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

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 219 83 262
Rank change year-on-year -136 +179 +26
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 173 585 309
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.06% 3.81% 1.11%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.80% 8.15% 2.43%
Number of salaries quoted 144 259 287
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £60,625 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,958 £90,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.38% +28.57% -6.04%
75th Percentile £76,000 £115,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £138,750 £98,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £82,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -15.15% +17.86% -9.68%

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 6,168 7,179 12,740
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.63% 46.71% 45.84%
Number of salaries quoted 4,226 4,733 11,154
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £35,219
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 £77,715
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -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 21 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
2 132 (76.30%) Amazon S3
3 58 (33.53%) Amazon SQS
4 53 (30.64%) AWS CloudFormation
5 45 (26.01%) Amazon EC2
6 41 (23.70%) 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 19 (10.98%) GitHub Actions
11 19 (10.98%) SaaS
12 15 (8.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 14 (8.09%) Amazon EventBridge
14 11 (6.36%) Amazon Cognito
15 10 (5.78%) GCP
16 8 (4.62%) Amazon ECR
17 7 (4.05%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.89%) AMQP
1 5 (2.89%) Firewall
2 4 (2.31%) Network Security
2 4 (2.31%) SSL
3 3 (1.73%) Broadband
4 1 (0.58%) DNS
4 1 (0.58%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (24.28%) DynamoDB
2 36 (20.81%) Amazon RDS
3 29 (16.76%) PostgreSQL
4 25 (14.45%) NoSQL
5 18 (10.40%) Data Warehouse
6 17 (9.83%) Amazon Redshift
7 14 (8.09%) Amazon Athena
8 13 (7.51%) MongoDB
9 12 (6.94%) Data Lake
10 11 (6.36%) SQL Server
11 6 (3.47%) MySQL
12 5 (2.89%) Apache Iceberg
13 4 (2.31%) DB2
13 4 (2.31%) Metadata
13 4 (2.31%) Relational Database
14 3 (1.73%) Amazon Aurora
15 1 (0.58%) Apache Hudi
15 1 (0.58%) Cloudera CDH
15 1 (0.58%) Delta Lake
15 1 (0.58%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 21 (12.14%) Git
2 18 (10.40%) Jenkins
3 17 (9.83%) Cypress.io
4 10 (5.78%) GitLab
5 5 (2.89%) git-flow
6 4 (2.31%) Maven
6 4 (2.31%) SonarQube
7 3 (1.73%) ESLint
8 2 (1.16%) JIRA
9 1 (0.58%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.58%) Browser DevTools
9 1 (0.58%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.58%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.58%) Deequ
9 1 (0.58%) Selenium
9 1 (0.58%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.58%) webpack
9 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%) Retail
Job Titles
1 79 (45.66%) Developer
2 34 (19.65%) 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 23 (13.29%) Full-Stack Developer
7 23 (13.29%) Lead Developer
8 22 (12.72%) Software Engineer
9 19 (10.98%) Software Developer
10 18 (10.40%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 17 (9.83%) Lead Python Developer
12 16 (9.25%) AWS Engineer
12 16 (9.25%) Java Developer
12 16 (9.25%) Node.js Developer
13 13 (7.51%) Data Engineer
14 12 (6.94%) Cloud Engineer
15 10 (5.78%) Architect
15 10 (5.78%) Lead Software Developer
15 10 (5.78%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (42.20%) React
2 65 (37.57%) Node.js
3 31 (17.92%) Spring
4 29 (16.76%) RESTful
5 28 (16.18%) Spring Boot
6 19 (10.98%) AngularJS
7 17 (9.83%) Jest
8 16 (9.25%) AWS CDK
9 15 (8.67%) HTML
10 14 (8.09%) Kafka
11 13 (7.51%) Ruby on Rails
12 12 (6.94%) .NET
13 11 (6.36%) RabbitMQ
14 9 (5.20%) CSS
15 7 (4.05%) REST
16 6 (3.47%) AWS Amplify
16 6 (3.47%) MapLibre
16 6 (3.47%) Material-UI
16 6 (3.47%) PySpark
17 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%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.16%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.16%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.16%) Management Information System
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%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.58%) Video on Demand
8 1 (0.58%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (6.94%) Linux
2 8 (4.62%) Unix
3 6 (3.47%) Windows
4 5 (2.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.58%) CentOS
5 1 (0.58%) Debian
5 1 (0.58%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (59.54%) CI/CD
2 65 (37.57%) DevOps
3 63 (36.42%) Agile
4 61 (35.26%) Full-Stack Development
5 52 (30.06%) Mentoring
6 49 (28.32%) Infrastructure as Code
7 42 (24.28%) Microservices
7 42 (24.28%) Software Engineering
8 36 (20.81%) Problem-Solving
9 35 (20.23%) Continuous Improvement
10 33 (19.08%) Containerisation
11 28 (16.18%) AI
12 26 (15.03%) Coaching
13 23 (13.29%) Continuous Integration
14 21 (12.14%) Acceptance Criteria
14 21 (12.14%) Collaborative Culture
14 21 (12.14%) Event-Driven
14 21 (12.14%) Scrum
15 20 (11.56%) Code Quality
15 20 (11.56%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 78 (45.09%) Python
2 50 (28.90%) JavaScript
3 48 (27.75%) SQL
4 41 (23.70%) TypeScript
5 35 (20.23%) Java
6 14 (8.09%) Bash
7 13 (7.51%) Ruby
8 8 (4.62%) C#
9 7 (4.05%) Kotlin
10 4 (2.31%) Go
11 3 (1.73%) Groovy
11 3 (1.73%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.58%) PHP
Qualifications
1 25 (14.45%) AWS Certification
2 18 (10.40%) Security Cleared
3 15 (8.67%) SC Cleared
4 11 (6.36%) Degree
5 6 (3.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 5 (2.89%) AWS Certified Developer
7 4 (2.31%) ITIL Certification
8 3 (1.73%) IIBA
9 2 (1.16%) CISA
9 2 (1.16%) CISM
9 2 (1.16%) CISSP
9 2 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (1.16%) CRISC
9 2 (1.16%) SnowPro
10 1 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
10 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 50 (28.90%) Docker
Systems Management
1 46 (26.59%) Terraform
2 42 (24.28%) 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