Job market reports · Skill · October 2026

ec2

330 live US technical postings name ec2 in October 2026. Here is which roles ask for it, what those roles pay, and where they are.

Which roles ask for it

Share of the 330 postings naming ec2 that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer42.7%
  2. 2Software Engineer37%
  3. 3Full-Stack Engineer8.2%
  4. 4Backend Engineer3.6%
  5. 5Data Engineer3%
  6. 6Security Engineer2.1%
  7. 7Data Scientist1.8%
  8. 8Machine Learning Engineer1.2%

What postings asking for it pay

Across every role, for the postings that both name this skill and disclose a salary. A skill does not cause a salary — senior roles ask for more of everything — so read this as association, not as a raise.

Disclosed pay where ec2 is named
n = 194
10th
$132k
25th
$145k
Median
$175k
75th
$200k
90th
$225k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1Remote15.5%
  2. 2Washington, DC10.3%
  3. 3Boston, MA7%
  4. 4New York, NY6.1%
  5. 5San Francisco, CA4.2%
  6. 6Silicon Valley, CA3.9%
  7. 7Seattle, WA3.6%
  8. 8Denver, CO3.3%

How we counted

967,730 live US postings read directly from 82,954 employers’ own careers pages in October 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.