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

6 months to
26 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 9 8
Rank change year-on-year -3 -1 -2
Permanent jobs citing AWS 1,654 3,338 3,522
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 10.85% 16.80% 16.74%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.63% 37.61% 35.12%
Number of salaries quoted 1,258 2,213 2,970
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £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 £136,500 £111,250
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 5,583 8,876 10,028
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 36.61% 44.66% 47.67%
Number of salaries quoted 4,165 5,795 8,593
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 £82,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £110,000 £98,750
UK median annual salary £59,000 £64,775 £62,500
% change year-on-year -8.91% +3.64% -0.33%

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 26 November 2025.

AWS salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

AWS
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
1 141 (8.52%) Apache Airflow
2 84 (5.08%) Apache
3 30 (1.81%) 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 (0.60%) IIS
10 9 (0.54%) Headless CMS
11 7 (0.42%) Ethereum
12 6 (0.36%) nginx
12 6 (0.36%) WordPress
13 5 (0.30%) Anypoint
13 5 (0.30%) Drupal
14 4 (0.24%) Apache Pulsar
14 4 (0.24%) CMS
15 3 (0.18%) Luigi
15 3 (0.18%) SAS
Applications
1 98 (5.93%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.12%) Trello
4 1 (0.060%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.060%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.060%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.060%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.060%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.060%) Notion
4 1 (0.060%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 16 (0.97%) Shopify
2 15 (0.91%) Oracle ERP
3 10 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
4 8 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.12%) Magento
7 1 (0.060%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 753 (45.53%) Azure
2 444 (26.84%) GCP
3 212 (12.82%) SaaS
4 203 (12.27%) Serverless
5 150 (9.07%) AWS Lambda
5 150 (9.07%) Microsoft 365
6 147 (8.89%) GitHub
7 141 (8.52%) dbt
8 114 (6.89%) Amazon S3
9 101 (6.11%) Snowflake
10 94 (5.68%) AWS CloudFormation
11 79 (4.78%) Amazon EKS
12 76 (4.59%) GitHub Actions
13 72 (4.35%) Amazon ECS
14 60 (3.63%) Azure DevOps
15 58 (3.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 54 (3.26%) Entra ID
17 53 (3.20%) Amazon EC2
18 47 (2.84%) OCI
19 39 (2.36%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 84 (5.08%) Firewall
2 57 (3.45%) VPN
3 48 (2.90%) Network Security
4 38 (2.30%) DNS
5 35 (2.12%) WAN
6 30 (1.81%) TCP/IP
7 28 (1.69%) LAN
8 24 (1.45%) 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 (0.60%) HTTP
16 9 (0.54%) Intrusion Detection
17 8 (0.48%) Internet
18 7 (0.42%) IP Telephony
18 7 (0.42%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 196 (11.85%) PostgreSQL
2 120 (7.26%) Amazon Athena
3 112 (6.77%) Apache Iceberg
4 107 (6.47%) Apache Arrow
4 107 (6.47%) Dremio
5 101 (6.11%) SQL Server
6 94 (5.68%) NoSQL
7 93 (5.62%) Data Lake
8 91 (5.50%) MongoDB
9 76 (4.59%) MySQL
10 63 (3.81%) Data Warehouse
11 62 (3.75%) Elasticsearch
12 60 (3.63%) Apache Ignite
13 58 (3.51%) Amazon RDS
13 58 (3.51%) DynamoDB
14 36 (2.18%) Amazon Redshift
14 36 (2.18%) Relational Database
15 35 (2.12%) Power BI
16 26 (1.57%) Azure SQL Database
16 26 (1.57%) Redis
Development Applications
1 120 (7.26%) Jenkins
2 102 (6.17%) Git
3 73 (4.41%) GitLab
4 43 (2.60%) JIRA
5 38 (2.30%) TeamCity
6 29 (1.75%) Cypress.io
7 15 (0.91%) JUnit
7 15 (0.91%) Oracle Forms
8 14 (0.85%) Selenium
9 12 (0.73%) Cucumber
10 11 (0.67%) Bitbucket
10 11 (0.67%) SonarQube
11 9 (0.54%) Subversion
12 8 (0.48%) CircleCI
12 8 (0.48%) Sonatype Nexus
13 7 (0.42%) Burp Suite
13 7 (0.42%) Metasploit
14 6 (0.36%) ER Studio
14 6 (0.36%) Maven
15 5 (0.30%) git-flow
General
1 503 (30.41%) Social Skills
2 474 (28.66%) Finance
3 163 (9.85%) Banking
4 146 (8.83%) Front Office
5 95 (5.74%) French Language
5 95 (5.74%) Swedish Language
6 94 (5.68%) Analytical Skills
6 94 (5.68%) Public Sector
7 90 (5.44%) Retail
8 85 (5.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 69 (4.17%) Law
10 67 (4.05%) Investment Banking
11 64 (3.87%) Telecoms
12 49 (2.96%) Games
13 46 (2.78%) Financial Institution
14 40 (2.42%) Marketing
15 39 (2.36%) Tech for Good
16 35 (2.12%) Legal
17 34 (2.06%) Influencing Skills
18 31 (1.87%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 410 (24.79%) Developer
1 410 (24.79%) Senior
2 287 (17.35%) Software Engineer
3 195 (11.79%) Lead
4 165 (9.98%) Architect
5 158 (9.55%) AWS Engineer
6 131 (7.92%) Analyst
7 125 (7.56%) Python Engineer
8 115 (6.95%) AWS Software Engineer
9 106 (6.41%) Python Software Engineer
10 105 (6.35%) Senior Software Engineer
11 103 (6.23%) Java Engineer
12 100 (6.05%) Senior Developer
13 96 (5.80%) Python Developer
14 95 (5.74%) Service Analyst
14 95 (5.74%) Service Desk Analyst
15 94 (5.68%) AWS Developer
16 93 (5.62%) Java Software Engineer
17 91 (5.50%) Full-Stack Developer
18 89 (5.38%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 367 (22.19%) React
2 229 (13.85%) Node.js
3 206 (12.45%) .NET
4 139 (8.40%) AngularJS
5 133 (8.04%) RESTful
6 126 (7.62%) Vue
7 119 (7.19%) Pandas
8 117 (7.07%) Kafka
9 114 (6.89%) NumPy
10 107 (6.47%) SciPy
11 90 (5.44%) REST
12 82 (4.96%) Spring
13 77 (4.66%) CSS
13 77 (4.66%) Spring Boot
14 75 (4.53%) gRPC
15 70 (4.23%) HTML
16 60 (3.63%) .NET Core
17 57 (3.45%) Protocol Buffers
18 56 (3.39%) GraphQL
19 50 (3.02%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 219 (13.24%) Cloud Native
2 143 (8.65%) Fixed Income
3 115 (6.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 114 (6.89%) Equities
5 94 (5.68%) Distributed Systems
6 70 (4.23%) Hedge funds
7 62 (3.75%) Product Ownership
8 58 (3.51%) Derivative
9 57 (3.45%) Pricing Data
10 53 (3.20%) Public Cloud
11 49 (2.96%) Management Information System
12 43 (2.60%) Enterprise Software
13 38 (2.30%) Data Centre
14 36 (2.18%) Legacy Systems
15 35 (2.12%) Hybrid Cloud
16 29 (1.75%) Security Posture
17 27 (1.63%) Greenfield Project
18 26 (1.57%) Onboarding
19 24 (1.45%) Data Structures
20 23 (1.39%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 183 (11.06%) Linux
2 124 (7.50%) Windows
3 52 (3.14%) Unix
4 34 (2.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 32 (1.93%) Windows Server
6 19 (1.15%) Android
7 13 (0.79%) Apple iOS
7 13 (0.79%) CentOS
8 10 (0.60%) Mac OS
8 10 (0.60%) Ubuntu
9 8 (0.48%) 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%) VMS
11 4 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
11 4 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
12 3 (0.18%) HPUX
12 3 (0.18%) Oracle Linux
12 3 (0.18%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 633 (38.27%) Agile
2 500 (30.23%) CI/CD
3 482 (29.14%) Software Engineering
4 437 (26.42%) DevOps
5 322 (19.47%) Mentoring
6 281 (16.99%) Problem-Solving
7 267 (16.14%) Microservices
8 259 (15.66%) Infrastructure as Code
9 245 (14.81%) AI
10 240 (14.51%) Full-Stack Development
11 212 (12.82%) Continuous Improvement
12 200 (12.09%) ITIL
13 193 (11.67%) Roadmaps
14 171 (10.34%) Containerisation
15 143 (8.65%) Asset Management
15 143 (8.65%) Investment Management
16 136 (8.22%) Computer Science
17 132 (7.98%) Analytics
18 127 (7.68%) Technical Leadership
19 125 (7.56%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 594 (35.91%) Python
2 408 (24.67%) TypeScript
3 392 (23.70%) JavaScript
4 378 (22.85%) Java
5 319 (19.29%) SQL
6 204 (12.33%) C#
7 88 (5.32%) Go
8 84 (5.08%) Bash
9 81 (4.90%) PowerShell
10 57 (3.45%) PHP
11 24 (1.45%) Shell Script
12 21 (1.27%) Scala
13 19 (1.15%) Bicep
13 19 (1.15%) PL/SQL
14 18 (1.09%) C++
15 16 (0.97%) Kotlin
16 13 (0.79%) Ruby
17 10 (0.60%) R
18 9 (0.54%) Rust
19 8 (0.48%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 313 (18.92%) Degree
2 258 (15.60%) AWS Certification
3 180 (10.88%) Security Cleared
4 146 (8.83%) SC Cleared
5 144 (8.71%) Microsoft Certification
6 114 (6.89%) MCSE
7 103 (6.23%) Computer Science Degree
8 84 (5.08%) Azure Certification
9 50 (3.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 48 (2.90%) Cisco Certification
11 29 (1.75%) DV Cleared
12 28 (1.69%) CCNP
12 28 (1.69%) CISSP
12 28 (1.69%) ITIL Certification
12 28 (1.69%) Master's Degree
13 26 (1.57%) 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
1 171 (10.34%) QA
2 81 (4.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 61 (3.69%) GDPR
4 53 (3.20%) NIST
5 31 (1.87%) SLA
6 29 (1.75%) Data Quality
7 28 (1.69%) PCI DSS
8 27 (1.63%) Accessibility
9 25 (1.51%) Cyber Essentials
10 21 (1.27%) SOC 2
11 16 (0.97%) GRC
12 14 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 10 (0.60%) HIPAA
13 10 (0.60%) NCSC
14 8 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 42001
15 7 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
16 6 (0.36%) EU AI Act
16 6 (0.36%) ISO 9001
17 5 (0.30%) JSP 440
18 2 (0.12%) MiFID
System Software
1 262 (15.84%) Docker
2 56 (3.39%) Active Directory
3 29 (1.75%) 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 2 (0.12%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 1 (0.060%) Dovecot
11 1 (0.060%) HDFS
11 1 (0.060%) Postfix
11 1 (0.060%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.060%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 300 (18.14%) Terraform
2 285 (17.23%) Kubernetes
3 119 (7.19%) Ansible
4 86 (5.20%) Grafana
5 43 (2.60%) Prometheus
6 21 (1.27%) Argo
6 21 (1.27%) Microsoft Intune
6 21 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (0.48%) Progress Chef
8 7 (0.42%) Kibana
8 7 (0.42%) Nmap
8 7 (0.42%) SCOM
9 6 (0.36%) Puppet
10 5 (0.30%) Cilium
10 5 (0.30%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
10 5 (0.30%) SCCM
10 5 (0.30%) WSUS
11 4 (0.24%) Autotask
11 4 (0.24%) Proxmox
12 3 (0.18%) cPanel
Vendors
1 265 (16.02%) Microsoft
2 108 (6.53%) ServiceNow
3 94 (5.68%) Google
4 86 (5.20%) Oracle
5 47 (2.84%) VMware
6 44 (2.66%) Red Hat
7 33 (2.00%) IBM
8 31 (1.87%) Cisco
9 30 (1.81%) Databricks
10 21 (1.27%) SAP
11 20 (1.21%) Apple
12 17 (1.03%) Palo Alto
12 17 (1.03%) Splunk
13 16 (0.97%) Okta
14 15 (0.91%) Informatica
14 15 (0.91%) Talend
15 14 (0.85%) Salesforce
16 12 (0.73%) OpenAI
17 11 (0.67%) SolarWinds
18 10 (0.60%) Atlassian