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 11 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 364 328 413
Rank change year-on-year -36 +85 -53
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 448 371 409
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.48% 0.85% 0.56%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.80% 2.57% 1.76%
Number of salaries quoted 274 275 281
10th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £60,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% +1.69%
75th Percentile £91,875 £87,500 £96,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £100,000 £111,250
UK median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year - -3.33% +3.45%

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 24,855 14,409 23,277
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 26.42% 33.00% 32.01%
Number of salaries quoted 16,821 10,262 17,228
10th Percentile £31,500 £30,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £43,388
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.83% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -6.25%

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 11 August 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 11 August 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 -47 176 £86,250 +15.00% 114
North of England +50 172 £75,000 +15.38% 30
Yorkshire +20 87 £75,000 +25.00% 10
North West +8 57 £70,000 +7.69% 14
South West -64 37 £60,500 -28.82% 18
South East -19 35 £67,500 -15.63% 23
North East -31 28 £75,000 +15.38% 6
Midlands -50 25 £65,000 +52.94% 11
East Midlands -8 18 £60,000 +60.00% 6
West Midlands -54 7 £85,000 +88.89% 5
East of England -57 1 £75,000 -11.76% 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 24 (5.36%) Apache
2 22 (4.91%) Apache Spark
3 16 (3.57%) Apache Airflow
4 14 (3.13%) Confluence
5 3 (0.67%) JBoss
5 3 (0.67%) SAS
6 2 (0.45%) nginx
7 1 (0.22%) CMS
7 1 (0.22%) IIS
7 1 (0.22%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.22%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (1.79%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.22%) Infor SunSystems
1 1 (0.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 448 (100.00%) Serverless
2 447 (99.78%) AWS
3 303 (67.63%) Amazon S3
4 178 (39.73%) Amazon ECS
5 174 (38.84%) AWS CloudFormation
6 105 (23.44%) Amazon EC2
7 101 (22.54%) AWS Step Functions
8 99 (22.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 82 (18.30%) Amazon SQS
10 79 (17.63%) GitHub
11 68 (15.18%) Amazon EKS
12 54 (12.05%) Datadog
13 53 (11.83%) GitHub Actions
14 51 (11.38%) Azure
15 50 (11.16%) Amazon EventBridge
16 42 (9.38%) Amazon ECR
17 41 (9.15%) SaaS
18 40 (8.93%) Amazon OpenSearch
19 37 (8.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
20 35 (7.81%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 17 (3.79%) Network Security
2 12 (2.68%) Firewall
3 6 (1.34%) VPN
4 5 (1.12%) AMQP
4 5 (1.12%) DSL
5 4 (0.89%) DNS
5 4 (0.89%) IPv4
5 4 (0.89%) Software-Defined Networking
6 3 (0.67%) Broadband
7 2 (0.45%) 4G
7 2 (0.45%) 5G
7 2 (0.45%) VoIP
8 1 (0.22%) DHCP
8 1 (0.22%) HTTP
8 1 (0.22%) PSTN
8 1 (0.22%) SSL
8 1 (0.22%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.22%) VLAN
8 1 (0.22%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 170 (37.95%) DynamoDB
2 92 (20.54%) Amazon RDS
3 57 (12.72%) NoSQL
4 51 (11.38%) Amazon Athena
5 45 (10.04%) Amazon Redshift
6 25 (5.58%) Data Warehouse
7 22 (4.91%) PostgreSQL
8 18 (4.02%) SQL Server
9 16 (3.57%) Relational Database
10 14 (3.13%) Metadata
11 12 (2.68%) Elasticsearch
11 12 (2.68%) MySQL
12 11 (2.46%) Big Data
13 9 (2.01%) Amazon Aurora
14 8 (1.79%) Data Lake
15 7 (1.56%) MongoDB
15 7 (1.56%) Power BI
16 6 (1.34%) Amazon QuickSight
16 6 (1.34%) Azure SQL Database
16 6 (1.34%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 105 (23.44%) Jenkins
2 97 (21.65%) Git
3 67 (14.96%) GitLab
4 30 (6.70%) Maven
4 30 (6.70%) SonarQube
5 29 (6.47%) Cypress.io
6 24 (5.36%) JIRA
7 15 (3.35%) Bitbucket
8 13 (2.90%) TeamCity
9 12 (2.68%) CircleCI
10 10 (2.23%) Cucumber
11 8 (1.79%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 7 (1.56%) Postman
13 6 (1.34%) Claude Code
13 6 (1.34%) Selenium
14 4 (0.89%) Artifactory
14 4 (0.89%) Gradle
14 4 (0.89%) SpecFlow
15 3 (0.67%) git-flow
15 3 (0.67%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 103 (22.99%) Social Skills
2 95 (21.21%) Finance
3 54 (12.05%) Public Sector
4 37 (8.26%) Analytical Skills
5 36 (8.04%) Banking
6 22 (4.91%) Law
7 16 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 16 (3.57%) Marketing
8 11 (2.46%) Telecoms
9 10 (2.23%) Aviation
9 10 (2.23%) Health Technology
9 10 (2.23%) Influencing Skills
9 10 (2.23%) Retail
10 9 (2.01%) Aerospace
11 8 (1.79%) Billing
12 6 (1.34%) Advertising
12 6 (1.34%) Legal
12 6 (1.34%) Military
13 5 (1.12%) Front Office
13 5 (1.12%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 165 (36.83%) Developer
2 150 (33.48%) Senior
3 72 (16.07%) Java Developer
4 64 (14.29%) Senior Developer
5 58 (12.95%) Full-Stack Developer
6 55 (12.28%) Lead
7 54 (12.05%) AWS Engineer
8 42 (9.38%) AWS Developer
8 42 (9.38%) Data Engineer
9 36 (8.04%) DevOps Engineer
10 30 (6.70%) Software Engineer
11 24 (5.36%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
12 22 (4.91%) Platform Engineer
13 20 (4.46%) Consultant
14 19 (4.24%) Architect
14 19 (4.24%) AWS Data Engineer
14 19 (4.24%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 18 (4.02%) Senior Consultant
16 17 (3.79%) Cloud Engineer
16 17 (3.79%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 120 (26.79%) Node.js
2 92 (20.54%) AngularJS
3 86 (19.20%) React
4 70 (15.63%) Spring Boot
5 52 (11.61%) Spring
6 45 (10.04%) RESTful
7 44 (9.82%) REST
8 43 (9.60%) AWS CDK
9 39 (8.71%) Kafka
10 32 (7.14%) Gherkin
10 32 (7.14%) Jest
11 26 (5.80%) .NET
12 25 (5.58%) Swagger
13 23 (5.13%) RabbitMQ
14 22 (4.91%) JSON
15 21 (4.69%) YAML
16 18 (4.02%) OpenAPI
17 17 (3.79%) OpenTelemetry
18 15 (3.35%) gRPC
18 15 (3.35%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 116 (25.89%) Cloud Native
2 35 (7.81%) Distributed Systems
3 25 (5.58%) Onboarding
4 18 (4.02%) Enterprise Cloud
4 18 (4.02%) Greenfield Project
5 14 (3.13%) Product Ownership
6 13 (2.90%) Hybrid Cloud
7 12 (2.68%) Linux Command Line
8 11 (2.46%) Blockchain
8 11 (2.46%) Web3
9 10 (2.23%) Mobile Banking
10 8 (1.79%) Data Structures
11 7 (1.56%) NHS
12 6 (1.34%) Low-Code
12 6 (1.34%) Public Cloud
13 5 (1.12%) IoT
13 5 (1.12%) IVR
14 4 (0.89%) AI Agents
14 4 (0.89%) Enterprise Software
14 4 (0.89%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 43 (9.60%) Linux
2 14 (3.13%) Windows
3 6 (1.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.12%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.89%) CentOS
5 4 (0.89%) Debian
5 4 (0.89%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 259 (57.81%) CI/CD
2 192 (42.86%) DevOps
3 178 (39.73%) Infrastructure as Code
4 168 (37.50%) Agile
5 117 (26.12%) Mentoring
6 106 (23.66%) AI
7 103 (22.99%) Software Engineering
8 96 (21.43%) Microservices
9 88 (19.64%) Full-Stack Development
9 88 (19.64%) Problem-Solving
10 87 (19.42%) Observability
11 86 (19.20%) Containerisation
12 68 (15.18%) Test Automation
13 66 (14.73%) Continuous Improvement
14 65 (14.51%) Event-Driven
15 60 (13.39%) Analytics
16 56 (12.50%) Collaborative Culture
17 50 (11.16%) Data Modelling
17 50 (11.16%) Technical Leadership
18 49 (10.94%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 240 (53.57%) Python
2 134 (29.91%) TypeScript
3 127 (28.35%) SQL
4 126 (28.13%) Java
5 80 (17.86%) Bash
6 52 (11.61%) JavaScript
7 40 (8.93%) Groovy
8 35 (7.81%) Kotlin
9 25 (5.58%) C#
10 22 (4.91%) PHP
11 21 (4.69%) PowerShell
12 20 (4.46%) Go
13 18 (4.02%) Perl
13 18 (4.02%) Ruby
14 7 (1.56%) Scala
15 5 (1.12%) Rust
16 4 (0.89%) Shell Script
17 2 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 2 (0.45%) PL/SQL
18 1 (0.22%) C++
Qualifications
1 96 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 71 (15.85%) AWS Certification
3 58 (12.95%) SC Cleared
4 36 (8.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 31 (6.92%) DV Cleared
6 23 (5.13%) Degree
7 22 (4.91%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 18 (4.02%) ITIL Certification
9 12 (2.68%) AWS Certified Developer
10 9 (2.01%) OSCP
11 7 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
12 6 (1.34%) Master's Degree
13 5 (1.12%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 5 (1.12%) RHCE
14 4 (0.89%) CCNA
14 4 (0.89%) Cisco Certification
14 4 (0.89%) ISTQB
14 4 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
14 4 (0.89%) RHCSA
15 3 (0.67%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (6.25%) Data Quality
2 23 (5.13%) QA
3 14 (3.13%) GDPR
4 10 (2.23%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.12%) HIPAA
7 3 (0.67%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.67%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.22%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 164 (36.61%) Docker
2 6 (1.34%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.89%) Squid
3 4 (0.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.89%) VMware NSX
3 4 (0.89%) vSphere
4 3 (0.67%) Firmware
5 2 (0.45%) iptables
Systems Management
1 191 (42.63%) Terraform
2 79 (17.63%) Kubernetes
3 45 (10.04%) Ansible
4 33 (7.37%) Prometheus
5 29 (6.47%) Grafana
6 23 (5.13%) HP Fortify
7 17 (3.79%) Packer
8 8 (1.79%) Puppet
9 5 (1.12%) Argo
9 5 (1.12%) Kibana
10 4 (0.89%) ZABBIX
11 3 (0.67%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.67%) Scalr
12 2 (0.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.22%) Fluentd
13 1 (0.22%) logstash
13 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 17 (3.79%) Databricks
2 14 (3.13%) Splunk
3 13 (2.90%) Red Hat
4 11 (2.46%) Oracle
5 10 (2.23%) OpenAI
6 9 (2.01%) Google
7 8 (1.79%) Salesforce
8 7 (1.56%) AppDynamics
8 7 (1.56%) Avaya
8 7 (1.56%) Cisco
8 7 (1.56%) Dynatrace
8 7 (1.56%) Genesys
8 7 (1.56%) HubSpot
8 7 (1.56%) Microsoft
9 6 (1.34%) IBM
10 4 (0.89%) SaltStack
10 4 (0.89%) VMware
11 3 (0.67%) LexisNexis
11 3 (0.67%) PeopleSoft
11 3 (0.67%) SnapLogic