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 13 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 136 94 95
Rank change year-on-year -42 +1 +14
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 45 38 27
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 1.13% 1.73% 1.12%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.63% 5.07% 3.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 32 14
10th Percentile £390 £361 £366
25th Percentile £425 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £480 £447
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% +7.38% -22.26%
75th Percentile £630 £538 £520
90th Percentile £693 £587 £628
England median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £71.00 - -
25th Percentile £71.42 - -
Median hourly rate £73.83 - -
75th Percentile £76.50 - -
90th Percentile £77.88 - -
England median hourly rate £72.66 £45.00 -
% change year-on-year +61.47% - -

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 1,240 749 729
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 31.05% 34.08% 30.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 783 571 453
10th Percentile £232 £311 £303
25th Percentile £400 £375 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -1.04%
75th Percentile £604 £537 £575
90th Percentile £688 £638 £650
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.95% -4.71% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 28 15
10th Percentile £20.31 £12.82 £17.44
25th Percentile £29.96 £15.50 £22.61
Median hourly rate £60.00 £18.87 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +217.97% -47.58% +9.09%
75th Percentile £76.00 £51.19 £63.88
90th Percentile £77.00 £68.51 £73.30
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +8.36%

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 13 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Lambda in the North West

AWS Lambda
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

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 13 October 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 -34 34 £518 +3.50% 33
Cheshire +1 7 £622 +42.90% 1
Merseyside - 2 £538 -
Lancashire -22 1 - - 2
Cumbria - 1 £395 -
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 (4.44%) CMS
1 2 (4.44%) Confluence
2 1 (2.22%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 45 (100.00%) AWS
1 45 (100.00%) Serverless
2 23 (51.11%) Amazon ECS
3 18 (40.00%) Amazon S3
4 13 (28.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 13 (28.89%) Amazon EKS
5 12 (26.67%) Amazon SQS
5 12 (26.67%) AWS CloudFormation
6 11 (24.44%) Azure
7 10 (22.22%) GCP
8 9 (20.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 5 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (11.11%) Amazon SageMaker
9 5 (11.11%) AWS Fargate
9 5 (11.11%) Azure AKS
9 5 (11.11%) Azure Machine Learning
9 5 (11.11%) Vertex AI
10 4 (8.89%) AWS KMS
10 4 (8.89%) AWS Step Functions
10 4 (8.89%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.89%) Firewall
1 4 (8.89%) Network Security
2 1 (2.22%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (33.33%) DynamoDB
2 6 (13.33%) Data Lake
3 5 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (11.11%) BigQuery
3 5 (11.11%) NoSQL
4 4 (8.89%) Amazon Redshift
4 4 (8.89%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (8.89%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (6.67%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (6.67%) MySQL
6 2 (4.44%) Big Data
6 2 (4.44%) DocumentDB
6 2 (4.44%) Metadata
7 1 (2.22%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (2.22%) Oracle Database
7 1 (2.22%) Power BI
7 1 (2.22%) PowerCenter
7 1 (2.22%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (2.22%) SQL Server
7 1 (2.22%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 6 (13.33%) GitLab
2 5 (11.11%) Git
3 3 (6.67%) JUnit
3 3 (6.67%) Mockito
4 2 (4.44%) Cypress.io
4 2 (4.44%) JIRA
5 1 (2.22%) Cucumber
5 1 (2.22%) git-flow
5 1 (2.22%) Selenium
General
1 10 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 8 (17.78%) Finance
3 4 (8.89%) Public Sector
4 3 (6.67%) Retail
5 2 (4.44%) iGaming
5 2 (4.44%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (26.67%) AWS Engineer
2 11 (24.44%) Java Engineer
2 11 (24.44%) Software Engineer
3 8 (17.78%) AWS Software Engineer
3 8 (17.78%) Java Software Engineer
3 8 (17.78%) Senior
4 7 (15.56%) Cloud Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) Cloud Security Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) Data Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) Developer
5 4 (8.89%) Security Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) Architect
6 3 (6.67%) Lead
7 2 (4.44%) Data Migration Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) Head of Architecture
7 2 (4.44%) Head of Technical Architecture
7 2 (4.44%) Migration Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) Senior Java Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) Senior Software Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (53.33%) Terraform
2 11 (24.44%) Spring
2 11 (24.44%) Spring Boot
3 8 (17.78%) PySpark
3 8 (17.78%) REST
4 6 (13.33%) Kafka
5 5 (11.11%) Langfuse
5 5 (11.11%) React
6 4 (8.89%) ARM Templates
6 4 (8.89%) Azure Blueprints
6 4 (8.89%) RESTful
7 3 (6.67%) Node.js
7 3 (6.67%) Spring MVC
7 3 (6.67%) Spring Security
8 2 (4.44%) .NET
8 2 (4.44%) AngularJS
9 1 (2.22%) .NET Core
9 1 (2.22%) .NET Framework
9 1 (2.22%) Elastic Stack
9 1 (2.22%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 23 (51.11%) Cloud Native
2 11 (24.44%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (11.11%) AI Agents
4 4 (8.89%) Security Posture
5 3 (6.67%) Management Information System
5 3 (6.67%) Product Ownership
6 2 (4.44%) Cloud Security Posture
6 2 (4.44%) Educational Technology
6 2 (4.44%) NHS
6 2 (4.44%) Onboarding
6 2 (4.44%) Virtual Team
7 1 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (2.22%) Data Structures
7 1 (2.22%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (2.22%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (11.11%) Linux
2 4 (8.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (8.89%) Windows
3 1 (2.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (77.78%) CI/CD
2 28 (62.22%) Infrastructure as Code
3 24 (53.33%) DevOps
4 16 (35.56%) Analytics
4 16 (35.56%) Observability
5 15 (33.33%) Agile
6 14 (31.11%) Event-Driven
6 14 (31.11%) Software Engineering
7 13 (28.89%) Test Automation
8 10 (22.22%) AI
8 10 (22.22%) Migration
9 9 (20.00%) Cloud Security
9 9 (20.00%) ETL
9 9 (20.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 9 (20.00%) Microservices
10 8 (17.78%) Machine Learning
10 8 (17.78%) Technical Leadership
11 7 (15.56%) Business Intelligence
11 7 (15.56%) Cost Optimisation
11 7 (15.56%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 19 (42.22%) Java
2 14 (31.11%) SQL
3 9 (20.00%) Python
3 9 (20.00%) TypeScript
4 4 (8.89%) Bash
4 4 (8.89%) Bicep
4 4 (8.89%) PowerShell
5 2 (4.44%) JavaScript
5 2 (4.44%) Kotlin
6 1 (2.22%) C#
6 1 (2.22%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (17.78%) Security Cleared
2 6 (13.33%) AWS Certification
3 4 (8.89%) Azure Certification
3 4 (8.89%) SC Cleared
4 3 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (6.67%) CISSP
4 3 (6.67%) Degree
4 3 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.22%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 1 (2.22%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (22.22%) Data Quality
2 5 (11.11%) QA
3 3 (6.67%) NCSC
4 2 (4.44%) Accessibility
System Software
1 15 (33.33%) Docker
2 4 (8.89%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (24.44%) Kubernetes
2 4 (8.89%) Progress Chef
3 2 (4.44%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.22%) Grafana
Vendors
1 5 (11.11%) Microsoft
1 5 (11.11%) OpenAI
2 4 (8.89%) Google
2 4 (8.89%) Red Hat
3 2 (4.44%) Informatica
4 1 (2.22%) Databricks
4 1 (2.22%) Oracle
4 1 (2.22%) Talend