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

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 7 8
Rank change year-on-year -5 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing AWS 1,652 3,258 3,405
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 10.78% 17.08% 16.62%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.66% 37.58% 35.03%
Number of salaries quoted 1,240 2,161 2,880
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 £100,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £135,000 £128,750 £111,250
UK median annual salary £73,801 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -1.60% +7.14% -3.64%

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 5,569 8,669 9,721
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 36.33% 45.44% 47.44%
Number of salaries quoted 4,111 5,674 8,334
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £36,729
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,750 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £110,000 £98,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,264 £62,500
% change year-on-year -5.16% +1.22% -2.34%

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 5 December 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
1 131 (7.93%) Apache Airflow
2 77 (4.66%) 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 (5.99%) 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 17 (1.03%) Oracle ERP
2 16 (0.97%) Shopify
3 11 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
4 10 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
5 3 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.061%) Magento
6 1 (0.061%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.061%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 763 (46.19%) Azure
2 439 (26.57%) GCP
3 219 (13.26%) SaaS
4 211 (12.77%) Serverless
5 155 (9.38%) AWS Lambda
6 152 (9.20%) GitHub
7 151 (9.14%) Microsoft 365
8 127 (7.69%) dbt
9 125 (7.57%) Amazon S3
10 94 (5.69%) AWS CloudFormation
11 88 (5.33%) Snowflake
12 86 (5.21%) Amazon EKS
13 78 (4.72%) GitHub Actions
14 75 (4.54%) Amazon ECS
15 61 (3.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 61 (3.69%) Azure DevOps
16 59 (3.57%) Entra ID
17 58 (3.51%) Amazon EC2
18 46 (2.78%) OCI
19 45 (2.72%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 78 (4.72%) Firewall
2 53 (3.21%) VPN
3 47 (2.85%) Network Security
4 41 (2.48%) DNS
5 37 (2.24%) WAN
6 30 (1.82%) LAN
7 28 (1.69%) TCP/IP
8 25 (1.51%) 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 9 (0.54%) Intrusion Detection
17 8 (0.48%) Internet
18 7 (0.42%) IP Telephony
18 7 (0.42%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 187 (11.32%) PostgreSQL
2 109 (6.60%) Amazon Athena
3 101 (6.11%) Apache Iceberg
4 96 (5.81%) SQL Server
5 94 (5.69%) Apache Arrow
5 94 (5.69%) Dremio
5 94 (5.69%) NoSQL
6 87 (5.27%) MongoDB
7 86 (5.21%) Data Lake
8 66 (4.00%) MySQL
9 62 (3.75%) Amazon RDS
9 62 (3.75%) Data Warehouse
10 57 (3.45%) DynamoDB
11 55 (3.33%) Elasticsearch
12 52 (3.15%) Apache Ignite
13 38 (2.30%) Amazon Redshift
14 35 (2.12%) Power BI
15 32 (1.94%) Relational Database
16 26 (1.57%) Azure SQL Database
17 24 (1.45%) Redis
Development Applications
1 122 (7.38%) Jenkins
2 96 (5.81%) Git
3 74 (4.48%) GitLab
4 40 (2.42%) JIRA
5 33 (2.00%) TeamCity
6 30 (1.82%) Cypress.io
7 17 (1.03%) 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%) SonarQube
12 11 (0.67%) Subversion
13 8 (0.48%) CircleCI
14 7 (0.42%) Burp Suite
14 7 (0.42%) Metasploit
14 7 (0.42%) Sonatype Nexus
15 6 (0.36%) ER Studio
15 6 (0.36%) JMeter
15 6 (0.36%) Maven
General
1 511 (30.93%) Social Skills
2 460 (27.85%) Finance
3 156 (9.44%) Banking
4 132 (7.99%) Front Office
5 99 (5.99%) Analytical Skills
6 95 (5.75%) French Language
6 95 (5.75%) Swedish Language
7 93 (5.63%) Public Sector
8 92 (5.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 90 (5.45%) Retail
10 70 (4.24%) Law
11 65 (3.93%) Telecoms
12 59 (3.57%) Investment Banking
13 48 (2.91%) Financial Institution
14 42 (2.54%) Games
15 41 (2.48%) Tech for Good
16 38 (2.30%) Influencing Skills
16 38 (2.30%) Marketing
17 34 (2.06%) Legal
18 32 (1.94%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 395 (23.91%) Senior
2 381 (23.06%) Developer
3 279 (16.89%) Software Engineer
4 199 (12.05%) Lead
5 171 (10.35%) Architect
6 146 (8.84%) AWS Engineer
7 134 (8.11%) Analyst
8 114 (6.90%) Python Engineer
9 102 (6.17%) AWS Software Engineer
9 102 (6.17%) Senior Software Engineer
10 95 (5.75%) Python Software Engineer
10 95 (5.75%) Service Analyst
10 95 (5.75%) Service Desk Analyst
11 93 (5.63%) Java Engineer
12 92 (5.57%) AWS Developer
13 89 (5.39%) Python Developer
13 89 (5.39%) Senior Developer
13 89 (5.39%) Software Developer
14 84 (5.08%) DevOps Engineer
15 83 (5.02%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 348 (21.07%) React
2 219 (13.26%) Node.js
3 197 (11.92%) .NET
4 126 (7.63%) RESTful
5 124 (7.51%) AngularJS
6 120 (7.26%) Kafka
7 112 (6.78%) Vue
8 105 (6.36%) Pandas
9 100 (6.05%) NumPy
10 94 (5.69%) SciPy
11 83 (5.02%) REST
11 83 (5.02%) Spring
12 78 (4.72%) Spring Boot
13 69 (4.18%) gRPC
14 65 (3.93%) CSS
15 58 (3.51%) .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 (13.38%) Cloud Native
2 129 (7.81%) Fixed Income
3 100 (6.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 99 (5.99%) Equities
5 94 (5.69%) Distributed Systems
6 62 (3.75%) Product Ownership
7 60 (3.63%) Hedge funds
8 57 (3.45%) Public Cloud
9 51 (3.09%) Management Information System
10 50 (3.03%) Derivative
11 49 (2.97%) Pricing Data
12 48 (2.91%) Enterprise Software
13 38 (2.30%) Data Centre
14 35 (2.12%) Legacy Systems
15 34 (2.06%) Hybrid Cloud
16 31 (1.88%) Onboarding
17 28 (1.69%) Security Posture
18 25 (1.51%) Greenfield Project
19 24 (1.45%) Data Structures
20 23 (1.39%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 186 (11.26%) Linux
2 123 (7.45%) Windows
3 51 (3.09%) 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
1 607 (36.74%) Agile
2 505 (30.57%) CI/CD
3 472 (28.57%) Software Engineering
4 445 (26.94%) DevOps
5 320 (19.37%) Mentoring
6 276 (16.71%) Problem-Solving
7 269 (16.28%) Microservices
8 262 (15.86%) Infrastructure as Code
9 258 (15.62%) AI
10 227 (13.74%) Full-Stack Development
11 222 (13.44%) Continuous Improvement
12 205 (12.41%) ITIL
13 202 (12.23%) Roadmaps
14 174 (10.53%) Containerisation
15 140 (8.47%) Computer Science
16 138 (8.35%) Analytics
17 131 (7.93%) Technical Leadership
18 130 (7.87%) Asset Management
18 130 (7.87%) Investment Management
19 126 (7.63%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 580 (35.11%) Python
2 382 (23.12%) TypeScript
3 375 (22.70%) Java
4 359 (21.73%) JavaScript
5 309 (18.70%) SQL
6 199 (12.05%) C#
7 89 (5.39%) Go
8 87 (5.27%) Bash
9 77 (4.66%) PowerShell
10 53 (3.21%) PHP
11 26 (1.57%) Shell Script
12 20 (1.21%) PL/SQL
12 20 (1.21%) Scala
13 19 (1.15%) Bicep
13 19 (1.15%) C++
14 16 (0.97%) Kotlin
15 12 (0.73%) Ruby
16 10 (0.61%) R
17 9 (0.54%) Rust
18 8 (0.48%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 318 (19.25%) Degree
2 264 (15.98%) AWS Certification
3 180 (10.90%) Security Cleared
4 147 (8.90%) Microsoft Certification
4 147 (8.90%) SC Cleared
5 114 (6.90%) MCSE
6 104 (6.30%) Computer Science Degree
7 86 (5.21%) Azure Certification
8 52 (3.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 46 (2.78%) Cisco Certification
10 29 (1.76%) CISSP
10 29 (1.76%) DV Cleared
10 29 (1.76%) ITIL Certification
10 29 (1.76%) Master's Degree
11 28 (1.69%) TOGAF Certification
12 27 (1.63%) CCNP
13 19 (1.15%) MCP
14 18 (1.09%) CISM
15 14 (0.85%) CompTIA Security+
15 14 (0.85%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 172 (10.41%) QA
2 83 (5.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 61 (3.69%) GDPR
4 53 (3.21%) NIST
5 33 (2.00%) Data Quality
6 32 (1.94%) SLA
7 28 (1.69%) PCI DSS
8 27 (1.63%) Accessibility
9 26 (1.57%) Cyber Essentials
10 22 (1.33%) SOC 2
11 15 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 15 (0.91%) GRC
12 10 (0.61%) NCSC
13 9 (0.54%) HIPAA
14 8 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 42001
15 7 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
15 7 (0.42%) ISO 9001
16 6 (0.36%) EU AI Act
17 5 (0.30%) JSP 440
18 2 (0.12%) HL7
System Software
1 263 (15.92%) Docker
2 61 (3.69%) 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
1 301 (18.22%) Terraform
2 291 (17.62%) Kubernetes
3 120 (7.26%) Ansible
4 92 (5.57%) Grafana
5 49 (2.97%) Prometheus
6 25 (1.51%) Single Sign-On
7 23 (1.39%) 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 (16.28%) Microsoft
2 110 (6.66%) ServiceNow
3 92 (5.57%) Google
4 85 (5.15%) Oracle
5 47 (2.85%) Red Hat
6 46 (2.78%) VMware
7 32 (1.94%) IBM
8 31 (1.88%) Cisco
8 31 (1.88%) Databricks
9 23 (1.39%) Apple
10 21 (1.27%) SAP
11 18 (1.09%) Okta
12 17 (1.03%) Palo Alto
12 17 (1.03%) Splunk
13 15 (0.91%) Informatica
13 15 (0.91%) Salesforce
13 15 (0.91%) Talend
14 12 (0.73%) OpenAI
14 12 (0.73%) SolarWinds
15 10 (0.61%) Atlassian