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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 96 102
Rank change year-on-year +2 +6 +32
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 37 27 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.72% 1.13% 1.40%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.18% 3.78% 3.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 15 31
10th Percentile £376 £367 £425
25th Percentile £400 £388 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £444 £550
Median % change year-on-year +9.23% -19.27% +4.76%
75th Percentile £538 £510 £688
90th Percentile £584 £625 £738
England median daily rate £500 £536 £525
% change year-on-year -6.76% +2.14% -12.50%

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 714 715 1,034
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 33.19% 29.85% 36.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 541 459 767
10th Percentile £313 £300 £265
25th Percentile £378 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £535 £575 £575
90th Percentile £638 £656 £663
England median daily rate £501 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -5.57% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 14 57
10th Percentile £12.82 £13.63 £15.75
25th Percentile £14.75 £18.08 £18.50
Median hourly rate £18.87 £41.09 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -54.08% +17.40% +29.88%
75th Percentile £62.22 £66.81 £46.18
90th Percentile £73.52 £73.60 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £33.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -23.79% - +53.49%

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
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 21 September 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 21 September 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 +11 29 £488 +2.63% 17
Cheshire -28 6 £485 +14.93% 1
Lancashire - 1 - - 8
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 4 (10.81%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (5.41%) Confluence
3 1 (2.70%) Apache
3 1 (2.70%) CMS
3 1 (2.70%) Headless CMS
3 1 (2.70%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 37 (100.00%) Serverless
2 36 (97.30%) AWS
3 14 (37.84%) Amazon SQS
3 14 (37.84%) GitHub
4 13 (35.14%) Amazon ECS
5 12 (32.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 12 (32.43%) Amazon S3
6 10 (27.03%) Amazon EC2
7 9 (24.32%) Amazon EventBridge
7 9 (24.32%) Azure
8 8 (21.62%) AWS Step Functions
9 7 (18.92%) Amazon EMR
9 7 (18.92%) AWS Fargate
9 7 (18.92%) GCP
9 7 (18.92%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (16.22%) Apigee
10 6 (16.22%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (16.22%) Datadog
11 5 (13.51%) Loggly
11 5 (13.51%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.70%) DNS
1 1 (2.70%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (45.95%) DynamoDB
2 13 (35.14%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (27.03%) Amazon Aurora
3 10 (27.03%) NoSQL
4 8 (21.62%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (16.22%) MySQL
5 6 (16.22%) Redis
5 6 (16.22%) Relational Database
6 5 (13.51%) Amazon Redshift
6 5 (13.51%) BigQuery
6 5 (13.51%) RDBMS
7 2 (5.41%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (5.41%) DocumentDB
7 2 (5.41%) MongoDB
8 1 (2.70%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (2.70%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 13 (35.14%) Jenkins
2 9 (24.32%) Git
3 8 (21.62%) SonarQube
4 6 (16.22%) JIRA
5 5 (13.51%) Gradle
5 5 (13.51%) Maven
5 5 (13.51%) SonarLint
6 3 (8.11%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (5.41%) GitLab
7 2 (5.41%) Selenium
8 1 (2.70%) Appium
8 1 (2.70%) Cypress.io
8 1 (2.70%) MLflow
8 1 (2.70%) Postman
8 1 (2.70%) WebDriver
General
1 15 (40.54%) Social Skills
2 6 (16.22%) Public Sector
3 2 (5.41%) Finance
3 2 (5.41%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (2.70%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.70%) Aviation
4 1 (2.70%) Banking
4 1 (2.70%) Digital Healthcare
4 1 (2.70%) Legal
4 1 (2.70%) Military
Job Titles
1 11 (29.73%) Architect
2 9 (24.32%) Java Architect
3 8 (21.62%) AWS Engineer
4 7 (18.92%) Developer
4 7 (18.92%) Java Technical Architect
4 7 (18.92%) Technical Architect
5 5 (13.51%) Lead
5 5 (13.51%) Software Engineer
6 4 (10.81%) AWS DevOps
6 4 (10.81%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 4 (10.81%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (10.81%) Senior
6 4 (10.81%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (8.11%) AWS Architect
7 3 (8.11%) AWS Solution Architect
7 3 (8.11%) Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (8.11%) Senior Developer
8 2 (5.41%) Cloud Solutions Architect
8 2 (5.41%) Data Engineer
8 2 (5.41%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (29.73%) RESTful
2 10 (27.03%) Kafka
2 10 (27.03%) React
3 7 (18.92%) JWT
4 6 (16.22%) GraphQL
4 6 (16.22%) REST
4 6 (16.22%) Spring Boot
5 5 (13.51%) Dropwizard
5 5 (13.51%) J2EE
5 5 (13.51%) Micronaut
5 5 (13.51%) Node.js
6 4 (10.81%) Celery
6 4 (10.81%) Next.js
7 3 (8.11%) ActiveMQ
7 3 (8.11%) Express.js
7 3 (8.11%) Jest
7 3 (8.11%) OAuth
7 3 (8.11%) OAuth2
8 2 (5.41%) .NET
8 2 (5.41%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (29.73%) Cloud Native
2 7 (18.92%) Product Ownership
3 5 (13.51%) N-Tier
4 4 (10.81%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (8.11%) Public Cloud
6 1 (2.70%) Algorithms
6 1 (2.70%) Blockchain
6 1 (2.70%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (2.70%) Private Cloud
6 1 (2.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.70%) Linux
1 1 (2.70%) Windows
1 1 (2.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (64.86%) CI/CD
2 18 (48.65%) Agile
3 17 (45.95%) Microservices
4 15 (40.54%) Containerisation
4 15 (40.54%) DevOps
5 13 (35.14%) Event-Driven
6 12 (32.43%) Artificial Intelligence
6 12 (32.43%) Mentoring
6 12 (32.43%) Stakeholder Management
7 11 (29.73%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (27.03%) Clean Code
8 10 (27.03%) TDD
9 9 (24.32%) Design Patterns
10 8 (21.62%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 8 (21.62%) Software Engineering
11 7 (18.92%) Full-Stack Development
11 7 (18.92%) OOP
11 7 (18.92%) SDLC
11 7 (18.92%) SOLID
11 7 (18.92%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 19 (51.35%) Python
2 14 (37.84%) Java
3 8 (21.62%) SQL
4 6 (16.22%) TypeScript
5 4 (10.81%) JavaScript
6 2 (5.41%) Bash
7 1 (2.70%) Ruby
7 1 (2.70%) Scala
7 1 (2.70%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 5 (13.51%) Security Cleared
2 4 (10.81%) AWS Certification
3 3 (8.11%) SC Cleared
4 2 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (5.41%) Degree
5 1 (2.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.70%) DBS Check
5 1 (2.70%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.70%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (2.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.70%) Accessibility
1 1 (2.70%) GDPR
1 1 (2.70%) QA
System Software
1 25 (67.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (48.65%) Terraform
2 15 (40.54%) Kubernetes
3 3 (8.11%) Progress Chef
4 2 (5.41%) Ansible
4 2 (5.41%) Control-M
4 2 (5.41%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.70%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (2.70%) Grafana
5 1 (2.70%) Puppet
5 1 (2.70%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (16.22%) Gigya
2 2 (5.41%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.41%) Oracle
3 1 (2.70%) Atlassian
3 1 (2.70%) Dynatrace
3 1 (2.70%) MuleSoft
3 1 (2.70%) Pega
3 1 (2.70%) Red Hat
3 1 (2.70%) VMware