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 27 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 327 324 400
Rank change year-on-year -3 +76 -51
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EC2 101 110 182
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.49% 0.70% 0.54%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.30% 1.85% 1.28%
Number of salaries quoted 85 67 161
10th Percentile - £44,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,125 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £70,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.44% -9.03% +14.81%
75th Percentile £73,750 £96,250 £112,500
90th Percentile £83,250 £112,500 £142,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £72,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year -17.24% -6.45% +14.81%

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 7,792 5,945 14,252
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.13% 38.05% 42.44%
Number of salaries quoted 5,533 4,349 11,845
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -9.20%

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 27 June 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 (11.88%) Apache
2 10 (9.90%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (6.93%) Jupyter
4 5 (4.95%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.98%) nginx
5 2 (1.98%) WordPress
6 1 (0.99%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.99%) Confluence
6 1 (0.99%) Drupal
6 1 (0.99%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.99%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 101 (100.00%) AWS
2 83 (82.18%) Amazon S3
3 58 (57.43%) AWS Lambda
3 58 (57.43%) Serverless
4 32 (31.68%) Amazon ECS
5 29 (28.71%) GitHub
5 29 (28.71%) GitHub Actions
6 27 (26.73%) Amazon SQS
7 26 (25.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 22 (21.78%) Amazon EKS
9 18 (17.82%) AWS CloudFormation
10 17 (16.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 11 (10.89%) SaaS
12 9 (8.91%) Azure
13 7 (6.93%) Amazon ECR
13 7 (6.93%) Amazon EMR
13 7 (6.93%) CloudFront
13 7 (6.93%) Route 53
14 5 (4.95%) Amazon ElastiCache
14 5 (4.95%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 8 (7.92%) DNS
1 8 (7.92%) VPN
2 4 (3.96%) Firewall
3 3 (2.97%) BGP
3 3 (2.97%) TCP/IP
3 3 (2.97%) VLAN
4 2 (1.98%) AMQP
5 1 (0.99%) Network Security
5 1 (0.99%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (35.64%) Amazon RDS
2 30 (29.70%) PostgreSQL
3 25 (24.75%) MongoDB
4 10 (9.90%) DynamoDB
5 7 (6.93%) Amazon Athena
6 6 (5.94%) Amazon Aurora
6 6 (5.94%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (4.95%) NoSQL
8 4 (3.96%) MySQL
8 4 (3.96%) SQL Server
9 3 (2.97%) MariaDB
9 3 (2.97%) Metadata
10 2 (1.98%) Big Data
10 2 (1.98%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.99%) InterSystems Cache
11 1 (0.99%) Redis
11 1 (0.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 29 (28.71%) Cypress.io
2 11 (10.89%) Jenkins
3 10 (9.90%) GitLab
4 7 (6.93%) Git
5 6 (5.94%) JIRA
6 5 (4.95%) Storybook
7 3 (2.97%) Claude Code
8 2 (1.98%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.99%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.99%) Browser DevTools
9 1 (0.99%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.99%) git-flow
9 1 (0.99%) JMeter
9 1 (0.99%) Maven
9 1 (0.99%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.99%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.99%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.99%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.99%) Vagrant
9 1 (0.99%) webpack
General
1 17 (16.83%) Social Skills
2 16 (15.84%) Public Sector
3 9 (8.91%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (8.91%) Finance
4 6 (5.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (5.94%) Law
5 3 (2.97%) Back Office
5 3 (2.97%) Banking
5 3 (2.97%) Financial Institution
5 3 (2.97%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (2.97%) Legal
5 3 (2.97%) Military
5 3 (2.97%) Retail
6 2 (1.98%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.99%) Advertising
7 1 (0.99%) Billing
7 1 (0.99%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 36 (35.64%) Developer
2 29 (28.71%) AWS Engineer
3 25 (24.75%) Full-Stack Developer
4 19 (18.81%) Platform Engineer
5 17 (16.83%) Cloud Engineer
6 16 (15.84%) Senior
7 13 (12.87%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 11 (10.89%) AWS Platform Engineer
9 7 (6.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 7 (6.93%) Lead
10 6 (5.94%) Data Engineer
10 6 (5.94%) DevOps Engineer
10 6 (5.94%) Java Developer
10 6 (5.94%) Senior Platform Engineer
11 5 (4.95%) Python Engineer
11 5 (4.95%) Test Engineer
12 4 (3.96%) AWS DevOps
12 4 (3.96%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 4 (3.96%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 4 (3.96%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (35.64%) React
2 29 (28.71%) Jest
3 26 (25.74%) Node.js
4 24 (23.76%) Ruby on Rails
5 8 (7.92%) Web Services
6 7 (6.93%) Spring
7 6 (5.94%) CSS
7 6 (5.94%) REST
7 6 (5.94%) RESTful
7 6 (5.94%) Spring Boot
8 5 (4.95%) Flutter
8 5 (4.95%) React Native
8 5 (4.95%) Tailwind CSS
8 5 (4.95%) Zustand
9 4 (3.96%) .NET
9 4 (3.96%) JSON
9 4 (3.96%) PySpark
10 3 (2.97%) AngularJS
10 3 (2.97%) Elastic Stack
10 3 (2.97%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 24 (23.76%) Cloud Native
2 8 (7.92%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (4.95%) Mobile App
4 3 (2.97%) Blog
4 3 (2.97%) Data Centre
4 3 (2.97%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (2.97%) IoT
4 3 (2.97%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (1.98%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.98%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.98%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.99%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.99%) Reinsurance
6 1 (0.99%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.99%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (16.83%) Linux
2 2 (1.98%) Windows
3 1 (0.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.99%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (53.47%) CI/CD
2 47 (46.53%) Infrastructure as Code
3 42 (41.58%) DevOps
4 33 (32.67%) Microservices
5 31 (30.69%) Containerisation
6 28 (27.72%) Full-Stack Development
7 26 (25.74%) Agile
8 25 (24.75%) Platform Engineering
9 24 (23.76%) Mob Programming
10 21 (20.79%) Continuous Improvement
11 17 (16.83%) Mentoring
12 16 (15.84%) Observability
12 16 (15.84%) Problem-Solving
13 15 (14.85%) Software Engineering
14 13 (12.87%) Data Pipeline
14 13 (12.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 12 (11.88%) Infrastructure Automation
15 12 (11.88%) Test Automation
16 11 (10.89%) AI
16 11 (10.89%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 49 (48.51%) Python
2 34 (33.66%) JavaScript
3 24 (23.76%) Ruby
4 21 (20.79%) SQL
5 18 (17.82%) Bash
6 15 (14.85%) Java
7 8 (7.92%) Groovy
7 8 (7.92%) TypeScript
8 6 (5.94%) PHP
9 5 (4.95%) Dart
10 4 (3.96%) Go
11 3 (2.97%) C#
11 3 (2.97%) PowerShell
12 2 (1.98%) Scala
12 2 (1.98%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.99%) Perl
Qualifications
1 19 (18.81%) Security Cleared
2 15 (14.85%) SC Cleared
3 8 (7.92%) Degree
4 3 (2.97%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.98%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.99%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 9 (8.91%) QA
2 8 (7.92%) Data Quality
3 6 (5.94%) SOC 2
4 3 (2.97%) ISO 9001
4 3 (2.97%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.99%) HL7
5 1 (0.99%) NCSC
5 1 (0.99%) SLA
5 1 (0.99%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 38 (37.62%) Docker
2 3 (2.97%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.97%) Firmware
2 3 (2.97%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.99%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.99%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.99%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 49 (48.51%) Terraform
2 38 (37.62%) Kubernetes
3 16 (15.84%) Ansible
4 11 (10.89%) Grafana
5 8 (7.92%) Progress Chef
5 8 (7.92%) Prometheus
6 3 (2.97%) Argo
7 2 (1.98%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.99%) Consul
8 1 (0.99%) Kibana
8 1 (0.99%) Packer
8 1 (0.99%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (2.97%) Databricks
1 3 (2.97%) Microsoft
1 3 (2.97%) OpenAI
2 1 (0.99%) AppDynamics
2 1 (0.99%) Apple
2 1 (0.99%) Google
2 1 (0.99%) New Relic
2 1 (0.99%) Red Hat
2 1 (0.99%) TOWER Software
2 1 (0.99%) VMware