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 1 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 221 119 260
Rank change year-on-year -102 +141 -38
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 153 511 241
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.01% 2.65% 1.16%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.80% 5.90% 2.43%
Number of salaries quoted 121 181 211
10th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £67,125 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £85,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.59% +30.77% -16.13%
75th Percentile £81,250 £115,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £128,750 £85,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +14.29% -12.50%

All Cloud 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 5,472 8,666 9,903
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 36.21% 44.91% 47.56%
Number of salaries quoted 4,049 5,665 8,502
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £36,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.38% - -
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £110,000 £98,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -5.51% +1.60% -2.14%

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 1 December 2025.

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 9 (5.88%) Apache
1 9 (5.88%) Apache Spark
2 8 (5.23%) Headless CMS
3 6 (3.92%) Tomcat
3 6 (3.92%) WebSphere
3 6 (3.92%) WebSphere Application Server
4 4 (2.61%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.65%) SAS
Business Applications
1 8 (5.23%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 153 (100.00%) AWS
1 153 (100.00%) Serverless
2 107 (69.93%) Amazon S3
3 46 (30.07%) AWS CloudFormation
4 42 (27.45%) Amazon EC2
5 37 (24.18%) Amazon ECS
5 37 (24.18%) Amazon SQS
6 23 (15.03%) Azure
7 22 (14.38%) Amazon EKS
7 22 (14.38%) GitHub
8 18 (11.76%) AWS Step Functions
9 17 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 16 (10.46%) GitHub Actions
11 15 (9.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 10 (6.54%) SaaS
13 9 (5.88%) Google Analytics
13 9 (5.88%) Snowflake
14 8 (5.23%) Amazon ECR
14 8 (5.23%) Amazon EventBridge
14 8 (5.23%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.92%) Broadband
1 6 (3.92%) SSL
2 5 (3.27%) Firewall
3 3 (1.96%) Network Security
4 2 (1.31%) DNS
4 2 (1.31%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.31%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (32.68%) DynamoDB
2 39 (25.49%) Amazon RDS
3 28 (18.30%) Amazon Redshift
4 24 (15.69%) Data Warehouse
5 23 (15.03%) NoSQL
6 17 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
7 15 (9.80%) Elasticsearch
8 14 (9.15%) Data Lake
9 10 (6.54%) SQL Server
10 9 (5.88%) Amazon Athena
11 7 (4.58%) MySQL
12 6 (3.92%) DB2
13 5 (3.27%) Apache Iceberg
14 4 (2.61%) Metadata
15 3 (1.96%) MongoDB
15 3 (1.96%) Relational Database
16 2 (1.31%) Amazon Aurora
17 1 (0.65%) Apache Hudi
17 1 (0.65%) Delta Lake
17 1 (0.65%) Redis
Development Applications
1 14 (9.15%) Cypress.io
2 13 (8.50%) Jenkins
3 8 (5.23%) Git
3 8 (5.23%) GitLab
4 5 (3.27%) git-flow
5 2 (1.31%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.31%) ER Studio
5 2 (1.31%) Maven
5 2 (1.31%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.65%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.65%) Deequ
6 1 (0.65%) Jasmine
6 1 (0.65%) JIRA
6 1 (0.65%) Karma Test Runner
6 1 (0.65%) Selenium
General
1 51 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 30 (19.61%) Tech for Good
3 25 (16.34%) Health Technology
3 25 (16.34%) Publishing
4 21 (13.73%) Finance
5 13 (8.50%) Influencing Skills
5 13 (8.50%) Organisational Skills
6 12 (7.84%) Public Sector
7 11 (7.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (3.92%) Banking
9 5 (3.27%) Analytical Skills
10 3 (1.96%) Games
10 3 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.31%) Law
11 2 (1.31%) Retail
11 2 (1.31%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.65%) Advertising
12 1 (0.65%) Back Office
12 1 (0.65%) Billing
12 1 (0.65%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 62 (40.52%) Developer
1 62 (40.52%) Senior
2 35 (22.88%) Senior Developer
3 29 (18.95%) AWS Developer
4 28 (18.30%) Python Developer
5 22 (14.38%) Lead
6 21 (13.73%) Data Engineer
7 20 (13.07%) React Developer
8 17 (11.11%) Full-Stack Developer
8 17 (11.11%) Software Engineer
9 16 (10.46%) Software Developer
10 15 (9.80%) Senior Python Developer
11 14 (9.15%) Lead Developer
12 13 (8.50%) AWS Engineer
12 13 (8.50%) Lead Python Developer
12 13 (8.50%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
13 11 (7.19%) Senior Data Engineer
14 10 (6.54%) Architect
14 10 (6.54%) Cloud Engineer
14 10 (6.54%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (35.95%) React
2 37 (24.18%) RESTful
3 30 (19.61%) Node.js
4 20 (13.07%) Spring
5 19 (12.42%) Spring Boot
6 18 (11.76%) AWS CDK
7 15 (9.80%) GraphQL
7 15 (9.80%) HTML
8 14 (9.15%) CSS
9 13 (8.50%) Jest
10 12 (7.84%) Swagger
11 11 (7.19%) .NET
11 11 (7.19%) AngularJS
12 9 (5.88%) Express.js
12 9 (5.88%) Kafka
12 9 (5.88%) Next.js
13 8 (5.23%) Playwright
13 8 (5.23%) Tailwind CSS
13 8 (5.23%) Vitest
14 7 (4.58%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 39 (25.49%) Cloud Native
2 11 (7.19%) Product Ownership
3 10 (6.54%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (3.92%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (2.61%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.61%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.96%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (1.31%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.31%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.31%) IVR
7 2 (1.31%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.31%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.65%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.65%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.65%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.65%) Online Games
8 1 (0.65%) Over-the-Top Content
8 1 (0.65%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.65%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.65%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 17 (11.11%) Linux
2 10 (6.54%) Unix
3 8 (5.23%) Windows
4 6 (3.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (56.21%) CI/CD
2 79 (51.63%) Agile
3 52 (33.99%) Mentoring
4 49 (32.03%) DevOps
5 48 (31.37%) Infrastructure as Code
6 39 (25.49%) Pair Programming
7 38 (24.84%) Problem-Solving
8 34 (22.22%) Scrum
8 34 (22.22%) Software Engineering
9 32 (20.92%) Full-Stack Development
10 30 (19.61%) TDD
11 29 (18.95%) Continuous Improvement
11 29 (18.95%) Microservices
12 25 (16.34%) Analytics
12 25 (16.34%) Coaching
12 25 (16.34%) Operational Stability
13 22 (14.38%) Containerisation
13 22 (14.38%) Continuous Integration
13 22 (14.38%) Data Modelling
14 21 (13.73%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 87 (56.86%) Python
2 53 (34.64%) TypeScript
3 37 (24.18%) SQL
4 35 (22.88%) JavaScript
5 23 (15.03%) Java
6 10 (6.54%) Bash
6 10 (6.54%) C#
7 5 (3.27%) Go
8 3 (1.96%) Ruby
9 2 (1.31%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.31%) Scala
10 1 (0.65%) Groovy
10 1 (0.65%) PHP
Qualifications
1 36 (23.53%) AWS Certification
2 19 (12.42%) Security Cleared
3 15 (9.80%) SC Cleared
4 11 (7.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 10 (6.54%) Degree
6 8 (5.23%) SnowPro
7 7 (4.58%) AWS Certified Developer
8 6 (3.92%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (1.31%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (1.31%) CISA
9 2 (1.31%) CISM
9 2 (1.31%) CISSP
9 2 (1.31%) CRISC
10 1 (0.65%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.65%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (21.57%) QA
2 9 (5.88%) Accessibility
3 7 (4.58%) Data Quality
4 6 (3.92%) SLA
5 5 (3.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (2.61%) GDPR
7 3 (1.96%) PCI DSS
8 2 (1.31%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.65%) NIST
9 1 (0.65%) WCAG
System Software
1 29 (18.95%) Docker
2 1 (0.65%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 46 (30.07%) Terraform
2 36 (23.53%) Kubernetes
3 13 (8.50%) Grafana
4 9 (5.88%) Prometheus
5 6 (3.92%) Ansible
6 5 (3.27%) Argo
7 2 (1.31%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.65%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (5.23%) Apple
2 6 (3.92%) IBM
2 6 (3.92%) Red Hat
3 4 (2.61%) PagerDuty
4 2 (1.31%) Avaya
4 2 (1.31%) Databricks
4 2 (1.31%) Genesys
4 2 (1.31%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.65%) Dynatrace
5 1 (0.65%) Facebook
5 1 (0.65%) Google
5 1 (0.65%) Mercator
5 1 (0.65%) Microsoft