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

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 102 107
Rank change year-on-year -1 +5 +36
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 42 23 31
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 1.69% 1.01% 1.17%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.83% 3.31% 3.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 11 23
10th Percentile £365 £356 £425
25th Percentile £400 £386 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £443 £475 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.84% -17.39% +4.55%
75th Percentile £575 £510 £681
90th Percentile £644 £575 £700
England median daily rate £500 £575 £538
% change year-on-year -13.04% +6.98% -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 870 695 981
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 35.09% 30.59% 36.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 669 441 738
10th Percentile £260 £275 £265
25th Percentile £360 £380 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year -5.89% -4.04% -1.00%
75th Percentile £539 £575 £575
90th Percentile £638 £650 £650
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 16 51
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.44 £15.75
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.05 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £30.00 £23.61
Median % change year-on-year -16.17% +27.06% +4.93%
75th Percentile £67.25 £49.14 £46.18
90th Percentile £73.29 £73.63 £52.00
England median hourly rate £26.00 £31.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -17.46% +26.00% +11.11%

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 December 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 December 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 +16 37 £475 -4.52% 11
Cheshire -32 3 £368 -8.00% 2
Lancashire - 1 - - 6
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 (11.90%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.38%) Apache
2 1 (2.38%) Confluence
2 1 (2.38%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 42 (100.00%) AWS
1 42 (100.00%) Serverless
2 22 (52.38%) Amazon ECS
2 22 (52.38%) Amazon SQS
3 15 (35.71%) GitHub
4 14 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 13 (30.95%) Amazon EC2
5 13 (30.95%) AWS CloudFormation
6 12 (28.57%) Amazon EventBridge
7 10 (23.81%) Amazon EKS
8 9 (21.43%) Amazon S3
8 9 (21.43%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (19.05%) AWS Fargate
9 8 (19.05%) AWS Step Functions
9 8 (19.05%) Datadog
10 7 (16.67%) Amazon EMR
10 7 (16.67%) GCP
11 6 (14.29%) Amazon MSK
11 6 (14.29%) Apigee
11 6 (14.29%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.76%) Firewall
2 1 (2.38%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (40.48%) DynamoDB
2 12 (28.57%) Amazon Aurora
2 12 (28.57%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (28.57%) NoSQL
2 12 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (26.19%) Redis
4 9 (21.43%) DocumentDB
5 6 (14.29%) MySQL
5 6 (14.29%) Relational Database
6 5 (11.90%) BigQuery
6 5 (11.90%) RDBMS
7 4 (9.52%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (9.52%) MongoDB
8 2 (4.76%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (4.76%) Data Lake
9 1 (2.38%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (2.38%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 15 (35.71%) Git
2 12 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 12 (28.57%) SonarQube
3 6 (14.29%) JIRA
4 5 (11.90%) GitLab
4 5 (11.90%) Gradle
4 5 (11.90%) Maven
4 5 (11.90%) SonarLint
5 2 (4.76%) Bitbucket
5 2 (4.76%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (4.76%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (2.38%) Cypress.io
General
1 14 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 13 (30.95%) Public Sector
3 8 (19.05%) Finance
4 2 (4.76%) Banking
5 1 (2.38%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.38%) Digital Healthcare
5 1 (2.38%) Military
Job Titles
1 12 (28.57%) AWS Engineer
2 8 (19.05%) Architect
2 8 (19.05%) Developer
3 7 (16.67%) Java Architect
3 7 (16.67%) Java Technical Architect
3 7 (16.67%) Technical Architect
4 6 (14.29%) Senior
5 5 (11.90%) AWS DevOps
5 5 (11.90%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 5 (11.90%) DevOps Engineer
5 5 (11.90%) Lead
5 5 (11.90%) Software Engineer
6 4 (9.52%) Cloud Engineer
6 4 (9.52%) Data Engineer
7 3 (7.14%) AWS Data Engineer
7 3 (7.14%) JavaScript Developer
7 3 (7.14%) Node.js Developer
7 3 (7.14%) React Developer
8 2 (4.76%) Cloud Security Engineer
8 2 (4.76%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (33.33%) Node.js
2 11 (26.19%) React
3 10 (23.81%) RESTful
4 8 (19.05%) Kafka
5 7 (16.67%) JWT
5 7 (16.67%) REST
6 6 (14.29%) Spring Boot
7 5 (11.90%) Dropwizard
7 5 (11.90%) GraphQL
7 5 (11.90%) J2EE
7 5 (11.90%) Micronaut
8 4 (9.52%) .NET
8 4 (9.52%) Celery
9 3 (7.14%) NestJS
9 3 (7.14%) OAuth
9 3 (7.14%) OAuth2
10 2 (4.76%) Next.js
10 2 (4.76%) PySpark
10 2 (4.76%) pytest
11 1 (2.38%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 10 (23.81%) Cloud Native
2 6 (14.29%) Product Ownership
3 5 (11.90%) N-Tier
4 3 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (9.52%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (64.29%) Microservices
2 25 (59.52%) CI/CD
3 19 (45.24%) DevOps
4 18 (42.86%) Agile
5 14 (33.33%) Containerisation
6 13 (30.95%) Event-Driven
7 12 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
7 12 (28.57%) Mentoring
8 11 (26.19%) Stakeholder Management
9 10 (23.81%) AI
9 10 (23.81%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 10 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (23.81%) TDD
10 9 (21.43%) Clean Code
10 9 (21.43%) Design Patterns
11 7 (16.67%) Software Engineering
11 7 (16.67%) TOGAF
12 6 (14.29%) CQRS
12 6 (14.29%) OOP
12 6 (14.29%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 24 (57.14%) Python
2 11 (26.19%) Java
2 11 (26.19%) SQL
3 6 (14.29%) TypeScript
4 4 (9.52%) JavaScript
4 4 (9.52%) Ruby
5 3 (7.14%) Bash
5 3 (7.14%) PowerShell
6 2 (4.76%) Perl
7 1 (2.38%) Go
Qualifications
1 5 (11.90%) AWS Certification
1 5 (11.90%) BPSS Clearance
1 5 (11.90%) Security Cleared
2 3 (7.14%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.76%) Degree
4 1 (2.38%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.38%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.38%) Accessibility
1 1 (2.38%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (2.38%) GDPR
1 1 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (2.38%) NIST
1 1 (2.38%) PCI DSS
1 1 (2.38%) QA
System Software
1 25 (59.52%) Docker
2 2 (4.76%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 26 (61.90%) Terraform
2 18 (42.86%) Kubernetes
3 5 (11.90%) Prometheus
4 2 (4.76%) Control-M
4 2 (4.76%) Grafana
5 1 (2.38%) Ansible
5 1 (2.38%) Progress Chef
5 1 (2.38%) Puppet
5 1 (2.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (14.29%) Gigya
2 4 (9.52%) Oracle
3 3 (7.14%) Ping Identity
4 1 (2.38%) Dynatrace
4 1 (2.38%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.38%) Pega