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

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 376 366 182
Rank change year-on-year -10 -184 +56
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 705 894 3,671
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.70% 0.91% 2.24%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.98% 2.11% 4.62%
Number of salaries quoted 508 617 954
10th Percentile £50,000 £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% +6.67%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £105,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% -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 35,563 42,373 79,478
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.24% 43.02% 48.52%
Number of salaries quoted 26,731 27,774 41,270
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,750 £33,980
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 £98,750
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 23 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 23 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 +3 605 £75,000 - 144
UK excluding London +6 377 £67,500 +3.85% 76
Work from Home +7 349 £73,500 +1.38% 82
London +31 292 £90,000 +5.88% 71
North of England +14 115 £65,000 -1.89% 30
Midlands +28 70 £70,000 +16.67% 19
Scotland -43 67 £60,000 -7.69% 5
South East -31 63 £67,500 -3.57% 8
West Midlands +39 56 £67,500 +12.50% 15
North West -60 53 £68,750 +1.85% 15
South West -27 36 £66,250 -5.36% 8
Yorkshire +86 32 £60,000 -0.41% 10
North East +22 30 £70,000 +24.25% 5
East of England +6 18 £71,250 +1.79% 2
East Midlands 0 14 £87,500 +9.38% 4
Northern Ireland +31 6 £77,500 -3.13% 4
Wales -1 3 £60,000 -4.37% 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 (13.76%) Apache Spark
2 96 (13.62%) Apache
3 32 (4.54%) Confluence
4 11 (1.56%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (0.71%) Tomcat
5 5 (0.71%) WordPress
6 2 (0.28%) CMS
7 1 (0.14%) nginx
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (0.85%) Trello
2 4 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.14%) Sketch
3 1 (0.14%) UXPin
3 1 (0.14%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 3 (0.43%) 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
1 697 (98.87%) Serverless
2 684 (97.02%) AWS
3 272 (38.58%) Amazon S3
4 232 (32.91%) Amazon EC2
5 179 (25.39%) Amazon SQS
6 172 (24.40%) Amazon ECS
7 168 (23.83%) AWS CloudFormation
8 157 (22.27%) Amazon EKS
9 120 (17.02%) Azure
10 114 (16.17%) GitHub
11 68 (9.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 66 (9.36%) OpenShift
13 65 (9.22%) Amazon EMR
14 63 (8.94%) Amazon Kinesis
15 56 (7.94%) GCP
16 49 (6.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 43 (6.10%) AWS Fargate
17 43 (6.10%) CloudFront
18 41 (5.82%) SaaS
19 37 (5.25%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 33 (4.68%) AMQP
2 24 (3.40%) HTTP
3 12 (1.70%) DNS
4 11 (1.56%) Network Security
4 11 (1.56%) VPN
5 7 (0.99%) WAN
6 6 (0.85%) Firewall
6 6 (0.85%) Internet
7 5 (0.71%) LAN
7 5 (0.71%) Wi-Fi
7 5 (0.71%) Wireless
8 3 (0.43%) DHCP
8 3 (0.43%) MQTT
9 1 (0.14%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.14%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 184 (26.10%) DynamoDB
2 182 (25.82%) Amazon RDS
3 113 (16.03%) NoSQL
4 95 (13.48%) Big Data
5 85 (12.06%) Hadoop
6 79 (11.21%) MySQL
7 64 (9.08%) Amazon Redshift
8 60 (8.51%) PostgreSQL
9 54 (7.66%) Electronic Patient Records
10 34 (4.82%) Relational Database
11 33 (4.68%) SQL Server
12 31 (4.40%) Redis
13 28 (3.97%) Cloudera CDH
14 27 (3.83%) Amazon Aurora
15 26 (3.69%) MongoDB
16 15 (2.13%) Data Lake
17 14 (1.99%) Data Warehouse
18 11 (1.56%) Amazon Athena
18 11 (1.56%) Elasticsearch
19 10 (1.42%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 164 (23.26%) Git
2 76 (10.78%) Jenkins
3 67 (9.50%) GitLab
4 53 (7.52%) JIRA
5 30 (4.26%) Artifactory
6 28 (3.97%) Bitbucket
7 15 (2.13%) Subversion
8 11 (1.56%) TeamCity
9 10 (1.42%) Sonatype Nexus
10 6 (0.85%) CircleCI
10 6 (0.85%) Maven
11 5 (0.71%) Cypress.io
11 5 (0.71%) git-flow
11 5 (0.71%) MSTest
11 5 (0.71%) SonarQube
12 4 (0.57%) Cucumber
12 4 (0.57%) Sourcetree
13 3 (0.43%) Burp Suite
13 3 (0.43%) Metasploit
13 3 (0.43%) NUnit
General
1 186 (26.38%) Social Skills
2 183 (25.96%) Finance
3 80 (11.35%) Law
4 78 (11.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 56 (7.94%) Legal
6 41 (5.82%) Front Office
7 35 (4.96%) Analytical Skills
8 31 (4.40%) Aerospace
9 29 (4.11%) Games
10 20 (2.84%) Banking
10 20 (2.84%) Marketing
11 18 (2.55%) Public Sector
11 18 (2.55%) Tech for Good
12 16 (2.27%) Automotive
12 16 (2.27%) Retail
13 8 (1.13%) Health Technology
14 6 (0.85%) Manufacturing
15 5 (0.71%) Billing
15 5 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
16 3 (0.43%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 192 (27.23%) AWS Engineer
1 192 (27.23%) Developer
2 177 (25.11%) Software Engineer
3 123 (17.45%) Senior
4 103 (14.61%) Lead
5 102 (14.47%) DevOps Engineer
6 76 (10.78%) AWS Software Engineer
7 70 (9.93%) AWS DevOps
8 61 (8.65%) AWS Developer
8 61 (8.65%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 61 (8.65%) Cloud Engineer
9 51 (7.23%) Big Data Engineer
9 51 (7.23%) Big Data Software Engineer
9 51 (7.23%) Python Engineer
9 51 (7.23%) Scala Engineer
9 51 (7.23%) Scala Software Engineer
10 46 (6.52%) Full Stack Developer
10 46 (6.52%) Senior Developer
11 45 (6.38%) Data Engineer
12 34 (4.82%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 179 (25.39%) Node.js
2 141 (20.00%) React
3 90 (12.77%) .NET
3 90 (12.77%) RESTful
4 70 (9.93%) GraphQL
5 64 (9.08%) Spring
6 61 (8.65%) REST
7 60 (8.51%) AngularJS
8 58 (8.23%) Spring Boot
9 54 (7.66%) Django
10 40 (5.67%) RabbitMQ
11 38 (5.39%) .NET Core
11 38 (5.39%) OpenAPI
11 38 (5.39%) Swagger
12 35 (4.96%) gRPC
13 34 (4.82%) CSS
13 34 (4.82%) HTML
14 32 (4.54%) JSON
15 29 (4.11%) Kafka
15 29 (4.11%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 74 (10.50%) Algorithms
2 58 (8.23%) Cloud Native
3 45 (6.38%) Distributed Systems
4 43 (6.10%) Client/Server
5 34 (4.82%) Data Structures
6 28 (3.97%) Greenfield Project
6 28 (3.97%) Tandem
7 20 (2.84%) Management Information System
8 18 (2.55%) Onboarding
9 17 (2.41%) Mobile App
10 16 (2.27%) Virtual Team
11 14 (1.99%) Private Cloud
12 13 (1.84%) Enterprise Software
12 13 (1.84%) Online Games
13 12 (1.70%) Hedge funds
14 11 (1.56%) Blog
14 11 (1.56%) IoT
14 11 (1.56%) Linux Command Line
15 9 (1.28%) Data Centre
16 8 (1.13%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 82 (11.63%) Linux
2 30 (4.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 30 (4.26%) Ubuntu
3 29 (4.11%) CentOS
4 28 (3.97%) Debian
5 15 (2.13%) Windows
6 4 (0.57%) Unix
7 3 (0.43%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 325 (46.10%) Agile
2 315 (44.68%) Software Engineering
3 296 (41.99%) CI/CD
4 233 (33.05%) DevOps
5 200 (28.37%) Microservices
6 186 (26.38%) Problem-Solving
7 173 (24.54%) Infrastructure as Code
8 149 (21.13%) Containerisation
9 123 (17.45%) Full Stack Development
10 103 (14.61%) Computer Science
11 77 (10.92%) Open Source
12 76 (10.78%) Continuous Improvement
12 76 (10.78%) TDD
13 75 (10.64%) Scrum
13 75 (10.64%) Visualisation
14 69 (9.79%) SDLC
15 65 (9.22%) Test Automation
16 64 (9.08%) Decision-Making
16 64 (9.08%) Design Patterns
17 61 (8.65%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 331 (46.95%) Python
2 261 (37.02%) Java
3 193 (27.38%) SQL
4 144 (20.43%) JavaScript
5 122 (17.30%) TypeScript
6 99 (14.04%) C#
7 72 (10.21%) Go
8 61 (8.65%) Scala
9 34 (4.82%) Bash
10 16 (2.27%) C
11 15 (2.13%) Shell Script
12 14 (1.99%) PHP
13 10 (1.42%) T-SQL
14 9 (1.28%) Groovy
14 9 (1.28%) PowerShell
15 8 (1.13%) Ruby
16 7 (0.99%) C++
17 6 (0.85%) Apex Code
18 5 (0.71%) VBA
19 4 (0.57%) Rust
Qualifications
1 94 (13.33%) Degree
2 68 (9.65%) Security Cleared
3 66 (9.36%) Computer Science Degree
4 64 (9.08%) AWS Certification
5 58 (8.23%) SC Cleared
6 43 (6.10%) DBS Check
7 36 (5.11%) DV Cleared
8 30 (4.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 24 (3.40%) Master's Degree
10 16 (2.27%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 8 (1.13%) AWS Certified Developer
12 6 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
13 3 (0.43%) Sun Certification
14 2 (0.28%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 1 (0.14%) CCIE
15 1 (0.14%) CCNP
15 1 (0.14%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (3.55%) QA
2 14 (1.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 14 (1.99%) NIST
3 13 (1.84%) GDPR
4 12 (1.70%) Data Quality
5 11 (1.56%) HIPAA
6 6 (0.85%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.43%) 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
1 199 (28.23%) Docker
2 25 (3.55%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (0.85%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.28%) HDFS
5 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 258 (36.60%) Terraform
2 192 (27.23%) Kubernetes
3 73 (10.35%) Ansible
4 42 (5.96%) Puppet
5 22 (3.12%) Grafana
6 19 (2.70%) Progress Chef
7 14 (1.99%) Packer
8 10 (1.42%) Prometheus
9 6 (0.85%) Salt
10 5 (0.71%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (0.43%) Autotask
11 3 (0.43%) Consul
12 2 (0.28%) CASB
13 1 (0.14%) Failover Clustering
13 1 (0.14%) Kibana
13 1 (0.14%) Rancher
Vendors
1 45 (6.38%) Google
2 28 (3.97%) Red Hat
2 28 (3.97%) SaltStack
3 20 (2.84%) ForgeRock
3 20 (2.84%) Oracle
4 17 (2.41%) Microsoft
5 16 (2.27%) Sitecore
6 13 (1.84%) Salesforce
7 12 (1.70%) Atlassian
8 11 (1.56%) Databricks
8 11 (1.56%) Sage
9 9 (1.28%) GoCardless
9 9 (1.28%) PayPal
10 7 (0.99%) Bloomberg
10 7 (0.99%) Splunk
11 6 (0.85%) Confluent
11 6 (0.85%) MuleSoft
12 5 (0.71%) Informatica
12 5 (0.71%) McAfee
13 4 (0.57%) Dataiku