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 4 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 318 247 323
Rank change year-on-year -71 +76 +23
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EC2 56 241 153
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.37% 1.26% 0.75%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.01% 2.78% 1.58%
Number of salaries quoted 50 201 142
10th Percentile £52,375 £62,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £85,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,250 £107,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -34.65% +59.26% -3.57%
75th Percentile £81,500 £142,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £165,000 £83,625
UK median annual salary £70,000 £106,250 £67,500
% change year-on-year -34.12% +57.41% -5.92%

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 5,563 8,657 9,681
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 36.33% 45.41% 47.48%
Number of salaries quoted 4,114 5,671 8,292
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £36,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £64,762
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +0.37% -0.37%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,875 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £110,000 £98,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,382 £62,500
% change year-on-year -5.34% +1.41% -2.95%

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 4 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 (10.71%) Tomcat
1 6 (10.71%) WebSphere
1 6 (10.71%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (1.79%) Drupal
2 1 (1.79%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 56 (100.00%) AWS
2 47 (83.93%) Amazon S3
3 43 (76.79%) AWS Lambda
3 43 (76.79%) Serverless
4 20 (35.71%) Amazon ECS
5 19 (33.93%) AWS CloudFormation
5 19 (33.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 14 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
7 9 (16.07%) GitHub
7 9 (16.07%) Route 53
8 8 (14.29%) Amazon SQS
8 8 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 7 (12.50%) Snowflake
10 6 (10.71%) Amazon ECR
10 6 (10.71%) Azure
10 6 (10.71%) SaaS
11 3 (5.36%) AWS Direct Connect
11 3 (5.36%) AWS Step Functions
12 2 (3.57%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 6 (10.71%) SSL
2 5 (8.93%) TCP/IP
2 5 (8.93%) VPN
3 3 (5.36%) BGP
3 3 (5.36%) VLAN
4 2 (3.57%) DNS
5 1 (1.79%) Firewall
5 1 (1.79%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (67.86%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (21.43%) Amazon Redshift
3 11 (19.64%) DynamoDB
4 10 (17.86%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (10.71%) DB2
6 6 (10.71%) MongoDB
6 6 (10.71%) NoSQL
6 6 (10.71%) SQL Server
7 4 (7.14%) Data Lake
8 3 (5.36%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (5.36%) MySQL
9 1 (1.79%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (1.79%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (17.86%) Jenkins
2 5 (8.93%) GitLab
3 4 (7.14%) Cypress.io
4 3 (5.36%) Git
5 2 (3.57%) JIRA
6 1 (1.79%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.79%) Testinfra
General
1 11 (19.64%) Finance
2 9 (16.07%) Banking
2 9 (16.07%) Social Skills
3 5 (8.93%) Marketing
4 4 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (5.36%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (5.36%) Back Office
5 3 (5.36%) Financial Institution
5 3 (5.36%) Law
5 3 (5.36%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (5.36%) Retail
6 1 (1.79%) Automotive
6 1 (1.79%) Billing
6 1 (1.79%) Games
6 1 (1.79%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 16 (28.57%) Senior
2 11 (19.64%) Developer
3 8 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
3 8 (14.29%) Data Engineer
4 7 (12.50%) Applications Engineer
4 7 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
4 7 (12.50%) Linux Engineer
5 6 (10.71%) Applications Support
5 6 (10.71%) Applications Support Engineer
5 6 (10.71%) Java Developer
5 6 (10.71%) Senior Data Engineer
5 6 (10.71%) Support Engineer
6 5 (8.93%) Full-Stack Developer
6 5 (8.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (8.93%) Linux Support
6 5 (8.93%) Linux Support Engineer
7 4 (7.14%) AWS Consultant
7 4 (7.14%) Consultant
7 4 (7.14%) Senior Consultant
7 4 (7.14%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (16.07%) AWS CDK
1 9 (16.07%) React
2 6 (10.71%) LAPP Stack
2 6 (10.71%) LDAP
2 6 (10.71%) Node.js
2 6 (10.71%) Spring
2 6 (10.71%) Spring Boot
2 6 (10.71%) WebSphere MQ
3 4 (7.14%) Jest
3 4 (7.14%) RESTful
3 4 (7.14%) Ruby on Rails
4 3 (5.36%) .NET
4 3 (5.36%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (5.36%) Lambda Expressions
4 3 (5.36%) Next.js
5 2 (3.57%) AngularJS
5 2 (3.57%) OpenTelemetry
5 2 (3.57%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (3.57%) REST
5 2 (3.57%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 13 (23.21%) Cloud Native
2 6 (10.71%) Linux Command Line
3 5 (8.93%) Product Ownership
4 3 (5.36%) Data Centre
4 3 (5.36%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (5.36%) Enterprise Cloud
4 3 (5.36%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.79%) Online Games
5 1 (1.79%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.79%) Reinsurance
5 1 (1.79%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.79%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 16 (28.57%) Linux
2 9 (16.07%) Windows
3 6 (10.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (10.71%) Unix
4 3 (5.36%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (53.57%) CI/CD
2 22 (39.29%) Infrastructure as Code
3 15 (26.79%) Agile
3 15 (26.79%) Containerisation
4 14 (25.00%) DevOps
5 13 (23.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 13 (23.21%) Software Engineering
6 11 (19.64%) Microservices
6 11 (19.64%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (17.86%) Disaster Recovery
7 10 (17.86%) Full-Stack Development
8 9 (16.07%) Mentoring
8 9 (16.07%) Observability
9 8 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
10 7 (12.50%) Clean Code
10 7 (12.50%) Data Engineering
11 6 (10.71%) Acceptance Criteria
11 6 (10.71%) Change Management
11 6 (10.71%) Front End Development
11 6 (10.71%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 32 (57.14%) Python
2 14 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 13 (23.21%) Java
4 12 (21.43%) SQL
5 7 (12.50%) TypeScript
6 6 (10.71%) Bash
7 4 (7.14%) Ruby
8 3 (5.36%) Go
9 2 (3.57%) C#
9 2 (3.57%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.79%) Scala
Qualifications
1 20 (35.71%) AWS Certification
2 9 (16.07%) Degree
3 8 (14.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 6 (10.71%) ITIL Certification
4 6 (10.71%) SnowPro
5 3 (5.36%) Security Cleared
6 2 (3.57%) AWS Certified Developer
6 2 (3.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.79%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.79%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.79%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.71%) SLA
2 3 (5.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (5.36%) PCI DSS
2 3 (5.36%) SOC 2
3 1 (1.79%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.79%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.79%) GDPR
3 1 (1.79%) QA
3 1 (1.79%) WCAG
System Software
1 14 (25.00%) Docker
2 3 (5.36%) VMware NSX
2 3 (5.36%) vSphere
3 1 (1.79%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 24 (42.86%) Terraform
2 15 (26.79%) Kubernetes
3 8 (14.29%) Grafana
3 8 (14.29%) Prometheus
4 6 (10.71%) Ansible
5 1 (1.79%) Argo
5 1 (1.79%) Packer
Vendors
1 6 (10.71%) IBM
1 6 (10.71%) Red Hat
2 3 (5.36%) VMware
3 2 (3.57%) Databricks
4 1 (1.79%) Facebook
4 1 (1.79%) Google
4 1 (1.79%) Mercator
4 1 (1.79%) Microsoft