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 10 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 356 347 313
Rank change year-on-year -9 -34 +19
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EC2 102 71 182
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.43% 0.44% 0.78%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.16% 1.22% 1.91%
Number of salaries quoted 92 47 155
10th Percentile £46,217 £48,350 £61,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £63,750 £71,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £75,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% -28.57% +50.00%
75th Percentile £65,625 £87,500 £142,500
90th Percentile £77,250 £93,000 £165,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £72,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -24.14% -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 8,792 5,805 9,525
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 36.72% 35.78% 40.76%
Number of salaries quoted 6,442 4,209 6,748
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £48,000
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 £86,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
% 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 10 September 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 (9.80%) Apache
2 8 (7.84%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (7.84%) Jupyter
3 7 (6.86%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.96%) Confluence
4 2 (1.96%) IIS
4 2 (1.96%) nginx
5 1 (0.98%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.98%) Drupal
5 1 (0.98%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (0.98%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 101 (99.02%) AWS
2 63 (61.76%) Amazon S3
2 63 (61.76%) AWS Lambda
2 63 (61.76%) Serverless
3 30 (29.41%) Amazon ECS
4 26 (25.49%) Amazon SQS
5 22 (21.57%) GitHub
5 22 (21.57%) GitHub Actions
6 21 (20.59%) Amazon EMR
7 19 (18.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 15 (14.71%) Amazon EKS
8 15 (14.71%) AWS CloudFormation
9 14 (13.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 8 (7.84%) Amazon ECR
10 8 (7.84%) Azure
11 4 (3.92%) AWS Control Tower
11 4 (3.92%) Cloudflare
11 4 (3.92%) CloudFront
11 4 (3.92%) Datadog
11 4 (3.92%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 8 (7.84%) DNS
2 4 (3.92%) VPN
3 3 (2.94%) Firewall
4 1 (0.98%) FTP
4 1 (0.98%) Network Security
4 1 (0.98%) SAN
4 1 (0.98%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (27.45%) MongoDB
2 27 (26.47%) PostgreSQL
3 23 (22.55%) Amazon RDS
4 18 (17.65%) Spark SQL
5 8 (7.84%) Amazon Athena
5 8 (7.84%) DynamoDB
6 4 (3.92%) MySQL
7 3 (2.94%) Big Data
7 3 (2.94%) Data Lake
7 3 (2.94%) MariaDB
7 3 (2.94%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.96%) DocumentDB
9 1 (0.98%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.98%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.98%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (0.98%) InterSystems Cache
9 1 (0.98%) Redis
9 1 (0.98%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 30 (29.41%) Cypress.io
2 9 (8.82%) GitLab
3 8 (7.84%) Jenkins
4 5 (4.90%) Git
4 5 (4.90%) Storybook
5 4 (3.92%) JIRA
6 3 (2.94%) Claude Code
7 2 (1.96%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.98%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.98%) Gatling
8 1 (0.98%) git-flow
8 1 (0.98%) JMeter
8 1 (0.98%) Maven
8 1 (0.98%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.98%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.98%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.98%) Vagrant
General
1 29 (28.43%) Public Sector
2 20 (19.61%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (10.78%) Social Skills
4 5 (4.90%) Finance
5 3 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (2.94%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (2.94%) Legal
6 2 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.98%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 32 (31.37%) Developer
2 25 (24.51%) Full-Stack Developer
3 21 (20.59%) Data Engineer
4 17 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
5 11 (10.78%) Cloud Engineer
6 10 (9.80%) DevOps Engineer
6 10 (9.80%) Platform Engineer
7 9 (8.82%) Senior
8 7 (6.86%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 7 (6.86%) Lead
9 6 (5.88%) Test Engineer
10 5 (4.90%) AWS Platform Engineer
11 4 (3.92%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 4 (3.92%) Lead Test Engineer
11 4 (3.92%) Senior Platform Engineer
12 3 (2.94%) Architect
12 3 (2.94%) AWS Architect
12 3 (2.94%) Azure Engineer
12 3 (2.94%) Cloud Architect
12 3 (2.94%) Platform Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (35.29%) Terraform
2 33 (32.35%) React
3 30 (29.41%) Jest
4 25 (24.51%) Node.js
4 25 (24.51%) Ruby on Rails
5 23 (22.55%) PySpark
6 21 (20.59%) .NET
7 6 (5.88%) Web Services
8 5 (4.90%) CSS
8 5 (4.90%) Flutter
8 5 (4.90%) React Native
8 5 (4.90%) Tailwind CSS
8 5 (4.90%) Zustand
9 4 (3.92%) REST
10 3 (2.94%) AngularJS
10 3 (2.94%) ARM Templates
10 3 (2.94%) RESTful
10 3 (2.94%) Spring
11 2 (1.96%) Nuxt
11 2 (1.96%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 15 (14.71%) Cloud Native
1 15 (14.71%) Hybrid Cloud
2 6 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (4.90%) Greenfield Project
3 5 (4.90%) Mobile App
4 4 (3.92%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.94%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.96%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.96%) PKI
6 2 (1.96%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.98%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (0.98%) IoT
7 1 (0.98%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.98%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.98%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 18 (17.65%) Linux
2 4 (3.92%) Windows
2 4 (3.92%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (55.88%) CI/CD
2 44 (43.14%) Full-Stack Development
3 35 (34.31%) Infrastructure as Code
4 33 (32.35%) Agile
5 32 (31.37%) Mentoring
6 31 (30.39%) Microservices
7 30 (29.41%) DevOps
8 26 (25.49%) Data Engineering
9 25 (24.51%) Mob Programming
10 24 (23.53%) Coaching
11 22 (21.57%) Analytics
11 22 (21.57%) Containerisation
12 20 (19.61%) Decision-Making
13 18 (17.65%) ETL
13 18 (17.65%) Event-Driven
14 17 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
14 17 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
15 15 (14.71%) Platform Engineering
16 14 (13.73%) Community of Practice
16 14 (13.73%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 49 (48.04%) JavaScript
2 36 (35.29%) Python
3 32 (31.37%) SQL
4 26 (25.49%) Java
5 25 (24.51%) Ruby
6 20 (19.61%) C#
7 19 (18.63%) Bash
8 17 (16.67%) C++
9 8 (7.84%) Groovy
10 7 (6.86%) TypeScript
11 5 (4.90%) Dart
12 3 (2.94%) Go
12 3 (2.94%) PHP
12 3 (2.94%) PowerShell
13 2 (1.96%) Rust
13 2 (1.96%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.98%) Perl
Qualifications
1 18 (17.65%) Security Cleared
2 14 (13.73%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.96%) AWS Certification
3 2 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.96%) Degree
3 2 (1.96%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (0.98%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (22.55%) Data Quality
2 8 (7.84%) QA
3 6 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.96%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.98%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.98%) NCSC
5 1 (0.98%) SLA
System Software
1 28 (27.45%) Docker
2 6 (5.88%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.96%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.98%) Firmware
4 1 (0.98%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.98%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 28 (27.45%) Kubernetes
2 11 (10.78%) Ansible
3 9 (8.82%) Grafana
4 8 (7.84%) Progress Chef
5 5 (4.90%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.96%) Argo
6 2 (1.96%) Istio
6 2 (1.96%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (1.96%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.98%) Consul
7 1 (0.98%) Packer
7 1 (0.98%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (3.92%) Microsoft
2 3 (2.94%) OpenAI
2 3 (2.94%) VMware
3 1 (0.98%) AppDynamics
3 1 (0.98%) Google
3 1 (0.98%) Red Hat
3 1 (0.98%) TOWER Software
3 1 (0.98%) Veeam
3 1 (0.98%) Zerto