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

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 371 366 312
Rank change year-on-year -5 -54 +30
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EC2 96 64 189
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.39% 0.39% 0.83%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.10% 1.11% 2.00%
Number of salaries quoted 84 44 158
10th Percentile £46,217 £52,500 £61,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £64,688 £70,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £75,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% -28.57% +50.00%
75th Percentile £61,250 £87,500 £142,500
90th Percentile £76,750 £93,375 £165,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £72,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -24.14% -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 8,741 5,778 9,462
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 35.26% 34.82% 41.61%
Number of salaries quoted 6,408 4,126 6,305
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £37,500
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 £82,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -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 27 September 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 9 (9.38%) Apache
2 8 (8.33%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (8.33%) Jupyter
3 7 (7.29%) Apache Spark
4 2 (2.08%) nginx
4 2 (2.08%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (2.08%) WebLogic
4 2 (2.08%) WebLogic Portal
5 1 (1.04%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (1.04%) Confluence
5 1 (1.04%) IIS
Business Applications
1 2 (2.08%) Oracle Applications
1 2 (2.08%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (2.08%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (1.04%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
Cloud Services
1 95 (98.96%) AWS
2 62 (64.58%) AWS Lambda
2 62 (64.58%) Serverless
3 60 (62.50%) Amazon S3
4 28 (29.17%) Amazon ECS
5 25 (26.04%) Amazon SQS
6 22 (22.92%) Amazon EMR
7 15 (15.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 15 (15.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 13 (13.54%) Amazon EKS
8 13 (13.54%) AWS CloudFormation
8 13 (13.54%) GitHub
8 13 (13.54%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (8.33%) Azure
10 7 (7.29%) Amazon ECR
11 4 (4.17%) Amazon Bedrock
11 4 (4.17%) Anthropic Claude
12 3 (3.13%) Cloudflare
12 3 (3.13%) Entra ID
12 3 (3.13%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.25%) DNS
2 3 (3.13%) VPN
3 1 (1.04%) Firewall
3 1 (1.04%) FTP
3 1 (1.04%) Network Security
3 1 (1.04%) OpenVPN
3 1 (1.04%) SAN
3 1 (1.04%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (28.13%) MongoDB
1 27 (28.13%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (19.79%) Amazon RDS
3 18 (18.75%) Spark SQL
4 8 (8.33%) Amazon Athena
5 6 (6.25%) DynamoDB
6 5 (5.21%) MySQL
7 4 (4.17%) Data Lake
7 4 (4.17%) MariaDB
7 4 (4.17%) NoSQL
8 3 (3.13%) Big Data
9 2 (2.08%) DocumentDB
9 2 (2.08%) Oracle Database
9 2 (2.08%) Oracle Database 10g
9 2 (2.08%) Oracle Database 11g
9 2 (2.08%) Oracle Database 12c
10 1 (1.04%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (1.04%) Electronic Patient Records
10 1 (1.04%) Hadoop
10 1 (1.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 25 (26.04%) Cypress.io
2 12 (12.50%) GitLab
3 9 (9.38%) Jenkins
4 6 (6.25%) Git
5 4 (4.17%) Claude Code
6 2 (2.08%) Flyway
6 2 (2.08%) Terragrunt
7 1 (1.04%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (1.04%) JIRA
7 1 (1.04%) JMeter
7 1 (1.04%) Postman
7 1 (1.04%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.04%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 33 (34.38%) Public Sector
2 21 (21.88%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (10.42%) Social Skills
4 4 (4.17%) Finance
5 3 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (3.13%) Legal
6 2 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 28 (29.17%) Developer
2 25 (26.04%) Full-Stack Developer
3 21 (21.88%) Data Engineer
4 14 (14.58%) AWS Engineer
5 11 (11.46%) Cloud Engineer
6 10 (10.42%) DevOps Engineer
7 9 (9.38%) Senior
8 7 (7.29%) Platform Engineer
8 7 (7.29%) Test Engineer
9 6 (6.25%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 5 (5.21%) Lead
11 4 (4.17%) AWS Platform Engineer
11 4 (4.17%) Lead Test Engineer
11 4 (4.17%) Senior Platform Engineer
12 3 (3.13%) Architect
12 3 (3.13%) AWS Architect
12 3 (3.13%) Cloud Architect
12 3 (3.13%) Platform Architect
13 2 (2.08%) Junior
13 2 (2.08%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (35.42%) Terraform
2 28 (29.17%) React
3 24 (25.00%) Jest
3 24 (25.00%) Node.js
3 24 (25.00%) Ruby on Rails
4 23 (23.96%) PySpark
5 22 (22.92%) .NET
6 6 (6.25%) REST
6 6 (6.25%) Web Services
7 5 (5.21%) RESTful
8 3 (3.13%) AngularJS
8 3 (3.13%) Nuxt
8 3 (3.13%) Spring
9 2 (2.08%) .NET Core
9 2 (2.08%) ARM Templates
9 2 (2.08%) Middleware
9 2 (2.08%) OpenTelemetry
9 2 (2.08%) Spring Boot
9 2 (2.08%) Vue
10 1 (1.04%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 16 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 15 (15.63%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (7.29%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (4.17%) Data Centre
5 3 (3.13%) Data Structures
5 3 (3.13%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.08%) Clustering
6 2 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.08%) PKI
6 2 (2.08%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.04%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.04%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 19 (19.79%) Linux
2 4 (4.17%) Windows
3 3 (3.13%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.08%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (51.04%) CI/CD
2 44 (45.83%) Full-Stack Development
3 35 (36.46%) Agile
4 34 (35.42%) Infrastructure as Code
5 31 (32.29%) Microservices
6 29 (30.21%) DevOps
6 29 (30.21%) Mentoring
7 27 (28.13%) Coaching
7 27 (28.13%) Data Engineering
8 24 (25.00%) Mob Programming
9 23 (23.96%) Analytics
10 22 (22.92%) Containerisation
11 21 (21.88%) Decision-Making
12 19 (19.79%) ETL
13 18 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
13 18 (18.75%) Event-Driven
14 17 (17.71%) Business Intelligence
15 16 (16.67%) Data Science
15 16 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
16 12 (12.50%) Community of Practice
Programming Languages
1 51 (53.13%) JavaScript
2 35 (36.46%) SQL
3 31 (32.29%) Python
4 26 (27.08%) Java
5 24 (25.00%) Ruby
6 22 (22.92%) C#
7 17 (17.71%) C++
8 16 (16.67%) Bash
9 8 (8.33%) Groovy
10 3 (3.13%) Go
10 3 (3.13%) PowerShell
10 3 (3.13%) TypeScript
11 2 (2.08%) PL/SQL
11 2 (2.08%) Rust
11 2 (2.08%) Shell Script
12 1 (1.04%) Perl
12 1 (1.04%) PHP
Qualifications
1 21 (21.88%) Security Cleared
2 18 (18.75%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.04%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (25.00%) Data Quality
2 8 (8.33%) QA
3 5 (5.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.04%) SLA
4 1 (1.04%) SOC 2
System Software
1 26 (27.08%) Docker
2 5 (5.21%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.08%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.04%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (1.04%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.04%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.04%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 26 (27.08%) Kubernetes
2 8 (8.33%) Ansible
3 7 (7.29%) Grafana
4 6 (6.25%) Progress Chef
5 5 (5.21%) Prometheus
6 2 (2.08%) Istio
6 2 (2.08%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (2.08%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 2 (2.08%) Oracle RMAN
6 2 (2.08%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.04%) Argo
7 1 (1.04%) Kibana
7 1 (1.04%) Packer
Vendors
1 4 (4.17%) OpenAI
2 3 (3.13%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.13%) VMware
3 2 (2.08%) Oracle
4 1 (1.04%) AppDynamics
4 1 (1.04%) Databricks
4 1 (1.04%) Veeam
4 1 (1.04%) YouTube
4 1 (1.04%) Zerto