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 28 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 209 90 261
Rank change year-on-year -119 +171 +6
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 177 572 293
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.13% 3.51% 1.14%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.06% 7.52% 2.46%
Number of salaries quoted 148 237 274
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £65,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,479 £90,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.80% +38.46% -16.13%
75th Percentile £78,125 £115,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £138,750 £94,625
UK median annual salary £71,000 £87,750 £70,000
% change year-on-year -19.09% +25.36% -12.50%

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 5,783 7,607 11,887
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 36.82% 46.68% 46.18%
Number of salaries quoted 4,026 4,825 10,360
10th Percentile £32,125 £35,750 £36,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,498 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.39% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%

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 28 January 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 (5.08%) Apache Spark
2 8 (4.52%) Apache
3 6 (3.39%) Tomcat
3 6 (3.39%) WebSphere
3 6 (3.39%) WebSphere Application Server
4 4 (2.26%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.56%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (3.39%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 177 (100.00%) AWS
1 177 (100.00%) Serverless
2 128 (72.32%) Amazon S3
3 54 (30.51%) Amazon SQS
4 53 (29.94%) AWS CloudFormation
5 45 (25.42%) Amazon EC2
6 40 (22.60%) Amazon ECS
7 28 (15.82%) Azure
8 27 (15.25%) GitHub
9 25 (14.12%) Amazon EKS
10 24 (13.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 24 (13.56%) AWS Step Functions
11 19 (10.73%) SaaS
12 17 (9.60%) GitHub Actions
12 17 (9.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 12 (6.78%) Amazon EventBridge
14 10 (5.65%) Amazon ECR
14 10 (5.65%) GCP
15 9 (5.08%) Amazon Cognito
16 8 (4.52%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.39%) SSL
2 5 (2.82%) Firewall
3 4 (2.26%) AMQP
3 4 (2.26%) Broadband
4 3 (1.69%) Network Security
5 2 (1.13%) DNS
5 2 (1.13%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.13%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (29.38%) DynamoDB
2 42 (23.73%) Amazon RDS
3 27 (15.25%) PostgreSQL
4 21 (11.86%) Amazon Redshift
4 21 (11.86%) Data Warehouse
5 20 (11.30%) NoSQL
6 13 (7.34%) Amazon Athena
6 13 (7.34%) Data Lake
6 13 (7.34%) SQL Server
7 11 (6.21%) MongoDB
8 10 (5.65%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (3.39%) DB2
9 6 (3.39%) MySQL
10 5 (2.82%) Apache Iceberg
11 4 (2.26%) Metadata
11 4 (2.26%) Relational Database
12 2 (1.13%) Amazon Aurora
12 2 (1.13%) Big Data
13 1 (0.56%) Cloudera CDH
13 1 (0.56%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 22 (12.43%) Git
2 18 (10.17%) Jenkins
3 15 (8.47%) Cypress.io
4 9 (5.08%) GitLab
5 5 (2.82%) git-flow
6 4 (2.26%) Maven
6 4 (2.26%) SonarQube
7 3 (1.69%) ESLint
8 2 (1.13%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.56%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.56%) Deequ
9 1 (0.56%) ER Studio
9 1 (0.56%) JIRA
9 1 (0.56%) Selenium
9 1 (0.56%) Zephyr
General
1 48 (27.12%) Social Skills
2 25 (14.12%) Tech for Good
3 22 (12.43%) Health Technology
3 22 (12.43%) Publishing
4 21 (11.86%) Finance
5 14 (7.91%) Influencing Skills
5 14 (7.91%) Organisational Skills
6 11 (6.21%) Public Sector
7 10 (5.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (3.95%) Analytical Skills
9 6 (3.39%) Banking
10 3 (1.69%) Billing
10 3 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.13%) Games
12 1 (0.56%) Advertising
12 1 (0.56%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.56%) Front Office
12 1 (0.56%) Law
12 1 (0.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 82 (46.33%) Developer
2 42 (23.73%) Senior
3 38 (21.47%) AWS Developer
4 37 (20.90%) React Developer
5 33 (18.64%) Python Developer
6 30 (16.95%) Lead
7 23 (12.99%) Lead Developer
8 22 (12.43%) Software Developer
8 22 (12.43%) Software Engineer
9 20 (11.30%) Full-Stack Developer
9 20 (11.30%) Senior Developer
10 17 (9.60%) Lead Python Developer
11 16 (9.04%) AWS Engineer
11 16 (9.04%) Data Engineer
11 16 (9.04%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 16 (9.04%) Node.js Developer
12 13 (7.34%) Java Developer
13 10 (5.65%) Architect
13 10 (5.65%) Lead Software Developer
13 10 (5.65%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (44.07%) React
2 57 (32.20%) Node.js
3 37 (20.90%) RESTful
4 27 (15.25%) Spring
5 24 (13.56%) Spring Boot
6 20 (11.30%) AWS CDK
7 16 (9.04%) AngularJS
8 15 (8.47%) Jest
9 13 (7.34%) HTML
9 13 (7.34%) Kafka
10 12 (6.78%) Swagger
11 11 (6.21%) .NET
11 11 (6.21%) RabbitMQ
11 11 (6.21%) Ruby on Rails
12 8 (4.52%) CSS
13 7 (3.95%) Elastic Stack
14 6 (3.39%) AWS Amplify
14 6 (3.39%) LAPP Stack
14 6 (3.39%) MapLibre
14 6 (3.39%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 42 (23.73%) Cloud Native
2 8 (4.52%) Product Ownership
3 7 (3.95%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (3.39%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (2.26%) Security Posture
6 3 (1.69%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.69%) Enterprise Cloud
6 3 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.69%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.13%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.13%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.13%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.56%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.56%) Hedge funds
8 1 (0.56%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.56%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.56%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.56%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.56%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 15 (8.47%) Linux
2 10 (5.65%) Unix
3 8 (4.52%) Windows
4 7 (3.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.56%) CentOS
5 1 (0.56%) Debian
5 1 (0.56%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (56.50%) CI/CD
2 68 (38.42%) Agile
3 60 (33.90%) DevOps
4 55 (31.07%) Full-Stack Development
4 55 (31.07%) Mentoring
5 49 (27.68%) Infrastructure as Code
6 44 (24.86%) Software Engineering
7 40 (22.60%) Microservices
8 33 (18.64%) Problem-Solving
9 32 (18.08%) Continuous Improvement
10 31 (17.51%) Scrum
11 27 (15.25%) Coaching
12 26 (14.69%) AI
12 26 (14.69%) Containerisation
12 26 (14.69%) Pair Programming
13 25 (14.12%) Continuous Integration
13 25 (14.12%) TDD
14 23 (12.99%) Acceptance Criteria
15 22 (12.43%) Operational Stability
16 21 (11.86%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 87 (49.15%) Python
2 49 (27.68%) TypeScript
3 46 (25.99%) JavaScript
3 46 (25.99%) SQL
4 34 (19.21%) Java
5 14 (7.91%) Bash
6 11 (6.21%) Ruby
7 9 (5.08%) C#
8 4 (2.26%) Go
8 4 (2.26%) Kotlin
8 4 (2.26%) PowerShell
9 3 (1.69%) Groovy
10 2 (1.13%) Scala
Qualifications
1 35 (19.77%) AWS Certification
2 18 (10.17%) Security Cleared
3 15 (8.47%) SC Cleared
4 11 (6.21%) Degree
5 10 (5.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 6 (3.39%) AWS Certified Developer
6 6 (3.39%) ITIL Certification
7 5 (2.82%) SnowPro
8 3 (1.69%) IIBA
9 2 (1.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (1.13%) CISA
9 2 (1.13%) CISM
9 2 (1.13%) CISSP
9 2 (1.13%) CRISC
10 1 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.56%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (16.38%) QA
2 8 (4.52%) Data Quality
3 6 (3.39%) SLA
4 5 (2.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (2.26%) GDPR
6 3 (1.69%) PCI DSS
7 2 (1.13%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.56%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.56%) NIST
8 1 (0.56%) Software Quality Assurance
8 1 (0.56%) WCAG
System Software
1 43 (24.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 45 (25.42%) Terraform
2 40 (22.60%) Kubernetes
3 11 (6.21%) Grafana
4 7 (3.95%) Prometheus
5 6 (3.39%) Ansible
6 4 (2.26%) Argo
6 4 (2.26%) HP Fortify
7 3 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.56%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.56%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (3.95%) Red Hat
2 6 (3.39%) IBM
3 4 (2.26%) PagerDuty
4 2 (1.13%) Okta
4 2 (1.13%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.56%) Databricks
5 1 (0.56%) Dynatrace
5 1 (0.56%) Google
5 1 (0.56%) Informatica
5 1 (0.56%) Mercator
5 1 (0.56%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.56%) SaltStack