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

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 188 235 263
Rank change year-on-year +47 +28 +15
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 146 59 109
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.75% 0.76% 0.63%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.55% 2.48% 1.81%
Number of salaries quoted 85 54 92
10th Percentile £56,250 £55,000 £42,875
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,563 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% - -3.70%
75th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £74,563
90th Percentile £97,500 £86,375 £87,250
England median annual salary £72,500 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.45% +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 5,725 2,380 6,030
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 29.29% 30.83% 34.82%
Number of salaries quoted 3,069 1,537 5,015
10th Percentile £28,750 £28,250 £28,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.60% +5.71% -4.55%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,886 £69,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £88,750 £82,548
England median annual salary £62,500 £61,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +2.46% +6.09% -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 25 May 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 25 May 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 +27 112 £73,750 +22.92% 15
North West +3 31 £75,000 - 20
North East -42 3 £52,130 -16.59% 5
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 (4.79%) Apache Spark
2 6 (4.11%) Apache
3 3 (2.05%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 146 (100.00%) AWS
1 146 (100.00%) Serverless
2 122 (83.56%) Amazon S3
3 95 (65.07%) Amazon ECS
4 93 (63.70%) AWS CloudFormation
5 84 (57.53%) AWS Step Functions
6 48 (32.88%) Amazon ECR
6 48 (32.88%) Apigee
7 44 (30.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 42 (28.77%) Amazon SQS
9 31 (21.23%) GitHub
10 27 (18.49%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 21 (14.38%) GitHub Actions
12 19 (13.01%) Datadog
13 17 (11.64%) Amazon EventBridge
13 17 (11.64%) Azure
14 16 (10.96%) Amazon EKS
15 11 (7.53%) Amazon EC2
16 8 (5.48%) Azure DevOps
17 7 (4.79%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.05%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (69.86%) DynamoDB
2 33 (22.60%) Amazon Athena
3 31 (21.23%) NoSQL
4 14 (9.59%) Amazon RDS
5 9 (6.16%) Amazon Redshift
5 9 (6.16%) Relational Database
6 8 (5.48%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (5.48%) SQL Server
7 7 (4.79%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (4.79%) MySQL
8 5 (3.42%) Big Data
9 3 (2.05%) Cloudera CDH
9 3 (2.05%) Hadoop
9 3 (2.05%) RDBMS
10 2 (1.37%) Data Lake
10 2 (1.37%) MariaDB
10 2 (1.37%) Power BI
10 2 (1.37%) Tableau
11 1 (0.68%) Amazon QuickSight
11 1 (0.68%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 62 (42.47%) Jenkins
2 48 (32.88%) GitLab
3 43 (29.45%) Cypress.io
4 41 (28.08%) SonarQube
5 39 (26.71%) Maven
6 29 (19.86%) Git
7 6 (4.11%) Cucumber
8 3 (2.05%) Artifactory
8 3 (2.05%) Claude Code
8 3 (2.05%) JIRA
8 3 (2.05%) Selenium
9 1 (0.68%) Jasmine
9 1 (0.68%) Karma Test Runner
9 1 (0.68%) YouTrack
General
1 27 (18.49%) Social Skills
2 7 (4.79%) Public Sector
3 6 (4.11%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (4.11%) Finance
4 4 (2.74%) Health Technology
5 3 (2.05%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 100 (68.49%) Developer
2 64 (43.84%) Java Developer
3 33 (22.60%) Senior
4 26 (17.81%) AWS Developer
5 25 (17.12%) Senior Developer
6 22 (15.07%) Lead
7 20 (13.70%) Full-Stack Developer
8 12 (8.22%) Senior Java Developer
9 10 (6.85%) Software Engineer
10 9 (6.16%) Data Engineer
10 9 (6.16%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 8 (5.48%) .NET Developer
11 8 (5.48%) Lead Developer
11 8 (5.48%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
12 7 (4.79%) Integration Developer
12 7 (4.79%) Integration Engineer
13 6 (4.11%) Technical Leader
14 5 (3.42%) AWS Engineer
15 4 (2.74%) AWS Data Engineer
16 3 (2.05%) DevOps Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (53.42%) AngularJS
2 64 (43.84%) Spring Boot
3 51 (34.93%) Node.js
4 44 (30.14%) Gherkin
5 40 (27.40%) Jest
6 33 (22.60%) Spring
7 28 (19.18%) React
8 19 (13.01%) RESTful
9 13 (8.90%) REST
10 12 (8.22%) Kafka
11 11 (7.53%) AWS CDK
12 10 (6.85%) .NET
13 8 (5.48%) .NET Core
13 8 (5.48%) ASP.NET
13 8 (5.48%) ASP.NET Core
13 8 (5.48%) Blazor
13 8 (5.48%) RabbitMQ
14 7 (4.79%) OpenTelemetry
15 6 (4.11%) OpenAPI
15 6 (4.11%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 19 (13.01%) Cloud Native
1 19 (13.01%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (2.74%) Greenfield Project
2 4 (2.74%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (2.74%) Product Ownership
3 3 (2.05%) Data Structures
3 3 (2.05%) Distributed Architecture
3 3 (2.05%) NHS
4 2 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.68%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.11%) Linux
2 3 (2.05%) CentOS
2 3 (2.05%) Debian
2 3 (2.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (2.05%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (60.27%) DevOps
2 87 (59.59%) CI/CD
3 64 (43.84%) Agile
4 41 (28.08%) Microservices
5 36 (24.66%) Infrastructure as Code
6 30 (20.55%) Containerisation
7 28 (19.18%) Full-Stack Development
8 27 (18.49%) Secure Coding
9 26 (17.81%) SDLC
10 24 (16.44%) ITIL
10 24 (16.44%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
11 22 (15.07%) Continuous Integration
12 21 (14.38%) DevSecOps
12 21 (14.38%) Observability
13 19 (13.01%) Mentoring
14 18 (12.33%) Clean Code
14 18 (12.33%) Problem-Solving
15 17 (11.64%) Continuous Improvement
15 17 (11.64%) Secrets Management
15 17 (11.64%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 90 (61.64%) Java
2 82 (56.16%) TypeScript
3 53 (36.30%) SQL
4 48 (32.88%) Groovy
5 39 (26.71%) Bash
6 33 (22.60%) Python
7 29 (19.86%) Kotlin
8 23 (15.75%) JavaScript
9 5 (3.42%) PHP
10 2 (1.37%) C#
10 2 (1.37%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.37%) Scala
11 1 (0.68%) Perl
Qualifications
1 41 (28.08%) AWS Certification
2 23 (15.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 23 (15.75%) ITIL Certification
3 20 (13.70%) Security Cleared
4 16 (10.96%) SC Cleared
5 14 (9.59%) AWS Certified Developer
6 4 (2.74%) DV Cleared
7 3 (2.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (2.05%) Degree
7 3 (2.05%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.79%) QA
2 6 (4.11%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.68%) Accessibility
System Software
1 86 (58.90%) Docker
Systems Management
1 38 (26.03%) HP Fortify
2 37 (25.34%) Terraform
3 19 (13.01%) Kubernetes
4 8 (5.48%) Ansible
5 3 (2.05%) Packer
5 3 (2.05%) Puppet
6 2 (1.37%) Kibana
7 1 (0.68%) Grafana
7 1 (0.68%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (4.79%) HubSpot
2 5 (3.42%) AppDynamics
2 5 (3.42%) IBM
3 3 (2.05%) Google
3 3 (2.05%) Red Hat
3 3 (2.05%) SaltStack
4 2 (1.37%) OpenAI
4 2 (1.37%) Oracle
5 1 (0.68%) Databricks
5 1 (0.68%) Informatica
5 1 (0.68%) SnapLogic