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

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 140 91 105
Rank change year-on-year -49 +14 +10
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 34 31 20
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.91% 1.41% 0.84%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.85% 4.52% 2.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 25 14
10th Percentile £360 £362 £366
25th Percentile £406 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £485 £418
Median % change year-on-year +6.70% +16.17% -27.39%
75th Percentile £641 £537 £510
90th Percentile £650 £605 £573
England median daily rate £525 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +3.96% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £71.00 - -
Median hourly rate £72.00 - -
75th Percentile £73.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
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 1,191 686 754
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 31.78% 31.24% 31.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 761 506 515
10th Percentile £255 £313 £300
25th Percentile £400 £391 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £455 £475
Median % change year-on-year +9.95% -4.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £613 £538 £575
90th Percentile £688 £638 £650
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 23 38
10th Percentile £18.85 £12.82 £13.00
25th Percentile £25.38 £22.87 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £40.59 £16.06
Median % change year-on-year +35.50% +152.74% -40.96%
75th Percentile £76.00 £56.25 £31.38
90th Percentile £95.00 £75.50 £71.61
England median hourly rate £37.24 £25.58 £23.80
% change year-on-year +45.61% +7.46% -27.88%

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 3 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 3 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 -43 27 £525 +5.00% 11
Cheshire -6 5 £390 -8.56%
Merseyside - 2 £538 - 1
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 (5.88%) CMS
1 2 (5.88%) Confluence
2 1 (2.94%) Camunda
2 1 (2.94%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 34 (100.00%) AWS
2 33 (97.06%) Serverless
3 20 (58.82%) Amazon ECS
4 14 (41.18%) Amazon SQS
5 13 (38.24%) Amazon EKS
5 13 (38.24%) Amazon S3
6 9 (26.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 9 (26.47%) Azure
7 8 (23.53%) GCP
8 7 (20.59%) Amazon SageMaker
8 7 (20.59%) AWS CloudFormation
8 7 (20.59%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 6 (17.65%) Amazon EC2
9 6 (17.65%) Amazon EventBridge
10 5 (14.71%) Azure AKS
10 5 (14.71%) Azure Machine Learning
10 5 (14.71%) Vertex AI
11 4 (11.76%) Amazon ECR
12 3 (8.82%) AWS Step Functions
12 3 (8.82%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.88%) Firewall
1 2 (5.88%) Network Security
2 1 (2.94%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (41.18%) DynamoDB
2 7 (20.59%) Data Lake
2 7 (20.59%) NoSQL
3 5 (14.71%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (14.71%) BigQuery
4 4 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (8.82%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (8.82%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (8.82%) MySQL
6 2 (5.88%) DocumentDB
6 2 (5.88%) Pinecone
6 2 (5.88%) SQL Server
7 1 (2.94%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (2.94%) Big Data
7 1 (2.94%) Metadata
7 1 (2.94%) Metadata Repository
7 1 (2.94%) Relational Database
7 1 (2.94%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (2.94%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 5 (14.71%) Git
1 5 (14.71%) GitLab
2 4 (11.76%) JUnit
3 3 (8.82%) JIRA
3 3 (8.82%) Mockito
4 1 (2.94%) IntelliJ
4 1 (2.94%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (14.71%) Finance
2 3 (8.82%) Retail
3 2 (5.88%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (5.88%) Public Sector
3 2 (5.88%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (23.53%) AWS Engineer
2 7 (20.59%) Software Engineer
3 5 (14.71%) AWS Software Engineer
3 5 (14.71%) Cloud Engineer
4 4 (11.76%) Architect
4 4 (11.76%) Java Engineer
4 4 (11.76%) Java Software Engineer
4 4 (11.76%) Senior
5 3 (8.82%) Developer
5 3 (8.82%) Lead
5 3 (8.82%) Principal Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Cloud Software Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Data Architect
6 2 (5.88%) Data Migration Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Migration Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Product Owner
6 2 (5.88%) Scrum Master
6 2 (5.88%) Security Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Senior Software Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (26.47%) Spring
1 9 (26.47%) Spring Boot
2 6 (17.65%) PySpark
3 5 (14.71%) Kafka
3 5 (14.71%) Langfuse
3 5 (14.71%) React
4 4 (11.76%) .NET
4 4 (11.76%) REST
5 3 (8.82%) Node.js
5 3 (8.82%) RESTful
5 3 (8.82%) Spring MVC
5 3 (8.82%) Spring Security
6 2 (5.88%) ARM Templates
6 2 (5.88%) Azure Blueprints
6 2 (5.88%) Faiss
6 2 (5.88%) LangChain
6 2 (5.88%) LangGraph
7 1 (2.94%) .NET Core
7 1 (2.94%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (2.94%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 17 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 8 (23.53%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (20.59%) AI Agents
4 6 (17.65%) Product Ownership
5 3 (8.82%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (5.88%) Educational Technology
6 2 (5.88%) NHS
6 2 (5.88%) Security Posture
7 1 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (2.94%) Data Structures
7 1 (2.94%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (2.94%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (2.94%) Management Information System
7 1 (2.94%) PMI
7 1 (2.94%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (14.71%) Linux
2 2 (5.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (5.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (70.59%) CI/CD
2 18 (52.94%) DevOps
3 16 (47.06%) Infrastructure as Code
4 12 (35.29%) Microservices
5 11 (32.35%) Event-Driven
6 10 (29.41%) Agile
6 10 (29.41%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 10 (29.41%) Observability
7 9 (26.47%) Analytics
7 9 (26.47%) Software Engineering
8 8 (23.53%) Migration
9 7 (20.59%) AI
9 7 (20.59%) Generative AI
9 7 (20.59%) LLM
9 7 (20.59%) Machine Learning
9 7 (20.59%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
9 7 (20.59%) Test Automation
10 6 (17.65%) Business Intelligence
10 6 (17.65%) Data Modelling
10 6 (17.65%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 13 (38.24%) SQL
2 11 (32.35%) Java
3 5 (14.71%) Python
3 5 (14.71%) TypeScript
4 3 (8.82%) C#
5 2 (5.88%) Bash
5 2 (5.88%) Bicep
5 2 (5.88%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (11.76%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.88%) AWS Certification
2 2 (5.88%) Azure Certification
2 2 (5.88%) Degree
3 1 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.94%) CISSP
3 1 (2.94%) DV Cleared
3 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.94%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (20.59%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.88%) Accessibility
2 2 (5.88%) QA
3 1 (2.94%) NCSC
System Software
1 14 (41.18%) Docker
2 2 (5.88%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 19 (55.88%) Terraform
2 7 (20.59%) Kubernetes
3 2 (5.88%) Progress Chef
4 1 (2.94%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (14.71%) OpenAI
2 4 (11.76%) Databricks
2 4 (11.76%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.88%) Google
3 2 (5.88%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.94%) Informatica
4 1 (2.94%) Talend