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

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 184 206 266
Rank change year-on-year +22 +60 +13
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 136 53 108
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.76% 0.76% 0.65%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.27% 2.33% 1.84%
Number of salaries quoted 76 49 89
10th Percentile £56,250 £43,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £69,250 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.69% +6.54% -
75th Percentile £81,563 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,500 £88,000
England median annual salary £72,500 £85,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -14.71% +13.33% -

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 5,998 2,277 5,867
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 33.69% 32.51% 35.45%
Number of salaries quoted 2,727 1,735 4,913
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £76,750 £74,629 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £83,750
England median annual salary £62,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -0.80% +8.70% -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 24 April 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 24 April 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 +22 109 £72,500 +23.40% 7
North West -29 26 £72,500 -3.33% 22
North East -38 1 £90,000 +44.00% 3
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 8 (5.88%) Apache Spark
2 7 (5.15%) Apache
3 3 (2.21%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 136 (100.00%) AWS
1 136 (100.00%) Serverless
2 114 (83.82%) Amazon S3
3 86 (63.24%) AWS CloudFormation
4 81 (59.56%) Amazon ECS
5 80 (58.82%) AWS Step Functions
6 46 (33.82%) Amazon ECR
6 46 (33.82%) Apigee
7 45 (33.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 43 (31.62%) Amazon SQS
9 34 (25.00%) GitHub
10 25 (18.38%) Azure
11 24 (17.65%) GitHub Actions
12 23 (16.91%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 21 (15.44%) Amazon EventBridge
14 20 (14.71%) Amazon EKS
15 14 (10.29%) Datadog
16 13 (9.56%) Azure DevOps
17 9 (6.62%) GCP
18 7 (5.15%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.94%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (73.53%) DynamoDB
2 32 (23.53%) NoSQL
3 27 (19.85%) Amazon Athena
4 13 (9.56%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (8.09%) Amazon RDS
5 11 (8.09%) SQL Server
6 8 (5.88%) Relational Database
7 7 (5.15%) Amazon Redshift
8 6 (4.41%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (2.94%) Big Data
9 4 (2.94%) Cloudera CDH
9 4 (2.94%) Data Lake
9 4 (2.94%) Hadoop
10 3 (2.21%) MySQL
10 3 (2.21%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.74%) Amazon Aurora
11 1 (0.74%) Data Vault
11 1 (0.74%) Metadata
11 1 (0.74%) Power BI
11 1 (0.74%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 56 (41.18%) Jenkins
2 46 (33.82%) GitLab
3 43 (31.62%) SonarQube
4 40 (29.41%) Cypress.io
4 40 (29.41%) Maven
5 32 (23.53%) Git
6 7 (5.15%) Cucumber
7 4 (2.94%) Selenium
8 3 (2.21%) Artifactory
8 3 (2.21%) JIRA
General
1 34 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (5.15%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (5.15%) Finance
3 6 (4.41%) Public Sector
4 4 (2.94%) Aerospace
4 4 (2.94%) Health Technology
5 1 (0.74%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 91 (66.91%) Developer
2 57 (41.91%) Java Developer
3 31 (22.79%) Senior
4 26 (19.12%) AWS Developer
5 23 (16.91%) Senior Developer
6 22 (16.18%) Lead
7 13 (9.56%) Full-Stack Developer
8 12 (8.82%) .NET Developer
8 12 (8.82%) Software Engineer
9 11 (8.09%) Senior Java Developer
10 8 (5.88%) Data Engineer
10 8 (5.88%) Lead Developer
11 7 (5.15%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 7 (5.15%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 7 (5.15%) Technical Leader
12 5 (3.68%) AWS Engineer
12 5 (3.68%) DevOps Developer
12 5 (3.68%) Integration Developer
12 5 (3.68%) Integration Engineer
13 4 (2.94%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (51.47%) AngularJS
2 61 (44.85%) Spring Boot
3 46 (33.82%) Node.js
4 40 (29.41%) Gherkin
4 40 (29.41%) Jest
5 34 (25.00%) React
6 30 (22.06%) Spring
7 24 (17.65%) RESTful
8 16 (11.76%) AWS CDK
9 14 (10.29%) .NET
10 13 (9.56%) .NET Core
10 13 (9.56%) ASP.NET
10 13 (9.56%) ASP.NET Core
10 13 (9.56%) Blazor
11 12 (8.82%) REST
12 9 (6.62%) RabbitMQ
13 7 (5.15%) Kafka
13 7 (5.15%) OpenAPI
13 7 (5.15%) Swagger
14 5 (3.68%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 24 (17.65%) Cloud Native
2 14 (10.29%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (2.94%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.21%) Data Structures
4 3 (2.21%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (2.21%) NHS
5 2 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.47%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.74%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.74%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.74%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.74%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.15%) Linux
2 4 (2.94%) CentOS
2 4 (2.94%) Debian
2 4 (2.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (2.94%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (68.38%) DevOps
2 92 (67.65%) CI/CD
3 72 (52.94%) Agile
4 45 (33.09%) Microservices
5 42 (30.88%) Infrastructure as Code
6 33 (24.26%) Containerisation
7 27 (19.85%) Problem-Solving
7 27 (19.85%) Secure Coding
8 25 (18.38%) SDLC
9 23 (16.91%) ITIL
9 23 (16.91%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
10 22 (16.18%) Full-Stack Development
11 20 (14.71%) Continuous Integration
12 19 (13.97%) Observability
13 18 (13.24%) Deployment Automation
13 18 (13.24%) DevSecOps
14 17 (12.50%) Clean Code
14 17 (12.50%) Software Engineering
15 16 (11.76%) Prototyping
16 15 (11.03%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 83 (61.03%) Java
2 72 (52.94%) TypeScript
3 51 (37.50%) SQL
4 42 (30.88%) Groovy
5 39 (28.68%) Bash
6 27 (19.85%) Python
7 25 (18.38%) Kotlin
8 18 (13.24%) JavaScript
9 3 (2.21%) PHP
10 2 (1.47%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.74%) C#
11 1 (0.74%) Perl
Qualifications
1 46 (33.82%) AWS Certification
2 23 (16.91%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 23 (16.91%) ITIL Certification
3 21 (15.44%) Security Cleared
4 20 (14.71%) AWS Certified Developer
5 16 (11.76%) SC Cleared
6 5 (3.68%) DV Cleared
7 3 (2.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (2.21%) Degree
7 3 (2.21%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.88%) QA
2 4 (2.94%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.74%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.74%) NIST
System Software
1 83 (61.03%) Docker
Systems Management
1 42 (30.88%) Terraform
2 40 (29.41%) HP Fortify
3 18 (13.24%) Kubernetes
4 9 (6.62%) Ansible
5 4 (2.94%) Puppet
6 3 (2.21%) Packer
7 2 (1.47%) Grafana
7 2 (1.47%) Kibana
7 2 (1.47%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (3.68%) AppDynamics
1 5 (3.68%) HubSpot
1 5 (3.68%) IBM
2 4 (2.94%) Google
2 4 (2.94%) Red Hat
2 4 (2.94%) SaltStack
3 2 (1.47%) Oracle
4 1 (0.74%) Databricks
4 1 (0.74%) Informatica
4 1 (0.74%) Microsoft