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 3 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 340 192 348
Rank change year-on-year -148 +156 +18
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 342 674 539
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.55% 1.64% 0.77%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.65% 4.39% 2.03%
Number of salaries quoted 240 335 463
10th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £49,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £62,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £90,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -19.44% +24.14% -6.45%
75th Percentile £87,500 £115,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £107,500 £138,750 £118,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £85,000 £71,500
% change year-on-year -17.65% +18.88% -4.67%

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 20,736 15,356 26,489
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 33.24% 37.47% 38.00%
Number of salaries quoted 11,457 9,863 22,327
10th Percentile £29,250 £33,750 £30,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £41,250
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 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,264 £57,500
% change year-on-year -5.16% +10.02% -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 3 March 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 3 March 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 -123 148 £82,500 -23.26% 108
North of England +34 101 £66,250 +6.00% 47
Yorkshire +36 86 £66,250 +10.42% 19
Midlands +2 42 £55,000 - 16
South West -14 28 £62,500 +6.38% 43
East Midlands -11 25 £60,000 -4.00% 8
West Midlands +19 17 £50,000 +8.11% 8
North West +1 15 £70,000 +1.08% 23
South East -136 13 £67,500 +22.73% 56
East of England -36 5 £62,500 -9.09% 32
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 30 (8.77%) Apache
1 30 (8.77%) Apache Spark
2 20 (5.85%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (1.46%) Confluence
3 5 (1.46%) Tomcat
3 5 (1.46%) WebSphere
4 4 (1.17%) WebSphere Application Server
5 3 (0.88%) JBoss
6 2 (0.58%) nginx
6 2 (0.58%) Oracle Application Server
7 1 (0.29%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.29%) SAS
7 1 (0.29%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (1.75%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.29%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 342 (100.00%) AWS
1 342 (100.00%) Serverless
2 252 (73.68%) Amazon S3
3 136 (39.77%) AWS CloudFormation
4 95 (27.78%) AWS Step Functions
5 86 (25.15%) Amazon ECS
6 75 (21.93%) Amazon SQS
7 74 (21.64%) GitHub
8 72 (21.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 66 (19.30%) Amazon EC2
10 51 (14.91%) Amazon EKS
10 51 (14.91%) GitHub Actions
11 42 (12.28%) Azure
12 41 (11.99%) Amazon ECR
13 34 (9.94%) Apigee
14 29 (8.48%) Amazon EventBridge
15 26 (7.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 24 (7.02%) Datadog
16 24 (7.02%) GCP
17 21 (6.14%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.51%) DSL
2 11 (3.22%) AMQP
3 5 (1.46%) Network Security
3 5 (1.46%) SSL
4 4 (1.17%) Firewall
5 3 (0.88%) Broadband
6 1 (0.29%) 4G
6 1 (0.29%) 5G
6 1 (0.29%) DNS
6 1 (0.29%) VPN
6 1 (0.29%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (35.09%) DynamoDB
2 71 (20.76%) Amazon RDS
3 55 (16.08%) NoSQL
4 48 (14.04%) Amazon Redshift
5 39 (11.40%) Data Warehouse
6 36 (10.53%) PostgreSQL
7 25 (7.31%) Amazon Athena
8 21 (6.14%) SQL Server
9 17 (4.97%) Data Lake
10 16 (4.68%) Big Data
11 14 (4.09%) MongoDB
12 11 (3.22%) Apache Iceberg
12 11 (3.22%) Hadoop
12 11 (3.22%) Relational Database
13 10 (2.92%) MySQL
14 7 (2.05%) Metadata
15 6 (1.75%) Amazon Aurora
15 6 (1.75%) DB2
15 6 (1.75%) Snowflake Schema
16 5 (1.46%) Cloudera CDH
Development Applications
1 91 (26.61%) Jenkins
2 72 (21.05%) GitLab
3 51 (14.91%) Git
4 36 (10.53%) Cypress.io
5 33 (9.65%) Maven
6 32 (9.36%) SonarQube
7 11 (3.22%) CircleCI
7 11 (3.22%) JIRA
8 9 (2.63%) Bitbucket
9 7 (2.05%) MLflow
10 5 (1.46%) git-flow
11 3 (0.88%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.88%) ESLint
11 3 (0.88%) JUnit
11 3 (0.88%) Selenium
11 3 (0.88%) webpack
12 2 (0.58%) DBeaver
12 2 (0.58%) Deequ
12 2 (0.58%) Mocha
12 2 (0.58%) Vite
General
1 95 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 51 (14.91%) Finance
3 34 (9.94%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (5.26%) Banking
5 17 (4.97%) Tech for Good
6 15 (4.39%) Health Technology
6 15 (4.39%) Influencing Skills
6 15 (4.39%) Publishing
7 14 (4.09%) Organisational Skills
8 13 (3.80%) Public Sector
9 9 (2.63%) Advertising
10 6 (1.75%) Financial Institution
10 6 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.17%) Aerospace
11 4 (1.17%) Billing
12 3 (0.88%) Games
12 3 (0.88%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.88%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.88%) Military
13 2 (0.58%) Law
Job Titles
1 138 (40.35%) Developer
2 75 (21.93%) Senior
3 56 (16.37%) AWS Developer
4 47 (13.74%) Lead
5 44 (12.87%) Java Developer
6 41 (11.99%) AWS Engineer
7 38 (11.11%) Data Engineer
7 38 (11.11%) Software Engineer
8 35 (10.23%) Senior Developer
9 31 (9.06%) React Developer
10 28 (8.19%) Full-Stack Developer
10 28 (8.19%) Lead Developer
11 27 (7.89%) Python Developer
12 24 (7.02%) AWS Data Engineer
13 23 (6.73%) Architect
14 20 (5.85%) Software Developer
15 17 (4.97%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 17 (4.97%) Lead Python Developer
15 17 (4.97%) Node.js Developer
16 16 (4.68%) AWS Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (29.82%) React
2 94 (27.49%) Node.js
3 67 (19.59%) Spring Boot
4 60 (17.54%) AngularJS
5 54 (15.79%) RESTful
6 49 (14.33%) AWS CDK
7 47 (13.74%) Spring
8 36 (10.53%) Jest
9 34 (9.94%) Kafka
10 32 (9.36%) Gherkin
11 29 (8.48%) HTML
12 28 (8.19%) RabbitMQ
13 24 (7.02%) CSS
14 22 (6.43%) .NET
15 18 (5.26%) gRPC
16 16 (4.68%) REST
17 15 (4.39%) .NET Core
18 14 (4.09%) PySpark
19 13 (3.80%) ASP.NET
19 13 (3.80%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 102 (29.82%) Cloud Native
2 15 (4.39%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (4.09%) Product Ownership
4 11 (3.22%) Blockchain
4 11 (3.22%) Web3
5 10 (2.92%) Greenfield Project
6 7 (2.05%) Data Structures
7 6 (1.75%) Onboarding
7 6 (1.75%) Security Posture
7 6 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (1.46%) e-Learning
8 5 (1.46%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.46%) Linux Command Line
8 5 (1.46%) Virtual Team
9 3 (0.88%) Animation
9 3 (0.88%) Life Science
9 3 (0.88%) Private Cloud
10 2 (0.58%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.58%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 27 (7.89%) Linux
2 10 (2.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (2.63%) Unix
4 7 (2.05%) Windows
5 5 (1.46%) CentOS
5 5 (1.46%) Debian
5 5 (1.46%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 225 (65.79%) CI/CD
2 169 (49.42%) DevOps
3 137 (40.06%) Agile
4 134 (39.18%) Infrastructure as Code
5 90 (26.32%) Software Engineering
6 81 (23.68%) Problem-Solving
7 73 (21.35%) Full-Stack Development
7 73 (21.35%) Microservices
8 70 (20.47%) Mentoring
9 69 (20.18%) Containerisation
10 52 (15.20%) Observability
11 49 (14.33%) Data Pipeline
12 46 (13.45%) Continuous Improvement
13 43 (12.57%) Continuous Integration
14 41 (11.99%) DevSecOps
15 40 (11.70%) Scrum
16 37 (10.82%) AI
16 37 (10.82%) Analytics
17 36 (10.53%) ETL
18 35 (10.23%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 174 (50.88%) Python
2 109 (31.87%) TypeScript
3 102 (29.82%) SQL
4 99 (28.95%) Java
5 77 (22.51%) JavaScript
6 49 (14.33%) Bash
7 31 (9.06%) Groovy
8 27 (7.89%) Go
9 16 (4.68%) Kotlin
10 12 (3.51%) Rust
11 9 (2.63%) C#
12 7 (2.05%) PowerShell
12 7 (2.05%) Scala
13 5 (1.46%) PHP
14 3 (0.88%) C++
15 2 (0.58%) R
16 1 (0.29%) C
Qualifications
1 77 (22.51%) AWS Certification
2 51 (14.91%) Degree
3 43 (12.57%) Security Cleared
4 27 (7.89%) SC Cleared
5 24 (7.02%) AWS Certified Developer
6 23 (6.73%) Computer Science Degree
7 20 (5.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 20 (5.85%) ITIL Certification
8 19 (5.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 15 (4.39%) DV Cleared
10 13 (3.80%) OSCP
11 5 (1.46%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 4 (1.17%) Master's Degree
13 3 (0.88%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 3 (0.88%) IIBA
14 2 (0.58%) SnowPro
15 1 (0.29%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 1 (0.29%) Azure Certification
15 1 (0.29%) GAWN
15 1 (0.29%) GREM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (8.48%) QA
2 24 (7.02%) Data Quality
3 11 (3.22%) GDPR
4 4 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.17%) SLA
5 3 (0.88%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.58%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.29%) GAAP
7 1 (0.29%) MiFID
7 1 (0.29%) NIST
7 1 (0.29%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.29%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 122 (35.67%) Docker
2 5 (1.46%) HDFS
3 3 (0.88%) iptables
4 1 (0.29%) vCloud
4 1 (0.29%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.29%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 119 (34.80%) Terraform
2 83 (24.27%) Kubernetes
3 32 (9.36%) HP Fortify
4 25 (7.31%) Ansible
5 23 (6.73%) Prometheus
6 15 (4.39%) Grafana
7 8 (2.34%) Puppet
8 4 (1.17%) Kibana
8 4 (1.17%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.88%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (4.09%) Databricks
2 11 (3.22%) Oracle
3 9 (2.63%) Red Hat
4 7 (2.05%) Atlassian
4 7 (2.05%) Google
5 5 (1.46%) IBM
5 5 (1.46%) Salesforce
5 5 (1.46%) SaltStack
6 4 (1.17%) Microsoft
7 1 (0.29%) Apple
7 1 (0.29%) Cisco
7 1 (0.29%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.29%) Informatica
7 1 (0.29%) New Relic
7 1 (0.29%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.29%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.29%) StreamSets
7 1 (0.29%) VMware
7 1 (0.29%) YouTube