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 15 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 347 319 378
Rank change year-on-year -28 +59 -10
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EC2 95 107 185
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.44% 0.65% 0.58%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.14% 1.74% 1.39%
Number of salaries quoted 79 67 170
10th Percentile - £44,000 £53,625
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,125 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £70,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.44% -11.88% +18.52%
75th Percentile £73,250 £96,250 £118,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £112,500 £165,000
UK median annual salary £60,500 £72,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -16.55% -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 8,338 6,144 13,285
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 39.06% 37.26% 41.62%
Number of salaries quoted 5,920 4,533 10,941
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,500 £36,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £44,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -8.00%

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 15 July 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 12 (12.63%) Apache
2 10 (10.53%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (7.37%) Jupyter
4 5 (5.26%) Apache Spark
5 2 (2.11%) nginx
5 2 (2.11%) WordPress
6 1 (1.05%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (1.05%) Confluence
6 1 (1.05%) Drupal
6 1 (1.05%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (1.05%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 95 (100.00%) AWS
2 79 (83.16%) Amazon S3
3 55 (57.89%) AWS Lambda
3 55 (57.89%) Serverless
4 31 (32.63%) Amazon ECS
5 28 (29.47%) GitHub
5 28 (29.47%) GitHub Actions
6 25 (26.32%) Amazon SQS
7 22 (23.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 20 (21.05%) Amazon EKS
9 17 (17.89%) AWS CloudFormation
10 14 (14.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 9 (9.47%) SaaS
12 8 (8.42%) Azure
13 7 (7.37%) Amazon ECR
13 7 (7.37%) Amazon EMR
13 7 (7.37%) Route 53
14 5 (5.26%) CloudFront
14 5 (5.26%) Datadog
15 4 (4.21%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 8 (8.42%) DNS
1 8 (8.42%) VPN
2 4 (4.21%) Firewall
3 3 (3.16%) BGP
3 3 (3.16%) TCP/IP
3 3 (3.16%) VLAN
4 1 (1.05%) AMQP
4 1 (1.05%) Network Security
4 1 (1.05%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (33.68%) Amazon RDS
2 29 (30.53%) PostgreSQL
3 24 (25.26%) MongoDB
4 10 (10.53%) DynamoDB
5 7 (7.37%) Amazon Athena
6 6 (6.32%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (5.26%) NoSQL
8 4 (4.21%) Amazon Aurora
8 4 (4.21%) MySQL
9 3 (3.16%) MariaDB
9 3 (3.16%) Metadata
9 3 (3.16%) SQL Server
10 2 (2.11%) Big Data
10 2 (2.11%) Data Lake
11 1 (1.05%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (1.05%) InterSystems Cache
11 1 (1.05%) Redis
11 1 (1.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 28 (29.47%) Cypress.io
2 10 (10.53%) GitLab
2 10 (10.53%) Jenkins
3 7 (7.37%) Git
4 6 (6.32%) JIRA
5 5 (5.26%) Storybook
6 3 (3.16%) Claude Code
7 2 (2.11%) Terragrunt
8 1 (1.05%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (1.05%) Browser DevTools
8 1 (1.05%) CircleCI
8 1 (1.05%) Gatling
8 1 (1.05%) git-flow
8 1 (1.05%) JMeter
8 1 (1.05%) SonarQube
8 1 (1.05%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (1.05%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (1.05%) TeamCity
8 1 (1.05%) Vagrant
8 1 (1.05%) webpack
General
1 16 (16.84%) Public Sector
2 15 (15.79%) Social Skills
3 9 (9.47%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (9.47%) Finance
4 6 (6.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (6.32%) Law
5 3 (3.16%) Back Office
5 3 (3.16%) Banking
5 3 (3.16%) Financial Institution
5 3 (3.16%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (3.16%) Legal
5 3 (3.16%) Military
5 3 (3.16%) Retail
6 2 (2.11%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.05%) Advertising
7 1 (1.05%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 34 (35.79%) Developer
2 26 (27.37%) AWS Engineer
3 24 (25.26%) Full-Stack Developer
4 15 (15.79%) Cloud Engineer
4 15 (15.79%) Platform Engineer
4 15 (15.79%) Senior
5 10 (10.53%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 8 (8.42%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 7 (7.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (7.37%) Lead
8 6 (6.32%) Data Engineer
8 6 (6.32%) DevOps Engineer
9 5 (5.26%) Java Developer
9 5 (5.26%) Python Engineer
9 5 (5.26%) Senior Platform Engineer
9 5 (5.26%) Test Engineer
10 4 (4.21%) AWS DevOps
10 4 (4.21%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 4 (4.21%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 4 (4.21%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (35.79%) React
2 28 (29.47%) Jest
3 24 (25.26%) Node.js
4 23 (24.21%) Ruby on Rails
5 7 (7.37%) Web Services
6 6 (6.32%) CSS
6 6 (6.32%) RESTful
6 6 (6.32%) Spring
7 5 (5.26%) Flutter
7 5 (5.26%) React Native
7 5 (5.26%) REST
7 5 (5.26%) Spring Boot
7 5 (5.26%) Tailwind CSS
7 5 (5.26%) Zustand
8 4 (4.21%) .NET
8 4 (4.21%) PySpark
9 3 (3.16%) AngularJS
9 3 (3.16%) ARM Templates
9 3 (3.16%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (3.16%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 24 (25.26%) Cloud Native
2 8 (8.42%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (5.26%) Mobile App
4 3 (3.16%) Blog
4 3 (3.16%) Data Centre
4 3 (3.16%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (3.16%) IoT
4 3 (3.16%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (2.11%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.11%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.11%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.05%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.05%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (14.74%) Linux
2 1 (1.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.05%) Windows
2 1 (1.05%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (51.58%) CI/CD
2 43 (45.26%) Infrastructure as Code
3 37 (38.95%) DevOps
4 32 (33.68%) Microservices
5 29 (30.53%) Containerisation
6 27 (28.42%) Full-Stack Development
7 26 (27.37%) Agile
8 23 (24.21%) Mob Programming
9 21 (22.11%) Continuous Improvement
9 21 (22.11%) Platform Engineering
10 17 (17.89%) Mentoring
11 16 (16.84%) Problem-Solving
12 14 (14.74%) Observability
12 14 (14.74%) Software Engineering
13 13 (13.68%) Data Pipeline
14 12 (12.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 12 (12.63%) Test Automation
15 11 (11.58%) AI
15 11 (11.58%) Validation
16 10 (10.53%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 46 (48.42%) Python
2 33 (34.74%) JavaScript
3 23 (24.21%) Ruby
4 20 (21.05%) SQL
5 15 (15.79%) Bash
6 14 (14.74%) Java
7 8 (8.42%) Groovy
7 8 (8.42%) TypeScript
8 6 (6.32%) PHP
9 5 (5.26%) Dart
10 4 (4.21%) Go
11 3 (3.16%) C#
12 2 (2.11%) PowerShell
12 2 (2.11%) Scala
12 2 (2.11%) Shell Script
13 1 (1.05%) Perl
Qualifications
1 19 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 15 (15.79%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.32%) Degree
4 3 (3.16%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.05%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 9 (9.47%) QA
2 8 (8.42%) Data Quality
3 6 (6.32%) SOC 2
4 3 (3.16%) ISO 9001
4 3 (3.16%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.05%) HL7
5 1 (1.05%) NCSC
5 1 (1.05%) SLA
5 1 (1.05%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 36 (37.89%) Docker
2 3 (3.16%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.16%) Firmware
3 2 (2.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 45 (47.37%) Terraform
2 34 (35.79%) Kubernetes
3 15 (15.79%) Ansible
4 9 (9.47%) Grafana
5 8 (8.42%) Progress Chef
6 6 (6.32%) Prometheus
7 3 (3.16%) Argo
8 2 (2.11%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (1.05%) Consul
9 1 (1.05%) Kibana
9 1 (1.05%) Packer
9 1 (1.05%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (3.16%) Databricks
1 3 (3.16%) Microsoft
1 3 (3.16%) OpenAI
2 1 (1.05%) AppDynamics
2 1 (1.05%) Apple
2 1 (1.05%) Google
2 1 (1.05%) New Relic
2 1 (1.05%) Red Hat
2 1 (1.05%) TOWER Software