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

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 357 309 394
Rank change year-on-year -48 +85 -33
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 416 398 567
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.49% 0.99% 0.60%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.80% 2.92% 1.82%
Number of salaries quoted 290 306 438
10th Percentile £50,000 £51,000 £51,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.67% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £89,688 £95,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £110,250 £115,000 £113,250
UK median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £72,750
% change year-on-year -3.33% +3.09% +0.34%

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 23,048 13,639 31,090
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 27.25% 34.02% 32.91%
Number of salaries quoted 15,375 9,702 24,725
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,500 £30,425
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £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% -8.95%

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 24 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 24 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 -60 155 £85,000 - 40
North of England +33 148 £75,000 +15.38% 23
Yorkshire +18 95 £75,000 +25.00% 7
Midlands -6 44 £55,000 +29.41% 9
North West +3 42 £72,500 +11.54% 11
South West -53 39 £62,500 -13.79% 13
East Midlands +1 33 £55,000 +18.92% 4
South East -21 25 £82,500 +50.00% 18
West Midlands -24 11 £50,000 +17.65% 5
North East -34 11 £75,000 +20.00% 5
East of England -43 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 27 (6.49%) Apache
2 23 (5.53%) Apache Spark
3 18 (4.33%) Apache Airflow
4 11 (2.64%) 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%) SAS
7 1 (0.24%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (1.20%) Spreadsheet
2 4 (0.96%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 416 (100.00%) Serverless
2 415 (99.76%) AWS
3 294 (70.67%) Amazon S3
4 160 (38.46%) AWS CloudFormation
5 144 (34.62%) Amazon ECS
6 113 (27.16%) AWS Step Functions
7 97 (23.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 96 (23.08%) Amazon EC2
9 82 (19.71%) Amazon SQS
10 77 (18.51%) GitHub
11 54 (12.98%) Amazon EKS
12 52 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
13 49 (11.78%) Datadog
14 45 (10.82%) Amazon ECR
15 43 (10.34%) Amazon EventBridge
16 40 (9.62%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 40 (9.62%) Apigee
16 40 (9.62%) Azure
17 29 (6.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 28 (6.73%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.13%) Firewall
2 11 (2.64%) DSL
2 11 (2.64%) Network Security
3 9 (2.16%) AMQP
4 5 (1.20%) VPN
5 4 (0.96%) DNS
5 4 (0.96%) IPv4
5 4 (0.96%) Software-Defined Networking
6 3 (0.72%) Broadband
7 2 (0.48%) 4G
7 2 (0.48%) 5G
7 2 (0.48%) VoIP
8 1 (0.24%) DHCP
8 1 (0.24%) PSTN
8 1 (0.24%) SSL
8 1 (0.24%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.24%) VLAN
8 1 (0.24%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 176 (42.31%) DynamoDB
2 81 (19.47%) Amazon RDS
3 57 (13.70%) NoSQL
4 48 (11.54%) Amazon Athena
5 44 (10.58%) Amazon Redshift
6 22 (5.29%) Data Warehouse
7 19 (4.57%) PostgreSQL
8 13 (3.13%) MySQL
8 13 (3.13%) Relational Database
8 13 (3.13%) SQL Server
9 12 (2.88%) Big Data
10 9 (2.16%) Data Lake
10 9 (2.16%) Elasticsearch
10 9 (2.16%) Metadata
11 8 (1.92%) Power BI
12 7 (1.68%) Amazon Aurora
13 6 (1.44%) Apache Iceberg
13 6 (1.44%) Hadoop
13 6 (1.44%) Snowflake Schema
14 5 (1.20%) Cloudera CDH
Development Applications
1 126 (30.29%) Jenkins
2 86 (20.67%) Git
3 80 (19.23%) GitLab
4 36 (8.65%) Maven
5 35 (8.41%) SonarQube
6 33 (7.93%) Cypress.io
7 22 (5.29%) JIRA
8 18 (4.33%) CircleCI
9 13 (3.13%) Bitbucket
10 11 (2.64%) TeamCity
11 10 (2.40%) Cucumber
12 7 (1.68%) Postman
13 6 (1.44%) Claude Code
13 6 (1.44%) Selenium
14 5 (1.20%) Gradle
15 4 (0.96%) Artifactory
15 4 (0.96%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 4 (0.96%) MLflow
15 4 (0.96%) SpecFlow
16 3 (0.72%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 97 (23.32%) Social Skills
2 65 (15.63%) Finance
3 39 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
3 39 (9.38%) Public Sector
4 25 (6.01%) Banking
5 9 (2.16%) Advertising
6 8 (1.92%) Aerospace
6 8 (1.92%) Billing
6 8 (1.92%) Health Technology
6 8 (1.92%) Telecoms
7 6 (1.44%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (1.20%) Publishing
9 4 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (0.96%) Investment Banking
9 4 (0.96%) Tech for Good
10 3 (0.72%) Law
10 3 (0.72%) Legal
10 3 (0.72%) Marketing
10 3 (0.72%) Military
11 2 (0.48%) Games
Job Titles
1 175 (42.07%) Developer
2 132 (31.73%) Senior
3 78 (18.75%) Java Developer
4 66 (15.87%) Senior Developer
5 56 (13.46%) Full-Stack Developer
6 48 (11.54%) AWS Developer
7 45 (10.82%) AWS Engineer
8 43 (10.34%) Lead
9 39 (9.38%) Data Engineer
10 34 (8.17%) Software Engineer
11 32 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
12 25 (6.01%) Platform Engineer
13 24 (5.77%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 21 (5.05%) Architect
14 21 (5.05%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
15 19 (4.57%) Python Developer
15 19 (4.57%) React Developer
16 18 (4.33%) AWS Data Engineer
16 18 (4.33%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 16 (3.85%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (30.77%) Node.js
2 104 (25.00%) React
3 95 (22.84%) AngularJS
4 74 (17.79%) Spring Boot
5 51 (12.26%) Spring
6 46 (11.06%) RESTful
7 43 (10.34%) Kafka
8 38 (9.13%) REST
9 37 (8.89%) Gherkin
10 35 (8.41%) AWS CDK
11 32 (7.69%) Jest
12 31 (7.45%) RabbitMQ
13 24 (5.77%) JSON
14 22 (5.29%) gRPC
14 22 (5.29%) YAML
15 19 (4.57%) HTML
16 18 (4.33%) Swagger
17 17 (4.09%) web3js
18 16 (3.85%) .NET
18 16 (3.85%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 94 (22.60%) Cloud Native
2 35 (8.41%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (4.09%) Blockchain
3 17 (4.09%) Web3
4 16 (3.85%) Greenfield Project
5 11 (2.64%) Product Ownership
6 8 (1.92%) Data Structures
6 8 (1.92%) Onboarding
7 6 (1.44%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (1.44%) Public Cloud
8 5 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.20%) IoT
8 5 (1.20%) Linux Command Line
8 5 (1.20%) NHS
8 5 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (0.96%) Algorithms
9 4 (0.96%) Enterprise Cloud
9 4 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (0.72%) Data Centre
10 3 (0.72%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 43 (10.34%) Linux
2 11 (2.64%) Windows
3 7 (1.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.20%) CentOS
4 5 (1.20%) Debian
4 5 (1.20%) Ubuntu
5 4 (0.96%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 260 (62.50%) CI/CD
2 189 (45.43%) DevOps
3 171 (41.11%) Infrastructure as Code
4 151 (36.30%) Agile
5 98 (23.56%) Full-Stack Development
6 94 (22.60%) Software Engineering
7 87 (20.91%) Containerisation
8 83 (19.95%) Mentoring
9 82 (19.71%) Microservices
10 77 (18.51%) Test Automation
11 73 (17.55%) Observability
12 71 (17.07%) Problem-Solving
13 70 (16.83%) AI
14 62 (14.90%) Event-Driven
15 54 (12.98%) Analytics
16 53 (12.74%) Continuous Integration
17 51 (12.26%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 46 (11.06%) Platform Engineering
19 45 (10.82%) Data Pipeline
20 44 (10.58%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 216 (51.92%) Python
2 138 (33.17%) TypeScript
3 121 (29.09%) SQL
4 118 (28.37%) Java
5 71 (17.07%) Bash
6 58 (13.94%) JavaScript
7 45 (10.82%) Groovy
8 36 (8.65%) Kotlin
9 32 (7.69%) Go
10 21 (5.05%) PowerShell
11 16 (3.85%) C#
12 13 (3.13%) PHP
13 11 (2.64%) Rust
14 8 (1.92%) Perl
15 7 (1.68%) Scala
16 4 (0.96%) Ruby
17 2 (0.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 2 (0.48%) PL/SQL
17 2 (0.48%) R
17 2 (0.48%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 74 (17.79%) Security Cleared
2 59 (14.18%) AWS Certification
3 48 (11.54%) SC Cleared
4 36 (8.65%) Degree
5 26 (6.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 23 (5.53%) DV Cleared
6 23 (5.53%) ITIL Certification
7 21 (5.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 15 (3.61%) OSCP
9 13 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (1.68%) AWS Certified Developer
11 5 (1.20%) RHCE
12 4 (0.96%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 4 (0.96%) CCNA
12 4 (0.96%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (0.96%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.96%) Master's Degree
12 4 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.96%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 4 (0.96%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (5.53%) Data Quality
2 21 (5.05%) QA
3 7 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.44%) Accessibility
4 6 (1.44%) 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
1 156 (37.50%) Docker
2 4 (0.96%) Active Directory
2 4 (0.96%) iptables
2 4 (0.96%) Squid
2 4 (0.96%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (0.96%) VMware NSX
2 4 (0.96%) vSphere
3 3 (0.72%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 170 (40.87%) Terraform
2 87 (20.91%) Kubernetes
3 50 (12.02%) Ansible
4 38 (9.13%) Prometheus
5 28 (6.73%) HP Fortify
6 27 (6.49%) Grafana
7 15 (3.61%) Packer
8 9 (2.16%) Puppet
9 5 (1.20%) Argo
9 5 (1.20%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.96%) Kibana
10 4 (0.96%) ZABBIX
11 3 (0.72%) Scalr
12 1 (0.24%) logstash
12 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 12 (2.88%) Splunk
2 11 (2.64%) Databricks
2 11 (2.64%) Oracle
2 11 (2.64%) Red Hat
3 7 (1.68%) AppDynamics
3 7 (1.68%) HubSpot
4 6 (1.44%) Google
4 6 (1.44%) IBM
5 5 (1.20%) Microsoft
5 5 (1.20%) OpenAI
5 5 (1.20%) SaltStack
6 4 (0.96%) Dynatrace
6 4 (0.96%) VMware
7 2 (0.48%) SnapLogic
8 1 (0.24%) Cisco
8 1 (0.24%) New Relic
8 1 (0.24%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.24%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 1 (0.24%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.24%) Solace