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

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 206 83 275
Rank change year-on-year -123 +192 +24
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 187 518 332
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.11% 4.04% 1.07%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.92% 8.52% 2.40%
Number of salaries quoted 151 261 308
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £60,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,958 £85,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.87% +21.43% -3.45%
75th Percentile £76,000 £115,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £138,750 £107,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £81,250 £71,500
% change year-on-year -13.85% +13.64% -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 6,407 6,077 13,842
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.07% 47.37% 44.77%
Number of salaries quoted 4,328 4,694 11,994
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,231 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £64,600 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.25% +7.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £82,625 £83,750 £77,500
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 27 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 (4.81%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (4.28%) Apache
3 5 (2.67%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.07%) Tomcat
4 2 (1.07%) WebSphere
4 2 (1.07%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (0.53%) CMS
5 1 (0.53%) SAS
5 1 (0.53%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (3.21%) Spreadsheet
2 3 (1.60%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 187 (100.00%) Serverless
2 186 (99.47%) AWS
3 145 (77.54%) Amazon S3
4 68 (36.36%) Amazon SQS
5 56 (29.95%) Amazon EC2
6 49 (26.20%) AWS CloudFormation
7 45 (24.06%) Amazon ECS
8 38 (20.32%) GitHub
9 31 (16.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 23 (12.30%) Azure
10 23 (12.30%) SaaS
11 22 (11.76%) GitHub Actions
12 21 (11.23%) AWS Step Functions
13 19 (10.16%) Amazon EKS
14 16 (8.56%) Amazon EventBridge
15 14 (7.49%) Amazon Cognito
15 14 (7.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 9 (4.81%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 9 (4.81%) GCP
17 7 (3.74%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.67%) AMQP
1 5 (2.67%) Broadband
1 5 (2.67%) Firewall
2 3 (1.60%) DNS
2 3 (1.60%) VPN
3 2 (1.07%) Network Security
3 2 (1.07%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (26.20%) DynamoDB
2 43 (22.99%) Amazon RDS
3 36 (19.25%) PostgreSQL
4 28 (14.97%) NoSQL
5 18 (9.63%) MongoDB
6 15 (8.02%) Amazon Redshift
6 15 (8.02%) Data Warehouse
7 14 (7.49%) Amazon Athena
8 9 (4.81%) SQL Server
9 7 (3.74%) Data Lake
9 7 (3.74%) Metadata
9 7 (3.74%) MySQL
10 5 (2.67%) Amazon Aurora
11 4 (2.14%) Apache Iceberg
11 4 (2.14%) Relational Database
12 2 (1.07%) DB2
12 2 (1.07%) Power BI
12 2 (1.07%) Tableau
13 1 (0.53%) RDBMS
13 1 (0.53%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 27 (14.44%) Git
2 22 (11.76%) Cypress.io
2 22 (11.76%) Jenkins
3 11 (5.88%) GitLab
4 6 (3.21%) git-flow
5 5 (2.67%) Maven
6 4 (2.14%) JIRA
6 4 (2.14%) SonarQube
7 3 (1.60%) ESLint
8 1 (0.53%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.53%) Browser DevTools
8 1 (0.53%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.53%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.53%) Deequ
8 1 (0.53%) MLflow
8 1 (0.53%) Selenium
8 1 (0.53%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.53%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.53%) webpack
8 1 (0.53%) Zephyr
General
1 58 (31.02%) Social Skills
2 18 (9.63%) Finance
3 16 (8.56%) Health Technology
3 16 (8.56%) Tech for Good
4 15 (8.02%) Publishing
5 14 (7.49%) Influencing Skills
5 14 (7.49%) Organisational Skills
6 13 (6.95%) Public Sector
7 10 (5.35%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (5.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.60%) Billing
8 3 (1.60%) Law
8 3 (1.60%) Military
9 2 (1.07%) Advertising
9 2 (1.07%) Banking
10 1 (0.53%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.53%) Front Office
10 1 (0.53%) Marketing
10 1 (0.53%) Retail
Job Titles
1 96 (51.34%) Developer
2 41 (21.93%) Senior
3 35 (18.72%) AWS Developer
3 35 (18.72%) React Developer
4 33 (17.65%) Lead
5 31 (16.58%) Full-Stack Developer
6 29 (15.51%) Python Developer
7 25 (13.37%) Lead Developer
8 22 (11.76%) Software Developer
9 21 (11.23%) Java Developer
10 17 (9.09%) Lead Python Developer
10 17 (9.09%) Node.js Developer
11 16 (8.56%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 16 (8.56%) Senior Developer
12 15 (8.02%) AWS Engineer
13 14 (7.49%) Software Engineer
14 13 (6.95%) Data Engineer
15 11 (5.88%) Lead Software Developer
16 10 (5.35%) Cloud Engineer
17 9 (4.81%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (41.71%) React
2 76 (40.64%) Node.js
3 32 (17.11%) RESTful
4 30 (16.04%) Spring
5 27 (14.44%) Spring Boot
6 22 (11.76%) Jest
7 18 (9.63%) AngularJS
7 18 (9.63%) Ruby on Rails
8 17 (9.09%) AWS CDK
9 15 (8.02%) HTML
10 14 (7.49%) Kafka
11 12 (6.42%) .NET
12 10 (5.35%) RabbitMQ
13 9 (4.81%) CSS
14 7 (3.74%) REST
15 6 (3.21%) AWS Amplify
15 6 (3.21%) MapLibre
15 6 (3.21%) Material-UI
16 5 (2.67%) .NET Core
17 4 (2.14%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 41 (21.93%) Cloud Native
2 10 (5.35%) Product Ownership
3 5 (2.67%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (2.14%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (2.14%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (2.14%) Linux Command Line
4 4 (2.14%) Security Posture
4 4 (2.14%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (1.60%) Data Structures
5 3 (1.60%) IoT
6 2 (1.07%) NHS
6 2 (1.07%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.07%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.53%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.53%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.53%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.53%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.53%) Video on Demand
7 1 (0.53%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.28%) Linux
2 5 (2.67%) Unix
3 4 (2.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.07%) Windows
5 1 (0.53%) CentOS
5 1 (0.53%) Debian
5 1 (0.53%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (56.68%) CI/CD
2 74 (39.57%) Agile
3 72 (38.50%) DevOps
4 68 (36.36%) Full-Stack Development
5 61 (32.62%) Mentoring
6 47 (25.13%) Infrastructure as Code
7 45 (24.06%) Microservices
8 40 (21.39%) Software Engineering
9 38 (20.32%) Continuous Improvement
9 38 (20.32%) Problem-Solving
10 37 (19.79%) Containerisation
11 27 (14.44%) AI
11 27 (14.44%) Continuous Integration
12 26 (13.90%) Code Quality
13 24 (12.83%) Event-Driven
13 24 (12.83%) Scrum
14 22 (11.76%) Coaching
14 22 (11.76%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 21 (11.23%) TDD
16 20 (10.70%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 85 (45.45%) Python
2 56 (29.95%) JavaScript
3 53 (28.34%) SQL
4 45 (24.06%) TypeScript
5 34 (18.18%) Java
6 18 (9.63%) Ruby
7 15 (8.02%) Bash
8 9 (4.81%) Kotlin
9 8 (4.28%) C#
10 4 (2.14%) Go
10 4 (2.14%) Groovy
10 4 (2.14%) PHP
11 3 (1.60%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 15 (8.02%) AWS Certification
1 15 (8.02%) Security Cleared
2 13 (6.95%) Degree
3 12 (6.42%) SC Cleared
4 3 (1.60%) AWS Certified Developer
4 3 (1.60%) IIBA
4 3 (1.60%) PhD
5 2 (1.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (1.07%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.07%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (1.07%) SnowPro
6 1 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (13.37%) QA
2 7 (3.74%) Data Quality
2 7 (3.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.60%) ISO 9001
4 2 (1.07%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.07%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.07%) SLA
5 1 (0.53%) GDPR
5 1 (0.53%) HL7
5 1 (0.53%) NIST
5 1 (0.53%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.53%) SNOMED CT
5 1 (0.53%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 56 (29.95%) Docker
2 3 (1.60%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 44 (23.53%) Terraform
2 34 (18.18%) Kubernetes
3 13 (6.95%) Grafana
4 12 (6.42%) Ansible
5 6 (3.21%) Prometheus
6 4 (2.14%) Argo
6 4 (2.14%) HP Fortify
7 3 (1.60%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.53%) Kibana
8 1 (0.53%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.53%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (2.14%) Databricks
1 4 (2.14%) PagerDuty
1 4 (2.14%) Red Hat
2 2 (1.07%) IBM
2 2 (1.07%) Okta
3 1 (0.53%) Apple
3 1 (0.53%) Dynatrace
3 1 (0.53%) Google
3 1 (0.53%) Informatica
3 1 (0.53%) Mercator
3 1 (0.53%) Microsoft
3 1 (0.53%) New Relic
3 1 (0.53%) Oracle
3 1 (0.53%) SaltStack