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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 188 139 239
Rank change year-on-year -49 +100 -32
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 35 28 34
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.42% 0.84% 0.35%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.67% 2.90% 1.34%
Number of salaries quoted 28 19 19
10th Percentile £47,750 £51,250 £54,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £53,750 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £62,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% -7.41% -2.46%
75th Percentile £102,188 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £112,500 - £88,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year - -3.23% +6.90%

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 2,099 967 2,541
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 25.20% 29.07% 26.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1,285 755 2,027
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,675 £28,933
25th Percentile £36,750 £34,750 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.83%
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,525 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £89,000 £81,500
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 16 July 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 July 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 -30 12 £79,250 -11.94% 6
Bristol -25 9 £70,000 +12.00% 6
Devon -18 6 £52,500 -4.55%
Wiltshire - 4 £75,000 - 2
Dorset -7 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 5 (14.29%) Apache
2 4 (11.43%) Confluence
3 3 (8.57%) Apache Spark
4 1 (2.86%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (2.86%) CMS
4 1 (2.86%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 35 (100.00%) Serverless
2 34 (97.14%) AWS
3 23 (65.71%) Amazon S3
4 22 (62.86%) Amazon EC2
5 9 (25.71%) Amazon EKS
5 9 (25.71%) Azure
6 4 (11.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (11.43%) AWS CloudTrail
6 4 (11.43%) AWS Fargate
6 4 (11.43%) GCP
6 4 (11.43%) SaaS
6 4 (11.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 3 (8.57%) Amazon ECR
7 3 (8.57%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (8.57%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (8.57%) CloudFront
8 2 (5.71%) GitHub
8 2 (5.71%) OpenShift
9 1 (2.86%) Azure Functions
9 1 (2.86%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.43%) Firewall
1 4 (11.43%) IPv4
1 4 (11.43%) Software-Defined Networking
2 3 (8.57%) Network Security
3 2 (5.71%) AMQP
4 1 (2.86%) DHCP
4 1 (2.86%) DNS
4 1 (2.86%) TCP/IP
4 1 (2.86%) VLAN
4 1 (2.86%) VoIP
4 1 (2.86%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (42.86%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (17.14%) NoSQL
3 4 (11.43%) Amazon Athena
4 3 (8.57%) Big Data
5 2 (5.71%) Cloudera CDH
5 2 (5.71%) DynamoDB
5 2 (5.71%) Hadoop
6 1 (2.86%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (2.86%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (2.86%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (2.86%) Flink
6 1 (2.86%) MySQL
6 1 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (2.86%) Redis
6 1 (2.86%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (31.43%) Jenkins
2 7 (20.00%) Bitbucket
3 6 (17.14%) Git
4 5 (14.29%) GitLab
4 5 (14.29%) JIRA
5 1 (2.86%) Cucumber
5 1 (2.86%) SonarQube
General
1 10 (28.57%) Public Sector
2 6 (17.14%) Aerospace
2 6 (17.14%) Social Skills
3 3 (8.57%) Finance
3 3 (8.57%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.86%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (31.43%) Senior
2 7 (20.00%) Developer
3 5 (14.29%) Security Engineer
4 4 (11.43%) Architect
4 4 (11.43%) Data Engineer
4 4 (11.43%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 4 (11.43%) Lead
4 4 (11.43%) Platform Engineer
4 4 (11.43%) Senior Platform Engineer
4 4 (11.43%) Senior Security Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) AWS Architect
5 3 (8.57%) Cloud Architect
5 3 (8.57%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Head of Engineering
5 3 (8.57%) Head of Software Engineering
5 3 (8.57%) Java Developer
5 3 (8.57%) Platform Architect
5 3 (8.57%) Senior Data Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Senior DevOps
5 3 (8.57%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (25.71%) Node.js
2 6 (17.14%) React
3 5 (14.29%) Spring
3 5 (14.29%) Spring Boot
4 4 (11.43%) boto
5 3 (8.57%) AngularJS
5 3 (8.57%) Next.js
5 3 (8.57%) REST
6 2 (5.71%) AWS CDK
6 2 (5.71%) Django
6 2 (5.71%) GraphQL
6 2 (5.71%) gRPC
6 2 (5.71%) LangChain
6 2 (5.71%) Material-UI
6 2 (5.71%) OpenAPI
6 2 (5.71%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (5.71%) RESTful
6 2 (5.71%) Swagger
7 1 (2.86%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (2.86%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 16 (45.71%) Cloud Native
2 5 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (8.57%) Data Centre
3 3 (8.57%) IoT
4 2 (5.71%) Data Structures
4 2 (5.71%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.86%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.86%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 14 (40.00%) Linux
2 11 (31.43%) Windows
3 4 (11.43%) Windows Server
4 2 (5.71%) CentOS
4 2 (5.71%) Debian
4 2 (5.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (5.71%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (60.00%) Agile
1 21 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 20 (57.14%) CI/CD
3 17 (48.57%) Containerisation
4 15 (42.86%) DevOps
5 14 (40.00%) Mentoring
6 8 (22.86%) Migration
7 7 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
7 7 (20.00%) Decision-Making
7 7 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
7 7 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
7 7 (20.00%) TDD
8 6 (17.14%) AI
8 6 (17.14%) Cloud Security
8 6 (17.14%) Configuration Management
8 6 (17.14%) Microservices
8 6 (17.14%) Scrum
8 6 (17.14%) Software Engineering
8 6 (17.14%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 26 (74.29%) Python
2 13 (37.14%) Bash
3 10 (28.57%) Java
4 7 (20.00%) JavaScript
4 7 (20.00%) PowerShell
5 4 (11.43%) TypeScript
6 3 (8.57%) PHP
7 1 (2.86%) C#
7 1 (2.86%) Scala
Qualifications
1 12 (34.29%) DV Cleared
1 12 (34.29%) Security Cleared
2 7 (20.00%) AWS Certification
3 4 (11.43%) CCNA
3 4 (11.43%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (11.43%) ISTQB
3 4 (11.43%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (11.43%) OSCP
3 4 (11.43%) RHCE
3 4 (11.43%) RHCSA
4 3 (8.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 3 (8.57%) SC Cleared
5 2 (5.71%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.57%) ISO 9001
1 3 (8.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (8.57%) QA
2 1 (2.86%) Accessibility
System Software
1 15 (42.86%) Docker
2 4 (11.43%) Active Directory
2 4 (11.43%) Squid
2 4 (11.43%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (11.43%) VMware NSX
2 4 (11.43%) vSphere
3 3 (8.57%) Firmware
3 3 (8.57%) iptables
Systems Management
1 21 (60.00%) Terraform
2 17 (48.57%) Ansible
3 13 (37.14%) Kubernetes
4 8 (22.86%) Grafana
5 7 (20.00%) Packer
5 7 (20.00%) Prometheus
6 5 (14.29%) Puppet
7 4 (11.43%) ZABBIX
8 3 (8.57%) Progress Chef
9 1 (2.86%) Kibana
9 1 (2.86%) logstash
Vendors
1 6 (17.14%) Red Hat
2 4 (11.43%) Microsoft
2 4 (11.43%) Oracle
2 4 (11.43%) Splunk
2 4 (11.43%) VMware
3 2 (5.71%) Google
3 2 (5.71%) OpenAI
3 2 (5.71%) SaltStack