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 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 317 207 341
Rank change year-on-year -110 +134 -4
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 314 690 395
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.59% 1.43% 0.81%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.69% 3.91% 1.99%
Number of salaries quoted 220 308 331
10th Percentile £51,868 £55,875 £46,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £66,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £90,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -19.44% +33.33% -18.18%
75th Percentile £85,625 £115,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £138,750 £110,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £85,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -17.65% +21.43% -12.50%

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 18,614 17,629 19,829
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 35.06% 36.56% 40.41%
Number of salaries quoted 10,405 10,454 16,588
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,331 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%

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 15 January 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 15 January 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 -106 153 £76,000 -22.05% 69
North of England +54 76 £65,000 -3.70% 53
Yorkshire +38 60 £63,750 +6.25% 29
Midlands +31 32 £60,000 -4.00% 27
South West +5 29 £63,750 -5.56% 38
West Midlands +21 16 £50,000 +8.11% 14
North West +18 16 £65,000 -6.14% 18
East Midlands -3 16 £65,000 -7.14% 12
South East -89 13 £67,500 +17.39% 71
East of England -16 3 £100,000 +37.93% 40
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 (9.87%) Apache Spark
2 23 (7.32%) Apache
3 12 (3.82%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (2.87%) WebSphere
5 7 (2.23%) Tomcat
6 6 (1.91%) WebSphere Application Server
7 3 (0.96%) Confluence
8 2 (0.64%) nginx
8 2 (0.64%) Oracle Application Server
9 1 (0.32%) JBoss
9 1 (0.32%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.32%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (1.59%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 314 (100.00%) AWS
1 314 (100.00%) Serverless
2 217 (69.11%) Amazon S3
3 105 (33.44%) AWS CloudFormation
4 76 (24.20%) AWS Step Functions
5 66 (21.02%) Amazon EC2
5 66 (21.02%) Amazon ECS
6 62 (19.75%) Amazon SQS
7 58 (18.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 57 (18.15%) GitHub
9 49 (15.61%) Amazon EKS
10 43 (13.69%) Azure
11 40 (12.74%) GitHub Actions
12 30 (9.55%) Amazon ECR
12 30 (9.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 23 (7.32%) Amazon EventBridge
14 22 (7.01%) Apigee
15 19 (6.05%) GCP
15 19 (6.05%) SaaS
16 18 (5.73%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.18%) AMQP
2 7 (2.23%) SSL
3 6 (1.91%) Broadband
4 4 (1.27%) DSL
4 4 (1.27%) Firewall
5 3 (0.96%) Network Security
5 3 (0.96%) VPN
6 2 (0.64%) DNS
6 2 (0.64%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.32%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (33.44%) DynamoDB
2 74 (23.57%) Amazon RDS
3 51 (16.24%) Amazon Redshift
4 44 (14.01%) Data Warehouse
5 40 (12.74%) PostgreSQL
6 39 (12.42%) NoSQL
7 22 (7.01%) Data Lake
8 21 (6.69%) SQL Server
9 19 (6.05%) Elasticsearch
10 18 (5.73%) Big Data
11 17 (5.41%) Amazon Athena
11 17 (5.41%) MongoDB
12 12 (3.82%) Hadoop
13 11 (3.50%) Relational Database
14 10 (3.18%) Apache Iceberg
15 9 (2.87%) DB2
16 8 (2.55%) Apache Hive
16 8 (2.55%) MySQL
17 6 (1.91%) Amazon Aurora
18 5 (1.59%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 70 (22.29%) Jenkins
2 48 (15.29%) GitLab
3 45 (14.33%) Git
4 28 (8.92%) Cypress.io
5 20 (6.37%) Maven
5 20 (6.37%) SonarQube
6 12 (3.82%) Bitbucket
7 10 (3.18%) JIRA
8 7 (2.23%) MLflow
9 5 (1.59%) CircleCI
9 5 (1.59%) git-flow
9 5 (1.59%) Vite
10 3 (0.96%) ESLint
10 3 (0.96%) JUnit
11 2 (0.64%) Cucumber
11 2 (0.64%) DBeaver
11 2 (0.64%) ER Studio
11 2 (0.64%) Mocha
11 2 (0.64%) webpack
12 1 (0.32%) Deequ
General
1 87 (27.71%) Social Skills
2 50 (15.92%) Finance
3 31 (9.87%) Tech for Good
4 27 (8.60%) Health Technology
4 27 (8.60%) Publishing
5 25 (7.96%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (5.10%) Influencing Skills
7 15 (4.78%) Organisational Skills
8 13 (4.14%) Banking
9 11 (3.50%) Public Sector
10 9 (2.87%) Financial Institution
11 7 (2.23%) Advertising
11 7 (2.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.27%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.96%) Aerospace
13 3 (0.96%) Billing
14 2 (0.64%) Games
14 2 (0.64%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.64%) Law
Job Titles
1 117 (37.26%) Developer
2 81 (25.80%) Senior
3 56 (17.83%) AWS Developer
4 49 (15.61%) Lead
5 38 (12.10%) AWS Engineer
5 38 (12.10%) Data Engineer
6 36 (11.46%) Senior Developer
7 35 (11.15%) Python Developer
8 33 (10.51%) Software Engineer
9 31 (9.87%) React Developer
10 29 (9.24%) Lead Developer
11 22 (7.01%) Java Developer
11 22 (7.01%) Software Developer
12 21 (6.69%) AWS Data Engineer
13 19 (6.05%) Full-Stack Developer
14 18 (5.73%) Lead Python Developer
14 18 (5.73%) Senior Data Engineer
15 16 (5.10%) Architect
15 16 (5.10%) DevOps Engineer
16 14 (4.46%) Node.js Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (31.85%) React
2 73 (23.25%) Node.js
3 58 (18.47%) RESTful
4 54 (17.20%) Spring Boot
5 47 (14.97%) Spring
6 41 (13.06%) AWS CDK
7 38 (12.10%) AngularJS
8 29 (9.24%) Kafka
9 27 (8.60%) Jest
10 23 (7.32%) HTML
10 23 (7.32%) RabbitMQ
11 20 (6.37%) .NET
11 20 (6.37%) Gherkin
12 18 (5.73%) CSS
13 17 (5.41%) Swagger
14 14 (4.46%) .NET Core
15 13 (4.14%) ASP.NET
15 13 (4.14%) ASP.NET Core
15 13 (4.14%) Blazor
16 12 (3.82%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 94 (29.94%) Cloud Native
2 18 (5.73%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (3.50%) Greenfield Project
4 9 (2.87%) Linux Command Line
4 9 (2.87%) Product Ownership
5 8 (2.55%) e-Learning
5 8 (2.55%) Virtual Team
6 7 (2.23%) Security Posture
7 6 (1.91%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.59%) Blockchain
8 5 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.59%) Web3
9 4 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (0.96%) Animation
10 3 (0.96%) Data Structures
10 3 (0.96%) Enterprise Cloud
10 3 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (0.96%) Life Science
10 3 (0.96%) Management Information System
10 3 (0.96%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 33 (10.51%) Linux
2 13 (4.14%) Unix
3 10 (3.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (2.55%) Windows
5 3 (0.96%) CentOS
5 3 (0.96%) Debian
5 3 (0.96%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.32%) Android
6 1 (0.32%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 196 (62.42%) CI/CD
2 145 (46.18%) DevOps
3 131 (41.72%) Agile
4 116 (36.94%) Infrastructure as Code
5 77 (24.52%) Software Engineering
6 73 (23.25%) Mentoring
6 73 (23.25%) Problem-Solving
7 65 (20.70%) Microservices
8 61 (19.43%) Full-Stack Development
9 58 (18.47%) Containerisation
10 57 (18.15%) Scrum
11 46 (14.65%) Continuous Improvement
11 46 (14.65%) Data Pipeline
12 43 (13.69%) Observability
13 38 (12.10%) Continuous Integration
14 37 (11.78%) AI
14 37 (11.78%) Data Modelling
15 33 (10.51%) Data Engineering
15 33 (10.51%) ETL
15 33 (10.51%) Pair Programming
Programming Languages
1 170 (54.14%) Python
2 108 (34.39%) TypeScript
3 88 (28.03%) Java
4 84 (26.75%) SQL
5 70 (22.29%) JavaScript
6 36 (11.46%) Bash
7 19 (6.05%) Groovy
8 17 (5.41%) Go
9 12 (3.82%) Scala
10 8 (2.55%) C#
11 7 (2.23%) PowerShell
12 5 (1.59%) Kotlin
13 4 (1.27%) Rust
14 3 (0.96%) C++
14 3 (0.96%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.64%) C
15 2 (0.64%) PHP
Qualifications
1 80 (25.48%) AWS Certification
2 46 (14.65%) Security Cleared
3 39 (12.42%) Degree
4 29 (9.24%) SC Cleared
5 26 (8.28%) AWS Certified Developer
6 23 (7.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 20 (6.37%) Computer Science Degree
8 19 (6.05%) DV Cleared
9 13 (4.14%) ITIL Certification
10 11 (3.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 5 (1.59%) OSCP
11 5 (1.59%) SnowPro
12 4 (1.27%) Master's Degree
12 4 (1.27%) MCP
13 3 (0.96%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 2 (0.64%) IIBA
15 1 (0.32%) Azure Certification
15 1 (0.32%) GCIH
15 1 (0.32%) GIAC
15 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (14.01%) QA
2 18 (5.73%) Data Quality
3 13 (4.14%) GDPR
4 6 (1.91%) Accessibility
4 6 (1.91%) SLA
5 5 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.96%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.96%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.32%) GAAP
7 1 (0.32%) IFRS
7 1 (0.32%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.32%) NIST
7 1 (0.32%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 95 (30.25%) Docker
2 8 (2.55%) HDFS
3 2 (0.64%) iptables
4 1 (0.32%) vCloud
4 1 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.32%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.32%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 100 (31.85%) Terraform
2 71 (22.61%) Kubernetes
3 24 (7.64%) Prometheus
4 22 (7.01%) Ansible
5 20 (6.37%) Grafana
5 20 (6.37%) HP Fortify
6 7 (2.23%) Progress Chef
7 5 (1.59%) Puppet
8 3 (0.96%) Docker Swarm
8 3 (0.96%) Kibana
8 3 (0.96%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.32%) Argo
9 1 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (4.78%) Databricks
2 14 (4.46%) Oracle
3 10 (3.18%) Atlassian
4 9 (2.87%) IBM
4 9 (2.87%) Red Hat
5 6 (1.91%) Google
6 5 (1.59%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.27%) Microsoft
7 4 (1.27%) OpenAI
8 3 (0.96%) SaltStack
9 2 (0.64%) Informatica
10 1 (0.32%) Apple
10 1 (0.32%) Avaya
10 1 (0.32%) Cisco
10 1 (0.32%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.32%) Genesys
10 1 (0.32%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.32%) StreamSets
10 1 (0.32%) VMware
10 1 (0.32%) YouTube