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 31 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 213 82 278
Rank change year-on-year -131 +196 +26
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 185 499 337
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.11% 3.89% 1.09%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.85% 8.28% 2.43%
Number of salaries quoted 150 260 312
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 £87,500 £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 6,483 6,024 13,843
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.85% 46.95% 44.59%
Number of salaries quoted 4,375 4,689 11,989
10th Percentile £32,500 £33,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,000 £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 31 March 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 (4.86%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (4.32%) Apache
3 5 (2.70%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.08%) Tomcat
4 2 (1.08%) WebSphere
4 2 (1.08%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (0.54%) CMS
5 1 (0.54%) SAS
5 1 (0.54%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (3.24%) Spreadsheet
2 3 (1.62%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 185 (100.00%) Serverless
2 184 (99.46%) AWS
3 143 (77.30%) Amazon S3
4 68 (36.76%) Amazon SQS
5 55 (29.73%) Amazon EC2
6 47 (25.41%) AWS CloudFormation
7 45 (24.32%) Amazon ECS
8 37 (20.00%) GitHub
9 32 (17.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 22 (11.89%) Azure
10 22 (11.89%) GitHub Actions
10 22 (11.89%) SaaS
11 20 (10.81%) AWS Step Functions
12 19 (10.27%) Amazon EKS
13 16 (8.65%) Amazon EventBridge
14 14 (7.57%) Amazon Cognito
15 13 (7.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 9 (4.86%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 8 (4.32%) GCP
18 7 (3.78%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.70%) AMQP
1 5 (2.70%) Broadband
1 5 (2.70%) Firewall
2 3 (1.62%) DNS
2 3 (1.62%) VPN
3 2 (1.08%) Network Security
3 2 (1.08%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (25.41%) DynamoDB
2 41 (22.16%) Amazon RDS
3 37 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
4 27 (14.59%) NoSQL
5 19 (10.27%) MongoDB
6 14 (7.57%) Amazon Athena
6 14 (7.57%) Amazon Redshift
7 13 (7.03%) Data Warehouse
8 8 (4.32%) Data Lake
8 8 (4.32%) SQL Server
9 7 (3.78%) Metadata
10 6 (3.24%) MySQL
11 5 (2.70%) Amazon Aurora
12 4 (2.16%) Relational Database
13 3 (1.62%) Apache Iceberg
13 3 (1.62%) Power BI
14 2 (1.08%) DB2
14 2 (1.08%) Tableau
15 1 (0.54%) RDBMS
15 1 (0.54%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 27 (14.59%) Git
2 23 (12.43%) Cypress.io
3 22 (11.89%) Jenkins
4 11 (5.95%) GitLab
5 5 (2.70%) git-flow
5 5 (2.70%) Maven
6 4 (2.16%) JIRA
6 4 (2.16%) SonarQube
7 3 (1.62%) ESLint
8 1 (0.54%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.54%) Browser DevTools
8 1 (0.54%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.54%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.54%) Deequ
8 1 (0.54%) MLflow
8 1 (0.54%) Selenium
8 1 (0.54%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.54%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.54%) webpack
8 1 (0.54%) Zephyr
General
1 55 (29.73%) Social Skills
2 18 (9.73%) Finance
3 16 (8.65%) Health Technology
3 16 (8.65%) Tech for Good
4 15 (8.11%) Publishing
5 14 (7.57%) Influencing Skills
5 14 (7.57%) Organisational Skills
6 13 (7.03%) Public Sector
7 10 (5.41%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (5.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.62%) Billing
8 3 (1.62%) Law
8 3 (1.62%) Military
9 2 (1.08%) Advertising
9 2 (1.08%) Banking
10 1 (0.54%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.54%) Front Office
10 1 (0.54%) Marketing
10 1 (0.54%) Retail
Job Titles
1 96 (51.89%) Developer
2 39 (21.08%) Senior
3 35 (18.92%) AWS Developer
3 35 (18.92%) React Developer
4 33 (17.84%) Lead
5 31 (16.76%) Full-Stack Developer
6 29 (15.68%) Python Developer
7 25 (13.51%) Lead Developer
8 22 (11.89%) Software Developer
9 21 (11.35%) Java Developer
10 17 (9.19%) Lead Python Developer
10 17 (9.19%) Node.js Developer
11 16 (8.65%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 15 (8.11%) Senior Developer
13 14 (7.57%) AWS Engineer
13 14 (7.57%) Software Engineer
14 12 (6.49%) Data Engineer
15 11 (5.95%) Lead Software Developer
16 10 (5.41%) Cloud Engineer
17 9 (4.86%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (42.16%) React
2 77 (41.62%) Node.js
3 32 (17.30%) RESTful
4 30 (16.22%) Spring
5 27 (14.59%) Spring Boot
6 23 (12.43%) Jest
7 19 (10.27%) Ruby on Rails
8 18 (9.73%) AngularJS
9 16 (8.65%) AWS CDK
10 15 (8.11%) HTML
11 13 (7.03%) Kafka
12 11 (5.95%) .NET
13 9 (4.86%) RabbitMQ
14 8 (4.32%) CSS
15 7 (3.78%) REST
16 6 (3.24%) AWS Amplify
16 6 (3.24%) MapLibre
17 5 (2.70%) .NET Core
17 5 (2.70%) Material-UI
18 4 (2.16%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 38 (20.54%) Cloud Native
2 8 (4.32%) Product Ownership
3 5 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (2.16%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (2.16%) Linux Command Line
4 4 (2.16%) Security Posture
4 4 (2.16%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (1.62%) Data Structures
5 3 (1.62%) IoT
5 3 (1.62%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.08%) NHS
6 2 (1.08%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.54%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.54%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.54%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.54%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.54%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.54%) Video on Demand
7 1 (0.54%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.32%) Linux
2 5 (2.70%) Unix
3 4 (2.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.08%) Windows
5 1 (0.54%) CentOS
5 1 (0.54%) Debian
5 1 (0.54%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (56.76%) CI/CD
2 71 (38.38%) Agile
2 71 (38.38%) DevOps
3 68 (36.76%) Full-Stack Development
4 59 (31.89%) Mentoring
5 45 (24.32%) Infrastructure as Code
5 45 (24.32%) Microservices
6 40 (21.62%) Software Engineering
7 38 (20.54%) Continuous Improvement
8 36 (19.46%) Containerisation
8 36 (19.46%) Problem-Solving
9 27 (14.59%) AI
9 27 (14.59%) Continuous Integration
10 26 (14.05%) Code Quality
11 24 (12.97%) Scrum
12 23 (12.43%) Event-Driven
13 22 (11.89%) Coaching
14 21 (11.35%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 21 (11.35%) TDD
15 20 (10.81%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 83 (44.86%) Python
2 57 (30.81%) JavaScript
3 52 (28.11%) SQL
4 44 (23.78%) TypeScript
5 34 (18.38%) Java
6 19 (10.27%) Ruby
7 15 (8.11%) Bash
8 9 (4.86%) Kotlin
9 7 (3.78%) C#
10 4 (2.16%) Go
10 4 (2.16%) Groovy
10 4 (2.16%) PHP
11 3 (1.62%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 14 (7.57%) AWS Certification
1 14 (7.57%) Security Cleared
2 13 (7.03%) Degree
3 11 (5.95%) SC Cleared
4 3 (1.62%) AWS Certified Developer
4 3 (1.62%) IIBA
4 3 (1.62%) PhD
5 2 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.08%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (1.08%) SnowPro
6 1 (0.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.54%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (12.97%) QA
2 7 (3.78%) Data Quality
2 7 (3.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.62%) ISO 9001
4 2 (1.08%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.08%) SLA
5 1 (0.54%) GDPR
5 1 (0.54%) HL7
5 1 (0.54%) NIST
5 1 (0.54%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.54%) SNOMED CT
5 1 (0.54%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 55 (29.73%) Docker
2 3 (1.62%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 43 (23.24%) Terraform
2 33 (17.84%) Kubernetes
3 13 (7.03%) Grafana
4 12 (6.49%) Ansible
5 6 (3.24%) Prometheus
6 4 (2.16%) Argo
6 4 (2.16%) HP Fortify
7 3 (1.62%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.54%) Kibana
8 1 (0.54%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.54%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (2.16%) Databricks
1 4 (2.16%) PagerDuty
1 4 (2.16%) Red Hat
2 2 (1.08%) IBM
2 2 (1.08%) Okta
3 1 (0.54%) Apple
3 1 (0.54%) Dynatrace
3 1 (0.54%) Google
3 1 (0.54%) Informatica
3 1 (0.54%) Mercator
3 1 (0.54%) Microsoft
3 1 (0.54%) New Relic
3 1 (0.54%) Oracle
3 1 (0.54%) SaltStack