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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 367 336 408
Rank change year-on-year -31 +72 -57
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 438 380 431
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.48% 0.87% 0.58%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.77% 2.63% 1.80%
Number of salaries quoted 277 284 300
10th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £48,750
25th Percentile £61,250 £60,000 £62,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £73,250 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.39% -2.33% +3.45%
75th Percentile £90,000 £88,125 £95,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £105,875 £112,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £74,000 £74,000
% change year-on-year -2.03% - +5.71%

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 24,722 14,453 24,003
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 27.00% 33.19% 32.06%
Number of salaries quoted 16,641 10,326 18,203
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,870 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.37%

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 1 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 1 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
London -52 175 £87,500 +13.64% 87
North of England +44 162 £75,000 +15.38% 34
Yorkshire +20 86 £75,000 +25.00% 10
North West +12 50 £70,000 +7.69% 15
South East -16 35 £67,500 -15.63% 15
South West -68 34 £61,500 -21.90% 16
Midlands -30 28 £62,500 +47.06% 11
North East -28 26 £75,000 +15.38% 9
East Midlands -11 20 £55,000 +46.67% 4
West Midlands -45 8 £62,500 +47.06% 7
East of England -44 2 £68,750 -19.12% 4
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 24 (5.48%) Apache
2 20 (4.57%) Apache Spark
3 16 (3.65%) Apache Airflow
4 14 (3.20%) Confluence
5 3 (0.68%) JBoss
5 3 (0.68%) SAS
6 1 (0.23%) CMS
6 1 (0.23%) IIS
6 1 (0.23%) nginx
6 1 (0.23%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.23%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (1.83%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.23%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 438 (100.00%) Serverless
2 437 (99.77%) AWS
3 299 (68.26%) Amazon S3
4 175 (39.95%) Amazon ECS
5 173 (39.50%) AWS CloudFormation
6 106 (24.20%) Amazon EC2
7 102 (23.29%) AWS Step Functions
8 99 (22.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 85 (19.41%) Amazon SQS
10 79 (18.04%) GitHub
11 67 (15.30%) Amazon EKS
12 54 (12.33%) GitHub Actions
13 52 (11.87%) Amazon EventBridge
14 48 (10.96%) Datadog
15 47 (10.73%) Azure
16 42 (9.59%) Amazon ECR
17 39 (8.90%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 38 (8.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 36 (8.22%) Apigee
19 36 (8.22%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (4.11%) Network Security
2 13 (2.97%) Firewall
3 7 (1.60%) DSL
3 7 (1.60%) VPN
4 5 (1.14%) AMQP
4 5 (1.14%) DNS
5 4 (0.91%) IPv4
5 4 (0.91%) Software-Defined Networking
6 3 (0.68%) Broadband
7 2 (0.46%) 4G
7 2 (0.46%) 5G
7 2 (0.46%) VoIP
8 1 (0.23%) DHCP
8 1 (0.23%) HTTP
8 1 (0.23%) PSTN
8 1 (0.23%) SSL
8 1 (0.23%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.23%) VLAN
8 1 (0.23%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 171 (39.04%) DynamoDB
2 92 (21.00%) Amazon RDS
3 57 (13.01%) NoSQL
4 50 (11.42%) Amazon Athena
5 44 (10.05%) Amazon Redshift
6 22 (5.02%) Data Warehouse
6 22 (5.02%) PostgreSQL
7 18 (4.11%) SQL Server
8 16 (3.65%) Relational Database
9 13 (2.97%) MySQL
10 12 (2.74%) Elasticsearch
10 12 (2.74%) Metadata
11 11 (2.51%) Big Data
12 9 (2.05%) Amazon Aurora
13 8 (1.83%) Data Lake
14 6 (1.37%) Azure SQL Database
14 6 (1.37%) MongoDB
14 6 (1.37%) Power BI
15 5 (1.14%) Hadoop
15 5 (1.14%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 110 (25.11%) Jenkins
2 94 (21.46%) Git
3 72 (16.44%) GitLab
4 31 (7.08%) Maven
4 31 (7.08%) SonarQube
5 29 (6.62%) Cypress.io
6 24 (5.48%) JIRA
7 14 (3.20%) Bitbucket
8 13 (2.97%) CircleCI
8 13 (2.97%) TeamCity
9 10 (2.28%) Cucumber
10 7 (1.60%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 7 (1.60%) Postman
11 6 (1.37%) Claude Code
11 6 (1.37%) Selenium
12 4 (0.91%) Artifactory
12 4 (0.91%) Gradle
12 4 (0.91%) SpecFlow
13 3 (0.68%) Octopus Deploy
14 2 (0.46%) YouTrack
General
1 103 (23.52%) Social Skills
2 87 (19.86%) Finance
3 52 (11.87%) Public Sector
4 37 (8.45%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (7.31%) Banking
6 17 (3.88%) Law
7 13 (2.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (2.74%) Marketing
9 10 (2.28%) Health Technology
9 10 (2.28%) Telecoms
10 9 (2.05%) Influencing Skills
11 8 (1.83%) Advertising
11 8 (1.83%) Aerospace
11 8 (1.83%) Billing
12 6 (1.37%) Military
13 5 (1.14%) Publishing
14 4 (0.91%) Front Office
14 4 (0.91%) Investment Banking
14 4 (0.91%) Legal
14 4 (0.91%) Retail
Job Titles
1 165 (37.67%) Developer
2 153 (34.93%) Senior
3 71 (16.21%) Java Developer
4 66 (15.07%) Senior Developer
5 60 (13.70%) Full-Stack Developer
6 54 (12.33%) AWS Engineer
7 50 (11.42%) Lead
8 41 (9.36%) Data Engineer
9 40 (9.13%) AWS Developer
10 35 (7.99%) DevOps Engineer
11 29 (6.62%) Software Engineer
12 26 (5.94%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
13 23 (5.25%) Platform Engineer
14 20 (4.57%) AWS Data Engineer
14 20 (4.57%) Consultant
14 20 (4.57%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 19 (4.34%) Architect
15 19 (4.34%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 18 (4.11%) Senior Consultant
17 17 (3.88%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (27.63%) Node.js
2 92 (21.00%) AngularJS
3 87 (19.86%) React
4 71 (16.21%) Spring Boot
5 52 (11.87%) Spring
6 45 (10.27%) REST
6 45 (10.27%) RESTful
7 43 (9.82%) AWS CDK
8 39 (8.90%) Kafka
9 33 (7.53%) Gherkin
10 31 (7.08%) Jest
11 25 (5.71%) Swagger
12 24 (5.48%) .NET
12 24 (5.48%) RabbitMQ
13 22 (5.02%) JSON
14 21 (4.79%) YAML
15 16 (3.65%) gRPC
15 16 (3.65%) OpenAPI
15 16 (3.65%) OpenTelemetry
16 15 (3.42%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 106 (24.20%) Cloud Native
2 36 (8.22%) Distributed Systems
3 25 (5.71%) Onboarding
4 18 (4.11%) Enterprise Cloud
4 18 (4.11%) Greenfield Project
5 15 (3.42%) Product Ownership
6 12 (2.74%) Blockchain
6 12 (2.74%) Web3
7 11 (2.51%) Hybrid Cloud
8 10 (2.28%) Linux Command Line
9 8 (1.83%) Data Structures
10 7 (1.60%) Mobile Banking
11 6 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (1.37%) NHS
11 6 (1.37%) Public Cloud
12 5 (1.14%) IoT
12 5 (1.14%) IVR
12 5 (1.14%) Low-Code
13 4 (0.91%) AI Agents
13 4 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 44 (10.05%) Linux
2 13 (2.97%) Windows
3 6 (1.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.14%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.91%) CentOS
5 4 (0.91%) Debian
5 4 (0.91%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 258 (58.90%) CI/CD
2 191 (43.61%) DevOps
3 180 (41.10%) Infrastructure as Code
4 166 (37.90%) Agile
5 107 (24.43%) Mentoring
6 103 (23.52%) AI
7 95 (21.69%) Software Engineering
8 91 (20.78%) Full-Stack Development
8 91 (20.78%) Microservices
9 87 (19.86%) Problem-Solving
10 85 (19.41%) Containerisation
11 81 (18.49%) Observability
12 70 (15.98%) Test Automation
13 65 (14.84%) Event-Driven
14 58 (13.24%) Continuous Improvement
15 56 (12.79%) Analytics
16 52 (11.87%) Collaborative Culture
17 48 (10.96%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 47 (10.73%) Continuous Integration
18 47 (10.73%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 235 (53.65%) Python
2 136 (31.05%) TypeScript
3 123 (28.08%) Java
4 121 (27.63%) SQL
5 80 (18.26%) Bash
6 54 (12.33%) JavaScript
7 41 (9.36%) Groovy
8 33 (7.53%) Kotlin
9 23 (5.25%) C#
9 23 (5.25%) Go
9 23 (5.25%) PHP
10 20 (4.57%) PowerShell
11 18 (4.11%) Perl
12 15 (3.42%) Ruby
13 7 (1.60%) Rust
13 7 (1.60%) Scala
14 4 (0.91%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 2 (0.46%) PL/SQL
16 1 (0.23%) C++
Qualifications
1 91 (20.78%) Security Cleared
2 72 (16.44%) AWS Certification
3 54 (12.33%) SC Cleared
4 38 (8.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 29 (6.62%) Degree
5 29 (6.62%) DV Cleared
6 23 (5.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 19 (4.34%) ITIL Certification
8 12 (2.74%) AWS Certified Developer
9 11 (2.51%) OSCP
10 6 (1.37%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 6 (1.37%) Master's Degree
11 5 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (1.14%) RHCE
12 4 (0.91%) CCNA
12 4 (0.91%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (0.91%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.91%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 4 (0.91%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (5.71%) Data Quality
2 23 (5.25%) QA
3 12 (2.74%) GDPR
4 9 (2.05%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.91%) HIPAA
7 3 (0.68%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.46%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.23%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 162 (36.99%) Docker
2 5 (1.14%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.91%) Squid
3 4 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.91%) VMware NSX
3 4 (0.91%) vSphere
4 3 (0.68%) Firmware
5 2 (0.46%) iptables
Systems Management
1 192 (43.84%) Terraform
2 82 (18.72%) Kubernetes
3 47 (10.73%) Ansible
4 34 (7.76%) Prometheus
5 29 (6.62%) Grafana
6 24 (5.48%) HP Fortify
7 17 (3.88%) Packer
8 7 (1.60%) Puppet
9 5 (1.14%) Argo
9 5 (1.14%) Kibana
10 4 (0.91%) ZABBIX
11 3 (0.68%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.68%) Scalr
12 1 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 1 (0.23%) Fluentd
12 1 (0.23%) logstash
12 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Satellite
12 1 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (3.20%) Databricks
1 14 (3.20%) Splunk
2 11 (2.51%) Red Hat
3 10 (2.28%) Oracle
4 8 (1.83%) Google
4 8 (1.83%) OpenAI
5 7 (1.60%) AppDynamics
5 7 (1.60%) Avaya
5 7 (1.60%) Cisco
5 7 (1.60%) Dynatrace
5 7 (1.60%) Genesys
5 7 (1.60%) HubSpot
5 7 (1.60%) Microsoft
5 7 (1.60%) Salesforce
6 6 (1.37%) IBM
7 4 (0.91%) SaltStack
7 4 (0.91%) VMware
8 3 (0.68%) Confluent
8 3 (0.68%) SnapLogic
9 2 (0.46%) LexisNexis