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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 367 364 194
Rank change year-on-year -3 -170 +56
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 715 948 3,252
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.73% 0.91% 2.11%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.03% 2.10% 4.39%
Number of salaries quoted 537 646 954
10th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £59,500 £62,500 £59,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -6.25% +10.34%
75th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £118,750 £108,125 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - -7.14% +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 35,208 45,118 74,069
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.91% 43.11% 48.06%
Number of salaries quoted 26,662 29,500 41,930
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £33,750
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% +8.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £100,000
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 27 April 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 27 April 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 +8 606 £75,000 - 146
UK excluding London +18 380 £65,000 - 84
Work from Home +16 356 £70,000 -3.45% 91
London +20 295 £90,000 +5.88% 70
North of England +29 115 £65,000 -1.89% 30
South East -4 70 £67,500 -3.57% 13
Scotland -50 69 £60,000 -7.69% 6
Midlands +33 61 £67,500 +12.50% 12
North West -46 50 £72,500 +7.41% 15
West Midlands +48 48 £65,000 +8.33% 8
Yorkshire +100 35 £60,000 -0.41% 10
South West -12 35 £65,000 -6.88% 17
North East +26 30 £70,000 +24.25% 5
East of England +16 21 £75,000 +7.14% 3
East Midlands -11 13 £87,500 +9.38% 4
Northern Ireland +36 7 £77,500 -3.13% 4
Wales +9 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 99 (13.85%) Apache
2 95 (13.29%) Apache Spark
3 33 (4.62%) Confluence
4 13 (1.82%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (0.98%) Tomcat
6 6 (0.84%) WordPress
7 3 (0.42%) CMS
8 1 (0.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (0.84%) Trello
2 4 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.14%) Sketch
3 1 (0.14%) UXPin
3 1 (0.14%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 3 (0.42%) Shopify
2 2 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.28%) Sage 200
3 1 (0.14%) Magento
3 1 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 708 (99.02%) Serverless
2 693 (96.92%) AWS
3 283 (39.58%) Amazon S3
4 243 (33.99%) Amazon EC2
5 183 (25.59%) Amazon ECS
6 179 (25.03%) Amazon SQS
7 168 (23.50%) AWS CloudFormation
8 160 (22.38%) Amazon EKS
9 120 (16.78%) Azure
9 120 (16.78%) GitHub
10 70 (9.79%) OpenShift
11 69 (9.65%) Amazon Kinesis
12 68 (9.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 66 (9.23%) Amazon EMR
14 55 (7.69%) GCP
15 48 (6.71%) AWS Fargate
16 45 (6.29%) CloudFront
16 45 (6.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 39 (5.45%) Route 53
18 38 (5.31%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 29 (4.06%) AMQP
2 23 (3.22%) HTTP
3 12 (1.68%) Network Security
4 11 (1.54%) DNS
4 11 (1.54%) VPN
5 10 (1.40%) Internet
6 6 (0.84%) Firewall
6 6 (0.84%) WAN
7 5 (0.70%) LAN
7 5 (0.70%) Wi-Fi
7 5 (0.70%) Wireless
8 3 (0.42%) DHCP
8 3 (0.42%) MQTT
9 1 (0.14%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.14%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 182 (25.45%) Amazon RDS
2 180 (25.17%) DynamoDB
3 105 (14.69%) NoSQL
4 94 (13.15%) Big Data
5 83 (11.61%) Hadoop
6 82 (11.47%) MySQL
7 80 (11.19%) Amazon Redshift
8 65 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
9 54 (7.55%) Electronic Patient Records
10 37 (5.17%) SQL Server
11 36 (5.03%) Relational Database
12 34 (4.76%) Amazon Aurora
13 32 (4.48%) Redis
14 25 (3.50%) MongoDB
15 24 (3.36%) Cloudera CDH
16 19 (2.66%) Data Lake
17 18 (2.52%) Amazon Athena
18 17 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
19 12 (1.68%) Elasticsearch
20 10 (1.40%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 152 (21.26%) Git
2 89 (12.45%) Jenkins
3 66 (9.23%) GitLab
4 55 (7.69%) JIRA
5 39 (5.45%) Artifactory
6 28 (3.92%) Bitbucket
7 15 (2.10%) Subversion
8 11 (1.54%) TeamCity
9 10 (1.40%) CircleCI
9 10 (1.40%) Sonatype Nexus
10 9 (1.26%) git-flow
11 8 (1.12%) Maven
12 6 (0.84%) SonarQube
13 5 (0.70%) Cucumber
13 5 (0.70%) Cypress.io
13 5 (0.70%) MSTest
14 4 (0.56%) Sourcetree
15 3 (0.42%) JUnit
15 3 (0.42%) NUnit
16 2 (0.28%) Mocha
General
1 196 (27.41%) Finance
2 186 (26.01%) Social Skills
3 73 (10.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 71 (9.93%) Law
5 56 (7.83%) Legal
6 45 (6.29%) Front Office
7 35 (4.90%) Analytical Skills
8 31 (4.34%) Games
9 27 (3.78%) Aerospace
10 22 (3.08%) Public Sector
11 21 (2.94%) Banking
11 21 (2.94%) Marketing
12 19 (2.66%) Tech for Good
13 17 (2.38%) Retail
14 14 (1.96%) Automotive
15 9 (1.26%) Health Technology
16 6 (0.84%) Manufacturing
16 6 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
17 5 (0.70%) Billing
18 3 (0.42%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 199 (27.83%) AWS Engineer
2 193 (26.99%) Developer
3 167 (23.36%) Software Engineer
4 116 (16.22%) DevOps Engineer
4 116 (16.22%) Senior
5 101 (14.13%) Lead
6 80 (11.19%) AWS DevOps
7 73 (10.21%) AWS Software Engineer
8 72 (10.07%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 64 (8.95%) Cloud Engineer
10 62 (8.67%) Data Engineer
11 59 (8.25%) AWS Developer
12 51 (7.13%) Big Data Engineer
12 51 (7.13%) Big Data Software Engineer
12 51 (7.13%) Scala Engineer
12 51 (7.13%) Scala Software Engineer
13 46 (6.43%) Full Stack Developer
14 44 (6.15%) Senior Developer
15 41 (5.73%) Python Engineer
15 41 (5.73%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 178 (24.90%) Node.js
2 131 (18.32%) React
3 83 (11.61%) RESTful
4 79 (11.05%) .NET
5 62 (8.67%) Spring
6 60 (8.39%) GraphQL
7 58 (8.11%) AngularJS
8 57 (7.97%) REST
9 51 (7.13%) Spring Boot
10 45 (6.29%) Django
11 38 (5.31%) RabbitMQ
12 36 (5.03%) J2EE
13 34 (4.76%) OpenAPI
13 34 (4.76%) Swagger
14 33 (4.62%) CSS
14 33 (4.62%) JSON
15 32 (4.48%) HTML
16 31 (4.34%) .NET Core
16 31 (4.34%) gRPC
17 30 (4.20%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 75 (10.49%) Algorithms
2 57 (7.97%) Cloud Native
3 48 (6.71%) Distributed Systems
4 43 (6.01%) Client/Server
5 36 (5.03%) Data Structures
5 36 (5.03%) Tandem
6 28 (3.92%) Greenfield Project
7 23 (3.22%) Management Information System
8 22 (3.08%) Onboarding
9 19 (2.66%) Virtual Team
10 14 (1.96%) IoT
10 14 (1.96%) Mobile App
11 13 (1.82%) Online Games
12 12 (1.68%) Linux Command Line
13 11 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
14 9 (1.26%) Data Centre
14 9 (1.26%) Private Cloud
15 8 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
16 6 (0.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 6 (0.84%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 88 (12.31%) Linux
2 26 (3.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 26 (3.64%) Ubuntu
3 25 (3.50%) CentOS
4 24 (3.36%) Debian
5 19 (2.66%) Windows
6 5 (0.70%) Unix
7 3 (0.42%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.42%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.14%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 322 (45.03%) Agile
2 312 (43.64%) Software Engineering
3 309 (43.22%) CI/CD
4 249 (34.83%) DevOps
5 190 (26.57%) Problem-Solving
6 187 (26.15%) Microservices
7 171 (23.92%) Infrastructure as Code
8 146 (20.42%) Containerisation
9 114 (15.94%) Full Stack Development
10 111 (15.52%) Computer Science
11 77 (10.77%) Visualisation
12 74 (10.35%) Continuous Improvement
12 74 (10.35%) Open Source
13 71 (9.93%) SDLC
14 67 (9.37%) Decision-Making
15 65 (9.09%) Design Patterns
15 65 (9.09%) Mentoring
16 64 (8.95%) Scrum
17 63 (8.81%) TDD
18 61 (8.53%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 337 (47.13%) Python
2 259 (36.22%) Java
3 204 (28.53%) SQL
4 136 (19.02%) JavaScript
5 118 (16.50%) TypeScript
6 92 (12.87%) C#
7 82 (11.47%) Go
8 63 (8.81%) Scala
9 43 (6.01%) Bash
10 20 (2.80%) Shell Script
11 17 (2.38%) PHP
12 16 (2.24%) C
13 11 (1.54%) T-SQL
14 9 (1.26%) Groovy
15 8 (1.12%) Ruby
16 7 (0.98%) C++
16 7 (0.98%) PowerShell
17 6 (0.84%) Apex Code
18 5 (0.70%) Rust
18 5 (0.70%) VBA
Qualifications
1 101 (14.13%) Degree
2 72 (10.07%) Computer Science Degree
3 69 (9.65%) Security Cleared
4 62 (8.67%) AWS Certification
5 58 (8.11%) SC Cleared
6 34 (4.76%) DBS Check
7 32 (4.48%) DV Cleared
8 31 (4.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 27 (3.78%) Master's Degree
10 17 (2.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 9 (1.26%) BPSS Clearance
12 8 (1.12%) AWS Certified Developer
13 3 (0.42%) Sun Certification
14 2 (0.28%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (2.94%) QA
2 13 (1.82%) Data Quality
2 13 (1.82%) GDPR
3 11 (1.54%) HIPAA
4 7 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (0.98%) NIST
5 5 (0.70%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.42%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.14%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.14%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.14%) SEPA
System Software
1 221 (30.91%) Docker
2 23 (3.22%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (1.26%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.28%) HDFS
5 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 277 (38.74%) Terraform
2 206 (28.81%) Kubernetes
3 73 (10.21%) Ansible
4 38 (5.31%) Puppet
5 26 (3.64%) Grafana
6 19 (2.66%) Progress Chef
7 15 (2.10%) Packer
8 9 (1.26%) Prometheus
9 7 (0.98%) Salt
10 5 (0.70%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (0.42%) Autotask
11 3 (0.42%) Consul
12 2 (0.28%) CASB
13 1 (0.14%) Kibana
13 1 (0.14%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 45 (6.29%) Google
2 24 (3.36%) Oracle
2 24 (3.36%) Red Hat
2 24 (3.36%) SaltStack
3 18 (2.52%) ForgeRock
3 18 (2.52%) Microsoft
4 14 (1.96%) Sitecore
5 13 (1.82%) Atlassian
5 13 (1.82%) Databricks
5 13 (1.82%) Salesforce
6 11 (1.54%) Sage
7 9 (1.26%) GoCardless
7 9 (1.26%) PayPal
8 8 (1.12%) McAfee
8 8 (1.12%) Splunk
9 6 (0.84%) Confluent
9 6 (0.84%) MuleSoft
10 5 (0.70%) Informatica
11 4 (0.56%) Dataiku
12 3 (0.42%) Apple