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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 348 291 380
Rank change year-on-year -57 +89 -30
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 409 405 586
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.49% 1.06% 0.67%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.66% 3.10% 1.95%
Number of salaries quoted 281 317 457
10th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £50,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.97% +0.67% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £97,500 £96,250
90th Percentile £107,500 £115,000 £113,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +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 24,605 13,078 30,050
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 29.58% 34.15% 34.50%
Number of salaries quoted 14,376 9,204 24,332
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £44,750 £42,500 £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 £83,741 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -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 29 May 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 29 May 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 -73 151 £85,000 -5.56% 71
North of England +30 146 £72,500 +11.54% 28
Yorkshire +21 109 £72,500 +20.83% 9
Midlands -5 51 £55,000 +29.41% 15
East Midlands -5 35 £55,000 - 7
North West -1 33 £75,000 - 14
South West -54 31 £62,500 +4.17% 19
South East -33 25 £82,500 +50.00% 17
West Midlands -38 16 £50,000 +17.65% 8
North East -36 4 £50,065 -19.90% 5
East of England -46 4 £62,500 -26.47% 4
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 (6.11%) Apache
2 21 (5.13%) Apache Spark
3 19 (4.65%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.47%) Confluence
5 3 (0.73%) JBoss
6 2 (0.49%) Oracle Application Server
7 1 (0.24%) CMS
7 1 (0.24%) IIS
7 1 (0.24%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (1.47%) Spreadsheet
2 4 (0.98%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 409 (100.00%) Serverless
2 408 (99.76%) AWS
3 292 (71.39%) Amazon S3
4 169 (41.32%) AWS CloudFormation
5 132 (32.27%) Amazon ECS
6 120 (29.34%) AWS Step Functions
7 95 (23.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 88 (21.52%) Amazon EC2
9 86 (21.03%) Amazon SQS
10 79 (19.32%) GitHub
11 62 (15.16%) GitHub Actions
12 51 (12.47%) Amazon ECR
13 49 (11.98%) Datadog
14 47 (11.49%) Apigee
15 46 (11.25%) Amazon EKS
16 41 (10.02%) Amazon EventBridge
17 37 (9.05%) Azure
18 34 (8.31%) Amazon OpenSearch
19 30 (7.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
20 27 (6.60%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.18%) DSL
2 11 (2.69%) Firewall
3 9 (2.20%) AMQP
4 6 (1.47%) Network Security
5 4 (0.98%) VPN
6 3 (0.73%) Broadband
6 3 (0.73%) DNS
6 3 (0.73%) IPv4
6 3 (0.73%) Software-Defined Networking
7 2 (0.49%) 4G
7 2 (0.49%) 5G
8 1 (0.24%) PSTN
8 1 (0.24%) SSL
8 1 (0.24%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 177 (43.28%) DynamoDB
2 80 (19.56%) Amazon RDS
3 60 (14.67%) NoSQL
4 44 (10.76%) Amazon Athena
5 43 (10.51%) Amazon Redshift
6 22 (5.38%) Data Warehouse
7 20 (4.89%) PostgreSQL
8 14 (3.42%) Relational Database
8 14 (3.42%) SQL Server
9 12 (2.93%) Big Data
10 11 (2.69%) MySQL
11 8 (1.96%) Data Lake
11 8 (1.96%) Power BI
12 7 (1.71%) Metadata
12 7 (1.71%) Snowflake Schema
13 6 (1.47%) Amazon Aurora
13 6 (1.47%) Apache Iceberg
14 5 (1.22%) Cloudera CDH
14 5 (1.22%) Hadoop
15 4 (0.98%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 132 (32.27%) Jenkins
2 89 (21.76%) GitLab
3 86 (21.03%) Git
4 43 (10.51%) Maven
5 41 (10.02%) SonarQube
6 40 (9.78%) Cypress.io
7 18 (4.40%) CircleCI
8 17 (4.16%) JIRA
9 9 (2.20%) Bitbucket
9 9 (2.20%) Cucumber
10 5 (1.22%) Gradle
10 5 (1.22%) Postman
11 4 (0.98%) Artifactory
11 4 (0.98%) Claude Code
11 4 (0.98%) MLflow
11 4 (0.98%) Selenium
11 4 (0.98%) SpecFlow
11 4 (0.98%) TeamCity
12 3 (0.73%) ESLint
12 3 (0.73%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 97 (23.72%) Social Skills
2 53 (12.96%) Finance
3 37 (9.05%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (7.58%) Public Sector
5 24 (5.87%) Banking
6 11 (2.69%) Advertising
7 10 (2.44%) Health Technology
8 7 (1.71%) Aerospace
8 7 (1.71%) Billing
8 7 (1.71%) Publishing
9 6 (1.47%) Tech for Good
10 5 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (1.22%) Investment Banking
11 4 (0.98%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.73%) Law
12 3 (0.73%) Legal
12 3 (0.73%) Marketing
12 3 (0.73%) Military
13 2 (0.49%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 181 (44.25%) Developer
2 113 (27.63%) Senior
3 75 (18.34%) Java Developer
4 60 (14.67%) Senior Developer
5 57 (13.94%) AWS Developer
6 46 (11.25%) Lead
7 45 (11.00%) Full-Stack Developer
8 41 (10.02%) AWS Engineer
9 36 (8.80%) Data Engineer
10 34 (8.31%) Software Engineer
11 30 (7.33%) DevOps Engineer
12 22 (5.38%) Architect
12 22 (5.38%) Lead Developer
12 22 (5.38%) React Developer
13 20 (4.89%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 19 (4.65%) Python Developer
15 18 (4.40%) AWS Architect
15 18 (4.40%) Cloud Engineer
15 18 (4.40%) Platform Engineer
15 18 (4.40%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 126 (30.81%) Node.js
2 103 (25.18%) React
3 91 (22.25%) AngularJS
4 75 (18.34%) Spring Boot
5 51 (12.47%) RESTful
6 49 (11.98%) Spring
7 41 (10.02%) AWS CDK
7 41 (10.02%) Gherkin
8 39 (9.54%) Kafka
9 37 (9.05%) Jest
9 37 (9.05%) REST
10 32 (7.82%) RabbitMQ
11 24 (5.87%) JSON
12 22 (5.38%) gRPC
12 22 (5.38%) YAML
13 21 (5.13%) HTML
14 18 (4.40%) .NET
14 18 (4.40%) web3js
15 17 (4.16%) CSS
16 15 (3.67%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 88 (21.52%) Cloud Native
2 26 (6.36%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (4.40%) Blockchain
3 18 (4.40%) Web3
4 15 (3.67%) Greenfield Project
5 8 (1.96%) Product Ownership
6 7 (1.71%) Data Structures
7 6 (1.47%) Public Cloud
8 5 (1.22%) IoT
8 5 (1.22%) Linux Command Line
8 5 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (0.98%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (0.98%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (0.98%) NHS
10 3 (0.73%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (0.73%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (0.49%) Data Centre
11 2 (0.49%) Onboarding
11 2 (0.49%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 38 (9.29%) Linux
2 8 (1.96%) Windows
3 7 (1.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.22%) CentOS
4 5 (1.22%) Debian
4 5 (1.22%) Ubuntu
5 3 (0.73%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 256 (62.59%) CI/CD
2 199 (48.66%) DevOps
3 168 (41.08%) Infrastructure as Code
4 145 (35.45%) Agile
5 89 (21.76%) Software Engineering
6 88 (21.52%) Full-Stack Development
7 87 (21.27%) Containerisation
8 80 (19.56%) Microservices
9 75 (18.34%) Mentoring
10 70 (17.11%) Problem-Solving
10 70 (17.11%) Test Automation
11 61 (14.91%) Observability
12 60 (14.67%) Event-Driven
13 56 (13.69%) AI
14 53 (12.96%) Continuous Integration
15 51 (12.47%) DevSecOps
15 51 (12.47%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 49 (11.98%) Analytics
17 40 (9.78%) Data Pipeline
18 39 (9.54%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 200 (48.90%) Python
2 140 (34.23%) TypeScript
3 125 (30.56%) SQL
4 114 (27.87%) Java
5 66 (16.14%) Bash
6 64 (15.65%) JavaScript
7 49 (11.98%) Groovy
8 34 (8.31%) Go
8 34 (8.31%) Kotlin
9 17 (4.16%) PowerShell
10 13 (3.18%) Rust
11 12 (2.93%) C#
12 11 (2.69%) PHP
13 4 (0.98%) Perl
13 4 (0.98%) Scala
14 2 (0.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.49%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.49%) R
14 2 (0.49%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 67 (16.38%) Security Cleared
2 64 (15.65%) AWS Certification
3 49 (11.98%) SC Cleared
4 40 (9.78%) Degree
5 28 (6.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 24 (5.87%) ITIL Certification
7 20 (4.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 17 (4.16%) Computer Science Degree
8 17 (4.16%) DV Cleared
9 16 (3.91%) OSCP
10 14 (3.42%) AWS Certified Developer
11 5 (1.22%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 4 (0.98%) RHCE
13 3 (0.73%) CCNA
13 3 (0.73%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.73%) IIBA
13 3 (0.73%) ISTQB
13 3 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
13 3 (0.73%) PhD
13 3 (0.73%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (5.62%) Data Quality
2 22 (5.38%) QA
3 6 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.73%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.73%) GDPR
4 3 (0.73%) 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 (38.88%) Docker
2 4 (0.98%) iptables
3 3 (0.73%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.73%) Firmware
3 3 (0.73%) Squid
3 3 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.73%) VMware NSX
3 3 (0.73%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 161 (39.36%) Terraform
2 85 (20.78%) Kubernetes
3 45 (11.00%) Ansible
4 38 (9.29%) Prometheus
5 35 (8.56%) HP Fortify
6 25 (6.11%) Grafana
7 9 (2.20%) Packer
7 9 (2.20%) Puppet
8 5 (1.22%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.73%) Kibana
9 3 (0.73%) Scalr
9 3 (0.73%) ZABBIX
10 2 (0.49%) Argo
11 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 11 (2.69%) Databricks
1 11 (2.69%) Oracle
2 10 (2.44%) Red Hat
3 7 (1.71%) AppDynamics
3 7 (1.71%) HubSpot
4 6 (1.47%) IBM
4 6 (1.47%) Salesforce
4 6 (1.47%) Splunk
5 5 (1.22%) Google
5 5 (1.22%) SaltStack
6 4 (0.98%) Microsoft
7 3 (0.73%) VMware
8 2 (0.49%) Atlassian
8 2 (0.49%) OpenAI
8 2 (0.49%) SnapLogic
9 1 (0.24%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.24%) Informatica
9 1 (0.24%) New Relic
9 1 (0.24%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 1 (0.24%) ServiceNow