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 31 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 344 297 383
Rank change year-on-year -47 +86 -17
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 411 408 588
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.49% 1.05% 0.67%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.67% 3.05% 1.95%
Number of salaries quoted 283 315 459
10th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.97% +0.67% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £97,500 £96,250
90th Percentile £107,000 £115,000 £113,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +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 24,592 13,363 30,213
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 29.57% 34.25% 34.31%
Number of salaries quoted 14,437 9,407 24,367
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £44,500 £42,500 £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% -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 31 May 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 31 May 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 -78 152 £85,000 -5.56% 46
North of England +35 146 £72,500 +11.54% 21
Yorkshire +32 109 £72,500 +20.83% 8
Midlands -10 51 £55,000 +29.41% 13
East Midlands +2 35 £55,000 - 7
North West -2 33 £75,000 - 9
South West -52 32 £62,500 +4.17% 17
South East -10 25 £82,500 +50.00% 18
West Midlands -35 16 £50,000 +17.65% 6
East of England -41 4 £62,500 -26.47% 4
North East -46 4 £50,065 -19.90% 4
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 25 (6.08%) Apache
2 22 (5.35%) Apache Spark
3 20 (4.87%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.70%) Confluence
5 3 (0.73%) JBoss
6 2 (0.49%) Oracle Application Server
7 1 (0.24%) CMS
7 1 (0.24%) IIS
7 1 (0.24%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (1.46%) Spreadsheet
2 4 (0.97%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 411 (100.00%) Serverless
2 410 (99.76%) AWS
3 294 (71.53%) Amazon S3
4 170 (41.36%) AWS CloudFormation
5 132 (32.12%) Amazon ECS
6 121 (29.44%) AWS Step Functions
7 96 (23.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 89 (21.65%) Amazon EC2
9 86 (20.92%) Amazon SQS
10 79 (19.22%) GitHub
11 62 (15.09%) GitHub Actions
12 51 (12.41%) Amazon ECR
13 49 (11.92%) Datadog
14 47 (11.44%) Amazon EKS
14 47 (11.44%) Apigee
15 41 (9.98%) Amazon EventBridge
16 37 (9.00%) Azure
17 34 (8.27%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 30 (7.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 27 (6.57%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.16%) DSL
2 11 (2.68%) Firewall
3 9 (2.19%) AMQP
4 6 (1.46%) Network Security
5 4 (0.97%) IPv4
5 4 (0.97%) Software-Defined Networking
5 4 (0.97%) VPN
6 3 (0.73%) Broadband
6 3 (0.73%) DNS
7 2 (0.49%) 4G
7 2 (0.49%) 5G
8 1 (0.24%) PSTN
8 1 (0.24%) SSL
8 1 (0.24%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 177 (43.07%) DynamoDB
2 80 (19.46%) Amazon RDS
3 60 (14.60%) NoSQL
4 45 (10.95%) Amazon Athena
5 44 (10.71%) Amazon Redshift
6 22 (5.35%) Data Warehouse
7 20 (4.87%) PostgreSQL
8 14 (3.41%) Relational Database
8 14 (3.41%) SQL Server
9 13 (3.16%) Big Data
10 11 (2.68%) MySQL
11 9 (2.19%) Data Lake
12 8 (1.95%) Power BI
13 7 (1.70%) Metadata
13 7 (1.70%) Snowflake Schema
14 6 (1.46%) Amazon Aurora
14 6 (1.46%) Apache Iceberg
14 6 (1.46%) Hadoop
15 5 (1.22%) Cloudera CDH
16 4 (0.97%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 133 (32.36%) Jenkins
2 90 (21.90%) GitLab
3 87 (21.17%) Git
4 43 (10.46%) Maven
5 41 (9.98%) SonarQube
6 40 (9.73%) Cypress.io
7 18 (4.38%) CircleCI
7 18 (4.38%) JIRA
8 10 (2.43%) Bitbucket
9 9 (2.19%) Cucumber
10 5 (1.22%) Gradle
10 5 (1.22%) Postman
11 4 (0.97%) Artifactory
11 4 (0.97%) Claude Code
11 4 (0.97%) MLflow
11 4 (0.97%) Selenium
11 4 (0.97%) SpecFlow
11 4 (0.97%) TeamCity
12 3 (0.73%) ESLint
12 3 (0.73%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 97 (23.60%) Social Skills
2 53 (12.90%) Finance
3 37 (9.00%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (7.54%) Public Sector
5 24 (5.84%) Banking
6 11 (2.68%) Advertising
7 10 (2.43%) Health Technology
8 8 (1.95%) Aerospace
9 7 (1.70%) Billing
9 7 (1.70%) Publishing
10 6 (1.46%) Tech for Good
11 5 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (1.22%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.97%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (0.73%) Law
13 3 (0.73%) Legal
13 3 (0.73%) Marketing
13 3 (0.73%) Military
14 2 (0.49%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 181 (44.04%) Developer
2 113 (27.49%) Senior
3 75 (18.25%) Java Developer
4 60 (14.60%) Senior Developer
5 57 (13.87%) AWS Developer
6 46 (11.19%) Lead
7 45 (10.95%) Full-Stack Developer
8 41 (9.98%) AWS Engineer
9 37 (9.00%) Data Engineer
10 34 (8.27%) Software Engineer
11 30 (7.30%) DevOps Engineer
12 22 (5.35%) Architect
12 22 (5.35%) Lead Developer
12 22 (5.35%) React Developer
13 20 (4.87%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 19 (4.62%) Python Developer
15 18 (4.38%) AWS Architect
15 18 (4.38%) Cloud Engineer
15 18 (4.38%) Platform Engineer
15 18 (4.38%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 126 (30.66%) Node.js
2 103 (25.06%) React
3 91 (22.14%) AngularJS
4 75 (18.25%) Spring Boot
5 51 (12.41%) RESTful
6 49 (11.92%) Spring
7 42 (10.22%) AWS CDK
8 41 (9.98%) Gherkin
9 40 (9.73%) Kafka
10 37 (9.00%) Jest
10 37 (9.00%) REST
11 32 (7.79%) RabbitMQ
12 24 (5.84%) JSON
13 22 (5.35%) gRPC
13 22 (5.35%) YAML
14 21 (5.11%) HTML
15 18 (4.38%) .NET
15 18 (4.38%) web3js
16 17 (4.14%) CSS
17 15 (3.65%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 88 (21.41%) Cloud Native
2 26 (6.33%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (4.38%) Blockchain
3 18 (4.38%) Web3
4 15 (3.65%) Greenfield Project
5 8 (1.95%) Product Ownership
6 7 (1.70%) Data Structures
7 6 (1.46%) Public Cloud
8 5 (1.22%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (1.22%) IoT
8 5 (1.22%) Linux Command Line
8 5 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (0.97%) NHS
10 3 (0.73%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (0.73%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (0.49%) Algorithms
11 2 (0.49%) Onboarding
11 2 (0.49%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 39 (9.49%) Linux
2 9 (2.19%) Windows
3 7 (1.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.22%) CentOS
4 5 (1.22%) Debian
4 5 (1.22%) Ubuntu
5 4 (0.97%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 258 (62.77%) CI/CD
2 200 (48.66%) DevOps
3 170 (41.36%) Infrastructure as Code
4 147 (35.77%) Agile
5 90 (21.90%) Software Engineering
6 88 (21.41%) Containerisation
6 88 (21.41%) Full-Stack Development
7 80 (19.46%) Microservices
8 75 (18.25%) Mentoring
9 71 (17.27%) Problem-Solving
10 70 (17.03%) Test Automation
11 61 (14.84%) Event-Driven
11 61 (14.84%) Observability
12 57 (13.87%) AI
13 53 (12.90%) Continuous Integration
14 52 (12.65%) DevSecOps
14 52 (12.65%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 50 (12.17%) Analytics
16 41 (9.98%) Data Pipeline
17 39 (9.49%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 202 (49.15%) Python
2 140 (34.06%) TypeScript
3 126 (30.66%) SQL
4 115 (27.98%) Java
5 67 (16.30%) Bash
6 64 (15.57%) JavaScript
7 49 (11.92%) Groovy
8 34 (8.27%) Go
8 34 (8.27%) Kotlin
9 18 (4.38%) PowerShell
10 13 (3.16%) Rust
11 12 (2.92%) C#
12 11 (2.68%) PHP
13 4 (0.97%) Perl
13 4 (0.97%) Scala
14 2 (0.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.49%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.49%) R
14 2 (0.49%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 68 (16.55%) Security Cleared
2 66 (16.06%) AWS Certification
3 50 (12.17%) SC Cleared
4 40 (9.73%) Degree
5 28 (6.81%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 24 (5.84%) ITIL Certification
7 20 (4.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 17 (4.14%) Computer Science Degree
8 17 (4.14%) DV Cleared
8 17 (4.14%) OSCP
9 14 (3.41%) AWS Certified Developer
10 5 (1.22%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 5 (1.22%) RHCE
11 4 (0.97%) CCNA
11 4 (0.97%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (0.97%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.97%) RHCSA
12 3 (0.73%) IIBA
12 3 (0.73%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (5.60%) Data Quality
2 22 (5.35%) QA
3 6 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.73%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.73%) GDPR
4 3 (0.73%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.24%) MiFID
5 1 (0.24%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.24%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 160 (38.93%) Docker
2 4 (0.97%) Active Directory
2 4 (0.97%) iptables
2 4 (0.97%) Squid
2 4 (0.97%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (0.97%) VMware NSX
2 4 (0.97%) vSphere
3 3 (0.73%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 163 (39.66%) Terraform
2 86 (20.92%) Kubernetes
3 46 (11.19%) Ansible
4 38 (9.25%) Prometheus
5 35 (8.52%) HP Fortify
6 25 (6.08%) Grafana
7 10 (2.43%) Packer
8 9 (2.19%) Puppet
9 5 (1.22%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.97%) ZABBIX
11 3 (0.73%) Kibana
11 3 (0.73%) Scalr
12 2 (0.49%) Argo
13 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 12 (2.92%) Oracle
2 11 (2.68%) Databricks
2 11 (2.68%) Red Hat
3 7 (1.70%) AppDynamics
3 7 (1.70%) HubSpot
3 7 (1.70%) Splunk
4 6 (1.46%) IBM
4 6 (1.46%) Salesforce
5 5 (1.22%) Google
5 5 (1.22%) Microsoft
5 5 (1.22%) SaltStack
6 4 (0.97%) VMware
7 2 (0.49%) Atlassian
7 2 (0.49%) OpenAI
7 2 (0.49%) SnapLogic
8 1 (0.24%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.24%) Informatica
8 1 (0.24%) New Relic
8 1 (0.24%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 1 (0.24%) ServiceNow