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

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 190 240 269
Rank change year-on-year +50 +29 +16
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 135 55 109
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.73% 0.72% 0.65%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.41% 2.19% 1.83%
Number of salaries quoted 76 50 92
10th Percentile £56,250 £54,750 £46,375
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £67,125 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.01% +3.27% -
75th Percentile £81,563 £79,375 £74,563
90th Percentile £97,500 £87,750 £87,250
England median annual salary £72,500 £79,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -8.23% +5.33% -

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 5,591 2,511 5,941
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 30.07% 32.85% 35.25%
Number of salaries quoted 2,910 1,664 4,972
10th Percentile £28,500 £29,075 £28,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,239 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.07% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £77,500 £74,258 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £89,625 £83,688
England median annual salary £62,500 £61,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +1.63% +6.96% -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 14 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 14 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 +16 107 £72,500 +20.83% 12
North West +3 27 £75,000 - 22
North East -38 1 £90,000 +44.00% 8
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 (5.19%) Apache Spark
2 6 (4.44%) Apache
3 3 (2.22%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 135 (100.00%) AWS
1 135 (100.00%) Serverless
2 114 (84.44%) Amazon S3
3 88 (65.19%) Amazon ECS
4 87 (64.44%) AWS CloudFormation
5 81 (60.00%) AWS Step Functions
6 48 (35.56%) Amazon ECR
6 48 (35.56%) Apigee
7 43 (31.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 39 (28.89%) Amazon SQS
9 31 (22.96%) GitHub
10 25 (18.52%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 22 (16.30%) GitHub Actions
12 18 (13.33%) Azure
13 17 (12.59%) Amazon EventBridge
13 17 (12.59%) Datadog
14 16 (11.85%) Amazon EKS
15 9 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
15 9 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
16 7 (5.19%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.22%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (73.33%) DynamoDB
2 30 (22.22%) NoSQL
3 29 (21.48%) Amazon Athena
4 12 (8.89%) Amazon RDS
5 9 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (5.93%) Relational Database
6 8 (5.93%) SQL Server
7 7 (5.19%) Amazon Redshift
8 6 (4.44%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (2.96%) Big Data
9 4 (2.96%) MySQL
10 3 (2.22%) Cloudera CDH
10 3 (2.22%) Data Lake
10 3 (2.22%) Hadoop
10 3 (2.22%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.74%) MariaDB
11 1 (0.74%) Metadata
11 1 (0.74%) Power BI
11 1 (0.74%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 59 (43.70%) Jenkins
2 48 (35.56%) GitLab
3 43 (31.85%) Cypress.io
3 43 (31.85%) SonarQube
4 41 (30.37%) Maven
5 28 (20.74%) Git
6 7 (5.19%) Cucumber
7 4 (2.96%) Selenium
8 3 (2.22%) Artifactory
8 3 (2.22%) JIRA
9 1 (0.74%) Claude Code
General
1 28 (20.74%) Social Skills
2 7 (5.19%) Finance
3 6 (4.44%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (4.44%) Public Sector
4 4 (2.96%) Health Technology
5 3 (2.22%) Aerospace
6 1 (0.74%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 94 (69.63%) Developer
2 61 (45.19%) Java Developer
3 32 (23.70%) Senior
4 26 (19.26%) AWS Developer
5 24 (17.78%) Senior Developer
6 23 (17.04%) Lead
7 15 (11.11%) Full-Stack Developer
8 12 (8.89%) Senior Java Developer
9 9 (6.67%) .NET Developer
9 9 (6.67%) Lead Developer
9 9 (6.67%) Software Engineer
10 8 (5.93%) Data Engineer
11 7 (5.19%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 7 (5.19%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 7 (5.19%) Technical Leader
12 6 (4.44%) Integration Developer
12 6 (4.44%) Integration Engineer
13 4 (2.96%) AWS Engineer
13 4 (2.96%) DevOps Developer
14 3 (2.22%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (54.07%) AngularJS
2 63 (46.67%) Spring Boot
3 47 (34.81%) Node.js
4 42 (31.11%) Gherkin
5 41 (30.37%) Jest
6 32 (23.70%) Spring
7 27 (20.00%) React
8 19 (14.07%) RESTful
9 12 (8.89%) AWS CDK
9 12 (8.89%) REST
10 10 (7.41%) .NET
11 9 (6.67%) .NET Core
11 9 (6.67%) ASP.NET
11 9 (6.67%) ASP.NET Core
11 9 (6.67%) Blazor
11 9 (6.67%) Kafka
12 8 (5.93%) RabbitMQ
13 6 (4.44%) OpenAPI
13 6 (4.44%) OpenTelemetry
13 6 (4.44%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 18 (13.33%) Cloud Native
2 16 (11.85%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (2.96%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.22%) Data Structures
4 3 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (2.22%) NHS
5 2 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.48%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.74%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.74%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.44%) Linux
2 3 (2.22%) CentOS
2 3 (2.22%) Debian
2 3 (2.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (2.22%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (65.19%) DevOps
2 87 (64.44%) CI/CD
3 66 (48.89%) Agile
4 40 (29.63%) Microservices
5 35 (25.93%) Infrastructure as Code
6 29 (21.48%) Containerisation
7 27 (20.00%) Secure Coding
8 26 (19.26%) SDLC
9 24 (17.78%) ITIL
9 24 (17.78%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
10 23 (17.04%) Full-Stack Development
11 21 (15.56%) Continuous Integration
11 21 (15.56%) Problem-Solving
12 20 (14.81%) DevSecOps
13 18 (13.33%) Clean Code
13 18 (13.33%) Observability
14 16 (11.85%) Mentoring
14 16 (11.85%) Prototyping
15 15 (11.11%) Secrets Management
15 15 (11.11%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 86 (63.70%) Java
2 77 (57.04%) TypeScript
3 48 (35.56%) SQL
4 45 (33.33%) Groovy
5 40 (29.63%) Bash
6 29 (21.48%) Python
7 27 (20.00%) Kotlin
8 18 (13.33%) JavaScript
9 3 (2.22%) PHP
10 2 (1.48%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.74%) C#
11 1 (0.74%) Perl
11 1 (0.74%) Scala
Qualifications
1 43 (31.85%) AWS Certification
2 23 (17.04%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 23 (17.04%) ITIL Certification
3 20 (14.81%) Security Cleared
4 16 (11.85%) AWS Certified Developer
4 16 (11.85%) SC Cleared
5 4 (2.96%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (2.22%) Degree
6 3 (2.22%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.19%) QA
2 4 (2.96%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.74%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 84 (62.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 40 (29.63%) HP Fortify
2 36 (26.67%) Terraform
3 18 (13.33%) Kubernetes
4 8 (5.93%) Ansible
5 3 (2.22%) Packer
5 3 (2.22%) Puppet
6 2 (1.48%) Kibana
7 1 (0.74%) Grafana
7 1 (0.74%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (4.44%) HubSpot
2 5 (3.70%) AppDynamics
2 5 (3.70%) IBM
3 3 (2.22%) Google
3 3 (2.22%) Red Hat
3 3 (2.22%) SaltStack
4 2 (1.48%) Oracle
5 1 (0.74%) Databricks
5 1 (0.74%) Informatica
5 1 (0.74%) OpenAI