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 27 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 223 128 257
Rank change year-on-year -95 +129 -42
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 152 499 240
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.99% 2.51% 1.15%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.72% 5.61% 2.42%
Number of salaries quoted 120 169 210
10th Percentile £52,500 £57,350 £46,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £70,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £80,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.63% +23.08% -16.13%
75th Percentile £81,313 £115,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £88,000 £128,750 £86,250
UK median annual salary £73,250 £80,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -8.44% +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 5,597 8,900 9,913
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 36.57% 44.70% 47.59%
Number of salaries quoted 4,182 5,819 8,489
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £36,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - -
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £110,000 £98,750
UK median annual salary £59,186 £64,600 £62,500
% change year-on-year -8.38% +3.36% -0.79%

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 27 November 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 (5.92%) Apache
1 9 (5.92%) Apache Spark
2 8 (5.26%) Headless CMS
3 6 (3.95%) Tomcat
3 6 (3.95%) WebSphere
3 6 (3.95%) WebSphere Application Server
4 4 (2.63%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.66%) SAS
Business Applications
1 8 (5.26%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 152 (100.00%) AWS
1 152 (100.00%) Serverless
2 103 (67.76%) Amazon S3
3 47 (30.92%) AWS CloudFormation
4 41 (26.97%) Amazon EC2
5 37 (24.34%) Amazon ECS
6 35 (23.03%) Amazon SQS
7 22 (14.47%) Azure
8 21 (13.82%) Amazon EKS
8 21 (13.82%) GitHub
9 18 (11.84%) AWS Step Functions
10 16 (10.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 16 (10.53%) GitHub Actions
10 16 (10.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 10 (6.58%) SaaS
12 9 (5.92%) Google Analytics
12 9 (5.92%) Snowflake
13 8 (5.26%) Amazon ECR
13 8 (5.26%) Amazon EventBridge
13 8 (5.26%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.95%) Broadband
1 6 (3.95%) Firewall
1 6 (3.95%) SSL
2 3 (1.97%) DNS
2 3 (1.97%) Network Security
2 3 (1.97%) VPN
3 2 (1.32%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (34.21%) DynamoDB
2 37 (24.34%) Amazon RDS
3 28 (18.42%) Amazon Redshift
4 24 (15.79%) Data Warehouse
5 21 (13.82%) NoSQL
6 17 (11.18%) PostgreSQL
7 15 (9.87%) Elasticsearch
8 14 (9.21%) Data Lake
9 10 (6.58%) SQL Server
10 9 (5.92%) Amazon Athena
11 7 (4.61%) MySQL
12 6 (3.95%) DB2
13 5 (3.29%) Apache Iceberg
14 4 (2.63%) Metadata
15 3 (1.97%) MongoDB
15 3 (1.97%) Relational Database
16 2 (1.32%) Amazon Aurora
17 1 (0.66%) Apache Hudi
17 1 (0.66%) Delta Lake
17 1 (0.66%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (9.21%) Cypress.io
2 13 (8.55%) Jenkins
3 8 (5.26%) Git
4 7 (4.61%) GitLab
5 5 (3.29%) git-flow
6 2 (1.32%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.32%) ER Studio
6 2 (1.32%) Maven
6 2 (1.32%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.66%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.66%) Deequ
7 1 (0.66%) Jasmine
7 1 (0.66%) JIRA
7 1 (0.66%) Karma Test Runner
7 1 (0.66%) Selenium
General
1 50 (32.89%) Social Skills
2 28 (18.42%) Tech for Good
3 23 (15.13%) Health Technology
3 23 (15.13%) Publishing
4 21 (13.82%) Finance
5 13 (8.55%) Public Sector
6 11 (7.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 11 (7.24%) Influencing Skills
6 11 (7.24%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (3.95%) Banking
8 5 (3.29%) Analytical Skills
9 3 (1.97%) Games
9 3 (1.97%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.32%) Law
10 2 (1.32%) Retail
10 2 (1.32%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.66%) Advertising
11 1 (0.66%) Back Office
11 1 (0.66%) Billing
11 1 (0.66%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 65 (42.76%) Senior
2 60 (39.47%) Developer
3 37 (24.34%) Senior Developer
4 28 (18.42%) Python Developer
5 27 (17.76%) AWS Developer
6 21 (13.82%) Data Engineer
6 21 (13.82%) Lead
7 18 (11.84%) React Developer
8 17 (11.18%) Full-Stack Developer
8 17 (11.18%) Senior Python Developer
8 17 (11.18%) Software Engineer
9 15 (9.87%) Software Developer
10 14 (9.21%) AWS Engineer
11 13 (8.55%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
12 12 (7.89%) Lead Developer
13 11 (7.24%) Lead Python Developer
13 11 (7.24%) Senior Data Engineer
14 10 (6.58%) Architect
14 10 (6.58%) Cloud Engineer
15 9 (5.92%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (36.18%) React
2 35 (23.03%) RESTful
3 30 (19.74%) Node.js
4 19 (12.50%) AWS CDK
5 18 (11.84%) Spring
6 17 (11.18%) Spring Boot
7 15 (9.87%) GraphQL
7 15 (9.87%) HTML
8 14 (9.21%) CSS
9 13 (8.55%) Jest
10 12 (7.89%) Swagger
11 11 (7.24%) .NET
11 11 (7.24%) AngularJS
12 9 (5.92%) Express.js
12 9 (5.92%) Kafka
12 9 (5.92%) Next.js
13 8 (5.26%) Playwright
13 8 (5.26%) Tailwind CSS
13 8 (5.26%) Vitest
14 7 (4.61%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 37 (24.34%) Cloud Native
2 11 (7.24%) Product Ownership
3 10 (6.58%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (3.95%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.63%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.97%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (1.32%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.32%) IVR
7 2 (1.32%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.32%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.66%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.66%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.66%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.66%) Online Games
8 1 (0.66%) Over-the-Top Content
8 1 (0.66%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.66%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.66%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 16 (10.53%) Linux
2 10 (6.58%) Unix
3 8 (5.26%) Windows
4 6 (3.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (53.95%) CI/CD
2 74 (48.68%) Agile
3 52 (34.21%) Mentoring
4 49 (32.24%) Infrastructure as Code
5 48 (31.58%) DevOps
6 39 (25.66%) Problem-Solving
7 37 (24.34%) Pair Programming
7 37 (24.34%) Software Engineering
8 32 (21.05%) Full-Stack Development
9 31 (20.39%) Scrum
10 29 (19.08%) Microservices
11 28 (18.42%) TDD
12 25 (16.45%) Analytics
12 25 (16.45%) Continuous Improvement
13 23 (15.13%) Coaching
13 23 (15.13%) Operational Stability
14 22 (14.47%) Data Modelling
15 21 (13.82%) Data Pipeline
16 20 (13.16%) Containerisation
16 20 (13.16%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 86 (56.58%) Python
2 53 (34.87%) TypeScript
3 38 (25.00%) SQL
4 33 (21.71%) JavaScript
5 21 (13.82%) Java
6 11 (7.24%) Bash
7 10 (6.58%) C#
8 5 (3.29%) Go
9 3 (1.97%) PowerShell
9 3 (1.97%) Ruby
10 2 (1.32%) Scala
11 1 (0.66%) Groovy
11 1 (0.66%) PHP
Qualifications
1 36 (23.68%) AWS Certification
2 20 (13.16%) Security Cleared
3 16 (10.53%) SC Cleared
4 11 (7.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 10 (6.58%) Degree
6 8 (5.26%) SnowPro
7 7 (4.61%) AWS Certified Developer
8 6 (3.95%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (1.32%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (1.32%) CISA
9 2 (1.32%) CISM
9 2 (1.32%) CISSP
9 2 (1.32%) CRISC
10 1 (0.66%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (0.66%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (20.39%) QA
2 9 (5.92%) Accessibility
3 7 (4.61%) Data Quality
4 6 (3.95%) SLA
5 5 (3.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (2.63%) GDPR
7 3 (1.97%) PCI DSS
8 2 (1.32%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.66%) NIST
9 1 (0.66%) WCAG
System Software
1 26 (17.11%) Docker
2 1 (0.66%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 46 (30.26%) Terraform
2 33 (21.71%) Kubernetes
3 12 (7.89%) Grafana
4 8 (5.26%) Prometheus
5 6 (3.95%) Ansible
6 5 (3.29%) Argo
7 2 (1.32%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.66%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (5.26%) Apple
2 6 (3.95%) IBM
2 6 (3.95%) Red Hat
3 4 (2.63%) PagerDuty
4 3 (1.97%) Databricks
5 2 (1.32%) Avaya
5 2 (1.32%) Genesys
5 2 (1.32%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.66%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.66%) Facebook
6 1 (0.66%) Google