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

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 234 173 289
Rank change year-on-year -61 +116 +6
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 178 296 348
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.97% 2.06% 1.07%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.56% 4.76% 2.49%
Number of salaries quoted 143 256 297
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
25th Percentile £53,027 £60,000 £59,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £79,000 £71,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.39% +10.49% -1.38%
75th Percentile £76,000 £115,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £92,750 £138,750 £107,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £80,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -12.50% +10.34% -3.33%

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 6,958 6,215 13,974
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.94% 43.25% 42.98%
Number of salaries quoted 4,758 4,583 11,959
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £35,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £109,750 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -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 9 May 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 7 (3.93%) Apache
1 7 (3.93%) Apache Airflow
1 7 (3.93%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.69%) Apache Solr
3 1 (0.56%) CMS
3 1 (0.56%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (3.37%) Spreadsheet
2 3 (1.69%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 178 (100.00%) Serverless
2 177 (99.44%) AWS
3 133 (74.72%) Amazon S3
4 73 (41.01%) Amazon SQS
5 60 (33.71%) Amazon EC2
6 49 (27.53%) Amazon ECS
7 38 (21.35%) AWS CloudFormation
8 32 (17.98%) GitHub
9 31 (17.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 23 (12.92%) Amazon EventBridge
11 21 (11.80%) SaaS
12 20 (11.24%) AWS Step Functions
12 20 (11.24%) GitHub Actions
13 19 (10.67%) Amazon Cognito
14 14 (7.87%) Azure
15 12 (6.74%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 12 (6.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 10 (5.62%) Amazon EKS
17 9 (5.06%) Datadog
18 6 (3.37%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.81%) AMQP
2 4 (2.25%) Firewall
3 3 (1.69%) Broadband
3 3 (1.69%) DNS
3 3 (1.69%) VPN
4 2 (1.12%) Network Security
5 1 (0.56%) 4G
5 1 (0.56%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (28.65%) DynamoDB
2 41 (23.03%) PostgreSQL
3 39 (21.91%) Amazon RDS
4 24 (13.48%) MongoDB
5 22 (12.36%) NoSQL
6 15 (8.43%) Amazon Athena
7 12 (6.74%) Amazon Redshift
8 7 (3.93%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (3.93%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (3.37%) Metadata
10 5 (2.81%) Data Lake
10 5 (2.81%) Redis
10 5 (2.81%) SQL Server
11 4 (2.25%) MySQL
11 4 (2.25%) Relational Database
12 3 (1.69%) Amazon Aurora
12 3 (1.69%) Flink
12 3 (1.69%) Power BI
13 2 (1.12%) Apache Iceberg
13 2 (1.12%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 29 (16.29%) Cypress.io
2 27 (15.17%) Git
3 26 (14.61%) Jenkins
4 12 (6.74%) GitLab
5 6 (3.37%) Maven
5 6 (3.37%) SonarQube
6 4 (2.25%) JIRA
7 3 (1.69%) ESLint
8 2 (1.12%) git-flow
9 1 (0.56%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.56%) Browser DevTools
9 1 (0.56%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.56%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.56%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.56%) MLflow
9 1 (0.56%) Selenium
9 1 (0.56%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.56%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.56%) webpack
9 1 (0.56%) Zephyr
General
1 42 (23.60%) Social Skills
2 16 (8.99%) Health Technology
3 14 (7.87%) Finance
4 13 (7.30%) Publishing
4 13 (7.30%) Tech for Good
5 12 (6.74%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (6.18%) Public Sector
7 9 (5.06%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (4.49%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (2.81%) Billing
10 3 (1.69%) Law
10 3 (1.69%) Military
11 2 (1.12%) Advertising
11 2 (1.12%) Front Office
12 1 (0.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.56%) Marketing
12 1 (0.56%) Retail
12 1 (0.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 98 (55.06%) Developer
2 41 (23.03%) Senior
3 34 (19.10%) Lead
3 34 (19.10%) React Developer
4 33 (18.54%) Full-Stack Developer
5 31 (17.42%) AWS Developer
6 27 (15.17%) Python Developer
7 24 (13.48%) Lead Developer
8 22 (12.36%) Java Developer
9 21 (11.80%) Software Developer
10 18 (10.11%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 16 (8.99%) Data Engineer
11 16 (8.99%) Node.js Developer
12 15 (8.43%) Senior Developer
13 14 (7.87%) AWS Engineer
14 12 (6.74%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
15 11 (6.18%) Lead Python Developer
15 11 (6.18%) Platform Engineer
16 9 (5.06%) Senior Python Developer
17 8 (4.49%) Lead Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (46.63%) Node.js
1 83 (46.63%) React
2 30 (16.85%) RESTful
3 29 (16.29%) Jest
3 29 (16.29%) Spring
4 27 (15.17%) Spring Boot
5 24 (13.48%) Ruby on Rails
6 18 (10.11%) Kafka
7 16 (8.99%) AngularJS
8 12 (6.74%) HTML
9 10 (5.62%) AWS CDK
10 8 (4.49%) REST
10 8 (4.49%) Swagger
11 7 (3.93%) .NET
11 7 (3.93%) RabbitMQ
12 6 (3.37%) AWS Amplify
12 6 (3.37%) MapLibre
12 6 (3.37%) Pandas
13 5 (2.81%) CSS
13 5 (2.81%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 27 (15.17%) Cloud Native
2 11 (6.18%) Greenfield Project
3 6 (3.37%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (2.81%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.25%) Security Posture
5 4 (2.25%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.69%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.69%) IoT
7 2 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.12%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.12%) NHS
8 1 (0.56%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.56%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.56%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.56%) Hedge funds
8 1 (0.56%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.56%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.56%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.56%) Video on Demand
8 1 (0.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.81%) Linux
2 2 (1.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.56%) CentOS
3 1 (0.56%) Debian
3 1 (0.56%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (47.19%) CI/CD
2 70 (39.33%) Full-Stack Development
3 64 (35.96%) Agile
4 58 (32.58%) DevOps
5 50 (28.09%) Microservices
6 49 (27.53%) Mentoring
7 41 (23.03%) Containerisation
8 37 (20.79%) Problem-Solving
9 35 (19.66%) Infrastructure as Code
10 31 (17.42%) Continuous Improvement
11 29 (16.29%) Software Engineering
12 26 (14.61%) Event-Driven
13 25 (14.04%) Collaborative Culture
14 24 (13.48%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 24 (13.48%) Mob Programming
15 22 (12.36%) TDD
16 21 (11.80%) AI
17 20 (11.24%) Data Modelling
18 19 (10.67%) Continuous Integration
18 19 (10.67%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 84 (47.19%) Python
2 60 (33.71%) JavaScript
3 54 (30.34%) SQL
4 46 (25.84%) TypeScript
5 32 (17.98%) Java
6 24 (13.48%) Ruby
7 14 (7.87%) Bash
8 9 (5.06%) Kotlin
9 6 (3.37%) Groovy
10 4 (2.25%) C#
10 4 (2.25%) PHP
11 3 (1.69%) Go
11 3 (1.69%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.56%) Perl
12 1 (0.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (6.18%) Degree
2 10 (5.62%) Security Cleared
3 9 (5.06%) SC Cleared
4 8 (4.49%) AWS Certification
5 3 (1.69%) IIBA
5 3 (1.69%) PhD
6 2 (1.12%) AWS Certified Developer
6 2 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.56%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (10.67%) QA
2 9 (5.06%) Data Quality
3 6 (3.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.69%) ISO 9001
5 2 (1.12%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.56%) GDPR
6 1 (0.56%) HL7
6 1 (0.56%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.56%) SNOMED CT
6 1 (0.56%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 59 (33.15%) Docker
2 3 (1.69%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 40 (22.47%) Terraform
2 32 (17.98%) Kubernetes
3 14 (7.87%) Ansible
4 10 (5.62%) Grafana
5 5 (2.81%) HP Fortify
5 5 (2.81%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.69%) Packer
6 3 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.56%) Kibana
7 1 (0.56%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.56%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (2.81%) Databricks
2 4 (2.25%) HubSpot
3 2 (1.12%) Okta
3 2 (1.12%) Red Hat
4 1 (0.56%) AppDynamics
4 1 (0.56%) Apple
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%) OpenAI
4 1 (0.56%) Oracle
4 1 (0.56%) SaltStack