AWS Lambda Contract Job Trends in Dorset

AWS Lambda
South West > Dorset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Dorset requiring AWS Lambda skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 15 -
Rank change year-on-year -11 - -
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 4 5 0
As % of all contract jobs in Dorset 1.48% 4.85% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.69% 13.89% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 0
10th Percentile £315 - -
25th Percentile £338 £270 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £365 £550 -
Median % change year-on-year -33.64% - -
75th Percentile £396 - -
90th Percentile £425 - -
South West median daily rate £500 £538 £643
% change year-on-year -6.98% -16.34% +6.20%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Dorset

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 Dorset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 52 36 20
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Dorset 19.26% 34.95% 16.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 25 9
10th Percentile £374 £205 £245
25th Percentile £430 £270 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £380
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% +18.42% -27.62%
75th Percentile £688 £550 £460
90th Percentile £825 £558 £620
South West median daily rate £540 £480 £525
% change year-on-year +12.62% -8.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £22.50 - -
Median hourly rate £23.00 £14.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +58.62% - -
75th Percentile £23.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £19.50 £18.87 £70.00
% change year-on-year +3.34% -73.04% +112.12%

AWS Lambda
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

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

AWS Lambda job vacancy trend in Dorset

AWS Lambda
Daily Rate Trend in Dorset

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

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

AWS Lambda
Contract Job Locations in Dorset

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 Dorset region over the 6 months to 3 October 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
Bournemouth -5 4 £365 +35.19% 2
AWS Lambda
South West

AWS Lambda
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Dorset 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 2 (50.00%) Apache
1 2 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) Serverless
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon ECS
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon EKS
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon S3
3 2 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (50.00%) Amazon SQS
3 2 (50.00%) Datadog
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Flink
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (25.00%) MySQL
3 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Git
1 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (25.00%) JIRA
2 1 (25.00%) Maven
2 1 (25.00%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (50.00%) Banking
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
1 4 (100.00%) Java Developer
2 2 (50.00%) AWS Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
2 2 (50.00%) webMethods Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) Spring
1 4 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 3 (75.00%) REST
3 2 (50.00%) AngularJS
3 2 (50.00%) EDI
3 2 (50.00%) EDIFACT
3 2 (50.00%) Kafka
3 2 (50.00%) React
3 2 (50.00%) RESTful
3 2 (50.00%) SOAP
4 1 (25.00%) CSS
4 1 (25.00%) CSS3
4 1 (25.00%) Hibernate
4 1 (25.00%) HTML
4 1 (25.00%) HTML5
4 1 (25.00%) Java Concurrency
4 1 (25.00%) JPA
4 1 (25.00%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Microservices
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (50.00%) Agile
3 2 (50.00%) API Integration
3 2 (50.00%) Database Tuning
3 2 (50.00%) DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) ETL
3 2 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (50.00%) Migration
3 2 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (50.00%) Scrum
4 1 (25.00%) Code Quality
4 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
4 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
4 1 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (25.00%) Multithreading
4 1 (25.00%) MVC
4 1 (25.00%) OOP
4 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) Python
3 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Databricks
1 2 (50.00%) webMethods
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle