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 1 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 334 185 358
Rank change year-on-year -149 +173 +8
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 367 635 569
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.52% 1.74% 0.73%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.60% 4.60% 1.98%
Number of salaries quoted 251 364 486
10th Percentile £51,875 £52,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £59,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £85,000 £74,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.71% +14.09% -0.67%
75th Percentile £85,000 £115,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £107,500 £138,750 £118,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £82,500 £71,500
% change year-on-year -15.15% +15.38% -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 22,996 13,803 28,743
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 32.65% 37.77% 36.77%
Number of salaries quoted 12,418 10,138 23,913
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -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 1 April 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 1 April 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 -137 146 £85,000 -19.05% 91
North of England +22 122 £72,500 +6.03% 39
Yorkshire +33 106 £72,500 +26.09% 13
Midlands -18 41 £55,000 - 10
South West -32 32 £62,500 +4.17% 18
East Midlands -23 26 £60,000 -12.73% 2
South East -136 20 £82,500 +50.00% 31
North West -28 16 £70,000 -6.67% 22
West Midlands -21 15 £50,000 -9.09% 8
East of England -72 4 £62,500 -26.47% 12
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 27 (7.36%) Apache
2 24 (6.54%) Apache Spark
3 21 (5.72%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.36%) Confluence
5 3 (0.82%) JBoss
6 2 (0.54%) nginx
6 2 (0.54%) Oracle Application Server
6 2 (0.54%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.54%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.54%) WebSphere Application Server
7 1 (0.27%) CMS
7 1 (0.27%) IIS
7 1 (0.27%) SAS
7 1 (0.27%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (1.63%) Spreadsheet
2 4 (1.09%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 367 (100.00%) Serverless
2 366 (99.73%) AWS
3 274 (74.66%) Amazon S3
4 146 (39.78%) AWS CloudFormation
5 106 (28.88%) Amazon ECS
6 105 (28.61%) AWS Step Functions
7 88 (23.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 84 (22.89%) Amazon SQS
9 81 (22.07%) GitHub
10 75 (20.44%) Amazon EC2
11 59 (16.08%) GitHub Actions
12 53 (14.44%) Amazon EKS
13 51 (13.90%) Amazon ECR
14 45 (12.26%) Apigee
15 43 (11.72%) Azure
16 34 (9.26%) Datadog
17 32 (8.72%) Amazon EventBridge
18 27 (7.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 25 (6.81%) Amazon OpenSearch
20 22 (5.99%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.54%) DSL
2 11 (3.00%) AMQP
3 6 (1.63%) Network Security
4 5 (1.36%) Broadband
4 5 (1.36%) Firewall
5 3 (0.82%) DNS
5 3 (0.82%) SSL
5 3 (0.82%) VPN
6 1 (0.27%) 4G
6 1 (0.27%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 147 (40.05%) DynamoDB
2 78 (21.25%) Amazon RDS
3 62 (16.89%) NoSQL
4 42 (11.44%) Amazon Redshift
5 34 (9.26%) Amazon Athena
6 30 (8.17%) PostgreSQL
7 28 (7.63%) Data Warehouse
8 19 (5.18%) SQL Server
9 13 (3.54%) Big Data
9 13 (3.54%) Data Lake
10 11 (3.00%) MongoDB
10 11 (3.00%) MySQL
10 11 (3.00%) Relational Database
11 9 (2.45%) Hadoop
12 8 (2.18%) Amazon Aurora
12 8 (2.18%) Metadata
13 7 (1.91%) Apache Iceberg
14 6 (1.63%) Power BI
15 5 (1.36%) Cloudera CDH
15 5 (1.36%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 114 (31.06%) Jenkins
2 88 (23.98%) GitLab
3 64 (17.44%) Git
4 45 (12.26%) SonarQube
5 42 (11.44%) Cypress.io
5 42 (11.44%) Maven
6 16 (4.36%) JIRA
7 13 (3.54%) CircleCI
8 9 (2.45%) Bitbucket
8 9 (2.45%) Cucumber
9 7 (1.91%) MLflow
10 5 (1.36%) git-flow
11 4 (1.09%) Artifactory
11 4 (1.09%) Selenium
12 3 (0.82%) ESLint
12 3 (0.82%) JUnit
12 3 (0.82%) webpack
13 2 (0.54%) DBeaver
13 2 (0.54%) Octopus Deploy
13 2 (0.54%) Postman
General
1 99 (26.98%) Social Skills
2 47 (12.81%) Finance
3 38 (10.35%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (4.90%) Banking
4 18 (4.90%) Public Sector
5 16 (4.36%) Health Technology
5 16 (4.36%) Tech for Good
6 15 (4.09%) Influencing Skills
6 15 (4.09%) Publishing
7 14 (3.81%) Organisational Skills
8 11 (3.00%) Advertising
9 6 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.09%) Aerospace
10 4 (1.09%) Billing
11 3 (0.82%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.82%) Investment Banking
11 3 (0.82%) Law
11 3 (0.82%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.82%) Military
12 2 (0.54%) Games
Job Titles
1 170 (46.32%) Developer
2 87 (23.71%) Senior
3 65 (17.71%) Java Developer
4 62 (16.89%) AWS Developer
5 50 (13.62%) Lead
6 47 (12.81%) Senior Developer
7 36 (9.81%) AWS Engineer
7 36 (9.81%) Full-Stack Developer
8 34 (9.26%) Software Engineer
9 32 (8.72%) Data Engineer
10 31 (8.45%) React Developer
11 30 (8.17%) Lead Developer
12 29 (7.90%) Python Developer
13 21 (5.72%) DevOps Engineer
13 21 (5.72%) Software Developer
14 20 (5.45%) Architect
15 19 (5.18%) Node.js Developer
16 17 (4.63%) AWS Architect
16 17 (4.63%) Lead Python Developer
16 17 (4.63%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (29.16%) Node.js
2 104 (28.34%) React
3 77 (20.98%) AngularJS
4 75 (20.44%) Spring Boot
5 59 (16.08%) RESTful
6 48 (13.08%) AWS CDK
7 47 (12.81%) Spring
8 42 (11.44%) Jest
9 40 (10.90%) Gherkin
10 34 (9.26%) RabbitMQ
11 30 (8.17%) Kafka
12 29 (7.90%) HTML
13 25 (6.81%) REST
14 23 (6.27%) CSS
15 22 (5.99%) .NET
16 19 (5.18%) gRPC
17 15 (4.09%) .NET Core
18 13 (3.54%) ASP.NET
18 13 (3.54%) ASP.NET Core
18 13 (3.54%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 95 (25.89%) Cloud Native
2 19 (5.18%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (3.81%) Product Ownership
4 13 (3.54%) Blockchain
4 13 (3.54%) Web3
5 11 (3.00%) Greenfield Project
6 8 (2.18%) Self-Motivation
7 7 (1.91%) Data Structures
8 6 (1.63%) Linux Command Line
9 5 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.36%) Security Posture
10 4 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.09%) Onboarding
11 3 (0.82%) Animation
11 3 (0.82%) e-Learning
11 3 (0.82%) IoT
11 3 (0.82%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (0.82%) Life Science
11 3 (0.82%) NHS
11 3 (0.82%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 32 (8.72%) Linux
2 9 (2.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (1.91%) Windows
4 5 (1.36%) CentOS
4 5 (1.36%) Debian
4 5 (1.36%) Ubuntu
5 4 (1.09%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 243 (66.21%) CI/CD
2 192 (52.32%) DevOps
3 154 (41.96%) Agile
4 141 (38.42%) Infrastructure as Code
5 86 (23.43%) Software Engineering
6 80 (21.80%) Microservices
7 79 (21.53%) Full-Stack Development
7 79 (21.53%) Problem-Solving
8 78 (21.25%) Containerisation
9 73 (19.89%) Mentoring
10 56 (15.26%) Observability
11 55 (14.99%) Continuous Integration
12 47 (12.81%) Continuous Improvement
12 47 (12.81%) Test Automation
13 46 (12.53%) DevSecOps
14 42 (11.44%) Data Pipeline
15 41 (11.17%) Scrum
16 38 (10.35%) AI
17 37 (10.08%) Analytics
18 36 (9.81%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 181 (49.32%) Python
2 126 (34.33%) TypeScript
3 117 (31.88%) Java
4 112 (30.52%) SQL
5 73 (19.89%) JavaScript
6 60 (16.35%) Bash
7 45 (12.26%) Groovy
8 29 (7.90%) Go
9 26 (7.08%) Kotlin
10 13 (3.54%) Rust
11 11 (3.00%) PowerShell
12 9 (2.45%) C#
13 8 (2.18%) PHP
14 5 (1.36%) Scala
15 3 (0.82%) C++
15 3 (0.82%) Perl
16 2 (0.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 2 (0.54%) PL/SQL
16 2 (0.54%) R
17 1 (0.27%) C
Qualifications
1 76 (20.71%) AWS Certification
2 55 (14.99%) Security Cleared
3 50 (13.62%) Degree
4 39 (10.63%) SC Cleared
5 27 (7.36%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 25 (6.81%) ITIL Certification
7 23 (6.27%) AWS Certified Developer
8 20 (5.45%) Computer Science Degree
9 18 (4.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 14 (3.81%) OSCP
11 13 (3.54%) DV Cleared
12 5 (1.36%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 4 (1.09%) Master's Degree
14 3 (0.82%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 3 (0.82%) IIBA
14 3 (0.82%) PhD
15 2 (0.54%) SnowPro
16 1 (0.27%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 1 (0.27%) GAWN
16 1 (0.27%) GREM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (9.54%) QA
2 18 (4.90%) Data Quality
3 7 (1.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.63%) GDPR
5 3 (0.82%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.54%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.54%) SLA
7 1 (0.27%) MiFID
7 1 (0.27%) NIST
7 1 (0.27%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.27%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.27%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 143 (38.96%) Docker
2 4 (1.09%) iptables
3 3 (0.82%) Firmware
3 3 (0.82%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 131 (35.69%) Terraform
2 88 (23.98%) Kubernetes
3 40 (10.90%) HP Fortify
4 36 (9.81%) Ansible
5 27 (7.36%) Prometheus
6 21 (5.72%) Grafana
7 9 (2.45%) Puppet
8 6 (1.63%) Kibana
8 6 (1.63%) Progress Chef
9 4 (1.09%) Packer
10 3 (0.82%) Kubeflow
11 2 (0.54%) Scalr
12 1 (0.27%) Red Hat Satellite
12 1 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (3.27%) Databricks
2 11 (3.00%) Oracle
3 9 (2.45%) Red Hat
4 8 (2.18%) IBM
5 7 (1.91%) Atlassian
6 6 (1.63%) AppDynamics
7 5 (1.36%) Google
7 5 (1.36%) Salesforce
7 5 (1.36%) SaltStack
8 3 (0.82%) Microsoft
9 1 (0.27%) Apple
9 1 (0.27%) Cisco
9 1 (0.27%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.27%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.27%) Informatica
9 1 (0.27%) New Relic
9 1 (0.27%) YouTube