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 5 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 319 374 357
Rank change year-on-year +55 -17 -168
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 469 709 935
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.89% 0.72% 0.90%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.11% 2.01% 2.11%
Number of salaries quoted 387 529 640
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £60,000 £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 15,072 35,328 44,220
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 28.61% 35.86% 42.74%
Number of salaries quoted 10,942 26,709 29,052
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,000 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,743 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.64% -11.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £83,738 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £103,750 £96,000 £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 5 May 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 5 May 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 +69 435 £82,500 +10.00% 532
Work from Home +119 298 £80,000 +11.89% 348
London +72 270 £95,000 +5.56% 314
UK excluding London +52 183 £65,000 - 305
North of England +12 53 £69,250 +6.54% 105
South East +65 30 £55,000 -18.52% 107
Midlands +29 29 £56,250 -16.67% 26
North West -2 28 £75,000 +15.38% 70
South West +105 27 £60,000 -7.69% 36
East of England +50 23 £85,000 +13.33% 13
West Midlands +31 23 £57,500 -13.21% 13
Yorkshire +65 21 £58,750 -2.08% 26
Scotland +85 19 £62,500 +4.17% 18
East Midlands +38 6 £55,000 -37.14% 11
North East +23 4 £62,500 -10.71% 12
Wales +36 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 (18.76%) Apache Spark
2 83 (17.70%) Apache
3 77 (16.42%) Apache Airflow
4 14 (2.99%) Confluence
5 3 (0.64%) CMS
6 2 (0.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.43%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.43%) Mule
6 2 (0.43%) Oracle Coherence
6 2 (0.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.43%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.43%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.21%) Strapi
Applications
1 7 (1.49%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 3 (0.64%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.21%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (1.07%) SimCorp Dimension
2 2 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.43%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 469 (100.00%) AWS
1 469 (100.00%) Serverless
2 214 (45.63%) Amazon S3
3 145 (30.92%) Amazon ECS
4 143 (30.49%) Amazon EC2
5 105 (22.39%) AWS CloudFormation
6 81 (17.27%) OpenShift
7 79 (16.84%) Amazon SQS
8 77 (16.42%) dbt
9 51 (10.87%) AWS Step Functions
10 50 (10.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 37 (7.89%) Amazon EKS
12 35 (7.46%) Azure
12 35 (7.46%) SaaS
13 30 (6.40%) GitHub
13 30 (6.40%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 28 (5.97%) Amazon EventBridge
15 21 (4.48%) AWS KMS
15 21 (4.48%) Datadog
16 20 (4.26%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 16 (3.41%) Network Security
2 12 (2.56%) Firewall
3 8 (1.71%) SSL
4 6 (1.28%) Bluetooth
5 4 (0.85%) Internet
5 4 (0.85%) IPv4
6 3 (0.64%) VPN
7 2 (0.43%) OSPF
7 2 (0.43%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (23.88%) DynamoDB
2 106 (22.60%) Amazon RDS
3 88 (18.76%) Amazon Athena
4 76 (16.20%) Amazon Redshift
5 75 (15.99%) Dremio
6 72 (15.35%) Apache Iceberg
7 71 (15.14%) Apache Arrow
7 71 (15.14%) Apache Ignite
8 31 (6.61%) Big Data
9 29 (6.18%) NoSQL
10 28 (5.97%) PostgreSQL
11 27 (5.76%) Data Lake
12 24 (5.12%) MySQL
13 23 (4.90%) Data Warehouse
14 13 (2.77%) Elasticsearch
15 12 (2.56%) Amazon Aurora
16 10 (2.13%) Relational Database
17 6 (1.28%) Hadoop
17 6 (1.28%) MongoDB
17 6 (1.28%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 83 (17.70%) Artifactory
2 64 (13.65%) Git
3 55 (11.73%) Jenkins
4 36 (7.68%) GitLab
5 26 (5.54%) JIRA
6 18 (3.84%) Cucumber
7 14 (2.99%) JUnit
7 14 (2.99%) Maven
8 13 (2.77%) IntelliJ
8 13 (2.77%) Mockito
9 9 (1.92%) CircleCI
10 7 (1.49%) Bitbucket
10 7 (1.49%) Bitbucket Server
11 4 (0.85%) Jasmine
11 4 (0.85%) Karma Test Runner
11 4 (0.85%) Spinnaker
12 3 (0.64%) Cypress.io
12 3 (0.64%) SonarQube
12 3 (0.64%) Vagrant
12 3 (0.64%) webpack
General
1 180 (38.38%) Finance
2 107 (22.81%) Front Office
2 107 (22.81%) Social Skills
3 46 (9.81%) Banking
4 27 (5.76%) Public Sector
5 19 (4.05%) Health Technology
5 19 (4.05%) Law
5 19 (4.05%) Publishing
5 19 (4.05%) Tech for Good
6 12 (2.56%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (2.56%) Marketing
7 10 (2.13%) Games
8 9 (1.92%) Influencing Skills
8 9 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (1.71%) Advertising
9 8 (1.71%) Financial Institution
9 8 (1.71%) Manufacturing
9 8 (1.71%) Telecoms
10 7 (1.49%) Legal
11 6 (1.28%) Retail
Job Titles
1 164 (34.97%) AWS Engineer
2 142 (30.28%) Senior
3 126 (26.87%) AWS DevOps
4 125 (26.65%) Developer
5 120 (25.59%) DevOps Engineer
6 117 (24.95%) Data Engineer
7 113 (24.09%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 110 (23.45%) Python Engineer
9 76 (16.20%) Senior Developer
10 63 (13.43%) Lead
11 40 (8.53%) Architect
12 38 (8.10%) Software Engineer
13 37 (7.89%) AWS Developer
14 29 (6.18%) Senior DevOps
14 29 (6.18%) Software Developer
15 26 (5.54%) AWS Data Engineer
15 26 (5.54%) Senior Software Developer
16 24 (5.12%) AWS Architect
16 24 (5.12%) DevOps Manager
16 24 (5.12%) Finance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 116 (24.73%) Kafka
2 101 (21.54%) React
3 83 (17.70%) PySpark
4 79 (16.84%) J2EE
5 70 (14.93%) Node.js
6 63 (13.43%) RESTful
7 42 (8.96%) GraphQL
8 29 (6.18%) Spring
9 27 (5.76%) Elastic Stack
10 26 (5.54%) Spring Boot
11 24 (5.12%) CSS
12 22 (4.69%) HTML
13 21 (4.48%) REST
14 20 (4.26%) AngularJS
14 20 (4.26%) AWS CDK
15 17 (3.62%) .NET
15 17 (3.62%) Laravel
16 16 (3.41%) JWT
16 16 (3.41%) OAuth
17 14 (2.99%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 59 (12.58%) Cloud Native
2 28 (5.97%) Management Information System
3 14 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
4 13 (2.77%) Credit Derivative
5 11 (2.35%) IoT
5 11 (2.35%) Public Cloud
6 9 (1.92%) Mobile App
7 8 (1.71%) Algorithms
7 8 (1.71%) Tandem
8 7 (1.49%) Client/Server
8 7 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
8 7 (1.49%) Product Ownership
9 6 (1.28%) Embedded Systems
9 6 (1.28%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (1.07%) Blockchain
10 5 (1.07%) CMDB
10 5 (1.07%) Data Structures
10 5 (1.07%) Web3
11 4 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (0.85%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 44 (9.38%) Linux
2 14 (2.99%) Ubuntu
3 8 (1.71%) Windows
4 3 (0.64%) Unix
4 3 (0.64%) VMS
5 1 (0.21%) Android
5 1 (0.21%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 260 (55.44%) CI/CD
2 232 (49.47%) DevOps
3 230 (49.04%) Agile
4 203 (43.28%) Software Engineering
5 108 (23.03%) Asset Management
5 108 (23.03%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 105 (22.39%) Microservices
7 93 (19.83%) Data Engineering
7 93 (19.83%) Open Source
8 92 (19.62%) Infrastructure as Code
9 84 (17.91%) Event-Driven
9 84 (17.91%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 75 (15.99%) Analytics
10 75 (15.99%) Mentoring
11 71 (15.14%) Full-Stack Development
12 70 (14.93%) Containerisation
13 67 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
14 65 (13.86%) Test Automation
15 48 (10.23%) Deployment Automation
15 48 (10.23%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 275 (58.64%) Python
2 184 (39.23%) Java
3 117 (24.95%) TypeScript
4 101 (21.54%) Go
5 89 (18.98%) JavaScript
6 80 (17.06%) SQL
7 41 (8.74%) C#
8 21 (4.48%) PHP
9 19 (4.05%) Bash
9 19 (4.05%) C++
10 13 (2.77%) Scala
11 10 (2.13%) Shell Script
12 7 (1.49%) Groovy
12 7 (1.49%) PowerShell
13 6 (1.28%) C
13 6 (1.28%) Ladder Logic
13 6 (1.28%) Perl
13 6 (1.28%) Ruby
14 5 (1.07%) R
15 2 (0.43%) F#
Qualifications
1 60 (12.79%) Security Cleared
2 47 (10.02%) Degree
3 43 (9.17%) AWS Certification
4 39 (8.32%) Computer Science Degree
5 31 (6.61%) SC Cleared
6 20 (4.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 8 (1.71%) Master's Degree
8 7 (1.49%) DV Cleared
9 5 (1.07%) DBS Check
10 3 (0.64%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (0.43%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 2 (0.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (0.43%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 2 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.43%) PhD
11 2 (0.43%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.21%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.21%) CCSK
12 1 (0.21%) ISTQB
12 1 (0.21%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (6.61%) QA
2 22 (4.69%) GDPR
3 17 (3.62%) HIPAA
4 11 (2.35%) Data Quality
5 8 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (1.28%) NIST
7 4 (0.85%) Accessibility
7 4 (0.85%) GMP
7 4 (0.85%) SLA
7 4 (0.85%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.64%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.43%) NCSC
10 1 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 193 (41.15%) Docker
2 9 (1.92%) Virtual Desktop
3 7 (1.49%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.49%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.21%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 201 (42.86%) Terraform
2 189 (40.30%) Kubernetes
3 35 (7.46%) Ansible
4 31 (6.61%) Prometheus
5 27 (5.76%) Grafana
6 7 (1.49%) Nessus
6 7 (1.49%) Proxmox
7 5 (1.07%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (0.85%) Puppet
9 3 (0.64%) Argo
9 3 (0.64%) Nagios
9 3 (0.64%) Packer
9 3 (0.64%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.43%) Kibana
10 2 (0.43%) logstash
11 1 (0.21%) Bugsnag
Vendors
1 20 (4.26%) ServiceNow
2 17 (3.62%) IBM
3 15 (3.20%) Informatica
3 15 (3.20%) Salesforce
4 14 (2.99%) MuleSoft
5 12 (2.56%) Databricks
6 7 (1.49%) Juniper
6 7 (1.49%) Microsoft
6 7 (1.49%) Oracle
7 6 (1.28%) Google
7 6 (1.28%) Siemens
8 5 (1.07%) SAP
8 5 (1.07%) SimCorp
9 4 (0.85%) Atlassian
9 4 (0.85%) Splunk
10 3 (0.64%) AppDynamics
10 3 (0.64%) Okta
11 2 (0.43%) Solace
11 2 (0.43%) StreamSets
11 2 (0.43%) Workday