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

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 384 341 378
Rank change year-on-year -43 +37 -26
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 444 321 434
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.43% 0.74% 0.65%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.84% 2.30% 2.01%
Number of salaries quoted 267 224 210
10th Percentile £46,217 £48,600 £51,250
25th Percentile £54,375 £60,000 £62,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £75,750
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% -4.29% +4.48%
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £95,938
90th Percentile £108,000 £101,750 £115,075
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 24,095 13,937 21,635
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 23.18% 32.23% 32.31%
Number of salaries quoted 16,939 9,675 13,444
10th Percentile £31,750 £29,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,860 £38,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.83% -7.69% +1.56%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £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 2 October 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 2 October 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 +50 179 £67,500 +3.85% 84
London -70 165 £80,000 +6.67% 275
Yorkshire +16 72 £80,000 +23.08% 26
North West +8 70 £67,249 +3.46% 48
North East -26 37 £67,500 -6.90% 10
South West -61 35 £70,000 -11.11% 43
Midlands -38 29 £65,000 +36.84% 32
South East -36 28 £67,500 -15.63% 42
East Midlands - 19 £65,000 - 17
West Midlands -50 10 £62,500 +31.58% 15
East of England -58 1 £80,000 +10.34% 14
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 (6.08%) Apache Spark
2 23 (5.18%) Apache
3 14 (3.15%) Confluence
4 10 (2.25%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.68%) SAS
6 2 (0.45%) Camunda
6 2 (0.45%) nginx
6 2 (0.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.45%) WebLogic
6 2 (0.45%) WebLogic Portal
7 1 (0.23%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (0.90%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.45%) Oracle Applications
1 2 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (0.45%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (0.23%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
2 1 (0.23%) Finacle
2 1 (0.23%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.23%) Infor SunSystems
2 1 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.23%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 444 (100.00%) Serverless
2 442 (99.55%) AWS
3 287 (64.64%) Amazon S3
4 161 (36.26%) Amazon ECS
5 157 (35.36%) AWS CloudFormation
6 117 (26.35%) Amazon EC2
7 94 (21.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 84 (18.92%) AWS Step Functions
9 81 (18.24%) Amazon EKS
10 74 (16.67%) GitHub
11 72 (16.22%) Amazon SQS
12 60 (13.51%) Azure
13 52 (11.71%) GitHub Actions
14 49 (11.04%) Amazon EventBridge
15 47 (10.59%) Datadog
16 39 (8.78%) SaaS
17 35 (7.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 32 (7.21%) Amazon OpenSearch
19 29 (6.53%) Cloud Computing
20 28 (6.31%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 15 (3.38%) Network Security
2 10 (2.25%) Firewall
3 8 (1.80%) AMQP
4 4 (0.90%) IPv4
4 4 (0.90%) Software-Defined Networking
4 4 (0.90%) VPN
5 2 (0.45%) DNS
5 2 (0.45%) VoIP
6 1 (0.23%) 4G
6 1 (0.23%) 5G
6 1 (0.23%) DHCP
6 1 (0.23%) HTTP
6 1 (0.23%) PSTN
6 1 (0.23%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.23%) VLAN
6 1 (0.23%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 139 (31.31%) DynamoDB
2 101 (22.75%) Amazon RDS
3 51 (11.49%) NoSQL
4 48 (10.81%) Amazon Athena
5 47 (10.59%) Amazon Redshift
6 30 (6.76%) PostgreSQL
7 27 (6.08%) Data Warehouse
8 19 (4.28%) Relational Database
9 18 (4.05%) Spark SQL
10 17 (3.83%) SQL Server
11 15 (3.38%) Data Lake
11 15 (3.38%) MongoDB
12 14 (3.15%) Big Data
12 14 (3.15%) Elasticsearch
12 14 (3.15%) Metadata
13 13 (2.93%) Amazon Aurora
14 10 (2.25%) Hadoop
14 10 (2.25%) MySQL
15 9 (2.03%) Redis
16 8 (1.80%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 107 (24.10%) Git
2 81 (18.24%) Jenkins
3 48 (10.81%) GitLab
4 22 (4.95%) Cypress.io
5 20 (4.50%) JIRA
6 19 (4.28%) Maven
7 13 (2.93%) SonarQube
8 12 (2.70%) Bitbucket
9 11 (2.48%) TeamCity
10 10 (2.25%) Postman
11 8 (1.80%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 8 (1.80%) Claude Code
12 7 (1.58%) CircleCI
13 6 (1.35%) Gradle
14 5 (1.13%) JMeter
15 4 (0.90%) Cucumber
15 4 (0.90%) JUnit
15 4 (0.90%) Mockito
16 3 (0.68%) Selenium
17 2 (0.45%) Jasmine
General
1 96 (21.62%) Finance
2 90 (20.27%) Social Skills
3 72 (16.22%) Public Sector
4 49 (11.04%) Analytical Skills
5 41 (9.23%) Banking
6 29 (6.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 27 (6.08%) Law
8 17 (3.83%) Marketing
9 13 (2.93%) Aviation
9 13 (2.93%) Retail
10 12 (2.70%) Aerospace
11 11 (2.48%) Influencing Skills
11 11 (2.48%) Telecoms
12 8 (1.80%) Health Technology
13 7 (1.58%) Billing
14 5 (1.13%) Front Office
14 5 (1.13%) Legal
14 5 (1.13%) Military
15 4 (0.90%) Advertising
15 4 (0.90%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 131 (29.50%) Developer
2 128 (28.83%) Senior
3 63 (14.19%) AWS Engineer
4 62 (13.96%) Data Engineer
5 53 (11.94%) Lead
6 50 (11.26%) Full-Stack Developer
6 50 (11.26%) Java Developer
7 49 (11.04%) Senior Developer
8 38 (8.56%) Software Engineer
9 36 (8.11%) AWS Developer
10 35 (7.88%) DevOps Engineer
11 19 (4.28%) Architect
11 19 (4.28%) Cloud Engineer
11 19 (4.28%) Platform Engineer
11 19 (4.28%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
12 18 (4.05%) Consultant
12 18 (4.05%) Senior Consultant
13 17 (3.83%) AWS Data Engineer
13 17 (3.83%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 16 (3.60%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 192 (43.24%) Terraform
2 112 (25.23%) Node.js
3 80 (18.02%) AngularJS
4 75 (16.89%) React
5 61 (13.74%) Spring Boot
6 56 (12.61%) Spring
7 48 (10.81%) RESTful
8 46 (10.36%) Kafka
9 45 (10.14%) .NET
9 45 (10.14%) REST
10 43 (9.68%) AWS CDK
11 38 (8.56%) PySpark
12 30 (6.76%) Swagger
13 25 (5.63%) Gherkin
13 25 (5.63%) Jest
14 24 (5.41%) OpenAPI
15 20 (4.50%) JSON
16 17 (3.83%) RabbitMQ
17 15 (3.38%) OpenTelemetry
18 14 (3.15%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 126 (28.38%) Cloud Native
2 33 (7.43%) Distributed Systems
3 30 (6.76%) Hybrid Cloud
4 29 (6.53%) Onboarding
5 18 (4.05%) Enterprise Cloud
6 17 (3.83%) Product Ownership
7 14 (3.15%) Greenfield Project
7 14 (3.15%) Linux Command Line
8 11 (2.48%) AI Agents
8 11 (2.48%) Mobile Banking
9 7 (1.58%) Data Structures
9 7 (1.58%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (1.58%) Low-Code
9 7 (1.58%) NHS
9 7 (1.58%) Public Cloud
10 6 (1.35%) Blockchain
10 6 (1.35%) Blog
10 6 (1.35%) Replication
10 6 (1.35%) Web3
11 5 (1.13%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 38 (8.56%) Linux
2 11 (2.48%) Windows
3 7 (1.58%) CentOS
3 7 (1.58%) Debian
3 7 (1.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (1.58%) Ubuntu
4 5 (1.13%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 269 (60.59%) CI/CD
2 179 (40.32%) Agile
3 178 (40.09%) Infrastructure as Code
4 176 (39.64%) DevOps
5 133 (29.95%) Mentoring
6 117 (26.35%) AI
7 111 (25.00%) Software Engineering
8 98 (22.07%) Full-Stack Development
8 98 (22.07%) Microservices
9 93 (20.95%) Observability
10 88 (19.82%) Problem-Solving
11 81 (18.24%) Continuous Improvement
12 78 (17.57%) Event-Driven
13 76 (17.12%) Analytics
14 73 (16.44%) Test Automation
15 71 (15.99%) Decision-Making
16 70 (15.77%) ETL
17 69 (15.54%) Containerisation
18 65 (14.64%) Data Engineering
19 59 (13.29%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 230 (51.80%) Python
2 149 (33.56%) SQL
3 129 (29.05%) Java
4 122 (27.48%) TypeScript
5 74 (16.67%) Bash
6 72 (16.22%) JavaScript
7 44 (9.91%) C#
8 28 (6.31%) Groovy
9 27 (6.08%) Kotlin
10 19 (4.28%) C++
10 19 (4.28%) Ruby
11 17 (3.83%) PHP
12 16 (3.60%) PowerShell
13 15 (3.38%) Perl
14 11 (2.48%) Scala
15 10 (2.25%) Go
16 4 (0.90%) Shell Script
17 2 (0.45%) PL/SQL
17 2 (0.45%) Rust
18 1 (0.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 106 (23.87%) Security Cleared
2 71 (15.99%) SC Cleared
3 60 (13.51%) AWS Certification
4 32 (7.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 32 (7.21%) DV Cleared
5 13 (2.93%) Degree
6 12 (2.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 10 (2.25%) ITIL Certification
8 8 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
9 7 (1.58%) AWS Certified Developer
10 5 (1.13%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 5 (1.13%) Master's Degree
10 5 (1.13%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (1.13%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 4 (0.90%) CCNA
11 4 (0.90%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (0.90%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.90%) OSCP
11 4 (0.90%) RHCE
11 4 (0.90%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (12.39%) Data Quality
2 25 (5.63%) QA
3 14 (3.15%) Accessibility
3 14 (3.15%) GDPR
4 5 (1.13%) HIPAA
5 4 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 150 (33.78%) Docker
2 6 (1.35%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.90%) Squid
3 4 (0.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.90%) VMware NSX
3 4 (0.90%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 75 (16.89%) Kubernetes
2 34 (7.66%) Ansible
3 33 (7.43%) Prometheus
4 31 (6.98%) Grafana
5 13 (2.93%) Packer
6 11 (2.48%) HP Fortify
7 9 (2.03%) Puppet
8 6 (1.35%) Rancher
9 5 (1.13%) Argo
10 4 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.90%) ZABBIX
11 2 (0.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.45%) Kibana
11 2 (0.45%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 2 (0.45%) Oracle RMAN
12 1 (0.23%) Fluentd
12 1 (0.23%) logstash
12 1 (0.23%) Scalr
Vendors
1 27 (6.08%) Databricks
2 16 (3.60%) Dynatrace
3 14 (3.15%) Oracle
3 14 (3.15%) Red Hat
3 14 (3.15%) Splunk
4 13 (2.93%) Google
4 13 (2.93%) OpenAI
5 11 (2.48%) Microsoft
6 8 (1.80%) Salesforce
7 7 (1.58%) Avaya
7 7 (1.58%) Cisco
7 7 (1.58%) Genesys
7 7 (1.58%) SaltStack
7 7 (1.58%) ServiceNow
8 6 (1.35%) Confluent
8 6 (1.35%) HubSpot
9 5 (1.13%) SnapLogic
10 4 (0.90%) VMware
11 3 (0.68%) LexisNexis
11 3 (0.68%) PeopleSoft