AWS Lambda Contracts in the North West

AWS Lambda
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring AWS Lambda skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited AWS Lambda over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 99 106 123
Rank change year-on-year +7 +17 +12
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 28 29 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.33% 1.05% 1.00%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.12% 3.28% 2.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 21 27
10th Percentile £361 £363 £465
25th Percentile £398 £405 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £510 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.43% -7.27% +4.76%
75th Percentile £537 £530 £688
90th Percentile £610 £575 £738
England median daily rate £525 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% -8.33%

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 680 883 1,143
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 32.24% 32.05% 36.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 516 625 858
10th Percentile £313 £283 £300
25th Percentile £392 £388 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £457 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.74% -5.00% -1.72%
75th Percentile £548 £575 £575
90th Percentile £638 £650 £656
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 60 38
10th Percentile £12.82 £15.25 £15.72
25th Percentile £16.33 - £16.34
Median hourly rate £28.75 £16.06 £22.47
Median % change year-on-year +79.02% -28.53% -12.56%
75th Percentile £47.12 £26.50 £42.44
90th Percentile £80.00 £71.54 £63.83
England median hourly rate £25.15 £22.00 £33.90
% change year-on-year +14.32% -35.10% +57.66%

AWS Lambda
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing AWS Lambda as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Lambda in the North West

AWS Lambda
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS Lambda in the North West.

Daily rate trend for AWS Lambda in the North West

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 6 July 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 6 July 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 +11 20 £500 +11.11% 52
Cheshire -6 8 £391 -23.33% 3
AWS Lambda
England

AWS Lambda
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (7.14%) Confluence
2 1 (3.57%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (3.57%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.57%) CMS
2 1 (3.57%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 28 (100.00%) Serverless
2 27 (96.43%) AWS
3 11 (39.29%) Amazon S3
4 9 (32.14%) Amazon EC2
4 9 (32.14%) GitHub
5 7 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 7 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
5 7 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (21.43%) Amazon SQS
7 5 (17.86%) Amazon EKS
7 5 (17.86%) Amazon Kinesis
8 4 (14.29%) Amazon Glacier
9 3 (10.71%) Amazon MSK
9 3 (10.71%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (10.71%) Azure
10 2 (7.14%) Amazon Cognito
10 2 (7.14%) Amazon EventBridge
10 2 (7.14%) AWS CodeBuild
11 1 (3.57%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 1 (3.57%) Contentful
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.14%) DNS
2 1 (3.57%) DHCP
2 1 (3.57%) Firewall
2 1 (3.57%) HTTP
2 1 (3.57%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.57%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (39.29%) DynamoDB
2 3 (10.71%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (10.71%) MongoDB
2 3 (10.71%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (7.14%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (7.14%) DocumentDB
3 2 (7.14%) NoSQL
3 2 (7.14%) Relational Database
3 2 (7.14%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.57%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (3.57%) InfluxDB
4 1 (3.57%) Redis
Development Applications
1 9 (32.14%) Jenkins
2 3 (10.71%) JIRA
3 2 (7.14%) Selenium
4 1 (3.57%) Appium
4 1 (3.57%) Cucumber
4 1 (3.57%) Gatling
4 1 (3.57%) Git
4 1 (3.57%) GitLab
4 1 (3.57%) MLflow
4 1 (3.57%) Postman
4 1 (3.57%) REST Assured
4 1 (3.57%) SonarQube
4 1 (3.57%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (3.57%) WebDriver
General
1 9 (32.14%) Social Skills
2 4 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (7.14%) Finance
4 1 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Aviation
4 1 (3.57%) Banking
4 1 (3.57%) Legal
4 1 (3.57%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (28.57%) Developer
1 8 (28.57%) Software Engineer
2 6 (21.43%) Senior
3 5 (17.86%) Architect
3 5 (17.86%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (10.71%) AWS Architect
4 3 (10.71%) AWS Solution Architect
4 3 (10.71%) Full-Stack Developer
4 3 (10.71%) Java Developer
4 3 (10.71%) Lead
4 3 (10.71%) Senior Software Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Software Developer
5 2 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Java Architect
5 2 (7.14%) Java Solutions Architect
5 2 (7.14%) Lead Software Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Senior Developer
5 2 (7.14%) Test Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Cloud Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.57%) Senior JavaScript Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (32.14%) Kafka
1 9 (32.14%) RESTful
2 7 (25.00%) Node.js
2 7 (25.00%) React
3 4 (14.29%) ActiveMQ
4 2 (7.14%) .NET
4 2 (7.14%) AngularJS
4 2 (7.14%) AWS CDK
4 2 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (7.14%) Express.js
4 2 (7.14%) HTML
4 2 (7.14%) Jest
4 2 (7.14%) Next.js
4 2 (7.14%) REST
4 2 (7.14%) Spring
4 2 (7.14%) Spring Boot
5 1 (3.57%) AWS Amplify
5 1 (3.57%) FastAPI
5 1 (3.57%) PyTorch
5 1 (3.57%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.86%) Cloud Native
1 5 (17.86%) Public Cloud
2 2 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (7.14%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (7.14%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.57%) Algorithms
3 1 (3.57%) Blockchain
3 1 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.57%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.57%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.57%) Private Cloud
3 1 (3.57%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.71%) Linux
2 1 (3.57%) Unix
2 1 (3.57%) Windows
2 1 (3.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (67.86%) CI/CD
2 14 (50.00%) Agile
3 10 (35.71%) Containerisation
3 10 (35.71%) Microservices
4 9 (32.14%) DevOps
4 9 (32.14%) Software Engineering
5 8 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (28.57%) SDLC
6 7 (25.00%) Event-Driven
6 7 (25.00%) TDD
7 5 (17.86%) Full-Stack Development
7 5 (17.86%) Infrastructure as Code
8 4 (14.29%) Budget Control
8 4 (14.29%) Contingency Planning
8 4 (14.29%) Creative Problem-Solving
8 4 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
8 4 (14.29%) Project Planning
8 4 (14.29%) Scrum
8 4 (14.29%) Service Delivery
9 3 (10.71%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 13 (46.43%) Java
2 8 (28.57%) Python
3 6 (21.43%) SQL
3 6 (21.43%) TypeScript
4 5 (17.86%) JavaScript
5 2 (7.14%) Bash
5 2 (7.14%) Scala
6 1 (3.57%) Perl
6 1 (3.57%) Ruby
6 1 (3.57%) Shell Script
6 1 (3.57%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 3 (10.71%) AWS Certification
2 2 (7.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (7.14%) Degree
3 1 (3.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (3.57%) DBS Check
3 1 (3.57%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.57%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 15 (53.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (21.43%) Kubernetes
2 4 (14.29%) Terraform
3 3 (10.71%) Progress Chef
4 2 (7.14%) Grafana
5 1 (3.57%) Ansible
5 1 (3.57%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (3.57%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (7.14%) Microsoft
1 2 (7.14%) Oracle
2 1 (3.57%) Atlassian
2 1 (3.57%) MuleSoft
2 1 (3.57%) Red Hat
2 1 (3.57%) VMware