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

6 months to
8 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 366 338 399
Rank change year-on-year -28 +61 -45
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 454 341 393
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.46% 0.79% 0.57%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.84% 2.44% 1.81%
Number of salaries quoted 276 245 226
10th Percentile £46,217 £51,250 £51,875
25th Percentile £54,688 £61,250 £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 £96,250
90th Percentile £108,875 £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 24,627 13,981 21,671
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 24.95% 32.48% 31.58%
Number of salaries quoted 17,044 9,728 14,723
10th Percentile £31,500 £29,750 £34,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £39,750 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £103,750
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -

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 8 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 8 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 +53 179 £72,500 +11.54% 49
London -63 171 £85,000 +13.33% 215
Yorkshire +15 83 £80,000 +13.48% 13
North West +12 62 £70,000 +7.69% 26
South East -18 35 £67,500 -18.18% 18
North East -29 34 £62,500 -13.79% 10
South West -78 33 £66,250 -22.06% 30
Midlands -27 29 £65,000 +52.94% 21
East Midlands -14 20 £65,000 +73.33% 12
West Midlands -43 9 £62,500 +47.06% 9
East of England -54 2 £77,500 -8.82% 11
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 (5.07%) Apache Spark
2 20 (4.41%) Apache
3 13 (2.86%) Confluence
4 10 (2.20%) 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 (1.54%) 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
1 454 (100.00%) Serverless
2 452 (99.56%) AWS
3 297 (65.42%) Amazon S3
4 173 (38.11%) Amazon ECS
5 171 (37.67%) AWS CloudFormation
6 118 (25.99%) Amazon EC2
7 97 (21.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 90 (19.82%) AWS Step Functions
9 78 (17.18%) Amazon SQS
10 77 (16.96%) Amazon EKS
11 75 (16.52%) GitHub
12 57 (12.56%) Azure
13 55 (12.11%) Datadog
14 52 (11.45%) GitHub Actions
15 49 (10.79%) Amazon EventBridge
16 42 (9.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 39 (8.59%) SaaS
18 36 (7.93%) Amazon OpenSearch
19 34 (7.49%) Amazon ECR
20 30 (6.61%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 15 (3.30%) Network Security
2 12 (2.64%) 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
1 160 (35.24%) DynamoDB
2 97 (21.37%) Amazon RDS
3 53 (11.67%) NoSQL
4 48 (10.57%) Amazon Athena
5 43 (9.47%) Amazon Redshift
6 27 (5.95%) PostgreSQL
7 26 (5.73%) Data Warehouse
8 19 (4.19%) SQL Server
9 18 (3.96%) Relational Database
10 16 (3.52%) Spark SQL
11 14 (3.08%) Elasticsearch
12 13 (2.86%) Big Data
12 13 (2.86%) Metadata
13 12 (2.64%) MongoDB
14 11 (2.42%) MySQL
15 10 (2.20%) Amazon Aurora
15 10 (2.20%) Data Lake
16 8 (1.76%) Power BI
17 7 (1.54%) Amazon QuickSight
17 7 (1.54%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 103 (22.69%) Git
2 92 (20.26%) Jenkins
3 54 (11.89%) GitLab
4 26 (5.73%) Maven
5 24 (5.29%) SonarQube
6 23 (5.07%) Cypress.io
7 22 (4.85%) JIRA
8 13 (2.86%) Bitbucket
9 12 (2.64%) TeamCity
10 10 (2.20%) Cucumber
11 9 (1.98%) CircleCI
12 8 (1.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 6 (1.32%) Claude Code
13 6 (1.32%) Gradle
13 6 (1.32%) Postman
14 4 (0.88%) Artifactory
14 4 (0.88%) Selenium
15 3 (0.66%) git-flow
15 3 (0.66%) Octopus Deploy
15 3 (0.66%) SpecFlow
General
1 100 (22.03%) Finance
1 100 (22.03%) Social Skills
2 65 (14.32%) Public Sector
3 49 (10.79%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (9.03%) Banking
5 27 (5.95%) Law
6 21 (4.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 17 (3.74%) Marketing
8 11 (2.42%) Aviation
8 11 (2.42%) Influencing Skills
8 11 (2.42%) Retail
8 11 (2.42%) Telecoms
9 10 (2.20%) Aerospace
10 8 (1.76%) Health Technology
11 7 (1.54%) Billing
11 7 (1.54%) Legal
12 6 (1.32%) Advertising
13 5 (1.10%) Front Office
13 5 (1.10%) Military
14 4 (0.88%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 149 (32.82%) Developer
2 136 (29.96%) Senior
3 61 (13.44%) Java Developer
4 58 (12.78%) AWS Engineer
5 57 (12.56%) Lead
6 56 (12.33%) Senior Developer
7 55 (12.11%) Data Engineer
7 55 (12.11%) Full-Stack Developer
8 39 (8.59%) AWS Developer
9 38 (8.37%) DevOps Engineer
10 34 (7.49%) Software Engineer
11 22 (4.85%) Cloud Engineer
12 21 (4.63%) Platform Engineer
13 20 (4.41%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
14 19 (4.19%) Architect
14 19 (4.19%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 18 (3.96%) Consultant
15 18 (3.96%) Senior Consultant
16 15 (3.30%) AWS Data Engineer
16 15 (3.30%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 197 (43.39%) Terraform
2 116 (25.55%) Node.js
3 86 (18.94%) AngularJS
4 79 (17.40%) React
5 65 (14.32%) Spring Boot
6 54 (11.89%) Spring
7 47 (10.35%) REST
8 45 (9.91%) RESTful
9 44 (9.69%) AWS CDK
10 42 (9.25%) .NET
11 40 (8.81%) Kafka
12 32 (7.05%) PySpark
13 28 (6.17%) Jest
13 28 (6.17%) Swagger
14 26 (5.73%) Gherkin
15 23 (5.07%) RabbitMQ
16 22 (4.85%) OpenAPI
17 21 (4.63%) JSON
18 20 (4.41%) YAML
19 18 (3.96%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 115 (25.33%) Cloud Native
2 37 (8.15%) Distributed Systems
3 31 (6.83%) Hybrid Cloud
4 26 (5.73%) Onboarding
5 18 (3.96%) Enterprise Cloud
6 17 (3.74%) Linux Command Line
7 16 (3.52%) Greenfield Project
8 11 (2.42%) Mobile Banking
8 11 (2.42%) Product Ownership
9 9 (1.98%) AI Agents
10 8 (1.76%) Blockchain
10 8 (1.76%) Web3
11 7 (1.54%) Data Structures
11 7 (1.54%) Low-Code
11 7 (1.54%) 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 (9.03%) Linux
2 12 (2.64%) Windows
3 7 (1.54%) 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
1 273 (60.13%) CI/CD
2 185 (40.75%) DevOps
3 184 (40.53%) Infrastructure as Code
4 179 (39.43%) Agile
5 128 (28.19%) Mentoring
6 113 (24.89%) AI
7 102 (22.47%) Software Engineering
8 98 (21.59%) Full-Stack Development
9 97 (21.37%) Microservices
10 94 (20.70%) Observability
11 88 (19.38%) Problem-Solving
12 80 (17.62%) Event-Driven
13 76 (16.74%) Analytics
13 76 (16.74%) Continuous Improvement
14 74 (16.30%) Containerisation
15 66 (14.54%) Test Automation
16 65 (14.32%) Decision-Making
17 60 (13.22%) ETL
18 57 (12.56%) Data Engineering
19 54 (11.89%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 237 (52.20%) Python
2 144 (31.72%) SQL
3 135 (29.74%) Java
4 130 (28.63%) TypeScript
5 80 (17.62%) Bash
6 61 (13.44%) JavaScript
7 41 (9.03%) C#
8 36 (7.93%) Groovy
9 32 (7.05%) Kotlin
10 19 (4.19%) PowerShell
10 19 (4.19%) Ruby
11 18 (3.96%) Perl
11 18 (3.96%) PHP
12 17 (3.74%) C++
13 13 (2.86%) Go
14 10 (2.20%) 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 (21.59%) Security Cleared
2 66 (14.54%) AWS Certification
3 62 (13.66%) SC Cleared
4 34 (7.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 29 (6.39%) DV Cleared
6 18 (3.96%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 17 (3.74%) Degree
8 15 (3.30%) ITIL Certification
9 9 (1.98%) AWS Certified Developer
10 8 (1.76%) 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 (10.13%) Data Quality
2 25 (5.51%) QA
3 14 (3.08%) GDPR
4 11 (2.42%) 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
1 156 (34.36%) 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 (16.30%) Kubernetes
2 43 (9.47%) Ansible
3 33 (7.27%) Prometheus
4 32 (7.05%) Grafana
5 17 (3.74%) HP Fortify
5 17 (3.74%) Packer
6 7 (1.54%) Puppet
7 5 (1.10%) Argo
8 4 (0.88%) Kibana
8 4 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (0.88%) ZABBIX
9 3 (0.66%) Scalr
10 2 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.44%) Rancher
11 1 (0.22%) Fluentd
11 1 (0.22%) logstash
11 1 (0.22%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 23 (5.07%) Databricks
2 14 (3.08%) Oracle
2 14 (3.08%) Red Hat
2 14 (3.08%) Splunk
3 12 (2.64%) OpenAI
4 10 (2.20%) Google
4 10 (2.20%) Microsoft
5 9 (1.98%) Dynatrace
6 8 (1.76%) Salesforce
7 7 (1.54%) AppDynamics
7 7 (1.54%) Avaya
7 7 (1.54%) Cisco
7 7 (1.54%) Genesys
7 7 (1.54%) 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