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

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 305 280 356
Rank change year-on-year -25 +76 +15
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EC2 70 172 170
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.44% 1.06% 0.65%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.20% 2.27% 1.41%
Number of salaries quoted 61 126 150
10th Percentile - £52,527 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £76,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £107,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -37.21% +59.26% -3.57%
75th Percentile £82,500 £118,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £147,500 £87,750
UK median annual salary £67,500 £95,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -28.95% +35.71% -3.45%

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 5,825 7,579 12,081
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 36.89% 46.69% 46.15%
Number of salaries quoted 4,043 4,826 10,534
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,625 £35,944
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.92% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £79,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%

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 30 January 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 6 (8.57%) Tomcat
1 6 (8.57%) WebSphere
1 6 (8.57%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (1.43%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 70 (100.00%) AWS
2 57 (81.43%) Amazon S3
3 47 (67.14%) AWS Lambda
3 47 (67.14%) Serverless
4 30 (42.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 26 (37.14%) Amazon ECS
6 23 (32.86%) Amazon EKS
7 19 (27.14%) Amazon SQS
8 17 (24.29%) AWS CloudFormation
9 15 (21.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 12 (17.14%) Route 53
10 12 (17.14%) SaaS
11 10 (14.29%) GitHub
12 9 (12.86%) GitHub Actions
13 8 (11.43%) Azure
13 8 (11.43%) CloudFront
14 7 (10.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
14 7 (10.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 6 (8.57%) Amazon ECR
15 6 (8.57%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 8 (11.43%) TCP/IP
1 8 (11.43%) VPN
2 6 (8.57%) BGP
2 6 (8.57%) SSL
2 6 (8.57%) VLAN
3 3 (4.29%) AMQP
4 2 (2.86%) DNS
5 1 (1.43%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (64.29%) Amazon RDS
2 18 (25.71%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (20.00%) MongoDB
4 9 (12.86%) SQL Server
5 7 (10.00%) Amazon Aurora
5 7 (10.00%) Amazon Redshift
5 7 (10.00%) NoSQL
6 6 (8.57%) DB2
6 6 (8.57%) DynamoDB
7 3 (4.29%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (4.29%) Data Lake
7 3 (4.29%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (4.29%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 12 (17.14%) Cypress.io
2 9 (12.86%) Jenkins
3 5 (7.14%) GitLab
4 1 (1.43%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.43%) Git
4 1 (1.43%) Testinfra
General
1 18 (25.71%) Social Skills
2 15 (21.43%) Finance
3 12 (17.14%) Banking
4 6 (8.57%) Back Office
4 6 (8.57%) Financial Institution
4 6 (8.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (8.57%) Law
4 6 (8.57%) Retail
5 3 (4.29%) Billing
5 3 (4.29%) Marketing
5 3 (4.29%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.86%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.43%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.43%) Automotive
7 1 (1.43%) Military
Job Titles
1 20 (28.57%) Developer
2 18 (25.71%) AWS Engineer
3 13 (18.57%) Platform Engineer
4 12 (17.14%) Full-Stack Developer
4 12 (17.14%) Senior
5 11 (15.71%) Linux Engineer
6 10 (14.29%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 10 (14.29%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 9 (12.86%) Cloud Engineer
7 9 (12.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 8 (11.43%) Java Developer
9 7 (10.00%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
10 6 (8.57%) Applications Engineer
10 6 (8.57%) Applications Support
10 6 (8.57%) Applications Support Engineer
10 6 (8.57%) DevOps Engineer
10 6 (8.57%) Software Engineer
10 6 (8.57%) Support Engineer
11 5 (7.14%) Linux Support
11 5 (7.14%) Linux Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (27.14%) React
2 17 (24.29%) Node.js
3 12 (17.14%) Jest
3 12 (17.14%) Ruby on Rails
4 9 (12.86%) Spring
4 9 (12.86%) Spring Boot
5 7 (10.00%) Loki
5 7 (10.00%) RESTful
6 6 (8.57%) AWS CDK
6 6 (8.57%) LAPP Stack
6 6 (8.57%) LDAP
6 6 (8.57%) WebSphere MQ
7 5 (7.14%) RabbitMQ
8 4 (5.71%) JSON
8 4 (5.71%) REST
9 3 (4.29%) J2EE
9 3 (4.29%) SOAP
9 3 (4.29%) Spring Security
9 3 (4.29%) Web Services
9 3 (4.29%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (24.29%) Cloud Native
2 6 (8.57%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (8.57%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (4.29%) Blog
3 3 (4.29%) Data Centre
3 3 (4.29%) Enterprise Cloud
3 3 (4.29%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (4.29%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.43%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.43%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.43%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 20 (28.57%) Linux
2 10 (14.29%) Windows
3 6 (8.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (8.57%) Unix
4 3 (4.29%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (61.43%) CI/CD
2 32 (45.71%) Infrastructure as Code
3 24 (34.29%) DevOps
4 21 (30.00%) Platform Engineering
5 19 (27.14%) Disaster Recovery
6 18 (25.71%) Containerisation
6 18 (25.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 18 (25.71%) Observability
7 17 (24.29%) Full-Stack Development
8 16 (22.86%) Microservices
9 14 (20.00%) Software Engineering
10 13 (18.57%) Agile
10 13 (18.57%) Problem-Solving
11 12 (17.14%) Cloud Security
11 12 (17.14%) Mob Programming
12 9 (12.86%) Infrastructure Automation
12 9 (12.86%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 9 (12.86%) SOA
13 8 (11.43%) Continuous Improvement
13 8 (11.43%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 37 (52.86%) Python
2 21 (30.00%) JavaScript
3 19 (27.14%) Java
4 13 (18.57%) Bash
5 12 (17.14%) Ruby
6 9 (12.86%) SQL
7 6 (8.57%) Go
8 5 (7.14%) TypeScript
9 4 (5.71%) PowerShell
10 2 (2.86%) Scala
11 1 (1.43%) C#
Qualifications
1 16 (22.86%) AWS Certification
2 13 (18.57%) Degree
3 7 (10.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 6 (8.57%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (2.86%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (2.86%) Security Cleared
5 2 (2.86%) SnowPro
6 1 (1.43%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.43%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.57%) PCI DSS
1 6 (8.57%) SLA
1 6 (8.57%) SOC 2
2 3 (4.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.43%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.43%) GDPR
3 1 (1.43%) WCAG
System Software
1 20 (28.57%) Docker
2 4 (5.71%) VMware NSX
2 4 (5.71%) vSphere
3 1 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.43%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 33 (47.14%) Terraform
2 26 (37.14%) Kubernetes
3 13 (18.57%) Grafana
3 13 (18.57%) Prometheus
4 7 (10.00%) Ansible
5 1 (1.43%) Packer
Vendors
1 6 (8.57%) IBM
1 6 (8.57%) Red Hat
2 4 (5.71%) VMware
3 1 (1.43%) Mercator
3 1 (1.43%) Microsoft