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

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 336 190 343
Rank change year-on-year -146 +153 +10
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 327 723 522
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.55% 1.63% 0.78%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.63% 4.35% 2.04%
Number of salaries quoted 228 341 452
10th Percentile £50,875 £52,500 £48,750
25th Percentile £56,250 £63,750 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,000 £90,000 £71,500
Median % change year-on-year -21.11% +25.87% -10.63%
75th Percentile £83,125 £115,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £105,750 £138,750 £112,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £80,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% +14.29% -9.68%

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 20,027 16,613 25,598
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 33.77% 37.38% 38.46%
Number of salaries quoted 11,102 9,992 21,716
10th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £31,125
25th Percentile £40,000 £47,500 £42,000
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 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -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 16 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 16 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 -137 144 £77,500 -22.50% 54
North of England +31 90 £65,000 - 43
Yorkshire +29 75 £65,000 +8.33% 27
Midlands +22 41 £55,000 - 13
South West -1 28 £62,500 +4.17% 17
East Midlands +1 24 £60,000 -14.29% 3
West Midlands +20 17 £50,000 +8.11% 10
North West +2 15 £62,500 -9.75% 15
South East -114 12 £67,500 +22.73% 22
East of England -20 6 £62,500 -9.09% 5
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 (9.48%) Apache Spark
2 26 (7.95%) Apache
3 14 (4.28%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.53%) Tomcat
4 5 (1.53%) WebSphere
5 4 (1.22%) Confluence
5 4 (1.22%) WebSphere Application Server
6 2 (0.61%) nginx
6 2 (0.61%) Oracle Application Server
7 1 (0.31%) JBoss
7 1 (0.31%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.31%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (1.83%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 327 (100.00%) AWS
1 327 (100.00%) Serverless
2 237 (72.48%) Amazon S3
3 123 (37.61%) AWS CloudFormation
4 87 (26.61%) AWS Step Functions
5 78 (23.85%) Amazon ECS
6 71 (21.71%) Amazon SQS
7 66 (20.18%) GitHub
8 65 (19.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 62 (18.96%) Amazon EC2
10 49 (14.98%) Amazon EKS
11 45 (13.76%) Azure
11 45 (13.76%) GitHub Actions
12 36 (11.01%) Amazon ECR
13 29 (8.87%) Apigee
14 28 (8.56%) Amazon EventBridge
15 27 (8.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 23 (7.03%) GCP
17 22 (6.73%) Datadog
18 20 (6.12%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.36%) AMQP
2 8 (2.45%) DSL
3 5 (1.53%) Network Security
3 5 (1.53%) SSL
4 4 (1.22%) Firewall
5 3 (0.92%) Broadband
6 1 (0.31%) DNS
6 1 (0.31%) VPN
6 1 (0.31%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (34.25%) DynamoDB
2 71 (21.71%) Amazon RDS
3 51 (15.60%) NoSQL
4 48 (14.68%) Amazon Redshift
5 40 (12.23%) Data Warehouse
6 36 (11.01%) PostgreSQL
7 21 (6.42%) Amazon Athena
8 20 (6.12%) SQL Server
9 19 (5.81%) Big Data
10 18 (5.50%) Data Lake
11 15 (4.59%) MongoDB
12 13 (3.98%) Hadoop
13 10 (3.06%) Apache Iceberg
13 10 (3.06%) MySQL
14 9 (2.75%) Relational Database
15 7 (2.14%) Apache Hive
16 6 (1.83%) DB2
16 6 (1.83%) Elasticsearch
17 5 (1.53%) Amazon Aurora
17 5 (1.53%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 80 (24.46%) Jenkins
2 60 (18.35%) GitLab
3 50 (15.29%) Git
4 33 (10.09%) Cypress.io
5 28 (8.56%) Maven
6 27 (8.26%) SonarQube
7 11 (3.36%) Bitbucket
7 11 (3.36%) JIRA
8 8 (2.45%) CircleCI
9 7 (2.14%) MLflow
10 5 (1.53%) git-flow
11 4 (1.22%) Vite
12 3 (0.92%) ESLint
12 3 (0.92%) JUnit
13 2 (0.61%) DBeaver
13 2 (0.61%) Deequ
13 2 (0.61%) Mocha
13 2 (0.61%) webpack
14 1 (0.31%) Cucumber
14 1 (0.31%) ER Studio
General
1 91 (27.83%) Social Skills
2 49 (14.98%) Finance
3 28 (8.56%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (5.81%) Tech for Good
5 16 (4.89%) Health Technology
5 16 (4.89%) Publishing
6 15 (4.59%) Banking
6 15 (4.59%) Influencing Skills
7 14 (4.28%) Organisational Skills
8 13 (3.98%) Public Sector
9 9 (2.75%) Advertising
10 8 (2.45%) Financial Institution
11 7 (2.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.22%) Aerospace
13 3 (0.92%) Billing
13 3 (0.92%) Games
13 3 (0.92%) Investment Banking
13 3 (0.92%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.92%) Military
13 3 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 128 (39.14%) Developer
2 74 (22.63%) Senior
3 54 (16.51%) AWS Developer
4 49 (14.98%) Lead
5 40 (12.23%) Software Engineer
6 39 (11.93%) AWS Engineer
7 36 (11.01%) Data Engineer
8 35 (10.70%) Java Developer
9 34 (10.40%) Senior Developer
10 30 (9.17%) React Developer
11 28 (8.56%) Lead Developer
11 28 (8.56%) Python Developer
12 26 (7.95%) Full-Stack Developer
13 22 (6.73%) AWS Data Engineer
14 21 (6.42%) Software Developer
15 20 (6.12%) Architect
16 18 (5.50%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 17 (5.20%) Lead Python Developer
17 17 (5.20%) Node.js Developer
18 16 (4.89%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (31.80%) React
2 92 (28.13%) Node.js
3 65 (19.88%) Spring Boot
4 54 (16.51%) AngularJS
4 54 (16.51%) RESTful
5 50 (15.29%) Spring
6 44 (13.46%) AWS CDK
7 33 (10.09%) Jest
8 32 (9.79%) Kafka
9 27 (8.26%) Gherkin
9 27 (8.26%) HTML
10 26 (7.95%) RabbitMQ
11 22 (6.73%) CSS
12 21 (6.42%) .NET
13 16 (4.89%) gRPC
14 15 (4.59%) .NET Core
14 15 (4.59%) REST
15 13 (3.98%) ASP.NET
15 13 (3.98%) ASP.NET Core
15 13 (3.98%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 102 (31.19%) Cloud Native
2 18 (5.50%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (3.36%) Greenfield Project
3 11 (3.36%) Product Ownership
4 8 (2.45%) Blockchain
4 8 (2.45%) Web3
5 7 (2.14%) e-Learning
6 6 (1.83%) Data Structures
6 6 (1.83%) Onboarding
6 6 (1.83%) Security Posture
6 6 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (1.83%) Virtual Team
7 5 (1.53%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.22%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (0.92%) Animation
9 3 (0.92%) Life Science
9 3 (0.92%) Private Cloud
10 2 (0.61%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.61%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 26 (7.95%) Linux
2 10 (3.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (2.75%) Unix
4 7 (2.14%) Windows
5 5 (1.53%) CentOS
5 5 (1.53%) Debian
5 5 (1.53%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.31%) Android
6 1 (0.31%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 218 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 162 (49.54%) DevOps
3 132 (40.37%) Agile
4 126 (38.53%) Infrastructure as Code
5 89 (27.22%) Software Engineering
6 75 (22.94%) Problem-Solving
7 74 (22.63%) Full-Stack Development
8 73 (22.32%) Microservices
9 70 (21.41%) Mentoring
10 63 (19.27%) Containerisation
11 49 (14.98%) Observability
12 48 (14.68%) Data Pipeline
13 46 (14.07%) Continuous Improvement
14 43 (13.15%) Scrum
15 41 (12.54%) Continuous Integration
16 39 (11.93%) AI
17 36 (11.01%) Data Modelling
17 36 (11.01%) DevSecOps
18 35 (10.70%) Analytics
19 34 (10.40%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 165 (50.46%) Python
2 109 (33.33%) TypeScript
3 96 (29.36%) Java
4 94 (28.75%) SQL
5 76 (23.24%) JavaScript
6 42 (12.84%) Bash
7 26 (7.95%) Groovy
8 20 (6.12%) Go
9 10 (3.06%) Kotlin
9 10 (3.06%) Scala
10 8 (2.45%) C#
10 8 (2.45%) Rust
11 7 (2.14%) PowerShell
12 4 (1.22%) PHP
13 3 (0.92%) C++
14 2 (0.61%) C
14 2 (0.61%) R
Qualifications
1 80 (24.46%) AWS Certification
2 47 (14.37%) Degree
3 42 (12.84%) Security Cleared
4 28 (8.56%) SC Cleared
5 25 (7.65%) AWS Certified Developer
6 24 (7.34%) Computer Science Degree
7 22 (6.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 17 (5.20%) ITIL Certification
9 16 (4.89%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 13 (3.98%) DV Cleared
11 9 (2.75%) OSCP
12 5 (1.53%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 4 (1.22%) Master's Degree
14 3 (0.92%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 3 (0.92%) IIBA
14 3 (0.92%) SnowPro
15 1 (0.31%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 1 (0.31%) Azure Certification
15 1 (0.31%) GCIH
15 1 (0.31%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (10.09%) QA
2 21 (6.42%) Data Quality
3 14 (4.28%) GDPR
4 5 (1.53%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.22%) 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%) MiFID
7 1 (0.31%) NIST
7 1 (0.31%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 109 (33.33%) Docker
2 7 (2.14%) HDFS
3 3 (0.92%) iptables
4 1 (0.31%) vCloud
4 1 (0.31%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.31%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 109 (33.33%) Terraform
2 76 (23.24%) Kubernetes
3 27 (8.26%) HP Fortify
4 25 (7.65%) Ansible
5 21 (6.42%) Prometheus
6 15 (4.59%) Grafana
7 8 (2.45%) Puppet
8 4 (1.22%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.92%) Kibana
9 3 (0.92%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (4.59%) Databricks
2 12 (3.67%) Oracle
3 9 (2.75%) Red Hat
4 8 (2.45%) Atlassian
5 7 (2.14%) Google
6 5 (1.53%) IBM
6 5 (1.53%) Salesforce
6 5 (1.53%) SaltStack
7 4 (1.22%) Microsoft
8 2 (0.61%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.31%) Apple
9 1 (0.31%) Cisco
9 1 (0.31%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.31%) Informatica
9 1 (0.31%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.31%) StreamSets
9 1 (0.31%) VMware
9 1 (0.31%) YouTube