AWS Lambda Job Trends in the North West

AWS Lambda
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring AWS Lambda skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 187 208 217
Rank change year-on-year +21 +9 -64
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 70 29 25
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.54% 0.55% 0.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.52% 2.03% 1.14%
Number of salaries quoted 43 24 14
10th Percentile £46,217 £55,000 £38,125
25th Percentile £53,750 £56,875 £46,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,249 £65,000 £61,250
Median % change year-on-year +3.46% +6.12% -5.77%
75th Percentile £78,500 £70,625 £65,938
90th Percentile £95,000 £83,375 £81,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £72,250 £76,000
% change year-on-year -3.11% -4.93% +8.57%

All Cloud Computing Skills
North West

AWS Lambda falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 2,774 1,427 2,191
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 21.40% 27.18% 29.21%
Number of salaries quoted 2,081 876 1,273
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £79,750 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £83,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £63,076 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +5.13% -7.69% +2.93%

AWS Lambda
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing AWS Lambda relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North West.

AWS Lambda job vacancy trend in the North West

AWS Lambda
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing AWS Lambda.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing AWS Lambda

AWS Lambda
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS Lambda in the North West over the 6 months to 4 October 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS Lambda in the North West

AWS Lambda
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AWS Lambda within the North West region over the 6 months to 4 October 2026. 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
Manchester -22 51 £67,249 +3.46% 38
Merseyside - 7 £95,000 -
Lancashire - 6 £47,988 - 7
Cheshire +12 4 £80,000 - 6
AWS Lambda
England

AWS Lambda
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 8 (11.43%) Apache Spark
2 7 (10.00%) Apache
3 5 (7.14%) Confluence
4 3 (4.29%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 1 (1.43%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
Cloud Services
1 70 (100.00%) AWS
1 70 (100.00%) Serverless
2 34 (48.57%) Amazon S3
3 19 (27.14%) Datadog
4 18 (25.71%) AWS CloudFormation
5 16 (22.86%) Amazon ECS
5 16 (22.86%) SaaS
6 15 (21.43%) Amazon EC2
7 13 (18.57%) GitHub
7 13 (18.57%) Route 53
8 12 (17.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 12 (17.14%) Amazon SQS
9 10 (14.29%) Azure
10 9 (12.86%) AWS Step Functions
11 8 (11.43%) Amazon EMR
11 8 (11.43%) Amazon EventBridge
11 8 (11.43%) GCP
12 7 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
13 6 (8.57%) GitHub Actions
13 6 (8.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.29%) AMQP
2 1 (1.43%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (22.86%) Amazon RDS
2 14 (20.00%) DynamoDB
3 13 (18.57%) Amazon Redshift
4 9 (12.86%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (10.00%) Amazon Athena
6 6 (8.57%) Big Data
6 6 (8.57%) MySQL
7 5 (7.14%) Relational Database
8 4 (5.71%) Hadoop
8 4 (5.71%) MariaDB
8 4 (5.71%) NoSQL
8 4 (5.71%) Spark SQL
9 3 (4.29%) Cloudera CDH
9 3 (4.29%) Data Lake
9 3 (4.29%) MongoDB
9 3 (4.29%) RDBMS
10 2 (2.86%) Parquet
10 2 (2.86%) Power BI
10 2 (2.86%) Power Query
10 2 (2.86%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (12.86%) Git
2 6 (8.57%) Claude Code
3 5 (7.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 5 (7.14%) Bitbucket
3 5 (7.14%) JIRA
4 4 (5.71%) Jenkins
5 3 (4.29%) Postman
5 3 (4.29%) Selenium
6 2 (2.86%) GitLab
6 2 (2.86%) Jasmine
6 2 (2.86%) Karma Test Runner
6 2 (2.86%) YouTrack
General
1 13 (18.57%) Aviation
1 13 (18.57%) Retail
2 10 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 7 (10.00%) Finance
4 5 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (5.71%) Social Skills
6 3 (4.29%) Aerospace
6 3 (4.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.86%) Health Technology
8 1 (1.43%) iGaming
8 1 (1.43%) Legal
8 1 (1.43%) Local Government
8 1 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (27.14%) Developer
1 19 (27.14%) Senior
2 18 (25.71%) Data Engineer
3 13 (18.57%) Head of Architecture
4 11 (15.71%) Senior Developer
5 8 (11.43%) Lead
6 7 (10.00%) AWS Data Engineer
6 7 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
7 6 (8.57%) Full-Stack Developer
7 6 (8.57%) Integration Developer
7 6 (8.57%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
8 5 (7.14%) Applications Engineer
8 5 (7.14%) Integration Engineer
8 5 (7.14%) Java Developer
8 5 (7.14%) Lead Developer
8 5 (7.14%) Senior Data Engineer
8 5 (7.14%) Software Engineer
9 3 (4.29%) DevOps Engineer
9 3 (4.29%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
9 3 (4.29%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (31.43%) Terraform
2 16 (22.86%) Node.js
3 15 (21.43%) Kafka
4 14 (20.00%) Spring
4 14 (20.00%) Spring Boot
5 11 (15.71%) AngularJS
6 10 (14.29%) PySpark
7 9 (12.86%) .NET
7 9 (12.86%) React
8 8 (11.43%) REST
9 7 (10.00%) OpenAPI
10 6 (8.57%) OpenTelemetry
10 6 (8.57%) RESTful
10 6 (8.57%) Swagger
11 5 (7.14%) Vue
12 3 (4.29%) .NET Core
12 3 (4.29%) AWS CDK
12 3 (4.29%) gRPC
12 3 (4.29%) Material-UI
12 3 (4.29%) Nuxt
Miscellaneous
1 26 (37.14%) Cloud Native
2 12 (17.14%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (7.14%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.86%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.43%) Blog
5 1 (1.43%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.29%) CentOS
1 3 (4.29%) Debian
1 3 (4.29%) Linux
1 3 (4.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 3 (4.29%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (51.43%) Observability
2 33 (47.14%) CI/CD
3 30 (42.86%) Mentoring
4 27 (38.57%) Continuous Improvement
5 25 (35.71%) Infrastructure as Code
5 25 (35.71%) Software Engineering
6 24 (34.29%) Agile
7 23 (32.86%) Collaborative Culture
8 21 (30.00%) Microservices
9 18 (25.71%) AI
10 17 (24.29%) Containerisation
10 17 (24.29%) DevOps
10 17 (24.29%) Roadmaps
10 17 (24.29%) Technical Leadership
11 16 (22.86%) Architectural Patterns
11 16 (22.86%) ETL
11 16 (22.86%) Event-Driven
12 15 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
13 14 (20.00%) Cost Optimisation
13 14 (20.00%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 38 (54.29%) Python
2 29 (41.43%) SQL
3 22 (31.43%) Java
4 19 (27.14%) JavaScript
5 15 (21.43%) TypeScript
6 9 (12.86%) C#
7 6 (8.57%) Scala
8 4 (5.71%) C++
9 3 (4.29%) Kotlin
10 2 (2.86%) Bash
10 2 (2.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (2.86%) Rust
11 1 (1.43%) Go
11 1 (1.43%) Ruby
11 1 (1.43%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (10.00%) AWS Certification
1 7 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 7 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (7.14%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 5 (7.14%) Degree
2 5 (7.14%) Master's Degree
3 3 (4.29%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (21.43%) Data Quality
2 4 (5.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.86%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.43%) QA
System Software
1 17 (24.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.29%) Ansible
2 3 (4.29%) Puppet
3 2 (2.86%) Grafana
3 2 (2.86%) Prometheus
3 2 (2.86%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (11.43%) Splunk
2 5 (7.14%) HubSpot
3 4 (5.71%) Databricks
3 4 (5.71%) OpenAI
4 3 (4.29%) Dynatrace
4 3 (4.29%) Google
4 3 (4.29%) Red Hat
4 3 (4.29%) SaltStack
5 1 (1.43%) YouTube