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

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 193 251 216
Rank change year-on-year +58 -35 +37
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 69 35 55
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.66% 0.37% 0.74%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.67% 1.15% 1.79%
Number of salaries quoted 40 18 43
10th Percentile £55,000 £43,375 £42,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £48,125 £49,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £63,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +6.25% -7.69%
75th Percentile £78,125 £75,969 £69,800
90th Percentile £82,500 £93,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £90,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -16.67% +33.33% -18.18%

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 4,130 3,038 3,068
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 39.33% 32.13% 41.04%
Number of salaries quoted 1,861 1,694 2,597
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,925 £30,000
25th Percentile £34,000 £42,238 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £84,056
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -3.85%

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 January 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 January 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 +38 54 £63,750 +6.25% 25
North West +20 15 £62,500 -5.66% 13
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 11 (15.94%) Apache
1 11 (15.94%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 69 (100.00%) AWS
1 69 (100.00%) Serverless
2 57 (82.61%) Amazon S3
3 44 (63.77%) AWS CloudFormation
4 37 (53.62%) AWS Step Functions
5 25 (36.23%) Amazon ECS
6 23 (33.33%) GitHub
7 22 (31.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 21 (30.43%) Amazon SQS
9 20 (28.99%) Azure
10 18 (26.09%) GitHub Actions
11 17 (24.64%) Amazon ECR
11 17 (24.64%) Apigee
12 15 (21.74%) Amazon EventBridge
13 13 (18.84%) Azure DevOps
14 9 (13.04%) Amazon EKS
15 7 (10.14%) GCP
16 6 (8.70%) Amazon EC2
17 5 (7.25%) Datadog
18 4 (5.80%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.35%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (63.77%) DynamoDB
2 19 (27.54%) NoSQL
3 13 (18.84%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (18.84%) SQL Server
4 9 (13.04%) Amazon Redshift
4 9 (13.04%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (10.14%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (10.14%) Data Lake
6 5 (7.25%) Amazon Athena
6 5 (7.25%) Apache Iceberg
6 5 (7.25%) Big Data
7 3 (4.35%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (4.35%) Cloudera CDH
7 3 (4.35%) Data Vault
7 3 (4.35%) Hadoop
8 2 (2.90%) MySQL
8 2 (2.90%) RDBMS
8 2 (2.90%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 20 (28.99%) Git
2 19 (27.54%) Jenkins
3 18 (26.09%) GitLab
4 17 (24.64%) Cypress.io
4 17 (24.64%) Maven
4 17 (24.64%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.45%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.45%) Selenium
General
1 28 (40.58%) Social Skills
2 4 (5.80%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (5.80%) Tech for Good
3 3 (4.35%) Aerospace
3 3 (4.35%) Finance
4 1 (1.45%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 30 (43.48%) Developer
2 13 (18.84%) Java Developer
2 13 (18.84%) Lead
2 13 (18.84%) Senior
3 12 (17.39%) .NET Developer
3 12 (17.39%) AWS Developer
3 12 (17.39%) Software Engineer
4 10 (14.49%) Data Engineer
5 7 (10.14%) Senior Data Engineer
5 7 (10.14%) Technical Leader
6 4 (5.80%) AWS DevOps
6 4 (5.80%) AWS Engineer
7 3 (4.35%) DevOps Developer
7 3 (4.35%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
7 3 (4.35%) Lead Developer
7 3 (4.35%) Senior Developer
7 3 (4.35%) Senior Java Developer
7 3 (4.35%) Serverless Developer
8 2 (2.90%) AWS Data Engineer
8 2 (2.90%) PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (36.23%) AngularJS
2 24 (34.78%) React
3 23 (33.33%) Spring Boot
4 18 (26.09%) RESTful
5 17 (24.64%) Gherkin
5 17 (24.64%) Jest
5 17 (24.64%) Node.js
6 15 (21.74%) Spring
7 14 (20.29%) .NET
8 13 (18.84%) .NET Core
8 13 (18.84%) ASP.NET
8 13 (18.84%) ASP.NET Core
8 13 (18.84%) AWS CDK
8 13 (18.84%) Blazor
9 5 (7.25%) OpenAPI
9 5 (7.25%) REST
9 5 (7.25%) Swagger
10 4 (5.80%) Pandas
11 3 (4.35%) gRPC
11 3 (4.35%) Material-UI
Miscellaneous
1 27 (39.13%) Cloud Native
2 4 (5.80%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (4.35%) Virtual Team
4 2 (2.90%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.45%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.45%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.45%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.45%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.35%) CentOS
1 3 (4.35%) Debian
1 3 (4.35%) Linux
1 3 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 3 (4.35%) Ubuntu
2 1 (1.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (78.26%) CI/CD
2 46 (66.67%) DevOps
3 43 (62.32%) Agile
4 31 (44.93%) Infrastructure as Code
5 29 (42.03%) Problem-Solving
6 28 (40.58%) Microservices
7 18 (26.09%) Containerisation
8 15 (21.74%) Deployment Automation
9 14 (20.29%) Software Engineering
10 13 (18.84%) Application Security
11 12 (17.39%) Root Cause Analysis
12 11 (15.94%) Scrum
13 10 (14.49%) Data Pipeline
13 10 (14.49%) Mentoring
13 10 (14.49%) Migration
13 10 (14.49%) Observability
14 9 (13.04%) Continuous Improvement
14 9 (13.04%) Full-Stack Development
15 8 (11.59%) ETL
15 8 (11.59%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 31 (44.93%) SQL
1 31 (44.93%) TypeScript
2 28 (40.58%) Java
3 17 (24.64%) Bash
4 16 (23.19%) Groovy
4 16 (23.19%) Python
5 11 (15.94%) JavaScript
6 4 (5.80%) Kotlin
7 2 (2.90%) PHP
8 1 (1.45%) C#
8 1 (1.45%) Scala
Qualifications
1 24 (34.78%) AWS Certification
2 16 (23.19%) AWS Certified Developer
3 6 (8.70%) Security Cleared
4 5 (7.25%) SC Cleared
5 4 (5.80%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 4 (5.80%) ITIL Certification
6 3 (4.35%) DV Cleared
7 2 (2.90%) Degree
7 2 (2.90%) IIBA
8 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.25%) Data Quality
1 5 (7.25%) QA
2 2 (2.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.45%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.45%) NIST
System Software
1 41 (59.42%) Docker
Systems Management
1 27 (39.13%) Terraform
2 17 (24.64%) HP Fortify
3 7 (10.14%) Kubernetes
4 3 (4.35%) Ansible
4 3 (4.35%) Grafana
4 3 (4.35%) Prometheus
4 3 (4.35%) Puppet
5 1 (1.45%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.45%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (5.80%) Google
2 3 (4.35%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.35%) Red Hat
2 3 (4.35%) SaltStack
3 1 (1.45%) Dynatrace