Hybrid/Remote Amazon EC2 Job Trends

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Amazon EC2 skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 320 252 330
Rank change year-on-year -68 +78 +2
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EC2 53 239 157
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.35% 1.24% 0.75%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.97% 2.76% 1.59%
Number of salaries quoted 47 200 146
10th Percentile £52,500 £62,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £58,125 £85,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,500 £107,500 £66,250
Median % change year-on-year -34.42% +62.26% -5.36%
75th Percentile £81,500 £142,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £165,000 £83,125
UK median annual salary £70,250 £105,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -33.10% +55.56% -4.26%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

Amazon EC2 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 5,472 8,666 9,903
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 36.21% 44.91% 47.56%
Number of salaries quoted 4,049 5,665 8,502
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £36,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.38% - -
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £110,000 £98,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -5.51% +1.60% -2.14%

Amazon EC2
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Amazon EC2 and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Amazon EC2 job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Amazon EC2
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Amazon EC2.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Amazon EC2

Amazon EC2
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Amazon EC2 over the 6 months to 1 December 2025.

Amazon EC2 salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Amazon EC2
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 6 (11.32%) Tomcat
1 6 (11.32%) WebSphere
1 6 (11.32%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (1.89%) Drupal
2 1 (1.89%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 53 (100.00%) AWS
2 45 (84.91%) Amazon S3
3 42 (79.25%) AWS Lambda
3 42 (79.25%) Serverless
4 19 (35.85%) Amazon ECS
4 19 (35.85%) AWS CloudFormation
5 18 (33.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 13 (24.53%) Amazon EKS
7 9 (16.98%) GitHub
7 9 (16.98%) Route 53
8 8 (15.09%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (13.21%) Amazon SQS
9 7 (13.21%) Snowflake
10 6 (11.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 6 (11.32%) Amazon ECR
10 6 (11.32%) Azure
10 6 (11.32%) SaaS
11 3 (5.66%) AWS Direct Connect
11 3 (5.66%) AWS Step Functions
12 2 (3.77%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 6 (11.32%) SSL
2 5 (9.43%) TCP/IP
2 5 (9.43%) VPN
3 3 (5.66%) BGP
3 3 (5.66%) VLAN
4 2 (3.77%) DNS
5 1 (1.89%) Firewall
5 1 (1.89%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (69.81%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (22.64%) Amazon Redshift
3 11 (20.75%) DynamoDB
4 9 (16.98%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (13.21%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (11.32%) DB2
6 6 (11.32%) NoSQL
6 6 (11.32%) SQL Server
7 5 (9.43%) MongoDB
8 4 (7.55%) Data Lake
9 3 (5.66%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (5.66%) MySQL
10 1 (1.89%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (18.87%) Jenkins
2 5 (9.43%) GitLab
3 3 (5.66%) Cypress.io
3 3 (5.66%) Git
4 2 (3.77%) JIRA
5 1 (1.89%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.89%) Testinfra
General
1 11 (20.75%) Finance
2 9 (16.98%) Banking
3 8 (15.09%) Social Skills
4 5 (9.43%) Marketing
5 4 (7.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (5.66%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (5.66%) Back Office
6 3 (5.66%) Financial Institution
6 3 (5.66%) Law
6 3 (5.66%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (5.66%) Retail
7 1 (1.89%) Automotive
7 1 (1.89%) Billing
7 1 (1.89%) Games
7 1 (1.89%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 15 (28.30%) Senior
2 10 (18.87%) Developer
3 8 (15.09%) Data Engineer
4 7 (13.21%) Applications Engineer
4 7 (13.21%) AWS Engineer
4 7 (13.21%) DevOps Engineer
5 6 (11.32%) Applications Support
5 6 (11.32%) Applications Support Engineer
5 6 (11.32%) Java Developer
5 6 (11.32%) Linux Engineer
5 6 (11.32%) Senior Data Engineer
5 6 (11.32%) Support Engineer
6 5 (9.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (9.43%) Linux Support
6 5 (9.43%) Linux Support Engineer
7 4 (7.55%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (7.55%) Consultant
7 4 (7.55%) Senior Consultant
7 4 (7.55%) Senior DevOps
7 4 (7.55%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (16.98%) AWS CDK
2 8 (15.09%) React
3 6 (11.32%) LAPP Stack
3 6 (11.32%) LDAP
3 6 (11.32%) Spring
3 6 (11.32%) Spring Boot
3 6 (11.32%) WebSphere MQ
4 5 (9.43%) Node.js
5 4 (7.55%) RESTful
6 3 (5.66%) .NET
6 3 (5.66%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (5.66%) Jest
6 3 (5.66%) Lambda Expressions
6 3 (5.66%) Next.js
6 3 (5.66%) Ruby on Rails
7 2 (3.77%) AngularJS
7 2 (3.77%) ASP.NET Web API
7 2 (3.77%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (3.77%) REST
7 2 (3.77%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 13 (24.53%) Cloud Native
2 6 (11.32%) Linux Command Line
3 5 (9.43%) Product Ownership
4 3 (5.66%) Data Centre
4 3 (5.66%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (5.66%) Enterprise Cloud
4 3 (5.66%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.89%) Online Games
5 1 (1.89%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.89%) Reinsurance
5 1 (1.89%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.89%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 14 (26.42%) Linux
2 8 (15.09%) Windows
3 6 (11.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (11.32%) Unix
4 2 (3.77%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (52.83%) CI/CD
2 20 (37.74%) Infrastructure as Code
3 15 (28.30%) Agile
4 14 (26.42%) Containerisation
5 13 (24.53%) Software Engineering
6 12 (22.64%) DevOps
6 12 (22.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 11 (20.75%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (18.87%) Microservices
9 9 (16.98%) Disaster Recovery
9 9 (16.98%) Full-Stack Development
9 9 (16.98%) Mentoring
10 8 (15.09%) Observability
11 7 (13.21%) Clean Code
11 7 (13.21%) Data Engineering
12 6 (11.32%) Acceptance Criteria
12 6 (11.32%) Change Management
12 6 (11.32%) Front End Development
12 6 (11.32%) ITIL
12 6 (11.32%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 31 (58.49%) Python
2 13 (24.53%) Java
2 13 (24.53%) JavaScript
3 12 (22.64%) SQL
4 7 (13.21%) TypeScript
5 5 (9.43%) Bash
6 3 (5.66%) Go
6 3 (5.66%) Ruby
7 2 (3.77%) C#
7 2 (3.77%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.89%) Scala
Qualifications
1 20 (37.74%) AWS Certification
2 8 (15.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 8 (15.09%) Degree
3 6 (11.32%) ITIL Certification
3 6 (11.32%) SnowPro
4 3 (5.66%) Security Cleared
5 2 (3.77%) AWS Certified Developer
5 2 (3.77%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.89%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 1 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.89%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.89%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (11.32%) SLA
2 3 (5.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (5.66%) PCI DSS
2 3 (5.66%) SOC 2
3 1 (1.89%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.89%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.89%) GDPR
3 1 (1.89%) QA
3 1 (1.89%) WCAG
System Software
1 13 (24.53%) Docker
2 2 (3.77%) VMware NSX
2 2 (3.77%) vSphere
3 1 (1.89%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 22 (41.51%) Terraform
2 13 (24.53%) Kubernetes
3 7 (13.21%) Grafana
3 7 (13.21%) Prometheus
4 5 (9.43%) Ansible
5 1 (1.89%) Argo
5 1 (1.89%) Packer
Vendors
1 6 (11.32%) IBM
1 6 (11.32%) Red Hat
2 2 (3.77%) Databricks
2 2 (3.77%) VMware
3 1 (1.89%) Facebook
3 1 (1.89%) Google
3 1 (1.89%) Mercator
3 1 (1.89%) Microsoft