AWS Lambda Contracts in the South West

AWS Lambda
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 142 150
Rank change year-on-year +42 +8 +1
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 11 15 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.66% 0.47% 0.47%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.24% 1.84% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 12 12
10th Percentile £410 £336 £459
25th Percentile £438 £498 £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +4.80%
75th Percentile £644 £581 £719
90th Percentile £650 £600 £782
England median daily rate £550 £513 £575
% change year-on-year +7.32% -10.87% -

All Cloud Skills
South 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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 491 816 1,264
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 29.26% 25.51% 34.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 370 616 1,019
10th Percentile £235 £205 £287
25th Percentile £406 £363 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £623 £594 £650
90th Percentile £688 £688 £713
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 29 57
10th Percentile £18.13 £12.50 £16.43
25th Percentile £18.13 £14.00 £19.00
Median hourly rate £18.51 £14.50 £53.35
Median % change year-on-year +27.66% -72.82% +113.40%
75th Percentile £34.50 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £53.13 £70.00 £78.00
England median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
% change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%

AWS Lambda
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS Lambda in the South West

AWS Lambda
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for AWS Lambda in the South West

AWS Lambda
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Lambda in the South West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Lambda in the South West

AWS Lambda
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Wiltshire +35 4 £650 -18.75% 2
Dorset - 3 £550 - 2
Somerset - 2 £425 - 5
Bristol +15 1 £625 +78.57% 10
Devon - 1 - - 1
AWS Lambda
England

AWS Lambda
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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:

Cloud Services
1 11 (100.00%) AWS
1 11 (100.00%) Serverless
2 5 (45.45%) Amazon S3
3 4 (36.36%) GitHub
4 3 (27.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (18.18%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (18.18%) Amazon EventBridge
5 2 (18.18%) Datadog
5 2 (18.18%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (18.18%) Prefect
5 2 (18.18%) SaaS
6 1 (9.09%) Amazon Cognito
6 1 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (9.09%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (9.09%) AWS CodeBuild
6 1 (9.09%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (9.09%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (9.09%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) DHCP
1 1 (9.09%) DNS
1 1 (9.09%) HTTP
1 1 (9.09%) TCP/IP
1 1 (9.09%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (45.45%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (36.36%) Amazon Athena
2 4 (36.36%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (27.27%) DynamoDB
4 2 (18.18%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (18.18%) Data Lake
4 2 (18.18%) MongoDB
4 2 (18.18%) MySQL
5 1 (9.09%) Big Data
5 1 (9.09%) SQL Server Analysis Services
General
1 3 (27.27%) Public Sector
2 1 (9.09%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Developer
2 3 (27.27%) Lead
2 3 (27.27%) Software Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Backend Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Data Migration Lead
3 2 (18.18%) Integration Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Python Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Software Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Software Integration Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Data Science Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Data Scientist
4 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Python Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (45.45%) Node.js
2 2 (18.18%) Django
2 2 (18.18%) Metaflow
2 2 (18.18%) NumPy
3 1 (9.09%) AWS CDK
3 1 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
1 1 (9.09%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) Agile
2 4 (36.36%) CI/CD
3 3 (27.27%) Artificial Intelligence
3 3 (27.27%) Containerisation
3 3 (27.27%) Software Engineering
4 2 (18.18%) API Development
4 2 (18.18%) Data Engineering
4 2 (18.18%) Data Migration
4 2 (18.18%) Data Science
4 2 (18.18%) DevOps
4 2 (18.18%) ETL
4 2 (18.18%) Incident Management
4 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Management
4 2 (18.18%) Machine Learning
4 2 (18.18%) Migration
4 2 (18.18%) Visualisation
5 1 (9.09%) Customer-Centricity
5 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (9.09%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) Python
2 4 (36.36%) SQL
3 2 (18.18%) PL/SQL
4 1 (9.09%) Java
4 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
4 1 (9.09%) Perl
4 1 (9.09%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 2 (18.18%) DV Cleared
2 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) Data Quality
2 1 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (63.64%) Terraform
2 3 (27.27%) Kubernetes
3 2 (18.18%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) MuleSoft
1 2 (18.18%) Oracle
1 2 (18.18%) Salesforce