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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 372 359 303
Rank change year-on-year -13 -56 +44
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EC2 98 65 187
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.40% 0.39% 0.82%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.12% 1.13% 1.97%
Number of salaries quoted 87 45 156
10th Percentile £46,217 £52,500 £61,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £63,750 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £75,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% -28.57% +50.00%
75th Percentile £62,875 £87,500 £142,500
90th Percentile £76,000 £93,250 £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 8,763 5,777 9,500
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 35.36% 34.97% 41.47%
Number of salaries quoted 6,432 4,127 6,358
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 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -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 26 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 9 (9.18%) Apache
2 8 (8.16%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (8.16%) Jupyter
3 7 (7.14%) Apache Spark
4 2 (2.04%) nginx
5 1 (1.02%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (1.02%) Confluence
5 1 (1.02%) IIS
5 1 (1.02%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (1.02%) WebLogic
5 1 (1.02%) WebLogic Portal
Business Applications
1 1 (1.02%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
1 1 (1.02%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (1.02%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (1.02%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 97 (98.98%) AWS
2 61 (62.24%) AWS Lambda
2 61 (62.24%) Serverless
3 59 (60.20%) Amazon S3
4 28 (28.57%) Amazon ECS
5 25 (25.51%) Amazon SQS
6 22 (22.45%) Amazon EMR
7 16 (16.33%) GitHub
7 16 (16.33%) GitHub Actions
8 15 (15.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 15 (15.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 13 (13.27%) Amazon EKS
10 12 (12.24%) AWS CloudFormation
11 8 (8.16%) Azure
12 7 (7.14%) Amazon ECR
13 4 (4.08%) Amazon Bedrock
13 4 (4.08%) Anthropic Claude
14 3 (3.06%) Cloudflare
14 3 (3.06%) Entra ID
14 3 (3.06%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.12%) DNS
2 3 (3.06%) VPN
3 1 (1.02%) Firewall
3 1 (1.02%) FTP
3 1 (1.02%) Network Security
3 1 (1.02%) OpenVPN
3 1 (1.02%) SAN
3 1 (1.02%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (27.55%) MongoDB
1 27 (27.55%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (21.43%) Amazon RDS
3 18 (18.37%) Spark SQL
4 8 (8.16%) Amazon Athena
5 6 (6.12%) DynamoDB
6 5 (5.10%) MySQL
7 4 (4.08%) Data Lake
7 4 (4.08%) MariaDB
7 4 (4.08%) NoSQL
8 3 (3.06%) Big Data
9 2 (2.04%) DocumentDB
10 1 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (1.02%) Electronic Patient Records
10 1 (1.02%) Hadoop
10 1 (1.02%) Oracle Database
10 1 (1.02%) Oracle Database 10g
10 1 (1.02%) Oracle Database 11g
10 1 (1.02%) Oracle Database 12c
10 1 (1.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 28 (28.57%) Cypress.io
2 12 (12.24%) GitLab
3 9 (9.18%) Jenkins
4 5 (5.10%) Git
5 4 (4.08%) Claude Code
6 3 (3.06%) JIRA
6 3 (3.06%) Storybook
7 2 (2.04%) Terragrunt
8 1 (1.02%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (1.02%) Flyway
8 1 (1.02%) JMeter
8 1 (1.02%) Postman
8 1 (1.02%) SonarQube
8 1 (1.02%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 32 (32.65%) Public Sector
2 21 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (10.20%) Social Skills
4 4 (4.08%) Finance
5 3 (3.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (3.06%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (3.06%) Legal
6 2 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 30 (30.61%) Developer
2 25 (25.51%) Full-Stack Developer
3 21 (21.43%) Data Engineer
4 14 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
5 11 (11.22%) Cloud Engineer
6 10 (10.20%) DevOps Engineer
7 9 (9.18%) Senior
8 7 (7.14%) Lead
8 7 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
8 7 (7.14%) Test Engineer
9 6 (6.12%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 4 (4.08%) AWS Platform Engineer
10 4 (4.08%) Lead Test Engineer
10 4 (4.08%) Senior Platform Engineer
11 3 (3.06%) Architect
11 3 (3.06%) AWS Architect
11 3 (3.06%) Cloud Architect
11 3 (3.06%) Platform Architect
12 2 (2.04%) Junior
12 2 (2.04%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (34.69%) Terraform
2 31 (31.63%) React
3 27 (27.55%) Jest
4 24 (24.49%) Node.js
4 24 (24.49%) Ruby on Rails
5 23 (23.47%) PySpark
6 22 (22.45%) .NET
7 6 (6.12%) REST
7 6 (6.12%) Web Services
8 5 (5.10%) RESTful
9 3 (3.06%) AngularJS
9 3 (3.06%) CSS
9 3 (3.06%) Flutter
9 3 (3.06%) Nuxt
9 3 (3.06%) React Native
9 3 (3.06%) Spring
9 3 (3.06%) Tailwind CSS
9 3 (3.06%) Zustand
10 2 (2.04%) Spring Boot
10 2 (2.04%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 16 (16.33%) Cloud Native
2 15 (15.31%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (4.08%) Data Centre
4 4 (4.08%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (3.06%) Data Structures
5 3 (3.06%) Mobile App
6 2 (2.04%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.04%) PKI
6 2 (2.04%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.02%) Clustering
7 1 (1.02%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.02%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 18 (18.37%) Linux
2 4 (4.08%) Windows
3 3 (3.06%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.02%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (53.06%) CI/CD
2 44 (44.90%) Full-Stack Development
3 34 (34.69%) Agile
3 34 (34.69%) Infrastructure as Code
4 31 (31.63%) Microservices
5 30 (30.61%) Mentoring
6 28 (28.57%) DevOps
7 27 (27.55%) Data Engineering
8 26 (26.53%) Coaching
9 24 (24.49%) Mob Programming
10 23 (23.47%) Analytics
11 22 (22.45%) Containerisation
12 21 (21.43%) Decision-Making
13 19 (19.39%) ETL
14 18 (18.37%) Event-Driven
15 17 (17.35%) Business Intelligence
15 17 (17.35%) Continuous Improvement
16 16 (16.33%) Data Science
17 15 (15.31%) Problem-Solving
18 13 (13.27%) AI
Programming Languages
1 51 (52.04%) JavaScript
2 34 (34.69%) SQL
3 31 (31.63%) Python
4 26 (26.53%) Java
5 24 (24.49%) Ruby
6 22 (22.45%) C#
7 17 (17.35%) C++
8 16 (16.33%) Bash
9 8 (8.16%) Groovy
10 6 (6.12%) TypeScript
11 3 (3.06%) Dart
11 3 (3.06%) Go
11 3 (3.06%) PowerShell
12 2 (2.04%) Rust
12 2 (2.04%) Shell Script
13 1 (1.02%) Perl
13 1 (1.02%) PHP
13 1 (1.02%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (20.41%) Security Cleared
2 17 (17.35%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.02%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.02%) Degree
3 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (24.49%) Data Quality
2 8 (8.16%) QA
3 5 (5.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.02%) SLA
4 1 (1.02%) SOC 2
System Software
1 26 (26.53%) Docker
2 5 (5.10%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.04%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.02%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (1.02%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.02%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 26 (26.53%) Kubernetes
2 8 (8.16%) Ansible
3 7 (7.14%) Grafana
4 6 (6.12%) Progress Chef
5 5 (5.10%) Prometheus
6 2 (2.04%) Istio
6 2 (2.04%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (2.04%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.02%) Argo
7 1 (1.02%) Kibana
7 1 (1.02%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 1 (1.02%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (1.02%) Packer
Vendors
1 4 (4.08%) OpenAI
2 3 (3.06%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.06%) VMware
3 1 (1.02%) AppDynamics
3 1 (1.02%) Databricks
3 1 (1.02%) Oracle
3 1 (1.02%) Veeam
3 1 (1.02%) YouTube
3 1 (1.02%) Zerto