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 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 164 187 163
Rank change year-on-year +23 -24 +16
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 15 20 34
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.24% 0.40% 0.76%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.54% 1.29% 2.02%
Number of salaries quoted 10 13 27
10th Percentile £47,500 £42,750 £43,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £43,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +12.50% -7.69%
75th Percentile £75,625 £87,500 £71,150
90th Percentile £95,250 £103,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £72,500 £90,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -19.44% +33.33% -18.18%

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 2,755 1,548 1,680
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 43.43% 30.72% 37.31%
Number of salaries quoted 1,014 883 1,445
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £31,000
25th Percentile £39,813 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -
75th Percentile £74,210 £71,313 £72,433
90th Percentile £86,253 £82,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -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 13 January 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 13 January 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 +19 13 £60,000 -11.11% 15
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 4 (26.67%) Apache
1 4 (26.67%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 15 (100.00%) AWS
1 15 (100.00%) Serverless
2 7 (46.67%) Amazon S3
3 5 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (26.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (26.67%) Amazon EKS
4 4 (26.67%) Azure
5 3 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (20.00%) Amazon EMR
5 3 (20.00%) GCP
5 3 (20.00%) GitHub
5 3 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (20.00%) OpenShift
6 2 (13.33%) SaaS
7 1 (6.67%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (6.67%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (6.67%) CloudFront
7 1 (6.67%) Datadog
7 1 (6.67%) Kong
7 1 (6.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (20.00%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) Big Data
2 3 (20.00%) Cloudera CDH
2 3 (20.00%) DynamoDB
2 3 (20.00%) Hadoop
3 2 (13.33%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (13.33%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (13.33%) Apache Iceberg
3 2 (13.33%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (13.33%) NoSQL
3 2 (13.33%) SQL Server
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Git
2 1 (6.67%) GitLab
General
1 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Aerospace
2 3 (20.00%) Finance
3 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Software Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Senior
3 3 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Data Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Developer
3 3 (20.00%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) AWS Data Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Java Developer
5 1 (6.67%) AWS Developer
5 1 (6.67%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (6.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Lead
5 1 (6.67%) Node.js Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (46.67%) React
2 6 (40.00%) Node.js
3 5 (33.33%) Spring
3 5 (33.33%) Spring Boot
4 4 (26.67%) AngularJS
5 3 (20.00%) gRPC
5 3 (20.00%) Material-UI
5 3 (20.00%) OpenAPI
5 3 (20.00%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (20.00%) REST
5 3 (20.00%) Swagger
6 2 (13.33%) PySpark
7 1 (6.67%) Kafka
7 1 (6.67%) Middleware
7 1 (6.67%) OpenID
7 1 (6.67%) RESTful
7 1 (6.67%) SAML
7 1 (6.67%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 9 (60.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (6.67%) Onboarding
3 1 (6.67%) Private Cloud
3 1 (6.67%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (20.00%) CentOS
1 3 (20.00%) Debian
1 3 (20.00%) Linux
1 3 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 3 (20.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (73.33%) Agile
2 8 (53.33%) CI/CD
3 7 (46.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (40.00%) Software Engineering
5 5 (33.33%) Microservices
5 5 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (26.67%) Collaborative Working
6 4 (26.67%) Containerisation
6 4 (26.67%) Mentoring
6 4 (26.67%) Open Source
6 4 (26.67%) Scrum
7 3 (20.00%) Analytics
7 3 (20.00%) API Development
7 3 (20.00%) Configuration Management
7 3 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (20.00%) DevOps
7 3 (20.00%) Kanban
7 3 (20.00%) Migration
7 3 (20.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 3 (20.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 7 (46.67%) Python
2 6 (40.00%) Java
2 6 (40.00%) JavaScript
3 4 (26.67%) SQL
3 4 (26.67%) TypeScript
4 1 (6.67%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (20.00%) DV Cleared
2 3 (20.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (6.67%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (6.67%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (46.67%) Terraform
2 6 (40.00%) Kubernetes
3 3 (20.00%) Ansible
3 3 (20.00%) Puppet
4 1 (6.67%) Progress Chef
4 1 (6.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Google
1 3 (20.00%) Red Hat
1 3 (20.00%) SaltStack
2 1 (6.67%) Dynatrace