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 15 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 364 307 408
Rank change year-on-year -57 +101 -48
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 422 396 524
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.48% 0.91% 0.59%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.76% 2.76% 1.79%
Number of salaries quoted 277 296 394
10th Percentile £50,000 £47,125 £51,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £76,250
Median % change year-on-year - -1.64% +5.17%
75th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £112,500 £115,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% - +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 24,020 14,359 29,205
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 27.42% 33.13% 33.00%
Number of salaries quoted 16,016 10,262 22,984
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £30,080
25th Percentile £43,847 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -8.00%

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 15 July 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 15 July 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 -69 168 £88,750 +10.94% 52
North of England +41 147 £75,000 +15.38% 58
Yorkshire +21 90 £75,000 +25.00% 16
North West +1 44 £71,250 +9.62% 26
South West -56 36 £61,500 -1.60% 33
Midlands -22 34 £57,500 +35.29% 29
South East -15 31 £67,500 +22.73% 31
East Midlands -2 26 £55,000 +18.92% 18
North East -46 13 £75,000 +15.38% 16
West Midlands -42 8 £62,500 +47.06% 11
East of England -45 4 £62,500 -26.47% 20
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 27 (6.40%) Apache
2 21 (4.98%) Apache Spark
3 15 (3.55%) Apache Airflow
4 13 (3.08%) Confluence
5 3 (0.71%) JBoss
5 3 (0.71%) SAS
6 1 (0.24%) CMS
6 1 (0.24%) IIS
6 1 (0.24%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.24%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (1.90%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.24%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 422 (100.00%) Serverless
2 421 (99.76%) AWS
3 287 (68.01%) Amazon S3
4 172 (40.76%) AWS CloudFormation
5 159 (37.68%) Amazon ECS
6 108 (25.59%) AWS Step Functions
7 100 (23.70%) Amazon EC2
8 89 (21.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 83 (19.67%) Amazon SQS
10 76 (18.01%) GitHub
11 62 (14.69%) Amazon EKS
12 52 (12.32%) Amazon EventBridge
13 50 (11.85%) GitHub Actions
14 46 (10.90%) Datadog
15 44 (10.43%) Azure
16 43 (10.19%) Amazon ECR
17 39 (9.24%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 39 (9.24%) Apigee
18 35 (8.29%) Cloud Computing
19 32 (7.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 20 (4.74%) Network Security
2 13 (3.08%) Firewall
3 9 (2.13%) AMQP
3 9 (2.13%) DSL
4 5 (1.18%) VPN
5 4 (0.95%) DNS
5 4 (0.95%) IPv4
5 4 (0.95%) Software-Defined Networking
6 3 (0.71%) Broadband
7 2 (0.47%) 4G
7 2 (0.47%) 5G
7 2 (0.47%) VoIP
8 1 (0.24%) DHCP
8 1 (0.24%) HTTP
8 1 (0.24%) PSTN
8 1 (0.24%) SSL
8 1 (0.24%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.24%) VLAN
8 1 (0.24%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 171 (40.52%) DynamoDB
2 84 (19.91%) Amazon RDS
3 61 (14.45%) NoSQL
4 50 (11.85%) Amazon Athena
5 37 (8.77%) Amazon Redshift
6 19 (4.50%) PostgreSQL
7 17 (4.03%) Data Warehouse
8 16 (3.79%) Relational Database
8 16 (3.79%) SQL Server
9 13 (3.08%) MySQL
10 12 (2.84%) Big Data
11 10 (2.37%) Elasticsearch
12 8 (1.90%) Data Lake
12 8 (1.90%) Metadata
13 7 (1.66%) Amazon Aurora
13 7 (1.66%) Hadoop
14 6 (1.42%) Apache Iceberg
14 6 (1.42%) Cloudera CDH
14 6 (1.42%) Power BI
15 5 (1.18%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 118 (27.96%) Jenkins
2 88 (20.85%) Git
3 77 (18.25%) GitLab
4 35 (8.29%) Maven
5 34 (8.06%) SonarQube
6 32 (7.58%) Cypress.io
7 23 (5.45%) JIRA
8 15 (3.55%) CircleCI
9 14 (3.32%) Bitbucket
10 11 (2.61%) TeamCity
11 10 (2.37%) Cucumber
12 7 (1.66%) Postman
13 6 (1.42%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 6 (1.42%) Claude Code
13 6 (1.42%) Selenium
14 5 (1.18%) Gradle
15 4 (0.95%) Artifactory
15 4 (0.95%) SpecFlow
16 3 (0.71%) Octopus Deploy
17 2 (0.47%) Jasmine
General
1 96 (22.75%) Social Skills
2 75 (17.77%) Finance
3 48 (11.37%) Public Sector
4 32 (7.58%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (5.21%) Banking
6 10 (2.37%) Health Technology
7 9 (2.13%) Aerospace
7 9 (2.13%) Telecoms
8 8 (1.90%) Advertising
8 8 (1.90%) Billing
8 8 (1.90%) Influencing Skills
9 7 (1.66%) Military
10 5 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.18%) Publishing
11 4 (0.95%) Marketing
11 4 (0.95%) Tech for Good
12 3 (0.71%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.71%) Law
12 3 (0.71%) Legal
13 2 (0.47%) Games
Job Titles
1 167 (39.57%) Developer
2 151 (35.78%) Senior
3 75 (17.77%) Java Developer
4 66 (15.64%) Senior Developer
5 57 (13.51%) Full-Stack Developer
6 46 (10.90%) AWS Engineer
7 45 (10.66%) AWS Developer
8 41 (9.72%) Lead
9 40 (9.48%) Data Engineer
10 33 (7.82%) Software Engineer
11 29 (6.87%) DevOps Engineer
12 24 (5.69%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
13 23 (5.45%) Platform Engineer
14 21 (4.98%) Architect
14 21 (4.98%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 20 (4.74%) Consultant
15 20 (4.74%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 19 (4.50%) AWS Data Engineer
17 18 (4.27%) Python Developer
17 18 (4.27%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (30.33%) Node.js
2 96 (22.75%) AngularJS
3 95 (22.51%) React
4 77 (18.25%) Spring Boot
5 55 (13.03%) Spring
6 45 (10.66%) RESTful
7 44 (10.43%) REST
8 40 (9.48%) AWS CDK
8 40 (9.48%) Kafka
9 36 (8.53%) Gherkin
10 31 (7.35%) Jest
11 29 (6.87%) RabbitMQ
12 23 (5.45%) JSON
12 23 (5.45%) Swagger
13 22 (5.21%) YAML
14 21 (4.98%) .NET
15 20 (4.74%) gRPC
16 15 (3.55%) OpenAPI
16 15 (3.55%) PySpark
17 14 (3.32%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 93 (22.04%) Cloud Native
2 36 (8.53%) Distributed Systems
3 24 (5.69%) Onboarding
4 18 (4.27%) Enterprise Cloud
5 16 (3.79%) Greenfield Project
6 14 (3.32%) Blockchain
6 14 (3.32%) Product Ownership
6 14 (3.32%) Web3
7 11 (2.61%) Data Structures
8 6 (1.42%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (1.42%) Public Cloud
9 5 (1.18%) IoT
9 5 (1.18%) IVR
9 5 (1.18%) Linux Command Line
9 5 (1.18%) NHS
9 5 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (0.95%) AI Agents
10 4 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (0.95%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 45 (10.66%) Linux
2 12 (2.84%) Windows
3 8 (1.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (1.42%) CentOS
4 6 (1.42%) Debian
4 6 (1.42%) Ubuntu
5 4 (0.95%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 255 (60.43%) CI/CD
2 188 (44.55%) DevOps
3 175 (41.47%) Infrastructure as Code
4 160 (37.91%) Agile
5 97 (22.99%) AI
6 92 (21.80%) Full-Stack Development
6 92 (21.80%) Mentoring
7 91 (21.56%) Software Engineering
8 86 (20.38%) Containerisation
9 84 (19.91%) Microservices
10 75 (17.77%) Problem-Solving
11 73 (17.30%) Observability
12 70 (16.59%) Test Automation
13 65 (15.40%) Event-Driven
14 54 (12.80%) Analytics
15 50 (11.85%) Continuous Integration
15 50 (11.85%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 45 (10.66%) Data Modelling
16 45 (10.66%) Data Pipeline
17 44 (10.43%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 227 (53.79%) Python
2 135 (31.99%) TypeScript
3 129 (30.57%) Java
4 113 (26.78%) SQL
5 77 (18.25%) Bash
6 55 (13.03%) JavaScript
7 44 (10.43%) Groovy
8 34 (8.06%) Kotlin
9 27 (6.40%) Go
10 23 (5.45%) PHP
11 20 (4.74%) C#
12 19 (4.50%) PowerShell
13 18 (4.27%) Perl
14 14 (3.32%) Ruby
15 9 (2.13%) Rust
16 7 (1.66%) Scala
17 2 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 2 (0.47%) PL/SQL
17 2 (0.47%) R
17 2 (0.47%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 85 (20.14%) Security Cleared
2 75 (17.77%) AWS Certification
3 48 (11.37%) SC Cleared
4 38 (9.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 35 (8.29%) Degree
6 26 (6.16%) DV Cleared
7 25 (5.92%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 22 (5.21%) ITIL Certification
9 13 (3.08%) OSCP
10 10 (2.37%) AWS Certified Developer
11 7 (1.66%) Computer Science Degree
12 6 (1.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 6 (1.42%) Master's Degree
13 5 (1.18%) RHCE
14 4 (0.95%) CCNA
14 4 (0.95%) Cisco Certification
14 4 (0.95%) ISTQB
14 4 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
14 4 (0.95%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 4 (0.95%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (4.98%) Data Quality
1 21 (4.98%) QA
2 11 (2.61%) GDPR
3 8 (1.90%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.95%) HIPAA
6 3 (0.71%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.24%) MiFID
7 1 (0.24%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 154 (36.49%) Docker
2 4 (0.95%) Active Directory
2 4 (0.95%) Squid
2 4 (0.95%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (0.95%) VMware NSX
2 4 (0.95%) vSphere
3 3 (0.71%) Firmware
3 3 (0.71%) iptables
Systems Management
1 186 (44.08%) Terraform
2 83 (19.67%) Kubernetes
3 51 (12.09%) Ansible
4 35 (8.29%) Prometheus
5 27 (6.40%) Grafana
5 27 (6.40%) HP Fortify
6 17 (4.03%) Packer
7 9 (2.13%) Puppet
8 5 (1.18%) Argo
9 4 (0.95%) Kibana
9 4 (0.95%) Progress Chef
9 4 (0.95%) ZABBIX
10 3 (0.71%) Scalr
11 1 (0.24%) logstash
11 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 14 (3.32%) Splunk
2 12 (2.84%) Red Hat
3 9 (2.13%) Databricks
3 9 (2.13%) Oracle
4 7 (1.66%) AppDynamics
4 7 (1.66%) Avaya
4 7 (1.66%) Cisco
4 7 (1.66%) Genesys
4 7 (1.66%) Google
4 7 (1.66%) HubSpot
5 6 (1.42%) IBM
5 6 (1.42%) Microsoft
5 6 (1.42%) SaltStack
6 5 (1.18%) OpenAI
6 5 (1.18%) Salesforce
7 4 (0.95%) Dynatrace
7 4 (0.95%) VMware
8 3 (0.71%) SnapLogic
9 1 (0.24%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 1 (0.24%) Solace