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

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 226 192 286
Rank change year-on-year -34 +94 +6
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 176 284 346
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.95% 1.94% 1.07%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.51% 4.65% 2.48%
Number of salaries quoted 142 245 295
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
25th Percentile £52,764 £57,500 £59,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £76,000 £71,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% +6.29% -1.38%
75th Percentile £76,000 £115,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £93,750 £138,750 £107,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -9.68% +6.90% -3.33%

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 7,021 6,101 13,928
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.88% 41.70% 42.95%
Number of salaries quoted 4,797 4,441 11,906
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £35,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,717 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.95% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £79,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £97,500
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 15 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 7 (3.98%) Apache
1 7 (3.98%) Apache Spark
2 6 (3.41%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.70%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.57%) CMS
4 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
3 129 (73.30%) Amazon S3
4 71 (40.34%) Amazon SQS
5 60 (34.09%) Amazon EC2
6 50 (28.41%) Amazon ECS
7 37 (21.02%) AWS CloudFormation
8 31 (17.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 31 (17.61%) GitHub
9 24 (13.64%) Amazon EventBridge
10 21 (11.93%) SaaS
11 20 (11.36%) Amazon Cognito
11 20 (11.36%) AWS Step Functions
11 20 (11.36%) GitHub Actions
12 14 (7.95%) Azure
13 12 (6.82%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 12 (6.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 11 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
15 9 (5.11%) Datadog
16 6 (3.41%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.84%) AMQP
2 4 (2.27%) Firewall
3 3 (1.70%) Broadband
3 3 (1.70%) DNS
3 3 (1.70%) VPN
4 2 (1.14%) Network Security
5 1 (0.57%) 4G
5 1 (0.57%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (28.98%) DynamoDB
2 41 (23.30%) PostgreSQL
3 38 (21.59%) Amazon RDS
4 24 (13.64%) MongoDB
5 19 (10.80%) NoSQL
6 14 (7.95%) Amazon Athena
7 11 (6.25%) Amazon Redshift
8 7 (3.98%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (3.41%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (3.41%) Metadata
10 5 (2.84%) Data Lake
10 5 (2.84%) Redis
10 5 (2.84%) SQL Server
11 4 (2.27%) Relational Database
12 3 (1.70%) Amazon Aurora
12 3 (1.70%) Flink
12 3 (1.70%) MySQL
12 3 (1.70%) Power BI
13 2 (1.14%) Big Data
13 2 (1.14%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 29 (16.48%) Cypress.io
2 26 (14.77%) Git
2 26 (14.77%) Jenkins
3 12 (6.82%) GitLab
4 6 (3.41%) Maven
4 6 (3.41%) SonarQube
5 4 (2.27%) JIRA
6 3 (1.70%) ESLint
7 1 (0.57%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.57%) Browser DevTools
7 1 (0.57%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.57%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.57%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.57%) git-flow
7 1 (0.57%) MLflow
7 1 (0.57%) Selenium
7 1 (0.57%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.57%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.57%) webpack
7 1 (0.57%) Zephyr
General
1 40 (22.73%) Social Skills
2 15 (8.52%) Finance
3 14 (7.95%) Health Technology
4 12 (6.82%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (6.25%) Public Sector
5 11 (6.25%) Publishing
5 11 (6.25%) Tech for Good
6 8 (4.55%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (3.41%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (2.84%) Billing
9 3 (1.70%) Law
9 3 (1.70%) Military
10 2 (1.14%) Advertising
10 2 (1.14%) Front Office
11 1 (0.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.57%) Marketing
11 1 (0.57%) Retail
11 1 (0.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 94 (53.41%) Developer
2 41 (23.30%) Senior
3 32 (18.18%) Full-Stack Developer
3 32 (18.18%) Lead
3 32 (18.18%) React Developer
4 29 (16.48%) AWS Developer
5 25 (14.20%) Python Developer
6 22 (12.50%) Lead Developer
7 21 (11.93%) Java Developer
8 20 (11.36%) Software Developer
9 19 (10.80%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 16 (9.09%) Node.js Developer
11 15 (8.52%) Data Engineer
12 14 (7.95%) AWS Engineer
12 14 (7.95%) Senior Developer
13 13 (7.39%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
14 11 (6.25%) Platform Engineer
15 9 (5.11%) Lead Python Developer
15 9 (5.11%) Senior Python Developer
16 7 (3.98%) Lead Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (48.30%) Node.js
2 84 (47.73%) React
3 29 (16.48%) Jest
4 28 (15.91%) RESTful
4 28 (15.91%) Spring
5 26 (14.77%) Spring Boot
6 24 (13.64%) Ruby on Rails
7 17 (9.66%) Kafka
8 16 (9.09%) AngularJS
9 11 (6.25%) HTML
10 9 (5.11%) AWS CDK
11 8 (4.55%) REST
11 8 (4.55%) Swagger
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%) Gherkin
13 5 (2.84%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 25 (14.20%) Cloud Native
2 12 (6.82%) Greenfield Project
3 6 (3.41%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (2.27%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.27%) Security Posture
4 4 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (1.70%) Data Structures
5 3 (1.70%) IoT
6 2 (1.14%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.14%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.14%) NHS
7 1 (0.57%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.57%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.57%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.57%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.57%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.57%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.57%) Video on Demand
7 1 (0.57%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.84%) Linux
2 2 (1.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.57%) CentOS
3 1 (0.57%) Debian
3 1 (0.57%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (45.45%) CI/CD
2 70 (39.77%) Full-Stack Development
3 61 (34.66%) Agile
4 57 (32.39%) DevOps
5 49 (27.84%) Mentoring
5 49 (27.84%) Microservices
6 40 (22.73%) Containerisation
7 38 (21.59%) Problem-Solving
8 34 (19.32%) Infrastructure as Code
9 29 (16.48%) Software Engineering
10 28 (15.91%) Continuous Improvement
11 25 (14.20%) Collaborative Culture
11 25 (14.20%) Event-Driven
12 24 (13.64%) Mob Programming
13 23 (13.07%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 21 (11.93%) AI
15 20 (11.36%) TDD
16 19 (10.80%) Continuous Delivery
16 19 (10.80%) Software Delivery
17 18 (10.23%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 80 (45.45%) Python
2 60 (34.09%) JavaScript
3 53 (30.11%) SQL
4 47 (26.70%) TypeScript
5 31 (17.61%) Java
6 24 (13.64%) Ruby
7 14 (7.95%) Bash
8 9 (5.11%) Kotlin
9 6 (3.41%) Groovy
10 4 (2.27%) PHP
11 3 (1.70%) C#
11 3 (1.70%) Go
11 3 (1.70%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.57%) Perl
12 1 (0.57%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (6.25%) Degree
2 10 (5.68%) Security Cleared
3 9 (5.11%) SC Cleared
4 8 (4.55%) AWS Certification
5 3 (1.70%) IIBA
5 3 (1.70%) PhD
6 2 (1.14%) AWS Certified Developer
6 2 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.57%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (9.09%) 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%) GDPR
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 58 (32.95%) Docker
2 3 (1.70%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 41 (23.30%) Terraform
2 31 (17.61%) Kubernetes
3 14 (7.95%) Ansible
4 10 (5.68%) Grafana
5 5 (2.84%) HP Fortify
5 5 (2.84%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.70%) Packer
6 3 (1.70%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.57%) Kibana
7 1 (0.57%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.57%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (2.84%) Databricks
2 4 (2.27%) HubSpot
3 2 (1.14%) Okta
3 2 (1.14%) Red Hat
4 1 (0.57%) AppDynamics
4 1 (0.57%) Apple
4 1 (0.57%) Google
4 1 (0.57%) Informatica
4 1 (0.57%) Mercator
4 1 (0.57%) Microsoft
4 1 (0.57%) New Relic
4 1 (0.57%) OpenAI
4 1 (0.57%) Oracle
4 1 (0.57%) SaltStack