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

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 243 198 276
Rank change year-on-year -45 +78 +7
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 173 263 346
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.91% 1.81% 1.05%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.40% 4.58% 2.46%
Number of salaries quoted 138 225 285
10th Percentile - £52,500 £55,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £73,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% -0.68% +0.69%
75th Percentile £76,000 £115,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £138,750 £109,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £76,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -8.50% +5.52% -

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 7,205 5,742 14,087
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.04% 39.46% 42.86%
Number of salaries quoted 4,938 4,137 11,984
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,825 £35,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,625 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £98,750
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -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 26 May 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 (3.47%) Apache
1 6 (3.47%) Apache Airflow
1 6 (3.47%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.73%) Apache Solr
3 1 (0.58%) CMS
3 1 (0.58%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (3.47%) Spreadsheet
2 3 (1.73%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 173 (100.00%) Serverless
2 172 (99.42%) AWS
3 125 (72.25%) Amazon S3
4 70 (40.46%) Amazon SQS
5 60 (34.68%) Amazon EC2
6 50 (28.90%) Amazon ECS
7 35 (20.23%) AWS CloudFormation
8 29 (16.76%) GitHub
9 28 (16.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 25 (14.45%) Amazon EventBridge
11 21 (12.14%) AWS Step Functions
12 20 (11.56%) Amazon Cognito
12 20 (11.56%) SaaS
13 17 (9.83%) GitHub Actions
14 13 (7.51%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 12 (6.94%) Azure
16 11 (6.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 10 (5.78%) Amazon EKS
17 10 (5.78%) Datadog
18 5 (2.89%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.89%) AMQP
2 3 (1.73%) Broadband
2 3 (1.73%) DNS
2 3 (1.73%) Firewall
2 3 (1.73%) VPN
3 2 (1.16%) Network Security
4 1 (0.58%) 4G
4 1 (0.58%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (28.90%) DynamoDB
2 40 (23.12%) Amazon RDS
3 39 (22.54%) PostgreSQL
4 25 (14.45%) MongoDB
5 20 (11.56%) NoSQL
6 15 (8.67%) Amazon Athena
7 11 (6.36%) Amazon Redshift
8 7 (4.05%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (3.47%) Metadata
10 5 (2.89%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (2.89%) Redis
10 5 (2.89%) Relational Database
10 5 (2.89%) SQL Server
11 4 (2.31%) Data Lake
11 4 (2.31%) MySQL
12 3 (1.73%) Amazon Aurora
12 3 (1.73%) Flink
12 3 (1.73%) Power BI
13 2 (1.16%) MariaDB
13 2 (1.16%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 27 (15.61%) Cypress.io
2 26 (15.03%) Git
3 24 (13.87%) Jenkins
4 11 (6.36%) GitLab
5 5 (2.89%) JIRA
6 4 (2.31%) Maven
6 4 (2.31%) SonarQube
7 3 (1.73%) ESLint
8 2 (1.16%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.58%) Browser DevTools
9 1 (0.58%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.58%) git-flow
9 1 (0.58%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.58%) JUnit
9 1 (0.58%) Karma Test Runner
9 1 (0.58%) MLflow
9 1 (0.58%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.58%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.58%) webpack
9 1 (0.58%) Zephyr
General
1 36 (20.81%) Social Skills
2 15 (8.67%) Finance
3 12 (6.94%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (6.94%) Health Technology
3 12 (6.94%) Public Sector
4 9 (5.20%) Publishing
5 8 (4.62%) Tech for Good
6 6 (3.47%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (2.89%) Billing
8 4 (2.31%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.73%) Law
9 3 (1.73%) Military
10 2 (1.16%) Advertising
10 2 (1.16%) Front Office
10 2 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.16%) Marketing
11 1 (0.58%) Banking
11 1 (0.58%) Retail
11 1 (0.58%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 92 (53.18%) Developer
2 39 (22.54%) Senior
3 32 (18.50%) Full-Stack Developer
4 29 (16.76%) Lead
5 28 (16.18%) React Developer
6 24 (13.87%) AWS Developer
7 23 (13.29%) Java Developer
8 21 (12.14%) Python Developer
9 20 (11.56%) Lead Developer
10 19 (10.98%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 19 (10.98%) Software Developer
11 15 (8.67%) AWS Engineer
12 14 (8.09%) Data Engineer
12 14 (8.09%) Node.js Developer
13 13 (7.51%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
14 12 (6.94%) Senior Developer
15 10 (5.78%) Platform Engineer
16 9 (5.20%) Software Engineer
17 7 (4.05%) Python Engineer
17 7 (4.05%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (48.55%) Node.js
2 83 (47.98%) React
3 29 (16.76%) Spring
4 28 (16.18%) Jest
5 26 (15.03%) RESTful
5 26 (15.03%) Spring Boot
6 24 (13.87%) Ruby on Rails
7 20 (11.56%) Kafka
8 17 (9.83%) AngularJS
9 11 (6.36%) REST
10 10 (5.78%) HTML
11 8 (4.62%) AWS CDK
11 8 (4.62%) Swagger
12 6 (3.47%) .NET
12 6 (3.47%) AWS Amplify
12 6 (3.47%) MapLibre
12 6 (3.47%) Pandas
12 6 (3.47%) RabbitMQ
13 5 (2.89%) JSON
13 5 (2.89%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 27 (15.61%) Cloud Native
2 12 (6.94%) Greenfield Project
3 10 (5.78%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (2.31%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.31%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (1.73%) Data Structures
5 3 (1.73%) IoT
5 3 (1.73%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.16%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.16%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.16%) NHS
6 2 (1.16%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.58%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.58%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.58%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.58%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.58%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.58%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.58%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.31%) Linux
2 2 (1.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.58%) CentOS
3 1 (0.58%) Debian
3 1 (0.58%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (45.09%) CI/CD
2 69 (39.88%) Full-Stack Development
3 60 (34.68%) Agile
4 55 (31.79%) DevOps
5 54 (31.21%) Microservices
6 45 (26.01%) Mentoring
7 41 (23.70%) Containerisation
8 33 (19.08%) Infrastructure as Code
8 33 (19.08%) Problem-Solving
9 31 (17.92%) Software Engineering
10 29 (16.76%) Event-Driven
11 28 (16.18%) Continuous Improvement
12 27 (15.61%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 24 (13.87%) AI
13 24 (13.87%) Collaborative Culture
13 24 (13.87%) Mob Programming
14 19 (10.98%) Continuous Delivery
14 19 (10.98%) Data Modelling
14 19 (10.98%) Software Delivery
14 19 (10.98%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 77 (44.51%) Python
2 61 (35.26%) JavaScript
3 52 (30.06%) SQL
4 47 (27.17%) TypeScript
5 32 (18.50%) Java
6 24 (13.87%) Ruby
7 11 (6.36%) Bash
8 10 (5.78%) Kotlin
9 5 (2.89%) Groovy
9 5 (2.89%) PHP
10 4 (2.31%) C#
11 2 (1.16%) Go
11 2 (1.16%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.58%) Perl
12 1 (0.58%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (6.36%) Degree
2 9 (5.20%) SC Cleared
2 9 (5.20%) Security Cleared
3 6 (3.47%) AWS Certification
4 3 (1.73%) IIBA
4 3 (1.73%) PhD
5 2 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.58%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.58%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (8.09%) QA
2 8 (4.62%) Data Quality
3 7 (4.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.73%) ISO 9001
5 2 (1.16%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.58%) GDPR
6 1 (0.58%) HL7
6 1 (0.58%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.58%) SNOMED CT
6 1 (0.58%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 57 (32.95%) Docker
2 3 (1.73%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 39 (22.54%) Terraform
2 31 (17.92%) Kubernetes
3 13 (7.51%) Ansible
4 9 (5.20%) Grafana
5 5 (2.89%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.73%) HP Fortify
6 3 (1.73%) Packer
7 2 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.58%) Kibana
8 1 (0.58%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.58%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (2.89%) Databricks
1 5 (2.89%) HubSpot
2 2 (1.16%) Okta
2 2 (1.16%) OpenAI
2 2 (1.16%) Red Hat
3 1 (0.58%) AppDynamics
3 1 (0.58%) Apple
3 1 (0.58%) Google
3 1 (0.58%) Informatica
3 1 (0.58%) Mercator
3 1 (0.58%) Microsoft
3 1 (0.58%) New Relic
3 1 (0.58%) Oracle
3 1 (0.58%) SaltStack