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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 190 237 267
Rank change year-on-year +47 +30 +22
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 146 59 110
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.76% 0.75% 0.65%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.57% 2.35% 1.84%
Number of salaries quoted 84 54 93
10th Percentile £56,250 £55,000 £46,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,563 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% - -3.70%
75th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £77,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £86,375 £87,000
England median annual salary £72,500 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.45% +3.33% -

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 5,691 2,507 5,982
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 29.55% 31.67% 35.11%
Number of salaries quoted 3,015 1,648 4,982
10th Percentile £28,750 £29,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,188 £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 £69,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £87,500 £82,548
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 21 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 21 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 +36 113 £72,500 +20.83% 13
North West +9 30 £75,000 - 23
North East -41 3 £52,130 -16.59% 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 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
2 123 (84.25%) Amazon S3
3 95 (65.07%) Amazon ECS
4 93 (63.70%) AWS CloudFormation
5 85 (58.22%) AWS Step Functions
6 49 (33.56%) Amazon ECR
6 49 (33.56%) Apigee
7 45 (30.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 42 (28.77%) Amazon SQS
9 32 (21.92%) GitHub
10 27 (18.49%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 22 (15.07%) GitHub Actions
12 19 (13.01%) Datadog
13 18 (12.33%) Amazon EventBridge
13 18 (12.33%) Azure
14 16 (10.96%) Amazon EKS
15 11 (7.53%) Amazon EC2
16 9 (6.16%) Azure DevOps
17 7 (4.79%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.05%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (71.23%) DynamoDB
2 33 (22.60%) Amazon Athena
3 32 (21.92%) NoSQL
4 14 (9.59%) Amazon RDS
5 9 (6.16%) Amazon Redshift
5 9 (6.16%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (6.16%) Relational Database
5 9 (6.16%) SQL Server
6 7 (4.79%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (4.11%) MySQL
8 5 (3.42%) Big Data
9 3 (2.05%) Cloudera CDH
9 3 (2.05%) Hadoop
9 3 (2.05%) RDBMS
10 2 (1.37%) Data Lake
10 2 (1.37%) MariaDB
10 2 (1.37%) Power BI
10 2 (1.37%) Tableau
11 1 (0.68%) Amazon QuickSight
11 1 (0.68%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 62 (42.47%) Jenkins
2 49 (33.56%) GitLab
3 44 (30.14%) Cypress.io
4 43 (29.45%) SonarQube
5 41 (28.08%) Maven
6 30 (20.55%) Git
7 7 (4.79%) Cucumber
8 4 (2.74%) Selenium
9 3 (2.05%) Artifactory
9 3 (2.05%) JIRA
10 2 (1.37%) Claude Code
General
1 28 (19.18%) Social Skills
2 7 (4.79%) Public Sector
3 6 (4.11%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (4.11%) Finance
4 4 (2.74%) Health Technology
5 3 (2.05%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 100 (68.49%) Developer
2 64 (43.84%) Java Developer
3 32 (21.92%) Senior
4 27 (18.49%) AWS Developer
5 24 (16.44%) Lead
5 24 (16.44%) Senior Developer
6 17 (11.64%) Full-Stack Developer
7 12 (8.22%) Senior Java Developer
8 10 (6.85%) Lead Developer
8 10 (6.85%) Software Engineer
9 9 (6.16%) .NET Developer
9 9 (6.16%) Data Engineer
10 8 (5.48%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 7 (4.79%) Integration Developer
11 7 (4.79%) Integration Engineer
11 7 (4.79%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 7 (4.79%) Technical Leader
12 5 (3.42%) AWS Engineer
13 4 (2.74%) AWS Data Engineer
13 4 (2.74%) DevOps Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (52.74%) AngularJS
2 65 (44.52%) Spring Boot
3 52 (35.62%) Node.js
4 44 (30.14%) Gherkin
5 41 (28.08%) Jest
6 34 (23.29%) Spring
7 29 (19.86%) React
8 20 (13.70%) RESTful
9 13 (8.90%) REST
10 12 (8.22%) AWS CDK
10 12 (8.22%) Kafka
11 11 (7.53%) .NET
12 9 (6.16%) .NET Core
12 9 (6.16%) ASP.NET
12 9 (6.16%) ASP.NET Core
12 9 (6.16%) Blazor
13 8 (5.48%) RabbitMQ
14 7 (4.79%) OpenTelemetry
15 6 (4.11%) OpenAPI
15 6 (4.11%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 20 (13.70%) Cloud Native
2 19 (13.01%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (3.42%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.74%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (2.74%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.05%) Data Structures
5 3 (2.05%) Distributed Architecture
5 3 (2.05%) NHS
6 2 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
7 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 90 (61.64%) DevOps
2 88 (60.27%) CI/CD
3 67 (45.89%) Agile
4 42 (28.77%) Microservices
5 36 (24.66%) Infrastructure as Code
6 31 (21.23%) Containerisation
7 27 (18.49%) Secure Coding
8 26 (17.81%) Full-Stack Development
8 26 (17.81%) SDLC
9 24 (16.44%) ITIL
9 24 (16.44%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
10 22 (15.07%) Continuous Integration
11 21 (14.38%) DevSecOps
12 20 (13.70%) Mentoring
12 20 (13.70%) Observability
12 20 (13.70%) Problem-Solving
13 18 (12.33%) Clean Code
14 17 (11.64%) Continuous Improvement
14 17 (11.64%) Software Engineering
15 16 (10.96%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 90 (61.64%) Java
2 82 (56.16%) TypeScript
3 53 (36.30%) SQL
4 47 (32.19%) Groovy
5 40 (27.40%) Bash
6 33 (22.60%) Python
7 29 (19.86%) Kotlin
8 23 (15.75%) JavaScript
9 5 (3.42%) PHP
10 2 (1.37%) C#
10 2 (1.37%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.37%) Scala
11 1 (0.68%) Perl
Qualifications
1 43 (29.45%) 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%) AWS Certified Developer
4 16 (10.96%) SC Cleared
5 4 (2.74%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (2.05%) Degree
6 3 (2.05%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.79%) QA
2 6 (4.11%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.68%) Accessibility
System Software
1 88 (60.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 40 (27.40%) HP Fortify
2 38 (26.03%) Terraform
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
5 1 (0.68%) Databricks
5 1 (0.68%) Informatica
5 1 (0.68%) SnapLogic