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

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 119 225
Rank change year-on-year -32 +106 -4
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 19 39 20
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.37% 1.42% 0.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.40% 4.47% 1.06%
Number of salaries quoted 11 16 8
10th Percentile £66,250 - £49,500
25th Percentile £73,750 £52,500 £53,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £64,375 £62,875
90th Percentile - £77,500 £71,425
South East median annual salary £82,500 £55,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +50.00% -18.52% -

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 1,361 872 1,895
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 26.57% 31.76% 29.28%
Number of salaries quoted 833 517 1,559
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £31,200
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +18.00% -10.24%
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £64,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £84,250 £79,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +15.00% -9.09%

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
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS Lambda in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 9 April 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS Lambda in the Thames Valley

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 9 April 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 -12 12 £82,500 +22.22% 5
Oxfordshire -9 4 £67,500 +22.73% 1
Buckinghamshire -23 3 £82,500 - 3
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 19 (100.00%) AWS
1 19 (100.00%) Serverless
2 14 (73.68%) Amazon S3
3 10 (52.63%) Amazon EC2
4 8 (42.11%) Amazon EKS
5 6 (31.58%) Azure
5 6 (31.58%) SaaS
6 4 (21.05%) Amazon SQS
7 3 (15.79%) Amazon Cognito
7 3 (15.79%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (15.79%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (15.79%) Azure Service Bus
7 3 (15.79%) GCP
7 3 (15.79%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (21.05%) MySQL
2 3 (15.79%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (15.79%) DynamoDB
2 3 (15.79%) NoSQL
3 2 (10.53%) Relational Database
3 2 (10.53%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (57.89%) Jenkins
2 9 (47.37%) Git
3 6 (31.58%) GitLab
3 6 (31.58%) JIRA
3 6 (31.58%) SonarQube
4 5 (26.32%) Cucumber
5 4 (21.05%) Artifactory
6 3 (15.79%) git-flow
6 3 (15.79%) MLflow
6 3 (15.79%) Postman
6 3 (15.79%) SpecFlow
General
1 6 (31.58%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.79%) Manufacturing
2 3 (15.79%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (47.37%) Developer
2 6 (31.58%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (26.32%) Senior
4 4 (21.05%) Java Developer
4 4 (21.05%) Lead
4 4 (21.05%) Senior Developer
5 3 (15.79%) Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (15.79%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 3 (15.79%) Operations Engineer
5 3 (15.79%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (10.53%) Backend Developer
6 2 (10.53%) DevOps Developer
6 2 (10.53%) Java Engineer
6 2 (10.53%) Lead Software Engineer
6 2 (10.53%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 2 (10.53%) Software Engineer
7 1 (5.26%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 1 (5.26%) Lead Developer
7 1 (5.26%) Senior Software Developer
7 1 (5.26%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (57.89%) REST
2 9 (47.37%) RabbitMQ
3 8 (42.11%) React
4 6 (31.58%) .NET
4 6 (31.58%) AngularJS
4 6 (31.58%) Elastic Stack
5 5 (26.32%) JSON
6 4 (21.05%) CSS
6 4 (21.05%) YAML
7 3 (15.79%) .NET Framework
7 3 (15.79%) ASP.NET Web API
7 3 (15.79%) AWS CDK
7 3 (15.79%) HTML
7 3 (15.79%) Kafka
7 3 (15.79%) Material-UI
7 3 (15.79%) PyTorch
7 3 (15.79%) RESTful
7 3 (15.79%) Spring
8 2 (10.53%) JPA
8 2 (10.53%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 7 (36.84%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (15.79%) Animation
2 3 (15.79%) Cloud Native
2 3 (15.79%) Life Science
2 3 (15.79%) Product Ownership
3 2 (10.53%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 9 (47.37%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (84.21%) Agile
2 15 (78.95%) DevOps
3 14 (73.68%) CI/CD
4 12 (63.16%) Infrastructure as Code
4 12 (63.16%) Microservices
5 9 (47.37%) Test Automation
6 6 (31.58%) Auto-Scaling
6 6 (31.58%) BDD
6 6 (31.58%) Containerisation
6 6 (31.58%) Deployment Automation
6 6 (31.58%) Event-Driven
6 6 (31.58%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 6 (31.58%) TDD
7 5 (26.32%) Mentoring
7 5 (26.32%) Security Hardening
8 4 (21.05%) Continuous Integration
8 4 (21.05%) Issue Tracking
8 4 (21.05%) Scrum
8 4 (21.05%) Secrets Management
8 4 (21.05%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 10 (52.63%) Python
2 7 (36.84%) Java
3 6 (31.58%) C#
3 6 (31.58%) Groovy
4 4 (21.05%) Perl
5 3 (15.79%) C++
5 3 (15.79%) SQL
5 3 (15.79%) TypeScript
6 2 (10.53%) JavaScript
6 2 (10.53%) PL/SQL
6 2 (10.53%) Shell Script
7 1 (5.26%) PHP
Qualifications
1 7 (36.84%) Security Cleared
2 6 (31.58%) SC Cleared
3 3 (15.79%) Degree
3 3 (15.79%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (42.11%) QA
System Software
1 8 (42.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (57.89%) Ansible
1 11 (57.89%) Kubernetes
2 8 (42.11%) Terraform
3 4 (21.05%) Packer
4 3 (15.79%) Kubeflow
5 2 (10.53%) Kibana
Vendors
1 7 (36.84%) AppDynamics
2 6 (31.58%) IBM
3 2 (10.53%) Oracle
4 1 (5.26%) Atlassian