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

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 359 303 389
Rank change year-on-year -56 +86 -36
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 414 397 571
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.50% 1.00% 0.60%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.84% 2.93% 1.84%
Number of salaries quoted 292 303 437
10th Percentile £50,000 £50,850 £50,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £87,500 £97,500 £96,250
90th Percentile £109,900 £115,000 £113,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.33% +3.45% -

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 22,469 13,540 31,110
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 27.06% 34.23% 32.85%
Number of salaries quoted 14,908 9,592 24,741
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,625 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -10.16%

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 June 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 June 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
North of England +41 148 £75,000 +15.38% 36
London -75 148 £85,000 -5.56% 88
Yorkshire +26 102 £75,000 +25.00% 9
Midlands +13 52 £55,000 +29.41% 8
North West +8 38 £72,500 +3.57% 18
East Midlands +9 36 £55,000 +18.92% 3
South West -47 36 £62,500 +4.17% 27
South East -15 25 £82,500 +50.00% 18
West Midlands -27 16 £50,000 +17.65% 5
North East -40 8 £68,750 +10.00% 9
East of England -41 4 £62,500 -26.47% 1
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 (6.04%) Apache
2 22 (5.31%) Apache Spark
3 19 (4.59%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (2.17%) Confluence
5 3 (0.72%) JBoss
6 2 (0.48%) Oracle Application Server
7 1 (0.24%) CMS
7 1 (0.24%) IIS
7 1 (0.24%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (1.45%) Spreadsheet
2 4 (0.97%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 414 (100.00%) Serverless
2 413 (99.76%) AWS
3 295 (71.26%) Amazon S3
4 165 (39.86%) AWS CloudFormation
5 142 (34.30%) Amazon ECS
6 117 (28.26%) AWS Step Functions
7 99 (23.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 94 (22.71%) Amazon EC2
9 82 (19.81%) Amazon SQS
10 78 (18.84%) GitHub
11 55 (13.29%) GitHub Actions
12 52 (12.56%) Amazon EKS
13 50 (12.08%) Datadog
14 47 (11.35%) Amazon ECR
15 42 (10.14%) Apigee
16 41 (9.90%) Amazon EventBridge
17 40 (9.66%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 37 (8.94%) Azure
19 30 (7.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
20 25 (6.04%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.14%) Firewall
2 12 (2.90%) DSL
3 8 (1.93%) AMQP
4 6 (1.45%) Network Security
5 5 (1.21%) VPN
6 4 (0.97%) DNS
6 4 (0.97%) IPv4
6 4 (0.97%) Software-Defined Networking
7 3 (0.72%) Broadband
8 2 (0.48%) 4G
8 2 (0.48%) 5G
8 2 (0.48%) VoIP
9 1 (0.24%) DHCP
9 1 (0.24%) PSTN
9 1 (0.24%) SSL
9 1 (0.24%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.24%) VLAN
9 1 (0.24%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 176 (42.51%) DynamoDB
2 84 (20.29%) Amazon RDS
3 60 (14.49%) NoSQL
4 49 (11.84%) Amazon Athena
5 44 (10.63%) Amazon Redshift
6 22 (5.31%) Data Warehouse
7 18 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
8 13 (3.14%) Relational Database
9 12 (2.90%) Big Data
9 12 (2.90%) SQL Server
10 10 (2.42%) MySQL
11 8 (1.93%) Power BI
12 7 (1.69%) Data Lake
12 7 (1.69%) Metadata
12 7 (1.69%) Snowflake Schema
13 6 (1.45%) Amazon Aurora
13 6 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
13 6 (1.45%) Hadoop
14 5 (1.21%) Apache Iceberg
14 5 (1.21%) Cloudera CDH
Development Applications
1 132 (31.88%) Jenkins
2 87 (21.01%) Git
3 85 (20.53%) GitLab
4 38 (9.18%) Maven
5 36 (8.70%) SonarQube
6 35 (8.45%) Cypress.io
7 20 (4.83%) JIRA
8 18 (4.35%) CircleCI
9 12 (2.90%) Bitbucket
10 9 (2.17%) Cucumber
10 9 (2.17%) TeamCity
11 6 (1.45%) Postman
12 5 (1.21%) Gradle
12 5 (1.21%) Selenium
13 4 (0.97%) Artifactory
13 4 (0.97%) Claude Code
13 4 (0.97%) MLflow
13 4 (0.97%) SpecFlow
14 3 (0.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 3 (0.72%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 98 (23.67%) Social Skills
2 56 (13.53%) Finance
3 40 (9.66%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (8.21%) Public Sector
5 25 (6.04%) Banking
6 12 (2.90%) Advertising
7 8 (1.93%) Aerospace
7 8 (1.93%) Health Technology
8 7 (1.69%) Billing
9 6 (1.45%) Telecoms
10 5 (1.21%) Investment Banking
10 5 (1.21%) Publishing
11 4 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (0.97%) Tech for Good
12 3 (0.72%) Law
12 3 (0.72%) Legal
12 3 (0.72%) Marketing
12 3 (0.72%) Military
13 2 (0.48%) Games
Job Titles
1 179 (43.24%) Developer
2 123 (29.71%) Senior
3 80 (19.32%) Java Developer
4 65 (15.70%) Senior Developer
5 53 (12.80%) Full-Stack Developer
6 51 (12.32%) AWS Developer
7 44 (10.63%) AWS Engineer
8 42 (10.14%) Lead
9 37 (8.94%) Data Engineer
10 33 (7.97%) Software Engineer
11 32 (7.73%) DevOps Engineer
12 24 (5.80%) Platform Engineer
13 22 (5.31%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 21 (5.07%) Architect
14 21 (5.07%) React Developer
15 20 (4.83%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
16 19 (4.59%) Lead Developer
17 18 (4.35%) Cloud Engineer
17 18 (4.35%) Python Developer
18 17 (4.11%) AWS Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 131 (31.64%) Node.js
2 104 (25.12%) React
3 94 (22.71%) AngularJS
4 75 (18.12%) Spring Boot
5 51 (12.32%) Spring
6 46 (11.11%) RESTful
7 42 (10.14%) Kafka
8 38 (9.18%) Gherkin
9 37 (8.94%) AWS CDK
10 34 (8.21%) REST
11 33 (7.97%) Jest
12 31 (7.49%) RabbitMQ
13 23 (5.56%) JSON
14 22 (5.31%) gRPC
14 22 (5.31%) YAML
15 21 (5.07%) HTML
16 18 (4.35%) Swagger
16 18 (4.35%) web3js
17 17 (4.11%) CSS
18 16 (3.86%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 92 (22.22%) Cloud Native
2 30 (7.25%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (4.35%) Blockchain
3 18 (4.35%) Web3
4 16 (3.86%) Greenfield Project
5 9 (2.17%) Data Structures
5 9 (2.17%) Product Ownership
6 6 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (1.45%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (1.45%) Public Cloud
7 5 (1.21%) IoT
7 5 (1.21%) Linux Command Line
7 5 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (0.97%) NHS
9 3 (0.72%) Algorithms
9 3 (0.72%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (0.48%) Low-Code
10 2 (0.48%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.48%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 45 (10.87%) Linux
2 11 (2.66%) Windows
3 7 (1.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.21%) CentOS
4 5 (1.21%) Debian
4 5 (1.21%) Ubuntu
5 4 (0.97%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 259 (62.56%) CI/CD
2 195 (47.10%) DevOps
3 171 (41.30%) Infrastructure as Code
4 147 (35.51%) Agile
5 97 (23.43%) Full-Stack Development
6 90 (21.74%) Software Engineering
7 86 (20.77%) Containerisation
8 79 (19.08%) Mentoring
9 77 (18.60%) Microservices
10 74 (17.87%) Test Automation
11 70 (16.91%) Problem-Solving
12 66 (15.94%) Observability
13 63 (15.22%) Event-Driven
14 59 (14.25%) AI
15 54 (13.04%) Continuous Integration
16 52 (12.56%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 51 (12.32%) Analytics
18 49 (11.84%) DevSecOps
19 43 (10.39%) Platform Engineering
20 42 (10.14%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 208 (50.24%) Python
2 139 (33.57%) TypeScript
3 125 (30.19%) SQL
4 117 (28.26%) Java
5 68 (16.43%) Bash
6 61 (14.73%) JavaScript
7 46 (11.11%) Groovy
8 37 (8.94%) Kotlin
9 33 (7.97%) Go
10 21 (5.07%) PowerShell
11 14 (3.38%) C#
12 12 (2.90%) Rust
13 9 (2.17%) PHP
14 6 (1.45%) Scala
15 4 (0.97%) Perl
16 2 (0.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 2 (0.48%) PL/SQL
16 2 (0.48%) R
16 2 (0.48%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 70 (16.91%) Security Cleared
2 60 (14.49%) AWS Certification
3 49 (11.84%) SC Cleared
4 40 (9.66%) Degree
5 27 (6.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 23 (5.56%) ITIL Certification
7 22 (5.31%) DV Cleared
8 18 (4.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 16 (3.86%) OSCP
10 15 (3.62%) Computer Science Degree
11 9 (2.17%) AWS Certified Developer
12 5 (1.21%) RHCE
13 4 (0.97%) CCNA
13 4 (0.97%) Cisco Certification
13 4 (0.97%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (0.97%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 4 (0.97%) RHCSA
14 3 (0.72%) IIBA
14 3 (0.72%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (5.31%) Data Quality
2 20 (4.83%) QA
3 6 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (0.97%) Accessibility
4 4 (0.97%) GDPR
5 3 (0.72%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.24%) MiFID
6 1 (0.24%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.24%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 159 (38.41%) Docker
2 4 (0.97%) Active Directory
2 4 (0.97%) iptables
2 4 (0.97%) Squid
2 4 (0.97%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (0.97%) VMware NSX
2 4 (0.97%) vSphere
3 3 (0.72%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 165 (39.86%) Terraform
2 87 (21.01%) Kubernetes
3 50 (12.08%) Ansible
4 39 (9.42%) Prometheus
5 30 (7.25%) HP Fortify
6 26 (6.28%) Grafana
7 15 (3.62%) Packer
8 9 (2.17%) Puppet
9 5 (1.21%) Argo
9 5 (1.21%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.97%) ZABBIX
11 3 (0.72%) Kibana
11 3 (0.72%) Scalr
12 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 12 (2.90%) Oracle
2 11 (2.66%) Red Hat
3 10 (2.42%) Databricks
3 10 (2.42%) Splunk
4 7 (1.69%) AppDynamics
4 7 (1.69%) HubSpot
5 6 (1.45%) IBM
6 5 (1.21%) Google
6 5 (1.21%) Microsoft
6 5 (1.21%) SaltStack
7 4 (0.97%) VMware
8 3 (0.72%) Dynatrace
8 3 (0.72%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.48%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.48%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.48%) SnapLogic
10 1 (0.24%) Apple
10 1 (0.24%) Informatica
10 1 (0.24%) New Relic
10 1 (0.24%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud