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

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 219 82 265
Rank change year-on-year -137 +183 +28
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 181 546 324
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.08% 3.93% 1.08%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.90% 8.29% 2.39%
Number of salaries quoted 147 268 300
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £51,716
25th Percentile £56,250 £60,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £90,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +28.57% -3.45%
75th Percentile £76,000 £115,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £138,750 £105,125
UK median annual salary £70,000 £80,000 £71,500
% change year-on-year -12.50% +11.89% -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 6,248 6,587 13,560
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.26% 47.43% 45.36%
Number of salaries quoted 4,246 4,735 11,797
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,319 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,100 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.54% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £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 12 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 8 (4.42%) Apache
1 8 (4.42%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (3.31%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.10%) Tomcat
3 2 (1.10%) WebSphere
3 2 (1.10%) WebSphere Application Server
4 1 (0.55%) CMS
4 1 (0.55%) SAS
4 1 (0.55%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (3.31%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (1.10%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 181 (100.00%) Serverless
2 180 (99.45%) AWS
3 138 (76.24%) Amazon S3
4 64 (35.36%) Amazon SQS
5 52 (28.73%) Amazon EC2
6 48 (26.52%) AWS CloudFormation
7 42 (23.20%) Amazon ECS
8 36 (19.89%) GitHub
9 28 (15.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 24 (13.26%) Azure
11 23 (12.71%) SaaS
12 21 (11.60%) AWS Step Functions
12 21 (11.60%) GitHub Actions
13 18 (9.94%) Amazon EKS
14 15 (8.29%) Amazon EventBridge
15 13 (7.18%) Amazon Cognito
16 12 (6.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 10 (5.52%) GCP
18 8 (4.42%) Amazon OpenSearch
19 7 (3.87%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.76%) AMQP
2 4 (2.21%) Broadband
2 4 (2.21%) Firewall
3 2 (1.10%) DNS
3 2 (1.10%) Network Security
3 2 (1.10%) SSL
3 2 (1.10%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (25.41%) DynamoDB
2 41 (22.65%) Amazon RDS
3 35 (19.34%) PostgreSQL
4 27 (14.92%) NoSQL
5 16 (8.84%) Amazon Redshift
5 16 (8.84%) Data Warehouse
5 16 (8.84%) MongoDB
6 12 (6.63%) Amazon Athena
7 10 (5.52%) SQL Server
8 8 (4.42%) Data Lake
9 7 (3.87%) Metadata
9 7 (3.87%) MySQL
10 5 (2.76%) Amazon Aurora
10 5 (2.76%) Apache Iceberg
11 4 (2.21%) Relational Database
12 2 (1.10%) DB2
12 2 (1.10%) Power BI
12 2 (1.10%) Tableau
13 1 (0.55%) RDBMS
13 1 (0.55%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 25 (13.81%) Git
2 20 (11.05%) Cypress.io
2 20 (11.05%) Jenkins
3 11 (6.08%) GitLab
4 5 (2.76%) git-flow
5 4 (2.21%) JIRA
5 4 (2.21%) Maven
5 4 (2.21%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.66%) ESLint
7 1 (0.55%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.55%) Browser DevTools
7 1 (0.55%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.55%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.55%) Deequ
7 1 (0.55%) Selenium
7 1 (0.55%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.55%) webpack
7 1 (0.55%) Zephyr
General
1 57 (31.49%) Social Skills
2 16 (8.84%) Finance
2 16 (8.84%) Health Technology
2 16 (8.84%) Tech for Good
3 15 (8.29%) Publishing
4 14 (7.73%) Influencing Skills
4 14 (7.73%) Organisational Skills
5 12 (6.63%) Public Sector
6 10 (5.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (4.42%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (1.66%) Billing
8 3 (1.66%) Law
8 3 (1.66%) Military
9 2 (1.10%) Banking
10 1 (0.55%) Advertising
10 1 (0.55%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.55%) Front Office
10 1 (0.55%) Marketing
10 1 (0.55%) Retail
Job Titles
1 92 (50.83%) Developer
2 38 (20.99%) Senior
3 35 (19.34%) AWS Developer
3 35 (19.34%) React Developer
4 31 (17.13%) Lead
5 29 (16.02%) Full-Stack Developer
6 28 (15.47%) Python Developer
7 25 (13.81%) Lead Developer
8 21 (11.60%) Software Developer
9 20 (11.05%) Java Developer
10 17 (9.39%) AWS Engineer
10 17 (9.39%) Lead Python Developer
10 17 (9.39%) Node.js Developer
11 16 (8.84%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 16 (8.84%) Software Engineer
12 15 (8.29%) Senior Developer
13 14 (7.73%) Data Engineer
14 11 (6.08%) Lead Software Developer
15 10 (5.52%) Cloud Engineer
16 8 (4.42%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (41.99%) React
2 74 (40.88%) Node.js
3 31 (17.13%) RESTful
3 31 (17.13%) Spring
4 28 (15.47%) Spring Boot
5 20 (11.05%) Jest
6 18 (9.94%) AngularJS
7 16 (8.84%) AWS CDK
7 16 (8.84%) Ruby on Rails
8 15 (8.29%) HTML
9 14 (7.73%) Kafka
10 12 (6.63%) .NET
11 10 (5.52%) RabbitMQ
12 9 (4.97%) CSS
13 7 (3.87%) REST
14 6 (3.31%) AWS Amplify
14 6 (3.31%) MapLibre
14 6 (3.31%) Material-UI
14 6 (3.31%) PySpark
15 5 (2.76%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 43 (23.76%) Cloud Native
2 9 (4.97%) Product Ownership
3 5 (2.76%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (2.76%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (2.21%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (2.21%) Security Posture
5 3 (1.66%) Data Structures
5 3 (1.66%) IoT
5 3 (1.66%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.10%) NHS
6 2 (1.10%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.55%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.55%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.55%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.55%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.55%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.55%) Video on Demand
7 1 (0.55%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.87%) Linux
2 5 (2.76%) Unix
3 3 (1.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.10%) Windows
5 1 (0.55%) CentOS
5 1 (0.55%) Debian
5 1 (0.55%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (58.01%) CI/CD
2 72 (39.78%) Agile
3 70 (38.67%) DevOps
4 65 (35.91%) Full-Stack Development
5 58 (32.04%) Mentoring
6 47 (25.97%) Infrastructure as Code
7 44 (24.31%) Microservices
8 41 (22.65%) Software Engineering
9 38 (20.99%) Continuous Improvement
9 38 (20.99%) Problem-Solving
10 35 (19.34%) Containerisation
11 26 (14.36%) AI
11 26 (14.36%) Code Quality
11 26 (14.36%) Continuous Integration
12 23 (12.71%) Coaching
12 23 (12.71%) Event-Driven
13 22 (12.15%) Scrum
14 21 (11.60%) Collaborative Culture
14 21 (11.60%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 21 (11.60%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 80 (44.20%) Python
2 56 (30.94%) JavaScript
3 51 (28.18%) SQL
4 46 (25.41%) TypeScript
5 35 (19.34%) Java
6 16 (8.84%) Ruby
7 14 (7.73%) Bash
8 8 (4.42%) C#
8 8 (4.42%) Kotlin
9 4 (2.21%) Go
9 4 (2.21%) PHP
10 3 (1.66%) Groovy
10 3 (1.66%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 16 (8.84%) AWS Certification
2 15 (8.29%) Security Cleared
3 12 (6.63%) Degree
3 12 (6.63%) SC Cleared
4 3 (1.66%) AWS Certified Developer
4 3 (1.66%) IIBA
5 2 (1.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.10%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (1.10%) PhD
5 2 (1.10%) SnowPro
6 1 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (13.81%) QA
2 9 (4.97%) Data Quality
3 7 (3.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.66%) ISO 9001
5 2 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.10%) SLA
6 1 (0.55%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.55%) GDPR
6 1 (0.55%) HL7
6 1 (0.55%) NIST
6 1 (0.55%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.55%) SNOMED CT
6 1 (0.55%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 54 (29.83%) Docker
2 3 (1.66%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 44 (24.31%) Terraform
2 36 (19.89%) Kubernetes
3 12 (6.63%) Grafana
4 10 (5.52%) Ansible
5 7 (3.87%) Prometheus
6 4 (2.21%) Argo
6 4 (2.21%) HP Fortify
7 3 (1.66%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.55%) Kibana
8 1 (0.55%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (2.21%) Databricks
1 4 (2.21%) PagerDuty
2 3 (1.66%) Red Hat
3 2 (1.10%) IBM
3 2 (1.10%) Okta
4 1 (0.55%) Apple
4 1 (0.55%) Dynatrace
4 1 (0.55%) Google
4 1 (0.55%) Informatica
4 1 (0.55%) Mercator
4 1 (0.55%) Microsoft
4 1 (0.55%) New Relic
4 1 (0.55%) Oracle
4 1 (0.55%) SaltStack