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 7 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 300 254 296
Rank change year-on-year -46 +42 -12
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 153 185 230
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.68% 1.12% 0.92%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.75% 3.08% 2.23%
Number of salaries quoted 120 151 154
10th Percentile £47,500 £51,250 £57,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,000 £64,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.81% -17.42% +5.08%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,125 £96,250
90th Percentile £102,500 £106,250 £107,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year - - +1.75%

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 8,723 6,002 10,325
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.59% 36.41% 41.11%
Number of salaries quoted 6,302 4,421 8,145
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,500 £36,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £84,964
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.76%

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 7 August 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 5 (3.27%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (3.27%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.61%) Apache
3 3 (1.96%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.65%) CMS
4 1 (0.65%) Confluence
4 1 (0.65%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (1.96%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 153 (100.00%) Serverless
2 152 (99.35%) AWS
3 102 (66.67%) Amazon S3
4 62 (40.52%) Amazon SQS
5 54 (35.29%) Amazon ECS
6 52 (33.99%) Amazon EC2
7 29 (18.95%) GitHub
8 28 (18.30%) AWS CloudFormation
9 26 (16.99%) Amazon EventBridge
9 26 (16.99%) AWS Step Functions
10 22 (14.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 21 (13.73%) SaaS
12 16 (10.46%) GitHub Actions
13 15 (9.80%) Amazon Cognito
14 11 (7.19%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 11 (7.19%) Azure
14 11 (7.19%) Datadog
15 9 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
16 7 (4.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 6 (3.92%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.96%) Broadband
1 3 (1.96%) DNS
1 3 (1.96%) Firewall
1 3 (1.96%) VPN
2 1 (0.65%) 4G
2 1 (0.65%) 5G
2 1 (0.65%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (30.72%) DynamoDB
2 40 (26.14%) PostgreSQL
3 31 (20.26%) Amazon RDS
4 27 (17.65%) MongoDB
5 13 (8.50%) Amazon Athena
5 13 (8.50%) NoSQL
6 10 (6.54%) Relational Database
7 9 (5.88%) Amazon Redshift
8 7 (4.58%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (3.92%) Redis
10 5 (3.27%) MySQL
11 4 (2.61%) Metadata
11 4 (2.61%) SQL Server
12 3 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (1.96%) Flink
12 3 (1.96%) MariaDB
12 3 (1.96%) RDBMS
13 2 (1.31%) Big Data
13 2 (1.31%) Data Lake
13 2 (1.31%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 26 (16.99%) Cypress.io
2 21 (13.73%) Git
3 19 (12.42%) Jenkins
4 7 (4.58%) GitLab
5 5 (3.27%) JIRA
6 4 (2.61%) TeamCity
7 3 (1.96%) Claude Code
7 3 (1.96%) Maven
7 3 (1.96%) Postman
7 3 (1.96%) Selenium
7 3 (1.96%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.65%) Browser DevTools
8 1 (0.65%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.65%) git-flow
8 1 (0.65%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.65%) JUnit
8 1 (0.65%) Karma Test Runner
8 1 (0.65%) MLflow
8 1 (0.65%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.65%) webpack
General
1 30 (19.61%) Social Skills
2 16 (10.46%) Finance
3 12 (7.84%) Public Sector
4 8 (5.23%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (5.23%) Health Technology
5 5 (3.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (3.27%) Publishing
6 4 (2.61%) Tech for Good
7 3 (1.96%) Advertising
7 3 (1.96%) Billing
7 3 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (1.96%) Legal
7 3 (1.96%) Local Government
7 3 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.31%) Banking
8 2 (1.31%) Law
8 2 (1.31%) Marketing
8 2 (1.31%) Military
9 1 (0.65%) Front Office
9 1 (0.65%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 77 (50.33%) Developer
2 53 (34.64%) Senior
3 42 (27.45%) Full-Stack Developer
4 22 (14.38%) Senior Developer
5 19 (12.42%) Java Developer
5 19 (12.42%) Lead
6 17 (11.11%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 14 (9.15%) AWS Developer
7 14 (9.15%) Software Engineer
8 12 (7.84%) Data Engineer
8 12 (7.84%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
9 11 (7.19%) Python Developer
9 11 (7.19%) Senior Python Developer
10 10 (6.54%) AWS Engineer
10 10 (6.54%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 9 (5.88%) React Developer
11 9 (5.88%) Senior Software Engineer
12 8 (5.23%) Lead Developer
13 7 (4.58%) Software Developer
14 6 (3.92%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (54.25%) React
2 76 (49.67%) Node.js
3 28 (18.30%) Jest
4 26 (16.99%) Ruby on Rails
5 25 (16.34%) Spring
6 24 (15.69%) Spring Boot
7 19 (12.42%) Kafka
8 17 (11.11%) RESTful
9 14 (9.15%) AngularJS
10 13 (8.50%) AWS CDK
11 11 (7.19%) Next.js
12 9 (5.88%) CSS
12 9 (5.88%) OpenAPI
12 9 (5.88%) REST
13 8 (5.23%) Swagger
14 7 (4.58%) OpenTelemetry
14 7 (4.58%) Vue
15 6 (3.92%) .NET
15 6 (3.92%) HTML
15 6 (3.92%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 29 (18.95%) Cloud Native
2 19 (12.42%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (9.80%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (3.27%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.61%) NHS
6 3 (1.96%) Blog
6 3 (1.96%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.96%) IoT
6 3 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.96%) Life Science
6 3 (1.96%) Public Cloud
6 3 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.31%) Driving Licence
7 2 (1.31%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.31%) PKI
7 2 (1.31%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.65%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.65%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.65%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.65%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.61%) Linux
2 1 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (47.71%) CI/CD
2 66 (43.14%) Full-Stack Development
3 62 (40.52%) Microservices
4 61 (39.87%) Agile
5 49 (32.03%) Mentoring
6 48 (31.37%) DevOps
7 40 (26.14%) Infrastructure as Code
8 38 (24.84%) AI
9 35 (22.88%) Containerisation
10 31 (20.26%) Software Engineering
11 29 (18.95%) Event-Driven
12 28 (18.30%) Problem-Solving
13 26 (16.99%) Collaborative Culture
14 24 (15.69%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 24 (15.69%) Mob Programming
14 24 (15.69%) Software Delivery
15 22 (14.38%) Continuous Delivery
16 20 (13.07%) TDD
17 19 (12.42%) Continuous Improvement
17 19 (12.42%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 64 (41.83%) Python
2 58 (37.91%) JavaScript
3 57 (37.25%) TypeScript
4 32 (20.92%) SQL
5 29 (18.95%) Java
5 29 (18.95%) Ruby
6 11 (7.19%) Kotlin
7 8 (5.23%) Bash
7 8 (5.23%) C#
8 5 (3.27%) PHP
9 4 (2.61%) Groovy
10 3 (1.96%) Go
10 3 (1.96%) Scala
11 1 (0.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.65%) Perl
11 1 (0.65%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (7.84%) SC Cleared
1 12 (7.84%) Security Cleared
2 5 (3.27%) Degree
3 3 (1.96%) PhD
4 2 (1.31%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.31%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (1.31%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.54%) QA
2 7 (4.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (3.92%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.96%) GDPR
4 3 (1.96%) ISO 9001
5 2 (1.31%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.65%) HL7
6 1 (0.65%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.65%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 40 (26.14%) Docker
2 3 (1.96%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 47 (30.72%) Terraform
2 21 (13.73%) Kubernetes
3 10 (6.54%) Ansible
4 8 (5.23%) Grafana
5 4 (2.61%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.96%) Packer
7 2 (1.31%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.65%) Kibana
8 1 (0.65%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 8 (5.23%) OpenAI
2 5 (3.27%) HubSpot
3 4 (2.61%) Databricks
4 3 (1.96%) Dynatrace
4 3 (1.96%) Splunk
5 2 (1.31%) Google
6 1 (0.65%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.65%) Apple
6 1 (0.65%) New Relic
6 1 (0.65%) Red Hat