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

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 319 197 341
Rank change year-on-year -122 +144 +5
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 325 707 495
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.58% 1.51% 0.79%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.69% 4.10% 2.01%
Number of salaries quoted 227 331 427
10th Percentile £51,682 £52,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £65,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £90,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.44% +28.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £85,625 £115,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £138,750 £112,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £85,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -17.65% +21.43% -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 19,215 17,254 24,673
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 34.21% 36.92% 39.13%
Number of salaries quoted 10,651 10,187 20,987
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £59,750
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.79% -8.08%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £104,549 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £59,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +10.17% -9.23%

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 1 February 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 1 February 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 -122 150 £76,000 -23.04% 80
North of England +45 84 £65,000 -3.70% 30
Yorkshire +42 68 £65,000 +8.33% 16
Midlands +30 38 £55,000 - 15
South West +11 28 £62,500 -1.96% 19
East Midlands +7 22 £60,000 -14.29% 4
West Midlands +33 16 £50,000 +8.11% 11
North West +20 16 £65,000 -6.14% 13
South East -93 12 £67,500 +22.73% 24
East of England -19 5 £81,250 +12.07% 6
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 32 (9.85%) Apache Spark
2 25 (7.69%) Apache
3 13 (4.00%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (2.46%) WebSphere
5 6 (1.85%) Tomcat
6 5 (1.54%) WebSphere Application Server
7 3 (0.92%) Confluence
8 2 (0.62%) nginx
8 2 (0.62%) Oracle Application Server
9 1 (0.31%) JBoss
9 1 (0.31%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.31%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (1.85%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 325 (100.00%) AWS
1 325 (100.00%) Serverless
2 228 (70.15%) Amazon S3
3 114 (35.08%) AWS CloudFormation
4 82 (25.23%) AWS Step Functions
5 72 (22.15%) Amazon ECS
6 67 (20.62%) Amazon SQS
7 64 (19.69%) Amazon EC2
7 64 (19.69%) GitHub
8 61 (18.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 52 (16.00%) Amazon EKS
10 45 (13.85%) Azure
11 44 (13.54%) GitHub Actions
12 33 (10.15%) Amazon ECR
13 27 (8.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 26 (8.00%) Amazon EventBridge
14 26 (8.00%) Apigee
15 22 (6.77%) GCP
16 20 (6.15%) Datadog
16 20 (6.15%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.69%) AMQP
2 6 (1.85%) DSL
2 6 (1.85%) SSL
3 4 (1.23%) Broadband
3 4 (1.23%) Firewall
4 3 (0.92%) Network Security
5 2 (0.62%) DNS
5 2 (0.62%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.62%) VPN
6 1 (0.31%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (33.54%) DynamoDB
2 73 (22.46%) Amazon RDS
3 48 (14.77%) Amazon Redshift
3 48 (14.77%) NoSQL
4 42 (12.92%) Data Warehouse
5 38 (11.69%) PostgreSQL
6 21 (6.46%) SQL Server
7 20 (6.15%) Amazon Athena
7 20 (6.15%) Big Data
8 19 (5.85%) Data Lake
9 16 (4.92%) MongoDB
10 14 (4.31%) Hadoop
11 12 (3.69%) Elasticsearch
12 10 (3.08%) Apache Iceberg
13 9 (2.77%) Relational Database
14 8 (2.46%) Apache Hive
14 8 (2.46%) MySQL
15 7 (2.15%) DB2
16 5 (1.54%) Cloudera CDH
17 4 (1.23%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 74 (22.77%) Jenkins
2 55 (16.92%) GitLab
3 49 (15.08%) Git
4 31 (9.54%) Cypress.io
5 25 (7.69%) Maven
6 24 (7.38%) SonarQube
7 12 (3.69%) Bitbucket
8 10 (3.08%) JIRA
9 7 (2.15%) CircleCI
9 7 (2.15%) MLflow
10 5 (1.54%) git-flow
10 5 (1.54%) Vite
11 3 (0.92%) ESLint
11 3 (0.92%) JUnit
12 2 (0.62%) DBeaver
12 2 (0.62%) Deequ
12 2 (0.62%) Mocha
12 2 (0.62%) webpack
13 1 (0.31%) Cucumber
13 1 (0.31%) Gradle
General
1 90 (27.69%) Social Skills
2 51 (15.69%) Finance
3 26 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (7.08%) Tech for Good
5 20 (6.15%) Health Technology
5 20 (6.15%) Publishing
6 15 (4.62%) Influencing Skills
7 14 (4.31%) Banking
7 14 (4.31%) Organisational Skills
8 11 (3.38%) Public Sector
9 9 (2.77%) Financial Institution
10 7 (2.15%) Advertising
10 7 (2.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.23%) Aerospace
11 4 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.92%) Billing
12 3 (0.92%) Games
12 3 (0.92%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.62%) Front Office
13 2 (0.62%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 124 (38.15%) Developer
2 77 (23.69%) Senior
3 57 (17.54%) AWS Developer
4 50 (15.38%) Lead
5 40 (12.31%) AWS Engineer
6 39 (12.00%) Software Engineer
7 37 (11.38%) Data Engineer
8 34 (10.46%) Senior Developer
9 32 (9.85%) Python Developer
9 32 (9.85%) React Developer
10 31 (9.54%) Java Developer
11 28 (8.62%) Lead Developer
12 23 (7.08%) AWS Data Engineer
13 22 (6.77%) Full-Stack Developer
13 22 (6.77%) Software Developer
14 18 (5.54%) Architect
15 17 (5.23%) Lead Python Developer
15 17 (5.23%) Node.js Developer
16 16 (4.92%) DevOps Engineer
16 16 (4.92%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (32.31%) React
2 86 (26.46%) Node.js
3 62 (19.08%) Spring Boot
4 55 (16.92%) RESTful
5 50 (15.38%) Spring
6 48 (14.77%) AngularJS
7 42 (12.92%) AWS CDK
8 32 (9.85%) Kafka
9 31 (9.54%) Jest
10 26 (8.00%) HTML
10 26 (8.00%) RabbitMQ
11 24 (7.38%) Gherkin
12 21 (6.46%) .NET
13 19 (5.85%) CSS
14 16 (4.92%) gRPC
15 15 (4.62%) .NET Core
16 14 (4.31%) REST
16 14 (4.31%) Swagger
17 13 (4.00%) ASP.NET
17 13 (4.00%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 102 (31.38%) Cloud Native
2 18 (5.54%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (3.38%) Greenfield Project
4 10 (3.08%) Product Ownership
5 8 (2.46%) e-Learning
6 7 (2.15%) Blockchain
6 7 (2.15%) Security Posture
6 7 (2.15%) Virtual Team
6 7 (2.15%) Web3
7 6 (1.85%) Data Structures
7 6 (1.85%) Linux Command Line
7 6 (1.85%) Onboarding
7 6 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (0.92%) Animation
9 3 (0.92%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (0.92%) Life Science
9 3 (0.92%) Private Cloud
10 2 (0.62%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 29 (8.92%) Linux
2 12 (3.69%) Unix
3 11 (3.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (2.15%) Windows
5 5 (1.54%) CentOS
5 5 (1.54%) Debian
5 5 (1.54%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.31%) Android
6 1 (0.31%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 211 (64.92%) CI/CD
2 155 (47.69%) DevOps
3 131 (40.31%) Agile
4 121 (37.23%) Infrastructure as Code
5 91 (28.00%) Software Engineering
6 72 (22.15%) Mentoring
6 72 (22.15%) Problem-Solving
7 70 (21.54%) Full-Stack Development
8 69 (21.23%) Microservices
9 61 (18.77%) Containerisation
10 50 (15.38%) Scrum
11 48 (14.77%) Data Pipeline
12 47 (14.46%) Continuous Improvement
13 46 (14.15%) Observability
14 40 (12.31%) Continuous Integration
15 38 (11.69%) AI
16 36 (11.08%) Data Modelling
17 35 (10.77%) Data Engineering
18 34 (10.46%) Analytics
19 33 (10.15%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 171 (52.62%) Python
2 109 (33.54%) TypeScript
3 97 (29.85%) Java
4 91 (28.00%) SQL
5 75 (23.08%) JavaScript
6 40 (12.31%) Bash
7 23 (7.08%) Groovy
8 19 (5.85%) Go
9 12 (3.69%) Scala
10 9 (2.77%) C#
11 8 (2.46%) Kotlin
12 7 (2.15%) PowerShell
13 6 (1.85%) Rust
14 3 (0.92%) C++
15 2 (0.62%) C
15 2 (0.62%) PHP
15 2 (0.62%) R
16 1 (0.31%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 81 (24.92%) AWS Certification
2 44 (13.54%) Security Cleared
3 43 (13.23%) Degree
4 28 (8.62%) SC Cleared
5 25 (7.69%) AWS Certified Developer
6 23 (7.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 23 (7.08%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (4.92%) DV Cleared
7 16 (4.92%) ITIL Certification
8 15 (4.62%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 7 (2.15%) OSCP
10 4 (1.23%) Master's Degree
10 4 (1.23%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 4 (1.23%) SnowPro
11 3 (0.92%) IIBA
12 2 (0.62%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 1 (0.31%) Azure Certification
13 1 (0.31%) GAWN
13 1 (0.31%) GIAC
13 1 (0.31%) GREM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (11.69%) QA
2 20 (6.15%) Data Quality
3 15 (4.62%) GDPR
4 6 (1.85%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.54%) SLA
6 3 (0.92%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.92%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.31%) GAAP
7 1 (0.31%) IFRS
7 1 (0.31%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.31%) MiFID
7 1 (0.31%) NIST
7 1 (0.31%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 103 (31.69%) Docker
2 8 (2.46%) HDFS
3 2 (0.62%) iptables
4 1 (0.31%) vCloud
4 1 (0.31%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.31%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 105 (32.31%) Terraform
2 75 (23.08%) Kubernetes
3 24 (7.38%) HP Fortify
4 22 (6.77%) Ansible
4 22 (6.77%) Prometheus
5 16 (4.92%) Grafana
6 7 (2.15%) Puppet
7 5 (1.54%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.92%) Kibana
8 3 (0.92%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.31%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (4.62%) Databricks
2 13 (4.00%) Oracle
3 10 (3.08%) Red Hat
4 9 (2.77%) Atlassian
5 8 (2.46%) IBM
6 7 (2.15%) Google
7 5 (1.54%) Salesforce
7 5 (1.54%) SaltStack
8 3 (0.92%) Microsoft
8 3 (0.92%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.62%) Informatica
10 1 (0.31%) Apple
10 1 (0.31%) Cisco
10 1 (0.31%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.31%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.31%) StreamSets
10 1 (0.31%) VMware
10 1 (0.31%) YouTube