AWS Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring AWS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited AWS over the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 8 5
Rank change year-on-year -2 -3 -2
Permanent jobs citing AWS 2,733 5,129 7,897
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 14.93% 15.20% 19.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 41.85% 35.11% 40.39%
Number of salaries quoted 1,470 3,951 5,672
10th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £53,750 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £74,750
Median % change year-on-year - -6.35% +3.10%
75th Percentile £102,500 £91,250 £93,750
90th Percentile £130,125 £117,500 £115,000
UK median annual salary £72,000 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +2.86% -6.67% +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 6,531 14,610 19,552
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 35.67% 43.31% 48.05%
Number of salaries quoted 4,453 11,911 14,275
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £38,250
25th Percentile £45,750 £45,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £82,500 £78,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,900 £97,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% +4.00%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing AWS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

AWS trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing AWS over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

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
1 242 (8.85%) Apache Airflow
2 200 (7.32%) Apache
3 194 (7.10%) Confluence
4 103 (3.77%) Apache Spark
5 21 (0.77%) IIS
6 15 (0.55%) nginx
7 10 (0.37%) CMS
8 9 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
8 9 (0.33%) SharePoint
9 8 (0.29%) Headless CMS
10 6 (0.22%) Jupyter
11 5 (0.18%) OpenEdge
11 5 (0.18%) Tomcat
12 4 (0.15%) OpenStack
13 3 (0.11%) WordPress
14 2 (0.073%) Drupal
14 2 (0.073%) Umbraco
14 2 (0.073%) WebSphere
14 2 (0.073%) WebSphere Application Server
15 1 (0.037%) SAS
Applications
1 18 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (0.62%) Chatbot
3 5 (0.18%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.15%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.11%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 8 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
3 4 (0.15%) PeopleSoft HCM
3 4 (0.15%) Shopify
4 2 (0.073%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.037%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 1,413 (51.70%) Azure
2 999 (36.55%) GCP
3 538 (19.69%) Serverless
4 496 (18.15%) AWS Lambda
5 242 (8.85%) dbt
6 227 (8.31%) Pulumi
7 201 (7.35%) SaaS
8 155 (5.67%) Amazon ECS
9 143 (5.23%) Amazon EC2
10 141 (5.16%) Amazon S3
11 140 (5.12%) AWS CloudFormation
12 134 (4.90%) Amazon EKS
13 132 (4.83%) Snowflake
14 97 (3.55%) GitHub
15 92 (3.37%) Microsoft 365
16 78 (2.85%) OpenShift
17 66 (2.41%) PaaS
18 58 (2.12%) Power Platform
19 57 (2.09%) Cloud Computing
20 49 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 432 (15.81%) Broadband
2 125 (4.57%) Firewall
3 70 (2.56%) VPN
4 60 (2.20%) WAN
5 55 (2.01%) DNS
6 48 (1.76%) TCP/IP
7 42 (1.54%) Network Security
8 38 (1.39%) SD-WAN
9 28 (1.02%) DHCP
10 26 (0.95%) BGP
10 26 (0.95%) LAN
11 23 (0.84%) OSPF
11 23 (0.84%) VLAN
12 17 (0.62%) Cisco ASA
12 17 (0.62%) Cisco Firepower
13 16 (0.59%) IPsec
13 16 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
14 15 (0.55%) Internet
14 15 (0.55%) MPLS
14 15 (0.55%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 342 (12.51%) SQL Server
2 313 (11.45%) NoSQL
3 258 (9.44%) Relational Database
4 236 (8.64%) Amazon Athena
5 225 (8.23%) RDBMS
6 213 (7.79%) Apache Iceberg
6 213 (7.79%) Dremio
7 208 (7.61%) Apache Arrow
8 169 (6.18%) PostgreSQL
9 149 (5.45%) Apache Ignite
10 139 (5.09%) MySQL
11 129 (4.72%) Data Lake
12 107 (3.92%) Elasticsearch
13 82 (3.00%) DynamoDB
14 78 (2.85%) Amazon RDS
15 77 (2.82%) MongoDB
16 65 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
17 60 (2.20%) Amazon Redshift
18 49 (1.79%) Power BI
19 37 (1.35%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 332 (12.15%) GitLab
2 320 (11.71%) JIRA
3 278 (10.17%) SonarQube
4 270 (9.88%) Maven
5 266 (9.73%) Cucumber
6 263 (9.62%) Sonatype Nexus
7 257 (9.40%) Selenium
8 253 (9.26%) Bitbucket
9 215 (7.87%) Jaeger
10 193 (7.06%) Git
11 117 (4.28%) Jenkins
12 73 (2.67%) Artifactory
13 43 (1.57%) JUnit
14 37 (1.35%) Mockito
15 35 (1.28%) IntelliJ
16 27 (0.99%) Jasmine
17 24 (0.88%) Karma Test Runner
18 21 (0.77%) Eclipse
19 20 (0.73%) Protractor
20 10 (0.37%) Visual Studio
General
1 799 (29.24%) Finance
2 782 (28.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 442 (16.17%) Banking
4 401 (14.67%) Analytical Skills
5 380 (13.90%) Social Skills
6 274 (10.03%) Front Office
7 172 (6.29%) Investment Banking
8 148 (5.42%) Retail
9 90 (3.29%) Corporate Banking
10 58 (2.12%) Marketing
11 57 (2.09%) Public Sector
12 52 (1.90%) Games
13 44 (1.61%) Law
14 35 (1.28%) Manufacturing
15 34 (1.24%) Telecoms
16 28 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
17 26 (0.95%) Tech for Good
18 21 (0.77%) Health Technology
19 20 (0.73%) Electronics
20 18 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 860 (31.47%) Senior
2 782 (28.61%) Software Engineer
3 539 (19.72%) Developer
4 395 (14.45%) Lead
5 317 (11.60%) AWS Engineer
6 276 (10.10%) Senior Software Engineer
7 241 (8.82%) Team Leader
8 217 (7.94%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 212 (7.76%) Python Engineer
10 170 (6.22%) DevOps Engineer
11 166 (6.07%) Architect
12 158 (5.78%) Data Engineer
13 150 (5.49%) AWS Software Engineer
14 140 (5.12%) Senior Developer
15 136 (4.98%) AWS DevOps
16 122 (4.46%) Developer/Software Engineer
16 122 (4.46%) Software Developer
17 121 (4.43%) Java Engineer
18 115 (4.21%) AWS DevOps Engineer
19 111 (4.06%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 669 (24.48%) React
2 496 (18.15%) Node.js
3 427 (15.62%) Kafka
4 397 (14.53%) .NET
5 332 (12.15%) HTML
6 330 (12.07%) CSS
7 327 (11.96%) Spring
8 317 (11.60%) Redux
9 310 (11.34%) Spring Boot
10 270 (9.88%) JPA
11 258 (9.44%) Elastic Stack
12 215 (7.87%) OpenTelemetry
13 197 (7.21%) RESTful
14 196 (7.17%) Pandas
15 191 (6.99%) REST
16 189 (6.92%) AngularJS
17 180 (6.59%) Hibernate
18 147 (5.38%) NumPy
18 147 (5.38%) Vue
19 135 (4.94%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 413 (15.11%) Self-Motivation
2 297 (10.87%) Product Ownership
3 284 (10.39%) Enterprise Software
4 227 (8.31%) Cyberattack
5 189 (6.92%) Linux Command Line
6 184 (6.73%) Fixed Income
7 146 (5.34%) Management Information System
8 133 (4.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 128 (4.68%) Equities
10 106 (3.88%) Data Centre
11 104 (3.81%) Cloud Native
12 95 (3.48%) Hedge funds
13 80 (2.93%) Derivative
14 56 (2.05%) Public Cloud
15 52 (1.90%) Algorithms
16 44 (1.61%) Distributed Systems
17 41 (1.50%) Mobile App
18 38 (1.39%) Pricing Data
19 34 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
20 31 (1.13%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 708 (25.91%) Linux
2 249 (9.11%) Unix
3 171 (6.26%) Windows
4 66 (2.41%) Windows Server
5 61 (2.23%) Android
6 16 (0.59%) Ubuntu
7 13 (0.48%) Apple iOS
7 13 (0.48%) Windows 10
8 10 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 9 (0.33%) CentOS
9 9 (0.33%) Mac OS
9 9 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
10 8 (0.29%) AIX
11 7 (0.26%) Windows Server 2008
11 7 (0.26%) Windows Server 2012
12 5 (0.18%) Debian
12 5 (0.18%) VMS
12 5 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
13 3 (0.11%) Windows 7
14 2 (0.073%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,599 (58.51%) Agile
2 1,122 (41.05%) Software Engineering
3 1,024 (37.47%) CI/CD
3 1,024 (37.47%) DevOps
4 918 (33.59%) Mentoring
5 714 (26.13%) Microservices
6 706 (25.83%) Containerisation
7 506 (18.51%) Performance Optimisation
8 497 (18.19%) Problem-Solving
9 486 (17.78%) Machine Learning
10 479 (17.53%) Full-Stack Development
11 464 (16.98%) Clean Code
12 425 (15.55%) Infrastructure as Code
13 409 (14.97%) User Experience
14 387 (14.16%) Roadmaps
15 372 (13.61%) Test Automation
16 336 (12.29%) Data Engineering
17 324 (11.86%) SDLC
18 311 (11.38%) Data Science
19 304 (11.12%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 1,383 (50.60%) Python
2 1,142 (41.79%) JavaScript
3 1,132 (41.42%) Java
4 762 (27.88%) TypeScript
5 613 (22.43%) SQL
6 557 (20.38%) Go
7 290 (10.61%) Bash
8 256 (9.37%) C++
9 233 (8.53%) Rust
10 174 (6.37%) C#
11 98 (3.59%) PowerShell
12 78 (2.85%) PHP
13 18 (0.66%) R
14 17 (0.62%) Bicep
14 17 (0.62%) Scala
15 15 (0.55%) T-SQL
16 14 (0.51%) Shell Script
17 13 (0.48%) C
18 10 (0.37%) Ruby
19 8 (0.29%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 530 (19.39%) AWS Certification
2 430 (15.73%) Degree
3 367 (13.43%) Security Cleared
4 244 (8.93%) DV Cleared
5 231 (8.45%) PhD
6 220 (8.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 180 (6.59%) AWS Certified Developer
8 106 (3.88%) SC Cleared
9 90 (3.29%) Computer Science Degree
10 63 (2.31%) Azure Certification
11 43 (1.57%) Cisco Certification
11 43 (1.57%) Microsoft Certification
12 36 (1.32%) Master's Degree
13 32 (1.17%) DBS Check
13 32 (1.17%) ITIL Certification
14 30 (1.10%) TOGAF Certification
15 27 (0.99%) CCNP
15 27 (0.99%) CISSP
16 21 (0.77%) MCSA
17 17 (0.62%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 347 (12.70%) QA
2 111 (4.06%) Accessibility
3 54 (1.98%) GDPR
4 50 (1.83%) SLA
5 47 (1.72%) Data Quality
6 38 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 28 (1.02%) HIPAA
8 25 (0.91%) NIST
9 12 (0.44%) PCI DSS
10 10 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
10 10 (0.37%) NCSC
11 5 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 5 (0.18%) SOC 2
12 4 (0.15%) COBIT
12 4 (0.15%) WCAG
13 3 (0.11%) ISO 13485
13 3 (0.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 2 (0.073%) IEC 62304
14 2 (0.073%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 1 (0.037%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 930 (34.03%) Docker
2 70 (2.56%) Active Directory
3 56 (2.05%) VMware Infrastructure
4 35 (1.28%) Virtual Machines
5 32 (1.17%) Hyper-V
6 11 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (0.26%) Firmware
7 7 (0.26%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 5 (0.18%) KVM
9 4 (0.15%) HDFS
10 3 (0.11%) Dovecot
10 3 (0.11%) Postfix
10 3 (0.11%) vSphere
10 3 (0.11%) Xen
11 2 (0.073%) NFS
11 2 (0.073%) SRDF
11 2 (0.073%) Virtual Desktop
11 2 (0.073%) VMware NSX
12 1 (0.037%) Varnish
12 1 (0.037%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 887 (32.46%) Kubernetes
2 627 (22.94%) Terraform
3 406 (14.86%) Ansible
4 266 (9.73%) Prometheus
5 231 (8.45%) Argo
6 222 (8.12%) Kustomize
7 52 (1.90%) Grafana
8 28 (1.02%) Microsoft Intune
9 22 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
10 21 (0.77%) Puppet
11 14 (0.51%) SCCM
12 11 (0.40%) AWS Copilot
13 9 (0.33%) Istio
13 9 (0.33%) Progress Chef
14 7 (0.26%) Kibana
14 7 (0.26%) PaperCut
15 6 (0.22%) Nagios
16 5 (0.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 5 (0.18%) Failover Clustering
17 4 (0.15%) logstash
Vendors
1 348 (12.73%) Google
2 247 (9.04%) Solace
3 224 (8.20%) Microsoft
4 83 (3.04%) VMware
5 62 (2.27%) Cisco
5 62 (2.27%) Oracle
6 61 (2.23%) Databricks
7 57 (2.09%) IBM
8 33 (1.21%) SAP
9 24 (0.88%) Meraki
10 23 (0.84%) Red Hat
11 18 (0.66%) Fortinet
12 17 (0.62%) CheckPoint
13 16 (0.59%) Citrix
13 16 (0.59%) SolarWinds
14 14 (0.51%) Salesforce
14 14 (0.51%) ServiceNow
14 14 (0.51%) Splunk
15 13 (0.48%) Atlassian
16 11 (0.40%) Dell