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 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 222 114 251
Rank change year-on-year -108 +137 -18
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 158 523 243
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.03% 2.78% 1.18%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.85% 6.12% 2.48%
Number of salaries quoted 126 191 215
10th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,958 £85,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.87% +30.77% -16.13%
75th Percentile £80,938 £115,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £128,750 £85,750
UK median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +14.29% -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 5,547 8,539 9,798
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 36.27% 45.41% 47.51%
Number of salaries quoted 4,083 5,605 8,403
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,100 £36,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.38% - -
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £109,600 £99,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -3.85%

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 13 December 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 9 (5.70%) Apache
1 9 (5.70%) Apache Spark
2 8 (5.06%) Headless CMS
3 6 (3.80%) Tomcat
3 6 (3.80%) WebSphere
3 6 (3.80%) WebSphere Application Server
4 4 (2.53%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.63%) SAS
Business Applications
1 8 (5.06%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 158 (100.00%) AWS
1 158 (100.00%) Serverless
2 112 (70.89%) Amazon S3
3 46 (29.11%) AWS CloudFormation
4 44 (27.85%) Amazon EC2
5 43 (27.22%) Amazon SQS
6 38 (24.05%) Amazon ECS
7 23 (14.56%) Azure
8 22 (13.92%) Amazon EKS
8 22 (13.92%) GitHub
9 18 (11.39%) AWS Step Functions
10 17 (10.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 16 (10.13%) GitHub Actions
12 15 (9.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 12 (7.59%) SaaS
14 9 (5.70%) Google Analytics
14 9 (5.70%) Snowflake
15 8 (5.06%) Amazon ECR
15 8 (5.06%) Amazon EventBridge
15 8 (5.06%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.80%) Broadband
1 6 (3.80%) SSL
2 5 (3.16%) Firewall
3 3 (1.90%) Network Security
4 2 (1.27%) DNS
4 2 (1.27%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.27%) VPN
5 1 (0.63%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (31.65%) DynamoDB
2 41 (25.95%) Amazon RDS
3 28 (17.72%) Amazon Redshift
4 24 (15.19%) Data Warehouse
5 23 (14.56%) NoSQL
6 18 (11.39%) PostgreSQL
7 15 (9.49%) Elasticsearch
8 14 (8.86%) Data Lake
9 11 (6.96%) SQL Server
10 9 (5.70%) Amazon Athena
11 7 (4.43%) MySQL
12 6 (3.80%) DB2
13 5 (3.16%) Apache Iceberg
14 4 (2.53%) Metadata
14 4 (2.53%) MongoDB
15 3 (1.90%) Relational Database
16 2 (1.27%) Amazon Aurora
17 1 (0.63%) Delta Lake
17 1 (0.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 1 (0.63%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (9.49%) Cypress.io
2 13 (8.23%) Jenkins
3 9 (5.70%) Git
4 8 (5.06%) GitLab
5 5 (3.16%) git-flow
6 2 (1.27%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.27%) ER Studio
6 2 (1.27%) Maven
6 2 (1.27%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.63%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.63%) Deequ
7 1 (0.63%) JIRA
7 1 (0.63%) Selenium
General
1 53 (33.54%) Social Skills
2 32 (20.25%) Tech for Good
3 27 (17.09%) Health Technology
3 27 (17.09%) Publishing
4 22 (13.92%) Finance
5 15 (9.49%) Influencing Skills
5 15 (9.49%) Organisational Skills
6 12 (7.59%) Public Sector
7 11 (6.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (3.80%) Banking
9 5 (3.16%) Analytical Skills
10 3 (1.90%) Games
10 3 (1.90%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.27%) Law
11 2 (1.27%) Retail
11 2 (1.27%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.63%) Advertising
12 1 (0.63%) Back Office
12 1 (0.63%) Billing
12 1 (0.63%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 66 (41.77%) Developer
2 62 (39.24%) Senior
3 35 (22.15%) Senior Developer
4 31 (19.62%) AWS Developer
5 30 (18.99%) Python Developer
6 25 (15.82%) Lead
7 23 (14.56%) React Developer
8 21 (13.29%) Data Engineer
9 18 (11.39%) Full-Stack Developer
9 18 (11.39%) Software Engineer
10 17 (10.76%) Lead Developer
10 17 (10.76%) Software Developer
11 15 (9.49%) Lead Python Developer
11 15 (9.49%) Senior Python Developer
12 13 (8.23%) AWS Engineer
12 13 (8.23%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
13 11 (6.96%) Senior Data Engineer
14 10 (6.33%) Architect
14 10 (6.33%) Cloud Engineer
14 10 (6.33%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (37.34%) React
2 40 (25.32%) RESTful
3 33 (20.89%) Node.js
4 21 (13.29%) Spring
5 20 (12.66%) Spring Boot
6 18 (11.39%) AWS CDK
7 15 (9.49%) GraphQL
8 14 (8.86%) HTML
8 14 (8.86%) Jest
9 13 (8.23%) CSS
10 12 (7.59%) Swagger
11 11 (6.96%) .NET
12 10 (6.33%) AngularJS
12 10 (6.33%) Kafka
13 9 (5.70%) Express.js
13 9 (5.70%) Next.js
14 8 (5.06%) Playwright
14 8 (5.06%) RabbitMQ
14 8 (5.06%) Tailwind CSS
14 8 (5.06%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 39 (24.68%) Cloud Native
2 11 (6.96%) Product Ownership
3 10 (6.33%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (3.80%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (2.53%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.53%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.90%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (1.27%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.27%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.27%) IVR
7 2 (1.27%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.27%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.63%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.63%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.63%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.63%) Online Games
8 1 (0.63%) Over-the-Top Content
8 1 (0.63%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.63%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.63%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 17 (10.76%) Linux
2 10 (6.33%) Unix
3 8 (5.06%) Windows
4 6 (3.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (56.96%) CI/CD
2 82 (51.90%) Agile
3 55 (34.81%) Mentoring
4 50 (31.65%) DevOps
5 48 (30.38%) Infrastructure as Code
6 41 (25.95%) Pair Programming
7 39 (24.68%) Problem-Solving
8 36 (22.78%) Scrum
9 35 (22.15%) Software Engineering
10 33 (20.89%) Full-Stack Development
11 31 (19.62%) Continuous Improvement
11 31 (19.62%) TDD
12 30 (18.99%) Microservices
13 28 (17.72%) Coaching
14 27 (17.09%) Operational Stability
15 25 (15.82%) Analytics
16 24 (15.19%) Continuous Integration
17 23 (14.56%) Containerisation
18 22 (13.92%) Data Modelling
19 21 (13.29%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 90 (56.96%) Python
2 52 (32.91%) TypeScript
3 39 (24.68%) SQL
4 37 (23.42%) JavaScript
5 24 (15.19%) Java
6 10 (6.33%) Bash
6 10 (6.33%) C#
7 5 (3.16%) Go
8 4 (2.53%) Ruby
9 2 (1.27%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.27%) Scala
10 1 (0.63%) Groovy
10 1 (0.63%) PHP
Qualifications
1 36 (22.78%) AWS Certification
2 19 (12.03%) Security Cleared
3 15 (9.49%) SC Cleared
4 11 (6.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 10 (6.33%) Degree
6 8 (5.06%) SnowPro
7 7 (4.43%) AWS Certified Developer
8 6 (3.80%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (1.27%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (1.27%) CISA
9 2 (1.27%) CISM
9 2 (1.27%) CISSP
9 2 (1.27%) CRISC
10 1 (0.63%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.63%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (22.15%) QA
2 9 (5.70%) Accessibility
3 7 (4.43%) Data Quality
4 6 (3.80%) SLA
5 5 (3.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (2.53%) GDPR
7 3 (1.90%) PCI DSS
8 2 (1.27%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.63%) NIST
9 1 (0.63%) WCAG
System Software
1 31 (19.62%) Docker
2 1 (0.63%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 46 (29.11%) Terraform
2 37 (23.42%) Kubernetes
3 13 (8.23%) Grafana
4 9 (5.70%) Prometheus
5 6 (3.80%) Ansible
6 5 (3.16%) Argo
7 2 (1.27%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.63%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (5.06%) Apple
2 6 (3.80%) IBM
2 6 (3.80%) Red Hat
3 4 (2.53%) PagerDuty
4 2 (1.27%) Avaya
4 2 (1.27%) Databricks
4 2 (1.27%) Genesys
4 2 (1.27%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.63%) Dynatrace
5 1 (0.63%) Facebook
5 1 (0.63%) Google
5 1 (0.63%) Mercator
5 1 (0.63%) Microsoft