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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 375 365 189
Rank change year-on-year -10 -176 +50
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 706 912 3,381
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.71% 0.90% 2.15%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.00% 2.10% 4.46%
Number of salaries quoted 524 625 935
10th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
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 £93,750
90th Percentile £117,625 £107,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £66,250 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +1.92% -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 35,381 43,379 75,835
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.70% 42.80% 48.33%
Number of salaries quoted 26,736 28,530 41,309
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,784 £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 £96,250 £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 9 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 9 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 +8 603 £75,000 - 150
UK excluding London +4 378 £66,250 +1.92% 76
Work from Home +9 347 £71,500 -1.38% 90
London +16 292 £90,000 +5.88% 77
North of England +30 114 £65,000 - 29
Scotland -51 69 £60,000 -7.69% 4
South East -39 67 £67,500 -3.57% 11
Midlands +22 63 £67,500 +3.85% 14
North West -48 52 £65,000 -3.70% 15
West Midlands +40 51 £67,500 +12.50% 12
South West -31 39 £65,000 -6.88% 10
Yorkshire +97 32 £60,000 -0.41% 9
North East +24 30 £70,000 +24.25% 5
East of England +20 18 £75,000 +7.14% 3
East Midlands -12 12 £87,500 +9.38% 2
Northern Ireland +31 6 £77,500 -3.13% 5
Wales -1 3 £60,000 +29.84% 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 95 (13.46%) Apache
1 95 (13.46%) Apache Spark
2 33 (4.67%) Confluence
3 12 (1.70%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (0.99%) Tomcat
5 6 (0.85%) WordPress
6 2 (0.28%) CMS
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (0.85%) 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 3 (0.42%) Shopify
2 2 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.28%) Sage 200
3 1 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 699 (99.01%) Serverless
2 685 (97.03%) AWS
3 278 (39.38%) Amazon S3
4 235 (33.29%) Amazon EC2
5 183 (25.92%) Amazon SQS
6 178 (25.21%) Amazon ECS
7 166 (23.51%) AWS CloudFormation
8 157 (22.24%) Amazon EKS
9 122 (17.28%) GitHub
10 121 (17.14%) Azure
11 68 (9.63%) OpenShift
12 67 (9.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 65 (9.21%) Amazon Kinesis
14 64 (9.07%) Amazon EMR
15 55 (7.79%) GCP
16 46 (6.52%) AWS Fargate
16 46 (6.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 45 (6.37%) CloudFront
18 40 (5.67%) SaaS
19 39 (5.52%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 31 (4.39%) AMQP
2 23 (3.26%) HTTP
3 13 (1.84%) Network Security
4 12 (1.70%) DNS
5 11 (1.56%) VPN
6 9 (1.27%) Internet
7 7 (0.99%) Firewall
7 7 (0.99%) WAN
8 5 (0.71%) LAN
8 5 (0.71%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (0.71%) Wireless
9 3 (0.42%) DHCP
9 3 (0.42%) MQTT
10 1 (0.14%) SD-WAN
10 1 (0.14%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 179 (25.35%) DynamoDB
2 175 (24.79%) Amazon RDS
3 110 (15.58%) NoSQL
4 94 (13.31%) Big Data
5 83 (11.76%) Hadoop
6 82 (11.61%) MySQL
7 73 (10.34%) Amazon Redshift
8 62 (8.78%) PostgreSQL
9 54 (7.65%) Electronic Patient Records
10 34 (4.82%) SQL Server
11 33 (4.67%) Relational Database
12 31 (4.39%) Amazon Aurora
12 31 (4.39%) Redis
13 26 (3.68%) Cloudera CDH
13 26 (3.68%) MongoDB
14 17 (2.41%) Data Lake
15 14 (1.98%) Data Warehouse
16 13 (1.84%) Amazon Athena
17 10 (1.42%) BigQuery
17 10 (1.42%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 154 (21.81%) Git
2 82 (11.61%) Jenkins
3 63 (8.92%) GitLab
4 54 (7.65%) JIRA
5 34 (4.82%) Artifactory
6 28 (3.97%) Bitbucket
7 15 (2.12%) Subversion
8 11 (1.56%) TeamCity
9 10 (1.42%) Sonatype Nexus
10 8 (1.13%) Maven
11 7 (0.99%) CircleCI
12 6 (0.85%) git-flow
13 5 (0.71%) Cypress.io
13 5 (0.71%) MSTest
13 5 (0.71%) SonarQube
14 4 (0.57%) Cucumber
14 4 (0.57%) Sourcetree
15 3 (0.42%) JUnit
15 3 (0.42%) NUnit
16 2 (0.28%) Mocha
General
1 188 (26.63%) Finance
2 176 (24.93%) Social Skills
3 76 (10.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 76 (10.76%) Law
4 56 (7.93%) Legal
5 43 (6.09%) Front Office
6 34 (4.82%) Analytical Skills
7 31 (4.39%) Games
8 29 (4.11%) Aerospace
9 20 (2.83%) Banking
9 20 (2.83%) Marketing
10 19 (2.69%) Public Sector
10 19 (2.69%) Tech for Good
11 16 (2.27%) Automotive
11 16 (2.27%) Retail
12 9 (1.27%) Health Technology
13 6 (0.85%) Manufacturing
14 5 (0.71%) Billing
14 5 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (0.42%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 194 (27.48%) AWS Engineer
2 190 (26.91%) Developer
3 171 (24.22%) Software Engineer
4 119 (16.86%) Senior
5 109 (15.44%) DevOps Engineer
6 102 (14.45%) Lead
7 75 (10.62%) AWS DevOps
8 73 (10.34%) AWS Software Engineer
9 66 (9.35%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 61 (8.64%) Cloud Engineer
11 60 (8.50%) AWS Developer
12 54 (7.65%) Data Engineer
13 51 (7.22%) Big Data Engineer
13 51 (7.22%) Big Data Software Engineer
13 51 (7.22%) Scala Engineer
13 51 (7.22%) Scala Software Engineer
14 46 (6.52%) Senior Developer
15 45 (6.37%) Full Stack Developer
16 42 (5.95%) Python Engineer
17 38 (5.38%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 179 (25.35%) Node.js
2 139 (19.69%) React
3 86 (12.18%) .NET
4 81 (11.47%) RESTful
5 64 (9.07%) Spring
6 60 (8.50%) AngularJS
7 59 (8.36%) GraphQL
8 57 (8.07%) REST
9 55 (7.79%) Spring Boot
10 44 (6.23%) Django
11 38 (5.38%) RabbitMQ
12 36 (5.10%) .NET Core
12 36 (5.10%) OpenAPI
12 36 (5.10%) Swagger
13 33 (4.67%) gRPC
14 32 (4.53%) CSS
14 32 (4.53%) HTML
14 32 (4.53%) J2EE
14 32 (4.53%) JSON
15 29 (4.11%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 74 (10.48%) Algorithms
2 56 (7.93%) Cloud Native
3 44 (6.23%) Distributed Systems
4 43 (6.09%) Client/Server
5 35 (4.96%) Data Structures
6 32 (4.53%) Tandem
7 28 (3.97%) Greenfield Project
8 21 (2.97%) Management Information System
9 18 (2.55%) Onboarding
10 17 (2.41%) Virtual Team
11 16 (2.27%) Mobile App
12 14 (1.98%) Private Cloud
13 13 (1.84%) IoT
13 13 (1.84%) Online Games
14 11 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
14 11 (1.56%) Linux Command Line
15 10 (1.42%) Hedge funds
16 9 (1.27%) Blog
16 9 (1.27%) Data Centre
17 8 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 81 (11.47%) Linux
2 28 (3.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 28 (3.97%) Ubuntu
3 27 (3.82%) CentOS
4 26 (3.68%) Debian
5 17 (2.41%) Windows
6 4 (0.57%) Unix
7 3 (0.42%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.42%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 319 (45.18%) Agile
2 309 (43.77%) Software Engineering
3 298 (42.21%) CI/CD
4 239 (33.85%) DevOps
5 196 (27.76%) Microservices
6 182 (25.78%) Problem-Solving
7 172 (24.36%) Infrastructure as Code
8 150 (21.25%) Containerisation
9 113 (16.01%) Full Stack Development
10 104 (14.73%) Computer Science
11 77 (10.91%) Visualisation
12 75 (10.62%) Open Source
13 74 (10.48%) Continuous Improvement
14 70 (9.92%) Scrum
15 68 (9.63%) SDLC
16 66 (9.35%) Decision-Making
17 64 (9.07%) Design Patterns
17 64 (9.07%) Mentoring
17 64 (9.07%) TDD
18 63 (8.92%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 327 (46.32%) Python
2 262 (37.11%) Java
3 201 (28.47%) SQL
4 143 (20.25%) JavaScript
5 123 (17.42%) TypeScript
6 94 (13.31%) C#
7 76 (10.76%) Go
8 61 (8.64%) Scala
9 39 (5.52%) Bash
10 16 (2.27%) C
10 16 (2.27%) PHP
10 16 (2.27%) Shell Script
11 10 (1.42%) T-SQL
12 9 (1.27%) Groovy
13 7 (0.99%) C++
13 7 (0.99%) PowerShell
13 7 (0.99%) Ruby
14 6 (0.85%) Apex Code
15 5 (0.71%) VBA
16 4 (0.57%) Rust
Qualifications
1 94 (13.31%) Degree
2 70 (9.92%) Security Cleared
3 65 (9.21%) AWS Certification
3 65 (9.21%) Computer Science Degree
4 59 (8.36%) SC Cleared
5 34 (4.82%) DBS Check
5 34 (4.82%) DV Cleared
6 31 (4.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 23 (3.26%) Master's Degree
8 16 (2.27%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 8 (1.13%) AWS Certified Developer
10 7 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.42%) Sun Certification
12 2 (0.28%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 1 (0.14%) CCIE
13 1 (0.14%) CCNP
13 1 (0.14%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (3.40%) QA
2 13 (1.84%) GDPR
3 12 (1.70%) Data Quality
4 11 (1.56%) HIPAA
5 10 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (1.42%) NIST
6 6 (0.85%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.42%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.14%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.14%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.14%) SEPA
8 1 (0.14%) SLA
System Software
1 211 (29.89%) Docker
2 25 (3.54%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (0.99%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.28%) HDFS
5 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 266 (37.68%) Terraform
2 200 (28.33%) Kubernetes
3 72 (10.20%) Ansible
4 41 (5.81%) Puppet
5 23 (3.26%) Grafana
6 20 (2.83%) Progress Chef
7 14 (1.98%) Packer
8 9 (1.27%) Prometheus
9 7 (0.99%) Salt
10 5 (0.71%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (0.42%) Autotask
11 3 (0.42%) Consul
12 2 (0.28%) CASB
13 1 (0.14%) Kibana
Vendors
1 44 (6.23%) Google
2 26 (3.68%) Red Hat
2 26 (3.68%) SaltStack
3 23 (3.26%) Oracle
4 20 (2.83%) ForgeRock
5 16 (2.27%) Microsoft
5 16 (2.27%) Sitecore
6 13 (1.84%) Salesforce
7 12 (1.70%) Atlassian
7 12 (1.70%) Databricks
8 11 (1.56%) Sage
9 9 (1.27%) GoCardless
9 9 (1.27%) PayPal
10 7 (0.99%) Splunk
11 6 (0.85%) Confluent
11 6 (0.85%) McAfee
11 6 (0.85%) MuleSoft
12 5 (0.71%) Bloomberg
12 5 (0.71%) Informatica
13 4 (0.57%) Dataiku