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

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 335 181 341
Rank change year-on-year -154 +160 +15
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 352 667 565
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.53% 1.74% 0.76%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.62% 4.61% 2.02%
Number of salaries quoted 246 353 485
10th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £87,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.14% +20.69% -6.45%
75th Percentile £87,500 £115,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £107,500 £138,750 £117,250
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 21,754 14,470 28,012
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 32.86% 37.71% 37.49%
Number of salaries quoted 11,892 10,118 23,442
10th Percentile £29,525 £32,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,651 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £81,250 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £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 18 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 18 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 -132 147 £85,000 -19.05% 90
North of England +19 106 £70,000 +7.69% 39
Yorkshire +26 89 £67,500 +17.39% 13
Midlands -4 42 £55,000 - 8
South West -20 32 £62,500 +4.17% 23
East Midlands -15 26 £60,000 -27.27%
North West -21 17 £70,000 -6.67% 22
West Midlands -6 16 £50,000 +5.26% 8
South East -127 14 £67,500 +22.73% 36
East of England -61 4 £62,500 -9.09% 15
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 28 (7.95%) Apache
2 25 (7.10%) Apache Spark
3 21 (5.97%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.42%) Confluence
5 3 (0.85%) JBoss
5 3 (0.85%) Tomcat
5 3 (0.85%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.57%) nginx
6 2 (0.57%) Oracle Application Server
6 2 (0.57%) WebSphere Application Server
7 1 (0.28%) CMS
7 1 (0.28%) SAS
7 1 (0.28%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (1.70%) Spreadsheet
2 3 (0.85%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 352 (100.00%) Serverless
2 351 (99.72%) AWS
3 259 (73.58%) Amazon S3
4 136 (38.64%) AWS CloudFormation
5 93 (26.42%) AWS Step Functions
6 89 (25.28%) Amazon ECS
7 79 (22.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 79 (22.44%) GitHub
8 77 (21.88%) Amazon SQS
9 72 (20.45%) Amazon EC2
10 56 (15.91%) GitHub Actions
11 48 (13.64%) Amazon EKS
12 42 (11.93%) Amazon ECR
13 41 (11.65%) Azure
14 36 (10.23%) Apigee
15 31 (8.81%) Amazon EventBridge
16 30 (8.52%) Datadog
17 28 (7.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 25 (7.10%) SaaS
19 20 (5.68%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.69%) DSL
2 11 (3.13%) AMQP
3 6 (1.70%) Firewall
3 6 (1.70%) Network Security
4 5 (1.42%) Broadband
5 3 (0.85%) DNS
5 3 (0.85%) SSL
5 3 (0.85%) VPN
6 1 (0.28%) 4G
6 1 (0.28%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 128 (36.36%) DynamoDB
2 77 (21.88%) Amazon RDS
3 59 (16.76%) NoSQL
4 44 (12.50%) Amazon Redshift
5 35 (9.94%) PostgreSQL
6 32 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
7 26 (7.39%) Amazon Athena
8 21 (5.97%) SQL Server
9 13 (3.69%) Big Data
9 13 (3.69%) MongoDB
10 12 (3.41%) Data Lake
11 11 (3.13%) MySQL
12 10 (2.84%) Apache Iceberg
12 10 (2.84%) Relational Database
13 9 (2.56%) Hadoop
14 8 (2.27%) Metadata
15 7 (1.99%) Amazon Aurora
16 6 (1.70%) Power BI
16 6 (1.70%) Snowflake Schema
17 5 (1.42%) Cloudera CDH
Development Applications
1 99 (28.13%) Jenkins
2 78 (22.16%) GitLab
3 53 (15.06%) Git
4 35 (9.94%) Cypress.io
5 34 (9.66%) Maven
6 33 (9.38%) SonarQube
7 13 (3.69%) CircleCI
8 11 (3.13%) JIRA
9 9 (2.56%) Bitbucket
10 7 (1.99%) MLflow
11 5 (1.42%) git-flow
12 3 (0.85%) Cucumber
12 3 (0.85%) ESLint
12 3 (0.85%) JUnit
12 3 (0.85%) Selenium
12 3 (0.85%) webpack
13 2 (0.57%) Deequ
13 2 (0.57%) Mocha
13 2 (0.57%) Postman
13 2 (0.57%) TeamCity
General
1 99 (28.13%) Social Skills
2 49 (13.92%) Finance
3 36 (10.23%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (5.11%) Banking
5 16 (4.55%) Health Technology
5 16 (4.55%) Tech for Good
6 15 (4.26%) Influencing Skills
6 15 (4.26%) Publishing
7 14 (3.98%) Organisational Skills
7 14 (3.98%) Public Sector
8 9 (2.56%) Advertising
9 7 (1.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.14%) Aerospace
10 4 (1.14%) Billing
10 4 (1.14%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.85%) Investment Banking
11 3 (0.85%) Law
11 3 (0.85%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.85%) Military
12 2 (0.57%) Games
Job Titles
1 150 (42.61%) Developer
2 85 (24.15%) Senior
3 58 (16.48%) AWS Developer
4 49 (13.92%) Java Developer
5 48 (13.64%) Lead
6 44 (12.50%) Senior Developer
7 38 (10.80%) AWS Engineer
8 35 (9.94%) Data Engineer
8 35 (9.94%) Software Engineer
9 31 (8.81%) Full-Stack Developer
9 31 (8.81%) React Developer
10 29 (8.24%) Lead Developer
11 28 (7.95%) Python Developer
12 23 (6.53%) Architect
13 21 (5.97%) AWS Data Engineer
14 20 (5.68%) Software Developer
15 18 (5.11%) Node.js Developer
16 17 (4.83%) AWS Architect
16 17 (4.83%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 17 (4.83%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (28.69%) React
2 100 (28.41%) Node.js
3 66 (18.75%) Spring Boot
4 63 (17.90%) AngularJS
5 56 (15.91%) RESTful
6 49 (13.92%) AWS CDK
7 45 (12.78%) Spring
8 35 (9.94%) Jest
9 33 (9.38%) Gherkin
10 30 (8.52%) Kafka
11 29 (8.24%) HTML
11 29 (8.24%) RabbitMQ
12 24 (6.82%) CSS
13 23 (6.53%) .NET
14 20 (5.68%) gRPC
15 17 (4.83%) REST
16 15 (4.26%) .NET Core
17 13 (3.69%) ASP.NET
17 13 (3.69%) ASP.NET Core
17 13 (3.69%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 101 (28.69%) Cloud Native
2 14 (3.98%) Product Ownership
3 13 (3.69%) Blockchain
3 13 (3.69%) Web3
4 11 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (3.13%) Greenfield Project
5 8 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (1.99%) Data Structures
7 6 (1.70%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (1.70%) Security Posture
8 5 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.42%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.14%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (0.85%) Animation
10 3 (0.85%) e-Learning
10 3 (0.85%) IoT
10 3 (0.85%) Life Science
10 3 (0.85%) NHS
10 3 (0.85%) Private Cloud
11 2 (0.57%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 26 (7.39%) Linux
2 8 (2.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (1.70%) Windows
4 5 (1.42%) CentOS
4 5 (1.42%) Debian
4 5 (1.42%) Ubuntu
4 5 (1.42%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 229 (65.06%) CI/CD
2 174 (49.43%) DevOps
3 146 (41.48%) Agile
4 141 (40.06%) Infrastructure as Code
5 89 (25.28%) Software Engineering
6 81 (23.01%) Problem-Solving
7 77 (21.88%) Containerisation
8 75 (21.31%) Mentoring
9 74 (21.02%) Full-Stack Development
10 72 (20.45%) Microservices
11 57 (16.19%) Observability
12 49 (13.92%) Continuous Integration
13 45 (12.78%) Continuous Improvement
13 45 (12.78%) Data Pipeline
14 44 (12.50%) DevSecOps
15 43 (12.22%) Test Automation
16 40 (11.36%) Scrum
17 39 (11.08%) Analytics
18 38 (10.80%) AI
19 35 (9.94%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 178 (50.57%) Python
2 115 (32.67%) TypeScript
3 104 (29.55%) SQL
4 97 (27.56%) Java
5 76 (21.59%) JavaScript
6 52 (14.77%) Bash
7 32 (9.09%) Groovy
8 30 (8.52%) Go
9 18 (5.11%) Kotlin
10 13 (3.69%) Rust
11 10 (2.84%) C#
12 9 (2.56%) PowerShell
13 8 (2.27%) PHP
14 5 (1.42%) Scala
15 3 (0.85%) C++
16 2 (0.57%) R
17 1 (0.28%) C
17 1 (0.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 70 (19.89%) AWS Certification
2 50 (14.20%) Degree
3 43 (12.22%) Security Cleared
4 26 (7.39%) SC Cleared
5 21 (5.97%) AWS Certified Developer
5 21 (5.97%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 20 (5.68%) Computer Science Degree
7 19 (5.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 19 (5.40%) ITIL Certification
8 15 (4.26%) DV Cleared
9 14 (3.98%) OSCP
10 5 (1.42%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 4 (1.14%) Master's Degree
12 3 (0.85%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 3 (0.85%) IIBA
12 3 (0.85%) PhD
13 2 (0.57%) SnowPro
14 1 (0.28%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 1 (0.28%) Azure Certification
14 1 (0.28%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (8.52%) QA
2 21 (5.97%) Data Quality
3 7 (1.99%) GDPR
3 7 (1.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.85%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.57%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.57%) SLA
6 1 (0.28%) MiFID
6 1 (0.28%) NIST
6 1 (0.28%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.28%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.28%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 127 (36.08%) Docker
2 4 (1.14%) iptables
3 3 (0.85%) Firmware
3 3 (0.85%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 124 (35.23%) Terraform
2 83 (23.58%) Kubernetes
3 33 (9.38%) HP Fortify
4 28 (7.95%) Ansible
4 28 (7.95%) Prometheus
5 21 (5.97%) Grafana
6 9 (2.56%) Puppet
7 5 (1.42%) Progress Chef
8 4 (1.14%) Kibana
9 3 (0.85%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.28%) Scalr
10 1 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (3.41%) Databricks
2 10 (2.84%) Oracle
3 7 (1.99%) Atlassian
3 7 (1.99%) Red Hat
4 5 (1.42%) Google
4 5 (1.42%) Salesforce
4 5 (1.42%) SaltStack
5 3 (0.85%) IBM
5 3 (0.85%) Microsoft
6 1 (0.28%) Apple
6 1 (0.28%) Cisco
6 1 (0.28%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.28%) Informatica
6 1 (0.28%) New Relic
6 1 (0.28%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.28%) YouTube