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 5 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 355 234 343
Rank change year-on-year -121 +109 -46
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 271 677 372
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.56% 1.19% 0.83%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.62% 3.40% 1.93%
Number of salaries quoted 187 293 313
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £48,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £85,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +21.43% -12.50%
75th Percentile £87,500 £115,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £130,000 £96,250
UK median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +14.29% -12.50%

All Cloud 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 16,722 19,936 19,259
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 34.52% 35.16% 43.07%
Number of salaries quoted 10,366 12,184 16,266
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £38,500 £47,500 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £101,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,264 £62,500
% change year-on-year -5.16% +1.22% -2.34%

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 5 December 2025.

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 5 December 2025. 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 -97 151 £76,000 -17.84% 49
North of England +58 52 £65,000 +4.00% 41
Yorkshire +19 33 £65,000 -1.89% 22
South West +20 26 £63,750 -5.56% 14
North West +39 19 £65,000 +8.33% 15
South East -70 16 £67,500 +12.50% 24
Midlands +36 13 £63,750 +2.00% 6
West Midlands +26 11 £62,500 +13.64% 5
East of England -11 5 £100,000 +45.45% 5
East Midlands +5 2 £65,000 -7.14% 1
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 25 (9.23%) Apache Spark
2 19 (7.01%) Apache
3 9 (3.32%) WebSphere
4 8 (2.95%) Headless CMS
5 7 (2.58%) Tomcat
6 6 (2.21%) WebSphere Application Server
7 5 (1.85%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (1.11%) Confluence
9 2 (0.74%) nginx
10 1 (0.37%) JBoss
10 1 (0.37%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.37%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (2.95%) Shopify
2 2 (0.74%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 271 (100.00%) AWS
1 271 (100.00%) Serverless
2 178 (65.68%) Amazon S3
3 73 (26.94%) Amazon EC2
4 68 (25.09%) AWS CloudFormation
5 61 (22.51%) Amazon ECS
6 54 (19.93%) Amazon SQS
7 50 (18.45%) AWS Step Functions
8 43 (15.87%) Amazon EKS
8 43 (15.87%) Azure
8 43 (15.87%) GitHub
9 40 (14.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 28 (10.33%) GitHub Actions
10 28 (10.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 19 (7.01%) Snowflake
12 18 (6.64%) Amazon ECR
12 18 (6.64%) SaaS
13 17 (6.27%) Amazon Kinesis
14 16 (5.90%) GCP
15 15 (5.54%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.58%) AMQP
1 7 (2.58%) SSL
2 6 (2.21%) Broadband
3 5 (1.85%) Firewall
4 3 (1.11%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.11%) VPN
5 2 (0.74%) DNS
5 2 (0.74%) Network Security
6 1 (0.37%) iSCSI
6 1 (0.37%) NAS
6 1 (0.37%) SAN
6 1 (0.37%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (33.95%) DynamoDB
2 65 (23.99%) Amazon RDS
3 46 (16.97%) Amazon Redshift
4 45 (16.61%) Data Warehouse
5 36 (13.28%) NoSQL
6 34 (12.55%) PostgreSQL
7 23 (8.49%) Data Lake
8 20 (7.38%) Elasticsearch
9 18 (6.64%) Big Data
10 16 (5.90%) MongoDB
11 15 (5.54%) SQL Server
12 14 (5.17%) Amazon Athena
13 11 (4.06%) Hadoop
14 10 (3.69%) Apache Iceberg
15 9 (3.32%) Amazon Aurora
15 9 (3.32%) DB2
15 9 (3.32%) Relational Database
16 8 (2.95%) Apache Hive
16 8 (2.95%) MySQL
17 4 (1.48%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 45 (16.61%) Jenkins
2 28 (10.33%) Git
2 28 (10.33%) GitLab
3 25 (9.23%) Cypress.io
4 11 (4.06%) Bitbucket
5 10 (3.69%) JIRA
6 9 (3.32%) Maven
6 9 (3.32%) SonarQube
7 5 (1.85%) git-flow
7 5 (1.85%) Vite
8 3 (1.11%) JUnit
8 3 (1.11%) MLflow
8 3 (1.11%) Selenium
9 2 (0.74%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.74%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.74%) ER Studio
9 2 (0.74%) Locust
9 2 (0.74%) Mocha
9 2 (0.74%) webpack
10 1 (0.37%) Spinnaker
General
1 85 (31.37%) Social Skills
2 55 (20.30%) Finance
3 31 (11.44%) Tech for Good
4 25 (9.23%) Health Technology
4 25 (9.23%) Publishing
5 19 (7.01%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (5.17%) Influencing Skills
7 13 (4.80%) Organisational Skills
8 12 (4.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (4.06%) Public Sector
10 10 (3.69%) Banking
11 9 (3.32%) Financial Institution
12 8 (2.95%) Law
12 8 (2.95%) Marketing
13 6 (2.21%) Games
13 6 (2.21%) Manufacturing
14 4 (1.48%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (1.48%) Retail
15 3 (1.11%) Advertising
15 3 (1.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 88 (32.47%) Senior
2 82 (30.26%) Developer
3 42 (15.50%) Data Engineer
4 40 (14.76%) Lead
5 38 (14.02%) Senior Developer
6 35 (12.92%) AWS Developer
7 34 (12.55%) AWS Engineer
8 32 (11.81%) Software Engineer
9 29 (10.70%) Python Developer
10 22 (8.12%) Senior Data Engineer
11 21 (7.75%) React Developer
12 19 (7.01%) AWS Data Engineer
13 18 (6.64%) Lead Developer
14 17 (6.27%) Full-Stack Developer
15 16 (5.90%) Software Developer
16 15 (5.54%) Senior Python Developer
17 14 (5.17%) Architect
17 14 (5.17%) Lead Python Developer
18 13 (4.80%) Applications Support
18 13 (4.80%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (30.63%) React
2 49 (18.08%) Node.js
2 49 (18.08%) RESTful
3 41 (15.13%) Spring
4 40 (14.76%) Spring Boot
5 27 (9.96%) Kafka
6 24 (8.86%) .NET
6 24 (8.86%) Jest
7 23 (8.49%) AngularJS
7 23 (8.49%) AWS CDK
8 19 (7.01%) HTML
9 18 (6.64%) GraphQL
9 18 (6.64%) RabbitMQ
10 16 (5.90%) CSS
10 16 (5.90%) Next.js
11 14 (5.17%) .NET Core
11 14 (5.17%) Swagger
12 13 (4.80%) ASP.NET
13 11 (4.06%) Express.js
14 10 (3.69%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 85 (31.37%) Cloud Native
2 20 (7.38%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (5.54%) Greenfield Project
4 13 (4.80%) Product Ownership
5 11 (4.06%) e-Learning
6 9 (3.32%) Linux Command Line
7 8 (2.95%) Virtual Team
8 7 (2.58%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (2.21%) Onboarding
10 5 (1.85%) Security Posture
11 4 (1.48%) Life Science
11 4 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (1.11%) Animation
12 3 (1.11%) Enterprise Cloud
12 3 (1.11%) Management Information System
12 3 (1.11%) Private Cloud
13 2 (0.74%) Blockchain
13 2 (0.74%) Data Structures
13 2 (0.74%) Hybrid Cloud
13 2 (0.74%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 32 (11.81%) Linux
2 13 (4.80%) Unix
3 9 (3.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (2.58%) Windows
5 2 (0.74%) CentOS
5 2 (0.74%) Debian
5 2 (0.74%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.37%) Android
6 1 (0.37%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (59.41%) CI/CD
2 127 (46.86%) Agile
3 117 (43.17%) DevOps
4 90 (33.21%) Infrastructure as Code
5 76 (28.04%) Problem-Solving
6 75 (27.68%) Software Engineering
7 68 (25.09%) Mentoring
8 53 (19.56%) Microservices
9 52 (19.19%) Containerisation
10 51 (18.82%) Scrum
11 46 (16.97%) Data Pipeline
12 44 (16.24%) Continuous Improvement
13 43 (15.87%) Full-Stack Development
13 43 (15.87%) Pair Programming
14 41 (15.13%) Data Modelling
15 39 (14.39%) Analytics
16 37 (13.65%) Data Engineering
16 37 (13.65%) Observability
17 36 (13.28%) TDD
18 35 (12.92%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 167 (61.62%) Python
2 95 (35.06%) TypeScript
3 78 (28.78%) Java
4 68 (25.09%) SQL
5 59 (21.77%) JavaScript
6 24 (8.86%) Bash
7 15 (5.54%) C#
7 15 (5.54%) Go
7 15 (5.54%) Scala
8 8 (2.95%) Groovy
9 6 (2.21%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.11%) C++
10 3 (1.11%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.74%) C
12 1 (0.37%) R
12 1 (0.37%) Rust
Qualifications
1 60 (22.14%) AWS Certification
2 35 (12.92%) Security Cleared
3 30 (11.07%) Degree
4 21 (7.75%) AWS Certified Developer
5 20 (7.38%) SC Cleared
6 18 (6.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 17 (6.27%) DV Cleared
8 15 (5.54%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (2.95%) SnowPro
10 6 (2.21%) ITIL Certification
11 5 (1.85%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.37%) CCNA
13 1 (0.37%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.37%) GCIH
13 1 (0.37%) GIAC
13 1 (0.37%) GREM
13 1 (0.37%) MCSE
13 1 (0.37%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (16.24%) QA
2 18 (6.64%) GDPR
3 14 (5.17%) Data Quality
4 13 (4.80%) Accessibility
5 8 (2.95%) SLA
6 7 (2.58%) PCI DSS
7 5 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (1.11%) NIST
8 3 (1.11%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.37%) CDISC
10 1 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.37%) DICOM
10 1 (0.37%) GAAP
10 1 (0.37%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.37%) HL7
10 1 (0.37%) IFRS
10 1 (0.37%) IFRS 17
10 1 (0.37%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 74 (27.31%) Docker
2 8 (2.95%) HDFS
3 1 (0.37%) Firmware
3 1 (0.37%) iptables
3 1 (0.37%) vCloud
3 1 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.37%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.37%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.37%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 85 (31.37%) Terraform
2 62 (22.88%) Kubernetes
3 21 (7.75%) Prometheus
4 20 (7.38%) Ansible
5 17 (6.27%) Grafana
6 9 (3.32%) HP Fortify
7 6 (2.21%) Progress Chef
8 4 (1.48%) Kibana
9 3 (1.11%) Docker Swarm
9 3 (1.11%) Kubeflow
9 3 (1.11%) Puppet
10 2 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.37%) Argo
11 1 (0.37%) Podman
11 1 (0.37%) Red Hat Satellite
11 1 (0.37%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 14 (5.17%) Oracle
2 13 (4.80%) Databricks
3 9 (3.32%) Apple
3 9 (3.32%) Atlassian
3 9 (3.32%) IBM
3 9 (3.32%) Red Hat
4 8 (2.95%) Google
5 7 (2.58%) Microsoft
6 5 (1.85%) OpenAI
7 3 (1.11%) Splunk
8 2 (0.74%) Avaya
8 2 (0.74%) Genesys
8 2 (0.74%) SaltStack
8 2 (0.74%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.74%) VMware
9 1 (0.37%) Cisco
9 1 (0.37%) Informatica
9 1 (0.37%) NetApp
9 1 (0.37%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.37%) SAP