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

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 9 8
Rank change year-on-year -3 -1 -2
Permanent jobs citing AWS 1,649 3,360 3,616
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 10.78% 16.66% 16.84%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.41% 37.44% 35.28%
Number of salaries quoted 1,258 2,234 3,037
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £56,938 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £103,438 £102,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £136,250 £130,875 £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 5,606 8,975 10,250
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 36.66% 44.49% 47.74%
Number of salaries quoted 4,182 5,884 8,784
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 £82,438 £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 22 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
1 145 (8.79%) Apache Airflow
2 84 (5.09%) Apache
3 29 (1.76%) Apache Spark
4 19 (1.15%) Confluence
5 17 (1.03%) Tomcat
6 16 (0.97%) WebSphere
6 16 (0.97%) WebSphere Application Server
7 14 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
8 13 (0.79%) SharePoint
9 10 (0.61%) IIS
10 9 (0.55%) Headless CMS
11 7 (0.42%) Ethereum
12 5 (0.30%) Anypoint
12 5 (0.30%) nginx
12 5 (0.30%) WordPress
13 4 (0.24%) Apache Pulsar
13 4 (0.24%) Drupal
14 3 (0.18%) GeoServer
14 3 (0.18%) Luigi
14 3 (0.18%) SAS
Applications
1 98 (5.94%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (0.61%) Microsoft Excel
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%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.061%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.061%) Notion
4 1 (0.061%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 16 (0.97%) Shopify
2 15 (0.91%) Oracle ERP
3 10 (0.61%) 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
1 752 (45.60%) Azure
2 445 (26.99%) GCP
3 215 (13.04%) SaaS
4 204 (12.37%) Serverless
5 151 (9.16%) AWS Lambda
5 151 (9.16%) Microsoft 365
6 147 (8.91%) GitHub
7 144 (8.73%) dbt
8 111 (6.73%) Amazon S3
9 100 (6.06%) Snowflake
10 94 (5.70%) AWS CloudFormation
11 80 (4.85%) Amazon EKS
12 76 (4.61%) GitHub Actions
13 70 (4.24%) Amazon ECS
14 60 (3.64%) Azure DevOps
15 57 (3.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 56 (3.40%) Entra ID
17 53 (3.21%) Amazon EC2
18 47 (2.85%) OCI
19 38 (2.30%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 85 (5.15%) Firewall
2 57 (3.46%) VPN
3 48 (2.91%) Network Security
4 39 (2.37%) DNS
5 35 (2.12%) WAN
6 30 (1.82%) TCP/IP
7 28 (1.70%) LAN
8 24 (1.46%) SD-WAN
9 21 (1.27%) VLAN
10 20 (1.21%) Wi-Fi
11 19 (1.15%) DHCP
11 19 (1.15%) SSL
12 16 (0.97%) Broadband
13 15 (0.91%) VoIP
14 13 (0.79%) BGP
15 10 (0.61%) HTTP
16 9 (0.55%) Intrusion Detection
17 8 (0.49%) Internet
18 7 (0.42%) OSPF
18 7 (0.42%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 200 (12.13%) PostgreSQL
2 125 (7.58%) Amazon Athena
3 117 (7.10%) Apache Iceberg
4 112 (6.79%) Apache Arrow
4 112 (6.79%) Dremio
5 99 (6.00%) SQL Server
6 93 (5.64%) NoSQL
7 92 (5.58%) Data Lake
8 91 (5.52%) MongoDB
9 74 (4.49%) MySQL
10 62 (3.76%) Elasticsearch
11 61 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
12 60 (3.64%) Apache Ignite
13 58 (3.52%) Amazon RDS
13 58 (3.52%) DynamoDB
14 36 (2.18%) Amazon Redshift
15 35 (2.12%) Relational Database
16 34 (2.06%) Power BI
17 26 (1.58%) Azure SQL Database
17 26 (1.58%) Redis
Development Applications
1 117 (7.10%) Jenkins
2 100 (6.06%) Git
3 70 (4.24%) GitLab
4 43 (2.61%) JIRA
5 38 (2.30%) TeamCity
6 26 (1.58%) Cypress.io
7 15 (0.91%) JUnit
7 15 (0.91%) Oracle Forms
8 13 (0.79%) Selenium
9 11 (0.67%) Cucumber
10 10 (0.61%) Bitbucket
11 9 (0.55%) SonarQube
11 9 (0.55%) Subversion
12 8 (0.49%) CircleCI
12 8 (0.49%) Sonatype Nexus
13 7 (0.42%) Burp Suite
13 7 (0.42%) Metasploit
14 6 (0.36%) ER Studio
15 5 (0.30%) git-flow
15 5 (0.30%) Jasmine
General
1 501 (30.38%) Social Skills
2 471 (28.56%) Finance
3 163 (9.88%) Banking
4 153 (9.28%) Front Office
5 95 (5.76%) French Language
5 95 (5.76%) Swedish Language
6 94 (5.70%) Analytical Skills
7 91 (5.52%) Public Sector
8 89 (5.40%) Retail
9 85 (5.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 69 (4.18%) Law
11 67 (4.06%) Investment Banking
12 63 (3.82%) Telecoms
13 50 (3.03%) Games
14 46 (2.79%) Financial Institution
15 40 (2.43%) Marketing
15 40 (2.43%) Tech for Good
16 35 (2.12%) Legal
17 33 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
18 31 (1.88%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 418 (25.35%) Developer
2 410 (24.86%) Senior
3 290 (17.59%) Software Engineer
4 192 (11.64%) Lead
5 168 (10.19%) Architect
6 163 (9.88%) AWS Engineer
7 131 (7.94%) Analyst
8 127 (7.70%) Python Engineer
9 120 (7.28%) AWS Software Engineer
10 108 (6.55%) Python Software Engineer
11 105 (6.37%) Java Engineer
12 103 (6.25%) Senior Software Engineer
13 102 (6.19%) Senior Developer
14 100 (6.06%) Python Developer
15 98 (5.94%) AWS Developer
16 95 (5.76%) Java Software Engineer
16 95 (5.76%) Service Analyst
16 95 (5.76%) Service Desk Analyst
17 92 (5.58%) Full-Stack Developer
18 89 (5.40%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 372 (22.56%) React
2 231 (14.01%) Node.js
3 208 (12.61%) .NET
4 142 (8.61%) AngularJS
5 132 (8.00%) RESTful
5 132 (8.00%) Vue
6 124 (7.52%) Pandas
7 119 (7.22%) NumPy
8 115 (6.97%) Kafka
9 112 (6.79%) SciPy
10 86 (5.22%) REST
11 80 (4.85%) Spring
12 77 (4.67%) CSS
13 75 (4.55%) Spring Boot
14 74 (4.49%) gRPC
15 69 (4.18%) HTML
16 60 (3.64%) .NET Core
17 57 (3.46%) Protocol Buffers
18 55 (3.34%) GraphQL
19 47 (2.85%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 215 (13.04%) Cloud Native
2 150 (9.10%) Fixed Income
3 122 (7.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 121 (7.34%) Equities
5 94 (5.70%) Distributed Systems
6 71 (4.31%) Hedge funds
7 62 (3.76%) Product Ownership
8 58 (3.52%) Derivative
9 57 (3.46%) Pricing Data
10 53 (3.21%) Public Cloud
11 49 (2.97%) Management Information System
12 43 (2.61%) Enterprise Software
13 37 (2.24%) Data Centre
13 37 (2.24%) Hybrid Cloud
14 36 (2.18%) Legacy Systems
15 29 (1.76%) Security Posture
16 26 (1.58%) Onboarding
17 25 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
18 23 (1.39%) Linux Command Line
19 22 (1.33%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 184 (11.16%) Linux
2 127 (7.70%) Windows
3 50 (3.03%) Unix
4 33 (2.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 33 (2.00%) Windows Server
5 17 (1.03%) Android
6 14 (0.85%) CentOS
7 12 (0.73%) Apple iOS
8 10 (0.61%) Mac OS
8 10 (0.61%) Ubuntu
9 8 (0.49%) Windows 10
10 5 (0.30%) Debian
10 5 (0.30%) Mac OS X
10 5 (0.30%) Windows Server 2012
11 4 (0.24%) HPUX
11 4 (0.24%) Oracle Linux
11 4 (0.24%) Solaris
11 4 (0.24%) VMS
11 4 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
11 4 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 640 (38.81%) Agile
2 499 (30.26%) CI/CD
3 481 (29.17%) Software Engineering
4 436 (26.44%) DevOps
5 315 (19.10%) Mentoring
6 277 (16.80%) Problem-Solving
7 263 (15.95%) Microservices
8 261 (15.83%) Infrastructure as Code
9 245 (14.86%) AI
10 236 (14.31%) Full-Stack Development
11 209 (12.67%) Continuous Improvement
12 199 (12.07%) ITIL
13 192 (11.64%) Roadmaps
14 171 (10.37%) Containerisation
15 150 (9.10%) Asset Management
15 150 (9.10%) Investment Management
16 132 (8.00%) Computer Science
17 130 (7.88%) Analytics
18 129 (7.82%) Fintech
19 126 (7.64%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 596 (36.14%) Python
2 410 (24.86%) TypeScript
3 396 (24.01%) JavaScript
4 375 (22.74%) Java
5 318 (19.28%) SQL
6 205 (12.43%) C#
7 87 (5.28%) Go
8 83 (5.03%) Bash
9 82 (4.97%) PowerShell
10 57 (3.46%) PHP
11 24 (1.46%) Shell Script
12 20 (1.21%) Scala
13 19 (1.15%) Bicep
13 19 (1.15%) PL/SQL
14 17 (1.03%) C++
15 16 (0.97%) Kotlin
16 13 (0.79%) Ruby
17 9 (0.55%) R
17 9 (0.55%) Rust
18 8 (0.49%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 308 (18.68%) Degree
2 256 (15.52%) AWS Certification
3 181 (10.98%) Security Cleared
4 147 (8.91%) SC Cleared
5 144 (8.73%) Microsoft Certification
6 115 (6.97%) MCSE
7 99 (6.00%) Computer Science Degree
8 83 (5.03%) Azure Certification
9 51 (3.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 48 (2.91%) Cisco Certification
11 29 (1.76%) DV Cleared
12 28 (1.70%) CCNP
12 28 (1.70%) CISSP
12 28 (1.70%) Master's Degree
13 26 (1.58%) ITIL Certification
13 26 (1.58%) TOGAF Certification
14 18 (1.09%) MCP
15 17 (1.03%) CISM
16 15 (0.91%) CompTIA Security+
17 14 (0.85%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 174 (10.55%) QA
2 80 (4.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 60 (3.64%) GDPR
4 53 (3.21%) NIST
5 29 (1.76%) Data Quality
5 29 (1.76%) PCI DSS
5 29 (1.76%) SLA
6 26 (1.58%) Accessibility
7 24 (1.46%) Cyber Essentials
8 21 (1.27%) SOC 2
9 16 (0.97%) GRC
10 13 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 10 (0.61%) HIPAA
11 10 (0.61%) NCSC
12 8 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 7 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
14 6 (0.36%) EU AI Act
15 5 (0.30%) ISO 9001
15 5 (0.30%) JSP 440
16 2 (0.12%) ISO 14001
System Software
1 259 (15.71%) Docker
2 57 (3.46%) Active Directory
3 27 (1.64%) 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
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
1 303 (18.37%) Terraform
2 285 (17.28%) Kubernetes
3 117 (7.10%) Ansible
4 87 (5.28%) Grafana
5 44 (2.67%) Prometheus
6 22 (1.33%) Argo
7 21 (1.27%) Microsoft Intune
7 21 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (0.49%) Progress Chef
9 7 (0.42%) Kibana
9 7 (0.42%) Nmap
9 7 (0.42%) SCOM
10 6 (0.36%) Puppet
11 5 (0.30%) Cilium
11 5 (0.30%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 5 (0.30%) SCCM
11 5 (0.30%) WSUS
12 4 (0.24%) Autotask
12 4 (0.24%) Proxmox
13 3 (0.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 264 (16.01%) Microsoft
2 108 (6.55%) ServiceNow
3 90 (5.46%) Google
4 88 (5.34%) Oracle
5 47 (2.85%) VMware
6 42 (2.55%) Red Hat
7 33 (2.00%) IBM
8 31 (1.88%) Cisco
9 30 (1.82%) Databricks
10 21 (1.27%) SAP
11 19 (1.15%) Apple
12 18 (1.09%) Splunk
13 17 (1.03%) Palo Alto
14 16 (0.97%) Okta
15 15 (0.91%) Informatica
16 14 (0.85%) Salesforce
16 14 (0.85%) Talend
17 12 (0.73%) OpenAI
17 12 (0.73%) SolarWinds
18 10 (0.61%) Atlassian