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 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 311 252 333
Rank change year-on-year -59 +81 +8
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EC2 58 219 153
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.38% 1.23% 0.76%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.04% 2.68% 1.61%
Number of salaries quoted 52 179 144
10th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £56,875 £85,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,250 £107,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -34.65% +59.26% -3.57%
75th Percentile £81,750 £142,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £147,500 £82,625
UK median annual salary £67,500 £105,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -35.71% +50.00% -3.45%

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 5,581 8,170 9,526
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 36.63% 45.82% 47.36%
Number of salaries quoted 4,095 5,383 8,152
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £65,000 £64,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.38% +0.78% -0.77%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £108,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -3.85%

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 14 December 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 (10.34%) Tomcat
1 6 (10.34%) WebSphere
1 6 (10.34%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (1.72%) Drupal
2 1 (1.72%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 58 (100.00%) AWS
2 48 (82.76%) Amazon S3
3 43 (74.14%) AWS Lambda
3 43 (74.14%) Serverless
4 21 (36.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 20 (34.48%) Amazon ECS
6 19 (32.76%) AWS CloudFormation
7 16 (27.59%) Amazon EKS
8 10 (17.24%) Amazon SQS
9 9 (15.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 9 (15.52%) GitHub
9 9 (15.52%) Route 53
10 8 (13.79%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (12.07%) SaaS
12 6 (10.34%) Amazon ECR
12 6 (10.34%) Azure
12 6 (10.34%) Snowflake
13 4 (6.90%) CloudFront
14 3 (5.17%) Amazon ElastiCache
14 3 (5.17%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (10.34%) SSL
2 5 (8.62%) TCP/IP
2 5 (8.62%) VPN
3 3 (5.17%) BGP
3 3 (5.17%) VLAN
4 2 (3.45%) DNS
5 1 (1.72%) AMQP
5 1 (1.72%) Firewall
5 1 (1.72%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (68.97%) Amazon RDS
2 11 (18.97%) Amazon Redshift
2 11 (18.97%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (17.24%) DynamoDB
4 7 (12.07%) MongoDB
4 7 (12.07%) SQL Server
5 6 (10.34%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (10.34%) DB2
5 6 (10.34%) NoSQL
6 4 (6.90%) Data Lake
7 3 (5.17%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (5.17%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (5.17%) MySQL
8 1 (1.72%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (17.24%) Jenkins
2 5 (8.62%) Cypress.io
2 5 (8.62%) GitLab
3 3 (5.17%) Git
4 2 (3.45%) JIRA
5 1 (1.72%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.72%) Testinfra
General
1 12 (20.69%) Finance
2 11 (18.97%) Social Skills
3 9 (15.52%) Banking
4 5 (8.62%) Marketing
5 4 (6.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (5.17%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (5.17%) Back Office
6 3 (5.17%) Financial Institution
6 3 (5.17%) Law
6 3 (5.17%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (5.17%) Retail
7 1 (1.72%) Automotive
7 1 (1.72%) Billing
7 1 (1.72%) Games
7 1 (1.72%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 15 (25.86%) Senior
2 12 (20.69%) Developer
3 10 (17.24%) AWS Engineer
4 9 (15.52%) Linux Engineer
5 7 (12.07%) Applications Engineer
5 7 (12.07%) Data Engineer
5 7 (12.07%) DevOps Engineer
6 6 (10.34%) Applications Support
6 6 (10.34%) Applications Support Engineer
6 6 (10.34%) Full-Stack Developer
6 6 (10.34%) Java Developer
6 6 (10.34%) Support Engineer
7 5 (8.62%) Cloud Engineer
7 5 (8.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (8.62%) Linux Support
7 5 (8.62%) Linux Support Engineer
7 5 (8.62%) Platform Engineer
7 5 (8.62%) Senior Data Engineer
8 4 (6.90%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (6.90%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (18.97%) React
2 8 (13.79%) AWS CDK
2 8 (13.79%) Node.js
3 7 (12.07%) Spring
3 7 (12.07%) Spring Boot
4 6 (10.34%) LAPP Stack
4 6 (10.34%) LDAP
4 6 (10.34%) WebSphere MQ
5 5 (8.62%) Jest
5 5 (8.62%) Ruby on Rails
6 4 (6.90%) RESTful
7 3 (5.17%) .NET
7 3 (5.17%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (5.17%) Lambda Expressions
7 3 (5.17%) Loki
7 3 (5.17%) Next.js
7 3 (5.17%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (5.17%) REST
8 2 (3.45%) AngularJS
8 2 (3.45%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 13 (22.41%) Cloud Native
2 6 (10.34%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (5.17%) Data Centre
3 3 (5.17%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (5.17%) Enterprise Cloud
3 3 (5.17%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (5.17%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.72%) Online Games
4 1 (1.72%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.72%) Reinsurance
4 1 (1.72%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.72%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 18 (31.03%) Linux
2 9 (15.52%) Windows
3 6 (10.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (10.34%) Unix
4 3 (5.17%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (55.17%) CI/CD
2 24 (41.38%) Infrastructure as Code
3 17 (29.31%) DevOps
4 16 (27.59%) Containerisation
5 15 (25.86%) Agile
6 14 (24.14%) Software Engineering
7 13 (22.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 12 (20.69%) Disaster Recovery
8 12 (20.69%) Microservices
9 11 (18.97%) Full-Stack Development
9 11 (18.97%) Observability
9 11 (18.97%) Problem-Solving
10 10 (17.24%) Platform Engineering
11 7 (12.07%) Clean Code
11 7 (12.07%) Cloud Security
11 7 (12.07%) Mentoring
12 6 (10.34%) Acceptance Criteria
12 6 (10.34%) Continuous Improvement
12 6 (10.34%) Front End Development
12 6 (10.34%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 32 (55.17%) Python
2 15 (25.86%) JavaScript
3 14 (24.14%) Java
4 11 (18.97%) SQL
5 8 (13.79%) Bash
6 7 (12.07%) TypeScript
7 5 (8.62%) Ruby
8 3 (5.17%) Go
9 2 (3.45%) C#
9 2 (3.45%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.72%) Scala
Qualifications
1 19 (32.76%) AWS Certification
2 10 (17.24%) Degree
3 8 (13.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 6 (10.34%) ITIL Certification
5 5 (8.62%) SnowPro
6 3 (5.17%) Security Cleared
7 2 (3.45%) AWS Certified Developer
7 2 (3.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (1.72%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.72%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.72%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.34%) SLA
2 3 (5.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (5.17%) PCI DSS
2 3 (5.17%) SOC 2
3 1 (1.72%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.72%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.72%) GDPR
3 1 (1.72%) QA
3 1 (1.72%) WCAG
System Software
1 15 (25.86%) Docker
2 3 (5.17%) VMware NSX
2 3 (5.17%) vSphere
3 1 (1.72%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 26 (44.83%) Terraform
2 18 (31.03%) Kubernetes
3 10 (17.24%) Grafana
3 10 (17.24%) Prometheus
4 6 (10.34%) Ansible
5 1 (1.72%) Argo
5 1 (1.72%) Packer
Vendors
1 6 (10.34%) IBM
1 6 (10.34%) Red Hat
2 3 (5.17%) VMware
3 1 (1.72%) Databricks
3 1 (1.72%) Facebook
3 1 (1.72%) Google
3 1 (1.72%) Mercator
3 1 (1.72%) Microsoft