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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 188 202 269
Rank change year-on-year +14 +67 +16
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 134 55 111
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.73% 0.77% 0.67%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.22% 2.44% 1.88%
Number of salaries quoted 74 49 93
10th Percentile £56,250 £43,750 £43,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £69,250 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.69% +6.54% -1.89%
75th Percentile £82,188 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,500 £87,000
England median annual salary £72,500 £85,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -14.71% +13.33% -

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 6,035 2,258 5,907
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 33.08% 31.78% 35.50%
Number of salaries quoted 2,758 1,711 4,944
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £28,575
25th Percentile £38,756 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,239 £55,043 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.99% +4.84% -4.55%
75th Percentile £77,424 £75,000 £70,000
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 1 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 1 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 +18 107 £72,500 +23.40% 8
North West -29 26 £72,500 -3.33% 27
North East -39 1 £90,000 +44.00% 6
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 87 (64.93%) AWS CloudFormation
4 84 (62.69%) Amazon ECS
5 80 (59.70%) AWS Step Functions
6 47 (35.07%) Amazon ECR
6 47 (35.07%) Apigee
7 44 (32.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 42 (31.34%) Amazon SQS
9 33 (24.63%) GitHub
10 24 (17.91%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 23 (17.16%) GitHub Actions
12 22 (16.42%) Azure
13 19 (14.18%) Amazon EventBridge
14 18 (13.43%) Amazon EKS
15 16 (11.94%) Datadog
16 11 (8.21%) Azure DevOps
17 8 (5.97%) GCP
18 7 (5.22%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.99%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (73.88%) DynamoDB
2 31 (23.13%) NoSQL
3 28 (20.90%) Amazon Athena
4 11 (8.21%) Amazon RDS
4 11 (8.21%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (6.72%) SQL Server
6 8 (5.97%) Relational Database
7 7 (5.22%) Amazon Redshift
8 6 (4.48%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (2.99%) Big Data
9 4 (2.99%) Cloudera CDH
9 4 (2.99%) Data Lake
9 4 (2.99%) Hadoop
10 3 (2.24%) MySQL
10 3 (2.24%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.75%) Amazon Aurora
11 1 (0.75%) Data Vault
11 1 (0.75%) Metadata
11 1 (0.75%) Power BI
11 1 (0.75%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 57 (42.54%) Jenkins
2 47 (35.07%) GitLab
3 43 (32.09%) SonarQube
4 41 (30.60%) Cypress.io
5 40 (29.85%) Maven
6 29 (21.64%) Git
7 7 (5.22%) Cucumber
8 4 (2.99%) Selenium
9 3 (2.24%) Artifactory
9 3 (2.24%) JIRA
General
1 32 (23.88%) Social Skills
2 7 (5.22%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (5.22%) Finance
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 30 (22.39%) Senior
4 26 (19.40%) AWS Developer
5 23 (17.16%) Lead
5 23 (17.16%) Senior Developer
6 14 (10.45%) Full-Stack Developer
7 11 (8.21%) .NET Developer
7 11 (8.21%) Senior Java Developer
7 11 (8.21%) Software Engineer
8 9 (6.72%) Lead Developer
9 8 (5.97%) Data Engineer
10 7 (5.22%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 7 (5.22%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
10 7 (5.22%) Technical Leader
11 6 (4.48%) Integration Developer
11 6 (4.48%) Integration Engineer
12 4 (2.99%) AWS Engineer
12 4 (2.99%) DevOps Developer
12 4 (2.99%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (53.73%) AngularJS
2 61 (45.52%) Spring Boot
3 48 (35.82%) Node.js
4 41 (30.60%) Gherkin
5 40 (29.85%) Jest
6 32 (23.88%) React
7 30 (22.39%) Spring
8 22 (16.42%) RESTful
9 14 (10.45%) AWS CDK
10 12 (8.96%) REST
11 11 (8.21%) .NET
11 11 (8.21%) .NET Core
11 11 (8.21%) ASP.NET
11 11 (8.21%) ASP.NET Core
11 11 (8.21%) Blazor
12 9 (6.72%) RabbitMQ
13 8 (5.97%) Kafka
14 7 (5.22%) OpenAPI
14 7 (5.22%) Swagger
15 6 (4.48%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 21 (15.67%) Cloud Native
2 15 (11.19%) 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%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.75%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.75%) Virtual Team
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 90 (67.16%) DevOps
2 88 (65.67%) CI/CD
3 69 (51.49%) Agile
4 44 (32.84%) Microservices
5 39 (29.10%) Infrastructure as Code
6 31 (23.13%) Containerisation
7 27 (20.15%) Secure Coding
8 25 (18.66%) SDLC
9 24 (17.91%) Problem-Solving
10 23 (17.16%) Full-Stack Development
10 23 (17.16%) ITIL
10 23 (17.16%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
11 21 (15.67%) Continuous Integration
12 19 (14.18%) DevSecOps
13 18 (13.43%) Observability
14 17 (12.69%) Clean Code
15 16 (11.94%) Prototyping
15 16 (11.94%) Software Engineering
16 15 (11.19%) Mentoring
17 14 (10.45%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 84 (62.69%) Java
2 75 (55.97%) TypeScript
3 49 (36.57%) SQL
4 43 (32.09%) Groovy
5 39 (29.10%) Bash
6 27 (20.15%) 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%) Perl
Qualifications
1 44 (32.84%) AWS Certification
2 23 (17.16%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 23 (17.16%) ITIL Certification
3 21 (15.67%) Security Cleared
4 18 (13.43%) 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
System Software
1 83 (61.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 40 (29.85%) HP Fortify
2 39 (29.10%) 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%) Microsoft