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 23 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 262 230 308
Rank change year-on-year -32 +78 -14
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 169 228 325
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.83% 1.47% 0.94%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.18% 3.84% 2.23%
Number of salaries quoted 135 197 261
10th Percentile - £52,000 £56,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.71% -6.00% +3.45%
75th Percentile £81,250 £115,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £97,500 - £115,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.33% +3.45% -

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 7,739 5,931 14,572
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.04% 38.12% 42.15%
Number of salaries quoted 5,461 4,320 12,106
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,735 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,750 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -8.73%

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 23 June 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 (3.55%) Apache
1 6 (3.55%) Apache Airflow
1 6 (3.55%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.78%) Apache Solr
3 1 (0.59%) CMS
3 1 (0.59%) Confluence
3 1 (0.59%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (2.96%) Spreadsheet
2 3 (1.78%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 169 (100.00%) Serverless
2 168 (99.41%) AWS
3 120 (71.01%) Amazon S3
4 66 (39.05%) Amazon SQS
5 59 (34.91%) Amazon EC2
6 55 (32.54%) Amazon ECS
7 33 (19.53%) AWS CloudFormation
8 30 (17.75%) GitHub
9 28 (16.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 26 (15.38%) Amazon EventBridge
11 25 (14.79%) AWS Step Functions
12 21 (12.43%) SaaS
13 16 (9.47%) Amazon Cognito
13 16 (9.47%) GitHub Actions
14 14 (8.28%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 13 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
16 12 (7.10%) Azure
17 11 (6.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 10 (5.92%) Datadog
19 5 (2.96%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.37%) AMQP
2 3 (1.78%) Broadband
2 3 (1.78%) DNS
2 3 (1.78%) Firewall
2 3 (1.78%) Network Security
2 3 (1.78%) VPN
3 1 (0.59%) 4G
3 1 (0.59%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (29.59%) DynamoDB
2 39 (23.08%) PostgreSQL
3 36 (21.30%) Amazon RDS
4 26 (15.38%) MongoDB
5 18 (10.65%) NoSQL
6 16 (9.47%) Amazon Athena
7 11 (6.51%) Amazon Redshift
8 7 (4.14%) Elasticsearch
8 7 (4.14%) Relational Database
9 6 (3.55%) Metadata
9 6 (3.55%) SQL Server
10 5 (2.96%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (2.96%) MySQL
10 5 (2.96%) Redis
11 3 (1.78%) Amazon Aurora
11 3 (1.78%) Data Lake
11 3 (1.78%) Flink
11 3 (1.78%) MariaDB
11 3 (1.78%) Power BI
11 3 (1.78%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 26 (15.38%) Cypress.io
1 26 (15.38%) Jenkins
2 24 (14.20%) Git
3 9 (5.33%) GitLab
4 6 (3.55%) JIRA
5 3 (1.78%) Claude Code
5 3 (1.78%) Maven
5 3 (1.78%) SonarQube
5 3 (1.78%) TeamCity
6 2 (1.18%) ESLint
6 2 (1.18%) Postman
6 2 (1.18%) Selenium
7 1 (0.59%) Browser DevTools
7 1 (0.59%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.59%) git-flow
7 1 (0.59%) Karma Test Runner
7 1 (0.59%) MLflow
7 1 (0.59%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.59%) webpack
7 1 (0.59%) Zephyr
General
1 33 (19.53%) Social Skills
2 12 (7.10%) Finance
3 11 (6.51%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (6.51%) Public Sector
4 8 (4.73%) Health Technology
5 5 (2.96%) Billing
5 5 (2.96%) Publishing
6 4 (2.37%) Tech for Good
7 3 (1.78%) Advertising
7 3 (1.78%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (1.78%) Law
7 3 (1.78%) Military
8 2 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.18%) Marketing
9 1 (0.59%) Banking
9 1 (0.59%) Front Office
9 1 (0.59%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 88 (52.07%) Developer
2 46 (27.22%) Senior
3 37 (21.89%) Full-Stack Developer
4 24 (14.20%) Java Developer
5 22 (13.02%) Lead
5 22 (13.02%) React Developer
6 21 (12.43%) AWS Developer
6 21 (12.43%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 17 (10.06%) Python Developer
7 17 (10.06%) Senior Developer
7 17 (10.06%) Software Developer
8 14 (8.28%) AWS Engineer
9 13 (7.69%) Data Engineer
9 13 (7.69%) Lead Developer
9 13 (7.69%) Node.js Developer
10 12 (7.10%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
11 11 (6.51%) Software Engineer
12 10 (5.92%) Platform Engineer
13 7 (4.14%) Python Engineer
13 7 (4.14%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (53.25%) React
2 86 (50.89%) Node.js
3 27 (15.98%) Jest
4 26 (15.38%) Spring
5 25 (14.79%) Spring Boot
6 24 (14.20%) Ruby on Rails
7 20 (11.83%) Kafka
8 18 (10.65%) AngularJS
8 18 (10.65%) RESTful
9 10 (5.92%) HTML
9 10 (5.92%) REST
10 8 (4.73%) AWS CDK
10 8 (4.73%) Swagger
11 7 (4.14%) Next.js
11 7 (4.14%) Vue
12 5 (2.96%) AWS Amplify
12 5 (2.96%) CSS
12 5 (2.96%) OpenTelemetry
12 5 (2.96%) Pandas
12 5 (2.96%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 30 (17.75%) Cloud Native
2 18 (10.65%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (7.69%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (2.96%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.37%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.78%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.78%) IoT
6 3 (1.78%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.18%) Life Science
7 2 (1.18%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.18%) NHS
7 2 (1.18%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.59%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.59%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.59%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.59%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.59%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.59%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.59%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.78%) Linux
2 2 (1.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.59%) CentOS
3 1 (0.59%) Debian
3 1 (0.59%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (44.97%) CI/CD
2 75 (44.38%) Full-Stack Development
3 58 (34.32%) Microservices
4 55 (32.54%) Agile
4 55 (32.54%) DevOps
5 44 (26.04%) Mentoring
6 38 (22.49%) Infrastructure as Code
7 37 (21.89%) Containerisation
8 36 (21.30%) Software Engineering
9 31 (18.34%) AI
10 30 (17.75%) Event-Driven
10 30 (17.75%) Problem-Solving
11 25 (14.79%) Collaborative Culture
11 25 (14.79%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 24 (14.20%) Mob Programming
13 22 (13.02%) Continuous Improvement
14 21 (12.43%) Continuous Delivery
14 21 (12.43%) Software Delivery
15 20 (11.83%) Observability
15 20 (11.83%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 72 (42.60%) Python
2 62 (36.69%) JavaScript
3 55 (32.54%) TypeScript
4 45 (26.63%) SQL
5 30 (17.75%) Java
6 24 (14.20%) Ruby
7 13 (7.69%) Kotlin
8 10 (5.92%) Bash
9 5 (2.96%) PHP
10 4 (2.37%) Groovy
11 3 (1.78%) C#
11 3 (1.78%) Go
12 2 (1.18%) PowerShell
12 2 (1.18%) Scala
13 1 (0.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.59%) Perl
13 1 (0.59%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (5.33%) SC Cleared
1 9 (5.33%) Security Cleared
2 8 (4.73%) Degree
3 5 (2.96%) AWS Certification
4 3 (1.78%) PhD
5 2 (1.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (1.18%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.59%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.51%) QA
2 7 (4.14%) Data Quality
2 7 (4.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.78%) ISO 9001
4 2 (1.18%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.18%) GDPR
5 1 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.59%) HL7
5 1 (0.59%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.59%) SNOMED CT
5 1 (0.59%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 49 (28.99%) Docker
2 3 (1.78%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 44 (26.04%) Terraform
2 26 (15.38%) Kubernetes
3 12 (7.10%) Ansible
4 8 (4.73%) Grafana
5 4 (2.37%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.78%) Packer
7 2 (1.18%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.59%) Kibana
8 1 (0.59%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.59%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (2.96%) HubSpot
1 5 (2.96%) OpenAI
2 4 (2.37%) Databricks
3 2 (1.18%) Dynatrace
3 2 (1.18%) Red Hat
3 2 (1.18%) Splunk
4 1 (0.59%) AppDynamics
4 1 (0.59%) Apple
4 1 (0.59%) Google
4 1 (0.59%) Informatica
4 1 (0.59%) New Relic
4 1 (0.59%) Oracle
4 1 (0.59%) SaltStack