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

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 325 197 337
Rank change year-on-year -128 +140 +4
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 332 706 505
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.58% 1.53% 0.78%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.71% 4.16% 2.01%
Number of salaries quoted 232 331 437
10th Percentile £51,811 £52,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £65,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,750 £90,000 £71,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.28% +25.87% -10.63%
75th Percentile £85,313 £115,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £107,250 £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 19,418 16,981 25,146
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 34.14% 36.91% 38.66%
Number of salaries quoted 10,773 10,135 21,431
10th Percentile £28,800 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +12.07% -10.77%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £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 4 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 4 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 -124 153 £76,000 -22.05% 68
North of England +45 86 £65,000 -3.70% 32
Yorkshire +40 70 £65,000 +8.33% 17
Midlands +26 39 £55,000 - 12
South West +10 28 £62,500 -7.41% 18
East Midlands +13 23 £60,000 -14.29% 4
West Midlands +31 16 £50,000 +8.11% 8
North West +8 16 £65,000 -6.14% 14
South East -111 12 £67,500 +22.73% 21
East of England -20 6 £62,500 -13.79% 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 32 (9.64%) Apache Spark
2 25 (7.53%) Apache
3 13 (3.92%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (2.41%) WebSphere
5 6 (1.81%) Tomcat
6 5 (1.51%) WebSphere Application Server
7 4 (1.20%) Confluence
8 2 (0.60%) nginx
8 2 (0.60%) Oracle Application Server
9 1 (0.30%) JBoss
9 1 (0.30%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.30%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (1.81%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 332 (100.00%) AWS
1 332 (100.00%) Serverless
2 233 (70.18%) Amazon S3
3 116 (34.94%) AWS CloudFormation
4 83 (25.00%) AWS Step Functions
5 75 (22.59%) Amazon ECS
6 69 (20.78%) Amazon SQS
7 65 (19.58%) GitHub
8 64 (19.28%) Amazon EC2
9 63 (18.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 53 (15.96%) Amazon EKS
11 46 (13.86%) Azure
12 45 (13.55%) GitHub Actions
13 33 (9.94%) Amazon ECR
14 29 (8.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 27 (8.13%) Amazon EventBridge
16 26 (7.83%) Apigee
17 23 (6.93%) GCP
18 21 (6.33%) SaaS
19 20 (6.02%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.61%) AMQP
2 7 (2.11%) DSL
3 6 (1.81%) SSL
4 4 (1.20%) Broadband
4 4 (1.20%) Firewall
4 4 (1.20%) Network Security
5 2 (0.60%) DNS
5 2 (0.60%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.60%) VPN
6 1 (0.30%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (33.73%) DynamoDB
2 73 (21.99%) Amazon RDS
3 49 (14.76%) Amazon Redshift
4 48 (14.46%) NoSQL
5 42 (12.65%) Data Warehouse
6 39 (11.75%) PostgreSQL
7 21 (6.33%) SQL Server
8 20 (6.02%) Amazon Athena
8 20 (6.02%) Big Data
9 19 (5.72%) Data Lake
10 16 (4.82%) MongoDB
11 14 (4.22%) Hadoop
12 12 (3.61%) Elasticsearch
13 10 (3.01%) Apache Iceberg
13 10 (3.01%) Relational Database
14 9 (2.71%) MySQL
15 8 (2.41%) Apache Hive
16 7 (2.11%) DB2
17 5 (1.51%) Cloudera CDH
17 5 (1.51%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 75 (22.59%) Jenkins
2 56 (16.87%) GitLab
3 49 (14.76%) Git
4 31 (9.34%) Cypress.io
5 25 (7.53%) Maven
6 24 (7.23%) SonarQube
7 12 (3.61%) Bitbucket
8 11 (3.31%) JIRA
9 7 (2.11%) CircleCI
9 7 (2.11%) MLflow
10 5 (1.51%) git-flow
10 5 (1.51%) Vite
11 3 (0.90%) ESLint
11 3 (0.90%) 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 90 (27.11%) Social Skills
2 52 (15.66%) Finance
3 27 (8.13%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (6.93%) Tech for Good
5 20 (6.02%) Health Technology
5 20 (6.02%) Publishing
6 15 (4.52%) Influencing Skills
7 14 (4.22%) Banking
7 14 (4.22%) Organisational Skills
8 11 (3.31%) Public Sector
9 9 (2.71%) Financial Institution
10 7 (2.11%) Advertising
10 7 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.20%) Aerospace
11 4 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.90%) Billing
12 3 (0.90%) Games
12 3 (0.90%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.60%) Front Office
13 2 (0.60%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 127 (38.25%) Developer
2 80 (24.10%) Senior
3 57 (17.17%) AWS Developer
4 51 (15.36%) Lead
5 41 (12.35%) AWS Engineer
6 40 (12.05%) Software Engineer
7 37 (11.14%) Data Engineer
8 36 (10.84%) Senior Developer
9 32 (9.64%) Python Developer
9 32 (9.64%) React Developer
10 31 (9.34%) Java Developer
11 28 (8.43%) Lead Developer
12 24 (7.23%) Full-Stack Developer
13 23 (6.93%) AWS Data Engineer
14 22 (6.63%) Software Developer
15 19 (5.72%) Architect
16 17 (5.12%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 17 (5.12%) Lead Python Developer
16 17 (5.12%) Node.js Developer
17 16 (4.82%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 108 (32.53%) React
2 89 (26.81%) Node.js
3 63 (18.98%) Spring Boot
4 56 (16.87%) RESTful
5 51 (15.36%) Spring
6 49 (14.76%) AngularJS
7 44 (13.25%) AWS CDK
8 32 (9.64%) Kafka
9 31 (9.34%) Jest
10 27 (8.13%) HTML
11 26 (7.83%) RabbitMQ
12 24 (7.23%) Gherkin
13 21 (6.33%) .NET
14 20 (6.02%) CSS
15 16 (4.82%) gRPC
16 15 (4.52%) .NET Core
16 15 (4.52%) REST
17 14 (4.22%) Swagger
18 13 (3.92%) ASP.NET
18 13 (3.92%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 103 (31.02%) Cloud Native
2 19 (5.72%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (3.31%) Greenfield Project
3 11 (3.31%) Product Ownership
4 8 (2.41%) e-Learning
5 7 (2.11%) Blockchain
5 7 (2.11%) Security Posture
5 7 (2.11%) Virtual Team
5 7 (2.11%) Web3
6 6 (1.81%) Data Structures
6 6 (1.81%) Linux Command Line
6 6 (1.81%) Onboarding
6 6 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (0.90%) Animation
8 3 (0.90%) Enterprise Cloud
8 3 (0.90%) Life Science
8 3 (0.90%) Private Cloud
9 2 (0.60%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 29 (8.73%) Linux
2 12 (3.61%) Unix
3 11 (3.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (2.11%) Windows
5 5 (1.51%) CentOS
5 5 (1.51%) Debian
5 5 (1.51%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.30%) Android
6 1 (0.30%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 214 (64.46%) CI/CD
2 156 (46.99%) DevOps
3 133 (40.06%) Agile
4 125 (37.65%) Infrastructure as Code
5 94 (28.31%) Software Engineering
6 73 (21.99%) Full-Stack Development
6 73 (21.99%) Mentoring
6 73 (21.99%) Problem-Solving
7 71 (21.39%) Microservices
8 62 (18.67%) Containerisation
9 50 (15.06%) Scrum
10 48 (14.46%) Continuous Improvement
10 48 (14.46%) Data Pipeline
10 48 (14.46%) Observability
11 41 (12.35%) Continuous Integration
12 39 (11.75%) AI
13 36 (10.84%) Data Modelling
14 35 (10.54%) Data Engineering
15 34 (10.24%) Analytics
15 34 (10.24%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 175 (52.71%) Python
2 112 (33.73%) TypeScript
3 98 (29.52%) Java
4 92 (27.71%) SQL
5 77 (23.19%) JavaScript
6 41 (12.35%) Bash
7 23 (6.93%) Groovy
8 20 (6.02%) Go
9 12 (3.61%) Scala
10 9 (2.71%) C#
11 8 (2.41%) Kotlin
12 7 (2.11%) PowerShell
12 7 (2.11%) Rust
13 3 (0.90%) C++
13 3 (0.90%) PHP
14 2 (0.60%) C
14 2 (0.60%) R
15 1 (0.30%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 82 (24.70%) AWS Certification
2 46 (13.86%) Degree
3 44 (13.25%) Security Cleared
4 28 (8.43%) SC Cleared
5 25 (7.53%) AWS Certified Developer
6 24 (7.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 24 (7.23%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (4.82%) DV Cleared
7 16 (4.82%) ITIL Certification
8 15 (4.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 8 (2.41%) OSCP
10 5 (1.51%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 4 (1.20%) Master's Degree
11 4 (1.20%) SnowPro
12 3 (0.90%) IIBA
13 2 (0.60%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 1 (0.30%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 1 (0.30%) Azure Certification
14 1 (0.30%) GAWN
14 1 (0.30%) GREM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (11.45%) QA
2 20 (6.02%) Data Quality
3 15 (4.52%) GDPR
4 6 (1.81%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.51%) SLA
6 3 (0.90%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.90%) 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 (31.33%) Docker
2 8 (2.41%) HDFS
3 2 (0.60%) iptables
4 1 (0.30%) vCloud
4 1 (0.30%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.30%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 109 (32.83%) Terraform
2 76 (22.89%) Kubernetes
3 24 (7.23%) HP Fortify
4 22 (6.63%) Ansible
4 22 (6.63%) Prometheus
5 16 (4.82%) Grafana
6 7 (2.11%) Puppet
7 5 (1.51%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.90%) Kibana
8 3 (0.90%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.30%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (4.52%) Databricks
2 13 (3.92%) Oracle
3 10 (3.01%) Red Hat
4 9 (2.71%) Atlassian
5 8 (2.41%) IBM
6 7 (2.11%) Google
7 5 (1.51%) Salesforce
7 5 (1.51%) SaltStack
8 4 (1.20%) Microsoft
9 3 (0.90%) 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