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

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 343 287 371
Rank change year-on-year -56 +84 -11
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 388 431 594
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.48% 1.11% 0.71%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.63% 3.12% 2.01%
Number of salaries quoted 264 356 479
10th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £79,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.23% +5.33% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £115,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £106,750 £138,750 £118,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £77,750 £72,500
% change year-on-year -9.97% +7.24% -3.33%

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 23,765 13,797 29,624
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 29.68% 35.51% 35.26%
Number of salaries quoted 13,564 9,851 24,154
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £44,000 £43,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £61,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% +6.96% -11.54%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £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% -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 13 May 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 13 May 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 -91 149 £76,750 -18.13% 71
North of England +49 135 £72,500 +8.01% 48
Yorkshire +17 107 £72,500 +20.83% 13
Midlands -15 47 £55,000 - 17
East Midlands +7 35 £57,500 +4.55% 7
South West -45 31 £63,750 +6.25% 24
North West +1 27 £75,000 - 27
South East -21 21 £82,500 +50.00% 25
West Midlands -33 12 £49,500 -3.41% 10
East of England -35 4 £62,500 -26.47% 5
North East -41 1 £90,000 +44.00% 9
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 (6.70%) Apache
2 21 (5.41%) Apache Spark
3 19 (4.90%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.29%) Confluence
5 3 (0.77%) JBoss
6 2 (0.52%) Oracle Application Server
7 1 (0.26%) CMS
7 1 (0.26%) IIS
7 1 (0.26%) nginx
7 1 (0.26%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (1.55%) Spreadsheet
2 4 (1.03%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 388 (100.00%) Serverless
2 387 (99.74%) AWS
3 281 (72.42%) Amazon S3
4 161 (41.49%) AWS CloudFormation
5 118 (30.41%) Amazon ECS
6 117 (30.15%) AWS Step Functions
7 95 (24.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 84 (21.65%) Amazon SQS
9 78 (20.10%) Amazon EC2
10 76 (19.59%) GitHub
11 60 (15.46%) GitHub Actions
12 55 (14.18%) Amazon ECR
13 51 (13.14%) Apigee
14 45 (11.60%) Datadog
15 43 (11.08%) Amazon EKS
16 39 (10.05%) Amazon EventBridge
17 36 (9.28%) Azure
18 29 (7.47%) Amazon OpenSearch
19 28 (7.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
20 24 (6.19%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.35%) DSL
2 10 (2.58%) AMQP
3 8 (2.06%) Firewall
4 6 (1.55%) Network Security
5 3 (0.77%) Broadband
5 3 (0.77%) DNS
5 3 (0.77%) VPN
6 2 (0.52%) 4G
6 2 (0.52%) 5G
7 1 (0.26%) IPv4
7 1 (0.26%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.26%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 171 (44.07%) DynamoDB
2 77 (19.85%) Amazon RDS
3 58 (14.95%) NoSQL
4 39 (10.05%) Amazon Athena
5 38 (9.79%) Amazon Redshift
6 24 (6.19%) PostgreSQL
7 21 (5.41%) Data Warehouse
8 14 (3.61%) SQL Server
9 11 (2.84%) Relational Database
10 10 (2.58%) Big Data
11 9 (2.32%) Data Lake
12 8 (2.06%) MySQL
13 7 (1.80%) Apache Iceberg
13 7 (1.80%) Metadata
13 7 (1.80%) Snowflake Schema
14 6 (1.55%) Amazon Aurora
14 6 (1.55%) Power BI
15 5 (1.29%) Cloudera CDH
15 5 (1.29%) Elasticsearch
15 5 (1.29%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 127 (32.73%) Jenkins
2 92 (23.71%) GitLab
3 77 (19.85%) Git
4 49 (12.63%) Maven
5 47 (12.11%) SonarQube
6 45 (11.60%) Cypress.io
7 17 (4.38%) CircleCI
8 15 (3.87%) JIRA
9 10 (2.58%) Cucumber
10 9 (2.32%) Bitbucket
11 5 (1.29%) Gradle
12 4 (1.03%) Artifactory
12 4 (1.03%) MLflow
12 4 (1.03%) Postman
12 4 (1.03%) Selenium
12 4 (1.03%) SpecFlow
13 3 (0.77%) ESLint
13 3 (0.77%) Octopus Deploy
14 2 (0.52%) DBeaver
14 2 (0.52%) webpack
General
1 99 (25.52%) Social Skills
2 51 (13.14%) Finance
3 38 (9.79%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (6.70%) Public Sector
5 20 (5.15%) Banking
6 16 (4.12%) Health Technology
7 13 (3.35%) Publishing
7 13 (3.35%) Tech for Good
8 11 (2.84%) Influencing Skills
9 10 (2.58%) Advertising
10 8 (2.06%) Organisational Skills
11 7 (1.80%) Billing
12 5 (1.29%) Aerospace
13 3 (0.77%) Investment Banking
13 3 (0.77%) Law
13 3 (0.77%) Legal
13 3 (0.77%) Military
14 2 (0.52%) Front Office
14 2 (0.52%) Games
14 2 (0.52%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 181 (46.65%) Developer
2 104 (26.80%) Senior
3 72 (18.56%) Java Developer
4 64 (16.49%) AWS Developer
5 56 (14.43%) Senior Developer
6 55 (14.18%) Lead
7 39 (10.05%) Full-Stack Developer
8 37 (9.54%) AWS Engineer
9 36 (9.28%) Data Engineer
10 30 (7.73%) React Developer
11 29 (7.47%) Lead Developer
12 27 (6.96%) DevOps Engineer
12 27 (6.96%) Python Developer
12 27 (6.96%) Software Engineer
13 21 (5.41%) Software Developer
14 20 (5.15%) Architect
15 19 (4.90%) Cloud Engineer
15 19 (4.90%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 18 (4.64%) AWS Data Engineer
16 18 (4.64%) Node.js Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 116 (29.90%) Node.js
2 101 (26.03%) React
3 88 (22.68%) AngularJS
4 79 (20.36%) Spring Boot
5 57 (14.69%) RESTful
6 50 (12.89%) Spring
7 44 (11.34%) AWS CDK
8 43 (11.08%) Gherkin
8 43 (11.08%) Jest
9 34 (8.76%) Kafka
10 33 (8.51%) RabbitMQ
11 31 (7.99%) REST
12 24 (6.19%) HTML
13 22 (5.67%) gRPC
14 21 (5.41%) JSON
15 19 (4.90%) YAML
16 18 (4.64%) .NET
16 18 (4.64%) CSS
17 17 (4.38%) web3js
18 12 (3.09%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 81 (20.88%) Cloud Native
2 21 (5.41%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (4.38%) Blockchain
3 17 (4.38%) Web3
4 15 (3.87%) Greenfield Project
5 9 (2.32%) Product Ownership
6 7 (1.80%) Data Structures
7 6 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (1.29%) Linux Command Line
8 5 (1.29%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.03%) IoT
9 4 (1.03%) NHS
9 4 (1.03%) Security Posture
10 2 (0.52%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.52%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.52%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (0.52%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (0.52%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 34 (8.76%) Linux
2 7 (1.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (1.55%) Windows
4 5 (1.29%) CentOS
4 5 (1.29%) Debian
4 5 (1.29%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.26%) Unix
5 1 (0.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 246 (63.40%) CI/CD
2 193 (49.74%) DevOps
3 153 (39.43%) Agile
4 149 (38.40%) Infrastructure as Code
5 84 (21.65%) Containerisation
6 83 (21.39%) Full-Stack Development
7 81 (20.88%) Software Engineering
8 77 (19.85%) Microservices
8 77 (19.85%) Problem-Solving
9 75 (19.33%) Mentoring
10 62 (15.98%) Test Automation
11 58 (14.95%) Observability
12 55 (14.18%) Continuous Integration
13 47 (12.11%) DevSecOps
13 47 (12.11%) Event-Driven
14 43 (11.08%) Analytics
14 43 (11.08%) Continuous Improvement
15 42 (10.82%) AI
16 41 (10.57%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 40 (10.31%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 193 (49.74%) Python
2 134 (34.54%) TypeScript
3 121 (31.19%) SQL
4 115 (29.64%) Java
5 66 (17.01%) Bash
6 63 (16.24%) JavaScript
7 50 (12.89%) Groovy
8 33 (8.51%) Go
9 30 (7.73%) Kotlin
10 13 (3.35%) PowerShell
10 13 (3.35%) Rust
11 9 (2.32%) C#
12 8 (2.06%) PHP
13 4 (1.03%) Perl
14 2 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.52%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.52%) R
14 2 (0.52%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.26%) Scala
Qualifications
1 67 (17.27%) AWS Certification
2 61 (15.72%) Security Cleared
3 46 (11.86%) SC Cleared
4 41 (10.57%) Degree
5 28 (7.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 24 (6.19%) ITIL Certification
7 19 (4.90%) AWS Certified Developer
7 19 (4.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 18 (4.64%) Computer Science Degree
9 14 (3.61%) OSCP
10 13 (3.35%) DV Cleared
11 5 (1.29%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 3 (0.77%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 3 (0.77%) IIBA
12 3 (0.77%) PhD
13 2 (0.52%) RHCE
14 1 (0.26%) CCNA
14 1 (0.26%) Cisco Certification
14 1 (0.26%) ISTQB
14 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (7.47%) QA
2 20 (5.15%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.77%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.77%) GDPR
4 3 (0.77%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.26%) MiFID
5 1 (0.26%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.26%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 159 (40.98%) Docker
2 4 (1.03%) iptables
3 3 (0.77%) Firmware
4 1 (0.26%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.26%) Squid
4 1 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.26%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.26%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 144 (37.11%) Terraform
2 86 (22.16%) Kubernetes
3 41 (10.57%) Ansible
3 41 (10.57%) HP Fortify
4 34 (8.76%) Prometheus
5 23 (5.93%) Grafana
6 9 (2.32%) Puppet
7 6 (1.55%) Progress Chef
8 5 (1.29%) Packer
9 4 (1.03%) Kibana
10 3 (0.77%) Scalr
11 1 (0.26%) Red Hat Satellite
11 1 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.26%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 11 (2.84%) Databricks
2 8 (2.06%) Oracle
2 8 (2.06%) Red Hat
3 7 (1.80%) AppDynamics
4 6 (1.55%) HubSpot
4 6 (1.55%) IBM
5 5 (1.29%) Google
5 5 (1.29%) Salesforce
5 5 (1.29%) SaltStack
6 3 (0.77%) Atlassian
6 3 (0.77%) Microsoft
6 3 (0.77%) Splunk
7 1 (0.26%) Apple
7 1 (0.26%) Informatica
7 1 (0.26%) New Relic
7 1 (0.26%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.26%) VMware