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

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 316 255 321
Rank change year-on-year -61 +66 +17
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EC2 56 207 157
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.37% 1.19% 0.79%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.00% 2.57% 1.67%
Number of salaries quoted 50 167 146
10th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £82,500 £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 £82,250 £142,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £87,750 £147,500 £81,875
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 5,595 8,042 9,415
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 36.70% 46.06% 47.48%
Number of salaries quoted 4,073 5,267 8,066
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,750 £36,260
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £65,000 £63,020
Median % change year-on-year -6.92% +3.14% -3.05%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £105,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.80% -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 18 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 (10.71%) Tomcat
1 6 (10.71%) WebSphere
1 6 (10.71%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (1.79%) Drupal
2 1 (1.79%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 56 (100.00%) AWS
2 46 (82.14%) Amazon S3
3 41 (73.21%) AWS Lambda
3 41 (73.21%) Serverless
4 20 (35.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 19 (33.93%) Amazon ECS
6 18 (32.14%) AWS CloudFormation
7 16 (28.57%) Amazon EKS
8 10 (17.86%) Amazon SQS
9 9 (16.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 9 (16.07%) Route 53
10 8 (14.29%) GitHub
11 7 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (10.71%) Amazon ECR
12 6 (10.71%) Azure
12 6 (10.71%) SaaS
13 5 (8.93%) Snowflake
14 4 (7.14%) CloudFront
15 3 (5.36%) Amazon ElastiCache
15 3 (5.36%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (10.71%) SSL
2 5 (8.93%) TCP/IP
2 5 (8.93%) VPN
3 3 (5.36%) BGP
3 3 (5.36%) VLAN
4 2 (3.57%) DNS
5 1 (1.79%) AMQP
5 1 (1.79%) Firewall
5 1 (1.79%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (67.86%) Amazon RDS
2 11 (19.64%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (17.86%) Amazon Redshift
4 9 (16.07%) DynamoDB
5 7 (12.50%) MongoDB
5 7 (12.50%) SQL Server
6 6 (10.71%) DB2
6 6 (10.71%) NoSQL
7 5 (8.93%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (7.14%) Data Lake
9 3 (5.36%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (5.36%) Amazon Aurora
9 3 (5.36%) MySQL
10 1 (1.79%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (16.07%) Jenkins
2 5 (8.93%) Cypress.io
2 5 (8.93%) GitLab
3 3 (5.36%) Git
4 1 (1.79%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.79%) JIRA
4 1 (1.79%) Testinfra
General
1 11 (19.64%) Finance
1 11 (19.64%) Social Skills
2 9 (16.07%) Banking
3 5 (8.93%) Marketing
4 4 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (5.36%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (5.36%) Back Office
5 3 (5.36%) Financial Institution
5 3 (5.36%) Law
5 3 (5.36%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (5.36%) Retail
6 1 (1.79%) Automotive
6 1 (1.79%) Billing
6 1 (1.79%) Games
6 1 (1.79%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 15 (26.79%) Senior
2 12 (21.43%) Developer
3 10 (17.86%) AWS Engineer
4 9 (16.07%) Linux Engineer
5 7 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
6 6 (10.71%) Applications Engineer
6 6 (10.71%) Applications Support
6 6 (10.71%) Applications Support Engineer
6 6 (10.71%) Data Engineer
6 6 (10.71%) Full-Stack Developer
6 6 (10.71%) Java Developer
6 6 (10.71%) Support Engineer
7 5 (8.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (8.93%) Linux Support
7 5 (8.93%) Linux Support Engineer
7 5 (8.93%) Platform Engineer
7 5 (8.93%) Senior Data Engineer
8 4 (7.14%) AWS Consultant
8 4 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
8 4 (7.14%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (19.64%) React
2 8 (14.29%) AWS CDK
2 8 (14.29%) Node.js
3 7 (12.50%) Spring
3 7 (12.50%) Spring Boot
4 6 (10.71%) LAPP Stack
4 6 (10.71%) LDAP
4 6 (10.71%) WebSphere MQ
5 5 (8.93%) Jest
5 5 (8.93%) Ruby on Rails
6 4 (7.14%) RESTful
7 3 (5.36%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (5.36%) Lambda Expressions
7 3 (5.36%) Loki
7 3 (5.36%) Next.js
7 3 (5.36%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (5.36%) REST
8 2 (3.57%) ASP.NET Web API
8 2 (3.57%) JSON
8 2 (3.57%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 13 (23.21%) Cloud Native
2 6 (10.71%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (5.36%) Data Centre
3 3 (5.36%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (5.36%) Enterprise Cloud
3 3 (5.36%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (5.36%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.79%) Online Games
4 1 (1.79%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.79%) Reinsurance
4 1 (1.79%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.79%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 18 (32.14%) Linux
2 9 (16.07%) Windows
3 6 (10.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (10.71%) Unix
4 3 (5.36%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (55.36%) CI/CD
2 23 (41.07%) Infrastructure as Code
3 16 (28.57%) Containerisation
3 16 (28.57%) DevOps
4 14 (25.00%) Agile
5 13 (23.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 13 (23.21%) Software Engineering
6 12 (21.43%) Disaster Recovery
6 12 (21.43%) Microservices
7 11 (19.64%) Full-Stack Development
7 11 (19.64%) Observability
7 11 (19.64%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (17.86%) Platform Engineering
9 7 (12.50%) Clean Code
9 7 (12.50%) Cloud Security
9 7 (12.50%) Mentoring
10 6 (10.71%) Acceptance Criteria
10 6 (10.71%) Change Management
10 6 (10.71%) Front End Development
10 6 (10.71%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 30 (53.57%) Python
2 14 (25.00%) Java
2 14 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 10 (17.86%) SQL
4 8 (14.29%) Bash
5 6 (10.71%) TypeScript
6 5 (8.93%) Ruby
7 3 (5.36%) Go
8 2 (3.57%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.79%) C#
9 1 (1.79%) Scala
Qualifications
1 18 (32.14%) AWS Certification
2 10 (17.86%) Degree
3 8 (14.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 6 (10.71%) ITIL Certification
5 4 (7.14%) SnowPro
6 3 (5.36%) Security Cleared
7 2 (3.57%) AWS Certified Developer
7 2 (3.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (1.79%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.79%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.79%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.71%) SLA
2 3 (5.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (5.36%) PCI DSS
2 3 (5.36%) SOC 2
3 1 (1.79%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.79%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.79%) GDPR
3 1 (1.79%) QA
3 1 (1.79%) WCAG
System Software
1 15 (26.79%) Docker
2 3 (5.36%) VMware NSX
2 3 (5.36%) vSphere
3 1 (1.79%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 25 (44.64%) Terraform
2 18 (32.14%) Kubernetes
3 10 (17.86%) Grafana
3 10 (17.86%) Prometheus
4 6 (10.71%) Ansible
5 1 (1.79%) Argo
5 1 (1.79%) Packer
Vendors
1 6 (10.71%) IBM
1 6 (10.71%) Red Hat
2 3 (5.36%) VMware
3 1 (1.79%) Databricks
3 1 (1.79%) Facebook
3 1 (1.79%) Google
3 1 (1.79%) Mercator
3 1 (1.79%) Microsoft