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

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 353 274 368
Rank change year-on-year -79 +94 -8
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 379 443 591
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.47% 1.13% 0.71%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.50% 3.19% 1.99%
Number of salaries quoted 257 365 478
10th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £52,275
25th Percentile £58,750 £62,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £82,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.12% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £115,000 £97,188
90th Percentile £108,500 £138,750 £118,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £80,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -12.50% +10.34% -3.33%

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 25,259 13,887 29,722
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 31.03% 35.51% 35.50%
Number of salaries quoted 13,477 10,111 24,294
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £43,774 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,875 £57,500
% change year-on-year +2.67% +5.87% -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 7 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 7 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 -102 145 £77,500 -18.42% 78
North of England +26 134 £72,500 +4.69% 49
Yorkshire +21 106 £72,500 +20.83% 12
Midlands -9 45 £55,000 - 12
East Midlands -5 33 £60,000 +9.09% 9
North West -15 27 £75,000 - 31
South West -53 27 £62,500 +4.17% 20
South East -31 21 £82,500 +50.00% 20
West Midlands -34 12 £49,000 -12.89% 3
East of England -35 4 £62,500 -26.47% 6
North East -30 1 £90,000 +44.00% 6
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 26 (6.86%) Apache
2 21 (5.54%) Apache Spark
3 20 (5.28%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.06%) Confluence
5 3 (0.79%) JBoss
6 2 (0.53%) Oracle Application Server
7 1 (0.26%) CMS
7 1 (0.26%) IIS
7 1 (0.26%) nginx
7 1 (0.26%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (1.58%) Spreadsheet
2 4 (1.06%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 379 (100.00%) Serverless
2 378 (99.74%) AWS
3 275 (72.56%) Amazon S3
4 157 (41.42%) AWS CloudFormation
5 115 (30.34%) AWS Step Functions
6 113 (29.82%) Amazon ECS
7 95 (25.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 85 (22.43%) Amazon SQS
9 76 (20.05%) GitHub
10 74 (19.53%) Amazon EC2
11 59 (15.57%) GitHub Actions
12 55 (14.51%) Amazon ECR
13 51 (13.46%) Apigee
14 43 (11.35%) Datadog
15 42 (11.08%) Amazon EKS
16 39 (10.29%) Amazon EventBridge
17 37 (9.76%) Azure
18 29 (7.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 27 (7.12%) Amazon OpenSearch
20 23 (6.07%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.43%) DSL
2 10 (2.64%) AMQP
3 6 (1.58%) Firewall
3 6 (1.58%) Network Security
4 3 (0.79%) Broadband
4 3 (0.79%) DNS
4 3 (0.79%) VPN
5 2 (0.53%) 4G
5 2 (0.53%) 5G
6 1 (0.26%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 168 (44.33%) DynamoDB
2 78 (20.58%) Amazon RDS
3 58 (15.30%) NoSQL
4 40 (10.55%) Amazon Redshift
5 39 (10.29%) Amazon Athena
6 25 (6.60%) PostgreSQL
7 23 (6.07%) Data Warehouse
8 15 (3.96%) SQL Server
9 11 (2.90%) Big Data
9 11 (2.90%) Relational Database
10 10 (2.64%) Data Lake
11 9 (2.37%) MySQL
12 7 (1.85%) Apache Iceberg
12 7 (1.85%) Metadata
12 7 (1.85%) Snowflake Schema
13 6 (1.58%) Amazon Aurora
13 6 (1.58%) Hadoop
13 6 (1.58%) Power BI
14 5 (1.32%) Cloudera CDH
14 5 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 123 (32.45%) Jenkins
2 91 (24.01%) GitLab
3 73 (19.26%) Git
4 48 (12.66%) Maven
5 47 (12.40%) SonarQube
6 44 (11.61%) Cypress.io
7 17 (4.49%) CircleCI
8 15 (3.96%) JIRA
9 10 (2.64%) Cucumber
10 8 (2.11%) Bitbucket
11 5 (1.32%) Gradle
12 4 (1.06%) Artifactory
12 4 (1.06%) MLflow
12 4 (1.06%) Postman
12 4 (1.06%) Selenium
12 4 (1.06%) SpecFlow
13 3 (0.79%) ESLint
13 3 (0.79%) Octopus Deploy
14 2 (0.53%) git-flow
14 2 (0.53%) webpack
General
1 98 (25.86%) Social Skills
2 50 (13.19%) Finance
3 39 (10.29%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (6.07%) Public Sector
5 20 (5.28%) Banking
6 16 (4.22%) Health Technology
7 13 (3.43%) Publishing
7 13 (3.43%) Tech for Good
8 10 (2.64%) Advertising
8 10 (2.64%) Influencing Skills
9 8 (2.11%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (1.85%) Billing
11 4 (1.06%) Aerospace
12 3 (0.79%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.79%) Law
12 3 (0.79%) Legal
12 3 (0.79%) Military
13 2 (0.53%) Front Office
13 2 (0.53%) Games
13 2 (0.53%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 179 (47.23%) Developer
2 100 (26.39%) Senior
3 68 (17.94%) Java Developer
4 62 (16.36%) AWS Developer
5 56 (14.78%) Senior Developer
6 55 (14.51%) Lead
7 40 (10.55%) Full-Stack Developer
8 37 (9.76%) AWS Engineer
8 37 (9.76%) Data Engineer
9 30 (7.92%) React Developer
10 29 (7.65%) Lead Developer
11 27 (7.12%) Python Developer
12 26 (6.86%) DevOps Engineer
13 24 (6.33%) Software Engineer
14 21 (5.54%) Software Developer
15 19 (5.01%) Architect
15 19 (5.01%) AWS Data Engineer
15 19 (5.01%) Cloud Engineer
16 18 (4.75%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 18 (4.75%) Node.js Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (29.02%) Node.js
2 100 (26.39%) React
3 84 (22.16%) AngularJS
4 77 (20.32%) Spring Boot
5 58 (15.30%) RESTful
6 48 (12.66%) Spring
7 46 (12.14%) AWS CDK
8 43 (11.35%) Gherkin
9 42 (11.08%) Jest
10 35 (9.23%) Kafka
11 34 (8.97%) RabbitMQ
12 31 (8.18%) REST
13 25 (6.60%) HTML
14 22 (5.80%) gRPC
15 19 (5.01%) .NET
15 19 (5.01%) CSS
15 19 (5.01%) JSON
16 17 (4.49%) web3js
16 17 (4.49%) YAML
17 12 (3.17%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 80 (21.11%) Cloud Native
2 21 (5.54%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (4.49%) Blockchain
3 17 (4.49%) Web3
4 15 (3.96%) Greenfield Project
5 10 (2.64%) Product Ownership
6 7 (1.85%) Data Structures
7 6 (1.58%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (1.32%) Linux Command Line
8 5 (1.32%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.06%) NHS
9 4 (1.06%) Security Posture
10 3 (0.79%) IoT
11 2 (0.53%) Algorithms
11 2 (0.53%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (0.53%) Hybrid Cloud
11 2 (0.53%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (0.53%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 31 (8.18%) Linux
2 7 (1.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (1.32%) CentOS
3 5 (1.32%) Debian
3 5 (1.32%) Ubuntu
3 5 (1.32%) Windows
4 1 (0.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 239 (63.06%) CI/CD
2 191 (50.40%) DevOps
3 149 (39.31%) Agile
4 146 (38.52%) Infrastructure as Code
5 82 (21.64%) Containerisation
5 82 (21.64%) Full-Stack Development
6 79 (20.84%) Microservices
6 79 (20.84%) Software Engineering
7 78 (20.58%) Problem-Solving
8 72 (19.00%) Mentoring
9 59 (15.57%) Observability
9 59 (15.57%) Test Automation
10 54 (14.25%) Continuous Integration
11 46 (12.14%) DevSecOps
12 45 (11.87%) Event-Driven
13 43 (11.35%) Analytics
14 42 (11.08%) Continuous Improvement
15 41 (10.82%) Data Pipeline
16 40 (10.55%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 38 (10.03%) AI
Programming Languages
1 189 (49.87%) Python
2 131 (34.56%) TypeScript
3 120 (31.66%) SQL
4 111 (29.29%) Java
5 63 (16.62%) Bash
6 62 (16.36%) JavaScript
7 49 (12.93%) Groovy
8 32 (8.44%) Go
9 28 (7.39%) Kotlin
10 13 (3.43%) Rust
11 12 (3.17%) PowerShell
12 9 (2.37%) C#
13 8 (2.11%) PHP
14 4 (1.06%) Perl
15 2 (0.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 2 (0.53%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.53%) R
15 2 (0.53%) Scala
15 2 (0.53%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 67 (17.68%) AWS Certification
2 58 (15.30%) Security Cleared
3 45 (11.87%) SC Cleared
4 42 (11.08%) Degree
5 28 (7.39%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 24 (6.33%) ITIL Certification
7 20 (5.28%) AWS Certified Developer
8 19 (5.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 18 (4.75%) Computer Science Degree
10 14 (3.69%) OSCP
11 12 (3.17%) DV Cleared
12 5 (1.32%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 3 (0.79%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 3 (0.79%) IIBA
13 3 (0.79%) PhD
14 1 (0.26%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 1 (0.26%) GCIH
14 1 (0.26%) GIAC
14 1 (0.26%) Master's Degree
14 1 (0.26%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (8.18%) QA
2 21 (5.54%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.79%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.79%) GDPR
4 3 (0.79%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.26%) MiFID
5 1 (0.26%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.26%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 153 (40.37%) Docker
2 4 (1.06%) iptables
3 3 (0.79%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 140 (36.94%) Terraform
2 85 (22.43%) Kubernetes
3 41 (10.82%) HP Fortify
4 38 (10.03%) Ansible
5 33 (8.71%) Prometheus
6 21 (5.54%) Grafana
7 9 (2.37%) Puppet
8 6 (1.58%) Progress Chef
9 4 (1.06%) Kibana
9 4 (1.06%) Packer
10 3 (0.79%) Scalr
11 1 (0.26%) Red Hat Satellite
11 1 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (2.90%) Databricks
2 7 (1.85%) AppDynamics
2 7 (1.85%) Oracle
2 7 (1.85%) Red Hat
3 6 (1.58%) HubSpot
3 6 (1.58%) IBM
4 5 (1.32%) Google
4 5 (1.32%) Salesforce
4 5 (1.32%) SaltStack
5 3 (0.79%) Atlassian
6 2 (0.53%) Microsoft
6 2 (0.53%) Splunk
7 1 (0.26%) Apple
7 1 (0.26%) Informatica
7 1 (0.26%) New Relic
7 1 (0.26%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.26%) YouTube