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

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 363 352 338
Rank change year-on-year -11 -14 0
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EC2 89 81 174
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.39% 0.49% 0.70%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.03% 1.37% 1.72%
Number of salaries quoted 79 56 158
10th Percentile £52,250 £45,125 £60,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £54,688 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £72,500 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year -24.14% -30.95% +55.56%
75th Percentile £68,750 £87,500 £142,500
90th Percentile £79,500 £104,375 £165,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £72,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -17.24% -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 8,659 5,930 10,106
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.82% 35.96% 40.82%
Number of salaries quoted 6,293 4,346 7,812
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,750 £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 £81,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -6.25%

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 19 August 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 12 (13.48%) Apache
2 10 (11.24%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (8.99%) Jupyter
4 6 (6.74%) Apache Spark
5 2 (2.25%) IIS
5 2 (2.25%) nginx
6 1 (1.12%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (1.12%) Confluence
6 1 (1.12%) Drupal
6 1 (1.12%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (1.12%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 89 (100.00%) AWS
2 69 (77.53%) Amazon S3
3 50 (56.18%) AWS Lambda
3 50 (56.18%) Serverless
4 30 (33.71%) Amazon ECS
5 26 (29.21%) Amazon SQS
6 21 (23.60%) GitHub
6 21 (23.60%) GitHub Actions
7 18 (20.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 16 (17.98%) AWS CloudFormation
9 15 (16.85%) Amazon EKS
10 14 (15.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 8 (8.99%) Amazon ECR
11 8 (8.99%) Amazon EMR
11 8 (8.99%) Azure
12 5 (5.62%) SaaS
13 4 (4.49%) AWS Control Tower
13 4 (4.49%) CloudFront
13 4 (4.49%) Datadog
13 4 (4.49%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 8 (8.99%) DNS
2 4 (4.49%) VPN
3 3 (3.37%) Firewall
4 1 (1.12%) FTP
4 1 (1.12%) Network Security
4 1 (1.12%) SAN
4 1 (1.12%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (33.71%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (30.34%) Amazon RDS
2 27 (30.34%) MongoDB
3 10 (11.24%) DynamoDB
4 8 (8.99%) Amazon Athena
5 4 (4.49%) MySQL
5 4 (4.49%) NoSQL
6 3 (3.37%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (3.37%) Big Data
6 3 (3.37%) Data Lake
6 3 (3.37%) MariaDB
7 2 (2.25%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (2.25%) DocumentDB
7 2 (2.25%) Metadata
7 2 (2.25%) SQL Server
8 1 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.12%) InterSystems Cache
8 1 (1.12%) Redis
8 1 (1.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 30 (33.71%) Cypress.io
2 9 (10.11%) GitLab
3 8 (8.99%) Jenkins
4 6 (6.74%) Git
5 5 (5.62%) JIRA
5 5 (5.62%) Storybook
6 3 (3.37%) Claude Code
7 2 (2.25%) Terragrunt
8 1 (1.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (1.12%) Gatling
8 1 (1.12%) git-flow
8 1 (1.12%) JMeter
8 1 (1.12%) Maven
8 1 (1.12%) SonarQube
8 1 (1.12%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (1.12%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (1.12%) Vagrant
General
1 15 (16.85%) Public Sector
2 12 (13.48%) Social Skills
3 9 (10.11%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (4.49%) Finance
5 3 (3.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (3.37%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (3.37%) Legal
6 2 (2.25%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.25%) Law
7 1 (1.12%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 34 (38.20%) Developer
2 26 (29.21%) Full-Stack Developer
3 19 (21.35%) AWS Engineer
4 11 (12.36%) Cloud Engineer
4 11 (12.36%) Senior
5 10 (11.24%) Platform Engineer
6 9 (10.11%) DevOps Engineer
7 8 (8.99%) Lead
8 7 (7.87%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 6 (6.74%) Test Engineer
10 5 (5.62%) AWS Platform Engineer
10 5 (5.62%) Data Engineer
11 4 (4.49%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 4 (4.49%) Lead Test Engineer
11 4 (4.49%) Senior Platform Engineer
12 3 (3.37%) Architect
12 3 (3.37%) Azure Engineer
12 3 (3.37%) Java Developer
12 3 (3.37%) Lead Developer
12 3 (3.37%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (38.20%) React
2 30 (33.71%) Jest
3 25 (28.09%) Node.js
3 25 (28.09%) Ruby on Rails
4 6 (6.74%) Web Services
5 5 (5.62%) CSS
5 5 (5.62%) Flutter
5 5 (5.62%) PySpark
5 5 (5.62%) React Native
5 5 (5.62%) Tailwind CSS
5 5 (5.62%) Zustand
6 4 (4.49%) .NET
6 4 (4.49%) REST
6 4 (4.49%) Spring
7 3 (3.37%) AngularJS
7 3 (3.37%) ARM Templates
7 3 (3.37%) RESTful
7 3 (3.37%) Spring Boot
8 2 (2.25%) Nuxt
8 2 (2.25%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 19 (21.35%) Cloud Native
2 6 (6.74%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (5.62%) Greenfield Project
3 5 (5.62%) Mobile App
4 4 (4.49%) Data Centre
5 3 (3.37%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (3.37%) IoT
6 2 (2.25%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.25%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (2.25%) PKI
6 2 (2.25%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.12%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.12%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 18 (20.22%) Linux
2 4 (4.49%) Windows
2 4 (4.49%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (44.94%) CI/CD
2 36 (40.45%) Infrastructure as Code
3 33 (37.08%) Microservices
4 32 (35.96%) DevOps
5 28 (31.46%) Full-Stack Development
6 25 (28.09%) Containerisation
6 25 (28.09%) Mob Programming
7 20 (22.47%) Agile
8 17 (19.10%) Continuous Improvement
8 17 (19.10%) Mentoring
9 14 (15.73%) Platform Engineering
10 12 (13.48%) Problem-Solving
11 11 (12.36%) Data Pipeline
11 11 (12.36%) Software Engineering
11 11 (12.36%) Test Automation
11 11 (12.36%) Validation
12 10 (11.24%) Software Delivery
13 9 (10.11%) Data Modelling
13 9 (10.11%) Front End Development
13 9 (10.11%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 40 (44.94%) Python
2 33 (37.08%) JavaScript
3 25 (28.09%) Ruby
4 17 (19.10%) Bash
4 17 (19.10%) SQL
5 10 (11.24%) Java
6 8 (8.99%) Groovy
7 7 (7.87%) TypeScript
8 5 (5.62%) Dart
8 5 (5.62%) PHP
9 3 (3.37%) C#
9 3 (3.37%) Go
9 3 (3.37%) PowerShell
10 2 (2.25%) Shell Script
11 1 (1.12%) Perl
11 1 (1.12%) Rust
Qualifications
1 19 (21.35%) Security Cleared
2 15 (16.85%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.49%) Degree
4 2 (2.25%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.25%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.25%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.12%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (11.24%) QA
2 8 (8.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (7.87%) Data Quality
4 3 (3.37%) ISO 9001
5 2 (2.25%) SOC 2
6 1 (1.12%) HL7
6 1 (1.12%) NCSC
6 1 (1.12%) SLA
6 1 (1.12%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 30 (33.71%) Docker
2 6 (6.74%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.37%) Firmware
4 2 (2.25%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.12%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (1.12%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 37 (41.57%) Terraform
2 30 (33.71%) Kubernetes
3 11 (12.36%) Ansible
4 9 (10.11%) Grafana
5 8 (8.99%) Progress Chef
6 5 (5.62%) Prometheus
7 2 (2.25%) Argo
7 2 (2.25%) Istio
7 2 (2.25%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (1.12%) Consul
8 1 (1.12%) Packer
8 1 (1.12%) Puppet
8 1 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (4.49%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.37%) OpenAI
2 3 (3.37%) VMware
3 2 (2.25%) Databricks
4 1 (1.12%) AppDynamics
4 1 (1.12%) Google
4 1 (1.12%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.12%) TOWER Software
4 1 (1.12%) Veeam
4 1 (1.12%) Zerto