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

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 199 232 290
Rank change year-on-year +33 +58 -4
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 148 71 105
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.73% 0.84% 0.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.93% 2.94% 1.64%
Number of salaries quoted 97 63 88
10th Percentile £52,250 £55,000 £48,375
25th Percentile £61,250 £56,875 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% - -1.89%
75th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £78,125
90th Percentile £97,500 £83,750 £88,250
England median annual salary £73,750 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -1.67% - +3.45%

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 5,053 2,414 6,400
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 24.92% 28.50% 32.54%
Number of salaries quoted 3,455 1,637 5,136
10th Percentile £29,850 £27,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £69,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £83,750
England 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 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 24 June 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 24 June 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 +18 95 £75,000 +25.00% 7
North West +3 42 £72,500 +11.54% 11
North East -34 11 £75,000 +20.00% 5
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 6 (4.05%) Apache Spark
2 5 (3.38%) Apache
3 3 (2.03%) Confluence
3 3 (2.03%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 148 (100.00%) AWS
1 148 (100.00%) Serverless
2 117 (79.05%) Amazon S3
3 98 (66.22%) Amazon ECS
4 81 (54.73%) AWS CloudFormation
5 72 (48.65%) AWS Step Functions
6 42 (28.38%) Amazon SQS
7 39 (26.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 38 (25.68%) Amazon ECR
9 37 (25.00%) Apigee
10 33 (22.30%) GitHub
11 28 (18.92%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 20 (13.51%) Datadog
13 17 (11.49%) Amazon EKS
13 17 (11.49%) GitHub Actions
14 14 (9.46%) Amazon EC2
15 12 (8.11%) Azure
16 9 (6.08%) Amazon EventBridge
17 8 (5.41%) GCP
18 7 (4.73%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.35%) AMQP
2 1 (0.68%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (60.81%) DynamoDB
2 35 (23.65%) Amazon Athena
3 24 (16.22%) NoSQL
4 15 (10.14%) Amazon RDS
5 12 (8.11%) Amazon Redshift
6 11 (7.43%) Relational Database
7 10 (6.76%) MySQL
8 8 (5.41%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (2.70%) Big Data
9 4 (2.70%) RDBMS
9 4 (2.70%) SQL Server
10 3 (2.03%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (2.03%) MariaDB
10 3 (2.03%) Power BI
10 3 (2.03%) Tableau
11 2 (1.35%) Amazon QuickSight
11 2 (1.35%) Hadoop
11 2 (1.35%) MongoDB
11 2 (1.35%) PostgreSQL
11 2 (1.35%) Redis
Development Applications
1 57 (38.51%) Jenkins
2 38 (25.68%) GitLab
3 32 (21.62%) Cypress.io
4 30 (20.27%) Git
4 30 (20.27%) SonarQube
5 28 (18.92%) Maven
6 7 (4.73%) JIRA
7 6 (4.05%) Cucumber
7 6 (4.05%) Selenium
8 5 (3.38%) Claude Code
9 3 (2.03%) Artifactory
9 3 (2.03%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (2.03%) Bitbucket
9 3 (2.03%) Postman
10 2 (1.35%) Jasmine
10 2 (1.35%) Karma Test Runner
10 2 (1.35%) TeamCity
10 2 (1.35%) YouTrack
General
1 22 (14.86%) Social Skills
2 11 (7.43%) Finance
3 10 (6.76%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (6.08%) Public Sector
5 4 (2.70%) Health Technology
6 2 (1.35%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 106 (71.62%) Developer
2 69 (46.62%) Java Developer
3 43 (29.05%) Senior
4 34 (22.97%) Senior Developer
5 32 (21.62%) Full-Stack Developer
6 27 (18.24%) AWS Developer
7 16 (10.81%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 15 (10.14%) Lead
9 14 (9.46%) Senior Java Developer
10 12 (8.11%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 10 (6.76%) Data Engineer
12 9 (6.08%) Lead Developer
13 8 (5.41%) Software Engineer
14 7 (4.73%) Integration Developer
14 7 (4.73%) Integration Engineer
15 6 (4.05%) Angular Developer
15 6 (4.05%) React Developer
16 5 (3.38%) AWS Engineer
17 4 (2.70%) Engineering Manager
17 4 (2.70%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (52.03%) AngularJS
2 61 (41.22%) Spring Boot
3 58 (39.19%) Node.js
4 36 (24.32%) Gherkin
4 36 (24.32%) Spring
5 32 (21.62%) React
6 31 (20.95%) Jest
7 16 (10.81%) Kafka
7 16 (10.81%) REST
7 16 (10.81%) RESTful
8 9 (6.08%) Swagger
9 8 (5.41%) Vue
10 7 (4.73%) OpenTelemetry
10 7 (4.73%) RabbitMQ
11 6 (4.05%) .NET
11 6 (4.05%) OpenAPI
12 5 (3.38%) Elastic Stack
12 5 (3.38%) JPA
12 5 (3.38%) PySpark
13 4 (2.70%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 21 (14.19%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (8.11%) Cloud Native
3 5 (3.38%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.03%) Distributed Architecture
5 3 (2.03%) NHS
6 2 (1.35%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.68%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.68%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.38%) Linux
2 2 (1.35%) CentOS
2 2 (1.35%) Debian
2 2 (1.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (1.35%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (57.43%) CI/CD
2 74 (50.00%) DevOps
3 56 (37.84%) Agile
4 37 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 33 (22.30%) Infrastructure as Code
5 33 (22.30%) Microservices
6 29 (19.59%) SDLC
7 28 (18.92%) Observability
8 27 (18.24%) Containerisation
9 26 (17.57%) Continuous Integration
10 25 (16.89%) Secure Coding
11 24 (16.22%) Mentoring
12 23 (15.54%) ITIL
12 23 (15.54%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
13 22 (14.86%) Clean Code
13 22 (14.86%) DevSecOps
14 21 (14.19%) AI
15 19 (12.84%) Secrets Management
16 18 (12.16%) Continuous Improvement
16 18 (12.16%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 88 (59.46%) Java
2 83 (56.08%) TypeScript
3 55 (37.16%) SQL
4 41 (27.70%) Python
5 40 (27.03%) Groovy
6 33 (22.30%) Kotlin
7 28 (18.92%) Bash
8 25 (16.89%) JavaScript
9 6 (4.05%) C#
10 5 (3.38%) Scala
11 4 (2.70%) PHP
12 2 (1.35%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.68%) Go
13 1 (0.68%) Perl
Qualifications
1 31 (20.95%) AWS Certification
2 22 (14.86%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 22 (14.86%) ITIL Certification
3 20 (13.51%) Security Cleared
4 16 (10.81%) SC Cleared
5 4 (2.70%) AWS Certified Developer
5 4 (2.70%) Degree
5 4 (2.70%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.03%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 3 (2.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (2.03%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.68%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.41%) Data Quality
2 7 (4.73%) QA
3 3 (2.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.35%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.68%) GDPR
System Software
1 75 (50.68%) Docker
Systems Management
1 35 (23.65%) Terraform
2 27 (18.24%) HP Fortify
3 22 (14.86%) Kubernetes
4 7 (4.73%) Ansible
5 3 (2.03%) Packer
6 2 (1.35%) Kibana
6 2 (1.35%) Puppet
7 1 (0.68%) Grafana
7 1 (0.68%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (4.73%) HubSpot
2 6 (4.05%) Splunk
3 5 (3.38%) AppDynamics
3 5 (3.38%) IBM
4 4 (2.70%) Dynatrace
5 3 (2.03%) Google
5 3 (2.03%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.35%) Oracle
6 2 (1.35%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.35%) SaltStack
6 2 (1.35%) SnapLogic
7 1 (0.68%) Confluent
7 1 (0.68%) Databricks
7 1 (0.68%) Informatica