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 4 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 360 345 403
Rank change year-on-year -15 +58 -51
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 451 340 404
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.46% 0.79% 0.58%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.85% 2.44% 1.83%
Number of salaries quoted 274 246 237
10th Percentile £46,217 £51,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £54,063 £62,125 £62,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £96,250
90th Percentile £108,925 £100,000 £107,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% - +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 24,414 13,962 22,130
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.05% 32.52% 31.71%
Number of salaries quoted 16,908 9,744 15,302
10th Percentile £31,500 £29,750 £33,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £39,331 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,900 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.17% -4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £102,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £61,206
% change year-on-year +4.17% -1.97% -2.07%

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 4 September 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 4 September 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 +56 179 £72,500 +11.54% 54
London -57 168 £85,000 +13.33% 205
Yorkshire +15 83 £80,000 +13.48% 14
North West +14 62 £70,000 +7.69% 28
South East -22 35 £67,500 -18.18% 21
North East -29 34 £62,500 -13.79% 12
South West -69 33 £66,250 -22.06% 30
Midlands -28 29 £65,000 +52.94% 25
East Midlands -15 20 £65,000 +73.33% 16
West Midlands -37 9 £62,500 +47.06% 9
East of England -50 2 £77,500 -8.82% 10
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 23 (5.10%) Apache Spark
2 20 (4.43%) Apache
3 13 (2.88%) Confluence
4 10 (2.22%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.67%) SAS
6 2 (0.44%) nginx
7 1 (0.22%) CMS
7 1 (0.22%) IIS
7 1 (0.22%) JBoss
7 1 (0.22%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (1.55%) 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
1 451 (100.00%) Serverless
2 449 (99.56%) AWS
3 294 (65.19%) Amazon S3
4 172 (38.14%) Amazon ECS
5 170 (37.69%) AWS CloudFormation
6 118 (26.16%) Amazon EC2
7 96 (21.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 89 (19.73%) AWS Step Functions
9 77 (17.07%) Amazon EKS
10 76 (16.85%) Amazon SQS
11 75 (16.63%) GitHub
12 57 (12.64%) Azure
13 55 (12.20%) Datadog
14 52 (11.53%) GitHub Actions
15 48 (10.64%) Amazon EventBridge
16 42 (9.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 39 (8.65%) SaaS
18 36 (7.98%) Amazon OpenSearch
19 33 (7.32%) Amazon ECR
20 30 (6.65%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 15 (3.33%) Network Security
2 12 (2.66%) Firewall
3 6 (1.33%) AMQP
3 6 (1.33%) VPN
4 4 (0.89%) DNS
4 4 (0.89%) IPv4
4 4 (0.89%) Software-Defined Networking
5 2 (0.44%) Broadband
5 2 (0.44%) VoIP
6 1 (0.22%) 4G
6 1 (0.22%) 5G
6 1 (0.22%) DHCP
6 1 (0.22%) DSL
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
1 157 (34.81%) DynamoDB
2 96 (21.29%) Amazon RDS
3 53 (11.75%) NoSQL
4 48 (10.64%) Amazon Athena
5 43 (9.53%) Amazon Redshift
6 27 (5.99%) PostgreSQL
7 26 (5.76%) Data Warehouse
8 19 (4.21%) SQL Server
9 18 (3.99%) Relational Database
10 16 (3.55%) Spark SQL
11 14 (3.10%) Elasticsearch
12 13 (2.88%) Big Data
12 13 (2.88%) Metadata
13 12 (2.66%) MongoDB
14 11 (2.44%) MySQL
15 10 (2.22%) Amazon Aurora
15 10 (2.22%) Data Lake
16 8 (1.77%) Power BI
17 7 (1.55%) Amazon QuickSight
17 7 (1.55%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 102 (22.62%) Git
2 91 (20.18%) Jenkins
3 53 (11.75%) GitLab
4 25 (5.54%) Maven
5 23 (5.10%) SonarQube
6 22 (4.88%) Cypress.io
6 22 (4.88%) JIRA
7 13 (2.88%) Bitbucket
8 12 (2.66%) TeamCity
9 10 (2.22%) Cucumber
10 9 (2.00%) CircleCI
11 8 (1.77%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 6 (1.33%) Claude Code
12 6 (1.33%) Gradle
12 6 (1.33%) Postman
13 4 (0.89%) Artifactory
13 4 (0.89%) Selenium
14 3 (0.67%) git-flow
14 3 (0.67%) Octopus Deploy
14 3 (0.67%) SpecFlow
General
1 100 (22.17%) Finance
2 99 (21.95%) Social Skills
3 65 (14.41%) Public Sector
4 48 (10.64%) Analytical Skills
5 41 (9.09%) Banking
6 27 (5.99%) Law
7 21 (4.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 17 (3.77%) Marketing
9 11 (2.44%) Aviation
9 11 (2.44%) Influencing Skills
9 11 (2.44%) Retail
9 11 (2.44%) Telecoms
10 10 (2.22%) Aerospace
11 8 (1.77%) Health Technology
12 7 (1.55%) Billing
12 7 (1.55%) Legal
13 6 (1.33%) Advertising
14 5 (1.11%) Front Office
14 5 (1.11%) Military
15 4 (0.89%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 148 (32.82%) Developer
2 136 (30.16%) Senior
3 60 (13.30%) Java Developer
4 58 (12.86%) AWS Engineer
5 56 (12.42%) Lead
5 56 (12.42%) Senior Developer
6 54 (11.97%) Data Engineer
6 54 (11.97%) Full-Stack Developer
7 38 (8.43%) AWS Developer
7 38 (8.43%) DevOps Engineer
8 34 (7.54%) Software Engineer
9 22 (4.88%) Cloud Engineer
10 21 (4.66%) Platform Engineer
11 20 (4.43%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
12 19 (4.21%) Architect
13 18 (3.99%) Consultant
13 18 (3.99%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 18 (3.99%) Senior Consultant
14 15 (3.33%) AWS Data Engineer
14 15 (3.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 195 (43.24%) Terraform
2 116 (25.72%) Node.js
3 85 (18.85%) AngularJS
4 79 (17.52%) React
5 64 (14.19%) Spring Boot
6 53 (11.75%) Spring
7 47 (10.42%) REST
8 44 (9.76%) RESTful
9 42 (9.31%) .NET
9 42 (9.31%) AWS CDK
10 40 (8.87%) Kafka
11 32 (7.10%) PySpark
12 28 (6.21%) Swagger
13 27 (5.99%) Jest
14 25 (5.54%) Gherkin
15 23 (5.10%) RabbitMQ
16 22 (4.88%) OpenAPI
17 21 (4.66%) JSON
18 20 (4.43%) YAML
19 18 (3.99%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 114 (25.28%) Cloud Native
2 36 (7.98%) Distributed Systems
3 31 (6.87%) Hybrid Cloud
4 26 (5.76%) Onboarding
5 18 (3.99%) Enterprise Cloud
6 17 (3.77%) Linux Command Line
7 16 (3.55%) Greenfield Project
8 11 (2.44%) Mobile Banking
8 11 (2.44%) Product Ownership
9 8 (1.77%) AI Agents
9 8 (1.77%) Blockchain
9 8 (1.77%) Web3
10 7 (1.55%) Data Structures
10 7 (1.55%) Low-Code
10 7 (1.55%) NHS
11 6 (1.33%) Public Cloud
12 5 (1.11%) Blog
12 5 (1.11%) IVR
13 4 (0.89%) Algorithms
13 4 (0.89%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 41 (9.09%) Linux
2 12 (2.66%) Windows
3 7 (1.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.11%) CentOS
4 5 (1.11%) Debian
4 5 (1.11%) Ubuntu
4 5 (1.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 271 (60.09%) CI/CD
2 184 (40.80%) DevOps
3 183 (40.58%) Infrastructure as Code
4 177 (39.25%) Agile
5 127 (28.16%) Mentoring
6 111 (24.61%) AI
7 101 (22.39%) Software Engineering
8 97 (21.51%) Full-Stack Development
9 96 (21.29%) Microservices
10 93 (20.62%) Observability
11 87 (19.29%) Problem-Solving
12 79 (17.52%) Event-Driven
13 76 (16.85%) Analytics
14 75 (16.63%) Continuous Improvement
15 74 (16.41%) Containerisation
16 65 (14.41%) Decision-Making
16 65 (14.41%) Test Automation
17 59 (13.08%) ETL
18 56 (12.42%) Data Engineering
19 54 (11.97%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 236 (52.33%) Python
2 143 (31.71%) SQL
3 134 (29.71%) Java
4 128 (28.38%) TypeScript
5 79 (17.52%) Bash
6 61 (13.53%) JavaScript
7 41 (9.09%) C#
8 35 (7.76%) Groovy
9 32 (7.10%) Kotlin
10 19 (4.21%) PowerShell
10 19 (4.21%) Ruby
11 18 (3.99%) Perl
11 18 (3.99%) PHP
12 17 (3.77%) C++
13 13 (2.88%) Go
14 10 (2.22%) Scala
15 5 (1.11%) Shell Script
16 3 (0.67%) Rust
17 2 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 2 (0.44%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 98 (21.73%) Security Cleared
2 66 (14.63%) AWS Certification
3 62 (13.75%) SC Cleared
4 34 (7.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 29 (6.43%) DV Cleared
6 18 (3.99%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 17 (3.77%) Degree
8 14 (3.10%) ITIL Certification
9 9 (2.00%) AWS Certified Developer
10 8 (1.77%) BPSS Clearance
11 6 (1.33%) Master's Degree
12 5 (1.11%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 5 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (1.11%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 5 (1.11%) OSCP
12 5 (1.11%) RHCE
13 4 (0.89%) CCNA
13 4 (0.89%) Cisco Certification
13 4 (0.89%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.89%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (9.98%) Data Quality
2 24 (5.32%) QA
3 14 (3.10%) GDPR
4 11 (2.44%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.11%) HIPAA
5 5 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.67%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.22%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.22%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 155 (34.37%) Docker
2 6 (1.33%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.89%) Squid
3 4 (0.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.89%) VMware NSX
3 4 (0.89%) vSphere
4 1 (0.22%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 74 (16.41%) Kubernetes
2 43 (9.53%) Ansible
3 33 (7.32%) Prometheus
4 32 (7.10%) Grafana
5 17 (3.77%) Packer
6 16 (3.55%) HP Fortify
7 7 (1.55%) Puppet
8 5 (1.11%) Argo
9 4 (0.89%) Kibana
9 4 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.89%) ZABBIX
10 3 (0.67%) Scalr
11 2 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.44%) Rancher
12 1 (0.22%) Fluentd
12 1 (0.22%) logstash
12 1 (0.22%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 22 (4.88%) Databricks
2 14 (3.10%) Oracle
2 14 (3.10%) Red Hat
2 14 (3.10%) Splunk
3 12 (2.66%) OpenAI
4 10 (2.22%) Google
4 10 (2.22%) Microsoft
5 9 (2.00%) Dynatrace
6 8 (1.77%) Salesforce
7 7 (1.55%) AppDynamics
7 7 (1.55%) Avaya
7 7 (1.55%) Cisco
7 7 (1.55%) Genesys
7 7 (1.55%) HubSpot
8 6 (1.33%) IBM
9 5 (1.11%) SaltStack
10 4 (0.89%) SnapLogic
10 4 (0.89%) VMware
11 3 (0.67%) Atlassian
11 3 (0.67%) PeopleSoft