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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 308 243 301
Rank change year-on-year -65 +58 -5
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 152 201 240
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.69% 1.22% 0.89%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.78% 3.32% 2.16%
Number of salaries quoted 120 165 174
10th Percentile £52,079 £51,250 £57,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,000 £64,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.81% -20.00% +10.34%
75th Percentile £84,063 £86,250 £97,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £115,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year - -3.33% +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 8,517 6,059 11,129
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.87% 36.82% 41.12%
Number of salaries quoted 6,114 4,470 8,988
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £107,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.00%

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 28 July 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 (3.95%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.29%) Apache
2 5 (3.29%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.97%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.66%) CMS
4 1 (0.66%) Confluence
4 1 (0.66%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (1.97%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 152 (100.00%) Serverless
2 151 (99.34%) AWS
3 103 (67.76%) Amazon S3
4 62 (40.79%) Amazon SQS
5 55 (36.18%) Amazon EC2
6 52 (34.21%) Amazon ECS
7 28 (18.42%) GitHub
8 26 (17.11%) Amazon EventBridge
8 26 (17.11%) AWS CloudFormation
9 24 (15.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 24 (15.79%) AWS Step Functions
10 21 (13.82%) SaaS
11 17 (11.18%) GitHub Actions
12 15 (9.87%) Amazon Cognito
13 10 (6.58%) Amazon EKS
13 10 (6.58%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 10 (6.58%) Azure
13 10 (6.58%) Datadog
14 9 (5.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 5 (3.29%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.97%) Broadband
1 3 (1.97%) DNS
1 3 (1.97%) Firewall
1 3 (1.97%) VPN
2 2 (1.32%) Network Security
3 1 (0.66%) 4G
3 1 (0.66%) 5G
3 1 (0.66%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (28.29%) DynamoDB
2 41 (26.97%) PostgreSQL
3 33 (21.71%) Amazon RDS
4 26 (17.11%) MongoDB
5 15 (9.87%) NoSQL
6 13 (8.55%) Amazon Athena
7 10 (6.58%) Amazon Redshift
8 9 (5.92%) Relational Database
9 7 (4.61%) Elasticsearch
10 6 (3.95%) Redis
11 5 (3.29%) Metadata
11 5 (3.29%) MySQL
12 4 (2.63%) SQL Server
13 3 (1.97%) Amazon Aurora
13 3 (1.97%) Data Warehouse
13 3 (1.97%) Flink
13 3 (1.97%) MariaDB
13 3 (1.97%) RDBMS
14 2 (1.32%) Data Lake
14 2 (1.32%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 25 (16.45%) Cypress.io
2 21 (13.82%) Git
3 20 (13.16%) Jenkins
4 8 (5.26%) GitLab
5 5 (3.29%) JIRA
6 4 (2.63%) TeamCity
7 3 (1.97%) Claude Code
7 3 (1.97%) Maven
7 3 (1.97%) Postman
7 3 (1.97%) Selenium
7 3 (1.97%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.66%) Browser DevTools
8 1 (0.66%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.66%) git-flow
8 1 (0.66%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.66%) JUnit
8 1 (0.66%) Karma Test Runner
8 1 (0.66%) MLflow
8 1 (0.66%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.66%) webpack
General
1 29 (19.08%) Social Skills
2 13 (8.55%) Finance
3 12 (7.89%) Public Sector
4 9 (5.92%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (5.26%) Health Technology
6 5 (3.29%) Publishing
7 4 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.63%) Tech for Good
8 3 (1.97%) Advertising
8 3 (1.97%) Billing
8 3 (1.97%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.97%) Law
8 3 (1.97%) Marketing
8 3 (1.97%) Military
9 1 (0.66%) Banking
9 1 (0.66%) Front Office
9 1 (0.66%) Legal
9 1 (0.66%) Local Government
9 1 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.66%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 75 (49.34%) Developer
2 53 (34.87%) Senior
3 38 (25.00%) Full-Stack Developer
4 22 (14.47%) Senior Developer
5 19 (12.50%) Java Developer
6 18 (11.84%) Lead
7 17 (11.18%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 14 (9.21%) AWS Developer
9 13 (8.55%) Data Engineer
10 12 (7.89%) AWS Engineer
10 12 (7.89%) Python Developer
10 12 (7.89%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
11 11 (7.24%) Senior Python Developer
11 11 (7.24%) Software Engineer
12 10 (6.58%) React Developer
12 10 (6.58%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
13 8 (5.26%) Lead Developer
13 8 (5.26%) Python Engineer
13 8 (5.26%) Senior Software Engineer
13 8 (5.26%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (50.66%) React
2 75 (49.34%) Node.js
3 27 (17.76%) Jest
4 25 (16.45%) Spring
5 24 (15.79%) Ruby on Rails
5 24 (15.79%) Spring Boot
6 20 (13.16%) Kafka
7 18 (11.84%) RESTful
8 13 (8.55%) AngularJS
9 10 (6.58%) AWS CDK
9 10 (6.58%) REST
10 8 (5.26%) Next.js
10 8 (5.26%) Swagger
11 7 (4.61%) CSS
11 7 (4.61%) HTML
11 7 (4.61%) OpenTelemetry
11 7 (4.61%) Vue
12 6 (3.95%) OpenAPI
12 6 (3.95%) Pandas
13 5 (3.29%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 28 (18.42%) Cloud Native
2 19 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (9.87%) Greenfield Project
4 6 (3.95%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.97%) Data Centre
5 3 (1.97%) IoT
5 3 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.97%) Life Science
5 3 (1.97%) NHS
5 3 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.32%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.32%) PKI
6 2 (1.32%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.32%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.66%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.66%) Blog
7 1 (0.66%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.66%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.66%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.66%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.63%) Linux
2 1 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (46.71%) CI/CD
2 62 (40.79%) Full-Stack Development
3 59 (38.82%) Microservices
4 57 (37.50%) Agile
5 48 (31.58%) DevOps
6 46 (30.26%) Mentoring
7 39 (25.66%) Infrastructure as Code
8 36 (23.68%) Containerisation
9 35 (23.03%) AI
10 32 (21.05%) Software Engineering
11 30 (19.74%) Problem-Solving
12 29 (19.08%) Event-Driven
13 27 (17.76%) Collaborative Culture
14 24 (15.79%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 23 (15.13%) Mob Programming
16 22 (14.47%) Continuous Delivery
16 22 (14.47%) Continuous Improvement
17 21 (13.82%) Software Delivery
18 20 (13.16%) Observability
19 19 (12.50%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 67 (44.08%) Python
2 59 (38.82%) JavaScript
3 53 (34.87%) TypeScript
4 34 (22.37%) SQL
5 26 (17.11%) Java
6 25 (16.45%) Ruby
7 10 (6.58%) Kotlin
8 9 (5.92%) Bash
9 5 (3.29%) C#
9 5 (3.29%) PHP
10 4 (2.63%) Groovy
11 3 (1.97%) Go
11 3 (1.97%) Scala
12 1 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.66%) Perl
12 1 (0.66%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (6.58%) SC Cleared
1 10 (6.58%) Security Cleared
2 7 (4.61%) Degree
3 3 (1.97%) AWS Certification
3 3 (1.97%) PhD
4 2 (1.32%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (1.32%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (0.66%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.58%) QA
2 7 (4.61%) Data Quality
2 7 (4.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.97%) GDPR
3 3 (1.97%) ISO 9001
4 2 (1.32%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.66%) HL7
5 1 (0.66%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.66%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 44 (28.95%) Docker
2 3 (1.97%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 46 (30.26%) Terraform
2 24 (15.79%) Kubernetes
3 11 (7.24%) Ansible
4 9 (5.92%) Grafana
5 5 (3.29%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.97%) Packer
7 2 (1.32%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.66%) Kibana
8 1 (0.66%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 5 (3.29%) Databricks
1 5 (3.29%) HubSpot
1 5 (3.29%) OpenAI
2 3 (1.97%) Dynatrace
2 3 (1.97%) Splunk
3 1 (0.66%) AppDynamics
3 1 (0.66%) Apple
3 1 (0.66%) Google
3 1 (0.66%) New Relic
3 1 (0.66%) Oracle
3 1 (0.66%) Red Hat