AWS Lambda Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

AWS Lambda
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring AWS Lambda skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 58 -
Rank change year-on-year -22 - -
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 4 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.58% 0.21% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.69% 0.69% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile £404 - -
25th Percentile £466 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £534 -
Median % change year-on-year -4.03% - -
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £513 £482
% change year-on-year -2.44% +6.44% -8.29%

All Cloud Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 236 144 140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 34.50% 30.51% 32.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 94 109
10th Percentile £303 £400 £400
25th Percentile £384 £468 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £593
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -11.47% +7.82%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £625
90th Percentile £648 £650 £688
Yorkshire median daily rate £490 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -2.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
10th Percentile - - £18.65
25th Percentile - £20.50 £18.88
Median hourly rate - £21.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% +8.82%
75th Percentile - £21.50 £19.88
90th Percentile - - £19.95
Yorkshire median hourly rate £113.75 £21.00 £22.51
% change year-on-year +441.67% -6.71% +0.04%

AWS Lambda
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing AWS Lambda relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

AWS Lambda job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

AWS Lambda
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing AWS Lambda.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing AWS Lambda

AWS Lambda
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Lambda in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 17 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Lambda in South Yorkshire

AWS Lambda
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 17 October 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
Sheffield -25 1 £500 -6.37% 4
AWS Lambda
Yorkshire

AWS Lambda
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) Serverless
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon S3
3 2 (50.00%) Amazon Cognito
3 2 (50.00%) AWS KMS
3 2 (50.00%) Datadog
3 2 (50.00%) GCP
3 2 (50.00%) Pulumi
3 2 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (25.00%) AWS CodePipeline
4 1 (25.00%) GitHub
4 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (25.00%) Route 53
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (50.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon QuickSight
2 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Developer
2 1 (25.00%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Database Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL Developer
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Database Developer
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Developer
2 1 (25.00%) T-SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) AWS CDK
2 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (50.00%) Secrets Management
2 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) TDD
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Dashboard Development
3 1 (25.00%) ETL
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (25.00%) Bash
2 1 (25.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Grafana
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform