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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 267 271 278
Rank change year-on-year +4 +7 -98
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 161 251 266
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.99% 1.07% 1.08%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.77% 2.63% 2.25%
Number of salaries quoted 127 124 240
10th Percentile £52,500 £56,975 £52,450
25th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £59,450
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.13% +10.71% -12.50%
75th Percentile £81,375 £98,438 £82,500
90th Percentile £91,000 £107,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £74,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -1.33% +7.14% -12.50%

All Cloud 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 5,811 9,559 11,818
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 35.65% 40.78% 48.13%
Number of salaries quoted 4,183 6,605 10,227
10th Percentile £31,629 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - -
75th Percentile £82,500 £86,250 £83,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £115,000 £101,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -

AWS Lambda
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing AWS Lambda as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

AWS Lambda trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

AWS Lambda
Salary Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing AWS Lambda.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing AWS Lambda

AWS Lambda
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing AWS Lambda over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

AWS Lambda salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

AWS Lambda
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 12 (7.45%) Apache
1 12 (7.45%) Apache Spark
2 9 (5.59%) Headless CMS
3 4 (2.48%) Tomcat
3 4 (2.48%) WebSphere
3 4 (2.48%) WebSphere Application Server
4 1 (0.62%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.62%) CMS
Business Applications
1 8 (4.97%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 161 (100.00%) AWS
1 161 (100.00%) Serverless
2 82 (50.93%) Amazon S3
3 49 (30.43%) Amazon EC2
4 43 (26.71%) AWS CloudFormation
5 28 (17.39%) Amazon ECS
6 20 (12.42%) Amazon EKS
7 18 (11.18%) GitHub
7 18 (11.18%) GitHub Actions
7 18 (11.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 17 (10.56%) Amazon SQS
9 16 (9.94%) Azure
10 14 (8.70%) AWS Step Functions
11 13 (8.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 10 (6.21%) Google Analytics
13 8 (4.97%) Amazon EMR
13 8 (4.97%) Figma
13 8 (4.97%) GCP
13 8 (4.97%) Vercel
14 7 (4.35%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.59%) Broadband
2 8 (4.97%) Firewall
3 7 (4.35%) VPN
4 6 (3.73%) Network Security
4 6 (3.73%) SSL
5 5 (3.11%) DNS
6 2 (1.24%) IPv4
6 2 (1.24%) SSH
6 2 (1.24%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.62%) OSPF
7 1 (0.62%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (39.13%) DynamoDB
2 37 (22.98%) Amazon RDS
3 33 (20.50%) Elasticsearch
4 27 (16.77%) Amazon Redshift
5 17 (10.56%) Data Warehouse
6 15 (9.32%) Data Lake
7 11 (6.83%) Amazon Athena
8 9 (5.59%) NoSQL
9 8 (4.97%) PostgreSQL
10 6 (3.73%) SQL Server
11 4 (2.48%) Big Data
11 4 (2.48%) DB2
12 3 (1.86%) MySQL
13 2 (1.24%) Metadata
13 2 (1.24%) Parquet
13 2 (1.24%) Tableau
14 1 (0.62%) Amazon Aurora
14 1 (0.62%) Looker
14 1 (0.62%) Redis
14 1 (0.62%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 19 (11.80%) Jenkins
2 10 (6.21%) Git
3 9 (5.59%) Cypress.io
3 9 (5.59%) GitLab
4 5 (3.11%) Cucumber
4 5 (3.11%) IntelliJ
4 5 (3.11%) JUnit
4 5 (3.11%) Maven
4 5 (3.11%) Mockito
5 4 (2.48%) JIRA
6 3 (1.86%) Jasmine
6 3 (1.86%) Karma Test Runner
7 2 (1.24%) ER Studio
8 1 (0.62%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.62%) Bitbucket
General
1 39 (24.22%) Social Skills
2 35 (21.74%) Tech for Good
3 29 (18.01%) Health Technology
3 29 (18.01%) Publishing
4 21 (13.04%) Finance
5 16 (9.94%) Public Sector
6 7 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (3.11%) Banking
7 5 (3.11%) Games
8 4 (2.48%) Advertising
8 4 (2.48%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.86%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.86%) Marketing
9 3 (1.86%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.86%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.24%) Law
11 1 (0.62%) Back Office
11 1 (0.62%) Retail
Job Titles
1 94 (58.39%) Senior
2 62 (38.51%) Developer
3 56 (34.78%) Senior Developer
4 28 (17.39%) Python Developer
5 26 (16.15%) Data Engineer
5 26 (16.15%) Senior Python Developer
6 25 (15.53%) AWS Engineer
7 19 (11.80%) AWS Developer
8 17 (10.56%) Software Developer
9 16 (9.94%) Senior Software Developer
10 15 (9.32%) Senior Data Engineer
11 13 (8.07%) AWS DevOps
11 13 (8.07%) DevOps Engineer
12 11 (6.83%) Architect
12 11 (6.83%) Cloud Engineer
12 11 (6.83%) Lead
13 10 (6.21%) AWS Data Engineer
13 10 (6.21%) Senior DevOps
13 10 (6.21%) Software Engineer
14 9 (5.59%) AWS Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (34.78%) React
2 41 (25.47%) RESTful
3 26 (16.15%) Swagger
4 19 (11.80%) GraphQL
4 19 (11.80%) Node.js
5 17 (10.56%) Spring
5 17 (10.56%) Spring Boot
6 12 (7.45%) AWS CDK
6 12 (7.45%) Kafka
6 12 (7.45%) Next.js
7 11 (6.83%) CSS
7 11 (6.83%) HTML
8 10 (6.21%) Elastic Stack
9 9 (5.59%) AngularJS
9 9 (5.59%) Express.js
9 9 (5.59%) Jest
10 8 (4.97%) Playwright
10 8 (4.97%) Tailwind CSS
10 8 (4.97%) Vitest
11 7 (4.35%) Serverless Framework
Miscellaneous
1 17 (10.56%) Cloud Native
2 15 (9.32%) Management Information System
3 6 (3.73%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (3.11%) Credit Derivative
4 5 (3.11%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (2.48%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (2.48%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (2.48%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.86%) Enterprise Cloud
6 3 (1.86%) Mobile App
6 3 (1.86%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.24%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (1.24%) Cyberattack
7 2 (1.24%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.24%) IVR
7 2 (1.24%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.24%) Online Games
7 2 (1.24%) PKI
7 2 (1.24%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.24%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 26 (16.15%) Linux
2 8 (4.97%) Windows
3 7 (4.35%) Unix
4 4 (2.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (44.10%) CI/CD
2 64 (39.75%) Agile
3 49 (30.43%) DevOps
3 49 (30.43%) Infrastructure as Code
4 44 (27.33%) Problem-Solving
5 43 (26.71%) Mentoring
5 43 (26.71%) Software Engineering
6 40 (24.84%) Pair Programming
7 37 (22.98%) TDD
8 33 (20.50%) Scrum
9 31 (19.25%) Analytics
9 31 (19.25%) Data Science
10 29 (18.01%) Operational Stability
11 28 (17.39%) Continuous Delivery
12 27 (16.77%) Containerisation
12 27 (16.77%) Software Testing
13 26 (16.15%) Microservices
14 24 (14.91%) ETL
15 21 (13.04%) Data Pipeline
16 19 (11.80%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 106 (65.84%) Python
2 62 (38.51%) TypeScript
3 43 (26.71%) SQL
4 28 (17.39%) Java
5 25 (15.53%) JavaScript
6 16 (9.94%) Bash
7 8 (4.97%) PowerShell
8 7 (4.35%) C#
9 5 (3.11%) C++
9 5 (3.11%) Scala
10 4 (2.48%) Go
11 3 (1.86%) PHP
12 2 (1.24%) R
13 1 (0.62%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 43 (26.71%) AWS Certification
2 23 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 18 (11.18%) SC Cleared
4 16 (9.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 14 (8.70%) Degree
6 7 (4.35%) SnowPro
7 5 (3.11%) AWS Certified Developer
8 4 (2.48%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 4 (2.48%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (2.48%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (1.24%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 2 (1.24%) CISA
9 2 (1.24%) CISM
9 2 (1.24%) CISSP
9 2 (1.24%) CRISC
9 2 (1.24%) DBS Check
9 2 (1.24%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.62%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (22.98%) QA
2 11 (6.83%) Accessibility
3 8 (4.97%) GDPR
3 8 (4.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (3.73%) Data Quality
4 6 (3.73%) SLA
5 5 (3.11%) HIPAA
6 4 (2.48%) SOC 2
7 3 (1.86%) PCI DSS
8 2 (1.24%) NIST
9 1 (0.62%) WCAG
System Software
1 29 (18.01%) Docker
2 2 (1.24%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.24%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 55 (34.16%) Terraform
2 33 (20.50%) Kubernetes
3 16 (9.94%) Grafana
4 14 (8.70%) Ansible
5 13 (8.07%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.24%) Argo
6 2 (1.24%) Kibana
6 2 (1.24%) logstash
6 2 (1.24%) Puppet
7 1 (0.62%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 9 (5.59%) IBM
2 8 (4.97%) Apple
3 4 (2.48%) Red Hat
4 3 (1.86%) Databricks
5 2 (1.24%) Avaya
5 2 (1.24%) Facebook
5 2 (1.24%) Genesys
5 2 (1.24%) Google
5 2 (1.24%) OpenAI
5 2 (1.24%) Thales
6 1 (0.62%) HubSpot
6 1 (0.62%) PagerDuty