AWS Lambda Jobs

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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 392 361 183
Rank change year-on-year -31 -178 +45
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 699 840 3,896
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.67% 0.89% 2.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.94% 2.06% 4.73%
Number of salaries quoted 503 599 966
10th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - -9.38% +6.67%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £105,250 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £65,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.05% -6.43% +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 36,095 40,721 82,315
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.39% 43.02% 48.78%
Number of salaries quoted 26,995 27,249 41,330
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,452 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £64,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.85% +3.20% +7.76%
75th Percentile £77,250 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,150 £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 1 June 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 1 June 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 -16 600 £75,000 - 161
UK excluding London -8 378 £67,500 +3.05% 89
Work from Home +7 341 £74,500 +2.76% 83
London +45 287 £90,000 +5.88% 83
North of England +9 111 £65,000 -3.70% 39
Midlands +28 73 £70,000 +16.67% 19
Scotland -47 67 £60,000 -7.69% 9
South East -45 63 £67,500 -3.57% 7
West Midlands +22 59 £67,500 +12.50% 14
North West -57 50 £72,500 +7.41% 21
South West -36 38 £67,500 -2.46% 9
Yorkshire +64 31 £60,000 -4.00% 14
North East +18 30 £70,000 +24.25% 4
East of England -5 18 £71,250 +1.79% 3
East Midlands -13 14 £87,500 +9.38% 5
Northern Ireland +26 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 96 (13.73%) Apache Spark
2 95 (13.59%) Apache
3 28 (4.01%) Confluence
4 11 (1.57%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (0.86%) Tomcat
6 4 (0.57%) WordPress
7 2 (0.29%) CMS
8 1 (0.14%) nginx
8 1 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (0.86%) 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 (0.29%) Sage 200
3 1 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 691 (98.86%) Serverless
2 679 (97.14%) AWS
3 268 (38.34%) Amazon S3
4 229 (32.76%) Amazon EC2
5 176 (25.18%) Amazon SQS
6 168 (24.03%) Amazon ECS
6 168 (24.03%) AWS CloudFormation
7 153 (21.89%) Amazon EKS
8 118 (16.88%) Azure
9 108 (15.45%) GitHub
10 73 (10.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 65 (9.30%) OpenShift
12 64 (9.16%) Amazon EMR
13 61 (8.73%) Amazon Kinesis
14 56 (8.01%) GCP
15 49 (7.01%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 44 (6.29%) CloudFront
17 43 (6.15%) AWS Fargate
18 42 (6.01%) SaaS
19 34 (4.86%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 34 (4.86%) AMQP
2 24 (3.43%) HTTP
3 11 (1.57%) Network Security
3 11 (1.57%) VPN
4 9 (1.29%) DNS
5 7 (1.00%) WAN
6 6 (0.86%) Firewall
6 6 (0.86%) Internet
7 5 (0.72%) LAN
7 5 (0.72%) Wi-Fi
7 5 (0.72%) 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 (26.32%) DynamoDB
2 179 (25.61%) Amazon RDS
3 112 (16.02%) NoSQL
4 94 (13.45%) Big Data
5 84 (12.02%) Hadoop
6 77 (11.02%) MySQL
7 63 (9.01%) Amazon Redshift
8 58 (8.30%) PostgreSQL
9 53 (7.58%) Electronic Patient Records
10 34 (4.86%) Relational Database
11 32 (4.58%) SQL Server
12 31 (4.43%) Redis
13 29 (4.15%) Cloudera CDH
14 28 (4.01%) MongoDB
15 25 (3.58%) Amazon Aurora
16 15 (2.15%) Data Lake
17 14 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
18 12 (1.72%) Amazon Athena
19 11 (1.57%) Elasticsearch
20 10 (1.43%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 161 (23.03%) Git
2 70 (10.01%) Jenkins
3 66 (9.44%) GitLab
4 49 (7.01%) JIRA
5 28 (4.01%) Artifactory
6 25 (3.58%) Bitbucket
7 12 (1.72%) Subversion
8 11 (1.57%) TeamCity
9 7 (1.00%) Maven
9 7 (1.00%) Sonatype Nexus
10 6 (0.86%) CircleCI
11 5 (0.72%) Cypress.io
11 5 (0.72%) MSTest
11 5 (0.72%) SonarQube
12 4 (0.57%) Cucumber
12 4 (0.57%) git-flow
12 4 (0.57%) Sourcetree
13 3 (0.43%) Burp Suite
13 3 (0.43%) Metasploit
13 3 (0.43%) sqlmap
General
1 184 (26.32%) Social Skills
2 178 (25.46%) Finance
3 77 (11.02%) Law
4 75 (10.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 54 (7.73%) Legal
6 39 (5.58%) Front Office
7 35 (5.01%) Analytical Skills
8 32 (4.58%) Aerospace
9 29 (4.15%) Games
10 22 (3.15%) Banking
11 20 (2.86%) Marketing
12 17 (2.43%) Retail
12 17 (2.43%) Tech for Good
13 16 (2.29%) Automotive
13 16 (2.29%) Public Sector
14 7 (1.00%) Health Technology
15 6 (0.86%) Manufacturing
16 5 (0.72%) Billing
16 5 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
17 3 (0.43%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 192 (27.47%) Developer
2 185 (26.47%) AWS Engineer
3 175 (25.04%) Software Engineer
4 122 (17.45%) Senior
5 102 (14.59%) Lead
6 97 (13.88%) DevOps Engineer
7 74 (10.59%) AWS Software Engineer
8 66 (9.44%) AWS DevOps
9 60 (8.58%) AWS Developer
10 57 (8.15%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 56 (8.01%) Cloud Engineer
12 52 (7.44%) Python Engineer
13 49 (7.01%) Big Data Engineer
13 49 (7.01%) Big Data Software Engineer
13 49 (7.01%) Scala Engineer
13 49 (7.01%) Scala Software Engineer
14 47 (6.72%) Senior Developer
15 46 (6.58%) Full Stack Developer
16 43 (6.15%) Data Engineer
17 34 (4.86%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 181 (25.89%) Node.js
2 143 (20.46%) React
3 91 (13.02%) RESTful
4 89 (12.73%) .NET
5 70 (10.01%) GraphQL
6 64 (9.16%) Spring
7 61 (8.73%) REST
8 60 (8.58%) AngularJS
8 60 (8.58%) Spring Boot
9 54 (7.73%) Django
10 41 (5.87%) RabbitMQ
11 39 (5.58%) OpenAPI
11 39 (5.58%) Swagger
12 38 (5.44%) .NET Core
13 36 (5.15%) gRPC
14 34 (4.86%) CSS
14 34 (4.86%) HTML
15 32 (4.58%) JSON
16 31 (4.43%) Kafka
17 29 (4.15%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 73 (10.44%) Algorithms
2 59 (8.44%) Cloud Native
3 43 (6.15%) Client/Server
4 42 (6.01%) Distributed Systems
5 34 (4.86%) Data Structures
6 29 (4.15%) Greenfield Project
7 26 (3.72%) Tandem
8 19 (2.72%) Management Information System
9 17 (2.43%) Mobile App
9 17 (2.43%) Onboarding
10 15 (2.15%) Virtual Team
11 13 (1.86%) Online Games
11 13 (1.86%) Private Cloud
12 12 (1.72%) Hedge funds
13 11 (1.57%) Blog
13 11 (1.57%) IoT
13 11 (1.57%) Linux Command Line
13 11 (1.57%) PropTech
14 10 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
15 9 (1.29%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 81 (11.59%) Linux
2 31 (4.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 31 (4.43%) Ubuntu
3 30 (4.29%) CentOS
4 29 (4.15%) Debian
5 13 (1.86%) Windows
6 4 (0.57%) Unix
7 3 (0.43%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 318 (45.49%) Agile
2 310 (44.35%) Software Engineering
3 287 (41.06%) CI/CD
4 231 (33.05%) DevOps
5 205 (29.33%) Microservices
6 186 (26.61%) Problem-Solving
7 171 (24.46%) Infrastructure as Code
8 150 (21.46%) Containerisation
9 124 (17.74%) Full Stack Development
10 102 (14.59%) Computer Science
11 76 (10.87%) Open Source
12 75 (10.73%) Scrum
12 75 (10.73%) TDD
13 73 (10.44%) Visualisation
14 70 (10.01%) Continuous Improvement
15 67 (9.59%) SDLC
16 64 (9.16%) Design Patterns
16 64 (9.16%) Test Automation
17 62 (8.87%) Decision-Making
18 59 (8.44%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 324 (46.35%) Python
2 257 (36.77%) Java
3 188 (26.90%) SQL
4 145 (20.74%) JavaScript
5 121 (17.31%) TypeScript
6 98 (14.02%) C#
7 68 (9.73%) Go
8 59 (8.44%) Scala
9 32 (4.58%) Bash
10 16 (2.29%) C
11 14 (2.00%) Shell Script
12 12 (1.72%) PHP
13 10 (1.43%) T-SQL
14 9 (1.29%) Groovy
14 9 (1.29%) PowerShell
15 8 (1.14%) Ruby
16 6 (0.86%) Apex Code
16 6 (0.86%) C++
17 5 (0.72%) VBA
18 4 (0.57%) Rust
Qualifications
1 92 (13.16%) Degree
2 68 (9.73%) AWS Certification
3 66 (9.44%) Security Cleared
4 65 (9.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 58 (8.30%) SC Cleared
6 42 (6.01%) DBS Check
7 35 (5.01%) DV Cleared
8 32 (4.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 25 (3.58%) Master's Degree
10 16 (2.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 8 (1.14%) AWS Certified Developer
12 5 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
13 3 (0.43%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 3 (0.43%) Sun Certification
14 1 (0.14%) CCIE
14 1 (0.14%) CCNP
14 1 (0.14%) Cisco Certification
14 1 (0.14%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (3.29%) QA
2 17 (2.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 17 (2.43%) NIST
3 13 (1.86%) GDPR
4 12 (1.72%) Data Quality
5 11 (1.57%) HIPAA
6 5 (0.72%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.43%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.29%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.29%) SLA
9 1 (0.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.14%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.14%) SEPA
System Software
1 193 (27.61%) Docker
2 25 (3.58%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (0.72%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.29%) HDFS
5 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 250 (35.77%) Terraform
2 187 (26.75%) Kubernetes
3 69 (9.87%) Ansible
4 41 (5.87%) Puppet
5 21 (3.00%) Grafana
6 17 (2.43%) Progress Chef
7 11 (1.57%) Packer
8 10 (1.43%) Prometheus
9 5 (0.72%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (0.43%) Autotask
10 3 (0.43%) Consul
11 2 (0.29%) CASB
11 2 (0.29%) Salt
12 1 (0.14%) Failover Clustering
12 1 (0.14%) Kibana
12 1 (0.14%) Rancher
Vendors
1 45 (6.44%) Google
2 29 (4.15%) Red Hat
2 29 (4.15%) SaltStack
3 20 (2.86%) ForgeRock
4 18 (2.58%) Oracle
5 17 (2.43%) Microsoft
6 16 (2.29%) Sitecore
7 13 (1.86%) Salesforce
8 11 (1.57%) Sage
9 10 (1.43%) Databricks
10 9 (1.29%) Atlassian
10 9 (1.29%) GoCardless
10 9 (1.29%) PayPal
11 7 (1.00%) Bloomberg
11 7 (1.00%) Splunk
12 6 (0.86%) Confluent
12 6 (0.86%) MuleSoft
13 5 (0.72%) Informatica
14 4 (0.57%) Dataiku
14 4 (0.57%) McAfee