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 19 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 328 205 343
Rank change year-on-year -123 +138 -2
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 309 699 425
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.58% 1.46% 0.80%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.65% 3.99% 2.02%
Number of salaries quoted 213 313 361
10th Percentile £51,818 £56,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £66,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £90,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.44% +28.57% -15.15%
75th Percentile £87,500 £115,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £107,000 £138,750 £110,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £85,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -17.65% +21.43% -12.50%

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 18,685 17,508 21,058
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 34.83% 36.63% 39.82%
Number of salaries quoted 10,370 10,350 17,680
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,500 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,800 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%

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 19 January 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 19 January 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 -119 149 £76,000 -23.04% 68
North of England +58 77 £65,000 -4.94% 80
Yorkshire +32 60 £63,750 +6.25% 42
Midlands +33 31 £57,500 -8.00% 45
South West +10 29 £62,500 -7.41% 55
North West +12 17 £65,000 -6.14% 27
East Midlands +2 16 £65,000 -7.14% 27
West Midlands +30 15 £50,000 +8.11% 16
South East -94 12 £67,500 +17.39% 106
East of England -15 3 £100,000 +37.93% 70
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 32 (10.36%) Apache Spark
2 25 (8.09%) Apache
3 12 (3.88%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (2.91%) WebSphere
5 7 (2.27%) Tomcat
6 6 (1.94%) WebSphere Application Server
7 3 (0.97%) Confluence
8 2 (0.65%) nginx
8 2 (0.65%) Oracle Application Server
9 1 (0.32%) JBoss
9 1 (0.32%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.32%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (1.62%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 309 (100.00%) AWS
1 309 (100.00%) Serverless
2 215 (69.58%) Amazon S3
3 107 (34.63%) AWS CloudFormation
4 75 (24.27%) AWS Step Functions
5 66 (21.36%) Amazon EC2
5 66 (21.36%) Amazon ECS
6 61 (19.74%) Amazon SQS
7 57 (18.45%) GitHub
8 56 (18.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 51 (16.50%) Amazon EKS
10 45 (14.56%) Azure
11 40 (12.94%) GitHub Actions
12 30 (9.71%) Amazon ECR
13 29 (9.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 23 (7.44%) Amazon EventBridge
15 22 (7.12%) Apigee
16 21 (6.80%) GCP
17 19 (6.15%) SaaS
18 18 (5.83%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.88%) AMQP
2 7 (2.27%) SSL
3 6 (1.94%) Broadband
4 4 (1.29%) DSL
4 4 (1.29%) Firewall
5 3 (0.97%) Network Security
5 3 (0.97%) VPN
6 2 (0.65%) DNS
6 2 (0.65%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.32%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (32.69%) DynamoDB
2 74 (23.95%) Amazon RDS
3 50 (16.18%) Amazon Redshift
4 44 (14.24%) Data Warehouse
5 39 (12.62%) NoSQL
6 38 (12.30%) PostgreSQL
7 22 (7.12%) Data Lake
8 21 (6.80%) SQL Server
9 20 (6.47%) Big Data
10 17 (5.50%) Elasticsearch
11 16 (5.18%) Amazon Athena
11 16 (5.18%) MongoDB
12 14 (4.53%) Hadoop
13 11 (3.56%) Relational Database
14 10 (3.24%) Apache Iceberg
15 8 (2.59%) Apache Hive
15 8 (2.59%) DB2
15 8 (2.59%) MySQL
16 6 (1.94%) Amazon Aurora
17 5 (1.62%) Cloudera CDH
Development Applications
1 68 (22.01%) Jenkins
2 47 (15.21%) GitLab
3 45 (14.56%) Git
4 28 (9.06%) Cypress.io
5 20 (6.47%) Maven
5 20 (6.47%) SonarQube
6 12 (3.88%) Bitbucket
7 10 (3.24%) JIRA
8 7 (2.27%) MLflow
9 5 (1.62%) CircleCI
9 5 (1.62%) git-flow
9 5 (1.62%) Vite
10 3 (0.97%) ESLint
10 3 (0.97%) JUnit
11 2 (0.65%) DBeaver
11 2 (0.65%) ER Studio
11 2 (0.65%) Mocha
11 2 (0.65%) webpack
12 1 (0.32%) Cucumber
12 1 (0.32%) Zephyr
General
1 86 (27.83%) Social Skills
2 48 (15.53%) Finance
3 28 (9.06%) Tech for Good
4 25 (8.09%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (7.77%) Health Technology
5 24 (7.77%) Publishing
6 15 (4.85%) Influencing Skills
7 14 (4.53%) Organisational Skills
8 13 (4.21%) Banking
9 11 (3.56%) Public Sector
10 9 (2.91%) Financial Institution
11 7 (2.27%) Advertising
11 7 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.29%) Aerospace
12 4 (1.29%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.97%) Billing
14 2 (0.65%) Games
14 2 (0.65%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.65%) Law
Job Titles
1 113 (36.57%) Developer
2 78 (25.24%) Senior
3 54 (17.48%) AWS Developer
4 48 (15.53%) Lead
5 38 (12.30%) AWS Engineer
6 37 (11.97%) Data Engineer
7 35 (11.33%) Software Engineer
8 34 (11.00%) Senior Developer
9 32 (10.36%) Python Developer
10 30 (9.71%) React Developer
11 28 (9.06%) Lead Developer
12 22 (7.12%) Java Developer
13 21 (6.80%) AWS Data Engineer
14 20 (6.47%) Software Developer
15 19 (6.15%) Full-Stack Developer
16 18 (5.83%) Senior Data Engineer
17 17 (5.50%) Lead Python Developer
18 16 (5.18%) Architect
18 16 (5.18%) DevOps Engineer
19 14 (4.53%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (32.36%) React
2 74 (23.95%) Node.js
3 55 (17.80%) Spring Boot
4 54 (17.48%) RESTful
5 47 (15.21%) Spring
6 41 (13.27%) AWS CDK
7 40 (12.94%) AngularJS
8 28 (9.06%) Kafka
9 27 (8.74%) Jest
10 25 (8.09%) RabbitMQ
11 23 (7.44%) HTML
12 20 (6.47%) .NET
12 20 (6.47%) Gherkin
13 18 (5.83%) CSS
14 17 (5.50%) Swagger
15 14 (4.53%) .NET Core
15 14 (4.53%) gRPC
16 13 (4.21%) ASP.NET
16 13 (4.21%) ASP.NET Core
16 13 (4.21%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 94 (30.42%) Cloud Native
2 18 (5.83%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (3.56%) Greenfield Project
4 9 (2.91%) Linux Command Line
4 9 (2.91%) Product Ownership
5 8 (2.59%) e-Learning
5 8 (2.59%) Virtual Team
6 7 (2.27%) Security Posture
7 6 (1.94%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.62%) Blockchain
8 5 (1.62%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (1.62%) Web3
9 3 (0.97%) Animation
9 3 (0.97%) Data Structures
9 3 (0.97%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (0.97%) Life Science
9 3 (0.97%) Management Information System
9 3 (0.97%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 34 (11.00%) Linux
2 13 (4.21%) Unix
3 12 (3.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (2.59%) Windows
5 5 (1.62%) CentOS
5 5 (1.62%) Debian
5 5 (1.62%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.32%) Android
6 1 (0.32%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 195 (63.11%) CI/CD
2 144 (46.60%) DevOps
3 128 (41.42%) Agile
4 118 (38.19%) Infrastructure as Code
5 79 (25.57%) Software Engineering
6 72 (23.30%) Mentoring
6 72 (23.30%) Problem-Solving
7 66 (21.36%) Microservices
8 61 (19.74%) Full-Stack Development
9 59 (19.09%) Containerisation
10 55 (17.80%) Scrum
11 46 (14.89%) Data Pipeline
12 45 (14.56%) Continuous Improvement
13 43 (13.92%) Observability
14 37 (11.97%) AI
14 37 (11.97%) Continuous Integration
14 37 (11.97%) Data Modelling
15 33 (10.68%) Data Engineering
16 32 (10.36%) Code Quality
16 32 (10.36%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 166 (53.72%) Python
2 105 (33.98%) TypeScript
3 88 (28.48%) Java
4 83 (26.86%) SQL
5 71 (22.98%) JavaScript
6 36 (11.65%) Bash
7 19 (6.15%) Groovy
8 17 (5.50%) Go
9 12 (3.88%) Scala
10 8 (2.59%) C#
11 7 (2.27%) PowerShell
12 5 (1.62%) Kotlin
13 4 (1.29%) Rust
14 3 (0.97%) C++
14 3 (0.97%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.65%) C
15 2 (0.65%) PHP
Qualifications
1 80 (25.89%) AWS Certification
2 46 (14.89%) Security Cleared
3 39 (12.62%) Degree
4 30 (9.71%) SC Cleared
5 26 (8.41%) AWS Certified Developer
6 23 (7.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 20 (6.47%) Computer Science Degree
8 19 (6.15%) DV Cleared
9 13 (4.21%) ITIL Certification
10 11 (3.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 5 (1.62%) OSCP
11 5 (1.62%) SnowPro
12 4 (1.29%) Master's Degree
12 4 (1.29%) MCP
13 3 (0.97%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 2 (0.65%) IIBA
15 1 (0.32%) GAWN
15 1 (0.32%) GCIH
15 1 (0.32%) GIAC
15 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (13.27%) QA
2 18 (5.83%) Data Quality
3 13 (4.21%) GDPR
4 6 (1.94%) Accessibility
4 6 (1.94%) SLA
5 5 (1.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.97%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.97%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.32%) GAAP
7 1 (0.32%) IFRS
7 1 (0.32%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.32%) NIST
7 1 (0.32%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 95 (30.74%) Docker
2 8 (2.59%) HDFS
3 2 (0.65%) iptables
4 1 (0.32%) vCloud
4 1 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.32%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.32%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 101 (32.69%) Terraform
2 72 (23.30%) Kubernetes
3 23 (7.44%) Ansible
3 23 (7.44%) Prometheus
4 20 (6.47%) Grafana
4 20 (6.47%) HP Fortify
5 7 (2.27%) Progress Chef
5 7 (2.27%) Puppet
6 3 (0.97%) Docker Swarm
6 3 (0.97%) Kibana
6 3 (0.97%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.32%) Argo
7 1 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (4.85%) Databricks
2 12 (3.88%) Oracle
3 11 (3.56%) Red Hat
4 9 (2.91%) Atlassian
4 9 (2.91%) IBM
5 8 (2.59%) Google
6 5 (1.62%) Salesforce
6 5 (1.62%) SaltStack
7 4 (1.29%) Microsoft
7 4 (1.29%) OpenAI
8 2 (0.65%) Informatica
9 1 (0.32%) Apple
9 1 (0.32%) Cisco
9 1 (0.32%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.32%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.32%) StreamSets
9 1 (0.32%) VMware
9 1 (0.32%) YouTube