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

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 351 252 356
Rank change year-on-year -99 +104 +10
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 381 478 602
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.48% 1.27% 0.72%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.53% 3.48% 2.03%
Number of salaries quoted 259 366 490
10th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £83,750 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.43% +11.67% -
75th Percentile £86,875 £115,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £107,500 £138,750 £118,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £80,000 £71,500
% change year-on-year -12.50% +11.89% -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 24,848 13,745 29,657
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 31.45% 36.60% 35.64%
Number of salaries quoted 13,143 10,190 24,276
10th Percentile £30,750 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,100 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -3.84% +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 26 April 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 April 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 -110 144 £78,750 -17.11% 63
North of England +17 135 £72,500 +4.69% 33
Yorkshire +21 109 £72,500 +23.40% 8
Midlands -25 45 £55,000 -2.22% 10
East Midlands -31 32 £57,500 +4.55% 6
South West -44 29 £62,500 +4.17% 12
North West -29 25 £70,000 -6.67% 22
South East -65 21 £82,500 +50.00% 21
West Midlands -39 13 £49,500 -13.91% 4
East of England -58 4 £62,500 -26.47% 8
North East -47 1 £90,000 +44.00% 3
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 26 (6.82%) Apache
2 22 (5.77%) Apache Spark
3 19 (4.99%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.79%) Confluence
4 3 (0.79%) JBoss
5 2 (0.52%) Oracle Application Server
6 1 (0.26%) CMS
6 1 (0.26%) IIS
6 1 (0.26%) nginx
6 1 (0.26%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (1.57%) Spreadsheet
2 4 (1.05%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 381 (100.00%) Serverless
2 380 (99.74%) AWS
3 281 (73.75%) Amazon S3
4 151 (39.63%) AWS CloudFormation
5 116 (30.45%) AWS Step Functions
6 114 (29.92%) Amazon ECS
7 98 (25.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 93 (24.41%) Amazon SQS
9 80 (21.00%) GitHub
10 72 (18.90%) Amazon EC2
11 60 (15.75%) GitHub Actions
12 55 (14.44%) Amazon ECR
13 51 (13.39%) Apigee
14 47 (12.34%) Amazon EKS
15 44 (11.55%) Azure
16 42 (11.02%) Amazon EventBridge
17 41 (10.76%) Datadog
18 28 (7.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 26 (6.82%) Amazon OpenSearch
20 23 (6.04%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.41%) DSL
2 10 (2.62%) AMQP
3 6 (1.57%) Network Security
4 5 (1.31%) Broadband
4 5 (1.31%) Firewall
5 3 (0.79%) DNS
5 3 (0.79%) VPN
6 2 (0.52%) 4G
6 2 (0.52%) 5G
7 1 (0.26%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 169 (44.36%) DynamoDB
2 79 (20.73%) Amazon RDS
3 61 (16.01%) NoSQL
4 40 (10.50%) Amazon Redshift
5 38 (9.97%) Amazon Athena
6 27 (7.09%) PostgreSQL
7 24 (6.30%) Data Warehouse
8 17 (4.46%) SQL Server
9 11 (2.89%) Big Data
9 11 (2.89%) Data Lake
9 11 (2.89%) Relational Database
10 8 (2.10%) MySQL
11 7 (1.84%) Apache Iceberg
11 7 (1.84%) Hadoop
11 7 (1.84%) Metadata
11 7 (1.84%) Snowflake Schema
12 6 (1.57%) Amazon Aurora
12 6 (1.57%) Power BI
13 5 (1.31%) Cloudera CDH
13 5 (1.31%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 117 (30.71%) Jenkins
2 89 (23.36%) GitLab
3 72 (18.90%) Git
4 47 (12.34%) SonarQube
5 46 (12.07%) Maven
6 42 (11.02%) Cypress.io
7 15 (3.94%) CircleCI
8 14 (3.67%) JIRA
9 9 (2.36%) Cucumber
10 7 (1.84%) Bitbucket
11 5 (1.31%) MLflow
12 4 (1.05%) Artifactory
12 4 (1.05%) Gradle
12 4 (1.05%) Postman
12 4 (1.05%) Selenium
12 4 (1.05%) SpecFlow
13 3 (0.79%) ESLint
13 3 (0.79%) Octopus Deploy
14 2 (0.52%) DBeaver
14 2 (0.52%) webpack
General
1 104 (27.30%) Social Skills
2 49 (12.86%) Finance
3 41 (10.76%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (5.77%) Public Sector
5 18 (4.72%) Banking
6 17 (4.46%) Health Technology
7 14 (3.67%) Publishing
7 14 (3.67%) Tech for Good
8 13 (3.41%) Influencing Skills
9 12 (3.15%) Advertising
9 12 (3.15%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (1.84%) Billing
11 4 (1.05%) Aerospace
12 3 (0.79%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.79%) Law
12 3 (0.79%) Legal
12 3 (0.79%) Military
13 2 (0.52%) Front Office
13 2 (0.52%) Games
13 2 (0.52%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 180 (47.24%) Developer
2 96 (25.20%) Senior
3 67 (17.59%) Java Developer
4 65 (17.06%) AWS Developer
5 56 (14.70%) Lead
6 53 (13.91%) Senior Developer
7 39 (10.24%) Full-Stack Developer
8 38 (9.97%) AWS Engineer
9 36 (9.45%) Data Engineer
10 32 (8.40%) Lead Developer
11 31 (8.14%) React Developer
12 28 (7.35%) Python Developer
12 28 (7.35%) Software Engineer
13 25 (6.56%) DevOps Engineer
14 21 (5.51%) Software Developer
15 20 (5.25%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 19 (4.99%) AWS Data Engineer
16 19 (4.99%) Cloud Engineer
16 19 (4.99%) Node.js Developer
17 18 (4.72%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (29.92%) Node.js
2 106 (27.82%) React
3 83 (21.78%) AngularJS
4 75 (19.69%) Spring Boot
5 60 (15.75%) RESTful
6 48 (12.60%) AWS CDK
7 47 (12.34%) Spring
8 42 (11.02%) Jest
9 41 (10.76%) Gherkin
10 32 (8.40%) Kafka
10 32 (8.40%) RabbitMQ
11 30 (7.87%) REST
12 25 (6.56%) HTML
13 21 (5.51%) .NET
14 20 (5.25%) gRPC
15 19 (4.99%) CSS
16 16 (4.20%) JSON
17 15 (3.94%) .NET Core
17 15 (3.94%) web3js
18 14 (3.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 87 (22.83%) Cloud Native
2 22 (5.77%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (4.20%) Greenfield Project
4 15 (3.94%) Blockchain
4 15 (3.94%) Web3
5 10 (2.62%) Product Ownership
6 7 (1.84%) Data Structures
6 7 (1.84%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (1.31%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.05%) NHS
8 4 (1.05%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.05%) Security Posture
9 3 (0.79%) IoT
9 3 (0.79%) Onboarding
9 3 (0.79%) Private Cloud
10 2 (0.52%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.52%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (0.52%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 30 (7.87%) Linux
2 7 (1.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (1.31%) CentOS
3 5 (1.31%) Debian
3 5 (1.31%) Ubuntu
3 5 (1.31%) Windows
4 2 (0.52%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 247 (64.83%) CI/CD
2 197 (51.71%) DevOps
3 156 (40.94%) Agile
4 147 (38.58%) Infrastructure as Code
5 87 (22.83%) Problem-Solving
6 85 (22.31%) Containerisation
6 85 (22.31%) Full-Stack Development
7 84 (22.05%) Microservices
7 84 (22.05%) Software Engineering
8 76 (19.95%) Mentoring
9 62 (16.27%) Observability
10 59 (15.49%) Continuous Integration
11 56 (14.70%) Test Automation
12 47 (12.34%) Continuous Improvement
13 45 (11.81%) DevSecOps
14 42 (11.02%) Data Pipeline
15 41 (10.76%) Analytics
16 40 (10.50%) Event-Driven
17 37 (9.71%) AI
17 37 (9.71%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 187 (49.08%) Python
2 131 (34.38%) TypeScript
3 121 (31.76%) SQL
4 113 (29.66%) Java
5 68 (17.85%) JavaScript
6 62 (16.27%) Bash
7 47 (12.34%) Groovy
8 31 (8.14%) Go
9 27 (7.09%) Kotlin
10 13 (3.41%) Rust
11 12 (3.15%) PowerShell
12 8 (2.10%) C#
12 8 (2.10%) PHP
13 4 (1.05%) Perl
14 2 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.52%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.52%) R
14 2 (0.52%) Scala
14 2 (0.52%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.26%) C++
Qualifications
1 74 (19.42%) AWS Certification
2 58 (15.22%) Security Cleared
3 44 (11.55%) Degree
3 44 (11.55%) SC Cleared
4 28 (7.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 24 (6.30%) ITIL Certification
6 23 (6.04%) AWS Certified Developer
7 19 (4.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 19 (4.99%) Computer Science Degree
8 14 (3.67%) OSCP
9 10 (2.62%) DV Cleared
10 5 (1.31%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 3 (0.79%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 3 (0.79%) IIBA
11 3 (0.79%) PhD
12 2 (0.52%) Master's Degree
13 1 (0.26%) GAWN
13 1 (0.26%) GCIH
13 1 (0.26%) GREM
13 1 (0.26%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (8.66%) QA
2 21 (5.51%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.79%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.79%) GDPR
4 3 (0.79%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.26%) MiFID
5 1 (0.26%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.26%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 155 (40.68%) Docker
2 4 (1.05%) iptables
3 3 (0.79%) Firmware
4 1 (0.26%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 140 (36.75%) Terraform
2 89 (23.36%) Kubernetes
3 41 (10.76%) HP Fortify
4 39 (10.24%) Ansible
5 30 (7.87%) Prometheus
6 22 (5.77%) Grafana
7 9 (2.36%) Puppet
8 6 (1.57%) Progress Chef
9 4 (1.05%) Kibana
9 4 (1.05%) Packer
10 3 (0.79%) Scalr
11 1 (0.26%) Kubeflow
11 1 (0.26%) Red Hat Satellite
11 1 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (3.15%) Databricks
2 7 (1.84%) AppDynamics
2 7 (1.84%) Oracle
2 7 (1.84%) Red Hat
3 6 (1.57%) IBM
4 5 (1.31%) Google
4 5 (1.31%) HubSpot
4 5 (1.31%) Salesforce
4 5 (1.31%) SaltStack
5 3 (0.79%) Atlassian
5 3 (0.79%) Microsoft
6 1 (0.26%) Apple
6 1 (0.26%) Cisco
6 1 (0.26%) Informatica
6 1 (0.26%) New Relic
6 1 (0.26%) Splunk
6 1 (0.26%) YouTube