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 1 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 363 352 302
Rank change year-on-year -11 -50 +27
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EC2 98 64 191
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.39% 0.38% 0.85%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.12% 1.11% 2.04%
Number of salaries quoted 84 45 160
10th Percentile £46,217 £52,500 £61,125
25th Percentile £51,250 £65,000 £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 £61,563 £87,500 £142,500
90th Percentile £76,750 £94,500 £165,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £72,500 £82,500
% change year-on-year -24.14% -12.12% +22.22%

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 8,758 5,753 9,378
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 35.10% 34.20% 41.80%
Number of salaries quoted 6,425 4,088 6,204
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,500 £37,000
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 1 October 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 3 (3.06%) nginx
5 2 (2.04%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (2.04%) WebLogic
5 2 (2.04%) WebLogic Portal
6 1 (1.02%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (1.02%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (1.02%) Confluence
6 1 (1.02%) IIS
Business Applications
1 2 (2.04%) Oracle Applications
1 2 (2.04%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (2.04%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (1.02%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
Cloud Services
1 97 (98.98%) AWS
2 63 (64.29%) AWS Lambda
2 63 (64.29%) Serverless
3 61 (62.24%) Amazon S3
4 27 (27.55%) Amazon ECS
5 24 (24.49%) Amazon SQS
6 22 (22.45%) Amazon EMR
7 15 (15.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 14 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 13 (13.27%) AWS CloudFormation
9 13 (13.27%) GitHub
10 12 (12.24%) Amazon EKS
10 12 (12.24%) GitHub Actions
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 4 (4.08%) VPN
3 2 (2.04%) OpenVPN
4 1 (1.02%) Firewall
4 1 (1.02%) FTP
4 1 (1.02%) Network Security
4 1 (1.02%) SAN
4 1 (1.02%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (26.53%) MongoDB
3 22 (22.45%) Amazon RDS
4 18 (18.37%) Spark SQL
5 8 (8.16%) Amazon Athena
6 6 (6.12%) DynamoDB
6 6 (6.12%) NoSQL
7 5 (5.10%) MySQL
8 4 (4.08%) Data Lake
8 4 (4.08%) MariaDB
9 3 (3.06%) Big Data
10 2 (2.04%) DocumentDB
10 2 (2.04%) Oracle Database
10 2 (2.04%) Oracle Database 10g
10 2 (2.04%) Oracle Database 11g
10 2 (2.04%) Oracle Database 12c
11 1 (1.02%) Amazon Aurora
11 1 (1.02%) Electronic Patient Records
11 1 (1.02%) Hadoop
11 1 (1.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 24 (24.49%) Cypress.io
2 13 (13.27%) GitLab
3 10 (10.20%) Jenkins
4 6 (6.12%) Git
5 4 (4.08%) Claude Code
6 2 (2.04%) Flyway
6 2 (2.04%) Terragrunt
7 1 (1.02%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (1.02%) JIRA
7 1 (1.02%) JMeter
7 1 (1.02%) Postman
7 1 (1.02%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.02%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 34 (34.69%) Public Sector
2 22 (22.45%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (11.22%) 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
Job Titles
1 29 (29.59%) Developer
2 24 (24.49%) Full-Stack Developer
3 21 (21.43%) Data Engineer
4 13 (13.27%) AWS Engineer
5 11 (11.22%) Cloud Engineer
5 11 (11.22%) DevOps Engineer
6 9 (9.18%) Senior
7 7 (7.14%) Test Engineer
8 6 (6.12%) Platform Engineer
9 5 (5.10%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 5 (5.10%) Lead
10 4 (4.08%) Java Developer
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%) AWS Platform 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 28 (28.57%) React
3 24 (24.49%) Node.js
4 23 (23.47%) .NET
4 23 (23.47%) Jest
4 23 (23.47%) PySpark
4 23 (23.47%) Ruby on Rails
5 7 (7.14%) REST
6 6 (6.12%) Spring
6 6 (6.12%) Web Services
7 5 (5.10%) RESTful
7 5 (5.10%) Spring Boot
8 4 (4.08%) AngularJS
9 3 (3.06%) Nuxt
10 2 (2.04%) .NET Core
10 2 (2.04%) ARM Templates
10 2 (2.04%) Middleware
10 2 (2.04%) OpenTelemetry
10 2 (2.04%) Vue
11 1 (1.02%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 19 (19.39%) Cloud Native
2 15 (15.31%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (4.08%) Data Centre
4 4 (4.08%) Onboarding
5 3 (3.06%) Data Structures
5 3 (3.06%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.04%) Clustering
6 2 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.04%) PKI
7 1 (1.02%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.02%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 20 (20.41%) Linux
2 5 (5.10%) Windows
3 3 (3.06%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.04%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (53.06%) CI/CD
2 43 (43.88%) Full-Stack Development
3 37 (37.76%) Agile
4 34 (34.69%) Infrastructure as Code
5 31 (31.63%) Microservices
6 29 (29.59%) DevOps
6 29 (29.59%) Mentoring
7 27 (27.55%) Coaching
7 27 (27.55%) Data Engineering
8 24 (24.49%) Analytics
8 24 (24.49%) Containerisation
9 23 (23.47%) Mob Programming
10 22 (22.45%) Continuous Improvement
11 21 (21.43%) Decision-Making
12 19 (19.39%) ETL
13 18 (18.37%) Event-Driven
14 17 (17.35%) Business Intelligence
15 16 (16.33%) Data Science
15 16 (16.33%) Problem-Solving
16 14 (14.29%) AI
Programming Languages
1 53 (54.08%) JavaScript
2 35 (35.71%) SQL
3 33 (33.67%) Python
4 29 (29.59%) Java
5 23 (23.47%) C#
5 23 (23.47%) Ruby
6 17 (17.35%) C++
7 15 (15.31%) Bash
8 9 (9.18%) Groovy
9 3 (3.06%) Go
9 3 (3.06%) PowerShell
9 3 (3.06%) TypeScript
10 2 (2.04%) PL/SQL
10 2 (2.04%) Rust
10 2 (2.04%) Shell Script
11 1 (1.02%) Perl
11 1 (1.02%) PHP
Qualifications
1 22 (22.45%) Security Cleared
2 19 (19.39%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.04%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
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%) SLA
System Software
1 28 (28.57%) Docker
2 5 (5.10%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.04%) Virtual Desktop
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 27 (27.55%) 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%) Kibana
6 2 (2.04%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (2.04%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 2 (2.04%) Oracle RMAN
6 2 (2.04%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.02%) Packer
Vendors
1 4 (4.08%) OpenAI
2 3 (3.06%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.06%) VMware
3 2 (2.04%) Oracle
4 1 (1.02%) Adobe
4 1 (1.02%) AppDynamics
4 1 (1.02%) Databricks
4 1 (1.02%) Veeam
4 1 (1.02%) YouTube
4 1 (1.02%) Zerto