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 2 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 310 320 427
Rank change year-on-year +10 +107 -77
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EC2 98 111 152
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.51% 0.75% 0.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.34% 1.91% 1.07%
Number of salaries quoted 85 67 125
10th Percentile - £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +3.70% -
75th Percentile £74,750 £104,375 £81,250
90th Percentile £92,500 £123,000 £96,500
UK median annual salary £60,500 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -16.55% - +7.41%

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 7,302 5,824 14,253
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.18% 39.11% 42.53%
Number of salaries quoted 5,019 4,211 12,044
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,750 £35,801
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,076 £61,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.98% +2.08% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £108,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -10.85%

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 2 June 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 (12.24%) Apache
2 10 (10.20%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (7.14%) Jupyter
4 5 (5.10%) Apache Spark
5 2 (2.04%) nginx
5 2 (2.04%) WordPress
6 1 (1.02%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (1.02%) Confluence
6 1 (1.02%) Drupal
6 1 (1.02%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (1.02%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 98 (100.00%) AWS
2 81 (82.65%) Amazon S3
3 58 (59.18%) AWS Lambda
3 58 (59.18%) Serverless
4 32 (32.65%) Amazon ECS
5 28 (28.57%) Amazon SQS
6 27 (27.55%) GitHub
6 27 (27.55%) GitHub Actions
6 27 (27.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 24 (24.49%) Amazon EKS
8 21 (21.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 16 (16.33%) AWS CloudFormation
10 12 (12.24%) SaaS
11 10 (10.20%) CloudFront
12 9 (9.18%) Azure
13 8 (8.16%) Amazon ElastiCache
14 7 (7.14%) Amazon ECR
14 7 (7.14%) Amazon EMR
14 7 (7.14%) Route 53
15 6 (6.12%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.12%) DNS
1 6 (6.12%) VPN
2 4 (4.08%) Firewall
3 3 (3.06%) AMQP
3 3 (3.06%) BGP
3 3 (3.06%) TCP/IP
3 3 (3.06%) VLAN
4 1 (1.02%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (40.82%) Amazon RDS
2 30 (30.61%) PostgreSQL
3 25 (25.51%) MongoDB
4 10 (10.20%) DynamoDB
5 9 (9.18%) Amazon Aurora
6 7 (7.14%) Amazon Athena
7 6 (6.12%) Amazon Redshift
8 5 (5.10%) NoSQL
8 5 (5.10%) SQL Server
9 3 (3.06%) Metadata
9 3 (3.06%) MySQL
10 2 (2.04%) Big Data
10 2 (2.04%) Data Lake
10 2 (2.04%) MariaDB
11 1 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (1.02%) InterSystems Cache
11 1 (1.02%) Redis
11 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 6 (6.12%) Git
4 6 (6.12%) JIRA
5 5 (5.10%) Storybook
6 2 (2.04%) Claude Code
6 2 (2.04%) Terragrunt
7 1 (1.02%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (1.02%) Browser DevTools
7 1 (1.02%) CircleCI
7 1 (1.02%) Gatling
7 1 (1.02%) git-flow
7 1 (1.02%) JMeter
7 1 (1.02%) Maven
7 1 (1.02%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.02%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (1.02%) TeamCity
7 1 (1.02%) Vagrant
7 1 (1.02%) webpack
General
1 19 (19.39%) Social Skills
2 16 (16.33%) Public Sector
3 9 (9.18%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (9.18%) Finance
4 6 (6.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (6.12%) Law
5 3 (3.06%) Back Office
5 3 (3.06%) Banking
5 3 (3.06%) Financial Institution
5 3 (3.06%) Legal
5 3 (3.06%) Military
5 3 (3.06%) Retail
6 2 (2.04%) Billing
6 2 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.02%) Advertising
7 1 (1.02%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 36 (36.73%) Developer
2 28 (28.57%) AWS Engineer
3 25 (25.51%) Full-Stack Developer
4 20 (20.41%) Platform Engineer
5 16 (16.33%) Cloud Engineer
6 14 (14.29%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 13 (13.27%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 13 (13.27%) Senior
8 7 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 7 (7.14%) Lead
9 6 (6.12%) Data Engineer
9 6 (6.12%) DevOps Engineer
9 6 (6.12%) Java Developer
10 5 (5.10%) Python Engineer
10 5 (5.10%) Test Engineer
11 4 (4.08%) AWS DevOps
11 4 (4.08%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 4 (4.08%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 4 (4.08%) Linux Engineer
11 4 (4.08%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (36.73%) React
2 29 (29.59%) Jest
3 27 (27.55%) Node.js
4 24 (24.49%) Ruby on Rails
5 8 (8.16%) Spring
6 7 (7.14%) Spring Boot
7 6 (6.12%) CSS
7 6 (6.12%) Loki
7 6 (6.12%) REST
7 6 (6.12%) RESTful
7 6 (6.12%) Web Services
8 5 (5.10%) Flutter
8 5 (5.10%) JSON
8 5 (5.10%) React Native
8 5 (5.10%) Tailwind CSS
8 5 (5.10%) Zustand
9 4 (4.08%) PySpark
10 3 (3.06%) ARM Templates
10 3 (3.06%) Elastic Stack
10 3 (3.06%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 21 (21.43%) Cloud Native
2 7 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (5.10%) Mobile App
4 3 (3.06%) Blog
4 3 (3.06%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (3.06%) IoT
4 3 (3.06%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (2.04%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.04%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.04%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.04%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.04%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.02%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.02%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (17.35%) Linux
2 2 (2.04%) Windows
3 1 (1.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.02%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 45 (45.92%) DevOps
2 45 (45.92%) Infrastructure as Code
3 32 (32.65%) Microservices
4 28 (28.57%) Containerisation
5 27 (27.55%) Full-Stack Development
6 25 (25.51%) Platform Engineering
7 24 (24.49%) Agile
7 24 (24.49%) Mob Programming
8 19 (19.39%) Continuous Improvement
8 19 (19.39%) Observability
9 17 (17.35%) Mentoring
10 15 (15.31%) Software Engineering
11 14 (14.29%) Cloud Security
11 14 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
11 14 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
12 13 (13.27%) Data Pipeline
13 12 (12.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 12 (12.24%) Test Automation
14 11 (11.22%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 50 (51.02%) Python
2 33 (33.67%) JavaScript
3 24 (24.49%) Ruby
4 22 (22.45%) Bash
5 21 (21.43%) SQL
6 16 (16.33%) Java
7 7 (7.14%) TypeScript
8 6 (6.12%) PHP
9 5 (5.10%) Dart
9 5 (5.10%) Groovy
10 4 (4.08%) Go
10 4 (4.08%) PowerShell
11 2 (2.04%) C#
11 2 (2.04%) Scala
11 2 (2.04%) Shell Script
12 1 (1.02%) Perl
Qualifications
1 16 (16.33%) Security Cleared
2 14 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 11 (11.22%) Degree
4 3 (3.06%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.02%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.16%) Data Quality
1 8 (8.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 8 (8.16%) QA
2 6 (6.12%) SOC 2
3 3 (3.06%) ISO 9001
3 3 (3.06%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.02%) HL7
4 1 (1.02%) NCSC
4 1 (1.02%) SLA
4 1 (1.02%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 36 (36.73%) Docker
2 3 (3.06%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.06%) Firmware
2 3 (3.06%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.02%) VMware NSX
3 1 (1.02%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 47 (47.96%) Terraform
2 36 (36.73%) Kubernetes
3 14 (14.29%) Grafana
4 13 (13.27%) Ansible
5 11 (11.22%) Prometheus
6 5 (5.10%) Progress Chef
7 3 (3.06%) Argo
8 2 (2.04%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (1.02%) Consul
9 1 (1.02%) Kibana
9 1 (1.02%) Packer
9 1 (1.02%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (3.06%) Databricks
1 3 (3.06%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.04%) OpenAI
3 1 (1.02%) AppDynamics
3 1 (1.02%) Apple
3 1 (1.02%) Google
3 1 (1.02%) New Relic
3 1 (1.02%) Red Hat
3 1 (1.02%) TOWER Software
3 1 (1.02%) VMware