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 24 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 195 166 236
Rank change year-on-year -29 +70 -51
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 26 29 45
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.26% 0.71% 0.49%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.73% 2.31% 1.43%
Number of salaries quoted 22 29 35
10th Percentile £55,500 £50,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £62,244 £62,500 £55,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +3.45% +7.41%
75th Percentile £97,500 £80,000 £86,250
90th Percentile - £91,500 £157,000
England median annual salary £72,500 £85,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -14.71% +13.33% -

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 3,542 1,257 3,142
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 35.14% 30.67% 34.27%
Number of salaries quoted 1,490 926 2,618
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,313 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -
75th Percentile £78,622 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £93,778 £85,000
England median annual salary £62,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -0.80% +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 24 April 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 24 April 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 -34 20 £70,000 -6.67% 16
Merseyside - 5 £95,000 - 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 (19.23%) Apache Spark
2 4 (15.38%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 26 (100.00%) AWS
1 26 (100.00%) Serverless
2 11 (42.31%) Amazon S3
3 10 (38.46%) AWS CloudFormation
4 8 (30.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 7 (26.92%) Amazon EventBridge
5 7 (26.92%) Amazon SQS
6 6 (23.08%) Amazon EKS
6 6 (23.08%) Azure
6 6 (23.08%) Datadog
7 5 (19.23%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (19.23%) GCP
8 4 (15.38%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (15.38%) OpenShift
9 3 (11.54%) Amazon SageMaker
9 3 (11.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (7.69%) AWS Step Functions
10 2 (7.69%) ChatGPT
10 2 (7.69%) CloudFront
10 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 4 (15.38%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (30.77%) DynamoDB
2 7 (26.92%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (15.38%) Amazon Athena
3 4 (15.38%) Big Data
3 4 (15.38%) Cloudera CDH
3 4 (15.38%) Hadoop
4 3 (11.54%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (11.54%) Relational Database
5 2 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (7.69%) NoSQL
6 1 (3.85%) Data Lake
6 1 (3.85%) Metadata
6 1 (3.85%) Power BI
6 1 (3.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Git
1 1 (3.85%) GitLab
General
1 5 (19.23%) Finance
2 4 (15.38%) Aerospace
3 3 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (7.69%) Health Technology
4 2 (7.69%) Public Sector
4 2 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (38.46%) Developer
2 8 (30.77%) Lead
3 6 (23.08%) Senior
4 5 (19.23%) Integration Developer
4 5 (19.23%) Integration Engineer
4 5 (19.23%) Lead Developer
4 5 (19.23%) Software Engineer
5 4 (15.38%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
5 4 (15.38%) Senior Developer
6 3 (11.54%) Data Engineer
6 3 (11.54%) Data Scientist
6 3 (11.54%) Java Developer
6 3 (11.54%) Lead Data Scientist
6 3 (11.54%) Senior Data Scientist
7 2 (7.69%) AWS Data Engineer
7 2 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
7 2 (7.69%) Digital Developer
7 2 (7.69%) Senior Java Developer
8 1 (3.85%) Full-Stack Developer
8 1 (3.85%) Kafka Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (53.85%) Node.js
2 7 (26.92%) Kafka
2 7 (26.92%) Spring
2 7 (26.92%) Spring Boot
3 5 (19.23%) AngularJS
3 5 (19.23%) OpenTelemetry
3 5 (19.23%) React
4 4 (15.38%) gRPC
4 4 (15.38%) Material-UI
4 4 (15.38%) OpenAPI
4 4 (15.38%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (15.38%) REST
4 4 (15.38%) Swagger
5 3 (11.54%) AWS CDK
5 3 (11.54%) NumPy
5 3 (11.54%) Pandas
5 3 (11.54%) scikit-learn
6 2 (7.69%) Web Services
7 1 (3.85%) RESTful
7 1 (3.85%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (23.08%) Cloud Native
2 5 (19.23%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (11.54%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (3.85%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.85%) Private Cloud
4 1 (3.85%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (15.38%) CentOS
1 4 (15.38%) Debian
1 4 (15.38%) Linux
1 4 (15.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 4 (15.38%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (57.69%) Infrastructure as Code
2 12 (46.15%) Microservices
3 11 (42.31%) Containerisation
4 10 (38.46%) Observability
5 9 (34.62%) Agile
5 9 (34.62%) CI/CD
6 8 (30.77%) Data Modelling
6 8 (30.77%) Mentoring
6 8 (30.77%) Software Engineering
7 7 (26.92%) Event-Driven
8 6 (23.08%) DevOps
9 5 (19.23%) Collaborative Working
9 5 (19.23%) Continuous Improvement
9 5 (19.23%) CRM
9 5 (19.23%) Data Science
9 5 (19.23%) Decision-Making
9 5 (19.23%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 5 (19.23%) Open Source
9 5 (19.23%) Platform Engineering
10 4 (15.38%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 17 (65.38%) Python
2 10 (38.46%) TypeScript
3 9 (34.62%) Java
3 9 (34.62%) JavaScript
4 8 (30.77%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 5 (19.23%) DV Cleared
3 4 (15.38%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.69%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.85%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.85%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (30.77%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (46.15%) Kubernetes
1 12 (46.15%) Terraform
2 4 (15.38%) Ansible
2 4 (15.38%) Puppet
3 1 (3.85%) Grafana
3 1 (3.85%) Prometheus
3 1 (3.85%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (19.23%) HubSpot
2 4 (15.38%) Google
2 4 (15.38%) Red Hat
2 4 (15.38%) SaltStack
3 1 (3.85%) Informatica