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

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 380 342 417
Rank change year-on-year -38 +75 -67
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 440 355 395
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.46% 0.81% 0.54%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.79% 2.47% 1.71%
Number of salaries quoted 263 258 263
10th Percentile £48,000 £47,850 £52,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £73,250 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.39% -2.33% +3.45%
75th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £96,250
90th Percentile £109,000 £98,750 £107,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £74,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -2.03% -1.33% +5.26%

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 24,596 14,361 23,099
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.56% 32.87% 31.64%
Number of salaries quoted 16,885 10,114 16,633
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £101,250
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.99%

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 25 August 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 25 August 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 +47 169 £75,000 +15.38% 52
London -63 169 £85,000 +13.33% 114
Yorkshire +6 81 £80,000 +33.33% 12
North West +9 58 £70,000 +7.69% 24
South East -18 36 £67,500 -15.63% 9
South West -60 36 £61,500 -29.71% 22
North East -25 30 £67,500 -6.90% 16
Midlands -29 26 £65,000 +52.94% 16
East Midlands -6 19 £65,000 +73.33% 7
West Midlands -52 7 £85,000 +88.89% 9
East of England -49 1 £75,000 -11.76% 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 21 (4.77%) Apache
1 21 (4.77%) Apache Spark
2 14 (3.18%) Confluence
3 12 (2.73%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.68%) SAS
5 2 (0.45%) nginx
6 1 (0.23%) CMS
6 1 (0.23%) IIS
6 1 (0.23%) JBoss
6 1 (0.23%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (1.59%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.23%) Finacle
1 1 (0.23%) FLEXCUBE
1 1 (0.23%) Infor SunSystems
1 1 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
1 1 (0.23%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 440 (100.00%) Serverless
2 439 (99.77%) AWS
3 298 (67.73%) Amazon S3
4 175 (39.77%) Amazon ECS
5 171 (38.86%) AWS CloudFormation
6 104 (23.64%) Amazon EC2
7 97 (22.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 94 (21.36%) AWS Step Functions
9 79 (17.95%) GitHub
10 78 (17.73%) Amazon SQS
11 73 (16.59%) Amazon EKS
12 56 (12.73%) Datadog
13 55 (12.50%) Azure
13 55 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
14 48 (10.91%) Amazon EventBridge
15 42 (9.55%) SaaS
16 41 (9.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 39 (8.86%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 35 (7.95%) Amazon ECR
19 30 (6.82%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 16 (3.64%) Network Security
2 12 (2.73%) Firewall
3 6 (1.36%) AMQP
3 6 (1.36%) VPN
4 4 (0.91%) DNS
4 4 (0.91%) IPv4
4 4 (0.91%) Software-Defined Networking
5 2 (0.45%) Broadband
5 2 (0.45%) DSL
5 2 (0.45%) 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%) SSL
6 1 (0.23%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.23%) VLAN
6 1 (0.23%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 160 (36.36%) DynamoDB
2 96 (21.82%) Amazon RDS
3 56 (12.73%) NoSQL
4 50 (11.36%) Amazon Athena
5 45 (10.23%) Amazon Redshift
6 26 (5.91%) Data Warehouse
7 25 (5.68%) PostgreSQL
8 19 (4.32%) SQL Server
9 17 (3.86%) Relational Database
10 15 (3.41%) Metadata
11 14 (3.18%) Elasticsearch
12 12 (2.73%) Big Data
13 11 (2.50%) MySQL
14 10 (2.27%) MongoDB
15 9 (2.05%) Amazon Aurora
15 9 (2.05%) Data Lake
16 7 (1.59%) Hadoop
16 7 (1.59%) Power BI
17 6 (1.36%) Azure SQL Database
17 6 (1.36%) Looker
Development Applications
1 99 (22.50%) Git
2 93 (21.14%) Jenkins
3 57 (12.95%) GitLab
4 26 (5.91%) Maven
5 24 (5.45%) SonarQube
6 23 (5.23%) Cypress.io
6 23 (5.23%) JIRA
7 14 (3.18%) Bitbucket
8 12 (2.73%) TeamCity
9 10 (2.27%) Cucumber
10 9 (2.05%) CircleCI
11 8 (1.82%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 7 (1.59%) Postman
13 6 (1.36%) Claude Code
13 6 (1.36%) Gradle
14 4 (0.91%) Artifactory
14 4 (0.91%) Selenium
14 4 (0.91%) SpecFlow
15 3 (0.68%) git-flow
15 3 (0.68%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 102 (23.18%) Social Skills
2 100 (22.73%) Finance
3 53 (12.05%) Public Sector
4 42 (9.55%) Banking
5 37 (8.41%) Analytical Skills
6 26 (5.91%) Law
7 19 (4.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 17 (3.86%) Marketing
9 11 (2.50%) Aviation
9 11 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
9 11 (2.50%) Retail
9 11 (2.50%) Telecoms
10 10 (2.27%) Aerospace
11 9 (2.05%) Health Technology
12 7 (1.59%) Billing
12 7 (1.59%) Legal
13 6 (1.36%) Advertising
14 5 (1.14%) Front Office
14 5 (1.14%) Military
15 4 (0.91%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 156 (35.45%) Developer
2 141 (32.05%) Senior
3 66 (15.00%) Java Developer
4 60 (13.64%) Senior Developer
5 56 (12.73%) Full-Stack Developer
5 56 (12.73%) Lead
6 55 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
7 41 (9.32%) Data Engineer
8 39 (8.86%) AWS Developer
9 36 (8.18%) DevOps Engineer
10 33 (7.50%) Software Engineer
11 22 (5.00%) Platform Engineer
11 22 (5.00%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
12 20 (4.55%) Cloud Engineer
13 19 (4.32%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 18 (4.09%) Architect
14 18 (4.09%) Consultant
14 18 (4.09%) Senior Consultant
15 16 (3.64%) AWS Data Engineer
15 16 (3.64%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 192 (43.64%) Terraform
2 120 (27.27%) Node.js
3 89 (20.23%) AngularJS
4 80 (18.18%) React
5 68 (15.45%) Spring Boot
6 56 (12.73%) Spring
7 47 (10.68%) REST
8 43 (9.77%) RESTful
9 42 (9.55%) AWS CDK
10 38 (8.64%) Kafka
11 28 (6.36%) .NET
11 28 (6.36%) Jest
11 28 (6.36%) Swagger
12 26 (5.91%) Gherkin
13 24 (5.45%) RabbitMQ
14 22 (5.00%) OpenAPI
15 21 (4.77%) JSON
15 21 (4.77%) YAML
16 18 (4.09%) OpenTelemetry
17 15 (3.41%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 117 (26.59%) Cloud Native
2 35 (7.95%) Distributed Systems
3 25 (5.68%) Onboarding
4 18 (4.09%) Enterprise Cloud
4 18 (4.09%) Hybrid Cloud
5 17 (3.86%) Greenfield Project
6 15 (3.41%) Linux Command Line
7 11 (2.50%) Mobile Banking
7 11 (2.50%) Product Ownership
8 9 (2.05%) Blockchain
8 9 (2.05%) Web3
9 8 (1.82%) AI Agents
10 7 (1.59%) Data Structures
10 7 (1.59%) Low-Code
10 7 (1.59%) NHS
11 6 (1.36%) Public Cloud
12 5 (1.14%) IoT
12 5 (1.14%) IVR
13 4 (0.91%) Blog
13 4 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 42 (9.55%) Linux
2 13 (2.95%) Windows
3 7 (1.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.14%) CentOS
4 5 (1.14%) Debian
4 5 (1.14%) Ubuntu
4 5 (1.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 259 (58.86%) CI/CD
2 188 (42.73%) DevOps
3 178 (40.45%) Infrastructure as Code
4 165 (37.50%) Agile
5 115 (26.14%) Mentoring
6 110 (25.00%) AI
7 104 (23.64%) Software Engineering
8 97 (22.05%) Microservices
9 88 (20.00%) Observability
10 86 (19.55%) Problem-Solving
11 85 (19.32%) Full-Stack Development
12 83 (18.86%) Containerisation
13 71 (16.14%) Continuous Improvement
14 66 (15.00%) Test Automation
15 65 (14.77%) Event-Driven
16 58 (13.18%) Analytics
17 56 (12.73%) Collaborative Culture
18 53 (12.05%) Data Modelling
19 52 (11.82%) Technical Leadership
20 48 (10.91%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 236 (53.64%) Python
2 130 (29.55%) SQL
2 130 (29.55%) TypeScript
3 123 (27.95%) Java
4 77 (17.50%) Bash
5 48 (10.91%) JavaScript
6 35 (7.95%) Kotlin
7 34 (7.73%) Groovy
8 27 (6.14%) C#
9 20 (4.55%) PHP
9 20 (4.55%) PowerShell
10 19 (4.32%) Ruby
11 18 (4.09%) Perl
12 15 (3.41%) Go
13 9 (2.05%) Scala
14 4 (0.91%) Shell Script
15 3 (0.68%) Rust
16 2 (0.45%) C++
16 2 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 2 (0.45%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 96 (21.82%) Security Cleared
2 67 (15.23%) AWS Certification
3 61 (13.86%) SC Cleared
4 35 (7.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 29 (6.59%) DV Cleared
6 19 (4.32%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 19 (4.32%) Degree
7 15 (3.41%) ITIL Certification
8 9 (2.05%) AWS Certified Developer
9 7 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (1.36%) Master's Degree
10 6 (1.36%) OSCP
11 5 (1.14%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 5 (1.14%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 5 (1.14%) RHCE
12 4 (0.91%) CCNA
12 4 (0.91%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (0.91%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.91%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (6.82%) Data Quality
2 26 (5.91%) QA
3 14 (3.18%) GDPR
4 10 (2.27%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.14%) HIPAA
7 3 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.68%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.23%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 160 (36.36%) Docker
2 6 (1.36%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.91%) Squid
3 4 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.91%) VMware NSX
3 4 (0.91%) vSphere
4 3 (0.68%) Firmware
5 1 (0.23%) iptables
Systems Management
1 75 (17.05%) Kubernetes
2 44 (10.00%) Ansible
3 32 (7.27%) Prometheus
4 31 (7.05%) Grafana
5 17 (3.86%) HP Fortify
5 17 (3.86%) Packer
6 8 (1.82%) Puppet
7 5 (1.14%) Argo
8 4 (0.91%) Kibana
8 4 (0.91%) ZABBIX
9 3 (0.68%) Scalr
9 3 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.45%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.23%) Fluentd
11 1 (0.23%) logstash
11 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 20 (4.55%) Databricks
2 14 (3.18%) Oracle
2 14 (3.18%) Red Hat
2 14 (3.18%) Splunk
3 12 (2.73%) OpenAI
4 10 (2.27%) Google
5 9 (2.05%) Microsoft
6 8 (1.82%) Salesforce
7 7 (1.59%) AppDynamics
7 7 (1.59%) Avaya
7 7 (1.59%) Cisco
7 7 (1.59%) Dynatrace
7 7 (1.59%) Genesys
7 7 (1.59%) HubSpot
8 6 (1.36%) IBM
9 5 (1.14%) SaltStack
10 4 (0.91%) VMware
11 3 (0.68%) Atlassian
11 3 (0.68%) PeopleSoft
11 3 (0.68%) SnapLogic