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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 407 388 190
Rank change year-on-year -19 -198 +3
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 531 665 3,882
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.59% 0.82% 2.21%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.80% 1.96% 4.62%
Number of salaries quoted 355 518 987
10th Percentile £47,500 £52,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £71,250 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -10.94% +3.23%
75th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £102,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year - - +8.00%

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 29,506 33,998 84,028
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.65% 42.13% 47.94%
Number of salaries quoted 21,274 25,227 42,049
10th Percentile £31,250 £33,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,548 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +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 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 2024. 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 -27 462 £75,000 +3.45% 49
UK excluding London -9 302 £67,500 - 40
Work from Home -7 240 £80,000 +10.34% 54
London -3 199 £92,500 +17.46% 25
North of England -1 83 £65,000 -3.70% 13
Midlands +27 68 £70,000 +16.67% 3
West Midlands +40 55 £67,500 +12.50% 3
North West -24 48 £75,000 +11.11% 10
South West +4 46 £72,500 +5.84% 6
South East -31 45 £67,500 -3.57% 3
Scotland -39 43 £41,500 -36.15% 6
Yorkshire +55 26 £60,000 -7.71% 3
East Midlands -23 13 £87,500 +9.38%
East of England -12 12 £43,500 -42.00% 2
North East -4 9 £70,000 +24.25%
Northern Ireland - 3 £95,000 - 8
Wales +18 2 £48,052 -23.41%

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 72 (13.56%) Apache Spark
2 67 (12.62%) Apache
3 9 (1.69%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.32%) Confluence
5 3 (0.56%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.38%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.19%) CMS
7 1 (0.19%) nginx
7 1 (0.19%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (1.13%) Trello
2 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.19%) Sketch
2 1 (0.19%) UXPin
2 1 (0.19%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 3 (0.56%) Shopify
2 2 (0.38%) Sage 200
2 2 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.19%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 525 (98.87%) Serverless
2 514 (96.80%) AWS
3 211 (39.74%) Amazon S3
4 154 (29.00%) Amazon EC2
5 139 (26.18%) AWS CloudFormation
6 129 (24.29%) Amazon SQS
7 113 (21.28%) Amazon ECS
8 110 (20.72%) Amazon EKS
8 110 (20.72%) Azure
9 69 (12.99%) GitHub
10 62 (11.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 51 (9.60%) Amazon Kinesis
12 48 (9.04%) GCP
13 46 (8.66%) OpenShift
14 41 (7.72%) AWS Fargate
14 41 (7.72%) SaaS
14 41 (7.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 38 (7.16%) Amazon EMR
15 38 (7.16%) AWS Step Functions
15 38 (7.16%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 34 (6.40%) AMQP
2 21 (3.95%) HTTP
3 9 (1.69%) Network Security
4 7 (1.32%) DNS
4 7 (1.32%) Firewall
5 6 (1.13%) WAN
6 5 (0.94%) VPN
6 5 (0.94%) Wi-Fi
6 5 (0.94%) Wireless
7 4 (0.75%) LAN
8 3 (0.56%) DHCP
8 3 (0.56%) MQTT
9 1 (0.19%) 3GPP
9 1 (0.19%) DAB
9 1 (0.19%) Internet
9 1 (0.19%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.19%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.19%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 151 (28.44%) DynamoDB
2 138 (25.99%) Amazon RDS
3 84 (15.82%) NoSQL
4 70 (13.18%) Big Data
5 62 (11.68%) Hadoop
6 50 (9.42%) MySQL
7 38 (7.16%) PostgreSQL
8 37 (6.97%) Amazon Redshift
9 33 (6.21%) Electronic Patient Records
10 29 (5.46%) Cloudera CDH
11 28 (5.27%) Relational Database
12 25 (4.71%) SQL Server
13 22 (4.14%) MongoDB
14 19 (3.58%) Amazon Athena
15 17 (3.20%) Amazon Aurora
16 16 (3.01%) Data Warehouse
17 14 (2.64%) Redis
18 11 (2.07%) Elasticsearch
19 10 (1.88%) Data Lake
20 7 (1.32%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 124 (23.35%) Git
2 64 (12.05%) GitLab
3 44 (8.29%) Jenkins
4 26 (4.90%) JIRA
5 12 (2.26%) Bitbucket
6 11 (2.07%) Artifactory
7 5 (0.94%) MSTest
8 4 (0.75%) Burp Suite
8 4 (0.75%) CircleCI
8 4 (0.75%) Cypress.io
8 4 (0.75%) Metasploit
8 4 (0.75%) sqlmap
9 3 (0.56%) Maven
9 3 (0.56%) NUnit
9 3 (0.56%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.56%) Subversion
9 3 (0.56%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.38%) Jasmine
10 2 (0.38%) Mocha
10 2 (0.38%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 152 (28.63%) Social Skills
2 108 (20.34%) Finance
3 42 (7.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 40 (7.53%) Law
5 34 (6.40%) Legal
6 32 (6.03%) Aerospace
7 31 (5.84%) Analytical Skills
8 25 (4.71%) Front Office
9 20 (3.77%) Banking
10 18 (3.39%) Automotive
11 15 (2.82%) Marketing
12 12 (2.26%) Games
12 12 (2.26%) Retail
13 9 (1.69%) Tech for Good
14 8 (1.51%) Public Sector
15 5 (0.94%) Billing
15 5 (0.94%) Investment Banking
15 5 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
16 3 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
16 3 (0.56%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 134 (25.24%) Developer
1 134 (25.24%) Software Engineer
2 130 (24.48%) AWS Engineer
3 98 (18.46%) Senior
4 87 (16.38%) Lead
5 64 (12.05%) DevOps Engineer
6 53 (9.98%) AWS Software Engineer
7 46 (8.66%) AWS DevOps
8 45 (8.47%) Python Engineer
9 41 (7.72%) Senior Developer
10 38 (7.16%) AWS Developer
11 37 (6.97%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 30 (5.65%) Backend Developer
13 29 (5.46%) Big Data Engineer
13 29 (5.46%) Big Data Software Engineer
13 29 (5.46%) Data Engineer
13 29 (5.46%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
13 29 (5.46%) Full Stack Developer
13 29 (5.46%) Scala Engineer
13 29 (5.46%) Scala Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 123 (23.16%) Node.js
2 120 (22.60%) React
3 71 (13.37%) .NET
4 66 (12.43%) RESTful
5 65 (12.24%) GraphQL
6 51 (9.60%) AngularJS
7 50 (9.42%) Spring Boot
8 49 (9.23%) REST
8 49 (9.23%) Spring
9 48 (9.04%) Django
10 36 (6.78%) gRPC
10 36 (6.78%) RabbitMQ
11 35 (6.59%) OpenAPI
11 35 (6.59%) Swagger
12 29 (5.46%) Material-UI
13 28 (5.27%) .NET Core
14 25 (4.71%) HTML
15 24 (4.52%) CSS
16 21 (3.95%) Kafka
17 20 (3.77%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 49 (9.23%) Cloud Native
2 45 (8.47%) Algorithms
3 33 (6.21%) Greenfield Project
4 31 (5.84%) Distributed Systems
5 18 (3.39%) Mobile App
6 16 (3.01%) Hedge funds
7 13 (2.45%) Management Information System
8 12 (2.26%) Client/Server
8 12 (2.26%) Data Structures
8 12 (2.26%) PropTech
9 11 (2.07%) Blog
9 11 (2.07%) Derivative
9 11 (2.07%) Private Cloud
10 10 (1.88%) Tandem
11 9 (1.69%) Onboarding
12 8 (1.51%) IoT
13 7 (1.32%) Fixed Income
13 7 (1.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 7 (1.32%) Legacy Applications
13 7 (1.32%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 67 (12.62%) Linux
2 31 (5.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 31 (5.84%) Ubuntu
3 30 (5.65%) CentOS
4 29 (5.46%) Debian
5 6 (1.13%) Windows
6 4 (0.75%) Unix
7 2 (0.38%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.38%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.19%) Android
8 1 (0.19%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 243 (45.76%) Agile
2 225 (42.37%) Software Engineering
3 207 (38.98%) CI/CD
4 178 (33.52%) Microservices
5 174 (32.77%) DevOps
6 137 (25.80%) Infrastructure as Code
7 128 (24.11%) Problem-Solving
8 121 (22.79%) Containerisation
9 97 (18.27%) Full Stack Development
10 75 (14.12%) Computer Science
11 68 (12.81%) TDD
12 64 (12.05%) Scrum
13 61 (11.49%) Open Source
14 51 (9.60%) Configuration Management
15 50 (9.42%) Continuous Improvement
16 49 (9.23%) Kanban
17 48 (9.04%) Test Automation
17 48 (9.04%) Visualisation
18 46 (8.66%) Event-Driven
19 45 (8.47%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 248 (46.70%) Python
2 183 (34.46%) Java
3 114 (21.47%) JavaScript
3 114 (21.47%) SQL
4 99 (18.64%) TypeScript
5 71 (13.37%) C#
6 36 (6.78%) Go
7 32 (6.03%) Scala
8 20 (3.77%) Bash
9 12 (2.26%) PowerShell
10 11 (2.07%) Shell Script
11 10 (1.88%) C
11 10 (1.88%) PHP
12 7 (1.32%) C++
12 7 (1.32%) Ruby
13 6 (1.13%) Groovy
14 5 (0.94%) Apex Code
14 5 (0.94%) T-SQL
15 4 (0.75%) Kotlin
15 4 (0.75%) Rust
Qualifications
1 74 (13.94%) Degree
2 60 (11.30%) Security Cleared
3 59 (11.11%) AWS Certification
3 59 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
4 52 (9.79%) SC Cleared
5 39 (7.34%) DBS Check
6 36 (6.78%) DV Cleared
7 28 (5.27%) Master's Degree
8 26 (4.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 10 (1.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 7 (1.32%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (0.56%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 3 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 2 (0.38%) CCSP
12 2 (0.38%) CISA
12 2 (0.38%) CISM
12 2 (0.38%) CISSP
12 2 (0.38%) ISEB
12 2 (0.38%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (4.14%) NIST
1 22 (4.14%) QA
2 20 (3.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 14 (2.64%) GDPR
4 13 (2.45%) Data Quality
4 13 (2.45%) HIPAA
5 6 (1.13%) SOC 2
6 5 (0.94%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.56%) SLA
8 2 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.38%) FedRAMP
8 2 (0.38%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.19%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.19%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 126 (23.73%) Docker
2 19 (3.58%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.38%) HDFS
4 1 (0.19%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.19%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 157 (29.57%) Terraform
2 136 (25.61%) Kubernetes
3 63 (11.86%) Ansible
4 42 (7.91%) Puppet
5 18 (3.39%) Progress Chef
6 16 (3.01%) Grafana
7 11 (2.07%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.94%) Docker Swarm
9 3 (0.56%) Autotask
9 3 (0.56%) Consul
9 3 (0.56%) Packer
10 2 (0.38%) CASB
11 1 (0.19%) Argo
11 1 (0.19%) Failover Clustering
11 1 (0.19%) Kibana
11 1 (0.19%) Rancher
Vendors
1 33 (6.21%) Google
2 29 (5.46%) Red Hat
2 29 (5.46%) SaltStack
3 17 (3.20%) ForgeRock
4 16 (3.01%) Sitecore
5 13 (2.45%) Salesforce
6 12 (2.26%) Oracle
7 8 (1.51%) Databricks
8 7 (1.32%) Bloomberg
8 7 (1.32%) Informatica
8 7 (1.32%) Splunk
9 6 (1.13%) MuleSoft
10 5 (0.94%) Microsoft
10 5 (0.94%) Sage
11 4 (0.75%) Atlassian
11 4 (0.75%) Confluent
12 3 (0.56%) Facebook
12 3 (0.56%) GoCardless
12 3 (0.56%) HubSpot
12 3 (0.56%) PayPal