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 20 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 263 226 308
Rank change year-on-year -37 +82 -13
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 168 228 325
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.83% 1.47% 0.94%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.20% 3.85% 2.22%
Number of salaries quoted 135 197 261
10th Percentile - £52,000 £56,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.71% -6.00% +3.45%
75th Percentile £79,375 £115,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £97,500 - £115,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.33% +3.45% -

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 7,630 5,915 14,640
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.88% 38.22% 42.16%
Number of salaries quoted 5,367 4,306 12,168
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,549 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,750 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -8.95%

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 20 June 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 (3.57%) Apache
1 6 (3.57%) Apache Airflow
1 6 (3.57%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.79%) Apache Solr
3 1 (0.60%) CMS
3 1 (0.60%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (3.57%) Spreadsheet
2 3 (1.79%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 168 (100.00%) Serverless
2 167 (99.40%) AWS
3 119 (70.83%) Amazon S3
4 65 (38.69%) Amazon SQS
5 59 (35.12%) Amazon EC2
6 54 (32.14%) Amazon ECS
7 33 (19.64%) AWS CloudFormation
8 29 (17.26%) GitHub
9 27 (16.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 25 (14.88%) Amazon EventBridge
11 24 (14.29%) AWS Step Functions
12 19 (11.31%) SaaS
13 17 (10.12%) Amazon Cognito
14 16 (9.52%) GitHub Actions
15 14 (8.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 12 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
17 11 (6.55%) Azure
17 11 (6.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 10 (5.95%) Datadog
19 5 (2.98%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.38%) AMQP
2 3 (1.79%) Broadband
2 3 (1.79%) DNS
2 3 (1.79%) Firewall
2 3 (1.79%) Network Security
2 3 (1.79%) VPN
3 1 (0.60%) 4G
3 1 (0.60%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (29.76%) DynamoDB
2 38 (22.62%) PostgreSQL
3 36 (21.43%) Amazon RDS
4 26 (15.48%) MongoDB
5 18 (10.71%) NoSQL
6 16 (9.52%) Amazon Athena
7 11 (6.55%) Amazon Redshift
8 7 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
8 7 (4.17%) Relational Database
9 6 (3.57%) Metadata
9 6 (3.57%) SQL Server
10 5 (2.98%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (2.98%) MySQL
10 5 (2.98%) Redis
11 3 (1.79%) Amazon Aurora
11 3 (1.79%) Data Lake
11 3 (1.79%) Flink
11 3 (1.79%) MariaDB
11 3 (1.79%) Power BI
11 3 (1.79%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 26 (15.48%) Cypress.io
1 26 (15.48%) Jenkins
2 24 (14.29%) Git
3 9 (5.36%) GitLab
4 5 (2.98%) JIRA
5 3 (1.79%) Claude Code
5 3 (1.79%) Maven
5 3 (1.79%) SonarQube
5 3 (1.79%) TeamCity
6 2 (1.19%) ESLint
6 2 (1.19%) Postman
6 2 (1.19%) Selenium
7 1 (0.60%) Browser DevTools
7 1 (0.60%) git-flow
7 1 (0.60%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.60%) JUnit
7 1 (0.60%) Karma Test Runner
7 1 (0.60%) MLflow
7 1 (0.60%) webpack
7 1 (0.60%) Zephyr
General
1 32 (19.05%) Social Skills
2 12 (7.14%) Finance
3 11 (6.55%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (6.55%) Public Sector
4 8 (4.76%) Health Technology
5 5 (2.98%) Billing
5 5 (2.98%) Publishing
6 4 (2.38%) Tech for Good
7 3 (1.79%) Advertising
7 3 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (1.79%) Law
7 3 (1.79%) Military
8 2 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.19%) Marketing
9 1 (0.60%) Banking
9 1 (0.60%) Front Office
9 1 (0.60%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 87 (51.79%) Developer
2 46 (27.38%) Senior
3 36 (21.43%) Full-Stack Developer
4 24 (14.29%) Java Developer
5 22 (13.10%) React Developer
6 21 (12.50%) AWS Developer
6 21 (12.50%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 21 (12.50%) Lead
7 17 (10.12%) Python Developer
7 17 (10.12%) Senior Developer
7 17 (10.12%) Software Developer
8 14 (8.33%) AWS Engineer
9 13 (7.74%) Data Engineer
9 13 (7.74%) Lead Developer
9 13 (7.74%) Node.js Developer
10 12 (7.14%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
11 11 (6.55%) Software Engineer
12 10 (5.95%) Platform Engineer
13 7 (4.17%) Python Engineer
13 7 (4.17%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (52.98%) React
2 85 (50.60%) Node.js
3 27 (16.07%) Jest
4 26 (15.48%) Spring
5 25 (14.88%) Spring Boot
6 24 (14.29%) Ruby on Rails
7 20 (11.90%) Kafka
8 18 (10.71%) AngularJS
8 18 (10.71%) RESTful
9 10 (5.95%) HTML
9 10 (5.95%) REST
10 9 (5.36%) Swagger
11 7 (4.17%) Vue
12 6 (3.57%) AWS Amplify
12 6 (3.57%) AWS CDK
12 6 (3.57%) MapLibre
13 5 (2.98%) Next.js
13 5 (2.98%) OpenAPI
13 5 (2.98%) OpenTelemetry
13 5 (2.98%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 28 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 16 (9.52%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (7.74%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (2.38%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (1.79%) Data Centre
5 3 (1.79%) IoT
5 3 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.19%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.19%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.19%) NHS
6 2 (1.19%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.60%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.60%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.60%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.60%) Life Science
7 1 (0.60%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.60%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.60%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.79%) Linux
2 2 (1.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.60%) CentOS
3 1 (0.60%) Debian
3 1 (0.60%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (44.05%) Full-Stack Development
2 73 (43.45%) CI/CD
3 56 (33.33%) Microservices
4 54 (32.14%) Agile
5 53 (31.55%) DevOps
6 43 (25.60%) Mentoring
7 37 (22.02%) Containerisation
8 36 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
9 34 (20.24%) Software Engineering
10 30 (17.86%) Event-Driven
10 30 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
11 29 (17.26%) AI
12 25 (14.88%) Collaborative Culture
12 25 (14.88%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 24 (14.29%) Mob Programming
14 21 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
15 20 (11.90%) Continuous Delivery
15 20 (11.90%) Software Delivery
16 19 (11.31%) Data Modelling
16 19 (11.31%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 72 (42.86%) Python
2 62 (36.90%) JavaScript
3 54 (32.14%) TypeScript
4 46 (27.38%) SQL
5 30 (17.86%) Java
6 24 (14.29%) Ruby
7 13 (7.74%) Kotlin
8 10 (5.95%) Bash
9 5 (2.98%) PHP
10 4 (2.38%) Groovy
11 3 (1.79%) C#
11 3 (1.79%) Go
12 2 (1.19%) PowerShell
12 2 (1.19%) Scala
13 1 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.60%) Perl
13 1 (0.60%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (5.36%) Degree
1 9 (5.36%) SC Cleared
1 9 (5.36%) Security Cleared
2 6 (3.57%) AWS Certification
3 3 (1.79%) PhD
4 2 (1.19%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (1.19%) IIBA
4 2 (1.19%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (0.60%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.55%) QA
2 7 (4.17%) Data Quality
2 7 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.79%) ISO 9001
4 2 (1.19%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.60%) GDPR
5 1 (0.60%) HL7
5 1 (0.60%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.60%) SNOMED CT
5 1 (0.60%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 49 (29.17%) Docker
2 3 (1.79%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 42 (25.00%) Terraform
2 26 (15.48%) Kubernetes
3 12 (7.14%) Ansible
4 8 (4.76%) Grafana
5 4 (2.38%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.79%) Packer
7 2 (1.19%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.60%) Kibana
8 1 (0.60%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.60%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (2.98%) HubSpot
2 4 (2.38%) Databricks
2 4 (2.38%) OpenAI
3 2 (1.19%) Dynatrace
3 2 (1.19%) Red Hat
3 2 (1.19%) Splunk
4 1 (0.60%) AppDynamics
4 1 (0.60%) Apple
4 1 (0.60%) Google
4 1 (0.60%) Informatica
4 1 (0.60%) New Relic
4 1 (0.60%) Oracle
4 1 (0.60%) SaltStack