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 6 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 349 187 347
Rank change year-on-year -162 +160 +17
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 346 678 540
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.54% 1.65% 0.77%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.64% 4.36% 2.04%
Number of salaries quoted 242 339 464
10th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £48,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £62,500 £57,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £90,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -19.44% +24.14% -6.45%
75th Percentile £87,188 £115,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £107,500 £138,750 £117,625
UK median annual salary £70,000 £82,500 £71,500
% change year-on-year -15.15% +15.38% -4.67%

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 21,154 15,543 26,486
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 33.18% 37.73% 37.90%
Number of salaries quoted 11,671 10,032 22,309
10th Percentile £29,303 £33,204 £30,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,264 £57,500
% change year-on-year -5.16% +10.02% -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 6 March 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 6 March 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 -128 146 £80,000 -23.81% 108
North of England +36 106 £68,750 +10.00% 41
Yorkshire +34 89 £66,250 +10.42% 16
Midlands +6 42 £55,000 - 13
South West -9 30 £62,500 +6.38% 33
East Midlands -13 25 £60,000 -4.00% 6
West Midlands +2 17 £50,000 +8.11% 7
North West -13 17 £70,000 +1.08% 22
South East -139 13 £67,500 +22.73% 41
East of England -41 4 £62,500 -9.09% 21
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 31 (8.96%) Apache
2 30 (8.67%) Apache Spark
3 21 (6.07%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.45%) Confluence
5 4 (1.16%) Tomcat
5 4 (1.16%) WebSphere
6 3 (0.87%) JBoss
6 3 (0.87%) WebSphere Application Server
7 2 (0.58%) nginx
7 2 (0.58%) Oracle Application Server
8 1 (0.29%) SAS
8 1 (0.29%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (1.73%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.29%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 346 (100.00%) AWS
1 346 (100.00%) Serverless
2 255 (73.70%) Amazon S3
3 136 (39.31%) AWS CloudFormation
4 96 (27.75%) AWS Step Functions
5 89 (25.72%) Amazon ECS
6 77 (22.25%) GitHub
7 74 (21.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 74 (21.39%) Amazon SQS
8 67 (19.36%) Amazon EC2
9 53 (15.32%) GitHub Actions
10 48 (13.87%) Amazon EKS
11 41 (11.85%) Azure
12 40 (11.56%) Amazon ECR
13 34 (9.83%) Apigee
14 28 (8.09%) Amazon EventBridge
15 25 (7.23%) Datadog
16 24 (6.94%) GCP
16 24 (6.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 23 (6.65%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.47%) DSL
2 11 (3.18%) AMQP
3 5 (1.45%) Network Security
4 4 (1.16%) Firewall
4 4 (1.16%) SSL
5 3 (0.87%) Broadband
6 1 (0.29%) 4G
6 1 (0.29%) 5G
6 1 (0.29%) DNS
6 1 (0.29%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (35.26%) DynamoDB
2 72 (20.81%) Amazon RDS
3 57 (16.47%) NoSQL
4 49 (14.16%) Amazon Redshift
5 38 (10.98%) Data Warehouse
6 35 (10.12%) PostgreSQL
7 27 (7.80%) Amazon Athena
8 20 (5.78%) SQL Server
9 16 (4.62%) Big Data
9 16 (4.62%) Data Lake
10 14 (4.05%) MongoDB
11 11 (3.18%) Apache Iceberg
11 11 (3.18%) Hadoop
11 11 (3.18%) Relational Database
12 10 (2.89%) MySQL
13 8 (2.31%) Metadata
14 7 (2.02%) Amazon Aurora
15 6 (1.73%) Snowflake Schema
16 5 (1.45%) Apache Hive
16 5 (1.45%) DB2
Development Applications
1 93 (26.88%) Jenkins
2 73 (21.10%) GitLab
3 52 (15.03%) Git
4 36 (10.40%) Cypress.io
5 33 (9.54%) Maven
6 32 (9.25%) SonarQube
7 11 (3.18%) CircleCI
7 11 (3.18%) JIRA
8 9 (2.60%) Bitbucket
9 7 (2.02%) MLflow
10 5 (1.45%) git-flow
11 3 (0.87%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.87%) ESLint
11 3 (0.87%) JUnit
11 3 (0.87%) Selenium
11 3 (0.87%) webpack
12 2 (0.58%) DBeaver
12 2 (0.58%) Deequ
12 2 (0.58%) Mocha
12 2 (0.58%) Vite
General
1 98 (28.32%) Social Skills
2 49 (14.16%) Finance
3 35 (10.12%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (4.91%) Banking
4 17 (4.91%) Tech for Good
5 16 (4.62%) Health Technology
6 15 (4.34%) Influencing Skills
6 15 (4.34%) Public Sector
6 15 (4.34%) Publishing
7 14 (4.05%) Organisational Skills
8 9 (2.60%) Advertising
9 6 (1.73%) Financial Institution
9 6 (1.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.16%) Aerospace
10 4 (1.16%) Billing
11 3 (0.87%) Games
11 3 (0.87%) Investment Banking
11 3 (0.87%) Law
11 3 (0.87%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.87%) Military
Job Titles
1 143 (41.33%) Developer
2 80 (23.12%) Senior
3 57 (16.47%) AWS Developer
4 48 (13.87%) Java Developer
5 47 (13.58%) Lead
6 42 (12.14%) AWS Engineer
7 39 (11.27%) Data Engineer
7 39 (11.27%) Senior Developer
8 37 (10.69%) Software Engineer
9 31 (8.96%) React Developer
10 30 (8.67%) Full-Stack Developer
11 28 (8.09%) Lead Developer
11 28 (8.09%) Python Developer
12 25 (7.23%) AWS Data Engineer
13 23 (6.65%) Architect
14 20 (5.78%) Software Developer
15 17 (4.91%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 17 (4.91%) Lead Python Developer
15 17 (4.91%) Node.js Developer
16 16 (4.62%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (29.48%) React
2 97 (28.03%) Node.js
3 70 (20.23%) Spring Boot
4 61 (17.63%) AngularJS
5 54 (15.61%) RESTful
6 50 (14.45%) Spring
7 48 (13.87%) AWS CDK
8 36 (10.40%) Jest
9 33 (9.54%) Kafka
10 32 (9.25%) Gherkin
11 29 (8.38%) HTML
12 27 (7.80%) RabbitMQ
13 24 (6.94%) CSS
14 22 (6.36%) .NET
15 18 (5.20%) gRPC
16 16 (4.62%) REST
17 15 (4.34%) .NET Core
18 14 (4.05%) PySpark
19 13 (3.76%) ASP.NET Core
19 13 (3.76%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 103 (29.77%) Cloud Native
2 14 (4.05%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (4.05%) Product Ownership
3 11 (3.18%) Blockchain
3 11 (3.18%) Web3
4 10 (2.89%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (2.02%) Data Structures
6 6 (1.73%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (1.73%) Onboarding
6 6 (1.73%) Security Posture
6 6 (1.73%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (1.45%) e-Learning
7 5 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (1.45%) Virtual Team
8 4 (1.16%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (0.87%) Animation
9 3 (0.87%) Life Science
9 3 (0.87%) NHS
9 3 (0.87%) Private Cloud
10 2 (0.58%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 26 (7.51%) Linux
2 9 (2.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (2.31%) Unix
4 6 (1.73%) Windows
5 5 (1.45%) CentOS
5 5 (1.45%) Debian
5 5 (1.45%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 229 (66.18%) CI/CD
2 176 (50.87%) DevOps
3 139 (40.17%) Agile
4 135 (39.02%) Infrastructure as Code
5 93 (26.88%) Software Engineering
6 80 (23.12%) Problem-Solving
7 75 (21.68%) Full-Stack Development
8 74 (21.39%) Microservices
9 72 (20.81%) Containerisation
10 71 (20.52%) Mentoring
11 51 (14.74%) Observability
12 50 (14.45%) Data Pipeline
13 46 (13.29%) Continuous Improvement
14 45 (13.01%) Continuous Integration
15 43 (12.43%) DevSecOps
16 40 (11.56%) Scrum
17 38 (10.98%) AI
18 36 (10.40%) Data Modelling
18 36 (10.40%) ETL
18 36 (10.40%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 176 (50.87%) Python
2 112 (32.37%) TypeScript
3 105 (30.35%) SQL
4 103 (29.77%) Java
5 78 (22.54%) JavaScript
6 49 (14.16%) Bash
7 31 (8.96%) Groovy
8 27 (7.80%) Go
9 18 (5.20%) Kotlin
10 12 (3.47%) Rust
11 9 (2.60%) C#
12 7 (2.02%) PHP
12 7 (2.02%) PowerShell
12 7 (2.02%) Scala
13 3 (0.87%) C++
14 2 (0.58%) R
15 1 (0.29%) C
Qualifications
1 74 (21.39%) AWS Certification
2 50 (14.45%) Degree
3 44 (12.72%) Security Cleared
4 28 (8.09%) SC Cleared
5 23 (6.65%) AWS Certified Developer
6 22 (6.36%) Computer Science Degree
7 19 (5.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 19 (5.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 19 (5.49%) ITIL Certification
8 15 (4.34%) DV Cleared
9 13 (3.76%) OSCP
10 5 (1.45%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 3 (0.87%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 3 (0.87%) IIBA
11 3 (0.87%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.58%) SnowPro
13 1 (0.29%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 1 (0.29%) Azure Certification
13 1 (0.29%) GCIH
13 1 (0.29%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (8.96%) QA
2 24 (6.94%) Data Quality
3 9 (2.60%) GDPR
4 5 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.87%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.87%) SLA
6 2 (0.58%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.29%) MiFID
7 1 (0.29%) NIST
7 1 (0.29%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.29%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 126 (36.42%) Docker
2 5 (1.45%) HDFS
3 3 (0.87%) iptables
4 2 (0.58%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 119 (34.39%) Terraform
2 84 (24.28%) Kubernetes
3 32 (9.25%) HP Fortify
4 25 (7.23%) Ansible
5 23 (6.65%) Prometheus
6 15 (4.34%) Grafana
7 8 (2.31%) Puppet
8 4 (1.16%) Kibana
8 4 (1.16%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.87%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (4.05%) Databricks
2 11 (3.18%) Oracle
3 8 (2.31%) Red Hat
4 7 (2.02%) Atlassian
4 7 (2.02%) Google
5 5 (1.45%) Salesforce
5 5 (1.45%) SaltStack
6 4 (1.16%) IBM
6 4 (1.16%) Microsoft
7 1 (0.29%) Apple
7 1 (0.29%) Cisco
7 1 (0.29%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.29%) Informatica
7 1 (0.29%) New Relic
7 1 (0.29%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.29%) StreamSets
7 1 (0.29%) YouTube