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 15 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 345 294 370
Rank change year-on-year -51 +76 -11
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 390 424 590
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.48% 1.09% 0.70%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.63% 3.09% 1.99%
Number of salaries quoted 265 349 474
10th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.45% +3.33% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £112,500 £96,250
90th Percentile £106,500 £135,750 £118,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -9.68% +6.90% -3.33%

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 23,920 13,726 29,622
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 29.55% 35.23% 35.26%
Number of salaries quoted 13,662 9,766 24,157
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £44,750 £43,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.54%

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 15 May 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 15 May 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 -97 149 £77,500 -15.53% 86
North of England +44 137 £72,500 +11.54% 41
Yorkshire +25 109 £72,500 +20.83% 12
Midlands -13 48 £55,000 +7.32% 15
East Midlands +9 36 £55,000 - 7
South West -50 30 £65,000 +8.33% 20
North West -1 27 £75,000 - 22
South East -31 21 £82,500 +50.00% 27
West Midlands -39 12 £49,500 +4.21% 8
East of England -34 4 £62,500 -26.47% 5
North East -39 1 £90,000 +44.00% 8
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 26 (6.67%) Apache
2 21 (5.38%) Apache Spark
3 19 (4.87%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.28%) Confluence
5 3 (0.77%) JBoss
6 2 (0.51%) Oracle Application Server
7 1 (0.26%) CMS
7 1 (0.26%) IIS
7 1 (0.26%) nginx
7 1 (0.26%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (1.54%) Spreadsheet
2 4 (1.03%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 390 (100.00%) Serverless
2 389 (99.74%) AWS
3 280 (71.79%) Amazon S3
4 165 (42.31%) AWS CloudFormation
5 121 (31.03%) Amazon ECS
6 118 (30.26%) AWS Step Functions
7 96 (24.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 83 (21.28%) Amazon SQS
9 79 (20.26%) Amazon EC2
10 76 (19.49%) GitHub
11 60 (15.38%) GitHub Actions
12 55 (14.10%) Amazon ECR
13 51 (13.08%) Apigee
14 45 (11.54%) Datadog
15 43 (11.03%) Amazon EKS
16 39 (10.00%) Amazon EventBridge
17 37 (9.49%) Azure
18 29 (7.44%) Amazon OpenSearch
19 28 (7.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
20 25 (6.41%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.33%) DSL
2 10 (2.56%) AMQP
3 8 (2.05%) Firewall
4 6 (1.54%) Network Security
5 3 (0.77%) Broadband
5 3 (0.77%) DNS
5 3 (0.77%) VPN
6 2 (0.51%) 4G
6 2 (0.51%) 5G
7 1 (0.26%) IPv4
7 1 (0.26%) PSTN
7 1 (0.26%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.26%) SSL
7 1 (0.26%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 174 (44.62%) DynamoDB
2 76 (19.49%) Amazon RDS
3 57 (14.62%) NoSQL
4 39 (10.00%) Amazon Athena
5 38 (9.74%) Amazon Redshift
6 24 (6.15%) PostgreSQL
7 21 (5.38%) Data Warehouse
8 14 (3.59%) SQL Server
9 11 (2.82%) Relational Database
10 10 (2.56%) Big Data
11 9 (2.31%) Data Lake
12 8 (2.05%) MySQL
13 7 (1.79%) Apache Iceberg
13 7 (1.79%) Metadata
13 7 (1.79%) Snowflake Schema
14 6 (1.54%) Amazon Aurora
14 6 (1.54%) Power BI
15 5 (1.28%) Cloudera CDH
15 5 (1.28%) Elasticsearch
15 5 (1.28%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 128 (32.82%) Jenkins
2 92 (23.59%) GitLab
3 78 (20.00%) Git
4 49 (12.56%) Maven
5 47 (12.05%) SonarQube
6 45 (11.54%) Cypress.io
7 17 (4.36%) CircleCI
8 15 (3.85%) JIRA
9 10 (2.56%) Cucumber
10 9 (2.31%) Bitbucket
11 5 (1.28%) Gradle
12 4 (1.03%) Artifactory
12 4 (1.03%) MLflow
12 4 (1.03%) Postman
12 4 (1.03%) Selenium
12 4 (1.03%) SpecFlow
13 3 (0.77%) ESLint
13 3 (0.77%) Octopus Deploy
14 2 (0.51%) DBeaver
14 2 (0.51%) webpack
General
1 99 (25.38%) Social Skills
2 51 (13.08%) Finance
3 38 (9.74%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (6.67%) Public Sector
5 20 (5.13%) Banking
6 14 (3.59%) Health Technology
7 11 (2.82%) Advertising
7 11 (2.82%) Publishing
7 11 (2.82%) Tech for Good
8 9 (2.31%) Influencing Skills
9 7 (1.79%) Billing
10 6 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (1.28%) Aerospace
12 3 (0.77%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.77%) Law
12 3 (0.77%) Legal
12 3 (0.77%) Military
12 3 (0.77%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.51%) Front Office
13 2 (0.51%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 178 (45.64%) Developer
2 104 (26.67%) Senior
3 71 (18.21%) Java Developer
4 62 (15.90%) AWS Developer
5 56 (14.36%) Senior Developer
6 53 (13.59%) Lead
7 39 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
8 37 (9.49%) AWS Engineer
9 36 (9.23%) Data Engineer
10 28 (7.18%) DevOps Engineer
10 28 (7.18%) React Developer
10 28 (7.18%) Software Engineer
11 27 (6.92%) Lead Developer
12 25 (6.41%) Python Developer
13 21 (5.38%) Architect
14 20 (5.13%) Software Developer
15 19 (4.87%) Cloud Engineer
15 19 (4.87%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 18 (4.62%) AWS Data Engineer
16 18 (4.62%) Node.js Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 118 (30.26%) Node.js
2 102 (26.15%) React
3 88 (22.56%) AngularJS
4 78 (20.00%) Spring Boot
5 55 (14.10%) RESTful
6 49 (12.56%) Spring
7 44 (11.28%) AWS CDK
8 43 (11.03%) Gherkin
8 43 (11.03%) Jest
9 34 (8.72%) Kafka
10 33 (8.46%) RabbitMQ
11 31 (7.95%) REST
12 24 (6.15%) HTML
13 22 (5.64%) gRPC
13 22 (5.64%) JSON
14 20 (5.13%) YAML
15 18 (4.62%) .NET
15 18 (4.62%) CSS
16 17 (4.36%) web3js
17 12 (3.08%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 82 (21.03%) Cloud Native
2 22 (5.64%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (4.36%) Blockchain
3 17 (4.36%) Web3
4 15 (3.85%) Greenfield Project
5 9 (2.31%) Product Ownership
6 7 (1.79%) Data Structures
7 6 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (1.28%) Linux Command Line
8 5 (1.28%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.03%) IoT
9 4 (1.03%) NHS
9 4 (1.03%) Security Posture
10 3 (0.77%) Distributed Architecture
10 3 (0.77%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (0.51%) Algorithms
11 2 (0.51%) Data Centre
11 2 (0.51%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 35 (8.97%) Linux
2 7 (1.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (1.54%) Windows
4 5 (1.28%) CentOS
4 5 (1.28%) Debian
4 5 (1.28%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.26%) Unix
5 1 (0.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 246 (63.08%) CI/CD
2 195 (50.00%) DevOps
3 153 (39.23%) Infrastructure as Code
4 150 (38.46%) Agile
5 83 (21.28%) Containerisation
5 83 (21.28%) Full-Stack Development
5 83 (21.28%) Software Engineering
6 78 (20.00%) Microservices
7 77 (19.74%) Problem-Solving
8 75 (19.23%) Mentoring
9 62 (15.90%) Test Automation
10 59 (15.13%) Observability
11 53 (13.59%) Continuous Integration
12 48 (12.31%) Event-Driven
13 47 (12.05%) DevSecOps
14 44 (11.28%) AI
15 43 (11.03%) Analytics
16 42 (10.77%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 41 (10.51%) Continuous Improvement
18 40 (10.26%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 192 (49.23%) Python
2 136 (34.87%) TypeScript
3 121 (31.03%) SQL
4 114 (29.23%) Java
5 66 (16.92%) Bash
6 63 (16.15%) JavaScript
7 50 (12.82%) Groovy
8 33 (8.46%) Go
9 30 (7.69%) Kotlin
10 13 (3.33%) PowerShell
10 13 (3.33%) Rust
11 9 (2.31%) C#
11 9 (2.31%) PHP
12 4 (1.03%) Perl
13 2 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.51%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.51%) R
13 2 (0.51%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.26%) Scala
Qualifications
1 67 (17.18%) AWS Certification
2 62 (15.90%) Security Cleared
3 47 (12.05%) SC Cleared
4 41 (10.51%) Degree
5 28 (7.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 24 (6.15%) ITIL Certification
7 19 (4.87%) AWS Certified Developer
7 19 (4.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 18 (4.62%) Computer Science Degree
9 14 (3.59%) OSCP
10 13 (3.33%) DV Cleared
11 5 (1.28%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 3 (0.77%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 3 (0.77%) IIBA
12 3 (0.77%) PhD
13 2 (0.51%) RHCE
14 1 (0.26%) CCNA
14 1 (0.26%) Cisco Certification
14 1 (0.26%) ISTQB
14 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (6.92%) QA
2 20 (5.13%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.77%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.77%) GDPR
4 3 (0.77%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.26%) MiFID
5 1 (0.26%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.26%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 158 (40.51%) Docker
2 4 (1.03%) iptables
3 3 (0.77%) Firmware
4 1 (0.26%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.26%) Squid
4 1 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.26%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.26%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 149 (38.21%) Terraform
2 85 (21.79%) Kubernetes
3 41 (10.51%) Ansible
3 41 (10.51%) HP Fortify
4 34 (8.72%) Prometheus
5 23 (5.90%) Grafana
6 9 (2.31%) Puppet
7 6 (1.54%) Progress Chef
8 5 (1.28%) Packer
9 4 (1.03%) Kibana
10 3 (0.77%) Scalr
11 1 (0.26%) Red Hat Satellite
11 1 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.26%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 11 (2.82%) Databricks
2 8 (2.05%) Oracle
2 8 (2.05%) Red Hat
3 7 (1.79%) AppDynamics
4 6 (1.54%) HubSpot
4 6 (1.54%) IBM
4 6 (1.54%) Salesforce
5 5 (1.28%) Google
5 5 (1.28%) SaltStack
6 3 (0.77%) Atlassian
6 3 (0.77%) Microsoft
6 3 (0.77%) Splunk
7 1 (0.26%) Apple
7 1 (0.26%) Informatica
7 1 (0.26%) New Relic
7 1 (0.26%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.26%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (0.26%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.26%) VMware