AWS Lambda Job Trends in the South West

AWS Lambda
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring AWS Lambda skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 156 186 167
Rank change year-on-year +30 -19 +105
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 27 25 49
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.62% 0.43% 1.11%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.37% 1.50% 2.62%
Number of salaries quoted 19 17 39
10th Percentile £52,250 £54,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £56,875 £58,750 £51,716
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +16.67% +4.35%
75th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £96,500 £92,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £72,000 £84,000 £68,764
% change year-on-year -14.29% +22.16% -14.04%

All Cloud Skills
South West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,139 1,662 1,869
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 26.08% 28.29% 42.22%
Number of salaries quoted 794 936 1,526
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,875 £31,091
25th Percentile £32,000 £42,500 £40,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% - +8.59%
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £82,548
England median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% -3.85%

AWS Lambda
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

AWS Lambda job vacancy trend in the South West

AWS Lambda
Salary Trend in the South West

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

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

AWS Lambda
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS Lambda in the South West over the 6 months to 20 November 2025.

Salary histogram for AWS Lambda in the South West

AWS Lambda
Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 20 November 2025. 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
Bristol +22 10 £95,000 +28.81% 5
Gloucestershire +24 7 £60,000 -31.43% 9
Dorset - 4 - -
Devon +8 2 £55,000 -21.43%
AWS Lambda
England

AWS Lambda
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 2 (7.41%) Apache
1 2 (7.41%) Confluence
2 1 (3.70%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 27 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 27 (100.00%) AWS
1 27 (100.00%) Serverless
2 11 (40.74%) Amazon ECS
3 10 (37.04%) Amazon EC2
4 8 (29.63%) Amazon EKS
4 8 (29.63%) Amazon SageMaker
5 5 (18.52%) Snowflake
6 4 (14.81%) Amazon Bedrock
7 3 (11.11%) AWS Step Functions
7 3 (11.11%) OpenShift
8 2 (7.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (7.41%) Amazon Kinesis
8 2 (7.41%) AWS Fargate
8 2 (7.41%) Azure
8 2 (7.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (3.70%) Amazon ECR
9 1 (3.70%) Amazon EventBridge
9 1 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (3.70%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (11.11%) AMQP
2 1 (3.70%) Firewall
2 1 (3.70%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (18.52%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (14.81%) NoSQL
3 4 (14.81%) Relational Database
4 3 (11.11%) DynamoDB
4 3 (11.11%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (11.11%) InfluxDB
5 2 (7.41%) MongoDB
6 1 (3.70%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (3.70%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (3.70%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (3.70%) ClickHouse
6 1 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (3.70%) DB2
6 1 (3.70%) MySQL
6 1 (3.70%) Oracle ODI
6 1 (3.70%) Power BI
6 1 (3.70%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 8 (29.63%) Jenkins
2 4 (14.81%) Locust
2 4 (14.81%) Selenium
3 3 (11.11%) Bitbucket
3 3 (11.11%) Git
4 2 (7.41%) GitLab
4 2 (7.41%) JIRA
4 2 (7.41%) JUnit
General
1 5 (18.52%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (18.52%) Finance
1 5 (18.52%) Public Sector
2 4 (14.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 4 (14.81%) Law
2 4 (14.81%) Marketing
3 2 (7.41%) Social Skills
4 1 (3.70%) Games
4 1 (3.70%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 11 (40.74%) Software Engineer
2 5 (18.52%) Data Engineer
3 4 (14.81%) Developer
3 4 (14.81%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 4 (14.81%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
3 4 (14.81%) Python Engineer
3 4 (14.81%) Python Software Engineer
3 4 (14.81%) Software Test Engineer
3 4 (14.81%) Test Automation Engineer
3 4 (14.81%) Test Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Java Developer
4 3 (11.11%) Security Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Site Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 1 (3.70%) Node.js Developer
5 1 (3.70%) QA Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Senior
5 1 (3.70%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (33.33%) Spring
2 8 (29.63%) Spring Boot
3 7 (25.93%) React
4 4 (14.81%) Playwright
4 4 (14.81%) pytest
4 4 (14.81%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (7.41%) Apache NiFi
5 2 (7.41%) Hibernate
5 2 (7.41%) JSF
5 2 (7.41%) Kafka
5 2 (7.41%) Node.js
5 2 (7.41%) PrimeFaces
6 1 (3.70%) AngularJS
6 1 (3.70%) EJB
6 1 (3.70%) Express.js
6 1 (3.70%) NestJS
6 1 (3.70%) OpenAPI
6 1 (3.70%) PySpark
6 1 (3.70%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 7 (25.93%) Cloud Native
2 3 (11.11%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (3.70%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (3.70%) IoT
3 1 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.70%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (22.22%) Linux
2 1 (3.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (77.78%) CI/CD
2 13 (48.15%) Software Engineering
3 11 (40.74%) AI
4 9 (33.33%) Agile
4 9 (33.33%) DevOps
5 8 (29.63%) Containerisation
5 8 (29.63%) Machine Learning
6 7 (25.93%) Infrastructure as Code
7 6 (22.22%) Full-Stack Development
7 6 (22.22%) Microservices
7 6 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (22.22%) Test Automation
8 5 (18.52%) Analytics
8 5 (18.52%) Continuous Improvement
9 4 (14.81%) API Testing
9 4 (14.81%) Coaching
9 4 (14.81%) Front End Development
9 4 (14.81%) Mentoring
9 4 (14.81%) Test Scripting
9 4 (14.81%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 18 (66.67%) Python
2 14 (51.85%) Java
3 7 (25.93%) SQL
4 5 (18.52%) JavaScript
4 5 (18.52%) TypeScript
5 3 (11.11%) Go
5 3 (11.11%) Shell Script
6 1 (3.70%) Bash
6 1 (3.70%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (29.63%) SC Cleared
1 8 (29.63%) Security Cleared
2 3 (11.11%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.70%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.11%) GDPR
1 3 (11.11%) NIST
2 1 (3.70%) QA
System Software
1 12 (44.44%) Docker
2 1 (3.70%) iptables
Systems Management
1 17 (62.96%) Kubernetes
2 6 (22.22%) Terraform
3 4 (14.81%) Ansible
3 4 (14.81%) Grafana
3 4 (14.81%) Progress Chef
3 4 (14.81%) Prometheus
4 3 (11.11%) Docker Swarm
4 3 (11.11%) Kibana
5 1 (3.70%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (22.22%) Oracle
2 4 (14.81%) Databricks
3 2 (7.41%) Atlassian