AWS Lambda Jobs

AWS Lambda
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring AWS Lambda skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited AWS Lambda over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 302 366 367
Rank change year-on-year +64 +1 -177
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 481 718 943
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.92% 0.73% 0.91%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.19% 2.03% 2.11%
Number of salaries quoted 396 538 645
10th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £60,938 £59,625 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% -3.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £115,000 £96,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £138,750 £118,750 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -7.14%

All Cloud Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 15,077 35,358 44,765
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 28.91% 35.95% 43.04%
Number of salaries quoted 11,032 26,774 29,301
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,750 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.09% -11.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £83,125 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £102,725 £96,250 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%

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 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for AWS Lambda in the UK

AWS Lambda
Top 16 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 30 April 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
England +73 447 £82,500 +10.00% 396
Work from Home +127 302 £80,000 +14.29% 244
London +74 274 £95,000 +5.56% 221
UK excluding London +48 191 £65,000 - 187
North of England +24 55 £69,250 +6.54% 81
South East +76 33 £55,000 -18.52% 38
South West +111 31 £60,000 -7.69% 25
Midlands +28 29 £56,250 -16.67% 19
North West +12 29 £75,000 +3.45% 51
East of England +60 23 £85,000 +13.33% 8
West Midlands +25 23 £57,500 -13.21% 13
Yorkshire +57 22 £58,750 -2.08% 24
Scotland +78 19 £62,500 +4.17% 12
East Midlands +42 6 £55,000 -37.14% 6
North East +26 4 £62,500 -10.71% 8
Wales +40 3 £37,733 -37.11% 4

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 88 (18.30%) Apache Spark
2 83 (17.26%) Apache
3 77 (16.01%) Apache Airflow
4 14 (2.91%) Confluence
5 3 (0.62%) CMS
6 2 (0.42%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.42%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.42%) Mule
6 2 (0.42%) Oracle Coherence
6 2 (0.42%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.42%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.42%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.21%) Strapi
Applications
1 7 (1.46%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 3 (0.62%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.21%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (1.04%) SimCorp Dimension
2 2 (0.42%) Sprinklr
3 1 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 481 (100.00%) AWS
1 481 (100.00%) Serverless
2 224 (46.57%) Amazon S3
3 149 (30.98%) Amazon EC2
4 148 (30.77%) Amazon ECS
5 109 (22.66%) AWS CloudFormation
6 83 (17.26%) Amazon SQS
6 83 (17.26%) OpenShift
7 78 (16.22%) dbt
8 52 (10.81%) AWS Step Functions
9 50 (10.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 39 (8.11%) Amazon EKS
11 37 (7.69%) Azure
12 36 (7.48%) SaaS
13 32 (6.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 31 (6.44%) GitHub
15 28 (5.82%) Amazon EventBridge
16 22 (4.57%) Datadog
17 21 (4.37%) AWS KMS
18 20 (4.16%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 16 (3.33%) Network Security
2 12 (2.49%) Firewall
3 8 (1.66%) SSL
4 6 (1.25%) Bluetooth
5 4 (0.83%) Internet
5 4 (0.83%) IPv4
6 3 (0.62%) VPN
7 2 (0.42%) OSPF
7 2 (0.42%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (23.49%) DynamoDB
2 110 (22.87%) Amazon RDS
3 88 (18.30%) Amazon Athena
4 81 (16.84%) Amazon Redshift
5 76 (15.80%) Dremio
6 72 (14.97%) Apache Iceberg
7 71 (14.76%) Apache Arrow
7 71 (14.76%) Apache Ignite
8 31 (6.44%) Big Data
9 30 (6.24%) Data Lake
9 30 (6.24%) NoSQL
10 29 (6.03%) PostgreSQL
11 25 (5.20%) Data Warehouse
11 25 (5.20%) MySQL
12 13 (2.70%) Amazon Aurora
13 12 (2.49%) Elasticsearch
13 12 (2.49%) Relational Database
14 7 (1.46%) Power BI
14 7 (1.46%) RDBMS
15 6 (1.25%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 86 (17.88%) Artifactory
2 66 (13.72%) Git
3 58 (12.06%) Jenkins
4 41 (8.52%) GitLab
5 26 (5.41%) JIRA
6 20 (4.16%) Cucumber
7 15 (3.12%) JUnit
7 15 (3.12%) Maven
8 14 (2.91%) IntelliJ
8 14 (2.91%) Mockito
9 9 (1.87%) CircleCI
10 7 (1.46%) Bitbucket
10 7 (1.46%) Bitbucket Server
11 5 (1.04%) Jasmine
11 5 (1.04%) Karma Test Runner
12 4 (0.83%) SonarQube
12 4 (0.83%) Spinnaker
13 3 (0.62%) Cypress.io
13 3 (0.62%) Vagrant
13 3 (0.62%) webpack
General
1 182 (37.84%) Finance
2 112 (23.28%) Front Office
2 112 (23.28%) Social Skills
3 47 (9.77%) Banking
4 29 (6.03%) Public Sector
5 19 (3.95%) Health Technology
5 19 (3.95%) Law
5 19 (3.95%) Publishing
5 19 (3.95%) Tech for Good
6 11 (2.29%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (2.08%) Marketing
8 9 (1.87%) Games
8 9 (1.87%) Influencing Skills
8 9 (1.87%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (1.66%) Financial Institution
9 8 (1.66%) Legal
10 7 (1.46%) Advertising
10 7 (1.46%) Manufacturing
10 7 (1.46%) Retail
10 7 (1.46%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 169 (35.14%) AWS Engineer
2 146 (30.35%) Senior
3 131 (27.23%) AWS DevOps
4 129 (26.82%) Developer
5 125 (25.99%) DevOps Engineer
6 118 (24.53%) Data Engineer
7 117 (24.32%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 113 (23.49%) Python Engineer
9 79 (16.42%) Senior Developer
10 65 (13.51%) Lead
11 43 (8.94%) Architect
12 39 (8.11%) Software Engineer
13 38 (7.90%) AWS Developer
14 32 (6.65%) Senior DevOps
15 31 (6.44%) Software Developer
16 27 (5.61%) AWS Architect
16 27 (5.61%) AWS Data Engineer
16 27 (5.61%) Senior Software Developer
17 26 (5.41%) DevOps Manager
17 26 (5.41%) Finance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 116 (24.12%) Kafka
2 103 (21.41%) React
3 84 (17.46%) PySpark
4 81 (16.84%) J2EE
5 71 (14.76%) Node.js
6 62 (12.89%) RESTful
7 43 (8.94%) GraphQL
8 29 (6.03%) Spring
9 27 (5.61%) Elastic Stack
9 27 (5.61%) Spring Boot
10 26 (5.41%) CSS
11 24 (4.99%) AWS CDK
11 24 (4.99%) HTML
12 23 (4.78%) REST
13 21 (4.37%) AngularJS
14 18 (3.74%) .NET
15 17 (3.53%) Laravel
16 16 (3.33%) JWT
16 16 (3.33%) OAuth
17 14 (2.91%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 60 (12.47%) Cloud Native
2 29 (6.03%) Management Information System
3 15 (3.12%) Enterprise Software
4 14 (2.91%) Credit Derivative
5 11 (2.29%) IoT
5 11 (2.29%) Public Cloud
6 10 (2.08%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (2.08%) Tandem
7 9 (1.87%) Algorithms
7 9 (1.87%) Mobile App
7 9 (1.87%) Product Ownership
8 7 (1.46%) Client/Server
9 6 (1.25%) Data Structures
9 6 (1.25%) Embedded Systems
9 6 (1.25%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (1.04%) Blockchain
10 5 (1.04%) CMDB
10 5 (1.04%) Web3
11 4 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (0.83%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 45 (9.36%) Linux
2 14 (2.91%) Ubuntu
3 8 (1.66%) Windows
4 3 (0.62%) Unix
4 3 (0.62%) VMS
5 1 (0.21%) Android
5 1 (0.21%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 266 (55.30%) CI/CD
2 243 (50.52%) DevOps
3 239 (49.69%) Agile
4 211 (43.87%) Software Engineering
5 113 (23.49%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 112 (23.28%) Asset Management
7 111 (23.08%) Microservices
8 95 (19.75%) Open Source
9 94 (19.54%) Data Engineering
9 94 (19.54%) Infrastructure as Code
10 86 (17.88%) Event-Driven
10 86 (17.88%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 76 (15.80%) Analytics
12 75 (15.59%) Mentoring
13 72 (14.97%) Full-Stack Development
14 71 (14.76%) Containerisation
15 67 (13.93%) Test Automation
16 66 (13.72%) Problem-Solving
17 52 (10.81%) Deployment Automation
18 49 (10.19%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 284 (59.04%) Python
2 189 (39.29%) Java
3 118 (24.53%) TypeScript
4 104 (21.62%) Go
5 91 (18.92%) JavaScript
6 83 (17.26%) SQL
7 43 (8.94%) C#
8 21 (4.37%) PHP
9 20 (4.16%) C++
10 19 (3.95%) Bash
11 13 (2.70%) Scala
12 11 (2.29%) Shell Script
13 8 (1.66%) Groovy
14 7 (1.46%) C
14 7 (1.46%) Perl
14 7 (1.46%) PowerShell
15 6 (1.25%) Ladder Logic
15 6 (1.25%) Ruby
16 5 (1.04%) R
17 2 (0.42%) Haskell
Qualifications
1 64 (13.31%) Security Cleared
2 50 (10.40%) Degree
3 43 (8.94%) AWS Certification
4 40 (8.32%) Computer Science Degree
5 35 (7.28%) SC Cleared
6 20 (4.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 10 (2.08%) DV Cleared
8 8 (1.66%) Master's Degree
9 5 (1.04%) DBS Check
10 3 (0.62%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (0.42%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 2 (0.42%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (0.42%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 2 (0.42%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.42%) PhD
11 2 (0.42%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.21%) CCSK
12 1 (0.21%) ISTQB
12 1 (0.21%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 1 (0.21%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (6.86%) QA
2 21 (4.37%) GDPR
3 17 (3.53%) HIPAA
4 11 (2.29%) Data Quality
5 8 (1.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (1.25%) NIST
7 5 (1.04%) Accessibility
8 4 (0.83%) GMP
8 4 (0.83%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.42%) NCSC
9 2 (0.42%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.42%) SLA
10 1 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 198 (41.16%) Docker
2 9 (1.87%) Virtual Desktop
3 7 (1.46%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.46%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.21%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 210 (43.66%) Terraform
2 196 (40.75%) Kubernetes
3 40 (8.32%) Ansible
4 31 (6.44%) Prometheus
5 27 (5.61%) Grafana
6 7 (1.46%) Nessus
6 7 (1.46%) Proxmox
7 6 (1.25%) Progress Chef
8 5 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.83%) Packer
9 4 (0.83%) Puppet
10 3 (0.62%) Argo
10 3 (0.62%) Nagios
11 1 (0.21%) Bugsnag
11 1 (0.21%) Kibana
11 1 (0.21%) logstash
Vendors
1 20 (4.16%) ServiceNow
2 19 (3.95%) IBM
3 15 (3.12%) Informatica
3 15 (3.12%) Salesforce
4 14 (2.91%) MuleSoft
5 12 (2.49%) Databricks
6 8 (1.66%) Microsoft
7 7 (1.46%) Juniper
7 7 (1.46%) Oracle
8 6 (1.25%) Siemens
9 5 (1.04%) Atlassian
9 5 (1.04%) SimCorp
10 4 (0.83%) AppDynamics
10 4 (0.83%) Google
10 4 (0.83%) SAP
10 4 (0.83%) Splunk
11 3 (0.62%) Okta
12 2 (0.42%) Solace
12 2 (0.42%) StreamSets
12 2 (0.42%) Workday