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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 369 337 341
Rank change year-on-year -32 +4 -2
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EC2 89 91 174
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.39% 0.55% 0.70%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.03% 1.52% 1.70%
Number of salaries quoted 79 63 157
10th Percentile £51,250 £44,450 £59,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £72,500 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.69% -30.95% +55.56%
75th Percentile £71,000 £91,250 £142,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £112,500 £165,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £72,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -17.24% -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 8,680 5,973 10,241
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.25% 36.33% 41.06%
Number of salaries quoted 6,287 4,408 8,008
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,750 £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 £82,500 £84,964
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -6.25%

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 11 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 (12.36%) Apache
2 9 (10.11%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (7.87%) Jupyter
4 5 (5.62%) Apache Spark
5 2 (2.25%) IIS
5 2 (2.25%) nginx
5 2 (2.25%) WordPress
6 1 (1.12%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (1.12%) Confluence
6 1 (1.12%) Drupal
Business Applications
1 1 (1.12%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 89 (100.00%) AWS
2 70 (78.65%) Amazon S3
3 50 (56.18%) AWS Lambda
3 50 (56.18%) Serverless
4 29 (32.58%) Amazon ECS
5 25 (28.09%) Amazon SQS
6 23 (25.84%) GitHub
6 23 (25.84%) GitHub Actions
7 17 (19.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 16 (17.98%) AWS CloudFormation
9 15 (16.85%) Amazon EKS
10 13 (14.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 8 (8.99%) Azure
12 7 (7.87%) Amazon ECR
12 7 (7.87%) Amazon EMR
13 5 (5.62%) SaaS
14 4 (4.49%) AWS Control Tower
14 4 (4.49%) CloudFront
14 4 (4.49%) Datadog
14 4 (4.49%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 8 (8.99%) DNS
2 4 (4.49%) VPN
3 3 (3.37%) Firewall
4 1 (1.12%) FTP
4 1 (1.12%) Network Security
4 1 (1.12%) SAN
4 1 (1.12%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (32.58%) PostgreSQL
2 28 (31.46%) Amazon RDS
3 25 (28.09%) MongoDB
4 9 (10.11%) DynamoDB
5 7 (7.87%) Amazon Athena
6 4 (4.49%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (4.49%) MySQL
6 4 (4.49%) NoSQL
7 3 (3.37%) MariaDB
8 2 (2.25%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (2.25%) Big Data
8 2 (2.25%) Data Lake
8 2 (2.25%) DocumentDB
8 2 (2.25%) Metadata
8 2 (2.25%) SQL Server
9 1 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (1.12%) InterSystems Cache
9 1 (1.12%) Redis
9 1 (1.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 29 (32.58%) Cypress.io
2 8 (8.99%) GitLab
2 8 (8.99%) Jenkins
3 7 (7.87%) Git
4 6 (6.74%) JIRA
5 5 (5.62%) Storybook
6 3 (3.37%) Claude Code
7 2 (2.25%) Terragrunt
8 1 (1.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (1.12%) Browser DevTools
8 1 (1.12%) CircleCI
8 1 (1.12%) Gatling
8 1 (1.12%) git-flow
8 1 (1.12%) JMeter
8 1 (1.12%) Maven
8 1 (1.12%) SonarQube
8 1 (1.12%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (1.12%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (1.12%) TeamCity
8 1 (1.12%) webpack
General
1 14 (15.73%) Public Sector
2 11 (12.36%) Social Skills
3 8 (8.99%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (5.62%) Finance
5 3 (3.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (3.37%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (3.37%) Legal
6 2 (2.25%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.25%) Law
7 1 (1.12%) Advertising
7 1 (1.12%) Military
7 1 (1.12%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 33 (37.08%) Developer
2 25 (28.09%) Full-Stack Developer
3 19 (21.35%) AWS Engineer
4 13 (14.61%) Senior
5 12 (13.48%) Cloud Engineer
6 10 (11.24%) Platform Engineer
7 8 (8.99%) DevOps Engineer
8 7 (7.87%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 7 (7.87%) Lead
9 5 (5.62%) AWS Platform Engineer
9 5 (5.62%) Data Engineer
9 5 (5.62%) Test Engineer
10 4 (4.49%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 4 (4.49%) Senior Platform Engineer
11 3 (3.37%) AWS Architect
11 3 (3.37%) Azure Engineer
11 3 (3.37%) Cloud Architect
11 3 (3.37%) Head of Engineering
11 3 (3.37%) Head of Software Engineering
11 3 (3.37%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (38.20%) React
2 29 (32.58%) Jest
3 24 (26.97%) Node.js
3 24 (26.97%) Ruby on Rails
4 6 (6.74%) CSS
4 6 (6.74%) Web Services
5 5 (5.62%) Flutter
5 5 (5.62%) React Native
5 5 (5.62%) Tailwind CSS
5 5 (5.62%) Zustand
6 4 (4.49%) .NET
6 4 (4.49%) PySpark
6 4 (4.49%) REST
6 4 (4.49%) Spring
7 3 (3.37%) AngularJS
7 3 (3.37%) ARM Templates
7 3 (3.37%) RESTful
7 3 (3.37%) Spring Boot
8 2 (2.25%) Nuxt
8 2 (2.25%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 18 (20.22%) Cloud Native
2 5 (5.62%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (5.62%) Greenfield Project
2 5 (5.62%) Mobile App
3 4 (4.49%) Data Centre
4 3 (3.37%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (3.37%) IoT
4 3 (3.37%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (2.25%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.25%) PKI
5 2 (2.25%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.12%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.12%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.12%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 18 (20.22%) Linux
2 4 (4.49%) Windows
2 4 (4.49%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (44.94%) CI/CD
2 36 (40.45%) Infrastructure as Code
3 33 (37.08%) Microservices
4 32 (35.96%) DevOps
5 28 (31.46%) Full-Stack Development
6 25 (28.09%) Containerisation
7 24 (26.97%) Mob Programming
8 21 (23.60%) Agile
9 17 (19.10%) Mentoring
10 16 (17.98%) Continuous Improvement
11 13 (14.61%) Platform Engineering
12 11 (12.36%) Data Pipeline
12 11 (12.36%) Problem-Solving
12 11 (12.36%) Software Engineering
13 10 (11.24%) AI
13 10 (11.24%) Test Automation
13 10 (11.24%) Validation
14 9 (10.11%) Front End Development
14 9 (10.11%) Software Delivery
15 8 (8.99%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 40 (44.94%) Python
2 33 (37.08%) JavaScript
3 24 (26.97%) Ruby
4 17 (19.10%) SQL
5 16 (17.98%) Bash
6 9 (10.11%) Java
7 8 (8.99%) Groovy
7 8 (8.99%) TypeScript
8 6 (6.74%) PHP
9 5 (5.62%) Dart
10 3 (3.37%) C#
10 3 (3.37%) Go
10 3 (3.37%) PowerShell
11 2 (2.25%) Shell Script
12 1 (1.12%) Perl
12 1 (1.12%) Scala
Qualifications
1 18 (20.22%) Security Cleared
2 14 (15.73%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.49%) Degree
4 2 (2.25%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.25%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.25%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.12%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.11%) QA
2 8 (8.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (7.87%) Data Quality
4 3 (3.37%) ISO 9001
5 2 (2.25%) SOC 2
6 1 (1.12%) HL7
6 1 (1.12%) NCSC
6 1 (1.12%) SLA
6 1 (1.12%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 30 (33.71%) Docker
2 6 (6.74%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.37%) Firmware
4 2 (2.25%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.12%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (1.12%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 37 (41.57%) Terraform
2 30 (33.71%) Kubernetes
3 12 (13.48%) Ansible
4 9 (10.11%) Grafana
5 8 (8.99%) Progress Chef
6 5 (5.62%) Prometheus
7 2 (2.25%) Argo
7 2 (2.25%) Istio
7 2 (2.25%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (1.12%) Consul
8 1 (1.12%) Kibana
8 1 (1.12%) Packer
8 1 (1.12%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (4.49%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.37%) OpenAI
2 3 (3.37%) VMware
3 2 (2.25%) Databricks
4 1 (1.12%) AppDynamics
4 1 (1.12%) Apple
4 1 (1.12%) Google
4 1 (1.12%) New Relic
4 1 (1.12%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.12%) TOWER Software
4 1 (1.12%) Veeam
4 1 (1.12%) Zerto