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 8 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 362 355 297
Rank change year-on-year -7 -58 +44
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EC2 98 64 193
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.40% 0.38% 0.88%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.14% 1.12% 2.08%
Number of salaries quoted 84 47 161
10th Percentile £46,217 £52,500 £60,000
25th Percentile £50,938 £64,375 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £75,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% -28.57% +50.00%
75th Percentile £61,563 £87,500 £142,500
90th Percentile £74,925 £94,250 £165,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £72,500 £90,000
% change year-on-year -24.14% -19.44% +33.33%

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 8,607 5,738 9,261
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 34.70% 34.16% 42.35%
Number of salaries quoted 6,307 4,055 6,096
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £36,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £63,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -5.51% +1.60%

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 8 October 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 10 (10.20%) Apache
2 9 (9.18%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (9.18%) Jupyter
3 8 (8.16%) Apache Spark
4 3 (3.06%) nginx
5 2 (2.04%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (2.04%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (2.04%) WebLogic
5 2 (2.04%) WebLogic Portal
6 1 (1.02%) Confluence
6 1 (1.02%) IIS
Business Applications
1 2 (2.04%) Oracle Applications
1 2 (2.04%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (2.04%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (1.02%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
Cloud Services
1 97 (98.98%) AWS
2 61 (62.24%) AWS Lambda
2 61 (62.24%) Serverless
3 60 (61.22%) Amazon S3
4 27 (27.55%) Amazon ECS
5 23 (23.47%) Amazon EMR
5 23 (23.47%) Amazon SQS
6 16 (16.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 14 (14.29%) GitHub
7 14 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 13 (13.27%) AWS CloudFormation
9 12 (12.24%) GitHub Actions
10 10 (10.20%) Amazon EKS
11 8 (8.16%) Amazon ECR
12 7 (7.14%) Azure
13 4 (4.08%) Amazon Bedrock
13 4 (4.08%) Anthropic Claude
14 3 (3.06%) Cloudflare
14 3 (3.06%) Route 53
14 3 (3.06%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.12%) DNS
2 4 (4.08%) VPN
3 2 (2.04%) OpenVPN
4 1 (1.02%) Firewall
4 1 (1.02%) FTP
4 1 (1.02%) Network Security
4 1 (1.02%) SAN
4 1 (1.02%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (25.51%) MongoDB
3 21 (21.43%) Amazon RDS
4 18 (18.37%) Spark SQL
5 9 (9.18%) Amazon Athena
6 6 (6.12%) DynamoDB
6 6 (6.12%) NoSQL
7 5 (5.10%) MySQL
8 4 (4.08%) Data Lake
8 4 (4.08%) MariaDB
9 3 (3.06%) Big Data
10 2 (2.04%) Amazon Aurora
10 2 (2.04%) DocumentDB
10 2 (2.04%) Oracle Database
10 2 (2.04%) Oracle Database 10g
10 2 (2.04%) Oracle Database 11g
10 2 (2.04%) Oracle Database 12c
11 1 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (1.02%) Electronic Patient Records
11 1 (1.02%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 23 (23.47%) Cypress.io
2 14 (14.29%) GitLab
3 9 (9.18%) Jenkins
4 4 (4.08%) Claude Code
4 4 (4.08%) Git
5 2 (2.04%) Flyway
5 2 (2.04%) Terragrunt
6 1 (1.02%) JIRA
6 1 (1.02%) JMeter
6 1 (1.02%) Postman
General
1 35 (35.71%) Public Sector
2 23 (23.47%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (13.27%) Social Skills
4 6 (6.12%) Finance
5 3 (3.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (3.06%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (3.06%) Legal
6 2 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (27.55%) Developer
2 23 (23.47%) Full-Stack Developer
3 22 (22.45%) Data Engineer
4 13 (13.27%) AWS Engineer
5 11 (11.22%) Cloud Engineer
6 10 (10.20%) DevOps Engineer
7 9 (9.18%) Senior
8 7 (7.14%) Test Engineer
9 6 (6.12%) Platform Engineer
10 5 (5.10%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 5 (5.10%) Lead
11 4 (4.08%) Java Developer
11 4 (4.08%) Lead Test Engineer
11 4 (4.08%) Senior Platform Engineer
12 3 (3.06%) Architect
12 3 (3.06%) Cloud Architect
12 3 (3.06%) Junior
12 3 (3.06%) Junior DevOps
12 3 (3.06%) Platform Architect
12 3 (3.06%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (35.71%) Terraform
2 26 (26.53%) React
3 24 (24.49%) Node.js
3 24 (24.49%) PySpark
4 23 (23.47%) .NET
5 22 (22.45%) Jest
5 22 (22.45%) Ruby on Rails
6 6 (6.12%) REST
6 6 (6.12%) Spring
6 6 (6.12%) Spring Boot
6 6 (6.12%) Web Services
7 4 (4.08%) RESTful
8 3 (3.06%) AngularJS
8 3 (3.06%) Nuxt
9 2 (2.04%) .NET Core
9 2 (2.04%) ARM Templates
9 2 (2.04%) Middleware
9 2 (2.04%) OpenTelemetry
9 2 (2.04%) Vue
10 1 (1.02%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 21 (21.43%) Cloud Native
2 15 (15.31%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (5.10%) Onboarding
5 4 (4.08%) Data Centre
5 4 (4.08%) Data Structures
6 3 (3.06%) Product Ownership
7 2 (2.04%) Clustering
7 2 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (2.04%) PKI
8 1 (1.02%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.02%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 19 (19.39%) Linux
2 5 (5.10%) Windows
3 3 (3.06%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.04%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (55.10%) CI/CD
2 42 (42.86%) Full-Stack Development
3 36 (36.73%) Agile
4 35 (35.71%) Infrastructure as Code
5 29 (29.59%) DevOps
5 29 (29.59%) Mentoring
6 28 (28.57%) Data Engineering
6 28 (28.57%) Microservices
7 27 (27.55%) Coaching
8 25 (25.51%) Analytics
9 24 (24.49%) Containerisation
10 23 (23.47%) Continuous Improvement
11 22 (22.45%) Mob Programming
12 21 (21.43%) Decision-Making
13 19 (19.39%) ETL
14 17 (17.35%) Business Intelligence
14 17 (17.35%) Event-Driven
15 16 (16.33%) AI
15 16 (16.33%) Data Science
15 16 (16.33%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 51 (52.04%) JavaScript
2 35 (35.71%) SQL
3 32 (32.65%) Python
4 29 (29.59%) Java
5 23 (23.47%) C#
6 22 (22.45%) Ruby
7 17 (17.35%) C++
8 15 (15.31%) Bash
9 8 (8.16%) Groovy
10 3 (3.06%) Go
10 3 (3.06%) PowerShell
10 3 (3.06%) TypeScript
11 2 (2.04%) PL/SQL
11 2 (2.04%) Rust
12 1 (1.02%) PHP
12 1 (1.02%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 22 (22.45%) Security Cleared
2 19 (19.39%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.06%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (25.51%) Data Quality
2 8 (8.16%) QA
3 4 (4.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.02%) SLA
System Software
1 27 (27.55%) Docker
2 5 (5.10%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.04%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (2.04%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.02%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.02%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 25 (25.51%) Kubernetes
2 8 (8.16%) Ansible
3 7 (7.14%) Grafana
4 6 (6.12%) Progress Chef
5 5 (5.10%) Prometheus
6 2 (2.04%) Istio
6 2 (2.04%) Kibana
6 2 (2.04%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (2.04%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 2 (2.04%) Oracle RMAN
6 2 (2.04%) Packer
6 2 (2.04%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (4.08%) OpenAI
2 3 (3.06%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.06%) VMware
3 2 (2.04%) Adobe
3 2 (2.04%) Oracle
4 1 (1.02%) Databricks
4 1 (1.02%) Veeam
4 1 (1.02%) YouTube
4 1 (1.02%) Zerto