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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 387 354 354
Rank change year-on-year -33 0 -2
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 438 307 454
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.42% 0.71% 0.69%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.83% 2.21% 2.14%
Number of salaries quoted 261 212 208
10th Percentile £46,217 £47,550 £52,125
25th Percentile £55,000 £59,375 £62,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,500 £71,000 £76,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.70% -6.58% +8.57%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £108,750 £104,750 £115,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £71,000 £76,000
% change year-on-year -1.41% -6.58% +8.57%

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 23,947 13,862 21,253
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 23.00% 32.09% 32.40%
Number of salaries quoted 16,771 9,606 13,061
10th Percentile £31,500 £29,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,500 £38,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £63,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -5.51% +1.60%

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 6 October 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 6 October 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 +48 178 £67,500 +3.85% 102
London -74 162 £80,000 +5.96% 274
Yorkshire +15 73 £80,000 +23.08% 39
North West +10 69 £66,124 +1.73% 52
South West -64 38 £75,000 -4.76% 69
North East -30 36 £67,500 -6.90% 12
Midlands -45 27 £65,000 +23.81% 44
South East -32 25 £67,500 -15.63% 67
East Midlands - 17 £65,000 - 23
West Midlands -41 10 £62,500 +19.05% 21
East of England -42 1 £80,000 +88.24% 35
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 30 (6.85%) Apache Spark
2 26 (5.94%) Apache
3 14 (3.20%) Confluence
4 11 (2.51%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.68%) SAS
6 2 (0.46%) Camunda
6 2 (0.46%) nginx
6 2 (0.46%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.46%) WebLogic
6 2 (0.46%) WebLogic Portal
7 1 (0.23%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (0.91%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.46%) Oracle Applications
1 2 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (0.46%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (0.23%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
2 1 (0.23%) Finacle
2 1 (0.23%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.23%) Infor SunSystems
2 1 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.23%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 438 (100.00%) Serverless
2 436 (99.54%) AWS
3 284 (64.84%) Amazon S3
4 159 (36.30%) Amazon ECS
5 156 (35.62%) AWS CloudFormation
6 116 (26.48%) Amazon EC2
7 93 (21.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 84 (19.18%) AWS Step Functions
9 80 (18.26%) Amazon EKS
10 76 (17.35%) GitHub
11 68 (15.53%) Amazon SQS
12 60 (13.70%) Azure
13 53 (12.10%) GitHub Actions
14 47 (10.73%) Amazon EventBridge
15 45 (10.27%) Datadog
16 38 (8.68%) SaaS
17 34 (7.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 33 (7.53%) Amazon OpenSearch
19 29 (6.62%) Amazon EMR
20 28 (6.39%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 15 (3.42%) Network Security
2 10 (2.28%) Firewall
3 8 (1.83%) AMQP
4 4 (0.91%) IPv4
4 4 (0.91%) Software-Defined Networking
4 4 (0.91%) VPN
5 2 (0.46%) DNS
5 2 (0.46%) VoIP
6 1 (0.23%) 4G
6 1 (0.23%) 5G
6 1 (0.23%) DHCP
6 1 (0.23%) HTTP
6 1 (0.23%) PSTN
6 1 (0.23%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.23%) VLAN
6 1 (0.23%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 134 (30.59%) DynamoDB
2 103 (23.52%) Amazon RDS
3 52 (11.87%) NoSQL
4 49 (11.19%) Amazon Athena
4 49 (11.19%) Amazon Redshift
5 30 (6.85%) PostgreSQL
6 29 (6.62%) Data Warehouse
7 19 (4.34%) Relational Database
8 18 (4.11%) Spark SQL
9 17 (3.88%) SQL Server
10 16 (3.65%) Metadata
11 15 (3.42%) Data Lake
11 15 (3.42%) MongoDB
12 14 (3.20%) Big Data
12 14 (3.20%) Elasticsearch
13 13 (2.97%) Amazon Aurora
14 10 (2.28%) Hadoop
14 10 (2.28%) MySQL
15 9 (2.05%) Power BI
15 9 (2.05%) Redis
Development Applications
1 108 (24.66%) Git
2 80 (18.26%) Jenkins
3 47 (10.73%) GitLab
4 22 (5.02%) Cypress.io
5 20 (4.57%) JIRA
6 19 (4.34%) Maven
7 12 (2.74%) Bitbucket
7 12 (2.74%) SonarQube
8 11 (2.51%) TeamCity
9 9 (2.05%) Postman
10 8 (1.83%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 8 (1.83%) Claude Code
11 6 (1.37%) CircleCI
11 6 (1.37%) Gradle
12 5 (1.14%) JMeter
13 4 (0.91%) Cucumber
13 4 (0.91%) JUnit
13 4 (0.91%) Mockito
14 3 (0.68%) Selenium
15 2 (0.46%) Jasmine
General
1 92 (21.00%) Finance
2 89 (20.32%) Social Skills
3 71 (16.21%) Public Sector
4 49 (11.19%) Analytical Skills
5 40 (9.13%) Banking
6 30 (6.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 27 (6.16%) Law
8 17 (3.88%) Marketing
9 13 (2.97%) Aviation
9 13 (2.97%) Retail
10 12 (2.74%) Aerospace
11 11 (2.51%) Influencing Skills
11 11 (2.51%) Telecoms
12 8 (1.83%) Health Technology
13 7 (1.60%) Billing
14 5 (1.14%) Front Office
14 5 (1.14%) Military
15 4 (0.91%) Advertising
15 4 (0.91%) Legal
15 4 (0.91%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 127 (29.00%) Developer
2 125 (28.54%) Senior
3 64 (14.61%) AWS Engineer
3 64 (14.61%) Data Engineer
4 50 (11.42%) Java Developer
4 50 (11.42%) Lead
5 48 (10.96%) Senior Developer
6 47 (10.73%) Full-Stack Developer
7 37 (8.45%) AWS Developer
7 37 (8.45%) Software Engineer
8 34 (7.76%) DevOps Engineer
9 21 (4.79%) Architect
10 19 (4.34%) Platform Engineer
10 19 (4.34%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 18 (4.11%) AWS Data Engineer
11 18 (4.11%) Cloud Engineer
11 18 (4.11%) Consultant
11 18 (4.11%) Senior Consultant
12 16 (3.65%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 15 (3.42%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 190 (43.38%) Terraform
2 111 (25.34%) Node.js
3 79 (18.04%) AngularJS
4 71 (16.21%) React
5 61 (13.93%) Spring Boot
6 55 (12.56%) Spring
7 46 (10.50%) RESTful
8 45 (10.27%) Kafka
9 44 (10.05%) .NET
9 44 (10.05%) AWS CDK
9 44 (10.05%) REST
10 38 (8.68%) PySpark
11 30 (6.85%) Swagger
12 25 (5.71%) Gherkin
12 25 (5.71%) Jest
13 24 (5.48%) OpenAPI
14 20 (4.57%) JSON
15 16 (3.65%) RabbitMQ
16 14 (3.20%) LangChain
16 14 (3.20%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 127 (29.00%) Cloud Native
2 34 (7.76%) Distributed Systems
3 30 (6.85%) Hybrid Cloud
4 29 (6.62%) Onboarding
5 18 (4.11%) Enterprise Cloud
6 17 (3.88%) Product Ownership
7 13 (2.97%) Greenfield Project
7 13 (2.97%) Linux Command Line
8 12 (2.74%) AI Agents
9 11 (2.51%) Mobile Banking
10 8 (1.83%) Data Structures
10 8 (1.83%) Public Cloud
11 7 (1.60%) Enterprise Software
11 7 (1.60%) Low-Code
11 7 (1.60%) NHS
12 6 (1.37%) Blog
12 6 (1.37%) Replication
13 5 (1.14%) Blockchain
13 5 (1.14%) IVR
13 5 (1.14%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 38 (8.68%) Linux
2 12 (2.74%) Windows
3 7 (1.60%) CentOS
3 7 (1.60%) Debian
3 7 (1.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (1.60%) Ubuntu
4 5 (1.14%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.46%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 267 (60.96%) CI/CD
2 176 (40.18%) Agile
2 176 (40.18%) DevOps
3 175 (39.95%) Infrastructure as Code
4 130 (29.68%) Mentoring
5 116 (26.48%) AI
6 108 (24.66%) Software Engineering
7 94 (21.46%) Full-Stack Development
7 94 (21.46%) Microservices
8 90 (20.55%) Observability
9 88 (20.09%) Problem-Solving
10 83 (18.95%) Continuous Improvement
11 75 (17.12%) Analytics
11 75 (17.12%) Event-Driven
12 73 (16.67%) ETL
13 72 (16.44%) Decision-Making
14 70 (15.98%) Test Automation
15 66 (15.07%) Data Engineering
16 65 (14.84%) Containerisation
17 61 (13.93%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 226 (51.60%) Python
2 150 (34.25%) SQL
3 129 (29.45%) Java
4 119 (27.17%) TypeScript
5 73 (16.67%) Bash
6 72 (16.44%) JavaScript
7 43 (9.82%) C#
8 28 (6.39%) Kotlin
9 27 (6.16%) Groovy
10 19 (4.34%) C++
10 19 (4.34%) Ruby
11 17 (3.88%) PHP
12 15 (3.42%) PowerShell
13 14 (3.20%) Perl
14 13 (2.97%) Scala
15 9 (2.05%) Go
16 3 (0.68%) Shell Script
17 2 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 2 (0.46%) PL/SQL
17 2 (0.46%) Rust
Qualifications
1 106 (24.20%) Security Cleared
2 71 (16.21%) SC Cleared
3 61 (13.93%) AWS Certification
4 32 (7.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 32 (7.31%) DV Cleared
5 14 (3.20%) Degree
6 12 (2.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 10 (2.28%) ITIL Certification
8 8 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
9 7 (1.60%) AWS Certified Developer
10 5 (1.14%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 5 (1.14%) Master's Degree
10 5 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (1.14%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 4 (0.91%) CCNA
11 4 (0.91%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (0.91%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.91%) OSCP
11 4 (0.91%) RHCE
11 4 (0.91%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (13.01%) Data Quality
2 24 (5.48%) QA
3 14 (3.20%) Accessibility
3 14 (3.20%) GDPR
4 5 (1.14%) HIPAA
5 4 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 147 (33.56%) Docker
2 6 (1.37%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.91%) Squid
3 4 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.91%) VMware NSX
3 4 (0.91%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 73 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 34 (7.76%) Ansible
3 31 (7.08%) Prometheus
4 30 (6.85%) Grafana
5 14 (3.20%) Packer
6 11 (2.51%) HP Fortify
7 9 (2.05%) Puppet
8 6 (1.37%) Rancher
9 5 (1.14%) Argo
10 4 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.91%) ZABBIX
11 2 (0.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.46%) Kibana
11 2 (0.46%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 2 (0.46%) Oracle RMAN
12 1 (0.23%) Fluentd
12 1 (0.23%) logstash
Vendors
1 29 (6.62%) Databricks
2 16 (3.65%) Dynatrace
3 15 (3.42%) Google
4 14 (3.20%) Oracle
4 14 (3.20%) Red Hat
4 14 (3.20%) Splunk
5 13 (2.97%) Microsoft
5 13 (2.97%) OpenAI
6 8 (1.83%) Salesforce
7 7 (1.60%) Avaya
7 7 (1.60%) Cisco
7 7 (1.60%) Genesys
7 7 (1.60%) SaltStack
7 7 (1.60%) ServiceNow
8 6 (1.37%) Confluent
9 5 (1.14%) HubSpot
9 5 (1.14%) SnapLogic
10 4 (0.91%) VMware
11 3 (0.68%) LexisNexis
11 3 (0.68%) PeopleSoft