AWS Lambda
UK

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

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 376 360 191
Rank change year-on-year -16 -169 +50
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 709 935 3,360
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.72% 0.90% 2.13%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.00% 2.12% 4.42%
Number of salaries quoted 529 640 949
10th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -6.25% +10.34%
75th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £118,750 £107,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - -7.14% +16.67%

All Cloud Skills
UK

AWS Lambda is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 35,418 44,196 75,983
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.85% 42.74% 48.28%
Number of salaries quoted 26,806 29,064 41,941
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 6 May 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 6 May 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 +9 602 £75,000 - 150
UK excluding London +3 379 £65,000 - 78
Work from Home +4 349 £71,500 -1.38% 83
London +20 291 £90,000 +5.88% 73
North of England +32 114 £65,000 - 32
Scotland -50 69 £60,000 -7.69% 1
South East -22 67 £67,500 -3.57% 11
Midlands +44 61 £67,500 +12.50% 15
North West -38 52 £65,000 -3.70% 15
West Midlands +52 49 £66,250 +10.42% 12
South West -42 38 £65,000 -6.88% 11
Yorkshire +102 32 £60,000 -0.41% 11
North East +21 30 £70,000 +24.25% 6
East of England +20 21 £75,000 +7.14% 3
East Midlands -10 12 £87,500 +9.38% 3
Northern Ireland +29 7 £77,500 -3.13% 5
Wales +9 3 £60,000 +29.84% 1

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 97 (13.68%) Apache
2 96 (13.54%) Apache Spark
3 33 (4.65%) Confluence
4 12 (1.69%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (0.99%) Tomcat
6 6 (0.85%) WordPress
7 2 (0.28%) CMS
8 1 (0.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (0.85%) Trello
2 4 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.14%) Sketch
3 1 (0.14%) UXPin
3 1 (0.14%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 3 (0.42%) Shopify
2 2 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.28%) Sage 200
3 1 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 702 (99.01%) Serverless
2 687 (96.90%) AWS
3 280 (39.49%) Amazon S3
4 238 (33.57%) Amazon EC2
5 181 (25.53%) Amazon ECS
5 181 (25.53%) Amazon SQS
6 166 (23.41%) AWS CloudFormation
7 160 (22.57%) Amazon EKS
8 122 (17.21%) GitHub
9 120 (16.93%) Azure
10 69 (9.73%) OpenShift
11 68 (9.59%) Amazon Kinesis
12 66 (9.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 66 (9.31%) Amazon EMR
13 55 (7.76%) GCP
14 46 (6.49%) AWS Fargate
14 46 (6.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 45 (6.35%) CloudFront
16 39 (5.50%) Route 53
16 39 (5.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 30 (4.23%) AMQP
2 23 (3.24%) HTTP
3 13 (1.83%) Network Security
4 12 (1.69%) DNS
5 11 (1.55%) VPN
6 9 (1.27%) Internet
7 7 (0.99%) Firewall
7 7 (0.99%) WAN
8 5 (0.71%) LAN
8 5 (0.71%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (0.71%) Wireless
9 3 (0.42%) DHCP
9 3 (0.42%) MQTT
10 1 (0.14%) SD-WAN
10 1 (0.14%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 180 (25.39%) DynamoDB
2 178 (25.11%) Amazon RDS
3 106 (14.95%) NoSQL
4 95 (13.40%) Big Data
5 84 (11.85%) Hadoop
6 82 (11.57%) MySQL
7 77 (10.86%) Amazon Redshift
8 64 (9.03%) PostgreSQL
9 54 (7.62%) Electronic Patient Records
10 36 (5.08%) Relational Database
11 35 (4.94%) SQL Server
12 32 (4.51%) Amazon Aurora
13 31 (4.37%) Redis
14 25 (3.53%) Cloudera CDH
14 25 (3.53%) MongoDB
15 17 (2.40%) Data Lake
16 16 (2.26%) Data Warehouse
17 15 (2.12%) Amazon Athena
18 11 (1.55%) Elasticsearch
19 10 (1.41%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 152 (21.44%) Git
2 86 (12.13%) Jenkins
3 65 (9.17%) GitLab
4 55 (7.76%) JIRA
5 37 (5.22%) Artifactory
6 28 (3.95%) Bitbucket
7 15 (2.12%) Subversion
8 11 (1.55%) TeamCity
9 10 (1.41%) Sonatype Nexus
10 8 (1.13%) CircleCI
10 8 (1.13%) Maven
11 7 (0.99%) git-flow
12 6 (0.85%) SonarQube
13 5 (0.71%) Cucumber
13 5 (0.71%) Cypress.io
13 5 (0.71%) MSTest
14 4 (0.56%) Sourcetree
15 3 (0.42%) JUnit
15 3 (0.42%) NUnit
16 2 (0.28%) Mocha
General
1 191 (26.94%) Finance
2 182 (25.67%) Social Skills
3 74 (10.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 73 (10.30%) Law
5 56 (7.90%) Legal
6 43 (6.06%) Front Office
7 34 (4.80%) Analytical Skills
8 31 (4.37%) Games
9 28 (3.95%) Aerospace
10 20 (2.82%) Banking
10 20 (2.82%) Marketing
10 20 (2.82%) Public Sector
11 19 (2.68%) Tech for Good
12 16 (2.26%) Retail
13 15 (2.12%) Automotive
14 9 (1.27%) Health Technology
15 6 (0.85%) Manufacturing
16 5 (0.71%) Billing
16 5 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
17 3 (0.42%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 195 (27.50%) AWS Engineer
2 191 (26.94%) Developer
3 169 (23.84%) Software Engineer
4 119 (16.78%) Senior
5 112 (15.80%) DevOps Engineer
6 101 (14.25%) Lead
7 78 (11.00%) AWS DevOps
8 73 (10.30%) AWS Software Engineer
9 69 (9.73%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 62 (8.74%) Cloud Engineer
11 60 (8.46%) AWS Developer
12 58 (8.18%) Data Engineer
13 51 (7.19%) Big Data Engineer
13 51 (7.19%) Big Data Software Engineer
13 51 (7.19%) Scala Engineer
13 51 (7.19%) Scala Software Engineer
14 47 (6.63%) Senior Developer
15 44 (6.21%) Full Stack Developer
16 41 (5.78%) Python Engineer
17 40 (5.64%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 179 (25.25%) Node.js
2 134 (18.90%) React
3 82 (11.57%) .NET
3 82 (11.57%) RESTful
4 62 (8.74%) Spring
5 60 (8.46%) GraphQL
6 59 (8.32%) AngularJS
7 57 (8.04%) REST
8 53 (7.48%) Spring Boot
9 45 (6.35%) Django
10 39 (5.50%) RabbitMQ
11 35 (4.94%) OpenAPI
11 35 (4.94%) Swagger
12 34 (4.80%) J2EE
13 33 (4.65%) .NET Core
13 33 (4.65%) JSON
14 32 (4.51%) gRPC
15 31 (4.37%) CSS
15 31 (4.37%) HTML
16 30 (4.23%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 75 (10.58%) Algorithms
2 56 (7.90%) Cloud Native
3 47 (6.63%) Distributed Systems
4 43 (6.06%) Client/Server
5 36 (5.08%) Data Structures
6 34 (4.80%) Tandem
7 28 (3.95%) Greenfield Project
8 22 (3.10%) Management Information System
9 21 (2.96%) Onboarding
10 18 (2.54%) Virtual Team
11 15 (2.12%) Mobile App
12 13 (1.83%) IoT
12 13 (1.83%) Online Games
13 11 (1.55%) Enterprise Software
13 11 (1.55%) Linux Command Line
13 11 (1.55%) Private Cloud
14 9 (1.27%) Data Centre
15 8 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
16 7 (0.99%) Hedge funds
17 6 (0.85%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 84 (11.85%) Linux
2 27 (3.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 27 (3.81%) Ubuntu
3 26 (3.67%) CentOS
4 25 (3.53%) Debian
5 18 (2.54%) Windows
6 5 (0.71%) Unix
7 3 (0.42%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.42%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.14%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 319 (44.99%) Agile
2 311 (43.86%) Software Engineering
3 302 (42.60%) CI/CD
4 243 (34.27%) DevOps
5 190 (26.80%) Microservices
6 185 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
7 173 (24.40%) Infrastructure as Code
8 147 (20.73%) Containerisation
9 112 (15.80%) Full Stack Development
10 109 (15.37%) Computer Science
11 77 (10.86%) Visualisation
12 74 (10.44%) Continuous Improvement
12 74 (10.44%) Open Source
13 70 (9.87%) SDLC
14 67 (9.45%) Decision-Making
14 67 (9.45%) Scrum
15 64 (9.03%) Design Patterns
15 64 (9.03%) Mentoring
16 63 (8.89%) Test Automation
17 62 (8.74%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 331 (46.69%) Python
2 261 (36.81%) Java
3 202 (28.49%) SQL
4 138 (19.46%) JavaScript
5 120 (16.93%) TypeScript
6 92 (12.98%) C#
7 79 (11.14%) Go
8 63 (8.89%) Scala
9 40 (5.64%) Bash
10 18 (2.54%) Shell Script
11 16 (2.26%) C
11 16 (2.26%) PHP
12 10 (1.41%) T-SQL
13 9 (1.27%) Groovy
14 7 (0.99%) C++
14 7 (0.99%) PowerShell
14 7 (0.99%) Ruby
15 6 (0.85%) Apex Code
16 5 (0.71%) Rust
16 5 (0.71%) VBA
Qualifications
1 99 (13.96%) Degree
2 70 (9.87%) Computer Science Degree
3 69 (9.73%) Security Cleared
4 64 (9.03%) AWS Certification
5 58 (8.18%) SC Cleared
6 34 (4.80%) DBS Check
7 33 (4.65%) DV Cleared
8 32 (4.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 26 (3.67%) Master's Degree
10 17 (2.40%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 8 (1.13%) AWS Certified Developer
11 8 (1.13%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.42%) Sun Certification
13 2 (0.28%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 1 (0.14%) CCIE
14 1 (0.14%) CCNP
14 1 (0.14%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (3.10%) QA
2 13 (1.83%) GDPR
3 12 (1.69%) Data Quality
4 11 (1.55%) HIPAA
5 8 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (1.13%) NIST
6 5 (0.71%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.42%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.14%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.14%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.14%) SEPA
8 1 (0.14%) SLA
System Software
1 214 (30.18%) Docker
2 24 (3.39%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (1.13%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.28%) HDFS
5 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 272 (38.36%) Terraform
2 203 (28.63%) Kubernetes
3 72 (10.16%) Ansible
4 39 (5.50%) Puppet
5 22 (3.10%) Grafana
6 19 (2.68%) Progress Chef
7 15 (2.12%) Packer
8 7 (0.99%) Prometheus
8 7 (0.99%) Salt
9 5 (0.71%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (0.42%) Autotask
10 3 (0.42%) Consul
11 2 (0.28%) CASB
12 1 (0.14%) Kibana
Vendors
1 44 (6.21%) Google
2 25 (3.53%) Red Hat
2 25 (3.53%) SaltStack
3 23 (3.24%) Oracle
4 19 (2.68%) ForgeRock
5 16 (2.26%) Microsoft
6 15 (2.12%) Sitecore
7 13 (1.83%) Atlassian
7 13 (1.83%) Salesforce
8 12 (1.69%) Databricks
9 11 (1.55%) Sage
10 9 (1.27%) GoCardless
10 9 (1.27%) PayPal
11 7 (0.99%) McAfee
11 7 (0.99%) Splunk
12 6 (0.85%) Confluent
12 6 (0.85%) MuleSoft
13 5 (0.71%) Informatica
14 4 (0.56%) Dataiku
15 3 (0.42%) Apple