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

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 249 205 284
Rank change year-on-year -44 +79 +10
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 176 263 344
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.92% 1.80% 1.04%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.40% 4.58% 2.44%
Number of salaries quoted 142 225 283
10th Percentile - £52,500 £55,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £73,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% -0.68% +0.69%
75th Percentile £76,000 £115,000 £94,375
90th Percentile £97,500 £138,750 £110,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £76,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -8.50% +5.52% -

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 7,329 5,747 14,104
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.24% 39.41% 42.83%
Number of salaries quoted 5,031 4,134 12,000
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,750 £35,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,076 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,751 £79,600
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% -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 28 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 (3.41%) Apache
1 6 (3.41%) Apache Airflow
1 6 (3.41%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.70%) Apache Solr
3 1 (0.57%) CMS
3 1 (0.57%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (3.41%) Spreadsheet
2 3 (1.70%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 176 (100.00%) Serverless
2 175 (99.43%) AWS
3 127 (72.16%) Amazon S3
4 73 (41.48%) Amazon SQS
5 61 (34.66%) Amazon EC2
6 52 (29.55%) Amazon ECS
7 35 (19.89%) AWS CloudFormation
8 29 (16.48%) GitHub
9 28 (15.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 26 (14.77%) Amazon EventBridge
11 22 (12.50%) AWS Step Functions
12 21 (11.93%) SaaS
13 20 (11.36%) Amazon Cognito
14 17 (9.66%) GitHub Actions
15 13 (7.39%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 12 (6.82%) Azure
17 11 (6.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 10 (5.68%) Amazon EKS
18 10 (5.68%) Datadog
19 5 (2.84%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.84%) AMQP
2 3 (1.70%) Broadband
2 3 (1.70%) DNS
2 3 (1.70%) Firewall
2 3 (1.70%) VPN
3 2 (1.14%) Network Security
4 1 (0.57%) 4G
4 1 (0.57%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (28.41%) DynamoDB
2 41 (23.30%) Amazon RDS
3 39 (22.16%) PostgreSQL
4 26 (14.77%) MongoDB
5 21 (11.93%) NoSQL
6 15 (8.52%) Amazon Athena
7 11 (6.25%) Amazon Redshift
8 7 (3.98%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (3.41%) Metadata
10 5 (2.84%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (2.84%) Redis
10 5 (2.84%) Relational Database
10 5 (2.84%) SQL Server
11 4 (2.27%) Data Lake
11 4 (2.27%) MySQL
12 3 (1.70%) Amazon Aurora
12 3 (1.70%) Flink
12 3 (1.70%) Power BI
13 2 (1.14%) Big Data
13 2 (1.14%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 27 (15.34%) Cypress.io
1 27 (15.34%) Git
2 25 (14.20%) Jenkins
3 11 (6.25%) GitLab
4 5 (2.84%) JIRA
5 4 (2.27%) Maven
5 4 (2.27%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.70%) ESLint
7 2 (1.14%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.57%) Browser DevTools
8 1 (0.57%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.57%) git-flow
8 1 (0.57%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.57%) JUnit
8 1 (0.57%) Karma Test Runner
8 1 (0.57%) MLflow
8 1 (0.57%) Postman
8 1 (0.57%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.57%) webpack
8 1 (0.57%) Zephyr
General
1 37 (21.02%) Social Skills
2 14 (7.95%) Finance
3 12 (6.82%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (6.82%) Health Technology
3 12 (6.82%) Public Sector
4 9 (5.11%) Publishing
5 8 (4.55%) Tech for Good
6 6 (3.41%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (2.84%) Billing
8 4 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.70%) Law
9 3 (1.70%) Military
10 2 (1.14%) Advertising
10 2 (1.14%) Front Office
10 2 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.14%) Marketing
11 1 (0.57%) Banking
11 1 (0.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 93 (52.84%) Developer
2 41 (23.30%) Senior
3 32 (18.18%) Full-Stack Developer
4 28 (15.91%) Lead
4 28 (15.91%) React Developer
5 24 (13.64%) AWS Developer
5 24 (13.64%) Java Developer
6 21 (11.93%) Python Developer
7 20 (11.36%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 20 (11.36%) Lead Developer
8 19 (10.80%) Software Developer
9 16 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
10 14 (7.95%) Data Engineer
10 14 (7.95%) Node.js Developer
11 13 (7.39%) Senior Developer
11 13 (7.39%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
12 11 (6.25%) Software Engineer
13 10 (5.68%) Platform Engineer
14 8 (4.55%) Python Engineer
15 7 (3.98%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (48.30%) Node.js
1 85 (48.30%) React
2 30 (17.05%) Spring
3 28 (15.91%) Jest
4 27 (15.34%) RESTful
4 27 (15.34%) Spring Boot
5 24 (13.64%) Ruby on Rails
6 21 (11.93%) Kafka
7 17 (9.66%) AngularJS
8 11 (6.25%) REST
9 10 (5.68%) HTML
10 9 (5.11%) Swagger
11 8 (4.55%) AWS CDK
12 6 (3.41%) .NET
12 6 (3.41%) AWS Amplify
12 6 (3.41%) MapLibre
12 6 (3.41%) Pandas
12 6 (3.41%) RabbitMQ
13 5 (2.84%) JSON
13 5 (2.84%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 28 (15.91%) Cloud Native
2 12 (6.82%) Greenfield Project
3 11 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (2.27%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (1.70%) Data Structures
5 3 (1.70%) IoT
5 3 (1.70%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.14%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.14%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.14%) NHS
6 2 (1.14%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.57%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.57%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.57%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.57%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.57%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.57%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.57%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.27%) 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 79 (44.89%) CI/CD
2 70 (39.77%) Full-Stack Development
3 60 (34.09%) Agile
4 55 (31.25%) Microservices
5 54 (30.68%) DevOps
6 46 (26.14%) Mentoring
7 41 (23.30%) Containerisation
8 34 (19.32%) Infrastructure as Code
9 33 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
9 33 (18.75%) Software Engineering
10 30 (17.05%) Event-Driven
11 28 (15.91%) Continuous Improvement
11 28 (15.91%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 26 (14.77%) AI
13 25 (14.20%) Collaborative Culture
14 24 (13.64%) Mob Programming
15 19 (10.80%) Continuous Delivery
15 19 (10.80%) Data Modelling
15 19 (10.80%) Software Delivery
15 19 (10.80%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 78 (44.32%) Python
2 63 (35.80%) JavaScript
3 52 (29.55%) SQL
4 49 (27.84%) TypeScript
5 33 (18.75%) Java
6 24 (13.64%) Ruby
7 11 (6.25%) Bash
7 11 (6.25%) Kotlin
8 5 (2.84%) Groovy
8 5 (2.84%) PHP
9 4 (2.27%) C#
10 3 (1.70%) Go
11 2 (1.14%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.57%) Perl
12 1 (0.57%) Scala
12 1 (0.57%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (6.25%) Degree
2 9 (5.11%) SC Cleared
2 9 (5.11%) Security Cleared
3 6 (3.41%) AWS Certification
4 3 (1.70%) IIBA
4 3 (1.70%) PhD
5 2 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.57%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (7.95%) QA
2 8 (4.55%) Data Quality
3 6 (3.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.70%) ISO 9001
5 2 (1.14%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
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 57 (32.39%) Docker
2 3 (1.70%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 40 (22.73%) Terraform
2 31 (17.61%) Kubernetes
3 13 (7.39%) Ansible
4 9 (5.11%) Grafana
5 5 (2.84%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.70%) HP Fortify
6 3 (1.70%) 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 (2.84%) Databricks
1 5 (2.84%) 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%) Dynatrace
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
3 1 (0.57%) Splunk