AWS Lambda Contract Job Trends in the North West

AWS Lambda
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring AWS Lambda skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 104 102
Rank change year-on-year -20 -2 +37
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 38 20 31
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 1.23% 1.02% 1.10%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.75% 3.00% 3.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 17 22
10th Percentile £378 £357 £403
25th Percentile £400 £380 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £400 £510
Median % change year-on-year +34.38% -21.57% -5.12%
75th Percentile £591 £537 £547
90th Percentile £650 £595 £586
England median daily rate £513 £550 £510
% change year-on-year -6.82% +7.84% -11.30%
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 - -
England median hourly rate £78.50 - -

All Cloud Computing 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 1,013 667 913
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 32.70% 34.03% 32.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 715 510 667
10th Percentile £220 £230 £300
25th Percentile £369 £393 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £489
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -2.86% -2.20%
75th Percentile £566 £575 £550
90th Percentile £641 £650 £638
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 16 70
10th Percentile £19.13 £22.61 £13.00
25th Percentile £25.38 £26.20 £16.06
Median hourly rate £62.50 £28.75 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year +117.39% +74.27% -52.86%
75th Percentile £77.50 £50.66 £23.46
90th Percentile £95.00 £76.88 £43.99
England median hourly rate £40.25 £27.19 £21.00
% change year-on-year +48.05% +29.46% -17.58%

AWS Lambda
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

AWS Lambda job vacancy trend in the North West

AWS Lambda
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing AWS Lambda.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing AWS Lambda

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 28 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Lambda in the North West

AWS Lambda
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing AWS Lambda in the North West over the 6 months to 28 March 2026.

Hourly 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 28 March 2026. 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 -2 36 £550 +15.79% 15
Cheshire -24 2 £352 -3.17% 1
AWS Lambda
England

AWS Lambda
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 2 (5.26%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (5.26%) Confluence
2 1 (2.63%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 38 (100.00%) AWS
2 37 (97.37%) Serverless
3 19 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
4 16 (42.11%) Amazon S3
4 16 (42.11%) Amazon SQS
5 11 (28.95%) Amazon EKS
6 10 (26.32%) Amazon EC2
6 10 (26.32%) Amazon EventBridge
7 9 (23.68%) GitHub
7 9 (23.68%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (21.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 7 (18.42%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (15.79%) Amazon ECR
10 6 (15.79%) AWS Fargate
11 4 (10.53%) Amazon MSK
12 3 (7.89%) AWS Step Functions
13 2 (5.26%) Amazon Bedrock
13 2 (5.26%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 2 (5.26%) Amazon SageMaker
13 2 (5.26%) Datadog
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (34.21%) DynamoDB
2 12 (31.58%) DocumentDB
3 7 (18.42%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (13.16%) Amazon Aurora
4 5 (13.16%) NoSQL
5 4 (10.53%) MongoDB
5 4 (10.53%) Redis
6 3 (7.89%) Data Lake
7 2 (5.26%) Pinecone
8 1 (2.63%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (2.63%) Relational Database
8 1 (2.63%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (31.58%) Git
2 8 (21.05%) GitLab
3 5 (13.16%) Jenkins
4 4 (10.53%) SonarQube
5 3 (7.89%) Gradle
5 3 (7.89%) JIRA
5 3 (7.89%) Maven
6 2 (5.26%) Mocha
7 1 (2.63%) IntelliJ
7 1 (2.63%) JUnit
General
1 12 (31.58%) Public Sector
2 8 (21.05%) Finance
3 5 (13.16%) Social Skills
4 1 (2.63%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.63%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (31.58%) Developer
2 8 (21.05%) Senior
2 8 (21.05%) Software Engineer
3 6 (15.79%) AWS Engineer
4 4 (10.53%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 4 (10.53%) Lead
4 4 (10.53%) Node.js Developer
4 4 (10.53%) Senior Software Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Data Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (7.89%) Java Developer
5 3 (7.89%) Java Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Software Developer
6 2 (5.26%) Angular Developer
6 2 (5.26%) AWS Developer
6 2 (5.26%) AWS DevOps
6 2 (5.26%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) React Developer
6 2 (5.26%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (39.47%) Node.js
2 12 (31.58%) React
3 11 (28.95%) Spring
3 11 (28.95%) Spring Boot
4 8 (21.05%) REST
5 6 (15.79%) GraphQL
6 5 (13.16%) .NET
6 5 (13.16%) AngularJS
6 5 (13.16%) Kafka
7 3 (7.89%) Jest
7 3 (7.89%) NestJS
7 3 (7.89%) Spring Security
8 2 (5.26%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (5.26%) Faiss
8 2 (5.26%) LangChain
8 2 (5.26%) LangGraph
8 2 (5.26%) RESTful
9 1 (2.63%) HTML
9 1 (2.63%) HTML5
9 1 (2.63%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 15 (39.47%) Cloud Native
2 5 (13.16%) Product Ownership
3 3 (7.89%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (5.26%) AI Agents
4 2 (5.26%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (5.26%) NHS
5 1 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.63%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.63%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.63%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.53%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (60.53%) CI/CD
2 22 (57.89%) Microservices
3 21 (55.26%) DevOps
4 13 (34.21%) Agile
5 12 (31.58%) Full-Stack Development
5 12 (31.58%) Infrastructure as Code
6 9 (23.68%) Code Quality
6 9 (23.68%) Software Engineering
7 8 (21.05%) Event-Driven
8 7 (18.42%) Containerisation
8 7 (18.42%) TDD
9 6 (15.79%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 6 (15.79%) Machine Learning
9 6 (15.79%) Test Automation
10 5 (13.16%) API Development
10 5 (13.16%) Observability
11 4 (10.53%) Cloud Security
11 4 (10.53%) Mentoring
11 4 (10.53%) Micro Frontends
12 3 (7.89%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 12 (31.58%) Java
2 10 (26.32%) TypeScript
3 8 (21.05%) Python
4 7 (18.42%) SQL
5 3 (7.89%) JavaScript
6 2 (5.26%) Bash
6 2 (5.26%) Ruby
7 1 (2.63%) C#
7 1 (2.63%) Go
7 1 (2.63%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (15.79%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (7.89%) Security Cleared
3 2 (5.26%) Degree
3 2 (5.26%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.63%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.63%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (2.63%) Data Quality
1 1 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (2.63%) NIST
1 1 (2.63%) PCI DSS
1 1 (2.63%) QA
System Software
1 20 (52.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (44.74%) Terraform
2 11 (28.95%) Kubernetes
3 4 (10.53%) Grafana
3 4 (10.53%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (7.89%) Ping Identity
2 2 (5.26%) Databricks
2 2 (5.26%) Microsoft