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

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 238 203 284
Rank change year-on-year -35 +81 +8
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 174 280 353
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.93% 1.86% 1.08%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.45% 4.59% 2.53%
Number of salaries quoted 140 241 292
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
25th Percentile £53,291 £57,500 £59,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £71,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +4.90% -1.38%
75th Percentile £76,000 £115,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £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 7,103 6,103 13,979
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.90% 40.43% 42.89%
Number of salaries quoted 4,863 4,464 11,919
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £35,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,719 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £79,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £108,292 £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 19 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 (3.45%) Apache
1 6 (3.45%) Apache Airflow
1 6 (3.45%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.72%) Apache Solr
3 1 (0.57%) CMS
3 1 (0.57%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (3.45%) Spreadsheet
2 3 (1.72%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 174 (100.00%) Serverless
2 173 (99.43%) AWS
3 128 (73.56%) Amazon S3
4 72 (41.38%) Amazon SQS
5 59 (33.91%) Amazon EC2
6 49 (28.16%) Amazon ECS
7 38 (21.84%) AWS CloudFormation
8 30 (17.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 30 (17.24%) GitHub
9 26 (14.94%) Amazon EventBridge
10 22 (12.64%) AWS Step Functions
11 21 (12.07%) SaaS
12 20 (11.49%) Amazon Cognito
13 19 (10.92%) GitHub Actions
14 14 (8.05%) Azure
15 12 (6.90%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 12 (6.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 11 (6.32%) Amazon EKS
17 9 (5.17%) Datadog
18 6 (3.45%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.87%) AMQP
2 4 (2.30%) Firewall
3 3 (1.72%) Broadband
3 3 (1.72%) DNS
3 3 (1.72%) VPN
4 2 (1.15%) Network Security
5 1 (0.57%) 4G
5 1 (0.57%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (29.31%) DynamoDB
2 40 (22.99%) PostgreSQL
3 39 (22.41%) Amazon RDS
4 23 (13.22%) MongoDB
5 19 (10.92%) NoSQL
6 14 (8.05%) Amazon Athena
7 11 (6.32%) Amazon Redshift
8 7 (4.02%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (3.45%) Metadata
10 5 (2.87%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (2.87%) Redis
10 5 (2.87%) SQL Server
11 4 (2.30%) Data Lake
11 4 (2.30%) Relational Database
12 3 (1.72%) Amazon Aurora
12 3 (1.72%) Flink
12 3 (1.72%) MySQL
12 3 (1.72%) Power BI
13 2 (1.15%) Big Data
13 2 (1.15%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 28 (16.09%) Cypress.io
2 26 (14.94%) Git
2 26 (14.94%) Jenkins
3 12 (6.90%) GitLab
4 6 (3.45%) Maven
4 6 (3.45%) SonarQube
5 4 (2.30%) JIRA
6 3 (1.72%) 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 39 (22.41%) Social Skills
2 14 (8.05%) Finance
2 14 (8.05%) Health Technology
3 12 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (6.32%) Public Sector
4 11 (6.32%) Publishing
5 10 (5.75%) Tech for Good
6 8 (4.60%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (2.87%) Billing
9 3 (1.72%) Law
9 3 (1.72%) Military
10 2 (1.15%) Advertising
10 2 (1.15%) 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 92 (52.87%) Developer
2 39 (22.41%) Senior
3 33 (18.97%) Lead
4 31 (17.82%) Full-Stack Developer
4 31 (17.82%) React Developer
5 28 (16.09%) AWS Developer
6 24 (13.79%) Python Developer
7 22 (12.64%) Lead Developer
8 21 (12.07%) Java Developer
9 19 (10.92%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 19 (10.92%) Software Developer
10 15 (8.62%) AWS Engineer
10 15 (8.62%) Node.js Developer
11 14 (8.05%) Data Engineer
12 13 (7.47%) Senior Developer
12 13 (7.47%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
13 11 (6.32%) Platform Engineer
14 9 (5.17%) Lead Python Developer
15 8 (4.60%) Senior Python Developer
16 7 (4.02%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (47.13%) Node.js
1 82 (47.13%) React
2 28 (16.09%) Jest
2 28 (16.09%) RESTful
2 28 (16.09%) Spring
3 26 (14.94%) Spring Boot
4 23 (13.22%) Ruby on Rails
5 17 (9.77%) Kafka
6 16 (9.20%) AngularJS
7 10 (5.75%) AWS CDK
7 10 (5.75%) HTML
8 8 (4.60%) REST
8 8 (4.60%) Swagger
9 6 (3.45%) .NET
9 6 (3.45%) AWS Amplify
9 6 (3.45%) MapLibre
9 6 (3.45%) Pandas
9 6 (3.45%) RabbitMQ
10 5 (2.87%) Gherkin
10 5 (2.87%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 26 (14.94%) Cloud Native
2 12 (6.90%) Greenfield Project
3 8 (4.60%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (2.30%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.30%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (1.72%) Data Structures
5 3 (1.72%) IoT
5 3 (1.72%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.15%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.15%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.15%) NHS
7 1 (0.57%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.57%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.57%) Hedge funds
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 (2.87%) Linux
2 2 (1.15%) 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 (45.98%) CI/CD
2 68 (39.08%) Full-Stack Development
3 61 (35.06%) Agile
4 57 (32.76%) DevOps
5 50 (28.74%) Microservices
6 47 (27.01%) Mentoring
7 40 (22.99%) Containerisation
8 36 (20.69%) Problem-Solving
9 35 (20.11%) Infrastructure as Code
10 29 (16.67%) Software Engineering
11 28 (16.09%) Continuous Improvement
12 27 (15.52%) Event-Driven
13 25 (14.37%) Collaborative Culture
13 25 (14.37%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 23 (13.22%) Mob Programming
15 21 (12.07%) AI
16 20 (11.49%) TDD
17 19 (10.92%) Continuous Delivery
17 19 (10.92%) Software Delivery
18 18 (10.34%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 80 (45.98%) Python
2 58 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 51 (29.31%) SQL
4 46 (26.44%) TypeScript
5 31 (17.82%) Java
6 23 (13.22%) Ruby
7 14 (8.05%) Bash
8 9 (5.17%) Kotlin
9 6 (3.45%) Groovy
10 4 (2.30%) PHP
11 3 (1.72%) C#
11 3 (1.72%) Go
11 3 (1.72%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.57%) Perl
12 1 (0.57%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (6.32%) Degree
2 10 (5.75%) Security Cleared
3 9 (5.17%) SC Cleared
4 8 (4.60%) AWS Certification
5 3 (1.72%) IIBA
5 3 (1.72%) PhD
6 2 (1.15%) AWS Certified Developer
6 2 (1.15%) 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 (9.20%) QA
2 8 (4.60%) Data Quality
3 6 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.72%) ISO 9001
5 2 (1.15%) 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 (33.33%) Docker
2 3 (1.72%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 41 (23.56%) Terraform
2 31 (17.82%) Kubernetes
3 14 (8.05%) Ansible
4 10 (5.75%) Grafana
5 5 (2.87%) HP Fortify
5 5 (2.87%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.72%) Packer
7 2 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.57%) Kibana
8 1 (0.57%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.57%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (2.87%) Databricks
2 4 (2.30%) HubSpot
3 2 (1.15%) Okta
3 2 (1.15%) 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