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

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 298 262 276
Rank change year-on-year -36 +14 +2
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 161 164 245
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.68% 1.02% 1.04%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.85% 2.85% 2.57%
Number of salaries quoted 128 129 133
10th Percentile £46,217 £52,500 £57,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £62,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,033 £65,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.72% -16.13% +10.71%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £90,500 £107,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% - +7.14%

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 8,687 5,761 9,531
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 36.96% 35.72% 40.62%
Number of salaries quoted 6,365 4,171 6,953
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -2.44% -1.60%

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 September 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 (3.73%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.86%) Apache
2 3 (1.86%) Apache Solr
3 2 (1.24%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.62%) CMS
4 1 (0.62%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (1.24%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.62%) Finacle
1 1 (0.62%) FLEXCUBE
1 1 (0.62%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
1 1 (0.62%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 161 (100.00%) Serverless
2 160 (99.38%) AWS
3 98 (60.87%) Amazon S3
4 61 (37.89%) Amazon EC2
5 60 (37.27%) Amazon SQS
6 54 (33.54%) Amazon ECS
7 30 (18.63%) AWS CloudFormation
8 28 (17.39%) AWS Step Functions
9 27 (16.77%) GitHub
10 24 (14.91%) Amazon EventBridge
11 22 (13.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 18 (11.18%) SaaS
13 15 (9.32%) Amazon EMR
14 14 (8.70%) GitHub Actions
15 12 (7.45%) Amazon Cognito
15 12 (7.45%) Azure
15 12 (7.45%) Datadog
16 11 (6.83%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 10 (6.21%) Amazon EKS
18 8 (4.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.24%) Broadband
1 2 (1.24%) DNS
1 2 (1.24%) Firewall
1 2 (1.24%) VPN
2 1 (0.62%) 4G
2 1 (0.62%) 5G
2 1 (0.62%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (28.57%) DynamoDB
2 38 (23.60%) PostgreSQL
3 30 (18.63%) MongoDB
4 24 (14.91%) Amazon RDS
5 16 (9.94%) Spark SQL
6 14 (8.70%) Amazon Athena
7 13 (8.07%) Relational Database
8 10 (6.21%) NoSQL
9 9 (5.59%) Amazon Redshift
10 7 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
10 7 (4.35%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (3.11%) MySQL
11 5 (3.11%) Redis
12 4 (2.48%) Data Lake
12 4 (2.48%) Flink
12 4 (2.48%) Metadata
12 4 (2.48%) SQL Server
13 3 (1.86%) MariaDB
13 3 (1.86%) RDBMS
14 2 (1.24%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 27 (16.77%) Cypress.io
2 18 (11.18%) Git
3 15 (9.32%) Jenkins
4 5 (3.11%) GitLab
5 4 (2.48%) JIRA
6 3 (1.86%) Claude Code
6 3 (1.86%) Maven
6 3 (1.86%) Postman
6 3 (1.86%) Selenium
6 3 (1.86%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.86%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.62%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.62%) ERwin
7 1 (0.62%) git-flow
7 1 (0.62%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.62%) JUnit
7 1 (0.62%) Karma Test Runner
7 1 (0.62%) MLflow
7 1 (0.62%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 28 (17.39%) Social Skills
2 24 (14.91%) Public Sector
3 20 (12.42%) Finance
4 19 (11.80%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (4.35%) Banking
6 6 (3.73%) Health Technology
7 5 (3.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.48%) Legal
8 4 (2.48%) Local Government
8 4 (2.48%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (2.48%) Publishing
8 4 (2.48%) Tech for Good
9 3 (1.86%) Advertising
9 3 (1.86%) Billing
9 3 (1.86%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.24%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (1.24%) Marketing
10 2 (1.24%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.62%) iGaming
11 1 (0.62%) Military
Job Titles
1 72 (44.72%) Developer
2 45 (27.95%) Senior
3 41 (25.47%) Full-Stack Developer
4 25 (15.53%) Data Engineer
5 20 (12.42%) Lead
6 19 (11.80%) Senior Developer
7 16 (9.94%) Java Developer
8 15 (9.32%) Software Engineer
9 14 (8.70%) AWS Developer
9 14 (8.70%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 10 (6.21%) Senior Software Engineer
11 9 (5.59%) Python Developer
11 9 (5.59%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
11 9 (5.59%) Senior Python Developer
12 8 (4.97%) React Developer
13 7 (4.35%) AWS Engineer
13 7 (4.35%) Lead Developer
13 7 (4.35%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
14 6 (3.73%) Architect
14 6 (3.73%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (49.07%) React
2 71 (44.10%) Node.js
3 52 (32.30%) Terraform
4 29 (18.01%) Jest
5 27 (16.77%) Ruby on Rails
6 23 (14.29%) .NET
6 23 (14.29%) Spring
7 22 (13.66%) Spring Boot
8 19 (11.80%) Kafka
9 18 (11.18%) RESTful
10 17 (10.56%) AWS CDK
11 16 (9.94%) PySpark
12 14 (8.70%) AngularJS
13 13 (8.07%) Next.js
14 10 (6.21%) OpenAPI
14 10 (6.21%) REST
15 9 (5.59%) CSS
16 8 (4.97%) Swagger
17 7 (4.35%) LangChain
17 7 (4.35%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 31 (19.25%) Cloud Native
2 21 (13.04%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (7.45%) Greenfield Project
3 12 (7.45%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (3.73%) Blog
5 5 (3.11%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.86%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.86%) Life Science
6 3 (1.86%) NHS
6 3 (1.86%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.24%) Driving Licence
7 2 (1.24%) PKI
7 2 (1.24%) Self-Driving Car
7 2 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.62%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.62%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.62%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.62%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.62%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.62%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.48%) Linux
2 1 (0.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (54.04%) CI/CD
2 77 (47.83%) Full-Stack Development
3 74 (45.96%) Agile
4 61 (37.89%) Mentoring
4 61 (37.89%) Microservices
5 46 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
6 44 (27.33%) Event-Driven
7 42 (26.09%) DevOps
8 36 (22.36%) AI
9 31 (19.25%) Analytics
10 30 (18.63%) Coaching
11 29 (18.01%) Software Engineering
12 27 (16.77%) Containerisation
13 26 (16.15%) Data Science
14 25 (15.53%) ETL
14 25 (15.53%) Mob Programming
15 24 (14.91%) Decision-Making
15 24 (14.91%) Problem-Solving
16 23 (14.29%) Data Engineering
17 22 (13.66%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 70 (43.48%) JavaScript
2 57 (35.40%) TypeScript
3 56 (34.78%) Python
4 47 (29.19%) SQL
5 44 (27.33%) Java
6 31 (19.25%) Ruby
7 25 (15.53%) C#
8 16 (9.94%) C++
9 11 (6.83%) Kotlin
10 8 (4.97%) Bash
11 4 (2.48%) Groovy
12 3 (1.86%) Scala
13 2 (1.24%) Go
13 2 (1.24%) PHP
13 2 (1.24%) Rust
14 1 (0.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.62%) Perl
14 1 (0.62%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (7.45%) SC Cleared
1 12 (7.45%) Security Cleared
2 5 (3.11%) AWS Certification
3 2 (1.24%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 2 (1.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (1.24%) Degree
3 2 (1.24%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (1.24%) PhD
4 1 (0.62%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.62%) OCP
4 1 (0.62%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (0.62%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (13.04%) Data Quality
2 7 (4.35%) QA
3 5 (3.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.48%) GDPR
5 2 (1.24%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.62%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.62%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.62%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.62%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 35 (21.74%) Docker
2 1 (0.62%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 19 (11.80%) Kubernetes
2 7 (4.35%) Ansible
2 7 (4.35%) Grafana
3 4 (2.48%) Prometheus
4 3 (1.86%) Packer
5 2 (1.24%) HP Fortify
5 2 (1.24%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.62%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 10 (6.21%) OpenAI
2 5 (3.11%) HubSpot
3 4 (2.48%) Databricks
4 3 (1.86%) Dynatrace
4 3 (1.86%) Splunk
5 2 (1.24%) Google
5 2 (1.24%) Informatica
5 2 (1.24%) Microsoft
5 2 (1.24%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.62%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.62%) FIS
6 1 (0.62%) Oracle
6 1 (0.62%) Sparx
6 1 (0.62%) Temenos