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

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 344 280 357
Rank change year-on-year -64 +77 +1
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 379 438 591
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.47% 1.14% 0.71%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.52% 3.19% 2.00%
Number of salaries quoted 258 362 478
10th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £52,275
25th Percentile £58,750 £61,563 £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 £108,250 £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 24,987 13,723 29,621
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 31.09% 35.71% 35.49%
Number of salaries quoted 13,264 10,131 24,191
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £43,899 £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 £61,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +2.46% +6.09% -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 4 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 4 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 -84 145 £76,750 -19.21% 79
North of England +17 135 £72,500 +4.69% 42
Yorkshire +19 106 £72,500 +23.40% 10
Midlands -20 44 £55,000 -2.22% 12
East Midlands -18 32 £57,500 +4.55% 9
North West -26 28 £75,000 - 26
South West -49 28 £62,500 +4.17% 19
South East -42 21 £82,500 +50.00% 16
West Midlands -24 12 £49,000 -14.78% 3
East of England -36 4 £62,500 -26.47% 5
North East -39 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 19 (5.01%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.79%) Confluence
4 3 (0.79%) JBoss
5 2 (0.53%) Oracle Application Server
6 1 (0.26%) CMS
6 1 (0.26%) IIS
6 1 (0.26%) nginx
6 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
3 277 (73.09%) Amazon S3
4 155 (40.90%) AWS CloudFormation
5 114 (30.08%) Amazon ECS
6 112 (29.55%) AWS Step Functions
7 97 (25.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 87 (22.96%) Amazon SQS
9 78 (20.58%) GitHub
10 74 (19.53%) Amazon EC2
11 60 (15.83%) GitHub Actions
12 56 (14.78%) Amazon ECR
13 52 (13.72%) Apigee
14 44 (11.61%) Amazon EKS
15 43 (11.35%) Datadog
16 41 (10.82%) Azure
17 40 (10.55%) Amazon EventBridge
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%) Network Security
4 4 (1.06%) Firewall
5 3 (0.79%) Broadband
5 3 (0.79%) DNS
5 3 (0.79%) VPN
6 2 (0.53%) 4G
6 2 (0.53%) 5G
7 1 (0.26%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 171 (45.12%) DynamoDB
2 80 (21.11%) Amazon RDS
3 60 (15.83%) NoSQL
4 39 (10.29%) Amazon Athena
4 39 (10.29%) Amazon Redshift
5 26 (6.86%) PostgreSQL
6 23 (6.07%) Data Warehouse
7 16 (4.22%) SQL Server
8 11 (2.90%) Big Data
8 11 (2.90%) Relational Database
9 10 (2.64%) Data Lake
10 9 (2.37%) MySQL
11 7 (1.85%) Metadata
11 7 (1.85%) Snowflake Schema
12 6 (1.58%) Amazon Aurora
12 6 (1.58%) Apache Iceberg
12 6 (1.58%) Hadoop
12 6 (1.58%) Power BI
13 5 (1.32%) Cloudera CDH
14 4 (1.06%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 121 (31.93%) Jenkins
2 91 (24.01%) GitLab
3 73 (19.26%) Git
4 47 (12.40%) Maven
4 47 (12.40%) SonarQube
5 43 (11.35%) Cypress.io
6 17 (4.49%) CircleCI
7 14 (3.69%) JIRA
8 9 (2.37%) Cucumber
9 8 (2.11%) Bitbucket
10 5 (1.32%) Gradle
11 4 (1.06%) Artifactory
11 4 (1.06%) MLflow
11 4 (1.06%) Postman
11 4 (1.06%) Selenium
11 4 (1.06%) SpecFlow
12 3 (0.79%) ESLint
12 3 (0.79%) Octopus Deploy
13 2 (0.53%) DBeaver
13 2 (0.53%) webpack
General
1 102 (26.91%) Social Skills
2 50 (13.19%) Finance
3 40 (10.55%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (5.54%) Public Sector
5 20 (5.28%) Banking
6 17 (4.49%) Health Technology
7 14 (3.69%) Publishing
7 14 (3.69%) Tech for Good
8 12 (3.17%) Advertising
8 12 (3.17%) Influencing Skills
9 10 (2.64%) 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%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 181 (47.76%) Developer
2 97 (25.59%) Senior
3 68 (17.94%) Java Developer
4 64 (16.89%) AWS Developer
5 57 (15.04%) Lead
6 55 (14.51%) Senior Developer
7 40 (10.55%) Full-Stack Developer
8 38 (10.03%) AWS Engineer
9 36 (9.50%) Data Engineer
10 31 (8.18%) Lead Developer
10 31 (8.18%) React Developer
11 28 (7.39%) Python Developer
12 27 (7.12%) DevOps Engineer
13 25 (6.60%) Software Engineer
14 22 (5.80%) Software Developer
15 19 (5.01%) Architect
15 19 (5.01%) Cloud Engineer
15 19 (5.01%) Node.js Developer
16 18 (4.75%) AWS Data Engineer
16 18 (4.75%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 112 (29.55%) Node.js
2 102 (26.91%) React
3 84 (22.16%) AngularJS
4 75 (19.79%) Spring Boot
5 61 (16.09%) RESTful
6 46 (12.14%) AWS CDK
6 46 (12.14%) Spring
7 42 (11.08%) Gherkin
7 42 (11.08%) Jest
8 35 (9.23%) Kafka
9 34 (8.97%) RabbitMQ
10 32 (8.44%) REST
11 25 (6.60%) HTML
12 22 (5.80%) gRPC
13 20 (5.28%) .NET
14 19 (5.01%) CSS
15 18 (4.75%) JSON
16 17 (4.49%) web3js
17 16 (4.22%) YAML
18 13 (3.43%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 81 (21.37%) Cloud Native
2 23 (6.07%) 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%) Onboarding
11 2 (0.53%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 30 (7.92%) 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
1 241 (63.59%) CI/CD
2 192 (50.66%) DevOps
3 150 (39.58%) Agile
4 146 (38.52%) Infrastructure as Code
5 84 (22.16%) Containerisation
5 84 (22.16%) Microservices
6 83 (21.90%) Full-Stack Development
7 82 (21.64%) Problem-Solving
8 81 (21.37%) Software Engineering
9 72 (19.00%) Mentoring
10 60 (15.83%) Observability
11 57 (15.04%) Continuous Integration
11 57 (15.04%) Test Automation
12 46 (12.14%) DevSecOps
13 45 (11.87%) Event-Driven
14 44 (11.61%) Analytics
15 43 (11.35%) Continuous Improvement
16 41 (10.82%) Data Pipeline
17 40 (10.55%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 37 (9.76%) AI
Programming Languages
1 186 (49.08%) Python
2 130 (34.30%) TypeScript
3 121 (31.93%) SQL
4 110 (29.02%) Java
5 63 (16.62%) JavaScript
6 61 (16.09%) Bash
7 48 (12.66%) 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 68 (17.94%) AWS Certification
2 57 (15.04%) 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 21 (5.54%) AWS Certified Developer
8 19 (5.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 18 (4.75%) Computer Science Degree
10 14 (3.69%) OSCP
11 10 (2.64%) 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%) GAWN
14 1 (0.26%) GREM
14 1 (0.26%) Master's Degree
14 1 (0.26%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (8.44%) QA
2 21 (5.54%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.79%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.79%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.53%) GDPR
6 1 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.26%) MiFID
6 1 (0.26%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.26%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 155 (40.90%) 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 31 (8.18%) Prometheus
6 19 (5.01%) 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
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%) Splunk
7 1 (0.26%) YouTube