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 10 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 207 85 275
Rank change year-on-year -122 +190 +15
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 180 541 329
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.08% 3.86% 1.10%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.92% 8.15% 2.42%
Number of salaries quoted 148 264 306
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £51,716
25th Percentile £56,250 £60,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £90,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -26.39% +28.57% -3.45%
75th Percentile £76,000 £115,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £138,750 £103,125
UK median annual salary £70,000 £80,000 £71,500
% change year-on-year -12.50% +11.89% -4.67%

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 6,161 6,635 13,573
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.13% 47.39% 45.39%
Number of salaries quoted 4,183 4,751 11,801
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,259 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,100 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.54% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -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 10 March 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 10 (5.56%) Apache
2 8 (4.44%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (4.44%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.11%) Tomcat
3 2 (1.11%) WebSphere
3 2 (1.11%) WebSphere Application Server
4 1 (0.56%) SAS
4 1 (0.56%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (3.33%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (1.11%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 180 (100.00%) AWS
1 180 (100.00%) Serverless
2 137 (76.11%) Amazon S3
3 62 (34.44%) Amazon SQS
4 50 (27.78%) Amazon EC2
5 49 (27.22%) AWS CloudFormation
6 43 (23.89%) Amazon ECS
7 35 (19.44%) GitHub
8 28 (15.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 24 (13.33%) Azure
10 22 (12.22%) AWS Step Functions
10 22 (12.22%) SaaS
11 20 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
12 18 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
13 14 (7.78%) Amazon EventBridge
14 12 (6.67%) Amazon Cognito
15 11 (6.11%) GCP
15 11 (6.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 8 (4.44%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 7 (3.89%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.78%) AMQP
2 4 (2.22%) Broadband
3 3 (1.67%) Firewall
4 2 (1.11%) Network Security
4 2 (1.11%) SSL
5 1 (0.56%) DNS
5 1 (0.56%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (24.44%) DynamoDB
2 39 (21.67%) Amazon RDS
3 34 (18.89%) PostgreSQL
4 27 (15.00%) NoSQL
5 18 (10.00%) Amazon Redshift
5 18 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
6 16 (8.89%) MongoDB
7 13 (7.22%) Amazon Athena
8 10 (5.56%) Data Lake
8 10 (5.56%) SQL Server
9 7 (3.89%) Metadata
10 6 (3.33%) MySQL
11 5 (2.78%) Amazon Aurora
11 5 (2.78%) Apache Iceberg
12 4 (2.22%) Relational Database
13 2 (1.11%) DB2
13 2 (1.11%) Power BI
13 2 (1.11%) Tableau
14 1 (0.56%) RDBMS
14 1 (0.56%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 23 (12.78%) Git
2 20 (11.11%) Cypress.io
2 20 (11.11%) Jenkins
3 11 (6.11%) GitLab
4 5 (2.78%) git-flow
5 4 (2.22%) Maven
5 4 (2.22%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.67%) ESLint
6 3 (1.67%) JIRA
7 1 (0.56%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.56%) Browser DevTools
7 1 (0.56%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.56%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.56%) Deequ
7 1 (0.56%) Selenium
7 1 (0.56%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.56%) webpack
7 1 (0.56%) Zephyr
General
1 56 (31.11%) Social Skills
2 17 (9.44%) Tech for Good
3 16 (8.89%) Finance
3 16 (8.89%) Health Technology
4 15 (8.33%) Publishing
5 14 (7.78%) Influencing Skills
5 14 (7.78%) Organisational Skills
5 14 (7.78%) Public Sector
6 9 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (4.44%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (1.67%) Billing
8 3 (1.67%) Law
8 3 (1.67%) Military
9 2 (1.11%) Banking
10 1 (0.56%) Advertising
10 1 (0.56%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.56%) Front Office
10 1 (0.56%) Games
10 1 (0.56%) Marketing
10 1 (0.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 90 (50.00%) Developer
2 38 (21.11%) Senior
3 35 (19.44%) React Developer
4 34 (18.89%) AWS Developer
5 30 (16.67%) Lead
6 29 (16.11%) Full-Stack Developer
7 28 (15.56%) Python Developer
8 24 (13.33%) Lead Developer
9 21 (11.67%) Software Developer
10 20 (11.11%) Java Developer
11 19 (10.56%) AWS Engineer
12 17 (9.44%) Lead Python Developer
12 17 (9.44%) Software Engineer
13 16 (8.89%) Data Engineer
13 16 (8.89%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 16 (8.89%) Node.js Developer
14 14 (7.78%) Senior Developer
15 11 (6.11%) Lead Software Developer
16 10 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
17 9 (5.00%) AWS Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (41.67%) React
2 71 (39.44%) Node.js
3 32 (17.78%) Spring
4 31 (17.22%) RESTful
5 29 (16.11%) Spring Boot
6 20 (11.11%) Jest
7 18 (10.00%) AngularJS
8 16 (8.89%) AWS CDK
8 16 (8.89%) Ruby on Rails
9 15 (8.33%) HTML
10 14 (7.78%) Kafka
11 12 (6.67%) .NET
12 10 (5.56%) RabbitMQ
13 9 (5.00%) CSS
14 7 (3.89%) PySpark
14 7 (3.89%) REST
15 6 (3.33%) AWS Amplify
15 6 (3.33%) MapLibre
15 6 (3.33%) Material-UI
16 5 (2.78%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 43 (23.89%) Cloud Native
2 9 (5.00%) Product Ownership
3 5 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (2.22%) Security Posture
5 3 (1.67%) Data Structures
5 3 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (1.67%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.11%) IoT
6 2 (1.11%) NHS
6 2 (1.11%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.56%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.56%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.56%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.56%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.56%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.56%) Video on Demand
7 1 (0.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.44%) Linux
2 6 (3.33%) Unix
3 3 (1.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.11%) Windows
5 1 (0.56%) CentOS
5 1 (0.56%) Debian
5 1 (0.56%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (59.44%) CI/CD
2 70 (38.89%) DevOps
3 69 (38.33%) Agile
4 65 (36.11%) Full-Stack Development
5 57 (31.67%) Mentoring
6 47 (26.11%) Infrastructure as Code
7 44 (24.44%) Microservices
8 41 (22.78%) Software Engineering
9 39 (21.67%) Problem-Solving
10 36 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
11 35 (19.44%) Containerisation
12 27 (15.00%) AI
13 25 (13.89%) Continuous Integration
14 24 (13.33%) Code Quality
15 23 (12.78%) Coaching
16 22 (12.22%) Event-Driven
16 22 (12.22%) Scrum
17 21 (11.67%) Collaborative Culture
18 20 (11.11%) Event-Driven Architecture
19 19 (10.56%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 80 (44.44%) Python
2 56 (31.11%) JavaScript
3 53 (29.44%) SQL
4 44 (24.44%) TypeScript
5 36 (20.00%) Java
6 16 (8.89%) Ruby
7 14 (7.78%) Bash
8 8 (4.44%) C#
8 8 (4.44%) Kotlin
9 5 (2.78%) Go
10 3 (1.67%) Groovy
10 3 (1.67%) PHP
10 3 (1.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 17 (9.44%) AWS Certification
1 17 (9.44%) Security Cleared
2 14 (7.78%) SC Cleared
3 12 (6.67%) Degree
4 3 (1.67%) AWS Certified Developer
4 3 (1.67%) IIBA
5 2 (1.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.11%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (1.11%) PhD
5 2 (1.11%) SnowPro
6 1 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (13.33%) QA
2 10 (5.56%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.11%) ISO 9001
4 2 (1.11%) SLA
5 1 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.56%) GDPR
5 1 (0.56%) HL7
5 1 (0.56%) NIST
5 1 (0.56%) SNOMED CT
5 1 (0.56%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 55 (30.56%) Docker
2 2 (1.11%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 44 (24.44%) Terraform
2 38 (21.11%) Kubernetes
3 11 (6.11%) Grafana
4 10 (5.56%) Ansible
5 6 (3.33%) Prometheus
6 4 (2.22%) Argo
6 4 (2.22%) HP Fortify
7 3 (1.67%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.56%) Kibana
8 1 (0.56%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (2.22%) Databricks
1 4 (2.22%) PagerDuty
2 3 (1.67%) Red Hat
3 2 (1.11%) IBM
3 2 (1.11%) Okta
4 1 (0.56%) Apple
4 1 (0.56%) Dynatrace
4 1 (0.56%) Google
4 1 (0.56%) Informatica
4 1 (0.56%) Mercator
4 1 (0.56%) Microsoft
4 1 (0.56%) New Relic
4 1 (0.56%) Oracle
4 1 (0.56%) SaltStack