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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 226 128 271
Rank change year-on-year -98 +143 -61
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 153 470 243
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.99% 2.37% 1.11%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.75% 5.35% 2.31%
Number of salaries quoted 118 146 212
10th Percentile £52,500 £56,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £65,531 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £80,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.63% +23.08% -16.67%
75th Percentile £81,500 £105,000 £77,813
90th Percentile £90,750 £128,750 £87,500
UK median annual salary £72,250 £80,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -9.69% +14.29% -12.50%

All Cloud 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 5,559 8,780 10,517
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 36.01% 44.33% 47.98%
Number of salaries quoted 4,165 5,693 8,984
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £36,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - -
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £110,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +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 16 November 2025.

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 9 (5.88%) Apache
1 9 (5.88%) Apache Spark
2 8 (5.23%) Headless CMS
3 6 (3.92%) Tomcat
3 6 (3.92%) WebSphere
3 6 (3.92%) WebSphere Application Server
4 4 (2.61%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.65%) SAS
Business Applications
1 8 (5.23%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 153 (100.00%) AWS
1 153 (100.00%) Serverless
2 100 (65.36%) Amazon S3
3 45 (29.41%) AWS CloudFormation
4 43 (28.10%) Amazon EC2
5 34 (22.22%) Amazon ECS
6 29 (18.95%) Amazon SQS
7 23 (15.03%) Amazon EKS
8 21 (13.73%) Azure
9 20 (13.07%) GitHub
10 17 (11.11%) AWS Step Functions
10 17 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 15 (9.80%) GitHub Actions
12 12 (7.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 9 (5.88%) GCP
13 9 (5.88%) Google Analytics
13 9 (5.88%) Snowflake
14 8 (5.23%) Amazon EMR
14 8 (5.23%) Figma
14 8 (5.23%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 10 (6.54%) Broadband
2 8 (5.23%) SSL
3 6 (3.92%) Firewall
4 4 (2.61%) DNS
4 4 (2.61%) VPN
5 3 (1.96%) Network Security
6 2 (1.31%) SSH
6 2 (1.31%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (35.95%) DynamoDB
2 40 (26.14%) Amazon RDS
3 28 (18.30%) Amazon Redshift
4 24 (15.69%) Data Warehouse
5 20 (13.07%) NoSQL
6 19 (12.42%) Elasticsearch
7 14 (9.15%) Data Lake
8 13 (8.50%) PostgreSQL
9 9 (5.88%) Amazon Athena
9 9 (5.88%) SQL Server
10 6 (3.92%) DB2
10 6 (3.92%) MySQL
11 5 (3.27%) Apache Iceberg
12 4 (2.61%) Metadata
13 2 (1.31%) Amazon Aurora
13 2 (1.31%) Relational Database
14 1 (0.65%) Big Data
14 1 (0.65%) Delta Lake
14 1 (0.65%) Redis
14 1 (0.65%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (7.84%) Jenkins
2 10 (6.54%) Cypress.io
3 7 (4.58%) Git
4 6 (3.92%) GitLab
5 5 (3.27%) git-flow
6 2 (1.31%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.65%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.65%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.65%) Deequ
7 1 (0.65%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.65%) Jasmine
7 1 (0.65%) JIRA
7 1 (0.65%) JUnit
7 1 (0.65%) Karma Test Runner
7 1 (0.65%) Maven
7 1 (0.65%) Mockito
General
1 50 (32.68%) Social Skills
2 28 (18.30%) Tech for Good
3 23 (15.03%) Health Technology
3 23 (15.03%) Publishing
4 22 (14.38%) Finance
5 17 (11.11%) Public Sector
6 12 (7.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (5.88%) Influencing Skills
7 9 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (3.92%) Banking
9 5 (3.27%) Analytical Skills
10 3 (1.96%) Games
10 3 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.31%) Law
11 2 (1.31%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.65%) Advertising
12 1 (0.65%) Back Office
12 1 (0.65%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.65%) Marketing
12 1 (0.65%) Retail
Job Titles
1 70 (45.75%) Senior
2 58 (37.91%) Developer
3 41 (26.80%) Senior Developer
4 26 (16.99%) Python Developer
5 25 (16.34%) AWS Developer
6 21 (13.73%) Data Engineer
7 19 (12.42%) Software Engineer
8 17 (11.11%) Senior Python Developer
9 16 (10.46%) AWS Engineer
9 16 (10.46%) Lead
10 15 (9.80%) Full-Stack Developer
11 14 (9.15%) React Developer
12 13 (8.50%) Cloud Engineer
12 13 (8.50%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
12 13 (8.50%) Software Developer
13 12 (7.84%) Architect
14 11 (7.19%) DevOps Engineer
14 11 (7.19%) Senior Data Engineer
15 9 (5.88%) Applications Engineer
15 9 (5.88%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (36.60%) React
2 37 (24.18%) RESTful
3 24 (15.69%) Node.js
4 19 (12.42%) Spring
5 18 (11.76%) Spring Boot
6 17 (11.11%) AWS CDK
6 17 (11.11%) GraphQL
7 14 (9.15%) CSS
7 14 (9.15%) Swagger
8 13 (8.50%) HTML
9 11 (7.19%) Kafka
10 10 (6.54%) .NET
11 9 (5.88%) AngularJS
11 9 (5.88%) Express.js
11 9 (5.88%) Jest
11 9 (5.88%) Next.js
12 8 (5.23%) Playwright
12 8 (5.23%) Tailwind CSS
12 8 (5.23%) Vitest
13 7 (4.58%) Serverless Framework
Miscellaneous
1 37 (24.18%) Cloud Native
2 10 (6.54%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (6.54%) Product Ownership
3 7 (4.58%) Management Information System
4 6 (3.92%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (2.61%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.96%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (1.31%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (1.31%) Cyberattack
7 2 (1.31%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.31%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.31%) IVR
7 2 (1.31%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.31%) PKI
7 2 (1.31%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.31%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.65%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.65%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.65%) Online Games
8 1 (0.65%) Over-the-Top Content
Operating Systems
1 17 (11.11%) Linux
2 9 (5.88%) Unix
3 8 (5.23%) Windows
4 6 (3.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (54.90%) CI/CD
2 78 (50.98%) Agile
3 53 (34.64%) DevOps
3 53 (34.64%) Mentoring
4 52 (33.99%) Infrastructure as Code
5 40 (26.14%) Software Engineering
6 37 (24.18%) Pair Programming
7 36 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
8 31 (20.26%) Scrum
9 30 (19.61%) Microservices
10 29 (18.95%) TDD
11 27 (17.65%) Full-Stack Development
12 26 (16.99%) Analytics
13 24 (15.69%) Continuous Improvement
14 23 (15.03%) Operational Stability
15 22 (14.38%) Containerisation
15 22 (14.38%) Data Modelling
16 21 (13.73%) Coaching
16 21 (13.73%) Data Pipeline
16 21 (13.73%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 91 (59.48%) Python
2 55 (35.95%) TypeScript
3 35 (22.88%) SQL
4 29 (18.95%) JavaScript
5 23 (15.03%) Java
6 10 (6.54%) Bash
6 10 (6.54%) C#
7 4 (2.61%) Go
8 3 (1.96%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.31%) Scala
10 1 (0.65%) C++
10 1 (0.65%) PHP
10 1 (0.65%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 38 (24.84%) AWS Certification
2 23 (15.03%) Security Cleared
3 20 (13.07%) SC Cleared
4 12 (7.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 10 (6.54%) Degree
6 8 (5.23%) SnowPro
7 6 (3.92%) ITIL Certification
8 5 (3.27%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (1.31%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (1.31%) CISA
9 2 (1.31%) CISM
9 2 (1.31%) CISSP
9 2 (1.31%) CRISC
10 1 (0.65%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (0.65%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (22.22%) QA
2 9 (5.88%) Accessibility
3 7 (4.58%) Data Quality
3 7 (4.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (3.92%) SLA
5 4 (2.61%) GDPR
6 3 (1.96%) NIST
6 3 (1.96%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.96%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.65%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.65%) WCAG
System Software
1 22 (14.38%) Docker
2 2 (1.31%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.65%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 50 (32.68%) Terraform
2 35 (22.88%) Kubernetes
3 12 (7.84%) Grafana
4 9 (5.88%) Prometheus
5 7 (4.58%) Ansible
6 6 (3.92%) Argo
7 1 (0.65%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 8 (5.23%) Apple
2 7 (4.58%) IBM
3 6 (3.92%) Red Hat
4 5 (3.27%) PagerDuty
5 3 (1.96%) Databricks
6 2 (1.31%) Avaya
6 2 (1.31%) Genesys
6 2 (1.31%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.31%) Thales
7 1 (0.65%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.65%) Facebook
7 1 (0.65%) Google