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 29 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 137 91 93
Rank change year-on-year -46 +2 +14
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 42 38 27
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 1.08% 1.77% 1.14%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.52% 5.24% 3.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 30 15
10th Percentile £408 £360 £367
25th Percentile £425 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £475 £444
Median % change year-on-year +8.95% +6.98% -22.78%
75th Percentile £617 £537 £510
90th Percentile £650 £583 £620
England median daily rate £514 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +2.75% -9.09% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £71.00 - -
Median hourly rate £72.66 - -
75th Percentile £77.00 - -
90th Percentile £78.05 - -
England median hourly rate £72.33 £45.00 -
% change year-on-year +60.73% - -

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 1,194 725 714
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 30.63% 33.74% 30.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 754 551 449
10th Percentile £230 £313 £313
25th Percentile £402 £375 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £488
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £612 £537 £575
90th Percentile £694 £638 £651
England median daily rate £525 £501 £532
% change year-on-year +4.90% -5.83% -3.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 25 12
10th Percentile £18.02 £12.82 £17.44
25th Percentile £28.50 £15.50 £26.49
Median hourly rate £55.00 £18.87 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +191.47% -59.14% +16.62%
75th Percentile £76.00 £52.50 £70.19
90th Percentile £77.00 £69.77 £74.20
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £34.47
% change year-on-year +29.22% -27.03% +4.44%

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 29 September 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 29 September 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 -27 32 £505 +6.32% 31
Cheshire 0 7 £622 +42.90% 2
Merseyside - 2 £538 - 2
Lancashire -20 1 - - 3
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 (4.76%) CMS
1 2 (4.76%) Confluence
2 1 (2.38%) Jupyter
2 1 (2.38%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 42 (100.00%) AWS
1 42 (100.00%) Serverless
2 23 (54.76%) Amazon ECS
3 18 (42.86%) Amazon S3
4 14 (33.33%) Amazon SQS
5 13 (30.95%) Amazon EKS
6 12 (28.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 12 (28.57%) Azure
7 11 (26.19%) AWS CloudFormation
8 10 (23.81%) GCP
9 9 (21.43%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 5 (11.90%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (11.90%) Amazon SageMaker
10 5 (11.90%) Azure AKS
10 5 (11.90%) Azure Machine Learning
10 5 (11.90%) Vertex AI
11 4 (9.52%) AWS Fargate
11 4 (9.52%) AWS KMS
11 4 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (9.52%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.52%) Firewall
1 4 (9.52%) Network Security
2 1 (2.38%) DNS
2 1 (2.38%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (30.95%) DynamoDB
2 7 (16.67%) Data Lake
3 6 (14.29%) NoSQL
4 5 (11.90%) BigQuery
5 4 (9.52%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (9.52%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (9.52%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (7.14%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (7.14%) Metadata
6 3 (7.14%) MySQL
7 2 (4.76%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (4.76%) Big Data
7 2 (4.76%) DocumentDB
8 1 (2.38%) Metadata Repository
8 1 (2.38%) Oracle Database
8 1 (2.38%) Power BI
8 1 (2.38%) PowerCenter
8 1 (2.38%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (2.38%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (16.67%) GitLab
2 5 (11.90%) Git
3 3 (7.14%) JUnit
3 3 (7.14%) Mockito
4 2 (4.76%) Cypress.io
4 2 (4.76%) JIRA
5 1 (2.38%) git-flow
General
1 8 (19.05%) Finance
1 8 (19.05%) Social Skills
2 3 (7.14%) Public Sector
2 3 (7.14%) Retail
3 2 (4.76%) iGaming
3 2 (4.76%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (28.57%) AWS Engineer
2 10 (23.81%) Java Engineer
2 10 (23.81%) Software Engineer
3 8 (19.05%) Senior
4 7 (16.67%) AWS Software Engineer
4 7 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
4 7 (16.67%) Java Software Engineer
5 4 (9.52%) Architect
5 4 (9.52%) Cloud Security Engineer
5 4 (9.52%) Data Engineer
5 4 (9.52%) Security Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) Lead
7 2 (4.76%) Data Architect
7 2 (4.76%) Data Migration Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Developer
7 2 (4.76%) Migration Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Principal Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Senior Java Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Senior Software Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (57.14%) Terraform
2 12 (28.57%) Spring
2 12 (28.57%) Spring Boot
3 9 (21.43%) PySpark
4 8 (19.05%) REST
5 6 (14.29%) Kafka
6 5 (11.90%) Langfuse
6 5 (11.90%) React
7 4 (9.52%) ARM Templates
7 4 (9.52%) Azure Blueprints
8 3 (7.14%) .NET
8 3 (7.14%) Node.js
8 3 (7.14%) RESTful
8 3 (7.14%) Spring MVC
8 3 (7.14%) Spring Security
9 2 (4.76%) AngularJS
10 1 (2.38%) .NET Core
10 1 (2.38%) .NET Framework
10 1 (2.38%) Elastic Stack
10 1 (2.38%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 20 (47.62%) Cloud Native
2 10 (23.81%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (11.90%) AI Agents
4 4 (9.52%) Security Posture
5 3 (7.14%) Management Information System
5 3 (7.14%) Product Ownership
6 2 (4.76%) Cloud Security Posture
6 2 (4.76%) Educational Technology
6 2 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (4.76%) NHS
6 2 (4.76%) Virtual Team
7 1 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (2.38%) Data Structures
7 1 (2.38%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (2.38%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (2.38%) Onboarding
7 1 (2.38%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (14.29%) Linux
2 4 (9.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (9.52%) Windows
3 1 (2.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (76.19%) CI/CD
2 24 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
3 21 (50.00%) DevOps
4 15 (35.71%) Observability
5 14 (33.33%) Analytics
6 13 (30.95%) Agile
6 13 (30.95%) Event-Driven
6 13 (30.95%) Software Engineering
7 10 (23.81%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 10 (23.81%) Migration
7 10 (23.81%) Test Automation
8 9 (21.43%) Cloud Security
8 9 (21.43%) ETL
8 9 (21.43%) Microservices
9 8 (19.05%) AI
9 8 (19.05%) Data Modelling
10 7 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
10 7 (16.67%) Configuration Management
10 7 (16.67%) Cost Optimisation
10 7 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 18 (42.86%) Java
2 15 (35.71%) SQL
3 10 (23.81%) Python
4 8 (19.05%) TypeScript
5 4 (9.52%) Bash
5 4 (9.52%) Bicep
5 4 (9.52%) PowerShell
6 2 (4.76%) C#
6 2 (4.76%) JavaScript
6 2 (4.76%) Kotlin
7 1 (2.38%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 5 (11.90%) AWS Certification
3 4 (9.52%) Azure Certification
4 3 (7.14%) CISSP
4 3 (7.14%) Degree
4 3 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (4.76%) SC Cleared
6 1 (2.38%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 1 (2.38%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (23.81%) Data Quality
2 4 (9.52%) QA
3 2 (4.76%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.38%) NCSC
System Software
1 15 (35.71%) Docker
2 4 (9.52%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (23.81%) Kubernetes
2 4 (9.52%) Progress Chef
3 2 (4.76%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.38%) Grafana
Vendors
1 5 (11.90%) Microsoft
1 5 (11.90%) OpenAI
2 4 (9.52%) Google
2 4 (9.52%) Red Hat
3 2 (4.76%) Databricks
3 2 (4.76%) Informatica
4 1 (2.38%) Oracle
4 1 (2.38%) Talend