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

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 192 218 277
Rank change year-on-year +26 +59 +11
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 134 53 109
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.72% 0.73% 0.65%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.20% 2.19% 1.85%
Number of salaries quoted 74 48 92
10th Percentile £56,625 £43,750 £46,375
25th Percentile £61,269 £56,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 £69,250 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.50% +6.54% -
75th Percentile £82,500 £78,125 £74,563
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,250 £87,250
England median annual salary £72,500 £82,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -12.12% +10.00% -

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 6,083 2,421 5,891
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 32.76% 33.16% 35.36%
Number of salaries quoted 2,798 1,707 4,933
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,239 £56,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.21% +6.67% -4.55%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £69,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £82,548
England median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +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 6 May 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 6 May 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 +25 106 £72,500 +23.40% 9
North West -24 27 £75,000 - 27
North East -32 1 £90,000 +44.00% 11
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 8 (5.97%) Apache Spark
2 7 (5.22%) Apache
3 3 (2.24%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 134 (100.00%) AWS
1 134 (100.00%) Serverless
2 112 (83.58%) Amazon S3
3 86 (64.18%) AWS CloudFormation
4 85 (63.43%) Amazon ECS
5 79 (58.96%) AWS Step Functions
6 48 (35.82%) Amazon ECR
6 48 (35.82%) Apigee
7 43 (32.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 40 (29.85%) Amazon SQS
9 31 (23.13%) GitHub
10 24 (17.91%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 22 (16.42%) GitHub Actions
12 20 (14.93%) Azure
13 18 (13.43%) Amazon EKS
13 18 (13.43%) Amazon EventBridge
14 16 (11.94%) Datadog
15 10 (7.46%) Azure DevOps
16 8 (5.97%) GCP
17 7 (5.22%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.99%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (73.13%) DynamoDB
2 29 (21.64%) NoSQL
3 28 (20.90%) Amazon Athena
4 11 (8.21%) Amazon RDS
5 10 (7.46%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (6.72%) SQL Server
7 8 (5.97%) Relational Database
8 7 (5.22%) Amazon Redshift
9 6 (4.48%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (3.73%) Big Data
11 4 (2.99%) Cloudera CDH
11 4 (2.99%) Hadoop
11 4 (2.99%) MySQL
12 3 (2.24%) Data Lake
12 3 (2.24%) RDBMS
13 1 (0.75%) MariaDB
13 1 (0.75%) Metadata
13 1 (0.75%) Power BI
13 1 (0.75%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 58 (43.28%) Jenkins
2 47 (35.07%) GitLab
3 43 (32.09%) SonarQube
4 42 (31.34%) Cypress.io
5 40 (29.85%) Maven
6 28 (20.90%) Git
7 7 (5.22%) Cucumber
8 4 (2.99%) Selenium
9 3 (2.24%) Artifactory
9 3 (2.24%) JIRA
10 1 (0.75%) Claude Code
General
1 29 (21.64%) Social Skills
2 7 (5.22%) Finance
3 6 (4.48%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (4.48%) Public Sector
4 4 (2.99%) Aerospace
4 4 (2.99%) Health Technology
5 1 (0.75%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 92 (68.66%) Developer
2 58 (43.28%) Java Developer
3 31 (23.13%) Senior
4 25 (18.66%) AWS Developer
5 23 (17.16%) Lead
5 23 (17.16%) Senior Developer
6 15 (11.19%) Full-Stack Developer
7 11 (8.21%) Senior Java Developer
8 10 (7.46%) .NET Developer
8 10 (7.46%) Software Engineer
9 9 (6.72%) Lead Developer
10 8 (5.97%) Data Engineer
11 7 (5.22%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 7 (5.22%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 7 (5.22%) Technical Leader
12 6 (4.48%) Integration Developer
12 6 (4.48%) Integration Engineer
13 4 (2.99%) AWS Engineer
13 4 (2.99%) DevOps Developer
13 4 (2.99%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (53.73%) AngularJS
2 62 (46.27%) Spring Boot
3 48 (35.82%) Node.js
4 42 (31.34%) Gherkin
5 40 (29.85%) Jest
6 31 (23.13%) Spring
7 30 (22.39%) React
8 21 (15.67%) RESTful
9 13 (9.70%) AWS CDK
9 13 (9.70%) REST
10 11 (8.21%) .NET
11 10 (7.46%) .NET Core
11 10 (7.46%) ASP.NET
11 10 (7.46%) ASP.NET Core
11 10 (7.46%) Blazor
12 9 (6.72%) Kafka
12 9 (6.72%) RabbitMQ
13 7 (5.22%) OpenAPI
13 7 (5.22%) Swagger
14 6 (4.48%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 19 (14.18%) Cloud Native
2 16 (11.94%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (2.99%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.24%) Data Structures
4 3 (2.24%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (2.24%) NHS
5 2 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.49%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.75%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.75%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.22%) Linux
2 4 (2.99%) CentOS
2 4 (2.99%) Debian
2 4 (2.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (2.99%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (65.67%) DevOps
2 85 (63.43%) CI/CD
3 66 (49.25%) Agile
4 43 (32.09%) Microservices
5 37 (27.61%) Infrastructure as Code
6 30 (22.39%) Containerisation
7 27 (20.15%) Secure Coding
8 25 (18.66%) SDLC
9 23 (17.16%) Full-Stack Development
9 23 (17.16%) ITIL
9 23 (17.16%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
10 22 (16.42%) Problem-Solving
11 20 (14.93%) Continuous Integration
12 19 (14.18%) DevSecOps
12 19 (14.18%) Observability
13 17 (12.69%) Clean Code
14 16 (11.94%) Mentoring
14 16 (11.94%) Prototyping
14 16 (11.94%) Software Engineering
15 15 (11.19%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 84 (62.69%) Java
2 76 (56.72%) TypeScript
3 48 (35.82%) SQL
4 44 (32.84%) Groovy
5 39 (29.10%) Bash
6 28 (20.90%) Python
7 26 (19.40%) Kotlin
8 18 (13.43%) JavaScript
9 3 (2.24%) PHP
10 2 (1.49%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.75%) C#
11 1 (0.75%) Perl
11 1 (0.75%) Scala
Qualifications
1 43 (32.09%) AWS Certification
2 23 (17.16%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 23 (17.16%) ITIL Certification
3 20 (14.93%) Security Cleared
4 17 (12.69%) AWS Certified Developer
5 16 (11.94%) SC Cleared
6 5 (3.73%) DV Cleared
7 3 (2.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (2.24%) Degree
7 3 (2.24%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.22%) QA
2 4 (2.99%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.75%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 82 (61.19%) Docker
Systems Management
1 40 (29.85%) HP Fortify
2 38 (28.36%) Terraform
3 18 (13.43%) Kubernetes
4 9 (6.72%) Ansible
5 4 (2.99%) Puppet
6 3 (2.24%) Packer
7 2 (1.49%) Kibana
8 1 (0.75%) Grafana
8 1 (0.75%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (4.48%) HubSpot
2 5 (3.73%) AppDynamics
2 5 (3.73%) IBM
3 4 (2.99%) Google
3 4 (2.99%) Red Hat
3 4 (2.99%) SaltStack
4 2 (1.49%) Oracle
5 1 (0.75%) Databricks
5 1 (0.75%) Informatica
5 1 (0.75%) OpenAI