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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 357 348 324
Rank change year-on-year -9 -24 +3
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EC2 98 67 181
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.41% 0.41% 0.78%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.13% 1.17% 1.92%
Number of salaries quoted 90 45 154
10th Percentile £46,217 £46,900 £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 £64,563 £87,500 £142,500
90th Percentile £77,625 £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 8,636 5,733 9,437
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 36.03% 35.42% 40.71%
Number of salaries quoted 6,348 4,123 6,604
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £47,533
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 15 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 (10.20%) Apache
2 8 (8.16%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (8.16%) Jupyter
3 7 (7.14%) Apache Spark
4 2 (2.04%) Confluence
4 2 (2.04%) IIS
4 2 (2.04%) nginx
5 1 (1.02%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (1.02%) Drupal
5 1 (1.02%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (1.02%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
1 1 (1.02%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 97 (98.98%) AWS
2 62 (63.27%) AWS Lambda
2 62 (63.27%) Serverless
3 61 (62.24%) Amazon S3
4 30 (30.61%) Amazon ECS
5 26 (26.53%) Amazon SQS
6 22 (22.45%) Amazon EMR
7 18 (18.37%) GitHub
7 18 (18.37%) GitHub Actions
8 17 (17.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 16 (16.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 14 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
11 13 (13.27%) AWS CloudFormation
12 9 (9.18%) Azure
13 8 (8.16%) Amazon ECR
14 4 (4.08%) AWS Control Tower
14 4 (4.08%) Cloudflare
14 4 (4.08%) CloudFront
14 4 (4.08%) Route 53
15 3 (3.06%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.12%) DNS
2 2 (2.04%) VPN
3 1 (1.02%) Firewall
3 1 (1.02%) FTP
3 1 (1.02%) Network Security
3 1 (1.02%) SAN
3 1 (1.02%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (28.57%) MongoDB
2 27 (27.55%) PostgreSQL
3 21 (21.43%) Amazon RDS
4 18 (18.37%) Spark SQL
5 8 (8.16%) Amazon Athena
5 8 (8.16%) DynamoDB
6 4 (4.08%) Data Lake
6 4 (4.08%) MySQL
6 4 (4.08%) NoSQL
7 3 (3.06%) Big Data
7 3 (3.06%) MariaDB
8 2 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (2.04%) DocumentDB
9 1 (1.02%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (1.02%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (1.02%) Hadoop
9 1 (1.02%) InterSystems Cache
9 1 (1.02%) Redis
9 1 (1.02%) SQL Server
9 1 (1.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 29 (29.59%) Cypress.io
2 10 (10.20%) GitLab
3 9 (9.18%) Jenkins
4 5 (5.10%) Git
5 4 (4.08%) JIRA
6 3 (3.06%) Claude Code
6 3 (3.06%) Storybook
7 2 (2.04%) JMeter
7 2 (2.04%) Terragrunt
8 1 (1.02%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (1.02%) Gatling
8 1 (1.02%) git-flow
8 1 (1.02%) Maven
8 1 (1.02%) Postman
8 1 (1.02%) SonarQube
8 1 (1.02%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (1.02%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (1.02%) Vagrant
General
1 30 (30.61%) Public Sector
2 20 (20.41%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (10.20%) Social Skills
4 5 (5.10%) 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
7 1 (1.02%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 30 (30.61%) Developer
2 25 (25.51%) Full-Stack Developer
3 22 (22.45%) Data Engineer
4 16 (16.33%) 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%) Azure Engineer
11 3 (3.06%) Cloud Architect
11 3 (3.06%) Platform Architect
12 2 (2.04%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (34.69%) Terraform
2 31 (31.63%) React
3 28 (28.57%) Jest
4 25 (25.51%) Node.js
4 25 (25.51%) Ruby on Rails
5 23 (23.47%) PySpark
6 21 (21.43%) .NET
7 6 (6.12%) Web Services
8 4 (4.08%) REST
8 4 (4.08%) RESTful
9 3 (3.06%) AngularJS
9 3 (3.06%) ARM Templates
9 3 (3.06%) CSS
9 3 (3.06%) Flutter
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%) .NET Framework
10 2 (2.04%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 15 (15.31%) Cloud Native
1 15 (15.31%) Hybrid Cloud
2 6 (6.12%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (4.08%) Data Centre
3 4 (4.08%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (3.06%) Data Structures
4 3 (3.06%) Mobile App
4 3 (3.06%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.04%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (2.04%) PKI
6 1 (1.02%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.02%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.02%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 18 (18.37%) Linux
2 4 (4.08%) Windows
2 4 (4.08%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (54.08%) CI/CD
2 44 (44.90%) Full-Stack Development
3 33 (33.67%) Agile
4 32 (32.65%) Infrastructure as Code
5 30 (30.61%) Mentoring
5 30 (30.61%) Microservices
6 27 (27.55%) Data Engineering
6 27 (27.55%) DevOps
7 25 (25.51%) Coaching
7 25 (25.51%) Mob Programming
8 23 (23.47%) Analytics
9 21 (21.43%) Containerisation
9 21 (21.43%) Decision-Making
10 19 (19.39%) ETL
11 18 (18.37%) Event-Driven
12 17 (17.35%) Business Intelligence
13 16 (16.33%) Continuous Improvement
14 15 (15.31%) Data Science
15 13 (13.27%) Problem-Solving
16 12 (12.24%) Community of Practice
Programming Languages
1 50 (51.02%) JavaScript
2 33 (33.67%) SQL
3 32 (32.65%) Python
4 26 (26.53%) Java
5 25 (25.51%) Ruby
6 20 (20.41%) 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%) PHP
12 2 (2.04%) Rust
12 2 (2.04%) Shell Script
13 1 (1.02%) Perl
Qualifications
1 20 (20.41%) Security Cleared
2 16 (16.33%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.04%) AWS Certification
3 2 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.02%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.02%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (24.49%) Data Quality
2 8 (8.16%) QA
3 4 (4.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.02%) NCSC
4 1 (1.02%) SLA
4 1 (1.02%) SOC 2
System Software
1 26 (26.53%) Docker
2 6 (6.12%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.04%) Virtual Machines
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 9 (9.18%) Ansible
3 8 (8.16%) Progress Chef
4 7 (7.14%) Grafana
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%) Consul
7 1 (1.02%) Packer
7 1 (1.02%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (4.08%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.06%) OpenAI
2 3 (3.06%) VMware
3 1 (1.02%) AppDynamics
3 1 (1.02%) Databricks
3 1 (1.02%) Google
3 1 (1.02%) Red Hat
3 1 (1.02%) TOWER Software
3 1 (1.02%) Veeam
3 1 (1.02%) YouTube
3 1 (1.02%) Zerto