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

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 249 212 298
Rank change year-on-year -37 +86 +2
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 169 242 337
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.88% 1.63% 1.00%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.31% 4.18% 2.36%
Number of salaries quoted 134 207 274
10th Percentile - £52,500 £55,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.71% -6.00% +3.45%
75th Percentile £76,875 £115,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £119,000 £112,125
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +3.45% -

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 7,305 5,787 14,282
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.88% 38.93% 42.50%
Number of salaries quoted 5,020 4,197 12,049
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,500 £36,000
25th Percentile £46,104 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,076 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +2.50% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £108,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.12%

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 June 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 6 (3.55%) Apache
1 6 (3.55%) Apache Airflow
1 6 (3.55%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.78%) Apache Solr
3 1 (0.59%) CMS
3 1 (0.59%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (3.55%) Spreadsheet
2 3 (1.78%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 169 (100.00%) Serverless
2 168 (99.41%) AWS
3 120 (71.01%) Amazon S3
4 67 (39.64%) Amazon SQS
5 57 (33.73%) Amazon EC2
6 53 (31.36%) Amazon ECS
7 35 (20.71%) AWS CloudFormation
8 28 (16.57%) GitHub
9 27 (15.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 27 (15.98%) Amazon EventBridge
10 23 (13.61%) AWS Step Functions
11 21 (12.43%) Amazon Cognito
12 20 (11.83%) SaaS
13 17 (10.06%) GitHub Actions
14 13 (7.69%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 11 (6.51%) Azure
15 11 (6.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 10 (5.92%) Amazon EKS
16 10 (5.92%) Datadog
17 5 (2.96%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.37%) AMQP
2 3 (1.78%) Broadband
2 3 (1.78%) DNS
2 3 (1.78%) Firewall
2 3 (1.78%) VPN
3 2 (1.18%) Network Security
4 1 (0.59%) 4G
4 1 (0.59%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (30.18%) DynamoDB
2 39 (23.08%) PostgreSQL
3 36 (21.30%) Amazon RDS
4 26 (15.38%) MongoDB
5 19 (11.24%) NoSQL
6 15 (8.88%) Amazon Athena
7 11 (6.51%) Amazon Redshift
8 7 (4.14%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (3.55%) Metadata
9 6 (3.55%) Relational Database
10 5 (2.96%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (2.96%) Redis
11 4 (2.37%) Data Lake
11 4 (2.37%) MySQL
11 4 (2.37%) SQL Server
12 3 (1.78%) Amazon Aurora
12 3 (1.78%) Flink
12 3 (1.78%) Power BI
13 2 (1.18%) MariaDB
13 2 (1.18%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 27 (15.98%) Cypress.io
2 26 (15.38%) Git
3 25 (14.79%) Jenkins
4 10 (5.92%) GitLab
5 5 (2.96%) JIRA
6 4 (2.37%) Maven
6 4 (2.37%) SonarQube
7 3 (1.78%) ESLint
8 2 (1.18%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.59%) Browser DevTools
9 1 (0.59%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.59%) git-flow
9 1 (0.59%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.59%) JUnit
9 1 (0.59%) MLflow
9 1 (0.59%) Postman
9 1 (0.59%) Selenium
9 1 (0.59%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.59%) webpack
9 1 (0.59%) Zephyr
General
1 34 (20.12%) Social Skills
2 13 (7.69%) Finance
3 12 (7.10%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (6.51%) Public Sector
5 8 (4.73%) Health Technology
6 5 (2.96%) Billing
6 5 (2.96%) Publishing
7 4 (2.37%) Tech for Good
8 3 (1.78%) Law
8 3 (1.78%) Military
9 2 (1.18%) Advertising
9 2 (1.18%) Front Office
9 2 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.18%) Marketing
10 1 (0.59%) Banking
10 1 (0.59%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 86 (50.89%) Developer
2 43 (25.44%) Senior
3 33 (19.53%) Full-Stack Developer
4 23 (13.61%) Lead
4 23 (13.61%) React Developer
5 22 (13.02%) Java Developer
6 21 (12.43%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 20 (11.83%) AWS Developer
8 17 (10.06%) Python Developer
8 17 (10.06%) Software Developer
9 16 (9.47%) AWS Engineer
10 15 (8.88%) Lead Developer
11 14 (8.28%) Data Engineer
11 14 (8.28%) Node.js Developer
11 14 (8.28%) Senior Developer
11 14 (8.28%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
12 10 (5.92%) Platform Engineer
12 10 (5.92%) Software Engineer
13 8 (4.73%) Python Engineer
14 7 (4.14%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (50.30%) Node.js
1 85 (50.30%) React
2 28 (16.57%) Jest
3 27 (15.98%) Spring
4 24 (14.20%) Ruby on Rails
4 24 (14.20%) Spring Boot
5 22 (13.02%) RESTful
6 20 (11.83%) Kafka
7 17 (10.06%) AngularJS
8 10 (5.92%) HTML
9 9 (5.33%) REST
9 9 (5.33%) Swagger
10 8 (4.73%) AWS CDK
11 6 (3.55%) .NET
11 6 (3.55%) AWS Amplify
11 6 (3.55%) MapLibre
11 6 (3.55%) Pandas
12 5 (2.96%) NumPy
12 5 (2.96%) OpenAPI
12 5 (2.96%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 27 (15.98%) Cloud Native
2 13 (7.69%) Greenfield Project
3 12 (7.10%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (2.37%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.37%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (1.78%) Data Structures
5 3 (1.78%) IoT
5 3 (1.78%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.18%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.18%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.18%) NHS
6 2 (1.18%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.59%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.59%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.59%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.59%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.59%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.59%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.59%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.78%) Linux
2 2 (1.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.59%) CentOS
3 1 (0.59%) Debian
3 1 (0.59%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (42.60%) Full-Stack Development
2 71 (42.01%) CI/CD
3 55 (32.54%) Microservices
4 53 (31.36%) Agile
4 53 (31.36%) DevOps
5 42 (24.85%) Mentoring
6 38 (22.49%) Containerisation
7 35 (20.71%) Infrastructure as Code
8 33 (19.53%) Problem-Solving
9 31 (18.34%) Software Engineering
10 30 (17.75%) Event-Driven
11 27 (15.98%) AI
11 27 (15.98%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 26 (15.38%) Collaborative Culture
13 24 (14.20%) Mob Programming
14 22 (13.02%) Continuous Improvement
15 20 (11.83%) Continuous Delivery
15 20 (11.83%) Software Delivery
16 19 (11.24%) Data Modelling
17 18 (10.65%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 71 (42.01%) Python
2 60 (35.50%) JavaScript
3 52 (30.77%) TypeScript
4 50 (29.59%) SQL
5 30 (17.75%) Java
6 24 (14.20%) Ruby
7 11 (6.51%) Bash
7 11 (6.51%) Kotlin
8 5 (2.96%) Groovy
8 5 (2.96%) PHP
9 4 (2.37%) C#
10 3 (1.78%) Go
11 2 (1.18%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.59%) Perl
12 1 (0.59%) Scala
12 1 (0.59%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (6.51%) Degree
2 9 (5.33%) SC Cleared
2 9 (5.33%) Security Cleared
3 6 (3.55%) AWS Certification
4 3 (1.78%) IIBA
4 3 (1.78%) PhD
5 2 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.59%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.92%) QA
2 8 (4.73%) Data Quality
3 6 (3.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.78%) ISO 9001
5 2 (1.18%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.59%) HL7
6 1 (0.59%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.59%) SNOMED CT
6 1 (0.59%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 52 (30.77%) Docker
2 3 (1.78%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 41 (24.26%) Terraform
2 27 (15.98%) Kubernetes
3 12 (7.10%) Ansible
4 8 (4.73%) Grafana
5 4 (2.37%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.78%) HP Fortify
6 3 (1.78%) Packer
7 2 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.59%) Kibana
8 1 (0.59%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.59%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (2.96%) Databricks
1 5 (2.96%) HubSpot
2 2 (1.18%) Okta
2 2 (1.18%) OpenAI
2 2 (1.18%) Red Hat
3 1 (0.59%) AppDynamics
3 1 (0.59%) Apple
3 1 (0.59%) Dynatrace
3 1 (0.59%) Google
3 1 (0.59%) Informatica
3 1 (0.59%) New Relic
3 1 (0.59%) Oracle
3 1 (0.59%) SaltStack
3 1 (0.59%) Splunk