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

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 271 224 307
Rank change year-on-year -47 +83 -17
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 165 226 311
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.80% 1.43% 0.93%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.08% 3.78% 2.19%
Number of salaries quoted 132 193 249
10th Percentile - £51,500 £56,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,500 £70,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.42% -6.00% +3.45%
75th Percentile £81,563 £106,250 £96,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £115,000 £115,750
UK median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
% 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 7,924 5,975 14,190
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.31% 37.83% 42.44%
Number of salaries quoted 5,659 4,384 11,781
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,375 £45,000 £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 £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% -8.73%

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 30 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 (3.64%) Apache
1 6 (3.64%) Apache Airflow
1 6 (3.64%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.82%) Apache Solr
3 1 (0.61%) CMS
3 1 (0.61%) Confluence
3 1 (0.61%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (2.42%) Spreadsheet
2 3 (1.82%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 165 (100.00%) Serverless
2 164 (99.39%) AWS
3 117 (70.91%) Amazon S3
4 65 (39.39%) Amazon SQS
5 57 (34.55%) Amazon EC2
6 54 (32.73%) Amazon ECS
7 31 (18.79%) AWS CloudFormation
8 29 (17.58%) GitHub
9 27 (16.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 26 (15.76%) Amazon EventBridge
11 25 (15.15%) AWS Step Functions
12 19 (11.52%) SaaS
13 16 (9.70%) GitHub Actions
14 15 (9.09%) Amazon Cognito
15 13 (7.88%) Amazon EKS
15 13 (7.88%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 12 (7.27%) Azure
17 10 (6.06%) Datadog
17 10 (6.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 6 (3.64%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.82%) AMQP
1 3 (1.82%) Broadband
1 3 (1.82%) DNS
1 3 (1.82%) Firewall
1 3 (1.82%) Network Security
1 3 (1.82%) VPN
2 1 (0.61%) 4G
2 1 (0.61%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (29.09%) DynamoDB
2 40 (24.24%) PostgreSQL
3 34 (20.61%) Amazon RDS
4 26 (15.76%) MongoDB
5 17 (10.30%) NoSQL
6 15 (9.09%) Amazon Athena
7 11 (6.67%) Amazon Redshift
8 7 (4.24%) Elasticsearch
8 7 (4.24%) Relational Database
9 6 (3.64%) Metadata
10 5 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (3.03%) MySQL
10 5 (3.03%) Redis
10 5 (3.03%) SQL Server
11 3 (1.82%) Amazon Aurora
11 3 (1.82%) Data Lake
11 3 (1.82%) Flink
11 3 (1.82%) MariaDB
11 3 (1.82%) Power BI
11 3 (1.82%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 26 (15.76%) Cypress.io
2 25 (15.15%) Jenkins
3 22 (13.33%) Git
4 9 (5.45%) GitLab
5 6 (3.64%) JIRA
6 3 (1.82%) Claude Code
6 3 (1.82%) Maven
6 3 (1.82%) Postman
6 3 (1.82%) Selenium
6 3 (1.82%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.82%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.61%) Browser DevTools
7 1 (0.61%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.61%) ESLint
7 1 (0.61%) git-flow
7 1 (0.61%) Karma Test Runner
7 1 (0.61%) MLflow
7 1 (0.61%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.61%) webpack
7 1 (0.61%) Zephyr
General
1 32 (19.39%) Social Skills
2 12 (7.27%) Finance
3 11 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (6.67%) Public Sector
4 8 (4.85%) Health Technology
5 5 (3.03%) Publishing
6 4 (2.42%) Billing
6 4 (2.42%) Tech for Good
7 3 (1.82%) Advertising
7 3 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (1.82%) Law
7 3 (1.82%) Military
8 2 (1.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.21%) Marketing
9 1 (0.61%) Banking
9 1 (0.61%) Front Office
9 1 (0.61%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 85 (51.52%) Developer
2 49 (29.70%) Senior
3 38 (23.03%) Full-Stack Developer
4 23 (13.94%) Java Developer
5 21 (12.73%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 21 (12.73%) Lead
6 20 (12.12%) AWS Developer
6 20 (12.12%) Senior Developer
7 18 (10.91%) React Developer
8 17 (10.30%) Python Developer
9 15 (9.09%) Software Developer
10 13 (7.88%) AWS Engineer
10 13 (7.88%) Data Engineer
11 12 (7.27%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
12 11 (6.67%) Lead Developer
13 10 (6.06%) Node.js Developer
13 10 (6.06%) Software Engineer
14 9 (5.45%) Platform Engineer
14 9 (5.45%) Senior Python Developer
15 8 (4.85%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (52.73%) React
2 83 (50.30%) Node.js
3 27 (16.36%) Jest
4 26 (15.76%) Spring
5 25 (15.15%) Spring Boot
6 24 (14.55%) Ruby on Rails
7 20 (12.12%) Kafka
8 17 (10.30%) AngularJS
8 17 (10.30%) RESTful
9 10 (6.06%) HTML
10 9 (5.45%) AWS CDK
10 9 (5.45%) REST
10 9 (5.45%) Swagger
11 8 (4.85%) Next.js
12 7 (4.24%) Vue
13 6 (3.64%) CSS
14 5 (3.03%) OpenAPI
14 5 (3.03%) OpenTelemetry
14 5 (3.03%) Pandas
15 4 (2.42%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 30 (18.18%) Cloud Native
2 19 (11.52%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (7.88%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (3.03%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.42%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.82%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.82%) IoT
6 3 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.82%) Life Science
7 2 (1.21%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.21%) NHS
8 1 (0.61%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.61%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.61%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.61%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.61%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.61%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.61%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.61%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.82%) Linux
2 2 (1.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.61%) CentOS
3 1 (0.61%) Debian
3 1 (0.61%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (44.85%) Full-Stack Development
2 73 (44.24%) CI/CD
3 58 (35.15%) Microservices
4 55 (33.33%) Agile
5 52 (31.52%) DevOps
6 43 (26.06%) Mentoring
7 38 (23.03%) Infrastructure as Code
8 37 (22.42%) Containerisation
9 36 (21.82%) Software Engineering
10 31 (18.79%) AI
11 29 (17.58%) Event-Driven
11 29 (17.58%) Problem-Solving
12 26 (15.76%) Collaborative Culture
13 24 (14.55%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 24 (14.55%) Mob Programming
14 22 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
15 21 (12.73%) Continuous Delivery
15 21 (12.73%) Observability
16 20 (12.12%) Software Delivery
17 19 (11.52%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 71 (43.03%) Python
2 61 (36.97%) JavaScript
3 54 (32.73%) TypeScript
4 42 (25.45%) SQL
5 29 (17.58%) Java
6 24 (14.55%) Ruby
7 13 (7.88%) Kotlin
8 9 (5.45%) Bash
9 5 (3.03%) PHP
10 4 (2.42%) Groovy
11 3 (1.82%) C#
11 3 (1.82%) Go
11 3 (1.82%) Scala
12 1 (0.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.61%) Perl
12 1 (0.61%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.61%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (5.45%) SC Cleared
1 9 (5.45%) Security Cleared
2 8 (4.85%) Degree
3 5 (3.03%) AWS Certification
4 3 (1.82%) PhD
5 2 (1.21%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (1.21%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.61%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.61%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.67%) QA
2 7 (4.24%) Data Quality
2 7 (4.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.82%) GDPR
3 3 (1.82%) ISO 9001
4 2 (1.21%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.61%) HL7
5 1 (0.61%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.61%) SNOMED CT
5 1 (0.61%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 47 (28.48%) Docker
2 3 (1.82%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 44 (26.67%) Terraform
2 26 (15.76%) Kubernetes
3 12 (7.27%) Ansible
4 8 (4.85%) Grafana
5 4 (2.42%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.82%) Packer
7 2 (1.21%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.61%) Kibana
8 1 (0.61%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.61%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (3.03%) HubSpot
1 5 (3.03%) OpenAI
2 4 (2.42%) Databricks
3 3 (1.82%) Dynatrace
3 3 (1.82%) Splunk
4 2 (1.21%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.61%) AppDynamics
5 1 (0.61%) Apple
5 1 (0.61%) Google
5 1 (0.61%) Informatica
5 1 (0.61%) New Relic
5 1 (0.61%) Oracle
5 1 (0.61%) SaltStack