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 1 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 220 80 270
Rank change year-on-year -140 +190 +34
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 182 499 338
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.09% 3.90% 1.09%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.80% 8.31% 2.44%
Number of salaries quoted 147 260 312
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £60,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,958 £83,750 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.66% +19.64% -3.45%
75th Percentile £76,000 £115,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £86,000 £138,750 £107,375
UK median annual salary £70,000 £82,500 £71,500
% change year-on-year -15.15% +15.38% -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 6,492 6,007 13,837
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.77% 46.89% 44.55%
Number of salaries quoted 4,386 4,673 11,985
10th Percentile £32,500 £33,875 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,231 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £63,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.57% +5.83% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £77,715
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -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 1 April 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 9 (4.95%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (3.85%) Apache
3 4 (2.20%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.10%) Tomcat
4 2 (1.10%) WebSphere
4 2 (1.10%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (0.55%) CMS
5 1 (0.55%) SAS
5 1 (0.55%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (3.30%) Spreadsheet
2 3 (1.65%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 182 (100.00%) Serverless
2 181 (99.45%) AWS
3 141 (77.47%) Amazon S3
4 68 (37.36%) Amazon SQS
5 55 (30.22%) Amazon EC2
6 47 (25.82%) AWS CloudFormation
7 45 (24.73%) Amazon ECS
8 36 (19.78%) GitHub
9 32 (17.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 22 (12.09%) Azure
10 22 (12.09%) SaaS
11 21 (11.54%) GitHub Actions
12 20 (10.99%) AWS Step Functions
13 19 (10.44%) Amazon EKS
14 16 (8.79%) Amazon EventBridge
15 14 (7.69%) Amazon Cognito
16 13 (7.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 9 (4.95%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 8 (4.40%) GCP
19 7 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.75%) AMQP
1 5 (2.75%) Broadband
1 5 (2.75%) Firewall
2 3 (1.65%) DNS
2 3 (1.65%) VPN
3 2 (1.10%) Network Security
3 2 (1.10%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (25.82%) DynamoDB
2 40 (21.98%) Amazon RDS
3 36 (19.78%) PostgreSQL
4 27 (14.84%) NoSQL
5 19 (10.44%) MongoDB
6 14 (7.69%) Amazon Athena
7 13 (7.14%) Amazon Redshift
8 12 (6.59%) Data Warehouse
9 8 (4.40%) SQL Server
10 7 (3.85%) Data Lake
10 7 (3.85%) Metadata
11 6 (3.30%) MySQL
12 5 (2.75%) Amazon Aurora
13 4 (2.20%) Relational Database
14 3 (1.65%) Power BI
15 2 (1.10%) Apache Iceberg
15 2 (1.10%) DB2
15 2 (1.10%) Tableau
16 1 (0.55%) Big Data
16 1 (0.55%) Redis
Development Applications
1 27 (14.84%) Git
2 23 (12.64%) Cypress.io
3 21 (11.54%) Jenkins
4 10 (5.49%) GitLab
5 5 (2.75%) git-flow
5 5 (2.75%) Maven
6 4 (2.20%) JIRA
6 4 (2.20%) SonarQube
7 3 (1.65%) ESLint
8 1 (0.55%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.55%) Browser DevTools
8 1 (0.55%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.55%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.55%) MLflow
8 1 (0.55%) Selenium
8 1 (0.55%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.55%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.55%) webpack
8 1 (0.55%) Zephyr
General
1 53 (29.12%) Social Skills
2 16 (8.79%) Finance
2 16 (8.79%) Health Technology
2 16 (8.79%) Tech for Good
3 15 (8.24%) Publishing
4 14 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
4 14 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
5 13 (7.14%) Public Sector
6 10 (5.49%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (4.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.65%) Billing
8 3 (1.65%) Law
8 3 (1.65%) Military
9 2 (1.10%) Advertising
9 2 (1.10%) Banking
10 1 (0.55%) Front Office
10 1 (0.55%) Marketing
10 1 (0.55%) Retail
Job Titles
1 96 (52.75%) Developer
2 39 (21.43%) Senior
3 35 (19.23%) AWS Developer
3 35 (19.23%) React Developer
4 33 (18.13%) Lead
5 31 (17.03%) Full-Stack Developer
6 29 (15.93%) Python Developer
7 25 (13.74%) Lead Developer
8 22 (12.09%) Software Developer
9 21 (11.54%) Java Developer
10 17 (9.34%) Lead Python Developer
10 17 (9.34%) Node.js Developer
11 16 (8.79%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 15 (8.24%) Senior Developer
13 14 (7.69%) Software Engineer
14 13 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
15 11 (6.04%) Data Engineer
15 11 (6.04%) Lead Software Developer
16 10 (5.49%) Cloud Engineer
17 9 (4.95%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (42.86%) React
2 77 (42.31%) Node.js
3 32 (17.58%) RESTful
4 30 (16.48%) Spring
5 27 (14.84%) Spring Boot
6 23 (12.64%) Jest
7 19 (10.44%) Ruby on Rails
8 18 (9.89%) AngularJS
9 15 (8.24%) AWS CDK
9 15 (8.24%) HTML
10 13 (7.14%) Kafka
11 11 (6.04%) .NET
12 9 (4.95%) RabbitMQ
13 8 (4.40%) CSS
14 7 (3.85%) REST
15 6 (3.30%) AWS Amplify
15 6 (3.30%) MapLibre
16 5 (2.75%) .NET Core
16 5 (2.75%) Material-UI
17 4 (2.20%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 36 (19.78%) Cloud Native
2 8 (4.40%) Product Ownership
3 5 (2.75%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (2.20%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (2.20%) Linux Command Line
4 4 (2.20%) Security Posture
4 4 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (1.65%) Data Structures
5 3 (1.65%) IoT
5 3 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.10%) NHS
6 2 (1.10%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.55%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.55%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.55%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.55%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.55%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.55%) Video on Demand
7 1 (0.55%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.40%) Linux
2 5 (2.75%) Unix
3 4 (2.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.10%) Windows
5 1 (0.55%) CentOS
5 1 (0.55%) Debian
5 1 (0.55%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (56.59%) CI/CD
2 70 (38.46%) Agile
2 70 (38.46%) DevOps
3 68 (37.36%) Full-Stack Development
4 57 (31.32%) Mentoring
5 45 (24.73%) Infrastructure as Code
5 45 (24.73%) Microservices
6 39 (21.43%) Software Engineering
7 38 (20.88%) Continuous Improvement
8 36 (19.78%) Containerisation
8 36 (19.78%) Problem-Solving
9 27 (14.84%) AI
9 27 (14.84%) Continuous Integration
10 26 (14.29%) Code Quality
11 24 (13.19%) Scrum
12 22 (12.09%) Coaching
12 22 (12.09%) Event-Driven
13 21 (11.54%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 21 (11.54%) TDD
14 20 (10.99%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 82 (45.05%) Python
2 57 (31.32%) JavaScript
3 52 (28.57%) SQL
4 43 (23.63%) TypeScript
5 34 (18.68%) Java
6 19 (10.44%) Ruby
7 15 (8.24%) Bash
8 9 (4.95%) Kotlin
9 7 (3.85%) C#
10 4 (2.20%) Go
10 4 (2.20%) Groovy
10 4 (2.20%) PHP
11 3 (1.65%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 14 (7.69%) AWS Certification
2 13 (7.14%) Degree
2 13 (7.14%) Security Cleared
3 10 (5.49%) SC Cleared
4 3 (1.65%) AWS Certified Developer
4 3 (1.65%) IIBA
4 3 (1.65%) PhD
5 2 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.10%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (1.10%) SnowPro
6 1 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (13.19%) QA
2 7 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (3.30%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.65%) ISO 9001
5 2 (1.10%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.10%) SLA
6 1 (0.55%) GDPR
6 1 (0.55%) HL7
6 1 (0.55%) NIST
6 1 (0.55%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.55%) SNOMED CT
6 1 (0.55%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 55 (30.22%) Docker
2 3 (1.65%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 43 (23.63%) Terraform
2 33 (18.13%) Kubernetes
3 13 (7.14%) Grafana
4 12 (6.59%) Ansible
5 6 (3.30%) Prometheus
6 4 (2.20%) Argo
6 4 (2.20%) HP Fortify
7 3 (1.65%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.55%) Kibana
8 1 (0.55%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.55%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (2.20%) Databricks
1 4 (2.20%) PagerDuty
1 4 (2.20%) Red Hat
2 2 (1.10%) IBM
2 2 (1.10%) Okta
3 1 (0.55%) Apple
3 1 (0.55%) Dynatrace
3 1 (0.55%) Google
3 1 (0.55%) Informatica
3 1 (0.55%) Mercator
3 1 (0.55%) Microsoft
3 1 (0.55%) New Relic
3 1 (0.55%) Oracle
3 1 (0.55%) SaltStack