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

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 182 125 257
Rank change year-on-year -57 +132 -49
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 32 29 30
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.41% 1.07% 0.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.78% 3.32% 1.16%
Number of salaries quoted 25 21 18
10th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £47,750
25th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% -7.01%
75th Percentile £73,750 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £104,500 £95,000 -
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 1,794 873 2,577
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 23.26% 32.13% 28.54%
Number of salaries quoted 1,020 714 2,127
10th Percentile £29,450 £29,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,375 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.08%
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £69,375
90th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -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 18 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 18 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 -19 10 £71,250 +18.75% 10
Devon -18 7 £52,500 -4.55%
Gloucestershire -31 7 £60,500 -34.59% 12
Wiltshire - 2 £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 4 (12.50%) Apache
2 3 (9.38%) Confluence
3 2 (6.25%) Apache Spark
3 2 (6.25%) Oracle Application Server
4 1 (3.13%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (3.13%) CMS
4 1 (3.13%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 32 (100.00%) Serverless
2 31 (96.88%) AWS
3 25 (78.13%) Amazon S3
4 21 (65.63%) Amazon EC2
5 10 (31.25%) Azure
6 9 (28.13%) Amazon EKS
7 8 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 8 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 6 (18.75%) Amazon ECS
8 6 (18.75%) AWS CloudFormation
8 6 (18.75%) SaaS
9 4 (12.50%) Amazon ECR
9 4 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (12.50%) CloudFront
10 3 (9.38%) AWS CodePipeline
10 3 (9.38%) AWS Fargate
10 3 (9.38%) AWS Step Functions
10 3 (9.38%) GCP
10 3 (9.38%) GitHub
10 3 (9.38%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.50%) Network Security
2 2 (6.25%) AMQP
2 2 (6.25%) Firewall
2 2 (6.25%) IPv4
2 2 (6.25%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (12.50%) NoSQL
3 2 (6.25%) Big Data
3 2 (6.25%) Cloudera CDH
3 2 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (6.25%) Hadoop
3 2 (6.25%) Oracle ODI
3 2 (6.25%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (6.25%) Power BI
3 2 (6.25%) Star Schema
4 1 (3.13%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (3.13%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (3.13%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (3.13%) InfluxDB
4 1 (3.13%) MongoDB
4 1 (3.13%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 10 (31.25%) Jenkins
2 7 (21.88%) Bitbucket
3 4 (12.50%) Git
3 4 (12.50%) JIRA
4 3 (9.38%) GitLab
5 2 (6.25%) DBeaver
6 1 (3.13%) JUnit
General
1 9 (28.13%) Public Sector
2 5 (15.63%) Social Skills
3 4 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (12.50%) Finance
4 3 (9.38%) Aerospace
4 3 (9.38%) Billing
5 2 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (25.00%) Senior
2 5 (15.63%) Developer
2 5 (15.63%) Platform Engineer
2 5 (15.63%) Software Engineer
3 4 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (12.50%) Java Developer
3 4 (12.50%) Senior DevOps
3 4 (12.50%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) AWS Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Head of Engineering
4 3 (9.38%) Head of Software Engineering
5 2 (6.25%) Architect
5 2 (6.25%) AWS Architect
5 2 (6.25%) Cloud Architect
5 2 (6.25%) Data Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Lead
5 2 (6.25%) Platform Architect
5 2 (6.25%) Security Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Senior Platform Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (25.00%) Node.js
1 8 (25.00%) Spring
2 7 (21.88%) React
3 6 (18.75%) Spring Boot
4 3 (9.38%) AngularJS
4 3 (9.38%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (6.25%) boto
5 2 (6.25%) gRPC
5 2 (6.25%) Material-UI
5 2 (6.25%) OpenAPI
5 2 (6.25%) REST
5 2 (6.25%) Swagger
6 1 (3.13%) Apache NiFi
6 1 (3.13%) GraphQL
6 1 (3.13%) Hibernate
6 1 (3.13%) JSF
6 1 (3.13%) Next.js
6 1 (3.13%) PrimeFaces
6 1 (3.13%) React Native
6 1 (3.13%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 11 (34.38%) Cloud Native
2 3 (9.38%) IoT
2 3 (9.38%) Security Posture
3 2 (6.25%) Data Centre
3 2 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.13%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (34.38%) Linux
2 7 (21.88%) Windows
3 2 (6.25%) CentOS
3 2 (6.25%) Debian
3 2 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (6.25%) Ubuntu
3 2 (6.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 17 (53.13%) DevOps
2 17 (53.13%) Infrastructure as Code
3 16 (50.00%) Containerisation
4 14 (43.75%) Agile
4 14 (43.75%) Mentoring
5 9 (28.13%) Software Engineering
6 8 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (21.88%) Configuration Management
7 7 (21.88%) Platform Engineering
7 7 (21.88%) Scrum
7 7 (21.88%) Test Automation
8 6 (18.75%) Cloud Security
8 6 (18.75%) Microservices
9 5 (15.63%) Front End Development
9 5 (15.63%) Migration
9 5 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
10 4 (12.50%) Decision-Making
10 4 (12.50%) Performance Optimisation
10 4 (12.50%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 26 (81.25%) Python
2 13 (40.63%) Java
3 11 (34.38%) Bash
4 9 (28.13%) JavaScript
4 9 (28.13%) PowerShell
5 5 (15.63%) TypeScript
6 3 (9.38%) PHP
7 2 (6.25%) SQL
8 1 (3.13%) C#
8 1 (3.13%) Go
Qualifications
1 6 (18.75%) AWS Certification
2 5 (15.63%) DV Cleared
2 5 (15.63%) Security Cleared
3 4 (12.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (6.25%) CCNA
4 2 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (6.25%) ISTQB
4 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (6.25%) OSCP
4 2 (6.25%) RHCE
4 2 (6.25%) RHCSA
5 1 (3.13%) 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
4 2 (6.25%) Active Directory
4 2 (6.25%) Squid
4 2 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (6.25%) VMware NSX
4 2 (6.25%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (53.13%) Terraform
2 15 (46.88%) Kubernetes
3 11 (34.38%) Ansible
4 7 (21.88%) Grafana
4 7 (21.88%) Prometheus
5 6 (18.75%) Puppet
6 5 (15.63%) Progress Chef
7 2 (6.25%) Packer
7 2 (6.25%) ZABBIX
8 1 (3.13%) Kibana
Vendors
1 5 (15.63%) Oracle
2 4 (12.50%) Red Hat
3 2 (6.25%) Google
3 2 (6.25%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.25%) SaltStack
3 2 (6.25%) Splunk
3 2 (6.25%) VMware
4 1 (3.13%) Atlassian