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 29 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 99 198
Rank change year-on-year -46 +99 -28
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 8 23 62
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.25% 1.18% 1.05%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.97% 4.01% 2.39%
Number of salaries quoted 2 15 13
10th Percentile £56,949 - £37,500
25th Percentile £62,041 £52,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,783 £70,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.69% +14.75% +1.67%
75th Percentile £92,769 £80,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £98,608 £95,500 £67,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £81,250 £71,500
% change year-on-year -13.85% +13.64% -4.67%

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 824 573 2,598
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 26.14% 29.43% 44.20%
Number of salaries quoted 317 393 987
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £28,150
25th Percentile £31,250 £41,250 £38,167
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -8.70%
75th Percentile £78,790 £76,840 £67,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £82,548
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

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 29 March 2026.

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 29 March 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
Edinburgh -5 5 - - 2
Glasgow -22 2 £95,000 +26.67% 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (62.50%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (12.50%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 8 (100.00%) AWS
1 8 (100.00%) Serverless
2 6 (75.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 5 (62.50%) AWS Step Functions
4 4 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (50.00%) AWS CodePipeline
4 4 (50.00%) SaaS
5 3 (37.50%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (12.50%) Amazon Bedrock
7 1 (12.50%) Amazon EventBridge
7 1 (12.50%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (12.50%) Dagster
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (75.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 5 (62.50%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (62.50%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (50.00%) SQL Server
3 4 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (12.50%) DynamoDB
4 1 (12.50%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (12.50%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 5 (62.50%) Git
2 2 (25.00%) GitLab
3 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
3 1 (12.50%) MLflow
General
1 6 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (62.50%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Informatica Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
2 1 (12.50%) Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Principal Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Python Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Senior
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Python Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Software Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (62.50%) REST
2 4 (50.00%) SOAP
3 2 (25.00%) AWS CDK
4 1 (12.50%) FastAPI
4 1 (12.50%) Hugging Face
4 1 (12.50%) JWT
4 1 (12.50%) NestJS
4 1 (12.50%) Node.js
4 1 (12.50%) NumPy
4 1 (12.50%) OAuth
4 1 (12.50%) OAuth2
4 1 (12.50%) OpenCV
4 1 (12.50%) Pandas
4 1 (12.50%) PySpark
4 1 (12.50%) pytest
4 1 (12.50%) PyTorch
4 1 (12.50%) React
4 1 (12.50%) RESTful
4 1 (12.50%) SQLAlchemy
4 1 (12.50%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 3 (37.50%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Linux
1 4 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) CI/CD
2 6 (75.00%) Data Pipeline
3 5 (62.50%) Event-Driven
3 5 (62.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 5 (62.50%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (62.50%) Workflow
4 4 (50.00%) API Integration
4 4 (50.00%) BDD
4 4 (50.00%) Data Governance
4 4 (50.00%) Data Integration
4 4 (50.00%) Data Modelling
4 4 (50.00%) Integration Patterns
4 4 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
5 3 (37.50%) AI
5 3 (37.50%) Data Protection
6 2 (25.00%) API Development
6 2 (25.00%) DevOps
6 2 (25.00%) Microservices
6 2 (25.00%) Project Management
6 2 (25.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) SQL
2 4 (50.00%) Python
2 4 (50.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (12.50%) C#
3 1 (12.50%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (12.50%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Control-M
2 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (25.00%) Terraform
3 1 (12.50%) Grafana
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Informatica
1 4 (50.00%) Oracle
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (12.50%) Databricks