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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 346 298 388
Rank change year-on-year -48 +90 -31
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 412 410 575
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.50% 1.04% 0.62%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.85% 3.05% 1.87%
Number of salaries quoted 288 313 446
10th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £51,250
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% - -
75th Percentile £87,500 £97,500 £96,250
90th Percentile £105,750 £115,000 £113,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +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 22,238 13,441 30,739
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 27.16% 34.19% 33.36%
Number of salaries quoted 14,524 9,491 24,530
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £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% -10.20%

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 9 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 9 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
London -84 149 £85,000 -5.56% 60
North of England +35 148 £72,500 +11.54% 40
Yorkshire +27 106 £72,500 +20.83% 9
Midlands +2 52 £55,000 +29.41% 8
East Midlands +6 36 £55,000 - 5
North West +7 35 £75,000 - 23
South West -38 34 £62,500 +4.17% 19
South East -18 24 £82,500 +50.00% 20
West Midlands -27 16 £50,000 +17.65% 3
North East -40 7 £62,500 - 8
East of England -32 4 £62,500 -26.47% 3
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 (6.07%) Apache
2 22 (5.34%) Apache Spark
3 20 (4.85%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (1.94%) Confluence
5 3 (0.73%) JBoss
6 2 (0.49%) Oracle Application Server
7 1 (0.24%) CMS
7 1 (0.24%) IIS
7 1 (0.24%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (1.46%) Spreadsheet
2 4 (0.97%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 412 (100.00%) Serverless
2 411 (99.76%) AWS
3 294 (71.36%) Amazon S3
4 167 (40.53%) AWS CloudFormation
5 136 (33.01%) Amazon ECS
6 119 (28.88%) AWS Step Functions
7 97 (23.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 87 (21.12%) Amazon EC2
9 84 (20.39%) Amazon SQS
10 77 (18.69%) GitHub
11 58 (14.08%) GitHub Actions
12 52 (12.62%) Amazon EKS
13 49 (11.89%) Amazon ECR
14 48 (11.65%) Datadog
15 44 (10.68%) Apigee
16 42 (10.19%) Amazon EventBridge
17 39 (9.47%) Azure
18 36 (8.74%) Amazon OpenSearch
19 30 (7.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
20 25 (6.07%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.16%) DSL
1 13 (3.16%) Firewall
2 8 (1.94%) AMQP
3 6 (1.46%) Network Security
4 4 (0.97%) DNS
4 4 (0.97%) IPv4
4 4 (0.97%) Software-Defined Networking
4 4 (0.97%) VPN
5 3 (0.73%) Broadband
6 2 (0.49%) 4G
6 2 (0.49%) 5G
6 2 (0.49%) VoIP
7 1 (0.24%) DHCP
7 1 (0.24%) PSTN
7 1 (0.24%) SSL
7 1 (0.24%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.24%) VLAN
7 1 (0.24%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 177 (42.96%) DynamoDB
2 77 (18.69%) Amazon RDS
3 58 (14.08%) NoSQL
4 45 (10.92%) Amazon Athena
5 43 (10.44%) Amazon Redshift
6 21 (5.10%) Data Warehouse
7 19 (4.61%) PostgreSQL
8 14 (3.40%) Relational Database
9 13 (3.16%) SQL Server
10 12 (2.91%) Big Data
11 10 (2.43%) MySQL
12 8 (1.94%) Data Lake
12 8 (1.94%) Power BI
13 7 (1.70%) Metadata
13 7 (1.70%) Snowflake Schema
14 6 (1.46%) Amazon Aurora
14 6 (1.46%) Apache Iceberg
14 6 (1.46%) Elasticsearch
14 6 (1.46%) Hadoop
15 5 (1.21%) Cloudera CDH
Development Applications
1 128 (31.07%) Jenkins
2 87 (21.12%) GitLab
3 86 (20.87%) Git
4 40 (9.71%) Maven
5 38 (9.22%) SonarQube
6 37 (8.98%) Cypress.io
7 19 (4.61%) JIRA
8 17 (4.13%) CircleCI
9 11 (2.67%) Bitbucket
10 9 (2.18%) Cucumber
11 6 (1.46%) TeamCity
12 5 (1.21%) Gradle
12 5 (1.21%) MLflow
12 5 (1.21%) Postman
13 4 (0.97%) Artifactory
13 4 (0.97%) Claude Code
13 4 (0.97%) Selenium
13 4 (0.97%) SpecFlow
14 3 (0.73%) ESLint
14 3 (0.73%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 96 (23.30%) Social Skills
2 53 (12.86%) Finance
3 38 (9.22%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (8.25%) Public Sector
5 24 (5.83%) Banking
6 12 (2.91%) Advertising
7 8 (1.94%) Aerospace
7 8 (1.94%) Health Technology
8 7 (1.70%) Billing
9 6 (1.46%) 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 (0.73%) Law
12 3 (0.73%) Legal
12 3 (0.73%) Marketing
12 3 (0.73%) Military
13 2 (0.49%) Games
Job Titles
1 177 (42.96%) Developer
2 120 (29.13%) Senior
3 76 (18.45%) Java Developer
4 63 (15.29%) Senior Developer
5 52 (12.62%) AWS Developer
6 48 (11.65%) Full-Stack Developer
7 42 (10.19%) AWS Engineer
8 41 (9.95%) Lead
9 37 (8.98%) Data Engineer
10 34 (8.25%) Software Engineer
11 31 (7.52%) DevOps Engineer
12 22 (5.34%) Platform Engineer
13 21 (5.10%) Architect
13 21 (5.10%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 21 (5.10%) React Developer
14 19 (4.61%) Lead Developer
14 19 (4.61%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
15 18 (4.37%) AWS Architect
15 18 (4.37%) Cloud Engineer
15 18 (4.37%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 130 (31.55%) Node.js
2 105 (25.49%) React
3 91 (22.09%) AngularJS
4 72 (17.48%) Spring Boot
5 49 (11.89%) RESTful
6 47 (11.41%) Spring
7 41 (9.95%) AWS CDK
8 40 (9.71%) Kafka
9 39 (9.47%) Gherkin
10 35 (8.50%) Jest
10 35 (8.50%) REST
11 30 (7.28%) RabbitMQ
12 23 (5.58%) JSON
13 22 (5.34%) YAML
14 21 (5.10%) gRPC
14 21 (5.10%) HTML
15 18 (4.37%) .NET
16 17 (4.13%) CSS
16 17 (4.13%) Swagger
16 17 (4.13%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 91 (22.09%) Cloud Native
2 27 (6.55%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (4.13%) Blockchain
3 17 (4.13%) Web3
4 16 (3.88%) Greenfield Project
5 9 (2.18%) Product Ownership
6 7 (1.70%) Data Structures
7 6 (1.46%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (1.46%) Public Cloud
8 5 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.21%) IoT
8 5 (1.21%) Linux Command Line
8 5 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (0.97%) NHS
10 3 (0.73%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (0.49%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.49%) Low-Code
11 2 (0.49%) Onboarding
11 2 (0.49%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 41 (9.95%) Linux
2 9 (2.18%) Windows
3 7 (1.70%) 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
1 257 (62.38%) CI/CD
2 196 (47.57%) DevOps
3 170 (41.26%) Infrastructure as Code
4 147 (35.68%) Agile
5 92 (22.33%) Full-Stack Development
6 90 (21.84%) Software Engineering
7 87 (21.12%) Containerisation
8 80 (19.42%) Microservices
9 77 (18.69%) Mentoring
10 73 (17.72%) Test Automation
11 72 (17.48%) Problem-Solving
12 65 (15.78%) Observability
13 61 (14.81%) Event-Driven
14 57 (13.83%) AI
15 51 (12.38%) Continuous Integration
15 51 (12.38%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 49 (11.89%) DevSecOps
17 48 (11.65%) Analytics
18 42 (10.19%) Platform Engineering
19 41 (9.95%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 206 (50.00%) Python
2 140 (33.98%) TypeScript
3 124 (30.10%) SQL
4 113 (27.43%) Java
5 68 (16.50%) Bash
6 62 (15.05%) JavaScript
7 47 (11.41%) Groovy
8 34 (8.25%) Kotlin
9 33 (8.01%) Go
10 19 (4.61%) PowerShell
11 13 (3.16%) C#
11 13 (3.16%) Rust
12 10 (2.43%) PHP
13 4 (0.97%) Perl
13 4 (0.97%) Scala
14 2 (0.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.49%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.49%) R
14 2 (0.49%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 67 (16.26%) Security Cleared
2 64 (15.53%) AWS Certification
3 47 (11.41%) SC Cleared
4 40 (9.71%) Degree
5 28 (6.80%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 24 (5.83%) ITIL Certification
7 19 (4.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 19 (4.61%) DV Cleared
8 17 (4.13%) OSCP
9 16 (3.88%) Computer Science Degree
10 12 (2.91%) AWS Certified Developer
11 5 (1.21%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 5 (1.21%) RHCE
12 4 (0.97%) CCNA
12 4 (0.97%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (0.97%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.97%) RHCSA
13 3 (0.73%) IIBA
13 3 (0.73%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (5.58%) Data Quality
2 20 (4.85%) QA
3 6 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (0.97%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.73%) GDPR
5 3 (0.73%) 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
1 158 (38.35%) 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 (0.73%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 165 (40.05%) Terraform
2 88 (21.36%) Kubernetes
3 48 (11.65%) Ansible
4 39 (9.47%) Prometheus
5 32 (7.77%) HP Fortify
6 27 (6.55%) Grafana
7 11 (2.67%) Packer
8 9 (2.18%) Puppet
9 5 (1.21%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.97%) ZABBIX
11 3 (0.73%) Argo
11 3 (0.73%) Kibana
11 3 (0.73%) Scalr
12 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 12 (2.91%) Databricks
1 12 (2.91%) Oracle
2 11 (2.67%) Red Hat
3 8 (1.94%) Splunk
4 7 (1.70%) AppDynamics
4 7 (1.70%) HubSpot
5 6 (1.46%) IBM
6 5 (1.21%) Google
6 5 (1.21%) Microsoft
6 5 (1.21%) SaltStack
7 4 (0.97%) VMware
8 3 (0.73%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.49%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.49%) Dynatrace
9 2 (0.49%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.49%) SnapLogic
10 1 (0.24%) Confluent
10 1 (0.24%) New Relic
10 1 (0.24%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 1 (0.24%) ServiceNow