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 18 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 321 256 331
Rank change year-on-year -65 +75 -18
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EC2 54 215 160
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.36% 1.10% 0.74%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.97% 2.48% 1.54%
Number of salaries quoted 47 180 147
10th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £58,750 £80,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £107,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -32.56% +65.38% -7.14%
75th Percentile £84,500 £142,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £88,500 £165,000 £81,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £105,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -30.95% +61.54% -7.14%

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 5,547 8,684 10,405
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 36.54% 44.41% 48.00%
Number of salaries quoted 4,152 5,598 8,900
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £36,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - -
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £110,000 £98,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +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 18 November 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 (11.11%) Tomcat
1 6 (11.11%) WebSphere
1 6 (11.11%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (1.85%) Drupal
Applications
1 1 (1.85%) Adobe XD
Cloud Services
1 54 (100.00%) AWS
2 44 (81.48%) Amazon S3
3 42 (77.78%) AWS Lambda
3 42 (77.78%) Serverless
4 20 (37.04%) AWS CloudFormation
5 19 (35.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 18 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
7 12 (22.22%) Amazon EKS
8 9 (16.67%) GitHub
8 9 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
8 9 (16.67%) Route 53
9 7 (12.96%) Snowflake
10 6 (11.11%) Amazon ECR
10 6 (11.11%) Amazon SQS
11 5 (9.26%) SaaS
12 4 (7.41%) Azure
13 3 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 3 (5.56%) AWS Direct Connect
13 3 (5.56%) AWS Fargate
13 3 (5.56%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (12.96%) VPN
2 6 (11.11%) SSL
3 5 (9.26%) TCP/IP
4 4 (7.41%) DNS
5 3 (5.56%) BGP
5 3 (5.56%) Firewall
5 3 (5.56%) VLAN
6 1 (1.85%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (70.37%) Amazon RDS
2 13 (24.07%) DynamoDB
3 12 (22.22%) Amazon Redshift
4 8 (14.81%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (12.96%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (12.96%) SQL Server
6 6 (11.11%) DB2
7 4 (7.41%) Data Lake
7 4 (7.41%) MongoDB
7 4 (7.41%) NoSQL
8 3 (5.56%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (3.70%) MySQL
10 1 (1.85%) RDBMS
10 1 (1.85%) Relational Database
10 1 (1.85%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 1 (1.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (1.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (1.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 4 (7.41%) GitLab
3 3 (5.56%) Git
3 3 (5.56%) JIRA
4 2 (3.70%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.85%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.85%) Testinfra
General
1 14 (25.93%) Finance
2 11 (20.37%) Social Skills
3 9 (16.67%) Banking
4 5 (9.26%) Marketing
5 4 (7.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (5.56%) Back Office
6 3 (5.56%) Financial Institution
6 3 (5.56%) Law
6 3 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (5.56%) Retail
7 2 (3.70%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.85%) Games
Job Titles
1 20 (37.04%) Senior
2 9 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
3 8 (14.81%) Data Engineer
4 7 (12.96%) Applications Engineer
4 7 (12.96%) Developer
5 6 (11.11%) Applications Support
5 6 (11.11%) Applications Support Engineer
5 6 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
5 6 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (11.11%) Linux Engineer
5 6 (11.11%) Senior Data Engineer
5 6 (11.11%) Support Engineer
6 5 (9.26%) Consultant
6 5 (9.26%) Linux Support
6 5 (9.26%) Linux Support Engineer
6 5 (9.26%) Software Engineer
7 4 (7.41%) AWS Consultant
7 4 (7.41%) Java Developer
7 4 (7.41%) Senior Consultant
7 4 (7.41%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (18.52%) AWS CDK
1 10 (18.52%) React
2 6 (11.11%) LAPP Stack
2 6 (11.11%) LDAP
2 6 (11.11%) Spring
2 6 (11.11%) Spring Boot
2 6 (11.11%) WebSphere MQ
3 4 (7.41%) Node.js
3 4 (7.41%) RESTful
4 3 (5.56%) .NET
4 3 (5.56%) Lambda Expressions
4 3 (5.56%) Next.js
4 3 (5.56%) REST
4 3 (5.56%) Ruby on Rails
4 3 (5.56%) Web Services
5 2 (3.70%) AngularJS
5 2 (3.70%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (3.70%) Jest
5 2 (3.70%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (3.70%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 11 (20.37%) Cloud Native
2 6 (11.11%) Linux Command Line
3 5 (9.26%) Product Ownership
4 3 (5.56%) Data Centre
4 3 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (5.56%) Enterprise Cloud
4 3 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (3.70%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.85%) Online Games
6 1 (1.85%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.85%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.85%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 13 (24.07%) Linux
2 8 (14.81%) Windows
3 7 (12.96%) Unix
4 6 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (3.70%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (48.15%) CI/CD
2 23 (42.59%) Infrastructure as Code
3 17 (31.48%) Software Engineering
4 14 (25.93%) Agile
4 14 (25.93%) Mentoring
4 14 (25.93%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (24.07%) Containerisation
5 13 (24.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 12 (22.22%) DevOps
7 11 (20.37%) Microservices
8 9 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
8 9 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
9 8 (14.81%) Data Engineering
9 8 (14.81%) Full-Stack Development
10 7 (12.96%) Clean Code
10 7 (12.96%) Observability
10 7 (12.96%) Platform Engineering
11 6 (11.11%) Acceptance Criteria
11 6 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
11 6 (11.11%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 32 (59.26%) Python
2 14 (25.93%) SQL
3 12 (22.22%) Java
4 10 (18.52%) JavaScript
5 9 (16.67%) TypeScript
6 6 (11.11%) Bash
7 4 (7.41%) PowerShell
8 3 (5.56%) Go
8 3 (5.56%) Ruby
9 2 (3.70%) C#
10 1 (1.85%) PHP
10 1 (1.85%) Scala
Qualifications
1 20 (37.04%) AWS Certification
2 8 (14.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 8 (14.81%) Degree
3 6 (11.11%) ITIL Certification
3 6 (11.11%) SnowPro
4 5 (9.26%) Security Cleared
5 3 (5.56%) SC Cleared
6 2 (3.70%) AWS Certified Developer
6 2 (3.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.85%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (1.85%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (11.11%) SLA
2 3 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (5.56%) PCI DSS
2 3 (5.56%) QA
2 3 (5.56%) SOC 2
3 1 (1.85%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.85%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.85%) GDPR
3 1 (1.85%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (18.52%) Docker
2 2 (3.70%) VMware NSX
2 2 (3.70%) vSphere
3 1 (1.85%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 24 (44.44%) Terraform
2 12 (22.22%) Kubernetes
3 6 (11.11%) Ansible
3 6 (11.11%) Grafana
3 6 (11.11%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.85%) Argo
4 1 (1.85%) Packer
Vendors
1 6 (11.11%) IBM
1 6 (11.11%) Red Hat
2 3 (5.56%) Databricks
3 2 (3.70%) VMware
4 1 (1.85%) Adobe
4 1 (1.85%) Facebook
4 1 (1.85%) Google
4 1 (1.85%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.85%) Oracle