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 12 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 161 200 153
Rank change year-on-year +39 -47 +41
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 19 23 36
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.34% 0.38% 0.99%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.78% 1.23% 2.37%
Number of salaries quoted 15 15 30
10th Percentile £50,500 £43,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £44,375 £52,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -4.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £80,625 £71,375 £72,500
90th Percentile £96,500 £85,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £85,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -11.76% +21.43% -12.50%

All Cloud 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 2,442 1,865 1,518
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 44.04% 31.08% 41.69%
Number of salaries quoted 958 1,065 1,306
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £29,500
25th Percentile £38,563 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -
75th Percentile £72,500 £68,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £82,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -3.85%

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 12 December 2025.

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 12 December 2025. 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 +26 17 £65,000 +8.33% 8
Cheshire - 1 - - 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 3 (15.79%) Apache
1 3 (15.79%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 19 (100.00%) AWS
1 19 (100.00%) Serverless
2 8 (42.11%) Amazon S3
3 5 (26.32%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (21.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (21.05%) Amazon EKS
4 4 (21.05%) GitHub
4 4 (21.05%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (15.79%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (15.79%) Amazon EMR
5 3 (15.79%) Amazon SQS
5 3 (15.79%) Azure
5 3 (15.79%) SaaS
6 2 (10.53%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (10.53%) Amazon EventBridge
6 2 (10.53%) GCP
6 2 (10.53%) OpenShift
7 1 (5.26%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 1 (5.26%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (5.26%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (42.11%) DynamoDB
2 3 (15.79%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (15.79%) Big Data
2 3 (15.79%) NoSQL
3 2 (10.53%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (10.53%) Apache Iceberg
3 2 (10.53%) Cloudera CDH
3 2 (10.53%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (10.53%) Hadoop
3 2 (10.53%) SQL Server
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (5.26%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Git
2 1 (5.26%) GitLab
General
1 8 (42.11%) Social Skills
2 6 (31.58%) Finance
3 3 (15.79%) Games
4 2 (10.53%) Aerospace
5 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.26%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 7 (36.84%) Developer
1 7 (36.84%) Senior
2 5 (26.32%) Java Developer
3 4 (21.05%) Senior Developer
3 4 (21.05%) Senior Java Developer
3 4 (21.05%) Software Engineer
4 3 (15.79%) AWS Engineer
4 3 (15.79%) Data Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) AWS Data Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) Lead
6 1 (5.26%) AWS Architect
6 1 (5.26%) AWS Developer
6 1 (5.26%) AWS DevOps
6 1 (5.26%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) AWS Solution Architect
6 1 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Node.js Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (52.63%) React
2 5 (26.32%) Node.js
3 4 (21.05%) Spring
3 4 (21.05%) Spring Boot
4 3 (15.79%) Amazon Corretto
4 3 (15.79%) AngularJS
4 3 (15.79%) Kafka
5 2 (10.53%) .NET
5 2 (10.53%) gRPC
5 2 (10.53%) Material-UI
5 2 (10.53%) OpenAPI
5 2 (10.53%) PySpark
5 2 (10.53%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (10.53%) REST
5 2 (10.53%) Swagger
6 1 (5.26%) ASP.NET
6 1 (5.26%) Middleware
6 1 (5.26%) RESTful
6 1 (5.26%) SAML
6 1 (5.26%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 10 (52.63%) Cloud Native
2 5 (26.32%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (15.79%) e-Learning
4 1 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (5.26%) Onboarding
4 1 (5.26%) Private Cloud
4 1 (5.26%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.79%) Linux
2 2 (10.53%) CentOS
2 2 (10.53%) Debian
2 2 (10.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (10.53%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (73.68%) Agile
2 10 (52.63%) CI/CD
3 8 (42.11%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (36.84%) DevOps
4 7 (36.84%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (31.58%) Microservices
5 6 (31.58%) Software Engineering
5 6 (31.58%) Test Automation
6 5 (26.32%) Clean Code
6 5 (26.32%) TDD
6 5 (26.32%) User Experience
7 4 (21.05%) Containerisation
7 4 (21.05%) Continuous Integration
7 4 (21.05%) Front End Development
7 4 (21.05%) Mentoring
7 4 (21.05%) Observability
7 4 (21.05%) Pair Programming
7 4 (21.05%) UX Design
8 3 (15.79%) Migration
8 3 (15.79%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 8 (42.11%) Java
2 7 (36.84%) Python
2 7 (36.84%) TypeScript
3 6 (31.58%) JavaScript
4 5 (26.32%) SQL
5 1 (5.26%) C#
5 1 (5.26%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (15.79%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.53%) DV Cleared
2 2 (10.53%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.26%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (5.26%) NIST
2 1 (5.26%) QA
System Software
1 7 (36.84%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (57.89%) Terraform
2 9 (47.37%) Kubernetes
3 2 (10.53%) Ansible
3 2 (10.53%) Puppet
4 1 (5.26%) Progress Chef
4 1 (5.26%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (10.53%) Google
1 2 (10.53%) Red Hat
1 2 (10.53%) SaltStack
2 1 (5.26%) Dynatrace