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 29 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 321 206 344
Rank change year-on-year -115 +138 +11
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 325 710 466
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.58% 1.50% 0.77%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.70% 4.08% 1.98%
Number of salaries quoted 227 323 404
10th Percentile £52,250 £53,750 £50,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £65,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £90,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.44% +28.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £87,500 £115,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £138,750 £112,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £86,250 £70,000
% change year-on-year -18.84% +23.21% -12.50%

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 19,093 17,404 23,570
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 34.30% 36.84% 39.09%
Number of salaries quoted 10,621 10,308 19,978
10th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £104,474 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%

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 29 January 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 29 January 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 -127 153 £76,000 -23.04% 81
North of England +60 84 £65,000 -3.70% 53
Yorkshire +40 68 £65,000 +8.33% 26
Midlands +22 37 £57,500 +4.55% 34
South West +14 27 £63,750 -5.56% 44
East Midlands +2 22 £60,000 -14.29% 15
North West +18 16 £65,000 -6.14% 19
West Midlands +31 15 £50,000 +8.11% 19
South East -106 12 £67,500 +17.39% 81
East of England -18 4 £100,000 +37.93% 49
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 (9.85%) Apache Spark
2 25 (7.69%) Apache
3 13 (4.00%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (2.77%) WebSphere
5 7 (2.15%) Tomcat
6 6 (1.85%) WebSphere Application Server
7 3 (0.92%) Confluence
8 2 (0.62%) nginx
8 2 (0.62%) Oracle Application Server
9 1 (0.31%) JBoss
9 1 (0.31%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.31%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (1.85%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 325 (100.00%) AWS
1 325 (100.00%) Serverless
2 228 (70.15%) Amazon S3
3 116 (35.69%) AWS CloudFormation
4 82 (25.23%) AWS Step Functions
5 72 (22.15%) Amazon ECS
6 67 (20.62%) Amazon SQS
7 65 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
8 64 (19.69%) GitHub
9 60 (18.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 53 (16.31%) Amazon EKS
11 45 (13.85%) Azure
11 45 (13.85%) GitHub Actions
12 33 (10.15%) Amazon ECR
13 27 (8.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 26 (8.00%) Amazon EventBridge
14 26 (8.00%) Apigee
15 22 (6.77%) GCP
16 20 (6.15%) Datadog
16 20 (6.15%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.69%) AMQP
2 7 (2.15%) SSL
3 6 (1.85%) DSL
4 4 (1.23%) Broadband
4 4 (1.23%) Firewall
5 2 (0.62%) DNS
5 2 (0.62%) Network Security
5 2 (0.62%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.62%) VPN
6 1 (0.31%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (34.46%) DynamoDB
2 74 (22.77%) Amazon RDS
3 48 (14.77%) Amazon Redshift
4 46 (14.15%) NoSQL
5 43 (13.23%) Data Warehouse
6 39 (12.00%) PostgreSQL
7 22 (6.77%) SQL Server
8 20 (6.15%) Amazon Athena
8 20 (6.15%) Big Data
9 19 (5.85%) Data Lake
10 16 (4.92%) MongoDB
11 14 (4.31%) Elasticsearch
11 14 (4.31%) Hadoop
12 10 (3.08%) Apache Iceberg
12 10 (3.08%) Relational Database
13 8 (2.46%) Apache Hive
13 8 (2.46%) DB2
13 8 (2.46%) MySQL
14 5 (1.54%) Cloudera CDH
15 4 (1.23%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 75 (23.08%) Jenkins
2 55 (16.92%) GitLab
3 49 (15.08%) Git
4 31 (9.54%) Cypress.io
5 25 (7.69%) Maven
6 24 (7.38%) SonarQube
7 11 (3.38%) Bitbucket
8 10 (3.08%) JIRA
9 7 (2.15%) CircleCI
9 7 (2.15%) MLflow
10 5 (1.54%) git-flow
10 5 (1.54%) Vite
11 3 (0.92%) ESLint
11 3 (0.92%) JUnit
12 2 (0.62%) DBeaver
12 2 (0.62%) Deequ
12 2 (0.62%) Mocha
12 2 (0.62%) webpack
13 1 (0.31%) Cucumber
13 1 (0.31%) Zephyr
General
1 89 (27.38%) Social Skills
2 52 (16.00%) Finance
3 26 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (7.69%) Tech for Good
5 22 (6.77%) Health Technology
5 22 (6.77%) Publishing
6 15 (4.62%) Banking
6 15 (4.62%) Influencing Skills
7 14 (4.31%) Organisational Skills
8 9 (2.77%) Financial Institution
8 9 (2.77%) Public Sector
9 7 (2.15%) Advertising
9 7 (2.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.23%) Aerospace
10 4 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (0.92%) Billing
11 3 (0.92%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.62%) Front Office
12 2 (0.62%) Games
12 2 (0.62%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 124 (38.15%) Developer
2 78 (24.00%) Senior
3 58 (17.85%) AWS Developer
4 50 (15.38%) Lead
5 40 (12.31%) AWS Engineer
6 39 (12.00%) Software Engineer
7 37 (11.38%) Data Engineer
8 35 (10.77%) Senior Developer
9 34 (10.46%) Python Developer
10 33 (10.15%) React Developer
11 30 (9.23%) Java Developer
12 28 (8.62%) Lead Developer
13 23 (7.08%) AWS Data Engineer
13 23 (7.08%) Software Developer
14 22 (6.77%) Full-Stack Developer
15 17 (5.23%) Architect
15 17 (5.23%) Lead Python Developer
15 17 (5.23%) Node.js Developer
16 16 (4.92%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 16 (4.92%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (32.92%) React
2 85 (26.15%) Node.js
3 60 (18.46%) Spring Boot
4 56 (17.23%) RESTful
5 48 (14.77%) AngularJS
5 48 (14.77%) Spring
6 43 (13.23%) AWS CDK
7 31 (9.54%) Jest
7 31 (9.54%) Kafka
8 27 (8.31%) RabbitMQ
9 26 (8.00%) HTML
10 24 (7.38%) Gherkin
11 20 (6.15%) .NET
12 19 (5.85%) CSS
13 16 (4.92%) gRPC
13 16 (4.92%) Swagger
14 14 (4.31%) .NET Core
15 13 (4.00%) ASP.NET
15 13 (4.00%) ASP.NET Core
15 13 (4.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 100 (30.77%) Cloud Native
2 18 (5.54%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (3.38%) Greenfield Project
4 10 (3.08%) Product Ownership
5 8 (2.46%) e-Learning
5 8 (2.46%) Linux Command Line
6 7 (2.15%) Blockchain
6 7 (2.15%) Security Posture
6 7 (2.15%) Virtual Team
6 7 (2.15%) Web3
7 6 (1.85%) Data Structures
7 6 (1.85%) Onboarding
7 6 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (0.92%) Animation
9 3 (0.92%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (0.92%) Life Science
9 3 (0.92%) Private Cloud
10 2 (0.62%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 30 (9.23%) Linux
2 13 (4.00%) Unix
3 12 (3.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (2.15%) Windows
5 5 (1.54%) CentOS
5 5 (1.54%) Debian
5 5 (1.54%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.31%) Android
6 1 (0.31%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 209 (64.31%) CI/CD
2 155 (47.69%) DevOps
3 132 (40.62%) Agile
4 122 (37.54%) Infrastructure as Code
5 91 (28.00%) Software Engineering
6 71 (21.85%) Mentoring
6 71 (21.85%) Problem-Solving
7 70 (21.54%) Full-Stack Development
8 69 (21.23%) Microservices
9 60 (18.46%) Containerisation
10 52 (16.00%) Scrum
11 47 (14.46%) Data Pipeline
11 47 (14.46%) Observability
12 45 (13.85%) Continuous Improvement
13 40 (12.31%) Continuous Integration
14 38 (11.69%) AI
15 35 (10.77%) Data Engineering
15 35 (10.77%) Data Modelling
16 34 (10.46%) Analytics
17 33 (10.15%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 171 (52.62%) Python
2 110 (33.85%) TypeScript
3 97 (29.85%) Java
4 90 (27.69%) SQL
5 74 (22.77%) JavaScript
6 39 (12.00%) Bash
7 23 (7.08%) Groovy
8 20 (6.15%) Go
9 12 (3.69%) Scala
10 9 (2.77%) C#
11 8 (2.46%) Kotlin
12 6 (1.85%) PowerShell
12 6 (1.85%) Rust
13 3 (0.92%) C++
14 2 (0.62%) C
14 2 (0.62%) PHP
14 2 (0.62%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 82 (25.23%) AWS Certification
2 45 (13.85%) Security Cleared
3 43 (13.23%) Degree
4 29 (8.92%) SC Cleared
5 25 (7.69%) AWS Certified Developer
6 22 (6.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 22 (6.77%) Computer Science Degree
7 17 (5.23%) DV Cleared
7 17 (5.23%) ITIL Certification
8 15 (4.62%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 7 (2.15%) OSCP
10 5 (1.54%) SnowPro
11 4 (1.23%) Master's Degree
11 4 (1.23%) MCP
12 3 (0.92%) IIBA
13 2 (0.62%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 1 (0.31%) Azure Certification
14 1 (0.31%) GCIH
14 1 (0.31%) GIAC
14 1 (0.31%) GREM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (12.31%) QA
2 20 (6.15%) Data Quality
3 14 (4.31%) GDPR
4 6 (1.85%) Accessibility
4 6 (1.85%) SLA
5 5 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.92%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.92%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.31%) GAAP
7 1 (0.31%) IFRS
7 1 (0.31%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.31%) MiFID
7 1 (0.31%) NIST
7 1 (0.31%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 101 (31.08%) Docker
2 8 (2.46%) HDFS
3 1 (0.31%) iptables
3 1 (0.31%) vCloud
3 1 (0.31%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.31%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 106 (32.62%) Terraform
2 75 (23.08%) Kubernetes
3 24 (7.38%) HP Fortify
4 22 (6.77%) Ansible
4 22 (6.77%) Prometheus
5 16 (4.92%) Grafana
6 6 (1.85%) Puppet
7 5 (1.54%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.92%) Kibana
8 3 (0.92%) Kubeflow
9 2 (0.62%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (4.62%) Databricks
2 12 (3.69%) Oracle
3 11 (3.38%) Red Hat
4 9 (2.77%) Atlassian
4 9 (2.77%) IBM
5 7 (2.15%) Google
6 5 (1.54%) Salesforce
6 5 (1.54%) SaltStack
7 3 (0.92%) Microsoft
7 3 (0.92%) OpenAI
8 2 (0.62%) Informatica
9 1 (0.31%) Apple
9 1 (0.31%) Cisco
9 1 (0.31%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.31%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.31%) StreamSets
9 1 (0.31%) VMware
9 1 (0.31%) YouTube