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 24 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 217 84 264
Rank change year-on-year -133 +180 +13
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 173 576 306
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.06% 3.84% 1.10%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.81% 8.21% 2.39%
Number of salaries quoted 146 255 283
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £60,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,958 £90,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.38% +28.57% -3.45%
75th Percentile £76,000 £115,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £138,750 £106,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £80,000 £71,500
% change year-on-year -12.50% +11.89% -4.67%

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 6,166 7,015 12,793
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.60% 46.73% 46.02%
Number of salaries quoted 4,215 4,648 11,199
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £35,284
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £64,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.25% +11.30% -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 24 February 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 8 (4.62%) Apache
1 8 (4.62%) Apache Spark
2 5 (2.89%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (2.31%) Tomcat
3 4 (2.31%) WebSphere
3 4 (2.31%) WebSphere Application Server
4 1 (0.58%) SAS
4 1 (0.58%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (3.47%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.58%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 173 (100.00%) AWS
1 173 (100.00%) Serverless
2 133 (76.88%) Amazon S3
3 60 (34.68%) Amazon SQS
4 51 (29.48%) AWS CloudFormation
5 46 (26.59%) Amazon EC2
6 42 (24.28%) Amazon ECS
7 33 (19.08%) GitHub
8 27 (15.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 27 (15.61%) Azure
9 23 (13.29%) AWS Step Functions
10 22 (12.72%) Amazon EKS
11 20 (11.56%) SaaS
12 19 (10.98%) GitHub Actions
13 15 (8.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 14 (8.09%) Amazon EventBridge
15 11 (6.36%) Amazon Cognito
16 10 (5.78%) GCP
17 8 (4.62%) Amazon ECR
18 7 (4.05%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.89%) AMQP
2 4 (2.31%) SSL
3 3 (1.73%) Broadband
3 3 (1.73%) Firewall
4 2 (1.16%) Network Security
5 1 (0.58%) DNS
5 1 (0.58%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (24.28%) DynamoDB
2 37 (21.39%) Amazon RDS
3 30 (17.34%) PostgreSQL
4 25 (14.45%) NoSQL
5 18 (10.40%) Data Warehouse
6 17 (9.83%) Amazon Redshift
7 14 (8.09%) Amazon Athena
7 14 (8.09%) MongoDB
8 12 (6.94%) Data Lake
9 11 (6.36%) SQL Server
10 6 (3.47%) MySQL
11 5 (2.89%) Apache Iceberg
12 4 (2.31%) DB2
12 4 (2.31%) Metadata
12 4 (2.31%) Relational Database
13 3 (1.73%) Amazon Aurora
14 1 (0.58%) Apache Hudi
14 1 (0.58%) Cloudera CDH
14 1 (0.58%) Delta Lake
14 1 (0.58%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 22 (12.72%) Git
2 18 (10.40%) Cypress.io
2 18 (10.40%) Jenkins
3 10 (5.78%) GitLab
4 5 (2.89%) git-flow
5 4 (2.31%) Maven
5 4 (2.31%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.73%) ESLint
7 2 (1.16%) JIRA
8 1 (0.58%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.58%) Browser DevTools
8 1 (0.58%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.58%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.58%) Deequ
8 1 (0.58%) Selenium
8 1 (0.58%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.58%) webpack
8 1 (0.58%) Zephyr
General
1 52 (30.06%) Social Skills
2 17 (9.83%) Finance
2 17 (9.83%) Tech for Good
3 15 (8.67%) Health Technology
3 15 (8.67%) Publishing
4 14 (8.09%) Influencing Skills
4 14 (8.09%) Organisational Skills
5 13 (7.51%) Public Sector
6 9 (5.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (3.47%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (2.31%) Banking
9 3 (1.73%) Billing
9 3 (1.73%) Military
10 2 (1.16%) Games
10 2 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.58%) Advertising
11 1 (0.58%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.58%) Front Office
11 1 (0.58%) Law
11 1 (0.58%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 81 (46.82%) Developer
2 35 (20.23%) React Developer
3 33 (19.08%) AWS Developer
4 32 (18.50%) Senior
5 29 (16.76%) Lead
6 27 (15.61%) Python Developer
7 24 (13.87%) Full-Stack Developer
8 23 (13.29%) Lead Developer
9 22 (12.72%) Software Engineer
10 19 (10.98%) Software Developer
11 18 (10.40%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 17 (9.83%) Lead Python Developer
13 16 (9.25%) AWS Engineer
13 16 (9.25%) Java Developer
13 16 (9.25%) Node.js Developer
14 13 (7.51%) Data Engineer
15 12 (6.94%) Cloud Engineer
16 10 (5.78%) Lead Software Developer
16 10 (5.78%) Senior Developer
17 8 (4.62%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (43.35%) React
2 67 (38.73%) Node.js
3 31 (17.92%) Spring
4 30 (17.34%) RESTful
5 28 (16.18%) Spring Boot
6 19 (10.98%) AngularJS
7 18 (10.40%) Jest
8 16 (9.25%) AWS CDK
9 15 (8.67%) HTML
9 15 (8.67%) Kafka
10 14 (8.09%) Ruby on Rails
11 12 (6.94%) .NET
12 11 (6.36%) RabbitMQ
13 9 (5.20%) CSS
14 7 (4.05%) REST
15 6 (3.47%) AWS Amplify
15 6 (3.47%) MapLibre
15 6 (3.47%) Material-UI
15 6 (3.47%) PySpark
16 5 (2.89%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 43 (24.86%) Cloud Native
2 9 (5.20%) Product Ownership
3 7 (4.05%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (2.89%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (2.31%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.31%) Security Posture
6 3 (1.73%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.16%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.16%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.58%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.58%) Hedge funds
8 1 (0.58%) NHS
8 1 (0.58%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.58%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.58%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.58%) Video on Demand
8 1 (0.58%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (5.78%) Linux
2 8 (4.62%) Unix
3 5 (2.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (2.31%) Windows
5 1 (0.58%) CentOS
5 1 (0.58%) Debian
5 1 (0.58%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (60.12%) CI/CD
2 65 (37.57%) DevOps
3 63 (36.42%) Agile
4 62 (35.84%) Full-Stack Development
5 52 (30.06%) Mentoring
6 47 (27.17%) Infrastructure as Code
7 44 (25.43%) Microservices
8 42 (24.28%) Software Engineering
9 37 (21.39%) Problem-Solving
10 35 (20.23%) Continuous Improvement
11 31 (17.92%) Containerisation
12 29 (16.76%) AI
13 26 (15.03%) Coaching
14 23 (13.29%) Continuous Integration
15 22 (12.72%) Event-Driven
16 21 (12.14%) Acceptance Criteria
16 21 (12.14%) Collaborative Culture
16 21 (12.14%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 21 (12.14%) Scrum
17 20 (11.56%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 76 (43.93%) Python
2 52 (30.06%) JavaScript
3 48 (27.75%) SQL
4 41 (23.70%) TypeScript
5 35 (20.23%) Java
6 14 (8.09%) Bash
6 14 (8.09%) Ruby
7 8 (4.62%) C#
8 7 (4.05%) Kotlin
9 4 (2.31%) Go
10 3 (1.73%) Groovy
10 3 (1.73%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.58%) PHP
Qualifications
1 23 (13.29%) AWS Certification
2 18 (10.40%) Security Cleared
3 15 (8.67%) SC Cleared
4 11 (6.36%) Degree
5 5 (2.89%) AWS Certified Developer
6 4 (2.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (2.31%) ITIL Certification
7 3 (1.73%) IIBA
8 2 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.16%) SnowPro
9 1 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.58%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (12.14%) QA
2 8 (4.62%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.31%) SLA
5 3 (1.73%) GDPR
6 2 (1.16%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.16%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.58%) NIST
7 1 (0.58%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 49 (28.32%) Docker
Systems Management
1 44 (25.43%) Terraform
2 40 (23.12%) Kubernetes
3 11 (6.36%) Grafana
4 10 (5.78%) Ansible
5 6 (3.47%) Prometheus
6 4 (2.31%) Argo
6 4 (2.31%) HP Fortify
7 3 (1.73%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.58%) Kibana
8 1 (0.58%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (2.89%) Red Hat
2 4 (2.31%) IBM
2 4 (2.31%) PagerDuty
3 2 (1.16%) Databricks
3 2 (1.16%) Okta
3 2 (1.16%) OpenAI
4 1 (0.58%) Apple
4 1 (0.58%) Dynatrace
4 1 (0.58%) Google
4 1 (0.58%) Informatica
4 1 (0.58%) Mercator
4 1 (0.58%) Microsoft
4 1 (0.58%) New Relic
4 1 (0.58%) Oracle
4 1 (0.58%) SaltStack