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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 305 294 420
Rank change year-on-year -11 +126 -63
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EC2 94 135 152
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.50% 0.90% 0.47%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.32% 2.24% 1.09%
Number of salaries quoted 81 86 127
10th Percentile £51,250 £44,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £54,063 £57,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £82,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -25.45% +22.22% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £115,313 £81,250
90th Percentile £92,500 £140,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £61,500 £82,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -25.45% +10.00% +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 7,129 6,036 13,994
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.97% 40.27% 43.00%
Number of salaries quoted 4,872 4,401 11,914
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,000 £35,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,272 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £79,500
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 21 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 (8.51%) Apache
2 6 (6.38%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (3.19%) Jupyter
4 2 (2.13%) nginx
4 2 (2.13%) WordPress
5 1 (1.06%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.06%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (1.06%) Confluence
5 1 (1.06%) Drupal
5 1 (1.06%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (1.06%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 94 (100.00%) AWS
2 76 (80.85%) Amazon S3
3 61 (64.89%) AWS Lambda
3 61 (64.89%) Serverless
4 31 (32.98%) Amazon ECS
5 29 (30.85%) GitHub
6 28 (29.79%) GitHub Actions
7 27 (28.72%) Amazon SQS
7 27 (28.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 23 (24.47%) Amazon EKS
9 19 (20.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 16 (17.02%) AWS CloudFormation
11 12 (12.77%) SaaS
12 11 (11.70%) CloudFront
13 10 (10.64%) Azure
14 9 (9.57%) Amazon ElastiCache
15 7 (7.45%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 6 (6.38%) AWS CodePipeline
16 6 (6.38%) Route 53
17 5 (5.32%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.38%) VPN
2 5 (5.32%) DNS
3 4 (4.26%) Firewall
4 3 (3.19%) AMQP
4 3 (3.19%) BGP
4 3 (3.19%) TCP/IP
4 3 (3.19%) VLAN
5 1 (1.06%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (45.74%) Amazon RDS
2 29 (30.85%) PostgreSQL
3 24 (25.53%) MongoDB
4 10 (10.64%) Amazon Aurora
5 8 (8.51%) DynamoDB
6 6 (6.38%) Amazon Redshift
6 6 (6.38%) NoSQL
7 5 (5.32%) SQL Server
8 3 (3.19%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (3.19%) Metadata
8 3 (3.19%) MySQL
9 2 (2.13%) MariaDB
10 1 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (1.06%) InterSystems Cache
10 1 (1.06%) Redis
10 1 (1.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 29 (30.85%) Cypress.io
2 10 (10.64%) Jenkins
3 7 (7.45%) GitLab
4 6 (6.38%) JIRA
5 5 (5.32%) Git
5 5 (5.32%) Storybook
6 2 (2.13%) Claude Code
7 1 (1.06%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (1.06%) Browser DevTools
7 1 (1.06%) CircleCI
7 1 (1.06%) Gatling
7 1 (1.06%) git-flow
7 1 (1.06%) JMeter
7 1 (1.06%) Maven
7 1 (1.06%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.06%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (1.06%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (1.06%) TeamCity
7 1 (1.06%) Terragrunt
7 1 (1.06%) webpack
General
1 18 (19.15%) Social Skills
2 12 (12.77%) Public Sector
3 9 (9.57%) Finance
4 6 (6.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (6.38%) Law
5 5 (5.32%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.19%) Back Office
6 3 (3.19%) Banking
6 3 (3.19%) Billing
6 3 (3.19%) Financial Institution
6 3 (3.19%) Legal
6 3 (3.19%) Military
6 3 (3.19%) Retail
7 2 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.06%) Advertising
8 1 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.06%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 38 (40.43%) Developer
2 25 (26.60%) Full-Stack Developer
3 24 (25.53%) AWS Engineer
4 23 (24.47%) Platform Engineer
5 15 (15.96%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 14 (14.89%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 13 (13.83%) Senior
8 12 (12.77%) Cloud Engineer
9 8 (8.51%) Java Developer
10 7 (7.45%) DevOps Engineer
10 7 (7.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 5 (5.32%) Lead
11 5 (5.32%) Linux Engineer
11 5 (5.32%) Python Engineer
12 4 (4.26%) AWS DevOps
12 4 (4.26%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 4 (4.26%) Data Engineer
12 4 (4.26%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 4 (4.26%) Senior Data Engineer
12 4 (4.26%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (37.23%) React
2 29 (30.85%) Jest
3 27 (28.72%) Node.js
4 24 (25.53%) Ruby on Rails
5 10 (10.64%) Spring
6 9 (9.57%) Spring Boot
7 7 (7.45%) Loki
8 6 (6.38%) CSS
8 6 (6.38%) REST
8 6 (6.38%) RESTful
8 6 (6.38%) Web Services
9 5 (5.32%) Flutter
9 5 (5.32%) JSON
9 5 (5.32%) React Native
9 5 (5.32%) Tailwind CSS
9 5 (5.32%) Zustand
10 4 (4.26%) Elastic Stack
11 3 (3.19%) RabbitMQ
11 3 (3.19%) SOAP
11 3 (3.19%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 19 (20.21%) Cloud Native
2 5 (5.32%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (5.32%) Mobile App
3 3 (3.19%) Blog
3 3 (3.19%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (3.19%) IoT
3 3 (3.19%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (3.19%) Security Posture
4 2 (2.13%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.13%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.06%) Reinsurance
5 1 (1.06%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 18 (19.15%) Linux
2 3 (3.19%) Windows
3 1 (1.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.06%) VMS
3 1 (1.06%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (58.51%) CI/CD
2 42 (44.68%) DevOps
3 39 (41.49%) Infrastructure as Code
4 32 (34.04%) Microservices
5 28 (29.79%) Platform Engineering
6 26 (27.66%) Full-Stack Development
7 25 (26.60%) Containerisation
8 24 (25.53%) Mob Programming
9 23 (24.47%) Agile
10 21 (22.34%) Observability
11 17 (18.09%) Continuous Improvement
12 15 (15.96%) Cloud Security
13 14 (14.89%) Infrastructure Automation
13 14 (14.89%) Mentoring
13 14 (14.89%) Software Engineering
14 13 (13.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 12 (12.77%) Deployment Automation
15 12 (12.77%) Problem-Solving
16 11 (11.70%) Disaster Recovery
16 11 (11.70%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 50 (53.19%) Python
2 34 (36.17%) JavaScript
3 24 (25.53%) Ruby
4 21 (22.34%) Bash
5 17 (18.09%) SQL
6 16 (17.02%) Java
7 6 (6.38%) PHP
7 6 (6.38%) TypeScript
8 5 (5.32%) Dart
8 5 (5.32%) Groovy
9 4 (4.26%) PowerShell
10 3 (3.19%) Go
11 2 (2.13%) C#
11 2 (2.13%) Scala
11 2 (2.13%) Shell Script
12 1 (1.06%) Perl
Qualifications
1 12 (12.77%) Degree
1 12 (12.77%) Security Cleared
2 10 (10.64%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.19%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.06%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (6.38%) Data Quality
2 6 (6.38%) QA
2 6 (6.38%) SOC 2
3 3 (3.19%) ISO 9001
3 3 (3.19%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.06%) HL7
4 1 (1.06%) NCSC
4 1 (1.06%) SLA
4 1 (1.06%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 36 (38.30%) Docker
2 3 (3.19%) Firmware
3 2 (2.13%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.13%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (2.13%) VMware NSX
3 2 (2.13%) vSphere
4 1 (1.06%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 41 (43.62%) Terraform
2 37 (39.36%) Kubernetes
3 15 (15.96%) Grafana
4 13 (13.83%) Ansible
5 12 (12.77%) Prometheus
6 5 (5.32%) Progress Chef
7 3 (3.19%) Argo
8 1 (1.06%) Consul
8 1 (1.06%) Kibana
8 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (1.06%) Packer
8 1 (1.06%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (3.19%) Databricks
1 3 (3.19%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.13%) OpenAI
2 2 (2.13%) VMware
3 1 (1.06%) AppDynamics
3 1 (1.06%) Apple
3 1 (1.06%) Google
3 1 (1.06%) Mercator
3 1 (1.06%) New Relic
3 1 (1.06%) Red Hat
3 1 (1.06%) TOWER Software