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 27 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 189 165 232
Rank change year-on-year -24 +67 -39
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 18 23 44
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.21% 0.64% 0.52%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.56% 1.83% 1.47%
Number of salaries quoted 14 23 36
10th Percentile £55,000 £43,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £60,000 £54,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £68,750
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +9.09% +5.77%
75th Percentile £96,875 £78,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £103,500 £150,625
England median annual salary £72,500 £85,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -14.71% +17.24% -6.45%

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 3,196 1,255 2,992
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 37.09% 34.77% 35.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1,288 928 2,516
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £39,031
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,840 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £91,250 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -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 27 March 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 27 March 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 -10 16 £70,000 -6.67% 15
Merseyside - 1 £95,000 - 4
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 (27.78%) Apache Spark
2 4 (22.22%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 18 (100.00%) AWS
1 18 (100.00%) Serverless
2 8 (44.44%) Amazon S3
3 6 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
3 6 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 6 (33.33%) Azure
4 5 (27.78%) GCP
5 4 (22.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (22.22%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (22.22%) OpenShift
6 2 (11.11%) Amazon EventBridge
6 2 (11.11%) Amazon SageMaker
6 2 (11.11%) ChatGPT
6 2 (11.11%) Datadog
6 2 (11.11%) GitHub
6 2 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Copilot
6 2 (11.11%) SaaS
7 1 (5.56%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (5.56%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 4 (22.22%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (22.22%) Big Data
1 4 (22.22%) Cloudera CDH
1 4 (22.22%) Hadoop
2 3 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (16.67%) DynamoDB
3 2 (11.11%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (11.11%) NoSQL
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (5.56%) Apache Iceberg
4 1 (5.56%) Data Lake
4 1 (5.56%) Metadata
4 1 (5.56%) Power BI
4 1 (5.56%) Relational Database
4 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
4 1 (5.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Git
1 1 (5.56%) GitLab
General
1 5 (27.78%) Finance
2 4 (22.22%) Aerospace
2 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (33.33%) Software Engineer
2 5 (27.78%) Senior
3 4 (22.22%) Developer
3 4 (22.22%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) Lead
4 3 (16.67%) Java Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Data Scientist
5 2 (11.11%) Lead Data Scientist
5 2 (11.11%) Senior Data Scientist
5 2 (11.11%) Senior Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Senior Java Developer
6 1 (5.56%) AWS Data Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Data Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) DevOps Consultant
6 1 (5.56%) Enterprise Data Architect
6 1 (5.56%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Integration Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (50.00%) Node.js
2 7 (38.89%) Spring
2 7 (38.89%) Spring Boot
3 6 (33.33%) React
4 5 (27.78%) AngularJS
5 4 (22.22%) gRPC
5 4 (22.22%) Material-UI
5 4 (22.22%) OpenAPI
5 4 (22.22%) RabbitMQ
5 4 (22.22%) REST
5 4 (22.22%) Swagger
6 2 (11.11%) Kafka
6 2 (11.11%) NumPy
6 2 (11.11%) Pandas
6 2 (11.11%) scikit-learn
7 1 (5.56%) Middleware
7 1 (5.56%) OpenID
7 1 (5.56%) RESTful
7 1 (5.56%) SAML
7 1 (5.56%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 8 (44.44%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (5.56%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.56%) Private Cloud
2 1 (5.56%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (22.22%) CentOS
1 4 (22.22%) Debian
1 4 (22.22%) Linux
1 4 (22.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 4 (22.22%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) Agile
1 9 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 9 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 7 (38.89%) CI/CD
3 6 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 6 (33.33%) Microservices
4 5 (27.78%) Collaborative Working
4 5 (27.78%) Mentoring
4 5 (27.78%) Open Source
5 4 (22.22%) API Development
5 4 (22.22%) Configuration Management
5 4 (22.22%) DevOps
5 4 (22.22%) Kanban
5 4 (22.22%) Observability
5 4 (22.22%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 4 (22.22%) Scrum
6 3 (16.67%) AI
6 3 (16.67%) Collaborative Culture
6 3 (16.67%) SDLC
6 3 (16.67%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 10 (55.56%) Python
2 9 (50.00%) Java
3 7 (38.89%) JavaScript
4 5 (27.78%) SQL
4 5 (27.78%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 5 (27.78%) DV Cleared
3 4 (22.22%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (5.56%) Data Quality
1 1 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (5.56%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (38.89%) Kubernetes
1 7 (38.89%) Terraform
2 4 (22.22%) Ansible
2 4 (22.22%) Puppet
3 1 (5.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) Google
1 4 (22.22%) Red Hat
1 4 (22.22%) SaltStack
2 1 (5.56%) Dynatrace
2 1 (5.56%) HubSpot
2 1 (5.56%) Informatica