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 3 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 353 251 350
Rank change year-on-year -102 +99 -56
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 274 672 368
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.58% 1.18% 0.82%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.72% 3.39% 1.90%
Number of salaries quoted 187 290 310
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £48,625
25th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £85,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +21.43% -12.50%
75th Percentile £87,500 £115,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £107,500 £130,500 £96,250
UK median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +14.29% -12.50%

All Cloud 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 15,966 19,835 19,343
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 33.64% 34.88% 43.12%
Number of salaries quoted 10,318 12,118 16,335
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £38,500 £47,500 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £101,224
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -5.51% +1.60% -2.56%

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 3 December 2025.

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 3 December 2025. 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 -96 154 £76,000 -17.84% 68
North of England +46 52 £65,000 +4.00% 46
Yorkshire +22 31 £65,000 -1.89% 17
South West +27 27 £63,750 -8.93% 19
North West +40 21 £65,000 +8.33% 25
South East -64 15 £67,500 +12.50% 49
Midlands +44 13 £63,750 +2.00% 14
West Midlands +36 11 £62,500 +13.64% 8
East of England 0 5 £100,000 +45.45% 9
East Midlands +15 2 £65,000 -7.14% 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 25 (9.12%) Apache Spark
2 20 (7.30%) Apache
3 9 (3.28%) WebSphere
4 8 (2.92%) Headless CMS
5 7 (2.55%) Tomcat
6 6 (2.19%) WebSphere Application Server
7 5 (1.82%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (1.09%) Confluence
9 2 (0.73%) nginx
10 1 (0.36%) JBoss
10 1 (0.36%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.36%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (2.92%) Shopify
2 2 (0.73%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 274 (100.00%) AWS
1 274 (100.00%) Serverless
2 178 (64.96%) Amazon S3
3 75 (27.37%) Amazon EC2
4 67 (24.45%) AWS CloudFormation
5 62 (22.63%) Amazon ECS
6 55 (20.07%) Amazon SQS
7 48 (17.52%) AWS Step Functions
8 46 (16.79%) Amazon EKS
9 44 (16.06%) Azure
9 44 (16.06%) GitHub
10 40 (14.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 28 (10.22%) GitHub Actions
11 28 (10.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 19 (6.93%) Snowflake
13 18 (6.57%) Amazon Kinesis
13 18 (6.57%) SaaS
14 17 (6.20%) Amazon SageMaker
15 16 (5.84%) Amazon ECR
15 16 (5.84%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.55%) AMQP
1 7 (2.55%) SSL
2 6 (2.19%) Broadband
3 5 (1.82%) Firewall
4 3 (1.09%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.09%) VPN
5 2 (0.73%) DNS
5 2 (0.73%) Network Security
6 1 (0.36%) iSCSI
6 1 (0.36%) NAS
6 1 (0.36%) SAN
6 1 (0.36%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (33.94%) DynamoDB
2 67 (24.45%) Amazon RDS
3 46 (16.79%) Amazon Redshift
3 46 (16.79%) Data Warehouse
4 36 (13.14%) NoSQL
5 35 (12.77%) PostgreSQL
6 23 (8.39%) Data Lake
7 20 (7.30%) Elasticsearch
8 19 (6.93%) Big Data
9 16 (5.84%) Amazon Athena
9 16 (5.84%) MongoDB
10 15 (5.47%) SQL Server
11 11 (4.01%) Amazon Aurora
11 11 (4.01%) Apache Iceberg
11 11 (4.01%) Hadoop
12 9 (3.28%) DB2
12 9 (3.28%) MySQL
12 9 (3.28%) Relational Database
13 8 (2.92%) Apache Hive
14 4 (1.46%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 45 (16.42%) Jenkins
2 29 (10.58%) Git
3 26 (9.49%) GitLab
4 23 (8.39%) Cypress.io
5 11 (4.01%) Bitbucket
6 10 (3.65%) JIRA
7 7 (2.55%) Maven
7 7 (2.55%) SonarQube
8 5 (1.82%) git-flow
8 5 (1.82%) Vite
9 4 (1.46%) Selenium
10 3 (1.09%) JUnit
10 3 (1.09%) Locust
10 3 (1.09%) MLflow
11 2 (0.73%) CircleCI
11 2 (0.73%) Cucumber
11 2 (0.73%) ER Studio
11 2 (0.73%) Mocha
11 2 (0.73%) Spinnaker
11 2 (0.73%) webpack
General
1 88 (32.12%) Social Skills
2 60 (21.90%) Finance
3 31 (11.31%) Tech for Good
4 25 (9.12%) Health Technology
4 25 (9.12%) Publishing
5 20 (7.30%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (5.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (5.11%) Influencing Skills
8 13 (4.74%) Organisational Skills
9 12 (4.38%) Law
9 12 (4.38%) Marketing
10 11 (4.01%) Public Sector
11 10 (3.65%) Banking
12 9 (3.28%) Financial Institution
13 7 (2.55%) Games
14 6 (2.19%) Manufacturing
15 4 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (1.46%) Retail
16 3 (1.09%) Advertising
16 3 (1.09%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 90 (32.85%) Senior
2 84 (30.66%) Developer
3 43 (15.69%) Data Engineer
4 39 (14.23%) Senior Developer
5 38 (13.87%) Lead
6 35 (12.77%) AWS Developer
6 35 (12.77%) AWS Engineer
7 34 (12.41%) Software Engineer
8 30 (10.95%) Python Developer
9 22 (8.03%) React Developer
9 22 (8.03%) Senior Data Engineer
10 20 (7.30%) AWS Data Engineer
11 18 (6.57%) Full-Stack Developer
11 18 (6.57%) Lead Developer
12 16 (5.84%) Software Developer
13 15 (5.47%) Lead Python Developer
13 15 (5.47%) Senior Python Developer
14 14 (5.11%) Architect
15 13 (4.74%) Applications Support
15 13 (4.74%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (30.66%) React
2 49 (17.88%) Node.js
2 49 (17.88%) RESTful
3 40 (14.60%) Spring
4 38 (13.87%) Spring Boot
5 27 (9.85%) Kafka
6 24 (8.76%) .NET
6 24 (8.76%) AWS CDK
7 23 (8.39%) AngularJS
8 22 (8.03%) Jest
9 21 (7.66%) HTML
10 19 (6.93%) GraphQL
11 18 (6.57%) CSS
11 18 (6.57%) RabbitMQ
12 16 (5.84%) Next.js
13 14 (5.11%) .NET Core
13 14 (5.11%) Swagger
14 13 (4.74%) ASP.NET
15 11 (4.01%) Express.js
15 11 (4.01%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 84 (30.66%) Cloud Native
2 19 (6.93%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (5.47%) Greenfield Project
4 13 (4.74%) Product Ownership
5 12 (4.38%) e-Learning
6 9 (3.28%) Linux Command Line
7 8 (2.92%) Virtual Team
8 7 (2.55%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (2.19%) Onboarding
10 5 (1.82%) Security Posture
11 4 (1.46%) Life Science
11 4 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (1.09%) AI Agents
12 3 (1.09%) Animation
12 3 (1.09%) Enterprise Cloud
12 3 (1.09%) Management Information System
12 3 (1.09%) Private Cloud
13 2 (0.73%) Cloud Security Posture
13 2 (0.73%) Hybrid Cloud
13 2 (0.73%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 32 (11.68%) Linux
2 13 (4.74%) Unix
3 9 (3.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (2.55%) Windows
5 2 (0.73%) CentOS
5 2 (0.73%) Debian
5 2 (0.73%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.36%) Android
6 1 (0.36%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (59.12%) CI/CD
2 127 (46.35%) Agile
3 118 (43.07%) DevOps
4 92 (33.58%) Infrastructure as Code
5 79 (28.83%) Problem-Solving
5 79 (28.83%) Software Engineering
6 67 (24.45%) Mentoring
7 55 (20.07%) Containerisation
8 54 (19.71%) Microservices
9 50 (18.25%) Scrum
10 48 (17.52%) Data Pipeline
11 44 (16.06%) Pair Programming
12 43 (15.69%) Continuous Improvement
12 43 (15.69%) Full-Stack Development
13 42 (15.33%) Data Modelling
14 40 (14.60%) Analytics
15 39 (14.23%) TDD
16 38 (13.87%) AI
17 37 (13.50%) Data Engineering
17 37 (13.50%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 170 (62.04%) Python
2 95 (34.67%) TypeScript
3 78 (28.47%) Java
4 68 (24.82%) SQL
5 60 (21.90%) JavaScript
6 22 (8.03%) Bash
7 15 (5.47%) C#
7 15 (5.47%) Go
7 15 (5.47%) Scala
8 6 (2.19%) Groovy
8 6 (2.19%) PowerShell
9 3 (1.09%) C++
9 3 (1.09%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.73%) C
10 2 (0.73%) Rust
11 1 (0.36%) R
Qualifications
1 60 (21.90%) AWS Certification
2 35 (12.77%) Security Cleared
3 32 (11.68%) Degree
4 21 (7.66%) AWS Certified Developer
5 20 (7.30%) SC Cleared
6 19 (6.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 17 (6.20%) Computer Science Degree
7 17 (6.20%) DV Cleared
8 8 (2.92%) SnowPro
9 6 (2.19%) ITIL Certification
10 5 (1.82%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.73%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.36%) CCNA
12 1 (0.36%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.36%) GCIH
12 1 (0.36%) GIAC
12 1 (0.36%) GREM
12 1 (0.36%) MCSE
12 1 (0.36%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (15.69%) QA
2 18 (6.57%) GDPR
3 14 (5.11%) Data Quality
4 13 (4.74%) Accessibility
5 8 (2.92%) SLA
6 7 (2.55%) PCI DSS
7 5 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (1.09%) NIST
8 3 (1.09%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.36%) CDISC
10 1 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.36%) DICOM
10 1 (0.36%) GAAP
10 1 (0.36%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.36%) HL7
10 1 (0.36%) IFRS
10 1 (0.36%) IFRS 17
10 1 (0.36%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 75 (27.37%) Docker
2 8 (2.92%) HDFS
3 1 (0.36%) Firmware
3 1 (0.36%) iptables
3 1 (0.36%) vCloud
3 1 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.36%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.36%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 88 (32.12%) Terraform
2 66 (24.09%) Kubernetes
3 22 (8.03%) Prometheus
4 21 (7.66%) Ansible
5 18 (6.57%) Grafana
6 7 (2.55%) HP Fortify
7 6 (2.19%) Progress Chef
8 4 (1.46%) Kibana
9 3 (1.09%) Docker Swarm
9 3 (1.09%) Kubeflow
9 3 (1.09%) Puppet
9 3 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.36%) Argo
10 1 (0.36%) Podman
10 1 (0.36%) Red Hat Satellite
10 1 (0.36%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 14 (5.11%) Databricks
1 14 (5.11%) Oracle
2 9 (3.28%) Apple
2 9 (3.28%) Atlassian
2 9 (3.28%) IBM
2 9 (3.28%) Red Hat
3 8 (2.92%) Google
4 7 (2.55%) Microsoft
5 6 (2.19%) OpenAI
6 5 (1.82%) Splunk
7 2 (0.73%) Avaya
7 2 (0.73%) Genesys
7 2 (0.73%) SaltStack
7 2 (0.73%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.73%) VMware
8 1 (0.36%) Cisco
8 1 (0.36%) Informatica
8 1 (0.36%) NetApp
8 1 (0.36%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.36%) SAP