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 23 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 155 166 190
Rank change year-on-year +11 +24 +48
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 28 23 50
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.53% 0.57% 0.89%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.31% 1.74% 2.40%
Number of salaries quoted 23 16 40
10th Percentile £51,500 £52,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £56,875 £55,313 £51,716
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +12.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £73,125 £90,625 £71,875
90th Percentile £99,000 £93,750 £82,500
England median annual salary £72,500 £90,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -19.44% +28.57% -15.15%

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 1,211 1,324 2,083
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 22.84% 32.71% 37.23%
Number of salaries quoted 809 705 1,695
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,550 £30,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £42,500 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £57,500 £53,351
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% +7.78% +1.62%
75th Percentile £68,750 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £86,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -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 23 January 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 23 January 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 +20 10 £61,250 -35.53% 15
Bristol 0 9 £72,500 +16.00% 8
Devon +1 2 £53,750 -23.21% 7
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 4 (14.29%) Apache
2 3 (10.71%) Confluence
3 2 (7.14%) Oracle Application Server
4 1 (3.57%) Apache Spark
4 1 (3.57%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 28 (100.00%) AWS
1 28 (100.00%) Serverless
2 26 (92.86%) Amazon S3
3 15 (53.57%) Amazon EC2
4 10 (35.71%) Amazon ECS
5 8 (28.57%) Amazon EKS
6 7 (25.00%) Azure
7 6 (21.43%) AWS CloudFormation
7 6 (21.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 5 (17.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (14.29%) OpenShift
10 3 (10.71%) Amazon SQS
10 3 (10.71%) AWS CodePipeline
10 3 (10.71%) AWS Fargate
10 3 (10.71%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (10.71%) GitHub
10 3 (10.71%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (10.71%) SaaS
11 2 (7.14%) AWS Step Functions
11 2 (7.14%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.71%) AMQP
2 2 (7.14%) Network Security
3 1 (3.57%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (46.43%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (14.29%) NoSQL
3 3 (10.71%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (10.71%) InfluxDB
3 3 (10.71%) MongoDB
3 3 (10.71%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (10.71%) Relational Database
4 2 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (7.14%) Oracle ODI
4 2 (7.14%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (7.14%) Power BI
4 2 (7.14%) Star Schema
5 1 (3.57%) Big Data
5 1 (3.57%) Cloudera CDH
5 1 (3.57%) DB2
5 1 (3.57%) DynamoDB
5 1 (3.57%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 8 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 5 (17.86%) Bitbucket
3 3 (10.71%) Git
3 3 (10.71%) GitLab
3 3 (10.71%) JIRA
3 3 (10.71%) JUnit
4 2 (7.14%) DBeaver
General
1 6 (21.43%) Public Sector
2 4 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 3 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (10.71%) Billing
3 3 (10.71%) Finance
4 1 (3.57%) Games
Job Titles
1 11 (39.29%) Software Engineer
2 5 (17.86%) Developer
3 4 (14.29%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) Java Developer
4 3 (10.71%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Senior
5 2 (7.14%) Senior DevOps
5 2 (7.14%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Site Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Architect
6 1 (3.57%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 1 (3.57%) Lead
6 1 (3.57%) Quality Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (46.43%) Spring
2 12 (42.86%) React
3 10 (35.71%) Spring Boot
4 6 (21.43%) Node.js
5 4 (14.29%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (10.71%) AngularJS
6 3 (10.71%) Apache NiFi
6 3 (10.71%) Hibernate
6 3 (10.71%) JSF
6 3 (10.71%) PrimeFaces
7 2 (7.14%) OpenAPI
7 2 (7.14%) REST
8 1 (3.57%) EJB
8 1 (3.57%) Express.js
8 1 (3.57%) gRPC
8 1 (3.57%) Material-UI
8 1 (3.57%) NestJS
8 1 (3.57%) Next.js
8 1 (3.57%) Swagger
8 1 (3.57%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 9 (32.14%) Cloud Native
2 3 (10.71%) Security Posture
3 2 (7.14%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (32.14%) Linux
2 2 (7.14%) Windows
3 1 (3.57%) CentOS
3 1 (3.57%) Debian
3 1 (3.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (3.57%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (92.86%) CI/CD
2 16 (57.14%) DevOps
3 14 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 13 (46.43%) Agile
4 13 (46.43%) Software Engineering
5 9 (32.14%) Containerisation
5 9 (32.14%) Full-Stack Development
5 9 (32.14%) Mentoring
6 8 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
6 8 (28.57%) Microservices
7 6 (21.43%) Configuration Management
7 6 (21.43%) Scrum
8 5 (17.86%) AI
8 5 (17.86%) Collaborative Culture
8 5 (17.86%) Design Patterns
8 5 (17.86%) Front End Development
8 5 (17.86%) Test Automation
8 5 (17.86%) User Experience
9 4 (14.29%) Decision-Making
9 4 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 20 (71.43%) Java
1 20 (71.43%) Python
2 9 (32.14%) JavaScript
3 8 (28.57%) TypeScript
4 5 (17.86%) Bash
4 5 (17.86%) PowerShell
5 4 (14.29%) SQL
6 3 (10.71%) Go
7 2 (7.14%) Shell Script
8 1 (3.57%) C#
Qualifications
1 8 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 7 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (10.71%) DV Cleared
4 2 (7.14%) AWS Certification
4 2 (7.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.14%) Data Quality
System Software
1 9 (32.14%) Docker
2 2 (7.14%) iptables
Systems Management
1 16 (57.14%) Kubernetes
2 14 (50.00%) Terraform
3 6 (21.43%) Ansible
4 5 (17.86%) Grafana
4 5 (17.86%) Progress Chef
4 5 (17.86%) Prometheus
5 3 (10.71%) Kibana
5 3 (10.71%) Puppet
6 2 (7.14%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 5 (17.86%) Oracle
2 3 (10.71%) Atlassian
3 1 (3.57%) Google
3 1 (3.57%) Red Hat
3 1 (3.57%) SaltStack