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

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 371 333 413
Rank change year-on-year -38 +80 -55
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 446 356 392
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.46% 0.81% 0.54%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.81% 2.47% 1.70%
Number of salaries quoted 267 259 262
10th Percentile £47,750 £50,600 £52,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.45%
75th Percentile £89,375 £87,500 £96,250
90th Percentile £109,000 £99,000 £107,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% - +7.14%

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 24,600 14,419 23,087
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.52% 32.95% 31.63%
Number of salaries quoted 16,894 10,148 16,627
10th Percentile £31,500 £29,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £39,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £101,250
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.76%

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 26 August 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 26 August 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 +51 173 £75,000 +15.38% 27
London -66 169 £85,000 +13.33% 43
Yorkshire +17 83 £80,000 +33.33% 8
North West +17 59 £70,000 +7.69% 11
South West -64 37 £61,500 -27.65% 16
South East -11 36 £67,500 -15.63% 5
North East -32 31 £67,500 -6.90% 8
Midlands -32 27 £65,000 +52.94% 9
East Midlands -2 19 £65,000 +73.33% 5
West Midlands -44 8 £73,750 +63.89% 4
East of England -52 1 £75,000 -11.76% 5
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 21 (4.71%) Apache Spark
2 20 (4.48%) Apache
3 13 (2.91%) Confluence
4 11 (2.47%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.67%) SAS
6 2 (0.45%) nginx
7 1 (0.22%) CMS
7 1 (0.22%) IIS
7 1 (0.22%) JBoss
7 1 (0.22%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (1.57%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.22%) Finacle
1 1 (0.22%) FLEXCUBE
1 1 (0.22%) Infor SunSystems
1 1 (0.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
1 1 (0.22%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 446 (100.00%) Serverless
2 444 (99.55%) AWS
3 297 (66.59%) Amazon S3
4 175 (39.24%) Amazon ECS
5 171 (38.34%) AWS CloudFormation
6 109 (24.44%) Amazon EC2
7 96 (21.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 93 (20.85%) AWS Step Functions
9 78 (17.49%) GitHub
10 77 (17.26%) Amazon SQS
11 72 (16.14%) Amazon EKS
12 56 (12.56%) Azure
12 56 (12.56%) Datadog
13 54 (12.11%) GitHub Actions
14 48 (10.76%) Amazon EventBridge
15 42 (9.42%) SaaS
16 40 (8.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 38 (8.52%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 35 (7.85%) Amazon ECR
19 30 (6.73%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 16 (3.59%) Network Security
2 12 (2.69%) Firewall
3 6 (1.35%) AMQP
3 6 (1.35%) VPN
4 4 (0.90%) DNS
4 4 (0.90%) IPv4
4 4 (0.90%) Software-Defined Networking
5 2 (0.45%) Broadband
5 2 (0.45%) DSL
5 2 (0.45%) VoIP
6 1 (0.22%) 4G
6 1 (0.22%) 5G
6 1 (0.22%) DHCP
6 1 (0.22%) HTTP
6 1 (0.22%) PSTN
6 1 (0.22%) SSL
6 1 (0.22%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.22%) VLAN
6 1 (0.22%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 161 (36.10%) DynamoDB
2 96 (21.52%) Amazon RDS
3 56 (12.56%) NoSQL
4 49 (10.99%) Amazon Athena
5 44 (9.87%) Amazon Redshift
6 26 (5.83%) Data Warehouse
6 26 (5.83%) PostgreSQL
7 20 (4.48%) SQL Server
8 18 (4.04%) Relational Database
9 15 (3.36%) Metadata
10 14 (3.14%) Elasticsearch
11 12 (2.69%) Big Data
12 11 (2.47%) MongoDB
12 11 (2.47%) MySQL
13 9 (2.02%) Amazon Aurora
13 9 (2.02%) Data Lake
14 8 (1.79%) Power BI
15 7 (1.57%) Azure SQL Database
15 7 (1.57%) Hadoop
16 6 (1.35%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 99 (22.20%) Git
2 93 (20.85%) Jenkins
3 56 (12.56%) GitLab
4 26 (5.83%) Maven
5 24 (5.38%) SonarQube
6 23 (5.16%) Cypress.io
7 22 (4.93%) JIRA
8 14 (3.14%) Bitbucket
9 12 (2.69%) TeamCity
10 10 (2.24%) Cucumber
11 9 (2.02%) CircleCI
12 8 (1.79%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 7 (1.57%) Postman
14 6 (1.35%) Claude Code
14 6 (1.35%) Gradle
15 4 (0.90%) Artifactory
15 4 (0.90%) Selenium
15 4 (0.90%) SpecFlow
16 3 (0.67%) git-flow
16 3 (0.67%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 102 (22.87%) Social Skills
2 101 (22.65%) Finance
3 59 (13.23%) Public Sector
4 42 (9.42%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (9.42%) Banking
5 26 (5.83%) Law
6 19 (4.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 17 (3.81%) Marketing
8 11 (2.47%) Aviation
8 11 (2.47%) Influencing Skills
8 11 (2.47%) Retail
8 11 (2.47%) Telecoms
9 10 (2.24%) Aerospace
10 9 (2.02%) Health Technology
11 7 (1.57%) Billing
11 7 (1.57%) Legal
12 6 (1.35%) Advertising
13 5 (1.12%) Front Office
13 5 (1.12%) Military
14 4 (0.90%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 156 (34.98%) Developer
2 142 (31.84%) Senior
3 66 (14.80%) Java Developer
4 60 (13.45%) Senior Developer
5 56 (12.56%) Full-Stack Developer
5 56 (12.56%) Lead
6 54 (12.11%) AWS Engineer
7 45 (10.09%) Data Engineer
8 39 (8.74%) AWS Developer
9 36 (8.07%) DevOps Engineer
10 34 (7.62%) Software Engineer
11 22 (4.93%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
12 21 (4.71%) Platform Engineer
13 20 (4.48%) Cloud Engineer
14 19 (4.26%) Architect
14 19 (4.26%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 18 (4.04%) Consultant
15 18 (4.04%) Senior Consultant
16 16 (3.59%) AWS Data Engineer
16 16 (3.59%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 191 (42.83%) Terraform
2 121 (27.13%) Node.js
3 89 (19.96%) AngularJS
4 80 (17.94%) React
5 68 (15.25%) Spring Boot
6 56 (12.56%) Spring
7 47 (10.54%) REST
8 43 (9.64%) RESTful
9 42 (9.42%) AWS CDK
10 39 (8.74%) Kafka
11 33 (7.40%) .NET
12 28 (6.28%) Jest
12 28 (6.28%) Swagger
13 26 (5.83%) Gherkin
14 24 (5.38%) RabbitMQ
15 22 (4.93%) OpenAPI
16 21 (4.71%) JSON
17 20 (4.48%) PySpark
17 20 (4.48%) YAML
18 18 (4.04%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 118 (26.46%) Cloud Native
2 35 (7.85%) Distributed Systems
3 26 (5.83%) Onboarding
4 23 (5.16%) Hybrid Cloud
5 18 (4.04%) Enterprise Cloud
6 17 (3.81%) Greenfield Project
7 15 (3.36%) Linux Command Line
8 11 (2.47%) Mobile Banking
8 11 (2.47%) Product Ownership
9 9 (2.02%) Blockchain
9 9 (2.02%) Web3
10 8 (1.79%) AI Agents
11 7 (1.57%) Data Structures
11 7 (1.57%) Low-Code
11 7 (1.57%) NHS
12 6 (1.35%) Public Cloud
13 5 (1.12%) IoT
13 5 (1.12%) IVR
14 4 (0.90%) Blog
14 4 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 42 (9.42%) Linux
2 13 (2.91%) Windows
3 7 (1.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.12%) CentOS
4 5 (1.12%) Debian
4 5 (1.12%) Ubuntu
4 5 (1.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 264 (59.19%) CI/CD
2 189 (42.38%) DevOps
3 178 (39.91%) Infrastructure as Code
4 169 (37.89%) Agile
5 120 (26.91%) Mentoring
6 111 (24.89%) AI
7 105 (23.54%) Software Engineering
8 97 (21.75%) Microservices
9 90 (20.18%) Full-Stack Development
10 89 (19.96%) Observability
11 85 (19.06%) Problem-Solving
12 82 (18.39%) Containerisation
13 71 (15.92%) Continuous Improvement
14 70 (15.70%) Event-Driven
15 66 (14.80%) Test Automation
16 64 (14.35%) Analytics
17 56 (12.56%) Collaborative Culture
18 54 (12.11%) Data Modelling
19 52 (11.66%) Decision-Making
19 52 (11.66%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 235 (52.69%) Python
2 134 (30.04%) SQL
3 131 (29.37%) TypeScript
4 128 (28.70%) Java
5 76 (17.04%) Bash
6 53 (11.88%) JavaScript
7 35 (7.85%) Kotlin
8 34 (7.62%) Groovy
9 32 (7.17%) C#
10 20 (4.48%) PHP
10 20 (4.48%) PowerShell
11 19 (4.26%) Ruby
12 18 (4.04%) Perl
13 15 (3.36%) Go
14 9 (2.02%) Scala
15 7 (1.57%) C++
16 4 (0.90%) Shell Script
17 3 (0.67%) Rust
18 2 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 2 (0.45%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 97 (21.75%) Security Cleared
2 67 (15.02%) AWS Certification
3 62 (13.90%) SC Cleared
4 35 (7.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 29 (6.50%) DV Cleared
6 19 (4.26%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 19 (4.26%) Degree
7 15 (3.36%) ITIL Certification
8 9 (2.02%) AWS Certified Developer
9 8 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (1.35%) Master's Degree
10 6 (1.35%) OSCP
11 5 (1.12%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 5 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (1.12%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 5 (1.12%) RHCE
12 4 (0.90%) CCNA
12 4 (0.90%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (0.90%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.90%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (7.85%) Data Quality
2 26 (5.83%) QA
3 14 (3.14%) GDPR
4 10 (2.24%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.12%) HIPAA
7 3 (0.67%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.67%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.22%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 159 (35.65%) Docker
2 6 (1.35%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.90%) Squid
3 4 (0.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.90%) VMware NSX
3 4 (0.90%) vSphere
4 3 (0.67%) Firmware
5 1 (0.22%) iptables
Systems Management
1 75 (16.82%) Kubernetes
2 44 (9.87%) Ansible
3 32 (7.17%) Prometheus
4 31 (6.95%) Grafana
5 17 (3.81%) HP Fortify
5 17 (3.81%) Packer
6 8 (1.79%) Puppet
7 5 (1.12%) Argo
8 4 (0.90%) Kibana
8 4 (0.90%) ZABBIX
9 3 (0.67%) Scalr
9 3 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.45%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.22%) Fluentd
11 1 (0.22%) logstash
11 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 21 (4.71%) Databricks
2 14 (3.14%) Oracle
2 14 (3.14%) Red Hat
2 14 (3.14%) Splunk
3 12 (2.69%) OpenAI
4 10 (2.24%) Google
4 10 (2.24%) Microsoft
5 8 (1.79%) Salesforce
6 7 (1.57%) AppDynamics
6 7 (1.57%) Avaya
6 7 (1.57%) Cisco
6 7 (1.57%) Dynatrace
6 7 (1.57%) Genesys
6 7 (1.57%) HubSpot
7 6 (1.35%) IBM
8 5 (1.12%) SaltStack
9 4 (0.90%) VMware
10 3 (0.67%) Atlassian
10 3 (0.67%) LexisNexis
10 3 (0.67%) PeopleSoft