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 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 249 142 268
Rank change year-on-year -107 +126 -64
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 155 453 249
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.97% 2.28% 1.14%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.80% 5.18% 2.36%
Number of salaries quoted 120 124 217
10th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £63,438 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,000 £79,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.19% +17.04% -13.46%
75th Percentile £81,750 £99,375 £78,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £118,750 £87,500
UK median annual salary £70,500 £79,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.76% +12.86% -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 5,542 8,751 10,529
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 34.77% 44.05% 48.16%
Number of salaries quoted 4,118 5,667 8,990
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - -
75th Percentile £82,248 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £112,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% -

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 5 November 2025.

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 10 (6.45%) Apache
1 10 (6.45%) Apache Spark
2 8 (5.16%) Headless CMS
3 6 (3.87%) Tomcat
3 6 (3.87%) WebSphere
3 6 (3.87%) WebSphere Application Server
4 3 (1.94%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.65%) SAS
Business Applications
1 8 (5.16%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 155 (100.00%) AWS
1 155 (100.00%) Serverless
2 96 (61.94%) Amazon S3
3 44 (28.39%) AWS CloudFormation
4 43 (27.74%) Amazon EC2
5 34 (21.94%) Amazon ECS
6 24 (15.48%) Amazon SQS
7 23 (14.84%) Amazon EKS
8 22 (14.19%) GitHub
9 19 (12.26%) Azure
10 18 (11.61%) GitHub Actions
10 18 (11.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 17 (10.97%) AWS Step Functions
12 14 (9.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 9 (5.81%) GCP
13 9 (5.81%) Google Analytics
13 9 (5.81%) Snowflake
14 8 (5.16%) Amazon EMR
14 8 (5.16%) Figma
14 8 (5.16%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 11 (7.10%) Broadband
2 8 (5.16%) SSL
3 7 (4.52%) Firewall
4 5 (3.23%) DNS
4 5 (3.23%) VPN
5 3 (1.94%) Network Security
6 2 (1.29%) SSH
6 2 (1.29%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (38.71%) DynamoDB
2 40 (25.81%) Amazon RDS
3 28 (18.06%) Amazon Redshift
4 24 (15.48%) Data Warehouse
5 21 (13.55%) Elasticsearch
6 16 (10.32%) NoSQL
7 15 (9.68%) Data Lake
8 12 (7.74%) PostgreSQL
9 9 (5.81%) SQL Server
10 8 (5.16%) Amazon Athena
11 6 (3.87%) DB2
12 5 (3.23%) Apache Iceberg
12 5 (3.23%) MySQL
13 4 (2.58%) Metadata
14 2 (1.29%) Amazon Aurora
14 2 (1.29%) Relational Database
15 1 (0.65%) Apache Hudi
15 1 (0.65%) Delta Lake
15 1 (0.65%) Spark SQL
15 1 (0.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 14 (9.03%) Jenkins
2 9 (5.81%) Cypress.io
3 6 (3.87%) Git
3 6 (3.87%) GitLab
4 4 (2.58%) git-flow
5 2 (1.29%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.65%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.65%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.65%) Deequ
6 1 (0.65%) IntelliJ
6 1 (0.65%) Jasmine
6 1 (0.65%) JIRA
6 1 (0.65%) JUnit
6 1 (0.65%) Karma Test Runner
6 1 (0.65%) Maven
6 1 (0.65%) Mockito
General
1 47 (30.32%) Social Skills
2 29 (18.71%) Tech for Good
3 22 (14.19%) Finance
3 22 (14.19%) Health Technology
3 22 (14.19%) Publishing
4 19 (12.26%) Public Sector
5 10 (6.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (3.87%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (3.87%) Banking
6 6 (3.87%) Influencing Skills
6 6 (3.87%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (2.58%) Games
8 3 (1.94%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.29%) Law
9 2 (1.29%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.65%) Advertising
10 1 (0.65%) Back Office
10 1 (0.65%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.65%) Marketing
10 1 (0.65%) Retail
Job Titles
1 77 (49.68%) Senior
2 55 (35.48%) Developer
3 44 (28.39%) Senior Developer
4 26 (16.77%) Python Developer
5 22 (14.19%) AWS Developer
5 22 (14.19%) Data Engineer
6 20 (12.90%) Senior Python Developer
7 19 (12.26%) AWS Engineer
7 19 (12.26%) Software Engineer
8 13 (8.39%) DevOps Engineer
8 13 (8.39%) Software Developer
9 12 (7.74%) Architect
9 12 (7.74%) Full-Stack Developer
9 12 (7.74%) Lead
9 12 (7.74%) Senior Data Engineer
9 12 (7.74%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
10 11 (7.10%) Cloud Engineer
10 11 (7.10%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 11 (7.10%) React Developer
11 9 (5.81%) Applications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (36.77%) React
2 36 (23.23%) RESTful
3 23 (14.84%) Node.js
4 20 (12.90%) GraphQL
5 17 (10.97%) Spring
6 16 (10.32%) AWS CDK
6 16 (10.32%) Spring Boot
6 16 (10.32%) Swagger
7 13 (8.39%) CSS
8 12 (7.74%) HTML
9 11 (7.10%) Next.js
10 10 (6.45%) Kafka
11 9 (5.81%) .NET
11 9 (5.81%) AngularJS
12 8 (5.16%) Express.js
12 8 (5.16%) Jest
12 8 (5.16%) Playwright
12 8 (5.16%) Tailwind CSS
12 8 (5.16%) Vitest
13 7 (4.52%) Serverless Framework
Miscellaneous
1 34 (21.94%) Cloud Native
2 9 (5.81%) Product Ownership
3 8 (5.16%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (4.52%) Management Information System
5 6 (3.87%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (2.58%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.94%) Enterprise Cloud
7 3 (1.94%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.29%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (1.29%) Cyberattack
8 2 (1.29%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.29%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.29%) IVR
8 2 (1.29%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.29%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.29%) PKI
9 1 (0.65%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.65%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.65%) Over-the-Top Content
9 1 (0.65%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 19 (12.26%) Linux
2 9 (5.81%) Unix
3 8 (5.16%) Windows
4 6 (3.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (53.55%) CI/CD
2 72 (46.45%) Agile
3 54 (34.84%) Mentoring
4 53 (34.19%) DevOps
5 51 (32.90%) Infrastructure as Code
6 44 (28.39%) Software Engineering
7 40 (25.81%) Problem-Solving
8 36 (23.23%) Pair Programming
9 29 (18.71%) Scrum
10 28 (18.06%) Microservices
10 28 (18.06%) TDD
11 26 (16.77%) Analytics
11 26 (16.77%) Full-Stack Development
12 23 (14.84%) Data Science
13 22 (14.19%) Containerisation
13 22 (14.19%) Data Modelling
13 22 (14.19%) Data Pipeline
13 22 (14.19%) Operational Stability
14 19 (12.26%) AI
15 18 (11.61%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 95 (61.29%) Python
2 58 (37.42%) TypeScript
3 36 (23.23%) SQL
4 26 (16.77%) JavaScript
5 22 (14.19%) Java
6 13 (8.39%) Bash
7 9 (5.81%) C#
8 4 (2.58%) Go
8 4 (2.58%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.29%) Scala
10 1 (0.65%) C++
10 1 (0.65%) PHP
Qualifications
1 38 (24.52%) AWS Certification
2 23 (14.84%) Security Cleared
3 20 (12.90%) SC Cleared
4 12 (7.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 11 (7.10%) Degree
6 8 (5.16%) SnowPro
7 6 (3.87%) ITIL Certification
8 5 (3.23%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (1.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (1.29%) CISA
9 2 (1.29%) CISM
9 2 (1.29%) CISSP
9 2 (1.29%) CRISC
10 1 (0.65%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (0.65%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.65%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (21.94%) QA
2 9 (5.81%) Accessibility
3 7 (4.52%) Data Quality
3 7 (4.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (3.87%) SLA
5 4 (2.58%) GDPR
6 3 (1.94%) NIST
6 3 (1.94%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.94%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.65%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.65%) WCAG
System Software
1 23 (14.84%) Docker
2 2 (1.29%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.65%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 51 (32.90%) Terraform
2 33 (21.29%) Kubernetes
3 14 (9.03%) Grafana
4 11 (7.10%) Prometheus
5 8 (5.16%) Ansible
6 4 (2.58%) Argo
7 1 (0.65%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 8 (5.16%) Apple
2 7 (4.52%) IBM
3 6 (3.87%) Red Hat
4 3 (1.94%) Databricks
4 3 (1.94%) PagerDuty
5 2 (1.29%) Avaya
5 2 (1.29%) Genesys
5 2 (1.29%) OpenAI
5 2 (1.29%) Thales
6 1 (0.65%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.65%) Facebook
6 1 (0.65%) Google