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 20 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 357 289 327
Rank change year-on-year -68 +38 -39
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EC2 58 191 172
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.36% 0.95% 0.74%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.03% 2.16% 1.54%
Number of salaries quoted 46 158 155
10th Percentile £52,500 £60,875 £47,500
25th Percentile £63,750 £76,250 £53,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £107,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -30.23% +53.57% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £142,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £91,250 £165,000 £84,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £105,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -30.95% +55.56% -6.90%

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 5,644 8,838 11,153
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 34.82% 43.74% 48.01%
Number of salaries quoted 3,994 5,809 9,516
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £48,000 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - -
75th Percentile £82,500 £86,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £115,000 £99,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +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 20 October 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 (10.34%) Tomcat
1 6 (10.34%) WebSphere
1 6 (10.34%) WebSphere Application Server
2 3 (5.17%) nginx
3 1 (1.72%) Drupal
Applications
1 1 (1.72%) Adobe XD
Cloud Services
1 58 (100.00%) AWS
2 47 (81.03%) Amazon S3
3 46 (79.31%) AWS Lambda
3 46 (79.31%) Serverless
4 24 (41.38%) AWS CloudFormation
5 19 (32.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 16 (27.59%) Amazon ECS
6 16 (27.59%) GitHub
7 15 (25.86%) Amazon EKS
8 13 (22.41%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (13.79%) Snowflake
10 7 (12.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 7 (12.07%) Route 53
11 6 (10.34%) Amazon ECR
12 4 (6.90%) Amazon SQS
12 4 (6.90%) Datadog
13 3 (5.17%) AWS Step Functions
13 3 (5.17%) Azure
13 3 (5.17%) npm
13 3 (5.17%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (10.34%) SSL
1 6 (10.34%) VPN
2 5 (8.62%) DNS
3 4 (6.90%) Firewall
4 2 (3.45%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.72%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (62.07%) Amazon RDS
2 14 (24.14%) Amazon Redshift
3 13 (22.41%) DynamoDB
4 8 (13.79%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (13.79%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (12.07%) SQL Server
6 6 (10.34%) DB2
7 4 (6.90%) Data Lake
8 3 (5.17%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (5.17%) Metadata
9 2 (3.45%) Tableau
10 1 (1.72%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (1.72%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (1.72%) MongoDB
10 1 (1.72%) MySQL
10 1 (1.72%) RDBMS
10 1 (1.72%) Relational Database
10 1 (1.72%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 1 (1.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (1.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 17 (29.31%) Jenkins
2 11 (18.97%) Git
3 6 (10.34%) GitLab
4 4 (6.90%) JIRA
4 4 (6.90%) JUnit
4 4 (6.90%) Maven
4 4 (6.90%) Mockito
5 3 (5.17%) Babel
5 3 (5.17%) Cucumber
5 3 (5.17%) gulp
5 3 (5.17%) IntelliJ
5 3 (5.17%) webpack
6 1 (1.72%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.72%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.72%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.72%) Testinfra
General
1 16 (27.59%) Finance
2 10 (17.24%) Social Skills
3 6 (10.34%) Banking
4 5 (8.62%) Marketing
5 4 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (5.17%) Fire and Rescue
6 3 (5.17%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (5.17%) Public Sector
7 2 (3.45%) Games
8 1 (1.72%) Advertising
8 1 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 24 (41.38%) Senior
2 12 (20.69%) AWS Engineer
3 10 (17.24%) Data Engineer
4 9 (15.52%) Developer
4 9 (15.52%) DevOps Engineer
5 8 (13.79%) Applications Engineer
5 8 (13.79%) AWS DevOps
6 7 (12.07%) Applications Support
6 7 (12.07%) Applications Support Engineer
6 7 (12.07%) Senior Data Engineer
6 7 (12.07%) Support Engineer
7 6 (10.34%) Linux Engineer
7 6 (10.34%) Senior DevOps
8 5 (8.62%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 5 (8.62%) Consultant
8 5 (8.62%) Java Developer
8 5 (8.62%) Linux Support
8 5 (8.62%) Linux Support Engineer
9 4 (6.90%) Lead
9 4 (6.90%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (17.24%) React
2 9 (15.52%) AWS CDK
3 7 (12.07%) REST
3 7 (12.07%) Spring
3 7 (12.07%) Spring Boot
4 6 (10.34%) LAPP Stack
4 6 (10.34%) LDAP
4 6 (10.34%) WebSphere MQ
5 4 (6.90%) ActiveMQ
5 4 (6.90%) CSS
5 4 (6.90%) HTML
5 4 (6.90%) Node.js
5 4 (6.90%) Sass
6 3 (5.17%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (5.17%) JMS
6 3 (5.17%) OAuth
6 3 (5.17%) Svelte
6 3 (5.17%) Vue
6 3 (5.17%) Web Services
7 2 (3.45%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.34%) Linux Command Line
1 6 (10.34%) Management Information System
1 6 (10.34%) Product Ownership
2 3 (5.17%) Cloud Native
2 3 (5.17%) Credit Derivative
2 3 (5.17%) Enterprise Cloud
2 3 (5.17%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (5.17%) Smart City
2 3 (5.17%) Virtual Team
3 2 (3.45%) Online Games
4 1 (1.72%) Reinsurance
4 1 (1.72%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 22 (37.93%) Linux
2 7 (12.07%) Unix
2 7 (12.07%) Windows
3 6 (10.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (5.17%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.72%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (44.83%) Infrastructure as Code
2 25 (43.10%) CI/CD
3 22 (37.93%) DevOps
4 20 (34.48%) Software Engineering
5 16 (27.59%) Mentoring
5 16 (27.59%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (25.86%) Containerisation
7 12 (20.69%) Agile
8 11 (18.97%) Infrastructure Automation
9 10 (17.24%) Analytics
9 10 (17.24%) Data Engineering
9 10 (17.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 10 (17.24%) Technical Leadership
10 9 (15.52%) Microservices
11 8 (13.79%) ETL
12 7 (12.07%) Disaster Recovery
13 6 (10.34%) Change Management
13 6 (10.34%) Data Modelling
13 6 (10.34%) ITIL
13 6 (10.34%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 37 (63.79%) Python
2 16 (27.59%) SQL
3 10 (17.24%) Bash
3 10 (17.24%) Java
4 7 (12.07%) JavaScript
4 7 (12.07%) TypeScript
5 5 (8.62%) PowerShell
6 3 (5.17%) C++
6 3 (5.17%) R
7 2 (3.45%) C#
8 1 (1.72%) Groovy
8 1 (1.72%) PHP
8 1 (1.72%) Ruby
8 1 (1.72%) Scala
Qualifications
1 22 (37.93%) AWS Certification
2 8 (13.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 8 (13.79%) Degree
3 7 (12.07%) SnowPro
4 6 (10.34%) ITIL Certification
4 6 (10.34%) Security Cleared
5 5 (8.62%) SC Cleared
6 2 (3.45%) AWS Certified Developer
6 2 (3.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.72%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (1.72%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.07%) QA
1 7 (12.07%) SLA
2 1 (1.72%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.72%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.72%) GDPR
2 1 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.72%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (20.69%) Docker
2 1 (1.72%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (1.72%) VMware NSX
2 1 (1.72%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 27 (46.55%) Terraform
2 9 (15.52%) Ansible
2 9 (15.52%) Grafana
2 9 (15.52%) Kubernetes
2 9 (15.52%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.72%) Argo
3 1 (1.72%) Kibana
3 1 (1.72%) logstash
3 1 (1.72%) Packer
Vendors
1 9 (15.52%) IBM
2 6 (10.34%) Red Hat
3 3 (5.17%) Databricks
4 2 (3.45%) Facebook
4 2 (3.45%) Google
4 2 (3.45%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.72%) Adobe
5 1 (1.72%) Cisco
5 1 (1.72%) Oracle
5 1 (1.72%) VMware