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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 345 291 373
Rank change year-on-year -54 +82 -22
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 408 408 589
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.49% 1.07% 0.68%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.67% 3.15% 1.97%
Number of salaries quoted 279 324 461
10th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.45% +3.33% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £99,063 £96,250
90th Percentile £108,000 £115,875 £115,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £76,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -8.50% +5.52% -

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 24,465 12,960 29,862
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 29.50% 34.13% 34.56%
Number of salaries quoted 14,278 9,113 24,257
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,250 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.73% +4.78% -11.54%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -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 27 May 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 27 May 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 -72 152 £82,500 -8.33% 72
North of England +53 145 £72,500 +11.54% 32
Yorkshire +35 109 £72,500 +20.83% 11
Midlands -10 49 £55,000 +29.41% 16
East Midlands -5 35 £55,000 - 7
North West -7 33 £75,000 - 16
South West -55 32 £63,750 +6.25% 22
South East -16 25 £82,500 +50.00% 18
West Midlands -43 14 £50,000 +17.65% 9
East of England -50 4 £62,500 -26.47% 4
North East -39 3 £52,130 -16.59% 5
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 25 (6.13%) Apache
2 21 (5.15%) Apache Spark
3 19 (4.66%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.47%) Confluence
5 3 (0.74%) JBoss
6 2 (0.49%) Oracle Application Server
7 1 (0.25%) CMS
7 1 (0.25%) IIS
7 1 (0.25%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (1.47%) Spreadsheet
2 4 (0.98%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 408 (100.00%) Serverless
2 407 (99.75%) AWS
3 293 (71.81%) Amazon S3
4 170 (41.67%) AWS CloudFormation
5 129 (31.62%) Amazon ECS
6 119 (29.17%) AWS Step Functions
7 96 (23.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 89 (21.81%) Amazon EC2
8 89 (21.81%) Amazon SQS
9 80 (19.61%) GitHub
10 63 (15.44%) GitHub Actions
11 51 (12.50%) Amazon ECR
12 48 (11.76%) Datadog
13 47 (11.52%) Apigee
14 44 (10.78%) Amazon EKS
15 42 (10.29%) Amazon EventBridge
16 38 (9.31%) Azure
17 33 (8.09%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 30 (7.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 27 (6.62%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.19%) DSL
2 11 (2.70%) Firewall
3 9 (2.21%) AMQP
4 6 (1.47%) Network Security
5 4 (0.98%) VPN
6 3 (0.74%) Broadband
6 3 (0.74%) DNS
6 3 (0.74%) IPv4
6 3 (0.74%) Software-Defined Networking
7 2 (0.49%) 4G
7 2 (0.49%) 5G
8 1 (0.25%) PSTN
8 1 (0.25%) SSL
8 1 (0.25%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 177 (43.38%) DynamoDB
2 81 (19.85%) Amazon RDS
3 63 (15.44%) NoSQL
4 42 (10.29%) Amazon Athena
4 42 (10.29%) Amazon Redshift
5 22 (5.39%) Data Warehouse
5 22 (5.39%) PostgreSQL
6 16 (3.92%) SQL Server
7 12 (2.94%) Big Data
7 12 (2.94%) Relational Database
8 10 (2.45%) MySQL
9 8 (1.96%) Data Lake
10 7 (1.72%) Metadata
10 7 (1.72%) Power BI
10 7 (1.72%) Snowflake Schema
11 6 (1.47%) Amazon Aurora
11 6 (1.47%) Apache Iceberg
12 5 (1.23%) Cloudera CDH
12 5 (1.23%) Hadoop
13 4 (0.98%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 132 (32.35%) Jenkins
2 89 (21.81%) GitLab
3 85 (20.83%) Git
4 43 (10.54%) Maven
5 41 (10.05%) SonarQube
6 40 (9.80%) Cypress.io
7 18 (4.41%) CircleCI
8 16 (3.92%) JIRA
9 9 (2.21%) Bitbucket
9 9 (2.21%) Cucumber
10 5 (1.23%) Gradle
10 5 (1.23%) Postman
11 4 (0.98%) Artifactory
11 4 (0.98%) Claude Code
11 4 (0.98%) MLflow
11 4 (0.98%) Selenium
11 4 (0.98%) SpecFlow
11 4 (0.98%) TeamCity
12 3 (0.74%) ESLint
12 3 (0.74%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 98 (24.02%) Social Skills
2 53 (12.99%) Finance
3 37 (9.07%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (7.60%) Public Sector
5 23 (5.64%) Banking
6 12 (2.94%) Health Technology
7 11 (2.70%) Advertising
8 9 (2.21%) Publishing
9 8 (1.96%) Tech for Good
10 7 (1.72%) Aerospace
10 7 (1.72%) Billing
11 6 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (1.23%) Investment Banking
13 4 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 3 (0.74%) Law
14 3 (0.74%) Legal
14 3 (0.74%) Marketing
14 3 (0.74%) Military
14 3 (0.74%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 184 (45.10%) Developer
2 111 (27.21%) Senior
3 76 (18.63%) Java Developer
4 59 (14.46%) Senior Developer
5 58 (14.22%) AWS Developer
6 48 (11.76%) Lead
7 44 (10.78%) Full-Stack Developer
8 40 (9.80%) AWS Engineer
9 36 (8.82%) Data Engineer
10 32 (7.84%) Software Engineer
11 30 (7.35%) DevOps Engineer
12 24 (5.88%) Lead Developer
12 24 (5.88%) React Developer
13 22 (5.39%) Architect
14 21 (5.15%) Python Developer
15 20 (4.90%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 18 (4.41%) AWS Architect
16 18 (4.41%) AWS Data Engineer
16 18 (4.41%) Cloud Engineer
16 18 (4.41%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 124 (30.39%) Node.js
2 102 (25.00%) React
3 90 (22.06%) AngularJS
4 76 (18.63%) Spring Boot
5 55 (13.48%) RESTful
6 50 (12.25%) Spring
7 43 (10.54%) AWS CDK
8 41 (10.05%) Gherkin
9 39 (9.56%) Kafka
10 37 (9.07%) Jest
11 36 (8.82%) REST
12 32 (7.84%) RabbitMQ
13 24 (5.88%) JSON
14 22 (5.39%) gRPC
14 22 (5.39%) YAML
15 21 (5.15%) HTML
16 20 (4.90%) .NET
17 18 (4.41%) web3js
18 17 (4.17%) CSS
19 15 (3.68%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 89 (21.81%) Cloud Native
2 24 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (4.41%) Blockchain
3 18 (4.41%) Web3
4 15 (3.68%) Greenfield Project
5 8 (1.96%) Product Ownership
6 7 (1.72%) Data Structures
7 6 (1.47%) Public Cloud
8 5 (1.23%) Linux Command Line
8 5 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (0.98%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (0.98%) IoT
9 4 (0.98%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (0.98%) NHS
10 3 (0.74%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (0.74%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (0.49%) Algorithms
11 2 (0.49%) Onboarding
11 2 (0.49%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 38 (9.31%) Linux
2 8 (1.96%) Windows
3 7 (1.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.23%) CentOS
4 5 (1.23%) Debian
4 5 (1.23%) Ubuntu
5 3 (0.74%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 256 (62.75%) CI/CD
2 198 (48.53%) DevOps
3 168 (41.18%) Infrastructure as Code
4 150 (36.76%) Agile
5 90 (22.06%) Containerisation
6 86 (21.08%) Full-Stack Development
6 86 (21.08%) Software Engineering
7 79 (19.36%) Microservices
8 77 (18.87%) Mentoring
9 71 (17.40%) Problem-Solving
10 69 (16.91%) Test Automation
11 59 (14.46%) Observability
12 57 (13.97%) Event-Driven
13 53 (12.99%) AI
13 53 (12.99%) Continuous Integration
14 50 (12.25%) DevSecOps
15 49 (12.01%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 48 (11.76%) Analytics
17 41 (10.05%) Continuous Improvement
18 39 (9.56%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 199 (48.77%) Python
2 136 (33.33%) TypeScript
3 125 (30.64%) SQL
4 115 (28.19%) Java
5 66 (16.18%) Bash
6 65 (15.93%) JavaScript
7 49 (12.01%) Groovy
8 33 (8.09%) Go
8 33 (8.09%) Kotlin
9 17 (4.17%) PowerShell
10 13 (3.19%) Rust
11 12 (2.94%) C#
12 10 (2.45%) PHP
13 4 (0.98%) Perl
13 4 (0.98%) Scala
14 2 (0.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.49%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.49%) R
14 2 (0.49%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 67 (16.42%) Security Cleared
2 66 (16.18%) AWS Certification
3 49 (12.01%) SC Cleared
4 40 (9.80%) Degree
5 28 (6.86%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 24 (5.88%) ITIL Certification
7 20 (4.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 17 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
8 17 (4.17%) DV Cleared
9 16 (3.92%) AWS Certified Developer
9 16 (3.92%) OSCP
10 5 (1.23%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 4 (0.98%) RHCE
12 3 (0.74%) CCNA
12 3 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (0.74%) IIBA
12 3 (0.74%) ISTQB
12 3 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.74%) PhD
12 3 (0.74%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (5.64%) QA
2 22 (5.39%) Data Quality
3 6 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.74%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.74%) GDPR
4 3 (0.74%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.25%) MiFID
5 1 (0.25%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.25%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 159 (38.97%) Docker
2 4 (0.98%) iptables
3 3 (0.74%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.74%) Firmware
3 3 (0.74%) Squid
3 3 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.74%) VMware NSX
3 3 (0.74%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 162 (39.71%) Terraform
2 86 (21.08%) Kubernetes
3 45 (11.03%) Ansible
4 38 (9.31%) Prometheus
5 35 (8.58%) HP Fortify
6 25 (6.13%) Grafana
7 9 (2.21%) Packer
7 9 (2.21%) Puppet
8 5 (1.23%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.74%) Kibana
9 3 (0.74%) Scalr
9 3 (0.74%) ZABBIX
10 2 (0.49%) Argo
11 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 11 (2.70%) Databricks
1 11 (2.70%) Oracle
2 10 (2.45%) Red Hat
3 7 (1.72%) AppDynamics
3 7 (1.72%) HubSpot
4 6 (1.47%) IBM
4 6 (1.47%) Salesforce
4 6 (1.47%) Splunk
5 5 (1.23%) Google
5 5 (1.23%) SaltStack
6 4 (0.98%) Microsoft
7 3 (0.74%) VMware
8 2 (0.49%) Atlassian
8 2 (0.49%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.25%) Apple
9 1 (0.25%) Informatica
9 1 (0.25%) New Relic
9 1 (0.25%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 1 (0.25%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.25%) SnapLogic