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 12 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 320 256 362
Rank change year-on-year -64 +106 +9
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EC2 68 181 173
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.42% 1.15% 0.63%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.13% 2.46% 1.37%
Number of salaries quoted 58 130 153
10th Percentile £51,750 £52,250 £42,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £73,125 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £105,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -38.10% +55.56% -3.57%
75th Percentile £81,500 £118,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £147,500 £90,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £95,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -31.58% +35.71% -3.45%

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 6,042 7,366 12,589
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.10% 46.81% 45.81%
Number of salaries quoted 4,151 4,773 11,007
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £35,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,100 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.54% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,290
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%

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 12 February 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 4 (5.88%) Tomcat
1 4 (5.88%) WebSphere
1 4 (5.88%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (1.47%) Apache
2 1 (1.47%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.47%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 68 (100.00%) AWS
2 55 (80.88%) Amazon S3
3 44 (64.71%) AWS Lambda
3 44 (64.71%) Serverless
4 28 (41.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 23 (33.82%) Amazon ECS
6 21 (30.88%) Amazon EKS
7 18 (26.47%) Amazon SQS
8 16 (23.53%) AWS CloudFormation
9 14 (20.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 12 (17.65%) GitHub
10 12 (17.65%) SaaS
11 11 (16.18%) GitHub Actions
12 10 (14.71%) Route 53
13 8 (11.76%) CloudFront
14 7 (10.29%) Amazon ElastiCache
14 7 (10.29%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 7 (10.29%) Azure
15 6 (8.82%) AWS Direct Connect
16 4 (5.88%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 7 (10.29%) VPN
2 6 (8.82%) BGP
2 6 (8.82%) TCP/IP
2 6 (8.82%) VLAN
3 4 (5.88%) SSL
4 3 (4.41%) AMQP
5 1 (1.47%) DNS
5 1 (1.47%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (58.82%) Amazon RDS
2 17 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (20.59%) MongoDB
4 8 (11.76%) Amazon Aurora
5 7 (10.29%) NoSQL
5 7 (10.29%) SQL Server
6 6 (8.82%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (5.88%) DB2
7 4 (5.88%) DynamoDB
8 3 (4.41%) MySQL
9 2 (2.94%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (2.94%) Data Lake
9 2 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (1.47%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 12 (17.65%) Cypress.io
2 7 (10.29%) Jenkins
3 5 (7.35%) GitLab
4 1 (1.47%) Git
4 1 (1.47%) Testinfra
General
1 17 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 12 (17.65%) Finance
3 10 (14.71%) Banking
4 7 (10.29%) Law
5 6 (8.82%) Back Office
5 6 (8.82%) Financial Institution
5 6 (8.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (8.82%) Retail
6 3 (4.41%) Billing
6 3 (4.41%) Marketing
6 3 (4.41%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.94%) Military
7 2 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.47%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 20 (29.41%) Developer
2 18 (26.47%) AWS Engineer
3 16 (23.53%) Platform Engineer
4 12 (17.65%) Full-Stack Developer
5 11 (16.18%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 11 (16.18%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 11 (16.18%) Senior
6 10 (14.71%) Linux Engineer
7 9 (13.24%) Cloud Engineer
8 8 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 8 (11.76%) Java Developer
9 6 (8.82%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
9 6 (8.82%) Software Engineer
10 5 (7.35%) DevOps Engineer
11 4 (5.88%) Applications Engineer
11 4 (5.88%) Applications Support
11 4 (5.88%) Applications Support Engineer
11 4 (5.88%) Linux Support
11 4 (5.88%) Linux Support Engineer
11 4 (5.88%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (27.94%) React
2 17 (25.00%) Node.js
3 12 (17.65%) Jest
3 12 (17.65%) Ruby on Rails
4 9 (13.24%) Spring
4 9 (13.24%) Spring Boot
5 7 (10.29%) Loki
5 7 (10.29%) RESTful
6 5 (7.35%) RabbitMQ
7 4 (5.88%) AWS CDK
7 4 (5.88%) JSON
7 4 (5.88%) LAPP Stack
7 4 (5.88%) LDAP
7 4 (5.88%) REST
7 4 (5.88%) WebSphere MQ
8 3 (4.41%) Hibernate
8 3 (4.41%) J2EE
8 3 (4.41%) Lambda Expressions
8 3 (4.41%) Next.js
8 3 (4.41%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 18 (26.47%) Cloud Native
2 6 (8.82%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (5.88%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (4.41%) Blog
4 3 (4.41%) Data Centre
4 3 (4.41%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (4.41%) Security Posture
5 2 (2.94%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.47%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.47%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.47%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 17 (25.00%) Linux
2 8 (11.76%) Windows
3 4 (5.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (5.88%) Unix
4 3 (4.41%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (64.71%) CI/CD
2 33 (48.53%) Infrastructure as Code
3 26 (38.24%) DevOps
4 24 (35.29%) Platform Engineering
5 20 (29.41%) Observability
6 17 (25.00%) Containerisation
6 17 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
6 17 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
6 17 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 16 (23.53%) Microservices
8 14 (20.59%) Agile
9 13 (19.12%) Cloud Security
9 13 (19.12%) Problem-Solving
10 12 (17.65%) Mob Programming
10 12 (17.65%) Software Engineering
11 10 (14.71%) Continuous Improvement
11 10 (14.71%) Infrastructure Automation
11 10 (14.71%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 9 (13.24%) SOA
13 8 (11.76%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 35 (51.47%) Python
2 21 (30.88%) JavaScript
3 17 (25.00%) Java
4 12 (17.65%) Bash
4 12 (17.65%) Ruby
5 9 (13.24%) SQL
6 6 (8.82%) Go
7 5 (7.35%) TypeScript
8 3 (4.41%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.47%) Scala
Qualifications
1 12 (17.65%) Degree
2 11 (16.18%) AWS Certification
3 4 (5.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 4 (5.88%) ITIL Certification
4 3 (4.41%) Security Cleared
5 2 (2.94%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.47%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.47%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.29%) SOC 2
2 6 (8.82%) PCI DSS
3 4 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (5.88%) SLA
4 1 (1.47%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.47%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.47%) GDPR
4 1 (1.47%) WCAG
System Software
1 21 (30.88%) Docker
2 4 (5.88%) VMware NSX
2 4 (5.88%) vSphere
3 1 (1.47%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 35 (51.47%) Terraform
2 27 (39.71%) Kubernetes
3 13 (19.12%) Grafana
4 12 (17.65%) Prometheus
5 9 (13.24%) Ansible
6 1 (1.47%) Argo
6 1 (1.47%) Packer
Vendors
1 4 (5.88%) IBM
1 4 (5.88%) Red Hat
1 4 (5.88%) VMware
2 1 (1.47%) Databricks
2 1 (1.47%) Mercator
2 1 (1.47%) Microsoft