AWS Lambda Job Trends in the North of England

AWS Lambda
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring AWS Lambda skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 186 218 270
Rank change year-on-year +32 +52 +35
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 107 40 91
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.76% 0.58% 0.63%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.17% 1.66% 1.71%
Number of salaries quoted 60 37 79
10th Percentile £56,250 £43,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £58,438 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,750 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £75,625 £77,500 £73,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £91,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £72,500 £85,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -14.71% +17.24% -6.45%

All Cloud Computing Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 4,929 2,412 5,325
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 35.13% 34.96% 36.65%
Number of salaries quoted 2,267 1,639 4,542
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,886 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £82,548
England 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 the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing AWS Lambda relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

AWS Lambda job vacancy trend in the North of England

AWS Lambda
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing AWS Lambda.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing AWS Lambda

AWS Lambda
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS Lambda in the North of England over the 6 months to 11 March 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS Lambda in the North of England

AWS Lambda
Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 11 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
Yorkshire +33 90 £66,250 +15.22% 16
North West -14 17 £70,000 -6.67% 21
AWS Lambda
England

AWS Lambda
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of 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 10 (9.35%) Apache Spark
2 9 (8.41%) Apache
3 2 (1.87%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 107 (100.00%) AWS
1 107 (100.00%) Serverless
2 90 (84.11%) Amazon S3
3 72 (67.29%) AWS CloudFormation
4 61 (57.01%) AWS Step Functions
5 56 (52.34%) Amazon ECS
6 34 (31.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 33 (30.84%) Amazon ECR
7 33 (30.84%) Amazon SQS
7 33 (30.84%) Apigee
8 32 (29.91%) GitHub
9 23 (21.50%) Azure
10 22 (20.56%) GitHub Actions
11 16 (14.95%) Amazon EKS
11 16 (14.95%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 15 (14.02%) Amazon EventBridge
13 13 (12.15%) Azure DevOps
14 10 (9.35%) GCP
15 8 (7.48%) Datadog
16 7 (6.54%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.74%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (71.03%) DynamoDB
2 28 (26.17%) NoSQL
3 16 (14.95%) Amazon Athena
4 13 (12.15%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (12.15%) SQL Server
5 8 (7.48%) Amazon RDS
5 8 (7.48%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (6.54%) Amazon Redshift
7 6 (5.61%) Data Lake
8 5 (4.67%) Big Data
9 4 (3.74%) Apache Iceberg
9 4 (3.74%) Cloudera CDH
9 4 (3.74%) Hadoop
9 4 (3.74%) Relational Database
10 3 (2.80%) MySQL
10 3 (2.80%) RDBMS
11 2 (1.87%) Amazon Aurora
11 2 (1.87%) Data Vault
12 1 (0.93%) Metadata
12 1 (0.93%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 43 (40.19%) Jenkins
2 36 (33.64%) GitLab
3 33 (30.84%) Cypress.io
3 33 (30.84%) Maven
3 33 (30.84%) SonarQube
4 24 (22.43%) Git
5 3 (2.80%) Cucumber
5 3 (2.80%) Selenium
General
1 33 (30.84%) Social Skills
2 4 (3.74%) Aerospace
2 4 (3.74%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (3.74%) Finance
3 2 (1.87%) Health Technology
3 2 (1.87%) Public Sector
3 2 (1.87%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 61 (57.01%) Developer
2 41 (38.32%) Java Developer
3 22 (20.56%) Senior
4 20 (18.69%) AWS Developer
5 16 (14.95%) Software Engineer
6 13 (12.15%) Lead
7 12 (11.21%) .NET Developer
7 12 (11.21%) Senior Developer
8 8 (7.48%) Data Engineer
8 8 (7.48%) Senior Java Developer
9 7 (6.54%) Technical Leader
10 6 (5.61%) Full-Stack Developer
11 5 (4.67%) AWS Engineer
12 4 (3.74%) AWS DevOps
12 4 (3.74%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
12 4 (3.74%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 4 (3.74%) Senior Data Engineer
13 3 (2.80%) AWS Data Engineer
13 3 (2.80%) DevOps Developer
13 3 (2.80%) Serverless Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (47.66%) AngularJS
2 45 (42.06%) Spring Boot
3 35 (32.71%) Node.js
4 34 (31.78%) React
5 33 (30.84%) Gherkin
5 33 (30.84%) Jest
6 23 (21.50%) RESTful
7 21 (19.63%) Spring
8 14 (13.08%) .NET
8 14 (13.08%) AWS CDK
9 13 (12.15%) .NET Core
9 13 (12.15%) ASP.NET
9 13 (12.15%) ASP.NET Core
9 13 (12.15%) Blazor
10 7 (6.54%) OpenAPI
10 7 (6.54%) REST
10 7 (6.54%) Swagger
11 4 (3.74%) gRPC
11 4 (3.74%) Material-UI
11 4 (3.74%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 27 (25.23%) Cloud Native
2 4 (3.74%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (3.74%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (2.80%) Data Structures
3 3 (2.80%) NHS
3 3 (2.80%) Product Ownership
4 2 (1.87%) Virtual Team
5 1 (0.93%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.93%) Private Cloud
5 1 (0.93%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.74%) CentOS
1 4 (3.74%) Debian
1 4 (3.74%) Linux
1 4 (3.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 4 (3.74%) Ubuntu
2 1 (0.93%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (75.70%) CI/CD
2 80 (74.77%) DevOps
3 62 (57.94%) Agile
4 37 (34.58%) Infrastructure as Code
5 35 (32.71%) Microservices
6 28 (26.17%) Problem-Solving
7 25 (23.36%) Containerisation
8 22 (20.56%) Software Engineering
9 21 (19.63%) Secure Coding
10 20 (18.69%) SDLC
11 17 (15.89%) ITIL
11 17 (15.89%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
12 15 (14.02%) Deployment Automation
12 15 (14.02%) Full-Stack Development
12 15 (14.02%) Observability
13 14 (13.08%) DevSecOps
14 13 (12.15%) Application Security
14 13 (12.15%) Continuous Integration
15 12 (11.21%) Root Cause Analysis
16 10 (9.35%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 58 (54.21%) Java
2 56 (52.34%) TypeScript
3 40 (37.38%) SQL
4 33 (30.84%) Bash
5 32 (29.91%) Groovy
6 18 (16.82%) Python
7 17 (15.89%) JavaScript
7 17 (15.89%) Kotlin
8 3 (2.80%) PHP
9 1 (0.93%) C#
Qualifications
1 40 (37.38%) AWS Certification
2 19 (17.76%) AWS Certified Developer
3 17 (15.89%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 17 (15.89%) ITIL Certification
4 12 (11.21%) Security Cleared
5 8 (7.48%) SC Cleared
6 5 (4.67%) DV Cleared
7 3 (2.80%) Degree
7 3 (2.80%) IIBA
8 2 (1.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.67%) Data Quality
1 5 (4.67%) QA
2 2 (1.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.93%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.93%) NIST
System Software
1 65 (60.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 34 (31.78%) Terraform
2 33 (30.84%) HP Fortify
3 8 (7.48%) Kubernetes
4 4 (3.74%) Ansible
4 4 (3.74%) Puppet
5 3 (2.80%) Grafana
5 3 (2.80%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (4.67%) Google
2 4 (3.74%) Red Hat
2 4 (3.74%) SaltStack
3 2 (1.87%) Microsoft
4 1 (0.93%) Databricks
4 1 (0.93%) Dynatrace
4 1 (0.93%) Informatica