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

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 198 247 272
Rank change year-on-year +49 +25 -9
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 161 70 71
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.74% 0.73% 0.47%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.02% 2.70% 1.50%
Number of salaries quoted 107 61 58
10th Percentile £48,000 £55,000 £48,375
25th Percentile £59,375 £57,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% - -
75th Percentile £84,375 £75,000 £80,938
90th Percentile £98,500 £83,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £73,250 £75,000
% change year-on-year +2.39% -2.33% +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 5,337 2,595 4,726
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 24.55% 27.05% 31.35%
Number of salaries quoted 3,713 1,803 3,482
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £84,150 £84,964
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -7.69%

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 5 August 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 5 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
Yorkshire +16 83 £75,000 +25.00% 11
North West +18 52 £70,000 +7.69% 15
North East -29 26 £75,000 +15.38% 9
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 5 (3.11%) Confluence
2 4 (2.48%) Apache
2 4 (2.48%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.86%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 161 (100.00%) AWS
1 161 (100.00%) Serverless
2 118 (73.29%) Amazon S3
3 102 (63.35%) Amazon ECS
4 82 (50.93%) AWS CloudFormation
5 62 (38.51%) AWS Step Functions
6 46 (28.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 37 (22.98%) Amazon SQS
7 37 (22.98%) GitHub
8 33 (20.50%) Amazon ECR
9 30 (18.63%) Apigee
10 27 (16.77%) Datadog
11 25 (15.53%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 21 (13.04%) Amazon EC2
12 21 (13.04%) Amazon EKS
12 21 (13.04%) GitHub Actions
13 14 (8.70%) SaaS
14 13 (8.07%) Azure
15 12 (7.45%) AWS Fargate
16 9 (5.59%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.24%) AMQP
2 1 (0.62%) DNS
2 1 (0.62%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (51.55%) DynamoDB
2 32 (19.88%) Amazon Athena
3 22 (13.66%) Amazon RDS
4 21 (13.04%) NoSQL
5 18 (11.18%) Amazon Redshift
6 12 (7.45%) Data Warehouse
7 11 (6.83%) Relational Database
8 9 (5.59%) MySQL
9 6 (3.73%) Elasticsearch
10 5 (3.11%) SQL Server
11 4 (2.48%) Big Data
11 4 (2.48%) BigQuery
11 4 (2.48%) Looker
11 4 (2.48%) Metadata
11 4 (2.48%) MongoDB
12 3 (1.86%) Amazon QuickSight
12 3 (1.86%) DocumentDB
12 3 (1.86%) DuckDB
12 3 (1.86%) Power BI
12 3 (1.86%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 48 (29.81%) Jenkins
2 33 (20.50%) Git
2 33 (20.50%) GitLab
3 25 (15.53%) Cypress.io
4 23 (14.29%) SonarQube
5 21 (13.04%) Maven
6 9 (5.59%) JIRA
7 6 (3.73%) Cucumber
7 6 (3.73%) Selenium
8 5 (3.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 5 (3.11%) Bitbucket
8 5 (3.11%) Claude Code
9 3 (1.86%) Artifactory
9 3 (1.86%) Postman
9 3 (1.86%) TeamCity
10 2 (1.24%) Jasmine
10 2 (1.24%) Karma Test Runner
10 2 (1.24%) YouTrack
General
1 30 (18.63%) Social Skills
2 18 (11.18%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (9.94%) Finance
4 15 (9.32%) Public Sector
5 6 (3.73%) Aviation
5 6 (3.73%) Retail
6 5 (3.11%) Law
7 4 (2.48%) Health Technology
8 3 (1.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.24%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.62%) Banking
10 1 (0.62%) Games
10 1 (0.62%) Legal
10 1 (0.62%) Local Government
10 1 (0.62%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 100 (62.11%) Developer
2 59 (36.65%) Java Developer
3 43 (26.71%) Senior
4 34 (21.12%) Senior Developer
5 31 (19.25%) Full-Stack Developer
6 25 (15.53%) AWS Developer
7 18 (11.18%) Lead
8 15 (9.32%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 12 (7.45%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
9 12 (7.45%) Senior Java Developer
10 11 (6.83%) AWS Engineer
10 11 (6.83%) Data Engineer
11 9 (5.59%) Lead Developer
12 8 (4.97%) Angular Developer
13 7 (4.35%) DevOps Engineer
13 7 (4.35%) Integration Developer
13 7 (4.35%) Integration Engineer
13 7 (4.35%) React Developer
14 6 (3.73%) Head of Architecture
14 6 (3.73%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (44.10%) AngularJS
2 57 (35.40%) Node.js
2 57 (35.40%) Spring Boot
3 39 (24.22%) Spring
4 33 (20.50%) React
5 29 (18.01%) Gherkin
6 26 (16.15%) Jest
7 17 (10.56%) Kafka
7 17 (10.56%) REST
7 17 (10.56%) RESTful
8 11 (6.83%) Swagger
9 9 (5.59%) .NET
10 8 (4.97%) OpenTelemetry
10 8 (4.97%) Vue
11 7 (4.35%) PySpark
11 7 (4.35%) RabbitMQ
12 6 (3.73%) OpenAPI
13 5 (3.11%) AWS CDK
13 5 (3.11%) Elastic Stack
13 5 (3.11%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 25 (15.53%) Cloud Native
2 21 (13.04%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (4.35%) Product Ownership
4 5 (3.11%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (3.11%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (3.11%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (2.48%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (2.48%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.86%) Distributed Architecture
6 3 (1.86%) NHS
7 2 (1.24%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.24%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.62%) Blog
8 1 (0.62%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.35%) Linux
2 2 (1.24%) CentOS
2 2 (1.24%) Debian
2 2 (1.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (1.24%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.62%) Windows
3 1 (0.62%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (52.80%) CI/CD
2 72 (44.72%) DevOps
3 62 (38.51%) Agile
4 40 (24.84%) Full-Stack Development
5 39 (24.22%) Infrastructure as Code
6 36 (22.36%) Mentoring
6 36 (22.36%) Observability
7 33 (20.50%) Continuous Improvement
7 33 (20.50%) Microservices
8 31 (19.25%) Containerisation
9 29 (18.01%) Collaborative Culture
10 24 (14.91%) Continuous Integration
10 24 (14.91%) SDLC
11 23 (14.29%) AI
12 21 (13.04%) ITIL
12 21 (13.04%) Software Engineering
12 21 (13.04%) TDD
13 19 (11.80%) Data Modelling
13 19 (11.80%) Secrets Management
13 19 (11.80%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 81 (50.31%) Java
2 79 (49.07%) TypeScript
3 60 (37.27%) SQL
4 58 (36.02%) Python
5 33 (20.50%) Groovy
6 30 (18.63%) Kotlin
7 28 (17.39%) JavaScript
8 27 (16.77%) Bash
9 9 (5.59%) C#
10 5 (3.11%) Scala
11 3 (1.86%) PHP
12 2 (1.24%) PL/SQL
12 2 (1.24%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.62%) Go
13 1 (0.62%) Perl
13 1 (0.62%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.62%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 25 (15.53%) AWS Certification
2 23 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 21 (13.04%) SC Cleared
4 15 (9.32%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 15 (9.32%) ITIL Certification
5 7 (4.35%) DV Cleared
6 5 (3.11%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 5 (3.11%) Degree
6 5 (3.11%) Master's Degree
7 4 (2.48%) AWS Certified Developer
7 4 (2.48%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (8.70%) Data Quality
2 10 (6.21%) QA
3 4 (2.48%) GDPR
4 3 (1.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.62%) Accessibility
System Software
1 77 (47.83%) Docker
Systems Management
1 45 (27.95%) Terraform
2 28 (17.39%) Kubernetes
3 20 (12.42%) HP Fortify
4 7 (4.35%) Ansible
5 3 (1.86%) Kibana
5 3 (1.86%) Packer
6 2 (1.24%) Puppet
7 1 (0.62%) Fluentd
7 1 (0.62%) Grafana
7 1 (0.62%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (4.97%) Splunk
2 7 (4.35%) Dynatrace
2 7 (4.35%) HubSpot
3 6 (3.73%) Google
4 5 (3.11%) AppDynamics
4 5 (3.11%) IBM
5 3 (1.86%) Confluent
5 3 (1.86%) OpenAI
5 3 (1.86%) SnapLogic
6 2 (1.24%) Oracle
6 2 (1.24%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.24%) SaltStack