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 24 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 180 123 248
Rank change year-on-year -57 +125 -41
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 34 29 29
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.44% 1.10% 0.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.85% 3.56% 1.12%
Number of salaries quoted 27 20 16
10th Percentile £49,850 £51,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £53,750 £52,500 £56,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £66,250
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -9.43% -5.36%
75th Percentile £77,500 £91,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £109,500 £95,250 -
England median annual salary £72,500 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.45% +3.33% -

All Cloud Computing 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 1,836 815 2,590
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 23.78% 30.94% 28.17%
Number of salaries quoted 1,063 660 2,126
10th Percentile £29,550 £29,838 £28,667
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £72,875 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £61,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +2.46% +6.09% -11.54%

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 24 May 2026.

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 24 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
Bristol -22 9 £72,500 +20.83% 4
Gloucestershire -25 9 £60,500 -34.59% 6
Devon -21 7 £52,500 -4.55%
Wiltshire - 3 £75,000 - 1
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 5 (14.71%) Apache
2 4 (11.76%) Confluence
3 3 (8.82%) Apache Spark
4 2 (5.88%) Oracle Application Server
5 1 (2.94%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (2.94%) CMS
5 1 (2.94%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 34 (100.00%) Serverless
2 33 (97.06%) AWS
3 27 (79.41%) Amazon S3
4 22 (64.71%) Amazon EC2
5 10 (29.41%) Amazon EKS
5 10 (29.41%) Azure
6 7 (20.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 7 (20.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 6 (17.65%) Amazon ECS
8 5 (14.71%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (14.71%) SaaS
9 4 (11.76%) Amazon ECR
9 4 (11.76%) AWS Fargate
9 4 (11.76%) CloudFront
9 4 (11.76%) GCP
10 3 (8.82%) AWS CloudTrail
10 3 (8.82%) AWS Step Functions
10 3 (8.82%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (8.82%) OpenShift
11 2 (5.88%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.76%) Network Security
2 3 (8.82%) Firewall
2 3 (8.82%) IPv4
2 3 (8.82%) Software-Defined Networking
3 2 (5.88%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (47.06%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (11.76%) NoSQL
3 3 (8.82%) Big Data
4 2 (5.88%) Cloudera CDH
4 2 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (5.88%) Hadoop
4 2 (5.88%) Oracle ODI
4 2 (5.88%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (5.88%) Power BI
4 2 (5.88%) Star Schema
5 1 (2.94%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (2.94%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (2.94%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (2.94%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (2.94%) Flink
5 1 (2.94%) InfluxDB
5 1 (2.94%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.94%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 10 (29.41%) Jenkins
2 8 (23.53%) Bitbucket
3 5 (14.71%) Git
3 5 (14.71%) JIRA
4 4 (11.76%) GitLab
5 2 (5.88%) DBeaver
6 1 (2.94%) JUnit
General
1 10 (29.41%) Public Sector
2 5 (14.71%) Social Skills
3 4 (11.76%) Aerospace
3 4 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (11.76%) Finance
4 2 (5.88%) Billing
4 2 (5.88%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (26.47%) Senior
2 5 (14.71%) Developer
2 5 (14.71%) Platform Engineer
2 5 (14.71%) Software Engineer
3 4 (11.76%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (11.76%) Java Developer
3 4 (11.76%) Senior DevOps
3 4 (11.76%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 3 (8.82%) Architect
4 3 (8.82%) AWS Engineer
4 3 (8.82%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 3 (8.82%) Head of Engineering
4 3 (8.82%) Head of Software Engineering
4 3 (8.82%) Lead
4 3 (8.82%) Security Engineer
4 3 (8.82%) Senior Platform Engineer
4 3 (8.82%) Senior Security Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Cloud Architect
5 2 (5.88%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Platform Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (26.47%) Node.js
2 8 (23.53%) Spring
3 7 (20.59%) React
4 6 (17.65%) Spring Boot
5 3 (8.82%) AngularJS
5 3 (8.82%) boto
5 3 (8.82%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (5.88%) gRPC
6 2 (5.88%) Material-UI
6 2 (5.88%) OpenAPI
6 2 (5.88%) REST
6 2 (5.88%) Swagger
7 1 (2.94%) Apache NiFi
7 1 (2.94%) GraphQL
7 1 (2.94%) Hibernate
7 1 (2.94%) JSF
7 1 (2.94%) Next.js
7 1 (2.94%) PrimeFaces
7 1 (2.94%) React Native
7 1 (2.94%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 13 (38.24%) Cloud Native
2 3 (8.82%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (8.82%) IoT
3 2 (5.88%) Data Centre
3 2 (5.88%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.94%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.94%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (35.29%) Linux
2 8 (23.53%) Windows
3 3 (8.82%) Windows Server
4 2 (5.88%) CentOS
4 2 (5.88%) Debian
4 2 (5.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (5.88%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (73.53%) CI/CD
2 18 (52.94%) DevOps
2 18 (52.94%) Infrastructure as Code
3 17 (50.00%) Containerisation
4 16 (47.06%) Agile
4 16 (47.06%) Mentoring
5 9 (26.47%) Software Engineering
6 8 (23.53%) Continuous Improvement
6 8 (23.53%) Scrum
6 8 (23.53%) Test Automation
7 7 (20.59%) Cloud Security
7 7 (20.59%) Configuration Management
7 7 (20.59%) Platform Engineering
8 6 (17.65%) Microservices
8 6 (17.65%) Migration
9 5 (14.71%) Decision-Making
9 5 (14.71%) Front End Development
9 5 (14.71%) Performance Optimisation
9 5 (14.71%) Problem-Solving
10 4 (11.76%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 27 (79.41%) Python
2 14 (41.18%) Java
3 12 (35.29%) Bash
4 9 (26.47%) JavaScript
4 9 (26.47%) PowerShell
5 5 (14.71%) TypeScript
6 3 (8.82%) PHP
7 2 (5.88%) SQL
8 1 (2.94%) C#
8 1 (2.94%) Go
8 1 (2.94%) Scala
Qualifications
1 7 (20.59%) AWS Certification
1 7 (20.59%) DV Cleared
1 7 (20.59%) Security Cleared
2 4 (11.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 3 (8.82%) CCNA
3 3 (8.82%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (8.82%) ISTQB
3 3 (8.82%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (8.82%) OSCP
3 3 (8.82%) RHCE
3 3 (8.82%) RHCSA
4 1 (2.94%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.82%) ISO 9001
1 3 (8.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (8.82%) QA
2 2 (5.88%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.94%) Accessibility
System Software
1 16 (47.06%) Docker
2 4 (11.76%) iptables
3 3 (8.82%) Active Directory
3 3 (8.82%) Firmware
3 3 (8.82%) Squid
3 3 (8.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (8.82%) VMware NSX
3 3 (8.82%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 18 (52.94%) Terraform
2 16 (47.06%) Kubernetes
3 13 (38.24%) Ansible
4 8 (23.53%) Grafana
4 8 (23.53%) Prometheus
5 6 (17.65%) Puppet
6 5 (14.71%) Progress Chef
7 3 (8.82%) Packer
7 3 (8.82%) ZABBIX
8 1 (2.94%) Kibana
Vendors
1 6 (17.65%) Oracle
2 5 (14.71%) Red Hat
3 3 (8.82%) Microsoft
3 3 (8.82%) Splunk
3 3 (8.82%) VMware
4 2 (5.88%) Google
4 2 (5.88%) SaltStack
5 1 (2.94%) Atlassian