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

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 330 203 344
Rank change year-on-year -127 +141 -1
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 328 701 477
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.59% 1.49% 0.77%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.71% 4.04% 1.98%
Number of salaries quoted 230 326 412
10th Percentile £51,868 £52,500 £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 £87,188 £115,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £138,750 £112,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £85,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -17.65% +21.43% -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 19,141 17,339 24,092
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 34.28% 36.86% 39.07%
Number of salaries quoted 10,658 10,279 20,456
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 £103,750 £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 30 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 30 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 -120 153 £76,000 -22.05% 82
North of England +54 84 £65,000 -3.70% 50
Yorkshire +37 68 £65,000 +8.33% 24
Midlands +34 37 £57,500 +4.55% 30
South West +20 29 £62,500 -7.41% 38
East Midlands +6 22 £60,000 -14.29% 14
North West +17 16 £65,000 -6.14% 19
West Midlands +20 15 £50,000 +8.11% 16
South East -104 12 £67,500 +22.73% 70
East of England -14 5 £81,250 +12.07% 42
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 (9.76%) Apache Spark
2 25 (7.62%) Apache
3 13 (3.96%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (2.74%) WebSphere
5 7 (2.13%) Tomcat
6 6 (1.83%) WebSphere Application Server
7 3 (0.91%) Confluence
8 2 (0.61%) nginx
8 2 (0.61%) Oracle Application Server
9 1 (0.30%) JBoss
9 1 (0.30%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.30%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (1.83%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 328 (100.00%) AWS
1 328 (100.00%) Serverless
2 229 (69.82%) Amazon S3
3 115 (35.06%) AWS CloudFormation
4 81 (24.70%) AWS Step Functions
5 72 (21.95%) Amazon ECS
6 67 (20.43%) Amazon SQS
7 66 (20.12%) Amazon EC2
8 64 (19.51%) GitHub
9 61 (18.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 53 (16.16%) Amazon EKS
11 45 (13.72%) Azure
12 44 (13.41%) GitHub Actions
13 34 (10.37%) Amazon ECR
14 28 (8.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 26 (7.93%) Amazon EventBridge
15 26 (7.93%) Apigee
16 22 (6.71%) GCP
17 20 (6.10%) Datadog
17 20 (6.10%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.96%) AMQP
2 7 (2.13%) SSL
3 6 (1.83%) DSL
4 4 (1.22%) Broadband
4 4 (1.22%) Firewall
5 3 (0.91%) Network Security
6 2 (0.61%) DNS
6 2 (0.61%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.61%) VPN
7 1 (0.30%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (33.84%) DynamoDB
2 75 (22.87%) Amazon RDS
3 48 (14.63%) Amazon Redshift
3 48 (14.63%) NoSQL
4 42 (12.80%) Data Warehouse
5 39 (11.89%) PostgreSQL
6 22 (6.71%) SQL Server
7 20 (6.10%) Amazon Athena
7 20 (6.10%) Big Data
8 19 (5.79%) Data Lake
9 16 (4.88%) MongoDB
10 14 (4.27%) Elasticsearch
10 14 (4.27%) Hadoop
11 10 (3.05%) Apache Iceberg
11 10 (3.05%) Relational Database
12 8 (2.44%) Apache Hive
12 8 (2.44%) DB2
12 8 (2.44%) MySQL
13 5 (1.52%) Cloudera CDH
14 4 (1.22%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 75 (22.87%) Jenkins
2 55 (16.77%) GitLab
3 48 (14.63%) Git
4 31 (9.45%) Cypress.io
5 25 (7.62%) Maven
6 24 (7.32%) SonarQube
7 12 (3.66%) Bitbucket
8 10 (3.05%) JIRA
9 7 (2.13%) CircleCI
9 7 (2.13%) MLflow
10 5 (1.52%) git-flow
10 5 (1.52%) Vite
11 3 (0.91%) ESLint
11 3 (0.91%) JUnit
12 2 (0.61%) DBeaver
12 2 (0.61%) Deequ
12 2 (0.61%) Mocha
12 2 (0.61%) webpack
13 1 (0.30%) Cucumber
13 1 (0.30%) Gradle
General
1 90 (27.44%) Social Skills
2 52 (15.85%) Finance
3 26 (7.93%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (7.62%) Tech for Good
5 22 (6.71%) Health Technology
5 22 (6.71%) Publishing
6 15 (4.57%) Banking
6 15 (4.57%) Influencing Skills
7 14 (4.27%) Organisational Skills
8 11 (3.35%) Public Sector
9 9 (2.74%) Financial Institution
10 7 (2.13%) Advertising
10 7 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.22%) Aerospace
11 4 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.91%) Billing
12 3 (0.91%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.61%) Front Office
13 2 (0.61%) Games
13 2 (0.61%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 126 (38.41%) Developer
2 79 (24.09%) Senior
3 58 (17.68%) AWS Developer
4 50 (15.24%) Lead
5 40 (12.20%) AWS Engineer
6 39 (11.89%) Software Engineer
7 36 (10.98%) Data Engineer
7 36 (10.98%) Senior Developer
8 34 (10.37%) Python Developer
9 33 (10.06%) React Developer
10 31 (9.45%) Java Developer
11 28 (8.54%) Lead Developer
12 23 (7.01%) AWS Data Engineer
12 23 (7.01%) Software Developer
13 22 (6.71%) Full-Stack Developer
14 18 (5.49%) Architect
15 17 (5.18%) Lead Python Developer
15 17 (5.18%) Node.js Developer
16 16 (4.88%) DevOps Engineer
16 16 (4.88%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (32.62%) React
2 86 (26.22%) Node.js
3 62 (18.90%) Spring Boot
4 57 (17.38%) RESTful
5 50 (15.24%) Spring
6 48 (14.63%) AngularJS
7 42 (12.80%) AWS CDK
8 32 (9.76%) Kafka
9 31 (9.45%) Jest
10 27 (8.23%) RabbitMQ
11 26 (7.93%) HTML
12 24 (7.32%) Gherkin
13 21 (6.40%) .NET
14 19 (5.79%) CSS
15 16 (4.88%) gRPC
15 16 (4.88%) Swagger
16 15 (4.57%) .NET Core
17 14 (4.27%) REST
18 13 (3.96%) ASP.NET
18 13 (3.96%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 102 (31.10%) Cloud Native
2 18 (5.49%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (3.35%) Greenfield Project
4 10 (3.05%) Product Ownership
5 8 (2.44%) e-Learning
5 8 (2.44%) Linux Command Line
6 7 (2.13%) Blockchain
6 7 (2.13%) Security Posture
6 7 (2.13%) Virtual Team
6 7 (2.13%) Web3
7 6 (1.83%) Data Structures
7 6 (1.83%) Onboarding
7 6 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (0.91%) Animation
9 3 (0.91%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (0.91%) Life Science
9 3 (0.91%) Private Cloud
10 2 (0.61%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 31 (9.45%) Linux
2 13 (3.96%) Unix
3 12 (3.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (2.44%) Windows
5 5 (1.52%) CentOS
5 5 (1.52%) Debian
5 5 (1.52%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.30%) Android
6 1 (0.30%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 211 (64.33%) CI/CD
2 156 (47.56%) DevOps
3 133 (40.55%) Agile
4 122 (37.20%) Infrastructure as Code
5 91 (27.74%) Software Engineering
6 72 (21.95%) Mentoring
6 72 (21.95%) Problem-Solving
7 70 (21.34%) Full-Stack Development
8 69 (21.04%) Microservices
9 62 (18.90%) Containerisation
10 52 (15.85%) Scrum
11 47 (14.33%) Continuous Improvement
11 47 (14.33%) Data Pipeline
12 46 (14.02%) Observability
13 40 (12.20%) Continuous Integration
14 38 (11.59%) AI
15 35 (10.67%) Data Modelling
16 34 (10.37%) Analytics
16 34 (10.37%) Data Engineering
17 33 (10.06%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 174 (53.05%) Python
2 111 (33.84%) TypeScript
3 98 (29.88%) Java
4 91 (27.74%) SQL
5 75 (22.87%) JavaScript
6 40 (12.20%) Bash
7 23 (7.01%) Groovy
8 20 (6.10%) Go
9 12 (3.66%) Scala
10 9 (2.74%) C#
11 8 (2.44%) Kotlin
12 7 (2.13%) PowerShell
13 6 (1.83%) Rust
14 3 (0.91%) C++
15 2 (0.61%) C
15 2 (0.61%) PHP
15 2 (0.61%) Shell Script
16 1 (0.30%) R
Qualifications
1 82 (25.00%) AWS Certification
2 45 (13.72%) Security Cleared
3 44 (13.41%) Degree
4 29 (8.84%) SC Cleared
5 25 (7.62%) AWS Certified Developer
6 23 (7.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 23 (7.01%) Computer Science Degree
7 17 (5.18%) DV Cleared
7 17 (5.18%) ITIL Certification
8 15 (4.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 7 (2.13%) OSCP
10 4 (1.22%) Master's Degree
10 4 (1.22%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 4 (1.22%) SnowPro
11 3 (0.91%) IIBA
12 2 (0.61%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 1 (0.30%) Azure Certification
13 1 (0.30%) GAWN
13 1 (0.30%) GIAC
13 1 (0.30%) GREM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (12.20%) QA
2 20 (6.10%) Data Quality
3 14 (4.27%) GDPR
4 6 (1.83%) Accessibility
4 6 (1.83%) SLA
5 5 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.91%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.91%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.30%) GAAP
7 1 (0.30%) IFRS
7 1 (0.30%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.30%) MiFID
7 1 (0.30%) NIST
7 1 (0.30%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 104 (31.71%) Docker
2 8 (2.44%) HDFS
3 2 (0.61%) iptables
4 1 (0.30%) vCloud
4 1 (0.30%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.30%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 106 (32.32%) Terraform
2 76 (23.17%) Kubernetes
3 24 (7.32%) HP Fortify
4 23 (7.01%) Ansible
4 23 (7.01%) Prometheus
5 17 (5.18%) Grafana
6 7 (2.13%) Puppet
7 6 (1.83%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.91%) Kibana
8 3 (0.91%) Kubeflow
9 2 (0.61%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (4.57%) Databricks
2 13 (3.96%) Oracle
3 11 (3.35%) Red Hat
4 9 (2.74%) Atlassian
4 9 (2.74%) IBM
5 7 (2.13%) Google
6 5 (1.52%) Salesforce
6 5 (1.52%) SaltStack
7 3 (0.91%) Microsoft
7 3 (0.91%) OpenAI
8 2 (0.61%) Informatica
9 1 (0.30%) Apple
9 1 (0.30%) Cisco
9 1 (0.30%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.30%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.30%) StreamSets
9 1 (0.30%) VMware
9 1 (0.30%) YouTube