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 28 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 345 257 348
Rank change year-on-year -88 +91 -66
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 283 655 376
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.60% 1.09% 0.83%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.76% 3.20% 1.90%
Number of salaries quoted 192 275 316
10th Percentile £52,500 £53,750 £48,125
25th Percentile £58,750 £66,688 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £85,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +21.43% -12.50%
75th Percentile £87,500 £112,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £107,500 £128,750 £95,625
UK median annual salary £74,000 £80,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.50% +14.29% -12.50%

All Cloud 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 16,056 20,494 19,744
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 34.23% 34.23% 43.32%
Number of salaries quoted 10,424 12,478 16,557
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £37,750 £47,500 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £101,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £64,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -6.25% +2.40% -0.79%

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 28 November 2025.

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 28 November 2025. 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 -79 156 £76,750 -17.03% 66
North of England +46 53 £65,000 +4.00% 29
Yorkshire +35 31 £65,000 -1.89% 8
South West +26 29 £62,500 -10.71% 22
North West +49 22 £65,000 +8.33% 18
South East -66 15 £67,500 - 35
Midlands +52 14 £62,500 -10.71% 10
West Midlands +50 12 £62,500 -13.79% 7
East of England -1 8 £60,000 -17.24% 5
East Midlands +19 2 £65,000 -7.14% 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 25 (8.83%) Apache Spark
2 21 (7.42%) Apache
3 9 (3.18%) Headless CMS
3 9 (3.18%) WebSphere
4 7 (2.47%) Tomcat
5 6 (2.12%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (2.12%) WebSphere Application Server
6 4 (1.41%) Confluence
7 2 (0.71%) JBoss
7 2 (0.71%) nginx
8 1 (0.35%) CMS
8 1 (0.35%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.35%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (3.18%) Shopify
2 2 (0.71%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 283 (100.00%) AWS
1 283 (100.00%) Serverless
2 180 (63.60%) Amazon S3
3 74 (26.15%) Amazon EC2
4 70 (24.73%) Amazon ECS
5 66 (23.32%) AWS CloudFormation
6 55 (19.43%) Amazon SQS
7 51 (18.02%) Amazon EKS
8 48 (16.96%) AWS Step Functions
9 47 (16.61%) Azure
10 44 (15.55%) GitHub
11 38 (13.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 28 (9.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 26 (9.19%) GitHub Actions
14 23 (8.13%) Amazon SageMaker
15 22 (7.77%) Snowflake
16 20 (7.07%) Amazon Kinesis
17 19 (6.71%) SaaS
18 17 (6.01%) Amazon EMR
18 17 (6.01%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.47%) AMQP
1 7 (2.47%) SSL
2 6 (2.12%) Broadband
3 5 (1.77%) Firewall
4 3 (1.06%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.06%) VPN
5 2 (0.71%) DNS
5 2 (0.71%) Network Security
6 1 (0.35%) iSCSI
6 1 (0.35%) NAS
6 1 (0.35%) SAN
6 1 (0.35%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (34.98%) DynamoDB
2 66 (23.32%) Amazon RDS
3 47 (16.61%) Data Warehouse
4 46 (16.25%) Amazon Redshift
5 38 (13.43%) PostgreSQL
6 32 (11.31%) NoSQL
7 22 (7.77%) Data Lake
8 21 (7.42%) Elasticsearch
9 19 (6.71%) Big Data
10 18 (6.36%) Amazon Athena
11 16 (5.65%) MongoDB
12 14 (4.95%) SQL Server
13 13 (4.59%) Amazon Aurora
14 12 (4.24%) Apache Iceberg
14 12 (4.24%) MySQL
15 11 (3.89%) Hadoop
16 10 (3.53%) Relational Database
17 9 (3.18%) DB2
18 8 (2.83%) Apache Hive
19 4 (1.41%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 46 (16.25%) Jenkins
2 31 (10.95%) Git
3 26 (9.19%) GitLab
4 23 (8.13%) Cypress.io
5 11 (3.89%) Bitbucket
5 11 (3.89%) JIRA
6 7 (2.47%) Maven
6 7 (2.47%) SonarQube
7 6 (2.12%) Selenium
8 5 (1.77%) git-flow
8 5 (1.77%) Locust
8 5 (1.77%) Vite
9 3 (1.06%) JUnit
9 3 (1.06%) MLflow
9 3 (1.06%) Mocha
9 3 (1.06%) Spinnaker
10 2 (0.71%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.71%) ER Studio
10 2 (0.71%) webpack
11 1 (0.35%) Deequ
General
1 90 (31.80%) Social Skills
2 65 (22.97%) Finance
3 30 (10.60%) Tech for Good
4 25 (8.83%) Publishing
5 24 (8.48%) Health Technology
6 22 (7.77%) Analytical Skills
7 21 (7.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 17 (6.01%) Law
8 17 (6.01%) Marketing
9 13 (4.59%) Public Sector
10 12 (4.24%) Influencing Skills
11 11 (3.89%) Organisational Skills
12 9 (3.18%) Banking
12 9 (3.18%) Financial Institution
13 7 (2.47%) Games
14 6 (2.12%) Manufacturing
14 6 (2.12%) Retail
15 4 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
16 3 (1.06%) Advertising
16 3 (1.06%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 96 (33.92%) Senior
2 83 (29.33%) Developer
3 45 (15.90%) Data Engineer
4 43 (15.19%) Senior Developer
5 38 (13.43%) Software Engineer
6 37 (13.07%) Lead
7 36 (12.72%) AWS Engineer
8 32 (11.31%) Python Developer
9 31 (10.95%) AWS Developer
10 22 (7.77%) Senior Data Engineer
11 21 (7.42%) AWS Data Engineer
11 21 (7.42%) React Developer
12 20 (7.07%) Full-Stack Developer
13 18 (6.36%) Senior Python Developer
14 17 (6.01%) Lead Developer
15 15 (5.30%) Applications Support
15 15 (5.30%) Software Developer
16 14 (4.95%) Architect
16 14 (4.95%) Lead Python Developer
17 13 (4.59%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (30.39%) React
2 49 (17.31%) Node.js
3 47 (16.61%) RESTful
4 39 (13.78%) Spring
5 36 (12.72%) Spring Boot
6 27 (9.54%) Kafka
7 25 (8.83%) .NET
8 24 (8.48%) AngularJS
8 24 (8.48%) AWS CDK
9 23 (8.13%) HTML
10 22 (7.77%) Jest
11 21 (7.42%) CSS
11 21 (7.42%) GraphQL
12 17 (6.01%) RabbitMQ
13 16 (5.65%) Next.js
14 15 (5.30%) Swagger
15 13 (4.59%) .NET Core
15 13 (4.59%) Playwright
16 12 (4.24%) ASP.NET
17 11 (3.89%) Express.js
Miscellaneous
1 81 (28.62%) Cloud Native
2 19 (6.71%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (5.30%) Greenfield Project
4 13 (4.59%) Product Ownership
5 12 (4.24%) e-Learning
6 9 (3.18%) Linux Command Line
7 8 (2.83%) Virtual Team
8 7 (2.47%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (2.12%) Onboarding
10 5 (1.77%) Security Posture
11 4 (1.41%) AI Agents
11 4 (1.41%) Life Science
11 4 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (1.06%) Animation
12 3 (1.06%) Enterprise Cloud
12 3 (1.06%) Management Information System
12 3 (1.06%) Private Cloud
12 3 (1.06%) Public Cloud
13 2 (0.71%) Data Structures
13 2 (0.71%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 32 (11.31%) Linux
2 13 (4.59%) Unix
3 9 (3.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (2.47%) Windows
5 2 (0.71%) CentOS
5 2 (0.71%) Debian
5 2 (0.71%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.35%) Android
6 1 (0.35%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (56.89%) CI/CD
2 129 (45.58%) Agile
3 117 (41.34%) DevOps
4 90 (31.80%) Infrastructure as Code
5 86 (30.39%) Problem-Solving
5 86 (30.39%) Software Engineering
6 65 (22.97%) Mentoring
7 55 (19.43%) Microservices
8 54 (19.08%) Containerisation
9 51 (18.02%) Data Pipeline
10 50 (17.67%) Scrum
11 45 (15.90%) Full-Stack Development
12 43 (15.19%) Continuous Improvement
12 43 (15.19%) Data Modelling
12 43 (15.19%) Pair Programming
13 42 (14.84%) AI
13 42 (14.84%) Data Science
14 41 (14.49%) Analytics
14 41 (14.49%) Machine Learning
15 39 (13.78%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 177 (62.54%) Python
2 96 (33.92%) TypeScript
3 81 (28.62%) Java
4 72 (25.44%) SQL
5 59 (20.85%) JavaScript
6 22 (7.77%) Bash
7 15 (5.30%) C#
7 15 (5.30%) Scala
8 14 (4.95%) Go
9 6 (2.12%) Groovy
9 6 (2.12%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.06%) C++
10 3 (1.06%) Rust
10 3 (1.06%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.71%) C
12 1 (0.35%) PHP
12 1 (0.35%) R
Qualifications
1 60 (21.20%) AWS Certification
2 35 (12.37%) Degree
3 34 (12.01%) Security Cleared
4 21 (7.42%) AWS Certified Developer
5 20 (7.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 19 (6.71%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (6.71%) SC Cleared
7 17 (6.01%) DV Cleared
8 8 (2.83%) SnowPro
9 6 (2.12%) ITIL Certification
10 5 (1.77%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.71%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.35%) CCNA
12 1 (0.35%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.35%) GCIH
12 1 (0.35%) GIAC
12 1 (0.35%) GREM
12 1 (0.35%) MCSE
12 1 (0.35%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (15.19%) QA
2 19 (6.71%) GDPR
3 15 (5.30%) Data Quality
4 13 (4.59%) Accessibility
5 9 (3.18%) PCI DSS
6 8 (2.83%) SLA
7 5 (1.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (1.41%) NIST
8 4 (1.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (1.06%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.35%) CDISC
10 1 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.35%) DICOM
10 1 (0.35%) GAAP
10 1 (0.35%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.35%) HL7
10 1 (0.35%) IFRS
10 1 (0.35%) IFRS 17
10 1 (0.35%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 75 (26.50%) Docker
2 8 (2.83%) HDFS
3 2 (0.71%) Firmware
4 1 (0.35%) iptables
4 1 (0.35%) vCloud
4 1 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.35%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.35%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 88 (31.10%) Terraform
2 67 (23.67%) Kubernetes
3 22 (7.77%) Ansible
3 22 (7.77%) Prometheus
4 19 (6.71%) Grafana
5 7 (2.47%) HP Fortify
6 6 (2.12%) Progress Chef
7 5 (1.77%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (1.41%) Kibana
9 3 (1.06%) Docker Swarm
9 3 (1.06%) Kubeflow
9 3 (1.06%) Puppet
10 1 (0.35%) Argo
10 1 (0.35%) Podman
10 1 (0.35%) Red Hat Satellite
10 1 (0.35%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 19 (6.71%) Oracle
2 16 (5.65%) Databricks
3 9 (3.18%) Apple
3 9 (3.18%) Atlassian
3 9 (3.18%) Google
3 9 (3.18%) IBM
3 9 (3.18%) Microsoft
3 9 (3.18%) Red Hat
4 7 (2.47%) OpenAI
4 7 (2.47%) Splunk
5 2 (0.71%) Avaya
5 2 (0.71%) Genesys
5 2 (0.71%) SaltStack
5 2 (0.71%) ServiceNow
5 2 (0.71%) StreamSets
5 2 (0.71%) VMware
6 1 (0.35%) Cisco
6 1 (0.35%) Informatica
6 1 (0.35%) NetApp
6 1 (0.35%) Siebel