AWS Lambda Job Trends

AWS Lambda
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring AWS Lambda skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 333 205 343
Rank change year-on-year -128 +138 +13
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 387 751 608
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.59% 1.50% 0.82%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.77% 4.06% 2.13%
Number of salaries quoted 263 359 510
10th Percentile £51,300 £52,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £63,750 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £84,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +20.00% -12.50%
75th Percentile £82,500 £115,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £138,750 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +1.56%

All Cloud Computing Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 21,897 18,477 28,565
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.33% 36.95% 38.44%
Number of salaries quoted 11,832 10,883 23,665
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £47,231 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%

AWS Lambda
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing AWS Lambda relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

AWS Lambda job vacancy trend in the UK

AWS Lambda
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing AWS Lambda.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing AWS Lambda

AWS Lambda
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS Lambda over the 6 months to 10 February 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS Lambda in the UK

AWS Lambda
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AWS Lambda within the UK over the 6 months to 10 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
England -121 327 £71,000 -21.11% 202
UK excluding London -66 188 £62,500 +4.17% 140
Work from Home -126 175 £67,500 -25.00% 133
London -130 147 £77,500 -22.50% 100
North of England +46 88 £65,000 -3.70% 37
Yorkshire +22 72 £65,000 +8.33% 20
Midlands +27 40 £55,000 - 14
South West -9 27 £62,500 -1.96% 27
East Midlands +2 23 £60,000 -14.29% 8
West Midlands +20 17 £50,000 +8.11% 6
North West +12 16 £65,000 -6.14% 16
South East -111 12 £67,500 +22.73% 42
East of England -18 6 £62,500 -13.79% 18
Scotland -34 6 - - 4
Wales +3 5 £61,000 +61.66% 2
Northern Ireland - 4 £95,000 - 1

AWS Lambda
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 33 (8.53%) Apache Spark
2 27 (6.98%) Apache
3 18 (4.65%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.55%) WebSphere
5 5 (1.29%) Tomcat
6 4 (1.03%) Confluence
6 4 (1.03%) WebSphere Application Server
7 2 (0.52%) nginx
7 2 (0.52%) Oracle Application Server
8 1 (0.26%) JBoss
8 1 (0.26%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.26%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (1.55%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 387 (100.00%) AWS
1 387 (100.00%) Serverless
2 267 (68.99%) Amazon S3
3 142 (36.69%) AWS CloudFormation
4 100 (25.84%) Amazon ECS
5 93 (24.03%) AWS Step Functions
6 90 (23.26%) Amazon SQS
7 86 (22.22%) Amazon EC2
8 82 (21.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 76 (19.64%) GitHub
10 68 (17.57%) Amazon EKS
11 56 (14.47%) Azure
12 55 (14.21%) GitHub Actions
13 34 (8.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 33 (8.53%) Amazon ECR
15 31 (8.01%) SaaS
16 27 (6.98%) Amazon EventBridge
16 27 (6.98%) Apigee
16 27 (6.98%) GCP
17 21 (5.43%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.84%) AMQP
2 8 (2.07%) DSL
3 6 (1.55%) Firewall
3 6 (1.55%) Network Security
4 5 (1.29%) SSL
5 4 (1.03%) Broadband
6 1 (0.26%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (29.20%) DynamoDB
2 91 (23.51%) Amazon RDS
3 54 (13.95%) Amazon Redshift
3 54 (13.95%) PostgreSQL
4 50 (12.92%) NoSQL
5 42 (10.85%) Data Warehouse
6 27 (6.98%) MongoDB
7 24 (6.20%) SQL Server
8 20 (5.17%) Amazon Athena
8 20 (5.17%) Big Data
8 20 (5.17%) Data Lake
9 14 (3.62%) Hadoop
10 12 (3.10%) MySQL
10 12 (3.10%) Relational Database
11 11 (2.84%) Elasticsearch
12 10 (2.58%) Apache Iceberg
13 8 (2.07%) Amazon Aurora
13 8 (2.07%) Apache Hive
14 6 (1.55%) DB2
15 5 (1.29%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 86 (22.22%) Jenkins
2 69 (17.83%) GitLab
3 66 (17.05%) Git
4 44 (11.37%) Cypress.io
5 26 (6.72%) Maven
6 25 (6.46%) SonarQube
7 12 (3.10%) Bitbucket
8 11 (2.84%) JIRA
9 8 (2.07%) CircleCI
10 7 (1.81%) MLflow
11 5 (1.29%) git-flow
11 5 (1.29%) Vite
12 3 (0.78%) ESLint
12 3 (0.78%) JUnit
12 3 (0.78%) NUnit
13 2 (0.52%) DBeaver
13 2 (0.52%) Deequ
13 2 (0.52%) Mocha
13 2 (0.52%) webpack
14 1 (0.26%) Cucumber
General
1 99 (25.58%) Social Skills
2 58 (14.99%) Finance
3 34 (8.79%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (5.43%) Tech for Good
5 18 (4.65%) Health Technology
5 18 (4.65%) Publishing
6 15 (3.88%) Banking
6 15 (3.88%) Influencing Skills
6 15 (3.88%) Public Sector
7 14 (3.62%) Organisational Skills
8 11 (2.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (2.33%) Advertising
9 9 (2.33%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.03%) Aerospace
10 4 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.78%) Billing
11 3 (0.78%) Games
11 3 (0.78%) Investment Banking
11 3 (0.78%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 147 (37.98%) Developer
2 83 (21.45%) Senior
3 58 (14.99%) Lead
4 56 (14.47%) AWS Developer
5 51 (13.18%) AWS Engineer
6 41 (10.59%) Software Engineer
7 39 (10.08%) Full-Stack Developer
8 38 (9.82%) Data Engineer
9 36 (9.30%) React Developer
10 35 (9.04%) Senior Developer
11 33 (8.53%) Java Developer
12 30 (7.75%) Python Developer
13 29 (7.49%) Lead Developer
14 27 (6.98%) DevOps Engineer
15 26 (6.72%) Architect
16 24 (6.20%) AWS Data Engineer
17 21 (5.43%) Software Developer
18 19 (4.91%) Cloud Engineer
18 19 (4.91%) Full-Stack Engineer
19 17 (4.39%) Lead Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 131 (33.85%) React
2 118 (30.49%) Node.js
3 64 (16.54%) Spring Boot
4 61 (15.76%) RESTful
5 55 (14.21%) AngularJS
6 53 (13.70%) AWS CDK
7 51 (13.18%) Spring
8 44 (11.37%) Jest
9 38 (9.82%) Kafka
10 27 (6.98%) HTML
11 26 (6.72%) RabbitMQ
12 25 (6.46%) .NET
12 25 (6.46%) Gherkin
13 22 (5.68%) REST
14 20 (5.17%) CSS
15 18 (4.65%) .NET Core
16 16 (4.13%) gRPC
17 13 (3.36%) ASP.NET
17 13 (3.36%) ASP.NET Core
17 13 (3.36%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 114 (29.46%) Cloud Native
2 26 (6.72%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (2.84%) Greenfield Project
3 11 (2.84%) Product Ownership
4 9 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (2.07%) Blockchain
5 8 (2.07%) e-Learning
5 8 (2.07%) Web3
6 7 (1.81%) Analytical Mindset
6 7 (1.81%) Virtual Team
7 6 (1.55%) Data Structures
7 6 (1.55%) Onboarding
7 6 (1.55%) Security Posture
8 5 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.03%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (1.03%) Management Information System
10 3 (0.78%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (0.78%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 41 (10.59%) Linux
2 16 (4.13%) Unix
3 10 (2.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (2.07%) Windows
5 5 (1.29%) CentOS
5 5 (1.29%) Debian
5 5 (1.29%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.26%) Android
6 1 (0.26%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 254 (65.63%) CI/CD
2 182 (47.03%) DevOps
3 154 (39.79%) Infrastructure as Code
4 140 (36.18%) Agile
5 98 (25.32%) Software Engineering
6 95 (24.55%) Full-Stack Development
7 93 (24.03%) Microservices
7 93 (24.03%) Problem-Solving
8 82 (21.19%) Mentoring
9 73 (18.86%) Containerisation
10 63 (16.28%) Continuous Improvement
11 58 (14.99%) Observability
12 54 (13.95%) Data Pipeline
13 50 (12.92%) AI
14 48 (12.40%) Scrum
15 45 (11.63%) Data Modelling
16 41 (10.59%) Continuous Integration
17 39 (10.08%) Analytics
18 38 (9.82%) Event-Driven
19 37 (9.56%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 189 (48.84%) Python
2 122 (31.52%) TypeScript
3 102 (26.36%) JavaScript
4 101 (26.10%) Java
5 97 (25.06%) SQL
6 48 (12.40%) Bash
7 24 (6.20%) Groovy
8 22 (5.68%) Go
9 18 (4.65%) C#
10 12 (3.10%) Ruby
11 11 (2.84%) Scala
12 9 (2.33%) Kotlin
13 8 (2.07%) Rust
14 7 (1.81%) PowerShell
15 4 (1.03%) Shell Script
16 3 (0.78%) C++
16 3 (0.78%) PHP
17 2 (0.52%) C
17 2 (0.52%) R
Qualifications
1 89 (23.00%) AWS Certification
2 54 (13.95%) Security Cleared
3 47 (12.14%) Degree
4 34 (8.79%) SC Cleared
5 27 (6.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 26 (6.72%) AWS Certified Developer
7 24 (6.20%) Computer Science Degree
8 17 (4.39%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 16 (4.13%) ITIL Certification
10 13 (3.36%) DV Cleared
11 9 (2.33%) OSCP
12 5 (1.29%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 4 (1.03%) Master's Degree
14 3 (0.78%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 3 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
14 3 (0.78%) IIBA
14 3 (0.78%) SnowPro
15 2 (0.52%) CISA
15 2 (0.52%) CISSP
15 2 (0.52%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (10.08%) QA
2 25 (6.46%) Data Quality
3 19 (4.91%) GDPR
4 10 (2.58%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.03%) NIST
6 4 (1.03%) SLA
7 3 (0.78%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.78%) SOC 2
7 3 (0.78%) WCAG
8 1 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.26%) GAAP
8 1 (0.26%) IFRS
8 1 (0.26%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.26%) MiFID
8 1 (0.26%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 128 (33.07%) Docker
2 8 (2.07%) HDFS
3 2 (0.52%) iptables
4 1 (0.26%) vCloud
4 1 (0.26%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.26%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 133 (34.37%) Terraform
2 91 (23.51%) Kubernetes
3 28 (7.24%) Prometheus
4 26 (6.72%) Grafana
5 25 (6.46%) HP Fortify
6 24 (6.20%) Ansible
7 7 (1.81%) Puppet
8 4 (1.03%) Argo
8 4 (1.03%) Control-M
8 4 (1.03%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.78%) Kibana
9 3 (0.78%) Kubeflow
9 3 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (4.39%) Databricks
2 16 (4.13%) Oracle
3 9 (2.33%) Red Hat
4 8 (2.07%) Atlassian
5 7 (1.81%) Google
6 6 (1.55%) IBM
6 6 (1.55%) Informatica
6 6 (1.55%) Microsoft
7 5 (1.29%) Salesforce
7 5 (1.29%) SaltStack
8 4 (1.03%) PagerDuty
9 3 (0.78%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.52%) Okta
11 1 (0.26%) Apple
11 1 (0.26%) Cisco
11 1 (0.26%) Dynatrace
11 1 (0.26%) Mercator
11 1 (0.26%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.26%) StreamSets
11 1 (0.26%) YouTube