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 1 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 200 201 260
Rank change year-on-year +1 +59 -78
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 44 38 46
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.40% 0.77% 0.43%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.63% 2.59% 1.32%
Number of salaries quoted 37 35 35
10th Percentile £52,250 £55,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £62,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £65,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% -10.34% +7.41%
75th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £86,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £83,250 £157,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - - +3.45%

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 2,702 1,469 3,491
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 24.32% 29.94% 32.30%
Number of salaries quoted 2,056 871 2,730
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,500 £29,225
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,750 £40,991
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £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 1 July 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 1 July 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 -13 32 £70,000 +7.69% 13
Merseyside - 9 £95,000 - 1
Cheshire +7 2 £80,000 - 2
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 6 (13.64%) Apache Spark
2 5 (11.36%) Apache
3 4 (9.09%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 44 (100.00%) AWS
1 44 (100.00%) Serverless
2 25 (56.82%) Amazon S3
3 16 (36.36%) AWS CloudFormation
4 15 (34.09%) Amazon ECS
5 13 (29.55%) Amazon SQS
6 9 (20.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 9 (20.45%) Amazon EventBridge
7 8 (18.18%) Datadog
8 7 (15.91%) Amazon EC2
8 7 (15.91%) Amazon EKS
8 7 (15.91%) Azure
8 7 (15.91%) GCP
8 7 (15.91%) GitHub
9 5 (11.36%) AWS Step Functions
10 4 (9.09%) AWS Fargate
11 3 (6.82%) Amazon SageMaker
11 3 (6.82%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (6.82%) OpenShift
11 3 (6.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.82%) AMQP
2 1 (2.27%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (29.55%) DynamoDB
2 11 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (15.91%) Amazon Redshift
4 6 (13.64%) Relational Database
5 5 (11.36%) Amazon Athena
5 5 (11.36%) Big Data
5 5 (11.36%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (11.36%) MySQL
6 3 (6.82%) Cloudera CDH
6 3 (6.82%) Hadoop
6 3 (6.82%) MariaDB
6 3 (6.82%) RDBMS
7 2 (4.55%) NoSQL
7 2 (4.55%) SQL Server
8 1 (2.27%) Data Lake
8 1 (2.27%) Metadata
8 1 (2.27%) MongoDB
8 1 (2.27%) Power BI
8 1 (2.27%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (11.36%) Claude Code
2 4 (9.09%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 4 (9.09%) Bitbucket
2 4 (9.09%) Git
2 4 (9.09%) JIRA
3 3 (6.82%) Jenkins
3 3 (6.82%) Postman
3 3 (6.82%) Selenium
4 2 (4.55%) Jasmine
4 2 (4.55%) Karma Test Runner
4 2 (4.55%) YouTrack
General
1 8 (18.18%) Finance
2 3 (6.82%) Aerospace
2 3 (6.82%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (4.55%) Health Technology
3 2 (4.55%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 20 (45.45%) Developer
2 17 (38.64%) Senior
3 12 (27.27%) Senior Developer
4 10 (22.73%) Lead
5 7 (15.91%) Data Engineer
5 7 (15.91%) Integration Developer
5 7 (15.91%) Integration Engineer
5 7 (15.91%) Lead Developer
6 6 (13.64%) Full-Stack Developer
6 6 (13.64%) Java Developer
6 6 (13.64%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
7 5 (11.36%) Senior Java Developer
8 4 (9.09%) Applications Engineer
8 4 (9.09%) Software Engineer
9 3 (6.82%) AWS Engineer
9 3 (6.82%) Data Scientist
9 3 (6.82%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
9 3 (6.82%) Lead Data Scientist
9 3 (6.82%) Senior Data Engineer
9 3 (6.82%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (40.91%) Node.js
2 15 (34.09%) Kafka
3 13 (29.55%) Spring
3 13 (29.55%) Spring Boot
4 10 (22.73%) AngularJS
5 8 (18.18%) React
6 7 (15.91%) OpenTelemetry
7 6 (13.64%) OpenAPI
7 6 (13.64%) REST
7 6 (13.64%) Swagger
8 5 (11.36%) RESTful
9 4 (9.09%) Vue
10 3 (6.82%) AWS CDK
10 3 (6.82%) FastAPI
10 3 (6.82%) Flask
10 3 (6.82%) gRPC
10 3 (6.82%) JPA
10 3 (6.82%) Material-UI
10 3 (6.82%) Pandas
10 3 (6.82%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 13 (29.55%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (15.91%) Cloud Native
3 4 (9.09%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.82%) CentOS
1 3 (6.82%) Debian
1 3 (6.82%) Linux
1 3 (6.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 3 (6.82%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (47.73%) Observability
2 20 (45.45%) Infrastructure as Code
3 19 (43.18%) CI/CD
4 18 (40.91%) Microservices
5 16 (36.36%) AI
6 15 (34.09%) Containerisation
7 13 (29.55%) Mentoring
8 12 (27.27%) Data Modelling
8 12 (27.27%) Event-Driven
9 11 (25.00%) Collaborative Culture
10 10 (22.73%) Agile
10 10 (22.73%) Data Science
10 10 (22.73%) DevOps
10 10 (22.73%) Software Engineering
11 9 (20.45%) Continuous Integration
11 9 (20.45%) Platform Engineering
11 9 (20.45%) TDD
12 8 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
12 8 (18.18%) Full-Stack Development
12 8 (18.18%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 30 (68.18%) Python
2 19 (43.18%) SQL
3 18 (40.91%) TypeScript
4 14 (31.82%) Java
5 13 (29.55%) JavaScript
6 5 (11.36%) Scala
7 3 (6.82%) C#
7 3 (6.82%) Kotlin
8 1 (2.27%) Go
Qualifications
1 4 (9.09%) AWS Certification
1 4 (9.09%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 4 (9.09%) Degree
1 4 (9.09%) DV Cleared
1 4 (9.09%) Master's Degree
1 4 (9.09%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.82%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.09%) Data Quality
2 3 (6.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.27%) QA
System Software
1 13 (29.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (36.36%) Kubernetes
2 15 (34.09%) Terraform
3 3 (6.82%) Ansible
3 3 (6.82%) Puppet
4 1 (2.27%) Grafana
4 1 (2.27%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (15.91%) HubSpot
1 7 (15.91%) Splunk
2 3 (6.82%) Dynatrace
2 3 (6.82%) Google
2 3 (6.82%) OpenAI
2 3 (6.82%) Red Hat
2 3 (6.82%) SaltStack
3 1 (2.27%) Informatica