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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 379 342 382
Rank change year-on-year -37 +40 -32
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 457 327 431
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.44% 0.76% 0.63%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.88% 2.34% 1.97%
Number of salaries quoted 273 232 219
10th Percentile £46,217 £51,250 £52,250
25th Percentile £53,750 £60,000 £62,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £76,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% -4.61% +4.83%
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £96,250
90th Percentile £107,000 £100,000 £113,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% -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 24,357 13,960 21,926
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 23.54% 32.30% 32.24%
Number of salaries quoted 17,060 9,758 13,786
10th Percentile £31,750 £29,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £38,901 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -7.69% +0.15%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £105,000
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 26 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 26 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 +61 188 £70,000 +7.69% 82
London -70 167 £80,000 +6.67% 253
Yorkshire +13 81 £80,000 +18.08% 22
North West +14 70 £67,500 +3.85% 49
North East -26 37 £67,500 -6.90% 11
South East -14 35 £67,500 -15.63% 36
South West -68 34 £66,250 -15.87% 47
Midlands -38 29 £65,000 +36.84% 33
East Midlands - 19 £65,000 - 16
West Midlands -46 10 £62,500 +31.58% 17
East of England -54 1 £80,000 -5.88% 18
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 (5.91%) Apache Spark
2 22 (4.81%) Apache
3 14 (3.06%) Confluence
4 10 (2.19%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.66%) SAS
6 2 (0.44%) nginx
7 1 (0.22%) Camunda
7 1 (0.22%) IIS
7 1 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.22%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.22%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.22%) WebLogic Portal
Applications
1 4 (0.88%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.22%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
1 1 (0.22%) Finacle
1 1 (0.22%) FLEXCUBE
1 1 (0.22%) Infor SunSystems
1 1 (0.22%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.22%) Oracle EBS R12
1 1 (0.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
1 1 (0.22%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 457 (100.00%) Serverless
2 455 (99.56%) AWS
3 296 (64.77%) Amazon S3
4 169 (36.98%) Amazon ECS
5 161 (35.23%) AWS CloudFormation
6 119 (26.04%) Amazon EC2
7 99 (21.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 89 (19.47%) AWS Step Functions
9 87 (19.04%) Amazon EKS
10 76 (16.63%) GitHub
11 75 (16.41%) Amazon SQS
12 62 (13.57%) Azure
13 54 (11.82%) GitHub Actions
14 49 (10.72%) Datadog
15 48 (10.50%) Amazon EventBridge
16 39 (8.53%) SaaS
17 36 (7.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 35 (7.66%) Amazon OpenSearch
19 31 (6.78%) Amazon ECR
20 28 (6.13%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 15 (3.28%) Network Security
2 10 (2.19%) Firewall
3 8 (1.75%) AMQP
4 4 (0.88%) IPv4
4 4 (0.88%) Software-Defined Networking
4 4 (0.88%) VPN
5 2 (0.44%) DNS
5 2 (0.44%) VoIP
6 1 (0.22%) 4G
6 1 (0.22%) 5G
6 1 (0.22%) DHCP
6 1 (0.22%) HTTP
6 1 (0.22%) PSTN
6 1 (0.22%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.22%) VLAN
6 1 (0.22%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 147 (32.17%) DynamoDB
2 97 (21.23%) Amazon RDS
3 52 (11.38%) Amazon Athena
4 51 (11.16%) NoSQL
5 47 (10.28%) Amazon Redshift
6 30 (6.56%) PostgreSQL
7 27 (5.91%) Data Warehouse
8 21 (4.60%) Relational Database
9 18 (3.94%) Spark SQL
10 17 (3.72%) SQL Server
11 16 (3.50%) Data Lake
12 15 (3.28%) MongoDB
13 14 (3.06%) Amazon Aurora
13 14 (3.06%) Big Data
13 14 (3.06%) Elasticsearch
14 13 (2.84%) Metadata
15 11 (2.41%) MySQL
16 10 (2.19%) Hadoop
17 9 (1.97%) Power BI
17 9 (1.97%) Redis
Development Applications
1 116 (25.38%) Git
2 90 (19.69%) Jenkins
3 55 (12.04%) GitLab
4 25 (5.47%) JIRA
5 24 (5.25%) Cypress.io
6 21 (4.60%) Maven
7 20 (4.38%) SonarQube
8 12 (2.63%) Bitbucket
9 11 (2.41%) TeamCity
10 10 (2.19%) Postman
11 9 (1.97%) Cucumber
12 8 (1.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 8 (1.75%) Claude Code
13 7 (1.53%) CircleCI
14 6 (1.31%) Gradle
15 5 (1.09%) JMeter
16 4 (0.88%) Artifactory
17 3 (0.66%) JUnit
17 3 (0.66%) Mockito
17 3 (0.66%) Selenium
General
1 97 (21.23%) Finance
2 95 (20.79%) Social Skills
3 73 (15.97%) Public Sector
4 52 (11.38%) Analytical Skills
5 41 (8.97%) Banking
6 29 (6.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 27 (5.91%) Law
8 17 (3.72%) Marketing
9 13 (2.84%) Aviation
9 13 (2.84%) Retail
10 12 (2.63%) Aerospace
11 11 (2.41%) Influencing Skills
11 11 (2.41%) Telecoms
12 8 (1.75%) Health Technology
13 7 (1.53%) Billing
14 5 (1.09%) Front Office
14 5 (1.09%) Legal
14 5 (1.09%) Military
15 4 (0.88%) Advertising
15 4 (0.88%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 141 (30.85%) Developer
2 131 (28.67%) Senior
3 65 (14.22%) AWS Engineer
4 63 (13.79%) Data Engineer
5 57 (12.47%) Java Developer
6 54 (11.82%) Full-Stack Developer
6 54 (11.82%) Lead
7 51 (11.16%) Senior Developer
8 40 (8.75%) DevOps Engineer
9 39 (8.53%) AWS Developer
10 37 (8.10%) Software Engineer
11 20 (4.38%) Cloud Engineer
11 20 (4.38%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
12 19 (4.16%) Platform Engineer
13 18 (3.94%) Architect
13 18 (3.94%) Consultant
13 18 (3.94%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 18 (3.94%) Senior Consultant
14 17 (3.72%) AWS Data Engineer
15 15 (3.28%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 198 (43.33%) Terraform
2 115 (25.16%) Node.js
3 87 (19.04%) AngularJS
4 79 (17.29%) React
5 63 (13.79%) Spring Boot
6 56 (12.25%) Spring
7 53 (11.60%) REST
8 51 (11.16%) RESTful
9 46 (10.07%) Kafka
10 45 (9.85%) .NET
11 43 (9.41%) AWS CDK
12 38 (8.32%) PySpark
13 30 (6.56%) Swagger
14 27 (5.91%) Gherkin
14 27 (5.91%) Jest
15 25 (5.47%) JSON
16 24 (5.25%) OpenAPI
17 23 (5.03%) RabbitMQ
18 18 (3.94%) YAML
19 15 (3.28%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 125 (27.35%) Cloud Native
2 39 (8.53%) Distributed Systems
3 30 (6.56%) Hybrid Cloud
4 28 (6.13%) Onboarding
5 18 (3.94%) Enterprise Cloud
6 17 (3.72%) Product Ownership
7 14 (3.06%) Greenfield Project
7 14 (3.06%) Linux Command Line
8 11 (2.41%) AI Agents
8 11 (2.41%) Mobile Banking
9 7 (1.53%) Data Structures
9 7 (1.53%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (1.53%) Low-Code
9 7 (1.53%) NHS
10 6 (1.31%) Blockchain
10 6 (1.31%) Blog
10 6 (1.31%) Public Cloud
10 6 (1.31%) Replication
10 6 (1.31%) Web3
11 5 (1.09%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 42 (9.19%) Linux
2 12 (2.63%) Windows
3 7 (1.53%) CentOS
3 7 (1.53%) Debian
3 7 (1.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (1.53%) Ubuntu
4 5 (1.09%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 280 (61.27%) CI/CD
2 187 (40.92%) Agile
2 187 (40.92%) DevOps
3 182 (39.82%) Infrastructure as Code
4 132 (28.88%) Mentoring
5 117 (25.60%) AI
6 110 (24.07%) Software Engineering
7 105 (22.98%) Microservices
8 101 (22.10%) Full-Stack Development
9 94 (20.57%) Observability
10 89 (19.47%) Problem-Solving
11 80 (17.51%) Continuous Improvement
12 78 (17.07%) Event-Driven
12 78 (17.07%) Test Automation
13 77 (16.85%) Analytics
14 71 (15.54%) Decision-Making
15 70 (15.32%) ETL
16 69 (15.10%) Containerisation
17 66 (14.44%) Data Engineering
18 56 (12.25%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 236 (51.64%) Python
2 155 (33.92%) SQL
3 139 (30.42%) Java
4 129 (28.23%) TypeScript
5 76 (16.63%) Bash
6 70 (15.32%) JavaScript
7 44 (9.63%) C#
8 35 (7.66%) Groovy
9 30 (6.56%) Kotlin
10 19 (4.16%) C++
10 19 (4.16%) Ruby
11 18 (3.94%) Perl
12 17 (3.72%) PHP
13 16 (3.50%) PowerShell
14 10 (2.19%) Go
14 10 (2.19%) Scala
15 5 (1.09%) Shell Script
16 3 (0.66%) PL/SQL
17 2 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 2 (0.44%) Rust
Qualifications
1 112 (24.51%) Security Cleared
2 76 (16.63%) SC Cleared
3 63 (13.79%) AWS Certification
4 32 (7.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 31 (6.78%) DV Cleared
6 14 (3.06%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 13 (2.84%) Degree
8 12 (2.63%) ITIL Certification
9 8 (1.75%) AWS Certified Developer
9 8 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (1.09%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 5 (1.09%) Master's Degree
10 5 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (1.09%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 4 (0.88%) CCNA
11 4 (0.88%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (0.88%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.88%) OSCP
11 4 (0.88%) RHCE
11 4 (0.88%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (12.25%) Data Quality
2 31 (6.78%) QA
3 14 (3.06%) Accessibility
3 14 (3.06%) GDPR
4 5 (1.09%) HIPAA
5 4 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.66%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 154 (33.70%) Docker
2 6 (1.31%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.88%) Squid
3 4 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.88%) VMware NSX
3 4 (0.88%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 79 (17.29%) Kubernetes
2 41 (8.97%) Ansible
3 33 (7.22%) Prometheus
4 31 (6.78%) Grafana
5 17 (3.72%) Packer
6 13 (2.84%) HP Fortify
7 9 (1.97%) Puppet
8 6 (1.31%) Rancher
9 5 (1.09%) Argo
10 4 (0.88%) Kibana
10 4 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.88%) ZABBIX
11 2 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 1 (0.22%) Fluentd
12 1 (0.22%) logstash
12 1 (0.22%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 1 (0.22%) Oracle RMAN
12 1 (0.22%) Scalr
Vendors
1 27 (5.91%) Databricks
2 16 (3.50%) Dynatrace
3 15 (3.28%) Oracle
4 14 (3.06%) Red Hat
4 14 (3.06%) Splunk
5 13 (2.84%) OpenAI
6 12 (2.63%) Google
7 11 (2.41%) Microsoft
8 8 (1.75%) Salesforce
9 7 (1.53%) AppDynamics
9 7 (1.53%) Avaya
9 7 (1.53%) Cisco
9 7 (1.53%) Genesys
9 7 (1.53%) SaltStack
9 7 (1.53%) ServiceNow
10 6 (1.31%) Confluent
10 6 (1.31%) HubSpot
10 6 (1.31%) IBM
11 5 (1.09%) SnapLogic
12 4 (0.88%) VMware