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

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 259 226 306
Rank change year-on-year -33 +80 -4
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 167 227 326
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.83% 1.47% 0.94%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.20% 3.86% 2.23%
Number of salaries quoted 134 195 262
10th Percentile - £51,750 £56,250
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 £80,313 £115,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £97,500 - £114,750
UK median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.33% +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 7,606 5,887 14,639
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.86% 38.15% 42.20%
Number of salaries quoted 5,338 4,281 12,182
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,750 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% +2.50% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -9.75%

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 19 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 (3.59%) Apache
1 6 (3.59%) Apache Airflow
1 6 (3.59%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.80%) Apache Solr
3 1 (0.60%) CMS
3 1 (0.60%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (3.59%) Spreadsheet
2 3 (1.80%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 167 (100.00%) Serverless
2 166 (99.40%) AWS
3 118 (70.66%) Amazon S3
4 65 (38.92%) Amazon SQS
5 58 (34.73%) Amazon EC2
6 54 (32.34%) Amazon ECS
7 33 (19.76%) AWS CloudFormation
8 29 (17.37%) GitHub
9 27 (16.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 25 (14.97%) Amazon EventBridge
11 24 (14.37%) AWS Step Functions
12 18 (10.78%) SaaS
13 17 (10.18%) Amazon Cognito
14 16 (9.58%) GitHub Actions
15 14 (8.38%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 12 (7.19%) Amazon EKS
17 11 (6.59%) Azure
17 11 (6.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 10 (5.99%) Datadog
19 5 (2.99%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.40%) AMQP
2 3 (1.80%) Broadband
2 3 (1.80%) DNS
2 3 (1.80%) Firewall
2 3 (1.80%) VPN
3 2 (1.20%) Network Security
4 1 (0.60%) 4G
4 1 (0.60%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (29.94%) DynamoDB
2 38 (22.75%) PostgreSQL
3 35 (20.96%) Amazon RDS
4 26 (15.57%) MongoDB
5 18 (10.78%) NoSQL
6 16 (9.58%) Amazon Athena
7 11 (6.59%) Amazon Redshift
8 7 (4.19%) Elasticsearch
8 7 (4.19%) Relational Database
9 6 (3.59%) Metadata
9 6 (3.59%) SQL Server
10 5 (2.99%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (2.99%) Redis
11 4 (2.40%) MySQL
12 3 (1.80%) Amazon Aurora
12 3 (1.80%) Data Lake
12 3 (1.80%) Flink
12 3 (1.80%) Power BI
12 3 (1.80%) RDBMS
13 2 (1.20%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 26 (15.57%) Cypress.io
1 26 (15.57%) Jenkins
2 23 (13.77%) Git
3 9 (5.39%) GitLab
4 5 (2.99%) JIRA
5 3 (1.80%) Maven
5 3 (1.80%) SonarQube
5 3 (1.80%) TeamCity
6 2 (1.20%) Claude Code
6 2 (1.20%) ESLint
6 2 (1.20%) Postman
6 2 (1.20%) Selenium
7 1 (0.60%) Browser DevTools
7 1 (0.60%) git-flow
7 1 (0.60%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.60%) JUnit
7 1 (0.60%) Karma Test Runner
7 1 (0.60%) MLflow
7 1 (0.60%) webpack
7 1 (0.60%) Zephyr
General
1 32 (19.16%) Social Skills
2 12 (7.19%) Finance
3 11 (6.59%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (6.59%) Public Sector
4 8 (4.79%) Health Technology
5 5 (2.99%) Billing
5 5 (2.99%) Publishing
6 4 (2.40%) Tech for Good
7 3 (1.80%) Advertising
7 3 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (1.80%) Law
7 3 (1.80%) Military
8 2 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.20%) Marketing
9 1 (0.60%) Banking
9 1 (0.60%) Front Office
9 1 (0.60%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 87 (52.10%) Developer
2 46 (27.54%) Senior
3 36 (21.56%) Full-Stack Developer
4 24 (14.37%) Java Developer
5 22 (13.17%) React Developer
6 21 (12.57%) AWS Developer
6 21 (12.57%) Lead
7 20 (11.98%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 17 (10.18%) Python Developer
8 17 (10.18%) Senior Developer
8 17 (10.18%) Software Developer
9 14 (8.38%) AWS Engineer
10 13 (7.78%) Data Engineer
10 13 (7.78%) Lead Developer
10 13 (7.78%) Node.js Developer
11 12 (7.19%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
12 11 (6.59%) Software Engineer
13 10 (5.99%) Platform Engineer
14 7 (4.19%) Python Engineer
14 7 (4.19%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (52.69%) React
2 85 (50.90%) Node.js
3 27 (16.17%) Jest
4 26 (15.57%) Spring
5 25 (14.97%) Spring Boot
6 24 (14.37%) Ruby on Rails
7 20 (11.98%) Kafka
8 18 (10.78%) RESTful
9 17 (10.18%) AngularJS
10 10 (5.99%) HTML
11 9 (5.39%) REST
11 9 (5.39%) Swagger
12 6 (3.59%) AWS Amplify
12 6 (3.59%) AWS CDK
12 6 (3.59%) MapLibre
12 6 (3.59%) Vue
13 5 (2.99%) Next.js
13 5 (2.99%) OpenAPI
13 5 (2.99%) OpenTelemetry
13 5 (2.99%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 28 (16.77%) Cloud Native
2 15 (8.98%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (7.78%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (2.40%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.40%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (1.80%) Data Centre
5 3 (1.80%) IoT
5 3 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.20%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.20%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.20%) NHS
6 2 (1.20%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.60%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.60%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.60%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.60%) Life Science
7 1 (0.60%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.60%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.60%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.80%) Linux
2 2 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.60%) CentOS
3 1 (0.60%) Debian
3 1 (0.60%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (43.71%) CI/CD
1 73 (43.71%) Full-Stack Development
2 55 (32.93%) Microservices
3 54 (32.34%) Agile
4 52 (31.14%) DevOps
5 43 (25.75%) Mentoring
6 37 (22.16%) Containerisation
7 36 (21.56%) Infrastructure as Code
8 33 (19.76%) Software Engineering
9 30 (17.96%) Event-Driven
9 30 (17.96%) Problem-Solving
10 28 (16.77%) AI
11 25 (14.97%) Collaborative Culture
11 25 (14.97%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 24 (14.37%) Mob Programming
13 21 (12.57%) Continuous Improvement
14 20 (11.98%) Continuous Delivery
14 20 (11.98%) Software Delivery
15 19 (11.38%) Data Modelling
15 19 (11.38%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 72 (43.11%) Python
2 61 (36.53%) JavaScript
3 53 (31.74%) TypeScript
4 45 (26.95%) SQL
5 30 (17.96%) Java
6 24 (14.37%) Ruby
7 13 (7.78%) Kotlin
8 10 (5.99%) Bash
9 5 (2.99%) PHP
10 4 (2.40%) Groovy
11 3 (1.80%) Go
12 2 (1.20%) C#
12 2 (1.20%) PowerShell
12 2 (1.20%) Scala
13 1 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.60%) Perl
13 1 (0.60%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (5.39%) Degree
1 9 (5.39%) SC Cleared
1 9 (5.39%) Security Cleared
2 6 (3.59%) AWS Certification
3 3 (1.80%) PhD
4 2 (1.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (1.20%) IIBA
4 2 (1.20%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (0.60%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.99%) QA
2 7 (4.19%) Data Quality
3 6 (3.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.80%) ISO 9001
5 2 (1.20%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.60%) GDPR
6 1 (0.60%) HL7
6 1 (0.60%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.60%) SNOMED CT
6 1 (0.60%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 49 (29.34%) Docker
2 3 (1.80%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 42 (25.15%) Terraform
2 26 (15.57%) Kubernetes
3 12 (7.19%) Ansible
4 8 (4.79%) Grafana
5 4 (2.40%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.80%) Packer
7 2 (1.20%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.60%) Kibana
8 1 (0.60%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.60%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (2.99%) HubSpot
2 4 (2.40%) Databricks
3 3 (1.80%) OpenAI
4 2 (1.20%) Dynatrace
4 2 (1.20%) Red Hat
4 2 (1.20%) Splunk
5 1 (0.60%) AppDynamics
5 1 (0.60%) Apple
5 1 (0.60%) Google
5 1 (0.60%) Informatica
5 1 (0.60%) New Relic
5 1 (0.60%) Oracle
5 1 (0.60%) SaltStack