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

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 218 102 276
Rank change year-on-year -116 +174 +21
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 188 404 361
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.07% 3.06% 1.12%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.79% 6.76% 2.58%
Number of salaries quoted 151 258 313
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £54,000
25th Percentile £55,625 £60,000 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £82,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.15% +17.86% -5.08%
75th Percentile £76,000 £115,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £138,750 £107,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £80,000 £71,500
% change year-on-year -12.50% +11.89% -4.67%

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 6,730 5,973 13,993
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.35% 45.27% 43.23%
Number of salaries quoted 4,519 4,666 12,113
10th Percentile £33,568 £33,225 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

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 16 April 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 8 (4.26%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (3.19%) Apache
3 4 (2.13%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.53%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.53%) CMS
4 1 (0.53%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (3.19%) Spreadsheet
2 3 (1.60%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 188 (100.00%) Serverless
2 187 (99.47%) AWS
3 144 (76.60%) Amazon S3
4 76 (40.43%) Amazon SQS
5 57 (30.32%) Amazon EC2
6 48 (25.53%) Amazon ECS
7 46 (24.47%) AWS CloudFormation
8 35 (18.62%) GitHub
9 33 (17.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 23 (12.23%) Amazon EventBridge
11 22 (11.70%) Azure
11 22 (11.70%) SaaS
12 21 (11.17%) AWS Step Functions
12 21 (11.17%) GitHub Actions
13 18 (9.57%) Amazon Cognito
13 18 (9.57%) Amazon EKS
14 12 (6.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 10 (5.32%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 9 (4.79%) Datadog
17 7 (3.72%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.66%) AMQP
1 5 (2.66%) Broadband
1 5 (2.66%) Firewall
2 3 (1.60%) DNS
2 3 (1.60%) VPN
3 2 (1.06%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (28.19%) DynamoDB
2 40 (21.28%) Amazon RDS
3 37 (19.68%) PostgreSQL
4 26 (13.83%) NoSQL
5 21 (11.17%) MongoDB
6 16 (8.51%) Amazon Athena
7 12 (6.38%) Amazon Redshift
8 10 (5.32%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (3.72%) Metadata
10 6 (3.19%) Data Lake
10 6 (3.19%) SQL Server
11 5 (2.66%) MySQL
12 3 (1.60%) Amazon Aurora
12 3 (1.60%) Power BI
12 3 (1.60%) Redis
12 3 (1.60%) Relational Database
13 2 (1.06%) Big Data
13 2 (1.06%) Tableau
14 1 (0.53%) Elasticsearch
14 1 (0.53%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 29 (15.43%) Git
2 25 (13.30%) Cypress.io
3 23 (12.23%) Jenkins
4 12 (6.38%) GitLab
5 5 (2.66%) Maven
5 5 (2.66%) SonarQube
6 4 (2.13%) git-flow
6 4 (2.13%) JIRA
7 3 (1.60%) ESLint
8 1 (0.53%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.53%) Browser DevTools
8 1 (0.53%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.53%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.53%) MLflow
8 1 (0.53%) Selenium
8 1 (0.53%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.53%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.53%) webpack
8 1 (0.53%) Zephyr
General
1 55 (29.26%) Social Skills
2 17 (9.04%) Health Technology
3 15 (7.98%) Publishing
3 15 (7.98%) Tech for Good
4 14 (7.45%) Influencing Skills
4 14 (7.45%) Organisational Skills
5 13 (6.91%) Finance
6 12 (6.38%) Public Sector
7 11 (5.85%) Analytical Skills
8 7 (3.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (2.13%) Billing
10 3 (1.60%) Law
10 3 (1.60%) Military
11 2 (1.06%) Advertising
12 1 (0.53%) Front Office
12 1 (0.53%) Marketing
12 1 (0.53%) Retail
Job Titles
1 100 (53.19%) Developer
2 40 (21.28%) Senior
3 38 (20.21%) Lead
4 35 (18.62%) AWS Developer
4 35 (18.62%) React Developer
5 32 (17.02%) Full-Stack Developer
6 29 (15.43%) Python Developer
7 28 (14.89%) Lead Developer
8 22 (11.70%) Software Developer
9 21 (11.17%) Java Developer
10 19 (10.11%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 17 (9.04%) Lead Python Developer
11 17 (9.04%) Node.js Developer
12 14 (7.45%) Senior Developer
13 13 (6.91%) Software Engineer
14 12 (6.38%) AWS Engineer
14 12 (6.38%) Data Engineer
15 11 (5.85%) Lead Software Developer
15 11 (5.85%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
16 10 (5.32%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (45.21%) Node.js
2 83 (44.15%) React
3 33 (17.55%) RESTful
4 31 (16.49%) Spring
5 27 (14.36%) Spring Boot
6 25 (13.30%) Jest
7 21 (11.17%) Ruby on Rails
8 18 (9.57%) AngularJS
9 15 (7.98%) Kafka
10 14 (7.45%) HTML
11 13 (6.91%) AWS CDK
12 10 (5.32%) .NET
13 9 (4.79%) RabbitMQ
14 7 (3.72%) CSS
14 7 (3.72%) REST
15 6 (3.19%) AWS Amplify
15 6 (3.19%) MapLibre
16 5 (2.66%) .NET Core
16 5 (2.66%) JSON
16 5 (2.66%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 35 (18.62%) Cloud Native
2 10 (5.32%) Greenfield Project
3 7 (3.72%) Product Ownership
4 6 (3.19%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (2.13%) Security Posture
5 4 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.60%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.60%) IoT
6 3 (1.60%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.06%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.06%) NHS
8 1 (0.53%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.53%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.53%) Hedge funds
8 1 (0.53%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.53%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.53%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.53%) Video on Demand
8 1 (0.53%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.19%) Linux
2 2 (1.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (1.06%) Unix
3 1 (0.53%) CentOS
3 1 (0.53%) Debian
3 1 (0.53%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (54.26%) CI/CD
2 75 (39.89%) Agile
3 72 (38.30%) Full-Stack Development
4 70 (37.23%) DevOps
5 61 (32.45%) Mentoring
6 49 (26.06%) Microservices
7 47 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 41 (21.81%) Containerisation
8 41 (21.81%) Continuous Improvement
9 39 (20.74%) Problem-Solving
10 38 (20.21%) Software Engineering
11 28 (14.89%) Continuous Integration
12 26 (13.83%) AI
12 26 (13.83%) Code Quality
13 25 (13.30%) Event-Driven
13 25 (13.30%) Scrum
14 24 (12.77%) Collaborative Culture
14 24 (12.77%) Process Improvement
15 23 (12.23%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 23 (12.23%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 82 (43.62%) Python
2 60 (31.91%) JavaScript
3 54 (28.72%) SQL
4 46 (24.47%) TypeScript
5 34 (18.09%) Java
6 21 (11.17%) Ruby
7 14 (7.45%) Bash
8 9 (4.79%) Kotlin
9 6 (3.19%) C#
10 5 (2.66%) Groovy
11 4 (2.13%) Go
11 4 (2.13%) PHP
12 3 (1.60%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.53%) Perl
13 1 (0.53%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (6.91%) Security Cleared
2 12 (6.38%) AWS Certification
3 11 (5.85%) Degree
4 10 (5.32%) SC Cleared
5 3 (1.60%) AWS Certified Developer
5 3 (1.60%) IIBA
5 3 (1.60%) PhD
6 2 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.06%) SnowPro
7 1 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (12.77%) QA
2 7 (3.72%) Data Quality
2 7 (3.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.60%) ISO 9001
4 2 (1.06%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.06%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.53%) GDPR
5 1 (0.53%) HL7
5 1 (0.53%) NIST
5 1 (0.53%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.53%) SNOMED CT
5 1 (0.53%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 59 (31.38%) Docker
2 3 (1.60%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 47 (25.00%) Terraform
2 35 (18.62%) Kubernetes
3 13 (6.91%) Ansible
3 13 (6.91%) Grafana
4 7 (3.72%) Prometheus
5 4 (2.13%) Argo
5 4 (2.13%) HP Fortify
6 3 (1.60%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.53%) Kibana
7 1 (0.53%) Packer
7 1 (0.53%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.53%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (2.13%) Databricks
1 4 (2.13%) PagerDuty
2 2 (1.06%) HubSpot
2 2 (1.06%) Okta
2 2 (1.06%) Red Hat
3 1 (0.53%) AppDynamics
3 1 (0.53%) Apple
3 1 (0.53%) Dynatrace
3 1 (0.53%) Google
3 1 (0.53%) Informatica
3 1 (0.53%) Mercator
3 1 (0.53%) Microsoft
3 1 (0.53%) New Relic
3 1 (0.53%) Oracle
3 1 (0.53%) SaltStack