AWS Lambda Contracts in the North of England

AWS Lambda
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 128 142 174
Rank change year-on-year +14 +32 -3
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 38 43 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.15% 0.90% 0.79%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.42% 3.05% 2.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 30 37
10th Percentile £367 £353 £425
25th Percentile £400 £410 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £493 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.54% -10.45% +4.76%
75th Percentile £537 £538 £600
90th Percentile £602 £588 £665
England median daily rate £550 £513 £575
% change year-on-year +7.32% -10.87% -

All Cloud Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,111 1,408 2,141
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 33.72% 29.53% 36.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 838 999 1,595
10th Percentile £248 £263 £300
25th Percentile £385 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £638 £643 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 79 37
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.00 £16.22
25th Percentile £26.72 £15.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.91 £16.06 £39.60
Median % change year-on-year +92.43% -59.44% +111.93%
75th Percentile £73.44 £20.77 £65.00
90th Percentile £97.98 £43.75 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
% change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%

AWS Lambda
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing AWS Lambda as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Lambda in the North of England

AWS Lambda
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS Lambda in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for AWS Lambda in the North of England

AWS Lambda
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for AWS Lambda in the North of England

AWS Lambda
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England 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
North West +8 25 £475 -6.86% 62
North East +5 8 £468 - 13
Yorkshire +7 5 £500 +81.82% 27
AWS Lambda
England

AWS Lambda
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 2 (5.26%) Apache Spark
1 2 (5.26%) Confluence
1 2 (5.26%) Jupyter
2 1 (2.63%) CMS
2 1 (2.63%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 38 (100.00%) Serverless
2 37 (97.37%) AWS
3 18 (47.37%) Amazon S3
4 11 (28.95%) Amazon EC2
5 9 (23.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 9 (23.68%) Amazon SQS
6 7 (18.42%) Amazon ECS
6 7 (18.42%) GitHub
7 6 (15.79%) Amazon Kinesis
7 6 (15.79%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (13.16%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (10.53%) Amazon Glacier
9 4 (10.53%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (10.53%) Azure
10 3 (7.89%) Amazon EMR
10 3 (7.89%) AWS CodeBuild
11 2 (5.26%) Amazon Cognito
11 2 (5.26%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 2 (5.26%) Amazon MSK
11 2 (5.26%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.89%) DNS
2 2 (5.26%) SMS
3 1 (2.63%) DHCP
3 1 (2.63%) Firewall
3 1 (2.63%) HTTP
3 1 (2.63%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.63%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (26.32%) DynamoDB
2 4 (10.53%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (7.89%) Metadata
3 3 (7.89%) Metadata Repository
3 3 (7.89%) MongoDB
3 3 (7.89%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (5.26%) Data Lake
4 2 (5.26%) DocumentDB
4 2 (5.26%) NoSQL
4 2 (5.26%) Redis
4 2 (5.26%) Relational Database
4 2 (5.26%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.63%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (2.63%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (2.63%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (2.63%) Delta Lake
5 1 (2.63%) Flink
5 1 (2.63%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 10 (26.32%) Jenkins
2 3 (7.89%) GitLab
2 3 (7.89%) JIRA
3 2 (5.26%) Git
3 2 (5.26%) Selenium
3 2 (5.26%) SonarQube
4 1 (2.63%) Appium
4 1 (2.63%) Babel
4 1 (2.63%) Cucumber
4 1 (2.63%) Gatling
4 1 (2.63%) Postman
4 1 (2.63%) REST Assured
4 1 (2.63%) SpecFlow
4 1 (2.63%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (2.63%) WebDriver
4 1 (2.63%) webpack
General
1 9 (23.68%) Social Skills
2 4 (10.53%) Presentation Skills
2 4 (10.53%) Public Sector
3 2 (5.26%) Finance
4 1 (2.63%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.63%) Aviation
4 1 (2.63%) Banking
4 1 (2.63%) Legal
Job Titles
1 10 (26.32%) Developer
2 8 (21.05%) Senior
3 7 (18.42%) Software Engineer
4 6 (15.79%) Architect
5 5 (13.16%) Java Developer
5 5 (13.16%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (10.53%) AWS Engineer
7 3 (7.89%) AWS Architect
7 3 (7.89%) AWS Solution Architect
7 3 (7.89%) Data Engineer
7 3 (7.89%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (7.89%) Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (7.89%) Senior Software Engineer
7 3 (7.89%) Software Developer
7 3 (7.89%) Test Engineer
8 2 (5.26%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 2 (5.26%) Java Architect
8 2 (5.26%) Java Solutions Architect
8 2 (5.26%) Platform Engineer
8 2 (5.26%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (34.21%) Kafka
2 8 (21.05%) Node.js
2 8 (21.05%) React
2 8 (21.05%) RESTful
3 4 (10.53%) ActiveMQ
3 4 (10.53%) Spring
3 4 (10.53%) Spring Boot
4 2 (5.26%) AngularJS
4 2 (5.26%) AWS CDK
4 2 (5.26%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (5.26%) HTML
4 2 (5.26%) Micronaut
4 2 (5.26%) Next.js
4 2 (5.26%) PySpark
5 1 (2.63%) AWS Amplify
5 1 (2.63%) FastAPI
5 1 (2.63%) GraphQL
5 1 (2.63%) Jest
5 1 (2.63%) JWT
5 1 (2.63%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.16%) Public Cloud
2 3 (7.89%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (5.26%) Cloud Native
3 2 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (5.26%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.63%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.63%) Blockchain
4 1 (2.63%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.63%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (2.63%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.63%) NHS
4 1 (2.63%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.63%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.63%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.26%) Linux
2 1 (2.63%) Unix
2 1 (2.63%) Windows
2 1 (2.63%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (57.89%) CI/CD
2 15 (39.47%) Agile
3 13 (34.21%) DevOps
4 12 (31.58%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (28.95%) Microservices
6 9 (23.68%) Containerisation
6 9 (23.68%) Infrastructure as Code
7 8 (21.05%) SDLC
7 8 (21.05%) Software Engineering
8 7 (18.42%) Full-Stack Development
8 7 (18.42%) TDD
9 6 (15.79%) Event-Driven
10 5 (13.16%) Data Pipeline
10 5 (13.16%) Test Automation
11 4 (10.53%) Budget Control
11 4 (10.53%) Creative Problem-Solving
11 4 (10.53%) Data Modelling
11 4 (10.53%) Project Planning
11 4 (10.53%) Scrum
11 4 (10.53%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 16 (42.11%) Python
2 15 (39.47%) Java
3 8 (21.05%) TypeScript
4 7 (18.42%) JavaScript
5 5 (13.16%) SQL
6 3 (7.89%) Bash
7 2 (5.26%) Scala
8 1 (2.63%) Groovy
8 1 (2.63%) Perl
8 1 (2.63%) Ruby
8 1 (2.63%) Shell Script
8 1 (2.63%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 8 (21.05%) SC Cleared
1 8 (21.05%) Security Cleared
2 5 (13.16%) AWS Certification
3 2 (5.26%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 2 (5.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (5.26%) Degree
4 1 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.63%) DBS Check
4 1 (2.63%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.63%) WCAG
System Software
1 15 (39.47%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (26.32%) Terraform
2 7 (18.42%) Kubernetes
3 2 (5.26%) Grafana
3 2 (5.26%) Progress Chef
4 1 (2.63%) Ansible
4 1 (2.63%) Docker Swarm
4 1 (2.63%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (7.89%) Databricks
2 2 (5.26%) Oracle
3 1 (2.63%) Atlassian
3 1 (2.63%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.63%) MuleSoft
3 1 (2.63%) Red Hat
3 1 (2.63%) VMware