AWS Lambda
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for AWS Lambda skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited AWS Lambda over the 6 months to 7 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 359 293 201
Rank change year-on-year -66 -92 +12
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 433 1,516 2,453
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.82% 1.23% 1.91%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.91% 2.88% 4.09%
Number of salaries quoted 358 860 1,314
10th Percentile £48,375 £49,875 £47,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £60,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +10.34%
75th Percentile £82,500 £98,750 £102,500
90th Percentile £96,625 £120,000 £132,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% - +4.17%

All Cloud Skills
UK

AWS Lambda is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 22,612 52,646 59,920
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 42.68% 42.86% 46.76%
Number of salaries quoted 17,789 35,410 42,532
10th Percentile £32,750 £34,750 £33,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -3.64% +4.76% +5.00%

AWS Lambda
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing AWS Lambda as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Lambda in the UK

AWS Lambda
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing AWS Lambda.

Salary trend for AWS Lambda in the UK

AWS Lambda
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS Lambda over the 6 months to 7 December 2023.

Salary histogram for AWS Lambda in the UK

AWS Lambda
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AWS Lambda within the UK over the 6 months to 7 December 2023. 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
England -55 365 £70,000 -12.50% 226
Work from Home -50 238 £65,000 -16.13% 145
UK excluding London +25 203 £65,000 +4.00% 134
London -81 169 £77,500 -11.43% 109
South East +90 55 £70,000 +7.69% 30
North of England +19 52 £62,500 -3.47% 68
South West +87 50 £60,000 +4.35% 16
North West +24 35 £62,500 -7.41% 40
East of England +117 20 £76,250 -8.96% 5
Scotland -19 17 £65,000 +42.86% 8
Yorkshire +58 13 £52,500 -12.50% 10
Midlands +86 8 £63,500 +10.43% 3
West Midlands +117 7 £64,500 +3.20% 3
North East +42 4 £62,500 +25.00% 18
Northern Ireland +40 4 £65,000 -18.75% 2
Wales +2 3 £65,000 +8.33% 2
East Midlands +17 1 £47,500 -17.39%

AWS Lambda
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 32 (7.39%) Confluence
2 25 (5.77%) Apache
3 17 (3.93%) Apache Spark
4 12 (2.77%) nginx
5 11 (2.54%) Tomcat
6 7 (1.62%) Apache Airflow
6 7 (1.62%) WordPress
7 3 (0.69%) Tornado
8 2 (0.46%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.23%) CMS
9 1 (0.23%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 2 (0.46%) Sketch
1 2 (0.46%) UXPin
1 2 (0.46%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 1 (0.23%) Magento
1 1 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.23%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 431 (99.54%) Serverless
2 427 (98.61%) AWS
3 172 (39.72%) Amazon S3
4 143 (33.03%) Amazon EC2
5 122 (28.18%) AWS CloudFormation
6 98 (22.63%) Amazon ECS
7 80 (18.48%) Amazon SQS
8 75 (17.32%) Azure
9 65 (15.01%) GitHub
10 63 (14.55%) Amazon EKS
11 54 (12.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 49 (11.32%) GCP
13 36 (8.31%) Amazon Cognito
14 35 (8.08%) GitHub Actions
15 34 (7.85%) CloudFront
16 31 (7.16%) Amazon Kinesis
17 28 (6.47%) Cloud Computing
18 26 (6.00%) OpenShift
19 24 (5.54%) Amazon EMR
19 24 (5.54%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 16 (3.70%) Internet
1 16 (3.70%) TCP/IP
2 15 (3.46%) AMQP
3 10 (2.31%) DNS
4 9 (2.08%) Firewall
5 5 (1.15%) Network Security
6 4 (0.92%) HTTP
6 4 (0.92%) IPv4
6 4 (0.92%) VPN
7 3 (0.69%) IPv6
7 3 (0.69%) Reverse Proxy
8 2 (0.46%) OSPF
8 2 (0.46%) VLAN
9 1 (0.23%) LAN
9 1 (0.23%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (26.56%) Amazon RDS
2 112 (25.87%) DynamoDB
3 76 (17.55%) PostgreSQL
4 62 (14.32%) Amazon Redshift
5 57 (13.16%) MySQL
6 45 (10.39%) MongoDB
7 35 (8.08%) Relational Database
8 27 (6.24%) Amazon Athena
9 25 (5.77%) Data Warehouse
9 25 (5.77%) NoSQL
10 24 (5.54%) Elasticsearch
11 22 (5.08%) Big Data
12 21 (4.85%) SQL Server
13 19 (4.39%) Amazon Aurora
14 18 (4.16%) Redis
15 17 (3.93%) Data Lake
16 16 (3.70%) Hadoop
17 10 (2.31%) Parquet
18 8 (1.85%) Delta Lake
19 7 (1.62%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 118 (27.25%) Git
2 84 (19.40%) Jenkins
3 58 (13.39%) JIRA
4 34 (7.85%) GitLab
5 25 (5.77%) CircleCI
6 23 (5.31%) Artifactory
7 20 (4.62%) Cucumber
8 19 (4.39%) git-flow
9 17 (3.93%) Bitbucket
9 17 (3.93%) Maven
10 15 (3.46%) JUnit
11 14 (3.23%) webpack
12 12 (2.77%) Cypress.io
12 12 (2.77%) Mocha
12 12 (2.77%) SonarQube
13 11 (2.54%) TeamCity
14 9 (2.08%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 9 (2.08%) Postman
14 9 (2.08%) Travis CI
15 5 (1.15%) Selenium
General
1 88 (20.32%) Finance
2 75 (17.32%) Social Skills
3 41 (9.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 27 (6.24%) Public Sector
5 17 (3.93%) Retail
6 15 (3.46%) Front Office
7 12 (2.77%) Analytical Skills
8 11 (2.54%) Legal
9 8 (1.85%) Banking
9 8 (1.85%) Law
10 6 (1.39%) Marketing
10 6 (1.39%) Publishing
11 4 (0.92%) Aerospace
11 4 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.69%) Advertising
12 3 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.46%) Billing
13 2 (0.46%) Electronics
13 2 (0.46%) Games
13 2 (0.46%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 145 (33.49%) Developer
2 102 (23.56%) Senior
3 88 (20.32%) DevOps Engineer
4 77 (17.78%) AWS Engineer
5 56 (12.93%) Data Engineer
6 39 (9.01%) AWS DevOps
7 38 (8.78%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 38 (8.78%) Cloud Engineer
7 38 (8.78%) Senior Developer
8 36 (8.31%) Lead
9 35 (8.08%) Java Developer
10 33 (7.62%) Software Engineer
11 27 (6.24%) AWS Developer
12 26 (6.00%) Software Developer
13 25 (5.77%) .NET Developer
13 25 (5.77%) Full Stack Developer
14 24 (5.54%) C# Developer
15 21 (4.85%) Python Developer
16 18 (4.16%) Site Reliability Engineer
17 17 (3.93%) C# .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (17.55%) Node.js
2 68 (15.70%) React
3 59 (13.63%) REST
4 49 (11.32%) Spring
5 46 (10.62%) .NET
6 42 (9.70%) GraphQL
7 37 (8.55%) RabbitMQ
8 32 (7.39%) JSON
9 30 (6.93%) Kafka
10 26 (6.00%) AngularJS
10 26 (6.00%) RESTful
11 25 (5.77%) CSS
11 25 (5.77%) Spring Boot
12 24 (5.54%) HTML
13 22 (5.08%) Middleware
14 20 (4.62%) Django
15 19 (4.39%) AWS CDK
16 18 (4.16%) Swagger
17 17 (3.93%) Express.js
17 17 (3.93%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 55 (12.70%) Cloud Native
2 44 (10.16%) Distributed Systems
3 26 (6.00%) Greenfield Project
4 20 (4.62%) Mobile App
5 16 (3.70%) Onboarding
5 16 (3.70%) Product Ownership
6 14 (3.23%) Tandem
7 10 (2.31%) IoT
8 9 (2.08%) Linux Command Line
9 8 (1.85%) Algorithms
10 7 (1.62%) Management Information System
10 7 (1.62%) Private Cloud
10 7 (1.62%) Public Cloud
10 7 (1.62%) Virtual Team
11 6 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (1.15%) Data Structures
12 5 (1.15%) Educational Technology
12 5 (1.15%) Genomics
12 5 (1.15%) Music Streaming
13 4 (0.92%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 96 (22.17%) Linux
2 26 (6.00%) Unix
3 21 (4.85%) Windows
4 7 (1.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (1.62%) Ubuntu
5 5 (1.15%) CentOS
5 5 (1.15%) Debian
5 5 (1.15%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.46%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.46%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.23%) Android
7 1 (0.23%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 228 (52.66%) Agile
2 199 (45.96%) CI/CD
3 171 (39.49%) DevOps
4 141 (32.56%) Microservices
5 137 (31.64%) Software Engineering
6 135 (31.18%) Infrastructure as Code
7 73 (16.86%) Containerisation
8 61 (14.09%) Continuous Integration
8 61 (14.09%) Problem-Solving
9 55 (12.70%) ETL
10 52 (12.01%) SDLC
11 46 (10.62%) DevSecOps
12 44 (10.16%) Configuration Management
12 44 (10.16%) Open Source
13 42 (9.70%) Mentoring
14 40 (9.24%) Test Automation
15 39 (9.01%) Full Stack Development
16 38 (8.78%) Clean Code
16 38 (8.78%) Computer Science
16 38 (8.78%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 225 (51.96%) Python
2 138 (31.87%) Java
3 102 (23.56%) SQL
4 73 (16.86%) JavaScript
5 64 (14.78%) TypeScript
6 53 (12.24%) C#
7 43 (9.93%) Bash
8 33 (7.62%) Shell Script
9 27 (6.24%) Go
10 17 (3.93%) PHP
10 17 (3.93%) PowerShell
11 12 (2.77%) Scala
12 11 (2.54%) Ruby
13 10 (2.31%) Groovy
14 9 (2.08%) Perl
14 9 (2.08%) T-SQL
15 6 (1.39%) PL/SQL
15 6 (1.39%) R
16 2 (0.46%) C++
16 2 (0.46%) Rust
Qualifications
1 77 (17.78%) Security Cleared
2 62 (14.32%) SC Cleared
3 37 (8.55%) AWS Certification
4 32 (7.39%) Degree
5 24 (5.54%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (3.70%) DV Cleared
7 8 (1.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 6 (1.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 6 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (1.15%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.69%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.46%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.46%) ISTQB
13 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified Developer
13 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 1 (0.23%) OCP
13 1 (0.23%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (6.24%) QA
2 13 (3.00%) Data Quality
3 3 (0.69%) NIST
4 2 (0.46%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.46%) NCSC
5 1 (0.23%) ISO 22301
5 1 (0.23%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 162 (37.41%) Docker
2 10 (2.31%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 185 (42.73%) Terraform
2 154 (35.57%) Kubernetes
3 72 (16.63%) Ansible
4 32 (7.39%) Grafana
5 22 (5.08%) Puppet
6 19 (4.39%) Packer
6 19 (4.39%) Progress Chef
7 16 (3.70%) Prometheus
8 12 (2.77%) Kibana
9 5 (1.15%) Salt
10 4 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.46%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.23%) HP Fortify
12 1 (0.23%) Opsgenie
12 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 37 (8.55%) Oracle
2 30 (6.93%) Google
3 23 (5.31%) Atlassian
4 16 (3.70%) Databricks
5 14 (3.23%) Microsoft
6 9 (2.08%) IBM
7 8 (1.85%) AppDynamics
7 8 (1.85%) Red Hat
8 6 (1.39%) McAfee
9 5 (1.15%) New Relic
9 5 (1.15%) SaltStack
10 4 (0.92%) Apple
10 4 (0.92%) Splunk
11 3 (0.69%) Confluent
12 2 (0.46%) Okta
12 2 (0.46%) Synopsys
13 1 (0.23%) Informatica
13 1 (0.23%) MuleSoft
13 1 (0.23%) PagerDuty
13 1 (0.23%) Salesforce