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 9 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 335 187 341
Rank change year-on-year -148 +154 +32
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 345 672 563
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.54% 1.70% 0.76%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.65% 4.48% 2.03%
Number of salaries quoted 241 352 485
10th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £62,188 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £88,750 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.31% +22.41% -6.45%
75th Percentile £86,250 £115,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £138,750 £114,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £80,000 £71,500
% change year-on-year -12.50% +11.89% -4.67%

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 20,950 14,997 27,712
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 32.86% 37.88% 37.64%
Number of salaries quoted 11,526 10,190 23,303
10th Percentile £29,500 £32,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +9.57% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -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 9 March 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 9 March 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 -125 144 £78,750 -25.00% 102
North of England +41 106 £68,750 +10.00% 47
Yorkshire +33 89 £66,250 +15.22% 17
Midlands 0 42 £55,000 - 25
South West -15 30 £62,500 +6.38% 37
East Midlands -8 25 £60,000 -4.00% 12
West Midlands +2 17 £50,000 -2.44% 13
North West -14 17 £70,000 -2.95% 26
South East -139 13 £67,500 +22.73% 66
East of England -43 4 £62,500 -9.09% 27
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 31 (8.99%) Apache
2 29 (8.41%) Apache Spark
3 21 (6.09%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.45%) Confluence
5 4 (1.16%) Tomcat
5 4 (1.16%) WebSphere
6 3 (0.87%) JBoss
6 3 (0.87%) WebSphere Application Server
7 2 (0.58%) nginx
7 2 (0.58%) Oracle Application Server
8 1 (0.29%) SAS
8 1 (0.29%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (1.74%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (0.58%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 345 (100.00%) AWS
1 345 (100.00%) Serverless
2 255 (73.91%) Amazon S3
3 136 (39.42%) AWS CloudFormation
4 95 (27.54%) AWS Step Functions
5 88 (25.51%) Amazon ECS
6 77 (22.32%) GitHub
7 75 (21.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 74 (21.45%) Amazon SQS
9 68 (19.71%) Amazon EC2
10 53 (15.36%) GitHub Actions
11 48 (13.91%) Amazon EKS
12 41 (11.88%) Amazon ECR
12 41 (11.88%) Azure
13 34 (9.86%) Apigee
14 29 (8.41%) Amazon EventBridge
15 25 (7.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 24 (6.96%) Datadog
16 24 (6.96%) GCP
17 23 (6.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.48%) DSL
2 11 (3.19%) AMQP
3 6 (1.74%) Network Security
4 4 (1.16%) Broadband
4 4 (1.16%) Firewall
4 4 (1.16%) SSL
5 1 (0.29%) 4G
5 1 (0.29%) 5G
5 1 (0.29%) DNS
5 1 (0.29%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 123 (35.65%) DynamoDB
2 72 (20.87%) Amazon RDS
3 57 (16.52%) NoSQL
4 48 (13.91%) Amazon Redshift
5 37 (10.72%) Data Warehouse
6 35 (10.14%) PostgreSQL
7 27 (7.83%) Amazon Athena
8 20 (5.80%) SQL Server
9 16 (4.64%) Data Lake
10 15 (4.35%) Big Data
11 13 (3.77%) MongoDB
12 11 (3.19%) Apache Iceberg
12 11 (3.19%) Relational Database
13 10 (2.90%) Hadoop
13 10 (2.90%) MySQL
14 8 (2.32%) Metadata
15 7 (2.03%) Amazon Aurora
16 6 (1.74%) Snowflake Schema
17 5 (1.45%) DB2
17 5 (1.45%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 94 (27.25%) Jenkins
2 73 (21.16%) GitLab
3 51 (14.78%) Git
4 35 (10.14%) Cypress.io
5 33 (9.57%) Maven
6 32 (9.28%) SonarQube
7 11 (3.19%) CircleCI
8 10 (2.90%) JIRA
9 9 (2.61%) Bitbucket
10 7 (2.03%) MLflow
11 5 (1.45%) git-flow
12 3 (0.87%) Cucumber
12 3 (0.87%) ESLint
12 3 (0.87%) JUnit
12 3 (0.87%) Selenium
12 3 (0.87%) webpack
13 2 (0.58%) DBeaver
13 2 (0.58%) Deequ
13 2 (0.58%) Mocha
14 1 (0.29%) Vite
General
1 98 (28.41%) Social Skills
2 47 (13.62%) Finance
3 35 (10.14%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (4.93%) Banking
4 17 (4.93%) Tech for Good
5 16 (4.64%) Health Technology
6 15 (4.35%) Influencing Skills
6 15 (4.35%) Public Sector
6 15 (4.35%) Publishing
7 14 (4.06%) Organisational Skills
8 9 (2.61%) Advertising
9 6 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.45%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.16%) Aerospace
11 4 (1.16%) Billing
12 3 (0.87%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.87%) Law
12 3 (0.87%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.87%) Military
13 2 (0.58%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 143 (41.45%) Developer
2 81 (23.48%) Senior
3 57 (16.52%) AWS Developer
4 48 (13.91%) Java Developer
5 46 (13.33%) Lead
6 41 (11.88%) AWS Engineer
7 39 (11.30%) Senior Developer
8 38 (11.01%) Data Engineer
9 36 (10.43%) Software Engineer
10 31 (8.99%) React Developer
11 30 (8.70%) Full-Stack Developer
12 28 (8.12%) Lead Developer
12 28 (8.12%) Python Developer
13 24 (6.96%) AWS Data Engineer
14 23 (6.67%) Architect
15 20 (5.80%) Software Developer
16 17 (4.93%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 17 (4.93%) Lead Python Developer
16 17 (4.93%) Node.js Developer
17 16 (4.64%) AWS Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (29.28%) React
2 97 (28.12%) Node.js
3 68 (19.71%) Spring Boot
4 61 (17.68%) AngularJS
5 54 (15.65%) RESTful
6 48 (13.91%) AWS CDK
6 48 (13.91%) Spring
7 35 (10.14%) Jest
8 32 (9.28%) Gherkin
8 32 (9.28%) Kafka
9 29 (8.41%) HTML
10 27 (7.83%) RabbitMQ
11 24 (6.96%) CSS
12 22 (6.38%) .NET
13 18 (5.22%) gRPC
14 16 (4.64%) REST
15 15 (4.35%) .NET Core
16 14 (4.06%) PySpark
17 13 (3.77%) ASP.NET Core
17 13 (3.77%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 100 (28.99%) Cloud Native
2 14 (4.06%) Product Ownership
3 13 (3.77%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (3.19%) Blockchain
4 11 (3.19%) Web3
5 10 (2.90%) Greenfield Project
6 7 (2.03%) Data Structures
6 7 (2.03%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (1.74%) Security Posture
8 5 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.45%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.16%) e-Learning
9 4 (1.16%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (1.16%) Virtual Team
10 3 (0.87%) Animation
10 3 (0.87%) Life Science
10 3 (0.87%) NHS
10 3 (0.87%) Private Cloud
11 2 (0.58%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 27 (7.83%) Linux
2 9 (2.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (2.32%) Unix
4 7 (2.03%) Windows
5 5 (1.45%) CentOS
5 5 (1.45%) Debian
5 5 (1.45%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 227 (65.80%) CI/CD
2 174 (50.43%) DevOps
3 139 (40.29%) Agile
4 136 (39.42%) Infrastructure as Code
5 91 (26.38%) Software Engineering
6 82 (23.77%) Problem-Solving
7 74 (21.45%) Full-Stack Development
8 73 (21.16%) Containerisation
8 73 (21.16%) Microservices
9 72 (20.87%) Mentoring
10 50 (14.49%) Observability
11 49 (14.20%) Data Pipeline
12 45 (13.04%) Continuous Improvement
12 45 (13.04%) Continuous Integration
13 43 (12.46%) DevSecOps
14 41 (11.88%) Scrum
15 38 (11.01%) AI
16 36 (10.43%) Analytics
16 36 (10.43%) ETL
16 36 (10.43%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 176 (51.01%) Python
2 111 (32.17%) TypeScript
3 105 (30.43%) SQL
4 100 (28.99%) Java
5 76 (22.03%) JavaScript
6 50 (14.49%) Bash
7 31 (8.99%) Groovy
8 27 (7.83%) Go
9 18 (5.22%) Kotlin
10 12 (3.48%) Rust
11 9 (2.61%) C#
12 8 (2.32%) PowerShell
13 7 (2.03%) PHP
14 6 (1.74%) Scala
15 3 (0.87%) C++
16 2 (0.58%) R
17 1 (0.29%) C
Qualifications
1 74 (21.45%) AWS Certification
2 50 (14.49%) Degree
3 43 (12.46%) Security Cleared
4 27 (7.83%) SC Cleared
5 22 (6.38%) AWS Certified Developer
6 21 (6.09%) Computer Science Degree
7 19 (5.51%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 19 (5.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 19 (5.51%) ITIL Certification
8 15 (4.35%) DV Cleared
9 13 (3.77%) OSCP
10 5 (1.45%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 3 (0.87%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 3 (0.87%) IIBA
11 3 (0.87%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.58%) PhD
12 2 (0.58%) SnowPro
13 1 (0.29%) Azure Certification
13 1 (0.29%) GCIH
13 1 (0.29%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (8.70%) QA
2 24 (6.96%) Data Quality
3 8 (2.32%) GDPR
4 5 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.87%) SLA
6 2 (0.58%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.58%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.29%) MiFID
7 1 (0.29%) NIST
7 1 (0.29%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.29%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 126 (36.52%) Docker
2 4 (1.16%) HDFS
2 4 (1.16%) iptables
3 2 (0.58%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 119 (34.49%) Terraform
2 83 (24.06%) Kubernetes
3 32 (9.28%) HP Fortify
4 26 (7.54%) Ansible
5 24 (6.96%) Prometheus
6 16 (4.64%) Grafana
7 9 (2.61%) Puppet
8 5 (1.45%) Progress Chef
9 4 (1.16%) Kibana
10 3 (0.87%) Kubeflow
11 1 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (3.77%) Databricks
2 11 (3.19%) Oracle
3 8 (2.32%) Red Hat
4 7 (2.03%) Atlassian
4 7 (2.03%) Google
5 5 (1.45%) Salesforce
5 5 (1.45%) SaltStack
6 4 (1.16%) IBM
6 4 (1.16%) Microsoft
7 1 (0.29%) Apple
7 1 (0.29%) Cisco
7 1 (0.29%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.29%) Informatica
7 1 (0.29%) New Relic
7 1 (0.29%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.29%) StreamSets
7 1 (0.29%) YouTube