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 14 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 107 103
Rank change year-on-year -11 -4 +36
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 42 19 35
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 1.41% 0.94% 1.23%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.26% 2.73% 3.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 16 23
10th Percentile £370 £357 £415
25th Percentile £400 £398 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £510
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -6.86% -6.42%
75th Percentile £575 £541 £575
90th Percentile £650 £600 £698
England median daily rate £503 £550 £510
% change year-on-year -8.64% +7.84% -13.92%
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 986 696 941
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 33.07% 34.27% 33.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 700 515 691
10th Percentile £219 £230 £280
25th Percentile £369 £391 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £480
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -1.04% -4.00%
75th Percentile £569 £575 £550
90th Percentile £638 £650 £638
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 16 74
10th Percentile £18.23 £22.61 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.38 £26.20 £16.06
Median hourly rate £57.50 £28.75 £17.39
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% +65.30% -67.17%
75th Percentile £76.00 £50.66 £26.50
90th Percentile £90.00 £76.88 £46.18
England median hourly rate £39.50 £26.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +49.06% +26.19% -16.00%

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 14 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 14 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 14 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 +4 38 £538 +10.26% 16
Cheshire -21 4 £379 +1.20% 3
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 3 (7.14%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (4.76%) Confluence
3 1 (2.38%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 42 (100.00%) AWS
1 42 (100.00%) Serverless
2 21 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
3 19 (45.24%) Amazon S3
4 16 (38.10%) Amazon SQS
5 14 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
6 13 (30.95%) Amazon EKS
7 9 (21.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 9 (21.43%) Amazon EventBridge
7 9 (21.43%) AWS CloudFormation
8 8 (19.05%) GitHub
8 8 (19.05%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (16.67%) AWS Fargate
10 6 (14.29%) Amazon ECR
10 6 (14.29%) Amazon MSK
11 3 (7.14%) Amazon Bedrock
11 3 (7.14%) Amazon SageMaker
12 2 (4.76%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 2 (4.76%) Datadog
12 2 (4.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.76%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (33.33%) DynamoDB
2 13 (30.95%) DocumentDB
3 10 (23.81%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (11.90%) Amazon Aurora
4 5 (11.90%) NoSQL
4 5 (11.90%) Redis
5 4 (9.52%) MongoDB
6 3 (7.14%) Data Lake
7 2 (4.76%) Pinecone
8 1 (2.38%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (2.38%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 14 (33.33%) Git
2 9 (21.43%) GitLab
3 7 (16.67%) Jenkins
4 5 (11.90%) SonarQube
5 4 (9.52%) JIRA
6 3 (7.14%) Gradle
6 3 (7.14%) Maven
7 2 (4.76%) Bitbucket
7 2 (4.76%) Mocha
7 2 (4.76%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 13 (30.95%) Public Sector
2 10 (23.81%) Finance
3 7 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 2 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.76%) Banking
5 1 (2.38%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (28.57%) Developer
2 8 (19.05%) Senior
2 8 (19.05%) Software Engineer
3 6 (14.29%) Lead
4 5 (11.90%) AWS Engineer
4 5 (11.90%) Node.js Developer
5 4 (9.52%) Cloud Engineer
5 4 (9.52%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 4 (9.52%) Senior Software Engineer
5 4 (9.52%) Software Developer
6 3 (7.14%) Data Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) Java Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) React Developer
7 2 (4.76%) Java Software Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) JavaScript Developer
7 2 (4.76%) Lead Software Developer
7 2 (4.76%) Product Owner
7 2 (4.76%) Senior Java Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (45.24%) Node.js
2 13 (30.95%) React
3 10 (23.81%) Spring
3 10 (23.81%) Spring Boot
4 9 (21.43%) REST
5 6 (14.29%) GraphQL
6 5 (11.90%) Kafka
7 4 (9.52%) .NET
7 4 (9.52%) AngularJS
8 3 (7.14%) NestJS
8 3 (7.14%) Spring Security
9 2 (4.76%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (4.76%) Faiss
9 2 (4.76%) Jest
9 2 (4.76%) LangChain
9 2 (4.76%) LangGraph
9 2 (4.76%) RESTful
10 1 (2.38%) ActiveMQ
10 1 (2.38%) Vue
10 1 (2.38%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 14 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 5 (11.90%) Product Ownership
3 3 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (4.76%) AI Agents
4 2 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (4.76%) NHS
5 1 (2.38%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (2.38%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.38%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 5 (11.90%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (57.14%) DevOps
1 24 (57.14%) Microservices
2 23 (54.76%) CI/CD
3 15 (35.71%) Agile
4 12 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
4 12 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
5 11 (26.19%) Software Engineering
6 8 (19.05%) Code Quality
6 8 (19.05%) Containerisation
6 8 (19.05%) Event-Driven
7 7 (16.67%) Machine Learning
8 6 (14.29%) TDD
9 5 (11.90%) AI
9 5 (11.90%) API Development
9 5 (11.90%) Data Pipeline
9 5 (11.90%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 5 (11.90%) Mentoring
9 5 (11.90%) Observability
9 5 (11.90%) Test Automation
10 4 (9.52%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 14 (33.33%) Java
2 12 (28.57%) Python
3 9 (21.43%) TypeScript
4 7 (16.67%) SQL
5 4 (9.52%) Ruby
6 3 (7.14%) JavaScript
6 3 (7.14%) PowerShell
7 2 (4.76%) Bash
7 2 (4.76%) Perl
8 1 (2.38%) Go
Qualifications
1 7 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (7.14%) Security Cleared
3 2 (4.76%) AWS Certification
3 2 (4.76%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.38%) Degree
4 1 (2.38%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.38%) Accessibility
1 1 (2.38%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (2.38%) Data Quality
1 1 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (2.38%) NIST
1 1 (2.38%) PCI DSS
1 1 (2.38%) QA
System Software
1 20 (47.62%) Docker
2 2 (4.76%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 16 (38.10%) Terraform
2 13 (30.95%) Kubernetes
3 4 (9.52%) Grafana
3 4 (9.52%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (7.14%) Ping Identity
2 2 (4.76%) Databricks
2 2 (4.76%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.76%) Oracle