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

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 350 239 350
Rank change year-on-year -111 +111 +15
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 385 505 603
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.50% 1.35% 0.73%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.57% 3.67% 2.04%
Number of salaries quoted 264 371 490
10th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £85,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.71% +13.33% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £115,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £138,750 £118,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £80,000 £71,500
% change year-on-year -12.50% +11.89% -4.67%

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 24,527 13,774 29,534
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 31.66% 36.87% 35.82%
Number of salaries quoted 13,046 10,237 24,251
10th Percentile £30,500 £31,690 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -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 20 April 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 20 April 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 -100 147 £77,500 -18.42% 76
North of England +27 135 £72,500 +4.69% 37
Yorkshire +23 110 £72,500 +23.40% 7
Midlands -22 44 £55,000 -4.35% 11
East Midlands -28 31 £57,500 -16.36% 5
South West -46 30 £62,500 +4.17% 9
North West -27 24 £75,000 - 27
South East -76 22 £82,500 +50.00% 18
West Midlands -42 13 £49,500 -13.91% 6
East of England -62 4 £62,500 -26.47% 10
North East -41 1 £90,000 +44.00% 3
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 (6.75%) Apache
2 23 (5.97%) Apache Spark
3 20 (5.19%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.78%) Confluence
4 3 (0.78%) JBoss
5 2 (0.52%) nginx
5 2 (0.52%) Oracle Application Server
6 1 (0.26%) CMS
6 1 (0.26%) IIS
6 1 (0.26%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (1.56%) Spreadsheet
2 4 (1.04%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 385 (100.00%) Serverless
2 384 (99.74%) AWS
3 282 (73.25%) Amazon S3
4 152 (39.48%) AWS CloudFormation
5 116 (30.13%) Amazon ECS
6 113 (29.35%) AWS Step Functions
7 96 (24.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 93 (24.16%) Amazon SQS
9 81 (21.04%) GitHub
10 73 (18.96%) Amazon EC2
11 60 (15.58%) GitHub Actions
12 54 (14.03%) Amazon ECR
13 50 (12.99%) Amazon EKS
13 50 (12.99%) Apigee
14 46 (11.95%) Azure
15 43 (11.17%) Datadog
16 40 (10.39%) Amazon EventBridge
17 26 (6.75%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 26 (6.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 23 (5.97%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.38%) DSL
2 12 (3.12%) AMQP
3 6 (1.56%) Network Security
4 5 (1.30%) Broadband
4 5 (1.30%) Firewall
5 3 (0.78%) DNS
5 3 (0.78%) VPN
6 1 (0.26%) 4G
6 1 (0.26%) 5G
6 1 (0.26%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 166 (43.12%) DynamoDB
2 81 (21.04%) Amazon RDS
3 62 (16.10%) NoSQL
4 40 (10.39%) Amazon Redshift
5 38 (9.87%) Amazon Athena
6 27 (7.01%) PostgreSQL
7 26 (6.75%) Data Warehouse
8 17 (4.42%) SQL Server
9 13 (3.38%) Big Data
10 12 (3.12%) Data Lake
11 10 (2.60%) Relational Database
12 9 (2.34%) Hadoop
12 9 (2.34%) MySQL
13 8 (2.08%) Metadata
14 7 (1.82%) MongoDB
14 7 (1.82%) Snowflake Schema
15 6 (1.56%) Amazon Aurora
15 6 (1.56%) Apache Iceberg
15 6 (1.56%) Cloudera CDH
15 6 (1.56%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 114 (29.61%) Jenkins
2 87 (22.60%) GitLab
3 71 (18.44%) Git
4 46 (11.95%) SonarQube
5 44 (11.43%) Maven
6 42 (10.91%) Cypress.io
7 14 (3.64%) CircleCI
7 14 (3.64%) JIRA
8 9 (2.34%) Cucumber
9 7 (1.82%) Bitbucket
10 5 (1.30%) MLflow
11 4 (1.04%) Artifactory
11 4 (1.04%) Postman
11 4 (1.04%) Selenium
11 4 (1.04%) SpecFlow
12 3 (0.78%) ESLint
12 3 (0.78%) git-flow
12 3 (0.78%) Gradle
12 3 (0.78%) Octopus Deploy
12 3 (0.78%) webpack
General
1 105 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 49 (12.73%) Finance
3 39 (10.13%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (5.45%) Public Sector
5 17 (4.42%) Banking
5 17 (4.42%) Health Technology
6 15 (3.90%) Influencing Skills
6 15 (3.90%) Publishing
6 15 (3.90%) Tech for Good
7 14 (3.64%) Organisational Skills
8 12 (3.12%) Advertising
9 6 (1.56%) Billing
10 5 (1.30%) Aerospace
11 4 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.78%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.78%) Law
12 3 (0.78%) Legal
12 3 (0.78%) Military
13 2 (0.52%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.52%) Games
Job Titles
1 180 (46.75%) Developer
2 94 (24.42%) Senior
3 67 (17.40%) Java Developer
4 65 (16.88%) AWS Developer
5 57 (14.81%) Lead
6 50 (12.99%) Senior Developer
7 40 (10.39%) Full-Stack Developer
8 36 (9.35%) AWS Engineer
9 34 (8.83%) Data Engineer
9 34 (8.83%) Lead Developer
10 33 (8.57%) Software Engineer
11 31 (8.05%) React Developer
12 29 (7.53%) Python Developer
13 24 (6.23%) DevOps Engineer
14 21 (5.45%) Software Developer
15 20 (5.19%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 19 (4.94%) Architect
16 19 (4.94%) Cloud Engineer
16 19 (4.94%) Node.js Developer
17 17 (4.42%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (30.39%) Node.js
2 108 (28.05%) React
3 85 (22.08%) AngularJS
4 77 (20.00%) Spring Boot
5 61 (15.84%) RESTful
6 50 (12.99%) Spring
7 47 (12.21%) AWS CDK
8 42 (10.91%) Jest
9 40 (10.39%) Gherkin
10 34 (8.83%) RabbitMQ
11 32 (8.31%) Kafka
12 30 (7.79%) REST
13 27 (7.01%) HTML
14 22 (5.71%) .NET
15 21 (5.45%) CSS
15 21 (5.45%) gRPC
16 15 (3.90%) .NET Core
16 15 (3.90%) JSON
17 14 (3.64%) web3js
18 13 (3.38%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 93 (24.16%) Cloud Native
2 23 (5.97%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (3.64%) Blockchain
3 14 (3.64%) Greenfield Project
3 14 (3.64%) Web3
4 12 (3.12%) Product Ownership
5 8 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (1.82%) Data Structures
7 5 (1.30%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.04%) NHS
8 4 (1.04%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.04%) Security Posture
9 3 (0.78%) IoT
9 3 (0.78%) Private Cloud
9 3 (0.78%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.52%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.52%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (0.52%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 30 (7.79%) Linux
2 8 (2.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (1.56%) CentOS
3 6 (1.56%) Debian
3 6 (1.56%) Ubuntu
4 5 (1.30%) Windows
5 2 (0.52%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 250 (64.94%) CI/CD
2 198 (51.43%) DevOps
3 159 (41.30%) Agile
4 150 (38.96%) Infrastructure as Code
5 89 (23.12%) Software Engineering
6 86 (22.34%) Containerisation
6 86 (22.34%) Full-Stack Development
7 85 (22.08%) Microservices
8 84 (21.82%) Problem-Solving
9 80 (20.78%) Mentoring
10 64 (16.62%) Observability
11 58 (15.06%) Continuous Integration
12 53 (13.77%) Test Automation
13 50 (12.99%) Continuous Improvement
14 45 (11.69%) DevSecOps
15 43 (11.17%) Data Pipeline
16 40 (10.39%) Analytics
17 39 (10.13%) AI
17 39 (10.13%) Scrum
18 38 (9.87%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 188 (48.83%) Python
2 132 (34.29%) TypeScript
3 118 (30.65%) SQL
4 117 (30.39%) Java
5 73 (18.96%) JavaScript
6 61 (15.84%) Bash
7 46 (11.95%) Groovy
8 30 (7.79%) Go
9 27 (7.01%) Kotlin
10 13 (3.38%) Rust
11 12 (3.12%) PowerShell
12 9 (2.34%) C#
13 8 (2.08%) PHP
14 4 (1.04%) Perl
15 3 (0.78%) Scala
16 2 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 2 (0.52%) PL/SQL
16 2 (0.52%) R
16 2 (0.52%) Shell Script
17 1 (0.26%) C++
Qualifications
1 75 (19.48%) AWS Certification
2 59 (15.32%) Security Cleared
3 45 (11.69%) Degree
3 45 (11.69%) SC Cleared
4 27 (7.01%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 23 (5.97%) AWS Certified Developer
5 23 (5.97%) ITIL Certification
6 20 (5.19%) Computer Science Degree
7 19 (4.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 14 (3.64%) OSCP
9 11 (2.86%) DV Cleared
10 5 (1.30%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 3 (0.78%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 3 (0.78%) IIBA
11 3 (0.78%) PhD
12 2 (0.52%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.52%) SnowPro
13 1 (0.26%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 1 (0.26%) GCIH
13 1 (0.26%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (9.09%) QA
2 19 (4.94%) Data Quality
3 6 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.04%) GDPR
5 3 (0.78%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.78%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.26%) MiFID
7 1 (0.26%) NIST
7 1 (0.26%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.26%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 155 (40.26%) Docker
2 4 (1.04%) iptables
3 3 (0.78%) Firmware
4 2 (0.52%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 143 (37.14%) Terraform
2 92 (23.90%) Kubernetes
3 40 (10.39%) HP Fortify
4 39 (10.13%) Ansible
5 30 (7.79%) Prometheus
6 23 (5.97%) Grafana
7 10 (2.60%) Puppet
8 6 (1.56%) Progress Chef
9 4 (1.04%) Kibana
9 4 (1.04%) Packer
10 3 (0.78%) Scalr
11 1 (0.26%) Kubeflow
11 1 (0.26%) Red Hat Satellite
11 1 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (3.12%) Databricks
2 8 (2.08%) Red Hat
3 7 (1.82%) AppDynamics
3 7 (1.82%) Oracle
4 6 (1.56%) Google
4 6 (1.56%) IBM
4 6 (1.56%) SaltStack
5 5 (1.30%) HubSpot
5 5 (1.30%) Salesforce
6 3 (0.78%) Atlassian
6 3 (0.78%) Microsoft
7 1 (0.26%) Apple
7 1 (0.26%) Cisco
7 1 (0.26%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.26%) Informatica
7 1 (0.26%) New Relic
7 1 (0.26%) Splunk
7 1 (0.26%) YouTube