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 10 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 303 253 391
Rank change year-on-year -50 +138 +2
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EC2 74 177 172
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.45% 1.26% 0.58%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.20% 2.67% 1.27%
Number of salaries quoted 63 133 151
10th Percentile £50,500 £50,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £63,750 £52,108
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £95,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -34.21% +40.74% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £118,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £147,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £90,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -27.78% +28.57% -

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 6,161 6,635 13,573
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.13% 47.39% 45.39%
Number of salaries quoted 4,183 4,751 11,801
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,259 £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 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -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 10 March 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 3 (4.05%) Apache
1 3 (4.05%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.70%) Tomcat
2 2 (2.70%) WebSphere
2 2 (2.70%) WebSphere Application Server
3 1 (1.35%) JBoss
3 1 (1.35%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 74 (100.00%) AWS
2 62 (83.78%) Amazon S3
3 50 (67.57%) AWS Lambda
3 50 (67.57%) Serverless
4 26 (35.14%) Amazon ECS
5 24 (32.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 22 (29.73%) Amazon SQS
7 19 (25.68%) Amazon EKS
8 14 (18.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 14 (18.92%) GitHub
8 14 (18.92%) SaaS
9 13 (17.57%) GitHub Actions
10 12 (16.22%) AWS CloudFormation
11 8 (10.81%) Route 53
12 7 (9.46%) Amazon ElastiCache
12 7 (9.46%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 7 (9.46%) CloudFront
13 6 (8.11%) AWS Direct Connect
14 5 (6.76%) Azure
15 3 (4.05%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 7 (9.46%) VPN
2 6 (8.11%) BGP
2 6 (8.11%) TCP/IP
2 6 (8.11%) VLAN
3 3 (4.05%) AMQP
4 2 (2.70%) SSL
5 1 (1.35%) DNS
5 1 (1.35%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (55.41%) Amazon RDS
2 22 (29.73%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (24.32%) MongoDB
4 10 (13.51%) Amazon Aurora
5 8 (10.81%) NoSQL
6 6 (8.11%) Amazon Redshift
6 6 (8.11%) SQL Server
7 5 (6.76%) DynamoDB
8 3 (4.05%) Metadata
8 3 (4.05%) MySQL
9 2 (2.70%) DB2
10 1 (1.35%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 16 (21.62%) Cypress.io
2 5 (6.76%) Jenkins
3 4 (5.41%) GitLab
4 2 (2.70%) Git
4 2 (2.70%) JIRA
5 1 (1.35%) Browser DevTools
5 1 (1.35%) CircleCI
5 1 (1.35%) TeamCity
5 1 (1.35%) webpack
General
1 20 (27.03%) Social Skills
2 11 (14.86%) Finance
3 9 (12.16%) Law
4 8 (10.81%) Banking
5 6 (8.11%) Back Office
5 6 (8.11%) Financial Institution
5 6 (8.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (8.11%) Public Sector
5 6 (8.11%) Retail
6 4 (5.41%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (4.05%) Billing
7 3 (4.05%) Marketing
7 3 (4.05%) Military
8 1 (1.35%) Automotive
8 1 (1.35%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 26 (35.14%) Developer
2 20 (27.03%) AWS Engineer
3 17 (22.97%) Full-Stack Developer
4 16 (21.62%) Platform Engineer
5 12 (16.22%) Senior
6 11 (14.86%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 11 (14.86%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 10 (13.51%) Cloud Engineer
8 9 (12.16%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 9 (12.16%) Java Developer
9 7 (9.46%) Linux Engineer
10 6 (8.11%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
10 6 (8.11%) Software Engineer
11 5 (6.76%) DevOps Engineer
11 5 (6.76%) Python Engineer
12 4 (5.41%) Data Engineer
12 4 (5.41%) Senior Data Engineer
13 3 (4.05%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
13 3 (4.05%) Java Engineer
13 3 (4.05%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (33.78%) React
2 21 (28.38%) Node.js
3 16 (21.62%) Jest
3 16 (21.62%) Ruby on Rails
4 10 (13.51%) Spring
4 10 (13.51%) Spring Boot
5 7 (9.46%) Loki
5 7 (9.46%) RESTful
6 5 (6.76%) RabbitMQ
7 4 (5.41%) JSON
7 4 (5.41%) REST
8 3 (4.05%) AWS CDK
8 3 (4.05%) Hibernate
8 3 (4.05%) J2EE
8 3 (4.05%) Lambda Expressions
8 3 (4.05%) Next.js
8 3 (4.05%) SOAP
8 3 (4.05%) Spring Security
8 3 (4.05%) Web Services
8 3 (4.05%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (29.73%) Cloud Native
2 6 (8.11%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (4.05%) Blog
3 3 (4.05%) Data Centre
3 3 (4.05%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (4.05%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (4.05%) Security Posture
4 2 (2.70%) IoT
5 1 (1.35%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.35%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.35%) Reinsurance
5 1 (1.35%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (18.92%) Linux
2 6 (8.11%) Windows
3 3 (4.05%) VMS
4 2 (2.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (2.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (62.16%) CI/CD
2 35 (47.30%) Infrastructure as Code
3 30 (40.54%) DevOps
4 24 (32.43%) Platform Engineering
5 22 (29.73%) Full-Stack Development
5 22 (29.73%) Microservices
6 21 (28.38%) Containerisation
6 21 (28.38%) Observability
7 19 (25.68%) Agile
8 16 (21.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 16 (21.62%) Mob Programming
9 15 (20.27%) Disaster Recovery
10 13 (17.57%) Cloud Security
10 13 (17.57%) Problem-Solving
10 13 (17.57%) Software Engineering
11 12 (16.22%) Continuous Improvement
12 10 (13.51%) Deployment Automation
12 10 (13.51%) Infrastructure Automation
12 10 (13.51%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 9 (12.16%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 39 (52.70%) Python
2 27 (36.49%) JavaScript
3 18 (24.32%) Java
4 16 (21.62%) Ruby
5 13 (17.57%) Bash
6 12 (16.22%) SQL
7 6 (8.11%) Go
7 6 (8.11%) TypeScript
8 3 (4.05%) PHP
8 3 (4.05%) PowerShell
9 2 (2.70%) Scala
Qualifications
1 12 (16.22%) Degree
2 5 (6.76%) AWS Certification
2 5 (6.76%) Security Cleared
3 4 (5.41%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.70%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (1.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.46%) SOC 2
2 6 (8.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (8.11%) PCI DSS
3 3 (4.05%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.70%) ISO 9001
4 2 (2.70%) QA
4 2 (2.70%) SLA
5 1 (1.35%) HL7
5 1 (1.35%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 26 (35.14%) Docker
2 4 (5.41%) VMware NSX
2 4 (5.41%) vSphere
3 2 (2.70%) Firmware
4 1 (1.35%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 36 (48.65%) Terraform
2 31 (41.89%) Kubernetes
3 13 (17.57%) Grafana
4 12 (16.22%) Prometheus
5 9 (12.16%) Ansible
6 1 (1.35%) Argo
6 1 (1.35%) Kibana
Vendors
1 4 (5.41%) VMware
2 3 (4.05%) Databricks
3 2 (2.70%) IBM
3 2 (2.70%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.35%) Apple
4 1 (1.35%) Mercator
4 1 (1.35%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.35%) New Relic