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 28 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 263 159 257
Rank change year-on-year -104 +98 +62
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 12 142 57
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.11% 1.61% 0.52%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.37% 4.89% 1.60%
Number of salaries quoted 5 26 44
10th Percentile £60,250 £50,000 £55,000
25th Percentile £66,250 £52,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £57,500 £68,750
Median % change year-on-year +17.39% -16.36% +5.77%
75th Percentile £68,750 £77,500 £73,125
90th Percentile £83,750 £85,750 £90,000
England median annual salary £72,500 £90,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -19.44% +28.57% -12.50%

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 3,228 2,902 3,557
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 30.08% 32.99% 32.28%
Number of salaries quoted 1,764 1,578 3,006
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,750 £28,290
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -8.70%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £86,250 £78,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%

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 28 January 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 28 January 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 -30 10 £67,500 +12.50% 26
Berkshire -38 6 £62,500 -7.41% 17
Oxfordshire +15 4 £67,500 +22.73% 3
Surrey -10 2 - - 6
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 12 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 12 (100.00%) AWS
1 12 (100.00%) Serverless
2 7 (58.33%) Amazon SQS
3 6 (50.00%) Azure
4 5 (41.67%) AWS CloudFormation
4 5 (41.67%) Azure Service Bus
4 5 (41.67%) GCP
4 5 (41.67%) GitHub
4 5 (41.67%) SaaS
5 4 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (25.00%) Amazon Cognito
7 2 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (8.33%) AWS Fargate
8 1 (8.33%) AWS KMS
8 1 (8.33%) Datadog
8 1 (8.33%) Entra ID
8 1 (8.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (41.67%) Data Warehouse
1 5 (41.67%) DynamoDB
1 5 (41.67%) MySQL
1 5 (41.67%) NoSQL
2 1 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 5 (41.67%) git-flow
2 4 (33.33%) Jenkins
3 3 (25.00%) MLflow
4 1 (8.33%) Bitbucket
4 1 (8.33%) GitLab
General
1 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Manufacturing
3 1 (8.33%) Games
3 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Developer
2 5 (41.67%) Full-Stack Developer
2 5 (41.67%) Senior
2 5 (41.67%) Senior Developer
2 5 (41.67%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
3 3 (25.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) Operations Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Architect
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Digital Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Digital Solutions Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Lead
4 1 (8.33%) Lead Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Software Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (58.33%) React
2 5 (41.67%) .NET
2 5 (41.67%) AWS CDK
2 5 (41.67%) CSS
2 5 (41.67%) Kafka
2 5 (41.67%) Material-UI
2 5 (41.67%) RabbitMQ
3 4 (33.33%) HTML
4 3 (25.00%) PyTorch
5 1 (8.33%) REST
5 1 (8.33%) Spring
5 1 (8.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 7 (58.33%) Cloud Native
2 5 (41.67%) Product Ownership
3 3 (25.00%) Animation
3 3 (25.00%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 4 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) DevOps
1 9 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 7 (58.33%) Agile
2 7 (58.33%) CI/CD
3 6 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 6 (50.00%) Microservices
4 5 (41.67%) B2B
4 5 (41.67%) Data Modelling
4 5 (41.67%) Event-Driven
4 5 (41.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 5 (41.67%) Software Delivery
5 4 (33.33%) Machine Learning
6 3 (25.00%) Data Acquisition
6 3 (25.00%) Data Management
6 3 (25.00%) MLOps
6 3 (25.00%) Motion Capture
7 2 (16.67%) Coaching
7 2 (16.67%) Software Engineering
8 1 (8.33%) Mentoring
8 1 (8.33%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) C#
1 5 (41.67%) Python
1 5 (41.67%) TypeScript
2 3 (25.00%) C++
3 2 (16.67%) Java
4 1 (8.33%) Bash
4 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
4 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
4 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) Degree
1 3 (25.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (8.33%) AWS Certification
2 1 (8.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (8.33%) Azure Certification
2 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (41.67%) QA
2 1 (8.33%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 3 (25.00%) Ansible
2 3 (25.00%) Kubeflow
3 1 (8.33%) Prometheus