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

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 185 232 246
Rank change year-on-year +47 +14 +18
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 88 38 80
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.72% 0.46% 0.65%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.99% 1.38% 1.73%
Number of salaries quoted 49 21 70
10th Percentile £55,000 £43,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £52,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +5.88% -1.92%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £73,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £107,500 £75,250
England median annual salary £71,750 £90,000 £71,500
% change year-on-year -20.28% +25.87% -10.63%

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 4,422 2,762 4,612
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 36.38% 33.77% 37.28%
Number of salaries quoted 2,006 1,550 4,019
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £34,125 £41,813 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,507 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £83,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -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 9 February 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 9 February 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 +28 72 £65,000 +8.33% 15
North West +14 16 £65,000 -6.14% 15
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 12 (13.64%) Apache Spark
2 11 (12.50%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 88 (100.00%) AWS
1 88 (100.00%) Serverless
2 73 (82.95%) Amazon S3
3 57 (64.77%) AWS CloudFormation
4 49 (55.68%) AWS Step Functions
5 39 (44.32%) Amazon ECS
6 28 (31.82%) Amazon SQS
7 27 (30.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 27 (30.68%) GitHub
8 25 (28.41%) Amazon ECR
8 25 (28.41%) Apigee
9 23 (26.14%) Azure
10 20 (22.73%) GitHub Actions
11 15 (17.05%) Amazon EventBridge
12 14 (15.91%) Amazon EKS
13 13 (14.77%) Azure DevOps
14 10 (11.36%) GCP
15 9 (10.23%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 7 (7.95%) Datadog
17 6 (6.82%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.55%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (68.18%) DynamoDB
2 24 (27.27%) NoSQL
3 13 (14.77%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (14.77%) SQL Server
4 10 (11.36%) Amazon Athena
5 8 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
5 8 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (7.95%) Amazon Redshift
6 7 (7.95%) Data Lake
7 6 (6.82%) Big Data
8 4 (4.55%) Apache Iceberg
8 4 (4.55%) Cloudera CDH
8 4 (4.55%) Hadoop
9 3 (3.41%) MySQL
9 3 (3.41%) RDBMS
9 3 (3.41%) Relational Database
10 2 (2.27%) Amazon Aurora
10 2 (2.27%) Data Vault
11 1 (1.14%) Metadata
11 1 (1.14%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 30 (34.09%) Jenkins
2 26 (29.55%) GitLab
3 25 (28.41%) Cypress.io
3 25 (28.41%) Maven
3 25 (28.41%) SonarQube
4 23 (26.14%) Git
5 1 (1.14%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.14%) Selenium
General
1 28 (31.82%) Social Skills
2 4 (4.55%) Aerospace
2 4 (4.55%) Finance
3 3 (3.41%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (3.41%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 43 (48.86%) Developer
2 26 (29.55%) Java Developer
3 16 (18.18%) Senior
3 16 (18.18%) Software Engineer
4 15 (17.05%) AWS Developer
5 13 (14.77%) Lead
6 12 (13.64%) .NET Developer
7 9 (10.23%) Data Engineer
8 7 (7.95%) Technical Leader
9 6 (6.82%) Senior Developer
10 5 (5.68%) AWS Engineer
10 5 (5.68%) Senior Data Engineer
10 5 (5.68%) Senior Java Developer
11 4 (4.55%) AWS DevOps
11 4 (4.55%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
12 3 (3.41%) DevOps Developer
12 3 (3.41%) Full-Stack Developer
12 3 (3.41%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 3 (3.41%) Lead Developer
12 3 (3.41%) PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (44.32%) AngularJS
2 33 (37.50%) Spring Boot
3 30 (34.09%) React
4 26 (29.55%) Node.js
5 25 (28.41%) Gherkin
5 25 (28.41%) Jest
6 22 (25.00%) RESTful
7 17 (19.32%) Spring
8 14 (15.91%) .NET
9 13 (14.77%) .NET Core
9 13 (14.77%) ASP.NET
9 13 (14.77%) ASP.NET Core
9 13 (14.77%) AWS CDK
9 13 (14.77%) Blazor
10 7 (7.95%) OpenAPI
10 7 (7.95%) REST
10 7 (7.95%) Swagger
11 4 (4.55%) gRPC
11 4 (4.55%) Material-UI
11 4 (4.55%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 28 (31.82%) Cloud Native
2 4 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (3.41%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.27%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.14%) NHS
5 1 (1.14%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.14%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.14%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.14%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.55%) CentOS
1 4 (4.55%) Debian
1 4 (4.55%) Linux
1 4 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 4 (4.55%) Ubuntu
2 1 (1.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (77.27%) CI/CD
2 62 (70.45%) DevOps
3 53 (60.23%) Agile
4 35 (39.77%) Infrastructure as Code
5 34 (38.64%) Microservices
6 28 (31.82%) Problem-Solving
7 20 (22.73%) Containerisation
8 19 (21.59%) Software Engineering
9 16 (18.18%) Secure Coding
10 15 (17.05%) Deployment Automation
11 14 (15.91%) Observability
12 13 (14.77%) Application Security
12 13 (14.77%) SDLC
13 12 (13.64%) Continuous Integration
13 12 (13.64%) Full-Stack Development
13 12 (13.64%) ITIL
13 12 (13.64%) Root Cause Analysis
13 12 (13.64%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
14 11 (12.50%) Scrum
15 10 (11.36%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 45 (51.14%) TypeScript
2 42 (47.73%) Java
3 36 (40.91%) SQL
4 25 (28.41%) Bash
5 24 (27.27%) Groovy
6 16 (18.18%) Python
7 13 (14.77%) JavaScript
8 9 (10.23%) Kotlin
9 3 (3.41%) PHP
10 1 (1.14%) C#
10 1 (1.14%) Scala
Qualifications
1 32 (36.36%) AWS Certification
2 16 (18.18%) AWS Certified Developer
3 12 (13.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 12 (13.64%) ITIL Certification
4 9 (10.23%) Security Cleared
5 6 (6.82%) SC Cleared
6 4 (4.55%) DV Cleared
7 3 (3.41%) Degree
7 3 (3.41%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.68%) QA
2 4 (4.55%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.14%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.14%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.14%) NIST
System Software
1 53 (60.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 32 (36.36%) Terraform
2 25 (28.41%) HP Fortify
3 8 (9.09%) Kubernetes
4 4 (4.55%) Ansible
4 4 (4.55%) Puppet
5 3 (3.41%) Grafana
5 3 (3.41%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.14%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (5.68%) Google
2 4 (4.55%) Red Hat
2 4 (4.55%) SaltStack
3 2 (2.27%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.14%) Databricks
4 1 (1.14%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.14%) Informatica