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 31 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 343 188 353
Rank change year-on-year -155 +165 +19
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 362 633 568
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.52% 1.73% 0.73%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.58% 4.58% 1.98%
Number of salaries quoted 250 362 486
10th Percentile £51,868 £52,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £59,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £85,000 £74,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.71% +14.09% -0.67%
75th Percentile £87,188 £115,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £107,500 £138,750 £118,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £82,500 £71,500
% change year-on-year -15.15% +15.38% -4.67%

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 22,900 13,830 28,748
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 32.69% 37.77% 36.80%
Number of salaries quoted 12,351 10,166 23,917
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £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 31 March 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 31 March 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 -138 147 £85,000 -19.05% 91
North of England +15 117 £71,250 +5.56% 39
Yorkshire +35 101 £72,500 +26.09% 13
Midlands -18 41 £55,000 - 10
South West -34 32 £62,500 +4.17% 18
East Midlands -27 26 £60,000 -12.73% 2
North West -25 16 £70,000 -6.67% 22
West Midlands -19 15 £50,000 -9.09% 8
South East -134 13 £67,500 +22.73% 31
East of England -74 4 £62,500 -26.47% 12
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 28 (7.73%) Apache
2 25 (6.91%) Apache Spark
3 21 (5.80%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.38%) Confluence
5 3 (0.83%) JBoss
6 2 (0.55%) nginx
6 2 (0.55%) Oracle Application Server
6 2 (0.55%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.55%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.55%) WebSphere Application Server
7 1 (0.28%) CMS
7 1 (0.28%) IIS
7 1 (0.28%) SAS
7 1 (0.28%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (1.66%) Spreadsheet
2 4 (1.10%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 362 (100.00%) Serverless
2 361 (99.72%) AWS
3 270 (74.59%) Amazon S3
4 146 (40.33%) AWS CloudFormation
5 105 (29.01%) AWS Step Functions
6 104 (28.73%) Amazon ECS
7 88 (24.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 84 (23.20%) Amazon SQS
9 82 (22.65%) GitHub
10 70 (19.34%) Amazon EC2
11 60 (16.57%) GitHub Actions
12 51 (14.09%) Amazon ECR
13 46 (12.71%) Amazon EKS
14 45 (12.43%) Apigee
15 41 (11.33%) Azure
16 34 (9.39%) Datadog
17 32 (8.84%) Amazon EventBridge
18 27 (7.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 25 (6.91%) Amazon OpenSearch
20 22 (6.08%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.59%) DSL
2 11 (3.04%) AMQP
3 6 (1.66%) Network Security
4 5 (1.38%) Broadband
4 5 (1.38%) Firewall
5 3 (0.83%) DNS
5 3 (0.83%) SSL
5 3 (0.83%) VPN
6 1 (0.28%) 4G
6 1 (0.28%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 147 (40.61%) DynamoDB
2 78 (21.55%) Amazon RDS
3 62 (17.13%) NoSQL
4 42 (11.60%) Amazon Redshift
5 34 (9.39%) Amazon Athena
6 31 (8.56%) PostgreSQL
7 28 (7.73%) Data Warehouse
8 19 (5.25%) SQL Server
9 13 (3.59%) Big Data
9 13 (3.59%) Data Lake
10 11 (3.04%) MongoDB
10 11 (3.04%) MySQL
11 9 (2.49%) Hadoop
11 9 (2.49%) Relational Database
12 8 (2.21%) Amazon Aurora
12 8 (2.21%) Apache Iceberg
12 8 (2.21%) Metadata
13 6 (1.66%) Power BI
14 5 (1.38%) Cloudera CDH
14 5 (1.38%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 108 (29.83%) Jenkins
2 84 (23.20%) GitLab
3 57 (15.75%) Git
4 42 (11.60%) Cypress.io
4 42 (11.60%) Maven
5 40 (11.05%) SonarQube
6 13 (3.59%) CircleCI
7 11 (3.04%) JIRA
8 9 (2.49%) Bitbucket
9 7 (1.93%) MLflow
10 5 (1.38%) git-flow
11 4 (1.10%) Cucumber
11 4 (1.10%) Selenium
12 3 (0.83%) ESLint
12 3 (0.83%) JUnit
12 3 (0.83%) webpack
13 2 (0.55%) DBeaver
13 2 (0.55%) Deequ
13 2 (0.55%) Mocha
13 2 (0.55%) Postman
General
1 97 (26.80%) Social Skills
2 49 (13.54%) Finance
3 38 (10.50%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (4.97%) Banking
5 16 (4.42%) Health Technology
5 16 (4.42%) Public Sector
5 16 (4.42%) Tech for Good
6 15 (4.14%) Influencing Skills
6 15 (4.14%) Publishing
7 14 (3.87%) Organisational Skills
8 11 (3.04%) Advertising
9 7 (1.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.10%) Aerospace
10 4 (1.10%) Billing
10 4 (1.10%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.83%) Investment Banking
11 3 (0.83%) Law
11 3 (0.83%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.83%) Military
12 2 (0.55%) Legal
Job Titles
1 166 (45.86%) Developer
2 86 (23.76%) Senior
3 62 (17.13%) AWS Developer
4 61 (16.85%) Java Developer
5 50 (13.81%) Lead
6 47 (12.98%) Senior Developer
7 36 (9.94%) AWS Engineer
7 36 (9.94%) Full-Stack Developer
8 34 (9.39%) Software Engineer
9 33 (9.12%) Data Engineer
10 31 (8.56%) React Developer
11 30 (8.29%) Lead Developer
12 29 (8.01%) Python Developer
13 21 (5.80%) Software Developer
14 20 (5.52%) Architect
15 19 (5.25%) Node.js Developer
16 18 (4.97%) AWS Data Engineer
17 17 (4.70%) DevOps Engineer
17 17 (4.70%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 17 (4.70%) Lead Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (29.56%) Node.js
2 102 (28.18%) React
3 75 (20.72%) AngularJS
4 73 (20.17%) Spring Boot
5 57 (15.75%) RESTful
6 49 (13.54%) AWS CDK
7 45 (12.43%) Spring
8 42 (11.60%) Jest
9 40 (11.05%) Gherkin
10 30 (8.29%) Kafka
11 29 (8.01%) HTML
12 28 (7.73%) RabbitMQ
13 23 (6.35%) CSS
14 22 (6.08%) .NET
15 19 (5.25%) gRPC
16 18 (4.97%) REST
17 15 (4.14%) .NET Core
18 13 (3.59%) ASP.NET
18 13 (3.59%) ASP.NET Core
18 13 (3.59%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 96 (26.52%) Cloud Native
2 14 (3.87%) Product Ownership
3 13 (3.59%) Blockchain
3 13 (3.59%) Web3
4 12 (3.31%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (3.04%) Greenfield Project
6 8 (2.21%) Self-Motivation
7 7 (1.93%) Data Structures
8 6 (1.66%) Linux Command Line
9 5 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.38%) Security Posture
10 4 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.10%) Onboarding
11 3 (0.83%) Animation
11 3 (0.83%) e-Learning
11 3 (0.83%) IoT
11 3 (0.83%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (0.83%) Life Science
11 3 (0.83%) NHS
11 3 (0.83%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 27 (7.46%) Linux
2 9 (2.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (1.93%) Windows
4 5 (1.38%) CentOS
4 5 (1.38%) Debian
4 5 (1.38%) Ubuntu
5 4 (1.10%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 238 (65.75%) CI/CD
2 186 (51.38%) DevOps
3 148 (40.88%) Agile
4 136 (37.57%) Infrastructure as Code
5 87 (24.03%) Software Engineering
6 79 (21.82%) Full-Stack Development
7 78 (21.55%) Problem-Solving
8 76 (20.99%) Containerisation
9 75 (20.72%) Mentoring
10 73 (20.17%) Microservices
11 57 (15.75%) Observability
12 52 (14.36%) Continuous Integration
13 46 (12.71%) DevSecOps
14 45 (12.43%) Continuous Improvement
15 43 (11.88%) Data Pipeline
15 43 (11.88%) Test Automation
16 39 (10.77%) Scrum
17 38 (10.50%) AI
17 38 (10.50%) Analytics
18 35 (9.67%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 177 (48.90%) Python
2 127 (35.08%) TypeScript
3 110 (30.39%) Java
3 110 (30.39%) SQL
4 73 (20.17%) JavaScript
5 60 (16.57%) Bash
6 40 (11.05%) Groovy
7 29 (8.01%) Go
8 26 (7.18%) Kotlin
9 13 (3.59%) Rust
10 11 (3.04%) PowerShell
11 9 (2.49%) C#
12 8 (2.21%) PHP
13 5 (1.38%) Scala
14 3 (0.83%) C++
15 2 (0.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 2 (0.55%) R
16 1 (0.28%) C
Qualifications
1 76 (20.99%) AWS Certification
2 50 (13.81%) Degree
3 49 (13.54%) Security Cleared
4 34 (9.39%) SC Cleared
5 27 (7.46%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 25 (6.91%) ITIL Certification
7 23 (6.35%) AWS Certified Developer
8 20 (5.52%) Computer Science Degree
9 18 (4.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 14 (3.87%) OSCP
11 13 (3.59%) DV Cleared
12 5 (1.38%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 4 (1.10%) Master's Degree
14 3 (0.83%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 3 (0.83%) IIBA
14 3 (0.83%) PhD
15 2 (0.55%) SnowPro
16 1 (0.28%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 1 (0.28%) GIAC
16 1 (0.28%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (8.29%) QA
2 19 (5.25%) Data Quality
3 7 (1.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.66%) GDPR
5 3 (0.83%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.55%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.55%) SLA
7 1 (0.28%) MiFID
7 1 (0.28%) NIST
7 1 (0.28%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.28%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.28%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 140 (38.67%) Docker
2 4 (1.10%) iptables
3 3 (0.83%) Firmware
3 3 (0.83%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 124 (34.25%) Terraform
2 81 (22.38%) Kubernetes
3 40 (11.05%) HP Fortify
4 29 (8.01%) Ansible
5 27 (7.46%) Prometheus
6 21 (5.80%) Grafana
7 9 (2.49%) Puppet
8 6 (1.66%) Progress Chef
9 4 (1.10%) Kibana
10 3 (0.83%) Kubeflow
11 2 (0.55%) Scalr
12 1 (0.28%) Red Hat Satellite
12 1 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (3.31%) Databricks
2 9 (2.49%) Oracle
2 9 (2.49%) Red Hat
3 6 (1.66%) Atlassian
4 5 (1.38%) Google
4 5 (1.38%) Salesforce
4 5 (1.38%) SaltStack
5 3 (0.83%) Microsoft
6 2 (0.55%) IBM
7 1 (0.28%) Apple
7 1 (0.28%) Cisco
7 1 (0.28%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.28%) HubSpot
7 1 (0.28%) Informatica
7 1 (0.28%) New Relic
7 1 (0.28%) YouTube