Job market reports · Skill · September 2026

lambda

442 live US technical postings name lambda in September 2026. Here is which roles ask for it, what those roles pay, and where they are.

Which roles ask for it

Share of the 442 postings naming lambda that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer38.9%
  2. 2DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer25.8%
  3. 3Data Engineer12.9%
  4. 4Full-Stack Engineer8.6%
  5. 5Backend Engineer5%
  6. 6Security Engineer2.9%
  7. 7AI Engineer2%
  8. 8Data Scientist1.6%

What postings asking for it pay

Across every role, for the postings that both name this skill and disclose a salary. A skill does not cause a salary — senior roles ask for more of everything — so read this as association, not as a raise.

Disclosed pay where lambda is named
n = 222
10th
$115k
25th
$146k
Median
$175k
75th
$200k
90th
$230k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1Remote14.7%
  2. 2New York, NY8.6%
  3. 3San Francisco, CA8.6%
  4. 4Washington, DC6.8%
  5. 5Silicon Valley, CA4.1%
  6. 6Boston, MA3.6%
  7. 7Seattle, WA3.6%
  8. 8Atlanta, GA1.8%

How we counted

668,970 live US postings read directly from 79,892 employers’ own careers pages in September 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.