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

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 332 289 368
Rank change year-on-year -43 +79 -16
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 409 411 589
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.49% 1.07% 0.69%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.69% 3.14% 1.97%
Number of salaries quoted 279 330 461
10th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £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 £100,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £107,500 £117,625 £115,000
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 24,249 13,077 29,828
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 29.32% 34.15% 34.71%
Number of salaries quoted 14,088 9,214 24,233
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,636 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £61,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.46% +6.09% -11.54%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £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 25 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 25 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 -75 151 £82,500 -8.33% 52
North of England +47 146 £75,000 +15.38% 35
Yorkshire +27 112 £73,750 +22.92% 14
Midlands -14 49 £55,000 +29.41% 15
East Midlands +4 35 £55,000 - 7
South West -52 34 £65,000 +8.33% 19
North West +3 31 £75,000 - 16
South East -21 24 £82,500 +50.00% 21
West Midlands -37 14 £50,000 +17.65% 8
East of England -39 4 £62,500 -26.47% 4
North East -42 3 £52,130 -16.59% 6
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 (6.36%) Apache
2 21 (5.13%) Apache Spark
3 19 (4.65%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.71%) Confluence
5 3 (0.73%) JBoss
6 2 (0.49%) Oracle Application Server
7 1 (0.24%) CMS
7 1 (0.24%) IIS
7 1 (0.24%) nginx
7 1 (0.24%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (1.47%) Spreadsheet
2 4 (0.98%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 409 (100.00%) Serverless
2 408 (99.76%) AWS
3 295 (72.13%) Amazon S3
4 173 (42.30%) AWS CloudFormation
5 129 (31.54%) Amazon ECS
6 124 (30.32%) AWS Step Functions
7 96 (23.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 87 (21.27%) Amazon EC2
9 86 (21.03%) Amazon SQS
10 77 (18.83%) GitHub
11 60 (14.67%) GitHub Actions
12 55 (13.45%) Amazon ECR
13 51 (12.47%) Apigee
14 48 (11.74%) Datadog
15 44 (10.76%) Amazon EKS
16 42 (10.27%) Amazon EventBridge
17 37 (9.05%) Azure
18 32 (7.82%) Amazon OpenSearch
19 28 (6.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
20 26 (6.36%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.18%) DSL
2 11 (2.69%) Firewall
3 10 (2.44%) AMQP
4 6 (1.47%) Network Security
5 4 (0.98%) VPN
6 3 (0.73%) Broadband
6 3 (0.73%) DNS
6 3 (0.73%) IPv4
6 3 (0.73%) Software-Defined Networking
7 2 (0.49%) 4G
7 2 (0.49%) 5G
8 1 (0.24%) PSTN
8 1 (0.24%) SSL
8 1 (0.24%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 180 (44.01%) DynamoDB
2 81 (19.80%) Amazon RDS
3 60 (14.67%) NoSQL
4 43 (10.51%) Amazon Athena
5 42 (10.27%) Amazon Redshift
6 23 (5.62%) PostgreSQL
7 22 (5.38%) Data Warehouse
8 15 (3.67%) SQL Server
9 12 (2.93%) Big Data
9 12 (2.93%) Relational Database
10 11 (2.69%) MySQL
11 8 (1.96%) Data Lake
12 7 (1.71%) Metadata
12 7 (1.71%) Power BI
12 7 (1.71%) Snowflake Schema
13 6 (1.47%) Amazon Aurora
13 6 (1.47%) Apache Iceberg
14 5 (1.22%) Cloudera CDH
14 5 (1.22%) Elasticsearch
14 5 (1.22%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 135 (33.01%) Jenkins
2 94 (22.98%) GitLab
3 85 (20.78%) Git
4 47 (11.49%) Maven
5 45 (11.00%) Cypress.io
5 45 (11.00%) SonarQube
6 18 (4.40%) CircleCI
7 17 (4.16%) JIRA
8 11 (2.69%) Bitbucket
9 9 (2.20%) Cucumber
10 5 (1.22%) Gradle
11 4 (0.98%) Artifactory
11 4 (0.98%) Claude Code
11 4 (0.98%) MLflow
11 4 (0.98%) Postman
11 4 (0.98%) SpecFlow
12 3 (0.73%) ESLint
12 3 (0.73%) Octopus Deploy
12 3 (0.73%) Selenium
12 3 (0.73%) TeamCity
General
1 99 (24.21%) Social Skills
2 51 (12.47%) Finance
3 37 (9.05%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (7.58%) Public Sector
5 22 (5.38%) Banking
6 12 (2.93%) Health Technology
7 11 (2.69%) Advertising
8 9 (2.20%) Publishing
9 8 (1.96%) Tech for Good
10 7 (1.71%) Aerospace
11 6 (1.47%) Billing
11 6 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (0.98%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (0.73%) Law
13 3 (0.73%) Legal
13 3 (0.73%) Military
13 3 (0.73%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.49%) Front Office
14 2 (0.49%) Games
Job Titles
1 182 (44.50%) Developer
2 109 (26.65%) Senior
3 74 (18.09%) Java Developer
4 58 (14.18%) AWS Developer
5 57 (13.94%) Senior Developer
6 53 (12.96%) Lead
7 44 (10.76%) Full-Stack Developer
8 39 (9.54%) AWS Engineer
9 36 (8.80%) Data Engineer
10 32 (7.82%) Software Engineer
11 30 (7.33%) DevOps Engineer
12 24 (5.87%) Lead Developer
12 24 (5.87%) React Developer
13 22 (5.38%) Architect
14 21 (5.13%) Python Developer
15 19 (4.65%) Cloud Engineer
15 19 (4.65%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 18 (4.40%) AWS Architect
16 18 (4.40%) AWS Data Engineer
16 18 (4.40%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 123 (30.07%) Node.js
2 101 (24.69%) React
3 94 (22.98%) AngularJS
4 79 (19.32%) Spring Boot
5 54 (13.20%) RESTful
6 50 (12.22%) Spring
7 45 (11.00%) Gherkin
8 44 (10.76%) AWS CDK
9 42 (10.27%) Jest
10 38 (9.29%) Kafka
11 34 (8.31%) RabbitMQ
12 33 (8.07%) REST
13 24 (5.87%) JSON
14 23 (5.62%) gRPC
15 22 (5.38%) HTML
15 22 (5.38%) YAML
16 20 (4.89%) .NET
17 18 (4.40%) CSS
17 18 (4.40%) web3js
18 13 (3.18%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 90 (22.00%) Cloud Native
2 27 (6.60%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (4.40%) Blockchain
3 18 (4.40%) Web3
4 16 (3.91%) Greenfield Project
5 9 (2.20%) Product Ownership
6 7 (1.71%) Data Structures
7 6 (1.47%) Public Cloud
7 6 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (1.22%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (0.98%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (0.98%) IoT
9 4 (0.98%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (0.98%) NHS
10 3 (0.73%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (0.73%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (0.49%) Algorithms
11 2 (0.49%) Data Centre
11 2 (0.49%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 39 (9.54%) Linux
2 8 (1.96%) Windows
3 7 (1.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.22%) CentOS
4 5 (1.22%) Debian
4 5 (1.22%) Ubuntu
5 3 (0.73%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 257 (62.84%) CI/CD
2 202 (49.39%) DevOps
3 165 (40.34%) Infrastructure as Code
4 153 (37.41%) Agile
5 88 (21.52%) Containerisation
6 87 (21.27%) Software Engineering
7 86 (21.03%) Full-Stack Development
8 82 (20.05%) Microservices
9 78 (19.07%) Mentoring
10 73 (17.85%) Problem-Solving
11 68 (16.63%) Test Automation
12 60 (14.67%) Observability
13 54 (13.20%) Event-Driven
14 53 (12.96%) Continuous Integration
15 50 (12.22%) DevSecOps
16 49 (11.98%) AI
17 47 (11.49%) Analytics
17 47 (11.49%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 42 (10.27%) Continuous Improvement
19 40 (9.78%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 201 (49.14%) Python
2 140 (34.23%) TypeScript
3 125 (30.56%) SQL
4 120 (29.34%) Java
5 70 (17.11%) Bash
6 65 (15.89%) JavaScript
7 53 (12.96%) Groovy
8 33 (8.07%) Go
9 32 (7.82%) Kotlin
10 16 (3.91%) PowerShell
11 13 (3.18%) Rust
12 12 (2.93%) C#
13 10 (2.44%) PHP
14 4 (0.98%) Perl
15 3 (0.73%) Scala
16 2 (0.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 2 (0.49%) PL/SQL
16 2 (0.49%) R
16 2 (0.49%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 68 (16.63%) AWS Certification
1 68 (16.63%) Security Cleared
2 49 (11.98%) SC Cleared
3 41 (10.02%) Degree
4 28 (6.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 24 (5.87%) ITIL Certification
6 20 (4.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 18 (4.40%) AWS Certified Developer
7 18 (4.40%) Computer Science Degree
7 18 (4.40%) DV Cleared
8 16 (3.91%) OSCP
9 5 (1.22%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 4 (0.98%) RHCE
11 3 (0.73%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 3 (0.73%) CCNA
11 3 (0.73%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (0.73%) IIBA
11 3 (0.73%) ISTQB
11 3 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.73%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (6.11%) QA
2 22 (5.38%) Data Quality
3 6 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.73%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.73%) GDPR
4 3 (0.73%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.24%) MiFID
5 1 (0.24%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.24%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 164 (40.10%) Docker
2 4 (0.98%) iptables
3 3 (0.73%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.73%) Firmware
3 3 (0.73%) Squid
3 3 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.73%) VMware NSX
3 3 (0.73%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 158 (38.63%) Terraform
2 88 (21.52%) Kubernetes
3 46 (11.25%) Ansible
4 39 (9.54%) HP Fortify
4 39 (9.54%) Prometheus
5 26 (6.36%) Grafana
6 9 (2.20%) Puppet
7 8 (1.96%) Packer
8 6 (1.47%) Progress Chef
9 4 (0.98%) Kibana
10 3 (0.73%) Scalr
10 3 (0.73%) ZABBIX
11 1 (0.24%) Argo
11 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 11 (2.69%) Databricks
1 11 (2.69%) Oracle
2 10 (2.44%) Red Hat
3 7 (1.71%) AppDynamics
3 7 (1.71%) HubSpot
4 6 (1.47%) IBM
4 6 (1.47%) Salesforce
5 5 (1.22%) Google
5 5 (1.22%) SaltStack
5 5 (1.22%) Splunk
6 4 (0.98%) Microsoft
7 3 (0.73%) Atlassian
7 3 (0.73%) VMware
8 2 (0.49%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.24%) Apple
9 1 (0.24%) Informatica
9 1 (0.24%) New Relic
9 1 (0.24%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 1 (0.24%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.24%) SnapLogic