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 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 95 101
Rank change year-on-year -13 +6 +41
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 37 23 36
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 1.54% 0.98% 1.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.52% 3.18% 3.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 11 27
10th Percentile £360 £356 £435
25th Percentile £393 £368 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £575
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -30.43% +4.55%
75th Percentile £550 £510 £688
90th Percentile £600 £575 £715
England median daily rate £500 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -9.09% +2.33% -10.42%

All Cloud 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 818 723 1,017
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 34.05% 30.77% 37.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 626 451 765
10th Percentile £303 £303 £265
25th Percentile £363 £395 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £448 £489 £495
Median % change year-on-year -8.49% -1.21% -1.00%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £575
90th Percentile £638 £656 £650
England median daily rate £500 £535 £530
% change year-on-year -6.54% +0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 17 55
10th Percentile £13.66 £17.44 £15.85
25th Percentile £15.50 £21.05 £18.50
Median hourly rate £23.31 £36.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.26% +9.09% -49.23%
75th Percentile £67.75 £69.75 £46.18
90th Percentile £74.01 £75.70 £58.60
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £29.72
% change year-on-year -28.14% +17.77% +32.09%

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 5 November 2025.

Daily 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 5 November 2025. 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 +10 31 £500 +0.50% 34
Cheshire -24 4 £363 -9.25% 10
Lancashire - 1 - - 7
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 6 (16.22%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.70%) Apache
2 1 (2.70%) Confluence
2 1 (2.70%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 37 (100.00%) AWS
1 37 (100.00%) Serverless
2 18 (48.65%) Amazon ECS
2 18 (48.65%) Amazon SQS
3 17 (45.95%) GitHub
4 14 (37.84%) Amazon EC2
5 12 (32.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 12 (32.43%) Amazon EventBridge
6 11 (29.73%) Amazon S3
7 10 (27.03%) AWS CloudFormation
7 10 (27.03%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (21.62%) AWS Fargate
8 8 (21.62%) AWS Step Functions
9 7 (18.92%) Amazon EKS
9 7 (18.92%) Amazon EMR
9 7 (18.92%) Azure
9 7 (18.92%) GCP
10 6 (16.22%) Amazon MSK
10 6 (16.22%) Apigee
10 6 (16.22%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.41%) Firewall
2 1 (2.70%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (48.65%) DynamoDB
2 12 (32.43%) Amazon Aurora
2 12 (32.43%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (32.43%) NoSQL
2 12 (32.43%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (18.92%) Redis
4 6 (16.22%) MySQL
4 6 (16.22%) Relational Database
5 5 (13.51%) BigQuery
5 5 (13.51%) DocumentDB
5 5 (13.51%) RDBMS
6 4 (10.81%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (10.81%) MongoDB
7 2 (5.41%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (5.41%) Data Lake
8 1 (2.70%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (2.70%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 13 (35.14%) Jenkins
2 11 (29.73%) Git
3 8 (21.62%) SonarQube
4 7 (18.92%) JIRA
5 5 (13.51%) GitLab
5 5 (13.51%) Gradle
5 5 (13.51%) Maven
5 5 (13.51%) SonarLint
6 2 (5.41%) Bitbucket
6 2 (5.41%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (5.41%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (2.70%) Cypress.io
7 1 (2.70%) MLflow
General
1 15 (40.54%) Social Skills
2 7 (18.92%) Public Sector
3 5 (13.51%) Finance
4 2 (5.41%) Banking
5 1 (2.70%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.70%) Digital Healthcare
5 1 (2.70%) Military
Job Titles
1 11 (29.73%) AWS Engineer
2 8 (21.62%) Architect
3 7 (18.92%) Java Architect
3 7 (18.92%) Java Technical Architect
3 7 (18.92%) Technical Architect
4 6 (16.22%) Developer
4 6 (16.22%) Software Engineer
5 5 (13.51%) AWS DevOps
5 5 (13.51%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 5 (13.51%) DevOps Engineer
5 5 (13.51%) Lead
5 5 (13.51%) Senior
6 4 (10.81%) Data Engineer
7 3 (8.11%) AWS Data Engineer
8 2 (5.41%) Cloud Engineer
8 2 (5.41%) Full-Stack Developer
8 2 (5.41%) Python Engineer
8 2 (5.41%) Senior Developer
8 2 (5.41%) Senior JavaScript Developer
8 2 (5.41%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (24.32%) React
1 9 (24.32%) RESTful
2 8 (21.62%) Kafka
2 8 (21.62%) Node.js
3 7 (18.92%) JWT
4 6 (16.22%) Spring Boot
5 5 (13.51%) Dropwizard
5 5 (13.51%) GraphQL
5 5 (13.51%) J2EE
5 5 (13.51%) Micronaut
5 5 (13.51%) REST
6 4 (10.81%) .NET
6 4 (10.81%) Celery
7 3 (8.11%) Next.js
7 3 (8.11%) OAuth
7 3 (8.11%) OAuth2
8 2 (5.41%) Express.js
8 2 (5.41%) HTML
8 2 (5.41%) Jest
8 2 (5.41%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 12 (32.43%) Cloud Native
2 7 (18.92%) Product Ownership
3 5 (13.51%) N-Tier
4 3 (8.11%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (5.41%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (2.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (64.86%) CI/CD
2 20 (54.05%) Microservices
3 18 (48.65%) DevOps
4 17 (45.95%) Agile
5 14 (37.84%) Containerisation
6 13 (35.14%) Event-Driven
7 12 (32.43%) Mentoring
8 11 (29.73%) AI
8 11 (29.73%) Stakeholder Management
8 11 (29.73%) TDD
9 10 (27.03%) Clean Code
9 10 (27.03%) Design Patterns
9 10 (27.03%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 10 (27.03%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (24.32%) Software Engineering
11 8 (21.62%) Infrastructure as Code
12 7 (18.92%) OOP
12 7 (18.92%) SOLID
12 7 (18.92%) TOGAF
13 6 (16.22%) CQRS
Programming Languages
1 22 (59.46%) Python
2 13 (35.14%) Java
3 12 (32.43%) SQL
4 5 (13.51%) TypeScript
5 3 (8.11%) JavaScript
5 3 (8.11%) PowerShell
6 2 (5.41%) Perl
6 2 (5.41%) Ruby
7 1 (2.70%) Bash
7 1 (2.70%) Go
Qualifications
1 5 (13.51%) AWS Certification
1 5 (13.51%) Security Cleared
2 3 (8.11%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (5.41%) Degree
4 1 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.70%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.70%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.70%) Accessibility
1 1 (2.70%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (2.70%) GDPR
1 1 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (2.70%) NIST
1 1 (2.70%) PCI DSS
1 1 (2.70%) QA
System Software
1 26 (70.27%) Docker
2 2 (5.41%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 22 (59.46%) Terraform
2 16 (43.24%) Kubernetes
3 3 (8.11%) Prometheus
4 2 (5.41%) Control-M
4 2 (5.41%) Grafana
4 2 (5.41%) Progress Chef
5 1 (2.70%) Ansible
5 1 (2.70%) Puppet
5 1 (2.70%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (16.22%) Gigya
2 4 (10.81%) Oracle
3 2 (5.41%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.70%) Dynatrace
4 1 (2.70%) Pega