AWS Lambda Contract Job Trends in Manchester

AWS Lambda
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring AWS Lambda skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 73 80
Rank change year-on-year +12 +7 +13
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 41 13 20
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 3.07% 1.27% 1.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.47% 3.13% 3.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 7 14
10th Percentile £385 £400 £382
25th Percentile £400 £431 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% +2.70% -14.35%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £622
90th Percentile £649 £605 £700
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £510
% change year-on-year -5.26% -6.86% -5.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £65.63 - -
25th Percentile £73.38 - -
Median hourly rate £78.50 - -
75th Percentile £91.50 - -
90th Percentile £95.00 - -
North West median hourly rate £78.50 - -

All Cloud Computing 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 549 415 621
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 41.06% 40.41% 39.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 399 307 496
10th Percentile £313 £325 £300
25th Percentile £400 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -2.44%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £550
90th Percentile £632 £700 £650
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £485
% change year-on-year -5.26% -2.06% -3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 1 17
10th Percentile £20.16 - £17.13
25th Percentile £39.48 - £19.25
Median hourly rate £71.25 £29.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +145.69% +11.54% -60.00%
75th Percentile £77.50 - £72.50
90th Percentile £95.00 - £80.25
North West median hourly rate £45.46 £24.18 £21.00
% change year-on-year +88.01% +15.14% -58.00%

AWS Lambda
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

AWS Lambda job vacancy trend in Manchester

AWS Lambda
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

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

AWS Lambda
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Lambda in Manchester over the 6 months to 14 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Lambda in Manchester

AWS Lambda
Hourly Rate Histogram in Manchester

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing AWS Lambda in Manchester over the 6 months to 14 February 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for AWS Lambda in Manchester

AWS Lambda
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 5 (12.20%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.44%) Apache
2 1 (2.44%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 41 (100.00%) AWS
1 41 (100.00%) Serverless
2 20 (48.78%) Amazon SQS
3 16 (39.02%) Amazon S3
4 15 (36.59%) Amazon ECS
5 12 (29.27%) Amazon EC2
6 10 (24.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 10 (24.39%) AWS CloudFormation
6 10 (24.39%) GitHub
6 10 (24.39%) GitHub Actions
7 8 (19.51%) Amazon EKS
8 7 (17.07%) Amazon EventBridge
8 7 (17.07%) AWS Fargate
9 4 (9.76%) Amazon ECR
9 4 (9.76%) Amazon MSK
9 4 (9.76%) AWS Step Functions
10 3 (7.32%) Kong
11 2 (4.88%) Datadog
12 1 (2.44%) Amazon SageMaker
12 1 (2.44%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (31.71%) DocumentDB
2 12 (29.27%) DynamoDB
3 8 (19.51%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (12.20%) Amazon Aurora
4 5 (12.20%) NoSQL
4 5 (12.20%) Redis
5 4 (9.76%) MongoDB
6 3 (7.32%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (7.32%) Data Lake
7 1 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (2.44%) MySQL
7 1 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (2.44%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 12 (29.27%) Git
2 8 (19.51%) GitLab
3 6 (14.63%) SonarQube
4 5 (12.20%) Jenkins
5 3 (7.32%) Gradle
5 3 (7.32%) Maven
6 2 (4.88%) JIRA
6 2 (4.88%) Mocha
6 2 (4.88%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 14 (34.15%) Public Sector
2 7 (17.07%) Finance
2 7 (17.07%) Social Skills
3 2 (4.88%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (29.27%) Developer
2 10 (24.39%) AWS Engineer
3 8 (19.51%) Senior
3 8 (19.51%) Software Engineer
4 6 (14.63%) DevOps Engineer
4 6 (14.63%) Lead
5 5 (12.20%) AWS DevOps
5 5 (12.20%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 5 (12.20%) Data Engineer
5 5 (12.20%) Node.js Developer
6 4 (9.76%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 4 (9.76%) Senior Software Engineer
6 4 (9.76%) Software Developer
7 3 (7.32%) AWS Data Engineer
7 3 (7.32%) Java Engineer
7 3 (7.32%) React Developer
8 2 (4.88%) JavaScript Developer
8 2 (4.88%) Lead Software Developer
8 2 (4.88%) Senior Java Engineer
8 2 (4.88%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (41.46%) Node.js
2 16 (39.02%) React
3 9 (21.95%) Spring
3 9 (21.95%) Spring Boot
4 8 (19.51%) REST
5 7 (17.07%) Kafka
6 6 (14.63%) GraphQL
7 4 (9.76%) .NET
7 4 (9.76%) AngularJS
8 3 (7.32%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (7.32%) NestJS
8 3 (7.32%) Spring Security
9 2 (4.88%) Jest
9 2 (4.88%) PySpark
9 2 (4.88%) pytest
9 2 (4.88%) RESTful
10 1 (2.44%) Lambda Expressions
10 1 (2.44%) Vue
10 1 (2.44%) Web Services
10 1 (2.44%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (29.27%) Cloud Native
2 3 (7.32%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (4.88%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (4.88%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (4.88%) NHS
3 2 (4.88%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.44%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.32%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (58.54%) CI/CD
1 24 (58.54%) DevOps
2 22 (53.66%) Microservices
3 14 (34.15%) Agile
3 14 (34.15%) Infrastructure as Code
4 12 (29.27%) Full-Stack Development
5 11 (26.83%) Software Engineering
6 9 (21.95%) Code Quality
7 8 (19.51%) Containerisation
8 7 (17.07%) Event-Driven
8 7 (17.07%) Mentoring
9 6 (14.63%) Data Engineering
9 6 (14.63%) Data Pipeline
9 6 (14.63%) TDD
10 5 (12.20%) API Development
10 5 (12.20%) ETL
10 5 (12.20%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 5 (12.20%) Machine Learning
10 5 (12.20%) Stakeholder Management
10 5 (12.20%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 13 (31.71%) Python
2 10 (24.39%) Java
3 9 (21.95%) SQL
3 9 (21.95%) TypeScript
4 3 (7.32%) Bash
4 3 (7.32%) JavaScript
5 2 (4.88%) Ruby
6 1 (2.44%) Go
6 1 (2.44%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (14.63%) BPSS Clearance
2 4 (9.76%) Security Cleared
3 3 (7.32%) SC Cleared
4 2 (4.88%) Degree
5 1 (2.44%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.44%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.44%) Accessibility
1 1 (2.44%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (2.44%) Data Quality
1 1 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (2.44%) NIST
1 1 (2.44%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 20 (48.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (51.22%) Terraform
2 14 (34.15%) Kubernetes
3 5 (12.20%) Prometheus
4 4 (9.76%) Grafana
5 2 (4.88%) Control-M
6 1 (2.44%) Ansible
6 1 (2.44%) Progress Chef
6 1 (2.44%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (7.32%) Ping Identity
2 2 (4.88%) Oracle
3 1 (2.44%) Dynatrace
3 1 (2.44%) Microsoft