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

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 354 304 404
Rank change year-on-year -50 +100 -44
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 417 398 570
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.50% 1.00% 0.60%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.82% 2.92% 1.82%
Number of salaries quoted 294 306 438
10th Percentile £50,000 £51,000 £50,875
25th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £61,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.67% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £88,438 £97,188 £96,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £115,000 £113,250
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 22,884 13,616 31,326
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 27.27% 34.15% 32.73%
Number of salaries quoted 15,238 9,672 24,926
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,513 £30,363
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% -8.82%

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 21 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 21 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 -57 152 £85,000 -2.86% 48
North of England +42 148 £75,000 +15.38% 26
Yorkshire +21 98 £75,000 +25.00% 7
Midlands +1 48 £55,000 +29.41% 9
North West +6 39 £72,500 +11.54% 13
South West -49 38 £63,750 +6.25% 16
East Midlands +6 36 £55,000 +18.92% 4
South East -23 25 £82,500 +50.00% 16
West Midlands -33 12 £50,000 +17.65% 5
North East -39 11 £75,000 +20.00% 6
East of England -38 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 (6.47%) Apache
2 23 (5.52%) Apache Spark
3 18 (4.32%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (2.40%) 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 6 (1.44%) Spreadsheet
2 4 (0.96%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 417 (100.00%) Serverless
2 416 (99.76%) AWS
3 296 (70.98%) Amazon S3
4 160 (38.37%) AWS CloudFormation
5 143 (34.29%) Amazon ECS
6 114 (27.34%) AWS Step Functions
7 96 (23.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 95 (22.78%) Amazon EC2
9 80 (19.18%) Amazon SQS
10 77 (18.47%) GitHub
11 52 (12.47%) Amazon EKS
11 52 (12.47%) GitHub Actions
12 49 (11.75%) Datadog
13 45 (10.79%) Amazon ECR
14 41 (9.83%) Amazon EventBridge
14 41 (9.83%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 40 (9.59%) Apigee
16 38 (9.11%) Azure
17 29 (6.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 26 (6.24%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.12%) Firewall
2 12 (2.88%) DSL
3 9 (2.16%) AMQP
3 9 (2.16%) Network Security
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
1 175 (41.97%) DynamoDB
2 81 (19.42%) Amazon RDS
3 58 (13.91%) NoSQL
4 49 (11.75%) Amazon Athena
5 45 (10.79%) Amazon Redshift
6 23 (5.52%) Data Warehouse
7 17 (4.08%) PostgreSQL
8 13 (3.12%) Relational Database
8 13 (3.12%) SQL Server
9 12 (2.88%) Big Data
9 12 (2.88%) MySQL
10 8 (1.92%) Data Lake
10 8 (1.92%) Elasticsearch
10 8 (1.92%) Metadata
10 8 (1.92%) Power BI
11 7 (1.68%) Snowflake Schema
12 6 (1.44%) Amazon Aurora
12 6 (1.44%) Hadoop
13 5 (1.20%) Apache Iceberg
13 5 (1.20%) Cloudera CDH
Development Applications
1 127 (30.46%) Jenkins
2 87 (20.86%) Git
3 81 (19.42%) GitLab
4 36 (8.63%) Maven
5 35 (8.39%) SonarQube
6 33 (7.91%) Cypress.io
7 21 (5.04%) JIRA
8 17 (4.08%) CircleCI
9 13 (3.12%) Bitbucket
10 11 (2.64%) TeamCity
11 10 (2.40%) Cucumber
12 6 (1.44%) Postman
13 5 (1.20%) Claude Code
13 5 (1.20%) Gradle
13 5 (1.20%) Selenium
14 4 (0.96%) Artifactory
14 4 (0.96%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 4 (0.96%) MLflow
14 4 (0.96%) SpecFlow
15 3 (0.72%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 96 (23.02%) Social Skills
2 61 (14.63%) Finance
3 41 (9.83%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (8.87%) Public Sector
5 24 (5.76%) Banking
6 9 (2.16%) Advertising
7 8 (1.92%) Aerospace
7 8 (1.92%) Billing
7 8 (1.92%) Health Technology
8 7 (1.68%) Telecoms
9 6 (1.44%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (1.20%) Publishing
11 4 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (0.96%) Investment Banking
11 4 (0.96%) 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
1 177 (42.45%) Developer
2 128 (30.70%) Senior
3 79 (18.94%) Java Developer
4 65 (15.59%) Senior Developer
5 55 (13.19%) Full-Stack Developer
6 50 (11.99%) AWS Developer
7 45 (10.79%) Lead
8 44 (10.55%) AWS Engineer
9 38 (9.11%) Data Engineer
10 33 (7.91%) DevOps Engineer
10 33 (7.91%) Software Engineer
11 25 (6.00%) Platform Engineer
12 24 (5.76%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 22 (5.28%) Architect
13 22 (5.28%) React Developer
14 20 (4.80%) Python Developer
14 20 (4.80%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
15 19 (4.56%) Lead Developer
16 18 (4.32%) AWS Data Engineer
16 18 (4.32%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 133 (31.89%) Node.js
2 107 (25.66%) React
3 95 (22.78%) AngularJS
4 74 (17.75%) Spring Boot
5 51 (12.23%) Spring
6 45 (10.79%) RESTful
7 41 (9.83%) Kafka
8 37 (8.87%) Gherkin
8 37 (8.87%) REST
9 33 (7.91%) AWS CDK
10 31 (7.43%) Jest
11 30 (7.19%) RabbitMQ
12 23 (5.52%) JSON
13 22 (5.28%) HTML
13 22 (5.28%) YAML
14 21 (5.04%) gRPC
15 18 (4.32%) CSS
15 18 (4.32%) Swagger
16 17 (4.08%) web3js
17 16 (3.84%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 93 (22.30%) Cloud Native
2 33 (7.91%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (4.08%) Blockchain
3 17 (4.08%) Web3
4 16 (3.84%) Greenfield Project
5 9 (2.16%) Data Structures
5 9 (2.16%) Product Ownership
6 6 (1.44%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (1.44%) Public Cloud
7 5 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (1.20%) IoT
7 5 (1.20%) Linux Command Line
7 5 (1.20%) NHS
7 5 (1.20%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (0.96%) Algorithms
8 4 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (0.72%) Data Centre
9 3 (0.72%) Distributed Architecture
9 3 (0.72%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 43 (10.31%) 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
1 256 (61.39%) CI/CD
2 189 (45.32%) DevOps
3 166 (39.81%) Infrastructure as Code
4 150 (35.97%) Agile
5 99 (23.74%) Full-Stack Development
6 92 (22.06%) Software Engineering
7 85 (20.38%) Containerisation
8 82 (19.66%) Mentoring
9 78 (18.71%) Microservices
10 74 (17.75%) Test Automation
11 72 (17.27%) Problem-Solving
12 67 (16.07%) Observability
13 64 (15.35%) AI
14 62 (14.87%) Event-Driven
15 54 (12.95%) Continuous Integration
16 52 (12.47%) Analytics
17 51 (12.23%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 48 (11.51%) DevSecOps
19 45 (10.79%) Platform Engineering
20 43 (10.31%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 219 (52.52%) Python
2 138 (33.09%) TypeScript
3 127 (30.46%) SQL
4 118 (28.30%) Java
5 69 (16.55%) Bash
6 62 (14.87%) JavaScript
7 45 (10.79%) Groovy
8 37 (8.87%) Kotlin
9 32 (7.67%) Go
10 21 (5.04%) PowerShell
11 16 (3.84%) C#
12 12 (2.88%) Rust
13 11 (2.64%) PHP
14 6 (1.44%) Perl
14 6 (1.44%) Scala
15 2 (0.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 2 (0.48%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.48%) R
15 2 (0.48%) Ruby
15 2 (0.48%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 74 (17.75%) Security Cleared
2 59 (14.15%) AWS Certification
3 49 (11.75%) SC Cleared
4 40 (9.59%) Degree
5 26 (6.24%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 24 (5.76%) DV Cleared
7 23 (5.52%) ITIL Certification
8 20 (4.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 16 (3.84%) OSCP
10 15 (3.60%) Computer Science Degree
11 7 (1.68%) AWS Certified Developer
12 5 (1.20%) RHCE
13 4 (0.96%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 4 (0.96%) CCNA
13 4 (0.96%) Cisco Certification
13 4 (0.96%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.96%) Master's Degree
13 4 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (0.96%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 4 (0.96%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (5.52%) Data Quality
2 21 (5.04%) QA
3 7 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.44%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.20%) GDPR
6 3 (0.72%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.24%) MiFID
7 1 (0.24%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.24%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 154 (36.93%) 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
1 164 (39.33%) Terraform
2 85 (20.38%) Kubernetes
3 50 (11.99%) Ansible
4 37 (8.87%) Prometheus
5 28 (6.71%) HP Fortify
6 26 (6.24%) Grafana
7 15 (3.60%) 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%) Oracle
2 11 (2.64%) Databricks
2 11 (2.64%) Red Hat
2 11 (2.64%) Splunk
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%) SaltStack
6 4 (0.96%) OpenAI
6 4 (0.96%) VMware
7 3 (0.72%) Dynatrace
8 2 (0.48%) Atlassian
8 2 (0.48%) SnapLogic
9 1 (0.24%) Apple
9 1 (0.24%) Avaya
9 1 (0.24%) New Relic
9 1 (0.24%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.24%) ServiceNow