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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 201 225 283
Rank change year-on-year +24 +58 -4
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 146 65 107
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.73% 0.83% 0.60%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.51% 2.70% 1.75%
Number of salaries quoted 89 57 90
10th Percentile £49,750 £55,000 £45,875
25th Percentile £58,750 £56,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% - -3.70%
75th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £76,188
90th Percentile £97,500 £85,250 £87,750
England median annual salary £72,500 £75,250 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.65% +0.33% -

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 5,820 2,407 6,112
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 29.20% 30.68% 34.47%
Number of salaries quoted 3,176 1,555 5,037
10th Percentile £29,000 £28,250 £28,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £93,750 £87,500 £82,500
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 30 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 30 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 +29 109 £72,500 +20.83% 8
North West +1 33 £75,000 - 13
North East -43 4 £50,065 -19.90% 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 7 (4.79%) Apache Spark
2 6 (4.11%) Apache
3 3 (2.05%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 146 (100.00%) AWS
1 146 (100.00%) Serverless
2 119 (81.51%) Amazon S3
3 95 (65.07%) Amazon ECS
4 89 (60.96%) AWS CloudFormation
5 80 (54.79%) AWS Step Functions
6 44 (30.14%) Amazon ECR
6 44 (30.14%) Apigee
7 43 (29.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 43 (29.45%) Amazon SQS
8 31 (21.23%) GitHub
9 28 (19.18%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 21 (14.38%) GitHub Actions
11 20 (13.70%) Datadog
12 17 (11.64%) Amazon EKS
13 16 (10.96%) Azure
14 15 (10.27%) Amazon EventBridge
15 12 (8.22%) Amazon EC2
16 8 (5.48%) GCP
17 7 (4.79%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.05%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (66.44%) DynamoDB
2 35 (23.97%) Amazon Athena
3 30 (20.55%) NoSQL
4 13 (8.90%) Amazon RDS
5 11 (7.53%) Relational Database
6 10 (6.85%) Amazon Redshift
7 8 (5.48%) MySQL
8 7 (4.79%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (4.11%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (4.11%) SQL Server
10 5 (3.42%) Big Data
11 4 (2.74%) RDBMS
12 3 (2.05%) Cloudera CDH
12 3 (2.05%) Hadoop
12 3 (2.05%) Power BI
12 3 (2.05%) Tableau
13 2 (1.37%) Amazon QuickSight
13 2 (1.37%) Data Lake
13 2 (1.37%) MariaDB
14 1 (0.68%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 59 (40.41%) Jenkins
2 44 (30.14%) GitLab
3 39 (26.71%) Cypress.io
4 37 (25.34%) SonarQube
5 35 (23.97%) Maven
6 31 (21.23%) Git
7 6 (4.11%) Cucumber
8 4 (2.74%) JIRA
8 4 (2.74%) Selenium
9 3 (2.05%) Artifactory
9 3 (2.05%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.68%) Jasmine
10 1 (0.68%) Karma Test Runner
10 1 (0.68%) Postman
10 1 (0.68%) YouTrack
General
1 26 (17.81%) Social Skills
2 7 (4.79%) Finance
2 7 (4.79%) Public Sector
3 6 (4.11%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (2.74%) Health Technology
5 3 (2.05%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 102 (69.86%) Developer
2 66 (45.21%) Java Developer
3 35 (23.97%) Senior
4 27 (18.49%) AWS Developer
4 27 (18.49%) Senior Developer
5 21 (14.38%) Full-Stack Developer
6 17 (11.64%) Lead
7 13 (8.90%) Senior Java Developer
8 11 (7.53%) Software Engineer
9 9 (6.16%) Data Engineer
9 9 (6.16%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 9 (6.16%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
10 8 (5.48%) Lead Developer
11 7 (4.79%) Integration Developer
11 7 (4.79%) Integration Engineer
12 6 (4.11%) .NET Developer
13 5 (3.42%) AWS Engineer
14 4 (2.74%) AWS Data Engineer
14 4 (2.74%) PHP Developer
15 3 (2.05%) DevOps Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (51.37%) AngularJS
2 61 (41.78%) Spring Boot
3 54 (36.99%) Node.js
4 40 (27.40%) Gherkin
5 36 (24.66%) Jest
6 32 (21.92%) Spring
7 31 (21.23%) React
8 18 (12.33%) RESTful
9 15 (10.27%) REST
10 13 (8.90%) Kafka
11 9 (6.16%) AWS CDK
12 8 (5.48%) .NET
12 8 (5.48%) RabbitMQ
13 7 (4.79%) OpenAPI
13 7 (4.79%) OpenTelemetry
13 7 (4.79%) Swagger
14 6 (4.11%) .NET Core
14 6 (4.11%) ASP.NET
14 6 (4.11%) ASP.NET Core
14 6 (4.11%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 18 (12.33%) Distributed Systems
2 16 (10.96%) Cloud Native
3 4 (2.74%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (2.74%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (2.74%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.05%) Data Structures
4 3 (2.05%) Distributed Architecture
4 3 (2.05%) NHS
5 2 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.68%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.11%) Linux
2 3 (2.05%) CentOS
2 3 (2.05%) Debian
2 3 (2.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (2.05%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (58.22%) CI/CD
2 84 (57.53%) DevOps
3 59 (40.41%) Agile
4 40 (27.40%) Microservices
5 36 (24.66%) Infrastructure as Code
6 30 (20.55%) Containerisation
7 29 (19.86%) Full-Stack Development
8 28 (19.18%) SDLC
9 26 (17.81%) Secure Coding
10 24 (16.44%) Continuous Integration
10 24 (16.44%) ITIL
10 24 (16.44%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
11 22 (15.07%) DevSecOps
11 22 (15.07%) Observability
12 20 (13.70%) Mentoring
13 19 (13.01%) Clean Code
14 18 (12.33%) Secrets Management
14 18 (12.33%) Software Engineering
15 16 (10.96%) Continuous Improvement
15 16 (10.96%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 87 (59.59%) Java
2 83 (56.85%) TypeScript
3 53 (36.30%) SQL
4 44 (30.14%) Groovy
5 35 (23.97%) Bash
6 34 (23.29%) Python
7 31 (21.23%) Kotlin
8 25 (17.12%) JavaScript
9 6 (4.11%) PHP
10 3 (2.05%) Scala
11 2 (1.37%) C#
11 2 (1.37%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.68%) Go
12 1 (0.68%) Perl
Qualifications
1 37 (25.34%) AWS Certification
2 23 (15.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 23 (15.75%) ITIL Certification
3 20 (13.70%) Security Cleared
4 16 (10.96%) SC Cleared
5 10 (6.85%) AWS Certified Developer
6 4 (2.74%) DV Cleared
7 3 (2.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (2.05%) Degree
7 3 (2.05%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.79%) Data Quality
2 6 (4.11%) QA
3 2 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.68%) Accessibility
System Software
1 82 (56.16%) Docker
Systems Management
1 38 (26.03%) Terraform
2 34 (23.29%) HP Fortify
3 19 (13.01%) Kubernetes
4 8 (5.48%) Ansible
5 3 (2.05%) Packer
5 3 (2.05%) Puppet
6 2 (1.37%) Kibana
7 1 (0.68%) Grafana
7 1 (0.68%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (4.79%) HubSpot
2 5 (3.42%) AppDynamics
2 5 (3.42%) IBM
3 3 (2.05%) Google
3 3 (2.05%) Red Hat
3 3 (2.05%) SaltStack
4 2 (1.37%) OpenAI
4 2 (1.37%) Oracle
4 2 (1.37%) SnapLogic
5 1 (0.68%) Databricks
5 1 (0.68%) Dynatrace
5 1 (0.68%) Informatica
5 1 (0.68%) Splunk