AWS Lambda Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

AWS Lambda
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring AWS Lambda skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 45 53
Rank change year-on-year -27 +8 -
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 3 5 8
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.45% 1.14% 1.58%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.28% 3.79% 4.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 6
10th Percentile £360 £363 -
25th Percentile £363 £374 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £368 £391 £510
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -23.33% -
75th Percentile £410 £441 £515
90th Percentile £436 £470 £583
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £510
% change year-on-year -5.26% -6.86% -4.00%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 234 132 191
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 35.19% 30.14% 37.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 177 86 133
10th Percentile £313 £296 £253
25th Percentile £358 £356 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £468 £475
Median % change year-on-year -8.12% -1.47% -
75th Percentile £500 £573 £525
90th Percentile £614 £638 £588
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £483
% change year-on-year -5.26% -1.66% -3.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 6 16
10th Percentile - £21.05 £17.26
25th Percentile £15.50 £21.83 £17.72
Median hourly rate £18.87 £24.18 £19.86
Median % change year-on-year -21.96% +21.75% -0.70%
75th Percentile £25.31 £64.17 £43.75
90th Percentile £59.08 £82.50 -
North West median hourly rate £45.46 £24.18 £21.00
% change year-on-year +88.01% +15.14% -67.69%

AWS Lambda
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

AWS Lambda job vacancy trend in Cheshire

AWS Lambda
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

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

AWS Lambda
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS Lambda within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 11 February 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Knutsford -33 3 £368 -5.88%
AWS Lambda
North West

AWS Lambda
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Serverless
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon ECS
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon MSK
2 2 (66.67%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (66.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon Glacier
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon Kinesis
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Data Pipeline
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (33.33%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Bitbucket
1 2 (66.67%) Git
1 2 (66.67%) GitLab
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
1 2 (66.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (66.67%) Banking
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Solutions Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Node.js
2 1 (33.33%) ActiveMQ
2 1 (33.33%) Kafka
2 1 (33.33%) REST
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (33.33%) Design Patterns
3 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) SDLC
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) Perl
2 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 2 (66.67%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
1 2 (66.67%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle