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

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 338 201 359
Rank change year-on-year -137 +158 +7
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 380 590 587
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.52% 1.61% 0.73%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.60% 4.27% 2.01%
Number of salaries quoted 263 374 487
10th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £51,530
25th Percentile £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £85,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.71% +13.33% -
75th Percentile £84,375 £115,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £138,750 £118,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £82,500 £72,000
% change year-on-year -15.15% +14.58% -4.00%

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 23,736 13,807 29,162
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 32.23% 37.78% 36.29%
Number of salaries quoted 12,802 10,208 24,173
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -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 9 April 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 9 April 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 -130 148 £77,500 -20.51% 91
North of England +3 129 £72,500 +6.03% 39
Yorkshire +25 107 £72,500 +23.40% 13
Midlands -26 43 £55,000 -4.35% 10
South West -30 31 £62,500 +4.17% 18
East Midlands -31 29 £57,500 -16.36% 2
South East -106 23 £82,500 +50.00% 31
North West -35 21 £70,000 -6.67% 22
West Midlands -29 14 £50,000 -13.04% 8
East of England -68 4 £62,500 -26.47% 12
North East -35 1 £90,000 +44.00% 4
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 26 (6.84%) Apache
2 23 (6.05%) Apache Spark
3 21 (5.53%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.05%) Confluence
5 3 (0.79%) JBoss
6 2 (0.53%) nginx
6 2 (0.53%) Oracle Application Server
7 1 (0.26%) CMS
7 1 (0.26%) IIS
7 1 (0.26%) SAS
7 1 (0.26%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.26%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.26%) WebSphere Application Server
7 1 (0.26%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (1.58%) Spreadsheet
2 4 (1.05%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 380 (100.00%) Serverless
2 379 (99.74%) AWS
3 281 (73.95%) Amazon S3
4 149 (39.21%) AWS CloudFormation
5 110 (28.95%) Amazon ECS
6 109 (28.68%) AWS Step Functions
7 93 (24.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 90 (23.68%) Amazon SQS
9 81 (21.32%) GitHub
10 77 (20.26%) Amazon EC2
11 59 (15.53%) GitHub Actions
12 52 (13.68%) Amazon ECR
13 51 (13.42%) Amazon EKS
14 47 (12.37%) Apigee
15 45 (11.84%) Azure
16 39 (10.26%) Datadog
17 36 (9.47%) Amazon EventBridge
18 27 (7.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 25 (6.58%) Amazon OpenSearch
20 23 (6.05%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.42%) DSL
2 11 (2.89%) AMQP
3 6 (1.58%) Network Security
4 5 (1.32%) Broadband
4 5 (1.32%) Firewall
5 3 (0.79%) DNS
5 3 (0.79%) VPN
6 2 (0.53%) SSL
7 1 (0.26%) 4G
7 1 (0.26%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 158 (41.58%) DynamoDB
2 81 (21.32%) Amazon RDS
3 62 (16.32%) NoSQL
4 43 (11.32%) Amazon Redshift
5 37 (9.74%) Amazon Athena
6 28 (7.37%) Data Warehouse
6 28 (7.37%) PostgreSQL
7 18 (4.74%) SQL Server
8 13 (3.42%) Big Data
9 12 (3.16%) Data Lake
10 11 (2.89%) Relational Database
11 10 (2.63%) MySQL
12 9 (2.37%) Hadoop
13 8 (2.11%) Metadata
13 8 (2.11%) MongoDB
14 7 (1.84%) Amazon Aurora
14 7 (1.84%) Apache Iceberg
15 6 (1.58%) Power BI
15 6 (1.58%) Snowflake Schema
16 5 (1.32%) Cloudera CDH
Development Applications
1 115 (30.26%) Jenkins
2 88 (23.16%) GitLab
3 69 (18.16%) Git
4 46 (12.11%) SonarQube
5 43 (11.32%) Maven
6 42 (11.05%) Cypress.io
7 15 (3.95%) JIRA
8 14 (3.68%) CircleCI
9 9 (2.37%) Cucumber
10 8 (2.11%) Bitbucket
11 7 (1.84%) MLflow
12 4 (1.05%) Artifactory
12 4 (1.05%) git-flow
12 4 (1.05%) Selenium
13 3 (0.79%) ESLint
13 3 (0.79%) Octopus Deploy
13 3 (0.79%) Postman
13 3 (0.79%) SpecFlow
13 3 (0.79%) webpack
14 2 (0.53%) Gradle
General
1 103 (27.11%) Social Skills
2 51 (13.42%) Finance
3 39 (10.26%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (5.53%) Public Sector
5 18 (4.74%) Banking
6 17 (4.47%) Health Technology
7 16 (4.21%) Tech for Good
8 15 (3.95%) Influencing Skills
8 15 (3.95%) Publishing
9 14 (3.68%) Organisational Skills
10 11 (2.89%) Advertising
11 5 (1.32%) Billing
11 5 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.05%) Aerospace
13 3 (0.79%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.79%) Investment Banking
13 3 (0.79%) Law
13 3 (0.79%) Legal
13 3 (0.79%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.79%) Military
Job Titles
1 175 (46.05%) Developer
2 92 (24.21%) Senior
3 66 (17.37%) Java Developer
4 62 (16.32%) AWS Developer
5 54 (14.21%) Lead
6 48 (12.63%) Senior Developer
7 40 (10.53%) Full-Stack Developer
8 36 (9.47%) AWS Engineer
9 35 (9.21%) Data Engineer
10 33 (8.68%) Software Engineer
11 32 (8.42%) Lead Developer
12 31 (8.16%) React Developer
13 29 (7.63%) Python Developer
14 23 (6.05%) DevOps Engineer
15 21 (5.53%) Software Developer
16 19 (5.00%) Architect
16 19 (5.00%) Node.js Developer
17 18 (4.74%) Cloud Engineer
17 18 (4.74%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 17 (4.47%) AWS Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (28.95%) Node.js
2 107 (28.16%) React
3 79 (20.79%) AngularJS
4 73 (19.21%) Spring Boot
5 61 (16.05%) RESTful
6 47 (12.37%) AWS CDK
7 46 (12.11%) Spring
8 42 (11.05%) Jest
9 40 (10.53%) Gherkin
10 34 (8.95%) RabbitMQ
11 32 (8.42%) Kafka
12 28 (7.37%) HTML
13 27 (7.11%) REST
14 22 (5.79%) .NET
14 22 (5.79%) CSS
15 20 (5.26%) gRPC
16 15 (3.95%) .NET Core
17 14 (3.68%) web3js
18 13 (3.42%) ASP.NET Core
18 13 (3.42%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 92 (24.21%) Cloud Native
2 22 (5.79%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (3.68%) Blockchain
3 14 (3.68%) Web3
4 13 (3.42%) Greenfield Project
4 13 (3.42%) Product Ownership
5 8 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (1.84%) Data Structures
7 6 (1.58%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.05%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.05%) Security Posture
9 3 (0.79%) Animation
9 3 (0.79%) e-Learning
9 3 (0.79%) IoT
9 3 (0.79%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (0.79%) Life Science
9 3 (0.79%) NHS
9 3 (0.79%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 32 (8.42%) Linux
2 8 (2.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (1.58%) Windows
4 5 (1.32%) CentOS
4 5 (1.32%) Debian
4 5 (1.32%) Ubuntu
5 3 (0.79%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 250 (65.79%) CI/CD
2 199 (52.37%) DevOps
3 157 (41.32%) Agile
4 148 (38.95%) Infrastructure as Code
5 87 (22.89%) Software Engineering
6 84 (22.11%) Full-Stack Development
6 84 (22.11%) Microservices
7 82 (21.58%) Containerisation
8 81 (21.32%) Problem-Solving
9 79 (20.79%) Mentoring
10 61 (16.05%) Observability
11 57 (15.00%) Continuous Integration
12 52 (13.68%) Test Automation
13 49 (12.89%) Continuous Improvement
14 44 (11.58%) Data Pipeline
14 44 (11.58%) DevSecOps
15 40 (10.53%) Analytics
16 39 (10.26%) Scrum
17 38 (10.00%) AI
18 36 (9.47%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 189 (49.74%) Python
2 128 (33.68%) TypeScript
3 116 (30.53%) SQL
4 114 (30.00%) Java
5 71 (18.68%) JavaScript
6 61 (16.05%) Bash
7 46 (12.11%) Groovy
8 30 (7.89%) Go
9 26 (6.84%) Kotlin
10 13 (3.42%) Rust
11 12 (3.16%) PowerShell
12 9 (2.37%) C#
13 8 (2.11%) PHP
14 4 (1.05%) Perl
14 4 (1.05%) Scala
15 3 (0.79%) C++
16 2 (0.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 2 (0.53%) PL/SQL
16 2 (0.53%) R
16 2 (0.53%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 75 (19.74%) AWS Certification
2 56 (14.74%) Security Cleared
3 48 (12.63%) Degree
4 43 (11.32%) SC Cleared
5 27 (7.11%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 24 (6.32%) ITIL Certification
7 23 (6.05%) AWS Certified Developer
8 20 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
9 18 (4.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 14 (3.68%) OSCP
11 10 (2.63%) DV Cleared
12 5 (1.32%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 4 (1.05%) Master's Degree
14 3 (0.79%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 3 (0.79%) IIBA
14 3 (0.79%) PhD
15 2 (0.53%) SnowPro
16 1 (0.26%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 1 (0.26%) GAWN
16 1 (0.26%) GREM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (9.47%) QA
2 19 (5.00%) Data Quality
3 6 (1.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.32%) GDPR
5 3 (0.79%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.53%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.26%) MiFID
7 1 (0.26%) NIST
7 1 (0.26%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.26%) SLA
7 1 (0.26%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 151 (39.74%) Docker
2 4 (1.05%) iptables
3 3 (0.79%) Firmware
3 3 (0.79%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 139 (36.58%) Terraform
2 91 (23.95%) Kubernetes
3 40 (10.53%) HP Fortify
4 39 (10.26%) Ansible
5 30 (7.89%) Prometheus
6 23 (6.05%) Grafana
7 9 (2.37%) Puppet
8 6 (1.58%) Progress Chef
9 5 (1.32%) Kibana
10 4 (1.05%) Packer
11 3 (0.79%) Kubeflow
11 3 (0.79%) Scalr
12 1 (0.26%) Red Hat Satellite
12 1 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (3.16%) Databricks
2 8 (2.11%) Oracle
2 8 (2.11%) Red Hat
3 7 (1.84%) AppDynamics
3 7 (1.84%) IBM
4 5 (1.32%) Google
4 5 (1.32%) Salesforce
4 5 (1.32%) SaltStack
5 4 (1.05%) Atlassian
6 3 (0.79%) HubSpot
6 3 (0.79%) Microsoft
7 1 (0.26%) Apple
7 1 (0.26%) Cisco
7 1 (0.26%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.26%) Informatica
7 1 (0.26%) New Relic
7 1 (0.26%) YouTube