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

6 months to
2 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 323 242 374
Rank change year-on-year -81 +132 +13
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EC2 71 176 167
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.43% 1.20% 0.59%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.15% 2.57% 1.28%
Number of salaries quoted 62 128 147
10th Percentile £50,250 £50,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £65,000 £51,716
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £98,750 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -36.71% +46.30% -3.57%
75th Percentile £80,938 £118,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £147,500 £90,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £95,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -31.58% +35.71% -1.41%

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 6,157 6,857 13,034
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.49% 46.74% 45.71%
Number of salaries quoted 4,192 4,636 11,379
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,257 £57,500
% change year-on-year -5.15% +10.01% -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 2 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 (5.63%) Tomcat
1 4 (5.63%) WebSphere
1 4 (5.63%) WebSphere Application Server
2 2 (2.82%) Apache
2 2 (2.82%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.41%) JBoss
3 1 (1.41%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 71 (100.00%) AWS
2 59 (83.10%) Amazon S3
3 47 (66.20%) AWS Lambda
3 47 (66.20%) Serverless
4 26 (36.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 24 (33.80%) Amazon ECS
6 21 (29.58%) Amazon EKS
7 20 (28.17%) Amazon SQS
8 14 (19.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 14 (19.72%) AWS CloudFormation
8 14 (19.72%) GitHub
9 13 (18.31%) GitHub Actions
10 12 (16.90%) SaaS
11 10 (14.08%) Route 53
12 7 (9.86%) Amazon ElastiCache
12 7 (9.86%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 7 (9.86%) CloudFront
13 6 (8.45%) AWS Direct Connect
14 5 (7.04%) Azure
15 4 (5.63%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 7 (9.86%) VPN
2 6 (8.45%) BGP
2 6 (8.45%) TCP/IP
2 6 (8.45%) VLAN
3 4 (5.63%) SSL
4 3 (4.23%) AMQP
5 1 (1.41%) DNS
5 1 (1.41%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (57.75%) Amazon RDS
2 21 (29.58%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (22.54%) MongoDB
4 9 (12.68%) Amazon Aurora
5 8 (11.27%) NoSQL
5 8 (11.27%) SQL Server
6 5 (7.04%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (5.63%) DB2
7 4 (5.63%) DynamoDB
8 3 (4.23%) MySQL
9 2 (2.82%) Metadata
10 1 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 14 (19.72%) Cypress.io
2 5 (7.04%) Jenkins
3 4 (5.63%) GitLab
4 2 (2.82%) Git
4 2 (2.82%) JIRA
5 1 (1.41%) Browser DevTools
5 1 (1.41%) CircleCI
5 1 (1.41%) TeamCity
5 1 (1.41%) webpack
General
1 18 (25.35%) Social Skills
2 13 (18.31%) Finance
3 10 (14.08%) Banking
4 8 (11.27%) Law
5 6 (8.45%) Back Office
5 6 (8.45%) Financial Institution
5 6 (8.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (8.45%) Retail
6 5 (7.04%) Public Sector
7 3 (4.23%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (4.23%) Billing
7 3 (4.23%) Marketing
7 3 (4.23%) Military
8 1 (1.41%) Automotive
8 1 (1.41%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 24 (33.80%) Developer
2 19 (26.76%) AWS Engineer
3 16 (22.54%) Platform Engineer
4 15 (21.13%) Full-Stack Developer
5 11 (15.49%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 11 (15.49%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 11 (15.49%) Senior
6 10 (14.08%) Cloud Engineer
7 9 (12.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 9 (12.68%) Java Developer
7 9 (12.68%) Linux Engineer
8 6 (8.45%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (8.45%) Software Engineer
9 5 (7.04%) DevOps Engineer
10 4 (5.63%) Applications Engineer
10 4 (5.63%) Applications Support
10 4 (5.63%) Applications Support Engineer
10 4 (5.63%) Linux Support
10 4 (5.63%) Python Engineer
10 4 (5.63%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (32.39%) React
2 19 (26.76%) Node.js
3 14 (19.72%) Jest
3 14 (19.72%) Ruby on Rails
4 10 (14.08%) Spring
4 10 (14.08%) Spring Boot
5 7 (9.86%) Loki
5 7 (9.86%) RESTful
6 5 (7.04%) RabbitMQ
7 4 (5.63%) JSON
7 4 (5.63%) LAPP Stack
7 4 (5.63%) LDAP
7 4 (5.63%) REST
7 4 (5.63%) WebSphere MQ
8 3 (4.23%) Hibernate
8 3 (4.23%) J2EE
8 3 (4.23%) Lambda Expressions
8 3 (4.23%) SOAP
8 3 (4.23%) Web Services
8 3 (4.23%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (28.17%) Cloud Native
2 6 (8.45%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (7.04%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (4.23%) Blog
4 3 (4.23%) Data Centre
4 3 (4.23%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (4.23%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.41%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.41%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.41%) Reinsurance
5 1 (1.41%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (22.54%) Linux
2 8 (11.27%) Windows
3 4 (5.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (5.63%) Unix
4 3 (4.23%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (64.79%) CI/CD
2 34 (47.89%) Infrastructure as Code
3 28 (39.44%) DevOps
4 24 (33.80%) Platform Engineering
5 21 (29.58%) Observability
6 20 (28.17%) Full-Stack Development
7 19 (26.76%) Containerisation
8 18 (25.35%) Agile
8 18 (25.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 18 (25.35%) Microservices
9 17 (23.94%) Disaster Recovery
10 14 (19.72%) Mob Programming
11 13 (18.31%) Cloud Security
11 13 (18.31%) Problem-Solving
12 12 (16.90%) Continuous Improvement
13 11 (15.49%) Software Engineering
14 10 (14.08%) Infrastructure Automation
14 10 (14.08%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 9 (12.68%) Deployment Automation
15 9 (12.68%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 38 (53.52%) Python
2 25 (35.21%) JavaScript
3 18 (25.35%) Java
4 14 (19.72%) Ruby
5 13 (18.31%) Bash
6 11 (15.49%) SQL
7 6 (8.45%) Go
7 6 (8.45%) TypeScript
8 3 (4.23%) PowerShell
9 2 (2.82%) Scala
10 1 (1.41%) PHP
Qualifications
1 13 (18.31%) Degree
2 7 (9.86%) AWS Certification
3 4 (5.63%) ITIL Certification
3 4 (5.63%) Security Cleared
4 3 (4.23%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.86%) SOC 2
2 6 (8.45%) PCI DSS
3 4 (5.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (5.63%) SLA
4 2 (2.82%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.41%) HL7
5 1 (1.41%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 24 (33.80%) Docker
2 4 (5.63%) VMware NSX
2 4 (5.63%) vSphere
3 1 (1.41%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.41%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 35 (49.30%) Terraform
2 29 (40.85%) Kubernetes
3 13 (18.31%) Grafana
4 12 (16.90%) Prometheus
5 9 (12.68%) Ansible
6 1 (1.41%) Argo
6 1 (1.41%) Kibana
Vendors
1 4 (5.63%) IBM
1 4 (5.63%) Red Hat
1 4 (5.63%) VMware
2 2 (2.82%) Databricks
3 1 (1.41%) Apple
3 1 (1.41%) Mercator
3 1 (1.41%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.41%) New Relic