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 5 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 400 374 355
Rank change year-on-year -26 -19 -9
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 506 341 506
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.43% 0.69% 0.68%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.87% 2.19% 2.13%
Number of salaries quoted 318 230 235
10th Percentile £46,217 £47,950 £51,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £61,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £71,500 £76,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% -5.92% +8.57%
75th Percentile £85,000 £89,375 £95,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £102,500 £115,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% +3.85%

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 27,040 15,539 23,739
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 22.90% 31.29% 31.99%
Number of salaries quoted 18,428 10,414 14,551
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,264 £38,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £63,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.76% +0.80%
75th Percentile £84,128 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +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 5 October 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 5 October 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 -31 435 £70,000 -2.10% 476
UK excluding London +6 300 £67,500 +3.85% 327
North of England +59 178 £67,500 +3.85% 84
Work from Home -33 162 £60,500 -6.92% 278
London -76 162 £80,000 +4.58% 255
Yorkshire +6 72 £80,000 +23.08% 33
North West +8 70 £67,249 +3.46% 44
North East -27 36 £67,500 -6.90% 7
South West -65 35 £70,000 -11.11% 50
Wales -35 33 £72,500 +31.82% 26
Midlands -41 27 £65,000 +23.81% 30
South East -39 25 £67,500 -15.63% 47
East Midlands - 17 £65,000 - 16
West Midlands -43 10 £62,500 +19.05% 14
Scotland -11 2 - - 46
East of England -48 1 £80,000 +88.24% 17

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 32 (6.32%) Apache Spark
2 24 (4.74%) Apache
3 20 (3.95%) Confluence
4 11 (2.17%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.59%) Apache Solr
5 3 (0.59%) SAS
6 2 (0.40%) Camunda
6 2 (0.40%) nginx
6 2 (0.40%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.40%) WebLogic
6 2 (0.40%) WebLogic Portal
7 1 (0.20%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (0.79%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (1.19%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.40%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.40%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.20%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
3 1 (0.20%) Finacle
3 1 (0.20%) FLEXCUBE
3 1 (0.20%) Infor SunSystems
3 1 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.20%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 506 (100.00%) Serverless
2 504 (99.60%) AWS
3 328 (64.82%) Amazon S3
4 188 (37.15%) Amazon ECS
5 174 (34.39%) AWS CloudFormation
6 142 (28.06%) Amazon EC2
7 97 (19.17%) Amazon SQS
8 96 (18.97%) GitHub
9 93 (18.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 88 (17.39%) Amazon EKS
10 88 (17.39%) AWS Step Functions
11 70 (13.83%) GitHub Actions
12 65 (12.85%) Azure
13 54 (10.67%) Amazon EventBridge
14 44 (8.70%) Datadog
15 41 (8.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 39 (7.71%) SaaS
17 35 (6.92%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 30 (5.93%) Amazon EMR
19 28 (5.53%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 21 (4.15%) Network Security
2 10 (1.98%) Firewall
3 8 (1.58%) AMQP
4 4 (0.79%) IPv4
4 4 (0.79%) Software-Defined Networking
4 4 (0.79%) VPN
5 2 (0.40%) DNS
5 2 (0.40%) VoIP
6 1 (0.20%) 4G
6 1 (0.20%) 5G
6 1 (0.20%) DHCP
6 1 (0.20%) HTTP
6 1 (0.20%) PSTN
6 1 (0.20%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.20%) VLAN
6 1 (0.20%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 141 (27.87%) DynamoDB
2 113 (22.33%) Amazon RDS
3 57 (11.26%) PostgreSQL
4 51 (10.08%) Amazon Athena
5 50 (9.88%) Amazon Redshift
5 50 (9.88%) NoSQL
6 37 (7.31%) MongoDB
7 28 (5.53%) Data Warehouse
8 20 (3.95%) Relational Database
9 18 (3.56%) Data Lake
9 18 (3.56%) Spark SQL
9 18 (3.56%) SQL Server
10 17 (3.36%) Elasticsearch
11 14 (2.77%) Big Data
11 14 (2.77%) Metadata
12 13 (2.57%) Amazon Aurora
12 13 (2.57%) Redis
13 11 (2.17%) MySQL
14 10 (1.98%) Hadoop
15 9 (1.78%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 117 (23.12%) Git
2 99 (19.57%) Jenkins
3 54 (10.67%) Cypress.io
4 51 (10.08%) GitLab
5 31 (6.13%) JIRA
6 19 (3.75%) Maven
7 13 (2.57%) Postman
8 12 (2.37%) Bitbucket
8 12 (2.37%) SonarQube
9 11 (2.17%) JUnit
9 11 (2.17%) TeamCity
10 10 (1.98%) Selenium
11 8 (1.58%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 8 (1.58%) Claude Code
12 6 (1.19%) CircleCI
12 6 (1.19%) Gradle
12 6 (1.19%) JMeter
13 5 (0.99%) Cucumber
14 4 (0.79%) Mockito
14 4 (0.79%) Zephyr
General
1 101 (19.96%) Social Skills
2 98 (19.37%) Public Sector
3 95 (18.77%) Finance
4 52 (10.28%) Analytical Skills
5 41 (8.10%) Banking
6 38 (7.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 27 (5.34%) Law
8 17 (3.36%) Marketing
9 13 (2.57%) Aviation
9 13 (2.57%) Retail
10 12 (2.37%) Aerospace
11 11 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
11 11 (2.17%) Telecoms
12 8 (1.58%) Health Technology
13 7 (1.38%) Billing
14 5 (0.99%) Front Office
14 5 (0.99%) Military
15 4 (0.79%) Advertising
15 4 (0.79%) Legal
15 4 (0.79%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 163 (32.21%) Developer
2 133 (26.28%) Senior
3 75 (14.82%) Full-Stack Developer
4 69 (13.64%) Data Engineer
5 66 (13.04%) AWS Engineer
6 62 (12.25%) Lead
7 54 (10.67%) Senior Developer
8 50 (9.88%) Java Developer
9 40 (7.91%) Software Engineer
10 36 (7.11%) AWS Developer
11 35 (6.92%) DevOps Engineer
12 30 (5.93%) Architect
13 22 (4.35%) Platform Engineer
13 22 (4.35%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
14 21 (4.15%) Consultant
15 19 (3.75%) AWS Data Engineer
16 18 (3.56%) Cloud Engineer
16 18 (3.56%) Senior Consultant
17 17 (3.36%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 17 (3.36%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 219 (43.28%) Terraform
2 155 (30.63%) Node.js
3 119 (23.52%) React
4 94 (18.58%) Spring Boot
5 81 (16.01%) Spring
6 79 (15.61%) AngularJS
7 59 (11.66%) AWS CDK
8 58 (11.46%) Jest
9 56 (11.07%) Kafka
10 55 (10.87%) REST
11 54 (10.67%) RESTful
12 52 (10.28%) Ruby on Rails
13 44 (8.70%) .NET
14 40 (7.91%) PySpark
15 30 (5.93%) Swagger
16 26 (5.14%) OpenAPI
17 25 (4.94%) Gherkin
18 22 (4.35%) JSON
19 21 (4.15%) Next.js
20 17 (3.36%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 154 (30.43%) Cloud Native
2 33 (6.52%) Distributed Systems
3 30 (5.93%) Hybrid Cloud
4 29 (5.73%) Onboarding
5 28 (5.53%) Product Ownership
6 22 (4.35%) Mainframe
7 19 (3.75%) Legacy Systems
8 18 (3.56%) Enterprise Cloud
9 15 (2.96%) Greenfield Project
10 13 (2.57%) Linux Command Line
11 12 (2.37%) AI Agents
12 11 (2.17%) Mobile Banking
13 9 (1.78%) Digital Wallet
13 9 (1.78%) Public Cloud
14 8 (1.58%) Enterprise Software
15 7 (1.38%) Data Structures
15 7 (1.38%) Low-Code
15 7 (1.38%) NHS
16 6 (1.19%) Replication
16 6 (1.19%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 38 (7.51%) Linux
2 11 (2.17%) Windows
3 7 (1.38%) AIX
3 7 (1.38%) CentOS
3 7 (1.38%) Debian
3 7 (1.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (1.38%) Ubuntu
4 5 (0.99%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.40%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 308 (60.87%) CI/CD
2 213 (42.09%) Agile
3 205 (40.51%) Infrastructure as Code
4 192 (37.94%) DevOps
5 144 (28.46%) Mentoring
6 141 (27.87%) Microservices
7 130 (25.69%) AI
7 130 (25.69%) Full-Stack Development
8 128 (25.30%) Software Engineering
9 105 (20.75%) Observability
10 94 (18.58%) Event-Driven
11 91 (17.98%) Problem-Solving
12 88 (17.39%) Continuous Improvement
13 86 (17.00%) Test Automation
14 79 (15.61%) Analytics
15 74 (14.62%) ETL
16 72 (14.23%) Containerisation
16 72 (14.23%) Decision-Making
16 72 (14.23%) Technical Leadership
17 68 (13.44%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 241 (47.63%) Python
2 163 (32.21%) Java
3 153 (30.24%) SQL
4 130 (25.69%) TypeScript
5 102 (20.16%) JavaScript
6 74 (14.62%) Bash
7 70 (13.83%) Ruby
8 45 (8.89%) C#
9 27 (5.34%) Groovy
9 27 (5.34%) Kotlin
10 19 (3.75%) C++
11 17 (3.36%) PHP
12 15 (2.96%) PowerShell
13 14 (2.77%) Perl
14 11 (2.17%) Scala
15 10 (1.98%) Go
16 6 (1.19%) COBOL
17 3 (0.59%) Shell Script
18 2 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 2 (0.40%) Rust
Qualifications
1 124 (24.51%) Security Cleared
2 87 (17.19%) SC Cleared
3 77 (15.22%) AWS Certification
4 45 (8.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 32 (6.32%) DV Cleared
6 16 (3.16%) BPSS Clearance
7 13 (2.57%) Degree
8 12 (2.37%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 10 (1.98%) ITIL Certification
10 8 (1.58%) ISTQB
10 8 (1.58%) TOGAF Certification
11 7 (1.38%) AWS Certified Developer
12 5 (0.99%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 5 (0.99%) Master's Degree
12 5 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (0.99%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 4 (0.79%) CCNA
13 4 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
13 4 (0.79%) RHCE
13 4 (0.79%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (11.86%) Data Quality
2 32 (6.32%) Accessibility
3 31 (6.13%) QA
4 20 (3.95%) GDPR
5 19 (3.75%) WCAG
6 11 (2.17%) HIPAA
7 6 (1.19%) Government Security Classifications
7 6 (1.19%) NCSC
8 4 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.59%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.40%) NIST
11 1 (0.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 153 (30.24%) Docker
2 6 (1.19%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.79%) Squid
3 4 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.79%) VMware NSX
3 4 (0.79%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 77 (15.22%) Kubernetes
2 37 (7.31%) Ansible
3 32 (6.32%) Prometheus
4 31 (6.13%) Grafana
5 16 (3.16%) Packer
6 11 (2.17%) HP Fortify
7 9 (1.78%) Puppet
8 6 (1.19%) Rancher
9 5 (0.99%) Argo
10 4 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.79%) ZABBIX
11 2 (0.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.40%) Kibana
11 2 (0.40%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 2 (0.40%) Oracle RMAN
12 1 (0.20%) Fluentd
12 1 (0.20%) logstash
Vendors
1 30 (5.93%) Databricks
2 24 (4.74%) Oracle
3 17 (3.36%) Red Hat
4 16 (3.16%) Dynatrace
4 16 (3.16%) OpenAI
5 15 (2.96%) Google
6 14 (2.77%) Microsoft
6 14 (2.77%) Splunk
7 11 (2.17%) OneLogin
8 8 (1.58%) Salesforce
9 7 (1.38%) Avaya
9 7 (1.38%) Cisco
9 7 (1.38%) Genesys
9 7 (1.38%) SaltStack
9 7 (1.38%) ServiceNow
10 6 (1.19%) Confluent
11 5 (0.99%) HubSpot
11 5 (0.99%) SnapLogic
12 4 (0.79%) VMware
13 3 (0.59%) PeopleSoft