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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 372 333 389
Rank change year-on-year -39 +56 -38
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 459 343 406
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.46% 0.79% 0.59%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.87% 2.42% 1.85%
Number of salaries quoted 277 246 223
10th Percentile £46,217 £51,250 £51,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £61,438 £62,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £96,250
90th Percentile £108,750 £100,000 £107,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% - +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 24,606 14,182 21,945
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 24.67% 32.61% 31.81%
Number of salaries quoted 17,114 9,890 14,599
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,500 £39,408 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £83,750
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 10 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 10 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 +64 186 £72,500 +11.54% 27
London -74 168 £85,000 +13.33% 123
Yorkshire +12 84 £80,000 +13.48% 10
North West +24 67 £70,000 +7.69% 14
South East 0 35 £67,500 -18.18% 17
North East -25 35 £65,000 -10.34% 3
South West -76 34 £66,250 -22.06% 22
Midlands -35 30 £65,000 +52.94% 11
East Midlands -5 20 £65,000 +73.33% 9
West Midlands -38 10 £62,500 +47.06% 2
East of England -54 2 £77,500 -8.82% 8
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 (5.45%) Apache Spark
2 21 (4.58%) Apache
3 14 (3.05%) Confluence
4 10 (2.18%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.65%) SAS
6 2 (0.44%) nginx
7 1 (0.22%) CMS
7 1 (0.22%) IIS
7 1 (0.22%) JBoss
7 1 (0.22%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (1.31%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.22%) Finacle
1 1 (0.22%) FLEXCUBE
1 1 (0.22%) Infor SunSystems
1 1 (0.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
1 1 (0.22%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 459 (100.00%) Serverless
2 456 (99.35%) AWS
3 299 (65.14%) Amazon S3
4 175 (38.13%) Amazon ECS
5 171 (37.25%) AWS CloudFormation
6 118 (25.71%) Amazon EC2
7 97 (21.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 92 (20.04%) AWS Step Functions
9 79 (17.21%) Amazon SQS
10 78 (16.99%) Amazon EKS
11 75 (16.34%) GitHub
12 60 (13.07%) Azure
13 57 (12.42%) Datadog
14 52 (11.33%) GitHub Actions
15 49 (10.68%) Amazon EventBridge
16 41 (8.93%) SaaS
16 41 (8.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 37 (8.06%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 35 (7.63%) Amazon ECR
19 29 (6.32%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 15 (3.27%) Network Security
2 12 (2.61%) Firewall
3 7 (1.53%) AMQP
4 6 (1.31%) VPN
5 4 (0.87%) DNS
5 4 (0.87%) IPv4
5 4 (0.87%) Software-Defined Networking
6 2 (0.44%) VoIP
7 1 (0.22%) 4G
7 1 (0.22%) 5G
7 1 (0.22%) Broadband
7 1 (0.22%) DHCP
7 1 (0.22%) HTTP
7 1 (0.22%) PSTN
7 1 (0.22%) SSL
7 1 (0.22%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.22%) VLAN
7 1 (0.22%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 160 (34.86%) DynamoDB
2 95 (20.70%) Amazon RDS
3 52 (11.33%) NoSQL
4 50 (10.89%) Amazon Athena
5 45 (9.80%) Amazon Redshift
6 27 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
7 26 (5.66%) Data Warehouse
8 19 (4.14%) Relational Database
8 19 (4.14%) SQL Server
9 18 (3.92%) Spark SQL
10 14 (3.05%) Big Data
10 14 (3.05%) Elasticsearch
11 13 (2.83%) Metadata
11 13 (2.83%) MongoDB
12 12 (2.61%) Data Lake
13 11 (2.40%) MySQL
14 10 (2.18%) Amazon Aurora
15 8 (1.74%) Hadoop
15 8 (1.74%) Power BI
16 7 (1.53%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 106 (23.09%) Git
2 90 (19.61%) Jenkins
3 52 (11.33%) GitLab
4 26 (5.66%) Maven
5 24 (5.23%) SonarQube
6 23 (5.01%) Cypress.io
7 22 (4.79%) JIRA
8 13 (2.83%) Bitbucket
9 12 (2.61%) TeamCity
10 10 (2.18%) Cucumber
11 8 (1.74%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 8 (1.74%) CircleCI
12 6 (1.31%) Claude Code
12 6 (1.31%) Gradle
12 6 (1.31%) Postman
13 4 (0.87%) Artifactory
13 4 (0.87%) Selenium
14 3 (0.65%) git-flow
14 3 (0.65%) Octopus Deploy
14 3 (0.65%) SpecFlow
General
1 101 (22.00%) Finance
2 99 (21.57%) Social Skills
3 67 (14.60%) Public Sector
4 52 (11.33%) Analytical Skills
5 41 (8.93%) Banking
6 27 (5.88%) Law
7 22 (4.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 17 (3.70%) Marketing
9 13 (2.83%) Aviation
9 13 (2.83%) Retail
10 11 (2.40%) Aerospace
10 11 (2.40%) Influencing Skills
10 11 (2.40%) Telecoms
11 8 (1.74%) Health Technology
12 7 (1.53%) Billing
12 7 (1.53%) Legal
13 6 (1.31%) Advertising
14 5 (1.09%) Front Office
14 5 (1.09%) Military
15 4 (0.87%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 150 (32.68%) Developer
2 137 (29.85%) Senior
3 62 (13.51%) Java Developer
4 59 (12.85%) Data Engineer
5 57 (12.42%) AWS Engineer
5 57 (12.42%) Lead
6 56 (12.20%) Senior Developer
7 55 (11.98%) Full-Stack Developer
8 39 (8.50%) AWS Developer
9 38 (8.28%) DevOps Engineer
10 35 (7.63%) Software Engineer
11 21 (4.58%) Cloud Engineer
11 21 (4.58%) Platform Engineer
12 20 (4.36%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
13 19 (4.14%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 18 (3.92%) Architect
14 18 (3.92%) Consultant
14 18 (3.92%) Senior Consultant
15 15 (3.27%) AWS Data Engineer
15 15 (3.27%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 196 (42.70%) Terraform
2 119 (25.93%) Node.js
3 89 (19.39%) AngularJS
4 80 (17.43%) React
5 67 (14.60%) Spring Boot
6 56 (12.20%) Spring
7 49 (10.68%) REST
8 45 (9.80%) RESTful
9 43 (9.37%) .NET
9 43 (9.37%) AWS CDK
10 40 (8.71%) Kafka
11 36 (7.84%) PySpark
12 29 (6.32%) Jest
12 29 (6.32%) Swagger
13 26 (5.66%) Gherkin
14 23 (5.01%) JSON
14 23 (5.01%) OpenAPI
14 23 (5.01%) RabbitMQ
15 20 (4.36%) YAML
16 18 (3.92%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 120 (26.14%) Cloud Native
2 37 (8.06%) Distributed Systems
3 30 (6.54%) Hybrid Cloud
4 27 (5.88%) Onboarding
5 18 (3.92%) Enterprise Cloud
6 17 (3.70%) Linux Command Line
7 16 (3.49%) Greenfield Project
8 12 (2.61%) Product Ownership
9 11 (2.40%) Mobile Banking
10 9 (1.96%) AI Agents
11 8 (1.74%) Data Structures
12 7 (1.53%) Blockchain
12 7 (1.53%) Low-Code
12 7 (1.53%) NHS
12 7 (1.53%) Web3
13 6 (1.31%) Blog
13 6 (1.31%) Public Cloud
14 5 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
14 5 (1.09%) IVR
15 4 (0.87%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 42 (9.15%) Linux
2 12 (2.61%) Windows
3 8 (1.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (1.31%) CentOS
4 6 (1.31%) Debian
4 6 (1.31%) Ubuntu
5 5 (1.09%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 276 (60.13%) CI/CD
2 187 (40.74%) DevOps
3 184 (40.09%) Agile
4 182 (39.65%) Infrastructure as Code
5 133 (28.98%) Mentoring
6 113 (24.62%) AI
7 106 (23.09%) Software Engineering
8 100 (21.79%) Full-Stack Development
8 100 (21.79%) Microservices
9 94 (20.48%) Observability
10 88 (19.17%) Problem-Solving
11 80 (17.43%) Event-Driven
12 78 (16.99%) Continuous Improvement
13 77 (16.78%) Analytics
14 73 (15.90%) Containerisation
15 68 (14.81%) Test Automation
16 67 (14.60%) Decision-Making
17 64 (13.94%) ETL
18 61 (13.29%) Data Engineering
19 56 (12.20%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 238 (51.85%) Python
2 149 (32.46%) SQL
3 140 (30.50%) Java
4 132 (28.76%) TypeScript
5 81 (17.65%) Bash
6 64 (13.94%) JavaScript
7 42 (9.15%) C#
8 36 (7.84%) Groovy
9 33 (7.19%) Kotlin
10 19 (4.14%) PowerShell
10 19 (4.14%) Ruby
11 18 (3.92%) C++
11 18 (3.92%) Perl
11 18 (3.92%) PHP
12 11 (2.40%) Go
13 10 (2.18%) Scala
14 5 (1.09%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 2 (0.44%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.44%) Rust
Qualifications
1 102 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 67 (14.60%) SC Cleared
3 66 (14.38%) AWS Certification
4 34 (7.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 30 (6.54%) DV Cleared
6 18 (3.92%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 15 (3.27%) Degree
7 15 (3.27%) ITIL Certification
8 9 (1.96%) AWS Certified Developer
9 8 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (1.31%) Master's Degree
11 5 (1.09%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 5 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (1.09%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 5 (1.09%) RHCE
12 4 (0.87%) CCNA
12 4 (0.87%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (0.87%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.87%) OSCP
12 4 (0.87%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (10.89%) Data Quality
2 26 (5.66%) QA
3 14 (3.05%) GDPR
4 13 (2.83%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.09%) HIPAA
5 5 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.22%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.22%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 157 (34.20%) Docker
2 6 (1.31%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.87%) Squid
3 4 (0.87%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.87%) VMware NSX
3 4 (0.87%) vSphere
4 1 (0.22%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 73 (15.90%) Kubernetes
2 44 (9.59%) Ansible
3 32 (6.97%) Grafana
3 32 (6.97%) Prometheus
4 17 (3.70%) HP Fortify
4 17 (3.70%) Packer
5 8 (1.74%) Puppet
6 5 (1.09%) Argo
7 4 (0.87%) Kibana
7 4 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (0.87%) ZABBIX
8 3 (0.65%) Scalr
9 2 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.44%) Rancher
10 1 (0.22%) Fluentd
10 1 (0.22%) logstash
10 1 (0.22%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 23 (5.01%) Databricks
2 15 (3.27%) Red Hat
3 14 (3.05%) Oracle
3 14 (3.05%) Splunk
4 12 (2.61%) OpenAI
5 11 (2.40%) Google
6 10 (2.18%) Dynatrace
6 10 (2.18%) Microsoft
7 8 (1.74%) Salesforce
8 7 (1.53%) AppDynamics
8 7 (1.53%) Avaya
8 7 (1.53%) Cisco
8 7 (1.53%) Genesys
8 7 (1.53%) HubSpot
9 6 (1.31%) IBM
9 6 (1.31%) SaltStack
10 4 (0.87%) Confluent
10 4 (0.87%) SnapLogic
10 4 (0.87%) VMware
11 3 (0.65%) LexisNexis