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 20 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 77 82
Rank change year-on-year +16 +5 +18
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 21 15 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 2.13% 1.12% 1.82%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.03% 3.13% 4.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 9 30
10th Percentile £394 £353 £448
25th Percentile £400 £375 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £575
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -26.09% +9.52%
75th Percentile £548 £538 £688
90th Percentile £633 £600 £738
North West median daily rate £485 £510 £575
% change year-on-year -4.90% -11.30% +9.52%

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 348 479 775
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 35.22% 35.83% 42.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 249 365 608
10th Percentile £362 £313 £325
25th Percentile £408 £413 £424
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.51% -2.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £653 £650 £673
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 12 18
10th Percentile £69.25 - £15.72
25th Percentile £71.88 £25.50 £15.75
Median hourly rate £82.50 £66.75 £17.93
Median % change year-on-year +23.60% +272.28% -28.28%
75th Percentile £91.88 £72.03 £33.44
90th Percentile £93.75 £72.50 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £34.67 £16.06 £22.21
% change year-on-year +115.88% -27.67% -19.25%

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 20 July 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 20 July 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 - -
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 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (4.76%) Apache Spark
1 1 (4.76%) CMS
1 1 (4.76%) Confluence
1 1 (4.76%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 21 (100.00%) AWS
1 21 (100.00%) Serverless
2 9 (42.86%) Amazon EC2
2 9 (42.86%) GitHub
3 7 (33.33%) Amazon S3
3 7 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
4 6 (28.57%) Amazon SQS
5 5 (23.81%) Amazon ECS
5 5 (23.81%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (14.29%) Amazon MSK
7 2 (9.52%) Amazon Cognito
7 2 (9.52%) Amazon EventBridge
7 2 (9.52%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (9.52%) AWS CodeBuild
7 2 (9.52%) Azure
8 1 (4.76%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 1 (4.76%) Amazon Neptune
8 1 (4.76%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (4.76%) Contentful
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.52%) DNS
2 1 (4.76%) DHCP
2 1 (4.76%) HTTP
2 1 (4.76%) TCP/IP
2 1 (4.76%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (38.10%) DynamoDB
2 4 (19.05%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (19.05%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (14.29%) Amazon Aurora
3 3 (14.29%) MongoDB
4 2 (9.52%) DocumentDB
4 2 (9.52%) NoSQL
4 2 (9.52%) Relational Database
4 2 (9.52%) SQL Server
5 1 (4.76%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (4.76%) InfluxDB
5 1 (4.76%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (19.05%) Jenkins
2 3 (14.29%) JIRA
3 1 (4.76%) Appium
3 1 (4.76%) Cucumber
3 1 (4.76%) Gatling
3 1 (4.76%) GitLab
3 1 (4.76%) MLflow
3 1 (4.76%) Postman
3 1 (4.76%) REST Assured
3 1 (4.76%) Selenium
3 1 (4.76%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (4.76%) WebDriver
General
1 8 (38.10%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (4.76%) Aviation
2 1 (4.76%) Finance
2 1 (4.76%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (38.10%) Developer
1 8 (38.10%) Software Engineer
2 6 (28.57%) Senior
3 4 (19.05%) Full-Stack Developer
4 3 (14.29%) Java Developer
4 3 (14.29%) Lead
4 3 (14.29%) Senior Software Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Software Developer
5 2 (9.52%) Lead Software Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Senior Developer
5 2 (9.52%) Test Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Java Software Developer
6 1 (4.76%) JavaScript Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Migration Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Senior Software Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Senior Test Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Systems Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (38.10%) Node.js
2 7 (33.33%) React
3 4 (19.05%) Kafka
4 3 (14.29%) AWS CDK
4 3 (14.29%) RESTful
5 2 (9.52%) .NET
5 2 (9.52%) AngularJS
5 2 (9.52%) Express.js
5 2 (9.52%) HTML
5 2 (9.52%) Jest
5 2 (9.52%) Next.js
5 2 (9.52%) REST
5 2 (9.52%) Spring
5 2 (9.52%) Spring Boot
6 1 (4.76%) Chai
6 1 (4.76%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (4.76%) GraphQL
6 1 (4.76%) Lambda Expressions
6 1 (4.76%) React Native
6 1 (4.76%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 2 (9.52%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (9.52%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (4.76%) Algorithms
3 1 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.76%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.76%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.76%) Linux
1 1 (4.76%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 9 (42.86%) Agile
3 8 (38.10%) Software Engineering
4 7 (33.33%) DevOps
5 5 (23.81%) Containerisation
5 5 (23.81%) Full-Stack Development
5 5 (23.81%) Microservices
5 5 (23.81%) TDD
6 3 (14.29%) Event-Driven
6 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (14.29%) Mentoring
6 3 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (14.29%) Scrum
6 3 (14.29%) SDLC
6 3 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (9.52%) API Testing
7 2 (9.52%) Artificial Intelligence
7 2 (9.52%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 2 (9.52%) High Availability
7 2 (9.52%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 7 (33.33%) Python
1 7 (33.33%) TypeScript
2 6 (28.57%) Java
2 6 (28.57%) JavaScript
2 6 (28.57%) SQL
3 2 (9.52%) Scala
4 1 (4.76%) Bash
4 1 (4.76%) Perl
4 1 (4.76%) Shell Script
4 1 (4.76%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 2 (9.52%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (9.52%) Degree
2 1 (4.76%) AWS Certification
2 1 (4.76%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (4.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (4.76%) DBS Check
2 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.76%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 9 (42.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (19.05%) Kubernetes
2 3 (14.29%) Terraform
3 1 (4.76%) Grafana
Vendors
1 2 (9.52%) Oracle
2 1 (4.76%) Atlassian
2 1 (4.76%) MuleSoft