AWS Lambda Contracts in Manchester

AWS Lambda
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring AWS Lambda skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited AWS Lambda over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 73 94
Rank change year-on-year +12 +21 +3
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 18 23 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.94% 1.52% 1.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.74% 4.12% 3.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 16 20
10th Percentile £388 £372 £425
25th Percentile £400 £404 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £545
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -17.43% +3.81%
75th Percentile £544 £575 £638
90th Percentile £605 £613 £704
North West median daily rate £475 £510 £538
% change year-on-year -6.86% -5.12% +2.38%

All Cloud Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 380 558 739
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 41.04% 36.78% 39.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 304 440 554
10th Percentile £313 £313 £325
25th Percentile £404 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £567 £570 £588
90th Percentile £654 £650 £650
North West median daily rate £473 £487 £500
% change year-on-year -3.03% -2.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 13 18
10th Percentile £36.70 £18.18 £20.00
25th Percentile £48.25 £22.25 £28.44
Median hourly rate £70.00 £26.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +169.23% -60.00% +271.43%
75th Percentile £80.63 £71.87 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.50 £72.50 -
North West median hourly rate £28.88 £16.06 £37.30
% change year-on-year +79.79% -56.94% +100.62%

AWS Lambda
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing AWS Lambda as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Lambda in Manchester

AWS Lambda
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS Lambda in Manchester.

Daily rate trend for AWS Lambda in Manchester

AWS Lambda
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Lambda in Manchester over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Lambda in Manchester

AWS Lambda
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

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 Manchester region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Salford - 2 £340 -
Altrincham - 1 - - 6
AWS Lambda
North West

AWS Lambda
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.56%) Apache Spark
1 1 (5.56%) CMS
1 1 (5.56%) Confluence
1 1 (5.56%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 18 (100.00%) AWS
1 18 (100.00%) Serverless
2 9 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
3 7 (38.89%) Amazon S3
3 7 (38.89%) GitHub
4 6 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (27.78%) Amazon ECS
5 5 (27.78%) Amazon EKS
5 5 (27.78%) Amazon SQS
6 4 (22.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (11.11%) Amazon Cognito
7 2 (11.11%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 2 (11.11%) Amazon MSK
7 2 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (11.11%) AWS CloudTrail
7 2 (11.11%) AWS CodeBuild
8 1 (5.56%) Amazon EventBridge
8 1 (5.56%) Amazon Neptune
8 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (5.56%) Contentful
Communications & Networking
1 3 (16.67%) DNS
2 1 (5.56%) DHCP
2 1 (5.56%) HTTP
2 1 (5.56%) TCP/IP
2 1 (5.56%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (33.33%) DynamoDB
2 3 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (16.67%) MongoDB
2 3 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (11.11%) NoSQL
3 2 (11.11%) Relational Database
3 2 (11.11%) SQL Server
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (5.56%) DocumentDB
4 1 (5.56%) InfluxDB
4 1 (5.56%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (22.22%) Jenkins
2 2 (11.11%) JIRA
3 1 (5.56%) Appium
3 1 (5.56%) Cucumber
3 1 (5.56%) Gatling
3 1 (5.56%) GitLab
3 1 (5.56%) Postman
3 1 (5.56%) REST Assured
3 1 (5.56%) Selenium
3 1 (5.56%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (5.56%) WebDriver
General
1 6 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (5.56%) Aviation
2 1 (5.56%) Finance
2 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (33.33%) Developer
1 6 (33.33%) Software Engineer
2 5 (27.78%) Senior
3 3 (16.67%) Java Developer
3 3 (16.67%) Senior Software Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Software Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Lead
4 2 (11.11%) Test Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) AWS Developer
5 1 (5.56%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (5.56%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Backend Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 1 (5.56%) JavaScript Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Node.js Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (38.89%) Node.js
2 6 (33.33%) React
3 3 (16.67%) Kafka
3 3 (16.67%) RESTful
4 2 (11.11%) AngularJS
4 2 (11.11%) AWS CDK
4 2 (11.11%) Spring
4 2 (11.11%) Spring Boot
5 1 (5.56%) AWS Amplify
5 1 (5.56%) Chai
5 1 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (5.56%) Express.js
5 1 (5.56%) FastAPI
5 1 (5.56%) GraphQL
5 1 (5.56%) Jest
5 1 (5.56%) Lambda Expressions
5 1 (5.56%) Next.js
5 1 (5.56%) React Native
5 1 (5.56%) Redux
5 1 (5.56%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (11.11%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (5.56%) Algorithms
2 1 (5.56%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Linux
1 1 (5.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (55.56%) CI/CD
2 7 (38.89%) Agile
2 7 (38.89%) Software Engineering
3 6 (33.33%) DevOps
4 5 (27.78%) Microservices
5 4 (22.22%) Containerisation
5 4 (22.22%) Full-Stack Development
5 4 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (16.67%) Load Balancing
6 3 (16.67%) Scrum
6 3 (16.67%) SDLC
6 3 (16.67%) TDD
7 2 (11.11%) API Testing
7 2 (11.11%) Computer Science
7 2 (11.11%) High Availability
7 2 (11.11%) Mentoring
7 2 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (11.11%) Task Automation
7 2 (11.11%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (33.33%) Python
1 6 (33.33%) TypeScript
2 5 (27.78%) Java
2 5 (27.78%) JavaScript
3 4 (22.22%) SQL
4 2 (11.11%) Bash
4 2 (11.11%) Scala
5 1 (5.56%) Perl
5 1 (5.56%) Shell Script
5 1 (5.56%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) AWS Certification
1 2 (11.11%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 2 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (11.11%) Degree
2 1 (5.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (5.56%) DBS Check
2 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 6 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (11.11%) Terraform
3 1 (5.56%) Grafana
Vendors
1 2 (11.11%) Oracle
2 1 (5.56%) Atlassian
2 1 (5.56%) MuleSoft