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

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 335 287 371
Rank change year-on-year -48 +84 -7
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 388 440 592
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.48% 1.13% 0.70%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.58% 3.16% 1.99%
Number of salaries quoted 264 363 476
10th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £51,500
25th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.38% +6.67% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £115,000 £96,563
90th Percentile £107,500 £138,750 £118,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £80,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -12.50% +10.34% -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 24,579 13,929 29,689
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 30.43% 35.76% 35.34%
Number of salaries quoted 13,590 10,031 24,227
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £43,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £61,644 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +7.21% -11.54%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £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 9 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 9 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 -96 150 £77,500 -18.42% 87
North of England +13 135 £72,500 +4.69% 54
Yorkshire +20 107 £72,500 +20.83% 17
Midlands -23 45 £55,000 - 11
East Midlands +3 33 £60,000 +9.09% 8
South West -46 29 £62,500 +4.17% 20
North West -19 27 £75,000 - 30
South East -29 22 £82,500 +50.00% 18
West Midlands -46 12 £49,000 -4.39% 3
East of England -29 4 £62,500 -26.47% 5
North East -48 1 £90,000 +44.00% 7
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 (6.44%) Apache
2 20 (5.15%) Apache Airflow
2 20 (5.15%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.29%) Confluence
4 3 (0.77%) JBoss
5 2 (0.52%) Oracle Application Server
6 1 (0.26%) CMS
6 1 (0.26%) IIS
6 1 (0.26%) nginx
6 1 (0.26%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (1.55%) Spreadsheet
2 4 (1.03%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 388 (100.00%) Serverless
2 387 (99.74%) AWS
3 283 (72.94%) Amazon S3
4 159 (40.98%) AWS CloudFormation
5 117 (30.15%) AWS Step Functions
6 116 (29.90%) Amazon ECS
7 97 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 85 (21.91%) Amazon SQS
9 79 (20.36%) GitHub
10 77 (19.85%) Amazon EC2
11 62 (15.98%) GitHub Actions
12 55 (14.18%) Amazon ECR
13 51 (13.14%) Apigee
14 45 (11.60%) Datadog
15 42 (10.82%) Amazon EKS
16 39 (10.05%) Amazon EventBridge
17 36 (9.28%) Azure
18 29 (7.47%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 29 (7.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 25 (6.44%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.35%) DSL
2 9 (2.32%) AMQP
3 8 (2.06%) Firewall
4 6 (1.55%) Network Security
5 3 (0.77%) Broadband
5 3 (0.77%) DNS
5 3 (0.77%) VPN
6 2 (0.52%) 4G
6 2 (0.52%) 5G
7 1 (0.26%) IPv4
7 1 (0.26%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.26%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 170 (43.81%) DynamoDB
2 79 (20.36%) Amazon RDS
3 61 (15.72%) NoSQL
4 41 (10.57%) Amazon Athena
5 40 (10.31%) Amazon Redshift
6 25 (6.44%) PostgreSQL
7 23 (5.93%) Data Warehouse
8 15 (3.87%) SQL Server
9 11 (2.84%) Relational Database
10 10 (2.58%) Big Data
10 10 (2.58%) Data Lake
11 9 (2.32%) MySQL
12 7 (1.80%) Apache Iceberg
12 7 (1.80%) Metadata
12 7 (1.80%) Snowflake Schema
13 6 (1.55%) Amazon Aurora
13 6 (1.55%) Power BI
14 5 (1.29%) Elasticsearch
14 5 (1.29%) Hadoop
15 4 (1.03%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 125 (32.22%) Jenkins
2 92 (23.71%) GitLab
3 78 (20.10%) Git
4 48 (12.37%) Maven
5 47 (12.11%) SonarQube
6 44 (11.34%) Cypress.io
7 17 (4.38%) CircleCI
8 16 (4.12%) JIRA
9 10 (2.58%) Cucumber
10 9 (2.32%) Bitbucket
11 5 (1.29%) Gradle
12 4 (1.03%) Artifactory
12 4 (1.03%) MLflow
12 4 (1.03%) Postman
12 4 (1.03%) Selenium
12 4 (1.03%) SpecFlow
13 3 (0.77%) ESLint
13 3 (0.77%) Octopus Deploy
14 2 (0.52%) DBeaver
14 2 (0.52%) TeamCity
General
1 99 (25.52%) Social Skills
2 50 (12.89%) Finance
3 39 (10.05%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (6.70%) Public Sector
5 20 (5.15%) Banking
6 16 (4.12%) Health Technology
7 13 (3.35%) Publishing
7 13 (3.35%) Tech for Good
8 10 (2.58%) Advertising
8 10 (2.58%) Influencing Skills
9 8 (2.06%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (1.80%) Billing
11 4 (1.03%) Aerospace
12 3 (0.77%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.77%) Law
12 3 (0.77%) Legal
12 3 (0.77%) Military
13 2 (0.52%) Front Office
13 2 (0.52%) Games
13 2 (0.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 182 (46.91%) Developer
2 103 (26.55%) Senior
3 71 (18.30%) Java Developer
4 64 (16.49%) AWS Developer
5 56 (14.43%) Lead
5 56 (14.43%) Senior Developer
6 40 (10.31%) Full-Stack Developer
7 38 (9.79%) AWS Engineer
7 38 (9.79%) Data Engineer
8 30 (7.73%) React Developer
9 29 (7.47%) Lead Developer
10 28 (7.22%) DevOps Engineer
11 27 (6.96%) Python Developer
12 24 (6.19%) Software Engineer
13 21 (5.41%) Software Developer
14 19 (4.90%) Architect
14 19 (4.90%) AWS Data Engineer
14 19 (4.90%) Cloud Engineer
15 18 (4.64%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 18 (4.64%) Node.js Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (29.12%) Node.js
2 100 (25.77%) React
3 86 (22.16%) AngularJS
4 77 (19.85%) Spring Boot
5 58 (14.95%) RESTful
6 48 (12.37%) Spring
7 46 (11.86%) AWS CDK
8 43 (11.08%) Gherkin
9 42 (10.82%) Jest
10 35 (9.02%) Kafka
11 33 (8.51%) RabbitMQ
12 30 (7.73%) REST
13 25 (6.44%) HTML
14 21 (5.41%) gRPC
15 20 (5.15%) .NET
15 20 (5.15%) JSON
16 19 (4.90%) CSS
17 18 (4.64%) YAML
18 17 (4.38%) web3js
19 12 (3.09%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 82 (21.13%) Cloud Native
2 21 (5.41%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (4.38%) Blockchain
3 17 (4.38%) Web3
4 15 (3.87%) Greenfield Project
5 10 (2.58%) Product Ownership
6 7 (1.80%) Data Structures
7 6 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (1.29%) Linux Command Line
8 5 (1.29%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.03%) NHS
9 4 (1.03%) Security Posture
10 3 (0.77%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (0.77%) IoT
11 2 (0.52%) Algorithms
11 2 (0.52%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (0.52%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (0.52%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 32 (8.25%) Linux
2 6 (1.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (1.55%) Windows
3 4 (1.03%) CentOS
3 4 (1.03%) Debian
3 4 (1.03%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.26%) Unix
4 1 (0.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 247 (63.66%) CI/CD
2 197 (50.77%) DevOps
3 153 (39.43%) Agile
4 151 (38.92%) Infrastructure as Code
5 84 (21.65%) Containerisation
6 82 (21.13%) Full-Stack Development
7 79 (20.36%) Software Engineering
8 78 (20.10%) Microservices
8 78 (20.10%) Problem-Solving
9 75 (19.33%) Mentoring
10 62 (15.98%) Test Automation
11 59 (15.21%) Observability
12 56 (14.43%) Continuous Integration
13 49 (12.63%) DevSecOps
14 47 (12.11%) Event-Driven
15 44 (11.34%) Analytics
16 43 (11.08%) Continuous Improvement
17 42 (10.82%) Data Pipeline
18 41 (10.57%) Event-Driven Architecture
19 40 (10.31%) AI
Programming Languages
1 194 (50.00%) Python
2 133 (34.28%) TypeScript
3 123 (31.70%) SQL
4 114 (29.38%) Java
5 66 (17.01%) Bash
6 62 (15.98%) JavaScript
7 49 (12.63%) Groovy
8 32 (8.25%) Go
9 30 (7.73%) Kotlin
10 13 (3.35%) PowerShell
10 13 (3.35%) Rust
11 10 (2.58%) C#
12 8 (2.06%) PHP
13 4 (1.03%) Perl
14 2 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.52%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.52%) R
14 2 (0.52%) Scala
14 2 (0.52%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 68 (17.53%) AWS Certification
2 60 (15.46%) Security Cleared
3 45 (11.60%) SC Cleared
4 42 (10.82%) Degree
5 28 (7.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 24 (6.19%) ITIL Certification
7 20 (5.15%) AWS Certified Developer
8 19 (4.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 18 (4.64%) Computer Science Degree
10 15 (3.87%) OSCP
11 13 (3.35%) DV Cleared
12 5 (1.29%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 3 (0.77%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 3 (0.77%) IIBA
13 3 (0.77%) PhD
14 2 (0.52%) RHCE
15 1 (0.26%) CCNA
15 1 (0.26%) Cisco Certification
15 1 (0.26%) GIAC
15 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (7.99%) QA
2 21 (5.41%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.77%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.77%) GDPR
4 3 (0.77%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.26%) MiFID
5 1 (0.26%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.26%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 158 (40.72%) Docker
2 4 (1.03%) iptables
3 3 (0.77%) Firmware
4 1 (0.26%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.26%) Squid
4 1 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.26%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.26%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 145 (37.37%) Terraform
2 86 (22.16%) Kubernetes
3 41 (10.57%) HP Fortify
4 40 (10.31%) Ansible
5 35 (9.02%) Prometheus
6 23 (5.93%) Grafana
7 8 (2.06%) Puppet
8 6 (1.55%) Progress Chef
9 5 (1.29%) Packer
10 4 (1.03%) Kibana
11 3 (0.77%) Scalr
12 1 (0.26%) Red Hat Satellite
12 1 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.26%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 11 (2.84%) Databricks
2 8 (2.06%) Oracle
3 7 (1.80%) AppDynamics
3 7 (1.80%) Red Hat
4 6 (1.55%) HubSpot
4 6 (1.55%) IBM
5 5 (1.29%) Salesforce
6 4 (1.03%) Google
6 4 (1.03%) SaltStack
7 3 (0.77%) Atlassian
7 3 (0.77%) Microsoft
7 3 (0.77%) Splunk
8 1 (0.26%) Apple
8 1 (0.26%) Informatica
8 1 (0.26%) New Relic
8 1 (0.26%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.26%) VMware
8 1 (0.26%) YouTube