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 31 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 135 129 148
Rank change year-on-year -6 +19 +24
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 15 19 13
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.54% 0.59% 0.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.16% 1.92% 1.48%
Number of salaries quoted 4 7 9
10th Percentile - £48,000 £40,650
25th Percentile £60,000 £53,125 £49,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £58,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +32.48% +6.36% +22.22%
75th Percentile £95,000 £76,250 £69,800
90th Percentile - £80,000 £74,250
UK median annual salary £70,500 £77,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -9.03% +10.71% -12.50%

All Cloud 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 695 989 876
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 25.23% 30.50% 36.02%
Number of salaries quoted 246 478 737
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £32,000 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £53,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% -
75th Percentile £71,532 £70,000 £72,433
90th Percentile £89,375 £80,000 £84,056
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +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
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS Lambda in Scotland over the 6 months to 31 October 2025.

Salary histogram for AWS Lambda in Scotland

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 31 October 2025. 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 -6 11 - - 7
Edinburgh +4 4 £77,500 -3.13% 4
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:

Cloud Services
1 15 (100.00%) AWS
1 15 (100.00%) Serverless
2 14 (93.33%) Amazon S3
3 8 (53.33%) Amazon ECS
4 6 (40.00%) Amazon EC2
4 6 (40.00%) Cloud Computing
5 4 (26.67%) Amazon EMR
5 4 (26.67%) Amazon MSK
5 4 (26.67%) Amazon SageMaker
5 4 (26.67%) Snowflake
6 2 (13.33%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (13.33%) AWS Step Functions
6 2 (13.33%) Power Platform
7 1 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (6.67%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (53.33%) Amazon Athena
2 5 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (26.67%) Apache Cassandra
3 4 (26.67%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (26.67%) Electronic Patient Records
3 4 (26.67%) MongoDB
3 4 (26.67%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (26.67%) RDBMS
3 4 (26.67%) Relational Database
4 2 (13.33%) DynamoDB
4 2 (13.33%) Oracle ODI
4 2 (13.33%) Power BI
4 2 (13.33%) Star Schema
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 5 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 5 (33.33%) Maven
2 4 (26.67%) Git
3 1 (6.67%) Ant
3 1 (6.67%) IntelliJ
3 1 (6.67%) Jasmine
3 1 (6.67%) Karma Test Runner
3 1 (6.67%) Protractor
3 1 (6.67%) Selenium
3 1 (6.67%) WebDriver
3 1 (6.67%) webpack
General
1 10 (66.67%) Finance
1 10 (66.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 10 (66.67%) Law
2 8 (53.33%) Banking
3 6 (40.00%) Social Skills
4 5 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (26.67%) Investment Banking
6 2 (13.33%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 10 (66.67%) Software Engineer
2 9 (60.00%) Java Engineer
2 9 (60.00%) Java Software Engineer
3 4 (26.67%) AWS Engineer
3 4 (26.67%) AWS Software Engineer
3 4 (26.67%) Developer
3 4 (26.67%) Developer/Software Engineer
3 4 (26.67%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 4 (26.67%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
3 4 (26.67%) Front-End Java Developer (Client-Side Java Developer)
3 4 (26.67%) Java Developer
3 4 (26.67%) Java Software Developer
3 4 (26.67%) React Developer
3 4 (26.67%) Software Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Data Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) QA Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Security Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Lead
5 1 (6.67%) Lead Software Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (60.00%) Spring
2 8 (53.33%) Spring Boot
3 5 (33.33%) AngularJS
3 5 (33.33%) HTML
3 5 (33.33%) jQuery
4 4 (26.67%) Kafka
4 4 (26.67%) React
4 4 (26.67%) RESTful
5 1 (6.67%) AWS CDK
5 1 (6.67%) Bootstrap
5 1 (6.67%) CSS
5 1 (6.67%) Hibernate
5 1 (6.67%) HTML5
5 1 (6.67%) J2EE
5 1 (6.67%) JMS
5 1 (6.67%) JSON
5 1 (6.67%) Node.js
5 1 (6.67%) REST
5 1 (6.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) Algorithms
1 5 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 5 (33.33%) Public Cloud
2 2 (13.33%) Replication
3 1 (6.67%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (80.00%) Agile
2 10 (66.67%) Software Engineering
3 9 (60.00%) TDD
4 8 (53.33%) CI/CD
5 7 (46.67%) Scrum
6 6 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (40.00%) SDLC
6 6 (40.00%) Test Automation
7 5 (33.33%) Community of Practice
7 5 (33.33%) Computer Science
7 5 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (33.33%) Microservices
7 5 (33.33%) Visualisation
8 4 (26.67%) AI
8 4 (26.67%) Mentoring
8 4 (26.67%) Software Architecture
8 4 (26.67%) Stakeholder Management
8 4 (26.67%) Strategic Planning
8 4 (26.67%) System Integration Testing
8 4 (26.67%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (60.00%) Java
2 6 (40.00%) JavaScript
3 4 (26.67%) Python
4 2 (13.33%) SQL
5 1 (6.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (26.67%) Degree
2 1 (6.67%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) GDPR
1 2 (13.33%) NIST
1 2 (13.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 5 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (53.33%) Oracle