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 20 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 333 197 349
Rank change year-on-year -136 +152 +17
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 336 727 513
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.56% 1.65% 0.77%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.65% 4.40% 2.01%
Number of salaries quoted 233 344 442
10th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £48,750
25th Percentile £56,250 £63,438 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £90,000 £71,500
Median % change year-on-year -19.44% +25.87% -10.63%
75th Percentile £87,500 £115,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £138,750 £112,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £84,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% +20.00% -9.68%

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 20,359 16,536 25,536
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 33.67% 37.56% 38.44%
Number of salaries quoted 11,306 10,093 21,643
10th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £31,114
25th Percentile £40,000 £47,500 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £77,715
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £64,750 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.34% +12.61% -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 20 February 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 20 February 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 -136 145 £80,750 -19.25% 81
North of England +46 96 £65,000 +1.96% 47
Yorkshire +32 81 £65,000 +8.33% 23
Midlands +17 42 £55,000 - 15
South West -9 29 £62,500 +4.17% 23
East Midlands +1 25 £60,000 -4.00% 1
West Midlands +15 17 £50,000 +8.11% 14
North West -7 15 £70,000 +1.08% 21
South East -138 12 £67,500 +22.73% 25
East of England -27 6 £62,500 -9.09% 4
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 31 (9.23%) Apache Spark
2 27 (8.04%) Apache
3 16 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.49%) Tomcat
4 5 (1.49%) WebSphere
5 4 (1.19%) Confluence
5 4 (1.19%) WebSphere Application Server
6 2 (0.60%) JBoss
6 2 (0.60%) nginx
6 2 (0.60%) Oracle Application Server
7 1 (0.30%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.30%) SAS
7 1 (0.30%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (1.79%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.30%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 336 (100.00%) AWS
1 336 (100.00%) Serverless
2 245 (72.92%) Amazon S3
3 130 (38.69%) AWS CloudFormation
4 92 (27.38%) AWS Step Functions
5 83 (24.70%) Amazon ECS
6 73 (21.73%) Amazon SQS
7 70 (20.83%) GitHub
8 68 (20.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 65 (19.35%) Amazon EC2
10 51 (15.18%) Amazon EKS
11 47 (13.99%) GitHub Actions
12 45 (13.39%) Azure
13 39 (11.61%) Amazon ECR
14 32 (9.52%) Apigee
15 28 (8.33%) Amazon EventBridge
16 27 (8.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 23 (6.85%) Datadog
17 23 (6.85%) GCP
18 20 (5.95%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.27%) AMQP
2 9 (2.68%) DSL
3 5 (1.49%) Network Security
3 5 (1.49%) SSL
4 4 (1.19%) Firewall
5 3 (0.89%) Broadband
6 1 (0.30%) 4G
6 1 (0.30%) 5G
6 1 (0.30%) DNS
6 1 (0.30%) VPN
6 1 (0.30%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (34.23%) DynamoDB
2 70 (20.83%) Amazon RDS
3 54 (16.07%) NoSQL
4 48 (14.29%) Amazon Redshift
5 40 (11.90%) Data Warehouse
6 35 (10.42%) PostgreSQL
7 24 (7.14%) Amazon Athena
8 20 (5.95%) SQL Server
9 19 (5.65%) Data Lake
10 18 (5.36%) Big Data
11 14 (4.17%) MongoDB
12 13 (3.87%) Hadoop
13 11 (3.27%) Apache Iceberg
13 11 (3.27%) Relational Database
14 10 (2.98%) MySQL
15 7 (2.08%) Apache Hive
16 6 (1.79%) DB2
17 5 (1.49%) Cloudera CDH
17 5 (1.49%) Metadata
17 5 (1.49%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 85 (25.30%) Jenkins
2 65 (19.35%) GitLab
3 52 (15.48%) Git
4 36 (10.71%) Cypress.io
5 31 (9.23%) Maven
6 30 (8.93%) SonarQube
7 12 (3.57%) JIRA
8 11 (3.27%) Bitbucket
9 10 (2.98%) CircleCI
10 7 (2.08%) MLflow
11 5 (1.49%) git-flow
12 4 (1.19%) Vite
13 3 (0.89%) ESLint
13 3 (0.89%) JUnit
13 3 (0.89%) webpack
14 2 (0.60%) Cucumber
14 2 (0.60%) DBeaver
14 2 (0.60%) Deequ
14 2 (0.60%) Mocha
14 2 (0.60%) Selenium
General
1 93 (27.68%) Social Skills
2 51 (15.18%) Finance
3 31 (9.23%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (5.06%) Tech for Good
5 16 (4.76%) Banking
6 15 (4.46%) Health Technology
6 15 (4.46%) Influencing Skills
6 15 (4.46%) Publishing
7 14 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
8 13 (3.87%) Public Sector
9 9 (2.68%) Advertising
10 8 (2.38%) Financial Institution
11 6 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.19%) Aerospace
12 4 (1.19%) Billing
13 3 (0.89%) Games
13 3 (0.89%) Investment Banking
13 3 (0.89%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.89%) Military
13 3 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 132 (39.29%) Developer
2 78 (23.21%) Senior
3 53 (15.77%) AWS Developer
4 49 (14.58%) Lead
5 40 (11.90%) AWS Engineer
5 40 (11.90%) Software Engineer
6 39 (11.61%) Java Developer
7 36 (10.71%) Data Engineer
8 35 (10.42%) Senior Developer
9 29 (8.63%) React Developer
10 28 (8.33%) Full-Stack Developer
10 28 (8.33%) Lead Developer
11 27 (8.04%) Python Developer
12 23 (6.85%) AWS Data Engineer
13 20 (5.95%) Architect
13 20 (5.95%) Software Developer
14 18 (5.36%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 18 (5.36%) Node.js Developer
15 17 (5.06%) Lead Python Developer
16 16 (4.76%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (30.95%) React
2 94 (27.98%) Node.js
3 68 (20.24%) Spring Boot
4 58 (17.26%) AngularJS
5 53 (15.77%) RESTful
6 50 (14.88%) Spring
7 46 (13.69%) AWS CDK
8 36 (10.71%) Jest
9 34 (10.12%) Kafka
10 30 (8.93%) Gherkin
11 29 (8.63%) HTML
12 27 (8.04%) RabbitMQ
13 24 (7.14%) CSS
14 21 (6.25%) .NET
15 17 (5.06%) gRPC
16 15 (4.46%) .NET Core
16 15 (4.46%) REST
17 13 (3.87%) ASP.NET
17 13 (3.87%) ASP.NET Core
17 13 (3.87%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 104 (30.95%) Cloud Native
2 18 (5.36%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (3.87%) Product Ownership
4 11 (3.27%) Greenfield Project
5 9 (2.68%) Blockchain
5 9 (2.68%) Web3
6 7 (2.08%) Data Structures
6 7 (2.08%) e-Learning
6 7 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (2.08%) Virtual Team
7 6 (1.79%) Onboarding
7 6 (1.79%) Security Posture
8 5 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.49%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (0.89%) Animation
9 3 (0.89%) Life Science
9 3 (0.89%) Private Cloud
10 2 (0.60%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (0.60%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 27 (8.04%) Linux
2 10 (2.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (2.68%) Unix
4 7 (2.08%) Windows
5 5 (1.49%) CentOS
5 5 (1.49%) Debian
5 5 (1.49%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.30%) Android
6 1 (0.30%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 223 (66.37%) CI/CD
2 170 (50.60%) DevOps
3 134 (39.88%) Agile
4 130 (38.69%) Infrastructure as Code
5 91 (27.08%) Software Engineering
6 77 (22.92%) Full-Stack Development
6 77 (22.92%) Problem-Solving
7 74 (22.02%) Microservices
8 71 (21.13%) Mentoring
9 66 (19.64%) Containerisation
10 51 (15.18%) Observability
11 48 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
12 47 (13.99%) Continuous Improvement
13 41 (12.20%) Continuous Integration
13 41 (12.20%) Scrum
14 39 (11.61%) AI
15 38 (11.31%) DevSecOps
16 36 (10.71%) Analytics
17 35 (10.42%) Data Modelling
18 34 (10.12%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 169 (50.30%) Python
2 109 (32.44%) TypeScript
3 101 (30.06%) Java
4 98 (29.17%) SQL
5 78 (23.21%) JavaScript
6 46 (13.69%) Bash
7 29 (8.63%) Groovy
8 22 (6.55%) Go
9 12 (3.57%) Kotlin
10 9 (2.68%) Rust
10 9 (2.68%) Scala
11 8 (2.38%) C#
12 7 (2.08%) PowerShell
13 5 (1.49%) PHP
14 3 (0.89%) C++
15 2 (0.60%) C
15 2 (0.60%) R
Qualifications
1 81 (24.11%) AWS Certification
2 49 (14.58%) Degree
3 43 (12.80%) Security Cleared
4 27 (8.04%) SC Cleared
5 26 (7.74%) AWS Certified Developer
6 25 (7.44%) Computer Science Degree
7 23 (6.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 19 (5.65%) ITIL Certification
9 18 (5.36%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 15 (4.46%) DV Cleared
11 10 (2.98%) OSCP
12 5 (1.49%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 4 (1.19%) Master's Degree
14 3 (0.89%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 3 (0.89%) IIBA
15 2 (0.60%) SnowPro
16 1 (0.30%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 1 (0.30%) Azure Certification
16 1 (0.30%) GAWN
16 1 (0.30%) GREM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (9.23%) QA
2 22 (6.55%) Data Quality
3 14 (4.17%) GDPR
4 5 (1.49%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.19%) SLA
6 3 (0.89%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.89%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.30%) GAAP
7 1 (0.30%) MiFID
7 1 (0.30%) NIST
7 1 (0.30%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 117 (34.82%) Docker
2 7 (2.08%) HDFS
3 3 (0.89%) iptables
4 1 (0.30%) vCloud
4 1 (0.30%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.30%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 112 (33.33%) Terraform
2 81 (24.11%) Kubernetes
3 30 (8.93%) HP Fortify
4 25 (7.44%) Ansible
5 22 (6.55%) Prometheus
6 15 (4.46%) Grafana
7 8 (2.38%) Puppet
8 4 (1.19%) Kibana
8 4 (1.19%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.89%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (4.46%) Databricks
2 11 (3.27%) Oracle
3 9 (2.68%) Red Hat
4 7 (2.08%) Atlassian
4 7 (2.08%) Google
5 5 (1.49%) IBM
5 5 (1.49%) Salesforce
5 5 (1.49%) SaltStack
6 4 (1.19%) Microsoft
7 2 (0.60%) Apple
7 2 (0.60%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.30%) Cisco
8 1 (0.30%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.30%) Informatica
8 1 (0.30%) New Relic
8 1 (0.30%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.30%) StreamSets
8 1 (0.30%) VMware
8 1 (0.30%) YouTube