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

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 339 265 334
Rank change year-on-year -74 +69 -30
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EC2 55 216 161
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.35% 1.09% 0.74%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.98% 2.45% 1.53%
Number of salaries quoted 47 181 148
10th Percentile £54,000 £60,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £58,750 £80,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £107,500 £66,250
Median % change year-on-year -32.56% +62.26% -5.36%
75th Percentile £84,500 £142,500 £75,625
90th Percentile £88,500 £165,000 £80,750
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 5,591 8,823 10,493
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 35.73% 44.36% 47.96%
Number of salaries quoted 4,199 5,724 8,959
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 £97,500
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 15 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 (10.91%) Tomcat
1 6 (10.91%) WebSphere
1 6 (10.91%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (1.82%) Drupal
Applications
1 1 (1.82%) Adobe XD
Cloud Services
1 55 (100.00%) AWS
2 45 (81.82%) Amazon S3
3 43 (78.18%) AWS Lambda
3 43 (78.18%) Serverless
4 21 (38.18%) AWS CloudFormation
5 19 (34.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 18 (32.73%) Amazon ECS
7 14 (25.45%) Amazon EKS
8 10 (18.18%) GitHub
8 10 (18.18%) GitHub Actions
9 9 (16.36%) Route 53
10 7 (12.73%) Snowflake
11 6 (10.91%) Amazon ECR
12 5 (9.09%) Amazon SQS
12 5 (9.09%) SaaS
13 4 (7.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 4 (7.27%) Azure
14 3 (5.45%) AWS Direct Connect
14 3 (5.45%) AWS Fargate
14 3 (5.45%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 7 (12.73%) VPN
2 6 (10.91%) SSL
3 5 (9.09%) TCP/IP
4 4 (7.27%) DNS
5 3 (5.45%) BGP
5 3 (5.45%) Firewall
5 3 (5.45%) VLAN
6 1 (1.82%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (70.91%) Amazon RDS
2 13 (23.64%) DynamoDB
3 12 (21.82%) Amazon Redshift
4 7 (12.73%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (12.73%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (12.73%) SQL Server
5 6 (10.91%) DB2
6 4 (7.27%) Data Lake
6 4 (7.27%) NoSQL
7 3 (5.45%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (5.45%) MongoDB
8 2 (3.64%) MySQL
9 1 (1.82%) RDBMS
9 1 (1.82%) Relational Database
9 1 (1.82%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 1 (1.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (1.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (1.82%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 5 (9.09%) GitLab
3 4 (7.27%) Git
4 3 (5.45%) JIRA
5 1 (1.82%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.82%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.82%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.82%) IntelliJ
5 1 (1.82%) JUnit
5 1 (1.82%) Maven
5 1 (1.82%) Mockito
5 1 (1.82%) Testinfra
General
1 15 (27.27%) Finance
2 11 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 9 (16.36%) Banking
4 5 (9.09%) Marketing
5 4 (7.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (5.45%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (5.45%) Back Office
6 3 (5.45%) Financial Institution
6 3 (5.45%) Law
6 3 (5.45%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (5.45%) Retail
7 2 (3.64%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.82%) Games
Job Titles
1 21 (38.18%) Senior
2 10 (18.18%) AWS Engineer
3 8 (14.55%) Data Engineer
4 7 (12.73%) Applications Engineer
4 7 (12.73%) Developer
4 7 (12.73%) DevOps Engineer
5 6 (10.91%) Applications Support
5 6 (10.91%) Applications Support Engineer
5 6 (10.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (10.91%) Linux Engineer
5 6 (10.91%) Senior Data Engineer
5 6 (10.91%) Support Engineer
6 5 (9.09%) Consultant
6 5 (9.09%) Java Developer
6 5 (9.09%) Linux Support
6 5 (9.09%) Linux Support Engineer
6 5 (9.09%) Senior DevOps
6 5 (9.09%) Software Engineer
7 4 (7.27%) Senior Consultant
7 4 (7.27%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (18.18%) AWS CDK
2 9 (16.36%) React
3 7 (12.73%) Spring
3 7 (12.73%) Spring Boot
4 6 (10.91%) LAPP Stack
4 6 (10.91%) LDAP
4 6 (10.91%) WebSphere MQ
5 4 (7.27%) RESTful
6 3 (5.45%) .NET
6 3 (5.45%) Lambda Expressions
6 3 (5.45%) Next.js
6 3 (5.45%) Node.js
6 3 (5.45%) REST
6 3 (5.45%) Web Services
7 2 (3.64%) AngularJS
7 2 (3.64%) ASP.NET Web API
7 2 (3.64%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (3.64%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (3.64%) Ruby on Rails
7 2 (3.64%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 11 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 6 (10.91%) Linux Command Line
3 5 (9.09%) Product Ownership
4 3 (5.45%) Data Centre
4 3 (5.45%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (5.45%) Enterprise Cloud
4 3 (5.45%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (3.64%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.82%) Credit Derivative
6 1 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.82%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.82%) Online Games
6 1 (1.82%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.82%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.82%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 15 (27.27%) Linux
2 8 (14.55%) Windows
3 7 (12.73%) Unix
4 6 (10.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (3.64%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (50.91%) CI/CD
2 25 (45.45%) Infrastructure as Code
3 19 (34.55%) Software Engineering
4 14 (25.45%) Agile
4 14 (25.45%) Containerisation
4 14 (25.45%) DevOps
4 14 (25.45%) Mentoring
4 14 (25.45%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (23.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 10 (18.18%) Microservices
7 9 (16.36%) Disaster Recovery
7 9 (16.36%) Technical Leadership
8 8 (14.55%) Data Engineering
9 7 (12.73%) Clean Code
9 7 (12.73%) Full-Stack Development
9 7 (12.73%) Infrastructure Automation
9 7 (12.73%) Observability
9 7 (12.73%) Platform Engineering
10 6 (10.91%) Acceptance Criteria
10 6 (10.91%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 33 (60.00%) Python
2 14 (25.45%) SQL
3 13 (23.64%) Java
4 9 (16.36%) JavaScript
4 9 (16.36%) TypeScript
5 7 (12.73%) Bash
6 4 (7.27%) PowerShell
7 3 (5.45%) Go
8 2 (3.64%) C#
8 2 (3.64%) Ruby
9 1 (1.82%) C++
9 1 (1.82%) PHP
9 1 (1.82%) Scala
Qualifications
1 20 (36.36%) AWS Certification
2 8 (14.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 8 (14.55%) Degree
3 6 (10.91%) ITIL Certification
3 6 (10.91%) SnowPro
4 5 (9.09%) Security Cleared
5 3 (5.45%) SC Cleared
6 2 (3.64%) AWS Certified Developer
6 2 (3.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.82%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (1.82%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.91%) SLA
2 4 (7.27%) QA
3 3 (5.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (5.45%) PCI DSS
3 3 (5.45%) SOC 2
4 1 (1.82%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.82%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.82%) GDPR
4 1 (1.82%) WCAG
System Software
1 11 (20.00%) Docker
2 2 (3.64%) VMware NSX
2 2 (3.64%) vSphere
3 1 (1.82%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 26 (47.27%) Terraform
2 12 (21.82%) Kubernetes
3 7 (12.73%) Ansible
3 7 (12.73%) Grafana
3 7 (12.73%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.82%) Argo
4 1 (1.82%) Packer
Vendors
1 7 (12.73%) IBM
2 6 (10.91%) Red Hat
3 3 (5.45%) Databricks
4 2 (3.64%) VMware
5 1 (1.82%) Adobe
5 1 (1.82%) Facebook
5 1 (1.82%) Google
5 1 (1.82%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.82%) Oracle