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 16 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 165 138 232
Rank change year-on-year -27 +94 +5
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 32 25 39
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.50% 0.87% 0.51%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.06% 2.39% 1.53%
Number of salaries quoted 23 19 29
10th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £49,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £51,716
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -13.67%
75th Percentile £72,500 £92,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £73,750 £95,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £72,500 £85,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -14.71% +17.24% -6.45%

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 1,550 1,044 2,549
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 24.14% 36.24% 33.36%
Number of salaries quoted 969 720 2,108
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £41,250 £38,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,560 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.51% +5.83% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £90,000 £81,786
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 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 16 March 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 16 March 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
Gloucestershire +6 8 £65,000 -31.58% 10
Bristol -13 8 £70,000 +24.44% 13
Devon -3 7 £52,500 -4.55% 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 (15.63%) Apache
2 3 (9.38%) Confluence
3 2 (6.25%) Oracle Application Server
4 1 (3.13%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (3.13%) Apache Spark
4 1 (3.13%) CMS
4 1 (3.13%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 32 (100.00%) Serverless
2 31 (96.88%) AWS
3 28 (87.50%) Amazon S3
4 20 (62.50%) Amazon EC2
5 9 (28.13%) Amazon ECS
6 8 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
6 8 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 7 (21.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 6 (18.75%) AWS CloudFormation
8 6 (18.75%) Azure
8 6 (18.75%) SaaS
9 4 (12.50%) Amazon ECR
9 4 (12.50%) CloudFront
10 3 (9.38%) Amazon SQS
10 3 (9.38%) AWS CodePipeline
10 3 (9.38%) AWS Fargate
10 3 (9.38%) AWS Step Functions
10 3 (9.38%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (9.38%) GitHub
10 3 (9.38%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.50%) Network Security
2 1 (3.13%) AMQP
2 1 (3.13%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (56.25%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (18.75%) NoSQL
3 3 (9.38%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (9.38%) MongoDB
3 3 (9.38%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (6.25%) Oracle ODI
4 2 (6.25%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (6.25%) Power BI
4 2 (6.25%) Star Schema
5 1 (3.13%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (3.13%) Big Data
5 1 (3.13%) Cloudera CDH
5 1 (3.13%) DB2
5 1 (3.13%) DynamoDB
5 1 (3.13%) Hadoop
5 1 (3.13%) InfluxDB
5 1 (3.13%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 7 (21.88%) Bitbucket
3 4 (12.50%) Git
3 4 (12.50%) JIRA
4 3 (9.38%) GitLab
4 3 (9.38%) JUnit
5 2 (6.25%) DBeaver
General
1 7 (21.88%) Public Sector
1 7 (21.88%) Social Skills
2 4 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (9.38%) Billing
3 3 (9.38%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (25.00%) Developer
1 8 (25.00%) Software Engineer
2 6 (18.75%) Java Developer
2 6 (18.75%) Senior
3 4 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (12.50%) Senior DevOps
3 4 (12.50%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Head of Engineering
4 3 (9.38%) Head of Software Engineering
4 3 (9.38%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Data Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 2 (6.25%) Lead
6 1 (3.13%) Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (3.13%) Node.js Developer
6 1 (3.13%) Senior Data Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Senior Front-End Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (37.50%) Spring
2 10 (31.25%) React
3 9 (28.13%) Spring Boot
4 7 (21.88%) Node.js
5 3 (9.38%) AngularJS
5 3 (9.38%) Apache NiFi
5 3 (9.38%) Hibernate
5 3 (9.38%) JSF
5 3 (9.38%) PrimeFaces
6 2 (6.25%) OpenAPI
6 2 (6.25%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (6.25%) REST
7 1 (3.13%) EJB
7 1 (3.13%) Express.js
7 1 (3.13%) Material-UI
7 1 (3.13%) NestJS
7 1 (3.13%) React Native
7 1 (3.13%) Swagger
7 1 (3.13%) Vue
7 1 (3.13%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (34.38%) Cloud Native
2 3 (9.38%) IoT
2 3 (9.38%) Security Posture
3 1 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.13%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (31.25%) Linux
2 4 (12.50%) Windows
3 1 (3.13%) CentOS
3 1 (3.13%) Debian
3 1 (3.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (3.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (78.13%) CI/CD
2 16 (50.00%) DevOps
3 15 (46.88%) Agile
3 15 (46.88%) Containerisation
3 15 (46.88%) Mentoring
4 14 (43.75%) Infrastructure as Code
5 13 (40.63%) Software Engineering
6 12 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
7 8 (25.00%) Front End Development
7 8 (25.00%) Microservices
8 7 (21.88%) Design Patterns
9 6 (18.75%) Configuration Management
9 6 (18.75%) Full-Stack Development
9 6 (18.75%) Scrum
9 6 (18.75%) Test Automation
10 4 (12.50%) Code Quality
10 4 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
10 4 (12.50%) Software Delivery
10 4 (12.50%) TDD
11 3 (9.38%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 26 (81.25%) Python
2 17 (53.13%) Java
3 12 (37.50%) JavaScript
4 9 (28.13%) TypeScript
5 7 (21.88%) Bash
5 7 (21.88%) PowerShell
6 3 (9.38%) PHP
7 2 (6.25%) SQL
8 1 (3.13%) C#
8 1 (3.13%) Go
Qualifications
1 4 (12.50%) AWS Certification
1 4 (12.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 4 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.25%) DV Cleared
2 2 (6.25%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.38%) ISO 9001
1 3 (9.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (9.38%) QA
2 2 (6.25%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.13%) Accessibility
System Software
1 15 (46.88%) Docker
2 4 (12.50%) iptables
3 3 (9.38%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 17 (53.13%) Kubernetes
2 14 (43.75%) Terraform
3 6 (18.75%) Ansible
4 5 (15.63%) Grafana
4 5 (15.63%) Progress Chef
4 5 (15.63%) Prometheus
4 5 (15.63%) Puppet
5 3 (9.38%) Kibana
Vendors
1 5 (15.63%) Oracle
2 3 (9.38%) Atlassian
3 1 (3.13%) Google
3 1 (3.13%) Red Hat
3 1 (3.13%) SaltStack