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 21 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 358 330 365
Rank change year-on-year -28 +35 -10
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EC2 96 101 184
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.44% 0.61% 0.63%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.14% 1.66% 1.53%
Number of salaries quoted 80 64 168
10th Percentile £52,375 £44,675 £56,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,438 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £72,500 £88,750
Median % change year-on-year -20.69% -18.31% +31.48%
75th Percentile £73,250 £98,750 £142,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £112,500 £165,000
UK median annual salary £60,500 £72,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -16.55% -9.38% +18.52%

All Cloud Computing 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 8,403 6,093 12,017
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.90% 36.99% 41.23%
Number of salaries quoted 5,999 4,492 9,798
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -2.44% -5.38%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.00%

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 21 July 2026.

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 12 (12.50%) Apache
2 10 (10.42%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (7.29%) Jupyter
4 5 (5.21%) Apache Spark
5 2 (2.08%) nginx
5 2 (2.08%) WordPress
6 1 (1.04%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (1.04%) Confluence
6 1 (1.04%) Drupal
6 1 (1.04%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (1.04%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 96 (100.00%) AWS
2 78 (81.25%) Amazon S3
3 56 (58.33%) AWS Lambda
3 56 (58.33%) Serverless
4 31 (32.29%) Amazon ECS
5 28 (29.17%) GitHub
5 28 (29.17%) GitHub Actions
6 25 (26.04%) Amazon SQS
7 23 (23.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 20 (20.83%) Amazon EKS
9 17 (17.71%) AWS CloudFormation
10 15 (15.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 9 (9.38%) SaaS
12 8 (8.33%) Azure
13 7 (7.29%) Amazon ECR
13 7 (7.29%) Amazon EMR
13 7 (7.29%) Route 53
14 5 (5.21%) CloudFront
14 5 (5.21%) Datadog
15 4 (4.17%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 8 (8.33%) DNS
1 8 (8.33%) VPN
2 4 (4.17%) Firewall
3 3 (3.13%) BGP
3 3 (3.13%) TCP/IP
3 3 (3.13%) VLAN
4 1 (1.04%) AMQP
4 1 (1.04%) Network Security
4 1 (1.04%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (34.38%) Amazon RDS
2 29 (30.21%) PostgreSQL
3 24 (25.00%) MongoDB
4 10 (10.42%) DynamoDB
5 7 (7.29%) Amazon Athena
6 5 (5.21%) Amazon Redshift
6 5 (5.21%) NoSQL
7 4 (4.17%) Amazon Aurora
7 4 (4.17%) MySQL
8 3 (3.13%) MariaDB
8 3 (3.13%) Metadata
8 3 (3.13%) SQL Server
9 2 (2.08%) Big Data
9 2 (2.08%) Data Lake
10 1 (1.04%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (1.04%) InterSystems Cache
10 1 (1.04%) Redis
10 1 (1.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 28 (29.17%) Cypress.io
2 10 (10.42%) GitLab
2 10 (10.42%) Jenkins
3 7 (7.29%) Git
4 6 (6.25%) JIRA
5 5 (5.21%) Storybook
6 3 (3.13%) Claude Code
7 2 (2.08%) Terragrunt
8 1 (1.04%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (1.04%) Browser DevTools
8 1 (1.04%) CircleCI
8 1 (1.04%) Gatling
8 1 (1.04%) git-flow
8 1 (1.04%) JMeter
8 1 (1.04%) SonarQube
8 1 (1.04%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (1.04%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (1.04%) TeamCity
8 1 (1.04%) Vagrant
8 1 (1.04%) webpack
General
1 16 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 15 (15.63%) Social Skills
3 9 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (8.33%) Finance
5 6 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (6.25%) Law
6 3 (3.13%) Back Office
6 3 (3.13%) Banking
6 3 (3.13%) Financial Institution
6 3 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (3.13%) Legal
6 3 (3.13%) Military
6 3 (3.13%) Retail
7 2 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.04%) Advertising
8 1 (1.04%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 34 (35.42%) Developer
2 26 (27.08%) AWS Engineer
3 24 (25.00%) Full-Stack Developer
4 15 (15.63%) Cloud Engineer
4 15 (15.63%) Platform Engineer
5 14 (14.58%) Senior
6 10 (10.42%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 8 (8.33%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 7 (7.29%) DevOps Engineer
8 7 (7.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 7 (7.29%) Lead
9 6 (6.25%) Data Engineer
10 5 (5.21%) Java Developer
10 5 (5.21%) Python Engineer
10 5 (5.21%) Senior Platform Engineer
10 5 (5.21%) Test Engineer
11 4 (4.17%) AWS DevOps
11 4 (4.17%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 4 (4.17%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 4 (4.17%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (35.42%) React
2 28 (29.17%) Jest
3 24 (25.00%) Node.js
4 23 (23.96%) Ruby on Rails
5 7 (7.29%) Web Services
6 6 (6.25%) CSS
6 6 (6.25%) RESTful
6 6 (6.25%) Spring
7 5 (5.21%) Flutter
7 5 (5.21%) React Native
7 5 (5.21%) REST
7 5 (5.21%) Spring Boot
7 5 (5.21%) Tailwind CSS
7 5 (5.21%) Zustand
8 4 (4.17%) .NET
8 4 (4.17%) PySpark
9 3 (3.13%) AngularJS
9 3 (3.13%) ARM Templates
9 3 (3.13%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (3.13%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 24 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 8 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (5.21%) Mobile App
4 4 (4.17%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (3.13%) Blog
5 3 (3.13%) Data Centre
5 3 (3.13%) IoT
5 3 (3.13%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (2.08%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (2.08%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.04%) PKI
7 1 (1.04%) Reinsurance
7 1 (1.04%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (15.63%) Linux
2 2 (2.08%) Windows
2 2 (2.08%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (51.04%) CI/CD
2 43 (44.79%) Infrastructure as Code
3 37 (38.54%) DevOps
4 32 (33.33%) Microservices
5 29 (30.21%) Containerisation
6 27 (28.13%) Full-Stack Development
7 26 (27.08%) Agile
8 23 (23.96%) Mob Programming
9 21 (21.88%) Platform Engineering
10 20 (20.83%) Continuous Improvement
11 17 (17.71%) Problem-Solving
12 16 (16.67%) Mentoring
13 14 (14.58%) Software Engineering
14 13 (13.54%) Observability
15 12 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
15 12 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 12 (12.50%) Test Automation
16 11 (11.46%) AI
16 11 (11.46%) Validation
17 10 (10.42%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 46 (47.92%) Python
2 33 (34.38%) JavaScript
3 23 (23.96%) Ruby
4 19 (19.79%) SQL
5 16 (16.67%) Bash
6 14 (14.58%) Java
7 8 (8.33%) Groovy
7 8 (8.33%) TypeScript
8 6 (6.25%) PHP
9 5 (5.21%) Dart
10 4 (4.17%) Go
11 3 (3.13%) C#
12 2 (2.08%) PowerShell
12 2 (2.08%) Shell Script
13 1 (1.04%) Perl
13 1 (1.04%) Scala
Qualifications
1 19 (19.79%) Security Cleared
2 15 (15.63%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.25%) Degree
4 3 (3.13%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.04%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 9 (9.38%) QA
2 8 (8.33%) Data Quality
3 6 (6.25%) SOC 2
4 3 (3.13%) ISO 9001
4 3 (3.13%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.04%) HL7
5 1 (1.04%) NCSC
5 1 (1.04%) SLA
5 1 (1.04%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 36 (37.50%) Docker
2 4 (4.17%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.13%) Firmware
4 2 (2.08%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 45 (46.88%) Terraform
2 35 (36.46%) Kubernetes
3 15 (15.63%) Ansible
4 10 (10.42%) Grafana
5 8 (8.33%) Progress Chef
6 7 (7.29%) Prometheus
7 3 (3.13%) Argo
8 2 (2.08%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (1.04%) Consul
9 1 (1.04%) Kibana
9 1 (1.04%) Packer
9 1 (1.04%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (3.13%) Databricks
1 3 (3.13%) Microsoft
1 3 (3.13%) OpenAI
2 1 (1.04%) AppDynamics
2 1 (1.04%) Apple
2 1 (1.04%) Google
2 1 (1.04%) New Relic
2 1 (1.04%) Red Hat
2 1 (1.04%) TOWER Software
2 1 (1.04%) VMware