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

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 328 187 348
Rank change year-on-year -141 +161 +16
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 346 670 562
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.54% 1.70% 0.76%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.64% 4.49% 2.03%
Number of salaries quoted 242 351 484
10th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £61,875 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £87,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.14% +20.69% -6.45%
75th Percentile £87,188 £115,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £138,750 £114,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £80,000 £71,500
% change year-on-year -12.50% +11.89% -4.67%

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 21,142 14,933 27,730
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 32.86% 37.86% 37.62%
Number of salaries quoted 11,563 10,125 23,314
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +9.57% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,250 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -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 10 March 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 10 March 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 -127 146 £80,000 -23.81% 92
North of England +34 106 £68,750 +10.00% 37
Yorkshire +28 89 £66,250 +15.22% 15
Midlands -3 42 £55,000 - 14
South West -21 30 £62,500 +6.38% 31
East Midlands -11 25 £60,000 -4.00% 6
West Midlands -3 17 £50,000 -2.44% 8
North West -14 17 £70,000 -2.95% 19
South East -136 13 £67,500 +22.73% 47
East of England -42 3 £62,500 -9.09% 22
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 31 (8.96%) Apache
2 29 (8.38%) Apache Spark
3 20 (5.78%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.45%) Confluence
5 3 (0.87%) JBoss
5 3 (0.87%) Tomcat
5 3 (0.87%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.58%) nginx
6 2 (0.58%) Oracle Application Server
6 2 (0.58%) WebSphere Application Server
7 1 (0.29%) SAS
7 1 (0.29%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (1.73%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (0.58%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 346 (100.00%) AWS
1 346 (100.00%) Serverless
2 255 (73.70%) Amazon S3
3 137 (39.60%) AWS CloudFormation
4 96 (27.75%) AWS Step Functions
5 88 (25.43%) Amazon ECS
6 78 (22.54%) GitHub
7 76 (21.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 74 (21.39%) Amazon SQS
9 69 (19.94%) Amazon EC2
10 54 (15.61%) GitHub Actions
11 48 (13.87%) Amazon EKS
12 41 (11.85%) Azure
13 40 (11.56%) Amazon ECR
14 34 (9.83%) Apigee
15 29 (8.38%) Amazon EventBridge
16 25 (7.23%) Datadog
16 25 (7.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 24 (6.94%) GCP
18 23 (6.65%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.76%) DSL
2 11 (3.18%) AMQP
3 6 (1.73%) Network Security
4 4 (1.16%) Broadband
4 4 (1.16%) Firewall
5 3 (0.87%) SSL
6 1 (0.29%) 4G
6 1 (0.29%) 5G
6 1 (0.29%) DNS
6 1 (0.29%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (35.84%) DynamoDB
2 73 (21.10%) Amazon RDS
3 58 (16.76%) NoSQL
4 47 (13.58%) Amazon Redshift
5 36 (10.40%) Data Warehouse
6 34 (9.83%) PostgreSQL
7 27 (7.80%) Amazon Athena
8 19 (5.49%) SQL Server
9 16 (4.62%) Data Lake
10 15 (4.34%) Big Data
11 13 (3.76%) MongoDB
12 11 (3.18%) Apache Iceberg
13 10 (2.89%) Hadoop
13 10 (2.89%) MySQL
13 10 (2.89%) Relational Database
14 8 (2.31%) Metadata
15 7 (2.02%) Amazon Aurora
16 6 (1.73%) Snowflake Schema
17 5 (1.45%) Cloudera CDH
17 5 (1.45%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 96 (27.75%) Jenkins
2 76 (21.97%) GitLab
3 51 (14.74%) Git
4 35 (10.12%) Cypress.io
5 33 (9.54%) Maven
6 32 (9.25%) SonarQube
7 12 (3.47%) CircleCI
8 10 (2.89%) JIRA
9 9 (2.60%) Bitbucket
10 7 (2.02%) MLflow
11 5 (1.45%) git-flow
12 3 (0.87%) Cucumber
12 3 (0.87%) ESLint
12 3 (0.87%) JUnit
12 3 (0.87%) Selenium
12 3 (0.87%) webpack
13 2 (0.58%) DBeaver
13 2 (0.58%) Deequ
13 2 (0.58%) Mocha
14 1 (0.29%) Vite
General
1 98 (28.32%) Social Skills
2 47 (13.58%) Finance
3 35 (10.12%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (4.91%) Banking
4 17 (4.91%) Tech for Good
5 16 (4.62%) Health Technology
6 15 (4.34%) Influencing Skills
6 15 (4.34%) Public Sector
6 15 (4.34%) Publishing
7 14 (4.05%) Organisational Skills
8 9 (2.60%) Advertising
9 6 (1.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.45%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.16%) Aerospace
11 4 (1.16%) Billing
12 3 (0.87%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.87%) Law
12 3 (0.87%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.87%) Military
13 2 (0.58%) Games
Job Titles
1 144 (41.62%) Developer
2 82 (23.70%) Senior
3 57 (16.47%) AWS Developer
4 48 (13.87%) Java Developer
5 46 (13.29%) Lead
6 42 (12.14%) AWS Engineer
7 40 (11.56%) Senior Developer
8 38 (10.98%) Data Engineer
9 36 (10.40%) Software Engineer
10 31 (8.96%) React Developer
11 30 (8.67%) Full-Stack Developer
12 28 (8.09%) Lead Developer
12 28 (8.09%) Python Developer
13 24 (6.94%) AWS Data Engineer
14 23 (6.65%) Architect
15 20 (5.78%) Software Developer
16 17 (4.91%) AWS Architect
16 17 (4.91%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 17 (4.91%) Lead Python Developer
16 17 (4.91%) Node.js Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (29.19%) React
2 97 (28.03%) Node.js
3 68 (19.65%) Spring Boot
4 61 (17.63%) AngularJS
5 55 (15.90%) RESTful
6 49 (14.16%) AWS CDK
7 48 (13.87%) Spring
8 35 (10.12%) Jest
9 33 (9.54%) Kafka
10 32 (9.25%) Gherkin
11 29 (8.38%) HTML
12 28 (8.09%) RabbitMQ
13 24 (6.94%) CSS
14 22 (6.36%) .NET
15 19 (5.49%) gRPC
16 16 (4.62%) REST
17 15 (4.34%) .NET Core
18 14 (4.05%) PySpark
19 13 (3.76%) ASP.NET Core
19 13 (3.76%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 102 (29.48%) Cloud Native
2 14 (4.05%) Product Ownership
3 13 (3.76%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (3.47%) Blockchain
4 12 (3.47%) Web3
5 10 (2.89%) Greenfield Project
6 7 (2.02%) Data Structures
6 7 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (1.73%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (1.73%) Security Posture
8 5 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.45%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.16%) e-Learning
9 4 (1.16%) Virtual Team
10 3 (0.87%) Animation
10 3 (0.87%) Life Science
10 3 (0.87%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (0.87%) NHS
10 3 (0.87%) Private Cloud
11 2 (0.58%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 26 (7.51%) Linux
2 8 (2.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (2.02%) Unix
4 6 (1.73%) Windows
5 5 (1.45%) CentOS
5 5 (1.45%) Debian
5 5 (1.45%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 230 (66.47%) CI/CD
2 176 (50.87%) DevOps
3 139 (40.17%) Agile
3 139 (40.17%) Infrastructure as Code
4 92 (26.59%) Software Engineering
5 82 (23.70%) Problem-Solving
6 75 (21.68%) Containerisation
7 74 (21.39%) Full-Stack Development
7 74 (21.39%) Microservices
8 72 (20.81%) Mentoring
9 52 (15.03%) Observability
10 48 (13.87%) Data Pipeline
11 46 (13.29%) Continuous Integration
12 45 (13.01%) Continuous Improvement
13 44 (12.72%) DevSecOps
14 41 (11.85%) Scrum
15 38 (10.98%) AI
16 37 (10.69%) Analytics
16 37 (10.69%) Test Automation
17 35 (10.12%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 175 (50.58%) Python
2 111 (32.08%) TypeScript
3 104 (30.06%) SQL
4 100 (28.90%) Java
5 76 (21.97%) JavaScript
6 50 (14.45%) Bash
7 31 (8.96%) Groovy
8 29 (8.38%) Go
9 18 (5.20%) Kotlin
10 13 (3.76%) Rust
11 9 (2.60%) C#
12 8 (2.31%) PowerShell
13 7 (2.02%) PHP
14 6 (1.73%) Scala
15 3 (0.87%) C++
16 2 (0.58%) R
17 1 (0.29%) C
Qualifications
1 73 (21.10%) AWS Certification
2 49 (14.16%) Degree
3 44 (12.72%) Security Cleared
4 27 (7.80%) SC Cleared
5 22 (6.36%) AWS Certified Developer
6 20 (5.78%) Computer Science Degree
7 19 (5.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 19 (5.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 18 (5.20%) ITIL Certification
9 15 (4.34%) DV Cleared
10 14 (4.05%) OSCP
11 5 (1.45%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 3 (0.87%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 3 (0.87%) IIBA
12 3 (0.87%) Master's Degree
13 2 (0.58%) PhD
13 2 (0.58%) SnowPro
14 1 (0.29%) Azure Certification
14 1 (0.29%) GCIH
14 1 (0.29%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (8.67%) QA
2 23 (6.65%) Data Quality
3 8 (2.31%) GDPR
4 5 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.58%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.58%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.58%) SLA
6 1 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.29%) MiFID
6 1 (0.29%) NIST
6 1 (0.29%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.29%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 127 (36.71%) Docker
2 4 (1.16%) HDFS
2 4 (1.16%) iptables
3 2 (0.58%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 122 (35.26%) Terraform
2 86 (24.86%) Kubernetes
3 32 (9.25%) HP Fortify
4 26 (7.51%) Ansible
5 25 (7.23%) Prometheus
6 16 (4.62%) Grafana
7 9 (2.60%) Puppet
8 5 (1.45%) Progress Chef
9 4 (1.16%) Kibana
10 3 (0.87%) Kubeflow
11 1 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (3.76%) Databricks
2 10 (2.89%) Oracle
3 7 (2.02%) Atlassian
3 7 (2.02%) Google
3 7 (2.02%) Red Hat
4 5 (1.45%) Salesforce
4 5 (1.45%) SaltStack
5 4 (1.16%) Microsoft
6 3 (0.87%) IBM
7 1 (0.29%) Apple
7 1 (0.29%) Cisco
7 1 (0.29%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.29%) Informatica
7 1 (0.29%) New Relic
7 1 (0.29%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.29%) YouTube