AWS Jobs with Work from Home Options

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for AWS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited AWS over the 6 months to 7 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 8 7 3
Rank change year-on-year -1 -4 +1
Permanent jobs citing AWS 3,671 10,420 11,696
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 16.39% 19.31% 23.20%
As % of the Cloud Services category 34.16% 40.14% 45.07%
Number of salaries quoted 2,855 7,274 8,849
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £53,000 £55,000 £51,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% +12.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £91,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £110,000 £103,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £74,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.04% +6.43% +7.69%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

AWS is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 10,746 25,962 25,953
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 47.99% 48.11% 51.47%
Number of salaries quoted 8,246 18,654 20,184
10th Percentile £36,270 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,095 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.93% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £98,875 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% +4.35%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing AWS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

AWS trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing AWS.

AWS salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing AWS over the 6 months to 7 December 2023.

AWS salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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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
1 133 (3.62%) Apache
2 118 (3.21%) Apache Airflow
3 59 (1.61%) Apache Spark
4 47 (1.28%) SharePoint
5 45 (1.23%) Confluence
6 44 (1.20%) MS Exchange
7 29 (0.79%) IIS
7 29 (0.79%) nginx
8 28 (0.76%) CMS
9 18 (0.49%) OpenStack
9 18 (0.49%) WordPress
10 14 (0.38%) Tomcat
11 13 (0.35%) Drupal
12 10 (0.27%) JBoss
13 9 (0.25%) Red Hat Fuse
14 8 (0.22%) Luigi
15 4 (0.11%) Umbraco
16 3 (0.082%) Apache Solr
16 3 (0.082%) Oracle SOA Suite
16 3 (0.082%) Tornado
Applications
1 34 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
3 10 (0.27%) MS Visio
4 7 (0.19%) Adobe XD
5 4 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.082%) 3ds Max
6 3 (0.082%) Blender
6 3 (0.082%) Maya
7 2 (0.054%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 2 (0.054%) Sketch
7 2 (0.054%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.054%) UXPin
7 2 (0.054%) Zeplin
8 1 (0.027%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.027%) PTC Creo
8 1 (0.027%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 9 (0.25%) Unit4 Business World
2 7 (0.19%) SAP Business One
3 6 (0.16%) Exstream
4 4 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.082%) Magento
6 2 (0.054%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.027%) Adobe Campaign
7 1 (0.027%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.027%) FLEXCUBE
7 1 (0.027%) IBM Planning Analytics
7 1 (0.027%) SAP GTS
Cloud Services
1 1,712 (46.64%) Azure
2 974 (26.53%) GCP
3 478 (13.02%) Serverless
4 337 (9.18%) SaaS
5 233 (6.35%) AWS Lambda
6 231 (6.29%) GitHub
7 202 (5.50%) Microsoft 365
8 192 (5.23%) PaaS
9 185 (5.04%) OpenShift
10 163 (4.44%) Azure DevOps
11 161 (4.39%) Amazon S3
12 158 (4.30%) IaaS
13 156 (4.25%) AWS CloudFormation
14 153 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
15 124 (3.38%) Amazon ECS
16 113 (3.08%) Cloud Computing
17 109 (2.97%) dbt
18 94 (2.56%) Amazon EKS
19 73 (1.99%) Entra ID
20 70 (1.91%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 138 (3.76%) DNS
2 128 (3.49%) Firewall
3 109 (2.97%) TCP/IP
4 79 (2.15%) DHCP
5 64 (1.74%) VPN
6 57 (1.55%) WAN
7 53 (1.44%) HTTP
8 50 (1.36%) LAN
9 47 (1.28%) Network Security
10 44 (1.20%) SMTP
11 43 (1.17%) Internet
12 39 (1.06%) SAN
13 31 (0.84%) VLAN
14 29 (0.79%) SSH
15 28 (0.76%) SSL
16 26 (0.71%) SNMP
16 26 (0.71%) Wi-Fi
17 25 (0.68%) FTP
18 24 (0.65%) IPv4
18 24 (0.65%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 349 (9.51%) PostgreSQL
2 287 (7.82%) NoSQL
3 261 (7.11%) MySQL
4 219 (5.97%) MongoDB
5 209 (5.69%) Data Warehouse
6 175 (4.77%) Elasticsearch
7 172 (4.69%) SQL Server
8 170 (4.63%) Amazon RDS
9 122 (3.32%) Data Lake
10 118 (3.21%) Big Data
11 110 (3.00%) Relational Database
12 91 (2.48%) Oracle Database
13 90 (2.45%) Redis
14 83 (2.26%) DynamoDB
15 79 (2.15%) Hadoop
16 70 (1.91%) Amazon Athena
16 70 (1.91%) Oracle Database 11g
17 65 (1.77%) Amazon Redshift
18 63 (1.72%) Apache Ignite
19 62 (1.69%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 367 (10.00%) Jenkins
2 297 (8.09%) Git
3 160 (4.36%) JIRA
4 144 (3.92%) GitLab
5 90 (2.45%) Maven
6 71 (1.93%) Cucumber
7 63 (1.72%) Selenium
8 59 (1.61%) Cypress.io
8 59 (1.61%) Gradle
9 55 (1.50%) Artifactory
10 54 (1.47%) IntelliJ
11 49 (1.33%) Bitbucket
12 36 (0.98%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 34 (0.93%) JUnit
14 32 (0.87%) Mockito
15 30 (0.82%) Jasmine
16 29 (0.79%) Eclipse
17 26 (0.71%) CircleCI
17 26 (0.71%) SonarQube
18 22 (0.60%) TeamCity
General
1 788 (21.47%) Finance
2 633 (17.24%) Social Skills
3 281 (7.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 253 (6.89%) Banking
5 229 (6.24%) Analytical Skills
6 190 (5.18%) Front Office
7 174 (4.74%) Public Sector
8 156 (4.25%) Retail
9 119 (3.24%) Marketing
10 79 (2.15%) Investment Banking
11 65 (1.77%) Presentation Skills
12 54 (1.47%) Law
13 42 (1.14%) Games
14 39 (1.06%) Tech for Good
15 37 (1.01%) Financial Institution
16 36 (0.98%) Publishing
17 34 (0.93%) Aerospace
18 32 (0.87%) Legal
19 29 (0.79%) Telecoms
20 27 (0.74%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 1,033 (28.14%) Developer
2 961 (26.18%) Senior
3 618 (16.83%) Software Engineer
4 384 (10.46%) Lead
5 372 (10.13%) DevOps Engineer
6 370 (10.08%) Architect
7 312 (8.50%) Senior Developer
8 278 (7.57%) Java Developer
9 254 (6.92%) AWS Engineer
10 202 (5.50%) Solutions Architect
11 201 (5.48%) Senior Software Engineer
12 192 (5.23%) Data Engineer
13 177 (4.82%) Full Stack Developer
14 154 (4.20%) Developer/Software Engineer
15 148 (4.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 143 (3.90%) Java Engineer
17 137 (3.73%) Python Engineer
18 136 (3.70%) Cloud Engineer
19 125 (3.41%) Python Developer
20 113 (3.08%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 605 (16.48%) React
2 359 (9.78%) Node.js
3 349 (9.51%) .NET
4 265 (7.22%) AngularJS
4 265 (7.22%) Spring
5 223 (6.07%) Spring Boot
6 221 (6.02%) Kafka
7 216 (5.88%) HTML
8 181 (4.93%) CSS
9 176 (4.79%) REST
10 134 (3.65%) RESTful
11 121 (3.30%) .NET Core
12 110 (3.00%) Redux
13 106 (2.89%) JSON
14 103 (2.81%) .NET Framework
14 103 (2.81%) RabbitMQ
15 99 (2.70%) Vue
16 96 (2.62%) Web Services
17 89 (2.42%) GraphQL
18 88 (2.40%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 244 (6.65%) Cloud Native
2 196 (5.34%) Public Cloud
3 190 (5.18%) Product Ownership
4 123 (3.35%) Greenfield Project
5 117 (3.19%) Data Centre
6 111 (3.02%) Data Structures
7 105 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
8 100 (2.72%) Distributed Systems
9 99 (2.70%) Hybrid Cloud
10 87 (2.37%) Fixed Income
11 76 (2.07%) Private Cloud
12 75 (2.04%) Derivative
13 66 (1.80%) Management Information System
14 59 (1.61%) Blockchain
15 58 (1.58%) Cyberattack
16 53 (1.44%) Algorithms
17 52 (1.42%) Onboarding
18 49 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
19 44 (1.20%) Linux Command Line
20 43 (1.17%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 607 (16.54%) Linux
2 291 (7.93%) Windows
3 168 (4.58%) Windows Server
4 149 (4.06%) Unix
5 62 (1.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 44 (1.20%) Mac OS
6 44 (1.20%) Windows 10
7 37 (1.01%) Ubuntu
8 36 (0.98%) CentOS
9 34 (0.93%) Windows Server 2019
10 25 (0.68%) Android
10 25 (0.68%) Windows Server 2016
11 24 (0.65%) Apple iOS
12 20 (0.54%) Windows Server 2012
13 14 (0.38%) Debian
13 14 (0.38%) Mac OS X
14 7 (0.19%) Solaris
15 5 (0.14%) Data ONTAP
16 4 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
17 3 (0.082%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,370 (37.32%) Agile
2 1,107 (30.16%) DevOps
3 966 (26.31%) Software Engineering
4 950 (25.88%) CI/CD
5 648 (17.65%) Microservices
6 465 (12.67%) Infrastructure as Code
7 420 (11.44%) Mentoring
8 413 (11.25%) Problem-Solving
9 406 (11.06%) Containerisation
10 401 (10.92%) Scrum
11 385 (10.49%) Full Stack Development
12 343 (9.34%) Analytics
13 318 (8.66%) Actionable Insight
14 286 (7.79%) Roadmaps
15 275 (7.49%) Artificial Intelligence
16 272 (7.41%) Design Patterns
17 251 (6.84%) Continuous Integration
18 250 (6.81%) Migration
19 231 (6.29%) Cybersecurity
20 230 (6.27%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 1,253 (34.13%) Python
2 1,071 (29.17%) Java
3 764 (20.81%) SQL
4 732 (19.94%) JavaScript
5 468 (12.75%) TypeScript
6 325 (8.85%) C#
7 306 (8.34%) Bash
8 281 (7.65%) PowerShell
9 166 (4.52%) PHP
10 149 (4.06%) Go
11 141 (3.84%) Kotlin
12 98 (2.67%) Ruby
13 87 (2.37%) C++
14 86 (2.34%) Scala
15 85 (2.32%) PL/SQL
16 66 (1.80%) Perl
17 41 (1.12%) Rust
18 34 (0.93%) R
19 31 (0.84%) Shell Script
20 26 (0.71%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 544 (14.82%) Security Cleared
2 344 (9.37%) Degree
3 304 (8.28%) SC Cleared
4 166 (4.52%) DV Cleared
5 149 (4.06%) AWS Certification
6 147 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
7 81 (2.21%) TOGAF Certification
8 60 (1.63%) Master's Degree
9 54 (1.47%) CISSP
10 53 (1.44%) Microsoft Certification
11 47 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
12 43 (1.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 43 (1.17%) Azure Certification
12 43 (1.17%) Cisco Certification
13 30 (0.82%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 27 (0.74%) CCNP
15 25 (0.68%) AWS Certified Developer
16 24 (0.65%) CompTIA Security+
17 22 (0.60%) CCNA
18 18 (0.49%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 145 (3.95%) QA
2 67 (1.83%) Data Quality
3 52 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 35 (0.95%) Accessibility
5 33 (0.90%) NCSC
6 30 (0.82%) NIST
7 25 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
7 25 (0.68%) GDPR
8 20 (0.54%) SLA
9 18 (0.49%) PCI DSS
10 7 (0.19%) SOC 2
11 6 (0.16%) COBIT
11 6 (0.16%) PMO
12 3 (0.082%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 3 (0.082%) PSD2
12 3 (0.082%) WCAG
13 2 (0.054%) IASME
13 2 (0.054%) ISO 20022
13 2 (0.054%) ISO 31000
13 2 (0.054%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 956 (26.04%) Docker
2 222 (6.05%) Active Directory
3 130 (3.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 64 (1.74%) Hyper-V
5 39 (1.06%) VMware ESXi
6 31 (0.84%) vSphere
7 19 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
8 15 (0.41%) Virtual Servers
9 14 (0.38%) VMware NSX
10 13 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
11 10 (0.27%) DFS Replication
12 7 (0.19%) XenApp
13 5 (0.14%) Firmware
13 5 (0.14%) KVM
14 4 (0.11%) VMware Workstation
15 3 (0.082%) Citrix Hypervisor
15 3 (0.082%) LXC
15 3 (0.082%) NFS
16 2 (0.054%) Apache Flume
16 2 (0.054%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 848 (23.10%) Kubernetes
2 726 (19.78%) Terraform
3 393 (10.71%) Ansible
4 109 (2.97%) Puppet
5 67 (1.83%) Grafana
6 57 (1.55%) SCCM
7 46 (1.25%) Progress Chef
8 42 (1.14%) Microsoft Intune
9 38 (1.04%) Prometheus
10 36 (0.98%) vCenter Server
11 19 (0.52%) Packer
12 16 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
13 15 (0.41%) Red Hat Satellite
14 14 (0.38%) Kustomize
15 13 (0.35%) Nagios
16 12 (0.33%) Kibana
17 11 (0.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 11 (0.30%) FortiGate
17 11 (0.30%) Istio
17 11 (0.30%) Salt
Vendors
1 412 (11.22%) Microsoft
2 262 (7.14%) Oracle
3 250 (6.81%) Google
4 205 (5.58%) VMware
5 73 (1.99%) Cisco
6 67 (1.83%) Citrix
6 67 (1.83%) Splunk
7 62 (1.69%) Red Hat
8 59 (1.61%) Databricks
9 58 (1.58%) IBM
10 52 (1.42%) Salesforce
11 49 (1.33%) SAP
12 27 (0.74%) CheckPoint
13 24 (0.65%) Globalscape
13 24 (0.65%) Palo Alto
14 22 (0.60%) Dell
15 20 (0.54%) Veeam
16 18 (0.49%) Atlassian
16 18 (0.49%) Informatica
16 18 (0.49%) Okta