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

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 368 366 195
Rank change year-on-year -2 -171 +57
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 720 953 3,257
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.73% 0.91% 2.11%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.04% 2.11% 4.40%
Number of salaries quoted 542 651 953
10th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £59,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -6.25% +10.34%
75th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £118,375 £107,500 £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 35,310 45,224 74,103
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.96% 43.16% 48.08%
Number of salaries quoted 26,760 29,534 41,937
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 £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 26 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 26 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 +13 611 £75,000 - 143
UK excluding London -2 382 £65,000 - 84
Work from Home +17 361 £70,000 -3.45% 88
London +32 298 £90,000 +5.88% 71
North of England +21 115 £65,000 - 28
South East -8 70 £67,500 -3.57% 12
Scotland -46 69 £60,000 -7.69% 10
Midlands +33 62 £67,500 +12.50% 12
North West -52 50 £72,500 +7.41% 15
West Midlands +50 49 £66,250 +10.42% 8
South West -33 36 £63,750 -8.67% 16
Yorkshire +103 35 £60,000 -0.41% 8
North East +28 30 £70,000 +24.25% 5
East of England +27 21 £75,000 +7.14% 2
East Midlands -14 13 £87,500 +9.38% 4
Northern Ireland +31 7 £77,500 -3.13% 4
Wales +3 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 (13.75%) Apache
2 95 (13.19%) Apache Spark
3 33 (4.58%) Confluence
4 13 (1.81%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (0.97%) Tomcat
5 7 (0.97%) WordPress
6 3 (0.42%) CMS
7 2 (0.28%) Tornado
8 1 (0.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (0.83%) 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
1 713 (99.03%) Serverless
2 698 (96.94%) AWS
3 286 (39.72%) Amazon S3
4 246 (34.17%) Amazon EC2
5 186 (25.83%) Amazon ECS
6 181 (25.14%) Amazon SQS
7 169 (23.47%) AWS CloudFormation
8 160 (22.22%) Amazon EKS
9 121 (16.81%) Azure
9 121 (16.81%) GitHub
10 70 (9.72%) OpenShift
11 69 (9.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 69 (9.58%) Amazon Kinesis
12 66 (9.17%) Amazon EMR
13 55 (7.64%) GCP
14 49 (6.81%) AWS Fargate
15 45 (6.25%) CloudFront
15 45 (6.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 39 (5.42%) Route 53
17 38 (5.28%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 29 (4.03%) AMQP
2 23 (3.19%) HTTP
3 12 (1.67%) Network Security
4 11 (1.53%) DNS
4 11 (1.53%) VPN
5 10 (1.39%) Internet
6 6 (0.83%) Firewall
6 6 (0.83%) WAN
7 5 (0.69%) LAN
7 5 (0.69%) Wi-Fi
7 5 (0.69%) 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
1 183 (25.42%) Amazon RDS
1 183 (25.42%) DynamoDB
2 105 (14.58%) NoSQL
3 94 (13.06%) Big Data
4 85 (11.81%) MySQL
5 83 (11.53%) Hadoop
6 81 (11.25%) Amazon Redshift
7 66 (9.17%) PostgreSQL
8 54 (7.50%) Electronic Patient Records
9 38 (5.28%) Relational Database
10 37 (5.14%) SQL Server
11 34 (4.72%) Amazon Aurora
12 32 (4.44%) Redis
13 27 (3.75%) MongoDB
14 24 (3.33%) Cloudera CDH
15 19 (2.64%) Data Lake
16 18 (2.50%) Amazon Athena
16 18 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
17 12 (1.67%) Elasticsearch
18 10 (1.39%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 154 (21.39%) Git
2 90 (12.50%) Jenkins
3 67 (9.31%) GitLab
4 56 (7.78%) JIRA
5 39 (5.42%) Artifactory
6 28 (3.89%) Bitbucket
7 15 (2.08%) Subversion
8 12 (1.67%) TeamCity
9 11 (1.53%) CircleCI
10 10 (1.39%) Sonatype Nexus
11 9 (1.25%) git-flow
12 8 (1.11%) Maven
13 6 (0.83%) SonarQube
14 5 (0.69%) Cucumber
14 5 (0.69%) Cypress.io
14 5 (0.69%) MSTest
15 4 (0.56%) Sourcetree
16 3 (0.42%) JUnit
16 3 (0.42%) NUnit
17 2 (0.28%) Mocha
General
1 198 (27.50%) Finance
2 187 (25.97%) Social Skills
3 73 (10.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 71 (9.86%) Law
5 56 (7.78%) Legal
6 45 (6.25%) Front Office
7 35 (4.86%) Analytical Skills
8 31 (4.31%) Games
9 27 (3.75%) Aerospace
10 22 (3.06%) Public Sector
11 21 (2.92%) Banking
11 21 (2.92%) Marketing
12 19 (2.64%) Tech for Good
13 17 (2.36%) Retail
14 14 (1.94%) Automotive
15 9 (1.25%) Health Technology
16 6 (0.83%) Manufacturing
16 6 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
17 5 (0.69%) Billing
18 3 (0.42%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 199 (27.64%) AWS Engineer
2 195 (27.08%) Developer
3 167 (23.19%) Software Engineer
4 116 (16.11%) DevOps Engineer
4 116 (16.11%) Senior
5 101 (14.03%) Lead
6 80 (11.11%) AWS DevOps
7 73 (10.14%) AWS Software Engineer
8 72 (10.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 64 (8.89%) Cloud Engineer
10 62 (8.61%) Data Engineer
11 59 (8.19%) AWS Developer
12 51 (7.08%) Big Data Engineer
12 51 (7.08%) Big Data Software Engineer
12 51 (7.08%) Scala Engineer
12 51 (7.08%) Scala Software Engineer
13 47 (6.53%) Full Stack Developer
14 44 (6.11%) Senior Developer
15 42 (5.83%) Python Engineer
16 41 (5.69%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 179 (24.86%) Node.js
2 132 (18.33%) React
3 84 (11.67%) RESTful
4 79 (10.97%) .NET
5 62 (8.61%) Spring
6 60 (8.33%) GraphQL
7 58 (8.06%) AngularJS
8 57 (7.92%) REST
9 51 (7.08%) Spring Boot
10 45 (6.25%) Django
11 38 (5.28%) RabbitMQ
12 36 (5.00%) J2EE
13 34 (4.72%) CSS
13 34 (4.72%) JSON
13 34 (4.72%) OpenAPI
13 34 (4.72%) Swagger
14 33 (4.58%) HTML
15 31 (4.31%) .NET Core
15 31 (4.31%) gRPC
16 30 (4.17%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 75 (10.42%) Algorithms
2 57 (7.92%) Cloud Native
3 48 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
4 43 (5.97%) Client/Server
5 36 (5.00%) Data Structures
5 36 (5.00%) Tandem
6 28 (3.89%) Greenfield Project
7 23 (3.19%) Management Information System
8 22 (3.06%) Onboarding
9 19 (2.64%) Virtual Team
10 14 (1.94%) IoT
10 14 (1.94%) Mobile App
11 13 (1.81%) Linux Command Line
11 13 (1.81%) Online Games
12 11 (1.53%) Enterprise Software
13 10 (1.39%) Private Cloud
14 9 (1.25%) Data Centre
15 8 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
16 6 (0.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 6 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 88 (12.22%) Linux
2 26 (3.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 26 (3.61%) Ubuntu
3 25 (3.47%) CentOS
4 24 (3.33%) Debian
5 19 (2.64%) Windows
6 5 (0.69%) Unix
7 3 (0.42%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.42%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.14%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 324 (45.00%) Agile
2 313 (43.47%) Software Engineering
3 312 (43.33%) CI/CD
4 250 (34.72%) DevOps
5 191 (26.53%) Problem-Solving
6 190 (26.39%) Microservices
7 172 (23.89%) Infrastructure as Code
8 147 (20.42%) Containerisation
9 115 (15.97%) Full Stack Development
10 111 (15.42%) Computer Science
11 77 (10.69%) Visualisation
12 74 (10.28%) Continuous Improvement
12 74 (10.28%) Open Source
13 71 (9.86%) SDLC
14 67 (9.31%) Decision-Making
15 66 (9.17%) Mentoring
16 65 (9.03%) Design Patterns
17 64 (8.89%) Scrum
17 64 (8.89%) TDD
18 61 (8.47%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 341 (47.36%) Python
2 260 (36.11%) Java
3 205 (28.47%) SQL
4 137 (19.03%) JavaScript
5 119 (16.53%) TypeScript
6 92 (12.78%) C#
7 82 (11.39%) Go
8 63 (8.75%) Scala
9 44 (6.11%) Bash
10 20 (2.78%) Shell Script
11 18 (2.50%) PHP
12 16 (2.22%) C
13 11 (1.53%) T-SQL
14 9 (1.25%) Groovy
15 8 (1.11%) Ruby
16 7 (0.97%) C++
16 7 (0.97%) PowerShell
17 6 (0.83%) Apex Code
18 5 (0.69%) Rust
18 5 (0.69%) VBA
Qualifications
1 101 (14.03%) Degree
2 72 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 69 (9.58%) Security Cleared
4 63 (8.75%) AWS Certification
5 58 (8.06%) SC Cleared
6 34 (4.72%) DBS Check
7 32 (4.44%) DV Cleared
8 31 (4.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 27 (3.75%) Master's Degree
10 17 (2.36%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 9 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
12 8 (1.11%) 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 (2.92%) QA
2 13 (1.81%) Data Quality
2 13 (1.81%) GDPR
3 11 (1.53%) HIPAA
4 7 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (0.97%) NIST
5 5 (0.69%) 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
1 224 (31.11%) Docker
2 23 (3.19%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (1.25%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.28%) HDFS
5 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 278 (38.61%) Terraform
2 207 (28.75%) Kubernetes
3 73 (10.14%) Ansible
4 38 (5.28%) Puppet
5 26 (3.61%) Grafana
6 19 (2.64%) Progress Chef
7 15 (2.08%) Packer
8 9 (1.25%) Prometheus
9 7 (0.97%) Salt
10 5 (0.69%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (0.42%) Autotask
11 3 (0.42%) Consul
12 2 (0.28%) CASB
12 2 (0.28%) Kibana
13 1 (0.14%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 45 (6.25%) Google
2 25 (3.47%) Oracle
3 24 (3.33%) Red Hat
3 24 (3.33%) SaltStack
4 18 (2.50%) ForgeRock
4 18 (2.50%) Microsoft
5 14 (1.94%) Sitecore
6 13 (1.81%) Atlassian
6 13 (1.81%) Databricks
6 13 (1.81%) Salesforce
7 11 (1.53%) Sage
8 9 (1.25%) GoCardless
8 9 (1.25%) PayPal
9 8 (1.11%) McAfee
9 8 (1.11%) Splunk
10 6 (0.83%) Confluent
10 6 (0.83%) MuleSoft
11 5 (0.69%) Informatica
12 4 (0.56%) Apple
12 4 (0.56%) Dataiku