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

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 177 238 244
Rank change year-on-year +61 +6 +9
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 83 35 70
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.72% 0.39% 0.64%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.94% 1.21% 1.70%
Number of salaries quoted 46 18 63
10th Percentile £55,000 £43,375 £42,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £48,750 £51,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £68,375 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.94% +9.40% -3.85%
75th Percentile £79,375 £85,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £110,500 £74,650
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 4,276 2,895 4,122
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 37.33% 32.53% 37.81%
Number of salaries quoted 1,956 1,608 3,583
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £34,688 £42,178 £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 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £82,548
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 26 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 26 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 +44 67 £65,000 +8.33% 30
North West +23 16 £65,000 -6.14% 18
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 (14.46%) Apache Spark
2 11 (13.25%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 83 (100.00%) AWS
1 83 (100.00%) Serverless
2 69 (83.13%) Amazon S3
3 54 (65.06%) AWS CloudFormation
4 46 (55.42%) AWS Step Functions
5 35 (42.17%) Amazon ECS
6 26 (31.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 26 (31.33%) Amazon SQS
6 26 (31.33%) GitHub
7 23 (27.71%) Amazon ECR
7 23 (27.71%) Apigee
8 22 (26.51%) Azure
9 20 (24.10%) GitHub Actions
10 15 (18.07%) Amazon EventBridge
11 13 (15.66%) Amazon EKS
11 13 (15.66%) Azure DevOps
12 9 (10.84%) GCP
13 8 (9.64%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 7 (8.43%) Datadog
15 6 (7.23%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.82%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (67.47%) DynamoDB
2 23 (27.71%) NoSQL
3 13 (15.66%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (15.66%) SQL Server
4 9 (10.84%) Amazon Athena
5 8 (9.64%) Amazon RDS
5 8 (9.64%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (8.43%) Amazon Redshift
6 7 (8.43%) Data Lake
7 6 (7.23%) Big Data
8 4 (4.82%) Apache Iceberg
8 4 (4.82%) Cloudera CDH
8 4 (4.82%) Hadoop
9 2 (2.41%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (2.41%) Data Vault
9 2 (2.41%) MySQL
9 2 (2.41%) RDBMS
9 2 (2.41%) Relational Database
10 1 (1.20%) Power BI
10 1 (1.20%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 27 (32.53%) Jenkins
2 24 (28.92%) GitLab
3 23 (27.71%) Cypress.io
3 23 (27.71%) Git
3 23 (27.71%) Maven
3 23 (27.71%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.20%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.20%) Selenium
General
1 28 (33.73%) Social Skills
2 4 (4.82%) Aerospace
2 4 (4.82%) Finance
3 3 (3.61%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (3.61%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 39 (46.99%) Developer
2 23 (27.71%) Java Developer
3 16 (19.28%) Software Engineer
4 15 (18.07%) AWS Developer
5 14 (16.87%) Senior
6 13 (15.66%) Lead
7 12 (14.46%) .NET Developer
8 9 (10.84%) Data Engineer
9 7 (8.43%) Technical Leader
10 5 (6.02%) AWS Engineer
10 5 (6.02%) Senior Data Engineer
10 5 (6.02%) Senior Developer
10 5 (6.02%) Senior Java Developer
11 4 (4.82%) AWS DevOps
11 4 (4.82%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
12 3 (3.61%) AWS Data Engineer
12 3 (3.61%) DevOps Developer
12 3 (3.61%) Lead Developer
12 3 (3.61%) Serverless Developer
13 2 (2.41%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (43.37%) AngularJS
2 30 (36.14%) Spring Boot
3 28 (33.73%) React
4 24 (28.92%) Node.js
5 23 (27.71%) Gherkin
5 23 (27.71%) Jest
6 21 (25.30%) RESTful
7 16 (19.28%) Spring
8 14 (16.87%) .NET
9 13 (15.66%) .NET Core
9 13 (15.66%) ASP.NET
9 13 (15.66%) ASP.NET Core
9 13 (15.66%) AWS CDK
9 13 (15.66%) Blazor
10 7 (8.43%) OpenAPI
10 7 (8.43%) Swagger
11 6 (7.23%) REST
12 4 (4.82%) gRPC
12 4 (4.82%) Material-UI
12 4 (4.82%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 28 (33.73%) Cloud Native
2 4 (4.82%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (3.61%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.41%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.41%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.20%) NHS
5 1 (1.20%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.20%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.20%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.20%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.82%) CentOS
1 4 (4.82%) Debian
1 4 (4.82%) Linux
1 4 (4.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 4 (4.82%) Ubuntu
2 1 (1.20%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (77.11%) CI/CD
2 58 (69.88%) DevOps
3 50 (60.24%) Agile
4 34 (40.96%) Infrastructure as Code
5 32 (38.55%) Microservices
6 28 (33.73%) Problem-Solving
7 19 (22.89%) Containerisation
8 18 (21.69%) Software Engineering
9 15 (18.07%) Deployment Automation
10 14 (16.87%) Secure Coding
11 13 (15.66%) Application Security
11 13 (15.66%) Observability
12 12 (14.46%) Root Cause Analysis
13 11 (13.25%) Continuous Integration
13 11 (13.25%) Scrum
13 11 (13.25%) SDLC
14 10 (12.05%) Full-Stack Development
14 10 (12.05%) ITIL
14 10 (12.05%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
15 9 (10.84%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 41 (49.40%) TypeScript
2 39 (46.99%) Java
3 35 (42.17%) SQL
4 23 (27.71%) Bash
5 22 (26.51%) Groovy
6 16 (19.28%) Python
7 12 (14.46%) JavaScript
8 8 (9.64%) Kotlin
9 2 (2.41%) PHP
10 1 (1.20%) C#
10 1 (1.20%) Scala
Qualifications
1 30 (36.14%) AWS Certification
2 16 (19.28%) AWS Certified Developer
3 10 (12.05%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 10 (12.05%) ITIL Certification
4 9 (10.84%) Security Cleared
5 6 (7.23%) SC Cleared
6 4 (4.82%) DV Cleared
7 3 (3.61%) Degree
7 3 (3.61%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.02%) QA
2 4 (4.82%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.20%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.20%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.20%) NIST
System Software
1 50 (60.24%) Docker
Systems Management
1 31 (37.35%) Terraform
2 23 (27.71%) HP Fortify
3 8 (9.64%) Kubernetes
4 4 (4.82%) Ansible
4 4 (4.82%) Puppet
5 3 (3.61%) Grafana
5 3 (3.61%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.20%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (6.02%) Google
2 4 (4.82%) Red Hat
2 4 (4.82%) SaltStack
3 2 (2.41%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.20%) Databricks
4 1 (1.20%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.20%) Informatica