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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 193 228 288
Rank change year-on-year +35 +60 -1
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 145 69 107
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.72% 0.84% 0.54%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.92% 2.90% 1.66%
Number of salaries quoted 93 61 88
10th Percentile £53,750 £55,000 £47,125
25th Percentile £61,250 £56,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% - -
75th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £78,125
90th Percentile £97,500 £83,750 £88,250
England median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% - +3.45%

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 4,964 2,380 6,455
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 24.80% 28.88% 32.47%
Number of salaries quoted 3,368 1,606 5,198
10th Percentile £29,750 £27,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +2.80% -2.73%
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £69,500
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 18 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 18 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 +27 99 £75,000 +25.00% 7
North West +10 37 £72,500 +11.54% 19
North East -41 9 £75,000 +20.00% 8
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 6 (4.14%) Apache Spark
2 5 (3.45%) Apache
3 3 (2.07%) JBoss
4 2 (1.38%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 145 (100.00%) AWS
1 145 (100.00%) Serverless
2 117 (80.69%) Amazon S3
3 99 (68.28%) Amazon ECS
4 82 (56.55%) AWS CloudFormation
5 74 (51.03%) AWS Step Functions
6 41 (28.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 41 (28.28%) Amazon SQS
7 38 (26.21%) Amazon ECR
8 37 (25.52%) Apigee
9 33 (22.76%) GitHub
10 30 (20.69%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 21 (14.48%) Datadog
12 17 (11.72%) Amazon EKS
12 17 (11.72%) GitHub Actions
13 13 (8.97%) Amazon EC2
14 10 (6.90%) Azure
15 9 (6.21%) Amazon EventBridge
16 6 (4.14%) GCP
16 6 (4.14%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.38%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (62.07%) DynamoDB
2 37 (25.52%) Amazon Athena
3 26 (17.93%) NoSQL
4 16 (11.03%) Amazon RDS
5 11 (7.59%) Relational Database
6 10 (6.90%) Amazon Redshift
7 8 (5.52%) MySQL
8 7 (4.83%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (2.76%) Big Data
9 4 (2.76%) RDBMS
9 4 (2.76%) SQL Server
10 3 (2.07%) Power BI
10 3 (2.07%) Tableau
11 2 (1.38%) Cloudera CDH
11 2 (1.38%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (1.38%) Hadoop
11 2 (1.38%) MariaDB
11 2 (1.38%) MongoDB
11 2 (1.38%) PostgreSQL
11 2 (1.38%) Redis
Development Applications
1 57 (39.31%) Jenkins
2 38 (26.21%) GitLab
3 32 (22.07%) Cypress.io
4 30 (20.69%) Git
4 30 (20.69%) SonarQube
5 28 (19.31%) Maven
6 6 (4.14%) Cucumber
6 6 (4.14%) JIRA
7 5 (3.45%) Selenium
8 3 (2.07%) Artifactory
8 3 (2.07%) Claude Code
9 2 (1.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (1.38%) Bitbucket
9 2 (1.38%) Postman
9 2 (1.38%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.69%) Jasmine
10 1 (0.69%) Karma Test Runner
10 1 (0.69%) YouTrack
General
1 24 (16.55%) Social Skills
2 10 (6.90%) Finance
3 9 (6.21%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (5.52%) Public Sector
5 4 (2.76%) Health Technology
6 2 (1.38%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 105 (72.41%) Developer
2 70 (48.28%) Java Developer
3 40 (27.59%) Senior
4 32 (22.07%) Senior Developer
5 30 (20.69%) Full-Stack Developer
6 28 (19.31%) AWS Developer
7 15 (10.34%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 14 (9.66%) Lead
8 14 (9.66%) Senior Java Developer
9 11 (7.59%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
10 9 (6.21%) Data Engineer
10 9 (6.21%) Lead Developer
11 8 (5.52%) Software Engineer
12 7 (4.83%) Integration Developer
12 7 (4.83%) Integration Engineer
13 5 (3.45%) Angular Developer
13 5 (3.45%) AWS Engineer
13 5 (3.45%) React Developer
14 4 (2.76%) AWS Data Engineer
14 4 (2.76%) Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (52.41%) AngularJS
2 59 (40.69%) Node.js
2 59 (40.69%) Spring Boot
3 36 (24.83%) Gherkin
4 33 (22.76%) Spring
5 30 (20.69%) Jest
5 30 (20.69%) React
6 15 (10.34%) Kafka
6 15 (10.34%) REST
7 14 (9.66%) RESTful
8 9 (6.21%) Swagger
9 7 (4.83%) OpenAPI
9 7 (4.83%) OpenTelemetry
9 7 (4.83%) RabbitMQ
9 7 (4.83%) Vue
10 5 (3.45%) .NET
10 5 (3.45%) Elastic Stack
11 4 (2.76%) JPA
11 4 (2.76%) PySpark
11 4 (2.76%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 20 (13.79%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (8.28%) Cloud Native
3 5 (3.45%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.76%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (2.76%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.07%) Data Structures
5 3 (2.07%) Distributed Architecture
5 3 (2.07%) NHS
6 2 (1.38%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.38%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.69%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.45%) Linux
2 2 (1.38%) CentOS
2 2 (1.38%) Debian
2 2 (1.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (1.38%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (57.24%) CI/CD
2 75 (51.72%) DevOps
3 55 (37.93%) Agile
4 34 (23.45%) Full-Stack Development
5 32 (22.07%) Infrastructure as Code
5 32 (22.07%) Microservices
6 28 (19.31%) SDLC
7 27 (18.62%) Continuous Integration
8 26 (17.93%) Containerisation
8 26 (17.93%) Observability
9 24 (16.55%) DevSecOps
9 24 (16.55%) Secure Coding
10 23 (15.86%) ITIL
10 23 (15.86%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
11 22 (15.17%) Clean Code
11 22 (15.17%) Mentoring
12 19 (13.10%) Secrets Management
13 17 (11.72%) AI
13 17 (11.72%) Event-Driven
14 16 (11.03%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 88 (60.69%) Java
2 81 (55.86%) TypeScript
3 55 (37.93%) SQL
4 40 (27.59%) Groovy
5 38 (26.21%) Python
6 34 (23.45%) Kotlin
7 28 (19.31%) Bash
8 24 (16.55%) JavaScript
9 5 (3.45%) C#
10 4 (2.76%) PHP
10 4 (2.76%) Scala
11 2 (1.38%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.69%) Go
12 1 (0.69%) Perl
Qualifications
1 32 (22.07%) AWS Certification
2 22 (15.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 22 (15.17%) ITIL Certification
3 20 (13.79%) Security Cleared
4 16 (11.03%) SC Cleared
5 5 (3.45%) Degree
6 4 (2.76%) AWS Certified Developer
7 3 (2.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (2.07%) DV Cleared
7 3 (2.07%) IIBA
8 2 (1.38%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 2 (1.38%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.83%) Data Quality
2 6 (4.14%) QA
3 2 (1.38%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 76 (52.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 35 (24.14%) Terraform
2 27 (18.62%) HP Fortify
3 21 (14.48%) Kubernetes
4 7 (4.83%) Ansible
5 3 (2.07%) Packer
6 2 (1.38%) Kibana
6 2 (1.38%) Puppet
7 1 (0.69%) Grafana
7 1 (0.69%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (4.83%) HubSpot
2 5 (3.45%) AppDynamics
2 5 (3.45%) IBM
3 4 (2.76%) Splunk
4 3 (2.07%) Dynatrace
5 2 (1.38%) Google
5 2 (1.38%) OpenAI
5 2 (1.38%) Oracle
5 2 (1.38%) Red Hat
5 2 (1.38%) SaltStack
5 2 (1.38%) SnapLogic
6 1 (0.69%) Confluent
6 1 (0.69%) Databricks
6 1 (0.69%) Informatica