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 26 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 310 230 392
Rank change year-on-year -80 +162 +4
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EC2 83 171 162
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.49% 1.32% 0.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.30% 2.79% 1.17%
Number of salaries quoted 69 129 141
10th Percentile £49,750 £49,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £63,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £95,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -34.21% +40.74% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £118,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £147,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £90,000 £71,250
% change year-on-year -27.78% +26.32% +1.79%

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 6,397 6,119 13,794
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.93% 47.35% 44.87%
Number of salaries quoted 4,315 4,711 11,955
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,231 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £64,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% +6.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £77,500
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 26 March 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 (4.82%) Apache
2 3 (3.61%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.41%) Tomcat
3 2 (2.41%) WebSphere
3 2 (2.41%) WebSphere Application Server
3 2 (2.41%) WordPress
4 1 (1.20%) Confluence
4 1 (1.20%) Drupal
4 1 (1.20%) IIS
4 1 (1.20%) JBoss
4 1 (1.20%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (1.20%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 83 (100.00%) AWS
2 71 (85.54%) Amazon S3
3 56 (67.47%) AWS Lambda
3 56 (67.47%) Serverless
4 29 (34.94%) Amazon ECS
4 29 (34.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 23 (27.71%) Amazon SQS
6 21 (25.30%) Amazon EKS
6 21 (25.30%) GitHub
7 20 (24.10%) GitHub Actions
8 15 (18.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 15 (18.07%) AWS CloudFormation
8 15 (18.07%) SaaS
9 9 (10.84%) CloudFront
9 9 (10.84%) Route 53
10 8 (9.64%) Amazon ElastiCache
11 7 (8.43%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 6 (7.23%) AWS Direct Connect
12 6 (7.23%) Azure
13 5 (6.02%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 9 (10.84%) VPN
2 6 (7.23%) BGP
2 6 (7.23%) TCP/IP
2 6 (7.23%) VLAN
3 3 (3.61%) AMQP
3 3 (3.61%) DNS
3 3 (3.61%) Firewall
4 2 (2.41%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (55.42%) Amazon RDS
2 24 (28.92%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (24.10%) MongoDB
4 10 (12.05%) Amazon Aurora
5 8 (9.64%) NoSQL
6 7 (8.43%) Amazon Redshift
6 7 (8.43%) DynamoDB
6 7 (8.43%) SQL Server
7 3 (3.61%) Metadata
7 3 (3.61%) MySQL
8 2 (2.41%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (2.41%) DB2
9 1 (1.20%) InterSystems Cache
9 1 (1.20%) Redis
Development Applications
1 20 (24.10%) Cypress.io
2 6 (7.23%) Jenkins
3 4 (4.82%) GitLab
3 4 (4.82%) JIRA
4 3 (3.61%) Git
5 2 (2.41%) Storybook
6 1 (1.20%) Browser DevTools
6 1 (1.20%) CircleCI
6 1 (1.20%) Gatling
6 1 (1.20%) git-flow
6 1 (1.20%) JMeter
6 1 (1.20%) Maven
6 1 (1.20%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.20%) TeamCity
6 1 (1.20%) Vagrant
6 1 (1.20%) webpack
General
1 22 (26.51%) Social Skills
2 12 (14.46%) Finance
3 9 (10.84%) Law
4 8 (9.64%) Banking
5 6 (7.23%) Back Office
5 6 (7.23%) Financial Institution
5 6 (7.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (7.23%) Public Sector
5 6 (7.23%) Retail
6 4 (4.82%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (3.61%) Billing
7 3 (3.61%) Military
8 2 (2.41%) Marketing
9 1 (1.20%) Advertising
9 1 (1.20%) Automotive
9 1 (1.20%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 30 (36.14%) Developer
2 23 (27.71%) AWS Engineer
3 19 (22.89%) Full-Stack Developer
3 19 (22.89%) Platform Engineer
4 13 (15.66%) Senior
5 12 (14.46%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 12 (14.46%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 10 (12.05%) Cloud Engineer
7 9 (10.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 9 (10.84%) Java Developer
8 7 (8.43%) DevOps Engineer
8 7 (8.43%) Linux Engineer
9 6 (7.23%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (6.02%) Data Engineer
10 5 (6.02%) Python Engineer
10 5 (6.02%) Senior Data Engineer
10 5 (6.02%) Software Engineer
11 4 (4.82%) AWS DevOps
11 4 (4.82%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 3 (3.61%) Head of Engineering
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (33.73%) React
2 22 (26.51%) Node.js
3 20 (24.10%) Jest
4 18 (21.69%) Ruby on Rails
5 10 (12.05%) Spring
5 10 (12.05%) Spring Boot
6 7 (8.43%) Loki
6 7 (8.43%) RESTful
7 5 (6.02%) RabbitMQ
8 4 (4.82%) JSON
8 4 (4.82%) REST
9 3 (3.61%) .NET
9 3 (3.61%) CSS
9 3 (3.61%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (3.61%) Hibernate
9 3 (3.61%) J2EE
9 3 (3.61%) SOAP
9 3 (3.61%) Spring Security
9 3 (3.61%) Web Services
9 3 (3.61%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (27.71%) Cloud Native
2 6 (7.23%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (4.82%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (3.61%) Blog
4 3 (3.61%) Data Centre
4 3 (3.61%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (3.61%) IoT
4 3 (3.61%) Security Posture
5 2 (2.41%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.41%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.41%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.20%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.20%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (19.28%) Linux
2 7 (8.43%) Windows
3 3 (3.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (3.61%) VMS
4 2 (2.41%) Unix
5 1 (1.20%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (63.86%) CI/CD
2 37 (44.58%) Infrastructure as Code
3 36 (43.37%) DevOps
4 27 (32.53%) Platform Engineering
5 25 (30.12%) Microservices
6 23 (27.71%) Containerisation
6 23 (27.71%) Full-Stack Development
7 21 (25.30%) Agile
7 21 (25.30%) Observability
8 18 (21.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 18 (21.69%) Mob Programming
9 15 (18.07%) Cloud Security
9 15 (18.07%) Continuous Improvement
9 15 (18.07%) Disaster Recovery
10 14 (16.87%) Software Engineering
11 13 (15.66%) Infrastructure Automation
11 13 (15.66%) Problem-Solving
12 11 (13.25%) Mentoring
13 10 (12.05%) Deployment Automation
13 10 (12.05%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 45 (54.22%) Python
2 28 (33.73%) JavaScript
3 18 (21.69%) Java
3 18 (21.69%) Ruby
4 16 (19.28%) Bash
5 13 (15.66%) SQL
6 6 (7.23%) Go
6 6 (7.23%) TypeScript
7 5 (6.02%) PHP
8 3 (3.61%) PowerShell
9 2 (2.41%) Dart
9 2 (2.41%) Scala
10 1 (1.20%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 13 (15.66%) Degree
2 7 (8.43%) Security Cleared
3 6 (7.23%) AWS Certification
4 5 (6.02%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (2.41%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.20%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 8 (9.64%) SOC 2
2 6 (7.23%) PCI DSS
3 3 (3.61%) Data Quality
3 3 (3.61%) ISO 9001
3 3 (3.61%) QA
4 2 (2.41%) SLA
5 1 (1.20%) HL7
5 1 (1.20%) NCSC
5 1 (1.20%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 30 (36.14%) Docker
2 4 (4.82%) VMware NSX
2 4 (4.82%) vSphere
3 3 (3.61%) Firmware
4 1 (1.20%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 40 (48.19%) Terraform
2 33 (39.76%) Kubernetes
3 14 (16.87%) Grafana
4 13 (15.66%) Ansible
5 11 (13.25%) Prometheus
6 2 (2.41%) Argo
6 2 (2.41%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.20%) Consul
7 1 (1.20%) Kibana
7 1 (1.20%) Packer
7 1 (1.20%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (4.82%) VMware
2 3 (3.61%) Databricks
2 3 (3.61%) Red Hat
3 2 (2.41%) IBM
3 2 (2.41%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.20%) Apple
4 1 (1.20%) Google
4 1 (1.20%) Mercator
4 1 (1.20%) New Relic
4 1 (1.20%) TOWER Software