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

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 381 366 187
Rank change year-on-year -15 -179 +52
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 709 896 3,540
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.71% 0.90% 2.20%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.00% 2.10% 4.55%
Number of salaries quoted 515 617 949
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 £93,750
90th Percentile £114,000 £105,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £65,250 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% -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 35,421 42,712 77,813
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.46% 43.07% 48.42%
Number of salaries quoted 26,675 28,032 41,298
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £34,000
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 £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 18 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 18 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 +5 607 £75,000 - 164
UK excluding London -12 377 £67,500 +3.45% 98
Work from Home +4 353 £71,500 -1.38% 95
London +25 296 £90,000 +5.88% 85
North of England +27 114 £65,000 -3.70% 38
Scotland -48 68 £60,000 -7.69% 4
Midlands +26 67 £67,500 +12.50% 19
South East -34 65 £67,500 -3.57% 19
West Midlands +42 54 £67,500 +12.50% 16
North West -54 52 £65,000 -3.70% 16
South West -38 37 £65,000 -7.01% 8
Yorkshire +89 32 £60,000 -0.41% 14
North East +22 30 £70,000 +24.25% 8
East of England +3 18 £75,000 +7.14% 4
East Midlands -3 13 £87,500 +9.38% 3
Northern Ireland +25 6 £77,500 -3.13% 5
Wales -3 3 £60,000 -4.37% 2

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 96 (13.54%) Apache
1 96 (13.54%) Apache Spark
2 33 (4.65%) Confluence
3 12 (1.69%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (0.85%) Tomcat
4 6 (0.85%) WordPress
5 2 (0.28%) CMS
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Fuse
6 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
2 688 (97.04%) AWS
3 273 (38.50%) Amazon S3
4 235 (33.15%) Amazon EC2
5 182 (25.67%) Amazon SQS
6 176 (24.82%) Amazon ECS
7 166 (23.41%) AWS CloudFormation
8 156 (22.00%) Amazon EKS
9 121 (17.07%) Azure
10 119 (16.78%) GitHub
11 68 (9.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 67 (9.45%) OpenShift
13 64 (9.03%) Amazon EMR
14 63 (8.89%) Amazon Kinesis
15 55 (7.76%) GCP
16 46 (6.49%) AWS Fargate
16 46 (6.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 45 (6.35%) CloudFront
18 40 (5.64%) SaaS
19 38 (5.36%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 32 (4.51%) AMQP
2 23 (3.24%) HTTP
3 13 (1.83%) Network Security
4 12 (1.69%) DNS
5 11 (1.55%) VPN
6 8 (1.13%) 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
1 188 (26.52%) DynamoDB
2 185 (26.09%) Amazon RDS
3 112 (15.80%) NoSQL
4 95 (13.40%) Big Data
5 84 (11.85%) Hadoop
6 82 (11.57%) MySQL
7 67 (9.45%) Amazon Redshift
8 62 (8.74%) PostgreSQL
9 54 (7.62%) Electronic Patient Records
10 33 (4.65%) Relational Database
10 33 (4.65%) SQL Server
11 31 (4.37%) Redis
12 29 (4.09%) Amazon Aurora
13 27 (3.81%) Cloudera CDH
14 26 (3.67%) MongoDB
15 16 (2.26%) Data Lake
16 14 (1.97%) Data Warehouse
17 12 (1.69%) Amazon Athena
18 10 (1.41%) BigQuery
18 10 (1.41%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 163 (22.99%) Git
2 78 (11.00%) Jenkins
3 72 (10.16%) GitLab
4 54 (7.62%) JIRA
5 32 (4.51%) Artifactory
6 28 (3.95%) Bitbucket
7 15 (2.12%) Subversion
8 11 (1.55%) TeamCity
9 10 (1.41%) Sonatype Nexus
10 7 (0.99%) Maven
11 6 (0.85%) CircleCI
12 5 (0.71%) Cypress.io
12 5 (0.71%) git-flow
12 5 (0.71%) MSTest
12 5 (0.71%) SonarQube
13 4 (0.56%) Cucumber
13 4 (0.56%) Sourcetree
14 3 (0.42%) Burp Suite
14 3 (0.42%) Metasploit
14 3 (0.42%) sqlmap
General
1 186 (26.23%) Social Skills
2 185 (26.09%) Finance
3 78 (11.00%) Law
4 77 (10.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 56 (7.90%) Legal
6 42 (5.92%) Front Office
7 34 (4.80%) Analytical Skills
8 30 (4.23%) Aerospace
8 30 (4.23%) Games
9 20 (2.82%) Banking
9 20 (2.82%) Marketing
10 18 (2.54%) Public Sector
10 18 (2.54%) Tech for Good
11 16 (2.26%) Automotive
11 16 (2.26%) Retail
12 8 (1.13%) Health Technology
13 6 (0.85%) Manufacturing
14 5 (0.71%) Billing
14 5 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (0.42%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 194 (27.36%) AWS Engineer
2 193 (27.22%) Developer
3 176 (24.82%) Software Engineer
4 121 (17.07%) Senior
5 106 (14.95%) DevOps Engineer
6 102 (14.39%) Lead
7 76 (10.72%) AWS Software Engineer
8 73 (10.30%) AWS DevOps
9 64 (9.03%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 63 (8.89%) AWS Developer
10 63 (8.89%) Cloud Engineer
11 51 (7.19%) Big Data Engineer
11 51 (7.19%) Big Data Software Engineer
11 51 (7.19%) Scala Engineer
11 51 (7.19%) Scala Software Engineer
12 49 (6.91%) Python Engineer
13 48 (6.77%) Data Engineer
14 45 (6.35%) Full Stack Developer
14 45 (6.35%) Senior Developer
15 36 (5.08%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 178 (25.11%) Node.js
2 139 (19.61%) React
3 91 (12.83%) RESTful
4 88 (12.41%) .NET
5 69 (9.73%) GraphQL
6 64 (9.03%) Spring
7 60 (8.46%) AngularJS
8 59 (8.32%) REST
9 56 (7.90%) Spring Boot
10 54 (7.62%) Django
11 39 (5.50%) RabbitMQ
12 37 (5.22%) .NET Core
12 37 (5.22%) OpenAPI
12 37 (5.22%) Swagger
13 34 (4.80%) gRPC
14 32 (4.51%) CSS
14 32 (4.51%) HTML
14 32 (4.51%) JSON
15 30 (4.23%) J2EE
16 29 (4.09%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 74 (10.44%) Algorithms
2 58 (8.18%) Cloud Native
3 44 (6.21%) Distributed Systems
4 43 (6.06%) Client/Server
5 34 (4.80%) Data Structures
6 30 (4.23%) Tandem
7 28 (3.95%) Greenfield Project
8 20 (2.82%) Management Information System
9 17 (2.40%) Onboarding
10 16 (2.26%) Mobile App
10 16 (2.26%) Virtual Team
11 15 (2.12%) Private Cloud
12 13 (1.83%) Online Games
13 12 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
14 11 (1.55%) Hedge funds
14 11 (1.55%) IoT
14 11 (1.55%) Linux Command Line
15 10 (1.41%) Blog
16 9 (1.27%) Data Centre
17 8 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 81 (11.42%) Linux
2 29 (4.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 29 (4.09%) Ubuntu
3 28 (3.95%) CentOS
4 27 (3.81%) Debian
5 16 (2.26%) Windows
6 4 (0.56%) Unix
7 3 (0.42%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.42%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 330 (46.54%) Agile
2 316 (44.57%) Software Engineering
3 302 (42.60%) CI/CD
4 237 (33.43%) DevOps
5 199 (28.07%) Microservices
6 189 (26.66%) Problem-Solving
7 173 (24.40%) Infrastructure as Code
8 151 (21.30%) Containerisation
9 122 (17.21%) Full Stack Development
10 104 (14.67%) Computer Science
11 76 (10.72%) Open Source
11 76 (10.72%) Visualisation
12 75 (10.58%) Continuous Improvement
12 75 (10.58%) TDD
13 72 (10.16%) Scrum
14 68 (9.59%) SDLC
15 65 (9.17%) Decision-Making
16 64 (9.03%) Design Patterns
16 64 (9.03%) Mentoring
16 64 (9.03%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 332 (46.83%) Python
2 261 (36.81%) Java
3 197 (27.79%) SQL
4 142 (20.03%) JavaScript
5 121 (17.07%) TypeScript
6 96 (13.54%) C#
7 73 (10.30%) Go
8 61 (8.60%) Scala
9 36 (5.08%) Bash
10 16 (2.26%) C
10 16 (2.26%) PHP
11 15 (2.12%) Shell Script
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%) VBA
17 4 (0.56%) Rust
Qualifications
1 94 (13.26%) Degree
2 69 (9.73%) Security Cleared
3 66 (9.31%) Computer Science Degree
4 64 (9.03%) AWS Certification
5 59 (8.32%) SC Cleared
6 44 (6.21%) DBS Check
7 35 (4.94%) DV Cleared
8 30 (4.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 23 (3.24%) Master's Degree
10 16 (2.26%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 8 (1.13%) AWS Certified Developer
12 6 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
13 3 (0.42%) 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 (3.53%) QA
2 13 (1.83%) GDPR
3 12 (1.69%) Data Quality
3 12 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (1.69%) NIST
4 11 (1.55%) HIPAA
5 6 (0.85%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.42%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.14%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.14%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.14%) SEPA
7 1 (0.14%) SLA
System Software
1 206 (29.06%) Docker
2 25 (3.53%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (0.85%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.28%) HDFS
5 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 262 (36.95%) Terraform
2 196 (27.64%) Kubernetes
3 71 (10.01%) Ansible
4 41 (5.78%) Puppet
5 22 (3.10%) Grafana
6 19 (2.68%) Progress Chef
7 14 (1.97%) Packer
8 9 (1.27%) Prometheus
9 6 (0.85%) Salt
10 5 (0.71%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (0.42%) Autotask
11 3 (0.42%) Consul
12 2 (0.28%) CASB
13 1 (0.14%) Kibana
Vendors
1 44 (6.21%) Google
2 27 (3.81%) Red Hat
2 27 (3.81%) SaltStack
3 22 (3.10%) Oracle
4 20 (2.82%) ForgeRock
5 16 (2.26%) Microsoft
5 16 (2.26%) Sitecore
6 13 (1.83%) Salesforce
7 12 (1.69%) Atlassian
8 11 (1.55%) Databricks
8 11 (1.55%) Sage
9 9 (1.27%) GoCardless
9 9 (1.27%) PayPal
10 7 (0.99%) Splunk
11 6 (0.85%) Bloomberg
11 6 (0.85%) Confluent
11 6 (0.85%) MuleSoft
12 5 (0.71%) Informatica
12 5 (0.71%) McAfee
13 4 (0.56%) Dataiku