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

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 399 367 348
Rank change year-on-year -32 -19 -1
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 439 301 497
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.42% 0.70% 0.78%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.87% 2.17% 2.39%
Number of salaries quoted 261 205 207
10th Percentile £46,217 £47,700 £51,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £60,000 £62,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,500 £72,000 £76,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.08% -5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £109,000 £104,000 £118,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,250 £76,000
% change year-on-year -3.11% -4.93% +8.57%

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 23,512 13,882 20,836
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 22.49% 32.39% 32.78%
Number of salaries quoted 16,780 9,671 12,758
10th Percentile £32,000 £29,000 £35,500
25th Percentile £44,248 £38,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,740 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.57% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £84,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £58,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +6.84% -10.00% +4.00%

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 15 October 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 October 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
North of England +50 176 £67,500 +3.85% 26
London -71 165 £85,000 +9.68% 33
Yorkshire +13 72 £75,000 +15.38% 10
North West +12 68 £66,124 +1.73% 14
South West -59 40 £75,000 -11.76% 14
North East -28 36 £67,500 -6.90% 2
Midlands -33 27 £65,000 +23.81% 2
South East -47 23 £67,500 -15.63% 11
East Midlands - 16 £66,250 -
West Midlands -51 11 £62,500 +19.05% 2
East of England -57 1 £80,000 +88.24% 4
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 32 (7.29%) Apache Spark
2 29 (6.61%) Apache
3 14 (3.19%) Confluence
4 13 (2.96%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.68%) SAS
6 2 (0.46%) Camunda
6 2 (0.46%) nginx
6 2 (0.46%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.46%) WebLogic
6 2 (0.46%) WebLogic Portal
7 1 (0.23%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (0.91%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.46%) Oracle Applications
1 2 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (0.46%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (0.23%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
2 1 (0.23%) Finacle
2 1 (0.23%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.23%) Infor SunSystems
2 1 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.23%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 438 (99.77%) Serverless
2 436 (99.32%) AWS
3 288 (65.60%) Amazon S3
4 159 (36.22%) Amazon ECS
5 155 (35.31%) AWS CloudFormation
6 117 (26.65%) Amazon EC2
7 94 (21.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 83 (18.91%) AWS Step Functions
9 82 (18.68%) Amazon EKS
10 80 (18.22%) GitHub
11 66 (15.03%) Amazon SQS
12 57 (12.98%) Azure
13 55 (12.53%) GitHub Actions
14 45 (10.25%) Amazon EventBridge
15 44 (10.02%) Datadog
16 38 (8.66%) SaaS
17 36 (8.20%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 33 (7.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 31 (7.06%) Amazon EMR
20 28 (6.38%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 15 (3.42%) Network Security
2 10 (2.28%) Firewall
3 8 (1.82%) AMQP
4 4 (0.91%) IPv4
4 4 (0.91%) Software-Defined Networking
4 4 (0.91%) VPN
5 2 (0.46%) DNS
5 2 (0.46%) VoIP
6 1 (0.23%) 4G
6 1 (0.23%) 5G
6 1 (0.23%) DHCP
6 1 (0.23%) HTTP
6 1 (0.23%) PSTN
6 1 (0.23%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.23%) VLAN
6 1 (0.23%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 129 (29.38%) DynamoDB
2 106 (24.15%) Amazon RDS
3 55 (12.53%) NoSQL
4 53 (12.07%) Amazon Athena
5 51 (11.62%) Amazon Redshift
6 30 (6.83%) Data Warehouse
7 28 (6.38%) PostgreSQL
8 19 (4.33%) Relational Database
8 19 (4.33%) Spark SQL
9 18 (4.10%) Metadata
9 18 (4.10%) SQL Server
10 16 (3.64%) Elasticsearch
11 15 (3.42%) Data Lake
11 15 (3.42%) MongoDB
12 14 (3.19%) Power BI
13 13 (2.96%) Amazon Aurora
13 13 (2.96%) Big Data
14 10 (2.28%) Hadoop
14 10 (2.28%) MySQL
15 9 (2.05%) Redis
Development Applications
1 108 (24.60%) Git
2 82 (18.68%) Jenkins
3 51 (11.62%) GitLab
4 22 (5.01%) Cypress.io
5 20 (4.56%) JIRA
6 18 (4.10%) Maven
7 13 (2.96%) SonarQube
8 12 (2.73%) Bitbucket
9 11 (2.51%) TeamCity
10 9 (2.05%) Claude Code
11 8 (1.82%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 8 (1.82%) Postman
12 7 (1.59%) CircleCI
13 5 (1.14%) Cucumber
13 5 (1.14%) Gradle
13 5 (1.14%) JMeter
14 4 (0.91%) JUnit
14 4 (0.91%) Mockito
15 3 (0.68%) Selenium
16 2 (0.46%) Jasmine
General
1 92 (20.96%) Finance
2 89 (20.27%) Social Skills
3 71 (16.17%) Public Sector
4 49 (11.16%) Analytical Skills
5 40 (9.11%) Banking
6 32 (7.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 27 (6.15%) Law
8 18 (4.10%) Marketing
9 14 (3.19%) Retail
10 13 (2.96%) Aviation
11 12 (2.73%) Aerospace
12 11 (2.51%) Influencing Skills
12 11 (2.51%) Telecoms
13 7 (1.59%) Health Technology
14 6 (1.37%) Billing
15 5 (1.14%) Front Office
15 5 (1.14%) Military
16 4 (0.91%) Advertising
16 4 (0.91%) Legal
16 4 (0.91%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 125 (28.47%) Developer
2 121 (27.56%) Senior
3 69 (15.72%) Data Engineer
4 67 (15.26%) AWS Engineer
5 52 (11.85%) Java Developer
6 49 (11.16%) Lead
7 46 (10.48%) Senior Developer
8 45 (10.25%) Full-Stack Developer
9 38 (8.66%) Software Engineer
10 37 (8.43%) AWS Developer
11 33 (7.52%) DevOps Engineer
12 21 (4.78%) Architect
12 21 (4.78%) AWS Data Engineer
13 18 (4.10%) Consultant
13 18 (4.10%) Platform Engineer
13 18 (4.10%) Senior Consultant
14 17 (3.87%) Cloud Engineer
14 17 (3.87%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 17 (3.87%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
15 14 (3.19%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 194 (44.19%) Terraform
2 109 (24.83%) Node.js
3 76 (17.31%) AngularJS
4 68 (15.49%) React
5 58 (13.21%) Spring Boot
6 52 (11.85%) Spring
7 47 (10.71%) RESTful
8 45 (10.25%) .NET
8 45 (10.25%) AWS CDK
8 45 (10.25%) Kafka
9 42 (9.57%) REST
10 41 (9.34%) PySpark
11 30 (6.83%) Swagger
12 25 (5.69%) Gherkin
12 25 (5.69%) Jest
13 24 (5.47%) OpenAPI
14 17 (3.87%) JSON
15 16 (3.64%) RabbitMQ
16 14 (3.19%) OAuth
16 14 (3.19%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 129 (29.38%) Cloud Native
2 33 (7.52%) Distributed Systems
3 32 (7.29%) Onboarding
4 30 (6.83%) Hybrid Cloud
5 18 (4.10%) Enterprise Cloud
6 17 (3.87%) Product Ownership
7 13 (2.96%) AI Agents
7 13 (2.96%) Linux Command Line
8 11 (2.51%) Greenfield Project
8 11 (2.51%) Mobile Banking
9 8 (1.82%) Data Structures
10 7 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
10 7 (1.59%) Low-Code
10 7 (1.59%) NHS
11 6 (1.37%) Blog
11 6 (1.37%) Public Cloud
11 6 (1.37%) Replication
12 5 (1.14%) Blockchain
12 5 (1.14%) IVR
12 5 (1.14%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 38 (8.66%) Linux
2 12 (2.73%) Windows
3 7 (1.59%) CentOS
3 7 (1.59%) Debian
3 7 (1.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (1.59%) Ubuntu
4 5 (1.14%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.46%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 272 (61.96%) CI/CD
2 177 (40.32%) DevOps
2 177 (40.32%) Infrastructure as Code
3 176 (40.09%) Agile
4 128 (29.16%) Mentoring
5 124 (28.25%) AI
6 109 (24.83%) Software Engineering
7 95 (21.64%) Microservices
8 90 (20.50%) Full-Stack Development
8 90 (20.50%) Problem-Solving
9 89 (20.27%) Observability
10 83 (18.91%) Continuous Improvement
11 77 (17.54%) Analytics
11 77 (17.54%) Event-Driven
12 75 (17.08%) Test Automation
13 74 (16.86%) ETL
14 73 (16.63%) Decision-Making
15 69 (15.72%) Data Engineering
16 64 (14.58%) Technical Leadership
17 63 (14.35%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 228 (51.94%) Python
2 160 (36.45%) SQL
3 128 (29.16%) Java
4 118 (26.88%) TypeScript
5 74 (16.86%) Bash
6 71 (16.17%) JavaScript
7 43 (9.79%) C#
8 29 (6.61%) Kotlin
9 27 (6.15%) Groovy
10 19 (4.33%) C++
10 19 (4.33%) Ruby
11 17 (3.87%) PHP
12 15 (3.42%) PowerShell
13 14 (3.19%) Perl
14 13 (2.96%) Scala
15 10 (2.28%) Go
16 4 (0.91%) Shell Script
17 3 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 2 (0.46%) PL/SQL
18 2 (0.46%) Rust
Qualifications
1 105 (23.92%) Security Cleared
2 69 (15.72%) SC Cleared
3 62 (14.12%) AWS Certification
4 33 (7.52%) DV Cleared
5 32 (7.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 14 (3.19%) Degree
7 12 (2.73%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 10 (2.28%) ITIL Certification
9 8 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
10 7 (1.59%) AWS Certified Developer
11 5 (1.14%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 5 (1.14%) Master's Degree
11 5 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (1.14%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 4 (0.91%) CCNA
12 4 (0.91%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (0.91%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.91%) OSCP
12 4 (0.91%) RHCE
12 4 (0.91%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (14.35%) Data Quality
2 25 (5.69%) QA
3 14 (3.19%) Accessibility
3 14 (3.19%) GDPR
4 5 (1.14%) HIPAA
5 4 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 146 (33.26%) Docker
2 6 (1.37%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.91%) Squid
3 4 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.91%) VMware NSX
3 4 (0.91%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 73 (16.63%) Kubernetes
2 33 (7.52%) Ansible
3 31 (7.06%) Grafana
4 30 (6.83%) Prometheus
5 14 (3.19%) Packer
6 11 (2.51%) HP Fortify
7 9 (2.05%) Puppet
8 6 (1.37%) Rancher
9 5 (1.14%) Argo
10 4 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.91%) ZABBIX
11 3 (0.68%) Kibana
12 2 (0.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.46%) logstash
12 2 (0.46%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 2 (0.46%) Oracle RMAN
13 1 (0.23%) Fluentd
Vendors
1 32 (7.29%) Databricks
2 16 (3.64%) Dynatrace
3 15 (3.42%) Google
4 14 (3.19%) Oracle
4 14 (3.19%) Red Hat
4 14 (3.19%) Splunk
5 13 (2.96%) Microsoft
5 13 (2.96%) OpenAI
6 8 (1.82%) Salesforce
7 7 (1.59%) Avaya
7 7 (1.59%) Cisco
7 7 (1.59%) Genesys
7 7 (1.59%) SaltStack
7 7 (1.59%) ServiceNow
8 6 (1.37%) Confluent
9 5 (1.14%) SnapLogic
10 4 (0.91%) HubSpot
10 4 (0.91%) VMware
11 3 (0.68%) LexisNexis
11 3 (0.68%) PeopleSoft