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 26 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 56 76
Rank change year-on-year -15 +20 +20
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 5 7 5
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 0.54% 1.17% 0.49%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.62% 4.73% 1.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 3
10th Percentile £528 £450 -
25th Percentile £563 £475 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £500 £350
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +42.86% -30.00%
75th Percentile £714 £581 £550
90th Percentile - £694 £655
South West median daily rate £613 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -5.77% +8.33% +3.23%

All Cloud Computing 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 191 148 293
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 20.74% 24.71% 28.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 146 97 229
10th Percentile £362 £213 £270
25th Percentile £407 £375 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% - -
75th Percentile £597 £600 £630
90th Percentile £675 £679 £700
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 4 8
10th Percentile - - £19.58
25th Percentile £16.62 £25.26 £29.81
Median hourly rate £22.27 £27.13 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.92% -17.80% -49.23%
75th Percentile £60.00 £28.99 £36.94
90th Percentile £93.75 - £61.13
South West median hourly rate £51.21 £26.50 £19.06
% change year-on-year +93.25% +39.03% -68.50%

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 26 January 2026.

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%) AWS CloudFormation
2 3 (60.00%) GitHub
2 3 (60.00%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (40.00%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (40.00%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (40.00%) AWS CodePipeline
3 2 (40.00%) SaaS
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon EventBridge
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (20.00%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (20.00%) Azure
4 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (20.00%) CloudFront
4 1 (20.00%) Kong
4 1 (20.00%) Sentry
4 1 (20.00%) Supabase
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) DNS
1 2 (40.00%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (20.00%) HTTP
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%) Technical Architect
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Chief Technology Officer
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) AWS CDK
1 1 (20.00%) Next.js
1 1 (20.00%) Node.js
1 1 (20.00%) React
1 1 (20.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) AI Agents
1 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (40.00%) Microservices
2 2 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (20.00%) AI
3 1 (20.00%) API Design
3 1 (20.00%) B2B
3 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Culture
3 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (20.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven
3 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (20.00%) Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (20.00%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Java
1 2 (40.00%) Python
1 2 (40.00%) Ruby
2 1 (20.00%) 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
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Terraform
2 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes