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 9 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 198 143 217
Rank change year-on-year -55 +74 -5
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 36 31 36
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.40% 0.88% 0.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.69% 3.18% 1.82%
Number of salaries quoted 26 21 20
10th Percentile £47,625 £52,500 £58,625
25th Percentile £48,625 £55,000 £59,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £85,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -27.65% +9.68% +11.91%
75th Percentile £100,938 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £97,500 £90,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% +3.45%

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 2,129 976 1,983
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 23.93% 27.82% 24.79%
Number of salaries quoted 1,313 757 1,516
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £32,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -13.64% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,900 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £63,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -7.69%

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 9 August 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 9 August 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 -40 12 £79,250 -11.94% 3
Bristol -32 11 £60,000 -33.33% 10
Devon -14 5 £52,500 -4.55% 1
Wiltshire - 5 £75,000 -
Dorset -6 1 £62,500 -
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 6 (16.67%) Apache
1 6 (16.67%) Confluence
2 4 (11.11%) Apache Spark
3 2 (5.56%) nginx
4 1 (2.78%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (2.78%) CMS
4 1 (2.78%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 36 (100.00%) Serverless
2 35 (97.22%) AWS
3 23 (63.89%) Amazon S3
4 22 (61.11%) Amazon EC2
5 11 (30.56%) Azure
6 9 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
7 5 (13.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (13.89%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (13.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 4 (11.11%) Amazon ECR
8 4 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (11.11%) AWS CloudTrail
8 4 (11.11%) AWS Fargate
8 4 (11.11%) GCP
8 4 (11.11%) SaaS
9 3 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (8.33%) GitHub
9 3 (8.33%) OpenShift
10 2 (5.56%) CloudFront
10 2 (5.56%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.11%) Firewall
1 4 (11.11%) IPv4
1 4 (11.11%) Software-Defined Networking
2 2 (5.56%) AMQP
2 2 (5.56%) Network Security
3 1 (2.78%) DHCP
3 1 (2.78%) DNS
3 1 (2.78%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.78%) VLAN
3 1 (2.78%) VoIP
3 1 (2.78%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (41.67%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (13.89%) NoSQL
3 4 (11.11%) Amazon Athena
4 3 (8.33%) Big Data
4 3 (8.33%) DynamoDB
4 3 (8.33%) Hadoop
5 2 (5.56%) Cloudera CDH
5 2 (5.56%) Flink
6 1 (2.78%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (2.78%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (2.78%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (2.78%) Looker
6 1 (2.78%) Metadata
6 1 (2.78%) MySQL
6 1 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (2.78%) Power BI
6 1 (2.78%) Redis
6 1 (2.78%) Relational Database
6 1 (2.78%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 8 (22.22%) Bitbucket
2 8 (22.22%) Git
3 7 (19.44%) JIRA
4 5 (13.89%) GitLab
5 2 (5.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (5.56%) git-flow
6 1 (2.78%) Cucumber
6 1 (2.78%) ER Studio
6 1 (2.78%) ERwin
6 1 (2.78%) SonarQube
General
1 8 (22.22%) Public Sector
2 7 (19.44%) Aerospace
2 7 (19.44%) Social Skills
3 3 (8.33%) Finance
3 3 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.78%) Military
5 1 (2.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (27.78%) Senior
2 7 (19.44%) Developer
3 5 (13.89%) Architect
3 5 (13.89%) Security Engineer
4 4 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
4 4 (11.11%) Data Engineer
4 4 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (11.11%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 4 (11.11%) Platform Engineer
4 4 (11.11%) Senior Platform Engineer
4 4 (11.11%) Senior Security Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) AWS Architect
5 3 (8.33%) Cloud Architect
5 3 (8.33%) Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (8.33%) Head of Engineering
5 3 (8.33%) Head of Software Engineering
5 3 (8.33%) Lead
5 3 (8.33%) Platform Architect
5 3 (8.33%) Senior Data Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (22.22%) Node.js
2 6 (16.67%) React
3 5 (13.89%) AWS CDK
4 4 (11.11%) boto
4 4 (11.11%) Spring
4 4 (11.11%) Spring Boot
5 3 (8.33%) LangChain
5 3 (8.33%) Next.js
5 3 (8.33%) REST
5 3 (8.33%) RESTful
6 2 (5.56%) AngularJS
6 2 (5.56%) Apache NiFi
6 2 (5.56%) Django
6 2 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (5.56%) GraphQL
6 2 (5.56%) gRPC
6 2 (5.56%) Material-UI
6 2 (5.56%) OpenAPI
6 2 (5.56%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (5.56%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 19 (52.78%) Cloud Native
2 5 (13.89%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (8.33%) Data Centre
3 3 (8.33%) IoT
4 2 (5.56%) Data Structures
4 2 (5.56%) Management Information System
4 2 (5.56%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.78%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.78%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 13 (36.11%) Linux
2 12 (33.33%) Windows
3 4 (11.11%) Windows Server
4 2 (5.56%) CentOS
4 2 (5.56%) Debian
4 2 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (5.56%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (66.67%) Agile
2 23 (63.89%) Infrastructure as Code
3 20 (55.56%) CI/CD
4 18 (50.00%) Containerisation
5 15 (41.67%) DevOps
6 12 (33.33%) Mentoring
7 9 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
8 8 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (22.22%) Migration
8 8 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (22.22%) Scrum
8 8 (22.22%) Test Automation
9 7 (19.44%) Analytics
9 7 (19.44%) Configuration Management
9 7 (19.44%) Decision-Making
9 7 (19.44%) Performance Optimisation
9 7 (19.44%) Platform Engineering
9 7 (19.44%) TDD
10 6 (16.67%) Cloud Security
10 6 (16.67%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 25 (69.44%) Python
2 14 (38.89%) Bash
3 10 (27.78%) Java
4 8 (22.22%) PowerShell
5 5 (13.89%) JavaScript
6 4 (11.11%) TypeScript
7 3 (8.33%) PHP
8 1 (2.78%) Scala
Qualifications
1 15 (41.67%) Security Cleared
2 12 (33.33%) DV Cleared
3 9 (25.00%) AWS Certification
4 6 (16.67%) SC Cleared
5 4 (11.11%) CCNA
5 4 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (11.11%) ISTQB
5 4 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (11.11%) OSCP
5 4 (11.11%) RHCE
5 4 (11.11%) RHCSA
6 2 (5.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (5.56%) Degree
6 2 (5.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (2.78%) Azure Certification
7 1 (2.78%) OCP
7 1 (2.78%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (2.78%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.33%) ISO 9001
1 3 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (8.33%) QA
2 1 (2.78%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.78%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (2.78%) GDPR
2 1 (2.78%) HIPAA
System Software
1 16 (44.44%) Docker
2 6 (16.67%) Active Directory
3 4 (11.11%) Squid
3 4 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (11.11%) VMware NSX
3 4 (11.11%) vSphere
4 3 (8.33%) Firmware
5 2 (5.56%) iptables
Systems Management
1 23 (63.89%) Terraform
2 18 (50.00%) Ansible
3 13 (36.11%) Kubernetes
4 7 (19.44%) Grafana
4 7 (19.44%) Packer
5 6 (16.67%) Prometheus
5 6 (16.67%) Puppet
6 4 (11.11%) ZABBIX
7 2 (5.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (5.56%) Progress Chef
7 2 (5.56%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (2.78%) Kibana
8 1 (2.78%) logstash
Vendors
1 9 (25.00%) Red Hat
2 4 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 4 (11.11%) Oracle
2 4 (11.11%) Splunk
2 4 (11.11%) VMware
3 3 (8.33%) OpenAI
4 2 (5.56%) Atlassian
4 2 (5.56%) Google
4 2 (5.56%) SaltStack
5 1 (2.78%) Sparx