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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 358 318 329
Rank change year-on-year -40 +11 -66
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EC2 67 182 194
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.41% 0.78% 0.77%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.17% 1.92% 1.61%
Number of salaries quoted 45 153 175
10th Percentile £46,900 £61,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £63,750 £70,000 £57,081
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 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,250 £165,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £80,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -9.38% +18.52% -3.57%

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 5,744 9,469 12,058
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 35.47% 40.69% 48.06%
Number of salaries quoted 4,139 6,543 10,429
10th Percentile £31,750 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - -
75th Percentile £82,500 £86,250 £83,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £115,000 £101,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -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 Hybrid Work Options

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Amazon EC2.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Amazon EC2

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 16 September 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 4 (5.97%) Tomcat
1 4 (5.97%) WebSphere
1 4 (5.97%) WebSphere Application Server
2 3 (4.48%) nginx
3 1 (1.49%) Drupal
Applications
1 1 (1.49%) Adobe XD
Cloud Services
1 67 (100.00%) AWS
2 55 (82.09%) Amazon S3
3 49 (73.13%) AWS Lambda
3 49 (73.13%) Serverless
4 24 (35.82%) AWS CloudFormation
4 24 (35.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 16 (23.88%) Amazon EKS
5 16 (23.88%) GitHub
6 14 (20.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 14 (20.90%) Amazon ECS
7 13 (19.40%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (10.45%) Route 53
8 7 (10.45%) Snowflake
9 5 (7.46%) Azure
9 5 (7.46%) Datadog
10 4 (5.97%) Amazon ECR
11 3 (4.48%) AWS Fargate
11 3 (4.48%) npm
11 3 (4.48%) SaaS
12 2 (2.99%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (11.94%) VPN
2 6 (8.96%) Firewall
3 5 (7.46%) DNS
4 4 (5.97%) SSL
5 2 (2.99%) HTTPS
5 2 (2.99%) SD-WAN
5 2 (2.99%) TCP/IP
5 2 (2.99%) VLAN
5 2 (2.99%) WAN
6 1 (1.49%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (50.75%) Amazon RDS
2 16 (23.88%) Amazon Redshift
3 14 (20.90%) DynamoDB
4 12 (17.91%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (10.45%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (7.46%) Data Lake
6 5 (7.46%) SQL Server
7 4 (5.97%) DB2
8 3 (4.48%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (4.48%) Metadata
9 2 (2.99%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (2.99%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (2.99%) Tableau
10 1 (1.49%) RDBMS
10 1 (1.49%) Relational Database
10 1 (1.49%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 1 (1.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (1.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 20 (29.85%) Jenkins
2 14 (20.90%) Git
3 10 (14.93%) GitLab
4 6 (8.96%) JUnit
4 6 (8.96%) Maven
4 6 (8.96%) Mockito
5 5 (7.46%) Cucumber
5 5 (7.46%) IntelliJ
5 5 (7.46%) JIRA
6 3 (4.48%) Babel
6 3 (4.48%) gulp
6 3 (4.48%) webpack
7 1 (1.49%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.49%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.49%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.49%) Testinfra
General
1 17 (25.37%) Finance
2 16 (23.88%) Social Skills
3 5 (7.46%) Banking
4 4 (5.97%) Public Sector
5 3 (4.48%) Advertising
5 3 (4.48%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (4.48%) Fire and Rescue
5 3 (4.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (4.48%) Marketing
5 3 (4.48%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.99%) Games
Job Titles
1 26 (38.81%) Senior
2 15 (22.39%) AWS Engineer
3 12 (17.91%) Developer
4 11 (16.42%) Data Engineer
5 10 (14.93%) AWS DevOps
6 8 (11.94%) DevOps Engineer
6 8 (11.94%) Java Developer
7 7 (10.45%) Applications Engineer
7 7 (10.45%) Development Manager
7 7 (10.45%) Java Development Manager
7 7 (10.45%) Senior DevOps
8 6 (8.96%) Applications Support
8 6 (8.96%) Applications Support Engineer
8 6 (8.96%) Consultant
8 6 (8.96%) Senior Data Engineer
8 6 (8.96%) Senior Developer
8 6 (8.96%) Senior Java Developer
8 6 (8.96%) Support Engineer
9 5 (7.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (7.46%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (20.90%) React
2 10 (14.93%) Spring
2 10 (14.93%) Spring Boot
3 8 (11.94%) AWS CDK
3 8 (11.94%) REST
4 6 (8.96%) ActiveMQ
5 5 (7.46%) JMS
6 4 (5.97%) CSS
6 4 (5.97%) Elastic Stack
6 4 (5.97%) HTML
6 4 (5.97%) LAPP Stack
6 4 (5.97%) LDAP
6 4 (5.97%) OAuth
6 4 (5.97%) Sass
6 4 (5.97%) WebSphere MQ
7 3 (4.48%) Kafka
7 3 (4.48%) Node.js
7 3 (4.48%) Svelte
7 3 (4.48%) Vue
7 3 (4.48%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (16.42%) Product Ownership
2 8 (11.94%) Management Information System
3 5 (7.46%) Credit Derivative
3 5 (7.46%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (5.97%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (4.48%) Enterprise Cloud
5 3 (4.48%) Smart City
5 3 (4.48%) Virtual Team
6 2 (2.99%) Online Games
7 1 (1.49%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.49%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 24 (35.82%) Linux
2 7 (10.45%) Windows
3 5 (7.46%) Unix
4 4 (5.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (4.48%) Ubuntu
6 2 (2.99%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (41.79%) Software Engineering
2 26 (38.81%) Infrastructure as Code
3 25 (37.31%) CI/CD
4 24 (35.82%) DevOps
5 18 (26.87%) Agile
6 17 (25.37%) Analytics
6 17 (25.37%) Problem-Solving
7 16 (23.88%) Mentoring
8 15 (22.39%) Microservices
9 14 (20.90%) Containerisation
10 12 (17.91%) Infrastructure Automation
11 11 (16.42%) Scrum
12 10 (14.93%) Data Engineering
12 10 (14.93%) Technical Leadership
13 9 (13.43%) ETL
13 9 (13.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 7 (10.45%) Disaster Recovery
14 7 (10.45%) Multithreading
14 7 (10.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 7 (10.45%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 37 (55.22%) Python
2 19 (28.36%) Java
3 17 (25.37%) SQL
4 12 (17.91%) JavaScript
5 11 (16.42%) Bash
6 7 (10.45%) PowerShell
7 5 (7.46%) C++
8 4 (5.97%) TypeScript
9 3 (4.48%) R
10 2 (2.99%) C#
11 1 (1.49%) Groovy
11 1 (1.49%) PHP
11 1 (1.49%) Ruby
11 1 (1.49%) Scala
Qualifications
1 24 (35.82%) AWS Certification
2 8 (11.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 7 (10.45%) Security Cleared
3 7 (10.45%) SnowPro
4 6 (8.96%) Degree
5 5 (7.46%) SC Cleared
6 4 (5.97%) ITIL Certification
7 3 (4.48%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (2.99%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (2.99%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 2 (2.99%) Azure Certification
8 2 (2.99%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (2.99%) DV Cleared
8 2 (2.99%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (19.40%) QA
2 6 (8.96%) SLA
3 1 (1.49%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.49%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.49%) GDPR
3 1 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.49%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (17.91%) Docker
2 2 (2.99%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.99%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (2.99%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 28 (41.79%) Terraform
2 10 (14.93%) Ansible
3 9 (13.43%) Kubernetes
4 8 (11.94%) Grafana
4 8 (11.94%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.99%) Argo
5 2 (2.99%) Kibana
5 2 (2.99%) logstash
5 2 (2.99%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.49%) Packer
Vendors
1 10 (14.93%) Microsoft
2 9 (13.43%) IBM
3 7 (10.45%) Cisco
4 4 (5.97%) Red Hat
5 3 (4.48%) Databricks
6 2 (2.99%) Facebook
6 2 (2.99%) Google
7 1 (1.49%) Adobe
7 1 (1.49%) Oracle