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 6 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 190 230 285
Rank change year-on-year +40 +55 -15
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 148 67 106
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.75% 0.83% 0.57%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.89% 2.75% 1.71%
Number of salaries quoted 92 59 88
10th Percentile £50,375 £55,000 £47,125
25th Percentile £59,688 £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 £77,125
90th Percentile £97,500 £84,500 £88,250
England median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -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 5,113 2,436 6,217
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 26.01% 30.25% 33.40%
Number of salaries quoted 3,207 1,584 5,070
10th Percentile £29,000 £27,500 £28,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £37,531
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 £69,313
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £83,750
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 6 June 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 6 June 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 +31 108 £72,500 +20.83% 9
North West +5 35 £75,000 - 27
North East -40 5 £52,130 -16.59% 10
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 (4.73%) Apache Spark
2 6 (4.05%) Apache
3 3 (2.03%) JBoss
4 1 (0.68%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 148 (100.00%) AWS
1 148 (100.00%) Serverless
2 120 (81.08%) Amazon S3
3 98 (66.22%) Amazon ECS
4 88 (59.46%) AWS CloudFormation
5 79 (53.38%) AWS Step Functions
6 44 (29.73%) Amazon SQS
7 43 (29.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 43 (29.05%) Amazon ECR
8 42 (28.38%) Apigee
9 31 (20.95%) GitHub
10 28 (18.92%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 20 (13.51%) Datadog
11 20 (13.51%) GitHub Actions
12 19 (12.84%) Amazon EKS
13 15 (10.14%) Azure
14 14 (9.46%) Amazon EventBridge
15 12 (8.11%) Amazon EC2
16 8 (5.41%) GCP
16 8 (5.41%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.03%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (64.19%) DynamoDB
2 35 (23.65%) Amazon Athena
3 29 (19.59%) NoSQL
4 13 (8.78%) Amazon RDS
5 12 (8.11%) Relational Database
6 10 (6.76%) Amazon Redshift
7 8 (5.41%) MySQL
8 7 (4.73%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (3.38%) Big Data
9 5 (3.38%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (3.38%) RDBMS
9 5 (3.38%) SQL Server
10 3 (2.03%) Cloudera CDH
10 3 (2.03%) Hadoop
10 3 (2.03%) Power BI
10 3 (2.03%) Tableau
11 2 (1.35%) Amazon QuickSight
11 2 (1.35%) Data Lake
11 2 (1.35%) MariaDB
11 2 (1.35%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 58 (39.19%) Jenkins
2 43 (29.05%) GitLab
3 37 (25.00%) Cypress.io
4 35 (23.65%) SonarQube
5 33 (22.30%) Maven
6 30 (20.27%) Git
7 6 (4.05%) Cucumber
8 5 (3.38%) JIRA
9 4 (2.70%) Selenium
10 3 (2.03%) Artifactory
10 3 (2.03%) Claude Code
11 1 (0.68%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.68%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.68%) Jasmine
11 1 (0.68%) Karma Test Runner
11 1 (0.68%) Postman
11 1 (0.68%) YouTrack
General
1 25 (16.89%) Social Skills
2 8 (5.41%) Finance
2 8 (5.41%) Public Sector
3 7 (4.73%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (2.70%) Health Technology
5 3 (2.03%) Aerospace
6 1 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 104 (70.27%) Developer
2 67 (45.27%) Java Developer
3 36 (24.32%) Senior
4 28 (18.92%) Senior Developer
5 27 (18.24%) AWS Developer
6 24 (16.22%) Full-Stack Developer
7 15 (10.14%) Lead
8 13 (8.78%) Senior Java Developer
9 11 (7.43%) Software Engineer
10 10 (6.76%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 10 (6.76%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 9 (6.08%) Data Engineer
12 8 (5.41%) Lead Developer
13 7 (4.73%) Integration Developer
13 7 (4.73%) Integration Engineer
14 5 (3.38%) .NET Developer
14 5 (3.38%) AWS Engineer
15 4 (2.70%) AWS Data Engineer
15 4 (2.70%) Engineering Manager
15 4 (2.70%) PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (51.35%) AngularJS
2 60 (40.54%) Spring Boot
3 57 (38.51%) Node.js
4 39 (26.35%) Gherkin
5 35 (23.65%) Jest
6 32 (21.62%) React
6 32 (21.62%) Spring
7 17 (11.49%) RESTful
8 16 (10.81%) REST
9 14 (9.46%) Kafka
10 8 (5.41%) AWS CDK
10 8 (5.41%) RabbitMQ
11 7 (4.73%) .NET
11 7 (4.73%) OpenAPI
11 7 (4.73%) OpenTelemetry
11 7 (4.73%) Swagger
12 5 (3.38%) .NET Core
12 5 (3.38%) ASP.NET
12 5 (3.38%) ASP.NET Core
12 5 (3.38%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 18 (12.16%) Distributed Systems
2 16 (10.81%) Cloud Native
3 5 (3.38%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.03%) Data Structures
5 3 (2.03%) Distributed Architecture
5 3 (2.03%) NHS
6 2 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.68%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.68%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.05%) Linux
2 3 (2.03%) CentOS
2 3 (2.03%) Debian
2 3 (2.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (2.03%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (57.43%) CI/CD
2 83 (56.08%) DevOps
3 58 (39.19%) Agile
4 40 (27.03%) Microservices
5 37 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 31 (20.95%) Full-Stack Development
7 30 (20.27%) Containerisation
8 28 (18.92%) SDLC
9 26 (17.57%) Continuous Integration
10 25 (16.89%) Secure Coding
11 24 (16.22%) ITIL
11 24 (16.22%) Observability
11 24 (16.22%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
12 22 (14.86%) DevSecOps
13 20 (13.51%) Clean Code
13 20 (13.51%) Mentoring
14 18 (12.16%) Secrets Management
14 18 (12.16%) Software Engineering
15 16 (10.81%) Event-Driven
15 16 (10.81%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 87 (58.78%) Java
2 84 (56.76%) TypeScript
3 53 (35.81%) SQL
4 43 (29.05%) Groovy
5 36 (24.32%) Python
6 33 (22.30%) Bash
7 31 (20.95%) Kotlin
8 27 (18.24%) JavaScript
9 6 (4.05%) PHP
10 3 (2.03%) Scala
11 2 (1.35%) C#
11 2 (1.35%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.68%) Go
12 1 (0.68%) Perl
Qualifications
1 36 (24.32%) AWS Certification
2 23 (15.54%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 23 (15.54%) ITIL Certification
3 20 (13.51%) Security Cleared
4 16 (10.81%) SC Cleared
5 8 (5.41%) AWS Certified Developer
6 4 (2.70%) Degree
6 4 (2.70%) DV Cleared
7 3 (2.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (2.03%) IIBA
8 1 (0.68%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 1 (0.68%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.73%) Data Quality
2 6 (4.05%) QA
3 2 (1.35%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 80 (54.05%) Docker
Systems Management
1 40 (27.03%) Terraform
2 32 (21.62%) HP Fortify
3 20 (13.51%) Kubernetes
4 8 (5.41%) Ansible
5 3 (2.03%) Packer
5 3 (2.03%) Puppet
6 2 (1.35%) Kibana
7 1 (0.68%) Grafana
7 1 (0.68%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (4.73%) HubSpot
2 5 (3.38%) AppDynamics
2 5 (3.38%) IBM
3 3 (2.03%) Google
3 3 (2.03%) Red Hat
3 3 (2.03%) SaltStack
4 2 (1.35%) Dynatrace
4 2 (1.35%) OpenAI
4 2 (1.35%) Oracle
4 2 (1.35%) SnapLogic
4 2 (1.35%) Splunk
5 1 (0.68%) Confluent
5 1 (0.68%) Databricks
5 1 (0.68%) Informatica