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 30 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 308 240 299
Rank change year-on-year -68 +59 -2
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 148 194 247
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.67% 1.18% 0.93%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.73% 3.21% 2.25%
Number of salaries quoted 116 159 169
10th Percentile £50,394 £51,250 £57,350
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,500 £64,000 £78,750
Median % change year-on-year +8.59% -18.73% +8.62%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,875 £96,250
90th Percentile £102,500 £115,000 £112,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% - +7.14%

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 8,567 6,039 10,969
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.89% 36.69% 41.13%
Number of salaries quoted 6,169 4,456 8,816
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,549 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £107,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.00%

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 30 July 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 (4.05%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.38%) Apache
2 5 (3.38%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.03%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.68%) CMS
4 1 (0.68%) Confluence
4 1 (0.68%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (2.03%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 148 (100.00%) Serverless
2 147 (99.32%) AWS
3 100 (67.57%) Amazon S3
4 61 (41.22%) Amazon SQS
5 52 (35.14%) Amazon EC2
6 51 (34.46%) Amazon ECS
7 27 (18.24%) GitHub
8 26 (17.57%) Amazon EventBridge
8 26 (17.57%) AWS CloudFormation
9 24 (16.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 24 (16.22%) AWS Step Functions
10 21 (14.19%) SaaS
11 16 (10.81%) GitHub Actions
12 15 (10.14%) Amazon Cognito
13 10 (6.76%) Amazon EKS
13 10 (6.76%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 10 (6.76%) Azure
13 10 (6.76%) Datadog
14 9 (6.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 5 (3.38%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.03%) Broadband
1 3 (2.03%) DNS
1 3 (2.03%) Firewall
1 3 (2.03%) VPN
2 2 (1.35%) Network Security
3 1 (0.68%) 4G
3 1 (0.68%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (29.73%) DynamoDB
2 40 (27.03%) PostgreSQL
3 31 (20.95%) Amazon RDS
4 25 (16.89%) MongoDB
5 13 (8.78%) Amazon Athena
5 13 (8.78%) NoSQL
6 10 (6.76%) Amazon Redshift
7 9 (6.08%) Relational Database
8 7 (4.73%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (4.05%) Redis
10 5 (3.38%) Metadata
10 5 (3.38%) MySQL
11 4 (2.70%) SQL Server
12 3 (2.03%) Amazon Aurora
12 3 (2.03%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (2.03%) Flink
12 3 (2.03%) MariaDB
12 3 (2.03%) RDBMS
13 2 (1.35%) Data Lake
13 2 (1.35%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 24 (16.22%) Cypress.io
2 21 (14.19%) Git
3 20 (13.51%) Jenkins
4 8 (5.41%) GitLab
5 5 (3.38%) JIRA
6 4 (2.70%) TeamCity
7 3 (2.03%) Claude Code
7 3 (2.03%) Maven
7 3 (2.03%) Postman
7 3 (2.03%) Selenium
7 3 (2.03%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.68%) Browser DevTools
8 1 (0.68%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.68%) git-flow
8 1 (0.68%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.68%) JUnit
8 1 (0.68%) Karma Test Runner
8 1 (0.68%) MLflow
8 1 (0.68%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.68%) webpack
General
1 28 (18.92%) Social Skills
2 13 (8.78%) Finance
3 11 (7.43%) Public Sector
4 9 (6.08%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (5.41%) Health Technology
6 5 (3.38%) Publishing
7 4 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.70%) Tech for Good
8 3 (2.03%) Advertising
8 3 (2.03%) Billing
8 3 (2.03%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (2.03%) Law
9 2 (1.35%) Marketing
9 2 (1.35%) Military
10 1 (0.68%) Banking
10 1 (0.68%) Front Office
10 1 (0.68%) Legal
10 1 (0.68%) Local Government
10 1 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.68%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 72 (48.65%) Developer
2 52 (35.14%) Senior
3 38 (25.68%) Full-Stack Developer
4 21 (14.19%) Senior Developer
5 18 (12.16%) Java Developer
5 18 (12.16%) Lead
6 17 (11.49%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 13 (8.78%) AWS Developer
7 13 (8.78%) Data Engineer
8 12 (8.11%) AWS Engineer
8 12 (8.11%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
9 11 (7.43%) Python Developer
9 11 (7.43%) Senior Python Developer
9 11 (7.43%) Software Engineer
10 10 (6.76%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 9 (6.08%) React Developer
12 8 (5.41%) Lead Developer
12 8 (5.41%) Python Engineer
12 8 (5.41%) Senior Software Engineer
13 7 (4.73%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (51.35%) React
2 72 (48.65%) Node.js
3 26 (17.57%) Jest
4 23 (15.54%) Ruby on Rails
4 23 (15.54%) Spring
5 22 (14.86%) Spring Boot
6 19 (12.84%) Kafka
7 17 (11.49%) RESTful
8 13 (8.78%) AngularJS
9 11 (7.43%) AWS CDK
10 9 (6.08%) Next.js
10 9 (6.08%) REST
11 8 (5.41%) Swagger
12 7 (4.73%) CSS
12 7 (4.73%) OpenTelemetry
12 7 (4.73%) Vue
13 6 (4.05%) HTML
13 6 (4.05%) OpenAPI
13 6 (4.05%) Pandas
14 4 (2.70%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 27 (18.24%) Cloud Native
2 19 (12.84%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (10.14%) Greenfield Project
4 6 (4.05%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.03%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.03%) IoT
5 3 (2.03%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.03%) Life Science
5 3 (2.03%) NHS
5 3 (2.03%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.35%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.35%) PKI
6 2 (1.35%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.35%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.68%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.68%) Blog
7 1 (0.68%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.68%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.68%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.68%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.70%) Linux
2 1 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (46.62%) CI/CD
2 61 (41.22%) Full-Stack Development
3 57 (38.51%) Microservices
4 56 (37.84%) Agile
5 46 (31.08%) DevOps
5 46 (31.08%) Mentoring
6 39 (26.35%) Infrastructure as Code
7 35 (23.65%) AI
8 34 (22.97%) Containerisation
9 30 (20.27%) Software Engineering
10 29 (19.59%) Problem-Solving
11 28 (18.92%) Event-Driven
12 26 (17.57%) Collaborative Culture
13 23 (15.54%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 22 (14.86%) Continuous Delivery
14 22 (14.86%) Mob Programming
15 21 (14.19%) Software Delivery
16 20 (13.51%) Continuous Improvement
16 20 (13.51%) Observability
17 19 (12.84%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 64 (43.24%) Python
2 56 (37.84%) JavaScript
3 53 (35.81%) TypeScript
4 32 (21.62%) SQL
5 25 (16.89%) Java
6 24 (16.22%) Ruby
7 10 (6.76%) Kotlin
8 9 (6.08%) Bash
9 5 (3.38%) C#
9 5 (3.38%) PHP
10 4 (2.70%) Groovy
11 3 (2.03%) Go
11 3 (2.03%) Scala
12 1 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.68%) Perl
12 1 (0.68%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (6.76%) SC Cleared
1 10 (6.76%) Security Cleared
2 6 (4.05%) Degree
3 3 (2.03%) AWS Certification
3 3 (2.03%) PhD
4 2 (1.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (1.35%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.76%) QA
2 7 (4.73%) Data Quality
2 7 (4.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.03%) GDPR
3 3 (2.03%) ISO 9001
4 2 (1.35%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.68%) HL7
5 1 (0.68%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.68%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 41 (27.70%) Docker
2 3 (2.03%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 46 (31.08%) Terraform
2 22 (14.86%) Kubernetes
3 10 (6.76%) Ansible
4 9 (6.08%) Grafana
5 5 (3.38%) Prometheus
6 3 (2.03%) Packer
7 2 (1.35%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.68%) Kibana
8 1 (0.68%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 6 (4.05%) OpenAI
2 5 (3.38%) Databricks
2 5 (3.38%) HubSpot
3 3 (2.03%) Dynatrace
3 3 (2.03%) Splunk
4 1 (0.68%) AppDynamics
4 1 (0.68%) Apple
4 1 (0.68%) Google
4 1 (0.68%) New Relic
4 1 (0.68%) Red Hat