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 21 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 101 137 132
Rank change year-on-year +36 -5 -2
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 10 17 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.53% 0.56% 0.73%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.79% 2.13% 2.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 15 20
10th Percentile £403 £470 £560
25th Percentile £413 £525 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £605
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -0.83% +2.98%
75th Percentile - £644 £700
90th Percentile £630 £677 £703
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%

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 560 798 1,064
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 29.71% 26.13% 30.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 399 568 824
10th Percentile £225 £253 £313
25th Percentile £355 £422 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% +7.00%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £668
90th Percentile £675 £675 £725
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 47 64
10th Percentile £18.13 £13.41 £13.25
25th Percentile £18.51 £30.00 £21.86
Median hourly rate £18.87 £70.00 £52.93
Median % change year-on-year -73.04% +32.26% +137.87%
75th Percentile £29.13 - £76.13
90th Percentile £37.50 - £78.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £21.75 £35.00
% change year-on-year +15.63% -37.86% +60.70%

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 21 July 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 21 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
Dorset - 3 £550 -
Bristol +13 2 £500 +21.21% 11
Devon +3 2 £538 -19.02% 4
Somerset - 2 £425 - 2
Wiltshire - 1 £650 -
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 10 (100.00%) AWS
1 10 (100.00%) Serverless
2 6 (60.00%) Amazon S3
3 3 (30.00%) GitHub
4 2 (20.00%) Amazon SQS
4 2 (20.00%) Prefect
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon Cognito
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 1 (10.00%) AWS CodeBuild
5 1 (10.00%) AWS CodePipeline
5 1 (10.00%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (10.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) DHCP
1 1 (10.00%) DNS
1 1 (10.00%) HTTP
1 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (10.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (20.00%) DynamoDB
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (10.00%) Big Data
3 1 (10.00%) Data Lake
3 1 (10.00%) MongoDB
3 1 (10.00%) MySQL
3 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (10.00%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Developer
1 5 (50.00%) Software Developer
2 3 (30.00%) Backend Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Lead
3 2 (20.00%) Python Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Data Migration Lead
4 1 (10.00%) Data Science Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Data Scientist
4 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Python Software Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (50.00%) Node.js
2 2 (20.00%) Django
2 2 (20.00%) Metaflow
2 2 (20.00%) NumPy
3 1 (10.00%) ARM Templates
3 1 (10.00%) AWS CDK
3 1 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (10.00%) React
3 1 (10.00%) TypeORM
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
1 1 (10.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Agile
2 4 (40.00%) Containerisation
3 3 (30.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (30.00%) Machine Learning
4 2 (20.00%) BDD
4 2 (20.00%) Code Quality
4 2 (20.00%) Data Science
4 2 (20.00%) TDD
5 1 (10.00%) Clean Code
5 1 (10.00%) Cloud Security
5 1 (10.00%) Customer-Centricity
5 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (10.00%) Pair Programming
5 1 (10.00%) Scrum
5 1 (10.00%) Secure Coding
5 1 (10.00%) Software Engineering
5 1 (10.00%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) Python
2 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (20.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (10.00%) Perl
3 1 (10.00%) PL/SQL
3 1 (10.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (30.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (10.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (10.00%) QA
1 1 (10.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (60.00%) Terraform
2 4 (40.00%) Kubernetes
3 3 (30.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) MuleSoft
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle