AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring AWS SAM skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited AWS SAM over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 688 883 968
Rank change year-on-year +195 +85 +142
Permanent jobs citing AWS SAM 4 13 21
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.008% 0.013% 0.020%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.047% 0.062% 0.067%
Number of salaries quoted 4 10 13
10th Percentile £80,375 - £79,250
25th Percentile £80,938 £53,750 £91,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £72,500 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.69% -23.68% +35.71%
75th Percentile £92,500 £97,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £97,000 £100,000 £135,000
UK excluding London median annual salary - £57,500 £95,000
% change year-on-year - -39.47% +40.74%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

AWS SAM falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,460 21,099 31,393
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.26% 21.42% 30.21%
Number of salaries quoted 6,443 15,769 19,367
10th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £41,117
25th Percentile £51,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -11.11% +8.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £100,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +4.55%

AWS SAM
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS SAM in the UK

AWS SAM
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for AWS SAM in the UK

AWS SAM
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS SAM over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for AWS SAM in the UK

AWS SAM
Top 3 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AWS SAM within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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
Work from Home +185 3 £85,000 +17.24%
England +163 2 £92,500 +27.59% 1
London +104 2 £92,500 -7.50% 1

AWS SAM
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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) Serverless
2 3 (75.00%) AWS Control Tower
2 3 (75.00%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (50.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 2 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (50.00%) Azure
3 2 (50.00%) GCP
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (25.00%) GitHub
4 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (75.00%) AWS DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 3 (75.00%) AWS Engineer
2 3 (75.00%) Senior
2 3 (75.00%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
2 3 (75.00%) Senior DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) AWS CDK
1 2 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (25.00%) Dask
2 1 (25.00%) JAX
2 1 (25.00%) Ray
2 1 (25.00%) Serverless Framework
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (25.00%) Distributed Computing
1 1 (25.00%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (75.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Configuration Management
2 3 (75.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (75.00%) High Availability
2 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (50.00%) Observability
3 2 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) SIEM
4 1 (25.00%) Asset Management
4 1 (25.00%) Data Analysis
4 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (25.00%) SDLC
4 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (75.00%) Bash
2 3 (75.00%) Go
2 3 (75.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (50.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) AWS Certification
2 2 (50.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (75.00%) Ansible
2 3 (75.00%) Terraform
3 2 (50.00%) Grafana
4 1 (25.00%) Argo
4 1 (25.00%) Packer