AWS Lambda Job Trends in the Thames Valley

AWS Lambda
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring AWS Lambda skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 171 181 221
Rank change year-on-year +10 +40 -46
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 18 16 17
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.30% 0.45% 0.25%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.21% 1.70% 0.90%
Number of salaries quoted 11 9 7
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £81,250 £52,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% - -21.43%
75th Percentile £83,750 £92,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £93,750 £81,500
South East median annual salary £82,500 £55,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +50.00% -18.52% -3.57%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,486 941 1,893
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 24.39% 26.58% 28.03%
Number of salaries quoted 1,031 473 1,409
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% +5.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £73,750 £71,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £77,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -13.04%

AWS Lambda
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing AWS Lambda relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

AWS Lambda job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

AWS Lambda
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing AWS Lambda.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing AWS Lambda

AWS Lambda
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AWS Lambda within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 8 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
Berkshire +13 11 £82,500 -4.35% 1
Buckinghamshire -5 7 £82,500 - 1
AWS Lambda
South East

AWS Lambda
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Cloud Services
1 18 (100.00%) AWS
1 18 (100.00%) Serverless
2 12 (66.67%) Amazon S3
3 8 (44.44%) Amazon EKS
4 7 (38.89%) Amazon EC2
4 7 (38.89%) SaaS
5 5 (27.78%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (22.22%) Azure
7 2 (11.11%) Amazon ECR
7 2 (11.11%) Apigee
7 2 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (11.11%) AWS Step Functions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) DynamoDB
1 2 (11.11%) Relational Database
1 2 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.56%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 10 (55.56%) Jenkins
2 9 (50.00%) Git
3 8 (44.44%) GitLab
3 8 (44.44%) SonarQube
4 6 (33.33%) JIRA
5 5 (27.78%) Cucumber
6 4 (22.22%) Artifactory
6 4 (22.22%) Postman
6 4 (22.22%) SpecFlow
7 2 (11.11%) Cypress.io
7 2 (11.11%) Maven
General
1 3 (16.67%) Public Sector
1 3 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (38.89%) Developer
1 7 (38.89%) Lead
2 6 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (33.33%) Java Developer
3 4 (22.22%) Lead Software Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) Software Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Backend Developer
4 2 (11.11%) DevOps Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Java Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Senior
5 1 (5.56%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (5.56%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Senior DevOps
5 1 (5.56%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Software Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (66.67%) AngularJS
2 11 (61.11%) REST
3 7 (38.89%) .NET
3 7 (38.89%) React
4 6 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
4 6 (33.33%) RabbitMQ
5 5 (27.78%) JSON
6 4 (22.22%) .NET Framework
6 4 (22.22%) ASP.NET Web API
6 4 (22.22%) Spring Boot
6 4 (22.22%) YAML
7 3 (16.67%) RESTful
7 3 (16.67%) Spring
8 2 (11.11%) Gherkin
8 2 (11.11%) Java EE
8 2 (11.11%) Jest
8 2 (11.11%) JMS
8 2 (11.11%) JPA
8 2 (11.11%) Web Services
9 1 (5.56%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 7 (38.89%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (11.11%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 6 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (100.00%) Agile
2 17 (94.44%) CI/CD
3 13 (72.22%) Test Automation
4 11 (61.11%) DevOps
5 10 (55.56%) BDD
5 10 (55.56%) Containerisation
5 10 (55.56%) TDD
6 9 (50.00%) Microservices
7 8 (44.44%) Mentoring
8 7 (38.89%) AI
8 7 (38.89%) Architectural Patterns
8 7 (38.89%) CQRS
8 7 (38.89%) Event-Driven
8 7 (38.89%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 7 (38.89%) Integration Testing
8 7 (38.89%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 7 (38.89%) Software Engineering
9 6 (33.33%) Auto-Scaling
9 6 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
9 6 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 9 (50.00%) Java
2 8 (44.44%) Groovy
3 7 (38.89%) C#
4 6 (33.33%) Python
5 4 (22.22%) Perl
6 2 (11.11%) Bash
6 2 (11.11%) PL/SQL
6 2 (11.11%) Shell Script
6 2 (11.11%) SQL
6 2 (11.11%) TypeScript
7 1 (5.56%) JavaScript
7 1 (5.56%) PHP
Qualifications
1 7 (38.89%) Security Cleared
2 6 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 2 (11.11%) AWS Certification
3 2 (11.11%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (27.78%) QA
System Software
1 14 (77.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (44.44%) Ansible
1 8 (44.44%) Kubernetes
1 8 (44.44%) Terraform
2 4 (22.22%) Packer
3 2 (11.11%) HP Fortify
3 2 (11.11%) Kibana
Vendors
1 7 (38.89%) AppDynamics
2 6 (33.33%) IBM
3 2 (11.11%) Oracle
4 1 (5.56%) Atlassian