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 4 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 157 182 167
Rank change year-on-year +25 -15 +107
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 27 24 50
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.57% 0.45% 1.17%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.36% 1.49% 2.72%
Number of salaries quoted 20 16 40
10th Percentile £52,375 £52,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,188 £57,188 £52,304
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £68,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% +14.58% +4.35%
75th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £71,875
90th Percentile £102,500 £92,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £85,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -11.76% +21.43% -12.50%

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 1,145 1,612 1,840
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 24.20% 30.54% 43.13%
Number of salaries quoted 783 910 1,510
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,613 £31,250
25th Percentile £32,000 £42,500 £41,233
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% - +7.80%
75th Percentile £68,013 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £83,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +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 4 December 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 4 December 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
Gloucestershire +26 9 £61,250 -31.94% 6
Bristol +20 9 £92,500 +25.42% 9
Devon +1 2 £55,000 -21.43%
Dorset - 2 - -
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 3 (11.11%) Apache
1 3 (11.11%) 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 14 (51.85%) Amazon EC2
3 9 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
4 7 (25.93%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (14.81%) Amazon SageMaker
5 4 (14.81%) Azure
5 4 (14.81%) OpenShift
6 3 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (11.11%) AWS Fargate
6 3 (11.11%) Snowflake
6 3 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (7.41%) Amazon Bedrock
7 2 (7.41%) Amazon Kinesis
7 2 (7.41%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (7.41%) AWS Step Functions
8 1 (3.70%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (3.70%) CloudFront
8 1 (3.70%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (11.11%) AMQP
2 1 (3.70%) Firewall
2 1 (3.70%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (44.44%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (18.52%) NoSQL
3 4 (14.81%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (14.81%) InfluxDB
3 4 (14.81%) Relational Database
4 3 (11.11%) DynamoDB
4 3 (11.11%) MongoDB
4 3 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (3.70%) ClickHouse
5 1 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (3.70%) DB2
5 1 (3.70%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 8 (29.63%) Jenkins
2 4 (14.81%) Bitbucket
2 4 (14.81%) Git
3 3 (11.11%) GitLab
3 3 (11.11%) JIRA
3 3 (11.11%) JUnit
4 2 (7.41%) Locust
4 2 (7.41%) Selenium
General
1 5 (18.52%) Public Sector
2 3 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (11.11%) Finance
3 2 (7.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (7.41%) Law
3 2 (7.41%) Marketing
3 2 (7.41%) Social Skills
4 1 (3.70%) Billing
4 1 (3.70%) Games
4 1 (3.70%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 10 (37.04%) Software Engineer
2 5 (18.52%) Developer
3 4 (14.81%) Data Engineer
3 4 (14.81%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 4 (14.81%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
3 4 (14.81%) Java Developer
4 3 (11.11%) Site Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Python Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Python Software Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Security Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Software Test Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Test Automation Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Test Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Architect
6 1 (3.70%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 1 (3.70%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Senior
6 1 (3.70%) Senior DevOps
6 1 (3.70%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (37.04%) Spring
2 9 (33.33%) Spring Boot
3 8 (29.63%) React
4 5 (18.52%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (11.11%) Apache NiFi
5 3 (11.11%) Hibernate
5 3 (11.11%) JSF
5 3 (11.11%) PrimeFaces
6 2 (7.41%) Kafka
6 2 (7.41%) Node.js
6 2 (7.41%) Playwright
6 2 (7.41%) pytest
7 1 (3.70%) AngularJS
7 1 (3.70%) EJB
7 1 (3.70%) Express.js
7 1 (3.70%) NestJS
7 1 (3.70%) OpenAPI
7 1 (3.70%) PySpark
7 1 (3.70%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 8 (29.63%) 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%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 8 (29.63%) Linux
2 1 (3.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (81.48%) CI/CD
2 12 (44.44%) Software Engineering
3 11 (40.74%) DevOps
4 10 (37.04%) Agile
5 9 (33.33%) Containerisation
5 9 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
6 8 (29.63%) AI
7 7 (25.93%) Microservices
8 6 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (22.22%) Full-Stack Development
8 6 (22.22%) Machine Learning
9 5 (18.52%) Configuration Management
9 5 (18.52%) Design Patterns
9 5 (18.52%) Front End Development
9 5 (18.52%) Mentoring
10 4 (14.81%) Coaching
10 4 (14.81%) Collaborative Culture
10 4 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
10 4 (14.81%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 4 (14.81%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 19 (70.37%) Python
2 17 (62.96%) Java
3 7 (25.93%) JavaScript
4 6 (22.22%) SQL
4 6 (22.22%) TypeScript
5 4 (14.81%) Go
6 3 (11.11%) Shell Script
7 2 (7.41%) Bash
7 2 (7.41%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 8 (29.63%) SC Cleared
3 4 (14.81%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.70%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.41%) GDPR
1 2 (7.41%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (44.44%) Docker
2 1 (3.70%) iptables
Systems Management
1 17 (62.96%) Kubernetes
2 8 (29.63%) Terraform
3 5 (18.52%) Ansible
3 5 (18.52%) Grafana
3 5 (18.52%) Progress Chef
3 5 (18.52%) Prometheus
4 4 (14.81%) Kibana
5 3 (11.11%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (3.70%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (18.52%) Oracle
2 3 (11.11%) Atlassian
3 2 (7.41%) Databricks