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 11 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 298 272 276
Rank change year-on-year -26 +4 -3
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 166 162 253
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.69% 1.00% 1.08%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.89% 2.79% 2.64%
Number of salaries quoted 130 126 128
10th Percentile £46,217 £52,500 £57,275
25th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,033 £65,000 £78,125
Median % change year-on-year -10.72% -16.80% +7.76%
75th Percentile £85,000 £81,125 £96,563
90th Percentile £102,500 £91,250 £107,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% - +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 8,775 5,812 9,567
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 36.60% 35.78% 40.78%
Number of salaries quoted 6,435 4,193 6,772
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £47,770
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £86,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
% 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 11 September 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 7 (4.22%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.81%) Apache
2 3 (1.81%) Apache Solr
3 2 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.20%) Confluence
4 1 (0.60%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
1 1 (0.60%) Finacle
1 1 (0.60%) FLEXCUBE
1 1 (0.60%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
1 1 (0.60%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 166 (100.00%) Serverless
2 164 (98.80%) AWS
3 102 (61.45%) Amazon S3
4 63 (37.95%) Amazon EC2
5 59 (35.54%) Amazon SQS
6 55 (33.13%) Amazon ECS
7 33 (19.88%) AWS Step Functions
8 30 (18.07%) AWS CloudFormation
9 27 (16.27%) GitHub
10 23 (13.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 23 (13.86%) Amazon EventBridge
11 18 (10.84%) SaaS
12 17 (10.24%) Amazon EMR
12 17 (10.24%) Azure
13 14 (8.43%) GitHub Actions
14 12 (7.23%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 12 (7.23%) Datadog
15 11 (6.63%) Amazon Cognito
16 10 (6.02%) Amazon EKS
17 8 (4.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.60%) 4G
1 1 (0.60%) 5G
1 1 (0.60%) Broadband
1 1 (0.60%) DNS
1 1 (0.60%) Firewall
1 1 (0.60%) Network Security
1 1 (0.60%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (27.71%) DynamoDB
2 38 (22.89%) PostgreSQL
3 30 (18.07%) MongoDB
4 25 (15.06%) Amazon RDS
5 18 (10.84%) Amazon Athena
5 18 (10.84%) Spark SQL
6 14 (8.43%) Relational Database
7 13 (7.83%) Amazon Redshift
8 11 (6.63%) NoSQL
9 9 (5.42%) Data Lake
10 8 (4.82%) Data Warehouse
11 7 (4.22%) Elasticsearch
12 5 (3.01%) MySQL
12 5 (3.01%) Parquet
12 5 (3.01%) Redis
13 4 (2.41%) Flink
13 4 (2.41%) Metadata
13 4 (2.41%) SQL Server
14 3 (1.81%) MariaDB
14 3 (1.81%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 27 (16.27%) Cypress.io
2 22 (13.25%) Git
3 15 (9.04%) Jenkins
4 5 (3.01%) GitLab
5 4 (2.41%) JIRA
6 3 (1.81%) Claude Code
6 3 (1.81%) Maven
6 3 (1.81%) Postman
6 3 (1.81%) Selenium
6 3 (1.81%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.81%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.60%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.60%) ERwin
7 1 (0.60%) git-flow
7 1 (0.60%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.60%) JUnit
7 1 (0.60%) Karma Test Runner
7 1 (0.60%) MLflow
7 1 (0.60%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 27 (16.27%) Social Skills
2 26 (15.66%) Public Sector
3 24 (14.46%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (13.25%) Finance
5 8 (4.82%) Banking
6 6 (3.61%) Health Technology
7 5 (3.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.41%) Legal
8 4 (2.41%) Local Government
8 4 (2.41%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (2.41%) Publishing
8 4 (2.41%) Tech for Good
9 3 (1.81%) Advertising
9 3 (1.81%) Billing
9 3 (1.81%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.20%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (1.20%) Marketing
10 2 (1.20%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.60%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.60%) Military
Job Titles
1 73 (43.98%) Developer
2 46 (27.71%) Senior
3 41 (24.70%) Full-Stack Developer
4 32 (19.28%) Data Engineer
5 21 (12.65%) Lead
6 20 (12.05%) Senior Developer
7 17 (10.24%) Java Developer
8 15 (9.04%) Software Engineer
9 14 (8.43%) AWS Developer
10 13 (7.83%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 10 (6.02%) Senior Software Engineer
12 9 (5.42%) Python Developer
12 9 (5.42%) Senior Python Developer
13 8 (4.82%) React Developer
13 8 (4.82%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
14 7 (4.22%) AWS Engineer
14 7 (4.22%) Lead Developer
14 7 (4.22%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
14 7 (4.22%) Senior Java Developer
15 6 (3.61%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (46.99%) React
2 71 (42.77%) Node.js
3 52 (31.33%) Terraform
4 29 (17.47%) Jest
5 27 (16.27%) Ruby on Rails
6 24 (14.46%) .NET
6 24 (14.46%) Spring
7 23 (13.86%) Spring Boot
8 22 (13.25%) PySpark
9 19 (11.45%) Kafka
10 18 (10.84%) RESTful
11 17 (10.24%) AWS CDK
12 15 (9.04%) AngularJS
13 13 (7.83%) Next.js
14 10 (6.02%) OpenAPI
14 10 (6.02%) REST
15 9 (5.42%) CSS
16 8 (4.82%) Swagger
17 7 (4.22%) LangChain
17 7 (4.22%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 37 (22.29%) Cloud Native
2 21 (12.65%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (7.23%) Hybrid Cloud
4 11 (6.63%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (3.61%) Blog
6 5 (3.01%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.81%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.81%) Life Science
7 3 (1.81%) NHS
7 3 (1.81%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.20%) Driving Licence
8 2 (1.20%) PKI
8 2 (1.20%) Self-Driving Car
9 1 (0.60%) IoT
9 1 (0.60%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.60%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.60%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.60%) Reinsurance
9 1 (0.60%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.60%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.41%) Linux
2 1 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (56.02%) CI/CD
2 78 (46.99%) Agile
3 77 (46.39%) Full-Stack Development
4 66 (39.76%) Microservices
5 65 (39.16%) Mentoring
6 47 (28.31%) DevOps
7 45 (27.11%) Event-Driven
7 45 (27.11%) Infrastructure as Code
8 37 (22.29%) AI
9 36 (21.69%) Analytics
10 33 (19.88%) Coaching
10 33 (19.88%) Software Engineering
11 32 (19.28%) ETL
12 30 (18.07%) Data Engineering
13 27 (16.27%) Containerisation
13 27 (16.27%) Data Science
13 27 (16.27%) Decision-Making
14 26 (15.66%) Problem-Solving
15 25 (15.06%) Mob Programming
16 22 (13.25%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 71 (42.77%) JavaScript
2 58 (34.94%) Python
3 57 (34.34%) TypeScript
4 54 (32.53%) SQL
5 50 (30.12%) Java
6 31 (18.67%) Ruby
7 26 (15.66%) C#
8 17 (10.24%) C++
9 12 (7.23%) Kotlin
10 8 (4.82%) Bash
11 4 (2.41%) Groovy
12 3 (1.81%) Scala
13 2 (1.20%) Go
13 2 (1.20%) PHP
13 2 (1.20%) Rust
14 1 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.60%) Perl
14 1 (0.60%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 18 (10.84%) SC Cleared
1 18 (10.84%) Security Cleared
2 5 (3.01%) AWS Certification
3 2 (1.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 2 (1.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (1.20%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (0.60%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.60%) Degree
4 1 (0.60%) OCP
4 1 (0.60%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (0.60%) PhD
4 1 (0.60%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (16.87%) Data Quality
2 7 (4.22%) QA
3 6 (3.61%) Accessibility
4 5 (3.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (2.41%) GDPR
6 1 (0.60%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.60%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.60%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.60%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 36 (21.69%) Docker
2 1 (0.60%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 19 (11.45%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.61%) Ansible
2 6 (3.61%) Grafana
3 4 (2.41%) Prometheus
4 3 (1.81%) Packer
5 2 (1.20%) HP Fortify
5 2 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.60%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 10 (6.02%) OpenAI
2 5 (3.01%) Databricks
2 5 (3.01%) HubSpot
3 3 (1.81%) Dynatrace
3 3 (1.81%) Splunk
4 2 (1.20%) Google
4 2 (1.20%) Informatica
4 2 (1.20%) Microsoft
4 2 (1.20%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.60%) AppDynamics
5 1 (0.60%) FIS
5 1 (0.60%) Oracle
5 1 (0.60%) Sparx
5 1 (0.60%) Temenos
5 1 (0.60%) YouTube