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 30 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 135 130 148
Rank change year-on-year -5 +18 +21
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 9 23 14
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.33% 0.72% 0.58%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.31% 2.26% 1.60%
Number of salaries quoted 2 8 9
10th Percentile - £48,500 £40,650
25th Percentile - £54,688 £49,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £64,250 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +47.86% -1.15% +36.13%
75th Percentile - £76,250 £69,800
90th Percentile - £80,000 £72,090
UK median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +14.29% -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 689 1,018 875
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 24.89% 31.87% 36.43%
Number of salaries quoted 257 503 691
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £29,500 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,423 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.13% -1.05% -
75th Percentile £71,532 £71,250 £72,433
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,750 £62,500
% change year-on-year -5.88% +2.00% -0.79%

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 30 November 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 -1 6 - - 5
Edinburgh +4 3 £95,000 +18.75% 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 9 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 9 (100.00%) AWS
1 9 (100.00%) Serverless
2 5 (55.56%) Amazon ECS
3 4 (44.44%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (22.22%) Amazon EMR
5 2 (22.22%) Amazon MSK
5 2 (22.22%) Amazon SageMaker
5 2 (22.22%) AWS Step Functions
5 2 (22.22%) Snowflake
6 1 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (11.11%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) Amazon Athena
2 3 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (22.22%) Apache Cassandra
3 2 (22.22%) DynamoDB
3 2 (22.22%) Electronic Patient Records
3 2 (22.22%) MongoDB
3 2 (22.22%) RDBMS
3 2 (22.22%) Relational Database
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 3 (33.33%) Maven
2 2 (22.22%) Git
3 1 (11.11%) Ant
3 1 (11.11%) IntelliJ
3 1 (11.11%) Jasmine
3 1 (11.11%) Karma Test Runner
3 1 (11.11%) Protractor
3 1 (11.11%) Selenium
3 1 (11.11%) WebDriver
3 1 (11.11%) webpack
General
1 5 (55.56%) Finance
1 5 (55.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 5 (55.56%) Law
1 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 4 (44.44%) Banking
3 3 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (22.22%) Investment Banking
5 1 (11.11%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Java Engineer
1 5 (55.56%) Java Software Engineer
1 5 (55.56%) Software Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) AWS Software Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Data Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Developer/Software Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 2 (22.22%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
2 2 (22.22%) Front-End Java Developer (Client-Side Java Developer)
2 2 (22.22%) Java Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Java Software Developer
2 2 (22.22%) React Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Security Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Software Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (55.56%) Spring
2 4 (44.44%) Spring Boot
3 3 (33.33%) AngularJS
3 3 (33.33%) HTML
3 3 (33.33%) jQuery
3 3 (33.33%) React
4 2 (22.22%) AWS CDK
4 2 (22.22%) Kafka
4 2 (22.22%) Node.js
4 2 (22.22%) RESTful
5 1 (11.11%) Bootstrap
5 1 (11.11%) CSS
5 1 (11.11%) Hibernate
5 1 (11.11%) HTML5
5 1 (11.11%) J2EE
5 1 (11.11%) JMS
5 1 (11.11%) JSON
5 1 (11.11%) NestJS
5 1 (11.11%) REST
5 1 (11.11%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Algorithms
2 2 (22.22%) Cloud Native
2 2 (22.22%) Public Cloud
3 1 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (11.11%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 5 (55.56%) Agile
2 5 (55.56%) TDD
3 4 (44.44%) Microservices
4 3 (33.33%) AI
4 3 (33.33%) Analytics
4 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 3 (33.33%) Community of Practice
4 3 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (33.33%) Data Engineering
4 3 (33.33%) Data Protection
4 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (33.33%) Scrum
4 3 (33.33%) SDLC
4 3 (33.33%) Test Automation
4 3 (33.33%) Visualisation
5 2 (22.22%) Computer Science
5 2 (22.22%) Kanban
5 2 (22.22%) Software Architecture
5 2 (22.22%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) Java
2 4 (44.44%) JavaScript
3 2 (22.22%) Python
3 2 (22.22%) TypeScript
4 1 (11.11%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (22.22%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) GDPR
1 2 (22.22%) NIST
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Oracle