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

6 months to
6 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 179 195 181
Rank change year-on-year +16 -14 -29
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 18 6 18
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.26% 0.15% 0.36%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.13% 0.56% 1.35%
Number of salaries quoted 10 5 9
10th Percentile - £65,500 -
25th Percentile £81,250 £70,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £85,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% +54.55% -21.43%
75th Percentile £83,750 £93,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £87,500 - £92,000
South East median annual salary £67,500 £82,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -18.18% +3.13% +14.29%

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 1,593 1,068 1,329
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 22.71% 27.43% 26.90%
Number of salaries quoted 1,176 473 771
10th Percentile £32,500 £29,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £36,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -1.96% -11.30%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £66,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £83,750
South East median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% -0.90%

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 6 September 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 +25 10 £82,500 -2.94% 1
Buckinghamshire - 8 £82,500 - 2
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Finacle
1 1 (5.56%) FLEXCUBE
1 1 (5.56%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 18 (100.00%) AWS
1 18 (100.00%) Serverless
2 13 (72.22%) Amazon S3
3 8 (44.44%) Amazon EKS
4 6 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
4 6 (33.33%) SaaS
5 4 (22.22%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (22.22%) Azure
6 2 (11.11%) Amazon ECR
6 2 (11.11%) Apigee
6 2 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (11.11%) AWS Step Functions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) Relational Database
2 2 (11.11%) Amazon Athena
2 2 (11.11%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (11.11%) DynamoDB
2 2 (11.11%) SQL Server
3 1 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (5.56%) Metadata
3 1 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (55.56%) Jenkins
2 8 (44.44%) Git
2 8 (44.44%) GitLab
2 8 (44.44%) SonarQube
3 6 (33.33%) JIRA
4 5 (27.78%) Cucumber
5 4 (22.22%) Artifactory
6 3 (16.67%) Postman
6 3 (16.67%) SpecFlow
7 2 (11.11%) Cypress.io
7 2 (11.11%) Maven
General
1 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 3 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 2 (11.11%) Banking
4 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (33.33%) Developer
1 6 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
1 6 (33.33%) Java Developer
1 6 (33.33%) Lead
2 3 (16.67%) Lead Software Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Software Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Backend Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Banking Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Data Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) DevOps Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Java Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) SC Cleared Java Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Senior
4 1 (5.56%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Data Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (61.11%) AngularJS
2 10 (55.56%) REST
3 8 (44.44%) Terraform
4 6 (33.33%) .NET
4 6 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
4 6 (33.33%) RabbitMQ
4 6 (33.33%) React
5 5 (27.78%) JSON
6 4 (22.22%) Spring Boot
6 4 (22.22%) YAML
7 3 (16.67%) .NET Framework
7 3 (16.67%) ASP.NET Web API
7 3 (16.67%) Spring
8 2 (11.11%) Gherkin
8 2 (11.11%) Jakarta EE
8 2 (11.11%) Jest
8 2 (11.11%) JMS
8 2 (11.11%) JPA
8 2 (11.11%) RESTful
8 2 (11.11%) Web Services
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 15 (83.33%) CI/CD
3 12 (66.67%) Test Automation
4 10 (55.56%) DevOps
5 9 (50.00%) BDD
5 9 (50.00%) Containerisation
5 9 (50.00%) TDD
6 8 (44.44%) Microservices
7 6 (33.33%) AI
7 6 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
7 6 (33.33%) Auto-Scaling
7 6 (33.33%) CQRS
7 6 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
7 6 (33.33%) Event-Driven
7 6 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 6 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
7 6 (33.33%) Integration Testing
7 6 (33.33%) Mentoring
7 6 (33.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 6 (33.33%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 9 (50.00%) Java
2 8 (44.44%) Groovy
3 6 (33.33%) C#
3 6 (33.33%) Python
4 4 (22.22%) Perl
4 4 (22.22%) SQL
5 2 (11.11%) Bash
5 2 (11.11%) PL/SQL
5 2 (11.11%) Shell Script
5 2 (11.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (38.89%) Security Cleared
2 6 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 3 (16.67%) AWS Certification
4 2 (11.11%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (33.33%) QA
2 2 (11.11%) Data Quality
System Software
1 12 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (44.44%) Ansible
1 8 (44.44%) Kubernetes
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 3 (16.67%) Oracle
4 1 (5.56%) Atlassian
4 1 (5.56%) FIS
4 1 (5.56%) Temenos