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 1 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 309 230 396
Rank change year-on-year -79 +166 -9
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EC2 85 168 163
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.51% 1.31% 0.52%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.31% 2.80% 1.18%
Number of salaries quoted 71 125 142
10th Percentile - £46,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £62,500 £52,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £95,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -34.21% +40.74% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £118,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £146,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £90,000 £73,750
% change year-on-year -27.78% +22.03% +5.36%

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 6,492 6,007 13,837
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.77% 46.89% 44.55%
Number of salaries quoted 4,386 4,673 11,985
10th Percentile £32,500 £33,875 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,231 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £63,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.57% +5.83% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £77,715
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -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 1 April 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 4 (4.71%) Apache
2 3 (3.53%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.35%) Tomcat
3 2 (2.35%) WebSphere
3 2 (2.35%) WebSphere Application Server
3 2 (2.35%) WordPress
4 1 (1.18%) Confluence
4 1 (1.18%) Drupal
4 1 (1.18%) IIS
4 1 (1.18%) JBoss
4 1 (1.18%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (1.18%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 85 (100.00%) AWS
2 70 (82.35%) Amazon S3
3 55 (64.71%) AWS Lambda
3 55 (64.71%) Serverless
4 29 (34.12%) Amazon ECS
4 29 (34.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 25 (29.41%) GitHub
6 24 (28.24%) Amazon SQS
6 24 (28.24%) GitHub Actions
7 22 (25.88%) Amazon EKS
8 15 (17.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 15 (17.65%) SaaS
9 14 (16.47%) AWS CloudFormation
10 9 (10.59%) CloudFront
10 9 (10.59%) Route 53
11 8 (9.41%) Amazon ElastiCache
12 7 (8.24%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 6 (7.06%) AWS Direct Connect
13 6 (7.06%) Azure
14 5 (5.88%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 9 (10.59%) VPN
2 6 (7.06%) BGP
2 6 (7.06%) TCP/IP
2 6 (7.06%) VLAN
3 3 (3.53%) AMQP
3 3 (3.53%) DNS
3 3 (3.53%) Firewall
4 2 (2.35%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (55.29%) Amazon RDS
2 25 (29.41%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (23.53%) MongoDB
4 10 (11.76%) Amazon Aurora
5 8 (9.41%) NoSQL
6 7 (8.24%) SQL Server
7 6 (7.06%) Amazon Redshift
7 6 (7.06%) DynamoDB
8 3 (3.53%) Metadata
9 2 (2.35%) DB2
9 2 (2.35%) MySQL
10 1 (1.18%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (1.18%) InterSystems Cache
10 1 (1.18%) Redis
Development Applications
1 24 (28.24%) Cypress.io
2 6 (7.06%) Jenkins
2 6 (7.06%) JIRA
3 5 (5.88%) Storybook
4 4 (4.71%) GitLab
5 3 (3.53%) Git
6 1 (1.18%) Browser DevTools
6 1 (1.18%) CircleCI
6 1 (1.18%) Gatling
6 1 (1.18%) git-flow
6 1 (1.18%) JMeter
6 1 (1.18%) Maven
6 1 (1.18%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.18%) TeamCity
6 1 (1.18%) Vagrant
6 1 (1.18%) webpack
General
1 21 (24.71%) Social Skills
2 12 (14.12%) Finance
3 9 (10.59%) Law
4 8 (9.41%) Banking
5 6 (7.06%) Back Office
5 6 (7.06%) Financial Institution
5 6 (7.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (7.06%) Public Sector
5 6 (7.06%) Retail
6 3 (3.53%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.53%) Billing
6 3 (3.53%) Military
7 2 (2.35%) Marketing
8 1 (1.18%) Advertising
8 1 (1.18%) Automotive
8 1 (1.18%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 33 (38.82%) Developer
2 24 (28.24%) AWS Engineer
3 20 (23.53%) Full-Stack Developer
3 20 (23.53%) Platform Engineer
4 13 (15.29%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 13 (15.29%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 11 (12.94%) Senior
6 10 (11.76%) Cloud Engineer
7 9 (10.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 9 (10.59%) Java Developer
8 7 (8.24%) Linux Engineer
9 6 (7.06%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
9 6 (7.06%) DevOps Engineer
10 5 (5.88%) Lead
10 5 (5.88%) Python Engineer
10 5 (5.88%) Software Engineer
11 4 (4.71%) AWS DevOps
11 4 (4.71%) Data Engineer
11 4 (4.71%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 4 (4.71%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (37.65%) React
2 24 (28.24%) Jest
3 23 (27.06%) Node.js
4 19 (22.35%) Ruby on Rails
5 10 (11.76%) Spring
5 10 (11.76%) Spring Boot
6 7 (8.24%) Loki
6 7 (8.24%) RESTful
7 6 (7.06%) CSS
8 5 (5.88%) Flutter
8 5 (5.88%) React Native
8 5 (5.88%) Tailwind CSS
8 5 (5.88%) Zustand
9 4 (4.71%) Elastic Stack
9 4 (4.71%) JSON
9 4 (4.71%) RabbitMQ
9 4 (4.71%) REST
10 3 (3.53%) Hibernate
10 3 (3.53%) SOAP
10 3 (3.53%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 21 (24.71%) Cloud Native
2 6 (7.06%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (5.88%) Mobile App
4 4 (4.71%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (3.53%) Blog
5 3 (3.53%) Data Centre
5 3 (3.53%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (3.53%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (3.53%) IoT
5 3 (3.53%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.18%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.18%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.18%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.18%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (17.65%) Linux
2 6 (7.06%) Windows
3 3 (3.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (2.35%) Unix
4 2 (2.35%) VMS
5 1 (1.18%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (64.71%) CI/CD
2 36 (42.35%) DevOps
2 36 (42.35%) Infrastructure as Code
3 27 (31.76%) Platform Engineering
4 25 (29.41%) Microservices
5 24 (28.24%) Full-Stack Development
6 22 (25.88%) Observability
7 21 (24.71%) Containerisation
8 20 (23.53%) Agile
9 19 (22.35%) Mob Programming
10 18 (21.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 15 (17.65%) Cloud Security
11 15 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
11 15 (17.65%) Disaster Recovery
12 14 (16.47%) Software Engineering
13 13 (15.29%) Infrastructure Automation
14 12 (14.12%) Front End Development
14 12 (14.12%) Mentoring
14 12 (14.12%) Problem-Solving
15 11 (12.94%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 45 (52.94%) Python
2 29 (34.12%) JavaScript
3 19 (22.35%) Ruby
4 18 (21.18%) Java
5 17 (20.00%) Bash
6 12 (14.12%) SQL
7 9 (10.59%) TypeScript
8 6 (7.06%) Go
9 5 (5.88%) Dart
9 5 (5.88%) PHP
10 3 (3.53%) PowerShell
11 2 (2.35%) Scala
12 1 (1.18%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 14 (16.47%) Degree
2 6 (7.06%) Security Cleared
3 5 (5.88%) AWS Certification
4 4 (4.71%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.35%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.18%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.18%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 9 (10.59%) SOC 2
2 6 (7.06%) PCI DSS
3 3 (3.53%) Data Quality
3 3 (3.53%) ISO 9001
3 3 (3.53%) QA
4 2 (2.35%) SLA
5 1 (1.18%) HL7
5 1 (1.18%) NCSC
5 1 (1.18%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 29 (34.12%) Docker
2 3 (3.53%) Firmware
2 3 (3.53%) VMware NSX
2 3 (3.53%) vSphere
3 1 (1.18%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.18%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 39 (45.88%) Terraform
2 32 (37.65%) Kubernetes
3 14 (16.47%) Grafana
4 12 (14.12%) Ansible
5 11 (12.94%) Prometheus
6 3 (3.53%) Argo
7 2 (2.35%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.18%) Consul
8 1 (1.18%) Kibana
8 1 (1.18%) Packer
8 1 (1.18%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (3.53%) Databricks
1 3 (3.53%) Red Hat
1 3 (3.53%) VMware
2 2 (2.35%) IBM
2 2 (2.35%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.18%) Apple
3 1 (1.18%) Google
3 1 (1.18%) Mercator
3 1 (1.18%) New Relic
3 1 (1.18%) TOWER Software