AWS Lambda Job Trends in Scotland

AWS Lambda
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring AWS Lambda skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 130 171
Rank change year-on-year -5 +41 -17
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 3 15 33
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.076% 0.59% 0.76%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.38% 2.49% 2.16%
Number of salaries quoted 0 4 10
10th Percentile - - £32,500
25th Percentile - £60,000 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £77,500 £48,250
Median % change year-on-year - +60.62% -25.77%
75th Percentile - £95,000 £60,188
90th Percentile - - £80,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% - +7.14%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 786 603 1,528
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 19.98% 23.82% 34.97%
Number of salaries quoted 459 223 603
10th Percentile £27,500 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £54,855 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.29% -0.26% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £71,391 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £86,850 £82,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -

AWS Lambda
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

AWS Lambda job vacancy trend in Scotland

AWS Lambda
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing AWS Lambda.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing AWS Lambda

AWS Lambda
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AWS Lambda within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 16 September 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
Glasgow +1 3 - - 19
AWS Lambda
UK

AWS Lambda
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) AWS Step Functions
1 3 (100.00%) Serverless
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Functions
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Logic Apps
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon EventBridge
3 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon Athena
2 2 (66.67%) Data Lake
2 2 (66.67%) Parquet
3 1 (33.33%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git
2 1 (33.33%) GitLab
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) PySpark
2 2 (66.67%) Apache Avro
2 2 (66.67%) JSON
3 1 (33.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 3 (100.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Community of Practice
2 2 (66.67%) Data Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Data Integration
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) ETL
2 2 (66.67%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Runbook
2 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Validation
3 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Translating Business Requirements
3 1 (33.33%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Accessibility
1 2 (66.67%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Databricks
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft