AWS Lambda Job Trends in England

AWS Lambda
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring AWS Lambda skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 317 207 344
Rank change year-on-year -110 +137 -3
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 320 704 450
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.58% 1.47% 0.79%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.69% 4.02% 2.01%
Number of salaries quoted 224 318 383
10th Percentile £52,500 £54,625 £48,750
25th Percentile £58,750 £66,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £90,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.44% +28.57% -15.15%
75th Percentile £85,625 £115,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £106,750 £138,750 £112,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £85,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -17.65% +21.43% -12.50%

All Cloud Computing Skills
England

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 requiring cloud computing skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 18,932 17,502 22,376
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 34.57% 36.57% 39.44%
Number of salaries quoted 10,552 10,381 18,873
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £31,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £104,249 £98,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £64,600 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.12% +7.67% -7.69%

AWS Lambda
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing AWS Lambda relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

AWS Lambda job vacancy trend in England

AWS Lambda
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing AWS Lambda.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing AWS Lambda

AWS Lambda
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS Lambda in England over the 6 months to 23 January 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS Lambda in England

AWS Lambda
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AWS Lambda within the England region over the 6 months to 23 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -122 152 £76,000 -24.00% 65
North of England +59 83 £65,000 -4.94% 68
Yorkshire +39 66 £65,000 +8.33% 36
Midlands +34 34 £55,000 - 43
South West +11 28 £62,500 -7.41% 48
East Midlands +7 19 £60,000 -14.29% 25
North West +12 17 £65,000 -6.14% 25
West Midlands +23 15 £50,000 +8.11% 16
South East -97 12 £67,500 +17.39% 82
East of England -20 3 £100,000 +37.93% 47
AWS Lambda
UK

AWS Lambda
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 32 (10.00%) Apache Spark
2 25 (7.81%) Apache
3 12 (3.75%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (2.81%) WebSphere
5 7 (2.19%) Tomcat
6 6 (1.88%) WebSphere Application Server
7 3 (0.94%) Confluence
8 2 (0.63%) nginx
8 2 (0.63%) Oracle Application Server
9 1 (0.31%) JBoss
9 1 (0.31%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.31%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (1.88%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 320 (100.00%) AWS
1 320 (100.00%) Serverless
2 223 (69.69%) Amazon S3
3 115 (35.94%) AWS CloudFormation
4 80 (25.00%) AWS Step Functions
5 71 (22.19%) Amazon ECS
6 66 (20.63%) Amazon EC2
7 64 (20.00%) Amazon SQS
8 62 (19.38%) GitHub
9 59 (18.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 53 (16.56%) Amazon EKS
11 45 (14.06%) Azure
12 44 (13.75%) GitHub Actions
13 32 (10.00%) Amazon ECR
14 28 (8.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 24 (7.50%) Apigee
16 23 (7.19%) Amazon EventBridge
17 22 (6.88%) GCP
18 20 (6.25%) SaaS
19 19 (5.94%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.75%) AMQP
2 7 (2.19%) SSL
3 5 (1.56%) DSL
4 4 (1.25%) Broadband
4 4 (1.25%) Firewall
5 3 (0.94%) Network Security
6 2 (0.63%) DNS
6 2 (0.63%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.63%) VPN
7 1 (0.31%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (34.06%) DynamoDB
2 74 (23.13%) Amazon RDS
3 50 (15.63%) Amazon Redshift
4 43 (13.44%) NoSQL
5 42 (13.13%) Data Warehouse
6 38 (11.88%) PostgreSQL
7 22 (6.88%) SQL Server
8 21 (6.56%) Data Lake
9 20 (6.25%) Big Data
10 19 (5.94%) Amazon Athena
11 16 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
11 16 (5.00%) MongoDB
12 14 (4.38%) Hadoop
13 11 (3.44%) Apache Iceberg
14 10 (3.13%) Relational Database
15 8 (2.50%) Apache Hive
15 8 (2.50%) DB2
15 8 (2.50%) MySQL
16 5 (1.56%) Amazon Aurora
16 5 (1.56%) Cloudera CDH
Development Applications
1 73 (22.81%) Jenkins
2 52 (16.25%) GitLab
3 47 (14.69%) Git
4 29 (9.06%) Cypress.io
5 23 (7.19%) Maven
6 22 (6.88%) SonarQube
7 12 (3.75%) Bitbucket
8 10 (3.13%) JIRA
9 7 (2.19%) MLflow
10 6 (1.88%) CircleCI
11 5 (1.56%) git-flow
11 5 (1.56%) Vite
12 3 (0.94%) ESLint
12 3 (0.94%) JUnit
13 2 (0.63%) DBeaver
13 2 (0.63%) Deequ
13 2 (0.63%) ER Studio
13 2 (0.63%) Mocha
13 2 (0.63%) webpack
14 1 (0.31%) Zephyr
General
1 88 (27.50%) Social Skills
2 49 (15.31%) Finance
3 27 (8.44%) Tech for Good
4 26 (8.13%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (7.50%) Health Technology
5 24 (7.50%) Publishing
6 15 (4.69%) Influencing Skills
7 14 (4.38%) Banking
7 14 (4.38%) Organisational Skills
8 11 (3.44%) Public Sector
9 9 (2.81%) Financial Institution
10 7 (2.19%) Advertising
10 7 (2.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.25%) Aerospace
11 4 (1.25%) Manufacturing
11 4 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.94%) Billing
13 2 (0.63%) Games
13 2 (0.63%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.63%) Law
Job Titles
1 122 (38.13%) Developer
2 80 (25.00%) Senior
3 58 (18.13%) AWS Developer
4 49 (15.31%) Lead
5 38 (11.88%) AWS Engineer
5 38 (11.88%) Software Engineer
6 37 (11.56%) Data Engineer
7 36 (11.25%) Senior Developer
8 34 (10.63%) Python Developer
9 32 (10.00%) React Developer
10 28 (8.75%) Java Developer
10 28 (8.75%) Lead Developer
11 22 (6.88%) AWS Data Engineer
11 22 (6.88%) Software Developer
12 21 (6.56%) Full-Stack Developer
13 17 (5.31%) Architect
13 17 (5.31%) DevOps Engineer
13 17 (5.31%) Lead Python Developer
13 17 (5.31%) Senior Data Engineer
14 16 (5.00%) Node.js Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (33.13%) React
2 83 (25.94%) Node.js
3 58 (18.13%) Spring Boot
4 57 (17.81%) RESTful
5 48 (15.00%) Spring
6 46 (14.38%) AngularJS
7 42 (13.13%) AWS CDK
8 29 (9.06%) Jest
8 29 (9.06%) Kafka
9 26 (8.13%) RabbitMQ
10 25 (7.81%) HTML
11 22 (6.88%) Gherkin
12 20 (6.25%) .NET
13 19 (5.94%) CSS
14 17 (5.31%) Swagger
15 15 (4.69%) gRPC
16 14 (4.38%) .NET Core
17 13 (4.06%) ASP.NET
17 13 (4.06%) ASP.NET Core
17 13 (4.06%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 96 (30.00%) Cloud Native
2 18 (5.63%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (3.44%) Greenfield Project
4 9 (2.81%) Product Ownership
5 8 (2.50%) e-Learning
5 8 (2.50%) Linux Command Line
5 8 (2.50%) Virtual Team
6 7 (2.19%) Security Posture
7 6 (1.88%) Blockchain
7 6 (1.88%) Onboarding
7 6 (1.88%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (1.88%) Web3
8 5 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (0.94%) Animation
9 3 (0.94%) Data Structures
9 3 (0.94%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (0.94%) Life Science
9 3 (0.94%) Management Information System
9 3 (0.94%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 33 (10.31%) Linux
2 13 (4.06%) Unix
3 12 (3.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (2.50%) Windows
5 5 (1.56%) CentOS
5 5 (1.56%) Debian
5 5 (1.56%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.31%) Android
6 1 (0.31%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 202 (63.13%) CI/CD
2 153 (47.81%) DevOps
3 130 (40.63%) Agile
4 121 (37.81%) Infrastructure as Code
5 86 (26.88%) Software Engineering
6 73 (22.81%) Problem-Solving
7 71 (22.19%) Mentoring
8 69 (21.56%) Microservices
9 67 (20.94%) Full-Stack Development
10 59 (18.44%) Containerisation
11 55 (17.19%) Scrum
12 47 (14.69%) Observability
13 46 (14.38%) Data Pipeline
14 45 (14.06%) Continuous Improvement
15 39 (12.19%) Continuous Integration
16 37 (11.56%) AI
17 36 (11.25%) Data Modelling
18 34 (10.63%) Data Engineering
19 33 (10.31%) Analytics
20 31 (9.69%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 168 (52.50%) Python
2 111 (34.69%) TypeScript
3 94 (29.38%) Java
4 86 (26.88%) SQL
5 73 (22.81%) JavaScript
6 37 (11.56%) Bash
7 21 (6.56%) Groovy
8 18 (5.63%) Go
9 12 (3.75%) Scala
10 9 (2.81%) C#
11 8 (2.50%) Kotlin
12 7 (2.19%) PowerShell
13 5 (1.56%) Rust
14 3 (0.94%) C++
15 2 (0.63%) C
15 2 (0.63%) PHP
15 2 (0.63%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 81 (25.31%) AWS Certification
2 47 (14.69%) Security Cleared
3 41 (12.81%) Degree
4 30 (9.38%) SC Cleared
5 26 (8.13%) AWS Certified Developer
6 23 (7.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 21 (6.56%) Computer Science Degree
8 18 (5.63%) DV Cleared
9 15 (4.69%) ITIL Certification
10 13 (4.06%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 6 (1.88%) OSCP
12 5 (1.56%) SnowPro
13 4 (1.25%) Master's Degree
13 4 (1.25%) MCP
14 3 (0.94%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
15 2 (0.63%) IIBA
16 1 (0.31%) GAWN
16 1 (0.31%) GCIH
16 1 (0.31%) GIAC
16 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (12.81%) QA
2 19 (5.94%) Data Quality
3 13 (4.06%) GDPR
4 6 (1.88%) Accessibility
4 6 (1.88%) SLA
5 5 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.94%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.94%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.31%) GAAP
7 1 (0.31%) IFRS
7 1 (0.31%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.31%) NIST
7 1 (0.31%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 99 (30.94%) Docker
2 8 (2.50%) HDFS
3 2 (0.63%) iptables
4 1 (0.31%) vCloud
4 1 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.31%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.31%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 105 (32.81%) Terraform
2 73 (22.81%) Kubernetes
3 23 (7.19%) Ansible
3 23 (7.19%) Prometheus
4 22 (6.88%) HP Fortify
5 18 (5.63%) Grafana
6 7 (2.19%) Puppet
7 6 (1.88%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.94%) Kibana
8 3 (0.94%) Kubeflow
9 2 (0.63%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.31%) Argo
10 1 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (4.69%) Databricks
2 12 (3.75%) Oracle
3 11 (3.44%) Red Hat
4 9 (2.81%) Atlassian
4 9 (2.81%) IBM
5 8 (2.50%) Google
6 5 (1.56%) Salesforce
6 5 (1.56%) SaltStack
7 4 (1.25%) Microsoft
7 4 (1.25%) OpenAI
8 2 (0.63%) Informatica
9 1 (0.31%) Apple
9 1 (0.31%) Cisco
9 1 (0.31%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.31%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.31%) StreamSets
9 1 (0.31%) VMware
9 1 (0.31%) YouTube