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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 372 364 188
Rank change year-on-year -8 -176 +61
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 712 934 3,349
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.72% 0.90% 2.14%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.01% 2.10% 4.43%
Number of salaries quoted 531 638 954
10th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £58,750
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 £94,688
90th Percentile £118,750 £107,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,250 £70,000
% change year-on-year -0.38% -6.79% +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 35,382 44,396 75,527
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.88% 42.78% 48.26%
Number of salaries quoted 26,757 29,121 41,951
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,788 £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 £96,000 £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 3 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 3 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 +9 604 £75,000 - 135
UK excluding London +18 380 £65,000 -0.38% 74
Work from Home +14 351 £71,500 -4.67% 76
London +15 292 £90,000 +5.88% 65
North of England +26 114 £65,000 - 25
Scotland -52 69 £60,000 -7.69% 3
South East -29 68 £67,500 -3.57% 12
Midlands +43 61 £67,500 +12.50% 14
North West -51 52 £65,000 -3.70% 11
West Midlands +43 49 £66,250 +10.42% 11
South West -29 38 £65,000 -6.88% 14
Yorkshire +85 32 £60,000 -0.41% 8
North East +24 30 £70,000 +24.25% 6
East of England +19 21 £75,000 +7.14% 2
East Midlands -2 12 £87,500 +9.38% 3
Northern Ireland +34 7 £77,500 -3.13% 5
Wales +3 3 £60,000 +10.14%

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 98 (13.76%) Apache
2 96 (13.48%) Apache Spark
3 33 (4.63%) Confluence
4 12 (1.69%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (0.98%) Tomcat
6 6 (0.84%) WordPress
7 3 (0.42%) CMS
8 1 (0.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (0.84%) 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%) Magento
3 1 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 705 (99.02%) Serverless
2 690 (96.91%) AWS
3 282 (39.61%) Amazon S3
4 240 (33.71%) Amazon EC2
5 183 (25.70%) Amazon SQS
6 182 (25.56%) Amazon ECS
7 166 (23.31%) AWS CloudFormation
8 161 (22.61%) Amazon EKS
9 122 (17.13%) GitHub
10 120 (16.85%) Azure
11 69 (9.69%) Amazon Kinesis
11 69 (9.69%) OpenShift
12 66 (9.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 66 (9.27%) Amazon EMR
13 55 (7.72%) GCP
14 48 (6.74%) AWS Fargate
15 46 (6.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 45 (6.32%) CloudFront
17 39 (5.48%) Route 53
17 39 (5.48%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 30 (4.21%) AMQP
2 23 (3.23%) HTTP
3 13 (1.83%) Network Security
4 12 (1.69%) DNS
5 11 (1.54%) VPN
6 9 (1.26%) Internet
7 7 (0.98%) Firewall
7 7 (0.98%) WAN
8 5 (0.70%) LAN
8 5 (0.70%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (0.70%) 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
1 181 (25.42%) DynamoDB
2 179 (25.14%) Amazon RDS
3 107 (15.03%) NoSQL
4 95 (13.34%) Big Data
5 84 (11.80%) Hadoop
6 83 (11.66%) MySQL
7 77 (10.81%) Amazon Redshift
8 65 (9.13%) PostgreSQL
9 54 (7.58%) Electronic Patient Records
10 36 (5.06%) Relational Database
11 35 (4.92%) SQL Server
12 34 (4.78%) Amazon Aurora
13 32 (4.49%) Redis
14 26 (3.65%) MongoDB
15 25 (3.51%) Cloudera CDH
16 17 (2.39%) Data Lake
17 16 (2.25%) Amazon Athena
17 16 (2.25%) Data Warehouse
18 12 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
19 10 (1.40%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 152 (21.35%) Git
2 86 (12.08%) Jenkins
3 65 (9.13%) GitLab
4 55 (7.72%) JIRA
5 37 (5.20%) Artifactory
6 28 (3.93%) Bitbucket
7 15 (2.11%) Subversion
8 11 (1.54%) TeamCity
9 10 (1.40%) Sonatype Nexus
10 9 (1.26%) CircleCI
11 8 (1.12%) Maven
12 7 (0.98%) git-flow
13 6 (0.84%) SonarQube
14 5 (0.70%) Cucumber
14 5 (0.70%) Cypress.io
14 5 (0.70%) MSTest
15 4 (0.56%) Sourcetree
16 3 (0.42%) JUnit
16 3 (0.42%) NUnit
17 2 (0.28%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 192 (26.97%) Finance
2 184 (25.84%) Social Skills
3 74 (10.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 73 (10.25%) Law
5 56 (7.87%) Legal
6 44 (6.18%) Front Office
7 34 (4.78%) Analytical Skills
8 31 (4.35%) Games
9 28 (3.93%) Aerospace
10 20 (2.81%) Banking
10 20 (2.81%) Marketing
10 20 (2.81%) Public Sector
11 19 (2.67%) Tech for Good
12 16 (2.25%) Retail
13 15 (2.11%) Automotive
14 9 (1.26%) Health Technology
15 6 (0.84%) Manufacturing
16 5 (0.70%) Billing
16 5 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
17 3 (0.42%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 195 (27.39%) AWS Engineer
2 193 (27.11%) Developer
3 169 (23.74%) Software Engineer
4 120 (16.85%) Senior
5 112 (15.73%) DevOps Engineer
6 101 (14.19%) Lead
7 78 (10.96%) AWS DevOps
8 73 (10.25%) AWS Software Engineer
9 69 (9.69%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 62 (8.71%) Cloud Engineer
11 60 (8.43%) AWS Developer
12 59 (8.29%) Data Engineer
13 51 (7.16%) Big Data Engineer
13 51 (7.16%) Big Data Software Engineer
13 51 (7.16%) Scala Engineer
13 51 (7.16%) Scala Software Engineer
14 47 (6.60%) Senior Developer
15 46 (6.46%) Full Stack Developer
16 41 (5.76%) Python Engineer
17 40 (5.62%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 179 (25.14%) Node.js
2 134 (18.82%) React
3 83 (11.66%) .NET
4 82 (11.52%) RESTful
5 62 (8.71%) Spring
6 60 (8.43%) GraphQL
7 59 (8.29%) AngularJS
8 57 (8.01%) REST
9 53 (7.44%) Spring Boot
10 45 (6.32%) Django
11 39 (5.48%) RabbitMQ
12 35 (4.92%) OpenAPI
12 35 (4.92%) Swagger
13 34 (4.78%) J2EE
14 33 (4.63%) .NET Core
14 33 (4.63%) CSS
14 33 (4.63%) JSON
15 32 (4.49%) gRPC
15 32 (4.49%) HTML
16 31 (4.35%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 75 (10.53%) Algorithms
2 57 (8.01%) Cloud Native
3 47 (6.60%) Distributed Systems
4 43 (6.04%) Client/Server
5 36 (5.06%) Data Structures
6 34 (4.78%) Tandem
7 28 (3.93%) Greenfield Project
8 22 (3.09%) Management Information System
9 21 (2.95%) Onboarding
10 18 (2.53%) Virtual Team
11 15 (2.11%) Mobile App
12 13 (1.83%) IoT
12 13 (1.83%) Online Games
13 12 (1.69%) Linux Command Line
14 11 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
14 11 (1.54%) Private Cloud
15 9 (1.26%) Data Centre
16 8 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
17 7 (0.98%) Hedge funds
18 6 (0.84%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 85 (11.94%) Linux
2 27 (3.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 27 (3.79%) Ubuntu
3 26 (3.65%) CentOS
4 25 (3.51%) Debian
5 18 (2.53%) Windows
6 5 (0.70%) Unix
7 3 (0.42%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.42%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.14%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 320 (44.94%) Agile
2 311 (43.68%) Software Engineering
3 304 (42.70%) CI/CD
4 245 (34.41%) DevOps
5 190 (26.69%) Microservices
6 186 (26.12%) Problem-Solving
7 173 (24.30%) Infrastructure as Code
8 147 (20.65%) Containerisation
9 114 (16.01%) Full Stack Development
10 110 (15.45%) Computer Science
11 77 (10.81%) Visualisation
12 75 (10.53%) Open Source
13 74 (10.39%) Continuous Improvement
14 70 (9.83%) SDLC
15 67 (9.41%) Decision-Making
15 67 (9.41%) Scrum
16 65 (9.13%) Design Patterns
17 64 (8.99%) Mentoring
18 63 (8.85%) TDD
18 63 (8.85%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 333 (46.77%) Python
2 261 (36.66%) Java
3 204 (28.65%) SQL
4 140 (19.66%) JavaScript
5 121 (16.99%) TypeScript
6 93 (13.06%) C#
7 79 (11.10%) Go
8 63 (8.85%) Scala
9 40 (5.62%) Bash
10 18 (2.53%) Shell Script
11 17 (2.39%) PHP
12 16 (2.25%) C
13 10 (1.40%) T-SQL
14 9 (1.26%) Groovy
15 7 (0.98%) C++
15 7 (0.98%) PowerShell
15 7 (0.98%) Ruby
16 6 (0.84%) Apex Code
17 5 (0.70%) Rust
17 5 (0.70%) VBA
Qualifications
1 100 (14.04%) Degree
2 71 (9.97%) Computer Science Degree
3 69 (9.69%) Security Cleared
4 64 (8.99%) AWS Certification
5 58 (8.15%) SC Cleared
6 34 (4.78%) DBS Check
7 33 (4.63%) DV Cleared
8 32 (4.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 27 (3.79%) Master's Degree
10 17 (2.39%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 8 (1.12%) AWS Certified Developer
11 8 (1.12%) 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 23 (3.23%) QA
2 13 (1.83%) GDPR
3 12 (1.69%) Data Quality
4 11 (1.54%) HIPAA
5 8 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (1.12%) NIST
6 5 (0.70%) 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
1 217 (30.48%) Docker
2 24 (3.37%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (1.12%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.28%) HDFS
5 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 272 (38.20%) Terraform
2 204 (28.65%) Kubernetes
3 72 (10.11%) Ansible
4 39 (5.48%) Puppet
5 22 (3.09%) Grafana
6 19 (2.67%) Progress Chef
7 15 (2.11%) Packer
8 7 (0.98%) Prometheus
8 7 (0.98%) Salt
9 5 (0.70%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (0.42%) Autotask
10 3 (0.42%) Consul
11 2 (0.28%) CASB
12 1 (0.14%) Kibana
Vendors
1 45 (6.32%) Google
2 25 (3.51%) Red Hat
2 25 (3.51%) SaltStack
3 23 (3.23%) Oracle
4 19 (2.67%) ForgeRock
5 16 (2.25%) Microsoft
6 15 (2.11%) Sitecore
7 13 (1.83%) Atlassian
7 13 (1.83%) Salesforce
8 12 (1.69%) Databricks
9 11 (1.54%) Sage
10 9 (1.26%) GoCardless
10 9 (1.26%) PayPal
11 7 (0.98%) McAfee
11 7 (0.98%) Splunk
12 6 (0.84%) Confluent
12 6 (0.84%) MuleSoft
13 5 (0.70%) Informatica
14 4 (0.56%) Dataiku
15 3 (0.42%) Apple