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 25 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 310 252 304
Rank change year-on-year -58 +52 +44
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EC2 52 209 157
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.34% 1.21% 0.79%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.93% 2.63% 1.68%
Number of salaries quoted 47 168 142
10th Percentile £52,500 £59,475 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £83,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £107,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -37.21% +59.26% -3.57%
75th Percentile £82,000 £142,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £88,500 £147,500 £83,375
UK median annual salary £67,500 £105,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -35.71% +50.00% -1.41%

All Cloud 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 5,599 7,957 9,340
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 36.57% 46.04% 46.71%
Number of salaries quoted 4,040 5,189 7,983
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £105,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £62,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +0.81% -4.62%

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 25 December 2025.

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 6 (11.54%) Tomcat
1 6 (11.54%) WebSphere
1 6 (11.54%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (1.92%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 52 (100.00%) AWS
2 43 (82.69%) Amazon S3
3 38 (73.08%) AWS Lambda
3 38 (73.08%) Serverless
4 20 (38.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 19 (36.54%) Amazon ECS
6 18 (34.62%) AWS CloudFormation
7 16 (30.77%) Amazon EKS
8 11 (21.15%) Amazon SQS
9 9 (17.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 9 (17.31%) Route 53
10 8 (15.38%) GitHub
11 7 (13.46%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (11.54%) Amazon ECR
12 6 (11.54%) Azure
13 5 (9.62%) SaaS
14 4 (7.69%) CloudFront
14 4 (7.69%) Snowflake
15 3 (5.77%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 3 (5.77%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 6 (11.54%) SSL
2 5 (9.62%) TCP/IP
2 5 (9.62%) VPN
3 3 (5.77%) BGP
3 3 (5.77%) VLAN
4 2 (3.85%) DNS
5 1 (1.92%) AMQP
5 1 (1.92%) Firewall
5 1 (1.92%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (69.23%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (23.08%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (15.38%) Amazon Redshift
3 8 (15.38%) MongoDB
4 7 (13.46%) DynamoDB
4 7 (13.46%) SQL Server
5 6 (11.54%) DB2
5 6 (11.54%) NoSQL
6 4 (7.69%) Data Lake
6 4 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (5.77%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (5.77%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (5.77%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 9 (17.31%) Jenkins
2 6 (11.54%) Cypress.io
3 5 (9.62%) GitLab
4 2 (3.85%) Git
5 1 (1.92%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.92%) Testinfra
General
1 11 (21.15%) Finance
1 11 (21.15%) Social Skills
2 9 (17.31%) Banking
3 3 (5.77%) Back Office
3 3 (5.77%) Financial Institution
3 3 (5.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (5.77%) Law
3 3 (5.77%) Marketing
3 3 (5.77%) Presentation Skills
3 3 (5.77%) Retail
4 2 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.92%) Automotive
5 1 (1.92%) Billing
5 1 (1.92%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (23.08%) Senior
2 11 (21.15%) Developer
3 9 (17.31%) AWS Engineer
3 9 (17.31%) Linux Engineer
4 7 (13.46%) DevOps Engineer
5 6 (11.54%) Applications Engineer
5 6 (11.54%) Applications Support
5 6 (11.54%) Applications Support Engineer
5 6 (11.54%) Full-Stack Developer
5 6 (11.54%) Support Engineer
6 5 (9.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (9.62%) Java Developer
6 5 (9.62%) Linux Support
6 5 (9.62%) Linux Support Engineer
6 5 (9.62%) Platform Engineer
7 4 (7.69%) AWS Consultant
7 4 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
7 4 (7.69%) Consultant
7 4 (7.69%) Senior Consultant
7 4 (7.69%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (21.15%) React
2 9 (17.31%) Node.js
3 7 (13.46%) AWS CDK
4 6 (11.54%) Jest
4 6 (11.54%) LAPP Stack
4 6 (11.54%) LDAP
4 6 (11.54%) Ruby on Rails
4 6 (11.54%) Spring
4 6 (11.54%) Spring Boot
4 6 (11.54%) WebSphere MQ
5 4 (7.69%) RESTful
6 3 (5.77%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (5.77%) Lambda Expressions
6 3 (5.77%) Loki
6 3 (5.77%) Next.js
6 3 (5.77%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (3.85%) ASP.NET Web API
7 2 (3.85%) OpenTelemetry
7 2 (3.85%) REST
7 2 (3.85%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 13 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 6 (11.54%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (5.77%) Data Centre
3 3 (5.77%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (5.77%) Enterprise Cloud
3 3 (5.77%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.92%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.92%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.92%) Reinsurance
4 1 (1.92%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 18 (34.62%) Linux
2 9 (17.31%) Windows
3 6 (11.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (11.54%) Unix
4 3 (5.77%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (57.69%) CI/CD
2 22 (42.31%) Infrastructure as Code
3 15 (28.85%) Containerisation
3 15 (28.85%) DevOps
4 13 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 13 (25.00%) Software Engineering
5 12 (23.08%) Agile
5 12 (23.08%) Disaster Recovery
5 12 (23.08%) Microservices
6 11 (21.15%) Full-Stack Development
6 11 (21.15%) Observability
7 10 (19.23%) Platform Engineering
7 10 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (13.46%) Cloud Security
9 6 (11.54%) Acceptance Criteria
9 6 (11.54%) Change Management
9 6 (11.54%) Clean Code
9 6 (11.54%) ITIL
9 6 (11.54%) Mob Programming
9 6 (11.54%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 27 (51.92%) Python
2 14 (26.92%) JavaScript
3 13 (25.00%) Java
4 8 (15.38%) Bash
5 7 (13.46%) SQL
6 6 (11.54%) Ruby
7 5 (9.62%) TypeScript
8 3 (5.77%) Go
9 2 (3.85%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.92%) C#
10 1 (1.92%) Scala
Qualifications
1 17 (32.69%) AWS Certification
2 9 (17.31%) Degree
3 8 (15.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 6 (11.54%) ITIL Certification
5 3 (5.77%) Security Cleared
5 3 (5.77%) SnowPro
6 2 (3.85%) AWS Certified Developer
6 2 (3.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.92%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.92%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.92%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (11.54%) SLA
2 3 (5.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (5.77%) PCI DSS
2 3 (5.77%) SOC 2
3 1 (1.92%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.92%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.92%) GDPR
3 1 (1.92%) QA
3 1 (1.92%) WCAG
System Software
1 15 (28.85%) Docker
2 3 (5.77%) VMware NSX
2 3 (5.77%) vSphere
3 1 (1.92%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 24 (46.15%) Terraform
2 17 (32.69%) Kubernetes
3 10 (19.23%) Grafana
3 10 (19.23%) Prometheus
4 6 (11.54%) Ansible
5 1 (1.92%) Argo
5 1 (1.92%) Packer
Vendors
1 6 (11.54%) IBM
1 6 (11.54%) Red Hat
2 3 (5.77%) VMware
3 1 (1.92%) Mercator
3 1 (1.92%) Microsoft