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 4 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 104 106
Rank change year-on-year -10 +2 +30
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 45 17 33
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 1.58% 0.82% 1.18%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.68% 2.43% 3.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 14 23
10th Percentile £361 £394 £415
25th Percentile £400 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £483 £510
Median % change year-on-year +8.81% -5.39% -7.27%
75th Percentile £575 £548 £575
90th Percentile £650 £610 £698
England median daily rate £513 £550 £513
% change year-on-year -6.82% +7.32% -14.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £65.63 - -
25th Percentile £73.38 - -
Median hourly rate £78.50 - -
75th Percentile £91.50 - -
90th Percentile £95.00 - -
England median hourly rate £78.50 - -

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 961 700 971
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 33.72% 33.91% 34.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 687 504 700
10th Percentile £220 £241 £268
25th Percentile £359 £400 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £487
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -2.46% -2.60%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £550
90th Percentile £632 £654 £650
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 10 79
10th Percentile £16.40 £21.05 £15.00
25th Percentile £23.54 £24.18 £16.06
Median hourly rate £62.50 £28.75 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +117.39% +64.29% -66.97%
75th Percentile £77.13 £30.63 £26.50
90th Percentile £90.50 £78.50 £71.87
England median hourly rate £40.00 £27.25 £21.37
% change year-on-year +46.79% +27.52% -14.52%

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 4 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Lambda in the North West

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 4 March 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 4 March 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 +9 42 £525 +5.00% 16
Cheshire -24 3 £368 -5.88% 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 5 (11.11%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (4.44%) Confluence
3 1 (2.22%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 45 (100.00%) AWS
1 45 (100.00%) Serverless
2 20 (44.44%) Amazon ECS
3 19 (42.22%) Amazon S3
4 18 (40.00%) Amazon SQS
5 14 (31.11%) Amazon EC2
6 12 (26.67%) Amazon EKS
7 10 (22.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 10 (22.22%) AWS CloudFormation
7 10 (22.22%) GitHub
7 10 (22.22%) GitHub Actions
8 9 (20.00%) Amazon EventBridge
9 7 (15.56%) AWS Fargate
10 6 (13.33%) Amazon ECR
10 6 (13.33%) Amazon MSK
11 4 (8.89%) AWS Step Functions
12 3 (6.67%) Amazon Bedrock
12 3 (6.67%) Amazon SageMaker
13 2 (4.44%) Datadog
13 2 (4.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.44%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (31.11%) DynamoDB
2 13 (28.89%) DocumentDB
3 10 (22.22%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (11.11%) Amazon Aurora
4 5 (11.11%) NoSQL
4 5 (11.11%) Redis
5 4 (8.89%) MongoDB
6 3 (6.67%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (6.67%) Data Lake
7 2 (4.44%) Pinecone
8 1 (2.22%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (2.22%) MySQL
8 1 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (2.22%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 14 (31.11%) Git
2 10 (22.22%) GitLab
3 7 (15.56%) Jenkins
4 6 (13.33%) SonarQube
5 5 (11.11%) JIRA
6 3 (6.67%) Gradle
6 3 (6.67%) Maven
7 2 (4.44%) Bitbucket
7 2 (4.44%) Mocha
7 2 (4.44%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (4.44%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 14 (31.11%) Public Sector
2 10 (22.22%) Finance
3 8 (17.78%) Social Skills
4 2 (4.44%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.44%) Banking
5 1 (2.22%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (26.67%) Developer
2 8 (17.78%) AWS Engineer
2 8 (17.78%) Senior
2 8 (17.78%) Software Engineer
3 6 (13.33%) Lead
4 5 (11.11%) Data Engineer
4 5 (11.11%) Node.js Developer
5 4 (8.89%) Cloud Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) Senior Software Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) Software Developer
6 3 (6.67%) AWS Data Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) AWS DevOps
6 3 (6.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) Java Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) React Developer
7 2 (4.44%) Lead Software Developer
7 2 (4.44%) Senior Java Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (42.22%) Node.js
2 14 (31.11%) React
3 9 (20.00%) REST
3 9 (20.00%) Spring
3 9 (20.00%) Spring Boot
4 6 (13.33%) GraphQL
4 6 (13.33%) Kafka
5 4 (8.89%) .NET
5 4 (8.89%) AngularJS
6 3 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (6.67%) NestJS
6 3 (6.67%) Spring Security
7 2 (4.44%) Faiss
7 2 (4.44%) Jest
7 2 (4.44%) LangChain
7 2 (4.44%) LangGraph
7 2 (4.44%) PySpark
7 2 (4.44%) pytest
7 2 (4.44%) RESTful
8 1 (2.22%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (28.89%) Cloud Native
2 5 (11.11%) Product Ownership
3 3 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (4.44%) AI Agents
4 2 (4.44%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (4.44%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (4.44%) NHS
5 1 (2.22%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (57.78%) CI/CD
2 25 (55.56%) DevOps
3 24 (53.33%) Microservices
4 16 (35.56%) Agile
5 15 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
6 12 (26.67%) Full-Stack Development
7 11 (24.44%) Software Engineering
8 9 (20.00%) Code Quality
8 9 (20.00%) Containerisation
9 8 (17.78%) Event-Driven
10 7 (15.56%) Data Pipeline
10 7 (15.56%) Machine Learning
10 7 (15.56%) Mentoring
11 6 (13.33%) Data Engineering
11 6 (13.33%) TDD
11 6 (13.33%) Test Automation
12 5 (11.11%) AI
12 5 (11.11%) API Development
12 5 (11.11%) Observability
12 5 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (33.33%) Python
2 13 (28.89%) Java
3 9 (20.00%) SQL
3 9 (20.00%) TypeScript
4 4 (8.89%) Ruby
5 3 (6.67%) Bash
5 3 (6.67%) JavaScript
5 3 (6.67%) PowerShell
6 2 (4.44%) Perl
7 1 (2.22%) Go
Qualifications
1 7 (15.56%) BPSS Clearance
2 4 (8.89%) Security Cleared
3 3 (6.67%) AWS Certification
3 3 (6.67%) SC Cleared
4 2 (4.44%) Degree
5 1 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.22%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.22%) Accessibility
1 1 (2.22%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (2.22%) Data Quality
1 1 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (2.22%) NIST
1 1 (2.22%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 22 (48.89%) Docker
2 2 (4.44%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 19 (42.22%) Terraform
2 14 (31.11%) Kubernetes
3 5 (11.11%) Prometheus
4 4 (8.89%) Grafana
5 2 (4.44%) Control-M
6 1 (2.22%) Ansible
6 1 (2.22%) Progress Chef
6 1 (2.22%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (8.89%) Oracle
2 3 (6.67%) Ping Identity
3 2 (4.44%) Databricks
4 1 (2.22%) Dynatrace
4 1 (2.22%) Microsoft