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 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 139 121 158
Rank change year-on-year -18 +37 -4
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 3 25 21
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.11% 0.89% 0.80%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.43% 2.57% 1.97%
Number of salaries quoted 1 10 8
10th Percentile - £49,500 £44,450
25th Percentile - £56,250 £51,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +26.67% +15.38% +42.86%
75th Percentile - £80,000 £69,800
90th Percentile - £85,000 £73,235
UK median annual salary £75,000 £82,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +17.86% -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 692 973 1,064
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 25.25% 34.76% 40.29%
Number of salaries quoted 269 476 687
10th Percentile £26,450 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £29,500 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £86,500 £85,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -5.51% +1.60% -3.85%

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 17 December 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
Edinburgh -10 2 £95,000 +18.75% 2
Glasgow +6 1 - - 2
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 3 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Serverless
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon SageMaker
2 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Step Functions
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (33.33%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) DynamoDB
1 2 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Principal Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) AWS CDK
2 1 (33.33%) NestJS
2 1 (33.33%) Node.js
2 1 (33.33%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Analytics
1 2 (66.67%) Data Engineering
1 2 (66.67%) Data Protection
2 1 (33.33%) AI
2 1 (33.33%) API Development
2 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) Data Encryption
2 1 (33.33%) Data Science
2 1 (33.33%) Data Security
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Key Management
2 1 (33.33%) Load Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) GDPR
1 1 (33.33%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle