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 3 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 196 246 275
Rank change year-on-year +50 +29 -13
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 163 71 71
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.75% 0.74% 0.47%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.06% 2.75% 1.52%
Number of salaries quoted 108 62 58
10th Percentile £48,000 £55,000 £48,375
25th Percentile £58,438 £57,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% - -
75th Percentile £83,750 £75,000 £80,938
90th Percentile £98,250 £83,625 £85,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £73,250 £75,000
% change year-on-year +2.39% -2.33% +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 5,325 2,584 4,673
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 24.61% 26.95% 31.21%
Number of salaries quoted 3,707 1,797 3,480
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £29,975
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £84,964
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -7.69%

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 3 August 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 3 August 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 +13 85 £75,000 +25.00% 11
North West +17 52 £70,000 +7.69% 13
North East -30 26 £75,000 +15.38% 9
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 (3.07%) Confluence
2 4 (2.45%) Apache
2 4 (2.45%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.84%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 163 (100.00%) AWS
1 163 (100.00%) Serverless
2 120 (73.62%) Amazon S3
3 103 (63.19%) Amazon ECS
4 83 (50.92%) AWS CloudFormation
5 63 (38.65%) AWS Step Functions
6 47 (28.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 38 (23.31%) Amazon SQS
8 37 (22.70%) GitHub
9 34 (20.86%) Amazon ECR
10 31 (19.02%) Apigee
11 26 (15.95%) Datadog
12 25 (15.34%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 22 (13.50%) Amazon EKS
14 21 (12.88%) Amazon EC2
15 20 (12.27%) GitHub Actions
16 14 (8.59%) SaaS
17 13 (7.98%) Azure
18 12 (7.36%) AWS Fargate
19 9 (5.52%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.23%) AMQP
2 1 (0.61%) DNS
2 1 (0.61%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (52.15%) DynamoDB
2 33 (20.25%) Amazon Athena
3 22 (13.50%) Amazon RDS
3 22 (13.50%) NoSQL
4 18 (11.04%) Amazon Redshift
5 12 (7.36%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (6.13%) Relational Database
7 9 (5.52%) MySQL
8 6 (3.68%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (3.07%) SQL Server
10 4 (2.45%) Big Data
10 4 (2.45%) BigQuery
10 4 (2.45%) Looker
10 4 (2.45%) Metadata
10 4 (2.45%) MongoDB
11 3 (1.84%) Amazon QuickSight
11 3 (1.84%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (1.84%) DocumentDB
11 3 (1.84%) DuckDB
11 3 (1.84%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 50 (30.67%) Jenkins
2 34 (20.86%) GitLab
3 33 (20.25%) Git
4 26 (15.95%) Cypress.io
5 24 (14.72%) SonarQube
6 22 (13.50%) Maven
7 9 (5.52%) JIRA
8 6 (3.68%) Cucumber
8 6 (3.68%) Selenium
9 5 (3.07%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 5 (3.07%) Bitbucket
9 5 (3.07%) Claude Code
10 3 (1.84%) Artifactory
10 3 (1.84%) Postman
10 3 (1.84%) TeamCity
11 2 (1.23%) Jasmine
11 2 (1.23%) Karma Test Runner
11 2 (1.23%) YouTrack
General
1 30 (18.40%) Social Skills
2 18 (11.04%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (9.20%) Finance
3 15 (9.20%) Public Sector
4 6 (3.68%) Aviation
4 6 (3.68%) Retail
5 5 (3.07%) Law
6 4 (2.45%) Health Technology
7 3 (1.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.23%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.61%) Games
9 1 (0.61%) Legal
9 1 (0.61%) Local Government
9 1 (0.61%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 101 (61.96%) Developer
2 60 (36.81%) Java Developer
3 43 (26.38%) Senior
4 33 (20.25%) Senior Developer
5 32 (19.63%) Full-Stack Developer
6 25 (15.34%) AWS Developer
7 18 (11.04%) Lead
8 16 (9.82%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 12 (7.36%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
10 11 (6.75%) AWS Engineer
10 11 (6.75%) Data Engineer
10 11 (6.75%) Senior Java Developer
11 9 (5.52%) Lead Developer
12 8 (4.91%) Angular Developer
13 7 (4.29%) DevOps Engineer
13 7 (4.29%) Integration Developer
13 7 (4.29%) Integration Engineer
13 7 (4.29%) React Developer
14 6 (3.68%) Head of Architecture
14 6 (3.68%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (44.17%) AngularJS
2 58 (35.58%) Node.js
2 58 (35.58%) Spring Boot
3 39 (23.93%) Spring
4 34 (20.86%) React
5 30 (18.40%) Gherkin
6 27 (16.56%) Jest
7 18 (11.04%) RESTful
8 17 (10.43%) Kafka
8 17 (10.43%) REST
9 11 (6.75%) Swagger
10 9 (5.52%) .NET
11 8 (4.91%) OpenTelemetry
11 8 (4.91%) Vue
12 7 (4.29%) PySpark
12 7 (4.29%) RabbitMQ
13 6 (3.68%) OpenAPI
14 5 (3.07%) AWS CDK
14 5 (3.07%) Elastic Stack
14 5 (3.07%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 24 (14.72%) Cloud Native
2 21 (12.88%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (4.29%) Product Ownership
4 5 (3.07%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (3.07%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (3.07%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (2.45%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (2.45%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.84%) Distributed Architecture
6 3 (1.84%) NHS
7 2 (1.23%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.61%) Blog
8 1 (0.61%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.29%) Linux
2 2 (1.23%) CentOS
2 2 (1.23%) Debian
2 2 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (1.23%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.61%) Windows
3 1 (0.61%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (53.37%) CI/CD
2 74 (45.40%) DevOps
3 62 (38.04%) Agile
4 41 (25.15%) Full-Stack Development
5 40 (24.54%) Infrastructure as Code
6 37 (22.70%) Observability
7 36 (22.09%) Mentoring
8 33 (20.25%) Continuous Improvement
8 33 (20.25%) Microservices
9 32 (19.63%) Containerisation
10 29 (17.79%) Collaborative Culture
11 25 (15.34%) SDLC
12 24 (14.72%) Continuous Integration
13 23 (14.11%) AI
14 22 (13.50%) ITIL
14 22 (13.50%) Software Engineering
15 21 (12.88%) TDD
16 20 (12.27%) DevSecOps
17 19 (11.66%) Clean Code
17 19 (11.66%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 82 (50.31%) Java
2 80 (49.08%) TypeScript
3 60 (36.81%) SQL
4 58 (35.58%) Python
5 34 (20.86%) Groovy
6 30 (18.40%) Kotlin
7 28 (17.18%) Bash
7 28 (17.18%) JavaScript
8 9 (5.52%) C#
9 5 (3.07%) Scala
10 3 (1.84%) PHP
11 2 (1.23%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.23%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.61%) Go
12 1 (0.61%) Perl
12 1 (0.61%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.61%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 26 (15.95%) AWS Certification
2 23 (14.11%) Security Cleared
3 21 (12.88%) SC Cleared
4 16 (9.82%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 16 (9.82%) ITIL Certification
5 7 (4.29%) DV Cleared
6 5 (3.07%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 5 (3.07%) Degree
6 5 (3.07%) Master's Degree
7 4 (2.45%) AWS Certified Developer
7 4 (2.45%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (8.59%) Data Quality
2 10 (6.13%) QA
3 4 (2.45%) GDPR
4 3 (1.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.61%) Accessibility
System Software
1 78 (47.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 46 (28.22%) Terraform
2 28 (17.18%) Kubernetes
3 21 (12.88%) HP Fortify
4 7 (4.29%) Ansible
5 3 (1.84%) Kibana
5 3 (1.84%) Packer
6 2 (1.23%) Puppet
7 1 (0.61%) Fluentd
7 1 (0.61%) Grafana
7 1 (0.61%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (4.91%) Splunk
2 7 (4.29%) Dynatrace
2 7 (4.29%) HubSpot
3 6 (3.68%) Google
4 5 (3.07%) AppDynamics
4 5 (3.07%) IBM
5 3 (1.84%) Confluent
5 3 (1.84%) OpenAI
5 3 (1.84%) SnapLogic
6 2 (1.23%) Oracle
6 2 (1.23%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.23%) SaltStack