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

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 327 196 332
Rank change year-on-year -131 +136 +15
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 331 726 522
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.56% 1.62% 0.79%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.65% 4.34% 2.04%
Number of salaries quoted 229 345 452
10th Percentile £51,000 £52,500 £48,750
25th Percentile £56,250 £63,750 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,000 £90,000 £70,750
Median % change year-on-year -21.11% +27.21% -11.56%
75th Percentile £85,000 £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% -11.39%

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 20,057 16,721 25,527
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 33.91% 37.38% 38.47%
Number of salaries quoted 11,158 10,072 21,663
10th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £31,250
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 14 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 14 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 -134 147 £77,500 -22.50% 55
North of England +45 90 £65,000 - 41
Yorkshire +28 75 £65,000 +8.33% 25
Midlands +26 41 £55,000 - 13
South West -11 28 £62,500 +4.17% 16
East Midlands -1 24 £60,000 -14.29% 3
West Midlands +21 17 £50,000 +8.11% 10
North West +4 15 £62,500 -9.75% 15
South East -119 12 £67,500 +22.73% 22
East of England -22 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 31 (9.37%) Apache Spark
2 26 (7.85%) Apache
3 14 (4.23%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.81%) WebSphere
5 5 (1.51%) Tomcat
6 4 (1.21%) Confluence
6 4 (1.21%) WebSphere Application Server
7 2 (0.60%) nginx
7 2 (0.60%) Oracle Application Server
8 1 (0.30%) JBoss
8 1 (0.30%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.30%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (1.81%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 331 (100.00%) AWS
1 331 (100.00%) Serverless
2 239 (72.21%) Amazon S3
3 123 (37.16%) AWS CloudFormation
4 87 (26.28%) AWS Step Functions
5 79 (23.87%) Amazon ECS
6 71 (21.45%) Amazon SQS
7 67 (20.24%) GitHub
8 65 (19.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 63 (19.03%) Amazon EC2
10 50 (15.11%) Amazon EKS
11 46 (13.90%) GitHub Actions
12 45 (13.60%) Azure
13 36 (10.88%) Amazon ECR
14 29 (8.76%) Apigee
15 28 (8.46%) Amazon EventBridge
16 27 (8.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 23 (6.95%) GCP
18 22 (6.65%) Datadog
19 20 (6.04%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.32%) AMQP
2 8 (2.42%) DSL
3 5 (1.51%) Network Security
3 5 (1.51%) SSL
4 4 (1.21%) Firewall
5 3 (0.91%) Broadband
6 1 (0.30%) DNS
6 1 (0.30%) VPN
6 1 (0.30%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (33.84%) DynamoDB
2 71 (21.45%) Amazon RDS
3 51 (15.41%) NoSQL
4 48 (14.50%) Amazon Redshift
5 40 (12.08%) Data Warehouse
6 37 (11.18%) PostgreSQL
7 21 (6.34%) Amazon Athena
8 20 (6.04%) SQL Server
9 19 (5.74%) Big Data
10 18 (5.44%) Data Lake
11 15 (4.53%) MongoDB
12 13 (3.93%) Hadoop
13 10 (3.02%) Apache Iceberg
13 10 (3.02%) MySQL
14 9 (2.72%) Relational Database
15 7 (2.11%) Apache Hive
15 7 (2.11%) Elasticsearch
16 6 (1.81%) DB2
17 5 (1.51%) Amazon Aurora
17 5 (1.51%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 80 (24.17%) Jenkins
2 60 (18.13%) GitLab
3 51 (15.41%) Git
4 34 (10.27%) Cypress.io
5 28 (8.46%) Maven
6 27 (8.16%) SonarQube
7 12 (3.63%) Bitbucket
7 12 (3.63%) JIRA
8 8 (2.42%) CircleCI
9 7 (2.11%) MLflow
10 5 (1.51%) git-flow
10 5 (1.51%) Vite
11 3 (0.91%) ESLint
11 3 (0.91%) JUnit
12 2 (0.60%) DBeaver
12 2 (0.60%) Deequ
12 2 (0.60%) Mocha
12 2 (0.60%) webpack
13 1 (0.30%) Cucumber
13 1 (0.30%) Gradle
General
1 92 (27.79%) Social Skills
2 49 (14.80%) Finance
3 28 (8.46%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (5.74%) Tech for Good
5 16 (4.83%) Health Technology
5 16 (4.83%) Publishing
6 15 (4.53%) Banking
6 15 (4.53%) Influencing Skills
7 14 (4.23%) Organisational Skills
8 13 (3.93%) Public Sector
9 9 (2.72%) Advertising
10 8 (2.42%) Financial Institution
11 7 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.21%) Aerospace
13 3 (0.91%) Billing
13 3 (0.91%) Games
13 3 (0.91%) Investment Banking
13 3 (0.91%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.91%) Military
13 3 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 128 (38.67%) Developer
2 76 (22.96%) Senior
3 54 (16.31%) AWS Developer
4 51 (15.41%) Lead
5 40 (12.08%) Software Engineer
6 39 (11.78%) AWS Engineer
7 36 (10.88%) Data Engineer
8 35 (10.57%) Java Developer
9 34 (10.27%) Senior Developer
10 30 (9.06%) React Developer
11 28 (8.46%) Lead Developer
11 28 (8.46%) Python Developer
12 26 (7.85%) Full-Stack Developer
13 22 (6.65%) AWS Data Engineer
14 21 (6.34%) Software Developer
15 20 (6.04%) Architect
16 18 (5.44%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 17 (5.14%) Lead Python Developer
17 17 (5.14%) Node.js Developer
18 16 (4.83%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (31.72%) React
2 92 (27.79%) Node.js
3 66 (19.94%) Spring Boot
4 54 (16.31%) AngularJS
4 54 (16.31%) RESTful
5 51 (15.41%) Spring
6 44 (13.29%) AWS CDK
7 34 (10.27%) Jest
8 32 (9.67%) Kafka
9 28 (8.46%) HTML
10 27 (8.16%) Gherkin
11 26 (7.85%) RabbitMQ
12 22 (6.65%) CSS
13 21 (6.34%) .NET
14 16 (4.83%) gRPC
15 15 (4.53%) .NET Core
15 15 (4.53%) REST
16 13 (3.93%) ASP.NET
16 13 (3.93%) ASP.NET Core
16 13 (3.93%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 103 (31.12%) Cloud Native
2 18 (5.44%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (3.32%) Greenfield Project
3 11 (3.32%) Product Ownership
4 8 (2.42%) Blockchain
4 8 (2.42%) Web3
5 7 (2.11%) e-Learning
5 7 (2.11%) Virtual Team
6 6 (1.81%) Data Structures
6 6 (1.81%) Onboarding
6 6 (1.81%) Security Posture
6 6 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (1.51%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.21%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.21%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (0.91%) Animation
9 3 (0.91%) Life Science
9 3 (0.91%) Private Cloud
10 2 (0.60%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.60%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 27 (8.16%) Linux
2 10 (3.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 10 (3.02%) Unix
3 7 (2.11%) Windows
4 5 (1.51%) CentOS
4 5 (1.51%) Debian
4 5 (1.51%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.30%) Android
5 1 (0.30%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 219 (66.16%) CI/CD
2 163 (49.24%) DevOps
3 133 (40.18%) Agile
4 126 (38.07%) Infrastructure as Code
5 90 (27.19%) Software Engineering
6 76 (22.96%) Full-Stack Development
7 75 (22.66%) Problem-Solving
8 73 (22.05%) Microservices
9 71 (21.45%) Mentoring
10 64 (19.34%) Containerisation
11 50 (15.11%) Observability
12 48 (14.50%) Data Pipeline
13 47 (14.20%) Continuous Improvement
14 43 (12.99%) Scrum
15 41 (12.39%) Continuous Integration
16 40 (12.08%) AI
17 36 (10.88%) Data Modelling
17 36 (10.88%) DevSecOps
18 35 (10.57%) Analytics
19 34 (10.27%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 166 (50.15%) Python
2 110 (33.23%) TypeScript
3 97 (29.31%) Java
4 94 (28.40%) SQL
5 77 (23.26%) JavaScript
6 42 (12.69%) Bash
7 26 (7.85%) Groovy
8 20 (6.04%) Go
9 10 (3.02%) Kotlin
9 10 (3.02%) Scala
10 8 (2.42%) C#
10 8 (2.42%) Rust
11 7 (2.11%) PowerShell
12 4 (1.21%) PHP
13 3 (0.91%) C++
14 2 (0.60%) C
14 2 (0.60%) R
Qualifications
1 81 (24.47%) AWS Certification
2 48 (14.50%) Degree
3 42 (12.69%) Security Cleared
4 28 (8.46%) SC Cleared
5 26 (7.85%) AWS Certified Developer
6 25 (7.55%) Computer Science Degree
7 23 (6.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 17 (5.14%) ITIL Certification
9 16 (4.83%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 13 (3.93%) DV Cleared
11 9 (2.72%) OSCP
12 5 (1.51%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 4 (1.21%) Master's Degree
14 3 (0.91%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 3 (0.91%) IIBA
14 3 (0.91%) SnowPro
15 1 (0.30%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 1 (0.30%) Azure Certification
15 1 (0.30%) GAWN
15 1 (0.30%) GREM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (10.27%) QA
2 21 (6.34%) Data Quality
3 14 (4.23%) GDPR
4 6 (1.81%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.21%) SLA
7 3 (0.91%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.91%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.30%) GAAP
8 1 (0.30%) IFRS
8 1 (0.30%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.30%) MiFID
8 1 (0.30%) NIST
8 1 (0.30%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 111 (33.53%) Docker
2 7 (2.11%) HDFS
3 3 (0.91%) iptables
4 1 (0.30%) vCloud
4 1 (0.30%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.30%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 110 (33.23%) Terraform
2 76 (22.96%) Kubernetes
3 27 (8.16%) HP Fortify
4 25 (7.55%) Ansible
5 21 (6.34%) Prometheus
6 15 (4.53%) Grafana
7 8 (2.42%) Puppet
8 4 (1.21%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.91%) Kibana
9 3 (0.91%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (4.53%) Databricks
2 12 (3.63%) Oracle
3 9 (2.72%) Red Hat
4 8 (2.42%) Atlassian
5 7 (2.11%) Google
6 6 (1.81%) IBM
7 5 (1.51%) Salesforce
7 5 (1.51%) SaltStack
8 4 (1.21%) Microsoft
9 3 (0.91%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.60%) Informatica
11 1 (0.30%) Apple
11 1 (0.30%) Cisco
11 1 (0.30%) Dynatrace
11 1 (0.30%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.30%) StreamSets
11 1 (0.30%) VMware
11 1 (0.30%) YouTube