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

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 349 277 329
Rank change year-on-year -72 +52 -23
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EC2 55 195 165
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.34% 0.98% 0.75%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.98% 2.22% 1.56%
Number of salaries quoted 47 161 151
10th Percentile £52,500 £58,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £76,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £107,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -32.56% +59.26% -3.57%
75th Percentile £87,500 £142,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £165,000 £83,750
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 8,789 10,584
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 34.91% 44.05% 48.17%
Number of salaries quoted 4,155 5,697 9,035
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £37,090
25th Percentile £42,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - -
75th Percentile £82,245 £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 7 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
2 1 (1.82%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (1.82%) Adobe XD
Cloud Services
1 55 (100.00%) AWS
2 44 (80.00%) Amazon S3
3 43 (78.18%) AWS Lambda
3 43 (78.18%) Serverless
4 24 (43.64%) AWS CloudFormation
5 19 (34.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 18 (32.73%) Amazon ECS
7 15 (27.27%) Amazon EKS
8 13 (23.64%) GitHub
9 12 (21.82%) GitHub Actions
10 8 (14.55%) Route 53
11 7 (12.73%) Snowflake
12 6 (10.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 6 (10.91%) Amazon ECR
13 4 (7.27%) Amazon SQS
13 4 (7.27%) Azure
13 4 (7.27%) SaaS
14 3 (5.45%) AWS Fargate
14 3 (5.45%) AWS Step Functions
14 3 (5.45%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 7 (12.73%) VPN
2 6 (10.91%) SSL
3 5 (9.09%) DNS
4 4 (7.27%) Firewall
4 4 (7.27%) TCP/IP
5 2 (3.64%) BGP
5 2 (3.64%) 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%) SQL Server
5 6 (10.91%) DB2
5 6 (10.91%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (7.27%) Data Lake
7 3 (5.45%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (3.64%) MongoDB
8 2 (3.64%) MySQL
8 2 (3.64%) NoSQL
9 1 (1.82%) Metadata
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 13 (23.64%) Jenkins
2 5 (9.09%) Git
2 5 (9.09%) GitLab
3 3 (5.45%) JIRA
4 1 (1.82%) Babel
4 1 (1.82%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.82%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.82%) gulp
4 1 (1.82%) IntelliJ
4 1 (1.82%) JUnit
4 1 (1.82%) Maven
4 1 (1.82%) Mockito
4 1 (1.82%) Testinfra
4 1 (1.82%) webpack
General
1 14 (25.45%) Finance
2 11 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 8 (14.55%) Banking
4 5 (9.09%) Marketing
5 3 (5.45%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (5.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (5.45%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (3.64%) Back Office
6 2 (3.64%) Financial Institution
6 2 (3.64%) Law
6 2 (3.64%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.64%) Retail
7 1 (1.82%) Fire and Rescue
7 1 (1.82%) Games
Job Titles
1 22 (40.00%) Senior
2 12 (21.82%) AWS Engineer
3 9 (16.36%) DevOps Engineer
4 8 (14.55%) Data Engineer
5 7 (12.73%) Applications Engineer
6 6 (10.91%) Applications Support
6 6 (10.91%) Applications Support Engineer
6 6 (10.91%) Linux Engineer
6 6 (10.91%) Senior Data Engineer
6 6 (10.91%) Support Engineer
7 5 (9.09%) AWS DevOps
7 5 (9.09%) Consultant
7 5 (9.09%) Developer
7 5 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (9.09%) Linux Support
7 5 (9.09%) Linux Support Engineer
7 5 (9.09%) Senior DevOps
7 5 (9.09%) Software Engineer
8 4 (7.27%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 4 (7.27%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (18.18%) AWS CDK
2 9 (16.36%) React
3 6 (10.91%) LAPP Stack
3 6 (10.91%) LDAP
3 6 (10.91%) WebSphere MQ
4 5 (9.09%) Spring
4 5 (9.09%) Spring Boot
5 4 (7.27%) REST
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%) RESTful
6 3 (5.45%) Web Services
7 2 (3.64%) CSS
7 2 (3.64%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (3.64%) HTML
7 2 (3.64%) OpenTelemetry
7 2 (3.64%) Vue
7 2 (3.64%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 8 (14.55%) Cloud Native
2 6 (10.91%) Linux Command Line
3 5 (9.09%) Product Ownership
4 3 (5.45%) Enterprise Cloud
4 3 (5.45%) Virtual Team
5 2 (3.64%) Data Centre
5 2 (3.64%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (3.64%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (3.64%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.82%) Credit Derivative
6 1 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.82%) Online Games
6 1 (1.82%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.82%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.82%) Smart City
6 1 (1.82%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 18 (32.73%) Linux
2 8 (14.55%) Windows
3 7 (12.73%) Unix
4 6 (10.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (3.64%) VMS
6 1 (1.82%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (49.09%) CI/CD
1 27 (49.09%) Infrastructure as Code
2 21 (38.18%) Software Engineering
3 17 (30.91%) DevOps
4 15 (27.27%) Mentoring
4 15 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (25.45%) Containerisation
6 12 (21.82%) Agile
6 12 (21.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 10 (18.18%) Infrastructure Automation
7 10 (18.18%) Technical Leadership
8 9 (16.36%) Microservices
9 8 (14.55%) Data Engineering
9 8 (14.55%) Disaster Recovery
10 7 (12.73%) Clean Code
10 7 (12.73%) Platform Engineering
11 6 (10.91%) Data Pipeline
11 6 (10.91%) Full-Stack Development
11 6 (10.91%) Observability
11 6 (10.91%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 34 (61.82%) Python
2 14 (25.45%) SQL
3 10 (18.18%) Bash
3 10 (18.18%) Java
4 9 (16.36%) TypeScript
5 7 (12.73%) JavaScript
6 5 (9.09%) PowerShell
7 2 (3.64%) C#
7 2 (3.64%) Go
8 1 (1.82%) C++
8 1 (1.82%) PHP
8 1 (1.82%) R
8 1 (1.82%) Ruby
8 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%) Security Cleared
3 6 (10.91%) SnowPro
4 4 (7.27%) SC Cleared
5 2 (3.64%) AWS Certified Developer
5 2 (3.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.82%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 1 (1.82%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.91%) QA
1 6 (10.91%) SLA
2 2 (3.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.64%) PCI DSS
2 2 (3.64%) SOC 2
3 1 (1.82%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.82%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.82%) GDPR
3 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 28 (50.91%) Terraform
2 10 (18.18%) Kubernetes
3 9 (16.36%) Grafana
3 9 (16.36%) Prometheus
4 8 (14.55%) Ansible
5 1 (1.82%) Argo
5 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