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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 378 346 378
Rank change year-on-year -32 +32 -26
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 463 332 423
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.45% 0.78% 0.63%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.89% 2.39% 1.98%
Number of salaries quoted 275 237 216
10th Percentile £46,217 £51,400 £52,500
25th Percentile £54,375 £60,000 £62,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £74,000 £75,750
Median % change year-on-year -2.03% -2.31% +4.48%
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £96,563
90th Percentile £106,500 £100,000 £113,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £74,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.04% -0.67% +7.14%

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 24,558 13,902 21,367
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 23.88% 32.47% 31.89%
Number of salaries quoted 17,085 9,707 13,693
10th Percentile £31,750 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £39,353 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,169 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.95% -7.69% +0.78%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £84,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -

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 23 September 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 23 September 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
North of England +64 193 £72,500 +11.54% 71
London -70 169 £80,000 +6.67% 217
Yorkshire +21 87 £80,000 +23.08% 21
North West +10 70 £70,000 +7.69% 43
North East -34 36 £67,500 -6.90% 7
South East -27 35 £67,500 -15.63% 34
South West -69 33 £62,500 -20.63% 44
Midlands -47 29 £65,000 +36.84% 25
East Midlands - 19 £65,000 - 13
West Midlands -49 10 £62,500 +31.58% 12
East of England -64 1 £80,000 -5.88% 17
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 (5.62%) Apache Spark
2 21 (4.54%) Apache
3 14 (3.02%) Confluence
4 9 (1.94%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.65%) SAS
6 2 (0.43%) nginx
7 1 (0.22%) Camunda
7 1 (0.22%) IIS
7 1 (0.22%) JBoss
7 1 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.22%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.22%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.22%) WebLogic Portal
Applications
1 5 (1.08%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.22%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
1 1 (0.22%) Finacle
1 1 (0.22%) FLEXCUBE
1 1 (0.22%) Infor SunSystems
1 1 (0.22%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.22%) Oracle EBS R12
1 1 (0.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
1 1 (0.22%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 463 (100.00%) Serverless
2 461 (99.57%) AWS
3 301 (65.01%) Amazon S3
4 176 (38.01%) Amazon ECS
5 168 (36.29%) AWS CloudFormation
6 121 (26.13%) Amazon EC2
7 101 (21.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 95 (20.52%) AWS Step Functions
9 86 (18.57%) Amazon EKS
10 79 (17.06%) GitHub
11 77 (16.63%) Amazon SQS
12 61 (13.17%) Azure
13 57 (12.31%) GitHub Actions
14 53 (11.45%) Datadog
15 49 (10.58%) Amazon EventBridge
16 39 (8.42%) SaaS
17 38 (8.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 37 (7.99%) Amazon OpenSearch
19 35 (7.56%) Amazon ECR
20 28 (6.05%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 15 (3.24%) Network Security
2 10 (2.16%) Firewall
3 8 (1.73%) AMQP
4 4 (0.86%) IPv4
4 4 (0.86%) Software-Defined Networking
4 4 (0.86%) VPN
5 2 (0.43%) DNS
5 2 (0.43%) VoIP
6 1 (0.22%) 4G
6 1 (0.22%) 5G
6 1 (0.22%) DHCP
6 1 (0.22%) HTTP
6 1 (0.22%) PSTN
6 1 (0.22%) SSL
6 1 (0.22%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.22%) VLAN
6 1 (0.22%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 155 (33.48%) DynamoDB
2 99 (21.38%) Amazon RDS
3 53 (11.45%) Amazon Athena
3 53 (11.45%) NoSQL
4 47 (10.15%) Amazon Redshift
5 30 (6.48%) PostgreSQL
6 27 (5.83%) Data Warehouse
7 21 (4.54%) Relational Database
8 18 (3.89%) Spark SQL
9 17 (3.67%) SQL Server
10 16 (3.46%) Data Lake
11 14 (3.02%) Big Data
11 14 (3.02%) Elasticsearch
11 14 (3.02%) MongoDB
12 13 (2.81%) Amazon Aurora
12 13 (2.81%) Metadata
13 11 (2.38%) MySQL
14 10 (2.16%) Hadoop
15 9 (1.94%) Redis
16 8 (1.73%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 114 (24.62%) Git
2 97 (20.95%) Jenkins
3 57 (12.31%) GitLab
4 28 (6.05%) Cypress.io
5 26 (5.62%) Maven
6 25 (5.40%) JIRA
7 24 (5.18%) SonarQube
8 12 (2.59%) Bitbucket
9 11 (2.38%) TeamCity
10 10 (2.16%) Cucumber
10 10 (2.16%) Postman
11 8 (1.73%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 8 (1.73%) Claude Code
12 7 (1.51%) CircleCI
13 6 (1.30%) Gradle
14 5 (1.08%) JMeter
15 4 (0.86%) Artifactory
15 4 (0.86%) Selenium
16 3 (0.65%) JUnit
16 3 (0.65%) Mockito
General
1 98 (21.17%) Finance
1 98 (21.17%) Social Skills
2 71 (15.33%) Public Sector
3 53 (11.45%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (8.86%) Banking
5 27 (5.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 27 (5.83%) Law
6 17 (3.67%) Marketing
7 13 (2.81%) Aviation
7 13 (2.81%) Retail
8 12 (2.59%) Aerospace
9 11 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
9 11 (2.38%) Telecoms
10 8 (1.73%) Health Technology
11 7 (1.51%) Billing
12 6 (1.30%) Advertising
13 5 (1.08%) Front Office
13 5 (1.08%) Legal
13 5 (1.08%) Military
14 4 (0.86%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 146 (31.53%) Developer
2 132 (28.51%) Senior
3 64 (13.82%) AWS Engineer
4 62 (13.39%) Data Engineer
5 61 (13.17%) Java Developer
6 56 (12.10%) Full-Stack Developer
6 56 (12.10%) Lead
7 51 (11.02%) Senior Developer
8 41 (8.86%) DevOps Engineer
9 39 (8.42%) AWS Developer
10 37 (7.99%) Software Engineer
11 20 (4.32%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 20 (4.32%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
12 19 (4.10%) Cloud Engineer
12 19 (4.10%) Platform Engineer
13 18 (3.89%) Architect
13 18 (3.89%) Consultant
13 18 (3.89%) Senior Consultant
14 16 (3.46%) AWS Data Engineer
15 15 (3.24%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 199 (42.98%) Terraform
2 118 (25.49%) Node.js
3 92 (19.87%) AngularJS
4 79 (17.06%) React
5 68 (14.69%) Spring Boot
6 57 (12.31%) Spring
7 52 (11.23%) REST
8 50 (10.80%) RESTful
9 45 (9.72%) .NET
9 45 (9.72%) Kafka
10 43 (9.29%) AWS CDK
11 38 (8.21%) PySpark
12 31 (6.70%) Gherkin
13 30 (6.48%) Jest
13 30 (6.48%) Swagger
14 25 (5.40%) JSON
15 24 (5.18%) OpenAPI
16 23 (4.97%) RabbitMQ
17 18 (3.89%) YAML
18 16 (3.46%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 123 (26.57%) Cloud Native
2 40 (8.64%) Distributed Systems
3 30 (6.48%) Hybrid Cloud
4 28 (6.05%) Onboarding
5 18 (3.89%) Enterprise Cloud
5 18 (3.89%) Product Ownership
6 15 (3.24%) Linux Command Line
7 14 (3.02%) Greenfield Project
8 11 (2.38%) Mobile Banking
9 10 (2.16%) AI Agents
10 7 (1.51%) Data Structures
10 7 (1.51%) Low-Code
10 7 (1.51%) NHS
11 6 (1.30%) Blockchain
11 6 (1.30%) Blog
11 6 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (1.30%) Public Cloud
11 6 (1.30%) Replication
11 6 (1.30%) Web3
12 5 (1.08%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 44 (9.50%) Linux
2 12 (2.59%) Windows
3 9 (1.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (1.51%) CentOS
4 7 (1.51%) Debian
4 7 (1.51%) Ubuntu
5 5 (1.08%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 285 (61.56%) CI/CD
2 191 (41.25%) DevOps
3 188 (40.60%) Agile
4 182 (39.31%) Infrastructure as Code
5 135 (29.16%) Mentoring
6 117 (25.27%) AI
7 110 (23.76%) Software Engineering
8 106 (22.89%) Microservices
9 102 (22.03%) Full-Stack Development
10 95 (20.52%) Observability
11 90 (19.44%) Problem-Solving
12 80 (17.28%) Continuous Improvement
12 80 (17.28%) Event-Driven
13 78 (16.85%) Analytics
14 76 (16.41%) Test Automation
15 71 (15.33%) Containerisation
15 71 (15.33%) Decision-Making
16 68 (14.69%) ETL
17 64 (13.82%) Data Engineering
18 56 (12.10%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 237 (51.19%) Python
2 156 (33.69%) SQL
3 144 (31.10%) Java
4 134 (28.94%) TypeScript
5 81 (17.49%) Bash
6 70 (15.12%) JavaScript
7 44 (9.50%) C#
8 40 (8.64%) Groovy
9 33 (7.13%) Kotlin
10 19 (4.10%) Ruby
11 18 (3.89%) C++
11 18 (3.89%) Perl
12 17 (3.67%) PHP
12 17 (3.67%) PowerShell
13 10 (2.16%) Go
13 10 (2.16%) Scala
14 5 (1.08%) Shell Script
15 3 (0.65%) PL/SQL
16 2 (0.43%) Rust
17 1 (0.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 116 (25.05%) Security Cleared
2 80 (17.28%) SC Cleared
3 67 (14.47%) AWS Certification
4 33 (7.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 31 (6.70%) DV Cleared
6 17 (3.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 15 (3.24%) ITIL Certification
8 13 (2.81%) Degree
9 9 (1.94%) AWS Certified Developer
10 8 (1.73%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (1.08%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 5 (1.08%) Master's Degree
11 5 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (1.08%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 5 (1.08%) RHCE
12 4 (0.86%) CCNA
12 4 (0.86%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (0.86%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.86%) OSCP
12 4 (0.86%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (11.66%) Data Quality
2 30 (6.48%) QA
3 14 (3.02%) Accessibility
3 14 (3.02%) GDPR
4 5 (1.08%) HIPAA
5 4 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 160 (34.56%) Docker
2 6 (1.30%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.86%) Squid
3 4 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.86%) VMware NSX
3 4 (0.86%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 77 (16.63%) Kubernetes
2 43 (9.29%) Ansible
3 33 (7.13%) Prometheus
4 31 (6.70%) Grafana
5 17 (3.67%) HP Fortify
5 17 (3.67%) Packer
6 9 (1.94%) Puppet
7 6 (1.30%) Rancher
8 5 (1.08%) Argo
9 4 (0.86%) Kibana
9 4 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.86%) ZABBIX
10 2 (0.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.22%) Fluentd
11 1 (0.22%) logstash
11 1 (0.22%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 1 (0.22%) Oracle RMAN
11 1 (0.22%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Satellite
11 1 (0.22%) Scalr
Vendors
1 25 (5.40%) Databricks
2 16 (3.46%) Red Hat
3 15 (3.24%) Dynatrace
3 15 (3.24%) Oracle
4 14 (3.02%) Splunk
5 13 (2.81%) OpenAI
6 12 (2.59%) Google
7 10 (2.16%) Microsoft
8 8 (1.73%) Salesforce
9 7 (1.51%) AppDynamics
9 7 (1.51%) Avaya
9 7 (1.51%) Cisco
9 7 (1.51%) Genesys
9 7 (1.51%) HubSpot
9 7 (1.51%) SaltStack
9 7 (1.51%) ServiceNow
10 6 (1.30%) IBM
11 5 (1.08%) Confluent
11 5 (1.08%) SnapLogic
12 4 (0.86%) VMware