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

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 356 350 328
Rank change year-on-year -6 -22 0
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EC2 100 75 184
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.43% 0.46% 0.76%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.15% 1.27% 1.85%
Number of salaries quoted 91 51 161
10th Percentile £46,217 £44,000 £61,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £54,375 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £72,500 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year -24.14% -30.95% +55.56%
75th Percentile £66,250 £85,000 £142,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £92,500 £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 8,675 5,885 9,940
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.14% 35.91% 40.90%
Number of salaries quoted 6,346 4,299 7,340
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £47,500
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 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.18%

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 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 (10.00%) Apache
2 8 (8.00%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (8.00%) Jupyter
3 6 (6.00%) Apache Spark
4 2 (2.00%) IIS
4 2 (2.00%) nginx
5 1 (1.00%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (1.00%) Confluence
5 1 (1.00%) Drupal
5 1 (1.00%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (1.00%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 100 (100.00%) AWS
2 63 (63.00%) Amazon S3
3 61 (61.00%) AWS Lambda
3 61 (61.00%) Serverless
4 30 (30.00%) Amazon ECS
5 26 (26.00%) Amazon SQS
6 22 (22.00%) GitHub
6 22 (22.00%) GitHub Actions
7 20 (20.00%) Amazon EMR
8 19 (19.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 15 (15.00%) Amazon EKS
9 15 (15.00%) AWS CloudFormation
10 14 (14.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 8 (8.00%) Amazon ECR
11 8 (8.00%) Azure
12 4 (4.00%) AWS Control Tower
12 4 (4.00%) Cloudflare
12 4 (4.00%) CloudFront
12 4 (4.00%) Datadog
12 4 (4.00%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 8 (8.00%) DNS
2 4 (4.00%) VPN
3 3 (3.00%) Firewall
4 1 (1.00%) FTP
4 1 (1.00%) Network Security
4 1 (1.00%) SAN
4 1 (1.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (28.00%) MongoDB
2 27 (27.00%) PostgreSQL
3 23 (23.00%) Amazon RDS
4 16 (16.00%) Spark SQL
5 8 (8.00%) Amazon Athena
5 8 (8.00%) DynamoDB
6 4 (4.00%) MySQL
7 3 (3.00%) Big Data
7 3 (3.00%) Data Lake
7 3 (3.00%) MariaDB
7 3 (3.00%) NoSQL
8 2 (2.00%) DocumentDB
9 1 (1.00%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (1.00%) InterSystems Cache
9 1 (1.00%) Redis
9 1 (1.00%) SQL Server
9 1 (1.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 30 (30.00%) Cypress.io
2 9 (9.00%) GitLab
3 8 (8.00%) Jenkins
4 5 (5.00%) Git
4 5 (5.00%) Storybook
5 4 (4.00%) JIRA
6 3 (3.00%) Claude Code
7 2 (2.00%) Terragrunt
8 1 (1.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (1.00%) Gatling
8 1 (1.00%) git-flow
8 1 (1.00%) JMeter
8 1 (1.00%) Maven
8 1 (1.00%) SonarQube
8 1 (1.00%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (1.00%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (1.00%) Vagrant
General
1 28 (28.00%) Public Sector
2 19 (19.00%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (11.00%) Social Skills
4 4 (4.00%) Finance
5 3 (3.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (3.00%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (3.00%) Legal
6 2 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.00%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 32 (32.00%) Developer
2 25 (25.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 19 (19.00%) Data Engineer
4 17 (17.00%) AWS Engineer
5 11 (11.00%) Cloud Engineer
6 10 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
6 10 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
7 9 (9.00%) Senior
8 7 (7.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 7 (7.00%) Lead
9 6 (6.00%) Test Engineer
10 5 (5.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
11 4 (4.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 4 (4.00%) Lead Test Engineer
11 4 (4.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
12 3 (3.00%) Architect
12 3 (3.00%) AWS Architect
12 3 (3.00%) Azure Engineer
12 3 (3.00%) Cloud Architect
12 3 (3.00%) Platform Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (36.00%) Terraform
2 33 (33.00%) React
3 30 (30.00%) Jest
4 25 (25.00%) Node.js
4 25 (25.00%) Ruby on Rails
5 21 (21.00%) PySpark
6 20 (20.00%) .NET
7 6 (6.00%) Web Services
8 5 (5.00%) CSS
8 5 (5.00%) Flutter
8 5 (5.00%) React Native
8 5 (5.00%) Tailwind CSS
8 5 (5.00%) Zustand
9 4 (4.00%) REST
10 3 (3.00%) AngularJS
10 3 (3.00%) ARM Templates
10 3 (3.00%) RESTful
10 3 (3.00%) Spring
11 2 (2.00%) Nuxt
11 2 (2.00%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 15 (15.00%) Cloud Native
1 15 (15.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 6 (6.00%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (5.00%) Greenfield Project
3 5 (5.00%) Mobile App
4 4 (4.00%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.00%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.00%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (2.00%) PKI
5 2 (2.00%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.00%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (1.00%) IoT
6 1 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.00%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 18 (18.00%) Linux
2 4 (4.00%) Windows
2 4 (4.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (55.00%) CI/CD
2 43 (43.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 35 (35.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 32 (32.00%) Agile
5 31 (31.00%) Microservices
6 30 (30.00%) DevOps
6 30 (30.00%) Mentoring
7 25 (25.00%) Mob Programming
8 24 (24.00%) Data Engineering
9 22 (22.00%) Coaching
9 22 (22.00%) Containerisation
10 21 (21.00%) Analytics
11 19 (19.00%) Decision-Making
12 17 (17.00%) Continuous Improvement
12 17 (17.00%) Event-Driven
13 16 (16.00%) Business Intelligence
13 16 (16.00%) ETL
14 15 (15.00%) Platform Engineering
15 14 (14.00%) Community of Practice
15 14 (14.00%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 48 (48.00%) JavaScript
2 36 (36.00%) Python
3 30 (30.00%) SQL
4 25 (25.00%) Java
4 25 (25.00%) Ruby
5 19 (19.00%) C#
6 18 (18.00%) Bash
7 16 (16.00%) C++
8 8 (8.00%) Groovy
9 7 (7.00%) TypeScript
10 5 (5.00%) Dart
11 3 (3.00%) Go
11 3 (3.00%) PHP
11 3 (3.00%) PowerShell
12 2 (2.00%) Rust
12 2 (2.00%) Shell Script
13 1 (1.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 17 (17.00%) Security Cleared
2 13 (13.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.00%) AWS Certification
3 2 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.00%) Degree
3 2 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (21.00%) Data Quality
2 8 (8.00%) QA
3 6 (6.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.00%) SOC 2
5 1 (1.00%) ISO 9001
5 1 (1.00%) NCSC
5 1 (1.00%) SLA
System Software
1 28 (28.00%) Docker
2 6 (6.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.00%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.00%) Firmware
4 1 (1.00%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 28 (28.00%) Kubernetes
2 11 (11.00%) Ansible
3 9 (9.00%) Grafana
4 8 (8.00%) Progress Chef
5 5 (5.00%) Prometheus
6 2 (2.00%) Argo
6 2 (2.00%) Istio
6 2 (2.00%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (2.00%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.00%) Consul
7 1 (1.00%) Packer
7 1 (1.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (4.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.00%) OpenAI
2 3 (3.00%) VMware
3 1 (1.00%) AppDynamics
3 1 (1.00%) Google
3 1 (1.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (1.00%) TOWER Software
3 1 (1.00%) Veeam
3 1 (1.00%) Zerto