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

6 months to
30 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 344 187 352
Rank change year-on-year -157 +165 +22
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 364 634 568
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.52% 1.72% 0.73%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.61% 4.56% 1.98%
Number of salaries quoted 252 363 486
10th Percentile £51,305 £52,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £59,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £85,000 £74,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.71% +14.09% -0.67%
75th Percentile £87,500 £115,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £107,250 £138,750 £118,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £81,250 £71,500
% change year-on-year -13.85% +13.64% -4.67%

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 22,643 13,917 28,730
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 32.56% 37.77% 36.82%
Number of salaries quoted 12,330 10,238 23,903
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,041 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -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 30 March 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 March 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 -122 148 £85,000 -18.07% 91
North of England +19 117 £70,000 +3.70% 39
Yorkshire +23 100 £72,500 +26.09% 13
Midlands -16 41 £55,000 - 10
South West -38 32 £62,500 +4.17% 18
East Midlands -20 26 £60,000 -12.73% 2
North West -28 17 £70,000 -6.67% 22
West Midlands -18 15 £50,000 -9.09% 8
South East -133 14 £67,500 +22.73% 31
East of England -70 4 £62,500 -26.47% 12
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 28 (7.69%) Apache
2 25 (6.87%) Apache Spark
3 21 (5.77%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.37%) Confluence
5 3 (0.82%) JBoss
5 3 (0.82%) Tomcat
5 3 (0.82%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.55%) nginx
6 2 (0.55%) Oracle Application Server
6 2 (0.55%) WebSphere Application Server
7 1 (0.27%) CMS
7 1 (0.27%) IIS
7 1 (0.27%) SAS
7 1 (0.27%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (1.65%) Spreadsheet
2 4 (1.10%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 364 (100.00%) Serverless
2 363 (99.73%) AWS
3 272 (74.73%) Amazon S3
4 145 (39.84%) AWS CloudFormation
5 104 (28.57%) AWS Step Functions
6 102 (28.02%) Amazon ECS
7 86 (23.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 84 (23.08%) Amazon SQS
9 82 (22.53%) GitHub
10 73 (20.05%) Amazon EC2
11 59 (16.21%) GitHub Actions
12 50 (13.74%) Amazon ECR
13 47 (12.91%) Amazon EKS
14 44 (12.09%) Apigee
15 42 (11.54%) Azure
16 33 (9.07%) Datadog
17 32 (8.79%) Amazon EventBridge
18 28 (7.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 23 (6.32%) Amazon OpenSearch
19 23 (6.32%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.57%) DSL
2 11 (3.02%) AMQP
3 6 (1.65%) Network Security
4 5 (1.37%) Broadband
4 5 (1.37%) Firewall
5 4 (1.10%) SSL
6 3 (0.82%) DNS
6 3 (0.82%) VPN
7 1 (0.27%) 4G
7 1 (0.27%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 146 (40.11%) DynamoDB
2 81 (22.25%) Amazon RDS
3 62 (17.03%) NoSQL
4 44 (12.09%) Amazon Redshift
5 32 (8.79%) Amazon Athena
5 32 (8.79%) PostgreSQL
6 31 (8.52%) Data Warehouse
7 20 (5.49%) SQL Server
8 13 (3.57%) Big Data
8 13 (3.57%) Data Lake
9 12 (3.30%) MySQL
10 11 (3.02%) MongoDB
11 9 (2.47%) Apache Iceberg
11 9 (2.47%) Hadoop
11 9 (2.47%) Relational Database
12 8 (2.20%) Amazon Aurora
12 8 (2.20%) Metadata
13 6 (1.65%) Power BI
14 5 (1.37%) Cloudera CDH
14 5 (1.37%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 107 (29.40%) Jenkins
2 83 (22.80%) GitLab
3 56 (15.38%) Git
4 41 (11.26%) Cypress.io
4 41 (11.26%) Maven
5 39 (10.71%) SonarQube
6 13 (3.57%) CircleCI
7 11 (3.02%) JIRA
8 9 (2.47%) Bitbucket
9 7 (1.92%) MLflow
10 6 (1.65%) git-flow
11 4 (1.10%) Cucumber
11 4 (1.10%) Selenium
12 3 (0.82%) ESLint
12 3 (0.82%) JUnit
12 3 (0.82%) webpack
13 2 (0.55%) DBeaver
13 2 (0.55%) Deequ
13 2 (0.55%) Mocha
13 2 (0.55%) Postman
General
1 99 (27.20%) Social Skills
2 50 (13.74%) Finance
3 39 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (4.95%) Banking
5 16 (4.40%) Health Technology
5 16 (4.40%) Public Sector
5 16 (4.40%) Tech for Good
6 15 (4.12%) Influencing Skills
6 15 (4.12%) Publishing
7 14 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
8 11 (3.02%) Advertising
9 7 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.10%) Aerospace
10 4 (1.10%) Billing
10 4 (1.10%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.82%) Investment Banking
11 3 (0.82%) Law
11 3 (0.82%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.82%) Military
12 2 (0.55%) Legal
Job Titles
1 164 (45.05%) Developer
2 87 (23.90%) Senior
3 61 (16.76%) AWS Developer
4 58 (15.93%) Java Developer
5 50 (13.74%) Lead
6 47 (12.91%) Senior Developer
7 37 (10.16%) AWS Engineer
8 36 (9.89%) Full-Stack Developer
9 35 (9.62%) Data Engineer
10 34 (9.34%) Software Engineer
11 31 (8.52%) React Developer
12 30 (8.24%) Lead Developer
13 29 (7.97%) Python Developer
14 21 (5.77%) Architect
14 21 (5.77%) Software Developer
15 19 (5.22%) AWS Data Engineer
15 19 (5.22%) Node.js Developer
16 18 (4.95%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
17 17 (4.67%) AWS Architect
17 17 (4.67%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (28.85%) Node.js
2 103 (28.30%) React
3 73 (20.05%) AngularJS
4 72 (19.78%) Spring Boot
5 57 (15.66%) RESTful
6 50 (13.74%) AWS CDK
7 45 (12.36%) Spring
8 41 (11.26%) Jest
9 39 (10.71%) Gherkin
10 31 (8.52%) Kafka
11 29 (7.97%) HTML
11 29 (7.97%) RabbitMQ
12 24 (6.59%) CSS
13 23 (6.32%) .NET
14 19 (5.22%) gRPC
15 18 (4.95%) REST
16 15 (4.12%) .NET Core
17 13 (3.57%) ASP.NET
17 13 (3.57%) ASP.NET Core
17 13 (3.57%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 99 (27.20%) Cloud Native
2 16 (4.40%) Product Ownership
3 13 (3.57%) Blockchain
3 13 (3.57%) Web3
4 12 (3.30%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (3.02%) Greenfield Project
6 8 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
7 7 (1.92%) Data Structures
8 6 (1.65%) Linux Command Line
9 5 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.37%) Security Posture
10 4 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.10%) Onboarding
11 3 (0.82%) Animation
11 3 (0.82%) e-Learning
11 3 (0.82%) IoT
11 3 (0.82%) Life Science
11 3 (0.82%) NHS
11 3 (0.82%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 28 (7.69%) Linux
2 10 (2.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (1.92%) Windows
4 5 (1.37%) CentOS
4 5 (1.37%) Debian
4 5 (1.37%) Ubuntu
4 5 (1.37%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 238 (65.38%) CI/CD
2 185 (50.82%) DevOps
3 150 (41.21%) Agile
4 138 (37.91%) Infrastructure as Code
5 87 (23.90%) Software Engineering
6 80 (21.98%) Problem-Solving
7 79 (21.70%) Full-Stack Development
8 77 (21.15%) Containerisation
8 77 (21.15%) Mentoring
9 74 (20.33%) Microservices
10 57 (15.66%) Observability
11 51 (14.01%) Continuous Integration
12 45 (12.36%) Continuous Improvement
12 45 (12.36%) Data Pipeline
12 45 (12.36%) DevSecOps
13 43 (11.81%) Test Automation
14 40 (10.99%) Analytics
15 39 (10.71%) Scrum
16 38 (10.44%) AI
17 35 (9.62%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 180 (49.45%) Python
2 125 (34.34%) TypeScript
3 110 (30.22%) SQL
4 107 (29.40%) Java
5 73 (20.05%) JavaScript
6 59 (16.21%) Bash
7 39 (10.71%) Groovy
8 29 (7.97%) Go
9 24 (6.59%) Kotlin
10 13 (3.57%) Rust
11 11 (3.02%) PowerShell
12 10 (2.75%) C#
13 8 (2.20%) PHP
14 5 (1.37%) Scala
15 3 (0.82%) C++
16 2 (0.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 2 (0.55%) R
17 1 (0.27%) C
Qualifications
1 77 (21.15%) AWS Certification
2 50 (13.74%) Degree
3 49 (13.46%) Security Cleared
4 34 (9.34%) SC Cleared
5 26 (7.14%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 24 (6.59%) ITIL Certification
7 23 (6.32%) AWS Certified Developer
8 20 (5.49%) Computer Science Degree
9 19 (5.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 14 (3.85%) OSCP
11 13 (3.57%) DV Cleared
12 5 (1.37%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 4 (1.10%) Master's Degree
14 3 (0.82%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 3 (0.82%) IIBA
14 3 (0.82%) PhD
15 2 (0.55%) SnowPro
16 1 (0.27%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 1 (0.27%) GIAC
16 1 (0.27%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (8.52%) QA
2 20 (5.49%) Data Quality
3 7 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.65%) GDPR
5 3 (0.82%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.55%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.55%) SLA
7 1 (0.27%) MiFID
7 1 (0.27%) NIST
7 1 (0.27%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.27%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.27%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 139 (38.19%) Docker
2 4 (1.10%) iptables
3 3 (0.82%) Firmware
3 3 (0.82%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 125 (34.34%) Terraform
2 82 (22.53%) Kubernetes
3 39 (10.71%) HP Fortify
4 29 (7.97%) Ansible
5 27 (7.42%) Prometheus
6 21 (5.77%) Grafana
7 9 (2.47%) Puppet
8 6 (1.65%) Progress Chef
9 4 (1.10%) Kibana
10 3 (0.82%) Kubeflow
11 2 (0.55%) Scalr
12 1 (0.27%) Red Hat Satellite
12 1 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (3.30%) Databricks
2 9 (2.47%) Oracle
2 9 (2.47%) Red Hat
3 6 (1.65%) Atlassian
4 5 (1.37%) Google
4 5 (1.37%) Salesforce
4 5 (1.37%) SaltStack
5 3 (0.82%) IBM
5 3 (0.82%) Microsoft
6 1 (0.27%) Apple
6 1 (0.27%) Cisco
6 1 (0.27%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.27%) HubSpot
6 1 (0.27%) Informatica
6 1 (0.27%) New Relic
6 1 (0.27%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.27%) YouTube