AWS Lambda
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for AWS Lambda skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited AWS Lambda over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 384 360 180
Rank change year-on-year -24 -180 +55
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 696 886 3,785
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.68% 0.91% 2.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.94% 2.11% 4.66%
Number of salaries quoted 500 609 965
10th Percentile £49,875 £52,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - -9.38% +6.67%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £105,250 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £65,250 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% -6.79% +16.67%

All Cloud Skills
UK

AWS Lambda is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 35,821 42,083 81,137
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.91% 43.23% 48.60%
Number of salaries quoted 26,874 27,585 41,557
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,723 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +7.76%
75th Percentile £76,250 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £102,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

AWS Lambda
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing AWS Lambda as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Lambda in the UK

AWS Lambda
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing AWS Lambda.

Salary trend for AWS Lambda in the UK

AWS Lambda
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS Lambda over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for AWS Lambda in the UK

AWS Lambda
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AWS Lambda within the UK over the 6 months to 28 May 2024. 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
England -14 598 £75,000 - 158
UK excluding London 0 375 £67,500 +3.45% 85
Work from Home +14 342 £74,000 +2.07% 84
London +31 287 £90,000 +5.88% 81
North of England +18 113 £65,000 -3.70% 35
Midlands +33 71 £70,000 +16.67% 18
Scotland -42 66 £60,000 -7.69% 9
South East -40 63 £67,500 -3.57% 8
West Midlands +43 57 £67,500 +12.50% 14
North West -50 51 £68,750 +1.85% 21
South West -39 36 £67,500 -3.02% 8
Yorkshire +80 32 £60,000 -2.24% 9
North East +22 30 £70,000 +24.25% 5
East of England -8 18 £71,250 +1.79% 4
East Midlands -10 14 £87,500 +9.38% 4
Northern Ireland +24 6 £77,500 -3.13% 4
Wales -7 3 £60,000 -4.37% 1

AWS Lambda
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 96 (13.79%) Apache Spark
2 95 (13.65%) Apache
3 29 (4.17%) Confluence
4 11 (1.58%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (0.86%) Tomcat
6 4 (0.57%) WordPress
7 2 (0.29%) CMS
8 1 (0.14%) nginx
8 1 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (0.86%) Trello
2 4 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.14%) Sketch
3 1 (0.14%) UXPin
3 1 (0.14%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 4 (0.57%) Shopify
2 2 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.29%) Sage 200
3 1 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 688 (98.85%) Serverless
2 675 (96.98%) AWS
3 265 (38.07%) Amazon S3
4 226 (32.47%) Amazon EC2
5 176 (25.29%) Amazon SQS
6 169 (24.28%) Amazon ECS
7 166 (23.85%) AWS CloudFormation
8 153 (21.98%) Amazon EKS
9 116 (16.67%) Azure
10 110 (15.80%) GitHub
11 70 (10.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 64 (9.20%) Amazon EMR
12 64 (9.20%) OpenShift
13 62 (8.91%) Amazon Kinesis
14 54 (7.76%) GCP
15 48 (6.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 43 (6.18%) AWS Fargate
16 43 (6.18%) CloudFront
17 41 (5.89%) SaaS
18 34 (4.89%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 33 (4.74%) AMQP
2 24 (3.45%) HTTP
3 11 (1.58%) Network Security
3 11 (1.58%) VPN
4 10 (1.44%) DNS
5 7 (1.01%) WAN
6 6 (0.86%) Firewall
6 6 (0.86%) Internet
7 5 (0.72%) LAN
7 5 (0.72%) Wi-Fi
7 5 (0.72%) Wireless
8 3 (0.43%) DHCP
8 3 (0.43%) MQTT
9 1 (0.14%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.14%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 184 (26.44%) DynamoDB
2 176 (25.29%) Amazon RDS
3 112 (16.09%) NoSQL
4 94 (13.51%) Big Data
5 84 (12.07%) Hadoop
6 77 (11.06%) MySQL
7 62 (8.91%) Amazon Redshift
8 58 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
9 53 (7.61%) Electronic Patient Records
10 34 (4.89%) Relational Database
11 32 (4.60%) SQL Server
12 31 (4.45%) Redis
13 28 (4.02%) Cloudera CDH
13 28 (4.02%) MongoDB
14 25 (3.59%) Amazon Aurora
15 15 (2.16%) Data Lake
16 14 (2.01%) Data Warehouse
17 11 (1.58%) Amazon Athena
17 11 (1.58%) Elasticsearch
18 10 (1.44%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 161 (23.13%) Git
2 71 (10.20%) Jenkins
3 66 (9.48%) GitLab
4 50 (7.18%) JIRA
5 28 (4.02%) Artifactory
6 26 (3.74%) Bitbucket
7 13 (1.87%) Subversion
8 11 (1.58%) TeamCity
9 8 (1.15%) Sonatype Nexus
10 7 (1.01%) Maven
11 6 (0.86%) CircleCI
12 5 (0.72%) Cypress.io
12 5 (0.72%) MSTest
12 5 (0.72%) SonarQube
13 4 (0.57%) Cucumber
13 4 (0.57%) git-flow
13 4 (0.57%) Sourcetree
14 3 (0.43%) Burp Suite
14 3 (0.43%) Metasploit
14 3 (0.43%) sqlmap
General
1 185 (26.58%) Social Skills
2 178 (25.57%) Finance
3 78 (11.21%) Law
4 76 (10.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 55 (7.90%) Legal
6 39 (5.60%) Front Office
7 35 (5.03%) Analytical Skills
8 31 (4.45%) Aerospace
9 29 (4.17%) Games
10 21 (3.02%) Banking
11 20 (2.87%) Marketing
12 17 (2.44%) Retail
12 17 (2.44%) Tech for Good
13 16 (2.30%) Automotive
14 15 (2.16%) Public Sector
15 7 (1.01%) Health Technology
16 6 (0.86%) Manufacturing
17 5 (0.72%) Billing
17 5 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
18 3 (0.43%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 192 (27.59%) Developer
2 185 (26.58%) AWS Engineer
3 174 (25.00%) Software Engineer
4 122 (17.53%) Senior
5 102 (14.66%) Lead
6 98 (14.08%) DevOps Engineer
7 75 (10.78%) AWS Software Engineer
8 66 (9.48%) AWS DevOps
9 60 (8.62%) AWS Developer
10 57 (8.19%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 57 (8.19%) Cloud Engineer
11 52 (7.47%) Python Engineer
12 50 (7.18%) Big Data Engineer
12 50 (7.18%) Big Data Software Engineer
12 50 (7.18%) Scala Engineer
12 50 (7.18%) Scala Software Engineer
13 46 (6.61%) Full Stack Developer
13 46 (6.61%) Senior Developer
14 44 (6.32%) Data Engineer
15 34 (4.89%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 180 (25.86%) Node.js
2 142 (20.40%) React
3 91 (13.07%) RESTful
4 89 (12.79%) .NET
5 70 (10.06%) GraphQL
6 63 (9.05%) Spring
7 61 (8.76%) REST
8 59 (8.48%) AngularJS
9 58 (8.33%) Spring Boot
10 54 (7.76%) Django
11 40 (5.75%) RabbitMQ
12 38 (5.46%) .NET Core
12 38 (5.46%) OpenAPI
12 38 (5.46%) Swagger
13 35 (5.03%) gRPC
14 34 (4.89%) CSS
14 34 (4.89%) HTML
15 32 (4.60%) JSON
16 30 (4.31%) Kafka
17 29 (4.17%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 73 (10.49%) Algorithms
2 58 (8.33%) Cloud Native
3 43 (6.18%) Client/Server
3 43 (6.18%) Distributed Systems
4 34 (4.89%) Data Structures
5 29 (4.17%) Greenfield Project
6 26 (3.74%) Tandem
7 19 (2.73%) Management Information System
8 17 (2.44%) Mobile App
8 17 (2.44%) Onboarding
9 15 (2.16%) Virtual Team
10 13 (1.87%) Online Games
10 13 (1.87%) Private Cloud
11 12 (1.72%) Hedge funds
12 11 (1.58%) Blog
12 11 (1.58%) Enterprise Software
12 11 (1.58%) IoT
12 11 (1.58%) Linux Command Line
13 9 (1.29%) Data Centre
13 9 (1.29%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 80 (11.49%) Linux
2 30 (4.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 30 (4.31%) Ubuntu
3 29 (4.17%) CentOS
4 28 (4.02%) Debian
5 13 (1.87%) Windows
6 4 (0.57%) Unix
7 3 (0.43%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 318 (45.69%) Agile
2 309 (44.40%) Software Engineering
3 289 (41.52%) CI/CD
4 231 (33.19%) DevOps
5 201 (28.88%) Microservices
6 185 (26.58%) Problem-Solving
7 169 (24.28%) Infrastructure as Code
8 147 (21.12%) Containerisation
9 124 (17.82%) Full Stack Development
10 102 (14.66%) Computer Science
11 76 (10.92%) TDD
12 75 (10.78%) Open Source
13 74 (10.63%) Scrum
13 74 (10.63%) Visualisation
14 72 (10.34%) Continuous Improvement
15 68 (9.77%) SDLC
16 64 (9.20%) Design Patterns
16 64 (9.20%) Test Automation
17 62 (8.91%) Decision-Making
18 58 (8.33%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 322 (46.26%) Python
2 255 (36.64%) Java
3 190 (27.30%) SQL
4 144 (20.69%) JavaScript
5 122 (17.53%) TypeScript
6 98 (14.08%) C#
7 68 (9.77%) Go
8 60 (8.62%) Scala
9 32 (4.60%) Bash
10 16 (2.30%) C
11 14 (2.01%) Shell Script
12 13 (1.87%) PHP
13 10 (1.44%) T-SQL
14 9 (1.29%) Groovy
14 9 (1.29%) PowerShell
15 8 (1.15%) Ruby
16 6 (0.86%) Apex Code
17 5 (0.72%) C++
17 5 (0.72%) VBA
18 4 (0.57%) Rust
Qualifications
1 92 (13.22%) Degree
2 65 (9.34%) Computer Science Degree
2 65 (9.34%) Security Cleared
3 64 (9.20%) AWS Certification
4 57 (8.19%) SC Cleared
5 42 (6.03%) DBS Check
6 34 (4.89%) DV Cleared
7 30 (4.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 24 (3.45%) Master's Degree
9 16 (2.30%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 8 (1.15%) AWS Certified Developer
11 5 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.43%) Sun Certification
13 2 (0.29%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 1 (0.14%) CCIE
14 1 (0.14%) CCNP
14 1 (0.14%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (3.59%) QA
2 15 (2.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 15 (2.16%) NIST
3 13 (1.87%) GDPR
4 12 (1.72%) Data Quality
5 11 (1.58%) HIPAA
6 5 (0.72%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.43%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.29%) SLA
9 1 (0.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.14%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.14%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.14%) SEPA
System Software
1 193 (27.73%) Docker
2 25 (3.59%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (0.72%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.29%) HDFS
5 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 250 (35.92%) Terraform
2 185 (26.58%) Kubernetes
3 68 (9.77%) Ansible
4 40 (5.75%) Puppet
5 21 (3.02%) Grafana
6 17 (2.44%) Progress Chef
7 12 (1.72%) Packer
8 10 (1.44%) Prometheus
9 5 (0.72%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (0.43%) Autotask
10 3 (0.43%) Consul
10 3 (0.43%) Salt
11 2 (0.29%) CASB
12 1 (0.14%) Failover Clustering
12 1 (0.14%) Kibana
12 1 (0.14%) Rancher
Vendors
1 44 (6.32%) Google
2 28 (4.02%) Red Hat
2 28 (4.02%) SaltStack
3 20 (2.87%) ForgeRock
4 18 (2.59%) Oracle
5 17 (2.44%) Microsoft
6 16 (2.30%) Sitecore
7 13 (1.87%) Salesforce
8 11 (1.58%) Sage
9 10 (1.44%) Atlassian
9 10 (1.44%) Databricks
10 9 (1.29%) GoCardless
10 9 (1.29%) PayPal
11 7 (1.01%) Bloomberg
11 7 (1.01%) Splunk
12 6 (0.86%) Confluent
12 6 (0.86%) MuleSoft
13 5 (0.72%) Informatica
14 4 (0.57%) Dataiku
14 4 (0.57%) McAfee