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

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 339 236 359
Rank change year-on-year -103 +123 -2
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 384 507 601
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.49% 1.35% 0.73%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.55% 3.66% 2.03%
Number of salaries quoted 261 374 489
10th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £83,750 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.43% +11.67% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £115,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £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 24,835 13,835 29,593
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 31.75% 36.94% 35.79%
Number of salaries quoted 13,112 10,266 24,267
10th Percentile £30,500 £31,438 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% +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 £62,225 £57,500
% change year-on-year -3.58% +8.22% -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 23 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 23 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 -110 144 £82,500 -13.16% 64
North of England +17 136 £72,500 +4.69% 36
Yorkshire +29 109 £72,500 +23.40% 7
Midlands -21 45 £55,000 -4.35% 10
East Midlands -23 32 £57,500 -16.36% 6
South West -47 30 £62,500 +4.17% 10
North West -29 26 £72,500 -3.33% 26
South East -70 22 £82,500 +50.00% 22
West Midlands -35 13 £49,500 -13.91% 4
East of England -65 4 £62,500 -26.47% 11
North East -47 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 (6.77%) Apache
2 23 (5.99%) Apache Spark
3 19 (4.95%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.78%) Confluence
4 3 (0.78%) JBoss
5 2 (0.52%) 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 (1.56%) Spreadsheet
2 4 (1.04%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 384 (100.00%) Serverless
2 383 (99.74%) AWS
3 283 (73.70%) Amazon S3
4 151 (39.32%) AWS CloudFormation
5 117 (30.47%) AWS Step Functions
6 115 (29.95%) Amazon ECS
7 98 (25.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 95 (24.74%) Amazon SQS
9 81 (21.09%) GitHub
10 73 (19.01%) Amazon EC2
11 60 (15.63%) GitHub Actions
12 55 (14.32%) Amazon ECR
13 51 (13.28%) Apigee
14 48 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
15 45 (11.72%) Azure
16 42 (10.94%) Amazon EventBridge
16 42 (10.94%) Datadog
17 28 (7.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 26 (6.77%) Amazon OpenSearch
19 23 (5.99%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.39%) DSL
2 10 (2.60%) 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 2 (0.52%) 4G
6 2 (0.52%) 5G
7 1 (0.26%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 169 (44.01%) DynamoDB
2 81 (21.09%) Amazon RDS
3 63 (16.41%) NoSQL
4 41 (10.68%) Amazon Redshift
5 38 (9.90%) Amazon Athena
6 27 (7.03%) PostgreSQL
7 26 (6.77%) Data Warehouse
8 17 (4.43%) SQL Server
9 12 (3.13%) Big Data
10 11 (2.86%) Data Lake
10 11 (2.86%) Relational Database
11 9 (2.34%) MySQL
12 8 (2.08%) Hadoop
13 7 (1.82%) Apache Iceberg
13 7 (1.82%) Metadata
13 7 (1.82%) Snowflake Schema
14 6 (1.56%) Amazon Aurora
14 6 (1.56%) MongoDB
14 6 (1.56%) Power BI
15 5 (1.30%) Cloudera CDH
Development Applications
1 116 (30.21%) Jenkins
2 89 (23.18%) GitLab
3 72 (18.75%) Git
4 47 (12.24%) SonarQube
5 45 (11.72%) Maven
6 42 (10.94%) Cypress.io
7 15 (3.91%) CircleCI
8 14 (3.65%) JIRA
9 9 (2.34%) Cucumber
10 7 (1.82%) Bitbucket
11 5 (1.30%) MLflow
12 4 (1.04%) Artifactory
12 4 (1.04%) Postman
12 4 (1.04%) Selenium
12 4 (1.04%) SpecFlow
13 3 (0.78%) ESLint
13 3 (0.78%) git-flow
13 3 (0.78%) Gradle
13 3 (0.78%) Octopus Deploy
14 2 (0.52%) webpack
General
1 104 (27.08%) Social Skills
2 51 (13.28%) Finance
3 41 (10.68%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (5.73%) Public Sector
5 18 (4.69%) Banking
6 16 (4.17%) Health Technology
7 13 (3.39%) Influencing Skills
7 13 (3.39%) Publishing
7 13 (3.39%) Tech for Good
8 12 (3.13%) Advertising
8 12 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (1.82%) Billing
10 4 (1.04%) Aerospace
11 3 (0.78%) Investment Banking
11 3 (0.78%) Law
11 3 (0.78%) Legal
11 3 (0.78%) Military
12 2 (0.52%) Front Office
12 2 (0.52%) Games
12 2 (0.52%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 181 (47.14%) Developer
2 98 (25.52%) Senior
3 68 (17.71%) Java Developer
4 64 (16.67%) AWS Developer
5 56 (14.58%) Lead
6 53 (13.80%) Senior Developer
7 40 (10.42%) Full-Stack Developer
8 39 (10.16%) AWS Engineer
9 37 (9.64%) Data Engineer
10 32 (8.33%) Lead Developer
11 30 (7.81%) React Developer
12 28 (7.29%) Software Engineer
13 27 (7.03%) Python Developer
14 24 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
15 20 (5.21%) AWS Data Engineer
15 20 (5.21%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 20 (5.21%) Software Developer
16 19 (4.95%) Cloud Engineer
16 19 (4.95%) Node.js Developer
17 18 (4.69%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (29.95%) Node.js
2 106 (27.60%) React
3 83 (21.61%) AngularJS
4 76 (19.79%) Spring Boot
5 59 (15.36%) RESTful
6 49 (12.76%) AWS CDK
7 48 (12.50%) Spring
8 42 (10.94%) Jest
9 41 (10.68%) Gherkin
10 34 (8.85%) Kafka
11 33 (8.59%) RabbitMQ
12 30 (7.81%) REST
13 26 (6.77%) HTML
14 22 (5.73%) .NET
15 20 (5.21%) CSS
15 20 (5.21%) gRPC
16 15 (3.91%) .NET Core
16 15 (3.91%) JSON
16 15 (3.91%) web3js
17 13 (3.39%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 90 (23.44%) Cloud Native
2 23 (5.99%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (4.43%) Greenfield Project
4 15 (3.91%) Blockchain
4 15 (3.91%) Web3
5 11 (2.86%) Product Ownership
6 7 (1.82%) Data Structures
6 7 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
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 29 (7.55%) Linux
2 7 (1.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (1.30%) CentOS
3 5 (1.30%) Debian
3 5 (1.30%) Ubuntu
3 5 (1.30%) Windows
4 2 (0.52%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 250 (65.10%) CI/CD
2 198 (51.56%) DevOps
3 158 (41.15%) Agile
4 148 (38.54%) Infrastructure as Code
5 87 (22.66%) Problem-Solving
6 86 (22.40%) Containerisation
6 86 (22.40%) Full-Stack Development
7 85 (22.14%) Microservices
8 84 (21.88%) Software Engineering
9 77 (20.05%) Mentoring
10 64 (16.67%) Observability
11 59 (15.36%) Continuous Integration
12 56 (14.58%) Test Automation
13 49 (12.76%) Continuous Improvement
14 45 (11.72%) DevSecOps
15 43 (11.20%) Data Pipeline
16 41 (10.68%) Analytics
16 41 (10.68%) Event-Driven
17 37 (9.64%) AI
17 37 (9.64%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 188 (48.96%) Python
2 132 (34.38%) TypeScript
3 121 (31.51%) SQL
4 115 (29.95%) Java
5 70 (18.23%) JavaScript
6 62 (16.15%) Bash
7 47 (12.24%) Groovy
8 31 (8.07%) Go
9 27 (7.03%) Kotlin
10 13 (3.39%) Rust
11 12 (3.13%) 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 74 (19.27%) AWS Certification
2 57 (14.84%) Security Cleared
3 44 (11.46%) Degree
4 43 (11.20%) SC Cleared
5 28 (7.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 24 (6.25%) ITIL Certification
7 23 (5.99%) AWS Certified Developer
8 19 (4.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 19 (4.95%) Computer Science Degree
9 14 (3.65%) OSCP
10 10 (2.60%) DV Cleared
11 5 (1.30%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 3 (0.78%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 3 (0.78%) IIBA
12 3 (0.78%) PhD
13 2 (0.52%) Master's Degree
14 1 (0.26%) GAWN
14 1 (0.26%) GCIH
14 1 (0.26%) GREM
14 1 (0.26%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (8.59%) QA
2 21 (5.47%) 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
1 156 (40.63%) Docker
2 4 (1.04%) iptables
3 3 (0.78%) Firmware
4 2 (0.52%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 141 (36.72%) Terraform
2 90 (23.44%) Kubernetes
3 41 (10.68%) HP Fortify
4 38 (9.90%) Ansible
5 30 (7.81%) Prometheus
6 22 (5.73%) Grafana
7 9 (2.34%) 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 13 (3.39%) Databricks
2 7 (1.82%) AppDynamics
2 7 (1.82%) Oracle
2 7 (1.82%) Red Hat
3 6 (1.56%) IBM
4 5 (1.30%) Google
4 5 (1.30%) HubSpot
4 5 (1.30%) Salesforce
4 5 (1.30%) SaltStack
5 3 (0.78%) Atlassian
5 3 (0.78%) Microsoft
6 1 (0.26%) Apple
6 1 (0.26%) Cisco
6 1 (0.26%) Informatica
6 1 (0.26%) New Relic
6 1 (0.26%) Splunk
6 1 (0.26%) YouTube