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 16 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 370 310 414
Rank change year-on-year -60 +104 -51
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 421 394 520
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.48% 0.91% 0.59%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.75% 2.74% 1.79%
Number of salaries quoted 277 296 391
10th Percentile £50,000 £47,125 £51,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year - -3.23% +6.90%
75th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £112,500 £115,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% - +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 24,019 14,370 29,084
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 27.42% 33.17% 32.93%
Number of salaries quoted 16,013 10,271 22,870
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £30,250
25th Percentile £43,847 £41,250 £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 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -8.00%

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 16 July 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 16 July 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 -66 168 £88,750 +7.58% 41
North of England +42 147 £75,000 +15.38% 25
Yorkshire +22 91 £75,000 +25.00% 3
North West +6 43 £71,250 +9.62% 10
South West -49 35 £61,500 -1.60% 16
Midlands -12 34 £57,500 +35.29% 8
South East -3 31 £67,500 +22.73% 15
East Midlands -13 26 £55,000 +18.92% 5
North East -43 13 £75,000 +15.38% 12
West Midlands -44 8 £62,500 +47.06% 3
East of England -37 4 £62,500 -26.47% 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 25 (5.94%) Apache
2 19 (4.51%) Apache Spark
3 15 (3.56%) Apache Airflow
4 13 (3.09%) Confluence
5 3 (0.71%) JBoss
5 3 (0.71%) SAS
6 1 (0.24%) CMS
6 1 (0.24%) IIS
6 1 (0.24%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.24%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (1.90%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.24%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 421 (100.00%) Serverless
2 420 (99.76%) AWS
3 288 (68.41%) Amazon S3
4 171 (40.62%) AWS CloudFormation
5 160 (38.00%) Amazon ECS
6 109 (25.89%) AWS Step Functions
7 100 (23.75%) Amazon EC2
8 90 (21.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 83 (19.71%) Amazon SQS
10 77 (18.29%) GitHub
11 60 (14.25%) Amazon EKS
12 52 (12.35%) Amazon EventBridge
13 51 (12.11%) GitHub Actions
14 47 (11.16%) Datadog
15 43 (10.21%) Amazon ECR
16 42 (9.98%) Azure
17 40 (9.50%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 39 (9.26%) Apigee
19 35 (8.31%) Cloud Computing
20 32 (7.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 20 (4.75%) Network Security
2 13 (3.09%) Firewall
3 9 (2.14%) DSL
4 7 (1.66%) AMQP
5 5 (1.19%) VPN
6 4 (0.95%) DNS
6 4 (0.95%) IPv4
6 4 (0.95%) Software-Defined Networking
7 3 (0.71%) Broadband
8 2 (0.48%) 4G
8 2 (0.48%) 5G
8 2 (0.48%) VoIP
9 1 (0.24%) DHCP
9 1 (0.24%) HTTP
9 1 (0.24%) PSTN
9 1 (0.24%) SSL
9 1 (0.24%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.24%) VLAN
9 1 (0.24%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 172 (40.86%) DynamoDB
2 84 (19.95%) Amazon RDS
3 62 (14.73%) NoSQL
4 51 (12.11%) Amazon Athena
5 37 (8.79%) Amazon Redshift
6 19 (4.51%) PostgreSQL
7 17 (4.04%) Data Warehouse
8 16 (3.80%) Relational Database
8 16 (3.80%) SQL Server
9 13 (3.09%) MySQL
10 10 (2.38%) Big Data
10 10 (2.38%) Elasticsearch
11 8 (1.90%) Data Lake
11 8 (1.90%) Metadata
12 7 (1.66%) Amazon Aurora
13 6 (1.43%) Apache Iceberg
13 6 (1.43%) Power BI
14 5 (1.19%) Azure SQL Database
14 5 (1.19%) Hadoop
14 5 (1.19%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 118 (28.03%) Jenkins
2 89 (21.14%) Git
3 77 (18.29%) GitLab
4 35 (8.31%) Maven
5 34 (8.08%) SonarQube
6 32 (7.60%) Cypress.io
7 23 (5.46%) JIRA
8 15 (3.56%) CircleCI
9 14 (3.33%) Bitbucket
10 11 (2.61%) TeamCity
11 10 (2.38%) Cucumber
12 7 (1.66%) Postman
13 6 (1.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 6 (1.43%) Claude Code
13 6 (1.43%) Selenium
14 5 (1.19%) Gradle
15 4 (0.95%) Artifactory
15 4 (0.95%) SpecFlow
16 3 (0.71%) Octopus Deploy
17 2 (0.48%) Jasmine
General
1 97 (23.04%) Social Skills
2 75 (17.81%) Finance
3 48 (11.40%) Public Sector
4 32 (7.60%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (5.23%) Banking
6 10 (2.38%) Health Technology
7 9 (2.14%) Telecoms
8 8 (1.90%) Advertising
8 8 (1.90%) Aerospace
8 8 (1.90%) Billing
8 8 (1.90%) Influencing Skills
9 7 (1.66%) Military
10 5 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.19%) Publishing
11 4 (0.95%) Marketing
11 4 (0.95%) Tech for Good
12 3 (0.71%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.71%) Law
12 3 (0.71%) Legal
13 2 (0.48%) Games
Job Titles
1 168 (39.90%) Developer
2 151 (35.87%) Senior
3 76 (18.05%) Java Developer
4 66 (15.68%) Senior Developer
5 58 (13.78%) Full-Stack Developer
6 46 (10.93%) AWS Engineer
7 45 (10.69%) AWS Developer
8 41 (9.74%) Lead
9 40 (9.50%) Data Engineer
10 31 (7.36%) Software Engineer
11 29 (6.89%) DevOps Engineer
12 24 (5.70%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
13 23 (5.46%) Platform Engineer
14 21 (4.99%) Architect
14 21 (4.99%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 21 (4.99%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 20 (4.75%) Consultant
16 19 (4.51%) AWS Data Engineer
17 18 (4.28%) Python Developer
17 18 (4.28%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 127 (30.17%) Node.js
2 95 (22.57%) AngularJS
3 93 (22.09%) React
4 75 (17.81%) Spring Boot
5 53 (12.59%) Spring
6 45 (10.69%) RESTful
7 42 (9.98%) REST
8 40 (9.50%) AWS CDK
8 40 (9.50%) Kafka
9 36 (8.55%) Gherkin
10 31 (7.36%) Jest
11 27 (6.41%) RabbitMQ
12 23 (5.46%) JSON
13 22 (5.23%) YAML
14 21 (4.99%) .NET
14 21 (4.99%) Swagger
15 18 (4.28%) gRPC
16 15 (3.56%) PySpark
17 14 (3.33%) web3js
18 13 (3.09%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 91 (21.62%) Cloud Native
2 36 (8.55%) Distributed Systems
3 24 (5.70%) Onboarding
4 18 (4.28%) Enterprise Cloud
5 16 (3.80%) Greenfield Project
6 14 (3.33%) Blockchain
6 14 (3.33%) Product Ownership
6 14 (3.33%) Web3
7 11 (2.61%) Data Structures
8 6 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (1.43%) Public Cloud
9 5 (1.19%) IoT
9 5 (1.19%) IVR
9 5 (1.19%) Linux Command Line
9 5 (1.19%) NHS
10 4 (0.95%) AI Agents
10 4 (0.95%) Algorithms
10 4 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (0.95%) Low-Code
10 4 (0.95%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 43 (10.21%) Linux
2 12 (2.85%) Windows
3 6 (1.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (0.95%) CentOS
4 4 (0.95%) Debian
4 4 (0.95%) Ubuntu
4 4 (0.95%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 255 (60.57%) CI/CD
2 189 (44.89%) DevOps
3 173 (41.09%) Infrastructure as Code
4 158 (37.53%) Agile
5 97 (23.04%) AI
6 93 (22.09%) Full-Stack Development
7 92 (21.85%) Mentoring
8 89 (21.14%) Software Engineering
9 84 (19.95%) Containerisation
10 82 (19.48%) Microservices
11 75 (17.81%) Problem-Solving
12 73 (17.34%) Observability
13 70 (16.63%) Test Automation
14 65 (15.44%) Event-Driven
15 54 (12.83%) Analytics
16 51 (12.11%) Continuous Integration
17 50 (11.88%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 45 (10.69%) Data Modelling
18 45 (10.69%) Data Pipeline
19 44 (10.45%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 225 (53.44%) Python
2 136 (32.30%) TypeScript
3 128 (30.40%) Java
4 114 (27.08%) SQL
5 77 (18.29%) Bash
6 53 (12.59%) JavaScript
7 44 (10.45%) Groovy
8 35 (8.31%) Kotlin
9 27 (6.41%) Go
10 23 (5.46%) PHP
11 20 (4.75%) C#
12 19 (4.51%) PowerShell
13 18 (4.28%) Perl
14 14 (3.33%) Ruby
15 9 (2.14%) Rust
16 7 (1.66%) Scala
17 2 (0.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 2 (0.48%) PL/SQL
17 2 (0.48%) R
17 2 (0.48%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 84 (19.95%) Security Cleared
2 75 (17.81%) AWS Certification
3 47 (11.16%) SC Cleared
4 38 (9.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 35 (8.31%) Degree
6 25 (5.94%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 25 (5.94%) DV Cleared
7 22 (5.23%) ITIL Certification
8 13 (3.09%) OSCP
9 10 (2.38%) AWS Certified Developer
10 7 (1.66%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (1.43%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 6 (1.43%) Master's Degree
12 5 (1.19%) RHCE
13 4 (0.95%) CCNA
13 4 (0.95%) Cisco Certification
13 4 (0.95%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (0.95%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 4 (0.95%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (4.99%) Data Quality
1 21 (4.99%) QA
2 11 (2.61%) GDPR
3 8 (1.90%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.95%) HIPAA
6 3 (0.71%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.24%) MiFID
7 1 (0.24%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 155 (36.82%) Docker
2 4 (0.95%) Active Directory
2 4 (0.95%) Squid
2 4 (0.95%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (0.95%) VMware NSX
2 4 (0.95%) vSphere
3 3 (0.71%) Firmware
3 3 (0.71%) iptables
Systems Management
1 184 (43.71%) Terraform
2 81 (19.24%) Kubernetes
3 49 (11.64%) Ansible
4 35 (8.31%) Prometheus
5 27 (6.41%) Grafana
5 27 (6.41%) HP Fortify
6 17 (4.04%) Packer
7 7 (1.66%) Puppet
8 5 (1.19%) Argo
9 4 (0.95%) Kibana
9 4 (0.95%) Progress Chef
9 4 (0.95%) ZABBIX
10 3 (0.71%) Scalr
11 1 (0.24%) logstash
11 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 14 (3.33%) Splunk
2 10 (2.38%) Red Hat
3 9 (2.14%) Databricks
3 9 (2.14%) Oracle
4 7 (1.66%) AppDynamics
4 7 (1.66%) Avaya
4 7 (1.66%) Cisco
4 7 (1.66%) Genesys
4 7 (1.66%) HubSpot
5 6 (1.43%) IBM
5 6 (1.43%) Microsoft
6 5 (1.19%) Google
6 5 (1.19%) OpenAI
6 5 (1.19%) Salesforce
7 4 (0.95%) Dynatrace
7 4 (0.95%) SaltStack
7 4 (0.95%) VMware
8 3 (0.71%) SnapLogic
9 1 (0.24%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 1 (0.24%) Solace