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 16 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 191 208 222
Rank change year-on-year +17 +14 -43
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 58 33 34
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.49% 0.63% 0.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.04% 2.18% 1.32%
Number of salaries quoted 39 29 27
10th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £49,750
25th Percentile £56,250 £62,500 £61,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -10.34% +11.54%
75th Percentile £83,750 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £80,500 £93,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% -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 2,837 1,513 2,569
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 23.83% 29.07% 30.80%
Number of salaries quoted 2,148 923 1,811
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £41,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £98,295 £87,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £64,169 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.95% - -7.69%

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 16 August 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 16 August 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 46 £70,000 +7.69% 8
Merseyside - 9 £95,000 - 1
Cheshire +12 2 £80,000 - 1
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 (8.62%) Confluence
2 4 (6.90%) Apache
2 4 (6.90%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 58 (100.00%) AWS
1 58 (100.00%) Serverless
2 28 (48.28%) Amazon S3
3 19 (32.76%) Datadog
4 17 (29.31%) Amazon ECS
4 17 (29.31%) AWS CloudFormation
5 14 (24.14%) SaaS
6 13 (22.41%) Amazon SQS
7 11 (18.97%) Route 53
8 10 (17.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 9 (15.52%) Amazon EventBridge
9 9 (15.52%) GitHub
10 7 (12.07%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (10.34%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (10.34%) AWS Fargate
12 5 (8.62%) AWS Step Functions
12 5 (8.62%) Azure
12 5 (8.62%) GCP
13 4 (6.90%) GitHub Actions
14 3 (5.17%) Amazon Cognito
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.45%) AMQP
2 1 (1.72%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (25.86%) DynamoDB
2 12 (20.69%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (15.52%) Amazon Redshift
4 6 (10.34%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (10.34%) Relational Database
5 5 (8.62%) Amazon Athena
5 5 (8.62%) MySQL
6 4 (6.90%) Big Data
7 3 (5.17%) MariaDB
7 3 (5.17%) RDBMS
8 2 (3.45%) Cloudera CDH
8 2 (3.45%) Hadoop
8 2 (3.45%) NoSQL
8 2 (3.45%) SQL Server
9 1 (1.72%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (1.72%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (8.62%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 5 (8.62%) Bitbucket
1 5 (8.62%) Claude Code
1 5 (8.62%) JIRA
2 4 (6.90%) Git
3 3 (5.17%) Jenkins
3 3 (5.17%) Postman
3 3 (5.17%) Selenium
4 2 (3.45%) Jasmine
4 2 (3.45%) Karma Test Runner
4 2 (3.45%) YouTrack
General
1 11 (18.97%) Aviation
1 11 (18.97%) Retail
2 10 (17.24%) Finance
3 3 (5.17%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (5.17%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.45%) Aerospace
4 2 (3.45%) Health Technology
4 2 (3.45%) Social Skills
5 1 (1.72%) Legal
5 1 (1.72%) Local Government
5 1 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (34.48%) Developer
2 18 (31.03%) Senior
3 12 (20.69%) Senior Developer
4 11 (18.97%) Head of Architecture
4 11 (18.97%) Lead
5 9 (15.52%) Data Engineer
6 7 (12.07%) Integration Developer
6 7 (12.07%) Integration Engineer
6 7 (12.07%) Lead Developer
7 6 (10.34%) Full-Stack Developer
7 6 (10.34%) Java Developer
7 6 (10.34%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
8 5 (8.62%) Applications Engineer
8 5 (8.62%) AWS Data Engineer
8 5 (8.62%) AWS Engineer
8 5 (8.62%) Senior Java Developer
9 4 (6.90%) Senior Data Engineer
9 4 (6.90%) Software Engineer
10 3 (5.17%) Lead Data Scientist
10 3 (5.17%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (31.03%) Node.js
2 14 (24.14%) Kafka
3 13 (22.41%) Spring
3 13 (22.41%) Spring Boot
4 10 (17.24%) AngularJS
5 8 (13.79%) OpenTelemetry
5 8 (13.79%) React
6 6 (10.34%) OpenAPI
7 5 (8.62%) REST
7 5 (8.62%) RESTful
7 5 (8.62%) Swagger
8 4 (6.90%) .NET
8 4 (6.90%) Vue
9 3 (5.17%) AWS CDK
9 3 (5.17%) FastAPI
9 3 (5.17%) Hibernate
9 3 (5.17%) JPA
9 3 (5.17%) NumPy
9 3 (5.17%) PySpark
9 3 (5.17%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 18 (31.03%) Cloud Native
2 13 (22.41%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (8.62%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.72%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.45%) CentOS
1 2 (3.45%) Debian
1 2 (3.45%) Linux
1 2 (3.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (3.45%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (58.62%) Observability
2 25 (43.10%) Mentoring
3 23 (39.66%) Collaborative Culture
4 22 (37.93%) CI/CD
5 21 (36.21%) Infrastructure as Code
5 21 (36.21%) Software Engineering
6 19 (32.76%) Continuous Improvement
7 18 (31.03%) Microservices
8 16 (27.59%) AI
8 16 (27.59%) Containerisation
9 14 (24.14%) Technical Leadership
10 13 (22.41%) Agile
10 13 (22.41%) Roadmaps
11 12 (20.69%) Architectural Patterns
11 12 (20.69%) Cost Optimisation
11 12 (20.69%) DevOps
11 12 (20.69%) Event-Driven
11 12 (20.69%) Stakeholder Management
12 11 (18.97%) Customer Experience
12 11 (18.97%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 33 (56.90%) Python
2 22 (37.93%) SQL
3 18 (31.03%) TypeScript
4 15 (25.86%) Java
5 12 (20.69%) JavaScript
6 5 (8.62%) Scala
7 4 (6.90%) C#
8 3 (5.17%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.72%) Go
9 1 (1.72%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 5 (8.62%) AWS Certification
1 5 (8.62%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 5 (8.62%) Degree
1 5 (8.62%) Master's Degree
2 4 (6.90%) Security Cleared
3 3 (5.17%) DV Cleared
3 3 (5.17%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.34%) Data Quality
2 3 (5.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.72%) QA
System Software
1 13 (22.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (27.59%) Kubernetes
1 16 (27.59%) Terraform
2 2 (3.45%) Ansible
2 2 (3.45%) Puppet
3 1 (1.72%) Grafana
3 1 (1.72%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (13.79%) Splunk
2 7 (12.07%) HubSpot
3 3 (5.17%) Dynatrace
3 3 (5.17%) OpenAI
4 2 (3.45%) Google
4 2 (3.45%) Red Hat
4 2 (3.45%) SaltStack