AWS Lambda Contract Job Trends in Bristol

AWS Lambda
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring AWS Lambda skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 60 76
Rank change year-on-year -5 +16 +13
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 5 7 4
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 0.62% 0.91% 0.39%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.31% 3.63% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 2
10th Percentile £420 £450 £360
25th Percentile £505 £475 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -4.76% +6.33%
75th Percentile £714 £581 £638
90th Percentile - £694 £690
South West median daily rate £538 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -17.31% +8.33% +20.00%

All Cloud Skills
Bristol

AWS Lambda falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 216 193 280
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 26.70% 25.10% 27.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 117 227
10th Percentile £326 £220 £308
25th Percentile £400 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.15% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £593 £638 £663
90th Percentile £661 £788 £725
South West median daily rate £500 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -7.41% -1.82% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 13 11
10th Percentile - £25.26 £20.25
25th Percentile - £35.00 -
Median hourly rate £18.87 £70.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -73.04% +112.12% -49.23%
75th Percentile £30.03 - £40.88
90th Percentile £88.88 - £80.00
South West median hourly rate £22.50 £35.00 £22.07
% change year-on-year -35.71% +58.59% -61.78%

AWS Lambda
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing AWS Lambda relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

AWS Lambda job vacancy trend in Bristol

AWS Lambda
Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing AWS Lambda.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing AWS Lambda

AWS Lambda
Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Lambda in Bristol over the 6 months to 27 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Lambda in Bristol

AWS Lambda
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
1 5 (100.00%) Serverless
2 3 (60.00%) Amazon ECS
2 3 (60.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 3 (60.00%) GitHub
2 3 (60.00%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (40.00%) Amazon S3
3 2 (40.00%) Amazon SQS
3 2 (40.00%) AWS CodePipeline
3 2 (40.00%) Azure
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon EventBridge
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (20.00%) CloudFront
4 1 (20.00%) Kong
4 1 (20.00%) SaaS
4 1 (20.00%) Sentry
4 1 (20.00%) Supabase
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) DNS
1 2 (40.00%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Git
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Senior
1 2 (40.00%) Technical Architect
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Node.js
1 2 (40.00%) React
2 1 (20.00%) ARM Templates
2 1 (20.00%) AWS CDK
2 1 (20.00%) Next.js
2 1 (20.00%) TypeORM
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (60.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (40.00%) Microservices
3 2 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (20.00%) Agile
4 1 (20.00%) API Design
4 1 (20.00%) BDD
4 1 (20.00%) Clean Code
4 1 (20.00%) Code Quality
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (20.00%) DevOps
4 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (20.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven
4 1 (20.00%) Migration
4 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) SOLID
4 1 (20.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Java
1 2 (40.00%) Python
1 2 (40.00%) Ruby
1 2 (40.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (40.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (20.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Terraform
2 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes