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

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 218 86 260
Rank change year-on-year -132 +174 +24
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 173 567 304
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.05% 3.78% 1.10%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.80% 8.08% 2.39%
Number of salaries quoted 146 258 281
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £60,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,958 £90,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.38% +28.57% -3.45%
75th Percentile £76,000 £115,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £138,750 £106,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £81,250 £71,500
% change year-on-year -13.85% +13.64% -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 6,184 7,017 12,739
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.61% 46.79% 45.94%
Number of salaries quoted 4,209 4,682 11,146
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £35,000
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 £64,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.25% +11.30% -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 27 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 (5.20%) Apache
2 8 (4.62%) Apache Spark
3 6 (3.47%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (2.31%) Tomcat
4 4 (2.31%) WebSphere
4 4 (2.31%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (0.58%) SAS
5 1 (0.58%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (3.47%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.58%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 173 (100.00%) AWS
1 173 (100.00%) Serverless
2 133 (76.88%) Amazon S3
3 60 (34.68%) Amazon SQS
4 51 (29.48%) AWS CloudFormation
5 47 (27.17%) Amazon EC2
6 41 (23.70%) Amazon ECS
7 33 (19.08%) GitHub
8 27 (15.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 25 (14.45%) Azure
10 22 (12.72%) AWS Step Functions
11 21 (12.14%) Amazon EKS
12 20 (11.56%) SaaS
13 19 (10.98%) GitHub Actions
14 14 (8.09%) Amazon EventBridge
14 14 (8.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 11 (6.36%) Amazon Cognito
16 10 (5.78%) GCP
17 8 (4.62%) Amazon ECR
18 7 (4.05%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.89%) AMQP
2 4 (2.31%) SSL
3 3 (1.73%) Broadband
3 3 (1.73%) Firewall
4 2 (1.16%) Network Security
5 1 (0.58%) DNS
5 1 (0.58%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (24.28%) DynamoDB
2 38 (21.97%) Amazon RDS
3 33 (19.08%) PostgreSQL
4 25 (14.45%) NoSQL
5 18 (10.40%) Data Warehouse
6 17 (9.83%) Amazon Redshift
7 14 (8.09%) MongoDB
8 13 (7.51%) Amazon Athena
9 12 (6.94%) SQL Server
10 11 (6.36%) Data Lake
11 6 (3.47%) MySQL
12 5 (2.89%) Apache Iceberg
12 5 (2.89%) Metadata
13 4 (2.31%) Amazon Aurora
13 4 (2.31%) DB2
13 4 (2.31%) Relational Database
14 1 (0.58%) Big Data
14 1 (0.58%) Hadoop
14 1 (0.58%) Redis
14 1 (0.58%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 23 (13.29%) Git
2 18 (10.40%) Cypress.io
2 18 (10.40%) Jenkins
3 10 (5.78%) GitLab
4 5 (2.89%) git-flow
5 4 (2.31%) Maven
5 4 (2.31%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.73%) ESLint
6 3 (1.73%) JIRA
7 1 (0.58%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.58%) Browser DevTools
7 1 (0.58%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.58%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.58%) Deequ
7 1 (0.58%) Selenium
7 1 (0.58%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.58%) webpack
7 1 (0.58%) Zephyr
General
1 52 (30.06%) Social Skills
2 17 (9.83%) Finance
2 17 (9.83%) Tech for Good
3 15 (8.67%) Health Technology
3 15 (8.67%) Publishing
4 14 (8.09%) Influencing Skills
4 14 (8.09%) Organisational Skills
5 13 (7.51%) Public Sector
6 9 (5.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (4.05%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (2.31%) Banking
9 3 (1.73%) Billing
9 3 (1.73%) Military
10 2 (1.16%) Games
10 2 (1.16%) Law
11 1 (0.58%) Advertising
11 1 (0.58%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.58%) Front Office
11 1 (0.58%) Marketing
11 1 (0.58%) Retail
Job Titles
1 83 (47.98%) Developer
2 35 (20.23%) React Developer
3 33 (19.08%) AWS Developer
3 33 (19.08%) Senior
4 30 (17.34%) Lead
5 27 (15.61%) Python Developer
6 25 (14.45%) Full-Stack Developer
7 24 (13.87%) Lead Developer
8 21 (12.14%) Software Developer
9 20 (11.56%) Software Engineer
10 17 (9.83%) AWS Engineer
10 17 (9.83%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 17 (9.83%) Lead Python Developer
11 16 (9.25%) Java Developer
11 16 (9.25%) Node.js Developer
12 14 (8.09%) Data Engineer
13 11 (6.36%) Cloud Engineer
13 11 (6.36%) Lead Software Developer
13 11 (6.36%) Senior Developer
14 8 (4.62%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (42.77%) React
2 66 (38.15%) Node.js
3 31 (17.92%) RESTful
4 30 (17.34%) Spring
5 27 (15.61%) Spring Boot
6 18 (10.40%) AngularJS
6 18 (10.40%) Jest
7 16 (9.25%) AWS CDK
8 15 (8.67%) HTML
9 14 (8.09%) Kafka
9 14 (8.09%) Ruby on Rails
10 12 (6.94%) .NET
11 11 (6.36%) RabbitMQ
12 9 (5.20%) CSS
13 7 (4.05%) REST
14 6 (3.47%) AWS Amplify
14 6 (3.47%) MapLibre
14 6 (3.47%) Material-UI
14 6 (3.47%) PySpark
15 5 (2.89%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 43 (24.86%) Cloud Native
2 9 (5.20%) Product Ownership
3 6 (3.47%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (2.89%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (2.31%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.31%) Security Posture
6 3 (1.73%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.16%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.58%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.58%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.58%) Hedge funds
8 1 (0.58%) NHS
8 1 (0.58%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.58%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.58%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.58%) Video on Demand
8 1 (0.58%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (5.78%) Linux
2 8 (4.62%) Unix
3 5 (2.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (2.31%) Windows
5 1 (0.58%) CentOS
5 1 (0.58%) Debian
5 1 (0.58%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (60.12%) CI/CD
2 65 (37.57%) Agile
2 65 (37.57%) DevOps
3 62 (35.84%) Full-Stack Development
4 53 (30.64%) Mentoring
5 47 (27.17%) Infrastructure as Code
6 43 (24.86%) Microservices
7 40 (23.12%) Software Engineering
8 37 (21.39%) Problem-Solving
9 35 (20.23%) Continuous Improvement
10 31 (17.92%) Containerisation
11 27 (15.61%) AI
12 25 (14.45%) Coaching
13 24 (13.87%) Continuous Integration
14 22 (12.72%) Event-Driven
15 21 (12.14%) Acceptance Criteria
15 21 (12.14%) Scrum
16 20 (11.56%) Code Quality
16 20 (11.56%) Collaborative Culture
16 20 (11.56%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 76 (43.93%) Python
2 52 (30.06%) JavaScript
3 50 (28.90%) SQL
4 41 (23.70%) TypeScript
5 34 (19.65%) Java
6 14 (8.09%) Bash
6 14 (8.09%) Ruby
7 8 (4.62%) C#
8 7 (4.05%) Kotlin
9 5 (2.89%) Go
10 3 (1.73%) Groovy
10 3 (1.73%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.58%) PHP
Qualifications
1 21 (12.14%) AWS Certification
2 18 (10.40%) Security Cleared
3 15 (8.67%) SC Cleared
4 12 (6.94%) Degree
5 4 (2.31%) AWS Certified Developer
5 4 (2.31%) ITIL Certification
6 3 (1.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (1.73%) IIBA
7 2 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.16%) SnowPro
8 1 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.58%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (12.72%) QA
2 9 (5.20%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.31%) SLA
4 2 (1.16%) GDPR
5 1 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.58%) HL7
5 1 (0.58%) NIST
5 1 (0.58%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.58%) SNOMED CT
5 1 (0.58%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.58%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 50 (28.90%) Docker
Systems Management
1 44 (25.43%) Terraform
2 38 (21.97%) Kubernetes
3 11 (6.36%) Grafana
4 10 (5.78%) Ansible
5 6 (3.47%) Prometheus
6 4 (2.31%) Argo
6 4 (2.31%) HP Fortify
7 3 (1.73%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.58%) Kibana
8 1 (0.58%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (2.89%) Red Hat
2 4 (2.31%) IBM
2 4 (2.31%) PagerDuty
3 3 (1.73%) Databricks
4 2 (1.16%) Okta
5 1 (0.58%) Apple
5 1 (0.58%) Dynatrace
5 1 (0.58%) Google
5 1 (0.58%) Informatica
5 1 (0.58%) Mercator
5 1 (0.58%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.58%) New Relic
5 1 (0.58%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.58%) Oracle
5 1 (0.58%) SaltStack