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

6 months to
19 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 193 251 237
Rank change year-on-year +58 -14 +14
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 77 35 67
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.70% 0.39% 0.72%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.83% 1.20% 1.88%
Number of salaries quoted 43 18 57
10th Percentile £55,000 £43,375 £42,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £48,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £68,375 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.94% +13.96% -7.69%
75th Percentile £78,750 £85,000 £69,800
90th Percentile £82,500 £110,500 £73,250
England median annual salary £72,500 £90,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -19.44% +28.57% -15.15%

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 4,212 2,926 3,570
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 38.08% 32.26% 38.56%
Number of salaries quoted 1,907 1,626 3,057
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £84,056
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -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 19 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 19 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 +32 60 £63,750 +6.25% 43
North West +12 17 £65,000 -6.14% 27
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 14 (18.18%) Apache Spark
2 13 (16.88%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 77 (100.00%) AWS
1 77 (100.00%) Serverless
2 63 (81.82%) Amazon S3
3 49 (63.64%) AWS CloudFormation
4 41 (53.25%) AWS Step Functions
5 29 (37.66%) Amazon ECS
6 24 (31.17%) Amazon SQS
6 24 (31.17%) GitHub
7 23 (29.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 22 (28.57%) Azure
9 20 (25.97%) Amazon ECR
9 20 (25.97%) Apigee
10 18 (23.38%) GitHub Actions
11 15 (19.48%) Amazon EventBridge
12 13 (16.88%) Azure DevOps
13 11 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
14 9 (11.69%) GCP
15 6 (7.79%) Amazon EC2
16 5 (6.49%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 5 (6.49%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.19%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (63.64%) DynamoDB
2 20 (25.97%) NoSQL
3 13 (16.88%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (16.88%) SQL Server
4 10 (12.99%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (11.69%) Amazon Redshift
5 9 (11.69%) Data Lake
6 7 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (7.79%) Amazon Athena
7 6 (7.79%) Big Data
8 5 (6.49%) Apache Iceberg
9 4 (5.19%) Cloudera CDH
9 4 (5.19%) Hadoop
10 3 (3.90%) Amazon Aurora
10 3 (3.90%) Data Vault
11 2 (2.60%) MySQL
11 2 (2.60%) RDBMS
11 2 (2.60%) Relational Database
12 1 (1.30%) Power BI
12 1 (1.30%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 23 (29.87%) Jenkins
2 21 (27.27%) Git
2 21 (27.27%) GitLab
3 20 (25.97%) Cypress.io
3 20 (25.97%) Maven
3 20 (25.97%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.30%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.30%) Selenium
General
1 28 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 4 (5.19%) Aerospace
2 4 (5.19%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (5.19%) Finance
2 4 (5.19%) Tech for Good
3 1 (1.30%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 34 (44.16%) Developer
2 17 (22.08%) Java Developer
3 14 (18.18%) Senior
3 14 (18.18%) Software Engineer
4 13 (16.88%) AWS Developer
4 13 (16.88%) Lead
5 12 (15.58%) .NET Developer
6 11 (14.29%) Data Engineer
7 7 (9.09%) Senior Data Engineer
7 7 (9.09%) Technical Leader
8 5 (6.49%) AWS Engineer
9 4 (5.19%) AWS DevOps
9 4 (5.19%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
9 4 (5.19%) Senior Developer
9 4 (5.19%) Senior Java Developer
10 3 (3.90%) AWS Data Engineer
10 3 (3.90%) DevOps Developer
10 3 (3.90%) Lead Developer
10 3 (3.90%) Serverless Developer
11 2 (2.60%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (38.96%) AngularJS
2 27 (35.06%) Spring Boot
3 26 (33.77%) React
4 20 (25.97%) Gherkin
4 20 (25.97%) Jest
4 20 (25.97%) Node.js
5 19 (24.68%) RESTful
6 16 (20.78%) Spring
7 14 (18.18%) .NET
8 13 (16.88%) .NET Core
8 13 (16.88%) ASP.NET
8 13 (16.88%) ASP.NET Core
8 13 (16.88%) AWS CDK
8 13 (16.88%) Blazor
9 6 (7.79%) OpenAPI
9 6 (7.79%) REST
9 6 (7.79%) Swagger
10 4 (5.19%) Material-UI
10 4 (5.19%) Pandas
10 4 (5.19%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 28 (36.36%) Cloud Native
2 4 (5.19%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (3.90%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (3.90%) Virtual Team
4 2 (2.60%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.30%) NHS
5 1 (1.30%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.30%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.30%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.30%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.19%) CentOS
1 4 (5.19%) Debian
1 4 (5.19%) Linux
1 4 (5.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 4 (5.19%) Ubuntu
2 1 (1.30%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (76.62%) CI/CD
2 51 (66.23%) DevOps
3 47 (61.04%) Agile
4 33 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
5 30 (38.96%) Microservices
5 30 (38.96%) Problem-Solving
6 19 (24.68%) Containerisation
7 16 (20.78%) Software Engineering
8 15 (19.48%) Deployment Automation
9 13 (16.88%) Application Security
10 12 (15.58%) Root Cause Analysis
10 12 (15.58%) Scrum
11 11 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
11 11 (14.29%) Observability
11 11 (14.29%) Secure Coding
12 10 (12.99%) Continuous Improvement
12 10 (12.99%) ETL
12 10 (12.99%) Mentoring
12 10 (12.99%) Migration
13 9 (11.69%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 35 (45.45%) TypeScript
2 33 (42.86%) Java
2 33 (42.86%) SQL
3 20 (25.97%) Bash
4 19 (24.68%) Groovy
5 18 (23.38%) Python
6 12 (15.58%) JavaScript
7 5 (6.49%) Kotlin
8 2 (2.60%) PHP
9 1 (1.30%) C#
9 1 (1.30%) Scala
Qualifications
1 27 (35.06%) AWS Certification
2 16 (20.78%) AWS Certified Developer
3 8 (10.39%) Security Cleared
4 7 (9.09%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 7 (9.09%) ITIL Certification
5 6 (7.79%) SC Cleared
6 4 (5.19%) DV Cleared
7 2 (2.60%) Degree
7 2 (2.60%) IIBA
8 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.49%) Data Quality
1 5 (6.49%) QA
2 2 (2.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.30%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.30%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.30%) NIST
System Software
1 45 (58.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 29 (37.66%) Terraform
2 20 (25.97%) HP Fortify
3 8 (10.39%) Kubernetes
4 4 (5.19%) Ansible
4 4 (5.19%) Puppet
5 3 (3.90%) Grafana
5 3 (3.90%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.30%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (6.49%) Google
2 4 (5.19%) Red Hat
2 4 (5.19%) SaltStack
3 3 (3.90%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.30%) Databricks
4 1 (1.30%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.30%) Informatica