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 11 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 266 164 309
Rank change year-on-year -102 +145 -3
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 23 84 74
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.17% 1.24% 0.47%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.60% 3.94% 1.52%
Number of salaries quoted 15 28 61
10th Percentile £57,500 - £53,750
25th Percentile £61,875 £52,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £55,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -18.52% -
75th Percentile £83,750 £60,000 £85,000
90th Percentile - £78,100 £97,500
England median annual salary £72,500 £85,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -14.71% +13.33% -

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 3,839 2,132 4,882
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 28.13% 31.52% 31.28%
Number of salaries quoted 2,089 1,419 4,020
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £41,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,875 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £86,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -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 11 April 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 11 April 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 -27 19 £82,500 +50.00% 9
Berkshire -5 12 £82,500 +22.22% 5
Oxfordshire -13 4 £67,500 +22.73% 1
Hampshire -25 4 £60,000 +9.09% 5
Buckinghamshire -23 3 £82,500 - 3
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 23 (100.00%) AWS
1 23 (100.00%) Serverless
2 18 (78.26%) Amazon S3
3 13 (56.52%) Amazon EC2
4 9 (39.13%) Azure
5 8 (34.78%) Amazon EKS
6 6 (26.09%) Amazon ECS
6 6 (26.09%) SaaS
7 4 (17.39%) Amazon SQS
8 3 (13.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (13.04%) Amazon Cognito
8 3 (13.04%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (13.04%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (13.04%) Azure Service Bus
8 3 (13.04%) Datadog
8 3 (13.04%) Entra ID
8 3 (13.04%) GCP
8 3 (13.04%) GitHub
8 3 (13.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (4.35%) dbt
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (17.39%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (17.39%) MySQL
2 3 (13.04%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (13.04%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (13.04%) DynamoDB
2 3 (13.04%) NoSQL
3 2 (8.70%) Relational Database
3 2 (8.70%) SQL Server
4 1 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (4.35%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 11 (47.83%) Jenkins
2 10 (43.48%) Git
3 6 (26.09%) GitLab
3 6 (26.09%) JIRA
3 6 (26.09%) SonarQube
4 5 (21.74%) Cucumber
5 4 (17.39%) Artifactory
6 3 (13.04%) git-flow
6 3 (13.04%) MLflow
6 3 (13.04%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (13.04%) Postman
6 3 (13.04%) SpecFlow
General
1 6 (26.09%) Social Skills
2 4 (17.39%) Finance
3 3 (13.04%) Legal
3 3 (13.04%) Manufacturing
3 3 (13.04%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (39.13%) Developer
2 6 (26.09%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (21.74%) Senior
4 4 (17.39%) Java Developer
4 4 (17.39%) Lead
4 4 (17.39%) Senior Developer
5 3 (13.04%) Cloud Engineer
5 3 (13.04%) Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (13.04%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 3 (13.04%) Operations Engineer
5 3 (13.04%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (8.70%) Backend Developer
6 2 (8.70%) DevOps Developer
6 2 (8.70%) Java Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) Lead Software Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 2 (8.70%) Software Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) AWS DevOps
7 1 (4.35%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (52.17%) REST
2 9 (39.13%) RabbitMQ
3 8 (34.78%) React
3 8 (34.78%) YAML
4 6 (26.09%) .NET
4 6 (26.09%) AngularJS
4 6 (26.09%) Elastic Stack
4 6 (26.09%) JSON
5 4 (17.39%) CSS
6 3 (13.04%) .NET Framework
6 3 (13.04%) ASP.NET Web API
6 3 (13.04%) AWS CDK
6 3 (13.04%) HTML
6 3 (13.04%) Kafka
6 3 (13.04%) Loki
6 3 (13.04%) Material-UI
6 3 (13.04%) OpenTelemetry
6 3 (13.04%) PyTorch
6 3 (13.04%) RESTful
6 3 (13.04%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 7 (30.43%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (13.04%) Animation
2 3 (13.04%) Cloud Native
2 3 (13.04%) Life Science
2 3 (13.04%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (13.04%) Product Ownership
3 2 (8.70%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 9 (39.13%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (78.26%) CI/CD
1 18 (78.26%) DevOps
2 16 (69.57%) Agile
3 15 (65.22%) Infrastructure as Code
4 12 (52.17%) Microservices
5 9 (39.13%) Test Automation
6 6 (26.09%) Auto-Scaling
6 6 (26.09%) BDD
6 6 (26.09%) Containerisation
6 6 (26.09%) Deployment Automation
6 6 (26.09%) Event-Driven
6 6 (26.09%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 6 (26.09%) TDD
7 5 (21.74%) Mentoring
7 5 (21.74%) Security Hardening
8 4 (17.39%) Continuous Integration
8 4 (17.39%) Issue Tracking
8 4 (17.39%) Observability
8 4 (17.39%) Scrum
8 4 (17.39%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 14 (60.87%) Python
2 7 (30.43%) Java
2 7 (30.43%) SQL
3 6 (26.09%) C#
3 6 (26.09%) Groovy
4 4 (17.39%) Perl
5 3 (13.04%) Bash
5 3 (13.04%) C++
5 3 (13.04%) PowerShell
5 3 (13.04%) TypeScript
6 2 (8.70%) JavaScript
6 2 (8.70%) PL/SQL
6 2 (8.70%) Shell Script
7 1 (4.35%) PHP
Qualifications
1 7 (30.43%) Security Cleared
2 6 (26.09%) SC Cleared
3 3 (13.04%) Degree
3 3 (13.04%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (34.78%) QA
System Software
1 11 (47.83%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (47.83%) Ansible
1 11 (47.83%) Kubernetes
1 11 (47.83%) Terraform
2 4 (17.39%) Packer
3 3 (13.04%) Grafana
3 3 (13.04%) Kubeflow
3 3 (13.04%) Prometheus
3 3 (13.04%) Scalr
4 2 (8.70%) Kibana
Vendors
1 7 (30.43%) AppDynamics
2 6 (26.09%) IBM
3 2 (8.70%) Oracle
4 1 (4.35%) Atlassian