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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 227 195 275
Rank change year-on-year -32 +80 +18
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 179 281 352
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.95% 1.87% 1.08%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.51% 4.66% 2.52%
Number of salaries quoted 145 239 291
10th Percentile - £52,500 £55,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £59,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £71,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +4.90% -1.38%
75th Percentile £76,000 £115,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £138,750 £107,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -9.68% +6.90% -3.33%

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 7,129 6,036 13,994
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.97% 40.27% 43.00%
Number of salaries quoted 4,872 4,401 11,914
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,000 £35,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,272 £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 £82,500 £79,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £108,750 £97,500
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 21 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 (3.35%) Apache
1 6 (3.35%) Apache Airflow
1 6 (3.35%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.68%) Apache Solr
3 1 (0.56%) CMS
3 1 (0.56%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (3.35%) Spreadsheet
2 3 (1.68%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 179 (100.00%) Serverless
2 178 (99.44%) AWS
3 132 (73.74%) Amazon S3
4 74 (41.34%) Amazon SQS
5 61 (34.08%) Amazon EC2
6 52 (29.05%) Amazon ECS
7 39 (21.79%) AWS CloudFormation
8 31 (17.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 31 (17.32%) GitHub
9 27 (15.08%) Amazon EventBridge
10 23 (12.85%) AWS Step Functions
11 21 (11.73%) SaaS
12 20 (11.17%) Amazon Cognito
13 19 (10.61%) GitHub Actions
14 14 (7.82%) Azure
15 13 (7.26%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 12 (6.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 10 (5.59%) Amazon EKS
17 10 (5.59%) Datadog
18 6 (3.35%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.79%) AMQP
2 3 (1.68%) Broadband
2 3 (1.68%) DNS
2 3 (1.68%) Firewall
2 3 (1.68%) VPN
3 2 (1.12%) Network Security
4 1 (0.56%) 4G
4 1 (0.56%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (29.61%) DynamoDB
2 41 (22.91%) Amazon RDS
2 41 (22.91%) PostgreSQL
3 24 (13.41%) MongoDB
4 20 (11.17%) NoSQL
5 15 (8.38%) Amazon Athena
6 11 (6.15%) Amazon Redshift
7 7 (3.91%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (3.35%) Metadata
9 5 (2.79%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (2.79%) MySQL
9 5 (2.79%) Redis
9 5 (2.79%) Relational Database
9 5 (2.79%) SQL Server
10 4 (2.23%) Data Lake
11 3 (1.68%) Amazon Aurora
11 3 (1.68%) Flink
11 3 (1.68%) Power BI
12 2 (1.12%) Big Data
12 2 (1.12%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 29 (16.20%) Cypress.io
2 27 (15.08%) Jenkins
3 26 (14.53%) Git
4 12 (6.70%) GitLab
5 6 (3.35%) Maven
5 6 (3.35%) SonarQube
6 4 (2.23%) JIRA
7 3 (1.68%) ESLint
8 2 (1.12%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.56%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.56%) Browser DevTools
9 1 (0.56%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.56%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.56%) git-flow
9 1 (0.56%) MLflow
9 1 (0.56%) Selenium
9 1 (0.56%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.56%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.56%) webpack
9 1 (0.56%) Zephyr
General
1 39 (21.79%) Social Skills
2 14 (7.82%) Finance
2 14 (7.82%) Health Technology
3 12 (6.70%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (6.70%) Public Sector
4 11 (6.15%) Publishing
5 10 (5.59%) Tech for Good
6 8 (4.47%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (3.35%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (2.79%) Billing
9 3 (1.68%) Law
9 3 (1.68%) Military
10 2 (1.12%) Advertising
10 2 (1.12%) Front Office
11 1 (0.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.56%) Marketing
11 1 (0.56%) Retail
11 1 (0.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 96 (53.63%) Developer
2 39 (21.79%) Senior
3 34 (18.99%) Lead
4 32 (17.88%) Full-Stack Developer
5 31 (17.32%) React Developer
6 28 (15.64%) AWS Developer
7 24 (13.41%) Python Developer
8 23 (12.85%) Lead Developer
9 22 (12.29%) Java Developer
10 20 (11.17%) Software Developer
11 19 (10.61%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 15 (8.38%) AWS Engineer
12 15 (8.38%) Node.js Developer
13 14 (7.82%) Data Engineer
14 13 (7.26%) Senior Developer
14 13 (7.26%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
15 11 (6.15%) Platform Engineer
16 9 (5.03%) Lead Python Developer
17 8 (4.47%) Senior Python Developer
17 8 (4.47%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (48.04%) Node.js
2 84 (46.93%) React
3 29 (16.20%) Jest
3 29 (16.20%) RESTful
3 29 (16.20%) Spring
4 27 (15.08%) Spring Boot
5 24 (13.41%) Ruby on Rails
6 18 (10.06%) Kafka
7 17 (9.50%) AngularJS
8 10 (5.59%) AWS CDK
8 10 (5.59%) HTML
9 9 (5.03%) REST
10 8 (4.47%) Swagger
11 7 (3.91%) .NET
12 6 (3.35%) AWS Amplify
12 6 (3.35%) MapLibre
12 6 (3.35%) Pandas
12 6 (3.35%) RabbitMQ
13 5 (2.79%) NumPy
13 5 (2.79%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 27 (15.08%) Cloud Native
2 12 (6.70%) Greenfield Project
3 10 (5.59%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (2.79%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.23%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.68%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.68%) IoT
6 3 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.68%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.12%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.12%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.12%) NHS
8 1 (0.56%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.56%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.56%) Hedge funds
8 1 (0.56%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.56%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.56%) Video on Demand
8 1 (0.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.23%) Linux
2 2 (1.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.56%) CentOS
3 1 (0.56%) Debian
3 1 (0.56%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (45.25%) CI/CD
2 70 (39.11%) Full-Stack Development
3 62 (34.64%) Agile
4 57 (31.84%) DevOps
5 53 (29.61%) Microservices
6 49 (27.37%) Mentoring
7 42 (23.46%) Containerisation
8 35 (19.55%) Infrastructure as Code
8 35 (19.55%) Problem-Solving
9 31 (17.32%) Software Engineering
10 29 (16.20%) Continuous Improvement
11 28 (15.64%) Event-Driven
12 26 (14.53%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 25 (13.97%) Collaborative Culture
14 24 (13.41%) Mob Programming
15 23 (12.85%) AI
16 20 (11.17%) TDD
17 19 (10.61%) Continuous Delivery
17 19 (10.61%) Platform Engineering
17 19 (10.61%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 81 (45.25%) Python
2 62 (34.64%) JavaScript
3 53 (29.61%) SQL
4 48 (26.82%) TypeScript
5 32 (17.88%) Java
6 24 (13.41%) Ruby
7 13 (7.26%) Bash
8 10 (5.59%) Kotlin
9 6 (3.35%) Groovy
10 5 (2.79%) PHP
11 4 (2.23%) C#
12 3 (1.68%) PowerShell
13 2 (1.12%) Go
14 1 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.56%) Perl
14 1 (0.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (6.15%) Degree
2 9 (5.03%) SC Cleared
2 9 (5.03%) Security Cleared
3 8 (4.47%) AWS Certification
4 3 (1.68%) IIBA
4 3 (1.68%) PhD
5 2 (1.12%) AWS Certified Developer
5 2 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.56%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (8.94%) QA
2 8 (4.47%) Data Quality
3 7 (3.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.68%) ISO 9001
5 2 (1.12%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.56%) GDPR
6 1 (0.56%) HL7
6 1 (0.56%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.56%) SNOMED CT
6 1 (0.56%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 59 (32.96%) Docker
2 3 (1.68%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 41 (22.91%) Terraform
2 31 (17.32%) Kubernetes
3 13 (7.26%) Ansible
4 9 (5.03%) Grafana
5 5 (2.79%) HP Fortify
5 5 (2.79%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.68%) Packer
7 2 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.56%) Kibana
8 1 (0.56%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.56%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (2.79%) Databricks
1 5 (2.79%) HubSpot
2 2 (1.12%) Okta
2 2 (1.12%) OpenAI
2 2 (1.12%) Red Hat
3 1 (0.56%) AppDynamics
3 1 (0.56%) Apple
3 1 (0.56%) Google
3 1 (0.56%) Informatica
3 1 (0.56%) Mercator
3 1 (0.56%) Microsoft
3 1 (0.56%) New Relic
3 1 (0.56%) Oracle
3 1 (0.56%) SaltStack