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

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 361 309 401
Rank change year-on-year -52 +92 -46
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 425 401 560
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.50% 0.98% 0.61%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.81% 2.91% 1.83%
Number of salaries quoted 293 308 430
10th Percentile £50,000 £50,525 £51,125
25th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.45%
75th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £112,500 £115,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% - +3.45%

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 23,450 13,794 30,647
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 27.40% 33.57% 33.13%
Number of salaries quoted 15,671 9,846 24,336
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,500 £30,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -8.73%

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 30 June 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 30 June 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 -66 160 £88,750 +4.41% 52
North of England +21 150 £75,000 +15.38% 24
Yorkshire +28 95 £75,000 +25.00% 7
North West +5 43 £72,500 +3.57% 10
Midlands -21 43 £55,000 +29.41% 10
South West -52 39 £62,500 - 11
East Midlands 0 32 £55,000 +18.92% 4
South East -19 27 £82,500 +50.00% 22
North East -38 12 £75,000 +15.38% 7
West Midlands -35 11 £50,000 +17.65% 6
East of England -42 4 £62,500 -26.47% 1
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 29 (6.82%) Apache
2 25 (5.88%) Apache Spark
3 18 (4.24%) Apache Airflow
4 11 (2.59%) Confluence
5 3 (0.71%) JBoss
6 2 (0.47%) Oracle Application Server
7 1 (0.24%) CMS
7 1 (0.24%) IIS
7 1 (0.24%) SAS
7 1 (0.24%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.24%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.94%) Chatbot
1 4 (0.94%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.24%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 425 (100.00%) Serverless
2 424 (99.76%) AWS
3 297 (69.88%) Amazon S3
4 166 (39.06%) AWS CloudFormation
5 151 (35.53%) Amazon ECS
6 115 (27.06%) AWS Step Functions
7 98 (23.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 95 (22.35%) Amazon EC2
9 83 (19.53%) Amazon SQS
10 77 (18.12%) GitHub
11 60 (14.12%) Amazon EKS
12 51 (12.00%) GitHub Actions
13 48 (11.29%) Datadog
14 46 (10.82%) Amazon ECR
14 46 (10.82%) Amazon EventBridge
15 42 (9.88%) Azure
16 41 (9.65%) Apigee
17 40 (9.41%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 29 (6.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 28 (6.59%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.06%) Firewall
1 13 (3.06%) Network Security
2 11 (2.59%) DSL
3 9 (2.12%) AMQP
4 5 (1.18%) VPN
5 4 (0.94%) DNS
5 4 (0.94%) IPv4
5 4 (0.94%) Software-Defined Networking
6 3 (0.71%) Broadband
7 2 (0.47%) 4G
7 2 (0.47%) 5G
7 2 (0.47%) VoIP
8 1 (0.24%) DHCP
8 1 (0.24%) HTTP
8 1 (0.24%) PSTN
8 1 (0.24%) SSL
8 1 (0.24%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.24%) VLAN
8 1 (0.24%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 176 (41.41%) DynamoDB
2 81 (19.06%) Amazon RDS
3 58 (13.65%) NoSQL
4 49 (11.53%) Amazon Athena
5 42 (9.88%) Amazon Redshift
6 22 (5.18%) Data Warehouse
7 20 (4.71%) PostgreSQL
8 14 (3.29%) Relational Database
9 13 (3.06%) Big Data
9 13 (3.06%) MySQL
9 13 (3.06%) SQL Server
10 10 (2.35%) Data Lake
10 10 (2.35%) Elasticsearch
11 9 (2.12%) Metadata
12 8 (1.88%) Power BI
13 7 (1.65%) Amazon Aurora
13 7 (1.65%) Hadoop
14 6 (1.41%) Apache Iceberg
14 6 (1.41%) Cloudera CDH
14 6 (1.41%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 128 (30.12%) Jenkins
2 87 (20.47%) Git
3 82 (19.29%) GitLab
4 37 (8.71%) Maven
5 36 (8.47%) SonarQube
6 34 (8.00%) Cypress.io
7 22 (5.18%) JIRA
8 17 (4.00%) CircleCI
9 13 (3.06%) Bitbucket
10 11 (2.59%) TeamCity
11 10 (2.35%) Cucumber
12 7 (1.65%) Postman
13 6 (1.41%) Claude Code
13 6 (1.41%) Selenium
14 5 (1.18%) Gradle
15 4 (0.94%) Artifactory
15 4 (0.94%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 4 (0.94%) MLflow
15 4 (0.94%) SpecFlow
16 3 (0.71%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 101 (23.76%) Social Skills
2 68 (16.00%) Finance
3 41 (9.65%) Public Sector
4 38 (8.94%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (5.88%) Banking
6 9 (2.12%) Advertising
6 9 (2.12%) Aerospace
6 9 (2.12%) Health Technology
6 9 (2.12%) Telecoms
7 8 (1.88%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (1.65%) Billing
9 5 (1.18%) Publishing
10 4 (0.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (0.94%) Investment Banking
10 4 (0.94%) Tech for Good
11 3 (0.71%) Law
11 3 (0.71%) Legal
11 3 (0.71%) Marketing
11 3 (0.71%) Military
12 2 (0.47%) Games
Job Titles
1 175 (41.18%) Developer
2 137 (32.24%) Senior
3 78 (18.35%) Java Developer
4 67 (15.76%) Senior Developer
5 56 (13.18%) Full-Stack Developer
6 49 (11.53%) AWS Developer
7 47 (11.06%) AWS Engineer
8 46 (10.82%) Lead
9 41 (9.65%) Data Engineer
10 34 (8.00%) Software Engineer
11 32 (7.53%) DevOps Engineer
12 24 (5.65%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 24 (5.65%) Platform Engineer
13 22 (5.18%) Architect
14 21 (4.94%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
15 20 (4.71%) AWS Data Engineer
15 20 (4.71%) Python Developer
16 19 (4.47%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 19 (4.47%) React Developer
17 16 (3.76%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 129 (30.35%) Node.js
2 104 (24.47%) React
3 97 (22.82%) AngularJS
4 75 (17.65%) Spring Boot
5 51 (12.00%) Spring
6 46 (10.82%) RESTful
7 42 (9.88%) Kafka
8 39 (9.18%) REST
9 38 (8.94%) AWS CDK
9 38 (8.94%) Gherkin
10 33 (7.76%) Jest
11 31 (7.29%) RabbitMQ
12 23 (5.41%) JSON
13 22 (5.18%) gRPC
13 22 (5.18%) YAML
14 20 (4.71%) Swagger
15 18 (4.24%) .NET
15 18 (4.24%) HTML
16 17 (4.00%) PySpark
17 16 (3.76%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 98 (23.06%) Cloud Native
2 36 (8.47%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (3.76%) Blockchain
3 16 (3.76%) Greenfield Project
3 16 (3.76%) Web3
4 12 (2.82%) Product Ownership
5 10 (2.35%) Onboarding
6 8 (1.88%) Data Structures
7 6 (1.41%) Enterprise Cloud
7 6 (1.41%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (1.41%) NHS
7 6 (1.41%) Public Cloud
8 5 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.18%) IoT
8 5 (1.18%) Linux Command Line
8 5 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (0.94%) Algorithms
9 4 (0.94%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (0.94%) Low-Code
10 3 (0.71%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 45 (10.59%) Linux
2 12 (2.82%) Windows
3 8 (1.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (1.41%) CentOS
4 6 (1.41%) Debian
4 6 (1.41%) Ubuntu
5 4 (0.94%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 263 (61.88%) CI/CD
2 194 (45.65%) DevOps
3 177 (41.65%) Infrastructure as Code
4 156 (36.71%) Agile
5 99 (23.29%) Full-Stack Development
6 97 (22.82%) Software Engineering
7 87 (20.47%) Containerisation
7 87 (20.47%) Mentoring
8 85 (20.00%) Microservices
9 78 (18.35%) AI
10 76 (17.88%) Observability
10 76 (17.88%) Test Automation
11 74 (17.41%) Problem-Solving
12 63 (14.82%) Event-Driven
13 55 (12.94%) Analytics
14 52 (12.24%) Continuous Integration
15 51 (12.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 47 (11.06%) Data Pipeline
17 46 (10.82%) Platform Engineering
18 44 (10.35%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 222 (52.24%) Python
2 141 (33.18%) TypeScript
3 122 (28.71%) Java
3 122 (28.71%) SQL
4 73 (17.18%) Bash
5 58 (13.65%) JavaScript
6 46 (10.82%) Groovy
7 36 (8.47%) Kotlin
8 31 (7.29%) Go
9 21 (4.94%) PowerShell
10 17 (4.00%) C#
11 15 (3.53%) PHP
12 11 (2.59%) Rust
13 10 (2.35%) Perl
14 7 (1.65%) Scala
15 6 (1.41%) Ruby
16 2 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 2 (0.47%) PL/SQL
16 2 (0.47%) R
16 2 (0.47%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 79 (18.59%) Security Cleared
2 63 (14.82%) AWS Certification
3 49 (11.53%) SC Cleared
4 34 (8.00%) Degree
5 28 (6.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 25 (5.88%) DV Cleared
7 24 (5.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 24 (5.65%) ITIL Certification
8 15 (3.53%) OSCP
9 11 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (1.65%) AWS Certified Developer
11 5 (1.18%) RHCE
12 4 (0.94%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 4 (0.94%) CCNA
12 4 (0.94%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (0.94%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.94%) Master's Degree
12 4 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.94%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 4 (0.94%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (5.41%) Data Quality
2 22 (5.18%) QA
3 7 (1.65%) Accessibility
3 7 (1.65%) GDPR
3 7 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.71%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.24%) MiFID
5 1 (0.24%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.24%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 159 (37.41%) Docker
2 4 (0.94%) Active Directory
2 4 (0.94%) iptables
2 4 (0.94%) Squid
2 4 (0.94%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (0.94%) VMware NSX
2 4 (0.94%) vSphere
3 3 (0.71%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 177 (41.65%) Terraform
2 89 (20.94%) Kubernetes
3 52 (12.24%) Ansible
4 38 (8.94%) Prometheus
5 29 (6.82%) HP Fortify
6 28 (6.59%) Grafana
7 16 (3.76%) Packer
8 10 (2.35%) Puppet
9 5 (1.18%) Argo
9 5 (1.18%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.94%) Kibana
10 4 (0.94%) ZABBIX
11 3 (0.71%) Scalr
12 1 (0.24%) logstash
12 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 12 (2.82%) Databricks
1 12 (2.82%) Red Hat
1 12 (2.82%) Splunk
2 11 (2.59%) Oracle
3 7 (1.65%) AppDynamics
3 7 (1.65%) Google
3 7 (1.65%) HubSpot
4 6 (1.41%) IBM
4 6 (1.41%) Microsoft
4 6 (1.41%) SaltStack
5 5 (1.18%) OpenAI
6 4 (0.94%) Dynatrace
6 4 (0.94%) VMware
7 2 (0.47%) SnapLogic
8 1 (0.24%) New Relic
8 1 (0.24%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.24%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 1 (0.24%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.24%) Solace
8 1 (0.24%) Veracode