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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 352 312 402
Rank change year-on-year -40 +90 -39
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 436 406 545
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.50% 0.94% 0.61%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.82% 2.84% 1.82%
Number of salaries quoted 291 306 415
10th Percentile £50,000 £50,375 £50,500
25th Percentile £59,375 £60,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.45%
75th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £112,500 £115,000 £114,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% - +3.45%

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 23,926 14,312 29,908
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 27.58% 33.23% 33.27%
Number of salaries quoted 15,967 10,253 23,629
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,100 £30,000
25th Percentile £44,500 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £78,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -8.00%

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 July 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 July 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 -49 172 £87,500 +6.06% 54
North of England +42 152 £75,000 +15.38% 28
Yorkshire +27 95 £75,000 +25.00% 5
North West +2 44 £72,500 +11.54% 14
Midlands -19 38 £55,000 +29.41% 15
South West -51 38 £62,500 - 24
South East -30 30 £75,000 +36.36% 12
East Midlands -5 28 £55,000 +18.92% 8
North East -33 13 £75,000 +15.38% 9
West Midlands -36 10 £56,250 +32.35% 7
East of England -40 4 £62,500 -26.47% 2
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 29 (6.65%) Apache
2 24 (5.50%) Apache Spark
3 17 (3.90%) Apache Airflow
4 12 (2.75%) Confluence
5 3 (0.69%) JBoss
6 2 (0.46%) Oracle Application Server
6 2 (0.46%) SAS
7 1 (0.23%) CMS
7 1 (0.23%) IIS
7 1 (0.23%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.23%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (1.61%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.92%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.23%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 436 (100.00%) Serverless
2 435 (99.77%) AWS
3 298 (68.35%) Amazon S3
4 177 (40.60%) AWS CloudFormation
5 161 (36.93%) Amazon ECS
6 116 (26.61%) AWS Step Functions
7 100 (22.94%) Amazon EC2
8 95 (21.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 85 (19.50%) Amazon SQS
10 78 (17.89%) GitHub
11 64 (14.68%) Amazon EKS
12 52 (11.93%) GitHub Actions
13 50 (11.47%) Amazon EventBridge
14 47 (10.78%) Amazon ECR
14 47 (10.78%) Datadog
15 44 (10.09%) Azure
16 42 (9.63%) Apigee
17 40 (9.17%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 33 (7.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 32 (7.34%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 19 (4.36%) Network Security
2 13 (2.98%) Firewall
3 11 (2.52%) DSL
4 9 (2.06%) AMQP
5 5 (1.15%) VPN
6 4 (0.92%) DNS
6 4 (0.92%) IPv4
6 4 (0.92%) Software-Defined Networking
7 3 (0.69%) Broadband
8 2 (0.46%) 4G
8 2 (0.46%) 5G
8 2 (0.46%) VoIP
9 1 (0.23%) DHCP
9 1 (0.23%) HTTP
9 1 (0.23%) PSTN
9 1 (0.23%) SSL
9 1 (0.23%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.23%) VLAN
9 1 (0.23%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 179 (41.06%) DynamoDB
2 84 (19.27%) Amazon RDS
3 61 (13.99%) NoSQL
4 50 (11.47%) Amazon Athena
5 41 (9.40%) Amazon Redshift
6 21 (4.82%) Data Warehouse
7 20 (4.59%) PostgreSQL
8 15 (3.44%) Relational Database
8 15 (3.44%) SQL Server
9 13 (2.98%) Big Data
9 13 (2.98%) MySQL
10 10 (2.29%) Data Lake
10 10 (2.29%) Elasticsearch
11 9 (2.06%) Metadata
11 9 (2.06%) Power BI
12 7 (1.61%) Amazon Aurora
12 7 (1.61%) Hadoop
13 6 (1.38%) Apache Iceberg
13 6 (1.38%) Cloudera CDH
14 5 (1.15%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 126 (28.90%) Jenkins
2 88 (20.18%) Git
3 83 (19.04%) GitLab
4 38 (8.72%) Maven
5 37 (8.49%) SonarQube
6 35 (8.03%) Cypress.io
7 23 (5.28%) JIRA
8 16 (3.67%) CircleCI
9 14 (3.21%) Bitbucket
10 11 (2.52%) TeamCity
11 10 (2.29%) Cucumber
12 7 (1.61%) Postman
13 6 (1.38%) Claude Code
13 6 (1.38%) Selenium
14 5 (1.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 5 (1.15%) Gradle
15 4 (0.92%) Artifactory
15 4 (0.92%) SpecFlow
16 3 (0.69%) MLflow
16 3 (0.69%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 100 (22.94%) Social Skills
2 75 (17.20%) Finance
3 47 (10.78%) Public Sector
4 36 (8.26%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (5.50%) Banking
6 10 (2.29%) Health Technology
7 9 (2.06%) Advertising
7 9 (2.06%) Aerospace
7 9 (2.06%) Telecoms
8 8 (1.83%) Influencing Skills
9 7 (1.61%) Billing
10 6 (1.38%) Military
11 5 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.15%) Publishing
12 4 (0.92%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.92%) Marketing
12 4 (0.92%) Tech for Good
13 3 (0.69%) Law
13 3 (0.69%) Legal
14 2 (0.46%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 172 (39.45%) Developer
2 150 (34.40%) Senior
3 79 (18.12%) Java Developer
4 68 (15.60%) Senior Developer
5 58 (13.30%) Full-Stack Developer
6 48 (11.01%) AWS Engineer
7 46 (10.55%) AWS Developer
8 42 (9.63%) Lead
9 41 (9.40%) Data Engineer
10 35 (8.03%) Software Engineer
11 31 (7.11%) DevOps Engineer
12 24 (5.50%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 24 (5.50%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
13 23 (5.28%) Architect
13 23 (5.28%) Platform Engineer
14 20 (4.59%) AWS Data Engineer
14 20 (4.59%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 18 (4.13%) Python Developer
16 17 (3.90%) Consultant
17 16 (3.67%) AWS Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 129 (29.59%) Node.js
2 100 (22.94%) React
3 99 (22.71%) AngularJS
4 79 (18.12%) Spring Boot
5 55 (12.61%) Spring
6 45 (10.32%) RESTful
7 42 (9.63%) AWS CDK
7 42 (9.63%) REST
8 41 (9.40%) Kafka
9 39 (8.94%) Gherkin
10 34 (7.80%) Jest
11 30 (6.88%) RabbitMQ
12 23 (5.28%) JSON
13 22 (5.05%) Swagger
13 22 (5.05%) YAML
14 21 (4.82%) gRPC
15 20 (4.59%) .NET
16 17 (3.90%) PySpark
17 15 (3.44%) web3js
18 14 (3.21%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 97 (22.25%) Cloud Native
2 36 (8.26%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (4.59%) Onboarding
4 16 (3.67%) Greenfield Project
5 15 (3.44%) Blockchain
5 15 (3.44%) Enterprise Cloud
5 15 (3.44%) Web3
6 13 (2.98%) Product Ownership
7 9 (2.06%) Data Structures
8 6 (1.38%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (1.38%) NHS
8 6 (1.38%) Public Cloud
9 5 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.15%) IoT
9 5 (1.15%) Linux Command Line
9 5 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (0.92%) Algorithms
10 4 (0.92%) IVR
10 4 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (0.92%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 45 (10.32%) Linux
2 12 (2.75%) Windows
3 8 (1.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (1.38%) CentOS
4 6 (1.38%) Debian
4 6 (1.38%) Ubuntu
5 4 (0.92%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 266 (61.01%) CI/CD
2 196 (44.95%) DevOps
3 181 (41.51%) Infrastructure as Code
4 162 (37.16%) Agile
5 97 (22.25%) Full-Stack Development
6 95 (21.79%) Software Engineering
7 91 (20.87%) Mentoring
8 90 (20.64%) AI
9 87 (19.95%) Containerisation
10 85 (19.50%) Microservices
11 78 (17.89%) Problem-Solving
12 75 (17.20%) Observability
12 75 (17.20%) Test Automation
13 64 (14.68%) Event-Driven
14 55 (12.61%) Analytics
15 51 (11.70%) Continuous Integration
16 50 (11.47%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 48 (11.01%) Data Pipeline
18 45 (10.32%) Continuous Improvement
18 45 (10.32%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 230 (52.75%) Python
2 142 (32.57%) TypeScript
3 131 (30.05%) Java
4 120 (27.52%) SQL
5 79 (18.12%) Bash
6 55 (12.61%) JavaScript
7 47 (10.78%) Groovy
8 35 (8.03%) Kotlin
9 30 (6.88%) Go
10 21 (4.82%) PHP
11 20 (4.59%) PowerShell
12 19 (4.36%) C#
13 16 (3.67%) Perl
14 12 (2.75%) Ruby
15 11 (2.52%) Rust
16 7 (1.61%) Scala
17 2 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 2 (0.46%) PL/SQL
17 2 (0.46%) R
17 2 (0.46%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 85 (19.50%) Security Cleared
2 75 (17.20%) AWS Certification
3 49 (11.24%) SC Cleared
4 36 (8.26%) Degree
5 35 (8.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 29 (6.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 25 (5.73%) DV Cleared
7 25 (5.73%) ITIL Certification
8 15 (3.44%) OSCP
9 9 (2.06%) AWS Certified Developer
9 9 (2.06%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (1.15%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 5 (1.15%) Master's Degree
10 5 (1.15%) RHCE
11 4 (0.92%) CCNA
11 4 (0.92%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (0.92%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.92%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 4 (0.92%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (5.28%) Data Quality
2 22 (5.05%) QA
3 10 (2.29%) GDPR
4 8 (1.83%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.69%) HIPAA
6 3 (0.69%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.23%) MiFID
7 1 (0.23%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.23%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 160 (36.70%) Docker
2 4 (0.92%) Active Directory
2 4 (0.92%) iptables
2 4 (0.92%) Squid
2 4 (0.92%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (0.92%) VMware NSX
2 4 (0.92%) vSphere
3 3 (0.69%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 189 (43.35%) Terraform
2 89 (20.41%) Kubernetes
3 52 (11.93%) Ansible
4 38 (8.72%) Prometheus
5 30 (6.88%) HP Fortify
6 29 (6.65%) Grafana
7 16 (3.67%) Packer
8 10 (2.29%) Puppet
9 5 (1.15%) Argo
9 5 (1.15%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.92%) Kibana
10 4 (0.92%) ZABBIX
11 3 (0.69%) Scalr
12 1 (0.23%) logstash
12 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 13 (2.98%) Splunk
2 12 (2.75%) Red Hat
3 11 (2.52%) Databricks
3 11 (2.52%) Oracle
4 7 (1.61%) AppDynamics
4 7 (1.61%) Google
4 7 (1.61%) HubSpot
5 6 (1.38%) IBM
5 6 (1.38%) Microsoft
5 6 (1.38%) SaltStack
6 5 (1.15%) Avaya
6 5 (1.15%) Cisco
6 5 (1.15%) Genesys
6 5 (1.15%) OpenAI
7 4 (0.92%) Dynatrace
7 4 (0.92%) Salesforce
7 4 (0.92%) VMware
8 3 (0.69%) SnapLogic
9 1 (0.23%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 1 (0.23%) Solace