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 12 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 353 268 348
Rank change year-on-year -85 +80 -89
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 296 615 386
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.65% 1.02% 0.82%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.88% 3.10% 1.89%
Number of salaries quoted 197 228 320
10th Percentile £51,400 £52,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £65,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,000 £81,250 £67,529
Median % change year-on-year -12.62% +20.32% -15.59%
75th Percentile £87,500 £105,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £107,500 £128,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £70,500 £80,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -11.88% +14.29% -12.50%

All Cloud 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 15,764 19,851 20,460
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 34.61% 32.88% 43.39%
Number of salaries quoted 10,318 11,953 17,116
10th Percentile £28,697 £36,250 £32,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £47,500 £46,050
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% -

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 12 November 2025.

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 12 November 2025. 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 -70 163 £77,500 -13.89% 223
North of England +27 51 £65,000 +23.81% 61
South West +33 29 £62,500 -10.71% 20
North West +29 26 £65,000 +23.81% 38
Yorkshire +20 24 £65,000 -10.34% 19
South East -68 19 £67,500 +12.50% 47
Midlands +45 13 £60,000 -17.24% 17
West Midlands +41 13 £60,000 -17.24% 10
East of England -19 11 £42,500 -22.73% 14
North East - 1 £72,500 - 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 (8.11%) Apache Spark
2 21 (7.09%) Apache
3 9 (3.04%) Headless CMS
3 9 (3.04%) WebSphere
4 7 (2.36%) Tomcat
5 6 (2.03%) WebSphere Application Server
6 5 (1.69%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (1.69%) Confluence
7 2 (0.68%) JBoss
8 1 (0.34%) CMS
8 1 (0.34%) nginx
8 1 (0.34%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.34%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (3.04%) Shopify
2 3 (1.01%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.34%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 296 (100.00%) AWS
1 296 (100.00%) Serverless
2 175 (59.12%) Amazon S3
3 85 (28.72%) Amazon EC2
4 71 (23.99%) Amazon ECS
5 61 (20.61%) AWS CloudFormation
6 54 (18.24%) Amazon EKS
7 49 (16.55%) Amazon SQS
8 48 (16.22%) Azure
9 42 (14.19%) AWS Step Functions
10 41 (13.85%) GitHub
11 33 (11.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 32 (10.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 28 (9.46%) Amazon SageMaker
14 23 (7.77%) GitHub Actions
15 22 (7.43%) Amazon Kinesis
16 21 (7.09%) Snowflake
17 17 (5.74%) Amazon Bedrock
17 17 (5.74%) Amazon EMR
17 17 (5.74%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.38%) Broadband
2 9 (3.04%) SSL
3 7 (2.36%) Firewall
4 6 (2.03%) AMQP
4 6 (2.03%) VPN
5 5 (1.69%) DNS
6 3 (1.01%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.68%) Network Security
7 2 (0.68%) SSH
8 1 (0.34%) iSCSI
8 1 (0.34%) NAS
8 1 (0.34%) SAN
8 1 (0.34%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (34.80%) DynamoDB
2 71 (23.99%) Amazon RDS
3 48 (16.22%) Amazon Redshift
4 47 (15.88%) Data Warehouse
5 40 (13.51%) PostgreSQL
6 29 (9.80%) NoSQL
7 25 (8.45%) Elasticsearch
8 21 (7.09%) Data Lake
9 20 (6.76%) Amazon Athena
10 19 (6.42%) Big Data
10 19 (6.42%) MongoDB
11 15 (5.07%) Amazon Aurora
12 12 (4.05%) Apache Iceberg
13 11 (3.72%) MySQL
13 11 (3.72%) SQL Server
14 10 (3.38%) Hadoop
15 9 (3.04%) DB2
15 9 (3.04%) Relational Database
16 8 (2.70%) Apache Hive
17 4 (1.35%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 43 (14.53%) Jenkins
2 28 (9.46%) Git
3 22 (7.43%) GitLab
4 15 (5.07%) Cypress.io
5 13 (4.39%) JIRA
6 10 (3.38%) Bitbucket
7 8 (2.70%) Selenium
8 7 (2.36%) Locust
9 5 (1.69%) JUnit
9 5 (1.69%) Vite
10 4 (1.35%) git-flow
10 4 (1.35%) Spinnaker
11 3 (1.01%) CircleCI
11 3 (1.01%) MLflow
12 2 (0.68%) Cucumber
12 2 (0.68%) ER Studio
12 2 (0.68%) Mocha
13 1 (0.34%) Gradle
13 1 (0.34%) Jasmine
13 1 (0.34%) Mockito
General
1 93 (31.42%) Social Skills
2 83 (28.04%) Finance
3 28 (9.46%) Tech for Good
4 26 (8.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 26 (8.78%) Marketing
5 23 (7.77%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (7.77%) Publishing
6 22 (7.43%) Health Technology
6 22 (7.43%) Law
7 21 (7.09%) Public Sector
8 13 (4.39%) Banking
9 11 (3.72%) Games
10 10 (3.38%) Manufacturing
10 10 (3.38%) Retail
11 9 (3.04%) Financial Institution
12 7 (2.36%) Influencing Skills
12 7 (2.36%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (2.36%) Telecoms
13 6 (2.03%) Electronics
14 5 (1.69%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 110 (37.16%) Senior
2 83 (28.04%) Developer
3 50 (16.89%) Senior Developer
4 45 (15.20%) Software Engineer
5 43 (14.53%) Data Engineer
6 41 (13.85%) AWS Engineer
7 30 (10.14%) Python Developer
8 29 (9.80%) AWS Developer
9 28 (9.46%) Lead
10 22 (7.43%) Senior Data Engineer
11 20 (6.76%) AWS Data Engineer
12 19 (6.42%) Applications Support
12 19 (6.42%) Full-Stack Developer
12 19 (6.42%) Senior Python Developer
13 17 (5.74%) Applications Engineer
14 16 (5.41%) Architect
14 16 (5.41%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 16 (5.41%) Python Engineer
14 16 (5.41%) React Developer
15 15 (5.07%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (30.07%) React
2 49 (16.55%) Node.js
3 47 (15.88%) RESTful
4 40 (13.51%) Spring
5 35 (11.82%) Spring Boot
6 29 (9.80%) Kafka
7 25 (8.45%) GraphQL
8 24 (8.11%) .NET
9 21 (7.09%) AWS CDK
10 20 (6.76%) CSS
10 20 (6.76%) HTML
11 18 (6.08%) Next.js
12 17 (5.74%) AngularJS
12 17 (5.74%) Swagger
13 16 (5.41%) RabbitMQ
14 15 (5.07%) Playwright
15 14 (4.73%) FastAPI
15 14 (4.73%) Jest
16 12 (4.05%) Tailwind CSS
17 11 (3.72%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 82 (27.70%) Cloud Native
2 16 (5.41%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (5.07%) e-Learning
4 13 (4.39%) Greenfield Project
5 11 (3.72%) Product Ownership
5 11 (3.72%) Virtual Team
6 9 (3.04%) Linux Command Line
7 7 (2.36%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (2.36%) Onboarding
8 6 (2.03%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.69%) AI Agents
10 4 (1.35%) Life Science
10 4 (1.35%) Mobile App
10 4 (1.35%) Public Cloud
11 3 (1.01%) Animation
11 3 (1.01%) Blockchain
11 3 (1.01%) Enterprise Cloud
11 3 (1.01%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (1.01%) Private Cloud
11 3 (1.01%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 32 (10.81%) Linux
2 12 (4.05%) Unix
3 9 (3.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (2.36%) Windows
5 2 (0.68%) CentOS
5 2 (0.68%) Debian
5 2 (0.68%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.34%) Android
6 1 (0.34%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (53.04%) CI/CD
2 131 (44.26%) Agile
3 118 (39.86%) DevOps
4 96 (32.43%) Software Engineering
5 95 (32.09%) Infrastructure as Code
6 88 (29.73%) Problem-Solving
7 70 (23.65%) Mentoring
8 63 (21.28%) Containerisation
9 54 (18.24%) Microservices
10 53 (17.91%) Data Pipeline
11 48 (16.22%) Analytics
11 48 (16.22%) Scrum
12 47 (15.88%) AI
12 47 (15.88%) Data Science
13 46 (15.54%) Machine Learning
14 44 (14.86%) Data Modelling
15 43 (14.53%) Pair Programming
16 42 (14.19%) TDD
17 41 (13.85%) Continuous Improvement
17 41 (13.85%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 193 (65.20%) Python
2 98 (33.11%) TypeScript
3 88 (29.73%) Java
4 75 (25.34%) SQL
5 60 (20.27%) JavaScript
6 17 (5.74%) Bash
7 15 (5.07%) Scala
8 14 (4.73%) Go
9 13 (4.39%) C#
10 7 (2.36%) PowerShell
11 4 (1.35%) C++
11 4 (1.35%) Rust
12 3 (1.01%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.68%) C
14 1 (0.34%) PHP
14 1 (0.34%) R
Qualifications
1 58 (19.59%) AWS Certification
2 40 (13.51%) Security Cleared
3 37 (12.50%) Degree
4 22 (7.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 22 (7.43%) SC Cleared
5 21 (7.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (7.09%) DV Cleared
6 15 (5.07%) AWS Certified Developer
7 8 (2.70%) SnowPro
8 6 (2.03%) ITIL Certification
8 6 (2.03%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.68%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.34%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (0.34%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.34%) CCNA
10 1 (0.34%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.34%) GIAC
10 1 (0.34%) MCSE
10 1 (0.34%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (13.85%) QA
2 20 (6.76%) GDPR
3 15 (5.07%) Data Quality
4 13 (4.39%) Accessibility
4 13 (4.39%) PCI DSS
5 8 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (2.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 8 (2.70%) SLA
6 7 (2.36%) NIST
7 4 (1.35%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.68%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.34%) CDISC
9 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.34%) DICOM
9 1 (0.34%) GAAP
9 1 (0.34%) HL7
9 1 (0.34%) IFRS
9 1 (0.34%) IFRS 17
9 1 (0.34%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 68 (22.97%) Docker
2 8 (2.70%) HDFS
3 2 (0.68%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.68%) Firmware
4 1 (0.34%) iptables
4 1 (0.34%) vCloud
4 1 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.34%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.34%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 96 (32.43%) Terraform
2 75 (25.34%) Kubernetes
3 25 (8.45%) Ansible
4 24 (8.11%) Prometheus
5 20 (6.76%) Grafana
6 6 (2.03%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (1.69%) Progress Chef
8 4 (1.35%) Kibana
9 3 (1.01%) Docker Swarm
9 3 (1.01%) Kubeflow
9 3 (1.01%) Puppet
10 1 (0.34%) Argo
10 1 (0.34%) Podman
10 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Satellite
10 1 (0.34%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 24 (8.11%) Oracle
2 20 (6.76%) Databricks
3 12 (4.05%) Microsoft
4 10 (3.38%) IBM
5 9 (3.04%) Apple
5 9 (3.04%) Atlassian
5 9 (3.04%) Google
5 9 (3.04%) Red Hat
5 9 (3.04%) Splunk
6 8 (2.70%) OpenAI
7 5 (1.69%) SAP
8 2 (0.68%) Avaya
8 2 (0.68%) Genesys
8 2 (0.68%) SaltStack
8 2 (0.68%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.68%) StreamSets
8 2 (0.68%) Thales
8 2 (0.68%) VMware
9 1 (0.34%) Nimble Storage
9 1 (0.34%) YouTube