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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 121 139 164
Rank change year-on-year +18 +25 +9
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 47 41 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.42% 0.87% 0.83%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.28% 2.91% 2.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 27 37
10th Percentile £364 £323 £425
25th Percentile £400 £403 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -18.18% +4.76%
75th Percentile £537 £526 £650
90th Percentile £585 £580 £693
England median daily rate £525 £510 £575
% change year-on-year +2.94% -11.30% -

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 1,097 1,408 1,994
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 33.03% 29.94% 35.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 815 988 1,480
10th Percentile £263 £263 £300
25th Percentile £388 £388 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £513
Median % change year-on-year -0.05% -7.27% +2.50%
75th Percentile £545 £575 £588
90th Percentile £638 £650 £684
England median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 78 44
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.00 £16.06
25th Percentile £12.82 £15.50 £18.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £16.06 £27.35
Median % change year-on-year +79.02% -41.28% +30.92%
75th Percentile £43.39 £22.00 £56.10
90th Percentile £83.75 £44.48 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.26 £21.37 £35.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -38.94% +62.79%

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 30 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 30 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 29 £500 +5.26% 233
Yorkshire +24 11 £500 +81.82% 199
North East +4 8 £440 - 58
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 (4.26%) Apache Spark
1 2 (4.26%) Confluence
1 2 (4.26%) Jupyter
2 1 (2.13%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.13%) CMS
2 1 (2.13%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 47 (100.00%) Serverless
2 46 (97.87%) AWS
3 20 (42.55%) Amazon S3
4 14 (29.79%) Amazon EC2
5 13 (27.66%) Amazon SQS
5 13 (27.66%) GitHub
6 11 (23.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 11 (23.40%) Amazon ECS
6 11 (23.40%) GitHub Actions
7 8 (17.02%) Amazon EKS
8 7 (14.89%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (12.77%) Amazon Kinesis
10 5 (10.64%) Azure
11 4 (8.51%) Amazon Glacier
11 4 (8.51%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 4 (8.51%) AWS CloudTrail
12 3 (6.38%) Amazon ElastiCache
12 3 (6.38%) Amazon MSK
12 3 (6.38%) AWS CodeBuild
12 3 (6.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (12.77%) DNS
2 4 (8.51%) TCP/IP
3 3 (6.38%) Firewall
3 3 (6.38%) SSL
3 3 (6.38%) VPN
4 2 (4.26%) Network Security
4 2 (4.26%) SMS
5 1 (2.13%) DHCP
5 1 (2.13%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (29.79%) DynamoDB
2 7 (14.89%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (12.77%) MongoDB
4 5 (10.64%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (8.51%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (6.38%) DocumentDB
7 2 (4.26%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (4.26%) Big Data
7 2 (4.26%) Data Lake
7 2 (4.26%) Metadata
7 2 (4.26%) Metadata Repository
7 2 (4.26%) MySQL
7 2 (4.26%) NoSQL
7 2 (4.26%) Redis
7 2 (4.26%) Relational Database
7 2 (4.26%) SQL Server
8 1 (2.13%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (2.13%) Delta Lake
8 1 (2.13%) Flink
8 1 (2.13%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 14 (29.79%) Jenkins
2 7 (14.89%) Git
3 5 (10.64%) GitLab
4 4 (8.51%) JIRA
5 2 (4.26%) Selenium
5 2 (4.26%) SonarQube
6 1 (2.13%) Appium
6 1 (2.13%) Babel
6 1 (2.13%) Cucumber
6 1 (2.13%) Gatling
6 1 (2.13%) MLflow
6 1 (2.13%) Postman
6 1 (2.13%) REST Assured
6 1 (2.13%) SpecFlow
6 1 (2.13%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (2.13%) WebDriver
6 1 (2.13%) webpack
General
1 12 (25.53%) Social Skills
2 6 (12.77%) Public Sector
3 4 (8.51%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (8.51%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (4.26%) Finance
4 2 (4.26%) Health Technology
5 1 (2.13%) Aviation
5 1 (2.13%) Banking
5 1 (2.13%) Legal
Job Titles
1 14 (29.79%) Developer
2 9 (19.15%) Senior
2 9 (19.15%) Software Engineer
3 6 (12.77%) DevOps Engineer
4 5 (10.64%) Architect
4 5 (10.64%) AWS Engineer
4 5 (10.64%) Full-Stack Developer
4 5 (10.64%) Java Developer
4 5 (10.64%) Lead
4 5 (10.64%) Solutions Architect
5 4 (8.51%) Data Engineer
5 4 (8.51%) Software Developer
5 4 (8.51%) Test Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) AWS Architect
6 3 (6.38%) AWS DevOps
6 3 (6.38%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) AWS Solution Architect
6 3 (6.38%) Cloud Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) Senior Software Engineer
7 2 (4.26%) Java Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (27.66%) Kafka
2 11 (23.40%) React
3 10 (21.28%) Node.js
4 9 (19.15%) RESTful
5 4 (8.51%) ActiveMQ
5 4 (8.51%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (8.51%) PySpark
5 4 (8.51%) Spring
5 4 (8.51%) Spring Boot
6 3 (6.38%) HTML
6 3 (6.38%) Next.js
7 2 (4.26%) .NET
7 2 (4.26%) AngularJS
7 2 (4.26%) AWS CDK
7 2 (4.26%) CSS
7 2 (4.26%) Express.js
7 2 (4.26%) Jest
7 2 (4.26%) Micronaut
7 2 (4.26%) REST
8 1 (2.13%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.64%) Cloud Native
1 5 (10.64%) Public Cloud
2 3 (6.38%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (6.38%) NHS
3 2 (4.26%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 2 (4.26%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (4.26%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (4.26%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.13%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.13%) Blockchain
4 1 (2.13%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.13%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (2.13%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.13%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.13%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.13%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.38%) Linux
2 1 (2.13%) Unix
2 1 (2.13%) Windows
2 1 (2.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (63.83%) CI/CD
2 19 (40.43%) Agile
3 18 (38.30%) DevOps
4 17 (36.17%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (25.53%) Containerisation
5 12 (25.53%) Infrastructure as Code
5 12 (25.53%) Microservices
6 11 (23.40%) Software Engineering
7 9 (19.15%) Full-Stack Development
7 9 (19.15%) TDD
8 8 (17.02%) SDLC
9 7 (14.89%) Event-Driven
10 6 (12.77%) Infrastructure Automation
10 6 (12.77%) Test Automation
11 5 (10.64%) Artificial Intelligence
11 5 (10.64%) Cloud Security
12 4 (8.51%) Contingency Planning
12 4 (8.51%) Data Pipeline
12 4 (8.51%) Design Patterns
12 4 (8.51%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 23 (48.94%) Python
2 17 (36.17%) Java
3 10 (21.28%) TypeScript
4 8 (17.02%) SQL
5 7 (14.89%) JavaScript
6 3 (6.38%) Bash
6 3 (6.38%) Shell Script
7 2 (4.26%) Scala
8 1 (2.13%) Groovy
8 1 (2.13%) Perl
8 1 (2.13%) Ruby
8 1 (2.13%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 11 (23.40%) SC Cleared
1 11 (23.40%) Security Cleared
2 7 (14.89%) AWS Certification
3 4 (8.51%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 4 (8.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 3 (6.38%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (4.26%) Degree
6 1 (2.13%) DBS Check
6 1 (2.13%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.26%) Actionable Recommendations
1 2 (4.26%) GDPR
1 2 (4.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (4.26%) NIST
1 2 (4.26%) SOC 2
2 1 (2.13%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 21 (44.68%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (29.79%) Terraform
2 11 (23.40%) Kubernetes
3 5 (10.64%) Grafana
4 4 (8.51%) Ansible
4 4 (8.51%) Prometheus
5 3 (6.38%) Progress Chef
6 2 (4.26%) Kustomize
6 2 (4.26%) Puppet
7 1 (2.13%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 3 (6.38%) Splunk
2 2 (4.26%) Brio
2 2 (4.26%) Databricks
2 2 (4.26%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.26%) Oracle
3 1 (2.13%) Atlassian
3 1 (2.13%) MuleSoft
3 1 (2.13%) Red Hat
3 1 (2.13%) VMware