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 28 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 368 327 403
Rank change year-on-year -41 +76 -51
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 449 354 412
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.46% 0.81% 0.56%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.83% 2.46% 1.78%
Number of salaries quoted 270 259 260
10th Percentile £47,500 £49,600 £52,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £62,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £74,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.35% -1.33% +3.45%
75th Percentile £88,438 £87,500 £96,250
90th Percentile £109,000 £99,000 £107,500
UK median annual salary £71,500 £74,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.38% -1.33% +5.26%

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 24,557 14,405 23,130
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.38% 32.93% 31.65%
Number of salaries quoted 16,923 10,104 16,538
10th Percentile £31,500 £29,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £39,750 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £101,250
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.76%

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 28 August 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 28 August 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
North of England +54 175 £75,000 +15.38% 62
London -53 170 £85,000 +13.33% 195
Yorkshire +14 83 £80,000 +33.33% 14
North West +4 60 £70,000 +7.69% 30
South East -22 36 £67,500 -15.63% 17
South West -66 36 £62,500 -26.47% 30
North East -22 32 £67,500 -6.90% 18
Midlands -26 28 £65,000 +52.94% 26
East Midlands -9 20 £65,000 +73.33% 17
West Midlands -44 8 £73,750 +63.89% 9
East of England -50 2 £77,500 -8.82% 10
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 22 (4.90%) Apache Spark
2 20 (4.45%) Apache
3 13 (2.90%) Confluence
4 12 (2.67%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.67%) SAS
6 2 (0.45%) nginx
7 1 (0.22%) CMS
7 1 (0.22%) IIS
7 1 (0.22%) JBoss
7 1 (0.22%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (1.56%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.22%) Finacle
1 1 (0.22%) FLEXCUBE
1 1 (0.22%) Infor SunSystems
1 1 (0.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
1 1 (0.22%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 449 (100.00%) Serverless
2 447 (99.55%) AWS
3 300 (66.82%) Amazon S3
4 176 (39.20%) Amazon ECS
5 173 (38.53%) AWS CloudFormation
6 111 (24.72%) Amazon EC2
7 99 (22.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 92 (20.49%) AWS Step Functions
9 78 (17.37%) GitHub
10 77 (17.15%) Amazon SQS
11 74 (16.48%) Amazon EKS
12 57 (12.69%) Azure
13 56 (12.47%) Datadog
14 54 (12.03%) GitHub Actions
15 49 (10.91%) Amazon EventBridge
16 42 (9.35%) SaaS
16 42 (9.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 38 (8.46%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 34 (7.57%) Amazon ECR
19 30 (6.68%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 16 (3.56%) Network Security
2 12 (2.67%) Firewall
3 6 (1.34%) AMQP
3 6 (1.34%) VPN
4 4 (0.89%) DNS
4 4 (0.89%) IPv4
4 4 (0.89%) Software-Defined Networking
5 2 (0.45%) Broadband
5 2 (0.45%) DSL
5 2 (0.45%) VoIP
6 1 (0.22%) 4G
6 1 (0.22%) 5G
6 1 (0.22%) DHCP
6 1 (0.22%) HTTP
6 1 (0.22%) PSTN
6 1 (0.22%) SSL
6 1 (0.22%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.22%) VLAN
6 1 (0.22%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 161 (35.86%) DynamoDB
2 98 (21.83%) Amazon RDS
3 55 (12.25%) NoSQL
4 49 (10.91%) Amazon Athena
5 44 (9.80%) Amazon Redshift
6 26 (5.79%) Data Warehouse
6 26 (5.79%) PostgreSQL
7 20 (4.45%) SQL Server
8 18 (4.01%) Relational Database
9 15 (3.34%) Metadata
10 14 (3.12%) Elasticsearch
11 13 (2.90%) Big Data
12 11 (2.45%) MongoDB
12 11 (2.45%) MySQL
13 9 (2.00%) Amazon Aurora
13 9 (2.00%) Data Lake
14 8 (1.78%) Power BI
15 7 (1.56%) Azure SQL Database
15 7 (1.56%) Hadoop
16 6 (1.34%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 100 (22.27%) Git
2 93 (20.71%) Jenkins
3 55 (12.25%) GitLab
4 25 (5.57%) Maven
5 23 (5.12%) SonarQube
6 22 (4.90%) Cypress.io
6 22 (4.90%) JIRA
7 14 (3.12%) Bitbucket
8 12 (2.67%) TeamCity
9 10 (2.23%) Cucumber
10 9 (2.00%) CircleCI
11 8 (1.78%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 7 (1.56%) Postman
13 6 (1.34%) Claude Code
13 6 (1.34%) Gradle
14 4 (0.89%) Artifactory
14 4 (0.89%) Selenium
14 4 (0.89%) SpecFlow
15 3 (0.67%) git-flow
15 3 (0.67%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 103 (22.94%) Social Skills
2 101 (22.49%) Finance
3 58 (12.92%) Public Sector
4 44 (9.80%) Analytical Skills
5 42 (9.35%) Banking
6 28 (6.24%) Law
7 19 (4.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 17 (3.79%) Marketing
9 11 (2.45%) Aviation
9 11 (2.45%) Influencing Skills
9 11 (2.45%) Retail
9 11 (2.45%) Telecoms
10 10 (2.23%) Aerospace
11 9 (2.00%) Health Technology
12 7 (1.56%) Billing
12 7 (1.56%) Legal
13 6 (1.34%) Advertising
14 5 (1.11%) Front Office
14 5 (1.11%) Military
15 4 (0.89%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 154 (34.30%) Developer
2 142 (31.63%) Senior
3 64 (14.25%) Java Developer
4 60 (13.36%) Senior Developer
5 57 (12.69%) AWS Engineer
5 57 (12.69%) Lead
6 56 (12.47%) Full-Stack Developer
7 45 (10.02%) Data Engineer
8 39 (8.69%) AWS Developer
9 36 (8.02%) DevOps Engineer
10 35 (7.80%) Software Engineer
11 22 (4.90%) Cloud Engineer
11 22 (4.90%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
12 21 (4.68%) Platform Engineer
13 20 (4.45%) Architect
14 19 (4.23%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 18 (4.01%) Consultant
15 18 (4.01%) Senior Consultant
16 16 (3.56%) AWS Data Engineer
16 16 (3.56%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 196 (43.65%) Terraform
2 121 (26.95%) Node.js
3 88 (19.60%) AngularJS
4 81 (18.04%) React
5 66 (14.70%) Spring Boot
6 55 (12.25%) Spring
7 47 (10.47%) REST
8 44 (9.80%) RESTful
9 43 (9.58%) AWS CDK
10 39 (8.69%) Kafka
11 33 (7.35%) .NET
12 28 (6.24%) Swagger
13 27 (6.01%) Jest
14 25 (5.57%) Gherkin
15 24 (5.35%) RabbitMQ
16 22 (4.90%) OpenAPI
17 21 (4.68%) JSON
17 21 (4.68%) PySpark
18 20 (4.45%) YAML
19 18 (4.01%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 117 (26.06%) Cloud Native
2 36 (8.02%) Distributed Systems
3 26 (5.79%) Onboarding
4 25 (5.57%) Hybrid Cloud
5 18 (4.01%) Enterprise Cloud
6 17 (3.79%) Greenfield Project
6 17 (3.79%) Linux Command Line
7 11 (2.45%) Mobile Banking
7 11 (2.45%) Product Ownership
8 9 (2.00%) Blockchain
8 9 (2.00%) Web3
9 8 (1.78%) AI Agents
10 7 (1.56%) Data Structures
10 7 (1.56%) Low-Code
10 7 (1.56%) NHS
11 6 (1.34%) Public Cloud
12 5 (1.11%) Blog
12 5 (1.11%) IoT
12 5 (1.11%) IVR
13 4 (0.89%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 42 (9.35%) Linux
2 13 (2.90%) Windows
3 7 (1.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.11%) CentOS
4 5 (1.11%) Debian
4 5 (1.11%) Ubuntu
4 5 (1.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 266 (59.24%) CI/CD
2 190 (42.32%) DevOps
3 182 (40.53%) Infrastructure as Code
4 169 (37.64%) Agile
5 121 (26.95%) Mentoring
6 113 (25.17%) AI
7 106 (23.61%) Software Engineering
8 99 (22.05%) Microservices
9 90 (20.04%) Full-Stack Development
9 90 (20.04%) Observability
10 87 (19.38%) Problem-Solving
11 81 (18.04%) Containerisation
12 72 (16.04%) Continuous Improvement
13 71 (15.81%) Event-Driven
14 66 (14.70%) Test Automation
15 65 (14.48%) Analytics
16 56 (12.47%) Collaborative Culture
17 54 (12.03%) Data Modelling
18 52 (11.58%) Decision-Making
18 52 (11.58%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 238 (53.01%) Python
2 135 (30.07%) SQL
3 132 (29.40%) TypeScript
4 127 (28.29%) Java
5 77 (17.15%) Bash
6 52 (11.58%) JavaScript
7 35 (7.80%) Kotlin
8 33 (7.35%) Groovy
9 32 (7.13%) C#
10 20 (4.45%) PHP
10 20 (4.45%) PowerShell
11 19 (4.23%) Ruby
12 18 (4.01%) Perl
13 15 (3.34%) Go
14 10 (2.23%) Scala
15 7 (1.56%) C++
16 5 (1.11%) Shell Script
17 3 (0.67%) Rust
18 2 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 2 (0.45%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 96 (21.38%) Security Cleared
2 67 (14.92%) AWS Certification
3 61 (13.59%) SC Cleared
4 35 (7.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 29 (6.46%) DV Cleared
6 19 (4.23%) Degree
7 18 (4.01%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 14 (3.12%) ITIL Certification
9 9 (2.00%) AWS Certified Developer
10 8 (1.78%) BPSS Clearance
11 6 (1.34%) Master's Degree
11 6 (1.34%) OSCP
12 5 (1.11%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 5 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (1.11%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 5 (1.11%) RHCE
13 4 (0.89%) CCNA
13 4 (0.89%) Cisco Certification
13 4 (0.89%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.89%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (7.80%) Data Quality
2 26 (5.79%) QA
3 14 (3.12%) GDPR
4 10 (2.23%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.11%) HIPAA
7 3 (0.67%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.67%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.22%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 160 (35.63%) Docker
2 6 (1.34%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.89%) Squid
3 4 (0.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.89%) VMware NSX
3 4 (0.89%) vSphere
4 3 (0.67%) Firmware
5 1 (0.22%) iptables
Systems Management
1 75 (16.70%) Kubernetes
2 44 (9.80%) Ansible
3 32 (7.13%) Prometheus
4 31 (6.90%) Grafana
5 17 (3.79%) Packer
6 16 (3.56%) HP Fortify
7 8 (1.78%) Puppet
8 5 (1.11%) Argo
9 4 (0.89%) Kibana
9 4 (0.89%) ZABBIX
10 3 (0.67%) Scalr
10 3 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.45%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.22%) Fluentd
12 1 (0.22%) logstash
12 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 22 (4.90%) Databricks
2 14 (3.12%) Oracle
2 14 (3.12%) Red Hat
2 14 (3.12%) Splunk
3 12 (2.67%) OpenAI
4 10 (2.23%) Google
4 10 (2.23%) Microsoft
5 8 (1.78%) Salesforce
6 7 (1.56%) AppDynamics
6 7 (1.56%) Avaya
6 7 (1.56%) Cisco
6 7 (1.56%) Dynatrace
6 7 (1.56%) Genesys
6 7 (1.56%) HubSpot
7 6 (1.34%) IBM
8 5 (1.11%) SaltStack
9 4 (0.89%) VMware
10 3 (0.67%) Atlassian
10 3 (0.67%) LexisNexis
10 3 (0.67%) PeopleSoft