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

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 189 243 265
Rank change year-on-year +54 +22 -30
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 183 57 59
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.79% 0.61% 0.42%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.51% 2.33% 1.41%
Number of salaries quoted 123 48 36
10th Percentile £46,000 £55,000 £48,125
25th Percentile £48,000 £59,375 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% - -
75th Percentile £84,375 £75,625 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £83,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% - +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 5,214 2,450 4,171
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 22.38% 26.11% 29.42%
Number of salaries quoted 3,732 1,703 2,687
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £33,125 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.27% - -
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £82,500 £84,964
England median annual salary £63,750 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +6.25% -4.00% -3.85%

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 9 September 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 9 September 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 +9 83 £80,000 +13.48% 14
North West +21 65 £70,000 +7.69% 26
North East -30 35 £65,000 -10.34% 10
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 (2.73%) Apache Spark
1 5 (2.73%) Confluence
2 4 (2.19%) Apache
3 1 (0.55%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.55%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 183 (100.00%) AWS
1 183 (100.00%) Serverless
2 121 (66.12%) Amazon S3
3 102 (55.74%) Amazon ECS
4 85 (46.45%) AWS CloudFormation
5 58 (31.69%) AWS Step Functions
6 52 (28.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 42 (22.95%) Amazon EC2
8 39 (21.31%) GitHub
9 36 (19.67%) Datadog
10 34 (18.58%) Amazon SQS
11 29 (15.85%) Amazon EKS
12 27 (14.75%) Amazon ECR
13 24 (13.11%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 24 (13.11%) GitHub Actions
14 23 (12.57%) Apigee
15 20 (10.93%) SaaS
16 18 (9.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 15 (8.20%) Azure
18 12 (6.56%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.09%) AMQP
2 1 (0.55%) DNS
2 1 (0.55%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (40.44%) DynamoDB
2 30 (16.39%) Amazon Athena
2 30 (16.39%) Amazon RDS
3 21 (11.48%) NoSQL
4 20 (10.93%) Amazon Redshift
5 13 (7.10%) Data Warehouse
6 12 (6.56%) Relational Database
6 12 (6.56%) Spark SQL
7 9 (4.92%) MySQL
8 7 (3.83%) MongoDB
9 6 (3.28%) Elasticsearch
10 5 (2.73%) Big Data
10 5 (2.73%) BigQuery
10 5 (2.73%) Looker
10 5 (2.73%) Metadata
10 5 (2.73%) SQL Server
11 4 (2.19%) DocumentDB
12 3 (1.64%) Amazon QuickSight
12 3 (1.64%) DuckDB
12 3 (1.64%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 39 (21.31%) Jenkins
2 36 (19.67%) Git
3 25 (13.66%) GitLab
4 18 (9.84%) Cypress.io
5 16 (8.74%) SonarQube
6 14 (7.65%) Maven
7 9 (4.92%) JIRA
8 5 (2.73%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 5 (2.73%) Bitbucket
8 5 (2.73%) Claude Code
9 4 (2.19%) Cucumber
9 4 (2.19%) Selenium
10 3 (1.64%) Artifactory
10 3 (1.64%) Postman
10 3 (1.64%) TeamCity
11 2 (1.09%) Jasmine
11 2 (1.09%) Karma Test Runner
11 2 (1.09%) YouTrack
General
1 34 (18.58%) Analytical Skills
2 30 (16.39%) Public Sector
3 29 (15.85%) Social Skills
4 20 (10.93%) Finance
5 13 (7.10%) Law
6 12 (6.56%) Aviation
6 12 (6.56%) Retail
7 4 (2.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.19%) Legal
7 4 (2.19%) Local Government
7 4 (2.19%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.64%) Banking
9 2 (1.09%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.09%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.55%) Games
10 1 (0.55%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 89 (48.63%) Developer
2 50 (27.32%) Java Developer
3 41 (22.40%) Senior
4 29 (15.85%) Senior Developer
5 28 (15.30%) Full-Stack Developer
6 24 (13.11%) Data Engineer
7 23 (12.57%) AWS Developer
8 20 (10.93%) Lead
9 19 (10.38%) AWS Engineer
10 14 (7.65%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 13 (7.10%) Cloud Engineer
12 12 (6.56%) Head of Architecture
13 10 (5.46%) Angular Developer
13 10 (5.46%) Senior Java Developer
14 9 (4.92%) DevOps Engineer
14 9 (4.92%) Lead Developer
14 9 (4.92%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
14 9 (4.92%) Software Engineer
15 7 (3.83%) Integration Developer
15 7 (3.83%) Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (36.61%) AngularJS
2 57 (31.15%) Terraform
3 55 (30.05%) Node.js
4 50 (27.32%) Spring Boot
5 39 (21.31%) Spring
6 31 (16.94%) React
7 24 (13.11%) .NET
8 22 (12.02%) Gherkin
9 21 (11.48%) PySpark
10 20 (10.93%) Jest
11 19 (10.38%) Kafka
11 19 (10.38%) REST
12 17 (9.29%) RESTful
13 11 (6.01%) Swagger
14 9 (4.92%) OpenAPI
15 8 (4.37%) OpenTelemetry
16 7 (3.83%) RabbitMQ
17 6 (3.28%) Vue
18 5 (2.73%) .NET Core
18 5 (2.73%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 35 (19.13%) Cloud Native
2 21 (11.48%) Distributed Systems
2 21 (11.48%) Hybrid Cloud
3 13 (7.10%) Linux Command Line
4 6 (3.28%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.73%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (2.73%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (2.19%) Blog
7 3 (1.64%) Distributed Architecture
7 3 (1.64%) NHS
8 2 (1.09%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.55%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.55%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.83%) Linux
2 2 (1.09%) CentOS
2 2 (1.09%) Debian
2 2 (1.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (1.09%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.55%) Windows
3 1 (0.55%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (57.38%) CI/CD
2 75 (40.98%) DevOps
3 73 (39.89%) Agile
4 57 (31.15%) Mentoring
5 51 (27.87%) Full-Stack Development
5 51 (27.87%) Infrastructure as Code
6 50 (27.32%) Continuous Improvement
7 42 (22.95%) Observability
8 39 (21.31%) Microservices
9 35 (19.13%) Collaborative Culture
10 31 (16.94%) Containerisation
11 30 (16.39%) Analytics
11 30 (16.39%) ETL
12 29 (15.85%) Cost Optimisation
13 28 (15.30%) Software Engineering
14 27 (14.75%) Problem-Solving
15 25 (13.66%) Continuous Integration
15 25 (13.66%) Data Engineering
15 25 (13.66%) Event-Driven
15 25 (13.66%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 89 (48.63%) Java
2 76 (41.53%) SQL
3 73 (39.89%) TypeScript
4 71 (38.80%) Python
5 37 (20.22%) JavaScript
6 30 (16.39%) Bash
7 28 (15.30%) Kotlin
8 26 (14.21%) Groovy
9 24 (13.11%) C#
10 12 (6.56%) C++
11 6 (3.28%) Scala
12 4 (2.19%) Ruby
13 3 (1.64%) PHP
13 3 (1.64%) Shell Script
14 2 (1.09%) PL/SQL
14 2 (1.09%) Rust
15 1 (0.55%) Go
15 1 (0.55%) Perl
15 1 (0.55%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 27 (14.75%) Security Cleared
2 26 (14.21%) SC Cleared
3 18 (9.84%) AWS Certification
4 11 (6.01%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 11 (6.01%) ITIL Certification
5 7 (3.83%) DV Cleared
6 5 (2.73%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 5 (2.73%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (2.73%) Degree
6 5 (2.73%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.55%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (15.30%) Data Quality
2 11 (6.01%) QA
3 5 (2.73%) GDPR
4 3 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.09%) Accessibility
System Software
1 83 (45.36%) Docker
Systems Management
1 31 (16.94%) Kubernetes
2 13 (7.10%) HP Fortify
3 7 (3.83%) Ansible
4 3 (1.64%) Kibana
4 3 (1.64%) Packer
5 2 (1.09%) Puppet
5 2 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.55%) Fluentd
6 1 (0.55%) Grafana
6 1 (0.55%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (4.37%) Dynatrace
1 8 (4.37%) Splunk
2 7 (3.83%) Google
2 7 (3.83%) HubSpot
3 5 (2.73%) AppDynamics
3 5 (2.73%) IBM
4 4 (2.19%) Confluent
5 3 (1.64%) OpenAI
5 3 (1.64%) SnapLogic
6 2 (1.09%) Oracle
6 2 (1.09%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.09%) SaltStack
7 1 (0.55%) Databricks