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 29 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 351 254 341
Rank change year-on-year -97 +87 -58
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 284 662 380
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.60% 1.12% 0.83%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.77% 3.26% 1.92%
Number of salaries quoted 194 282 320
10th Percentile £52,500 £53,875 £48,625
25th Percentile £60,000 £67,219 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £86,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.29% +23.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £87,500 £115,000 £84,063
90th Percentile £107,500 £129,875 £96,375
UK median annual salary £73,250 £83,250 £70,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +18.93% -12.50%

All Cloud 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 16,005 20,308 19,811
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 34.05% 34.22% 43.30%
Number of salaries quoted 10,387 12,402 16,617
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £38,000 £47,500 £45,653
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £101,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -5.51% +1.60% -0.79%

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 29 November 2025.

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 29 November 2025. 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 -79 156 £76,000 -17.84% 64
North of England +71 55 £65,000 +4.00% 25
Yorkshire +22 32 £65,000 -1.89% 6
South West +34 30 £63,750 -8.93% 19
North West +56 23 £65,000 +8.33% 17
South East -64 15 £67,500 - 35
Midlands +45 14 £62,500 -10.71% 10
West Midlands +49 12 £62,500 -13.79% 7
East of England -2 6 £71,250 -1.72% 4
East Midlands +23 2 £65,000 -7.14% 3
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 (8.80%) Apache Spark
2 20 (7.04%) Apache
3 9 (3.17%) Headless CMS
3 9 (3.17%) WebSphere
4 7 (2.46%) Tomcat
5 6 (2.11%) WebSphere Application Server
6 5 (1.76%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (1.06%) Confluence
8 2 (0.70%) nginx
9 1 (0.35%) CMS
9 1 (0.35%) JBoss
9 1 (0.35%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.35%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (2.82%) Shopify
2 2 (0.70%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 284 (100.00%) AWS
1 284 (100.00%) Serverless
2 183 (64.44%) Amazon S3
3 75 (26.41%) Amazon EC2
4 70 (24.65%) Amazon ECS
5 67 (23.59%) AWS CloudFormation
6 57 (20.07%) Amazon SQS
7 51 (17.96%) Amazon EKS
8 49 (17.25%) AWS Step Functions
9 47 (16.55%) Azure
10 43 (15.14%) GitHub
11 39 (13.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 28 (9.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 27 (9.51%) GitHub Actions
14 23 (8.10%) Amazon SageMaker
15 21 (7.39%) Snowflake
16 20 (7.04%) Amazon Kinesis
17 18 (6.34%) SaaS
18 17 (5.99%) Amazon EMR
19 16 (5.63%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.46%) AMQP
1 7 (2.46%) SSL
2 6 (2.11%) Broadband
3 5 (1.76%) Firewall
4 3 (1.06%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.06%) VPN
5 2 (0.70%) DNS
5 2 (0.70%) Network Security
6 1 (0.35%) iSCSI
6 1 (0.35%) NAS
6 1 (0.35%) SAN
6 1 (0.35%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (34.51%) DynamoDB
2 67 (23.59%) Amazon RDS
3 45 (15.85%) Amazon Redshift
3 45 (15.85%) Data Warehouse
4 39 (13.73%) PostgreSQL
5 35 (12.32%) NoSQL
6 22 (7.75%) Data Lake
7 21 (7.39%) Elasticsearch
8 18 (6.34%) Big Data
9 17 (5.99%) Amazon Athena
10 16 (5.63%) MongoDB
11 15 (5.28%) SQL Server
12 13 (4.58%) Amazon Aurora
13 11 (3.87%) Apache Iceberg
13 11 (3.87%) Hadoop
13 11 (3.87%) MySQL
14 9 (3.17%) DB2
14 9 (3.17%) Relational Database
15 8 (2.82%) Apache Hive
16 4 (1.41%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 46 (16.20%) Jenkins
2 30 (10.56%) Git
3 26 (9.15%) GitLab
4 23 (8.10%) Cypress.io
5 11 (3.87%) Bitbucket
6 10 (3.52%) JIRA
7 7 (2.46%) Maven
7 7 (2.46%) SonarQube
8 6 (2.11%) Selenium
9 5 (1.76%) git-flow
9 5 (1.76%) Locust
9 5 (1.76%) Vite
10 3 (1.06%) JUnit
10 3 (1.06%) MLflow
10 3 (1.06%) Mocha
10 3 (1.06%) Spinnaker
11 2 (0.70%) Cucumber
11 2 (0.70%) ER Studio
11 2 (0.70%) webpack
12 1 (0.35%) Deequ
General
1 89 (31.34%) Social Skills
2 63 (22.18%) Finance
3 32 (11.27%) Tech for Good
4 27 (9.51%) Publishing
5 26 (9.15%) Health Technology
6 22 (7.75%) Analytical Skills
7 20 (7.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 16 (5.63%) Law
8 16 (5.63%) Marketing
9 14 (4.93%) Influencing Skills
10 13 (4.58%) Organisational Skills
10 13 (4.58%) Public Sector
11 9 (3.17%) Banking
11 9 (3.17%) Financial Institution
12 7 (2.46%) Games
13 6 (2.11%) Manufacturing
13 6 (2.11%) Retail
14 4 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (1.06%) Advertising
15 3 (1.06%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 95 (33.45%) Senior
2 86 (30.28%) Developer
3 45 (15.85%) Data Engineer
4 43 (15.14%) Senior Developer
5 38 (13.38%) Lead
6 37 (13.03%) Software Engineer
7 36 (12.68%) AWS Engineer
8 33 (11.62%) AWS Developer
8 33 (11.62%) Python Developer
9 22 (7.75%) React Developer
9 22 (7.75%) Senior Data Engineer
10 21 (7.39%) AWS Data Engineer
11 18 (6.34%) Full-Stack Developer
11 18 (6.34%) Lead Developer
11 18 (6.34%) Senior Python Developer
12 16 (5.63%) Software Developer
13 15 (5.28%) Applications Support
13 15 (5.28%) Lead Python Developer
14 13 (4.58%) Architect
14 13 (4.58%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (29.93%) React
2 49 (17.25%) Node.js
2 49 (17.25%) RESTful
3 40 (14.08%) Spring
4 38 (13.38%) Spring Boot
5 26 (9.15%) .NET
5 26 (9.15%) Kafka
6 25 (8.80%) AWS CDK
7 23 (8.10%) AngularJS
8 22 (7.75%) Jest
9 21 (7.39%) HTML
10 19 (6.69%) GraphQL
11 18 (6.34%) CSS
12 17 (5.99%) RabbitMQ
13 16 (5.63%) Next.js
14 15 (5.28%) Swagger
15 14 (4.93%) .NET Core
16 13 (4.58%) ASP.NET
16 13 (4.58%) Playwright
17 11 (3.87%) Express.js
Miscellaneous
1 83 (29.23%) Cloud Native
2 19 (6.69%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (5.28%) Greenfield Project
4 13 (4.58%) Product Ownership
5 12 (4.23%) e-Learning
6 9 (3.17%) Linux Command Line
7 8 (2.82%) Virtual Team
8 7 (2.46%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (2.11%) Onboarding
10 5 (1.76%) Security Posture
11 4 (1.41%) AI Agents
11 4 (1.41%) Life Science
11 4 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (1.06%) Animation
12 3 (1.06%) Enterprise Cloud
12 3 (1.06%) Management Information System
12 3 (1.06%) Private Cloud
12 3 (1.06%) Public Cloud
13 2 (0.70%) Hybrid Cloud
13 2 (0.70%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 32 (11.27%) Linux
2 13 (4.58%) Unix
3 9 (3.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (2.46%) Windows
5 2 (0.70%) CentOS
5 2 (0.70%) Debian
5 2 (0.70%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.35%) Android
6 1 (0.35%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 165 (58.10%) CI/CD
2 131 (46.13%) Agile
3 116 (40.85%) DevOps
4 90 (31.69%) Infrastructure as Code
5 84 (29.58%) Software Engineering
6 83 (29.23%) Problem-Solving
7 67 (23.59%) Mentoring
8 56 (19.72%) Containerisation
9 55 (19.37%) Microservices
10 52 (18.31%) Scrum
11 49 (17.25%) Data Pipeline
12 46 (16.20%) Continuous Improvement
13 45 (15.85%) Pair Programming
14 43 (15.14%) Full-Stack Development
15 41 (14.44%) AI
15 41 (14.44%) Analytics
15 41 (14.44%) Data Modelling
15 41 (14.44%) Data Science
16 40 (14.08%) Machine Learning
16 40 (14.08%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 179 (63.03%) Python
2 96 (33.80%) TypeScript
3 81 (28.52%) Java
4 70 (24.65%) SQL
5 59 (20.77%) JavaScript
6 22 (7.75%) Bash
7 15 (5.28%) C#
7 15 (5.28%) Scala
8 14 (4.93%) Go
9 6 (2.11%) Groovy
9 6 (2.11%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.06%) C++
10 3 (1.06%) Rust
10 3 (1.06%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.70%) C
12 1 (0.35%) R
Qualifications
1 60 (21.13%) AWS Certification
2 34 (11.97%) Security Cleared
3 32 (11.27%) Degree
4 21 (7.39%) AWS Certified Developer
5 19 (6.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 19 (6.69%) SC Cleared
6 17 (5.99%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (5.99%) DV Cleared
7 8 (2.82%) SnowPro
8 6 (2.11%) ITIL Certification
9 5 (1.76%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.35%) CCNA
11 1 (0.35%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.35%) GCIH
11 1 (0.35%) GIAC
11 1 (0.35%) GREM
11 1 (0.35%) MCSE
11 1 (0.35%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (15.85%) QA
2 19 (6.69%) GDPR
3 14 (4.93%) Data Quality
4 13 (4.58%) Accessibility
5 9 (3.17%) PCI DSS
6 8 (2.82%) SLA
7 5 (1.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (1.41%) NIST
8 4 (1.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (1.06%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.35%) CDISC
10 1 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.35%) DICOM
10 1 (0.35%) GAAP
10 1 (0.35%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.35%) HL7
10 1 (0.35%) IFRS
10 1 (0.35%) IFRS 17
10 1 (0.35%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 78 (27.46%) Docker
2 8 (2.82%) HDFS
3 1 (0.35%) Firmware
3 1 (0.35%) iptables
3 1 (0.35%) vCloud
3 1 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.35%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.35%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 88 (30.99%) Terraform
2 69 (24.30%) Kubernetes
3 22 (7.75%) Ansible
3 22 (7.75%) Prometheus
4 19 (6.69%) Grafana
5 7 (2.46%) HP Fortify
6 6 (2.11%) Progress Chef
7 4 (1.41%) Kibana
7 4 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (1.06%) Docker Swarm
8 3 (1.06%) Kubeflow
8 3 (1.06%) Puppet
9 1 (0.35%) Argo
9 1 (0.35%) Podman
9 1 (0.35%) Red Hat Satellite
9 1 (0.35%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 16 (5.63%) Databricks
1 16 (5.63%) Oracle
2 9 (3.17%) Apple
2 9 (3.17%) Atlassian
2 9 (3.17%) IBM
2 9 (3.17%) Microsoft
2 9 (3.17%) Red Hat
3 8 (2.82%) Google
4 7 (2.46%) OpenAI
5 6 (2.11%) Splunk
6 2 (0.70%) Avaya
6 2 (0.70%) Genesys
6 2 (0.70%) SaltStack
6 2 (0.70%) ServiceNow
6 2 (0.70%) VMware
7 1 (0.35%) Cisco
7 1 (0.35%) Informatica
7 1 (0.35%) NetApp
7 1 (0.35%) SAP
7 1 (0.35%) Siebel