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

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 180 130 254
Rank change year-on-year -50 +124 -47
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 30 28 31
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.39% 1.04% 0.35%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.67% 3.23% 1.20%
Number of salaries quoted 23 20 19
10th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £48,500
25th Percentile £56,875 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% -6.88%
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,188 £87,500
90th Percentile £106,000 £95,250 -
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 1,801 866 2,586
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 23.52% 32.31% 28.92%
Number of salaries quoted 1,008 704 2,118
10th Percentile £28,925 £29,848 £29,000
25th Percentile £35,750 £39,563 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.08%
75th Percentile £70,752 £70,000 £70,000
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 15 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 15 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 -23 10 £71,250 +18.75% 6
Devon -16 7 £52,500 -4.55% 1
Gloucestershire -31 6 £82,750 -12.89% 11
Wiltshire - 1 £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 (13.33%) Apache
2 2 (6.67%) Apache Spark
2 2 (6.67%) Confluence
2 2 (6.67%) Oracle Application Server
3 1 (3.33%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (3.33%) CMS
3 1 (3.33%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 30 (100.00%) Serverless
2 29 (96.67%) AWS
3 23 (76.67%) Amazon S3
4 20 (66.67%) Amazon EC2
5 10 (33.33%) Azure
6 8 (26.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 8 (26.67%) Amazon EKS
6 8 (26.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 6 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
7 6 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
7 6 (20.00%) SaaS
8 4 (13.33%) Amazon ECR
8 4 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (13.33%) CloudFront
9 3 (10.00%) AWS CodePipeline
9 3 (10.00%) AWS Step Functions
9 3 (10.00%) GCP
9 3 (10.00%) GitHub
9 3 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (10.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (13.33%) Network Security
2 2 (6.67%) AMQP
3 1 (3.33%) Firewall
3 1 (3.33%) IPv4
3 1 (3.33%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (53.33%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (13.33%) NoSQL
3 2 (6.67%) Big Data
3 2 (6.67%) Cloudera CDH
3 2 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (6.67%) Hadoop
3 2 (6.67%) Oracle ODI
3 2 (6.67%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (6.67%) Power BI
3 2 (6.67%) Star Schema
4 1 (3.33%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (3.33%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (3.33%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (3.33%) InfluxDB
4 1 (3.33%) MongoDB
4 1 (3.33%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 9 (30.00%) Jenkins
2 6 (20.00%) Bitbucket
3 3 (10.00%) Git
3 3 (10.00%) JIRA
4 2 (6.67%) DBeaver
4 2 (6.67%) GitLab
5 1 (3.33%) JUnit
General
1 8 (26.67%) Public Sector
2 5 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 4 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (13.33%) Finance
4 3 (10.00%) Billing
5 2 (6.67%) Aerospace
5 2 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (23.33%) Senior
2 5 (16.67%) Developer
2 5 (16.67%) Software Engineer
3 4 (13.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (13.33%) Java Developer
3 4 (13.33%) Platform Engineer
3 4 (13.33%) Senior DevOps
3 4 (13.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) Head of Engineering
4 3 (10.00%) Head of Software Engineering
5 2 (6.67%) Architect
5 2 (6.67%) AWS Architect
5 2 (6.67%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Cloud Architect
5 2 (6.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Data Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Lead
5 2 (6.67%) Platform Architect
6 1 (3.33%) DevSecOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (26.67%) Spring
2 7 (23.33%) Node.js
2 7 (23.33%) React
3 6 (20.00%) Spring Boot
4 3 (10.00%) AngularJS
4 3 (10.00%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (6.67%) gRPC
5 2 (6.67%) Material-UI
5 2 (6.67%) OpenAPI
5 2 (6.67%) REST
5 2 (6.67%) Swagger
6 1 (3.33%) Apache NiFi
6 1 (3.33%) boto
6 1 (3.33%) GraphQL
6 1 (3.33%) Hibernate
6 1 (3.33%) JSF
6 1 (3.33%) Next.js
6 1 (3.33%) PrimeFaces
6 1 (3.33%) React Native
6 1 (3.33%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 10 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 3 (10.00%) IoT
2 3 (10.00%) Security Posture
3 2 (6.67%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.33%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (33.33%) Linux
2 6 (20.00%) Windows
3 2 (6.67%) CentOS
3 2 (6.67%) Debian
3 2 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (6.67%) Ubuntu
4 1 (3.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (73.33%) CI/CD
2 16 (53.33%) DevOps
3 15 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 15 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 13 (43.33%) Mentoring
5 12 (40.00%) Agile
6 9 (30.00%) Software Engineering
7 8 (26.67%) Continuous Improvement
8 7 (23.33%) Configuration Management
9 6 (20.00%) Microservices
9 6 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
9 6 (20.00%) Scrum
9 6 (20.00%) Test Automation
10 5 (16.67%) Cloud Security
10 5 (16.67%) Front End Development
10 5 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
11 4 (13.33%) Code Quality
11 4 (13.33%) Design Patterns
11 4 (13.33%) Software Delivery
11 4 (13.33%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 24 (80.00%) Python
2 12 (40.00%) Java
3 9 (30.00%) Bash
3 9 (30.00%) JavaScript
4 8 (26.67%) PowerShell
5 5 (16.67%) TypeScript
6 3 (10.00%) PHP
7 2 (6.67%) SQL
8 1 (3.33%) C#
8 1 (3.33%) Go
Qualifications
1 5 (16.67%) AWS Certification
2 4 (13.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 4 (13.33%) DV Cleared
2 4 (13.33%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.33%) CCNA
3 1 (3.33%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (3.33%) ISTQB
3 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (3.33%) OSCP
3 1 (3.33%) RHCE
3 1 (3.33%) RHCSA
3 1 (3.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.00%) ISO 9001
1 3 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (10.00%) QA
2 2 (6.67%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 14 (46.67%) Docker
2 4 (13.33%) iptables
3 3 (10.00%) Firmware
4 1 (3.33%) Active Directory
4 1 (3.33%) Squid
4 1 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (3.33%) VMware NSX
4 1 (3.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 15 (50.00%) Terraform
2 14 (46.67%) Kubernetes
3 9 (30.00%) Ansible
4 6 (20.00%) Grafana
4 6 (20.00%) Prometheus
4 6 (20.00%) Puppet
5 5 (16.67%) Progress Chef
6 1 (3.33%) Kibana
6 1 (3.33%) Packer
6 1 (3.33%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 4 (13.33%) Oracle
2 3 (10.00%) Red Hat
3 2 (6.67%) Google
3 2 (6.67%) SaltStack
4 1 (3.33%) Atlassian
4 1 (3.33%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.33%) Splunk
4 1 (3.33%) VMware