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 22 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 265 171 266
Rank change year-on-year -94 +95 -70
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 146 396 257
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.90% 1.95% 1.12%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.56% 4.46% 2.34%
Number of salaries quoted 113 122 225
10th Percentile £52,500 £50,675 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,000 £77,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.55% +14.81% -15.63%
75th Percentile £82,500 £97,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,500 £118,750 £90,000
UK median annual salary £71,000 £77,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -8.39% +10.71% -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 5,695 8,871 10,996
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 34.95% 43.79% 47.96%
Number of salaries quoted 4,015 5,835 9,389
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,678 £48,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - -
75th Percentile £82,500 £86,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £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 22 October 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 (6.85%) Apache
1 10 (6.85%) Apache Spark
2 8 (5.48%) Headless CMS
3 6 (4.11%) Tomcat
3 6 (4.11%) WebSphere
3 6 (4.11%) WebSphere Application Server
4 3 (2.05%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.68%) SAS
Business Applications
1 8 (5.48%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 146 (100.00%) AWS
1 146 (100.00%) Serverless
2 87 (59.59%) Amazon S3
3 46 (31.51%) Amazon EC2
4 39 (26.71%) AWS CloudFormation
5 31 (21.23%) Amazon ECS
6 21 (14.38%) GitHub
7 19 (13.01%) Amazon EKS
7 19 (13.01%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 18 (12.33%) GitHub Actions
9 17 (11.64%) Amazon SQS
10 14 (9.59%) AWS Step Functions
10 14 (9.59%) Azure
11 11 (7.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 10 (6.85%) Google Analytics
12 10 (6.85%) Snowflake
13 9 (6.16%) Amazon EMR
14 8 (5.48%) Figma
14 8 (5.48%) GCP
14 8 (5.48%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.16%) Broadband
2 8 (5.48%) SSL
3 6 (4.11%) Firewall
3 6 (4.11%) VPN
4 5 (3.42%) DNS
5 3 (2.05%) Network Security
6 2 (1.37%) SSH
6 2 (1.37%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (38.36%) DynamoDB
2 37 (25.34%) Amazon RDS
3 30 (20.55%) Amazon Redshift
4 24 (16.44%) Data Warehouse
4 24 (16.44%) Elasticsearch
5 15 (10.27%) Data Lake
6 12 (8.22%) NoSQL
7 11 (7.53%) PostgreSQL
8 8 (5.48%) Amazon Athena
8 8 (5.48%) SQL Server
9 6 (4.11%) DB2
10 5 (3.42%) Apache Iceberg
11 4 (2.74%) Metadata
11 4 (2.74%) MySQL
12 2 (1.37%) Amazon Aurora
12 2 (1.37%) Relational Database
12 2 (1.37%) Tableau
13 1 (0.68%) Delta Lake
13 1 (0.68%) Spark SQL
13 1 (0.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 17 (11.64%) Jenkins
2 9 (6.16%) Cypress.io
3 7 (4.79%) GitLab
4 6 (4.11%) Git
5 3 (2.05%) Cucumber
5 3 (2.05%) git-flow
5 3 (2.05%) IntelliJ
5 3 (2.05%) Jasmine
5 3 (2.05%) JUnit
5 3 (2.05%) Karma Test Runner
5 3 (2.05%) Maven
5 3 (2.05%) Mockito
6 2 (1.37%) ER Studio
6 2 (1.37%) JIRA
7 1 (0.68%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.68%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.68%) Deequ
General
1 39 (26.71%) Social Skills
2 27 (18.49%) Tech for Good
3 25 (17.12%) Finance
4 20 (13.70%) Health Technology
4 20 (13.70%) Publishing
5 17 (11.64%) Public Sector
6 8 (5.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (4.11%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (4.11%) Banking
8 5 (3.42%) Games
9 3 (2.05%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.37%) Advertising
10 2 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.37%) Law
10 2 (1.37%) Marketing
10 2 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.37%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.68%) Back Office
11 1 (0.68%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.68%) Retail
Job Titles
1 78 (53.42%) Senior
2 51 (34.93%) Developer
3 46 (31.51%) Senior Developer
4 24 (16.44%) Data Engineer
5 23 (15.75%) Python Developer
6 21 (14.38%) Senior Python Developer
7 20 (13.70%) AWS Engineer
8 17 (11.64%) AWS Developer
9 13 (8.90%) Architect
9 13 (8.90%) DevOps Engineer
9 13 (8.90%) Senior Data Engineer
9 13 (8.90%) Software Engineer
10 12 (8.22%) Software Developer
11 11 (7.53%) Full-Stack Developer
11 11 (7.53%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
12 10 (6.85%) Applications Engineer
12 10 (6.85%) AWS DevOps
12 10 (6.85%) Senior Software Developer
13 9 (6.16%) AWS Architect
13 9 (6.16%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (34.93%) React
2 32 (21.92%) RESTful
3 19 (13.01%) Node.js
4 18 (12.33%) GraphQL
4 18 (12.33%) Swagger
5 14 (9.59%) AWS CDK
5 14 (9.59%) CSS
5 14 (9.59%) Spring
5 14 (9.59%) Spring Boot
6 13 (8.90%) HTML
7 11 (7.53%) Kafka
7 11 (7.53%) Next.js
8 8 (5.48%) AngularJS
8 8 (5.48%) Express.js
8 8 (5.48%) Jest
8 8 (5.48%) Playwright
8 8 (5.48%) Tailwind CSS
8 8 (5.48%) Vitest
9 6 (4.11%) LDAP
9 6 (4.11%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 28 (19.18%) Cloud Native
2 10 (6.85%) Management Information System
3 8 (5.48%) Product Ownership
4 6 (4.11%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (4.11%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (2.74%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.05%) Credit Derivative
6 3 (2.05%) Enterprise Cloud
6 3 (2.05%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.05%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.37%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (1.37%) Cyberattack
7 2 (1.37%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.37%) IVR
7 2 (1.37%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.37%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.37%) Online Games
7 2 (1.37%) PKI
8 1 (0.68%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 21 (14.38%) Linux
2 8 (5.48%) Unix
2 8 (5.48%) Windows
3 6 (4.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (46.58%) CI/CD
2 61 (41.78%) Agile
3 46 (31.51%) DevOps
3 46 (31.51%) Infrastructure as Code
3 46 (31.51%) Mentoring
4 41 (28.08%) Software Engineering
5 37 (25.34%) Problem-Solving
6 34 (23.29%) Pair Programming
7 29 (19.86%) Analytics
8 28 (19.18%) TDD
9 26 (17.81%) Microservices
9 26 (17.81%) Scrum
10 25 (17.12%) Data Science
11 22 (15.07%) Containerisation
11 22 (15.07%) Data Modelling
11 22 (15.07%) Data Pipeline
12 21 (14.38%) Full-Stack Development
13 20 (13.70%) Continuous Delivery
13 20 (13.70%) Operational Stability
14 19 (13.01%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 92 (63.01%) Python
2 55 (37.67%) TypeScript
3 36 (24.66%) SQL
4 21 (14.38%) JavaScript
5 19 (13.01%) Java
6 12 (8.22%) Bash
7 7 (4.79%) C#
8 4 (2.74%) PowerShell
9 3 (2.05%) C++
9 3 (2.05%) Go
10 2 (1.37%) Scala
11 1 (0.68%) Groovy
11 1 (0.68%) PHP
Qualifications
1 38 (26.03%) AWS Certification
2 20 (13.70%) Security Cleared
3 18 (12.33%) SC Cleared
4 13 (8.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 12 (8.22%) Degree
6 9 (6.16%) SnowPro
7 6 (4.11%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (2.74%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (1.37%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (1.37%) CISA
9 2 (1.37%) CISM
9 2 (1.37%) CISSP
9 2 (1.37%) CRISC
10 1 (0.68%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (0.68%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.68%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.68%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (20.55%) QA
2 9 (6.16%) Accessibility
3 7 (4.79%) Data Quality
3 7 (4.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (4.79%) SLA
4 5 (3.42%) GDPR
5 4 (2.74%) SOC 2
6 3 (2.05%) PCI DSS
7 2 (1.37%) HIPAA
7 2 (1.37%) NIST
8 1 (0.68%) WCAG
System Software
1 22 (15.07%) Docker
2 2 (1.37%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.68%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 46 (31.51%) Terraform
2 29 (19.86%) Kubernetes
3 12 (8.22%) Grafana
4 10 (6.85%) Prometheus
5 9 (6.16%) Ansible
6 2 (1.37%) Argo
7 1 (0.68%) Kibana
7 1 (0.68%) logstash
7 1 (0.68%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 9 (6.16%) IBM
2 8 (5.48%) Apple
3 6 (4.11%) Red Hat
4 3 (2.05%) Databricks
5 2 (1.37%) Avaya
5 2 (1.37%) Facebook
5 2 (1.37%) Genesys
5 2 (1.37%) Google
5 2 (1.37%) OpenAI
5 2 (1.37%) Thales
6 1 (0.68%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.68%) PagerDuty