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 9 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 184 205 208
Rank change year-on-year +21 +3 -46
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 65 30 31
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.52% 0.58% 0.40%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.30% 2.11% 1.34%
Number of salaries quoted 43 26 20
10th Percentile £46,217 £55,000 £44,750
25th Percentile £53,750 £62,500 £55,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% - -
75th Percentile £81,250 £77,500 £82,656
90th Percentile £97,500 £81,250 £87,750
England median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% - +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 2,825 1,422 2,306
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 22.63% 27.62% 29.53%
Number of salaries quoted 2,138 876 1,437
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,536 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £42,500
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 £97,500 £86,125 £84,964
England median annual salary £63,750 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +6.25% -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 9 September 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 9 September 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 -15 48 £68,750 +5.77% 20
Merseyside - 9 £95,000 - 2
Lancashire - 4 £43,380 - 3
Cheshire +8 3 £80,000 - 3
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 (7.69%) Apache Spark
1 5 (7.69%) Confluence
2 4 (6.15%) Apache
3 1 (1.54%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 65 (100.00%) AWS
1 65 (100.00%) Serverless
2 30 (46.15%) Amazon S3
3 20 (30.77%) Datadog
4 18 (27.69%) Amazon ECS
5 17 (26.15%) AWS CloudFormation
6 15 (23.08%) SaaS
7 13 (20.00%) Amazon SQS
8 12 (18.46%) Amazon EC2
8 12 (18.46%) Route 53
9 11 (16.92%) GitHub
10 10 (15.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 9 (13.85%) Amazon EventBridge
12 7 (10.77%) Azure
13 6 (9.23%) Amazon EKS
13 6 (9.23%) AWS Fargate
13 6 (9.23%) AWS Step Functions
13 6 (9.23%) GCP
13 6 (9.23%) GitHub Actions
14 5 (7.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.08%) AMQP
2 1 (1.54%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (23.08%) DynamoDB
2 12 (18.46%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (15.38%) Amazon Redshift
4 6 (9.23%) Amazon Athena
4 6 (9.23%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (7.69%) Big Data
5 5 (7.69%) MySQL
5 5 (7.69%) Relational Database
6 4 (6.15%) Spark SQL
7 3 (4.62%) MariaDB
7 3 (4.62%) MongoDB
7 3 (4.62%) RDBMS
8 2 (3.08%) Cloudera CDH
8 2 (3.08%) Hadoop
8 2 (3.08%) NoSQL
8 2 (3.08%) SQL Server
9 1 (1.54%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (1.54%) Data Lake
9 1 (1.54%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (1.54%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 5 (7.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 5 (7.69%) Bitbucket
1 5 (7.69%) Claude Code
1 5 (7.69%) Git
1 5 (7.69%) JIRA
2 4 (6.15%) Jenkins
3 3 (4.62%) Postman
3 3 (4.62%) Selenium
4 2 (3.08%) Jasmine
4 2 (3.08%) Karma Test Runner
4 2 (3.08%) YouTrack
General
1 12 (18.46%) Aviation
1 12 (18.46%) Retail
2 9 (13.85%) Finance
3 7 (10.77%) Public Sector
4 6 (9.23%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (6.15%) Social Skills
6 2 (3.08%) Aerospace
6 2 (3.08%) Health Technology
7 1 (1.54%) iGaming
7 1 (1.54%) Legal
7 1 (1.54%) Local Government
7 1 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (27.69%) Developer
1 18 (27.69%) Senior
2 14 (21.54%) Data Engineer
3 12 (18.46%) Head of Architecture
4 11 (16.92%) Lead
5 10 (15.38%) Senior Developer
6 7 (10.77%) Integration Developer
6 7 (10.77%) Integration Engineer
6 7 (10.77%) Lead Developer
7 5 (7.69%) Applications Engineer
7 5 (7.69%) AWS Data Engineer
7 5 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
7 5 (7.69%) Full-Stack Developer
7 5 (7.69%) Senior Data Engineer
7 5 (7.69%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
8 4 (6.15%) Java Developer
8 4 (6.15%) Software Engineer
9 3 (4.62%) Data Scientist
9 3 (4.62%) Senior Data Scientist
9 3 (4.62%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (29.23%) Terraform
2 16 (24.62%) Node.js
3 15 (23.08%) Kafka
4 12 (18.46%) Spring
4 12 (18.46%) Spring Boot
5 10 (15.38%) AngularJS
6 9 (13.85%) PySpark
7 8 (12.31%) .NET
7 8 (12.31%) OpenTelemetry
7 8 (12.31%) React
8 6 (9.23%) OpenAPI
8 6 (9.23%) REST
9 5 (7.69%) RESTful
9 5 (7.69%) Swagger
10 4 (6.15%) Vue
11 3 (4.62%) Flask
11 3 (4.62%) JPA
11 3 (4.62%) Pandas
11 3 (4.62%) scikit-learn
11 3 (4.62%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 20 (30.77%) Cloud Native
2 13 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (7.69%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (3.08%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.54%) Blog
5 1 (1.54%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.08%) CentOS
1 2 (3.08%) Debian
1 2 (3.08%) Linux
1 2 (3.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (3.08%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (55.38%) Observability
2 31 (47.69%) Mentoring
3 28 (43.08%) CI/CD
4 23 (35.38%) Infrastructure as Code
5 22 (33.85%) Collaborative Culture
5 22 (33.85%) Continuous Improvement
6 21 (32.31%) Software Engineering
7 20 (30.77%) Microservices
8 18 (27.69%) Agile
9 17 (26.15%) Event-Driven
10 16 (24.62%) Containerisation
11 15 (23.08%) AI
11 15 (23.08%) Roadmaps
11 15 (23.08%) Technical Leadership
12 14 (21.54%) Architectural Patterns
12 14 (21.54%) Stakeholder Management
13 13 (20.00%) Cost Optimisation
13 13 (20.00%) Technology Roadmap
14 12 (18.46%) Data Science
14 12 (18.46%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 36 (55.38%) Python
2 27 (41.54%) SQL
3 19 (29.23%) Java
4 16 (24.62%) JavaScript
4 16 (24.62%) TypeScript
5 8 (12.31%) C#
6 6 (9.23%) Scala
7 4 (6.15%) C++
8 3 (4.62%) Kotlin
9 2 (3.08%) Bash
9 2 (3.08%) Rust
10 1 (1.54%) Go
10 1 (1.54%) Ruby
10 1 (1.54%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (7.69%) AWS Certification
1 5 (7.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 5 (7.69%) Degree
1 5 (7.69%) Master's Degree
2 4 (6.15%) SC Cleared
2 4 (6.15%) Security Cleared
3 2 (3.08%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (16.92%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.54%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.54%) QA
System Software
1 15 (23.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (27.69%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.08%) Ansible
2 2 (3.08%) Puppet
2 2 (3.08%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (1.54%) Grafana
3 1 (1.54%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (12.31%) Splunk
2 7 (10.77%) HubSpot
3 3 (4.62%) Dynatrace
3 3 (4.62%) OpenAI
4 2 (3.08%) Google
4 2 (3.08%) Red Hat
4 2 (3.08%) SaltStack
5 1 (1.54%) Databricks