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 18 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 219 86 255
Rank change year-on-year -133 +169 +34
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 177 583 311
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.08% 3.74% 1.13%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.87% 7.99% 2.45%
Number of salaries quoted 146 257 290
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £61,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,229 £90,000 £68,750
Median % change year-on-year -24.19% +30.91% -8.33%
75th Percentile £76,000 £115,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £138,750 £97,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £82,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -15.15% +17.86% -9.68%

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 6,170 7,298 12,673
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.70% 46.84% 45.90%
Number of salaries quoted 4,240 4,721 11,090
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £35,219
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -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 18 February 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 9 (5.08%) Apache
1 9 (5.08%) Apache Spark
2 5 (2.82%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (2.26%) Tomcat
3 4 (2.26%) WebSphere
3 4 (2.26%) WebSphere Application Server
4 1 (0.56%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (3.39%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.56%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 177 (100.00%) AWS
1 177 (100.00%) Serverless
2 133 (75.14%) Amazon S3
3 57 (32.20%) Amazon SQS
4 53 (29.94%) AWS CloudFormation
5 46 (25.99%) Amazon EC2
6 40 (22.60%) Amazon ECS
7 31 (17.51%) GitHub
8 27 (15.25%) Azure
9 26 (14.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 24 (13.56%) AWS Step Functions
11 22 (12.43%) Amazon EKS
12 19 (10.73%) SaaS
13 18 (10.17%) GitHub Actions
14 15 (8.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 13 (7.34%) Amazon EventBridge
16 10 (5.65%) Amazon Cognito
16 10 (5.65%) GCP
17 8 (4.52%) Amazon ECR
17 8 (4.52%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.82%) AMQP
1 5 (2.82%) Firewall
2 4 (2.26%) Broadband
2 4 (2.26%) Network Security
2 4 (2.26%) SSL
3 1 (0.56%) DNS
3 1 (0.56%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (25.42%) DynamoDB
2 39 (22.03%) Amazon RDS
3 29 (16.38%) PostgreSQL
4 24 (13.56%) NoSQL
5 19 (10.73%) Amazon Redshift
5 19 (10.73%) Data Warehouse
6 14 (7.91%) Amazon Athena
7 13 (7.34%) MongoDB
8 12 (6.78%) Data Lake
9 11 (6.21%) SQL Server
10 6 (3.39%) MySQL
11 5 (2.82%) Apache Iceberg
11 5 (2.82%) Metadata
12 4 (2.26%) DB2
12 4 (2.26%) Relational Database
13 3 (1.69%) Amazon Aurora
13 3 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
14 2 (1.13%) Big Data
15 1 (0.56%) Hadoop
15 1 (0.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 21 (11.86%) Git
2 17 (9.60%) Cypress.io
2 17 (9.60%) Jenkins
3 9 (5.08%) GitLab
4 5 (2.82%) git-flow
5 4 (2.26%) Maven
5 4 (2.26%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.69%) ESLint
7 1 (0.56%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.56%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.56%) Deequ
7 1 (0.56%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.56%) JIRA
7 1 (0.56%) Selenium
7 1 (0.56%) Zephyr
General
1 51 (28.81%) Social Skills
2 19 (10.73%) Tech for Good
3 17 (9.60%) Finance
4 16 (9.04%) Health Technology
4 16 (9.04%) Publishing
5 14 (7.91%) Influencing Skills
5 14 (7.91%) Organisational Skills
6 13 (7.34%) Public Sector
7 10 (5.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (3.95%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (2.26%) Banking
10 3 (1.69%) Billing
10 3 (1.69%) Military
11 2 (1.13%) Games
11 2 (1.13%) Law
11 2 (1.13%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.56%) Advertising
12 1 (0.56%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.56%) Front Office
12 1 (0.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 81 (45.76%) Developer
2 35 (19.77%) AWS Developer
2 35 (19.77%) React Developer
3 34 (19.21%) Senior
4 30 (16.95%) Lead
5 28 (15.82%) Python Developer
6 23 (12.99%) Lead Developer
7 22 (12.43%) Full-Stack Developer
7 22 (12.43%) Software Engineer
8 20 (11.30%) Software Developer
9 17 (9.60%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 17 (9.60%) Lead Python Developer
9 17 (9.60%) Node.js Developer
10 16 (9.04%) AWS Engineer
11 15 (8.47%) Data Engineer
11 15 (8.47%) Java Developer
12 13 (7.34%) Senior Developer
13 12 (6.78%) Cloud Engineer
14 11 (6.21%) Architect
15 10 (5.65%) Lead Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (41.81%) React
2 64 (36.16%) Node.js
3 32 (18.08%) RESTful
4 30 (16.95%) Spring
5 27 (15.25%) Spring Boot
6 18 (10.17%) AngularJS
7 17 (9.60%) AWS CDK
7 17 (9.60%) Jest
8 14 (7.91%) HTML
8 14 (7.91%) Kafka
9 13 (7.34%) Ruby on Rails
10 12 (6.78%) .NET
11 11 (6.21%) RabbitMQ
12 8 (4.52%) CSS
13 7 (3.95%) REST
14 6 (3.39%) AWS Amplify
14 6 (3.39%) MapLibre
14 6 (3.39%) Material-UI
14 6 (3.39%) PySpark
14 6 (3.39%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 44 (24.86%) Cloud Native
2 9 (5.08%) Product Ownership
3 7 (3.95%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (2.26%) Linux Command Line
4 4 (2.26%) Security Posture
5 3 (1.69%) Data Structures
5 3 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.69%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.13%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.13%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (1.13%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.13%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.56%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.56%) Greenfield Project
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
Operating Systems
1 12 (6.78%) Linux
2 8 (4.52%) Unix
3 6 (3.39%) Windows
4 5 (2.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.56%) CentOS
5 1 (0.56%) Debian
5 1 (0.56%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (58.76%) CI/CD
2 66 (37.29%) Agile
3 64 (36.16%) DevOps
4 59 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
5 53 (29.94%) Mentoring
6 50 (28.25%) Infrastructure as Code
7 43 (24.29%) Software Engineering
8 42 (23.73%) Microservices
9 37 (20.90%) Problem-Solving
10 35 (19.77%) Continuous Improvement
11 31 (17.51%) Containerisation
12 29 (16.38%) AI
13 27 (15.25%) Coaching
14 24 (13.56%) Continuous Integration
15 23 (12.99%) Scrum
16 21 (11.86%) Acceptance Criteria
16 21 (11.86%) Event-Driven
17 20 (11.30%) Code Quality
17 20 (11.30%) Collaborative Culture
17 20 (11.30%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 81 (45.76%) Python
2 49 (27.68%) JavaScript
2 49 (27.68%) SQL
3 43 (24.29%) TypeScript
4 34 (19.21%) Java
5 13 (7.34%) Bash
5 13 (7.34%) Ruby
6 8 (4.52%) C#
7 6 (3.39%) Kotlin
8 4 (2.26%) Go
9 3 (1.69%) Groovy
9 3 (1.69%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.56%) Scala
Qualifications
1 28 (15.82%) AWS Certification
2 19 (10.73%) Security Cleared
3 16 (9.04%) SC Cleared
4 12 (6.78%) Degree
5 7 (3.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 6 (3.39%) AWS Certified Developer
7 4 (2.26%) ITIL Certification
8 3 (1.69%) IIBA
8 3 (1.69%) SnowPro
9 2 (1.13%) CISA
9 2 (1.13%) CISM
9 2 (1.13%) CISSP
9 2 (1.13%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (1.13%) CRISC
10 1 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.56%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (12.99%) QA
2 8 (4.52%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.26%) GDPR
4 4 (2.26%) SLA
5 3 (1.69%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.13%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.56%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.56%) NIST
7 1 (0.56%) Software Quality Assurance
7 1 (0.56%) WCAG
System Software
1 49 (27.68%) Docker
Systems Management
1 47 (26.55%) Terraform
2 42 (23.73%) Kubernetes
3 11 (6.21%) Grafana
4 10 (5.65%) Ansible
5 6 (3.39%) Prometheus
6 4 (2.26%) Argo
6 4 (2.26%) HP Fortify
7 3 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.56%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (2.82%) Red Hat
2 4 (2.26%) IBM
2 4 (2.26%) PagerDuty
3 2 (1.13%) Databricks
3 2 (1.13%) Okta
3 2 (1.13%) OpenAI
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%) Oracle
4 1 (0.56%) SaltStack