Amazon EC2 Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring Amazon EC2 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Amazon EC2 over the 6 months leading up to 1 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 253 412 395
Rank change year-on-year +159 -17 -136
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EC2 168 163 336
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.14% 0.50% 0.73%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.79% 1.12% 1.56%
Number of salaries quoted 125 142 263
10th Percentile £46,250 £41,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £52,813 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +40.74% - -3.57%
75th Percentile £118,750 £80,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £146,500 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £90,000 £73,750 £70,000
% change year-on-year +22.03% +5.36% -3.45%

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 6,012 14,576 21,571
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 40.93% 44.87% 46.97%
Number of salaries quoted 4,679 11,977 15,924
10th Percentile £33,859 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,231 £45,000 £49,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £97,500 £102,350
UK median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -11.54% +4.00%

Amazon EC2
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Amazon EC2 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Amazon EC2 trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Amazon EC2
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Amazon EC2.

Amazon EC2 salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Amazon EC2
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Amazon EC2 over the 6 months to 1 April 2025.

Amazon EC2 salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Amazon EC2
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 36 (21.43%) Apache
2 35 (20.83%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (3.57%) Confluence
4 4 (2.38%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.19%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 168 (100.00%) AWS
2 110 (65.48%) Amazon S3
3 94 (55.95%) Serverless
4 88 (52.38%) AWS Lambda
5 77 (45.83%) Amazon ECS
6 58 (34.52%) Amazon EKS
7 51 (30.36%) AWS CloudFormation
8 37 (22.02%) Amazon SQS
8 37 (22.02%) GCP
9 34 (20.24%) Dagster
9 34 (20.24%) dbt
9 34 (20.24%) Snowflake
10 26 (15.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 15 (8.93%) Datadog
12 8 (4.76%) Amazon SageMaker
12 8 (4.76%) Azure
13 7 (4.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 7 (4.17%) GitHub
14 6 (3.57%) Amazon ECR
14 6 (3.57%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.57%) VPN
2 5 (2.98%) Internet
3 4 (2.38%) Firewall
3 4 (2.38%) HTTPS
3 4 (2.38%) SD-WAN
3 4 (2.38%) VLAN
3 4 (2.38%) WAN
4 2 (1.19%) DNS
4 2 (1.19%) HTTP
4 2 (1.19%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (40.48%) Amazon RDS
2 48 (28.57%) Amazon Redshift
3 41 (24.40%) Data Lake
4 39 (23.21%) Amazon Athena
5 34 (20.24%) Apache Arrow
5 34 (20.24%) Apache Iceberg
5 34 (20.24%) Apache Ignite
5 34 (20.24%) Dremio
6 16 (9.52%) MySQL
7 15 (8.93%) DynamoDB
8 13 (7.74%) PostgreSQL
9 8 (4.76%) NoSQL
10 7 (4.17%) MongoDB
11 6 (3.57%) Amazon Aurora
12 4 (2.38%) Big Data
13 3 (1.79%) Parquet
13 3 (1.79%) Relational Database
13 3 (1.79%) Spark SQL
13 3 (1.79%) Tableau
14 2 (1.19%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 38 (22.62%) Git
2 29 (17.26%) GitLab
3 21 (12.50%) Jenkins
4 16 (9.52%) Cucumber
5 14 (8.33%) JUnit
6 13 (7.74%) IntelliJ
6 13 (7.74%) JIRA
6 13 (7.74%) Maven
6 13 (7.74%) Mockito
7 3 (1.79%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.79%) SonarQube
8 2 (1.19%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.60%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.60%) MLflow
9 1 (0.60%) TensorBoard
9 1 (0.60%) TestNG
General
1 94 (55.95%) Finance
2 69 (41.07%) Banking
3 68 (40.48%) Front Office
4 34 (20.24%) Investment Banking
5 16 (9.52%) Social Skills
6 11 (6.55%) Manufacturing
7 10 (5.95%) Electronics
8 8 (4.76%) Marketing
9 6 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (2.98%) Public Sector
11 4 (2.38%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.79%) Advertising
12 3 (1.79%) Analytical Skills
12 3 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.79%) Retail
13 1 (0.60%) Aviation
13 1 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.60%) Health Technology
13 1 (0.60%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 85 (50.60%) AWS Engineer
2 65 (38.69%) Senior
3 53 (31.55%) AWS DevOps
4 48 (28.57%) Python Engineer
5 46 (27.38%) Software Engineer
6 45 (26.79%) DevOps Engineer
7 40 (23.81%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 35 (20.83%) Senior DevOps
9 34 (20.24%) AWS Software Engineer
9 34 (20.24%) DevOps Manager
9 34 (20.24%) Finance Manager
10 24 (14.29%) Java Engineer
11 23 (13.69%) Java Software Engineer
12 22 (13.10%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
12 22 (13.10%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 22 (13.10%) Senior Manager
13 20 (11.90%) Developer
13 20 (11.90%) Senior Software Engineer
14 15 (8.93%) Senior Developer
15 14 (8.33%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (22.62%) Pandas
1 38 (22.62%) PySpark
2 34 (20.24%) gRPC
2 34 (20.24%) NumPy
2 34 (20.24%) Protocol Buffers
2 34 (20.24%) SciPy
3 20 (11.90%) React
4 14 (8.33%) Spring
4 14 (8.33%) Spring Boot
5 13 (7.74%) ActiveMQ
5 13 (7.74%) JMS
6 10 (5.95%) Django
7 9 (5.36%) Flask
7 9 (5.36%) Lambda Expressions
8 7 (4.17%) Laravel
8 7 (4.17%) Next.js
8 7 (4.17%) Node.js
9 6 (3.57%) Elastic Stack
9 6 (3.57%) RabbitMQ
9 6 (3.57%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 35 (20.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 34 (20.24%) Derivative
2 34 (20.24%) Equities
2 34 (20.24%) Fixed Income
2 34 (20.24%) Hedge funds
3 13 (7.74%) Credit Derivative
3 13 (7.74%) Enterprise Software
3 13 (7.74%) Management Information System
4 6 (3.57%) Cloud Native
4 6 (3.57%) Molecular Biology
5 4 (2.38%) IoT
5 4 (2.38%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.79%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (1.79%) Educational Technology
6 3 (1.79%) Mobile App
6 3 (1.79%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.19%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.19%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (1.19%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 38 (22.62%) Linux
2 12 (7.14%) Windows
3 6 (3.57%) Windows Server
4 5 (2.98%) Debian
4 5 (2.98%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.60%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (58.93%) Software Engineering
2 94 (55.95%) Agile
3 70 (41.67%) DevOps
4 69 (41.07%) Asset Management
5 67 (39.88%) CI/CD
6 39 (23.21%) Fintech
6 39 (23.21%) Migration
7 36 (21.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 32 (19.05%) Infrastructure as Code
9 21 (12.50%) Analytics
10 17 (10.12%) Deployment Automation
11 16 (9.52%) Machine Learning
11 16 (9.52%) Mentoring
12 15 (8.93%) SDLC
13 13 (7.74%) Problem-Solving
14 11 (6.55%) Collaborative Culture
14 11 (6.55%) Microservices
15 10 (5.95%) Containerisation
15 10 (5.95%) Roadmaps
16 9 (5.36%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 109 (64.88%) Python
2 82 (48.81%) JavaScript
3 58 (34.52%) Java
4 49 (29.17%) TypeScript
5 18 (10.71%) SQL
6 13 (7.74%) C++
7 8 (4.76%) Bash
8 7 (4.17%) PHP
9 6 (3.57%) Go
10 5 (2.98%) PowerShell
11 4 (2.38%) C#
11 4 (2.38%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.79%) Groovy
12 3 (1.79%) Perl
13 2 (1.19%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.60%) Erlang
14 1 (0.60%) F#
14 1 (0.60%) Haskell
14 1 (0.60%) Lisp
14 1 (0.60%) Scala
Qualifications
1 15 (8.93%) AWS Certification
2 8 (4.76%) Security Cleared
3 5 (2.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 4 (2.38%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
4 4 (2.38%) Azure Certification
4 4 (2.38%) CompTIA Security+
4 4 (2.38%) Degree
4 4 (2.38%) Master's Degree
4 4 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (1.79%) AWS Certified Developer
5 3 (1.79%) DBS Check
5 3 (1.79%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.19%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.19%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (1.19%) PhD
6 2 (1.19%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.60%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.17%) QA
2 3 (1.79%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.19%) GDPR
4 1 (0.60%) GMP
4 1 (0.60%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.60%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.60%) SLA
System Software
1 56 (33.33%) Docker
2 4 (2.38%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.38%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.79%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 75 (44.64%) Terraform
2 61 (36.31%) Kubernetes
3 25 (14.88%) Ansible
4 6 (3.57%) Kustomize
5 4 (2.38%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (1.79%) Packer
6 3 (1.79%) Puppet
7 2 (1.19%) Argo
7 2 (1.19%) Grafana
8 1 (0.60%) Kibana
8 1 (0.60%) logstash
8 1 (0.60%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 16 (9.52%) IBM
2 6 (3.57%) Microsoft
2 6 (3.57%) Sawtooth Software
3 4 (2.38%) SAP
4 3 (1.79%) AppDynamics
4 3 (1.79%) Atlassian
4 3 (1.79%) Databricks
5 2 (1.19%) Hitachi
5 2 (1.19%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.60%) Cisco
6 1 (0.60%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.60%) Oracle
6 1 (0.60%) Splunk