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 citing AWS Lambda skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 November 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.
| 6 months to 10 Nov 2026 |
Same period 2025 | Same period 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | 144 | 94 | 99 |
| Rank change year-on-year | -50 | +5 | +9 |
| Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda | 41 | 38 | 23 |
| As % of all contract jobs in the North West | 1.02% | 1.58% | 0.98% |
| As % of the Cloud Services category | 3.19% | 4.64% | 3.13% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 24 | 32 | 11 |
| 10th Percentile | £394 | £363 | £356 |
| 25th Percentile | £425 | £400 | £368 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | £513 | £488 | £400 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +5.13% | +21.88% | -30.43% |
| 75th Percentile | £617 | £575 | £510 |
| 90th Percentile | £694 | £599 | £575 |
| England median daily rate | £519 | £500 | £550 |
| % change year-on-year | +3.75% | -9.09% | +2.33% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| 10th Percentile | £71.66 | - | - |
| 25th Percentile | £72.66 | - | - |
| Median hourly rate | £75.00 | - | - |
| 75th Percentile | £77.00 | - | - |
| 90th Percentile | £78.05 | - | - |
| England median hourly rate | £75.00 | £50.00 | - |
| % change year-on-year | +50.00% | - | - |
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 citing cloud computing skills in the North West.
| 6 months to 10 Nov 2026 |
Same period 2025 | Same period 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Contract vacancies citing cloud computing skills | 1,286 | 819 | 735 |
| As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West | 31.84% | 34.08% | 31.20% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 844 | 626 | 463 |
| 10th Percentile | £264 | £303 | £308 |
| 25th Percentile | £400 | £367 | £400 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | £500 | £450 | £485 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +11.11% | -7.22% | -2.02% |
| 75th Percentile | £600 | £542 | £575 |
| 90th Percentile | £685 | £638 | £655 |
| England median daily rate | £525 | £500 | £535 |
| % change year-on-year | +5.00% | -6.54% | +1.90% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted | 81 | 36 | 16 |
| 10th Percentile | £19.50 | £15.00 | £17.44 |
| 25th Percentile | £28.50 | £16.25 | £21.05 |
| Median hourly rate | £60.00 | £23.31 | £30.00 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +157.46% | -22.32% | +5.99% |
| 75th Percentile | £75.00 | £67.75 | £49.14 |
| 90th Percentile | £77.00 | £74.01 | £73.63 |
| England median hourly rate | £35.00 | £25.15 | £35.00 |
| % change year-on-year | +39.17% | -28.14% | +22.33% |
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 Daily Rate Trend in the North West
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 10 November 2026.
AWS Lambda Hourly Rate Trend in the North West
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 10 November 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 |
Job Ads Past 6 Months |
Median Daily Rate Past 6 Months |
Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year |
Live Jobs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manchester | -53 | 28 | £525 | +5.00% | 39 |
| Cheshire | +5 | 7 | £622 | +68.91% | 2 |
| Cumbria | - | 3 | £395 | - | 3 |
| Merseyside | - | 2 | £538 | - | 3 |
| Lancashire | -17 | 1 | - | - | 5 |
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AWS Lambda Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West by Category
The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.
Cloud Services
| Rank | Skill | Share | Job Ads |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AWS | 100.0% | 41 |
| 1 | Serverless | 100.0% | 41 |
| 3 | Amazon ECS | 56.1% | 23 |
| 4 | Amazon S3 | 43.9% | 18 |
| 5 | Amazon EKS | 36.6% | 15 |
| 6 | Amazon CloudWatch | 34.1% | 14 |
| 7 | AWS CloudFormation | 31.7% | 13 |
| 8 | Azure | 24.4% | 10 |
| 9 | Amazon SQS | 22.0% | 9 |
| 9 | GCP | 22.0% | 9 |
| 11 | Google Kubernetes Engine | 19.5% | 8 |
| 12 | Amazon MSK | 9.8% | 4 |
| 12 | Amazon SageMaker | 9.8% | 4 |
| 12 | AWS CloudTrail | 9.8% | 4 |
| 12 | AWS Fargate | 9.8% | 4 |
| 12 | AWS KMS | 9.8% | 4 |
| 12 | AWS Step Functions | 9.8% | 4 |
| 12 | Azure AKS | 9.8% | 4 |
| 12 | Azure DevOps | 9.8% | 4 |
| 12 | Azure Machine Learning | 9.8% | 4 |