AWS Lambda Job Trends in the South East

AWS Lambda
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring AWS Lambda skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 260 241 320
Rank change year-on-year -19 +79 -40
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 22 32 67
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.15% 0.41% 0.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.60% 1.51% 1.33%
Number of salaries quoted 16 25 55
10th Percentile £54,375 - £47,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £55,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -18.52% -3.57%
75th Percentile £83,750 £77,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £85,625 £88,050 £100,500
England median annual salary £72,500 £78,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -7.05% +4.00% -

All Cloud Computing Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 3,669 2,120 5,052
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 25.58% 27.47% 30.73%
Number of salaries quoted 2,210 1,360 4,019
10th Percentile £30,500 £29,750 £27,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £36,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £86,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £61,250 £57,500
% change year-on-year +2.04% +6.52% -11.54%

AWS Lambda
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

AWS Lambda job vacancy trend in the South East

AWS Lambda
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing AWS Lambda.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing AWS Lambda

AWS Lambda
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS Lambda in the South East over the 6 months to 12 May 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS Lambda in the South East

AWS Lambda
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AWS Lambda within the South East region over the 6 months to 12 May 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
Thames Valley +11 17 £82,500 +50.00% 6
Berkshire +2 10 £82,500 +10.00% 5
Buckinghamshire -3 6 £82,500 - 1
Hampshire -24 5 £60,000 +9.09% 3
Oxfordshire -3 1 £87,500 +59.09%
AWS Lambda
England

AWS Lambda
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Cloud Services
1 22 (100.00%) AWS
1 22 (100.00%) Serverless
2 16 (72.73%) Amazon S3
3 10 (45.45%) Amazon EC2
4 8 (36.36%) Amazon EKS
4 8 (36.36%) Azure
5 7 (31.82%) SaaS
6 6 (27.27%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (13.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (13.64%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (13.64%) Datadog
7 3 (13.64%) Entra ID
7 3 (13.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (9.09%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (9.09%) dbt
8 2 (9.09%) Fivetran
8 2 (9.09%) Snowflake
9 1 (4.55%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (4.55%) GCP
9 1 (4.55%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.64%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (13.64%) Azure SQL Database
1 3 (13.64%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (9.09%) MySQL
2 2 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (9.09%) Relational Database
2 2 (9.09%) Snowflake Schema
2 2 (9.09%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.55%) DynamoDB
3 1 (4.55%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (50.00%) Git
2 8 (36.36%) Jenkins
3 6 (27.27%) GitLab
3 6 (27.27%) JIRA
3 6 (27.27%) SonarQube
4 5 (22.73%) Cucumber
5 4 (18.18%) Artifactory
5 4 (18.18%) Postman
5 4 (18.18%) SpecFlow
6 3 (13.64%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (4.55%) git-flow
General
1 5 (22.73%) Finance
2 4 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 3 (13.64%) Legal
3 3 (13.64%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (31.82%) Developer
1 7 (31.82%) Lead
2 6 (27.27%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) Java Developer
4 3 (13.64%) Cloud Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) Lead Software Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) Senior
4 3 (13.64%) Software Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Backend Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Data Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) DevOps Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Java Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Senior Developer
6 1 (4.55%) AWS DevOps
6 1 (4.55%) Lead Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Senior DevOps
6 1 (4.55%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Senior Software Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (63.64%) REST
2 9 (40.91%) AngularJS
2 9 (40.91%) YAML
3 8 (36.36%) React
4 7 (31.82%) .NET
4 7 (31.82%) JSON
4 7 (31.82%) RabbitMQ
5 6 (27.27%) Elastic Stack
6 4 (18.18%) .NET Framework
6 4 (18.18%) ASP.NET Web API
7 3 (13.64%) Loki
7 3 (13.64%) OpenTelemetry
7 3 (13.64%) RESTful
7 3 (13.64%) Spring
8 2 (9.09%) CSS
8 2 (9.09%) Java EE
8 2 (9.09%) JPA
8 2 (9.09%) SOAP
8 2 (9.09%) Spring Boot
8 2 (9.09%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (31.82%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (13.64%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (9.09%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (4.55%) Cloud Native
4 1 (4.55%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (27.27%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (90.91%) CI/CD
2 17 (77.27%) Agile
3 13 (59.09%) DevOps
4 12 (54.55%) Test Automation
5 10 (45.45%) Infrastructure as Code
5 10 (45.45%) Microservices
6 9 (40.91%) BDD
6 9 (40.91%) Containerisation
6 9 (40.91%) TDD
7 8 (36.36%) Mentoring
8 7 (31.82%) Event-Driven
8 7 (31.82%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 7 (31.82%) Software Engineering
9 6 (27.27%) AI
9 6 (27.27%) Architectural Patterns
9 6 (27.27%) Auto-Scaling
9 6 (27.27%) CQRS
9 6 (27.27%) Deployment Automation
9 6 (27.27%) Integration Testing
9 6 (27.27%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 12 (54.55%) Python
2 8 (36.36%) SQL
3 7 (31.82%) C#
3 7 (31.82%) Java
4 6 (27.27%) Groovy
5 4 (18.18%) Perl
6 3 (13.64%) Bash
6 3 (13.64%) PowerShell
7 2 (9.09%) JavaScript
7 2 (9.09%) PL/SQL
7 2 (9.09%) Shell Script
8 1 (4.55%) PHP
8 1 (4.55%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (31.82%) Security Cleared
2 6 (27.27%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (27.27%) QA
System Software
1 14 (63.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (50.00%) Terraform
2 8 (36.36%) Ansible
2 8 (36.36%) Kubernetes
3 4 (18.18%) Packer
4 3 (13.64%) Grafana
4 3 (13.64%) Prometheus
4 3 (13.64%) Scalr
5 2 (9.09%) Kibana
Vendors
1 7 (31.82%) AppDynamics
2 6 (27.27%) IBM
3 2 (9.09%) Oracle
4 1 (4.55%) Atlassian