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

6 months to
6 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 191 202 218
Rank change year-on-year +11 +16 -45
Permanent jobs citing AWS Lambda 62 30 30
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.50% 0.58% 0.38%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.20% 2.09% 1.26%
Number of salaries quoted 42 26 21
10th Percentile £46,596 £55,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £62,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% - -
75th Percentile £81,875 £77,500 £83,125
90th Percentile £97,500 £81,250 £87,500
England median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% - +1.69%

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 2,816 1,435 2,375
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 22.69% 27.87% 29.87%
Number of salaries quoted 2,135 884 1,533
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,521 £31,550
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 £87,500 £84,964
England median annual salary £64,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +6.67% -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 6 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 6 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 -10 46 £68,750 +5.77% 15
Merseyside - 9 £95,000 - 1
Cheshire +11 3 £80,000 - 3
Lancashire - 3 £47,988 - 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 (8.06%) Apache Spark
1 5 (8.06%) Confluence
2 4 (6.45%) Apache
3 1 (1.61%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 62 (100.00%) AWS
1 62 (100.00%) Serverless
2 29 (46.77%) Amazon S3
3 19 (30.65%) Datadog
4 18 (29.03%) Amazon ECS
5 17 (27.42%) AWS CloudFormation
6 14 (22.58%) SaaS
7 13 (20.97%) Amazon SQS
8 11 (17.74%) Amazon EC2
8 11 (17.74%) GitHub
8 11 (17.74%) Route 53
9 10 (16.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 9 (14.52%) Amazon EventBridge
11 6 (9.68%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (9.68%) AWS Fargate
11 6 (9.68%) Azure
11 6 (9.68%) GCP
11 6 (9.68%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (8.06%) AWS Step Functions
12 5 (8.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.23%) AMQP
2 1 (1.61%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (24.19%) DynamoDB
2 12 (19.35%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (14.52%) Amazon Redshift
4 6 (9.68%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (8.06%) Amazon Athena
5 5 (8.06%) Big Data
5 5 (8.06%) MySQL
5 5 (8.06%) Relational Database
6 3 (4.84%) MariaDB
6 3 (4.84%) MongoDB
6 3 (4.84%) RDBMS
6 3 (4.84%) Spark SQL
7 2 (3.23%) Cloudera CDH
7 2 (3.23%) Hadoop
7 2 (3.23%) NoSQL
7 2 (3.23%) SQL Server
8 1 (1.61%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (1.61%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (1.61%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 5 (8.06%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 5 (8.06%) Bitbucket
1 5 (8.06%) Claude Code
1 5 (8.06%) JIRA
2 4 (6.45%) Git
2 4 (6.45%) Jenkins
3 3 (4.84%) Postman
3 3 (4.84%) Selenium
4 2 (3.23%) Jasmine
4 2 (3.23%) Karma Test Runner
4 2 (3.23%) YouTrack
General
1 11 (17.74%) Aviation
1 11 (17.74%) Retail
2 9 (14.52%) Finance
3 6 (9.68%) Public Sector
4 5 (8.06%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (6.45%) Social Skills
6 2 (3.23%) Aerospace
6 2 (3.23%) Health Technology
7 1 (1.61%) iGaming
7 1 (1.61%) Legal
7 1 (1.61%) Local Government
7 1 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (29.03%) Developer
2 17 (27.42%) Senior
3 12 (19.35%) Data Engineer
4 11 (17.74%) Head of Architecture
4 11 (17.74%) Lead
5 10 (16.13%) Senior Developer
6 7 (11.29%) Integration Developer
6 7 (11.29%) Integration Engineer
6 7 (11.29%) Lead Developer
7 5 (8.06%) Applications Engineer
7 5 (8.06%) AWS Data Engineer
7 5 (8.06%) AWS Engineer
7 5 (8.06%) Full-Stack Developer
7 5 (8.06%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
8 4 (6.45%) Java Developer
8 4 (6.45%) Senior Data Engineer
8 4 (6.45%) Software Engineer
9 3 (4.84%) Data Scientist
9 3 (4.84%) DevOps Engineer
9 3 (4.84%) Lead Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (30.65%) Terraform
2 16 (25.81%) Node.js
3 15 (24.19%) Kafka
4 12 (19.35%) Spring
4 12 (19.35%) Spring Boot
5 10 (16.13%) AngularJS
6 8 (12.90%) OpenTelemetry
6 8 (12.90%) React
7 7 (11.29%) .NET
7 7 (11.29%) PySpark
8 6 (9.68%) OpenAPI
8 6 (9.68%) REST
9 5 (8.06%) RESTful
9 5 (8.06%) Swagger
10 4 (6.45%) Vue
11 3 (4.84%) Flask
11 3 (4.84%) NumPy
11 3 (4.84%) Pandas
11 3 (4.84%) scikit-learn
11 3 (4.84%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 18 (29.03%) Cloud Native
2 13 (20.97%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (8.06%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (3.23%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.61%) Blog
5 1 (1.61%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.23%) CentOS
1 2 (3.23%) Debian
1 2 (3.23%) Linux
1 2 (3.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (3.23%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (56.45%) Observability
2 28 (45.16%) Mentoring
3 26 (41.94%) CI/CD
4 23 (37.10%) Infrastructure as Code
5 21 (33.87%) Collaborative Culture
5 21 (33.87%) Continuous Improvement
6 19 (30.65%) Microservices
6 19 (30.65%) Software Engineering
7 16 (25.81%) Agile
7 16 (25.81%) Containerisation
7 16 (25.81%) Event-Driven
8 15 (24.19%) AI
9 14 (22.58%) Roadmaps
9 14 (22.58%) Technical Leadership
10 13 (20.97%) Architectural Patterns
10 13 (20.97%) Stakeholder Management
11 12 (19.35%) Cost Optimisation
11 12 (19.35%) Data Science
11 12 (19.35%) Technology Roadmap
12 11 (17.74%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 35 (56.45%) Python
2 25 (40.32%) SQL
3 17 (27.42%) Java
4 16 (25.81%) TypeScript
5 15 (24.19%) JavaScript
6 7 (11.29%) C#
7 6 (9.68%) Scala
8 3 (4.84%) C++
8 3 (4.84%) Kotlin
9 2 (3.23%) Bash
9 2 (3.23%) Rust
10 1 (1.61%) Go
10 1 (1.61%) Ruby
10 1 (1.61%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (8.06%) AWS Certification
1 5 (8.06%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 5 (8.06%) Degree
1 5 (8.06%) Master's Degree
2 3 (4.84%) SC Cleared
2 3 (4.84%) Security Cleared
3 2 (3.23%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (14.52%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.61%) QA
System Software
1 15 (24.19%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (29.03%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.23%) Ansible
2 2 (3.23%) Puppet
2 2 (3.23%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (1.61%) Grafana
3 1 (1.61%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (12.90%) Splunk
2 7 (11.29%) HubSpot
3 3 (4.84%) Dynatrace
3 3 (4.84%) OpenAI
4 2 (3.23%) Google
4 2 (3.23%) Red Hat
4 2 (3.23%) SaltStack
5 1 (1.61%) Databricks