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 31 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 95 93
Rank change year-on-year -44 -2 +19
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 39 35 29
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.99% 1.58% 1.20%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.18% 4.91% 4.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 26 15
10th Percentile £381 £363 £367
25th Percentile £425 £389 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £480 £425
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% +12.94% -22.73%
75th Percentile £622 £537 £534
90th Percentile £650 £579 £625
England median daily rate £515 £500 £535
% change year-on-year +3.00% -6.54% +1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £71.00 - -
Median hourly rate £72.33 - -
75th Percentile £74.44 - -
90th Percentile £77.03 - -
England median hourly rate £72.00 £45.00 -
% change year-on-year +60.00% - -

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 1,227 713 722
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 31.16% 32.25% 29.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 785 530 494
10th Percentile £250 £313 £300
25th Percentile £400 £375 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £537 £575
90th Percentile £692 £630 £650
England median daily rate £525 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +4.48% -4.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 28 14
10th Percentile £18.65 £12.82 £13.63
25th Percentile £25.38 £18.50 £18.08
Median hourly rate £42.50 £40.83 £33.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.10% +21.87% +23.16%
75th Percentile £76.00 £67.25 £55.05
90th Percentile £81.38 £74.50 £70.98
England median hourly rate £34.13 £26.30 £30.00
% change year-on-year +29.75% -12.33% -9.09%

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 31 August 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 31 August 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 -33 28 £525 +7.69% 25
Cheshire 0 8 £429 +0.59% 3
Merseyside - 2 £538 - 2
Lancashire -9 1 - - 8
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 (5.13%) CMS
1 2 (5.13%) Confluence
2 1 (2.56%) Camunda
2 1 (2.56%) Jupyter
2 1 (2.56%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 39 (100.00%) AWS
2 38 (97.44%) Serverless
3 20 (51.28%) Amazon ECS
4 15 (38.46%) Amazon S3
5 14 (35.90%) Amazon SQS
6 12 (30.77%) Amazon EKS
7 11 (28.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 11 (28.21%) AWS CloudFormation
7 11 (28.21%) Azure
8 9 (23.08%) GCP
9 8 (20.51%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 6 (15.38%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (12.82%) Amazon SageMaker
11 5 (12.82%) Azure AKS
11 5 (12.82%) Azure Machine Learning
11 5 (12.82%) Vertex AI
12 4 (10.26%) Amazon EMR
12 4 (10.26%) Amazon EventBridge
12 4 (10.26%) GitHub
12 4 (10.26%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.69%) Firewall
1 3 (7.69%) Network Security
2 1 (2.56%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (38.46%) DynamoDB
2 7 (17.95%) Data Lake
2 7 (17.95%) NoSQL
3 5 (12.82%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (12.82%) BigQuery
4 4 (10.26%) Amazon Redshift
4 4 (10.26%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (10.26%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (7.69%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (7.69%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (7.69%) Metadata
5 3 (7.69%) MySQL
6 2 (5.13%) Big Data
6 2 (5.13%) DocumentDB
6 2 (5.13%) SQL Server
7 1 (2.56%) Metadata Repository
7 1 (2.56%) Power BI
7 1 (2.56%) PowerCenter
7 1 (2.56%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (2.56%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 7 (17.95%) GitLab
2 6 (15.38%) Git
3 4 (10.26%) JUnit
4 3 (7.69%) JIRA
4 3 (7.69%) Mockito
5 1 (2.56%) Cypress.io
5 1 (2.56%) IntelliJ
5 1 (2.56%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (15.38%) Finance
1 6 (15.38%) Social Skills
2 3 (7.69%) Public Sector
2 3 (7.69%) Retail
3 2 (5.13%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (28.21%) AWS Engineer
2 9 (23.08%) Software Engineer
3 7 (17.95%) Java Engineer
4 6 (15.38%) AWS Software Engineer
4 6 (15.38%) Cloud Engineer
4 6 (15.38%) Java Software Engineer
4 6 (15.38%) Senior
5 4 (10.26%) Architect
5 4 (10.26%) Data Engineer
6 3 (7.69%) Cloud Security Engineer
6 3 (7.69%) Developer
6 3 (7.69%) Lead
6 3 (7.69%) Principal Engineer
6 3 (7.69%) Security Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) AWS Architect
7 2 (5.13%) Cloud Software Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Data Architect
7 2 (5.13%) Data Migration Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Migration Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (61.54%) Terraform
2 11 (28.21%) Spring
2 11 (28.21%) Spring Boot
3 9 (23.08%) PySpark
4 6 (15.38%) REST
5 5 (12.82%) Kafka
5 5 (12.82%) Langfuse
5 5 (12.82%) React
6 4 (10.26%) .NET
7 3 (7.69%) ARM Templates
7 3 (7.69%) Azure Blueprints
7 3 (7.69%) Node.js
7 3 (7.69%) RESTful
7 3 (7.69%) Spring MVC
7 3 (7.69%) Spring Security
8 2 (5.13%) AngularJS
9 1 (2.56%) Elastic Stack
9 1 (2.56%) HTML5
9 1 (2.56%) Jest
9 1 (2.56%) MACH
Miscellaneous
1 20 (51.28%) Cloud Native
2 10 (25.64%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (12.82%) AI Agents
4 3 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (7.69%) Product Ownership
4 3 (7.69%) Security Posture
5 2 (5.13%) Educational Technology
5 2 (5.13%) Management Information System
5 2 (5.13%) NHS
6 1 (2.56%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.56%) Data Structures
6 1 (2.56%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (2.56%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (2.56%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.56%) PMI
6 1 (2.56%) Public Cloud
6 1 (2.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (15.38%) Linux
2 3 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (7.69%) Windows
3 1 (2.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (71.79%) CI/CD
2 20 (51.28%) DevOps
2 20 (51.28%) Infrastructure as Code
3 13 (33.33%) Agile
3 13 (33.33%) Analytics
4 12 (30.77%) Event-Driven
4 12 (30.77%) Microservices
5 11 (28.21%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 11 (28.21%) Observability
5 11 (28.21%) Software Engineering
6 10 (25.64%) Migration
7 9 (23.08%) ETL
7 9 (23.08%) Test Automation
8 8 (20.51%) AI
8 8 (20.51%) Data Modelling
9 7 (17.95%) Business Intelligence
9 7 (17.95%) Cloud Security
9 7 (17.95%) Technical Leadership
10 6 (15.38%) Cost Optimisation
10 6 (15.38%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 16 (41.03%) SQL
2 15 (38.46%) Java
3 9 (23.08%) Python
4 7 (17.95%) TypeScript
5 3 (7.69%) Bash
5 3 (7.69%) Bicep
5 3 (7.69%) C#
5 3 (7.69%) PowerShell
6 2 (5.13%) Kotlin
7 1 (2.56%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (12.82%) Security Cleared
2 4 (10.26%) AWS Certification
3 3 (7.69%) Azure Certification
3 3 (7.69%) Degree
4 2 (5.13%) CISSP
4 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.56%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 1 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.56%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.56%) PMI Certification
5 1 (2.56%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (25.64%) Data Quality
2 4 (10.26%) QA
3 2 (5.13%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.56%) NCSC
System Software
1 16 (41.03%) Docker
2 3 (7.69%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (23.08%) Kubernetes
2 3 (7.69%) Progress Chef
3 1 (2.56%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (12.82%) Microsoft
1 5 (12.82%) OpenAI
2 3 (7.69%) Google
2 3 (7.69%) Red Hat
3 2 (5.13%) Databricks
3 2 (5.13%) Informatica
4 1 (2.56%) Oracle
4 1 (2.56%) Talend