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 25 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 96 99
Rank change year-on-year -29 +3 +34
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 40 27 30
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 1.21% 1.39% 1.13%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.89% 4.25% 3.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 23 22
10th Percentile £369 £360 £401
25th Percentile £400 £396 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £485 £493
Median % change year-on-year +8.25% -1.52% -9.43%
75th Percentile £588 £537 £532
90th Percentile £650 £615 £575
England median daily rate £525 £525 £510
% change year-on-year - +2.94% -11.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £66.10 - -
25th Percentile £71.75 - -
Median hourly rate £76.00 - -
75th Percentile £88.00 - -
90th Percentile £95.00 - -
England median hourly rate £75.50 £35.00 -
% change year-on-year +115.71% - -

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 1,028 635 844
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 31.14% 32.65% 31.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 666 483 610
10th Percentile £300 £263 £280
25th Percentile £400 £391 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -2.63% -5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £543 £575
90th Percentile £650 £638 £650
England median daily rate £513 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -1.44% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 18 64
10th Percentile £23.48 £12.82 £13.00
25th Percentile £28.50 £26.88 -
Median hourly rate £62.50 £34.67 £16.06
Median % change year-on-year +80.27% +115.88% -41.28%
75th Percentile £77.50 £58.13 £26.50
90th Percentile £95.00 £80.00 £63.18
England median hourly rate £39.50 £25.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +54.90% +19.33% -38.76%

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 25 May 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing AWS Lambda in the North West over the 6 months to 25 May 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 25 May 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 -12 37 £525 +5.00% 12
Cheshire -15 2 £352 -10.10% 3
Merseyside - 1 £575 - 2
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 (5.00%) Confluence
2 1 (2.50%) Camunda
2 1 (2.50%) CMS
2 1 (2.50%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 40 (100.00%) AWS
2 39 (97.50%) Serverless
3 21 (52.50%) Amazon S3
4 16 (40.00%) Amazon ECS
5 15 (37.50%) Amazon SQS
6 12 (30.00%) Amazon EC2
7 8 (20.00%) Amazon ECR
8 7 (17.50%) Amazon EKS
8 7 (17.50%) Amazon EventBridge
9 6 (15.00%) AWS Fargate
10 5 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 5 (12.50%) Amazon SageMaker
10 5 (12.50%) GitHub
10 5 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (10.00%) AWS Step Functions
11 4 (10.00%) Azure
12 3 (7.50%) Azure Machine Learning
12 3 (7.50%) GCP
12 3 (7.50%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.50%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (32.50%) DynamoDB
2 8 (20.00%) DocumentDB
3 7 (17.50%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (12.50%) Data Lake
5 3 (7.50%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (7.50%) BigQuery
5 3 (7.50%) NoSQL
6 2 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (5.00%) Pinecone
6 2 (5.00%) Redis
7 1 (2.50%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (2.50%) Metadata
7 1 (2.50%) Metadata Repository
7 1 (2.50%) Relational Database
7 1 (2.50%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (2.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (25.00%) Git
2 9 (22.50%) GitLab
3 3 (7.50%) Gradle
3 3 (7.50%) Jenkins
3 3 (7.50%) JIRA
3 3 (7.50%) Maven
4 2 (5.00%) Mocha
4 2 (5.00%) SonarQube
5 1 (2.50%) IntelliJ
5 1 (2.50%) JUnit
General
1 12 (30.00%) Public Sector
2 5 (12.50%) Finance
3 2 (5.00%) Retail
3 2 (5.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (2.50%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (30.00%) Developer
2 6 (15.00%) Senior
3 5 (12.50%) Software Developer
3 5 (12.50%) Software Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) Lead
4 4 (10.00%) Node.js Developer
5 3 (7.50%) Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (7.50%) Java Developer
5 3 (7.50%) Java Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Lead Developer
5 3 (7.50%) Lead Software Developer
5 3 (7.50%) Principal Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Architect
6 2 (5.00%) Java Software Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) JavaScript Developer
6 2 (5.00%) Senior Developer
6 2 (5.00%) Senior Software Developer
6 2 (5.00%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (32.50%) Spring
1 13 (32.50%) Spring Boot
2 12 (30.00%) React
3 11 (27.50%) Node.js
4 6 (15.00%) GraphQL
5 5 (12.50%) AngularJS
5 5 (12.50%) REST
6 4 (10.00%) PySpark
7 3 (7.50%) .NET
7 3 (7.50%) Jest
7 3 (7.50%) Spring Security
8 2 (5.00%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (5.00%) Faiss
8 2 (5.00%) LangChain
8 2 (5.00%) LangGraph
9 1 (2.50%) HTML
9 1 (2.50%) JPA
9 1 (2.50%) Lambda Expressions
9 1 (2.50%) Middleware
9 1 (2.50%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 17 (42.50%) Cloud Native
2 8 (20.00%) Product Ownership
3 5 (12.50%) AI Agents
4 4 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (10.00%) NHS
5 3 (7.50%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (2.50%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (2.50%) Educational Technology
7 1 (2.50%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (2.50%) Onboarding
7 1 (2.50%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 6 (15.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (62.50%) CI/CD
2 20 (50.00%) DevOps
3 14 (35.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 14 (35.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 14 (35.00%) Microservices
4 9 (22.50%) Machine Learning
5 8 (20.00%) Agile
6 7 (17.50%) Event-Driven
6 7 (17.50%) Software Engineering
6 7 (17.50%) Test Automation
7 6 (15.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 5 (12.50%) AI
8 5 (12.50%) Analytics
8 5 (12.50%) ETL
8 5 (12.50%) LLM
8 5 (12.50%) Mentoring
8 5 (12.50%) Micro Frontends
8 5 (12.50%) Migration
8 5 (12.50%) Observability
8 5 (12.50%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 14 (35.00%) Java
2 10 (25.00%) TypeScript
3 7 (17.50%) SQL
4 5 (12.50%) Python
5 3 (7.50%) C#
5 3 (7.50%) JavaScript
6 2 (5.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 4 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 4 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.00%) Degree
2 2 (5.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.50%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.50%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.50%) QA
System Software
1 17 (42.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (42.50%) Terraform
2 9 (22.50%) Kubernetes
3 2 (5.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 3 (7.50%) Databricks
1 3 (7.50%) OpenAI
2 2 (5.00%) Microsoft