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

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 346 292 373
Rank change year-on-year -54 +81 -19
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 394 427 595
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.48% 1.08% 0.70%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.64% 3.11% 2.01%
Number of salaries quoted 267 352 469
10th Percentile £50,750 £52,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.45% +3.33% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £110,313 £96,250
90th Percentile £106,000 £121,125 £118,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -9.68% +6.90% -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 23,983 13,741 29,663
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 29.36% 34.78% 35.05%
Number of salaries quoted 13,818 9,829 24,157
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -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 18 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 18 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 -79 151 £77,500 -14.36% 91
North of England +35 138 £75,000 +15.38% 45
Yorkshire +37 110 £72,500 +20.83% 12
Midlands -12 47 £55,000 +15.79% 13
East Midlands -3 35 £55,000 - 5
South West -57 32 £65,000 +8.33% 27
North West +9 27 £75,000 - 25
South East -25 21 £82,500 +50.00% 23
West Midlands -31 12 £49,500 +10.00% 8
East of England -41 4 £62,500 -26.47% 4
North East -39 1 £90,000 +44.00% 9
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 25 (6.35%) Apache
2 20 (5.08%) Apache Spark
3 19 (4.82%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.52%) Confluence
5 3 (0.76%) JBoss
6 2 (0.51%) Oracle Application Server
7 1 (0.25%) CMS
7 1 (0.25%) IIS
7 1 (0.25%) nginx
7 1 (0.25%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (1.52%) Spreadsheet
2 4 (1.02%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 394 (100.00%) Serverless
2 393 (99.75%) AWS
3 284 (72.08%) Amazon S3
4 168 (42.64%) AWS CloudFormation
5 123 (31.22%) Amazon ECS
6 120 (30.46%) AWS Step Functions
7 97 (24.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 84 (21.32%) Amazon SQS
9 81 (20.56%) Amazon EC2
10 76 (19.29%) GitHub
11 60 (15.23%) GitHub Actions
12 56 (14.21%) Amazon ECR
13 52 (13.20%) Apigee
14 46 (11.68%) Datadog
15 44 (11.17%) Amazon EKS
16 39 (9.90%) Amazon EventBridge
17 37 (9.39%) Azure
18 29 (7.36%) Amazon OpenSearch
19 28 (7.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
20 25 (6.35%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.30%) DSL
2 10 (2.54%) AMQP
2 10 (2.54%) Firewall
3 6 (1.52%) Network Security
4 3 (0.76%) Broadband
4 3 (0.76%) DNS
4 3 (0.76%) VPN
5 2 (0.51%) 4G
5 2 (0.51%) 5G
5 2 (0.51%) IPv4
5 2 (0.51%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (0.25%) PSTN
6 1 (0.25%) SSL
6 1 (0.25%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 176 (44.67%) DynamoDB
2 77 (19.54%) Amazon RDS
3 58 (14.72%) NoSQL
4 39 (9.90%) Amazon Athena
5 37 (9.39%) Amazon Redshift
6 24 (6.09%) PostgreSQL
7 20 (5.08%) Data Warehouse
8 14 (3.55%) SQL Server
9 11 (2.79%) Relational Database
10 10 (2.54%) Big Data
11 8 (2.03%) Data Lake
11 8 (2.03%) MySQL
12 7 (1.78%) Apache Iceberg
12 7 (1.78%) Metadata
12 7 (1.78%) Snowflake Schema
13 6 (1.52%) Amazon Aurora
13 6 (1.52%) Power BI
14 5 (1.27%) Cloudera CDH
14 5 (1.27%) Elasticsearch
14 5 (1.27%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 132 (33.50%) Jenkins
2 95 (24.11%) GitLab
3 79 (20.05%) Git
4 49 (12.44%) Maven
5 47 (11.93%) SonarQube
6 46 (11.68%) Cypress.io
7 18 (4.57%) CircleCI
8 16 (4.06%) JIRA
9 10 (2.54%) Bitbucket
9 10 (2.54%) Cucumber
10 5 (1.27%) Gradle
11 4 (1.02%) Artifactory
11 4 (1.02%) MLflow
11 4 (1.02%) Postman
11 4 (1.02%) Selenium
11 4 (1.02%) SpecFlow
12 3 (0.76%) ESLint
12 3 (0.76%) Octopus Deploy
13 2 (0.51%) DBeaver
13 2 (0.51%) webpack
General
1 99 (25.13%) Social Skills
2 52 (13.20%) Finance
3 38 (9.64%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (7.11%) Public Sector
5 21 (5.33%) Banking
6 14 (3.55%) Health Technology
7 11 (2.79%) Advertising
7 11 (2.79%) Publishing
8 10 (2.54%) Tech for Good
9 9 (2.28%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (1.78%) Billing
11 6 (1.52%) Aerospace
11 6 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (0.76%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.76%) Law
12 3 (0.76%) Legal
12 3 (0.76%) Military
12 3 (0.76%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.51%) Front Office
13 2 (0.51%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 180 (45.69%) Developer
2 105 (26.65%) Senior
3 72 (18.27%) Java Developer
4 61 (15.48%) AWS Developer
5 56 (14.21%) Senior Developer
6 53 (13.45%) Lead
7 41 (10.41%) Full-Stack Developer
8 37 (9.39%) AWS Engineer
9 35 (8.88%) Data Engineer
10 28 (7.11%) DevOps Engineer
10 28 (7.11%) Software Engineer
11 27 (6.85%) Lead Developer
11 27 (6.85%) React Developer
12 24 (6.09%) Python Developer
13 21 (5.33%) Architect
14 19 (4.82%) Cloud Engineer
14 19 (4.82%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 19 (4.82%) Software Developer
15 18 (4.57%) AWS Architect
15 18 (4.57%) AWS Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 119 (30.20%) Node.js
2 101 (25.63%) React
3 90 (22.84%) AngularJS
4 79 (20.05%) Spring Boot
5 56 (14.21%) RESTful
6 50 (12.69%) Spring
7 45 (11.42%) Gherkin
8 44 (11.17%) AWS CDK
9 43 (10.91%) Jest
10 35 (8.88%) Kafka
11 34 (8.63%) RabbitMQ
12 31 (7.87%) REST
13 23 (5.84%) gRPC
13 23 (5.84%) HTML
14 22 (5.58%) JSON
15 20 (5.08%) YAML
16 18 (4.57%) .NET
16 18 (4.57%) CSS
16 18 (4.57%) web3js
17 12 (3.05%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 85 (21.57%) Cloud Native
2 22 (5.58%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (4.57%) Blockchain
3 18 (4.57%) Web3
4 15 (3.81%) Greenfield Project
5 9 (2.28%) Product Ownership
6 7 (1.78%) Data Structures
7 6 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (1.27%) Linux Command Line
8 5 (1.27%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.02%) IoT
9 4 (1.02%) NHS
9 4 (1.02%) Security Posture
10 3 (0.76%) Distributed Architecture
10 3 (0.76%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (0.76%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (0.51%) Algorithms
11 2 (0.51%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 36 (9.14%) Linux
2 7 (1.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 7 (1.78%) Windows
3 5 (1.27%) CentOS
3 5 (1.27%) Debian
3 5 (1.27%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.51%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 249 (63.20%) CI/CD
2 198 (50.25%) DevOps
3 157 (39.85%) Infrastructure as Code
4 153 (38.83%) Agile
5 85 (21.57%) Containerisation
6 84 (21.32%) Full-Stack Development
7 83 (21.07%) Software Engineering
8 79 (20.05%) Microservices
9 76 (19.29%) Problem-Solving
10 75 (19.04%) Mentoring
11 65 (16.50%) Test Automation
12 60 (15.23%) Observability
13 54 (13.71%) Continuous Integration
14 49 (12.44%) Event-Driven
15 48 (12.18%) DevSecOps
16 44 (11.17%) AI
16 44 (11.17%) Analytics
17 43 (10.91%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 41 (10.41%) Continuous Improvement
19 39 (9.90%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 193 (48.98%) Python
2 137 (34.77%) TypeScript
3 119 (30.20%) SQL
4 117 (29.70%) Java
5 69 (17.51%) Bash
6 62 (15.74%) JavaScript
7 52 (13.20%) Groovy
8 34 (8.63%) Go
9 30 (7.61%) Kotlin
10 14 (3.55%) PowerShell
11 13 (3.30%) Rust
12 9 (2.28%) C#
12 9 (2.28%) PHP
13 4 (1.02%) Perl
14 2 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.51%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.51%) R
14 2 (0.51%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.25%) Scala
Qualifications
1 68 (17.26%) AWS Certification
2 64 (16.24%) Security Cleared
3 47 (11.93%) SC Cleared
4 41 (10.41%) Degree
5 28 (7.11%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 24 (6.09%) ITIL Certification
7 19 (4.82%) AWS Certified Developer
7 19 (4.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 18 (4.57%) Computer Science Degree
9 15 (3.81%) DV Cleared
9 15 (3.81%) OSCP
10 5 (1.27%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 3 (0.76%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 3 (0.76%) IIBA
11 3 (0.76%) PhD
11 3 (0.76%) RHCE
12 2 (0.51%) CCNA
12 2 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.51%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (6.85%) QA
2 20 (5.08%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.76%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.76%) GDPR
4 3 (0.76%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.25%) MiFID
5 1 (0.25%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.25%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 161 (40.86%) Docker
2 4 (1.02%) iptables
3 3 (0.76%) Firmware
4 2 (0.51%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.51%) Squid
4 2 (0.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.51%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.51%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 153 (38.83%) Terraform
2 87 (22.08%) Kubernetes
3 44 (11.17%) Ansible
4 41 (10.41%) HP Fortify
5 37 (9.39%) Prometheus
6 25 (6.35%) Grafana
7 9 (2.28%) Puppet
8 6 (1.52%) Packer
8 6 (1.52%) Progress Chef
9 4 (1.02%) Kibana
10 3 (0.76%) Scalr
11 2 (0.51%) ZABBIX
12 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Satellite
12 1 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (2.79%) Databricks
2 9 (2.28%) Oracle
2 9 (2.28%) Red Hat
3 7 (1.78%) AppDynamics
4 6 (1.52%) HubSpot
4 6 (1.52%) IBM
4 6 (1.52%) Salesforce
5 5 (1.27%) Google
5 5 (1.27%) SaltStack
6 4 (1.02%) Microsoft
6 4 (1.02%) Splunk
7 3 (0.76%) Atlassian
8 2 (0.51%) VMware
9 1 (0.25%) Apple
9 1 (0.25%) Informatica
9 1 (0.25%) New Relic
9 1 (0.25%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.25%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 1 (0.25%) ServiceNow