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

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 350 285 364
Rank change year-on-year -65 +79 -8
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 380 438 591
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.47% 1.13% 0.71%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.51% 3.16% 1.99%
Number of salaries quoted 259 362 478
10th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £52,275
25th Percentile £58,750 £62,500 £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 £108,000 £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 25,168 13,881 29,631
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 30.97% 35.68% 35.50%
Number of salaries quoted 13,415 10,107 24,200
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £44,000 £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 6 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 6 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 -108 145 £76,750 -19.21% 80
North of England +26 134 £73,750 +6.50% 47
Yorkshire +25 106 £72,500 +23.40% 9
Midlands -19 45 £55,000 -2.22% 12
East Midlands -14 33 £60,000 +9.09% 8
South West -49 28 £62,500 +4.17% 20
North West -24 27 £75,000 - 27
South East -36 21 £82,500 +50.00% 24
West Midlands -32 12 £49,000 -14.78% 4
East of England -32 4 £62,500 -26.47% 6
North East -32 1 £90,000 +44.00% 11
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 (6.84%) Apache
2 21 (5.53%) Apache Spark
3 20 (5.26%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.05%) Confluence
5 3 (0.79%) JBoss
6 2 (0.53%) Oracle Application Server
7 1 (0.26%) CMS
7 1 (0.26%) IIS
7 1 (0.26%) nginx
7 1 (0.26%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (1.58%) Spreadsheet
2 4 (1.05%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 380 (100.00%) Serverless
2 379 (99.74%) AWS
3 278 (73.16%) Amazon S3
4 156 (41.05%) AWS CloudFormation
5 115 (30.26%) Amazon ECS
6 114 (30.00%) AWS Step Functions
7 97 (25.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 86 (22.63%) Amazon SQS
9 78 (20.53%) GitHub
10 73 (19.21%) Amazon EC2
11 59 (15.53%) GitHub Actions
12 57 (15.00%) Amazon ECR
13 53 (13.95%) Apigee
14 44 (11.58%) Amazon EKS
15 43 (11.32%) Datadog
16 39 (10.26%) Amazon EventBridge
16 39 (10.26%) Azure
17 29 (7.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 27 (7.11%) Amazon OpenSearch
19 23 (6.05%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.42%) DSL
2 10 (2.63%) AMQP
3 6 (1.58%) Network Security
4 5 (1.32%) 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
1 170 (44.74%) DynamoDB
2 79 (20.79%) Amazon RDS
3 58 (15.26%) NoSQL
4 40 (10.53%) Amazon Redshift
5 39 (10.26%) Amazon Athena
6 25 (6.58%) PostgreSQL
7 23 (6.05%) Data Warehouse
8 15 (3.95%) SQL Server
9 11 (2.89%) Big Data
9 11 (2.89%) Relational Database
10 10 (2.63%) Data Lake
11 9 (2.37%) MySQL
12 7 (1.84%) Apache Iceberg
12 7 (1.84%) Metadata
12 7 (1.84%) Snowflake Schema
13 6 (1.58%) Amazon Aurora
13 6 (1.58%) Hadoop
13 6 (1.58%) Power BI
14 5 (1.32%) Cloudera CDH
15 4 (1.05%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 122 (32.11%) Jenkins
2 91 (23.95%) GitLab
3 72 (18.95%) Git
4 48 (12.63%) Maven
5 47 (12.37%) SonarQube
6 44 (11.58%) Cypress.io
7 17 (4.47%) CircleCI
8 15 (3.95%) JIRA
9 10 (2.63%) Cucumber
10 8 (2.11%) Bitbucket
11 5 (1.32%) Gradle
12 4 (1.05%) Artifactory
12 4 (1.05%) MLflow
12 4 (1.05%) Postman
12 4 (1.05%) Selenium
12 4 (1.05%) SpecFlow
13 3 (0.79%) ESLint
13 3 (0.79%) Octopus Deploy
14 2 (0.53%) Claude Code
14 2 (0.53%) TeamCity
General
1 100 (26.32%) Social Skills
2 50 (13.16%) Finance
3 41 (10.79%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (5.79%) Public Sector
5 20 (5.26%) Banking
6 16 (4.21%) Health Technology
7 13 (3.42%) Publishing
7 13 (3.42%) Tech for Good
8 12 (3.16%) Advertising
9 11 (2.89%) Influencing Skills
10 9 (2.37%) Organisational Skills
11 7 (1.84%) Billing
12 4 (1.05%) Aerospace
13 3 (0.79%) Investment Banking
13 3 (0.79%) Law
13 3 (0.79%) Legal
13 3 (0.79%) Military
14 2 (0.53%) Front Office
14 2 (0.53%) Games
14 2 (0.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 180 (47.37%) Developer
2 98 (25.79%) Senior
3 68 (17.89%) Java Developer
4 62 (16.32%) AWS Developer
5 56 (14.74%) Lead
6 55 (14.47%) Senior Developer
7 41 (10.79%) Full-Stack Developer
8 39 (10.26%) AWS Engineer
9 37 (9.74%) Data Engineer
10 30 (7.89%) Lead Developer
10 30 (7.89%) React Developer
11 27 (7.11%) DevOps Engineer
11 27 (7.11%) Python Developer
12 24 (6.32%) Software Engineer
13 21 (5.53%) Software Developer
14 19 (5.00%) Architect
14 19 (5.00%) AWS Data Engineer
14 19 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
14 19 (5.00%) Node.js Developer
15 18 (4.74%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (29.74%) Node.js
2 100 (26.32%) React
3 84 (22.11%) AngularJS
4 77 (20.26%) Spring Boot
5 59 (15.53%) RESTful
6 48 (12.63%) Spring
7 46 (12.11%) AWS CDK
8 43 (11.32%) Gherkin
9 42 (11.05%) Jest
10 35 (9.21%) Kafka
11 34 (8.95%) RabbitMQ
12 32 (8.42%) REST
13 25 (6.58%) HTML
14 22 (5.79%) gRPC
15 19 (5.00%) .NET
15 19 (5.00%) CSS
16 18 (4.74%) JSON
17 17 (4.47%) web3js
18 16 (4.21%) YAML
19 12 (3.16%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 80 (21.05%) Cloud Native
2 23 (6.05%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (4.47%) Blockchain
3 17 (4.47%) Web3
4 15 (3.95%) Greenfield Project
5 10 (2.63%) Product Ownership
6 7 (1.84%) Data Structures
7 6 (1.58%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (1.32%) Linux Command Line
8 5 (1.32%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.05%) NHS
9 4 (1.05%) 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%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (0.53%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 30 (7.89%) Linux
2 7 (1.84%) 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
1 240 (63.16%) CI/CD
2 192 (50.53%) DevOps
3 149 (39.21%) Agile
4 147 (38.68%) Infrastructure as Code
5 83 (21.84%) Containerisation
5 83 (21.84%) Full-Stack Development
6 82 (21.58%) Microservices
7 81 (21.32%) Problem-Solving
8 80 (21.05%) Software Engineering
9 72 (18.95%) Mentoring
10 60 (15.79%) Observability
11 58 (15.26%) Test Automation
12 55 (14.47%) Continuous Integration
13 46 (12.11%) DevSecOps
14 45 (11.84%) Analytics
14 45 (11.84%) Event-Driven
15 43 (11.32%) Continuous Improvement
16 41 (10.79%) Data Pipeline
17 40 (10.53%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 38 (10.00%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 188 (49.47%) Python
2 131 (34.47%) TypeScript
3 120 (31.58%) SQL
4 111 (29.21%) Java
5 62 (16.32%) Bash
5 62 (16.32%) JavaScript
6 49 (12.89%) Groovy
7 32 (8.42%) Go
8 28 (7.37%) Kotlin
9 13 (3.42%) Rust
10 12 (3.16%) PowerShell
11 9 (2.37%) C#
12 8 (2.11%) PHP
13 4 (1.05%) Perl
14 2 (0.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.53%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.53%) R
14 2 (0.53%) Scala
14 2 (0.53%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 67 (17.63%) AWS Certification
2 57 (15.00%) Security Cleared
3 45 (11.84%) SC Cleared
4 42 (11.05%) Degree
5 28 (7.37%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 24 (6.32%) ITIL Certification
7 20 (5.26%) AWS Certified Developer
8 19 (5.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 18 (4.74%) Computer Science Degree
10 14 (3.68%) OSCP
11 11 (2.89%) 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 31 (8.16%) QA
2 21 (5.53%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.79%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.79%) GDPR
4 3 (0.79%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.26%) MiFID
5 1 (0.26%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.26%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 155 (40.79%) Docker
2 4 (1.05%) iptables
3 3 (0.79%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 141 (37.11%) Terraform
2 85 (22.37%) Kubernetes
3 41 (10.79%) HP Fortify
4 39 (10.26%) Ansible
5 32 (8.42%) Prometheus
6 20 (5.26%) Grafana
7 9 (2.37%) Puppet
8 6 (1.58%) Progress Chef
9 4 (1.05%) Kibana
9 4 (1.05%) Packer
10 3 (0.79%) Scalr
11 1 (0.26%) Red Hat Satellite
11 1 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (2.89%) Databricks
2 7 (1.84%) AppDynamics
2 7 (1.84%) Oracle
2 7 (1.84%) 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
6 2 (0.53%) Splunk
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%) YouTube