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

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 363 328 350
Rank change year-on-year -35 +22 -14
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EC2 92 101 181
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.42% 0.61% 0.67%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.08% 1.66% 1.62%
Number of salaries quoted 79 66 164
10th Percentile £51,250 £45,125 £56,975
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,750 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £72,500 £88,750
Median % change year-on-year -20.69% -18.31% +31.48%
75th Percentile £68,750 £96,875 £142,500
90th Percentile £79,500 £112,500 £165,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £72,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -17.24% -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 8,495 6,080 11,149
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.88% 36.83% 41.12%
Number of salaries quoted 6,080 4,488 9,006
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,569 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £107,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.00%

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 27 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 (13.04%) Apache
2 10 (10.87%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (7.61%) Jupyter
4 5 (5.43%) Apache Spark
5 2 (2.17%) IIS
5 2 (2.17%) nginx
5 2 (2.17%) WordPress
6 1 (1.09%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (1.09%) Confluence
6 1 (1.09%) Drupal
Business Applications
1 1 (1.09%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 92 (100.00%) AWS
2 73 (79.35%) Amazon S3
3 54 (58.70%) AWS Lambda
3 54 (58.70%) Serverless
4 28 (30.43%) Amazon ECS
4 28 (30.43%) GitHub
4 28 (30.43%) GitHub Actions
5 23 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
6 20 (21.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 16 (17.39%) Amazon EKS
7 16 (17.39%) AWS CloudFormation
8 14 (15.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 8 (8.70%) Azure
10 7 (7.61%) Amazon ECR
10 7 (7.61%) Amazon EMR
11 6 (6.52%) SaaS
12 5 (5.43%) Datadog
12 5 (5.43%) Route 53
13 4 (4.35%) AWS Control Tower
13 4 (4.35%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 9 (9.78%) DNS
2 6 (6.52%) VPN
3 4 (4.35%) Firewall
4 1 (1.09%) BGP
4 1 (1.09%) FTP
4 1 (1.09%) Network Security
4 1 (1.09%) SAN
4 1 (1.09%) SSL
4 1 (1.09%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.09%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (32.61%) Amazon RDS
2 28 (30.43%) PostgreSQL
3 23 (25.00%) MongoDB
4 10 (10.87%) DynamoDB
5 7 (7.61%) Amazon Athena
6 5 (5.43%) Amazon Redshift
6 5 (5.43%) NoSQL
7 4 (4.35%) MySQL
8 3 (3.26%) Amazon Aurora
8 3 (3.26%) MariaDB
8 3 (3.26%) Metadata
9 2 (2.17%) Big Data
9 2 (2.17%) Data Lake
9 2 (2.17%) SQL Server
10 1 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (1.09%) InterSystems Cache
10 1 (1.09%) Redis
10 1 (1.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 27 (29.35%) Cypress.io
2 9 (9.78%) GitLab
2 9 (9.78%) Jenkins
3 7 (7.61%) Git
4 6 (6.52%) JIRA
5 5 (5.43%) Storybook
6 3 (3.26%) Claude Code
7 2 (2.17%) Terragrunt
8 1 (1.09%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (1.09%) Browser DevTools
8 1 (1.09%) CircleCI
8 1 (1.09%) Gatling
8 1 (1.09%) git-flow
8 1 (1.09%) JMeter
8 1 (1.09%) Maven
8 1 (1.09%) SonarQube
8 1 (1.09%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (1.09%) TeamCity
8 1 (1.09%) Vagrant
8 1 (1.09%) webpack
General
1 16 (17.39%) Public Sector
2 12 (13.04%) Social Skills
3 9 (9.78%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (6.52%) Finance
5 4 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (4.35%) Law
6 3 (3.26%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (3.26%) Legal
6 3 (3.26%) Military
7 2 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.09%) Advertising
8 1 (1.09%) Back Office
8 1 (1.09%) Banking
8 1 (1.09%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.09%) Publishing
8 1 (1.09%) Retail
Job Titles
1 32 (34.78%) Developer
2 23 (25.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 22 (23.91%) AWS Engineer
4 14 (15.22%) Cloud Engineer
4 14 (15.22%) Senior
5 13 (14.13%) Platform Engineer
6 8 (8.70%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 7 (7.61%) DevOps Engineer
7 7 (7.61%) Lead
8 6 (6.52%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 6 (6.52%) Data Engineer
9 5 (5.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (5.43%) Senior Platform Engineer
9 5 (5.43%) Test Engineer
10 4 (4.35%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 4 (4.35%) Java Developer
10 4 (4.35%) Python Engineer
10 4 (4.35%) Senior Data Engineer
11 3 (3.26%) AWS DevOps
11 3 (3.26%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (34.78%) React
2 27 (29.35%) Jest
3 22 (23.91%) Node.js
3 22 (23.91%) Ruby on Rails
4 6 (6.52%) CSS
4 6 (6.52%) Web Services
5 5 (5.43%) Flutter
5 5 (5.43%) React Native
5 5 (5.43%) Spring
5 5 (5.43%) Tailwind CSS
5 5 (5.43%) Zustand
6 4 (4.35%) .NET
6 4 (4.35%) PySpark
6 4 (4.35%) REST
6 4 (4.35%) RESTful
6 4 (4.35%) Spring Boot
7 3 (3.26%) AngularJS
7 3 (3.26%) ARM Templates
7 3 (3.26%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (2.17%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 21 (22.83%) Cloud Native
2 6 (6.52%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (5.43%) Greenfield Project
3 5 (5.43%) Mobile App
4 4 (4.35%) Data Centre
5 3 (3.26%) IoT
5 3 (3.26%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (2.17%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.17%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (2.17%) PKI
6 2 (2.17%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.09%) Blog
7 1 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.09%) Reinsurance
7 1 (1.09%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (17.39%) Linux
2 3 (3.26%) Windows
2 3 (3.26%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (48.91%) CI/CD
2 40 (43.48%) Infrastructure as Code
3 35 (38.04%) DevOps
4 31 (33.70%) Microservices
5 28 (30.43%) Containerisation
6 26 (28.26%) Agile
6 26 (28.26%) Full-Stack Development
7 22 (23.91%) Mob Programming
8 19 (20.65%) Continuous Improvement
9 17 (18.48%) Platform Engineering
10 16 (17.39%) Mentoring
11 15 (16.30%) Problem-Solving
12 12 (13.04%) Data Pipeline
12 12 (13.04%) Software Engineering
12 12 (13.04%) Test Automation
13 11 (11.96%) AI
13 11 (11.96%) Validation
14 10 (10.87%) Front End Development
14 10 (10.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 10 (10.87%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 43 (46.74%) Python
2 32 (34.78%) JavaScript
3 22 (23.91%) Ruby
4 18 (19.57%) SQL
5 16 (17.39%) Bash
6 11 (11.96%) Java
7 8 (8.70%) Groovy
7 8 (8.70%) TypeScript
8 6 (6.52%) PHP
9 5 (5.43%) Dart
10 3 (3.26%) C#
11 2 (2.17%) Go
11 2 (2.17%) PowerShell
11 2 (2.17%) Shell Script
12 1 (1.09%) Perl
12 1 (1.09%) Scala
Qualifications
1 19 (20.65%) Security Cleared
2 15 (16.30%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.43%) Degree
4 3 (3.26%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.09%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 9 (9.78%) QA
2 8 (8.70%) Data Quality
3 4 (4.35%) SOC 2
4 3 (3.26%) ISO 9001
5 1 (1.09%) HL7
5 1 (1.09%) NCSC
5 1 (1.09%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.09%) SLA
5 1 (1.09%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 35 (38.04%) Docker
2 5 (5.43%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.26%) Firmware
4 2 (2.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 42 (45.65%) Terraform
2 33 (35.87%) Kubernetes
3 15 (16.30%) Ansible
4 9 (9.78%) Grafana
5 8 (8.70%) Progress Chef
6 6 (6.52%) Prometheus
7 3 (3.26%) Argo
8 2 (2.17%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (1.09%) Consul
9 1 (1.09%) Kibana
9 1 (1.09%) Packer
9 1 (1.09%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (4.35%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.26%) Databricks
2 3 (3.26%) OpenAI
3 2 (2.17%) VMware
4 1 (1.09%) AppDynamics
4 1 (1.09%) Apple
4 1 (1.09%) Google
4 1 (1.09%) New Relic
4 1 (1.09%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.09%) TOWER Software