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

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 369 343 399
Rank change year-on-year -26 +56 -46
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 460 345 406
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.46% 0.80% 0.59%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.89% 2.44% 1.86%
Number of salaries quoted 273 244 225
10th Percentile £46,217 £51,250 £51,750
25th Percentile £53,750 £62,375 £62,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £74,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.68% -0.67% +3.45%
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £108,500 £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 24,367 14,157 21,866
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 24.34% 32.63% 31.75%
Number of salaries quoted 16,899 9,871 14,523
10th Percentile £31,500 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £39,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -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 13 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 13 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% 39
London -63 167 £85,000 +13.33% 185
Yorkshire +18 88 £80,000 +13.48% 13
North West +26 70 £70,000 +7.69% 20
North East -26 35 £65,000 -10.34% 6
South East -20 34 £67,500 -15.63% 23
South West -66 32 £62,500 -20.63% 21
Midlands -46 30 £65,000 +52.94% 10
East Midlands -14 20 £65,000 +73.33% 8
West Midlands -48 10 £62,500 +47.06% 2
East of England -57 1 £80,000 -5.88% 10
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 (5.43%) Apache Spark
2 20 (4.35%) Apache
3 14 (3.04%) Confluence
4 9 (1.96%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.65%) SAS
6 2 (0.43%) nginx
7 1 (0.22%) IIS
7 1 (0.22%) JBoss
7 1 (0.22%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (1.30%) 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%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
1 1 (0.22%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 460 (100.00%) Serverless
2 458 (99.57%) AWS
3 300 (65.22%) Amazon S3
4 175 (38.04%) Amazon ECS
5 170 (36.96%) AWS CloudFormation
6 119 (25.87%) Amazon EC2
7 102 (22.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 95 (20.65%) AWS Step Functions
9 80 (17.39%) Amazon EKS
10 78 (16.96%) Amazon SQS
11 77 (16.74%) GitHub
12 61 (13.26%) Azure
13 55 (11.96%) Datadog
13 55 (11.96%) GitHub Actions
14 49 (10.65%) Amazon EventBridge
15 40 (8.70%) SaaS
16 39 (8.48%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 39 (8.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 34 (7.39%) Amazon ECR
18 29 (6.30%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 15 (3.26%) Network Security
2 10 (2.17%) Firewall
3 7 (1.52%) AMQP
4 4 (0.87%) IPv4
4 4 (0.87%) Software-Defined Networking
4 4 (0.87%) 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%) Broadband
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
1 159 (34.57%) DynamoDB
2 96 (20.87%) Amazon RDS
3 55 (11.96%) Amazon Athena
4 54 (11.74%) NoSQL
5 46 (10.00%) Amazon Redshift
6 28 (6.09%) PostgreSQL
7 27 (5.87%) Data Warehouse
8 19 (4.13%) Relational Database
9 18 (3.91%) Spark SQL
9 18 (3.91%) SQL Server
10 16 (3.48%) Data Lake
11 14 (3.04%) Elasticsearch
12 13 (2.83%) Big Data
12 13 (2.83%) Metadata
12 13 (2.83%) MongoDB
13 12 (2.61%) Amazon Aurora
14 10 (2.17%) MySQL
15 9 (1.96%) Hadoop
16 7 (1.52%) Parquet
16 7 (1.52%) Redis
Development Applications
1 110 (23.91%) Git
2 95 (20.65%) Jenkins
3 56 (12.17%) GitLab
4 27 (5.87%) Cypress.io
5 26 (5.65%) Maven
6 24 (5.22%) JIRA
6 24 (5.22%) SonarQube
7 13 (2.83%) Bitbucket
8 11 (2.39%) TeamCity
9 10 (2.17%) Cucumber
9 10 (2.17%) Postman
10 8 (1.74%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 8 (1.74%) CircleCI
11 6 (1.30%) Claude Code
11 6 (1.30%) Gradle
12 4 (0.87%) Artifactory
12 4 (0.87%) JMeter
12 4 (0.87%) Selenium
13 3 (0.65%) git-flow
13 3 (0.65%) SpecFlow
General
1 99 (21.52%) Social Skills
2 98 (21.30%) Finance
3 69 (15.00%) Public Sector
4 55 (11.96%) Analytical Skills
5 41 (8.91%) Banking
6 27 (5.87%) Law
7 24 (5.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 17 (3.70%) Marketing
9 13 (2.83%) Aviation
9 13 (2.83%) Retail
10 11 (2.39%) Aerospace
10 11 (2.39%) Influencing Skills
10 11 (2.39%) Telecoms
11 8 (1.74%) Health Technology
12 7 (1.52%) Billing
13 6 (1.30%) Advertising
13 6 (1.30%) Legal
14 5 (1.09%) Front Office
14 5 (1.09%) Military
15 4 (0.87%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 149 (32.39%) Developer
2 135 (29.35%) Senior
3 64 (13.91%) Java Developer
4 62 (13.48%) AWS Engineer
5 61 (13.26%) Data Engineer
6 57 (12.39%) Lead
7 55 (11.96%) Full-Stack Developer
8 53 (11.52%) Senior Developer
9 40 (8.70%) AWS Developer
10 39 (8.48%) DevOps Engineer
11 35 (7.61%) Software Engineer
12 20 (4.35%) Cloud Engineer
12 20 (4.35%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 19 (4.13%) Platform Engineer
13 19 (4.13%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
14 18 (3.91%) Architect
14 18 (3.91%) Consultant
14 18 (3.91%) Senior Consultant
15 16 (3.48%) AWS Data Engineer
16 14 (3.04%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 196 (42.61%) Terraform
2 119 (25.87%) Node.js
3 90 (19.57%) AngularJS
4 77 (16.74%) React
5 66 (14.35%) Spring Boot
6 55 (11.96%) Spring
7 50 (10.87%) REST
8 48 (10.43%) RESTful
9 43 (9.35%) .NET
9 43 (9.35%) AWS CDK
9 43 (9.35%) Kafka
10 37 (8.04%) PySpark
11 30 (6.52%) Gherkin
12 29 (6.30%) Jest
12 29 (6.30%) Swagger
13 25 (5.43%) JSON
14 23 (5.00%) OpenAPI
14 23 (5.00%) RabbitMQ
15 19 (4.13%) YAML
16 17 (3.70%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 121 (26.30%) Cloud Native
2 37 (8.04%) Distributed Systems
3 30 (6.52%) Hybrid Cloud
4 27 (5.87%) Onboarding
5 18 (3.91%) Enterprise Cloud
6 16 (3.48%) Linux Command Line
6 16 (3.48%) Product Ownership
7 15 (3.26%) Greenfield Project
8 11 (2.39%) Mobile Banking
9 9 (1.96%) AI Agents
10 7 (1.52%) Blockchain
10 7 (1.52%) Data Structures
10 7 (1.52%) Low-Code
10 7 (1.52%) NHS
10 7 (1.52%) Web3
11 6 (1.30%) Blog
11 6 (1.30%) Public Cloud
12 5 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (1.09%) IVR
13 4 (0.87%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 42 (9.13%) Linux
2 12 (2.61%) Windows
3 8 (1.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (1.30%) CentOS
4 6 (1.30%) Debian
4 6 (1.30%) Ubuntu
5 5 (1.09%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 280 (60.87%) CI/CD
2 189 (41.09%) DevOps
3 185 (40.22%) Agile
4 181 (39.35%) Infrastructure as Code
5 134 (29.13%) Mentoring
6 116 (25.22%) AI
7 107 (23.26%) Software Engineering
8 101 (21.96%) Microservices
9 99 (21.52%) Full-Stack Development
10 95 (20.65%) Observability
11 90 (19.57%) Problem-Solving
12 81 (17.61%) Event-Driven
13 78 (16.96%) Analytics
14 77 (16.74%) Continuous Improvement
15 73 (15.87%) Test Automation
16 71 (15.43%) Containerisation
17 69 (15.00%) Decision-Making
18 66 (14.35%) ETL
19 64 (13.91%) Data Engineering
20 54 (11.74%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 236 (51.30%) Python
2 154 (33.48%) SQL
3 143 (31.09%) Java
4 135 (29.35%) TypeScript
5 80 (17.39%) Bash
6 66 (14.35%) JavaScript
7 42 (9.13%) C#
8 38 (8.26%) Groovy
9 35 (7.61%) Kotlin
10 19 (4.13%) Ruby
11 18 (3.91%) C++
11 18 (3.91%) Perl
11 18 (3.91%) PowerShell
12 17 (3.70%) PHP
13 11 (2.39%) Go
14 10 (2.17%) Scala
15 5 (1.09%) Shell Script
16 2 (0.43%) PL/SQL
16 2 (0.43%) Rust
17 1 (0.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 108 (23.48%) Security Cleared
2 72 (15.65%) SC Cleared
3 66 (14.35%) AWS Certification
4 33 (7.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 30 (6.52%) DV Cleared
6 17 (3.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 15 (3.26%) ITIL Certification
8 14 (3.04%) Degree
9 9 (1.96%) AWS Certified Developer
10 8 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (1.09%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 5 (1.09%) Master's Degree
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 53 (11.52%) Data Quality
2 28 (6.09%) QA
3 14 (3.04%) Accessibility
3 14 (3.04%) GDPR
4 5 (1.09%) HIPAA
5 3 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 158 (34.35%) Docker
2 6 (1.30%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.87%) Squid
3 4 (0.87%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.87%) VMware NSX
3 4 (0.87%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 73 (15.87%) Kubernetes
2 42 (9.13%) Ansible
3 33 (7.17%) Prometheus
4 30 (6.52%) Grafana
5 17 (3.70%) HP Fortify
5 17 (3.70%) Packer
6 8 (1.74%) Puppet
7 5 (1.09%) Argo
8 4 (0.87%) Kibana
8 4 (0.87%) Rancher
8 4 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (0.87%) ZABBIX
9 2 (0.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.43%) Scalr
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 25 (5.43%) Databricks
2 15 (3.26%) Red Hat
3 14 (3.04%) Oracle
3 14 (3.04%) Splunk
4 12 (2.61%) Dynatrace
4 12 (2.61%) OpenAI
5 11 (2.39%) Google
6 10 (2.17%) Microsoft
7 8 (1.74%) Salesforce
8 7 (1.52%) AppDynamics
8 7 (1.52%) Avaya
8 7 (1.52%) Cisco
8 7 (1.52%) Genesys
8 7 (1.52%) HubSpot
9 6 (1.30%) IBM
9 6 (1.30%) SaltStack
10 5 (1.09%) ServiceNow
11 4 (0.87%) Confluent
11 4 (0.87%) SnapLogic
11 4 (0.87%) VMware