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

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 351 283 336
Rank change year-on-year -68 +53 -52
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EC2 59 196 172
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.36% 0.96% 0.73%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.03% 2.20% 1.53%
Number of salaries quoted 46 163 155
10th Percentile £52,500 £60,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £63,750 £72,500 £53,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £105,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% +50.00% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £142,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £91,250 £165,000 £84,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £100,000 £66,250
% change year-on-year -27.50% +50.94% -8.62%

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 5,715 8,908 11,215
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 34.96% 43.75% 47.89%
Number of salaries quoted 4,031 5,876 9,573
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £48,709 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - -
75th Percentile £82,375 £86,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% -

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 October 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 (10.17%) Tomcat
1 6 (10.17%) WebSphere
1 6 (10.17%) WebSphere Application Server
2 3 (5.08%) nginx
3 1 (1.69%) Drupal
Applications
1 1 (1.69%) Adobe XD
Cloud Services
1 59 (100.00%) AWS
2 48 (81.36%) Amazon S3
3 46 (77.97%) AWS Lambda
3 46 (77.97%) Serverless
4 24 (40.68%) AWS CloudFormation
5 20 (33.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 16 (27.12%) Amazon ECS
6 16 (27.12%) GitHub
7 15 (25.42%) Amazon EKS
8 13 (22.03%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (13.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 8 (13.56%) Snowflake
10 7 (11.86%) Route 53
11 6 (10.17%) Amazon ECR
12 4 (6.78%) Amazon SQS
12 4 (6.78%) Datadog
13 3 (5.08%) AWS Step Functions
13 3 (5.08%) Azure
13 3 (5.08%) npm
13 3 (5.08%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (10.17%) SSL
1 6 (10.17%) VPN
2 5 (8.47%) DNS
3 4 (6.78%) Firewall
4 2 (3.39%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.69%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (61.02%) Amazon RDS
2 14 (23.73%) Amazon Redshift
3 13 (22.03%) DynamoDB
4 9 (15.25%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (13.56%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (11.86%) SQL Server
7 6 (10.17%) DB2
8 4 (6.78%) Data Lake
9 3 (5.08%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (5.08%) Metadata
10 2 (3.39%) Tableau
11 1 (1.69%) Amazon Aurora
11 1 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (1.69%) MongoDB
11 1 (1.69%) MySQL
11 1 (1.69%) RDBMS
11 1 (1.69%) Relational Database
11 1 (1.69%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 1 (1.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (1.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 17 (28.81%) Jenkins
2 11 (18.64%) Git
3 6 (10.17%) GitLab
4 4 (6.78%) JIRA
4 4 (6.78%) JUnit
4 4 (6.78%) Maven
4 4 (6.78%) Mockito
5 3 (5.08%) Babel
5 3 (5.08%) Cucumber
5 3 (5.08%) gulp
5 3 (5.08%) IntelliJ
5 3 (5.08%) webpack
6 1 (1.69%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.69%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.69%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.69%) Testinfra
General
1 16 (27.12%) Finance
2 11 (18.64%) Social Skills
3 6 (10.17%) Banking
4 5 (8.47%) Marketing
5 4 (6.78%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (5.08%) Fire and Rescue
6 3 (5.08%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (5.08%) Public Sector
7 2 (3.39%) Games
8 1 (1.69%) Advertising
8 1 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 24 (40.68%) Senior
2 12 (20.34%) AWS Engineer
3 10 (16.95%) Data Engineer
4 9 (15.25%) Developer
4 9 (15.25%) DevOps Engineer
5 8 (13.56%) Applications Engineer
5 8 (13.56%) AWS DevOps
6 7 (11.86%) Applications Support
6 7 (11.86%) Applications Support Engineer
6 7 (11.86%) Senior Data Engineer
6 7 (11.86%) Support Engineer
7 6 (10.17%) Linux Engineer
7 6 (10.17%) Senior DevOps
8 5 (8.47%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 5 (8.47%) Consultant
8 5 (8.47%) Java Developer
8 5 (8.47%) Linux Support
8 5 (8.47%) Linux Support Engineer
9 4 (6.78%) Lead
9 4 (6.78%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (18.64%) React
2 9 (15.25%) AWS CDK
3 7 (11.86%) REST
3 7 (11.86%) Spring
3 7 (11.86%) Spring Boot
4 6 (10.17%) LAPP Stack
4 6 (10.17%) LDAP
4 6 (10.17%) WebSphere MQ
5 4 (6.78%) ActiveMQ
5 4 (6.78%) CSS
5 4 (6.78%) HTML
5 4 (6.78%) Node.js
5 4 (6.78%) Sass
6 3 (5.08%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (5.08%) JMS
6 3 (5.08%) OAuth
6 3 (5.08%) Svelte
6 3 (5.08%) Vue
6 3 (5.08%) Web Services
7 2 (3.39%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.86%) Product Ownership
2 6 (10.17%) Linux Command Line
2 6 (10.17%) Management Information System
3 3 (5.08%) Cloud Native
3 3 (5.08%) Credit Derivative
3 3 (5.08%) Enterprise Cloud
3 3 (5.08%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (5.08%) Smart City
3 3 (5.08%) Virtual Team
4 2 (3.39%) Online Games
5 1 (1.69%) Reinsurance
5 1 (1.69%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 22 (37.29%) Linux
2 7 (11.86%) Unix
2 7 (11.86%) Windows
3 6 (10.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (5.08%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.69%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (44.07%) Infrastructure as Code
2 25 (42.37%) CI/CD
3 22 (37.29%) DevOps
4 21 (35.59%) Software Engineering
5 16 (27.12%) Mentoring
5 16 (27.12%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (25.42%) Containerisation
7 13 (22.03%) Agile
8 11 (18.64%) Analytics
8 11 (18.64%) Infrastructure Automation
9 10 (16.95%) Data Engineering
9 10 (16.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 10 (16.95%) Microservices
9 10 (16.95%) Technical Leadership
10 8 (13.56%) ETL
11 7 (11.86%) Disaster Recovery
12 6 (10.17%) Change Management
12 6 (10.17%) Data Modelling
12 6 (10.17%) ITIL
12 6 (10.17%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 37 (62.71%) Python
2 16 (27.12%) SQL
3 11 (18.64%) Java
4 10 (16.95%) Bash
5 8 (13.56%) JavaScript
6 7 (11.86%) TypeScript
7 5 (8.47%) PowerShell
8 3 (5.08%) C++
8 3 (5.08%) R
9 2 (3.39%) C#
10 1 (1.69%) Groovy
10 1 (1.69%) PHP
10 1 (1.69%) Ruby
10 1 (1.69%) Scala
Qualifications
1 22 (37.29%) AWS Certification
2 8 (13.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 8 (13.56%) Degree
3 7 (11.86%) SnowPro
4 6 (10.17%) ITIL Certification
4 6 (10.17%) Security Cleared
5 5 (8.47%) SC Cleared
6 2 (3.39%) AWS Certified Developer
6 2 (3.39%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.69%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (1.69%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (13.56%) QA
2 7 (11.86%) SLA
3 1 (1.69%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.69%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.69%) GDPR
3 1 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.69%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (20.34%) Docker
2 1 (1.69%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (1.69%) VMware NSX
2 1 (1.69%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 27 (45.76%) Terraform
2 9 (15.25%) Ansible
2 9 (15.25%) Grafana
2 9 (15.25%) Kubernetes
2 9 (15.25%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.69%) Argo
3 1 (1.69%) Kibana
3 1 (1.69%) logstash
3 1 (1.69%) Packer
Vendors
1 9 (15.25%) IBM
2 6 (10.17%) Red Hat
3 3 (5.08%) Databricks
3 3 (5.08%) Microsoft
4 2 (3.39%) Cisco
4 2 (3.39%) Facebook
4 2 (3.39%) Google
5 1 (1.69%) Adobe
5 1 (1.69%) Oracle
5 1 (1.69%) VMware