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

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 310 242 391
Rank change year-on-year -68 +149 -6
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EC2 82 172 166
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.48% 1.29% 0.55%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.28% 2.71% 1.22%
Number of salaries quoted 68 128 144
10th Percentile £49,625 £50,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £63,750 £52,304
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £95,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -34.21% +40.74% -
75th Percentile £74,063 £118,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £147,500 £93,500
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 6,402 6,345 13,625
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.56% 47.43% 45.12%
Number of salaries quoted 4,318 4,705 11,851
10th Percentile £32,500 £34,769 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £64,600 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.80% +7.67% -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 21 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 4 (4.88%) Apache
2 3 (3.66%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.44%) Tomcat
3 2 (2.44%) WebSphere
3 2 (2.44%) WebSphere Application Server
3 2 (2.44%) WordPress
4 1 (1.22%) Confluence
4 1 (1.22%) Drupal
4 1 (1.22%) IIS
4 1 (1.22%) JBoss
4 1 (1.22%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (1.22%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 82 (100.00%) AWS
2 68 (82.93%) Amazon S3
3 54 (65.85%) AWS Lambda
3 54 (65.85%) Serverless
4 28 (34.15%) Amazon ECS
4 28 (34.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 23 (28.05%) Amazon SQS
6 21 (25.61%) Amazon EKS
7 20 (24.39%) GitHub
8 19 (23.17%) GitHub Actions
9 15 (18.29%) AWS CloudFormation
9 15 (18.29%) SaaS
10 14 (17.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 8 (9.76%) Amazon ElastiCache
11 8 (9.76%) CloudFront
11 8 (9.76%) Route 53
12 7 (8.54%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 6 (7.32%) AWS Direct Connect
13 6 (7.32%) Azure
14 5 (6.10%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 9 (10.98%) VPN
2 6 (7.32%) BGP
2 6 (7.32%) TCP/IP
2 6 (7.32%) VLAN
3 3 (3.66%) AMQP
3 3 (3.66%) DNS
3 3 (3.66%) Firewall
4 2 (2.44%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (54.88%) Amazon RDS
2 23 (28.05%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (23.17%) MongoDB
4 10 (12.20%) Amazon Aurora
5 8 (9.76%) NoSQL
6 7 (8.54%) SQL Server
7 6 (7.32%) Amazon Redshift
8 5 (6.10%) DynamoDB
9 3 (3.66%) Metadata
9 3 (3.66%) MySQL
10 2 (2.44%) DB2
11 1 (1.22%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (1.22%) InterSystems Cache
11 1 (1.22%) Redis
Development Applications
1 19 (23.17%) Cypress.io
2 5 (6.10%) Jenkins
3 4 (4.88%) GitLab
3 4 (4.88%) JIRA
4 2 (2.44%) Git
4 2 (2.44%) Storybook
5 1 (1.22%) Browser DevTools
5 1 (1.22%) CircleCI
5 1 (1.22%) Gatling
5 1 (1.22%) JMeter
5 1 (1.22%) TeamCity
5 1 (1.22%) Vagrant
5 1 (1.22%) webpack
General
1 21 (25.61%) Social Skills
2 11 (13.41%) Finance
3 9 (10.98%) Law
4 8 (9.76%) Banking
5 6 (7.32%) Back Office
5 6 (7.32%) Financial Institution
5 6 (7.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (7.32%) Public Sector
5 6 (7.32%) Retail
6 4 (4.88%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (3.66%) Billing
7 3 (3.66%) Marketing
7 3 (3.66%) Military
8 1 (1.22%) Automotive
8 1 (1.22%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 29 (35.37%) Developer
2 22 (26.83%) AWS Engineer
3 19 (23.17%) Platform Engineer
4 18 (21.95%) Full-Stack Developer
5 12 (14.63%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 12 (14.63%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 12 (14.63%) Senior
6 10 (12.20%) Cloud Engineer
7 9 (10.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 9 (10.98%) Java Developer
8 7 (8.54%) Linux Engineer
9 6 (7.32%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
9 6 (7.32%) DevOps Engineer
9 6 (7.32%) Software Engineer
10 5 (6.10%) Python Engineer
11 4 (4.88%) Data Engineer
11 4 (4.88%) Senior Data Engineer
12 3 (3.66%) AWS DevOps
12 3 (3.66%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
12 3 (3.66%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (34.15%) React
2 22 (26.83%) Node.js
3 19 (23.17%) Jest
4 17 (20.73%) Ruby on Rails
5 10 (12.20%) Spring
5 10 (12.20%) Spring Boot
6 7 (8.54%) Loki
6 7 (8.54%) RESTful
7 5 (6.10%) RabbitMQ
8 4 (4.88%) JSON
8 4 (4.88%) REST
9 3 (3.66%) .NET
9 3 (3.66%) CSS
9 3 (3.66%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (3.66%) Hibernate
9 3 (3.66%) J2EE
9 3 (3.66%) SOAP
9 3 (3.66%) Spring Security
9 3 (3.66%) Web Services
9 3 (3.66%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (28.05%) Cloud Native
2 6 (7.32%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (3.66%) Blog
3 3 (3.66%) Data Centre
3 3 (3.66%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (3.66%) IoT
3 3 (3.66%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (3.66%) Security Posture
4 2 (2.44%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.22%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.22%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.22%) Reinsurance
5 1 (1.22%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (18.29%) Linux
2 7 (8.54%) Windows
3 3 (3.66%) VMS
4 2 (2.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (2.44%) Unix
5 1 (1.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (63.41%) CI/CD
2 38 (46.34%) Infrastructure as Code
3 35 (42.68%) DevOps
4 27 (32.93%) Platform Engineering
5 24 (29.27%) Microservices
6 23 (28.05%) Full-Stack Development
7 22 (26.83%) Containerisation
7 22 (26.83%) Observability
8 21 (25.61%) Agile
9 18 (21.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 17 (20.73%) Mob Programming
11 15 (18.29%) Cloud Security
11 15 (18.29%) Disaster Recovery
11 15 (18.29%) Software Engineering
12 14 (17.07%) Continuous Improvement
13 13 (15.85%) Problem-Solving
14 12 (14.63%) Infrastructure Automation
15 11 (13.41%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 10 (12.20%) Deployment Automation
16 10 (12.20%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 43 (52.44%) Python
2 28 (34.15%) JavaScript
3 18 (21.95%) Java
4 17 (20.73%) Ruby
5 16 (19.51%) Bash
6 12 (14.63%) SQL
7 8 (9.76%) TypeScript
8 6 (7.32%) Go
9 5 (6.10%) PHP
10 3 (3.66%) PowerShell
11 2 (2.44%) Dart
11 2 (2.44%) Scala
Qualifications
1 13 (15.85%) Degree
2 6 (7.32%) AWS Certification
2 6 (7.32%) Security Cleared
3 4 (4.88%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (2.44%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (1.22%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 8 (9.76%) SOC 2
2 6 (7.32%) PCI DSS
3 3 (3.66%) Data Quality
3 3 (3.66%) ISO 9001
3 3 (3.66%) QA
4 2 (2.44%) SLA
5 1 (1.22%) HL7
5 1 (1.22%) NCSC
5 1 (1.22%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 29 (35.37%) Docker
2 4 (4.88%) VMware NSX
2 4 (4.88%) vSphere
3 3 (3.66%) Firmware
4 1 (1.22%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 40 (48.78%) Terraform
2 33 (40.24%) Kubernetes
3 15 (18.29%) Grafana
4 12 (14.63%) Ansible
4 12 (14.63%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.44%) Argo
6 1 (1.22%) Consul
6 1 (1.22%) Kibana
6 1 (1.22%) Packer
6 1 (1.22%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.22%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (4.88%) VMware
2 3 (3.66%) Databricks
3 2 (2.44%) IBM
3 2 (2.44%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.44%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.22%) Apple
4 1 (1.22%) Google
4 1 (1.22%) Mercator
4 1 (1.22%) New Relic
4 1 (1.22%) TOWER Software