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

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 373 335 405
Rank change year-on-year -38 +70 -62
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 453 342 400
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.46% 0.79% 0.58%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.85% 2.43% 1.82%
Number of salaries quoted 275 246 234
10th Percentile £46,217 £51,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £54,375 £62,125 £62,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £95,938
90th Percentile £108,900 £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 24,517 14,058 21,928
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 24.98% 32.57% 31.65%
Number of salaries quoted 16,985 9,805 15,067
10th Percentile £31,500 £29,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £39,377 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% -4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £102,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -2.44% -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 5 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 5 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 +52 179 £72,500 +11.54% 42
London -61 170 £85,000 +13.33% 168
Yorkshire +7 83 £80,000 +13.48% 11
North West +23 62 £70,000 +7.69% 22
South East -16 35 £67,500 -18.18% 17
North East -29 34 £62,500 -13.79% 9
South West -73 33 £66,250 -22.06% 29
Midlands -30 29 £65,000 +52.94% 16
East Midlands -14 20 £65,000 +73.33% 11
West Midlands -46 9 £62,500 +47.06% 5
East of England -63 2 £77,500 -8.82% 9
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 23 (5.08%) Apache Spark
2 20 (4.42%) Apache
3 13 (2.87%) Confluence
4 10 (2.21%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.66%) SAS
6 2 (0.44%) nginx
7 1 (0.22%) CMS
7 1 (0.22%) IIS
7 1 (0.22%) JBoss
7 1 (0.22%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (1.55%) Chatbot
Business Applications
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
1 453 (100.00%) Serverless
2 451 (99.56%) AWS
3 296 (65.34%) Amazon S3
4 172 (37.97%) Amazon ECS
5 170 (37.53%) AWS CloudFormation
6 118 (26.05%) Amazon EC2
7 97 (21.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 89 (19.65%) AWS Step Functions
9 77 (17.00%) Amazon EKS
9 77 (17.00%) Amazon SQS
10 75 (16.56%) GitHub
11 57 (12.58%) Azure
12 55 (12.14%) Datadog
13 52 (11.48%) GitHub Actions
14 49 (10.82%) Amazon EventBridge
15 42 (9.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 39 (8.61%) SaaS
17 36 (7.95%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 33 (7.28%) Amazon ECR
19 30 (6.62%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 15 (3.31%) Network Security
2 12 (2.65%) Firewall
3 6 (1.32%) AMQP
3 6 (1.32%) VPN
4 4 (0.88%) DNS
4 4 (0.88%) IPv4
4 4 (0.88%) Software-Defined Networking
5 2 (0.44%) Broadband
5 2 (0.44%) VoIP
6 1 (0.22%) 4G
6 1 (0.22%) 5G
6 1 (0.22%) DHCP
6 1 (0.22%) DSL
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 (35.10%) DynamoDB
2 97 (21.41%) Amazon RDS
3 53 (11.70%) NoSQL
4 48 (10.60%) Amazon Athena
5 43 (9.49%) Amazon Redshift
6 27 (5.96%) PostgreSQL
7 26 (5.74%) Data Warehouse
8 19 (4.19%) SQL Server
9 18 (3.97%) Relational Database
10 16 (3.53%) Spark SQL
11 14 (3.09%) Elasticsearch
12 13 (2.87%) Big Data
12 13 (2.87%) Metadata
13 12 (2.65%) MongoDB
14 11 (2.43%) MySQL
15 10 (2.21%) Amazon Aurora
15 10 (2.21%) Data Lake
16 8 (1.77%) Power BI
17 7 (1.55%) Amazon QuickSight
17 7 (1.55%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 103 (22.74%) Git
2 91 (20.09%) Jenkins
3 53 (11.70%) GitLab
4 25 (5.52%) Maven
5 23 (5.08%) SonarQube
6 22 (4.86%) Cypress.io
6 22 (4.86%) JIRA
7 13 (2.87%) Bitbucket
8 12 (2.65%) TeamCity
9 10 (2.21%) Cucumber
10 9 (1.99%) CircleCI
11 8 (1.77%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 6 (1.32%) Claude Code
12 6 (1.32%) Gradle
12 6 (1.32%) Postman
13 4 (0.88%) Artifactory
13 4 (0.88%) Selenium
14 3 (0.66%) git-flow
14 3 (0.66%) Octopus Deploy
14 3 (0.66%) SpecFlow
General
1 100 (22.08%) Finance
1 100 (22.08%) Social Skills
2 65 (14.35%) Public Sector
3 48 (10.60%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (9.05%) Banking
5 27 (5.96%) Law
6 21 (4.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 17 (3.75%) Marketing
8 11 (2.43%) Aviation
8 11 (2.43%) Influencing Skills
8 11 (2.43%) Retail
8 11 (2.43%) Telecoms
9 10 (2.21%) Aerospace
10 8 (1.77%) Health Technology
11 7 (1.55%) Billing
11 7 (1.55%) Legal
12 6 (1.32%) Advertising
13 5 (1.10%) Front Office
13 5 (1.10%) Military
14 4 (0.88%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 148 (32.67%) Developer
2 136 (30.02%) Senior
3 60 (13.25%) Java Developer
4 58 (12.80%) AWS Engineer
5 57 (12.58%) Lead
6 56 (12.36%) Senior Developer
7 55 (12.14%) Data Engineer
8 54 (11.92%) Full-Stack Developer
9 38 (8.39%) AWS Developer
9 38 (8.39%) DevOps Engineer
10 34 (7.51%) Software Engineer
11 22 (4.86%) Cloud Engineer
12 21 (4.64%) Platform Engineer
13 20 (4.42%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
14 19 (4.19%) Architect
15 18 (3.97%) Consultant
15 18 (3.97%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 18 (3.97%) Senior Consultant
16 15 (3.31%) AWS Data Engineer
16 15 (3.31%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 197 (43.49%) Terraform
2 116 (25.61%) Node.js
3 85 (18.76%) AngularJS
4 79 (17.44%) React
5 64 (14.13%) Spring Boot
6 53 (11.70%) Spring
7 47 (10.38%) REST
8 45 (9.93%) RESTful
9 44 (9.71%) AWS CDK
10 42 (9.27%) .NET
11 40 (8.83%) Kafka
12 32 (7.06%) PySpark
13 28 (6.18%) Swagger
14 27 (5.96%) Jest
15 25 (5.52%) Gherkin
16 23 (5.08%) RabbitMQ
17 22 (4.86%) OpenAPI
18 21 (4.64%) JSON
19 20 (4.42%) YAML
20 18 (3.97%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 114 (25.17%) Cloud Native
2 37 (8.17%) Distributed Systems
3 31 (6.84%) Hybrid Cloud
4 26 (5.74%) Onboarding
5 18 (3.97%) Enterprise Cloud
6 17 (3.75%) Linux Command Line
7 16 (3.53%) Greenfield Project
8 11 (2.43%) Mobile Banking
8 11 (2.43%) Product Ownership
9 9 (1.99%) AI Agents
10 8 (1.77%) Blockchain
10 8 (1.77%) Web3
11 7 (1.55%) Data Structures
11 7 (1.55%) Low-Code
11 7 (1.55%) NHS
12 6 (1.32%) Blog
12 6 (1.32%) Public Cloud
13 5 (1.10%) IVR
14 4 (0.88%) Algorithms
14 4 (0.88%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 41 (9.05%) Linux
2 12 (2.65%) Windows
3 7 (1.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.10%) CentOS
4 5 (1.10%) Debian
4 5 (1.10%) Ubuntu
4 5 (1.10%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 272 (60.04%) CI/CD
2 184 (40.62%) DevOps
2 184 (40.62%) Infrastructure as Code
3 178 (39.29%) Agile
4 128 (28.26%) Mentoring
5 113 (24.94%) AI
6 101 (22.30%) Software Engineering
7 97 (21.41%) Full-Stack Development
8 96 (21.19%) Microservices
9 94 (20.75%) Observability
10 87 (19.21%) Problem-Solving
11 80 (17.66%) Event-Driven
12 76 (16.78%) Analytics
13 75 (16.56%) Continuous Improvement
14 74 (16.34%) Containerisation
15 65 (14.35%) Decision-Making
15 65 (14.35%) Test Automation
16 60 (13.25%) ETL
17 57 (12.58%) Data Engineering
18 54 (11.92%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 237 (52.32%) Python
2 144 (31.79%) SQL
3 134 (29.58%) Java
4 129 (28.48%) TypeScript
5 79 (17.44%) Bash
6 61 (13.47%) JavaScript
7 41 (9.05%) C#
8 35 (7.73%) Groovy
9 32 (7.06%) Kotlin
10 19 (4.19%) PowerShell
10 19 (4.19%) Ruby
11 18 (3.97%) Perl
11 18 (3.97%) PHP
12 17 (3.75%) C++
13 13 (2.87%) Go
14 10 (2.21%) Scala
15 5 (1.10%) Shell Script
16 3 (0.66%) Rust
17 2 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 2 (0.44%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 98 (21.63%) Security Cleared
2 66 (14.57%) AWS Certification
3 62 (13.69%) SC Cleared
4 34 (7.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 29 (6.40%) DV Cleared
6 18 (3.97%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 17 (3.75%) Degree
8 14 (3.09%) ITIL Certification
9 9 (1.99%) AWS Certified Developer
10 8 (1.77%) BPSS Clearance
11 6 (1.32%) Master's Degree
12 5 (1.10%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 5 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (1.10%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 5 (1.10%) OSCP
12 5 (1.10%) RHCE
13 4 (0.88%) CCNA
13 4 (0.88%) Cisco Certification
13 4 (0.88%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.88%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (10.15%) Data Quality
2 24 (5.30%) QA
3 14 (3.09%) GDPR
4 11 (2.43%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.10%) HIPAA
5 5 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.66%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.22%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.22%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 155 (34.22%) Docker
2 6 (1.32%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.88%) Squid
3 4 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.88%) VMware NSX
3 4 (0.88%) vSphere
4 1 (0.22%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 74 (16.34%) Kubernetes
2 43 (9.49%) Ansible
3 33 (7.28%) Prometheus
4 32 (7.06%) Grafana
5 17 (3.75%) Packer
6 16 (3.53%) HP Fortify
7 7 (1.55%) Puppet
8 5 (1.10%) Argo
9 4 (0.88%) Kibana
9 4 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.88%) ZABBIX
10 3 (0.66%) Scalr
11 2 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.44%) Rancher
12 1 (0.22%) Fluentd
12 1 (0.22%) logstash
12 1 (0.22%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 23 (5.08%) Databricks
2 14 (3.09%) Oracle
2 14 (3.09%) Red Hat
2 14 (3.09%) Splunk
3 12 (2.65%) OpenAI
4 10 (2.21%) Google
4 10 (2.21%) Microsoft
5 9 (1.99%) Dynatrace
6 8 (1.77%) Salesforce
7 7 (1.55%) AppDynamics
7 7 (1.55%) Avaya
7 7 (1.55%) Cisco
7 7 (1.55%) Genesys
7 7 (1.55%) HubSpot
8 6 (1.32%) IBM
9 5 (1.10%) SaltStack
10 4 (0.88%) SnapLogic
10 4 (0.88%) VMware
11 3 (0.66%) Atlassian
11 3 (0.66%) ServiceNow