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

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 323 213 340
Rank change year-on-year -110 +127 +1
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 322 705 459
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.59% 1.47% 0.79%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.69% 4.03% 2.01%
Number of salaries quoted 225 320 392
10th Percentile £52,500 £54,875 £48,875
25th Percentile £58,750 £66,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £90,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.44% +28.57% -15.15%
75th Percentile £87,500 £115,000 £89,063
90th Percentile £107,500 £138,750 £112,500
UK median annual salary £71,000 £85,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -16.47% +21.43% -12.50%

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 19,000 17,497 22,871
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 34.54% 36.61% 39.37%
Number of salaries quoted 10,591 10,367 19,333
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £47,500 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £98,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%

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 January 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 January 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 -121 153 £77,500 -21.52% 66
North of England +62 84 £65,000 -4.94% 68
Yorkshire +36 67 £65,000 +8.33% 37
Midlands +27 34 £55,000 - 49
South West +12 28 £62,500 -7.41% 49
East Midlands +8 19 £60,000 -14.29% 28
North West +16 17 £65,000 -6.14% 22
West Midlands +37 15 £50,000 +8.11% 20
South East -92 12 £67,500 +17.39% 96
East of England -18 3 £100,000 +37.93% 59
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 32 (9.94%) Apache Spark
2 25 (7.76%) Apache
3 12 (3.73%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (2.80%) WebSphere
5 7 (2.17%) Tomcat
6 6 (1.86%) WebSphere Application Server
7 3 (0.93%) Confluence
8 2 (0.62%) nginx
8 2 (0.62%) Oracle Application Server
9 1 (0.31%) JBoss
9 1 (0.31%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.31%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (1.86%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 322 (100.00%) AWS
1 322 (100.00%) Serverless
2 224 (69.57%) Amazon S3
3 115 (35.71%) AWS CloudFormation
4 82 (25.47%) AWS Step Functions
5 71 (22.05%) Amazon ECS
6 65 (20.19%) Amazon EC2
7 64 (19.88%) Amazon SQS
7 64 (19.88%) GitHub
8 59 (18.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 53 (16.46%) Amazon EKS
10 45 (13.98%) Azure
11 44 (13.66%) GitHub Actions
12 32 (9.94%) Amazon ECR
13 28 (8.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 24 (7.45%) Amazon EventBridge
14 24 (7.45%) Apigee
15 22 (6.83%) GCP
16 20 (6.21%) SaaS
17 19 (5.90%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.73%) AMQP
2 7 (2.17%) SSL
3 6 (1.86%) DSL
4 4 (1.24%) Broadband
4 4 (1.24%) Firewall
5 2 (0.62%) DNS
5 2 (0.62%) Network Security
5 2 (0.62%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.62%) VPN
6 1 (0.31%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (33.85%) DynamoDB
2 74 (22.98%) Amazon RDS
3 50 (15.53%) Amazon Redshift
4 45 (13.98%) NoSQL
5 43 (13.35%) Data Warehouse
6 38 (11.80%) PostgreSQL
7 22 (6.83%) SQL Server
8 21 (6.52%) Data Lake
9 20 (6.21%) Amazon Athena
9 20 (6.21%) Big Data
10 16 (4.97%) MongoDB
11 14 (4.35%) Elasticsearch
11 14 (4.35%) Hadoop
12 11 (3.42%) Apache Iceberg
13 10 (3.11%) Relational Database
14 8 (2.48%) Apache Hive
14 8 (2.48%) DB2
14 8 (2.48%) MySQL
15 5 (1.55%) Amazon Aurora
15 5 (1.55%) Cloudera CDH
Development Applications
1 73 (22.67%) Jenkins
2 52 (16.15%) GitLab
3 49 (15.22%) Git
4 29 (9.01%) Cypress.io
5 23 (7.14%) Maven
6 22 (6.83%) SonarQube
7 12 (3.73%) Bitbucket
8 10 (3.11%) JIRA
9 7 (2.17%) MLflow
10 6 (1.86%) CircleCI
11 5 (1.55%) git-flow
11 5 (1.55%) Vite
12 3 (0.93%) ESLint
12 3 (0.93%) JUnit
13 2 (0.62%) DBeaver
13 2 (0.62%) Deequ
13 2 (0.62%) ER Studio
13 2 (0.62%) Mocha
13 2 (0.62%) webpack
14 1 (0.31%) Zephyr
General
1 88 (27.33%) Social Skills
2 52 (16.15%) Finance
3 27 (8.39%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (7.76%) Tech for Good
5 22 (6.83%) Health Technology
5 22 (6.83%) Publishing
6 15 (4.66%) Influencing Skills
7 14 (4.35%) Banking
7 14 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
8 11 (3.42%) Public Sector
9 9 (2.80%) Financial Institution
10 8 (2.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (2.17%) Advertising
12 4 (1.24%) Aerospace
12 4 (1.24%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.93%) Billing
14 2 (0.62%) Games
14 2 (0.62%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.62%) Law
Job Titles
1 120 (37.27%) Developer
2 79 (24.53%) Senior
3 57 (17.70%) AWS Developer
4 49 (15.22%) Lead
5 39 (12.11%) Software Engineer
6 38 (11.80%) AWS Engineer
7 37 (11.49%) Data Engineer
8 34 (10.56%) Senior Developer
9 32 (9.94%) Python Developer
10 31 (9.63%) React Developer
11 28 (8.70%) Java Developer
11 28 (8.70%) Lead Developer
12 22 (6.83%) AWS Data Engineer
13 21 (6.52%) Full-Stack Developer
13 21 (6.52%) Software Developer
14 18 (5.59%) Architect
15 17 (5.28%) Lead Python Developer
15 17 (5.28%) Senior Data Engineer
16 16 (4.97%) DevOps Engineer
16 16 (4.97%) Node.js Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (32.30%) React
2 83 (25.78%) Node.js
3 58 (18.01%) Spring Boot
4 55 (17.08%) RESTful
5 48 (14.91%) Spring
6 46 (14.29%) AngularJS
7 43 (13.35%) AWS CDK
8 29 (9.01%) Jest
8 29 (9.01%) Kafka
9 26 (8.07%) RabbitMQ
10 25 (7.76%) HTML
11 22 (6.83%) Gherkin
12 20 (6.21%) .NET
13 19 (5.90%) CSS
14 16 (4.97%) Swagger
15 15 (4.66%) gRPC
16 14 (4.35%) .NET Core
17 13 (4.04%) ASP.NET
17 13 (4.04%) ASP.NET Core
17 13 (4.04%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 98 (30.43%) Cloud Native
2 18 (5.59%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (3.42%) Greenfield Project
4 9 (2.80%) Product Ownership
5 8 (2.48%) e-Learning
5 8 (2.48%) Linux Command Line
5 8 (2.48%) Virtual Team
6 7 (2.17%) Security Posture
7 6 (1.86%) Blockchain
7 6 (1.86%) Data Structures
7 6 (1.86%) Onboarding
7 6 (1.86%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (1.86%) Web3
8 5 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (0.93%) Animation
9 3 (0.93%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (0.93%) Life Science
9 3 (0.93%) Management Information System
9 3 (0.93%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 32 (9.94%) Linux
2 13 (4.04%) Unix
3 12 (3.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (2.48%) Windows
5 5 (1.55%) CentOS
5 5 (1.55%) Debian
5 5 (1.55%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.31%) Android
6 1 (0.31%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 205 (63.66%) CI/CD
2 153 (47.52%) DevOps
3 131 (40.68%) Agile
4 121 (37.58%) Infrastructure as Code
5 88 (27.33%) Software Engineering
6 72 (22.36%) Problem-Solving
7 71 (22.05%) Mentoring
8 68 (21.12%) Microservices
9 67 (20.81%) Full-Stack Development
10 58 (18.01%) Containerisation
11 53 (16.46%) Scrum
12 47 (14.60%) Data Pipeline
13 46 (14.29%) Observability
14 45 (13.98%) Continuous Improvement
15 39 (12.11%) Continuous Integration
16 38 (11.80%) AI
17 36 (11.18%) Data Modelling
18 34 (10.56%) Data Engineering
19 33 (10.25%) Analytics
19 33 (10.25%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 170 (52.80%) Python
2 109 (33.85%) TypeScript
3 95 (29.50%) Java
4 89 (27.64%) SQL
5 73 (22.67%) JavaScript
6 37 (11.49%) Bash
7 21 (6.52%) Groovy
8 19 (5.90%) Go
9 12 (3.73%) Scala
10 9 (2.80%) C#
11 8 (2.48%) Kotlin
12 7 (2.17%) PowerShell
13 6 (1.86%) Rust
14 3 (0.93%) C++
15 2 (0.62%) C
15 2 (0.62%) PHP
15 2 (0.62%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 82 (25.47%) AWS Certification
2 46 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 44 (13.66%) Degree
4 30 (9.32%) SC Cleared
5 26 (8.07%) AWS Certified Developer
6 23 (7.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 22 (6.83%) Computer Science Degree
8 17 (5.28%) DV Cleared
9 15 (4.66%) ITIL Certification
10 13 (4.04%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 7 (2.17%) OSCP
12 5 (1.55%) SnowPro
13 4 (1.24%) Master's Degree
13 4 (1.24%) MCP
14 3 (0.93%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 3 (0.93%) IIBA
15 1 (0.31%) Azure Certification
15 1 (0.31%) GCIH
15 1 (0.31%) GIAC
15 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (12.42%) QA
2 20 (6.21%) Data Quality
3 14 (4.35%) GDPR
4 6 (1.86%) Accessibility
4 6 (1.86%) SLA
5 5 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.93%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.93%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.31%) GAAP
7 1 (0.31%) IFRS
7 1 (0.31%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.31%) MiFID
7 1 (0.31%) NIST
7 1 (0.31%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 98 (30.43%) Docker
2 8 (2.48%) HDFS
3 2 (0.62%) iptables
4 1 (0.31%) vCloud
4 1 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.31%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.31%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 105 (32.61%) Terraform
2 73 (22.67%) Kubernetes
3 22 (6.83%) Ansible
3 22 (6.83%) HP Fortify
3 22 (6.83%) Prometheus
4 17 (5.28%) Grafana
5 7 (2.17%) Puppet
6 6 (1.86%) Progress Chef
7 3 (0.93%) Kibana
7 3 (0.93%) Kubeflow
8 2 (0.62%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (4.66%) Databricks
2 12 (3.73%) Oracle
3 11 (3.42%) Red Hat
4 9 (2.80%) Atlassian
4 9 (2.80%) IBM
5 8 (2.48%) Google
6 5 (1.55%) Salesforce
6 5 (1.55%) SaltStack
7 4 (1.24%) Microsoft
7 4 (1.24%) OpenAI
8 2 (0.62%) Informatica
9 1 (0.31%) Apple
9 1 (0.31%) Cisco
9 1 (0.31%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.31%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.31%) StreamSets
9 1 (0.31%) VMware
9 1 (0.31%) YouTube