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 26 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 288 269 286
Rank change year-on-year -19 +17 -7
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 157 172 231
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.68% 1.04% 0.93%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.81% 2.89% 2.29%
Number of salaries quoted 123 136 150
10th Percentile £46,474 £52,500 £57,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £64,500 £78,125
Median % change year-on-year +0.78% -17.44% +9.65%
75th Percentile £85,000 £78,563 £97,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £90,000 £107,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% - +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 8,678 5,953 10,091
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.39% 36.01% 40.70%
Number of salaries quoted 6,340 4,360 7,661
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £37,101
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.76%

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 26 August 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 (3.82%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.55%) Apache
2 4 (2.55%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.91%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.64%) CMS
4 1 (0.64%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (1.27%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.64%) Finacle
1 1 (0.64%) FLEXCUBE
1 1 (0.64%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
1 1 (0.64%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 157 (100.00%) Serverless
2 156 (99.36%) AWS
3 102 (64.97%) Amazon S3
4 59 (37.58%) Amazon SQS
5 55 (35.03%) Amazon ECS
6 54 (34.39%) Amazon EC2
7 31 (19.75%) AWS CloudFormation
8 29 (18.47%) AWS Step Functions
9 28 (17.83%) GitHub
10 23 (14.65%) Amazon EventBridge
11 21 (13.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 20 (12.74%) SaaS
13 14 (8.92%) GitHub Actions
14 13 (8.28%) Amazon Cognito
15 12 (7.64%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 12 (7.64%) Azure
15 12 (7.64%) Datadog
16 9 (5.73%) Amazon EKS
16 9 (5.73%) Amazon EMR
17 7 (4.46%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.27%) Broadband
1 2 (1.27%) DNS
1 2 (1.27%) Firewall
1 2 (1.27%) VPN
2 1 (0.64%) 4G
2 1 (0.64%) 5G
2 1 (0.64%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (29.94%) DynamoDB
2 39 (24.84%) PostgreSQL
3 29 (18.47%) MongoDB
4 27 (17.20%) Amazon RDS
5 15 (9.55%) Amazon Athena
6 13 (8.28%) Relational Database
7 12 (7.64%) NoSQL
8 11 (7.01%) Amazon Redshift
9 7 (4.46%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (4.46%) Elasticsearch
10 6 (3.82%) Metadata
10 6 (3.82%) Spark SQL
11 5 (3.18%) MySQL
11 5 (3.18%) Redis
12 4 (2.55%) Data Lake
12 4 (2.55%) Flink
12 4 (2.55%) SQL Server
13 3 (1.91%) MariaDB
13 3 (1.91%) Power BI
13 3 (1.91%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 27 (17.20%) Cypress.io
2 18 (11.46%) Git
3 17 (10.83%) Jenkins
4 6 (3.82%) GitLab
5 4 (2.55%) JIRA
6 3 (1.91%) Claude Code
6 3 (1.91%) Maven
6 3 (1.91%) Postman
6 3 (1.91%) Selenium
6 3 (1.91%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.91%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.64%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.64%) ERwin
7 1 (0.64%) git-flow
7 1 (0.64%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.64%) JUnit
7 1 (0.64%) Karma Test Runner
7 1 (0.64%) MLflow
7 1 (0.64%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 29 (18.47%) Social Skills
2 21 (13.38%) Finance
3 17 (10.83%) Public Sector
4 14 (8.92%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (4.46%) Banking
5 7 (4.46%) Health Technology
6 5 (3.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.55%) Legal
7 4 (2.55%) Local Government
7 4 (2.55%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (2.55%) Publishing
7 4 (2.55%) Tech for Good
8 3 (1.91%) Advertising
8 3 (1.91%) Billing
8 3 (1.91%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.27%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (1.27%) Marketing
9 2 (1.27%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.64%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.64%) Law
Job Titles
1 77 (49.04%) Developer
2 49 (31.21%) Senior
3 43 (27.39%) Full-Stack Developer
4 22 (14.01%) Senior Developer
5 20 (12.74%) Java Developer
6 18 (11.46%) Lead
7 17 (10.83%) Data Engineer
8 15 (9.55%) AWS Developer
8 15 (9.55%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 15 (9.55%) Software Engineer
9 10 (6.37%) Python Developer
9 10 (6.37%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
9 10 (6.37%) Senior Python Developer
9 10 (6.37%) Senior Software Engineer
10 9 (5.73%) AWS Engineer
10 9 (5.73%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 8 (5.10%) React Developer
11 8 (5.10%) Senior Java Developer
12 7 (4.46%) Lead Developer
13 6 (3.82%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (51.59%) React
2 75 (47.77%) Node.js
3 50 (31.85%) Terraform
4 29 (18.47%) Jest
5 27 (17.20%) Ruby on Rails
6 26 (16.56%) Spring
7 25 (15.92%) Spring Boot
8 19 (12.10%) Kafka
9 16 (10.19%) RESTful
10 15 (9.55%) AngularJS
10 15 (9.55%) AWS CDK
11 13 (8.28%) .NET
11 13 (8.28%) Next.js
12 10 (6.37%) OpenAPI
13 9 (5.73%) CSS
13 9 (5.73%) REST
14 8 (5.10%) Swagger
15 7 (4.46%) LangChain
15 7 (4.46%) OpenTelemetry
15 7 (4.46%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 34 (21.66%) Cloud Native
2 19 (12.10%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (8.28%) Greenfield Project
4 6 (3.82%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (3.18%) Product Ownership
6 4 (2.55%) Blog
6 4 (2.55%) NHS
7 3 (1.91%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.91%) IoT
7 3 (1.91%) Life Science
7 3 (1.91%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.27%) Driving Licence
8 2 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.27%) PKI
8 2 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.64%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.64%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.64%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.64%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.64%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.55%) Linux
2 1 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (50.32%) CI/CD
2 70 (44.59%) Full-Stack Development
3 66 (42.04%) Agile
4 63 (40.13%) Microservices
5 52 (33.12%) Mentoring
6 48 (30.57%) DevOps
7 43 (27.39%) Infrastructure as Code
8 36 (22.93%) AI
9 32 (20.38%) Containerisation
9 32 (20.38%) Event-Driven
9 32 (20.38%) Software Engineering
10 25 (15.92%) Mob Programming
11 24 (15.29%) Problem-Solving
12 23 (14.65%) Collaborative Culture
13 22 (14.01%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 22 (14.01%) Software Delivery
14 21 (13.38%) Analytics
14 21 (13.38%) Data Science
14 21 (13.38%) TDD
15 20 (12.74%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 62 (39.49%) JavaScript
2 61 (38.85%) Python
3 58 (36.94%) TypeScript
4 40 (25.48%) SQL
5 37 (23.57%) Java
6 31 (19.75%) Ruby
7 15 (9.55%) C#
8 12 (7.64%) Kotlin
9 7 (4.46%) Bash
10 6 (3.82%) C++
11 4 (2.55%) Groovy
11 4 (2.55%) PHP
12 3 (1.91%) Scala
13 2 (1.27%) Go
14 1 (0.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.64%) Perl
14 1 (0.64%) Rust
14 1 (0.64%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (8.28%) SC Cleared
1 13 (8.28%) Security Cleared
2 5 (3.18%) AWS Certification
3 3 (1.91%) Degree
4 2 (1.27%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (1.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (1.27%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (1.27%) PhD
5 1 (0.64%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.64%) OCP
5 1 (0.64%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (0.64%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (7.64%) Data Quality
2 9 (5.73%) QA
3 7 (4.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.55%) GDPR
5 3 (1.91%) ISO 9001
6 2 (1.27%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.64%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.64%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.64%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 39 (24.84%) Docker
2 3 (1.91%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 21 (13.38%) Kubernetes
2 7 (4.46%) Ansible
2 7 (4.46%) Grafana
3 4 (2.55%) Prometheus
4 3 (1.91%) Packer
5 2 (1.27%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.64%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (6.37%) OpenAI
2 5 (3.18%) Databricks
2 5 (3.18%) HubSpot
3 3 (1.91%) Dynatrace
3 3 (1.91%) Splunk
4 2 (1.27%) Google
4 2 (1.27%) Informatica
4 2 (1.27%) Microsoft
4 2 (1.27%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.64%) AppDynamics
5 1 (0.64%) FIS
5 1 (0.64%) Oracle
5 1 (0.64%) Sparx
5 1 (0.64%) Temenos