Amazon EC2 Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring Amazon EC2 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Amazon EC2 over the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 291 440 369
Rank change year-on-year +149 -71 -109
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EC2 160 150 323
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.96% 0.44% 0.78%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.58% 1.03% 1.63%
Number of salaries quoted 108 126 259
10th Percentile £44,000 £41,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £62,188 £56,938 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +40.74% - -3.57%
75th Percentile £118,750 £81,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £147,500 £95,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £90,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% +7.14% -

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 6,209 14,601 19,859
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.36% 43.24% 47.89%
Number of salaries quoted 4,589 11,951 14,546
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £38,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £83,000 £78,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £97,500 £103,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% +4.00%

Amazon EC2
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Amazon EC2 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Amazon EC2 trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Amazon EC2
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Amazon EC2.

Amazon EC2 salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Amazon EC2
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Amazon EC2 over the 6 months to 9 May 2025.

Amazon EC2 salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Amazon EC2
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 35 (21.88%) Apache
1 35 (21.88%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (3.75%) Confluence
3 3 (1.88%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.88%) nginx
4 1 (0.63%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 160 (100.00%) AWS
2 104 (65.00%) Amazon S3
3 84 (52.50%) Serverless
4 78 (48.75%) AWS Lambda
5 62 (38.75%) Amazon ECS
6 60 (37.50%) Amazon EKS
7 37 (23.13%) GCP
8 35 (21.88%) Snowflake
9 34 (21.25%) Dagster
9 34 (21.25%) dbt
10 33 (20.63%) AWS CloudFormation
11 29 (18.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 22 (13.75%) Amazon SQS
13 15 (9.38%) Datadog
14 13 (8.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 11 (6.88%) GitHub
16 7 (4.38%) Amazon SageMaker
16 7 (4.38%) Azure
17 6 (3.75%) Amazon ECR
17 6 (3.75%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.13%) Internet
1 5 (3.13%) VPN
2 4 (2.50%) Firewall
2 4 (2.50%) HTTPS
2 4 (2.50%) SD-WAN
2 4 (2.50%) VLAN
2 4 (2.50%) WAN
3 1 (0.63%) DNS
3 1 (0.63%) HTTP
3 1 (0.63%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (31.88%) Amazon RDS
2 39 (24.38%) Amazon Athena
3 38 (23.75%) Data Lake
4 34 (21.25%) Amazon Redshift
4 34 (21.25%) Apache Arrow
4 34 (21.25%) Apache Iceberg
4 34 (21.25%) Apache Ignite
4 34 (21.25%) Dremio
5 18 (11.25%) DynamoDB
6 17 (10.63%) PostgreSQL
7 14 (8.75%) MySQL
8 8 (5.00%) Amazon Aurora
8 8 (5.00%) NoSQL
9 7 (4.38%) MongoDB
10 4 (2.50%) Big Data
10 4 (2.50%) Tableau
11 3 (1.88%) Metadata
11 3 (1.88%) Parquet
11 3 (1.88%) Relational Database
11 3 (1.88%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 43 (26.88%) Git
2 27 (16.88%) GitLab
3 25 (15.63%) Jenkins
4 17 (10.63%) Cucumber
5 16 (10.00%) JUnit
6 15 (9.38%) Maven
6 15 (9.38%) Mockito
7 14 (8.75%) IntelliJ
8 13 (8.13%) JIRA
9 4 (2.50%) Artifactory
9 4 (2.50%) SonarQube
10 3 (1.88%) Babel
10 3 (1.88%) gulp
10 3 (1.88%) webpack
11 2 (1.25%) CircleCI
12 1 (0.63%) Cypress.io
12 1 (0.63%) TestNG
General
1 81 (50.63%) Finance
2 54 (33.75%) Banking
3 52 (32.50%) Front Office
4 34 (21.25%) Investment Banking
5 20 (12.50%) Social Skills
6 11 (6.88%) Manufacturing
7 10 (6.25%) Electronics
8 9 (5.63%) Marketing
9 6 (3.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (3.75%) Public Sector
10 5 (3.13%) Advertising
11 4 (2.50%) Analytical Skills
11 4 (2.50%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.88%) Fire and Rescue
12 3 (1.88%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.88%) Retail
13 1 (0.63%) Aviation
13 1 (0.63%) Games
13 1 (0.63%) Health Technology
13 1 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 74 (46.25%) AWS Engineer
2 53 (33.13%) Senior
3 45 (28.13%) Software Engineer
4 40 (25.00%) AWS DevOps
5 34 (21.25%) AWS Software Engineer
6 32 (20.00%) Python Engineer
7 30 (18.75%) DevOps Engineer
8 26 (16.25%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 26 (16.25%) Developer
9 24 (15.00%) Java Engineer
10 23 (14.38%) Java Software Engineer
10 23 (14.38%) Senior DevOps
11 20 (12.50%) Senior Software Engineer
12 18 (11.25%) DevOps Manager
12 18 (11.25%) Finance Manager
13 16 (10.00%) Java Developer
13 16 (10.00%) Senior Developer
14 15 (9.38%) AWS Developer
15 14 (8.75%) DevOps Developer
15 14 (8.75%) Java Pricing Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (23.75%) PySpark
2 37 (23.13%) Pandas
3 34 (21.25%) gRPC
3 34 (21.25%) NumPy
3 34 (21.25%) Protocol Buffers
3 34 (21.25%) SciPy
4 29 (18.13%) React
5 17 (10.63%) Spring
5 17 (10.63%) Spring Boot
6 15 (9.38%) ActiveMQ
7 14 (8.75%) JMS
8 10 (6.25%) Node.js
8 10 (6.25%) REST
9 9 (5.63%) Django
9 9 (5.63%) Lambda Expressions
10 8 (5.00%) CSS
10 8 (5.00%) Flask
11 7 (4.38%) Elastic Stack
11 7 (4.38%) HTML
11 7 (4.38%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 35 (21.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 34 (21.25%) Derivative
2 34 (21.25%) Equities
2 34 (21.25%) Fixed Income
2 34 (21.25%) Hedge funds
3 17 (10.63%) Management Information System
4 14 (8.75%) Credit Derivative
4 14 (8.75%) Enterprise Software
5 10 (6.25%) Product Ownership
6 6 (3.75%) Molecular Biology
7 5 (3.13%) Cloud Native
8 4 (2.50%) IoT
9 3 (1.88%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.88%) Educational Technology
9 3 (1.88%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.88%) Security Posture
9 3 (1.88%) Smart City
10 2 (1.25%) Cloud Security Posture
10 2 (1.25%) Distributed Computing
10 2 (1.25%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 36 (22.50%) Linux
2 10 (6.25%) Windows
3 4 (2.50%) Ubuntu
3 4 (2.50%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.63%) Debian
4 1 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.63%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (56.25%) Software Engineering
2 83 (51.88%) Agile
3 56 (35.00%) DevOps
4 53 (33.13%) Asset Management
5 52 (32.50%) CI/CD
6 39 (24.38%) Migration
7 34 (21.25%) Infrastructure as Code
8 29 (18.13%) Analytics
9 24 (15.00%) Fintech
10 19 (11.88%) Microservices
10 19 (11.88%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 18 (11.25%) Deployment Automation
12 17 (10.63%) Mentoring
13 16 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
13 16 (10.00%) SDLC
14 15 (9.38%) Machine Learning
15 12 (7.50%) Containerisation
16 11 (6.88%) Roadmaps
17 9 (5.63%) Collaborative Culture
17 9 (5.63%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 100 (62.50%) Python
2 75 (46.88%) JavaScript
3 67 (41.88%) Java
4 49 (30.63%) TypeScript
5 22 (13.75%) SQL
6 14 (8.75%) C++
7 9 (5.63%) Bash
8 7 (4.38%) PHP
9 5 (3.13%) Go
9 5 (3.13%) PowerShell
10 4 (2.50%) C#
10 4 (2.50%) Groovy
10 4 (2.50%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.88%) Perl
11 3 (1.88%) R
12 2 (1.25%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.63%) Erlang
13 1 (0.63%) F#
13 1 (0.63%) Haskell
13 1 (0.63%) Lisp
Qualifications
1 15 (9.38%) AWS Certification
2 10 (6.25%) Security Cleared
3 4 (2.50%) Azure Certification
3 4 (2.50%) CompTIA Security+
3 4 (2.50%) DV Cleared
3 4 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (1.88%) DBS Check
4 3 (1.88%) Degree
4 3 (1.88%) Master's Degree
4 3 (1.88%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (1.25%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 2 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.25%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (0.63%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (0.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.63%) PhD
6 1 (0.63%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (8.75%) QA
2 3 (1.88%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.25%) GDPR
3 2 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.25%) SLA
4 1 (0.63%) GMP
4 1 (0.63%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.63%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 41 (25.63%) Docker
2 4 (2.50%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.63%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 53 (33.13%) Terraform
2 40 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 21 (13.13%) Ansible
4 6 (3.75%) Kustomize
5 4 (2.50%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (1.88%) Grafana
6 3 (1.88%) Packer
6 3 (1.88%) Puppet
7 2 (1.25%) Argo
7 2 (1.25%) Kibana
7 2 (1.25%) logstash
7 2 (1.25%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 17 (10.63%) IBM
2 12 (7.50%) Microsoft
3 7 (4.38%) Cisco
4 6 (3.75%) Sawtooth Software
5 4 (2.50%) SAP
6 3 (1.88%) AppDynamics
6 3 (1.88%) Atlassian
6 3 (1.88%) Databricks
7 2 (1.25%) Hitachi
8 1 (0.63%) Facebook
8 1 (0.63%) Google
8 1 (0.63%) Oracle
8 1 (0.63%) Red Hat