AWS Lambda Contracts in the North West

AWS Lambda
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 95 103 129
Rank change year-on-year +8 +26 -3
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 25 34 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.27% 1.23% 0.88%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.91% 3.85% 2.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 26 24
10th Percentile £368 £388 £425
25th Percentile £400 £446 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £510 £538
Median % change year-on-year -6.86% -5.12% +2.38%
75th Percentile £537 £538 £591
90th Percentile £575 £581 £696
England median daily rate £550 £513 £575
% change year-on-year +7.32% -10.87% -

All Cloud Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 639 884 1,198
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 32.47% 32.09% 37.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 498 640 887
10th Percentile £244 £284 £311
25th Percentile £400 £391 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £487 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.03% -2.55% -
75th Percentile £558 £575 £588
90th Percentile £638 £638 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 65 32
10th Percentile - £13.00 £16.19
25th Percentile £26.88 - £20.00
Median hourly rate £28.88 £16.06 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year +79.79% -56.94% +100.62%
75th Percentile £50.66 £20.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.88 £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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS Lambda in the North West

AWS Lambda
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for AWS Lambda in the North West

AWS Lambda
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for AWS Lambda in the North West

AWS Lambda
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Manchester +12 18 £475 +5.56% 46
Cheshire -1 7 £438 -14.12% 12
AWS Lambda
England

AWS Lambda
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (8.00%) Confluence
2 1 (4.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (4.00%) CMS
2 1 (4.00%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 25 (100.00%) Serverless
2 24 (96.00%) AWS
3 11 (44.00%) Amazon S3
4 9 (36.00%) Amazon EC2
5 8 (32.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 7 (28.00%) GitHub
7 6 (24.00%) Amazon ECS
7 6 (24.00%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
8 5 (20.00%) Amazon Kinesis
8 5 (20.00%) Amazon SQS
9 4 (16.00%) Amazon Glacier
10 3 (12.00%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (8.00%) Amazon Cognito
11 2 (8.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 2 (8.00%) Amazon MSK
11 2 (8.00%) AWS CloudTrail
11 2 (8.00%) AWS CodeBuild
11 2 (8.00%) Azure
12 1 (4.00%) Contentful
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.00%) DNS
2 1 (4.00%) DHCP
2 1 (4.00%) Firewall
2 1 (4.00%) HTTP
2 1 (4.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (4.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (40.00%) DynamoDB
2 3 (12.00%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (12.00%) MongoDB
2 3 (12.00%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (8.00%) NoSQL
3 2 (8.00%) Relational Database
3 2 (8.00%) SQL Server
4 1 (4.00%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (4.00%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (4.00%) DocumentDB
4 1 (4.00%) InfluxDB
4 1 (4.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 9 (36.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (8.00%) JIRA
2 2 (8.00%) Selenium
3 1 (4.00%) Appium
3 1 (4.00%) Cucumber
3 1 (4.00%) Gatling
3 1 (4.00%) Git
3 1 (4.00%) GitLab
3 1 (4.00%) Postman
3 1 (4.00%) REST Assured
3 1 (4.00%) SonarQube
3 1 (4.00%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (4.00%) WebDriver
General
1 7 (28.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (16.00%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (8.00%) Finance
4 1 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.00%) Aviation
4 1 (4.00%) Banking
4 1 (4.00%) Legal
4 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (24.00%) Developer
1 6 (24.00%) Software Engineer
2 5 (20.00%) Architect
2 5 (20.00%) Senior
2 5 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (12.00%) AWS Architect
3 3 (12.00%) AWS Solution Architect
3 3 (12.00%) Java Developer
3 3 (12.00%) Senior Software Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) Software Developer
4 2 (8.00%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (8.00%) Java Architect
4 2 (8.00%) Java Solutions Architect
4 2 (8.00%) Lead
4 2 (8.00%) Test Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 1 (4.00%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (32.00%) Kafka
1 8 (32.00%) RESTful
2 7 (28.00%) Node.js
3 6 (24.00%) React
4 4 (16.00%) ActiveMQ
5 2 (8.00%) AngularJS
5 2 (8.00%) AWS CDK
5 2 (8.00%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (8.00%) Spring
5 2 (8.00%) Spring Boot
6 1 (4.00%) AWS Amplify
6 1 (4.00%) Chai
6 1 (4.00%) Express.js
6 1 (4.00%) FastAPI
6 1 (4.00%) GraphQL
6 1 (4.00%) Jest
6 1 (4.00%) Lambda Expressions
6 1 (4.00%) Next.js
6 1 (4.00%) React Native
6 1 (4.00%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.00%) Public Cloud
2 2 (8.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (8.00%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (8.00%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (4.00%) Algorithms
3 1 (4.00%) Blockchain
3 1 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.00%) Data Structures
3 1 (4.00%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (4.00%) Private Cloud
3 1 (4.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.00%) Linux
2 1 (4.00%) Unix
2 1 (4.00%) Windows
2 1 (4.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (64.00%) CI/CD
2 12 (48.00%) Agile
3 10 (40.00%) Microservices
4 9 (36.00%) Containerisation
4 9 (36.00%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (32.00%) DevOps
5 8 (32.00%) SDLC
6 7 (28.00%) Software Engineering
7 6 (24.00%) Event-Driven
8 5 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
8 5 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 5 (20.00%) TDD
9 4 (16.00%) Budget Control
9 4 (16.00%) Contingency Planning
9 4 (16.00%) Creative Problem-Solving
9 4 (16.00%) Data Pipeline
9 4 (16.00%) Project Planning
9 4 (16.00%) Scrum
9 4 (16.00%) Service Delivery
10 3 (12.00%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 11 (44.00%) Java
2 7 (28.00%) Python
3 6 (24.00%) TypeScript
4 5 (20.00%) JavaScript
5 4 (16.00%) SQL
6 3 (12.00%) Bash
7 2 (8.00%) Scala
8 1 (4.00%) Perl
8 1 (4.00%) Ruby
8 1 (4.00%) Shell Script
8 1 (4.00%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 4 (16.00%) AWS Certification
2 2 (8.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 2 (8.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (8.00%) Degree
3 1 (4.00%) DBS Check
3 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 12 (48.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (12.00%) Terraform
3 2 (8.00%) Grafana
3 2 (8.00%) Progress Chef
4 1 (4.00%) Ansible
4 1 (4.00%) Docker Swarm
4 1 (4.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (8.00%) Oracle
2 1 (4.00%) Atlassian
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.00%) MuleSoft
2 1 (4.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (4.00%) VMware