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 17 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 333 191 332
Rank change year-on-year -142 +141 +23
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 333 720 521
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.56% 1.63% 0.78%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.66% 4.35% 2.04%
Number of salaries quoted 233 338 451
10th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £48,750
25th Percentile £56,250 £63,750 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £90,000 £71,500
Median % change year-on-year -19.44% +25.87% -10.63%
75th Percentile £87,500 £115,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £138,750 £112,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £82,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -15.15% +17.86% -9.68%

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 20,092 16,542 25,595
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 33.78% 37.48% 38.44%
Number of salaries quoted 11,152 9,937 21,715
10th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £31,125
25th Percentile £40,000 £47,500 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -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 17 February 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 17 February 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 -138 149 £78,750 -21.25% 69
North of England +33 91 £65,000 - 45
Yorkshire +22 75 £65,000 +8.33% 22
Midlands +27 41 £55,000 - 11
South West -2 28 £62,500 +4.17% 20
East Midlands +7 24 £60,000 -4.00% 1
West Midlands +20 17 £50,000 +8.11% 10
North West 0 16 £65,000 -6.14% 21
South East -110 12 £67,500 +22.73% 22
East of England -21 6 £62,500 -9.09% 5
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 (9.61%) Apache Spark
2 27 (8.11%) Apache
3 15 (4.50%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.50%) Tomcat
4 5 (1.50%) WebSphere
5 4 (1.20%) Confluence
5 4 (1.20%) WebSphere Application Server
6 2 (0.60%) nginx
6 2 (0.60%) Oracle Application Server
7 1 (0.30%) JBoss
7 1 (0.30%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.30%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (1.80%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 333 (100.00%) AWS
1 333 (100.00%) Serverless
2 241 (72.37%) Amazon S3
3 126 (37.84%) AWS CloudFormation
4 89 (26.73%) AWS Step Functions
5 78 (23.42%) Amazon ECS
6 71 (21.32%) Amazon SQS
7 68 (20.42%) GitHub
8 66 (19.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 65 (19.52%) Amazon EC2
10 51 (15.32%) Amazon EKS
11 46 (13.81%) GitHub Actions
12 45 (13.51%) Azure
13 36 (10.81%) Amazon ECR
14 29 (8.71%) Apigee
15 28 (8.41%) Amazon EventBridge
16 27 (8.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 23 (6.91%) Datadog
17 23 (6.91%) GCP
18 20 (6.01%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.30%) AMQP
2 9 (2.70%) DSL
3 5 (1.50%) Network Security
3 5 (1.50%) SSL
4 4 (1.20%) Firewall
5 3 (0.90%) Broadband
6 1 (0.30%) 4G
6 1 (0.30%) 5G
6 1 (0.30%) DNS
6 1 (0.30%) VPN
6 1 (0.30%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (34.23%) DynamoDB
2 72 (21.62%) Amazon RDS
3 53 (15.92%) NoSQL
4 49 (14.71%) Amazon Redshift
5 41 (12.31%) Data Warehouse
6 36 (10.81%) PostgreSQL
7 22 (6.61%) Amazon Athena
8 20 (6.01%) SQL Server
9 19 (5.71%) Big Data
9 19 (5.71%) Data Lake
10 15 (4.50%) MongoDB
11 13 (3.90%) Hadoop
12 11 (3.30%) Apache Iceberg
12 11 (3.30%) Relational Database
13 10 (3.00%) MySQL
14 7 (2.10%) Apache Hive
15 6 (1.80%) DB2
15 6 (1.80%) Elasticsearch
15 6 (1.80%) Metadata
16 5 (1.50%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 82 (24.62%) Jenkins
2 62 (18.62%) GitLab
3 52 (15.62%) Git
4 33 (9.91%) Cypress.io
5 28 (8.41%) Maven
6 27 (8.11%) SonarQube
7 11 (3.30%) Bitbucket
7 11 (3.30%) JIRA
8 9 (2.70%) CircleCI
9 7 (2.10%) MLflow
10 5 (1.50%) git-flow
11 4 (1.20%) Vite
12 3 (0.90%) ESLint
12 3 (0.90%) JUnit
13 2 (0.60%) DBeaver
13 2 (0.60%) Deequ
13 2 (0.60%) Mocha
13 2 (0.60%) webpack
14 1 (0.30%) Cucumber
14 1 (0.30%) ER Studio
General
1 92 (27.63%) Social Skills
2 51 (15.32%) Finance
3 29 (8.71%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (5.71%) Tech for Good
5 16 (4.80%) Banking
5 16 (4.80%) Health Technology
5 16 (4.80%) Publishing
6 15 (4.50%) Influencing Skills
7 14 (4.20%) Organisational Skills
8 13 (3.90%) Public Sector
9 9 (2.70%) Advertising
10 8 (2.40%) Financial Institution
11 7 (2.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.20%) Aerospace
12 4 (1.20%) Billing
13 3 (0.90%) Games
13 3 (0.90%) Investment Banking
13 3 (0.90%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.90%) Military
13 3 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 129 (38.74%) Developer
2 76 (22.82%) Senior
3 54 (16.22%) AWS Developer
4 49 (14.71%) Lead
5 40 (12.01%) AWS Engineer
5 40 (12.01%) Software Engineer
6 37 (11.11%) Data Engineer
7 35 (10.51%) Java Developer
7 35 (10.51%) Senior Developer
8 30 (9.01%) React Developer
9 28 (8.41%) Lead Developer
9 28 (8.41%) Python Developer
10 26 (7.81%) Full-Stack Developer
11 23 (6.91%) AWS Data Engineer
12 21 (6.31%) Architect
12 21 (6.31%) Software Developer
13 18 (5.41%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 17 (5.11%) Lead Python Developer
14 17 (5.11%) Node.js Developer
15 16 (4.80%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (31.23%) React
2 92 (27.63%) Node.js
3 65 (19.52%) Spring Boot
4 55 (16.52%) RESTful
5 54 (16.22%) AngularJS
6 50 (15.02%) Spring
7 47 (14.11%) AWS CDK
8 34 (10.21%) Kafka
9 33 (9.91%) Jest
10 27 (8.11%) Gherkin
10 27 (8.11%) HTML
10 27 (8.11%) RabbitMQ
11 22 (6.61%) CSS
12 21 (6.31%) .NET
13 17 (5.11%) gRPC
14 15 (4.50%) .NET Core
14 15 (4.50%) REST
15 13 (3.90%) ASP.NET
15 13 (3.90%) ASP.NET Core
15 13 (3.90%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 105 (31.53%) Cloud Native
2 18 (5.41%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (3.30%) Greenfield Project
3 11 (3.30%) Product Ownership
4 9 (2.70%) Blockchain
4 9 (2.70%) Web3
5 7 (2.10%) Data Structures
5 7 (2.10%) e-Learning
6 6 (1.80%) Onboarding
6 6 (1.80%) Security Posture
6 6 (1.80%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (1.80%) Virtual Team
7 5 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.20%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (0.90%) Animation
9 3 (0.90%) Life Science
9 3 (0.90%) Private Cloud
10 2 (0.60%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.60%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 26 (7.81%) Linux
2 10 (3.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (2.70%) Unix
4 7 (2.10%) Windows
5 5 (1.50%) CentOS
5 5 (1.50%) Debian
5 5 (1.50%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.30%) Android
6 1 (0.30%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 222 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 166 (49.85%) DevOps
3 133 (39.94%) Agile
4 130 (39.04%) Infrastructure as Code
5 92 (27.63%) Software Engineering
6 76 (22.82%) Problem-Solving
7 74 (22.22%) Full-Stack Development
7 74 (22.22%) Microservices
8 70 (21.02%) Mentoring
9 64 (19.22%) Containerisation
10 50 (15.02%) Observability
11 49 (14.71%) Data Pipeline
12 46 (13.81%) Continuous Improvement
13 43 (12.91%) Scrum
14 42 (12.61%) Continuous Integration
15 39 (11.71%) AI
16 38 (11.41%) DevSecOps
17 37 (11.11%) Analytics
17 37 (11.11%) Data Modelling
18 35 (10.51%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 170 (51.05%) Python
2 109 (32.73%) TypeScript
3 98 (29.43%) Java
3 98 (29.43%) SQL
4 76 (22.82%) JavaScript
5 42 (12.61%) Bash
6 26 (7.81%) Groovy
7 22 (6.61%) Go
8 10 (3.00%) Kotlin
8 10 (3.00%) Scala
9 9 (2.70%) Rust
10 8 (2.40%) C#
11 7 (2.10%) PowerShell
12 4 (1.20%) PHP
13 3 (0.90%) C++
14 2 (0.60%) C
14 2 (0.60%) R
Qualifications
1 80 (24.02%) AWS Certification
2 48 (14.41%) Degree
3 44 (13.21%) Security Cleared
4 28 (8.41%) SC Cleared
5 25 (7.51%) AWS Certified Developer
6 24 (7.21%) Computer Science Degree
7 22 (6.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 17 (5.11%) ITIL Certification
9 16 (4.80%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 15 (4.50%) DV Cleared
11 10 (3.00%) OSCP
12 5 (1.50%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 4 (1.20%) Master's Degree
14 3 (0.90%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 3 (0.90%) IIBA
14 3 (0.90%) SnowPro
15 1 (0.30%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 1 (0.30%) Azure Certification
15 1 (0.30%) GCIH
15 1 (0.30%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (9.91%) QA
2 22 (6.61%) Data Quality
3 14 (4.20%) GDPR
4 5 (1.50%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.20%) SLA
6 3 (0.90%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.90%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.30%) GAAP
7 1 (0.30%) MiFID
7 1 (0.30%) NIST
7 1 (0.30%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 112 (33.63%) Docker
2 7 (2.10%) HDFS
3 3 (0.90%) iptables
4 1 (0.30%) vCloud
4 1 (0.30%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.30%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 112 (33.63%) Terraform
2 80 (24.02%) Kubernetes
3 27 (8.11%) HP Fortify
4 25 (7.51%) Ansible
5 22 (6.61%) Prometheus
6 15 (4.50%) Grafana
7 8 (2.40%) Puppet
8 4 (1.20%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.90%) Kibana
9 3 (0.90%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (4.50%) Databricks
2 12 (3.60%) Oracle
3 9 (2.70%) Red Hat
4 8 (2.40%) Atlassian
5 7 (2.10%) Google
6 5 (1.50%) IBM
6 5 (1.50%) Salesforce
6 5 (1.50%) SaltStack
7 4 (1.20%) Microsoft
8 2 (0.60%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.30%) Apple
9 1 (0.30%) Cisco
9 1 (0.30%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.30%) Informatica
9 1 (0.30%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.30%) StreamSets
9 1 (0.30%) VMware
9 1 (0.30%) YouTube