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

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 126 96 106
Rank change year-on-year -30 +10 +31
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 39 27 32
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 1.21% 1.38% 1.19%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.78% 4.29% 3.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 23 24
10th Percentile £372 £360 £402
25th Percentile £400 £396 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £475 £510
Median % change year-on-year +8.95% -6.86% -5.34%
75th Percentile £622 £537 £541
90th Percentile £650 £570 £584
England median daily rate £519 £537 £510
% change year-on-year -3.44% +5.29% -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 1,031 629 858
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 32.06% 32.14% 32.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 687 485 622
10th Percentile £255 £238 £284
25th Percentile £381 £393 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £480
Median % change year-on-year - -1.04% -4.00%
75th Percentile £586 £550 £575
90th Percentile £650 £638 £638
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 14 65
10th Percentile £25.38 £17.04 £13.00
25th Percentile £27.81 £26.88 -
Median hourly rate £65.75 £34.67 £16.06
Median % change year-on-year +89.65% +115.88% -56.94%
75th Percentile £77.50 £58.13 £26.50
90th Percentile £95.00 £75.13 £60.40
England median hourly rate £45.50 £25.98 £21.00
% change year-on-year +75.17% +23.69% -35.19%

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 -15 37 £525 +7.69% 18
Cheshire -15 2 £352 -10.10% 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%) Confluence
2 1 (2.56%) Camunda
2 1 (2.56%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 39 (100.00%) AWS
2 38 (97.44%) Serverless
3 19 (48.72%) Amazon S3
4 17 (43.59%) Amazon ECS
5 16 (41.03%) Amazon SQS
6 12 (30.77%) Amazon EC2
7 8 (20.51%) Amazon ECR
7 8 (20.51%) Amazon EKS
8 7 (17.95%) Amazon EventBridge
9 6 (15.38%) AWS Fargate
10 5 (12.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 5 (12.82%) GitHub
10 5 (12.82%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (10.26%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (7.69%) Amazon SageMaker
12 3 (7.69%) AWS Step Functions
13 2 (5.13%) Amazon Bedrock
13 2 (5.13%) Amazon EMR
13 2 (5.13%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 2 (5.13%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.56%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (30.77%) DynamoDB
2 10 (25.64%) DocumentDB
3 7 (17.95%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (10.26%) Redis
5 3 (7.69%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (7.69%) Data Lake
5 3 (7.69%) NoSQL
6 2 (5.13%) Pinecone
7 1 (2.56%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (2.56%) BigQuery
7 1 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (2.56%) Metadata
7 1 (2.56%) Metadata Repository
7 1 (2.56%) Relational Database
7 1 (2.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (30.77%) Git
2 9 (23.08%) GitLab
3 4 (10.26%) SonarQube
4 3 (7.69%) Gradle
4 3 (7.69%) Jenkins
4 3 (7.69%) JIRA
4 3 (7.69%) Maven
5 2 (5.13%) Mocha
6 1 (2.56%) IntelliJ
6 1 (2.56%) JUnit
General
1 14 (35.90%) Public Sector
2 5 (12.82%) Finance
3 2 (5.13%) Retail
4 1 (2.56%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.56%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (35.90%) Developer
2 5 (12.82%) AWS Engineer
2 5 (12.82%) Senior
2 5 (12.82%) Software Developer
2 5 (12.82%) Software Engineer
3 4 (10.26%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 4 (10.26%) Node.js Developer
4 3 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
4 3 (7.69%) Full-Stack Developer
4 3 (7.69%) Java Developer
4 3 (7.69%) Java Engineer
4 3 (7.69%) Lead
4 3 (7.69%) Lead Developer
4 3 (7.69%) Lead Software Developer
4 3 (7.69%) Principal Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) Angular Developer
5 2 (5.13%) AWS Developer
5 2 (5.13%) React Developer
5 2 (5.13%) Senior Software Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (35.90%) Node.js
2 13 (33.33%) React
2 13 (33.33%) Spring
2 13 (33.33%) Spring Boot
3 6 (15.38%) GraphQL
3 6 (15.38%) REST
4 5 (12.82%) AngularJS
5 3 (7.69%) .NET
5 3 (7.69%) Jest
5 3 (7.69%) Spring Security
6 2 (5.13%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (5.13%) Faiss
6 2 (5.13%) LangChain
6 2 (5.13%) LangGraph
6 2 (5.13%) PySpark
7 1 (2.56%) HTML
7 1 (2.56%) Lambda Expressions
7 1 (2.56%) NestJS
7 1 (2.56%) Vue
7 1 (2.56%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 17 (43.59%) Cloud Native
2 8 (20.51%) Product Ownership
3 4 (10.26%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (10.26%) NHS
4 3 (7.69%) AI Agents
4 3 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (5.13%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.56%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (2.56%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (2.56%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.56%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 6 (15.38%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (58.97%) CI/CD
2 18 (46.15%) DevOps
3 17 (43.59%) Microservices
4 13 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
5 12 (30.77%) Infrastructure as Code
6 8 (20.51%) Agile
7 7 (17.95%) Machine Learning
7 7 (17.95%) Test Automation
8 6 (15.38%) Event-Driven
8 6 (15.38%) Software Engineering
9 5 (12.82%) Code Quality
9 5 (12.82%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 5 (12.82%) Micro Frontends
10 4 (10.26%) Mentoring
10 4 (10.26%) Migration
10 4 (10.26%) Performance Tuning
10 4 (10.26%) Secure Coding
11 3 (7.69%) API Development
11 3 (7.69%) Observability
11 3 (7.69%) SFIA
Programming Languages
1 14 (35.90%) Java
2 9 (23.08%) TypeScript
3 4 (10.26%) Python
3 4 (10.26%) SQL
4 3 (7.69%) C#
4 3 (7.69%) JavaScript
5 2 (5.13%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 6 (15.38%) BPSS Clearance
2 4 (10.26%) Security Cleared
3 2 (5.13%) Degree
3 2 (5.13%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.56%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.13%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.56%) QA
System Software
1 17 (43.59%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (38.46%) Terraform
2 9 (23.08%) Kubernetes
3 2 (5.13%) Grafana
Vendors
1 3 (7.69%) Databricks
2 2 (5.13%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.56%) OpenAI
3 1 (2.56%) Ping Identity