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

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 8 9
Rank change year-on-year -4 +1 -2
Permanent jobs citing AWS 1,677 2,993 3,218
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 10.96% 17.30% 16.24%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.88% 37.51% 34.57%
Number of salaries quoted 1,218 1,961 2,716
10th Percentile £45,350 £45,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £135,000 £122,500 £111,875
UK median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% +7.14% -6.67%

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 5,613 7,980 9,308
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 36.68% 46.12% 46.98%
Number of salaries quoted 4,058 5,218 7,963
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £103,750 £106,625 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,000 £62,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +1.61% -4.62%

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 24 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
1 116 (6.92%) Apache Airflow
2 66 (3.94%) Apache
3 31 (1.85%) Apache Spark
4 21 (1.25%) Confluence
5 17 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
5 17 (1.01%) Tomcat
6 16 (0.95%) WebSphere
6 16 (0.95%) WebSphere Application Server
7 13 (0.78%) SharePoint
8 8 (0.48%) Headless CMS
9 7 (0.42%) Ethereum
9 7 (0.42%) WordPress
10 6 (0.36%) nginx
11 5 (0.30%) Anypoint
11 5 (0.30%) Apache Pulsar
11 5 (0.30%) Drupal
11 5 (0.30%) IIS
12 4 (0.24%) ArcGIS
12 4 (0.24%) CMS
12 4 (0.24%) GeoServer
Applications
1 111 (6.62%) Microsoft Office
2 26 (1.55%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (1.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.060%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.060%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.060%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.060%) Notion
4 1 (0.060%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.060%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 20 (1.19%) Oracle ERP
2 16 (0.95%) Shopify
3 11 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
4 10 (0.60%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.060%) Magento
5 1 (0.060%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.060%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.060%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 784 (46.75%) Azure
2 423 (25.22%) GCP
3 232 (13.83%) Serverless
4 213 (12.70%) SaaS
5 170 (10.14%) AWS Lambda
6 167 (9.96%) Microsoft 365
7 166 (9.90%) GitHub
8 138 (8.23%) Amazon S3
9 109 (6.50%) dbt
10 96 (5.72%) AWS CloudFormation
11 94 (5.61%) Amazon EKS
12 85 (5.07%) GitHub Actions
13 81 (4.83%) Snowflake
14 74 (4.41%) Amazon ECS
15 68 (4.05%) Azure DevOps
16 62 (3.70%) Entra ID
17 59 (3.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 58 (3.46%) Amazon SQS
19 53 (3.16%) Amazon EC2
20 40 (2.39%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 80 (4.77%) Firewall
2 54 (3.22%) VPN
3 45 (2.68%) Network Security
4 41 (2.44%) DNS
5 39 (2.33%) WAN
6 32 (1.91%) LAN
7 31 (1.85%) TCP/IP
8 26 (1.55%) SD-WAN
9 24 (1.43%) Wi-Fi
10 23 (1.37%) SSL
11 22 (1.31%) Broadband
12 19 (1.13%) DHCP
12 19 (1.13%) VLAN
13 17 (1.01%) VoIP
14 15 (0.89%) HTTP
15 12 (0.72%) BGP
16 9 (0.54%) Wireless
17 7 (0.42%) DMZ
17 7 (0.42%) Internet
17 7 (0.42%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 179 (10.67%) PostgreSQL
2 102 (6.08%) SQL Server
3 98 (5.84%) NoSQL
4 89 (5.31%) Amazon Athena
5 84 (5.01%) MongoDB
6 83 (4.95%) Apache Iceberg
7 77 (4.59%) Data Lake
8 73 (4.35%) Apache Arrow
8 73 (4.35%) Dremio
9 66 (3.94%) MySQL
10 61 (3.64%) Amazon RDS
11 59 (3.52%) DynamoDB
12 57 (3.40%) Data Warehouse
13 51 (3.04%) Elasticsearch
14 44 (2.62%) Apache Ignite
15 40 (2.39%) Relational Database
16 38 (2.27%) Amazon Redshift
17 34 (2.03%) Power BI
18 25 (1.49%) BigQuery
18 25 (1.49%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 128 (7.63%) Jenkins
2 100 (5.96%) Git
3 77 (4.59%) GitLab
4 36 (2.15%) Cypress.io
4 36 (2.15%) JIRA
5 35 (2.09%) TeamCity
6 20 (1.19%) Oracle Forms
7 17 (1.01%) Selenium
8 14 (0.83%) Bitbucket
8 14 (0.83%) JUnit
9 12 (0.72%) Cucumber
9 12 (0.72%) SonarQube
9 12 (0.72%) Subversion
10 10 (0.60%) Burp Suite
10 10 (0.60%) CircleCI
10 10 (0.60%) Metasploit
11 8 (0.48%) Maven
12 7 (0.42%) Jaeger
13 6 (0.36%) ER Studio
13 6 (0.36%) MLflow
General
1 546 (32.56%) Social Skills
2 434 (25.88%) Finance
3 158 (9.42%) Banking
4 121 (7.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 107 (6.38%) Analytical Skills
6 105 (6.26%) French Language
7 103 (6.14%) Front Office
8 99 (5.90%) Retail
9 95 (5.66%) Swedish Language
10 90 (5.37%) Public Sector
11 78 (4.65%) Law
12 65 (3.88%) Telecoms
13 51 (3.04%) Investment Banking
14 48 (2.86%) Financial Institution
15 43 (2.56%) Tech for Good
16 41 (2.44%) Influencing Skills
17 40 (2.39%) Games
18 34 (2.03%) Legal
19 33 (1.97%) Marketing
20 32 (1.91%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 388 (23.14%) Senior
2 358 (21.35%) Developer
3 254 (15.15%) Software Engineer
4 197 (11.75%) Lead
5 168 (10.02%) Architect
6 157 (9.36%) Analyst
7 132 (7.87%) AWS Engineer
8 105 (6.26%) Service Analyst
8 105 (6.26%) Service Desk Analyst
9 97 (5.78%) Python Engineer
10 96 (5.72%) Senior Software Engineer
11 90 (5.37%) DevOps Engineer
12 86 (5.13%) AWS Developer
13 85 (5.07%) Full-Stack Developer
13 85 (5.07%) Java Engineer
14 84 (5.01%) AWS Software Engineer
14 84 (5.01%) Senior Developer
14 84 (5.01%) Software Developer
15 82 (4.89%) Python Developer
16 79 (4.71%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 333 (19.86%) React
2 204 (12.16%) Node.js
3 191 (11.39%) .NET
4 142 (8.47%) RESTful
5 118 (7.04%) Kafka
6 105 (6.26%) AngularJS
7 91 (5.43%) Vue
8 89 (5.31%) Spring
9 88 (5.25%) REST
10 84 (5.01%) Pandas
11 81 (4.83%) Spring Boot
12 80 (4.77%) NumPy
13 73 (4.35%) SciPy
14 68 (4.05%) CSS
15 65 (3.88%) gRPC
16 59 (3.52%) HTML
17 56 (3.34%) .NET Core
18 54 (3.22%) Django
19 46 (2.74%) GraphQL
20 41 (2.44%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 231 (13.77%) Cloud Native
2 101 (6.02%) Distributed Systems
3 96 (5.72%) Fixed Income
4 75 (4.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 74 (4.41%) Equities
6 63 (3.76%) Public Cloud
7 61 (3.64%) Product Ownership
8 56 (3.34%) Enterprise Software
9 50 (2.98%) Hedge funds
9 50 (2.98%) Management Information System
10 42 (2.50%) Derivative
11 41 (2.44%) Data Centre
11 41 (2.44%) Onboarding
11 41 (2.44%) Pricing Data
12 37 (2.21%) Legacy Systems
13 31 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
14 30 (1.79%) Security Posture
15 24 (1.43%) Data Structures
16 23 (1.37%) Linux Command Line
17 22 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 186 (11.09%) Linux
2 121 (7.22%) Windows
3 56 (3.34%) Unix
4 34 (2.03%) Windows Server
5 29 (1.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 27 (1.61%) Android
7 18 (1.07%) Apple iOS
8 12 (0.72%) Mac OS
9 11 (0.66%) Ubuntu
10 10 (0.60%) Windows 10
11 9 (0.54%) CentOS
12 8 (0.48%) Windows Server 2012
13 7 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
14 6 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
15 5 (0.30%) Debian
15 5 (0.30%) Mac OS X
15 5 (0.30%) VMS
16 1 (0.060%) AIX
16 1 (0.060%) Check Point GAiA
16 1 (0.060%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 572 (34.11%) Agile
2 522 (31.13%) CI/CD
3 460 (27.43%) DevOps
4 448 (26.71%) Software Engineering
5 331 (19.74%) Mentoring
6 285 (16.99%) AI
7 279 (16.64%) Microservices
8 263 (15.68%) Problem-Solving
9 256 (15.27%) Infrastructure as Code
10 239 (14.25%) Full-Stack Development
11 222 (13.24%) Continuous Improvement
12 212 (12.64%) ITIL
12 212 (12.64%) Roadmaps
13 176 (10.49%) Containerisation
14 155 (9.24%) Computer Science
15 136 (8.11%) Cybersecurity
15 136 (8.11%) Technical Leadership
16 135 (8.05%) Observability
17 129 (7.69%) Coaching
18 128 (7.63%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 549 (32.74%) Python
2 391 (23.32%) Java
3 360 (21.47%) TypeScript
4 341 (20.33%) JavaScript
5 293 (17.47%) SQL
6 199 (11.87%) C#
7 97 (5.78%) Go
8 94 (5.61%) Bash
9 67 (4.00%) PowerShell
10 51 (3.04%) PHP
11 28 (1.67%) Shell Script
12 23 (1.37%) PL/SQL
13 22 (1.31%) C++
14 21 (1.25%) Scala
15 20 (1.19%) Bicep
16 17 (1.01%) Kotlin
17 13 (0.78%) Ruby
18 10 (0.60%) Rust
19 9 (0.54%) R
20 8 (0.48%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 337 (20.10%) Degree
2 287 (17.11%) AWS Certification
3 173 (10.32%) Security Cleared
4 167 (9.96%) Microsoft Certification
5 144 (8.59%) SC Cleared
6 126 (7.51%) MCSE
7 114 (6.80%) Computer Science Degree
8 89 (5.31%) Azure Certification
9 58 (3.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 47 (2.80%) Cisco Certification
11 35 (2.09%) TOGAF Certification
12 33 (1.97%) CISSP
13 30 (1.79%) Master's Degree
14 28 (1.67%) CCNP
15 23 (1.37%) DV Cleared
16 22 (1.31%) ITIL Certification
17 21 (1.25%) MCP
18 20 (1.19%) CISM
19 19 (1.13%) CREST Certified
20 14 (0.83%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 180 (10.73%) QA
2 84 (5.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 59 (3.52%) GDPR
4 50 (2.98%) NIST
5 34 (2.03%) Data Quality
6 33 (1.97%) SLA
7 31 (1.85%) PCI DSS
8 30 (1.79%) Cyber Essentials
9 28 (1.67%) Accessibility
10 24 (1.43%) SOC 2
11 19 (1.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 17 (1.01%) GRC
13 11 (0.66%) NCSC
14 9 (0.54%) Actionable Recommendations
14 9 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 42001
15 7 (0.42%) ISO 9001
16 6 (0.36%) EU AI Act
16 6 (0.36%) HIPAA
16 6 (0.36%) JSP 440
17 3 (0.18%) HL7
System Software
1 284 (16.94%) Docker
2 62 (3.70%) Active Directory
3 33 (1.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (1.25%) Hyper-V
5 11 (0.66%) vSphere
6 9 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (0.36%) Firmware
8 4 (0.24%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 4 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.24%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.060%) HDFS
10 1 (0.060%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.060%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 315 (18.78%) Terraform
2 305 (18.19%) Kubernetes
3 128 (7.63%) Ansible
4 96 (5.72%) Grafana
5 57 (3.40%) Prometheus
6 34 (2.03%) Argo
7 31 (1.85%) Single Sign-On
8 22 (1.31%) Microsoft Intune
9 10 (0.60%) Nmap
10 7 (0.42%) Kustomize
10 7 (0.42%) Progress Chef
11 6 (0.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 6 (0.36%) Kibana
12 5 (0.30%) Cilium
12 5 (0.30%) Puppet
13 4 (0.24%) Autotask
13 4 (0.24%) HP Fortify
13 4 (0.24%) Nessus
13 4 (0.24%) Proxmox
14 3 (0.18%) cPanel
Vendors
1 285 (16.99%) Microsoft
2 119 (7.10%) ServiceNow
3 85 (5.07%) Google
4 79 (4.71%) Oracle
5 47 (2.80%) VMware
6 44 (2.62%) Red Hat
7 35 (2.09%) Cisco
8 29 (1.73%) Apple
8 29 (1.73%) Databricks
8 29 (1.73%) IBM
9 24 (1.43%) Adobe
10 23 (1.37%) SAP
11 22 (1.31%) Okta
12 17 (1.01%) Palo Alto
13 16 (0.95%) Splunk
14 15 (0.89%) Salesforce
15 14 (0.83%) SolarWinds
16 13 (0.78%) Informatica
16 13 (0.78%) Talend
17 12 (0.72%) OpenAI