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

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 329 208 351
Rank change year-on-year -121 +143 -10
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 319 705 460
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.58% 1.49% 0.77%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.68% 4.06% 1.96%
Number of salaries quoted 222 319 397
10th Percentile £52,500 £54,750 £50,000
25th Percentile £58,750 £66,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £90,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.44% +28.57% -15.15%
75th Percentile £87,500 £115,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £138,750 £112,500
UK median annual salary £71,000 £85,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -16.47% +21.43% -12.50%

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 18,940 17,384 23,497
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 34.34% 36.68% 39.16%
Number of salaries quoted 10,529 10,258 19,906
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,750 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%

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 January 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 January 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 -125 151 £76,000 -22.05% 76
North of England +61 83 £65,000 -4.94% 61
Yorkshire +44 67 £65,000 +8.33% 32
Midlands +30 34 £55,000 - 41
South West +6 27 £63,750 -5.56% 50
East Midlands -1 19 £60,000 -14.29% 22
North West +23 16 £65,000 -6.14% 19
West Midlands +30 15 £50,000 +8.11% 19
South East -101 12 £67,500 +17.39% 101
East of England -26 4 £100,000 +37.93% 61
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 (9.72%) Apache Spark
2 24 (7.52%) Apache
3 12 (3.76%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (2.82%) WebSphere
5 7 (2.19%) Tomcat
6 6 (1.88%) WebSphere Application Server
7 3 (0.94%) Confluence
8 2 (0.63%) nginx
8 2 (0.63%) Oracle Application Server
9 1 (0.31%) JBoss
9 1 (0.31%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.31%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (1.88%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 319 (100.00%) AWS
1 319 (100.00%) Serverless
2 221 (69.28%) Amazon S3
3 114 (35.74%) AWS CloudFormation
4 82 (25.71%) AWS Step Functions
5 71 (22.26%) Amazon ECS
6 65 (20.38%) Amazon SQS
7 63 (19.75%) Amazon EC2
7 63 (19.75%) GitHub
8 59 (18.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 53 (16.61%) Amazon EKS
10 45 (14.11%) Azure
11 44 (13.79%) GitHub Actions
12 32 (10.03%) Amazon ECR
13 27 (8.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 25 (7.84%) Apigee
15 24 (7.52%) Amazon EventBridge
16 22 (6.90%) GCP
17 20 (6.27%) SaaS
18 19 (5.96%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.76%) AMQP
2 7 (2.19%) SSL
3 6 (1.88%) DSL
4 4 (1.25%) Broadband
4 4 (1.25%) Firewall
5 2 (0.63%) DNS
5 2 (0.63%) Network Security
5 2 (0.63%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.63%) VPN
6 1 (0.31%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (34.17%) DynamoDB
2 71 (22.26%) Amazon RDS
3 47 (14.73%) Amazon Redshift
4 45 (14.11%) NoSQL
5 42 (13.17%) Data Warehouse
6 39 (12.23%) PostgreSQL
7 22 (6.90%) SQL Server
8 20 (6.27%) Amazon Athena
8 20 (6.27%) Big Data
9 19 (5.96%) Data Lake
10 16 (5.02%) MongoDB
11 14 (4.39%) Elasticsearch
11 14 (4.39%) Hadoop
12 10 (3.13%) Apache Iceberg
12 10 (3.13%) Relational Database
13 8 (2.51%) Apache Hive
13 8 (2.51%) DB2
13 8 (2.51%) MySQL
14 5 (1.57%) Cloudera CDH
15 4 (1.25%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 73 (22.88%) Jenkins
2 53 (16.61%) GitLab
3 48 (15.05%) Git
4 30 (9.40%) Cypress.io
5 24 (7.52%) Maven
6 23 (7.21%) SonarQube
7 11 (3.45%) Bitbucket
8 10 (3.13%) JIRA
9 7 (2.19%) MLflow
10 6 (1.88%) CircleCI
11 5 (1.57%) git-flow
11 5 (1.57%) Vite
12 3 (0.94%) ESLint
12 3 (0.94%) JUnit
13 2 (0.63%) DBeaver
13 2 (0.63%) Deequ
13 2 (0.63%) Mocha
13 2 (0.63%) webpack
14 1 (0.31%) Gradle
14 1 (0.31%) Zephyr
General
1 86 (26.96%) Social Skills
2 52 (16.30%) Finance
3 26 (8.15%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (7.84%) Tech for Good
5 22 (6.90%) Health Technology
5 22 (6.90%) Publishing
6 15 (4.70%) Influencing Skills
7 14 (4.39%) Banking
7 14 (4.39%) Organisational Skills
8 9 (2.82%) Financial Institution
8 9 (2.82%) Public Sector
9 7 (2.19%) Advertising
9 7 (2.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.25%) Aerospace
10 4 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (0.94%) Billing
11 3 (0.94%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.63%) Front Office
12 2 (0.63%) Games
12 2 (0.63%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 120 (37.62%) Developer
2 76 (23.82%) Senior
3 56 (17.55%) AWS Developer
4 49 (15.36%) Lead
5 39 (12.23%) Software Engineer
6 38 (11.91%) AWS Engineer
7 36 (11.29%) Data Engineer
8 34 (10.66%) Senior Developer
9 32 (10.03%) Python Developer
10 31 (9.72%) React Developer
11 29 (9.09%) Java Developer
12 28 (8.78%) Lead Developer
13 22 (6.90%) AWS Data Engineer
14 21 (6.58%) Full-Stack Developer
14 21 (6.58%) Software Developer
15 17 (5.33%) Architect
15 17 (5.33%) Lead Python Developer
16 16 (5.02%) Senior Data Engineer
17 15 (4.70%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 15 (4.70%) Node.js Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (32.60%) React
2 82 (25.71%) Node.js
3 59 (18.50%) Spring Boot
4 55 (17.24%) RESTful
5 48 (15.05%) Spring
6 47 (14.73%) AngularJS
7 43 (13.48%) AWS CDK
8 30 (9.40%) Jest
9 29 (9.09%) Kafka
10 26 (8.15%) RabbitMQ
11 25 (7.84%) HTML
12 23 (7.21%) Gherkin
13 20 (6.27%) .NET
14 19 (5.96%) CSS
15 16 (5.02%) Swagger
16 15 (4.70%) gRPC
17 14 (4.39%) .NET Core
18 13 (4.08%) ASP.NET
18 13 (4.08%) ASP.NET Core
18 13 (4.08%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 98 (30.72%) Cloud Native
2 18 (5.64%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (3.45%) Greenfield Project
4 10 (3.13%) Product Ownership
5 8 (2.51%) e-Learning
5 8 (2.51%) Linux Command Line
6 7 (2.19%) Security Posture
6 7 (2.19%) Virtual Team
7 6 (1.88%) Blockchain
7 6 (1.88%) Data Structures
7 6 (1.88%) Onboarding
7 6 (1.88%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (1.88%) Web3
8 4 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (0.94%) Animation
9 3 (0.94%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (0.94%) Life Science
9 3 (0.94%) Private Cloud
10 2 (0.63%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 30 (9.40%) Linux
2 13 (4.08%) Unix
3 12 (3.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (2.19%) Windows
5 5 (1.57%) CentOS
5 5 (1.57%) Debian
5 5 (1.57%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.31%) Android
6 1 (0.31%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 204 (63.95%) CI/CD
2 152 (47.65%) DevOps
3 131 (41.07%) Agile
4 120 (37.62%) Infrastructure as Code
5 89 (27.90%) Software Engineering
6 70 (21.94%) Mentoring
6 70 (21.94%) Problem-Solving
7 68 (21.32%) Microservices
8 67 (21.00%) Full-Stack Development
9 58 (18.18%) Containerisation
10 52 (16.30%) Scrum
11 46 (14.42%) Data Pipeline
11 46 (14.42%) Observability
12 44 (13.79%) Continuous Improvement
13 39 (12.23%) Continuous Integration
14 38 (11.91%) AI
15 34 (10.66%) Data Engineering
15 34 (10.66%) Data Modelling
16 33 (10.34%) DevSecOps
17 32 (10.03%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 169 (52.98%) Python
2 109 (34.17%) TypeScript
3 96 (30.09%) Java
4 88 (27.59%) SQL
5 73 (22.88%) JavaScript
6 38 (11.91%) Bash
7 22 (6.90%) Groovy
8 19 (5.96%) Go
9 12 (3.76%) Scala
10 9 (2.82%) C#
11 8 (2.51%) Kotlin
12 6 (1.88%) PowerShell
12 6 (1.88%) Rust
13 3 (0.94%) C++
14 2 (0.63%) C
14 2 (0.63%) PHP
14 2 (0.63%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 80 (25.08%) AWS Certification
2 45 (14.11%) Security Cleared
3 43 (13.48%) Degree
4 29 (9.09%) SC Cleared
5 25 (7.84%) AWS Certified Developer
6 22 (6.90%) Computer Science Degree
7 21 (6.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 17 (5.33%) DV Cleared
9 16 (5.02%) ITIL Certification
10 14 (4.39%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 7 (2.19%) OSCP
12 5 (1.57%) SnowPro
13 4 (1.25%) Master's Degree
13 4 (1.25%) MCP
14 3 (0.94%) IIBA
15 2 (0.63%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
16 1 (0.31%) GAWN
16 1 (0.31%) GCIH
16 1 (0.31%) GIAC
16 1 (0.31%) GREM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (12.54%) QA
2 19 (5.96%) Data Quality
3 14 (4.39%) GDPR
4 6 (1.88%) Accessibility
4 6 (1.88%) SLA
5 5 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.94%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.94%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.31%) GAAP
7 1 (0.31%) IFRS
7 1 (0.31%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.31%) MiFID
7 1 (0.31%) NIST
7 1 (0.31%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 98 (30.72%) Docker
2 8 (2.51%) HDFS
3 1 (0.31%) iptables
3 1 (0.31%) vCloud
3 1 (0.31%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.31%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 104 (32.60%) Terraform
2 73 (22.88%) Kubernetes
3 23 (7.21%) HP Fortify
4 21 (6.58%) Ansible
4 21 (6.58%) Prometheus
5 16 (5.02%) Grafana
6 6 (1.88%) Puppet
7 5 (1.57%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.94%) Kibana
8 3 (0.94%) Kubeflow
9 2 (0.63%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (4.70%) Databricks
2 12 (3.76%) Oracle
3 11 (3.45%) Red Hat
4 9 (2.82%) Atlassian
4 9 (2.82%) IBM
5 8 (2.51%) Google
6 5 (1.57%) Salesforce
6 5 (1.57%) SaltStack
7 4 (1.25%) OpenAI
8 3 (0.94%) Microsoft
9 2 (0.63%) Informatica
10 1 (0.31%) Apple
10 1 (0.31%) Cisco
10 1 (0.31%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.31%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.31%) StreamSets
10 1 (0.31%) VMware
10 1 (0.31%) YouTube