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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 237 129 286
Rank change year-on-year -108 +157 -74
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 149 479 236
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.97% 2.44% 1.11%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.66% 5.49% 2.32%
Number of salaries quoted 119 154 205
10th Percentile £52,500 £56,975 £46,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £65,531 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £80,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.63% +23.08% -16.67%
75th Percentile £81,375 £105,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,500 £128,750 £87,000
UK median annual salary £71,000 £80,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -11.25% +14.29% -12.50%

All Cloud 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 5,600 8,730 10,174
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 36.62% 44.43% 47.78%
Number of salaries quoted 4,199 5,654 8,700
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £36,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - -
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £110,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +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 20 November 2025.

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 9 (6.04%) Apache
1 9 (6.04%) Apache Spark
2 8 (5.37%) Headless CMS
3 6 (4.03%) Tomcat
3 6 (4.03%) WebSphere
3 6 (4.03%) WebSphere Application Server
4 4 (2.68%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.67%) SAS
Business Applications
1 8 (5.37%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 149 (100.00%) AWS
1 149 (100.00%) Serverless
2 98 (65.77%) Amazon S3
3 44 (29.53%) AWS CloudFormation
4 42 (28.19%) Amazon EC2
5 34 (22.82%) Amazon ECS
6 30 (20.13%) Amazon SQS
7 21 (14.09%) Amazon EKS
8 20 (13.42%) Azure
8 20 (13.42%) GitHub
9 16 (10.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 15 (10.07%) AWS Step Functions
10 15 (10.07%) GitHub Actions
11 12 (8.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 9 (6.04%) Google Analytics
12 9 (6.04%) SaaS
12 9 (6.04%) Snowflake
13 8 (5.37%) Amazon EMR
13 8 (5.37%) Figma
13 8 (5.37%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.03%) Broadband
1 6 (4.03%) Firewall
1 6 (4.03%) SSL
2 4 (2.68%) DNS
2 4 (2.68%) VPN
3 3 (2.01%) Network Security
4 2 (1.34%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (35.57%) DynamoDB
2 39 (26.17%) Amazon RDS
3 28 (18.79%) Amazon Redshift
4 24 (16.11%) Data Warehouse
5 20 (13.42%) NoSQL
6 17 (11.41%) Elasticsearch
7 14 (9.40%) Data Lake
7 14 (9.40%) PostgreSQL
8 9 (6.04%) Amazon Athena
8 9 (6.04%) SQL Server
9 6 (4.03%) DB2
9 6 (4.03%) MySQL
10 5 (3.36%) Apache Iceberg
11 4 (2.68%) Metadata
12 2 (1.34%) Amazon Aurora
12 2 (1.34%) MongoDB
12 2 (1.34%) Relational Database
13 1 (0.67%) Apache Hudi
13 1 (0.67%) Delta Lake
13 1 (0.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 11 (7.38%) Cypress.io
2 10 (6.71%) Jenkins
3 6 (4.03%) Git
4 5 (3.36%) git-flow
4 5 (3.36%) GitLab
5 2 (1.34%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.67%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.67%) Deequ
6 1 (0.67%) Jasmine
6 1 (0.67%) JIRA
6 1 (0.67%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 49 (32.89%) Social Skills
2 28 (18.79%) Tech for Good
3 23 (15.44%) Health Technology
3 23 (15.44%) Publishing
4 22 (14.77%) Finance
5 16 (10.74%) Public Sector
6 12 (8.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (6.04%) Influencing Skills
7 9 (6.04%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (4.03%) Banking
9 5 (3.36%) Analytical Skills
10 3 (2.01%) Games
10 3 (2.01%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.34%) Law
11 2 (1.34%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.67%) Advertising
12 1 (0.67%) Back Office
12 1 (0.67%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.67%) Marketing
12 1 (0.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 69 (46.31%) Senior
2 57 (38.26%) Developer
3 39 (26.17%) Senior Developer
4 27 (18.12%) Python Developer
5 23 (15.44%) AWS Developer
6 21 (14.09%) Data Engineer
7 19 (12.75%) Software Engineer
8 18 (12.08%) Senior Python Developer
9 16 (10.74%) Full-Stack Developer
10 15 (10.07%) AWS Engineer
10 15 (10.07%) Lead
10 15 (10.07%) React Developer
11 14 (9.40%) Software Developer
12 13 (8.72%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
13 11 (7.38%) Architect
13 11 (7.38%) Cloud Engineer
13 11 (7.38%) Senior Data Engineer
14 9 (6.04%) Applications Engineer
14 9 (6.04%) Lead Developer
14 9 (6.04%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (37.58%) React
2 35 (23.49%) RESTful
3 27 (18.12%) Node.js
4 18 (12.08%) Spring
5 17 (11.41%) AWS CDK
5 17 (11.41%) Spring Boot
6 15 (10.07%) GraphQL
7 14 (9.40%) CSS
7 14 (9.40%) HTML
7 14 (9.40%) Swagger
8 10 (6.71%) .NET
8 10 (6.71%) Jest
8 10 (6.71%) Kafka
9 9 (6.04%) AngularJS
9 9 (6.04%) Express.js
9 9 (6.04%) Next.js
10 8 (5.37%) Playwright
10 8 (5.37%) Tailwind CSS
10 8 (5.37%) Vitest
11 7 (4.70%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 36 (24.16%) Cloud Native
2 10 (6.71%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (6.71%) Product Ownership
3 6 (4.03%) Linux Command Line
4 4 (2.68%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (2.68%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.01%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (1.34%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.34%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.34%) IVR
6 2 (1.34%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.34%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.67%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.67%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.67%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.67%) Online Games
7 1 (0.67%) Over-the-Top Content
7 1 (0.67%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.67%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.67%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 15 (10.07%) Linux
2 9 (6.04%) Unix
3 8 (5.37%) Windows
4 6 (4.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (53.69%) CI/CD
2 76 (51.01%) Agile
3 51 (34.23%) Mentoring
4 50 (33.56%) Infrastructure as Code
5 48 (32.21%) DevOps
6 39 (26.17%) Software Engineering
7 37 (24.83%) Pair Programming
7 37 (24.83%) Problem-Solving
8 31 (20.81%) Scrum
9 30 (20.13%) Microservices
10 29 (19.46%) Full-Stack Development
10 29 (19.46%) TDD
11 25 (16.78%) Analytics
12 24 (16.11%) Continuous Improvement
13 23 (15.44%) Operational Stability
14 22 (14.77%) Data Modelling
15 21 (14.09%) Coaching
15 21 (14.09%) Data Pipeline
15 21 (14.09%) Data Science
16 20 (13.42%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 87 (58.39%) Python
2 54 (36.24%) TypeScript
3 36 (24.16%) SQL
4 29 (19.46%) JavaScript
5 21 (14.09%) Java
6 10 (6.71%) C#
7 9 (6.04%) Bash
8 4 (2.68%) Go
9 3 (2.01%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.34%) Ruby
10 2 (1.34%) Scala
11 1 (0.67%) PHP
Qualifications
1 35 (23.49%) AWS Certification
2 22 (14.77%) Security Cleared
3 19 (12.75%) SC Cleared
4 11 (7.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 10 (6.71%) Degree
6 8 (5.37%) SnowPro
7 6 (4.03%) ITIL Certification
8 5 (3.36%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (1.34%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (1.34%) CISA
9 2 (1.34%) CISM
9 2 (1.34%) CISSP
9 2 (1.34%) CRISC
10 1 (0.67%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (0.67%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (22.15%) QA
2 9 (6.04%) Accessibility
3 7 (4.70%) Data Quality
4 6 (4.03%) SLA
5 4 (2.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (2.01%) GDPR
6 3 (2.01%) PCI DSS
7 2 (1.34%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.67%) NIST
8 1 (0.67%) WCAG
System Software
1 21 (14.09%) Docker
2 1 (0.67%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 47 (31.54%) Terraform
2 34 (22.82%) Kubernetes
3 11 (7.38%) Grafana
4 8 (5.37%) Prometheus
5 6 (4.03%) Ansible
5 6 (4.03%) Argo
6 1 (0.67%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (5.37%) Apple
2 6 (4.03%) IBM
2 6 (4.03%) Red Hat
3 5 (3.36%) PagerDuty
4 3 (2.01%) Databricks
5 2 (1.34%) Avaya
5 2 (1.34%) Genesys
5 2 (1.34%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.67%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.67%) Facebook
6 1 (0.67%) Google