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

6 months to
14 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 343 216 365
Rank change year-on-year -127 +149 +1
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 381 550 592
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.51% 1.50% 0.73%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.58% 4.00% 2.03%
Number of salaries quoted 261 371 484
10th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £51,716
25th Percentile £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £85,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.71% +13.33% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £115,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £138,750 £118,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £80,000 £72,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% +11.11% -4.00%

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 24,091 13,758 29,155
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 32.00% 37.41% 36.00%
Number of salaries quoted 12,897 10,236 24,118
10th Percentile £30,250 £32,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,750 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £83,500 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -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 14 April 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 14 April 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 -119 147 £77,500 -18.42% 86
North of England +28 131 £72,500 +6.03% 37
Yorkshire +23 108 £72,500 +23.40% 7
Midlands -24 44 £55,000 -4.35% 11
South West -44 31 £62,500 +4.17% 14
East Midlands -29 30 £57,500 -16.36% 6
North West -29 22 £70,000 -6.67% 26
South East -99 22 £82,500 +50.00% 21
West Midlands -26 14 £50,000 -13.04% 5
East of England -64 4 £62,500 -26.47% 13
North East -36 1 £90,000 +44.00% 4
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 (6.82%) Apache
2 23 (6.04%) Apache Spark
3 21 (5.51%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.05%) Confluence
5 3 (0.79%) JBoss
6 2 (0.52%) nginx
6 2 (0.52%) Oracle Application Server
7 1 (0.26%) CMS
7 1 (0.26%) IIS
7 1 (0.26%) SAS
7 1 (0.26%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (1.57%) Spreadsheet
2 4 (1.05%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 381 (100.00%) Serverless
2 380 (99.74%) AWS
3 281 (73.75%) Amazon S3
4 149 (39.11%) AWS CloudFormation
5 112 (29.40%) Amazon ECS
6 111 (29.13%) AWS Step Functions
7 93 (24.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 91 (23.88%) Amazon SQS
9 81 (21.26%) GitHub
10 75 (19.69%) Amazon EC2
11 59 (15.49%) GitHub Actions
12 53 (13.91%) Amazon ECR
13 51 (13.39%) Amazon EKS
14 49 (12.86%) Apigee
15 46 (12.07%) Azure
16 39 (10.24%) Datadog
17 37 (9.71%) Amazon EventBridge
18 26 (6.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 25 (6.56%) Amazon OpenSearch
20 23 (6.04%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.41%) DSL
2 12 (3.15%) AMQP
3 6 (1.57%) Network Security
4 5 (1.31%) Broadband
4 5 (1.31%) Firewall
5 3 (0.79%) DNS
5 3 (0.79%) VPN
6 1 (0.26%) 4G
6 1 (0.26%) 5G
6 1 (0.26%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 161 (42.26%) DynamoDB
2 80 (21.00%) Amazon RDS
3 62 (16.27%) NoSQL
4 42 (11.02%) Amazon Redshift
5 37 (9.71%) Amazon Athena
6 27 (7.09%) Data Warehouse
6 27 (7.09%) PostgreSQL
7 17 (4.46%) SQL Server
8 14 (3.67%) Big Data
9 11 (2.89%) Data Lake
9 11 (2.89%) Relational Database
10 10 (2.62%) Hadoop
10 10 (2.62%) MySQL
11 8 (2.10%) Metadata
11 8 (2.10%) MongoDB
12 7 (1.84%) Amazon Aurora
12 7 (1.84%) Apache Iceberg
13 6 (1.57%) Cloudera CDH
13 6 (1.57%) Power BI
13 6 (1.57%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 114 (29.92%) Jenkins
2 88 (23.10%) GitLab
3 69 (18.11%) Git
4 46 (12.07%) SonarQube
5 43 (11.29%) Maven
6 42 (11.02%) Cypress.io
7 15 (3.94%) JIRA
8 14 (3.67%) CircleCI
9 9 (2.36%) Cucumber
10 8 (2.10%) Bitbucket
11 6 (1.57%) MLflow
12 4 (1.05%) Artifactory
12 4 (1.05%) git-flow
12 4 (1.05%) Selenium
13 3 (0.79%) ESLint
13 3 (0.79%) Octopus Deploy
13 3 (0.79%) Postman
13 3 (0.79%) SpecFlow
13 3 (0.79%) webpack
14 2 (0.52%) Gradle
General
1 103 (27.03%) Social Skills
2 50 (13.12%) Finance
3 39 (10.24%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (5.51%) Public Sector
5 17 (4.46%) Banking
5 17 (4.46%) Health Technology
6 15 (3.94%) Influencing Skills
6 15 (3.94%) Publishing
6 15 (3.94%) Tech for Good
7 14 (3.67%) Organisational Skills
8 11 (2.89%) Advertising
9 5 (1.31%) Aerospace
9 5 (1.31%) Billing
9 5 (1.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (0.79%) Financial Institution
10 3 (0.79%) Investment Banking
10 3 (0.79%) Law
10 3 (0.79%) Legal
10 3 (0.79%) Military
11 2 (0.52%) Games
Job Titles
1 177 (46.46%) Developer
2 94 (24.67%) Senior
3 66 (17.32%) Java Developer
4 63 (16.54%) AWS Developer
5 54 (14.17%) Lead
6 50 (13.12%) Senior Developer
7 41 (10.76%) Full-Stack Developer
8 36 (9.45%) AWS Engineer
9 34 (8.92%) Data Engineer
9 34 (8.92%) Software Engineer
10 32 (8.40%) Lead Developer
11 31 (8.14%) React Developer
12 29 (7.61%) Python Developer
13 23 (6.04%) DevOps Engineer
14 21 (5.51%) Software Developer
15 19 (4.99%) Architect
15 19 (4.99%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 19 (4.99%) Node.js Developer
16 18 (4.72%) Cloud Engineer
16 18 (4.72%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 112 (29.40%) Node.js
2 109 (28.61%) React
3 82 (21.52%) AngularJS
4 76 (19.95%) Spring Boot
5 61 (16.01%) RESTful
6 49 (12.86%) Spring
7 47 (12.34%) AWS CDK
8 42 (11.02%) Jest
9 40 (10.50%) Gherkin
10 35 (9.19%) RabbitMQ
11 32 (8.40%) Kafka
12 28 (7.35%) HTML
12 28 (7.35%) REST
13 22 (5.77%) .NET
13 22 (5.77%) CSS
14 21 (5.51%) gRPC
15 15 (3.94%) .NET Core
16 14 (3.67%) web3js
17 13 (3.41%) ASP.NET Core
17 13 (3.41%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 93 (24.41%) Cloud Native
2 22 (5.77%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (3.67%) Blockchain
3 14 (3.67%) Greenfield Project
3 14 (3.67%) Web3
4 13 (3.41%) Product Ownership
5 8 (2.10%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (1.84%) Data Structures
7 5 (1.31%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.05%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.05%) Security Posture
9 3 (0.79%) e-Learning
9 3 (0.79%) IoT
9 3 (0.79%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (0.79%) NHS
9 3 (0.79%) Private Cloud
10 2 (0.52%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (0.52%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 31 (8.14%) Linux
2 8 (2.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (1.57%) CentOS
3 6 (1.57%) Debian
3 6 (1.57%) Ubuntu
4 5 (1.31%) Windows
5 2 (0.52%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 249 (65.35%) CI/CD
2 198 (51.97%) DevOps
3 159 (41.73%) Agile
4 148 (38.85%) Infrastructure as Code
5 88 (23.10%) Software Engineering
6 86 (22.57%) Full-Stack Development
7 85 (22.31%) Microservices
8 83 (21.78%) Containerisation
9 81 (21.26%) Problem-Solving
10 79 (20.73%) Mentoring
11 61 (16.01%) Observability
12 57 (14.96%) Continuous Integration
13 52 (13.65%) Test Automation
14 49 (12.86%) Continuous Improvement
15 44 (11.55%) DevSecOps
16 43 (11.29%) Data Pipeline
17 40 (10.50%) Analytics
17 40 (10.50%) Scrum
18 38 (9.97%) AI
19 36 (9.45%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 187 (49.08%) Python
2 129 (33.86%) TypeScript
3 117 (30.71%) Java
4 115 (30.18%) SQL
5 72 (18.90%) JavaScript
6 61 (16.01%) Bash
7 46 (12.07%) Groovy
8 30 (7.87%) Go
9 26 (6.82%) Kotlin
10 13 (3.41%) Rust
11 12 (3.15%) PowerShell
12 9 (2.36%) C#
13 8 (2.10%) PHP
14 4 (1.05%) Perl
14 4 (1.05%) Scala
15 2 (0.52%) C++
15 2 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 2 (0.52%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.52%) R
15 2 (0.52%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 74 (19.42%) AWS Certification
2 57 (14.96%) Security Cleared
3 46 (12.07%) Degree
4 44 (11.55%) SC Cleared
5 27 (7.09%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 23 (6.04%) AWS Certified Developer
6 23 (6.04%) ITIL Certification
7 20 (5.25%) Computer Science Degree
8 18 (4.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 14 (3.67%) OSCP
10 11 (2.89%) DV Cleared
11 5 (1.31%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 3 (0.79%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 3 (0.79%) IIBA
12 3 (0.79%) Master's Degree
12 3 (0.79%) PhD
13 2 (0.52%) SnowPro
14 1 (0.26%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 1 (0.26%) GIAC
14 1 (0.26%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (9.45%) QA
2 19 (4.99%) Data Quality
3 6 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.31%) GDPR
5 3 (0.79%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.52%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.26%) MiFID
7 1 (0.26%) NIST
7 1 (0.26%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.26%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 151 (39.63%) Docker
2 4 (1.05%) iptables
3 3 (0.79%) Firmware
3 3 (0.79%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 140 (36.75%) Terraform
2 91 (23.88%) Kubernetes
3 40 (10.50%) HP Fortify
4 39 (10.24%) Ansible
5 30 (7.87%) Prometheus
6 23 (6.04%) Grafana
7 10 (2.62%) Puppet
8 6 (1.57%) Progress Chef
9 5 (1.31%) Kibana
10 4 (1.05%) Packer
11 3 (0.79%) Scalr
12 2 (0.52%) Kubeflow
13 1 (0.26%) Red Hat Satellite
13 1 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (3.15%) Databricks
2 8 (2.10%) Oracle
2 8 (2.10%) Red Hat
3 7 (1.84%) AppDynamics
4 6 (1.57%) Google
4 6 (1.57%) IBM
4 6 (1.57%) SaltStack
5 5 (1.31%) Salesforce
6 4 (1.05%) Atlassian
7 3 (0.79%) HubSpot
7 3 (0.79%) Microsoft
8 1 (0.26%) Apple
8 1 (0.26%) Cisco
8 1 (0.26%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.26%) Informatica
8 1 (0.26%) New Relic
8 1 (0.26%) YouTube