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

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 374 339 394
Rank change year-on-year -35 +55 -54
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 450 358 407
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.46% 0.82% 0.57%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.83% 2.48% 1.80%
Number of salaries quoted 271 261 250
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £62,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £74,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.35% -1.33% +1.69%
75th Percentile £88,125 £87,500 £95,938
90th Percentile £109,000 £98,750 £107,500
UK median annual salary £70,500 £74,000 £74,500
% change year-on-year -4.73% -0.67% +4.56%

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 24,557 14,441 22,627
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.37% 32.93% 31.79%
Number of salaries quoted 16,930 10,143 15,944
10th Percentile £31,500 £29,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £39,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -2.44% -5.38%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £102,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.37%

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 August 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 August 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
North of England +53 175 £75,000 +15.38% 66
London -59 171 £85,000 +13.33% 205
Yorkshire +15 83 £80,000 +33.33% 15
North West +13 60 £70,000 +7.69% 33
South East -16 36 £67,500 -15.63% 18
South West -60 36 £62,500 -26.47% 29
North East -30 32 £67,500 -6.90% 18
Midlands -31 28 £65,000 +52.94% 29
East Midlands -7 20 £65,000 +73.33% 18
West Midlands -36 8 £73,750 +63.89% 11
East of England -39 2 £77,500 -8.82% 10
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 22 (4.89%) Apache Spark
2 20 (4.44%) Apache
3 13 (2.89%) Confluence
4 12 (2.67%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.67%) SAS
6 2 (0.44%) nginx
7 1 (0.22%) CMS
7 1 (0.22%) IIS
7 1 (0.22%) JBoss
7 1 (0.22%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (1.56%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.22%) Finacle
1 1 (0.22%) FLEXCUBE
1 1 (0.22%) Infor SunSystems
1 1 (0.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
1 1 (0.22%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 450 (100.00%) Serverless
2 448 (99.56%) AWS
3 300 (66.67%) Amazon S3
4 176 (39.11%) Amazon ECS
5 173 (38.44%) AWS CloudFormation
6 111 (24.67%) Amazon EC2
7 99 (22.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 92 (20.44%) AWS Step Functions
9 78 (17.33%) GitHub
10 77 (17.11%) Amazon SQS
11 75 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
12 57 (12.67%) Azure
13 56 (12.44%) Datadog
14 54 (12.00%) GitHub Actions
15 49 (10.89%) Amazon EventBridge
16 42 (9.33%) SaaS
16 42 (9.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 38 (8.44%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 34 (7.56%) Amazon ECR
19 30 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 16 (3.56%) Network Security
2 12 (2.67%) Firewall
3 6 (1.33%) AMQP
3 6 (1.33%) VPN
4 4 (0.89%) DNS
4 4 (0.89%) IPv4
4 4 (0.89%) Software-Defined Networking
5 2 (0.44%) Broadband
5 2 (0.44%) DSL
5 2 (0.44%) VoIP
6 1 (0.22%) 4G
6 1 (0.22%) 5G
6 1 (0.22%) DHCP
6 1 (0.22%) HTTP
6 1 (0.22%) PSTN
6 1 (0.22%) SSL
6 1 (0.22%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.22%) VLAN
6 1 (0.22%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 161 (35.78%) DynamoDB
2 99 (22.00%) Amazon RDS
3 55 (12.22%) NoSQL
4 49 (10.89%) Amazon Athena
5 44 (9.78%) Amazon Redshift
6 27 (6.00%) PostgreSQL
7 26 (5.78%) Data Warehouse
8 20 (4.44%) SQL Server
9 18 (4.00%) Relational Database
10 15 (3.33%) Metadata
11 14 (3.11%) Elasticsearch
12 13 (2.89%) Big Data
13 11 (2.44%) MongoDB
13 11 (2.44%) MySQL
14 10 (2.22%) Amazon Aurora
15 9 (2.00%) Data Lake
16 8 (1.78%) Power BI
17 7 (1.56%) Azure SQL Database
17 7 (1.56%) Hadoop
18 6 (1.33%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 101 (22.44%) Git
2 94 (20.89%) Jenkins
3 55 (12.22%) GitLab
4 25 (5.56%) Maven
5 23 (5.11%) SonarQube
6 22 (4.89%) Cypress.io
6 22 (4.89%) JIRA
7 14 (3.11%) Bitbucket
8 12 (2.67%) TeamCity
9 10 (2.22%) Cucumber
10 9 (2.00%) CircleCI
11 8 (1.78%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 7 (1.56%) Postman
13 6 (1.33%) Claude Code
13 6 (1.33%) Gradle
14 4 (0.89%) Artifactory
14 4 (0.89%) Selenium
14 4 (0.89%) SpecFlow
15 3 (0.67%) git-flow
15 3 (0.67%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 103 (22.89%) Social Skills
2 101 (22.44%) Finance
3 58 (12.89%) Public Sector
4 44 (9.78%) Analytical Skills
5 42 (9.33%) Banking
6 28 (6.22%) Law
7 20 (4.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 17 (3.78%) Marketing
9 11 (2.44%) Aviation
9 11 (2.44%) Influencing Skills
9 11 (2.44%) Retail
9 11 (2.44%) Telecoms
10 10 (2.22%) Aerospace
11 9 (2.00%) Health Technology
12 7 (1.56%) Billing
12 7 (1.56%) Legal
13 6 (1.33%) Advertising
14 5 (1.11%) Front Office
14 5 (1.11%) Military
15 4 (0.89%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 154 (34.22%) Developer
2 142 (31.56%) Senior
3 64 (14.22%) Java Developer
4 60 (13.33%) Senior Developer
5 58 (12.89%) AWS Engineer
6 57 (12.67%) Lead
7 56 (12.44%) Full-Stack Developer
8 45 (10.00%) Data Engineer
9 39 (8.67%) AWS Developer
10 37 (8.22%) DevOps Engineer
11 35 (7.78%) Software Engineer
12 22 (4.89%) Cloud Engineer
12 22 (4.89%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
13 21 (4.67%) Platform Engineer
14 20 (4.44%) Architect
15 19 (4.22%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 18 (4.00%) Consultant
16 18 (4.00%) Senior Consultant
17 16 (3.56%) AWS Data Engineer
17 16 (3.56%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 197 (43.78%) Terraform
2 121 (26.89%) Node.js
3 88 (19.56%) AngularJS
4 81 (18.00%) React
5 66 (14.67%) Spring Boot
6 55 (12.22%) Spring
7 47 (10.44%) REST
8 44 (9.78%) RESTful
9 43 (9.56%) AWS CDK
10 40 (8.89%) Kafka
11 33 (7.33%) .NET
12 28 (6.22%) Swagger
13 27 (6.00%) Jest
14 25 (5.56%) Gherkin
15 24 (5.33%) RabbitMQ
16 22 (4.89%) OpenAPI
17 21 (4.67%) JSON
17 21 (4.67%) PySpark
18 20 (4.44%) YAML
19 18 (4.00%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 117 (26.00%) Cloud Native
2 36 (8.00%) Distributed Systems
3 26 (5.78%) Onboarding
4 25 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
5 18 (4.00%) Enterprise Cloud
6 17 (3.78%) Greenfield Project
6 17 (3.78%) Linux Command Line
7 11 (2.44%) Mobile Banking
7 11 (2.44%) Product Ownership
8 9 (2.00%) Blockchain
8 9 (2.00%) Web3
9 8 (1.78%) AI Agents
10 7 (1.56%) Data Structures
10 7 (1.56%) Low-Code
10 7 (1.56%) NHS
11 6 (1.33%) Public Cloud
12 5 (1.11%) Blog
12 5 (1.11%) IoT
12 5 (1.11%) IVR
13 4 (0.89%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 42 (9.33%) Linux
2 13 (2.89%) Windows
3 7 (1.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.11%) CentOS
4 5 (1.11%) Debian
4 5 (1.11%) Ubuntu
4 5 (1.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 267 (59.33%) CI/CD
2 191 (42.44%) DevOps
3 183 (40.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 170 (37.78%) Agile
5 121 (26.89%) Mentoring
6 113 (25.11%) AI
7 106 (23.56%) Software Engineering
8 99 (22.00%) Microservices
9 91 (20.22%) Observability
10 90 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
11 87 (19.33%) Problem-Solving
12 81 (18.00%) Containerisation
13 72 (16.00%) Continuous Improvement
14 71 (15.78%) Event-Driven
15 67 (14.89%) Test Automation
16 65 (14.44%) Analytics
17 56 (12.44%) Collaborative Culture
18 54 (12.00%) Data Modelling
19 53 (11.78%) Decision-Making
20 52 (11.56%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 239 (53.11%) Python
2 135 (30.00%) SQL
3 132 (29.33%) TypeScript
4 127 (28.22%) Java
5 78 (17.33%) Bash
6 52 (11.56%) JavaScript
7 35 (7.78%) Kotlin
8 34 (7.56%) Groovy
9 32 (7.11%) C#
10 20 (4.44%) PHP
10 20 (4.44%) PowerShell
11 19 (4.22%) Ruby
12 18 (4.00%) Perl
13 15 (3.33%) Go
14 10 (2.22%) Scala
15 7 (1.56%) C++
16 5 (1.11%) Shell Script
17 3 (0.67%) Rust
18 2 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 2 (0.44%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 97 (21.56%) Security Cleared
2 67 (14.89%) AWS Certification
3 62 (13.78%) SC Cleared
4 35 (7.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 29 (6.44%) DV Cleared
6 19 (4.22%) Degree
7 18 (4.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 14 (3.11%) ITIL Certification
9 9 (2.00%) AWS Certified Developer
10 8 (1.78%) BPSS Clearance
11 6 (1.33%) Master's Degree
11 6 (1.33%) OSCP
12 5 (1.11%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 5 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (1.11%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 5 (1.11%) RHCE
13 4 (0.89%) CCNA
13 4 (0.89%) Cisco Certification
13 4 (0.89%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.89%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (7.78%) Data Quality
2 26 (5.78%) QA
3 14 (3.11%) GDPR
4 10 (2.22%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.11%) HIPAA
7 3 (0.67%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.67%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.22%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 161 (35.78%) Docker
2 6 (1.33%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.89%) Squid
3 4 (0.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.89%) VMware NSX
3 4 (0.89%) vSphere
4 3 (0.67%) Firmware
5 1 (0.22%) iptables
Systems Management
1 76 (16.89%) Kubernetes
2 44 (9.78%) Ansible
3 33 (7.33%) Prometheus
4 32 (7.11%) Grafana
5 17 (3.78%) Packer
6 16 (3.56%) HP Fortify
7 8 (1.78%) Puppet
8 5 (1.11%) Argo
9 4 (0.89%) Kibana
9 4 (0.89%) ZABBIX
10 3 (0.67%) Scalr
10 3 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.44%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.22%) Fluentd
12 1 (0.22%) logstash
12 1 (0.22%) Rancher
12 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 22 (4.89%) Databricks
2 14 (3.11%) Oracle
2 14 (3.11%) Red Hat
2 14 (3.11%) Splunk
3 12 (2.67%) OpenAI
4 10 (2.22%) Google
4 10 (2.22%) Microsoft
5 8 (1.78%) Dynatrace
5 8 (1.78%) Salesforce
6 7 (1.56%) AppDynamics
6 7 (1.56%) Avaya
6 7 (1.56%) Cisco
6 7 (1.56%) Genesys
6 7 (1.56%) HubSpot
7 6 (1.33%) IBM
8 5 (1.11%) SaltStack
9 4 (0.89%) VMware
10 3 (0.67%) Atlassian
10 3 (0.67%) LexisNexis
10 3 (0.67%) PeopleSoft