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

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 339 185 357
Rank change year-on-year -154 +172 +7
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 371 626 570
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.52% 1.71% 0.72%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.60% 4.54% 1.98%
Number of salaries quoted 256 371 485
10th Percentile £51,527 £52,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £85,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.71% +13.33% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £115,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £106,250 £138,750 £118,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £82,500 £72,000
% change year-on-year -15.15% +14.58% -4.00%

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 23,134 13,795 28,810
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 32.54% 37.74% 36.64%
Number of salaries quoted 12,524 10,138 23,956
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £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 3 April 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 3 April 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 -131 147 £78,750 -20.25% 91
North of England +10 124 £72,500 +6.03% 39
Yorkshire +28 106 £72,500 +26.09% 13
Midlands -25 41 £55,000 - 10
South West -34 31 £62,500 +4.17% 18
East Midlands -23 27 £57,500 -16.36% 2
South East -127 22 £82,500 +50.00% 31
North West -33 17 £70,000 -6.67% 22
West Midlands -28 14 £50,000 -9.09% 8
East of England -73 4 £62,500 -26.47% 12
North East -25 1 £90,000 +44.00% 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 26 (7.01%) Apache
2 24 (6.47%) Apache Spark
3 21 (5.66%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.08%) Confluence
5 3 (0.81%) JBoss
6 2 (0.54%) nginx
6 2 (0.54%) Oracle Application Server
6 2 (0.54%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.54%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.54%) 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 (1.62%) Spreadsheet
2 4 (1.08%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 371 (100.00%) Serverless
2 370 (99.73%) AWS
3 276 (74.39%) Amazon S3
4 149 (40.16%) AWS CloudFormation
5 107 (28.84%) Amazon ECS
5 107 (28.84%) AWS Step Functions
6 90 (24.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 87 (23.45%) Amazon SQS
8 81 (21.83%) GitHub
9 77 (20.75%) Amazon EC2
10 59 (15.90%) GitHub Actions
11 53 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
12 51 (13.75%) Amazon ECR
13 45 (12.13%) Apigee
14 44 (11.86%) Azure
15 36 (9.70%) Datadog
16 33 (8.89%) Amazon EventBridge
17 27 (7.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 25 (6.74%) Amazon OpenSearch
19 23 (6.20%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.50%) DSL
2 11 (2.96%) AMQP
3 6 (1.62%) Network Security
4 5 (1.35%) Broadband
4 5 (1.35%) Firewall
5 3 (0.81%) DNS
5 3 (0.81%) SSL
5 3 (0.81%) VPN
6 1 (0.27%) 4G
6 1 (0.27%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 152 (40.97%) DynamoDB
2 80 (21.56%) Amazon RDS
3 63 (16.98%) NoSQL
4 43 (11.59%) Amazon Redshift
5 34 (9.16%) Amazon Athena
6 29 (7.82%) Data Warehouse
7 28 (7.55%) PostgreSQL
8 19 (5.12%) SQL Server
9 13 (3.50%) Big Data
9 13 (3.50%) Data Lake
10 11 (2.96%) MySQL
10 11 (2.96%) Relational Database
11 9 (2.43%) Hadoop
12 8 (2.16%) Amazon Aurora
12 8 (2.16%) Metadata
12 8 (2.16%) MongoDB
13 7 (1.89%) Apache Iceberg
14 6 (1.62%) Power BI
15 5 (1.35%) Cloudera CDH
15 5 (1.35%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 114 (30.73%) Jenkins
2 87 (23.45%) GitLab
3 65 (17.52%) Git
4 46 (12.40%) SonarQube
5 42 (11.32%) Cypress.io
5 42 (11.32%) Maven
6 15 (4.04%) JIRA
7 14 (3.77%) CircleCI
8 9 (2.43%) Cucumber
9 8 (2.16%) Bitbucket
10 7 (1.89%) MLflow
11 5 (1.35%) git-flow
12 4 (1.08%) Artifactory
12 4 (1.08%) Selenium
13 3 (0.81%) ESLint
13 3 (0.81%) Postman
13 3 (0.81%) SpecFlow
13 3 (0.81%) webpack
14 2 (0.54%) DBeaver
14 2 (0.54%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 100 (26.95%) Social Skills
2 49 (13.21%) Finance
3 38 (10.24%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (5.39%) Public Sector
5 19 (5.12%) Banking
6 16 (4.31%) Health Technology
6 16 (4.31%) Tech for Good
7 15 (4.04%) Influencing Skills
7 15 (4.04%) Publishing
8 14 (3.77%) Organisational Skills
9 11 (2.96%) Advertising
10 6 (1.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.08%) Aerospace
11 4 (1.08%) Billing
12 3 (0.81%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.81%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.81%) Law
12 3 (0.81%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.81%) Military
13 2 (0.54%) Legal
Job Titles
1 172 (46.36%) Developer
2 89 (23.99%) Senior
3 65 (17.52%) Java Developer
4 62 (16.71%) AWS Developer
5 53 (14.29%) Lead
6 48 (12.94%) Senior Developer
7 38 (10.24%) Full-Stack Developer
8 36 (9.70%) AWS Engineer
9 33 (8.89%) Data Engineer
9 33 (8.89%) Software Engineer
10 31 (8.36%) Lead Developer
10 31 (8.36%) React Developer
11 29 (7.82%) Python Developer
12 22 (5.93%) DevOps Engineer
13 21 (5.66%) Software Developer
14 20 (5.39%) Architect
15 19 (5.12%) Node.js Developer
16 17 (4.58%) AWS Architect
16 17 (4.58%) Lead Python Developer
16 17 (4.58%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (28.57%) Node.js
2 105 (28.30%) React
3 78 (21.02%) AngularJS
4 72 (19.41%) Spring Boot
5 61 (16.44%) RESTful
6 48 (12.94%) AWS CDK
7 45 (12.13%) Spring
8 42 (11.32%) Jest
9 40 (10.78%) Gherkin
10 35 (9.43%) RabbitMQ
11 32 (8.63%) Kafka
12 29 (7.82%) HTML
13 26 (7.01%) REST
14 23 (6.20%) .NET
14 23 (6.20%) CSS
15 20 (5.39%) gRPC
16 15 (4.04%) .NET Core
17 14 (3.77%) web3js
18 13 (3.50%) ASP.NET Core
18 13 (3.50%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 94 (25.34%) Cloud Native
2 20 (5.39%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (3.77%) Blockchain
3 14 (3.77%) Product Ownership
3 14 (3.77%) Web3
4 11 (2.96%) Greenfield Project
5 8 (2.16%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (1.89%) Data Structures
7 6 (1.62%) Linux Command Line
8 5 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.35%) Security Posture
9 4 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.08%) Onboarding
10 3 (0.81%) Animation
10 3 (0.81%) e-Learning
10 3 (0.81%) IoT
10 3 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (0.81%) Life Science
10 3 (0.81%) NHS
10 3 (0.81%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 32 (8.63%) Linux
2 9 (2.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (1.89%) Windows
4 5 (1.35%) CentOS
4 5 (1.35%) Debian
4 5 (1.35%) Ubuntu
5 4 (1.08%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 245 (66.04%) CI/CD
2 194 (52.29%) DevOps
3 155 (41.78%) Agile
4 145 (39.08%) Infrastructure as Code
5 87 (23.45%) Software Engineering
6 82 (22.10%) Microservices
7 80 (21.56%) Containerisation
7 80 (21.56%) Full-Stack Development
8 78 (21.02%) Problem-Solving
9 75 (20.22%) Mentoring
10 58 (15.63%) Observability
11 57 (15.36%) Continuous Integration
12 51 (13.75%) Test Automation
13 47 (12.67%) Continuous Improvement
14 44 (11.86%) DevSecOps
15 43 (11.59%) Data Pipeline
16 40 (10.78%) Analytics
17 39 (10.51%) AI
17 39 (10.51%) Scrum
18 36 (9.70%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 183 (49.33%) Python
2 125 (33.69%) TypeScript
3 113 (30.46%) Java
4 112 (30.19%) SQL
5 70 (18.87%) JavaScript
6 60 (16.17%) Bash
7 46 (12.40%) Groovy
8 30 (8.09%) Go
9 26 (7.01%) Kotlin
10 13 (3.50%) Rust
11 11 (2.96%) PowerShell
12 10 (2.70%) C#
13 8 (2.16%) PHP
14 5 (1.35%) Scala
15 4 (1.08%) Perl
16 3 (0.81%) C++
17 2 (0.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 2 (0.54%) PL/SQL
17 2 (0.54%) R
17 2 (0.54%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 76 (20.49%) AWS Certification
2 55 (14.82%) Security Cleared
3 50 (13.48%) Degree
4 41 (11.05%) SC Cleared
5 27 (7.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 25 (6.74%) ITIL Certification
7 23 (6.20%) AWS Certified Developer
8 20 (5.39%) Computer Science Degree
9 18 (4.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 14 (3.77%) OSCP
11 11 (2.96%) DV Cleared
12 5 (1.35%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 4 (1.08%) Master's Degree
14 3 (0.81%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 3 (0.81%) IIBA
14 3 (0.81%) PhD
15 2 (0.54%) SnowPro
16 1 (0.27%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 1 (0.27%) GAWN
16 1 (0.27%) GREM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (9.70%) QA
2 18 (4.85%) Data Quality
3 7 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.62%) GDPR
5 3 (0.81%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.54%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.54%) 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
1 147 (39.62%) Docker
2 4 (1.08%) iptables
3 3 (0.81%) Firmware
3 3 (0.81%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 135 (36.39%) Terraform
2 90 (24.26%) Kubernetes
3 40 (10.78%) HP Fortify
4 37 (9.97%) Ansible
5 28 (7.55%) Prometheus
6 21 (5.66%) Grafana
7 9 (2.43%) Puppet
8 6 (1.62%) Progress Chef
9 5 (1.35%) Kibana
10 4 (1.08%) Packer
11 3 (0.81%) Kubeflow
12 2 (0.54%) Scalr
13 1 (0.27%) Red Hat Satellite
13 1 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (3.23%) Databricks
2 9 (2.43%) Red Hat
3 8 (2.16%) IBM
3 8 (2.16%) Oracle
4 7 (1.89%) AppDynamics
5 5 (1.35%) Google
5 5 (1.35%) Salesforce
5 5 (1.35%) SaltStack
6 4 (1.08%) Atlassian
7 3 (0.81%) Microsoft
8 2 (0.54%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.27%) Apple
9 1 (0.27%) Cisco
9 1 (0.27%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.27%) Informatica
9 1 (0.27%) New Relic
9 1 (0.27%) YouTube