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 15 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 210 209 237
Rank change year-on-year -1 +28 -59
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 27 27 47
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.26% 0.58% 0.50%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.85% 1.83% 1.47%
Number of salaries quoted 24 27 37
10th Percentile £58,250 £55,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £64,081 £62,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +15.38% -3.70%
75th Percentile £97,500 £80,000 £85,000
90th Percentile - £84,500 £144,250
England median annual salary £72,500 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.45% +3.33% -

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 3,173 1,476 3,205
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 30.45% 31.91% 34.08%
Number of salaries quoted 1,655 881 2,657
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,750 £29,250
25th Percentile £40,500 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £91,250 £85,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.54%

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 15 May 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 15 May 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 -18 18 £70,000 -6.67% 12
Merseyside - 6 £95,000 - 3
Cheshire - 1 £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 5 (18.52%) Apache Spark
2 4 (14.81%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 27 (100.00%) AWS
1 27 (100.00%) Serverless
2 13 (48.15%) Amazon S3
3 10 (37.04%) AWS CloudFormation
4 9 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 8 (29.63%) Amazon EventBridge
5 8 (29.63%) Amazon SQS
6 7 (25.93%) Datadog
7 6 (22.22%) Amazon ECS
8 5 (18.52%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (14.81%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (14.81%) Azure
9 4 (14.81%) GCP
10 3 (11.11%) Amazon SageMaker
10 3 (11.11%) OpenShift
10 3 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 2 (7.41%) AWS Step Functions
11 2 (7.41%) ChatGPT
11 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Copilot
11 2 (7.41%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (11.11%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (29.63%) DynamoDB
3 4 (14.81%) Amazon Athena
3 4 (14.81%) Amazon Redshift
3 4 (14.81%) Big Data
4 3 (11.11%) Cloudera CDH
4 3 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (11.11%) Hadoop
4 3 (11.11%) Relational Database
5 2 (7.41%) NoSQL
6 1 (3.70%) Data Lake
6 1 (3.70%) MariaDB
6 1 (3.70%) Metadata
6 1 (3.70%) MySQL
6 1 (3.70%) Power BI
6 1 (3.70%) SQL Server
6 1 (3.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Claude Code
General
1 5 (18.52%) Finance
2 3 (11.11%) Aerospace
2 3 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (7.41%) Health Technology
3 2 (7.41%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.70%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (44.44%) Developer
2 9 (33.33%) Lead
3 7 (25.93%) Senior
4 6 (22.22%) Integration Developer
4 6 (22.22%) Integration Engineer
4 6 (22.22%) Lead Developer
5 4 (14.81%) Data Engineer
5 4 (14.81%) Java Developer
5 4 (14.81%) Senior Developer
6 3 (11.11%) Data Scientist
6 3 (11.11%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
6 3 (11.11%) Lead Data Scientist
6 3 (11.11%) Senior Data Scientist
6 3 (11.11%) Software Engineer
7 2 (7.41%) AWS Data Engineer
7 2 (7.41%) AWS Engineer
7 2 (7.41%) Digital Developer
7 2 (7.41%) Senior Java Developer
8 1 (3.70%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 1 (3.70%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (51.85%) Node.js
2 9 (33.33%) Kafka
3 7 (25.93%) Spring
3 7 (25.93%) Spring Boot
4 6 (22.22%) OpenTelemetry
5 4 (14.81%) REST
6 3 (11.11%) AngularJS
6 3 (11.11%) AWS CDK
6 3 (11.11%) gRPC
6 3 (11.11%) Material-UI
6 3 (11.11%) NumPy
6 3 (11.11%) OpenAPI
6 3 (11.11%) Pandas
6 3 (11.11%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (11.11%) React
6 3 (11.11%) scikit-learn
6 3 (11.11%) Swagger
7 2 (7.41%) Web Services
8 1 (3.70%) .NET
8 1 (3.70%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (25.93%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (18.52%) Cloud Native
3 3 (11.11%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (3.70%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.70%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (11.11%) CentOS
1 3 (11.11%) Debian
1 3 (11.11%) Linux
1 3 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 3 (11.11%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (51.85%) Infrastructure as Code
2 12 (44.44%) Containerisation
2 12 (44.44%) Microservices
3 11 (40.74%) Observability
4 10 (37.04%) Mentoring
5 9 (33.33%) Data Modelling
6 8 (29.63%) CI/CD
6 8 (29.63%) Event-Driven
7 7 (25.93%) Agile
7 7 (25.93%) Data Science
7 7 (25.93%) Platform Engineering
7 7 (25.93%) Software Engineering
8 6 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (22.22%) CRM
8 6 (22.22%) DevOps
8 6 (22.22%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 5 (18.52%) AI
9 5 (18.52%) Decision-Making
9 5 (18.52%) Machine Learning
10 4 (14.81%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 20 (74.07%) Python
2 11 (40.74%) TypeScript
3 10 (37.04%) JavaScript
4 9 (33.33%) SQL
5 8 (29.63%) Java
6 1 (3.70%) C#
6 1 (3.70%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (14.81%) DV Cleared
1 4 (14.81%) Security Cleared
2 3 (11.11%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.11%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 10 (37.04%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (48.15%) Kubernetes
2 11 (40.74%) Terraform
3 3 (11.11%) Ansible
3 3 (11.11%) Puppet
4 1 (3.70%) Grafana
4 1 (3.70%) Prometheus
4 1 (3.70%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (22.22%) HubSpot
2 3 (11.11%) Google
2 3 (11.11%) Red Hat
2 3 (11.11%) SaltStack
3 1 (3.70%) Informatica
3 1 (3.70%) OpenAI