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 26 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 350 360 326
Rank change year-on-year +10 -34 +11
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EC2 93 74 179
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.40% 0.45% 0.72%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.07% 1.24% 1.77%
Number of salaries quoted 83 49 161
10th Percentile £46,374 £44,000 £60,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,750 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £72,500 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year -24.14% -30.95% +52.73%
75th Percentile £67,500 £83,750 £142,500
90th Percentile £78,500 £92,750 £165,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £72,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -20.69% -9.38% +18.52%

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 8,678 5,953 10,091
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.39% 36.01% 40.70%
Number of salaries quoted 6,340 4,360 7,661
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £37,101
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.76%

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 26 August 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 11 (11.83%) Apache
2 9 (9.68%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (8.60%) Jupyter
4 6 (6.45%) Apache Spark
5 2 (2.15%) IIS
5 2 (2.15%) nginx
6 1 (1.08%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (1.08%) Confluence
6 1 (1.08%) Drupal
6 1 (1.08%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (1.08%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 93 (100.00%) AWS
2 67 (72.04%) Amazon S3
3 54 (58.06%) AWS Lambda
3 54 (58.06%) Serverless
4 30 (32.26%) Amazon ECS
5 26 (27.96%) Amazon SQS
6 21 (22.58%) GitHub
6 21 (22.58%) GitHub Actions
7 18 (19.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 15 (16.13%) Amazon EKS
8 15 (16.13%) AWS CloudFormation
9 14 (15.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 14 (15.05%) Amazon EMR
10 8 (8.60%) Amazon ECR
10 8 (8.60%) Azure
11 5 (5.38%) SaaS
12 4 (4.30%) Cloudflare
12 4 (4.30%) CloudFront
12 4 (4.30%) Datadog
12 4 (4.30%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 8 (8.60%) DNS
2 4 (4.30%) VPN
3 3 (3.23%) Firewall
4 1 (1.08%) FTP
4 1 (1.08%) Network Security
4 1 (1.08%) SAN
4 1 (1.08%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (30.11%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (29.03%) MongoDB
3 26 (27.96%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (9.68%) DynamoDB
5 8 (8.60%) Amazon Athena
6 6 (6.45%) Spark SQL
7 4 (4.30%) MySQL
7 4 (4.30%) NoSQL
8 3 (3.23%) Big Data
8 3 (3.23%) Data Lake
8 3 (3.23%) MariaDB
9 2 (2.15%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (2.15%) DocumentDB
10 1 (1.08%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (1.08%) InterSystems Cache
10 1 (1.08%) Metadata
10 1 (1.08%) Redis
10 1 (1.08%) SQL Server
10 1 (1.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 30 (32.26%) Cypress.io
2 9 (9.68%) GitLab
3 8 (8.60%) Jenkins
4 5 (5.38%) Git
4 5 (5.38%) Storybook
5 4 (4.30%) JIRA
6 3 (3.23%) Claude Code
7 2 (2.15%) Terragrunt
8 1 (1.08%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (1.08%) Gatling
8 1 (1.08%) git-flow
8 1 (1.08%) JMeter
8 1 (1.08%) Maven
8 1 (1.08%) SonarQube
8 1 (1.08%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (1.08%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (1.08%) Vagrant
General
1 20 (21.51%) Public Sector
2 14 (15.05%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (12.90%) Social Skills
4 4 (4.30%) Finance
5 3 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (3.23%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (3.23%) Legal
6 2 (2.15%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.08%) Advertising
7 1 (1.08%) Law
Job Titles
1 33 (35.48%) Developer
2 25 (26.88%) Full-Stack Developer
3 18 (19.35%) AWS Engineer
4 11 (11.83%) Cloud Engineer
5 10 (10.75%) Data Engineer
5 10 (10.75%) Platform Engineer
5 10 (10.75%) Senior
6 9 (9.68%) DevOps Engineer
7 7 (7.53%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 7 (7.53%) Lead
8 6 (6.45%) Test Engineer
9 5 (5.38%) AWS Platform Engineer
10 4 (4.30%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 4 (4.30%) Lead Test Engineer
10 4 (4.30%) Senior Platform Engineer
11 3 (3.23%) AWS Architect
11 3 (3.23%) Azure Engineer
11 3 (3.23%) Cloud Architect
11 3 (3.23%) Head of Engineering
11 3 (3.23%) Head of Software Engineering
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (38.71%) Terraform
2 33 (35.48%) React
3 30 (32.26%) Jest
4 25 (26.88%) Node.js
4 25 (26.88%) Ruby on Rails
5 11 (11.83%) PySpark
6 10 (10.75%) .NET
7 6 (6.45%) Web Services
8 5 (5.38%) CSS
8 5 (5.38%) Flutter
8 5 (5.38%) React Native
8 5 (5.38%) Tailwind CSS
8 5 (5.38%) Zustand
9 4 (4.30%) REST
9 4 (4.30%) Spring
10 3 (3.23%) AngularJS
10 3 (3.23%) ARM Templates
10 3 (3.23%) RESTful
10 3 (3.23%) Spring Boot
11 2 (2.15%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 18 (19.35%) Cloud Native
2 9 (9.68%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (6.45%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (5.38%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (5.38%) Mobile App
5 4 (4.30%) Data Centre
6 3 (3.23%) IoT
7 2 (2.15%) Data Structures
7 2 (2.15%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (2.15%) PKI
7 2 (2.15%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.08%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.08%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 18 (19.35%) Linux
2 4 (4.30%) Windows
2 4 (4.30%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (48.39%) CI/CD
2 35 (37.63%) Infrastructure as Code
3 33 (35.48%) Full-Stack Development
3 33 (35.48%) Microservices
4 31 (33.33%) DevOps
5 25 (26.88%) Containerisation
5 25 (26.88%) Mob Programming
6 24 (25.81%) Agile
7 22 (23.66%) Mentoring
8 17 (18.28%) Continuous Improvement
9 14 (15.05%) Data Engineering
9 14 (15.05%) Platform Engineering
10 12 (12.90%) Coaching
10 12 (12.90%) Problem-Solving
11 11 (11.83%) Analytics
11 11 (11.83%) Software Engineering
12 10 (10.75%) Data Pipeline
12 10 (10.75%) Software Delivery
12 10 (10.75%) Test Automation
12 10 (10.75%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 39 (41.94%) JavaScript
1 39 (41.94%) Python
2 25 (26.88%) Ruby
3 21 (22.58%) SQL
4 17 (18.28%) Bash
5 16 (17.20%) Java
6 9 (9.68%) C#
7 8 (8.60%) Groovy
8 7 (7.53%) TypeScript
9 6 (6.45%) C++
10 5 (5.38%) Dart
10 5 (5.38%) PHP
11 3 (3.23%) Go
11 3 (3.23%) PowerShell
12 2 (2.15%) Shell Script
13 1 (1.08%) Perl
13 1 (1.08%) Rust
Qualifications
1 18 (19.35%) Security Cleared
2 14 (15.05%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.23%) Degree
4 2 (2.15%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.15%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.08%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (12.90%) Data Quality
2 10 (10.75%) QA
3 8 (8.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (3.23%) ISO 9001
5 2 (2.15%) SOC 2
6 1 (1.08%) NCSC
6 1 (1.08%) SLA
System Software
1 30 (32.26%) Docker
2 6 (6.45%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.23%) Firmware
4 2 (2.15%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.08%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.08%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (1.08%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 30 (32.26%) Kubernetes
2 11 (11.83%) Ansible
3 9 (9.68%) Grafana
4 8 (8.60%) Progress Chef
5 5 (5.38%) Prometheus
6 2 (2.15%) Argo
6 2 (2.15%) Istio
6 2 (2.15%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (1.08%) Consul
7 1 (1.08%) Packer
7 1 (1.08%) Puppet
7 1 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (4.30%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.23%) OpenAI
2 3 (3.23%) VMware
3 1 (1.08%) AppDynamics
3 1 (1.08%) Databricks
3 1 (1.08%) Google
3 1 (1.08%) Red Hat
3 1 (1.08%) TOWER Software
3 1 (1.08%) Veeam
3 1 (1.08%) Zerto