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

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 326 279 424
Rank change year-on-year -47 +145 -66
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EC2 92 148 152
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.50% 1.02% 0.47%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.31% 2.42% 1.09%
Number of salaries quoted 79 98 128
10th Percentile £52,250 £44,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,188 £57,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £90,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -31.67% +33.33% -
75th Percentile £74,375 £118,750 £81,250
90th Percentile £92,500 £141,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £90,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -30.56% +20.00% +7.14%

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 7,039 6,118 13,937
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.03% 42.09% 42.93%
Number of salaries quoted 4,812 4,457 11,917
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £35,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,609 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £79,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £108,750 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -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 14 May 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 8 (8.70%) Apache
2 6 (6.52%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (3.26%) Jupyter
4 2 (2.17%) nginx
4 2 (2.17%) WordPress
5 1 (1.09%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.09%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (1.09%) Confluence
5 1 (1.09%) Drupal
5 1 (1.09%) IIS
5 1 (1.09%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 1 (1.09%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 92 (100.00%) AWS
2 75 (81.52%) Amazon S3
3 61 (66.30%) AWS Lambda
3 61 (66.30%) Serverless
4 30 (32.61%) Amazon ECS
5 28 (30.43%) GitHub
6 27 (29.35%) Amazon SQS
6 27 (29.35%) GitHub Actions
7 26 (28.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 21 (22.83%) Amazon EKS
9 18 (19.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 14 (15.22%) AWS CloudFormation
11 12 (13.04%) SaaS
12 11 (11.96%) CloudFront
13 9 (9.78%) Azure
14 8 (8.70%) Amazon ElastiCache
15 7 (7.61%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 6 (6.52%) AWS CodePipeline
17 5 (5.43%) Datadog
17 5 (5.43%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.52%) VPN
2 4 (4.35%) DNS
2 4 (4.35%) Firewall
3 3 (3.26%) AMQP
3 3 (3.26%) BGP
3 3 (3.26%) TCP/IP
3 3 (3.26%) VLAN
4 1 (1.09%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (46.74%) Amazon RDS
2 29 (31.52%) PostgreSQL
3 24 (26.09%) MongoDB
4 10 (10.87%) Amazon Aurora
5 8 (8.70%) DynamoDB
6 7 (7.61%) NoSQL
7 6 (6.52%) Amazon Redshift
8 5 (5.43%) SQL Server
9 3 (3.26%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (3.26%) Metadata
9 3 (3.26%) MySQL
10 1 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (1.09%) InterSystems Cache
10 1 (1.09%) MariaDB
10 1 (1.09%) Redis
10 1 (1.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 29 (31.52%) Cypress.io
2 9 (9.78%) Jenkins
3 7 (7.61%) GitLab
4 6 (6.52%) JIRA
5 5 (5.43%) Git
5 5 (5.43%) Storybook
6 1 (1.09%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (1.09%) Browser DevTools
6 1 (1.09%) CircleCI
6 1 (1.09%) Claude Code
6 1 (1.09%) Gatling
6 1 (1.09%) git-flow
6 1 (1.09%) JMeter
6 1 (1.09%) Maven
6 1 (1.09%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.09%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.09%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (1.09%) TeamCity
6 1 (1.09%) Vagrant
6 1 (1.09%) webpack
General
1 17 (18.48%) Social Skills
2 12 (13.04%) Public Sector
3 9 (9.78%) Finance
4 6 (6.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (6.52%) Law
5 4 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.26%) Back Office
6 3 (3.26%) Banking
6 3 (3.26%) Billing
6 3 (3.26%) Financial Institution
6 3 (3.26%) Legal
6 3 (3.26%) Military
6 3 (3.26%) Retail
7 2 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.09%) Advertising
8 1 (1.09%) Automotive
8 1 (1.09%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 39 (42.39%) Developer
2 25 (27.17%) Full-Stack Developer
3 22 (23.91%) AWS Engineer
3 22 (23.91%) Platform Engineer
4 14 (15.22%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 14 (15.22%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 12 (13.04%) Senior
6 10 (10.87%) Cloud Engineer
7 9 (9.78%) Java Developer
8 7 (7.61%) DevOps Engineer
8 7 (7.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 6 (6.52%) Lead
10 5 (5.43%) Linux Engineer
10 5 (5.43%) Python Engineer
11 4 (4.35%) AWS DevOps
11 4 (4.35%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 4 (4.35%) Data Engineer
11 4 (4.35%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 4 (4.35%) Senior Data Engineer
11 4 (4.35%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (38.04%) React
2 29 (31.52%) Jest
3 27 (29.35%) Node.js
4 24 (26.09%) Ruby on Rails
5 11 (11.96%) Spring
6 10 (10.87%) Spring Boot
7 7 (7.61%) Loki
8 6 (6.52%) CSS
8 6 (6.52%) REST
9 5 (5.43%) Flutter
9 5 (5.43%) JSON
9 5 (5.43%) React Native
9 5 (5.43%) RESTful
9 5 (5.43%) Tailwind CSS
9 5 (5.43%) Web Services
9 5 (5.43%) Zustand
10 4 (4.35%) Elastic Stack
11 3 (3.26%) J2EE
11 3 (3.26%) RabbitMQ
11 3 (3.26%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (21.74%) Cloud Native
2 5 (5.43%) Mobile App
3 4 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (3.26%) Blog
4 3 (3.26%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (3.26%) IoT
4 3 (3.26%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (3.26%) Security Posture
5 2 (2.17%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.17%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.09%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.09%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (17.39%) Linux
2 3 (3.26%) Windows
3 1 (1.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.09%) VMS
3 1 (1.09%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (60.87%) CI/CD
2 40 (43.48%) DevOps
3 37 (40.22%) Infrastructure as Code
4 31 (33.70%) Microservices
5 27 (29.35%) Platform Engineering
6 26 (28.26%) Containerisation
6 26 (28.26%) Full-Stack Development
7 24 (26.09%) Agile
7 24 (26.09%) Mob Programming
8 20 (21.74%) Observability
9 16 (17.39%) Continuous Improvement
10 15 (16.30%) Mentoring
11 14 (15.22%) Cloud Security
12 13 (14.13%) Infrastructure Automation
12 13 (14.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 12 (13.04%) Deployment Automation
13 12 (13.04%) Front End Development
13 12 (13.04%) Software Engineering
14 11 (11.96%) Problem-Solving
14 11 (11.96%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 49 (53.26%) Python
2 34 (36.96%) JavaScript
3 24 (26.09%) Ruby
4 21 (22.83%) Bash
5 18 (19.57%) Java
6 17 (18.48%) SQL
7 6 (6.52%) PHP
7 6 (6.52%) TypeScript
8 5 (5.43%) Dart
9 4 (4.35%) Groovy
10 3 (3.26%) Go
10 3 (3.26%) PowerShell
11 2 (2.17%) Scala
11 2 (2.17%) Shell Script
12 1 (1.09%) C#
12 1 (1.09%) Perl
Qualifications
1 12 (13.04%) Degree
2 11 (11.96%) Security Cleared
3 9 (9.78%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.26%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.09%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (6.52%) Data Quality
2 6 (6.52%) QA
2 6 (6.52%) SOC 2
3 3 (3.26%) ISO 9001
3 3 (3.26%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.09%) HL7
4 1 (1.09%) NCSC
4 1 (1.09%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 35 (38.04%) Docker
2 3 (3.26%) Firmware
3 2 (2.17%) VMware NSX
3 2 (2.17%) vSphere
4 1 (1.09%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 38 (41.30%) Terraform
2 36 (39.13%) Kubernetes
3 14 (15.22%) Grafana
4 12 (13.04%) Ansible
5 11 (11.96%) Prometheus
6 4 (4.35%) Progress Chef
7 3 (3.26%) Argo
8 1 (1.09%) Consul
8 1 (1.09%) Kibana
8 1 (1.09%) Packer
8 1 (1.09%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (3.26%) Databricks
2 2 (2.17%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.17%) VMware
3 1 (1.09%) AppDynamics
3 1 (1.09%) Apple
3 1 (1.09%) Google
3 1 (1.09%) Mercator
3 1 (1.09%) New Relic
3 1 (1.09%) OpenAI
3 1 (1.09%) Red Hat
3 1 (1.09%) TOWER Software