AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for AWS SAM skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited AWS SAM over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 884 949 1139
Rank change year-on-year +65 +190 -252
Permanent jobs citing AWS SAM 12 21 93
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.012% 0.020% 0.060%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.057% 0.066% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 9 13 27
10th Percentile - £79,250 £53,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £91,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £95,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -39.47% +35.71% -9.68%
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £87,500
90th Percentile - £135,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £95,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -39.47% +40.74% +38.46%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

AWS SAM is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 20,974 31,729 61,916
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.39% 30.32% 40.17%
Number of salaries quoted 15,673 19,469 30,328
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,117 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +8.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £79,600 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

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 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for AWS SAM in the UK

AWS SAM
Top 6 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 27 April 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 +108 12 £57,500 -38.67% 2
Work from Home +94 12 £57,500 -39.47% 1
London +124 7 £100,000 +6.67% 1
UK excluding London +15 5 £57,500 -39.47% 1
North of England - 5 £57,500 - 1
North West - 5 £57,500 - 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 12 (100.00%) AWS
1 12 (100.00%) Serverless
2 8 (66.67%) Azure
3 6 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 5 (41.67%) Amazon ECS
4 5 (41.67%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (25.00%) Amazon ECR
6 3 (25.00%) Amazon ELB
6 3 (25.00%) Amazon Kinesis
6 3 (25.00%) Amazon MSK
6 3 (25.00%) Amazon S3
6 3 (25.00%) AWS Fargate
6 3 (25.00%) GCP
6 3 (25.00%) Route 53
6 3 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (25.00%) DNS
1 3 (25.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 11 (91.67%) GitLab
2 5 (41.67%) Git
2 5 (41.67%) SonarQube
General
1 6 (50.00%) Retail
2 5 (41.67%) Finance
2 5 (41.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 5 (41.67%) Retail Finance
3 3 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) AWS DevOps
1 7 (58.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
1 7 (58.33%) AWS Engineer
1 7 (58.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (41.67%) Full Stack Engineer
2 5 (41.67%) Full Stack Software Engineer
2 5 (41.67%) Senior
2 5 (41.67%) Senior Full Stack Engineer
2 5 (41.67%) Senior Full Stack Software Engineer
2 5 (41.67%) Senior Software Engineer
2 5 (41.67%) Software Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (66.67%) AWS CDK
2 5 (41.67%) Jest
2 5 (41.67%) JSON
2 5 (41.67%) Kafka
2 5 (41.67%) Lambda Expressions
2 5 (41.67%) Node.js
2 5 (41.67%) RESTful
2 5 (41.67%) Serverless Framework
3 4 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (8.33%) React
Miscellaneous
1 8 (66.67%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 4 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (8.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) DevOps
2 11 (91.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 8 (66.67%) Containerisation
3 8 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
3 8 (66.67%) Fintech
4 6 (50.00%) Full Stack Development
5 5 (41.67%) Agile
5 5 (41.67%) Design Patterns
5 5 (41.67%) Event-Driven
5 5 (41.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 5 (41.67%) Integration Testing
5 5 (41.67%) Microservices
5 5 (41.67%) Software Engineering
5 5 (41.67%) Statistics
6 3 (25.00%) Auto-Scaling
6 3 (25.00%) CI/CD
6 3 (25.00%) Computer Science
6 3 (25.00%) Load Balancing
6 3 (25.00%) Log Aggregation
6 3 (25.00%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) Python
2 6 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 5 (41.67%) TypeScript
4 4 (33.33%) Bash
5 3 (25.00%) PowerShell
6 1 (8.33%) Go
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) AWS Certification
1 3 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) NIST
1 3 (25.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 6 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (91.67%) Terraform
2 6 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (8.33%) Grafana