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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 357 322 410
Rank change year-on-year -35 +88 -58
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 430 387 448
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.48% 0.89% 0.58%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.75% 2.68% 1.80%
Number of salaries quoted 277 289 322
10th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £48,875
25th Percentile £58,750 £57,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% +3.45%
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £107,750 £114,750
UK median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year - -3.33% +7.14%

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 24,511 14,418 24,948
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 27.19% 33.21% 32.43%
Number of salaries quoted 16,432 10,302 19,112
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £44,500 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.00%

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 28 July 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 28 July 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 -61 171 £85,000 +9.68% 49
North of England +44 155 £75,000 +15.38% 29
Yorkshire +13 86 £75,000 +25.00% 5
North West +14 47 £70,000 +7.69% 12
South East +5 35 £67,500 +12.50% 14
South West -56 34 £60,500 -10.37% 13
Midlands -32 30 £55,000 +29.41% 9
North East -26 22 £75,000 +15.38% 12
East Midlands -5 21 £55,000 +46.67% 3
West Midlands -30 9 £62,500 +47.06% 6
East of England -41 3 £62,500 -26.47% 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 24 (5.58%) Apache
2 19 (4.42%) Apache Spark
3 16 (3.72%) Apache Airflow
4 13 (3.02%) Confluence
5 3 (0.70%) JBoss
5 3 (0.70%) SAS
6 1 (0.23%) CMS
6 1 (0.23%) IIS
6 1 (0.23%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.23%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (1.86%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.23%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 430 (100.00%) Serverless
2 429 (99.77%) AWS
3 293 (68.14%) Amazon S3
4 170 (39.53%) Amazon ECS
4 170 (39.53%) AWS CloudFormation
5 106 (24.65%) Amazon EC2
6 103 (23.95%) AWS Step Functions
7 94 (21.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 85 (19.77%) Amazon SQS
9 77 (17.91%) GitHub
10 64 (14.88%) Amazon EKS
11 52 (12.09%) Amazon EventBridge
11 52 (12.09%) GitHub Actions
12 45 (10.47%) Azure
12 45 (10.47%) Datadog
13 42 (9.77%) Amazon ECR
14 38 (8.84%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 37 (8.60%) Apigee
15 37 (8.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 34 (7.91%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (4.42%) Network Security
2 13 (3.02%) Firewall
3 7 (1.63%) DSL
3 7 (1.63%) VPN
4 6 (1.40%) AMQP
5 5 (1.16%) DNS
6 4 (0.93%) IPv4
6 4 (0.93%) Software-Defined Networking
7 3 (0.70%) Broadband
8 2 (0.47%) 4G
8 2 (0.47%) 5G
8 2 (0.47%) VoIP
9 1 (0.23%) DHCP
9 1 (0.23%) HTTP
9 1 (0.23%) PSTN
9 1 (0.23%) SSL
9 1 (0.23%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.23%) VLAN
9 1 (0.23%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 169 (39.30%) DynamoDB
2 91 (21.16%) Amazon RDS
3 58 (13.49%) NoSQL
4 49 (11.40%) Amazon Athena
5 43 (10.00%) Amazon Redshift
6 22 (5.12%) PostgreSQL
7 20 (4.65%) Data Warehouse
8 18 (4.19%) SQL Server
9 16 (3.72%) Relational Database
10 13 (3.02%) MySQL
11 12 (2.79%) Elasticsearch
12 11 (2.56%) Big Data
12 11 (2.56%) Metadata
13 8 (1.86%) Amazon Aurora
13 8 (1.86%) Data Lake
14 6 (1.40%) Azure SQL Database
14 6 (1.40%) Power BI
15 5 (1.16%) Hadoop
15 5 (1.16%) MongoDB
15 5 (1.16%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 110 (25.58%) Jenkins
2 91 (21.16%) Git
3 72 (16.74%) GitLab
4 32 (7.44%) Maven
4 32 (7.44%) SonarQube
5 30 (6.98%) Cypress.io
6 23 (5.35%) JIRA
7 14 (3.26%) Bitbucket
8 13 (3.02%) CircleCI
8 13 (3.02%) TeamCity
9 10 (2.33%) Cucumber
10 7 (1.63%) Postman
11 6 (1.40%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 6 (1.40%) Claude Code
11 6 (1.40%) Selenium
12 4 (0.93%) Artifactory
12 4 (0.93%) Gradle
12 4 (0.93%) SpecFlow
13 3 (0.70%) Octopus Deploy
14 2 (0.47%) Jasmine
General
1 100 (23.26%) Social Skills
2 81 (18.84%) Finance
3 52 (12.09%) Public Sector
4 36 (8.37%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (6.28%) Banking
6 12 (2.79%) Law
7 10 (2.33%) Health Technology
8 9 (2.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (2.09%) Marketing
8 9 (2.09%) Telecoms
9 8 (1.86%) Advertising
9 8 (1.86%) Aerospace
9 8 (1.86%) Billing
9 8 (1.86%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (1.63%) Military
11 5 (1.16%) Publishing
12 4 (0.93%) Front Office
12 4 (0.93%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.93%) Legal
12 4 (0.93%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 166 (38.60%) Developer
2 153 (35.58%) Senior
3 72 (16.74%) Java Developer
4 67 (15.58%) Senior Developer
5 60 (13.95%) Full-Stack Developer
6 51 (11.86%) AWS Engineer
7 46 (10.70%) Lead
8 42 (9.77%) Data Engineer
9 40 (9.30%) AWS Developer
10 33 (7.67%) DevOps Engineer
11 29 (6.74%) Software Engineer
12 26 (6.05%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
13 23 (5.35%) Platform Engineer
14 21 (4.88%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 20 (4.65%) Architect
15 20 (4.65%) AWS Data Engineer
15 20 (4.65%) Consultant
16 19 (4.42%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 18 (4.19%) Senior Consultant
18 17 (3.95%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (28.14%) Node.js
2 91 (21.16%) AngularJS
3 87 (20.23%) React
4 74 (17.21%) Spring Boot
5 54 (12.56%) Spring
6 45 (10.47%) REST
6 45 (10.47%) RESTful
7 40 (9.30%) AWS CDK
8 39 (9.07%) Kafka
9 34 (7.91%) Gherkin
10 31 (7.21%) Jest
11 25 (5.81%) .NET
11 25 (5.81%) Swagger
12 24 (5.58%) RabbitMQ
13 22 (5.12%) JSON
14 21 (4.88%) YAML
15 16 (3.72%) gRPC
15 16 (3.72%) OpenAPI
16 15 (3.49%) OpenTelemetry
16 15 (3.49%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 97 (22.56%) Cloud Native
2 36 (8.37%) Distributed Systems
3 25 (5.81%) Onboarding
4 18 (4.19%) Enterprise Cloud
5 17 (3.95%) Greenfield Project
6 14 (3.26%) Product Ownership
7 12 (2.79%) Blockchain
7 12 (2.79%) Web3
8 10 (2.33%) Hybrid Cloud
9 9 (2.09%) Linux Command Line
10 8 (1.86%) Data Structures
11 6 (1.40%) NHS
11 6 (1.40%) Public Cloud
12 5 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (1.16%) IoT
12 5 (1.16%) IVR
13 4 (0.93%) Algorithms
13 4 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
13 4 (0.93%) Low-Code
13 4 (0.93%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 44 (10.23%) Linux
2 13 (3.02%) Windows
3 6 (1.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.16%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.93%) CentOS
5 4 (0.93%) Debian
5 4 (0.93%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 256 (59.53%) CI/CD
2 188 (43.72%) DevOps
3 177 (41.16%) Infrastructure as Code
4 165 (38.37%) Agile
5 102 (23.72%) Mentoring
6 101 (23.49%) AI
7 91 (21.16%) Full-Stack Development
7 91 (21.16%) Software Engineering
8 89 (20.70%) Microservices
9 85 (19.77%) Containerisation
9 85 (19.77%) Problem-Solving
10 74 (17.21%) Observability
11 68 (15.81%) Test Automation
12 65 (15.12%) Event-Driven
13 55 (12.79%) Continuous Improvement
14 54 (12.56%) Analytics
15 48 (11.16%) Collaborative Culture
15 48 (11.16%) Data Modelling
15 48 (11.16%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 46 (10.70%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 231 (53.72%) Python
2 135 (31.40%) TypeScript
3 123 (28.60%) Java
4 119 (27.67%) SQL
5 80 (18.60%) Bash
6 55 (12.79%) JavaScript
7 42 (9.77%) Groovy
8 32 (7.44%) Kotlin
9 23 (5.35%) C#
9 23 (5.35%) Go
9 23 (5.35%) PHP
10 20 (4.65%) PowerShell
11 18 (4.19%) Perl
12 15 (3.49%) Ruby
13 7 (1.63%) Rust
13 7 (1.63%) Scala
14 3 (0.70%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 2 (0.47%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.47%) R
Qualifications
1 88 (20.47%) Security Cleared
2 73 (16.98%) AWS Certification
3 51 (11.86%) SC Cleared
4 39 (9.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 30 (6.98%) Degree
6 28 (6.51%) DV Cleared
7 23 (5.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 20 (4.65%) ITIL Certification
9 12 (2.79%) AWS Certified Developer
10 11 (2.56%) OSCP
11 6 (1.40%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 6 (1.40%) Master's Degree
12 5 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
12 5 (1.16%) RHCE
13 4 (0.93%) CCNA
13 4 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
13 4 (0.93%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (0.93%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 4 (0.93%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (5.58%) Data Quality
2 22 (5.12%) QA
3 12 (2.79%) GDPR
4 9 (2.09%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.93%) HIPAA
7 3 (0.70%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.23%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 161 (37.44%) Docker
2 4 (0.93%) Active Directory
2 4 (0.93%) Squid
2 4 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (0.93%) VMware NSX
2 4 (0.93%) vSphere
3 3 (0.70%) Firmware
3 3 (0.70%) iptables
Systems Management
1 188 (43.72%) Terraform
2 81 (18.84%) Kubernetes
3 48 (11.16%) Ansible
4 35 (8.14%) Prometheus
5 30 (6.98%) Grafana
6 25 (5.81%) HP Fortify
7 17 (3.95%) Packer
8 7 (1.63%) Puppet
9 5 (1.16%) Argo
9 5 (1.16%) Kibana
10 4 (0.93%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.93%) ZABBIX
11 3 (0.70%) Scalr
12 1 (0.23%) Fluentd
12 1 (0.23%) logstash
12 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 14 (3.26%) Splunk
2 13 (3.02%) Databricks
3 10 (2.33%) Oracle
3 10 (2.33%) Red Hat
4 7 (1.63%) AppDynamics
4 7 (1.63%) Avaya
4 7 (1.63%) Cisco
4 7 (1.63%) Genesys
4 7 (1.63%) Google
4 7 (1.63%) HubSpot
4 7 (1.63%) Microsoft
5 6 (1.40%) Dynatrace
5 6 (1.40%) IBM
5 6 (1.40%) OpenAI
5 6 (1.40%) Salesforce
6 4 (0.93%) SaltStack
6 4 (0.93%) VMware
7 3 (0.70%) SnapLogic
8 2 (0.47%) Confluent
9 1 (0.23%) Solace