Hybrid/Remote AWS Lambda Job Trends

AWS Lambda
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring AWS Lambda skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 220 89 268
Rank change year-on-year -131 +179 +20
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 179 546 317
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.07% 3.76% 1.11%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.86% 7.98% 2.43%
Number of salaries quoted 149 256 293
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £51,343
25th Percentile £56,250 £60,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £90,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +28.57% -3.45%
75th Percentile £76,000 £115,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £138,750 £106,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £82,500 £71,500
% change year-on-year -15.15% +15.38% -4.67%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Work from Home

AWS Lambda 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 6,269 6,843 13,058
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.42% 47.12% 45.68%
Number of salaries quoted 4,279 4,683 11,390
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £77,715
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,264 £57,500
% change year-on-year -5.16% +10.02% -11.54%

AWS Lambda
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing AWS Lambda and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

AWS Lambda job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

AWS Lambda
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing AWS Lambda.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing AWS Lambda

AWS Lambda
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing AWS Lambda over the 6 months to 6 March 2026.

AWS Lambda salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

AWS Lambda
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 10 (5.59%) Apache
2 8 (4.47%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (4.47%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.68%) Tomcat
3 3 (1.68%) WebSphere
3 3 (1.68%) WebSphere Application Server
4 1 (0.56%) SAS
4 1 (0.56%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (3.35%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.56%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 179 (100.00%) AWS
1 179 (100.00%) Serverless
2 137 (76.54%) Amazon S3
3 60 (33.52%) Amazon SQS
4 50 (27.93%) Amazon EC2
4 50 (27.93%) AWS CloudFormation
5 43 (24.02%) Amazon ECS
6 35 (19.55%) GitHub
7 28 (15.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 24 (13.41%) Azure
9 22 (12.29%) AWS Step Functions
9 22 (12.29%) SaaS
10 20 (11.17%) GitHub Actions
11 19 (10.61%) Amazon EKS
12 13 (7.26%) Amazon EventBridge
13 12 (6.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 11 (6.15%) Amazon Cognito
14 11 (6.15%) GCP
15 8 (4.47%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 7 (3.91%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.79%) AMQP
2 3 (1.68%) Broadband
2 3 (1.68%) Firewall
2 3 (1.68%) SSL
3 2 (1.12%) Network Security
4 1 (0.56%) DNS
4 1 (0.56%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (24.02%) DynamoDB
2 40 (22.35%) Amazon RDS
3 34 (18.99%) PostgreSQL
4 27 (15.08%) NoSQL
5 18 (10.06%) Amazon Redshift
5 18 (10.06%) Data Warehouse
6 15 (8.38%) MongoDB
7 13 (7.26%) Amazon Athena
8 11 (6.15%) SQL Server
9 10 (5.59%) Data Lake
10 7 (3.91%) Metadata
11 6 (3.35%) MySQL
12 5 (2.79%) Amazon Aurora
12 5 (2.79%) Apache Iceberg
13 4 (2.23%) Relational Database
14 3 (1.68%) DB2
15 2 (1.12%) Power BI
15 2 (1.12%) Tableau
16 1 (0.56%) Apache Hudi
16 1 (0.56%) Cloudera CDH
Development Applications
1 23 (12.85%) Git
2 20 (11.17%) Jenkins
3 19 (10.61%) Cypress.io
4 11 (6.15%) GitLab
5 5 (2.79%) git-flow
6 4 (2.23%) Maven
6 4 (2.23%) SonarQube
7 3 (1.68%) ESLint
7 3 (1.68%) JIRA
8 1 (0.56%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.56%) Browser DevTools
8 1 (0.56%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.56%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.56%) Deequ
8 1 (0.56%) Selenium
8 1 (0.56%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.56%) webpack
8 1 (0.56%) Zephyr
General
1 55 (30.73%) Social Skills
2 17 (9.50%) Finance
2 17 (9.50%) Tech for Good
3 16 (8.94%) Health Technology
4 15 (8.38%) Public Sector
4 15 (8.38%) Publishing
5 14 (7.82%) Influencing Skills
5 14 (7.82%) Organisational Skills
6 9 (5.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (4.47%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (1.68%) Banking
8 3 (1.68%) Billing
8 3 (1.68%) Law
8 3 (1.68%) Military
9 2 (1.12%) Games
10 1 (0.56%) Advertising
10 1 (0.56%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.56%) Front Office
10 1 (0.56%) Marketing
10 1 (0.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 89 (49.72%) Developer
2 36 (20.11%) Senior
3 35 (19.55%) React Developer
4 34 (18.99%) AWS Developer
5 30 (16.76%) Lead
6 28 (15.64%) Full-Stack Developer
6 28 (15.64%) Python Developer
7 24 (13.41%) Lead Developer
8 21 (11.73%) Software Developer
9 20 (11.17%) Java Developer
10 19 (10.61%) AWS Engineer
11 18 (10.06%) Software Engineer
12 17 (9.50%) Lead Python Developer
13 16 (8.94%) Data Engineer
13 16 (8.94%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 16 (8.94%) Node.js Developer
14 14 (7.82%) Senior Developer
15 11 (6.15%) Lead Software Developer
16 10 (5.59%) Cloud Engineer
17 9 (5.03%) AWS Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (41.34%) React
2 69 (38.55%) Node.js
3 33 (18.44%) Spring
4 31 (17.32%) RESTful
5 30 (16.76%) Spring Boot
6 19 (10.61%) Jest
7 18 (10.06%) AngularJS
8 16 (8.94%) AWS CDK
9 15 (8.38%) HTML
9 15 (8.38%) Ruby on Rails
10 14 (7.82%) Kafka
11 12 (6.70%) .NET
12 10 (5.59%) RabbitMQ
13 9 (5.03%) CSS
14 7 (3.91%) PySpark
14 7 (3.91%) REST
15 6 (3.35%) AWS Amplify
15 6 (3.35%) MapLibre
15 6 (3.35%) Material-UI
16 5 (2.79%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 44 (24.58%) Cloud Native
2 9 (5.03%) Product Ownership
3 5 (2.79%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (2.79%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (2.23%) Linux Command Line
4 4 (2.23%) Security Posture
5 3 (1.68%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.12%) IoT
6 2 (1.12%) NHS
6 2 (1.12%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.56%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.56%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.56%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.56%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.56%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.56%) Video on Demand
7 1 (0.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.03%) Linux
2 7 (3.91%) Unix
3 4 (2.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.68%) Windows
5 1 (0.56%) CentOS
5 1 (0.56%) Debian
5 1 (0.56%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (60.34%) CI/CD
2 71 (39.66%) DevOps
3 68 (37.99%) Agile
4 64 (35.75%) Full-Stack Development
5 55 (30.73%) Mentoring
6 47 (26.26%) Infrastructure as Code
7 44 (24.58%) Microservices
8 42 (23.46%) Software Engineering
9 37 (20.67%) Problem-Solving
10 36 (20.11%) Continuous Improvement
11 35 (19.55%) Containerisation
12 27 (15.08%) AI
13 25 (13.97%) Continuous Integration
14 24 (13.41%) Coaching
14 24 (13.41%) Code Quality
15 22 (12.29%) Event-Driven
16 21 (11.73%) Collaborative Culture
16 21 (11.73%) Scrum
17 20 (11.17%) Acceptance Criteria
17 20 (11.17%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 80 (44.69%) Python
2 55 (30.73%) JavaScript
3 53 (29.61%) SQL
4 43 (24.02%) TypeScript
5 37 (20.67%) Java
6 15 (8.38%) Ruby
7 14 (7.82%) Bash
8 8 (4.47%) C#
8 8 (4.47%) Kotlin
9 5 (2.79%) Go
10 3 (1.68%) Groovy
10 3 (1.68%) PHP
10 3 (1.68%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 18 (10.06%) AWS Certification
1 18 (10.06%) Security Cleared
2 15 (8.38%) SC Cleared
3 12 (6.70%) Degree
4 3 (1.68%) AWS Certified Developer
4 3 (1.68%) IIBA
4 3 (1.68%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (1.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.12%) SnowPro
6 1 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.56%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (13.41%) QA
2 10 (5.59%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.68%) SLA
5 2 (1.12%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.56%) GDPR
6 1 (0.56%) HL7
6 1 (0.56%) NIST
6 1 (0.56%) SNOMED CT
6 1 (0.56%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 55 (30.73%) Docker
2 2 (1.12%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 44 (24.58%) Terraform
2 39 (21.79%) Kubernetes
3 11 (6.15%) Grafana
4 10 (5.59%) Ansible
5 6 (3.35%) Prometheus
6 4 (2.23%) Argo
6 4 (2.23%) HP Fortify
7 3 (1.68%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.56%) Kibana
8 1 (0.56%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (2.23%) Databricks
1 4 (2.23%) PagerDuty
1 4 (2.23%) Red Hat
2 3 (1.68%) IBM
3 2 (1.12%) Okta
4 1 (0.56%) Apple
4 1 (0.56%) Dynatrace
4 1 (0.56%) Google
4 1 (0.56%) Informatica
4 1 (0.56%) Mercator
4 1 (0.56%) Microsoft
4 1 (0.56%) New Relic
4 1 (0.56%) Oracle
4 1 (0.56%) SaltStack