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

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 364 352 314
Rank change year-on-year -12 -38 +33
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EC2 100 65 186
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.41% 0.40% 0.80%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.15% 1.13% 1.95%
Number of salaries quoted 89 44 157
10th Percentile £46,217 £51,625 £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 £65,000 £87,500 £142,500
90th Percentile £77,750 £93,375 £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 8,680 5,763 9,522
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 35.55% 35.56% 41.07%
Number of salaries quoted 6,377 4,149 6,527
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,975 £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 21 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 (9.00%) Apache
2 8 (8.00%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (8.00%) Jupyter
3 7 (7.00%) Apache Spark
4 2 (2.00%) nginx
5 1 (1.00%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (1.00%) Confluence
5 1 (1.00%) IIS
5 1 (1.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (1.00%) WebLogic
5 1 (1.00%) WebLogic Portal
Business Applications
1 1 (1.00%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
1 1 (1.00%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (1.00%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (1.00%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 99 (99.00%) AWS
2 64 (64.00%) AWS Lambda
2 64 (64.00%) Serverless
3 62 (62.00%) Amazon S3
4 29 (29.00%) Amazon ECS
5 26 (26.00%) Amazon SQS
6 22 (22.00%) Amazon EMR
7 17 (17.00%) GitHub
7 17 (17.00%) GitHub Actions
8 16 (16.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 16 (16.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 13 (13.00%) Amazon EKS
9 13 (13.00%) AWS CloudFormation
10 8 (8.00%) Amazon ECR
10 8 (8.00%) Azure
11 4 (4.00%) Amazon Bedrock
11 4 (4.00%) Anthropic Claude
11 4 (4.00%) Cloudflare
11 4 (4.00%) Route 53
12 3 (3.00%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.00%) DNS
2 3 (3.00%) VPN
3 1 (1.00%) Firewall
3 1 (1.00%) FTP
3 1 (1.00%) Network Security
3 1 (1.00%) OpenVPN
3 1 (1.00%) SAN
3 1 (1.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (28.00%) MongoDB
1 28 (28.00%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (23.00%) Amazon RDS
3 18 (18.00%) Spark SQL
4 8 (8.00%) Amazon Athena
4 8 (8.00%) DynamoDB
5 5 (5.00%) MySQL
6 4 (4.00%) Data Lake
6 4 (4.00%) MariaDB
6 4 (4.00%) NoSQL
7 3 (3.00%) Big Data
8 2 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (2.00%) DocumentDB
9 1 (1.00%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (1.00%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (1.00%) Oracle Database
9 1 (1.00%) Oracle Database 10g
9 1 (1.00%) Oracle Database 11g
9 1 (1.00%) Oracle Database 12c
9 1 (1.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 29 (29.00%) Cypress.io
2 11 (11.00%) GitLab
3 10 (10.00%) Jenkins
4 6 (6.00%) Git
5 4 (4.00%) Claude Code
6 3 (3.00%) JIRA
6 3 (3.00%) Storybook
7 2 (2.00%) Terragrunt
8 1 (1.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (1.00%) Flyway
8 1 (1.00%) git-flow
8 1 (1.00%) JMeter
8 1 (1.00%) Maven
8 1 (1.00%) Postman
8 1 (1.00%) SonarQube
8 1 (1.00%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (1.00%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 31 (31.00%) Public Sector
2 21 (21.00%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (10.00%) Social Skills
4 5 (5.00%) 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 31 (31.00%) Developer
2 26 (26.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 22 (22.00%) Data Engineer
4 15 (15.00%) AWS Engineer
5 11 (11.00%) Cloud Engineer
6 10 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
6 10 (10.00%) Senior
7 7 (7.00%) Lead
7 7 (7.00%) Platform Engineer
7 7 (7.00%) Test Engineer
8 6 (6.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 4 (4.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
9 4 (4.00%) Lead Test Engineer
9 4 (4.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
10 3 (3.00%) Architect
10 3 (3.00%) AWS Architect
10 3 (3.00%) Cloud Architect
10 3 (3.00%) Platform Architect
11 2 (2.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 2 (2.00%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (34.00%) Terraform
2 32 (32.00%) React
3 28 (28.00%) Jest
4 25 (25.00%) Node.js
4 25 (25.00%) Ruby on Rails
5 23 (23.00%) PySpark
6 22 (22.00%) .NET
7 6 (6.00%) REST
7 6 (6.00%) Web Services
8 5 (5.00%) RESTful
9 3 (3.00%) AngularJS
9 3 (3.00%) CSS
9 3 (3.00%) Flutter
9 3 (3.00%) Nuxt
9 3 (3.00%) React Native
9 3 (3.00%) Spring
9 3 (3.00%) Tailwind CSS
9 3 (3.00%) Zustand
10 2 (2.00%) ARM Templates
10 2 (2.00%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 15 (15.00%) Cloud Native
1 15 (15.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 7 (7.00%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (4.00%) Data Centre
3 4 (4.00%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (3.00%) Data Structures
4 3 (3.00%) Mobile App
4 3 (3.00%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.00%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (2.00%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.00%) PKI
6 1 (1.00%) Clustering
6 1 (1.00%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.00%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 19 (19.00%) Linux
2 4 (4.00%) Windows
3 3 (3.00%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (53.00%) CI/CD
2 45 (45.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 34 (34.00%) Agile
4 33 (33.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 32 (32.00%) Microservices
6 31 (31.00%) Mentoring
7 28 (28.00%) DevOps
8 27 (27.00%) Data Engineering
9 26 (26.00%) Coaching
10 25 (25.00%) Mob Programming
11 24 (24.00%) Analytics
12 22 (22.00%) Containerisation
13 21 (21.00%) Decision-Making
14 19 (19.00%) ETL
15 18 (18.00%) Continuous Improvement
15 18 (18.00%) Event-Driven
16 17 (17.00%) Business Intelligence
17 16 (16.00%) Data Science
18 15 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
19 13 (13.00%) AI
Programming Languages
1 52 (52.00%) JavaScript
2 35 (35.00%) SQL
3 33 (33.00%) Python
4 26 (26.00%) Java
5 25 (25.00%) Ruby
6 22 (22.00%) C#
7 17 (17.00%) C++
8 16 (16.00%) Bash
9 9 (9.00%) Groovy
10 6 (6.00%) TypeScript
11 3 (3.00%) Dart
11 3 (3.00%) Go
11 3 (3.00%) PowerShell
12 2 (2.00%) Rust
12 2 (2.00%) Shell Script
13 1 (1.00%) Perl
13 1 (1.00%) PHP
13 1 (1.00%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (21.00%) Security Cleared
2 18 (18.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.00%) Degree
3 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (24.00%) Data Quality
2 8 (8.00%) QA
3 5 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.00%) SLA
4 1 (1.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 27 (27.00%) Docker
2 5 (5.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.00%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.00%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (1.00%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 26 (26.00%) Kubernetes
2 8 (8.00%) Ansible
3 7 (7.00%) Grafana
3 7 (7.00%) Progress Chef
4 5 (5.00%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.00%) Istio
5 2 (2.00%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (2.00%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.00%) Argo
6 1 (1.00%) Kibana
6 1 (1.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 1 (1.00%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 4 (4.00%) OpenAI
2 3 (3.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.00%) VMware
3 1 (1.00%) AppDynamics
3 1 (1.00%) Databricks
3 1 (1.00%) Oracle
3 1 (1.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (1.00%) Veeam
3 1 (1.00%) YouTube
3 1 (1.00%) Zerto