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

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 340 294 371
Rank change year-on-year -46 +77 -14
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 404 408 591
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.49% 1.06% 0.70%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.67% 3.11% 1.99%
Number of salaries quoted 274 328 464
10th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.45% +3.33% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £100,625 £96,250
90th Percentile £107,500 £117,875 £115,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -9.68% +6.90% -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 24,205 13,138 29,686
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 29.38% 34.23% 35.02%
Number of salaries quoted 13,971 9,229 24,134
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,394 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.49% +5.03% -11.54%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,100 £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 22 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 22 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 -83 150 £82,500 -8.33% 78
North of England +44 145 £75,000 +15.38% 43
Yorkshire +35 112 £72,500 +20.83% 12
Midlands -14 49 £55,000 +22.22% 14
East Midlands -7 35 £55,000 - 6
South West -55 32 £65,000 +8.33% 21
North West -1 30 £75,000 - 23
South East -40 23 £82,500 +50.00% 22
West Midlands -32 14 £50,000 +17.65% 8
East of England -38 4 £62,500 -26.47% 5
North East -36 3 £52,130 -16.59% 9
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 26 (6.44%) Apache
2 21 (5.20%) Apache Spark
3 19 (4.70%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.49%) Confluence
5 3 (0.74%) JBoss
6 2 (0.50%) Oracle Application Server
7 1 (0.25%) CMS
7 1 (0.25%) IIS
7 1 (0.25%) nginx
7 1 (0.25%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (1.49%) Spreadsheet
2 4 (0.99%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 404 (100.00%) Serverless
2 403 (99.75%) AWS
3 292 (72.28%) Amazon S3
4 171 (42.33%) AWS CloudFormation
5 128 (31.68%) Amazon ECS
6 123 (30.45%) AWS Step Functions
7 97 (24.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 84 (20.79%) Amazon EC2
8 84 (20.79%) Amazon SQS
9 76 (18.81%) GitHub
10 59 (14.60%) GitHub Actions
11 56 (13.86%) Amazon ECR
12 52 (12.87%) Apigee
13 48 (11.88%) Datadog
14 44 (10.89%) Amazon EKS
15 42 (10.40%) Amazon EventBridge
16 37 (9.16%) Azure
17 32 (7.92%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 28 (6.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 26 (6.44%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.22%) DSL
2 10 (2.48%) AMQP
3 9 (2.23%) Firewall
4 6 (1.49%) Network Security
5 4 (0.99%) VPN
6 3 (0.74%) Broadband
6 3 (0.74%) DNS
7 2 (0.50%) 4G
7 2 (0.50%) 5G
7 2 (0.50%) IPv4
7 2 (0.50%) Software-Defined Networking
8 1 (0.25%) PSTN
8 1 (0.25%) SSL
8 1 (0.25%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 179 (44.31%) DynamoDB
2 80 (19.80%) Amazon RDS
3 59 (14.60%) NoSQL
4 43 (10.64%) Amazon Athena
5 42 (10.40%) Amazon Redshift
6 23 (5.69%) PostgreSQL
7 22 (5.45%) Data Warehouse
8 14 (3.47%) SQL Server
9 12 (2.97%) Big Data
9 12 (2.97%) Relational Database
10 10 (2.48%) MySQL
11 8 (1.98%) Data Lake
12 7 (1.73%) Metadata
12 7 (1.73%) Power BI
12 7 (1.73%) Snowflake Schema
13 6 (1.49%) Amazon Aurora
13 6 (1.49%) Apache Iceberg
14 5 (1.24%) Cloudera CDH
14 5 (1.24%) Elasticsearch
14 5 (1.24%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 134 (33.17%) Jenkins
2 95 (23.51%) GitLab
3 83 (20.54%) Git
4 49 (12.13%) Maven
5 47 (11.63%) SonarQube
6 46 (11.39%) Cypress.io
7 18 (4.46%) CircleCI
8 16 (3.96%) JIRA
9 10 (2.48%) Bitbucket
9 10 (2.48%) Cucumber
10 5 (1.24%) Gradle
11 4 (0.99%) Artifactory
11 4 (0.99%) MLflow
11 4 (0.99%) Postman
11 4 (0.99%) Selenium
11 4 (0.99%) SpecFlow
12 3 (0.74%) Claude Code
12 3 (0.74%) ESLint
12 3 (0.74%) Octopus Deploy
12 3 (0.74%) TeamCity
General
1 99 (24.50%) Social Skills
2 51 (12.62%) Finance
3 38 (9.41%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (7.18%) Public Sector
5 22 (5.45%) Banking
6 12 (2.97%) Health Technology
7 11 (2.72%) Advertising
8 9 (2.23%) Publishing
9 8 (1.98%) Tech for Good
10 7 (1.73%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (1.49%) Aerospace
11 6 (1.49%) Billing
12 4 (0.99%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (0.74%) Law
13 3 (0.74%) Legal
13 3 (0.74%) Military
13 3 (0.74%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.50%) Front Office
14 2 (0.50%) Games
Job Titles
1 181 (44.80%) Developer
2 106 (26.24%) Senior
3 74 (18.32%) Java Developer
4 59 (14.60%) AWS Developer
5 56 (13.86%) Senior Developer
6 55 (13.61%) Lead
7 41 (10.15%) Full-Stack Developer
8 39 (9.65%) AWS Engineer
9 36 (8.91%) Data Engineer
10 31 (7.67%) Software Engineer
11 29 (7.18%) DevOps Engineer
12 26 (6.44%) Lead Developer
13 25 (6.19%) React Developer
14 22 (5.45%) Architect
14 22 (5.45%) Python Developer
15 19 (4.70%) Cloud Engineer
15 19 (4.70%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 19 (4.70%) Software Developer
16 18 (4.46%) AWS Architect
16 18 (4.46%) AWS Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 123 (30.45%) Node.js
2 102 (25.25%) React
3 93 (23.02%) AngularJS
4 80 (19.80%) Spring Boot
5 54 (13.37%) RESTful
6 51 (12.62%) Spring
7 45 (11.14%) Gherkin
8 44 (10.89%) AWS CDK
9 43 (10.64%) Jest
10 38 (9.41%) Kafka
11 34 (8.42%) RabbitMQ
12 33 (8.17%) REST
13 23 (5.69%) gRPC
13 23 (5.69%) HTML
13 23 (5.69%) JSON
14 21 (5.20%) YAML
15 19 (4.70%) .NET
16 18 (4.46%) CSS
16 18 (4.46%) web3js
17 13 (3.22%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 88 (21.78%) Cloud Native
2 27 (6.68%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (4.46%) Blockchain
3 18 (4.46%) Web3
4 16 (3.96%) Greenfield Project
5 10 (2.48%) Product Ownership
6 7 (1.73%) Data Structures
7 6 (1.49%) Public Cloud
7 6 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (1.24%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (0.99%) IoT
9 4 (0.99%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (0.99%) NHS
10 3 (0.74%) Distributed Architecture
10 3 (0.74%) Hybrid Cloud
11 2 (0.50%) Algorithms
11 2 (0.50%) Data Centre
11 2 (0.50%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 37 (9.16%) Linux
2 7 (1.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 7 (1.73%) Windows
3 5 (1.24%) CentOS
3 5 (1.24%) Debian
3 5 (1.24%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 252 (62.38%) CI/CD
2 201 (49.75%) DevOps
3 160 (39.60%) Infrastructure as Code
4 151 (37.38%) Agile
5 87 (21.53%) Containerisation
5 87 (21.53%) Software Engineering
6 85 (21.04%) Full-Stack Development
7 82 (20.30%) Microservices
8 78 (19.31%) Mentoring
9 74 (18.32%) Problem-Solving
10 66 (16.34%) Test Automation
11 59 (14.60%) Observability
12 53 (13.12%) Continuous Integration
12 53 (13.12%) Event-Driven
13 49 (12.13%) DevSecOps
14 47 (11.63%) AI
14 47 (11.63%) Analytics
14 47 (11.63%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 43 (10.64%) Continuous Improvement
16 40 (9.90%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 198 (49.01%) Python
2 140 (34.65%) TypeScript
3 125 (30.94%) SQL
4 119 (29.46%) Java
5 68 (16.83%) Bash
6 66 (16.34%) JavaScript
7 52 (12.87%) Groovy
8 33 (8.17%) Go
9 32 (7.92%) Kotlin
10 15 (3.71%) PowerShell
11 13 (3.22%) Rust
12 11 (2.72%) C#
13 10 (2.48%) PHP
14 4 (0.99%) Perl
15 3 (0.74%) Scala
16 2 (0.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 2 (0.50%) PL/SQL
16 2 (0.50%) R
16 2 (0.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 67 (16.58%) AWS Certification
2 65 (16.09%) Security Cleared
3 48 (11.88%) SC Cleared
4 41 (10.15%) Degree
5 28 (6.93%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 24 (5.94%) ITIL Certification
7 19 (4.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 18 (4.46%) AWS Certified Developer
8 18 (4.46%) Computer Science Degree
9 16 (3.96%) DV Cleared
10 15 (3.71%) OSCP
11 5 (1.24%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 3 (0.74%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 3 (0.74%) IIBA
12 3 (0.74%) PhD
12 3 (0.74%) RHCE
13 2 (0.50%) CCNA
13 2 (0.50%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.50%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (6.19%) QA
2 22 (5.45%) Data Quality
3 6 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.74%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.74%) GDPR
4 3 (0.74%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.25%) MiFID
5 1 (0.25%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.25%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 165 (40.84%) Docker
2 4 (0.99%) iptables
3 3 (0.74%) Firmware
4 2 (0.50%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.50%) Squid
4 2 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.50%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 154 (38.12%) Terraform
2 87 (21.53%) Kubernetes
3 43 (10.64%) Ansible
4 41 (10.15%) HP Fortify
5 37 (9.16%) Prometheus
6 24 (5.94%) Grafana
7 9 (2.23%) Puppet
8 7 (1.73%) Packer
9 6 (1.49%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.99%) Kibana
11 3 (0.74%) Scalr
12 2 (0.50%) ZABBIX
13 1 (0.25%) Argo
13 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 11 (2.72%) Databricks
2 10 (2.48%) Oracle
3 9 (2.23%) Red Hat
4 7 (1.73%) AppDynamics
4 7 (1.73%) HubSpot
5 6 (1.49%) IBM
5 6 (1.49%) Salesforce
6 5 (1.24%) Google
6 5 (1.24%) SaltStack
7 4 (0.99%) Microsoft
7 4 (0.99%) Splunk
8 3 (0.74%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.50%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.50%) VMware
10 1 (0.25%) Apple
10 1 (0.25%) Informatica
10 1 (0.25%) New Relic
10 1 (0.25%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 1 (0.25%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.25%) SnapLogic