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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 346 403 356
Rank change year-on-year +57 -47 -157
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 341 400 451
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.79% 0.58% 0.84%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.42% 1.82% 1.96%
Number of salaries quoted 242 215 383
10th Percentile £51,275 £52,500 £52,100
25th Percentile £62,125 £62,000 £60,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,250 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +3.45% -9.38%
75th Percentile £87,500 £96,250 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £74,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -1.33% +7.14% -12.50%

All Cloud 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 14,080 21,974 23,038
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 32.58% 31.84% 42.72%
Number of salaries quoted 9,839 14,296 19,196
10th Percentile £29,750 £35,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £39,376 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.51% -2.31% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £102,500 £105,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -

AWS Lambda
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing AWS Lambda as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Lambda 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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 2025. 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 +20 188 £75,000 -16.67% 110
North of England +23 55 £65,000 - 40
North West +13 29 £65,000 - 22
East of England +13 28 £85,000 +38.78% 9
South West +72 27 £78,750 +5.00% 17
Yorkshire +27 25 £67,750 +8.40% 14
Midlands +29 20 £42,500 -39.29% 4
West Midlands +35 19 £47,500 -34.48% 2
South East +41 14 £80,000 -9.09% 43
East Midlands +22 1 £37,500 -46.43% 2
North East +19 1 £72,500 +3.57% 5
AWS Lambda
UK

AWS Lambda
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 21 (6.16%) Apache Spark
2 20 (5.87%) Apache
3 11 (3.23%) Confluence
3 11 (3.23%) Headless CMS
4 6 (1.76%) WebSphere
5 5 (1.47%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.47%) Tomcat
6 4 (1.17%) WebSphere Application Server
7 3 (0.88%) CMS
8 1 (0.29%) JBoss
8 1 (0.29%) Mule
8 1 (0.29%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.29%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.29%) Strapi
Applications
1 4 (1.17%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (0.59%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (2.64%) Shopify
2 5 (1.47%) Payment Gateway
2 5 (1.47%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 341 (100.00%) AWS
1 341 (100.00%) Serverless
2 171 (50.15%) Amazon S3
3 100 (29.33%) Amazon EC2
4 74 (21.70%) Amazon ECS
5 65 (19.06%) AWS CloudFormation
6 63 (18.48%) AWS Step Functions
7 54 (15.84%) Azure
8 53 (15.54%) Amazon SQS
9 46 (13.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 46 (13.49%) Amazon EKS
10 40 (11.73%) GitHub
11 38 (11.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 31 (9.09%) Amazon SageMaker
13 27 (7.92%) SaaS
14 24 (7.04%) GitHub Actions
15 23 (6.74%) Amazon EventBridge
16 22 (6.45%) Amazon Kinesis
17 21 (6.16%) Snowflake
18 17 (4.99%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.23%) SSL
2 10 (2.93%) Firewall
3 9 (2.64%) Broadband
3 9 (2.64%) VPN
4 7 (2.05%) Network Security
5 5 (1.47%) DNS
6 3 (0.88%) AMQP
6 3 (0.88%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.59%) IPv4
7 2 (0.59%) SSH
8 1 (0.29%) iSCSI
8 1 (0.29%) NAS
8 1 (0.29%) OSPF
8 1 (0.29%) SAN
8 1 (0.29%) VLAN
8 1 (0.29%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (34.02%) DynamoDB
2 75 (21.99%) Amazon RDS
3 45 (13.20%) Amazon Redshift
4 38 (11.14%) Elasticsearch
5 34 (9.97%) Data Warehouse
6 31 (9.09%) Big Data
7 28 (8.21%) PostgreSQL
8 25 (7.33%) Amazon Athena
9 23 (6.74%) Data Lake
9 23 (6.74%) NoSQL
10 13 (3.81%) Amazon Aurora
11 11 (3.23%) MongoDB
12 9 (2.64%) Relational Database
13 7 (2.05%) MySQL
14 6 (1.76%) Apache Iceberg
14 6 (1.76%) DB2
14 6 (1.76%) Hadoop
14 6 (1.76%) SQL Server
15 5 (1.47%) Apache Hive
16 4 (1.17%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 54 (15.84%) Jenkins
2 34 (9.97%) Git
3 23 (6.74%) GitLab
3 23 (6.74%) JIRA
4 14 (4.11%) Cypress.io
5 9 (2.64%) Bitbucket
6 8 (2.35%) Selenium
7 7 (2.05%) JUnit
7 7 (2.05%) Locust
8 6 (1.76%) Cucumber
9 5 (1.47%) IntelliJ
9 5 (1.47%) Maven
9 5 (1.47%) Mockito
9 5 (1.47%) Vite
10 4 (1.17%) Bitbucket Server
10 4 (1.17%) CircleCI
10 4 (1.17%) Spinnaker
11 3 (0.88%) Jasmine
11 3 (0.88%) Karma Test Runner
11 3 (0.88%) Vagrant
General
1 99 (29.03%) Finance
2 93 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 37 (10.85%) Law
3 37 (10.85%) Public Sector
3 37 (10.85%) Tech for Good
4 31 (9.09%) Publishing
5 30 (8.80%) Health Technology
6 29 (8.50%) Marketing
7 22 (6.45%) Banking
8 21 (6.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 18 (5.28%) Analytical Skills
10 15 (4.40%) Retail
11 13 (3.81%) Games
12 10 (2.93%) Telecoms
13 8 (2.35%) Financial Institution
13 8 (2.35%) Manufacturing
14 7 (2.05%) Electronics
15 6 (1.76%) Advertising
16 5 (1.47%) Investment Banking
16 5 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 136 (39.88%) Senior
2 111 (32.55%) Developer
3 74 (21.70%) Senior Developer
4 46 (13.49%) Lead
5 43 (12.61%) Data Engineer
6 42 (12.32%) Python Developer
7 39 (11.44%) AWS Engineer
8 34 (9.97%) AWS Developer
8 34 (9.97%) Software Engineer
9 31 (9.09%) Senior Python Developer
10 22 (6.45%) Applications Support
10 22 (6.45%) Java Developer
10 22 (6.45%) Senior Data Engineer
11 21 (6.16%) Applications Engineer
12 20 (5.87%) Architect
13 19 (5.57%) AWS Data Engineer
13 19 (5.57%) Senior Java Developer
14 18 (5.28%) Applications Support Engineer
14 18 (5.28%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 18 (5.28%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (26.98%) React
2 68 (19.94%) RESTful
3 36 (10.56%) Node.js
3 36 (10.56%) Spring
4 35 (10.26%) Kafka
5 29 (8.50%) Spring Boot
6 28 (8.21%) Swagger
7 25 (7.33%) GraphQL
8 23 (6.74%) .NET
9 21 (6.16%) OAuth
10 20 (5.87%) Next.js
11 19 (5.57%) HTML
12 18 (5.28%) CSS
12 18 (5.28%) JWT
12 18 (5.28%) REST
13 17 (4.99%) AngularJS
14 16 (4.69%) Jest
15 15 (4.40%) Playwright
16 14 (4.11%) AWS CDK
17 13 (3.81%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 67 (19.65%) Cloud Native
2 13 (3.81%) e-Learning
2 13 (3.81%) Management Information System
3 11 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (2.93%) Virtual Team
5 9 (2.64%) Greenfield Project
6 8 (2.35%) Linux Command Line
6 8 (2.35%) Public Cloud
7 7 (2.05%) Mobile App
8 6 (1.76%) Product Ownership
9 5 (1.47%) AI Agents
9 5 (1.47%) CMDB
9 5 (1.47%) Credit Derivative
9 5 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.47%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (1.17%) Blockchain
10 4 (1.17%) Data Structures
10 4 (1.17%) Enterprise Cloud
10 4 (1.17%) Web3
11 3 (0.88%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 36 (10.56%) Linux
2 10 (2.93%) Windows
3 8 (2.35%) Unix
4 5 (1.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.47%) Ubuntu
5 3 (0.88%) VMS
6 1 (0.29%) Android
6 1 (0.29%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 169 (49.56%) CI/CD
2 137 (40.18%) Agile
3 133 (39.00%) DevOps
4 98 (28.74%) Software Engineering
5 94 (27.57%) Problem-Solving
6 87 (25.51%) Infrastructure as Code
7 70 (20.53%) Analytics
8 69 (20.23%) Mentoring
9 66 (19.35%) Containerisation
10 60 (17.60%) Data Science
11 58 (17.01%) TDD
12 54 (15.84%) Continuous Improvement
13 53 (15.54%) Microservices
13 53 (15.54%) Scrum
14 51 (14.96%) Pair Programming
15 48 (14.08%) Artificial Intelligence
15 48 (14.08%) Data Pipeline
16 46 (13.49%) ETL
17 43 (12.61%) Test Automation
18 41 (12.02%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 209 (61.29%) Python
2 115 (33.72%) Java
3 100 (29.33%) TypeScript
4 92 (26.98%) SQL
5 55 (16.13%) JavaScript
6 26 (7.62%) C#
7 22 (6.45%) Bash
8 15 (4.40%) Go
9 14 (4.11%) Scala
10 10 (2.93%) PowerShell
11 7 (2.05%) Shell Script
12 5 (1.47%) C++
13 4 (1.17%) Groovy
13 4 (1.17%) R
13 4 (1.17%) Rust
14 3 (0.88%) Perl
14 3 (0.88%) PHP
14 3 (0.88%) Ruby
15 1 (0.29%) C
15 1 (0.29%) XQuery
Qualifications
1 59 (17.30%) AWS Certification
2 50 (14.66%) Security Cleared
3 40 (11.73%) Degree
4 28 (8.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 26 (7.62%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (5.57%) SC Cleared
7 14 (4.11%) DV Cleared
8 13 (3.81%) AWS Certified Developer
9 7 (2.05%) SnowPro
10 6 (1.76%) Master's Degree
11 4 (1.17%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 2 (0.59%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 2 (0.59%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.59%) PhD
12 2 (0.59%) TOGAF Certification
13 1 (0.29%) Azure Certification
13 1 (0.29%) CCNA
13 1 (0.29%) CCSK
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (13.78%) QA
2 25 (7.33%) GDPR
3 21 (6.16%) PCI DSS
4 14 (4.11%) Data Quality
4 14 (4.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 13 (3.81%) Accessibility
6 12 (3.52%) NIST
7 11 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 10 (2.93%) SLA
9 9 (2.64%) HIPAA
10 7 (2.05%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.29%) CDISC
11 1 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.29%) DICOM
11 1 (0.29%) GAAP
11 1 (0.29%) HL7
11 1 (0.29%) IFRS
11 1 (0.29%) IFRS 17
11 1 (0.29%) NCSC
11 1 (0.29%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 83 (24.34%) Docker
2 6 (1.76%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.76%) Virtual Desktop
3 5 (1.47%) HDFS
4 4 (1.17%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.59%) Firmware
6 1 (0.29%) iptables
6 1 (0.29%) vCloud
6 1 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.29%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.29%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 98 (28.74%) Terraform
2 74 (21.70%) Kubernetes
3 32 (9.38%) Prometheus
4 27 (7.92%) Ansible
5 26 (7.62%) Grafana
6 10 (2.93%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (1.47%) Progress Chef
8 4 (1.17%) Kibana
8 4 (1.17%) Nessus
8 4 (1.17%) Proxmox
9 3 (0.88%) Docker Swarm
9 3 (0.88%) Nagios
9 3 (0.88%) Puppet
10 2 (0.59%) Argo
10 2 (0.59%) logstash
11 1 (0.29%) Bugsnag
11 1 (0.29%) Podman
11 1 (0.29%) Red Hat Satellite
11 1 (0.29%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 23 (6.74%) Oracle
2 20 (5.87%) Microsoft
2 20 (5.87%) ServiceNow
3 19 (5.57%) Databricks
4 15 (4.40%) Informatica
5 14 (4.11%) MuleSoft
5 14 (4.11%) Salesforce
6 13 (3.81%) IBM
7 12 (3.52%) Google
8 11 (3.23%) Splunk
9 9 (2.64%) Apple
10 8 (2.35%) OpenAI
11 6 (1.76%) SAP
12 5 (1.47%) Red Hat
12 5 (1.47%) SimCorp
13 4 (1.17%) Atlassian
13 4 (1.17%) Juniper
14 3 (0.88%) StreamSets
15 2 (0.59%) Genesys
15 2 (0.59%) VMware