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

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 7 8
Rank change year-on-year -5 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing AWS 1,650 3,208 3,426
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 10.79% 17.06% 16.61%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.75% 37.57% 34.97%
Number of salaries quoted 1,239 2,130 2,901
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 £97,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £135,000 £126,375 £111,250
UK median annual salary £73,801 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -1.60% +7.14% -6.04%

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 8,539 9,798
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 36.27% 45.41% 47.51%
Number of salaries quoted 4,083 5,605 8,403
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,100 £36,500
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 £109,600 £99,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -3.85%

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 8 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
1 131 (7.94%) Apache Airflow
2 77 (4.67%) Apache
3 30 (1.82%) Apache Spark
4 19 (1.15%) Confluence
5 17 (1.03%) Tomcat
6 16 (0.97%) Microsoft Exchange
6 16 (0.97%) WebSphere
6 16 (0.97%) WebSphere Application Server
7 14 (0.85%) SharePoint
8 8 (0.48%) Headless CMS
9 7 (0.42%) Ethereum
9 7 (0.42%) WordPress
10 6 (0.36%) Drupal
10 6 (0.36%) nginx
11 5 (0.30%) Anypoint
11 5 (0.30%) IIS
12 4 (0.24%) Apache Pulsar
12 4 (0.24%) CMS
12 4 (0.24%) GeoServer
13 3 (0.18%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 99 (6.00%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.061%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.061%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.061%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.061%) Notion
4 1 (0.061%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.061%) Trello
Business Applications
1 18 (1.09%) Oracle ERP
2 16 (0.97%) Shopify
3 11 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
4 10 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.061%) Magento
6 1 (0.061%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.061%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 761 (46.12%) Azure
2 436 (26.42%) GCP
3 220 (13.33%) SaaS
4 215 (13.03%) Serverless
5 158 (9.58%) AWS Lambda
6 155 (9.39%) GitHub
7 151 (9.15%) Microsoft 365
8 128 (7.76%) Amazon S3
9 127 (7.70%) dbt
10 94 (5.70%) AWS CloudFormation
11 88 (5.33%) Amazon EKS
11 88 (5.33%) Snowflake
12 80 (4.85%) GitHub Actions
13 75 (4.55%) Amazon ECS
14 62 (3.76%) Azure DevOps
15 61 (3.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 60 (3.64%) Entra ID
17 59 (3.58%) Amazon EC2
18 48 (2.91%) Amazon SQS
19 47 (2.85%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 76 (4.61%) Firewall
2 52 (3.15%) VPN
3 45 (2.73%) Network Security
4 41 (2.48%) DNS
5 36 (2.18%) WAN
6 29 (1.76%) LAN
7 28 (1.70%) TCP/IP
8 25 (1.52%) SD-WAN
9 22 (1.33%) SSL
9 22 (1.33%) Wi-Fi
10 20 (1.21%) DHCP
11 18 (1.09%) VLAN
12 16 (0.97%) Broadband
13 15 (0.91%) VoIP
14 13 (0.79%) HTTP
15 11 (0.67%) BGP
16 8 (0.48%) Internet
16 8 (0.48%) Intrusion Detection
17 7 (0.42%) IP Telephony
17 7 (0.42%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 187 (11.33%) PostgreSQL
2 109 (6.61%) Amazon Athena
3 101 (6.12%) Apache Iceberg
4 97 (5.88%) SQL Server
5 94 (5.70%) Apache Arrow
5 94 (5.70%) Dremio
6 93 (5.64%) NoSQL
7 89 (5.39%) MongoDB
8 85 (5.15%) Data Lake
9 66 (4.00%) MySQL
10 63 (3.82%) Amazon RDS
11 62 (3.76%) Data Warehouse
12 57 (3.45%) DynamoDB
13 54 (3.27%) Elasticsearch
14 52 (3.15%) Apache Ignite
15 38 (2.30%) Amazon Redshift
16 35 (2.12%) Power BI
17 32 (1.94%) Relational Database
18 25 (1.52%) Azure SQL Database
19 24 (1.45%) Redis
Development Applications
1 123 (7.45%) Jenkins
2 96 (5.82%) Git
3 74 (4.48%) GitLab
4 40 (2.42%) JIRA
5 33 (2.00%) TeamCity
6 30 (1.82%) Cypress.io
7 18 (1.09%) Oracle Forms
8 16 (0.97%) Selenium
9 14 (0.85%) JUnit
10 13 (0.79%) Bitbucket
11 12 (0.73%) Cucumber
12 11 (0.67%) Subversion
13 10 (0.61%) SonarQube
14 8 (0.48%) CircleCI
15 7 (0.42%) Burp Suite
15 7 (0.42%) Metasploit
16 6 (0.36%) ER Studio
16 6 (0.36%) JMeter
16 6 (0.36%) Maven
16 6 (0.36%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 510 (30.91%) Social Skills
2 463 (28.06%) Finance
3 158 (9.58%) Banking
4 134 (8.12%) Front Office
5 97 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
6 95 (5.76%) French Language
6 95 (5.76%) Swedish Language
7 94 (5.70%) Public Sector
8 91 (5.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 89 (5.39%) Retail
10 71 (4.30%) Law
11 64 (3.88%) Telecoms
12 59 (3.58%) Investment Banking
13 48 (2.91%) Financial Institution
14 43 (2.61%) Tech for Good
15 42 (2.55%) Games
16 39 (2.36%) Influencing Skills
17 38 (2.30%) Marketing
18 34 (2.06%) Legal
19 32 (1.94%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 394 (23.88%) Senior
2 382 (23.15%) Developer
3 279 (16.91%) Software Engineer
4 203 (12.30%) Lead
5 168 (10.18%) Architect
6 145 (8.79%) AWS Engineer
7 134 (8.12%) Analyst
8 113 (6.85%) Python Engineer
9 102 (6.18%) AWS Software Engineer
9 102 (6.18%) Senior Software Engineer
10 95 (5.76%) Python Software Engineer
10 95 (5.76%) Service Analyst
10 95 (5.76%) Service Desk Analyst
11 94 (5.70%) AWS Developer
11 94 (5.70%) Java Engineer
12 90 (5.45%) Python Developer
12 90 (5.45%) Software Developer
13 88 (5.33%) Senior Developer
14 85 (5.15%) DevOps Engineer
15 84 (5.09%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 350 (21.21%) React
2 218 (13.21%) Node.js
3 194 (11.76%) .NET
4 129 (7.82%) RESTful
5 124 (7.52%) AngularJS
6 122 (7.39%) Kafka
7 112 (6.79%) Vue
8 105 (6.36%) Pandas
9 100 (6.06%) NumPy
10 94 (5.70%) SciPy
11 85 (5.15%) Spring
12 83 (5.03%) REST
13 80 (4.85%) Spring Boot
14 70 (4.24%) gRPC
15 65 (3.94%) CSS
16 57 (3.45%) .NET Core
16 57 (3.45%) HTML
17 54 (3.27%) GraphQL
18 51 (3.09%) Django
19 49 (2.97%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 221 (13.39%) Cloud Native
2 129 (7.82%) Fixed Income
3 100 (6.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 99 (6.00%) Equities
5 94 (5.70%) Distributed Systems
6 61 (3.70%) Product Ownership
7 60 (3.64%) Hedge funds
8 57 (3.45%) Public Cloud
9 50 (3.03%) Derivative
9 50 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
10 49 (2.97%) Management Information System
10 49 (2.97%) Pricing Data
11 38 (2.30%) Data Centre
12 35 (2.12%) Legacy Systems
13 34 (2.06%) Hybrid Cloud
14 31 (1.88%) Onboarding
15 28 (1.70%) Security Posture
16 26 (1.58%) Greenfield Project
17 24 (1.45%) Data Structures
18 23 (1.39%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 186 (11.27%) Linux
2 122 (7.39%) Windows
3 50 (3.03%) Unix
4 34 (2.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 32 (1.94%) Windows Server
6 20 (1.21%) Android
7 13 (0.79%) Apple iOS
8 12 (0.73%) CentOS
9 11 (0.67%) Ubuntu
10 10 (0.61%) Mac OS
11 8 (0.48%) Windows 10
12 6 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
13 5 (0.30%) Debian
13 5 (0.30%) Mac OS X
13 5 (0.30%) VMS
13 5 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
14 4 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
15 2 (0.12%) HPUX
15 2 (0.12%) Oracle Linux
15 2 (0.12%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 610 (36.97%) Agile
2 508 (30.79%) CI/CD
3 472 (28.61%) Software Engineering
4 446 (27.03%) DevOps
5 322 (19.52%) Mentoring
6 275 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
7 269 (16.30%) Microservices
8 261 (15.82%) Infrastructure as Code
9 259 (15.70%) AI
10 227 (13.76%) Full-Stack Development
11 223 (13.52%) Continuous Improvement
12 206 (12.48%) ITIL
13 200 (12.12%) Roadmaps
14 172 (10.42%) Containerisation
15 141 (8.55%) Computer Science
16 137 (8.30%) Analytics
17 132 (8.00%) Investment Management
18 131 (7.94%) Asset Management
19 130 (7.88%) Technical Leadership
20 129 (7.82%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 582 (35.27%) Python
2 383 (23.21%) TypeScript
3 380 (23.03%) Java
4 360 (21.82%) JavaScript
5 309 (18.73%) SQL
6 199 (12.06%) C#
7 92 (5.58%) Go
8 86 (5.21%) Bash
9 76 (4.61%) PowerShell
10 53 (3.21%) PHP
11 27 (1.64%) Shell Script
12 21 (1.27%) PL/SQL
13 20 (1.21%) Scala
14 19 (1.15%) Bicep
14 19 (1.15%) C++
15 16 (0.97%) Kotlin
16 11 (0.67%) Ruby
17 10 (0.61%) R
18 9 (0.55%) Rust
19 8 (0.48%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 318 (19.27%) Degree
2 264 (16.00%) AWS Certification
3 182 (11.03%) Security Cleared
4 149 (9.03%) SC Cleared
5 147 (8.91%) Microsoft Certification
6 114 (6.91%) MCSE
7 106 (6.42%) Computer Science Degree
8 85 (5.15%) Azure Certification
9 52 (3.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 46 (2.79%) Cisco Certification
11 30 (1.82%) DV Cleared
12 29 (1.76%) CISSP
12 29 (1.76%) ITIL Certification
12 29 (1.76%) Master's Degree
13 28 (1.70%) TOGAF Certification
14 27 (1.64%) CCNP
15 19 (1.15%) MCP
16 18 (1.09%) CISM
17 14 (0.85%) CompTIA Security+
17 14 (0.85%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 175 (10.61%) QA
2 82 (4.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 60 (3.64%) GDPR
4 51 (3.09%) NIST
5 32 (1.94%) Data Quality
5 32 (1.94%) SLA
6 28 (1.70%) Accessibility
6 28 (1.70%) PCI DSS
7 26 (1.58%) Cyber Essentials
8 22 (1.33%) SOC 2
9 15 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 14 (0.85%) GRC
11 10 (0.61%) NCSC
12 8 (0.48%) HIPAA
12 8 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 7 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
13 7 (0.42%) ISO 9001
14 6 (0.36%) EU AI Act
15 5 (0.30%) JSP 440
16 2 (0.12%) HL7
System Software
1 264 (16.00%) Docker
2 61 (3.70%) Active Directory
3 29 (1.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (1.33%) Hyper-V
5 15 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
6 11 (0.67%) vSphere
7 6 (0.36%) Firmware
8 4 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.24%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.18%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 3 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
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
1 302 (18.30%) Terraform
2 294 (17.82%) Kubernetes
3 120 (7.27%) Ansible
4 93 (5.64%) Grafana
5 50 (3.03%) Prometheus
6 26 (1.58%) Single Sign-On
7 25 (1.52%) Argo
8 22 (1.33%) Microsoft Intune
9 8 (0.48%) Progress Chef
10 7 (0.42%) Nmap
10 7 (0.42%) SCOM
11 6 (0.36%) Kibana
11 6 (0.36%) Puppet
12 5 (0.30%) Cilium
12 5 (0.30%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
12 5 (0.30%) SCCM
12 5 (0.30%) WSUS
13 4 (0.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.24%) Autotask
13 4 (0.24%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 269 (16.30%) Microsoft
2 110 (6.67%) ServiceNow
3 90 (5.45%) Google
4 85 (5.15%) Oracle
5 47 (2.85%) Red Hat
6 46 (2.79%) VMware
7 32 (1.94%) IBM
8 30 (1.82%) Cisco
8 30 (1.82%) Databricks
9 23 (1.39%) Apple
10 20 (1.21%) SAP
11 19 (1.15%) Okta
12 17 (1.03%) Splunk
13 16 (0.97%) Palo Alto
14 15 (0.91%) Informatica
14 15 (0.91%) Salesforce
14 15 (0.91%) Talend
15 12 (0.73%) OpenAI
15 12 (0.73%) SolarWinds
16 10 (0.61%) Atlassian