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 17 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 352 294 388
Rank change year-on-year -58 +94 -22
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 415 396 571
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.50% 1.00% 0.60%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.84% 2.92% 1.83%
Number of salaries quoted 293 301 437
10th Percentile £50,000 £50,750 £50,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £87,500 £96,250 £96,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £115,000 £113,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
% 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 22,521 13,539 31,136
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 27.06% 34.23% 32.83%
Number of salaries quoted 14,956 9,587 24,756
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,625 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -9.45%

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 17 June 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 17 June 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
North of England +46 148 £75,000 +15.38% 61
London -83 148 £85,000 -2.86% 78
Yorkshire +27 102 £75,000 +25.00% 20
Midlands +5 52 £55,000 +29.41% 30
North West +1 38 £72,500 +3.57% 32
South West -44 37 £62,500 +4.17% 37
East Midlands +2 36 £55,000 +18.92% 16
South East -13 25 £82,500 +50.00% 51
West Midlands -23 16 £50,000 +17.65% 14
North East -43 8 £68,750 +10.00% 9
East of England -37 4 £62,500 -26.47% 32
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 26 (6.27%) Apache
2 23 (5.54%) Apache Spark
3 19 (4.58%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (2.17%) Confluence
5 3 (0.72%) JBoss
6 2 (0.48%) Oracle Application Server
7 1 (0.24%) CMS
7 1 (0.24%) IIS
7 1 (0.24%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (1.45%) Spreadsheet
2 4 (0.96%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 415 (100.00%) Serverless
2 414 (99.76%) AWS
3 296 (71.33%) Amazon S3
4 166 (40.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 142 (34.22%) Amazon ECS
6 117 (28.19%) AWS Step Functions
7 100 (24.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 94 (22.65%) Amazon EC2
9 82 (19.76%) Amazon SQS
10 77 (18.55%) GitHub
11 54 (13.01%) GitHub Actions
12 53 (12.77%) Amazon EKS
13 50 (12.05%) Datadog
14 47 (11.33%) Amazon ECR
15 42 (10.12%) Apigee
16 41 (9.88%) Amazon EventBridge
17 40 (9.64%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 38 (9.16%) Azure
19 30 (7.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
20 25 (6.02%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.13%) Firewall
2 12 (2.89%) DSL
3 9 (2.17%) AMQP
4 6 (1.45%) Network Security
5 5 (1.20%) VPN
6 4 (0.96%) DNS
6 4 (0.96%) IPv4
6 4 (0.96%) Software-Defined Networking
7 3 (0.72%) Broadband
8 2 (0.48%) 4G
8 2 (0.48%) 5G
8 2 (0.48%) VoIP
9 1 (0.24%) DHCP
9 1 (0.24%) PSTN
9 1 (0.24%) SSL
9 1 (0.24%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.24%) VLAN
9 1 (0.24%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 176 (42.41%) DynamoDB
2 84 (20.24%) Amazon RDS
3 60 (14.46%) NoSQL
4 49 (11.81%) Amazon Athena
5 44 (10.60%) Amazon Redshift
6 22 (5.30%) Data Warehouse
7 18 (4.34%) PostgreSQL
8 13 (3.13%) Big Data
8 13 (3.13%) Relational Database
9 12 (2.89%) SQL Server
10 10 (2.41%) MySQL
11 8 (1.93%) Power BI
12 7 (1.69%) Data Lake
12 7 (1.69%) Hadoop
12 7 (1.69%) Metadata
12 7 (1.69%) Snowflake Schema
13 6 (1.45%) Amazon Aurora
13 6 (1.45%) Cloudera CDH
13 6 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
14 5 (1.20%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 131 (31.57%) Jenkins
2 87 (20.96%) Git
3 85 (20.48%) GitLab
4 38 (9.16%) Maven
5 36 (8.67%) SonarQube
6 35 (8.43%) Cypress.io
7 20 (4.82%) JIRA
8 18 (4.34%) CircleCI
9 12 (2.89%) Bitbucket
10 9 (2.17%) Cucumber
10 9 (2.17%) TeamCity
11 6 (1.45%) Postman
12 5 (1.20%) Gradle
12 5 (1.20%) Selenium
13 4 (0.96%) Artifactory
13 4 (0.96%) Claude Code
13 4 (0.96%) MLflow
13 4 (0.96%) SpecFlow
14 3 (0.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 3 (0.72%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 99 (23.86%) Social Skills
2 57 (13.73%) Finance
3 40 (9.64%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (8.19%) Public Sector
5 25 (6.02%) Banking
6 12 (2.89%) Advertising
7 9 (2.17%) Aerospace
8 8 (1.93%) Health Technology
9 7 (1.69%) Billing
10 6 (1.45%) Telecoms
11 5 (1.20%) Investment Banking
11 5 (1.20%) Publishing
12 4 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (0.96%) Tech for Good
13 3 (0.72%) Law
13 3 (0.72%) Legal
13 3 (0.72%) Marketing
13 3 (0.72%) Military
14 2 (0.48%) Games
Job Titles
1 178 (42.89%) Developer
2 123 (29.64%) Senior
3 80 (19.28%) Java Developer
4 65 (15.66%) Senior Developer
5 53 (12.77%) Full-Stack Developer
6 50 (12.05%) AWS Developer
7 44 (10.60%) AWS Engineer
8 43 (10.36%) Lead
9 37 (8.92%) Data Engineer
10 34 (8.19%) Software Engineer
11 32 (7.71%) DevOps Engineer
12 24 (5.78%) Platform Engineer
13 22 (5.30%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 21 (5.06%) Architect
14 21 (5.06%) React Developer
15 20 (4.82%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
16 19 (4.58%) Lead Developer
17 18 (4.34%) Cloud Engineer
17 18 (4.34%) Python Developer
18 17 (4.10%) AWS Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 131 (31.57%) Node.js
2 105 (25.30%) React
3 95 (22.89%) AngularJS
4 76 (18.31%) Spring Boot
5 52 (12.53%) Spring
6 46 (11.08%) RESTful
7 42 (10.12%) Kafka
8 38 (9.16%) Gherkin
9 37 (8.92%) AWS CDK
10 35 (8.43%) REST
11 33 (7.95%) Jest
12 32 (7.71%) RabbitMQ
13 23 (5.54%) gRPC
13 23 (5.54%) JSON
14 22 (5.30%) YAML
15 21 (5.06%) HTML
16 19 (4.58%) Swagger
17 18 (4.34%) web3js
18 17 (4.10%) CSS
19 16 (3.86%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 94 (22.65%) Cloud Native
2 30 (7.23%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (4.34%) Blockchain
3 18 (4.34%) Web3
4 16 (3.86%) Greenfield Project
5 9 (2.17%) Data Structures
5 9 (2.17%) Product Ownership
6 6 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (1.45%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (1.45%) Public Cloud
7 5 (1.20%) IoT
7 5 (1.20%) Linux Command Line
7 5 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (0.96%) NHS
9 3 (0.72%) Algorithms
9 3 (0.72%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (0.48%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.48%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.48%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 46 (11.08%) Linux
2 11 (2.65%) Windows
3 8 (1.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (1.45%) CentOS
4 6 (1.45%) Debian
4 6 (1.45%) Ubuntu
5 4 (0.96%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 258 (62.17%) CI/CD
2 195 (46.99%) DevOps
3 171 (41.20%) Infrastructure as Code
4 148 (35.66%) Agile
5 97 (23.37%) Full-Stack Development
6 91 (21.93%) Software Engineering
7 87 (20.96%) Containerisation
8 79 (19.04%) Mentoring
9 78 (18.80%) Microservices
10 74 (17.83%) Test Automation
11 70 (16.87%) Problem-Solving
12 66 (15.90%) Observability
13 63 (15.18%) Event-Driven
14 59 (14.22%) AI
15 54 (13.01%) Continuous Integration
16 52 (12.53%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 51 (12.29%) Analytics
18 48 (11.57%) DevSecOps
19 43 (10.36%) Platform Engineering
20 42 (10.12%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 210 (50.60%) Python
2 138 (33.25%) TypeScript
3 125 (30.12%) SQL
4 118 (28.43%) Java
5 68 (16.39%) Bash
6 61 (14.70%) JavaScript
7 46 (11.08%) Groovy
8 37 (8.92%) Kotlin
9 33 (7.95%) Go
10 21 (5.06%) PowerShell
11 14 (3.37%) C#
12 12 (2.89%) Rust
13 9 (2.17%) PHP
14 6 (1.45%) Scala
15 4 (0.96%) Perl
16 2 (0.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 2 (0.48%) PL/SQL
16 2 (0.48%) R
16 2 (0.48%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 70 (16.87%) Security Cleared
2 60 (14.46%) AWS Certification
3 49 (11.81%) SC Cleared
4 40 (9.64%) Degree
5 27 (6.51%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 23 (5.54%) DV Cleared
6 23 (5.54%) ITIL Certification
7 18 (4.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 16 (3.86%) OSCP
9 15 (3.61%) Computer Science Degree
10 9 (2.17%) AWS Certified Developer
11 5 (1.20%) RHCE
12 4 (0.96%) CCNA
12 4 (0.96%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (0.96%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.96%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 4 (0.96%) RHCSA
13 3 (0.72%) Master's Degree
13 3 (0.72%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (5.30%) Data Quality
2 20 (4.82%) QA
3 6 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (0.96%) Accessibility
4 4 (0.96%) GDPR
5 3 (0.72%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.24%) MiFID
6 1 (0.24%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.24%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 159 (38.31%) Docker
2 4 (0.96%) Active Directory
2 4 (0.96%) iptables
2 4 (0.96%) Squid
2 4 (0.96%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (0.96%) VMware NSX
2 4 (0.96%) vSphere
3 3 (0.72%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 165 (39.76%) Terraform
2 88 (21.20%) Kubernetes
3 51 (12.29%) Ansible
4 39 (9.40%) Prometheus
5 30 (7.23%) HP Fortify
6 26 (6.27%) Grafana
7 15 (3.61%) Packer
8 10 (2.41%) Puppet
9 5 (1.20%) Argo
9 5 (1.20%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.96%) ZABBIX
11 3 (0.72%) Kibana
11 3 (0.72%) Scalr
12 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 12 (2.89%) Oracle
1 12 (2.89%) Red Hat
2 10 (2.41%) Databricks
2 10 (2.41%) Splunk
3 7 (1.69%) AppDynamics
3 7 (1.69%) HubSpot
4 6 (1.45%) Google
4 6 (1.45%) IBM
4 6 (1.45%) SaltStack
5 5 (1.20%) Microsoft
6 4 (0.96%) VMware
7 3 (0.72%) Dynatrace
7 3 (0.72%) OpenAI
8 2 (0.48%) Atlassian
8 2 (0.48%) SnapLogic
9 1 (0.24%) Apple
9 1 (0.24%) New Relic
9 1 (0.24%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.24%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 1 (0.24%) ServiceNow