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

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 321 216 353
Rank change year-on-year -105 +137 -18
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 294 682 367
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.57% 1.40% 0.79%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.59% 3.83% 1.90%
Number of salaries quoted 200 301 302
10th Percentile £51,868 £55,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £65,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,250 £90,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.61% +33.33% -18.18%
75th Percentile £87,500 £115,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £107,500 £138,750 £110,000
UK median annual salary £71,000 £84,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -15.48% +20.00% -12.50%

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 18,499 17,817 19,294
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 35.61% 36.46% 41.41%
Number of salaries quoted 10,267 10,556 16,144
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +7.44% -6.92%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £102,500 £100,064
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -7.69%

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 January 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 January 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 -109 149 £76,000 -20.00% 103
North of England +55 69 £63,750 - 55
Yorkshire +38 54 £63,750 +6.25% 32
South West +11 25 £63,750 -5.56% 35
Midlands +22 24 £60,000 -4.00% 46
North West +23 15 £62,500 -5.66% 20
South East -95 15 £67,500 +17.39% 62
West Midlands +28 14 £53,750 +16.22% 24
East Midlands +4 10 £65,000 -7.14% 20
East of England -17 4 £100,000 +37.93% 29
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 27 (9.18%) Apache Spark
2 20 (6.80%) Apache
3 9 (3.06%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (3.06%) WebSphere
4 7 (2.38%) Tomcat
5 6 (2.04%) WebSphere Application Server
6 3 (1.02%) Confluence
6 3 (1.02%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.68%) nginx
8 1 (0.34%) JBoss
8 1 (0.34%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.34%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (0.68%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.02%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 294 (100.00%) AWS
1 294 (100.00%) Serverless
2 204 (69.39%) Amazon S3
3 97 (32.99%) AWS CloudFormation
4 68 (23.13%) AWS Step Functions
5 65 (22.11%) Amazon EC2
6 63 (21.43%) Amazon ECS
7 61 (20.75%) Amazon SQS
8 55 (18.71%) GitHub
9 54 (18.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 47 (15.99%) Amazon EKS
11 43 (14.63%) Azure
12 39 (13.27%) GitHub Actions
13 28 (9.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 26 (8.84%) Amazon ECR
15 23 (7.82%) Amazon EventBridge
16 19 (6.46%) Apigee
16 19 (6.46%) SaaS
17 18 (6.12%) Azure DevOps
17 18 (6.12%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.40%) AMQP
2 7 (2.38%) SSL
3 6 (2.04%) Broadband
4 5 (1.70%) Firewall
5 3 (1.02%) TCP/IP
5 3 (1.02%) VPN
6 2 (0.68%) DNS
6 2 (0.68%) DSL
6 2 (0.68%) Network Security
7 1 (0.34%) iSCSI
7 1 (0.34%) NAS
7 1 (0.34%) SAN
7 1 (0.34%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (32.65%) DynamoDB
2 70 (23.81%) Amazon RDS
3 46 (15.65%) Amazon Redshift
4 41 (13.95%) Data Warehouse
4 41 (13.95%) NoSQL
5 38 (12.93%) PostgreSQL
6 21 (7.14%) Data Lake
6 21 (7.14%) SQL Server
7 19 (6.46%) Elasticsearch
8 18 (6.12%) Big Data
9 17 (5.78%) MongoDB
10 16 (5.44%) Amazon Athena
11 12 (4.08%) Hadoop
11 12 (4.08%) Relational Database
12 10 (3.40%) Apache Iceberg
13 9 (3.06%) DB2
14 8 (2.72%) Apache Hive
14 8 (2.72%) MySQL
15 6 (2.04%) Amazon Aurora
16 4 (1.36%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 62 (21.09%) Jenkins
2 43 (14.63%) GitLab
3 42 (14.29%) Git
4 28 (9.52%) Cypress.io
5 17 (5.78%) Maven
5 17 (5.78%) SonarQube
6 11 (3.74%) Bitbucket
7 9 (3.06%) JIRA
8 6 (2.04%) MLflow
9 5 (1.70%) git-flow
9 5 (1.70%) Vite
10 4 (1.36%) CircleCI
11 3 (1.02%) ESLint
11 3 (1.02%) JUnit
12 2 (0.68%) Cucumber
12 2 (0.68%) ER Studio
12 2 (0.68%) Mocha
12 2 (0.68%) webpack
13 1 (0.34%) Gradle
13 1 (0.34%) Selenium
General
1 89 (30.27%) Social Skills
2 48 (16.33%) Finance
3 31 (10.54%) Tech for Good
4 27 (9.18%) Health Technology
4 27 (9.18%) Publishing
5 20 (6.80%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (5.44%) Influencing Skills
7 15 (5.10%) Organisational Skills
8 11 (3.74%) Banking
9 10 (3.40%) Public Sector
10 9 (3.06%) Financial Institution
11 7 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (2.04%) Advertising
13 5 (1.70%) Manufacturing
14 4 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (1.02%) Aerospace
15 3 (1.02%) Billing
15 3 (1.02%) Law
16 2 (0.68%) Front Office
16 2 (0.68%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 109 (37.07%) Developer
2 80 (27.21%) Senior
3 53 (18.03%) AWS Developer
4 47 (15.99%) Lead
5 36 (12.24%) AWS Engineer
6 35 (11.90%) Data Engineer
6 35 (11.90%) Senior Developer
7 33 (11.22%) Python Developer
8 31 (10.54%) Software Engineer
9 29 (9.86%) React Developer
10 26 (8.84%) Lead Developer
11 20 (6.80%) Software Developer
12 19 (6.46%) AWS Data Engineer
13 18 (6.12%) Full-Stack Developer
13 18 (6.12%) Java Developer
13 18 (6.12%) Senior Data Engineer
14 17 (5.78%) Lead Python Developer
15 15 (5.10%) DevOps Engineer
16 14 (4.76%) Architect
16 14 (4.76%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (31.29%) React
2 67 (22.79%) Node.js
3 59 (20.07%) RESTful
4 51 (17.35%) Spring Boot
5 46 (15.65%) Spring
6 37 (12.59%) AWS CDK
7 34 (11.56%) AngularJS
8 27 (9.18%) Jest
9 26 (8.84%) Kafka
10 22 (7.48%) RabbitMQ
11 21 (7.14%) HTML
12 20 (6.80%) .NET
13 17 (5.78%) CSS
13 17 (5.78%) Gherkin
13 17 (5.78%) Swagger
14 14 (4.76%) .NET Core
15 13 (4.42%) ASP.NET
15 13 (4.42%) ASP.NET Core
15 13 (4.42%) Blazor
16 12 (4.08%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 92 (31.29%) Cloud Native
2 19 (6.46%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (3.74%) Greenfield Project
4 9 (3.06%) Linux Command Line
4 9 (3.06%) Product Ownership
5 8 (2.72%) e-Learning
5 8 (2.72%) Virtual Team
6 7 (2.38%) Security Posture
7 6 (2.04%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.70%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.36%) Blockchain
9 4 (1.36%) Life Science
9 4 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.36%) Web3
10 3 (1.02%) Animation
10 3 (1.02%) Data Structures
10 3 (1.02%) Enterprise Cloud
10 3 (1.02%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.02%) Private Cloud
11 2 (0.68%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 34 (11.56%) Linux
2 13 (4.42%) Unix
3 10 (3.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (2.38%) Windows
5 3 (1.02%) CentOS
5 3 (1.02%) Debian
5 3 (1.02%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.34%) Android
6 1 (0.34%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 183 (62.24%) CI/CD
2 139 (47.28%) DevOps
3 129 (43.88%) Agile
4 108 (36.73%) Infrastructure as Code
5 72 (24.49%) Software Engineering
6 71 (24.15%) Mentoring
6 71 (24.15%) Problem-Solving
7 63 (21.43%) Microservices
8 58 (19.73%) Containerisation
9 55 (18.71%) Full-Stack Development
9 55 (18.71%) Scrum
10 44 (14.97%) Continuous Improvement
11 41 (13.95%) Data Pipeline
11 41 (13.95%) Observability
12 36 (12.24%) AI
12 36 (12.24%) Continuous Integration
12 36 (12.24%) Data Modelling
12 36 (12.24%) Pair Programming
13 32 (10.88%) Data Engineering
13 32 (10.88%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 158 (53.74%) Python
2 104 (35.37%) TypeScript
3 83 (28.23%) Java
4 75 (25.51%) SQL
5 67 (22.79%) JavaScript
6 34 (11.56%) Bash
7 16 (5.44%) Groovy
8 14 (4.76%) Go
9 12 (4.08%) Scala
10 8 (2.72%) C#
11 7 (2.38%) PowerShell
12 4 (1.36%) Kotlin
13 3 (1.02%) C++
13 3 (1.02%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.68%) C
14 2 (0.68%) PHP
14 2 (0.68%) Rust
15 1 (0.34%) R
Qualifications
1 73 (24.83%) AWS Certification
2 43 (14.63%) Security Cleared
3 35 (11.90%) Degree
4 27 (9.18%) SC Cleared
5 26 (8.84%) AWS Certified Developer
6 20 (6.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 19 (6.46%) DV Cleared
8 18 (6.12%) Computer Science Degree
9 10 (3.40%) ITIL Certification
10 7 (2.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 5 (1.70%) Master's Degree
11 5 (1.70%) SnowPro
12 3 (1.02%) MCP
12 3 (1.02%) OSCP
13 2 (0.68%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 2 (0.68%) IIBA
13 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
14 1 (0.34%) Azure Certification
14 1 (0.34%) GAWN
14 1 (0.34%) GREM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (14.97%) QA
2 16 (5.44%) Data Quality
3 14 (4.76%) GDPR
4 8 (2.72%) Accessibility
5 6 (2.04%) SLA
6 5 (1.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (1.02%) PCI DSS
7 3 (1.02%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.34%) CDISC
8 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.34%) DICOM
8 1 (0.34%) GAAP
8 1 (0.34%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.34%) HL7
8 1 (0.34%) IFRS
8 1 (0.34%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.34%) NIST
8 1 (0.34%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 90 (30.61%) Docker
2 8 (2.72%) HDFS
3 1 (0.34%) Firmware
3 1 (0.34%) iptables
3 1 (0.34%) vCloud
3 1 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.34%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.34%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 93 (31.63%) Terraform
2 66 (22.45%) Kubernetes
3 22 (7.48%) Prometheus
4 21 (7.14%) Ansible
5 19 (6.46%) Grafana
6 17 (5.78%) HP Fortify
7 6 (2.04%) Progress Chef
8 4 (1.36%) Puppet
9 3 (1.02%) Docker Swarm
9 3 (1.02%) Kibana
9 3 (1.02%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.34%) Argo
10 1 (0.34%) Podman
10 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Satellite
10 1 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.34%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 13 (4.42%) Databricks
2 12 (4.08%) Oracle
3 10 (3.40%) Atlassian
3 10 (3.40%) Red Hat
4 9 (3.06%) IBM
5 6 (2.04%) Google
6 5 (1.70%) Microsoft
6 5 (1.70%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.36%) Apple
7 4 (1.36%) OpenAI
8 3 (1.02%) SaltStack
9 2 (0.68%) Avaya
9 2 (0.68%) Genesys
9 2 (0.68%) VMware
10 1 (0.34%) Cisco
10 1 (0.34%) Informatica
10 1 (0.34%) NetApp
10 1 (0.34%) Nimble Storage
10 1 (0.34%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.34%) Splunk