31%) Debian
12 5 (0.31%) Mac OS X
12 5 (0.31%) Windows Server 2012
13 4 (0.25%) VMS
13 4 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
14 3 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
15 2 (0.12%) HPUX
15 2 (0.12%) Oracle Linux
15 2 (0.12%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 607 (37.45%) Agile
2 491 (30.29%) CI/CD
3 466 (28.75%) Software Engineering
4 434 (26.77%) DevOps
5 316 (19.49%) Mentoring
6 270 (16.66%) Problem-Solving
7 264 (16.29%) Microservices
8 257 (15.85%) Infrastructure as Code
9 247 (15.24%) AI
10 227 (14.00%) Full-Stack Development
11 215 (13.26%) Continuous Improvement
12 202 (12.46%) ITIL
13 195 (12.03%) Roadmaps
14 170 (10.49%) Containerisation
15 135 (8.33%) Computer Science
16 134 (8.27%) Asset Management
16 134 (8.27%) Investment Management
17 131 (8.08%) Analytics
18 126 (7.77%) Technical Leadership
19 124 (7.65%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 576 (35.53%) Python
2 386 (23.81%) TypeScript
3 373 (23.01%) Java
4 366 (22.58%) JavaScript
5 304 (18.75%) SQL
6 193 (11.91%) C#
7 89 (5.49%) Go
8 83 (5.12%) Bash
9 77 (4.75%) PowerShell
10 52 (3.21%) PHP
11 26 (1.60%) Shell Script
12 20 (1.23%) PL/SQL
12 20 (1.23%) Scala
13 19 (1.17%) Bicep
14 18 (1.11%) C++
15 16 (0.99%) Kotlin
16 11 (0.68%) Ruby
17 10 (0.62%) R
18 9 (0.56%) Rust
19 8 (0.49%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 310 (19.12%) Degree
2 259 (15.98%) AWS Certification
3 178 (10.98%) Security Cleared
4 146 (9.01%) Microsoft Certification
5 145 (8.95%) SC Cleared
6 114 (7.03%) MCSE
7 101 (6.23%) Computer Science Degree
8 84 (5.18%) Azure Certification
9 51 (3.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 47 (2.90%) Cisco Certification
11 29 (1.79%) DV Cleared
12 28 (1.73%) CISSP
12 28 (1.73%) ITIL Certification
12 28 (1.73%) Master's Degree
13 27 (1.67%) CCNP
13 27 (1.67%) TOGAF Certification
14 18 (1.11%) MCP
15 17 (1.05%) CISM
16 14 (0.86%) CCNA
16 14 (0.86%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 173 (10.67%) QA
2 82 (5.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 61 (3.76%) GDPR
4 52 (3.21%) NIST
5 31 (1.91%) Data Quality
5 31 (1.91%) SLA
6 28 (1.73%) PCI DSS
7 27 (1.67%) Accessibility
8 26 (1.60%) Cyber Essentials
9 21 (1.30%) SOC 2
10 15 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 15 (0.93%) GRC
11 10 (0.62%) NCSC
12 9 (0.56%) HIPAA
13 8 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 7 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
14 7 (0.43%) ISO 9001
15 6 (0.37%) EU AI Act
16 5 (0.31%) JSP 440
17 2 (0.12%) HL7
System Software
1 258 (15.92%) Docker
2 59 (3.64%) Active Directory
3 29 (1.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (1.30%) Hyper-V
5 14 (0.86%) Virtual Machines
6 10 (0.62%) vSphere
7 6 (0.37%) Firmware
8 4 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.19%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.12%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 1 (0.062%) Dovecot
11 1 (0.062%) HDFS
11 1 (0.062%) Postfix
11 1 (0.062%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.062%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 296 (18.26%) Terraform
2 284 (17.52%) Kubernetes
3 120 (7.40%) Ansible
4 88 (5.43%) Grafana
5 45 (2.78%) Prometheus
6 24 (1.48%) Single Sign-On
7 23 (1.42%) Argo
8 21 (1.30%) Microsoft Intune
9 8 (0.49%) Progress Chef
10 7 (0.43%) Nmap
10 7 (0.43%) SCOM
11 6 (0.37%) Kibana
11 6 (0.37%) Puppet
12 5 (0.31%) Cilium
12 5 (0.31%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
12 5 (0.31%) SCCM
12 5 (0.31%) WSUS
13 4 (0.25%) Autotask
13 4 (0.25%) Proxmox
14 3 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 261 (16.10%) Microsoft
2 109 (6.72%) ServiceNow
3 90 (5.55%) Google
4 85 (5.24%) Oracle
5 46 (2.84%) Red Hat
6 45 (2.78%) VMware
7 32 (1.97%) IBM
8 30 (1.85%) Cisco
8 30 (1.85%) Databricks
9 20 (1.23%) Apple
10 19 (1.17%) SAP
11 18 (1.11%) Okta
12 17 (1.05%) Palo Alto
13 16 (0.99%) Splunk
14 15 (0.93%) Informatica
14 15 (0.93%) Talend
15 14 (0.86%) Salesforce
16 12 (0.74%) OpenAI
17 10 (0.62%) Dell
17 10 (0.62%) SolarWinds