AWS Lambda Job Trends in the West Midlands

AWS Lambda
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring AWS Lambda skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 195 151 183
Rank change year-on-year -44 +32 +28
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 7 25 43
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.082% 0.73% 0.66%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.35% 2.16% 2.40%
Number of salaries quoted 5 20 40
10th Percentile - £35,000 £39,425
25th Percentile £58,750 £41,250 £56,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £45,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +88.89% -33.33% +22.73%
75th Percentile - £74,063 £73,750
90th Percentile £93,400 £98,875 £79,550
England median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% +3.45%

All Cloud Computing Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 2,023 1,156 1,792
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 23.74% 33.59% 27.67%
Number of salaries quoted 1,440 934 1,428
10th Percentile £32,756 £28,500 £29,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £53,688 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -2.39% +4.76%
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £84,964
England median annual salary £63,076 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +5.13% - -7.69%

AWS Lambda
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

AWS Lambda job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

AWS Lambda
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing AWS Lambda.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing AWS Lambda

AWS Lambda
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS Lambda in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 10 August 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS Lambda in the West Midlands

AWS Lambda
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AWS Lambda within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 10 August 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
Birmingham -41 7 £85,000 +100.00% 4
AWS Lambda
England

AWS Lambda
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 2 (28.57%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) AWS
1 7 (100.00%) Serverless
2 3 (42.86%) Amazon EventBridge
2 3 (42.86%) Amazon S3
2 3 (42.86%) Amazon SQS
2 3 (42.86%) AWS Step Functions
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon Kinesis
3 2 (28.57%) AWS IoT
3 2 (28.57%) Azure
3 2 (28.57%) Dagster
3 2 (28.57%) dbt
3 2 (28.57%) GCP
3 2 (28.57%) Prefect
3 2 (28.57%) Snowflake
4 1 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (14.29%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) DynamoDB
2 3 (42.86%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon QuickSight
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon RDS
General
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Software Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Lead
3 2 (28.57%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) AWS Software Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Data Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Lead Data Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Python Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Python Software Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Senior
3 2 (28.57%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Node.js
1 2 (28.57%) React
2 1 (14.29%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Cloud Native
2 3 (42.86%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (28.57%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 5 (71.43%) Event-Driven
2 5 (71.43%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 5 (71.43%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (57.14%) Software Engineering
4 3 (42.86%) API Design
4 3 (42.86%) Code Quality
4 3 (42.86%) Decision-Making
4 3 (42.86%) Microservices
5 2 (28.57%) Agile
5 2 (28.57%) Backlog Refinement
5 2 (28.57%) Data Modelling
5 2 (28.57%) Data Pipeline
5 2 (28.57%) Data Science
5 2 (28.57%) DataOps
5 2 (28.57%) Front End Development
5 2 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
5 2 (28.57%) LLM
5 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (28.57%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Python
2 2 (28.57%) Go
2 2 (28.57%) SQL
2 2 (28.57%) TypeScript
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Databricks