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

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 231 198 284
Rank change year-on-year -33 +86 +21
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 175 269 351
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.93% 1.84% 1.08%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.45% 4.64% 2.51%
Number of salaries quoted 141 228 290
10th Percentile - £52,500 £55,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £60,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £73,750 £72,750
Median % change year-on-year -5.08% +1.37% +0.34%
75th Percentile £76,000 £115,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £138,750 £107,875
UK median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -9.68% +6.90% -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 7,134 5,792 14,004
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.95% 39.64% 43.03%
Number of salaries quoted 4,893 4,178 11,916
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,175 £35,750
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 £83,000 £79,600
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £97,987
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 22 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 6 (3.43%) Apache
1 6 (3.43%) Apache Airflow
1 6 (3.43%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.71%) Apache Solr
3 1 (0.57%) CMS
3 1 (0.57%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (3.43%) Spreadsheet
2 3 (1.71%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 175 (100.00%) Serverless
2 174 (99.43%) AWS
3 128 (73.14%) Amazon S3
4 71 (40.57%) Amazon SQS
5 60 (34.29%) Amazon EC2
6 52 (29.71%) Amazon ECS
7 37 (21.14%) AWS CloudFormation
8 29 (16.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 29 (16.57%) GitHub
9 26 (14.86%) Amazon EventBridge
10 22 (12.57%) AWS Step Functions
11 20 (11.43%) Amazon Cognito
11 20 (11.43%) SaaS
12 17 (9.71%) GitHub Actions
13 13 (7.43%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 12 (6.86%) Azure
15 11 (6.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 10 (5.71%) Amazon EKS
16 10 (5.71%) Datadog
17 6 (3.43%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.86%) AMQP
2 3 (1.71%) Broadband
2 3 (1.71%) DNS
2 3 (1.71%) Firewall
2 3 (1.71%) VPN
3 2 (1.14%) Network Security
4 1 (0.57%) 4G
4 1 (0.57%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (29.71%) DynamoDB
2 40 (22.86%) Amazon RDS
2 40 (22.86%) PostgreSQL
3 24 (13.71%) MongoDB
4 19 (10.86%) NoSQL
5 15 (8.57%) Amazon Athena
6 11 (6.29%) Amazon Redshift
7 7 (4.00%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (3.43%) Metadata
9 5 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (2.86%) MySQL
9 5 (2.86%) Redis
9 5 (2.86%) Relational Database
10 4 (2.29%) Data Lake
10 4 (2.29%) SQL Server
11 3 (1.71%) Amazon Aurora
11 3 (1.71%) Flink
11 3 (1.71%) Power BI
12 2 (1.14%) Big Data
12 2 (1.14%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 29 (16.57%) Cypress.io
2 26 (14.86%) Jenkins
3 25 (14.29%) Git
4 12 (6.86%) GitLab
5 6 (3.43%) Maven
5 6 (3.43%) SonarQube
6 4 (2.29%) JIRA
7 3 (1.71%) ESLint
8 2 (1.14%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.57%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.57%) Browser DevTools
9 1 (0.57%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.57%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.57%) git-flow
9 1 (0.57%) MLflow
9 1 (0.57%) Selenium
9 1 (0.57%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.57%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.57%) webpack
9 1 (0.57%) Zephyr
General
1 36 (20.57%) Social Skills
2 14 (8.00%) Finance
3 12 (6.86%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (6.86%) Health Technology
3 12 (6.86%) Public Sector
4 9 (5.14%) Publishing
5 8 (4.57%) Tech for Good
6 6 (3.43%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (2.29%) Billing
7 4 (2.29%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.71%) Law
8 3 (1.71%) Military
9 2 (1.14%) Advertising
9 2 (1.14%) Front Office
10 1 (0.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.57%) Marketing
10 1 (0.57%) Retail
10 1 (0.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 93 (53.14%) Developer
2 39 (22.29%) Senior
3 32 (18.29%) Full-Stack Developer
3 32 (18.29%) Lead
4 29 (16.57%) React Developer
5 25 (14.29%) AWS Developer
6 22 (12.57%) Java Developer
6 22 (12.57%) Python Developer
7 21 (12.00%) Lead Developer
8 19 (10.86%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 19 (10.86%) Software Developer
9 15 (8.57%) AWS Engineer
9 15 (8.57%) Node.js Developer
10 14 (8.00%) Data Engineer
11 13 (7.43%) Senior Developer
11 13 (7.43%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
12 10 (5.71%) Platform Engineer
13 8 (4.57%) Senior Python Developer
13 8 (4.57%) Software Engineer
14 7 (4.00%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (49.14%) Node.js
2 83 (47.43%) React
3 29 (16.57%) Jest
3 29 (16.57%) Spring
4 27 (15.43%) Spring Boot
5 26 (14.86%) RESTful
6 24 (13.71%) Ruby on Rails
7 18 (10.29%) Kafka
8 17 (9.71%) AngularJS
9 10 (5.71%) HTML
10 9 (5.14%) AWS CDK
10 9 (5.14%) REST
11 8 (4.57%) Swagger
12 6 (3.43%) .NET
12 6 (3.43%) AWS Amplify
12 6 (3.43%) MapLibre
12 6 (3.43%) Pandas
12 6 (3.43%) RabbitMQ
13 5 (2.86%) Gherkin
13 5 (2.86%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 26 (14.86%) Cloud Native
2 12 (6.86%) Greenfield Project
3 10 (5.71%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (2.86%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.29%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.71%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.71%) IoT
6 3 (1.71%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.14%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.14%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.14%) NHS
7 2 (1.14%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.57%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.57%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.57%) Hedge funds
8 1 (0.57%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.57%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.57%) Video on Demand
8 1 (0.57%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.29%) Linux
2 2 (1.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.57%) CentOS
3 1 (0.57%) Debian
3 1 (0.57%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (44.00%) CI/CD
2 70 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 59 (33.71%) Agile
4 55 (31.43%) DevOps
5 52 (29.71%) Microservices
6 47 (26.86%) Mentoring
7 41 (23.43%) Containerisation
8 34 (19.43%) Problem-Solving
9 33 (18.86%) Infrastructure as Code
10 31 (17.71%) Software Engineering
11 28 (16.00%) Event-Driven
12 27 (15.43%) Continuous Improvement
13 26 (14.86%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 25 (14.29%) Collaborative Culture
15 24 (13.71%) Mob Programming
16 23 (13.14%) AI
17 19 (10.86%) Continuous Delivery
18 18 (10.29%) Platform Engineering
18 18 (10.29%) Software Delivery
18 18 (10.29%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 78 (44.57%) Python
2 62 (35.43%) JavaScript
3 52 (29.71%) SQL
4 48 (27.43%) TypeScript
5 32 (18.29%) Java
6 24 (13.71%) Ruby
7 12 (6.86%) Bash
8 10 (5.71%) Kotlin
9 6 (3.43%) Groovy
10 5 (2.86%) PHP
11 4 (2.29%) C#
12 2 (1.14%) Go
12 2 (1.14%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.57%) Perl
13 1 (0.57%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (6.29%) Degree
2 9 (5.14%) SC Cleared
2 9 (5.14%) Security Cleared
3 7 (4.00%) AWS Certification
4 3 (1.71%) IIBA
4 3 (1.71%) PhD
5 2 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.57%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (0.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.57%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (8.00%) QA
2 8 (4.57%) Data Quality
3 7 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.71%) ISO 9001
5 2 (1.14%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.57%) GDPR
6 1 (0.57%) HL7
6 1 (0.57%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.57%) SNOMED CT
6 1 (0.57%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 58 (33.14%) Docker
2 3 (1.71%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 39 (22.29%) Terraform
2 31 (17.71%) Kubernetes
3 13 (7.43%) Ansible
4 9 (5.14%) Grafana
5 5 (2.86%) HP Fortify
5 5 (2.86%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.71%) Packer
7 2 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.57%) Kibana
8 1 (0.57%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.57%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (2.86%) Databricks
1 5 (2.86%) HubSpot
2 2 (1.14%) Okta
2 2 (1.14%) OpenAI
2 2 (1.14%) Red Hat
3 1 (0.57%) AppDynamics
3 1 (0.57%) Apple
3 1 (0.57%) Google
3 1 (0.57%) Informatica
3 1 (0.57%) Mercator
3 1 (0.57%) Microsoft
3 1 (0.57%) New Relic
3 1 (0.57%) Oracle
3 1 (0.57%) SaltStack