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 1 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 194 226 292
Rank change year-on-year +32 +66 -13
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 149 72 100
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.73% 0.81% 0.52%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.89% 2.92% 1.58%
Number of salaries quoted 97 64 83
10th Percentile £52,250 £55,000 £47,750
25th Percentile £61,250 £57,188 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -7.14% +3.70%
75th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £83,750 £89,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - - +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 5,151 2,466 6,312
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 25.09% 27.85% 32.89%
Number of salaries quoted 3,539 1,686 5,035
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,500 £36,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £69,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £83,759
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 1 July 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 1 July 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 93 £75,000 +25.00% 12
North West +1 44 £72,500 +11.54% 15
North East -42 12 £75,000 +15.38% 9
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 (4.70%) Apache Spark
2 6 (4.03%) Apache
3 4 (2.68%) Confluence
4 3 (2.01%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 149 (100.00%) AWS
1 149 (100.00%) Serverless
2 116 (77.85%) Amazon S3
3 97 (65.10%) Amazon ECS
4 81 (54.36%) AWS CloudFormation
5 70 (46.98%) AWS Step Functions
6 42 (28.19%) Amazon SQS
7 38 (25.50%) Amazon ECR
8 37 (24.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 37 (24.83%) Apigee
9 33 (22.15%) GitHub
10 26 (17.45%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 19 (12.75%) Datadog
12 18 (12.08%) Amazon EKS
13 16 (10.74%) GitHub Actions
14 14 (9.40%) Amazon EC2
14 14 (9.40%) Azure
15 9 (6.04%) Amazon EventBridge
15 9 (6.04%) GCP
16 7 (4.70%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.01%) AMQP
2 1 (0.67%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (60.40%) DynamoDB
2 33 (22.15%) Amazon Athena
3 22 (14.77%) NoSQL
4 15 (10.07%) Amazon RDS
5 12 (8.05%) Amazon Redshift
6 11 (7.38%) Relational Database
7 10 (6.71%) MySQL
8 8 (5.37%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (3.36%) Big Data
10 4 (2.68%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (2.68%) RDBMS
10 4 (2.68%) SQL Server
11 3 (2.01%) Cloudera CDH
11 3 (2.01%) Hadoop
11 3 (2.01%) MariaDB
11 3 (2.01%) Power BI
11 3 (2.01%) Tableau
12 2 (1.34%) Amazon QuickSight
12 2 (1.34%) Data Lake
12 2 (1.34%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 56 (37.58%) Jenkins
2 38 (25.50%) GitLab
3 32 (21.48%) Cypress.io
4 30 (20.13%) SonarQube
5 28 (18.79%) Git
5 28 (18.79%) Maven
6 8 (5.37%) JIRA
7 6 (4.03%) Cucumber
7 6 (4.03%) Selenium
8 5 (3.36%) Claude Code
9 4 (2.68%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 4 (2.68%) Bitbucket
10 3 (2.01%) Artifactory
10 3 (2.01%) Postman
11 2 (1.34%) Jasmine
11 2 (1.34%) Karma Test Runner
11 2 (1.34%) TeamCity
11 2 (1.34%) YouTrack
General
1 21 (14.09%) Social Skills
2 12 (8.05%) Finance
3 10 (6.71%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (6.04%) Public Sector
5 4 (2.68%) Health Technology
6 3 (2.01%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 105 (70.47%) Developer
2 67 (44.97%) Java Developer
3 43 (28.86%) Senior
4 34 (22.82%) Senior Developer
5 32 (21.48%) Full-Stack Developer
6 26 (17.45%) AWS Developer
7 16 (10.74%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 15 (10.07%) Lead
9 13 (8.72%) Senior Java Developer
10 12 (8.05%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 10 (6.71%) Data Engineer
12 9 (6.04%) Lead Developer
12 9 (6.04%) Software Engineer
13 7 (4.70%) Integration Developer
13 7 (4.70%) Integration Engineer
14 6 (4.03%) Angular Developer
14 6 (4.03%) React Developer
15 5 (3.36%) AWS Engineer
16 4 (2.68%) Applications Engineer
16 4 (2.68%) Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (51.68%) AngularJS
2 63 (42.28%) Spring Boot
3 58 (38.93%) Node.js
4 38 (25.50%) Spring
5 36 (24.16%) Gherkin
6 34 (22.82%) React
7 31 (20.81%) Jest
8 17 (11.41%) REST
8 17 (11.41%) RESTful
9 16 (10.74%) Kafka
10 11 (7.38%) Swagger
11 8 (5.37%) RabbitMQ
11 8 (5.37%) Vue
12 7 (4.70%) .NET
12 7 (4.70%) OpenAPI
12 7 (4.70%) OpenTelemetry
13 5 (3.36%) Elastic Stack
13 5 (3.36%) JPA
13 5 (3.36%) PySpark
14 4 (2.68%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 21 (14.09%) Distributed Systems
2 13 (8.72%) Cloud Native
3 5 (3.36%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.68%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (2.68%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.01%) Distributed Architecture
5 3 (2.01%) NHS
6 2 (1.34%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.67%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.67%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.03%) Linux
2 3 (2.01%) CentOS
2 3 (2.01%) Debian
2 3 (2.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (2.01%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (56.38%) CI/CD
2 72 (48.32%) DevOps
3 59 (39.60%) Agile
4 38 (25.50%) Full-Stack Development
5 35 (23.49%) Microservices
6 34 (22.82%) Infrastructure as Code
7 29 (19.46%) Observability
7 29 (19.46%) SDLC
8 28 (18.79%) Containerisation
9 25 (16.78%) Continuous Integration
9 25 (16.78%) Secure Coding
10 24 (16.11%) Mentoring
11 23 (15.44%) ITIL
11 23 (15.44%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
12 22 (14.77%) Clean Code
13 21 (14.09%) AI
14 20 (13.42%) DevSecOps
15 18 (12.08%) Data Modelling
15 18 (12.08%) Secrets Management
15 18 (12.08%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 88 (59.06%) Java
2 83 (55.70%) TypeScript
3 55 (36.91%) SQL
4 43 (28.86%) Python
5 40 (26.85%) Groovy
6 31 (20.81%) Kotlin
7 28 (18.79%) Bash
8 26 (17.45%) JavaScript
9 7 (4.70%) C#
10 5 (3.36%) Scala
11 4 (2.68%) PHP
12 2 (1.34%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.67%) Go
13 1 (0.67%) Perl
Qualifications
1 32 (21.48%) AWS Certification
2 22 (14.77%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 22 (14.77%) ITIL Certification
3 20 (13.42%) Security Cleared
4 16 (10.74%) SC Cleared
5 5 (3.36%) Degree
5 5 (3.36%) DV Cleared
6 4 (2.68%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 4 (2.68%) AWS Certified Developer
6 4 (2.68%) Master's Degree
7 3 (2.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.67%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.37%) Data Quality
2 7 (4.70%) QA
3 3 (2.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.34%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.67%) GDPR
System Software
1 74 (49.66%) Docker
Systems Management
1 36 (24.16%) Terraform
2 27 (18.12%) HP Fortify
3 24 (16.11%) Kubernetes
4 8 (5.37%) Ansible
5 3 (2.01%) Packer
5 3 (2.01%) Puppet
6 2 (1.34%) Kibana
7 1 (0.67%) Grafana
7 1 (0.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (4.70%) HubSpot
1 7 (4.70%) Splunk
2 5 (3.36%) AppDynamics
2 5 (3.36%) IBM
3 4 (2.68%) Dynatrace
3 4 (2.68%) Google
4 3 (2.01%) OpenAI
4 3 (2.01%) Red Hat
4 3 (2.01%) SaltStack
5 2 (1.34%) Oracle
5 2 (1.34%) SnapLogic
6 1 (0.67%) Confluent
6 1 (0.67%) Databricks
6 1 (0.67%) Informatica