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

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 305 244 426
Rank change year-on-year -61 +182 -67
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EC2 87 164 149
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.48% 1.22% 0.46%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.27% 2.79% 1.06%
Number of salaries quoted 74 114 128
10th Percentile £51,250 £44,675 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £64,063 £55,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £98,750 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -37.72% +46.30% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £118,750 £81,250
90th Percentile £89,875 £147,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £90,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -30.56% +20.00% +7.14%

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 6,825 5,874 14,014
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.68% 43.63% 43.10%
Number of salaries quoted 4,625 4,628 12,024
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £35,631
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,188 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £108,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £61,182 £57,500
% change year-on-year +2.16% +6.40% -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 April 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 7 (8.05%) Apache
2 5 (5.75%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.30%) Jupyter
3 2 (2.30%) nginx
3 2 (2.30%) WordPress
4 1 (1.15%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (1.15%) Confluence
4 1 (1.15%) Drupal
4 1 (1.15%) IIS
4 1 (1.15%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 1 (1.15%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 87 (100.00%) AWS
2 73 (83.91%) Amazon S3
3 57 (65.52%) AWS Lambda
3 57 (65.52%) Serverless
4 30 (34.48%) Amazon ECS
5 27 (31.03%) Amazon SQS
5 27 (31.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 26 (29.89%) GitHub
7 25 (28.74%) GitHub Actions
8 20 (22.99%) Amazon EKS
9 17 (19.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 13 (14.94%) SaaS
11 12 (13.79%) AWS CloudFormation
12 11 (12.64%) CloudFront
13 8 (9.20%) Amazon ElastiCache
13 8 (9.20%) Azure
14 7 (8.05%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 6 (6.90%) AWS CodePipeline
15 6 (6.90%) Route 53
16 5 (5.75%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.05%) VPN
2 4 (4.60%) BGP
2 4 (4.60%) DNS
2 4 (4.60%) Firewall
2 4 (4.60%) TCP/IP
2 4 (4.60%) VLAN
3 3 (3.45%) AMQP
4 1 (1.15%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (49.43%) Amazon RDS
2 28 (32.18%) PostgreSQL
3 23 (26.44%) MongoDB
4 10 (11.49%) Amazon Aurora
5 8 (9.20%) DynamoDB
6 7 (8.05%) NoSQL
7 6 (6.90%) Amazon Redshift
8 5 (5.75%) SQL Server
9 3 (3.45%) Metadata
10 2 (2.30%) Amazon Athena
10 2 (2.30%) MySQL
11 1 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (1.15%) InterSystems Cache
11 1 (1.15%) Redis
11 1 (1.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 28 (32.18%) Cypress.io
2 7 (8.05%) GitLab
2 7 (8.05%) Jenkins
3 6 (6.90%) JIRA
4 5 (5.75%) Git
4 5 (5.75%) Storybook
5 1 (1.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (1.15%) Browser DevTools
5 1 (1.15%) CircleCI
5 1 (1.15%) Gatling
5 1 (1.15%) git-flow
5 1 (1.15%) JMeter
5 1 (1.15%) Maven
5 1 (1.15%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.15%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (1.15%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (1.15%) TeamCity
5 1 (1.15%) Vagrant
5 1 (1.15%) webpack
General
1 19 (21.84%) Social Skills
2 10 (11.49%) Public Sector
3 8 (9.20%) Finance
4 7 (8.05%) Law
5 6 (6.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (4.60%) Back Office
6 4 (4.60%) Banking
6 4 (4.60%) Financial Institution
6 4 (4.60%) Retail
7 3 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (3.45%) Billing
7 3 (3.45%) Military
8 2 (2.30%) Legal
9 1 (1.15%) Advertising
9 1 (1.15%) Automotive
9 1 (1.15%) Marketing
9 1 (1.15%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 37 (42.53%) Developer
2 24 (27.59%) Full-Stack Developer
3 22 (25.29%) AWS Engineer
4 20 (22.99%) Platform Engineer
5 13 (14.94%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 13 (14.94%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 10 (11.49%) Cloud Engineer
6 10 (11.49%) Senior
7 8 (9.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 8 (9.20%) Java Developer
8 7 (8.05%) DevOps Engineer
9 5 (5.75%) Lead
9 5 (5.75%) Linux Engineer
9 5 (5.75%) Python Engineer
10 4 (4.60%) AWS DevOps
10 4 (4.60%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (4.60%) Data Engineer
10 4 (4.60%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 4 (4.60%) Senior Data Engineer
10 4 (4.60%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (41.38%) React
2 28 (32.18%) Jest
3 26 (29.89%) Node.js
4 23 (26.44%) Ruby on Rails
5 10 (11.49%) Spring
6 9 (10.34%) Spring Boot
7 7 (8.05%) Loki
8 6 (6.90%) CSS
8 6 (6.90%) RESTful
9 5 (5.75%) Flutter
9 5 (5.75%) JSON
9 5 (5.75%) React Native
9 5 (5.75%) REST
9 5 (5.75%) Tailwind CSS
9 5 (5.75%) Zustand
10 4 (4.60%) Elastic Stack
11 3 (3.45%) RabbitMQ
11 3 (3.45%) SOAP
11 3 (3.45%) Spring Security
11 3 (3.45%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 20 (22.99%) Cloud Native
2 5 (5.75%) Mobile App
3 4 (4.60%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (3.45%) Blog
4 3 (3.45%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (3.45%) IoT
4 3 (3.45%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (3.45%) Security Posture
5 2 (2.30%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.15%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.15%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.15%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.15%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (16.09%) Linux
2 3 (3.45%) Windows
3 1 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.15%) VMS
3 1 (1.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (63.22%) CI/CD
2 39 (44.83%) DevOps
3 35 (40.23%) Infrastructure as Code
4 30 (34.48%) Microservices
5 27 (31.03%) Full-Stack Development
6 24 (27.59%) Platform Engineering
7 23 (26.44%) Agile
7 23 (26.44%) Mob Programming
8 22 (25.29%) Containerisation
9 20 (22.99%) Observability
10 15 (17.24%) Continuous Improvement
11 14 (16.09%) Cloud Security
11 14 (16.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 14 (16.09%) Mentoring
12 13 (14.94%) Infrastructure Automation
13 12 (13.79%) Deployment Automation
14 11 (12.64%) Disaster Recovery
14 11 (12.64%) Front End Development
14 11 (12.64%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 11 (12.64%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 45 (51.72%) Python
2 32 (36.78%) JavaScript
3 23 (26.44%) Ruby
4 20 (22.99%) Bash
5 18 (20.69%) Java
6 16 (18.39%) SQL
7 7 (8.05%) TypeScript
8 6 (6.90%) PHP
9 5 (5.75%) Dart
10 4 (4.60%) Go
11 3 (3.45%) PowerShell
12 2 (2.30%) Groovy
12 2 (2.30%) Scala
12 2 (2.30%) Shell Script
13 1 (1.15%) Perl
Qualifications
1 12 (13.79%) Degree
2 9 (10.34%) Security Cleared
3 7 (8.05%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.45%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.15%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 7 (8.05%) SOC 2
2 5 (5.75%) Data Quality
2 5 (5.75%) QA
3 4 (4.60%) PCI DSS
4 3 (3.45%) ISO 9001
5 1 (1.15%) HL7
5 1 (1.15%) NCSC
5 1 (1.15%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 31 (35.63%) Docker
2 3 (3.45%) Firmware
3 2 (2.30%) VMware NSX
3 2 (2.30%) vSphere
4 1 (1.15%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.15%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.15%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 37 (42.53%) Terraform
2 33 (37.93%) Kubernetes
3 14 (16.09%) Grafana
4 12 (13.79%) Ansible
5 11 (12.64%) Prometheus
6 3 (3.45%) Argo
7 2 (2.30%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.15%) Consul
8 1 (1.15%) Kibana
8 1 (1.15%) Packer
8 1 (1.15%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (3.45%) Databricks
2 2 (2.30%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.30%) VMware
3 1 (1.15%) AppDynamics
3 1 (1.15%) Apple
3 1 (1.15%) Google
3 1 (1.15%) Mercator
3 1 (1.15%) New Relic
3 1 (1.15%) Red Hat
3 1 (1.15%) TOWER Software