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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 317 320 417
Rank change year-on-year +3 +97 -61
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EC2 100 114 151
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.52% 0.77% 0.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.36% 1.96% 1.06%
Number of salaries quoted 87 68 124
10th Percentile - £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £51,875 £57,573
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £68,750
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +1.82% +1.85%
75th Percentile £74,875 £103,438 £82,188
90th Percentile £92,500 £120,375 £96,750
UK median annual salary £60,500 £73,750 £75,000
% change year-on-year -17.97% -1.67% +11.11%

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 7,335 5,810 14,198
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.22% 39.25% 42.77%
Number of salaries quoted 5,048 4,196 12,030
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,750 £35,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,076 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £108,209 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.54%

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 30 May 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 (12.00%) Apache
2 10 (10.00%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (7.00%) Jupyter
4 5 (5.00%) Apache Spark
5 2 (2.00%) nginx
5 2 (2.00%) WordPress
6 1 (1.00%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (1.00%) Confluence
6 1 (1.00%) Drupal
6 1 (1.00%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (1.00%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 100 (100.00%) AWS
2 82 (82.00%) Amazon S3
3 58 (58.00%) AWS Lambda
3 58 (58.00%) Serverless
4 32 (32.00%) Amazon ECS
5 28 (28.00%) Amazon SQS
5 28 (28.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 27 (27.00%) GitHub
6 27 (27.00%) GitHub Actions
7 25 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
8 22 (22.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 16 (16.00%) AWS CloudFormation
10 12 (12.00%) SaaS
11 11 (11.00%) CloudFront
12 9 (9.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
12 9 (9.00%) Azure
13 7 (7.00%) Amazon ECR
13 7 (7.00%) Amazon EMR
13 7 (7.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 7 (7.00%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.00%) DNS
1 6 (6.00%) VPN
2 4 (4.00%) Firewall
3 3 (3.00%) AMQP
3 3 (3.00%) BGP
3 3 (3.00%) TCP/IP
3 3 (3.00%) VLAN
4 1 (1.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (41.00%) Amazon RDS
2 30 (30.00%) PostgreSQL
3 25 (25.00%) MongoDB
4 10 (10.00%) Amazon Aurora
4 10 (10.00%) DynamoDB
5 7 (7.00%) Amazon Athena
6 6 (6.00%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (5.00%) NoSQL
7 5 (5.00%) SQL Server
8 3 (3.00%) Metadata
8 3 (3.00%) MySQL
9 2 (2.00%) Big Data
9 2 (2.00%) Data Lake
9 2 (2.00%) MariaDB
10 1 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (1.00%) InterSystems Cache
10 1 (1.00%) Redis
10 1 (1.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 29 (29.00%) Cypress.io
2 10 (10.00%) GitLab
3 9 (9.00%) Jenkins
4 6 (6.00%) Git
4 6 (6.00%) JIRA
5 5 (5.00%) Storybook
6 2 (2.00%) Claude Code
6 2 (2.00%) Terragrunt
7 1 (1.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (1.00%) Browser DevTools
7 1 (1.00%) CircleCI
7 1 (1.00%) Gatling
7 1 (1.00%) git-flow
7 1 (1.00%) JMeter
7 1 (1.00%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.00%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (1.00%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (1.00%) TeamCity
7 1 (1.00%) Vagrant
7 1 (1.00%) webpack
General
1 20 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 16 (16.00%) Public Sector
3 9 (9.00%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (9.00%) Finance
4 6 (6.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (6.00%) Law
5 3 (3.00%) Back Office
5 3 (3.00%) Banking
5 3 (3.00%) Financial Institution
5 3 (3.00%) Legal
5 3 (3.00%) Military
5 3 (3.00%) Retail
6 2 (2.00%) Billing
6 2 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.00%) Advertising
7 1 (1.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 36 (36.00%) Developer
2 29 (29.00%) AWS Engineer
3 25 (25.00%) Full-Stack Developer
4 22 (22.00%) Platform Engineer
5 17 (17.00%) Cloud Engineer
6 15 (15.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 14 (14.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 14 (14.00%) Senior
8 7 (7.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 7 (7.00%) Lead
9 6 (6.00%) Data Engineer
9 6 (6.00%) DevOps Engineer
9 6 (6.00%) Java Developer
10 5 (5.00%) Linux Engineer
10 5 (5.00%) Python Engineer
10 5 (5.00%) Test Engineer
11 4 (4.00%) AWS DevOps
11 4 (4.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 4 (4.00%) Senior Data Engineer
11 4 (4.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (36.00%) React
2 29 (29.00%) Jest
3 27 (27.00%) Node.js
4 24 (24.00%) Ruby on Rails
5 8 (8.00%) Spring
6 7 (7.00%) Loki
6 7 (7.00%) Spring Boot
7 6 (6.00%) CSS
7 6 (6.00%) REST
7 6 (6.00%) RESTful
7 6 (6.00%) Web Services
8 5 (5.00%) Flutter
8 5 (5.00%) JSON
8 5 (5.00%) React Native
8 5 (5.00%) Tailwind CSS
8 5 (5.00%) Zustand
9 4 (4.00%) PySpark
10 3 (3.00%) ARM Templates
10 3 (3.00%) Elastic Stack
10 3 (3.00%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 21 (21.00%) Cloud Native
2 7 (7.00%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (5.00%) Mobile App
4 3 (3.00%) Blog
4 3 (3.00%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (3.00%) IoT
4 3 (3.00%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (2.00%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.00%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.00%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.00%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.00%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 19 (19.00%) Linux
2 3 (3.00%) Windows
3 1 (1.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.00%) VMS
3 1 (1.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (58.00%) CI/CD
2 47 (47.00%) DevOps
2 47 (47.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 32 (32.00%) Microservices
4 29 (29.00%) Containerisation
5 27 (27.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 27 (27.00%) Platform Engineering
6 24 (24.00%) Agile
6 24 (24.00%) Mob Programming
7 20 (20.00%) Observability
8 19 (19.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 17 (17.00%) Mentoring
10 16 (16.00%) Infrastructure Automation
11 15 (15.00%) Cloud Security
11 15 (15.00%) Software Engineering
12 14 (14.00%) Problem-Solving
13 13 (13.00%) Data Pipeline
13 13 (13.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 12 (12.00%) Deployment Automation
14 12 (12.00%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 51 (51.00%) Python
2 33 (33.00%) JavaScript
3 24 (24.00%) Ruby
4 23 (23.00%) Bash
5 21 (21.00%) SQL
6 16 (16.00%) Java
7 7 (7.00%) TypeScript
8 6 (6.00%) PHP
9 5 (5.00%) Dart
9 5 (5.00%) Groovy
10 4 (4.00%) Go
10 4 (4.00%) PowerShell
11 2 (2.00%) C#
11 2 (2.00%) Scala
11 2 (2.00%) Shell Script
12 1 (1.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 16 (16.00%) Security Cleared
2 14 (14.00%) SC Cleared
3 12 (12.00%) Degree
4 3 (3.00%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.00%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.00%) Data Quality
1 8 (8.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 8 (8.00%) QA
2 6 (6.00%) SOC 2
3 3 (3.00%) ISO 9001
3 3 (3.00%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.00%) HL7
4 1 (1.00%) NCSC
4 1 (1.00%) SLA
4 1 (1.00%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 37 (37.00%) Docker
2 3 (3.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.00%) Firmware
2 3 (3.00%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (2.00%) VMware NSX
3 2 (2.00%) vSphere
4 1 (1.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 49 (49.00%) Terraform
2 38 (38.00%) Kubernetes
3 15 (15.00%) Grafana
4 14 (14.00%) Ansible
5 12 (12.00%) Prometheus
6 5 (5.00%) Progress Chef
7 3 (3.00%) Argo
8 2 (2.00%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (1.00%) Consul
9 1 (1.00%) Kibana
9 1 (1.00%) Packer
9 1 (1.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (3.00%) Databricks
1 3 (3.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.00%) OpenAI
2 2 (2.00%) VMware
3 1 (1.00%) AppDynamics
3 1 (1.00%) Apple
3 1 (1.00%) Google
3 1 (1.00%) New Relic
3 1 (1.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (1.00%) TOWER Software