AWS Lambda Contract Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

AWS Lambda
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear requiring AWS Lambda skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 29 29
Rank change year-on-year -7 0 +22
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 10 7 1
As % of all contract jobs in Tyne and Wear 3.08% 3.21% 0.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.09% 7.87% 1.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 3 0
10th Percentile £418 £590 -
25th Percentile £445 £598 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £610 -
Median % change year-on-year -17.01% - -
75th Percentile £594 £617 -
90th Percentile £618 £621 -
North East median daily rate £506 £610 £425
% change year-on-year -17.01% +43.53% -29.17%

All Cloud Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 141 89 64
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 43.38% 40.83% 34.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 46 43
10th Percentile £213 £305 £163
25th Percentile £367 £358 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £452 £405
Median % change year-on-year +4.09% +11.60% -29.57%
75th Percentile £575 £587 £533
90th Percentile £700 £625 £586
North East median daily rate £475 £470 £400
% change year-on-year +1.06% +17.50% -30.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 3
10th Percentile £39.40 - £18.65
25th Percentile £44.50 - £23.38
Median hourly rate £52.50 - £32.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +42.22%
75th Percentile £55.00 - £32.88
90th Percentile - - £33.40
North East median hourly rate £52.50 £46.18 £32.25
% change year-on-year +13.69% +43.19% +43.33%

AWS Lambda
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

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

AWS Lambda job vacancy trend in Tyne and Wear

AWS Lambda
Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing AWS Lambda.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing AWS Lambda

AWS Lambda
Daily Rate Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Lambda in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Lambda in Tyne and Wear

AWS Lambda
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 13 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
Newcastle upon Tyne -9 10 £506 -17.01% 4
AWS Lambda
North East

AWS Lambda
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 10 (100.00%) AWS
1 10 (100.00%) Serverless
2 6 (60.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 5 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 5 (50.00%) GitHub
4 4 (40.00%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (40.00%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (30.00%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (30.00%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (30.00%) Amazon S3
5 3 (30.00%) AWS KMS
6 2 (20.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 2 (20.00%) AWS CloudTrail
6 2 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (10.00%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (10.00%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (10.00%) AWS CodePipeline
7 1 (10.00%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (10.00%) CloudFront
7 1 (10.00%) Pulumi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (20.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (10.00%) DynamoDB
3 1 (10.00%) MongoDB
3 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (60.00%) GitLab
2 3 (30.00%) Git
3 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (20.00%) Mocha
4 1 (10.00%) SonarQube
4 1 (10.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 8 (80.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Developer
2 2 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Backend Developer
2 2 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Lead
2 2 (20.00%) Node.js Developer
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Data Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Data Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Lead DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) Python Data Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Python Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Software Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (50.00%) Node.js
2 3 (30.00%) REST
3 2 (20.00%) GraphQL
3 2 (20.00%) Jest
3 2 (20.00%) Next.js
3 2 (20.00%) Spring
4 1 (10.00%) AWS CDK
4 1 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (10.00%) Express.js
4 1 (10.00%) Kafka
4 1 (10.00%) OpenAPI
4 1 (10.00%) React
4 1 (10.00%) RESTful
4 1 (10.00%) Spring Boot
4 1 (10.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (10.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (10.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) CI/CD
1 8 (80.00%) Containerisation
1 8 (80.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (60.00%) DevOps
3 4 (40.00%) Agile
4 3 (30.00%) Microservices
4 3 (30.00%) Test Automation
5 2 (20.00%) AI
5 2 (20.00%) API Development
5 2 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (20.00%) Data Encryption
5 2 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
5 2 (20.00%) Key Management
5 2 (20.00%) Knowledge Transfer
5 2 (20.00%) Machine Learning
5 2 (20.00%) Mentoring
5 2 (20.00%) Migration
5 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (20.00%) Secure Coding
5 2 (20.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) Python
2 4 (40.00%) Java
3 2 (20.00%) Bash
3 2 (20.00%) TypeScript
4 1 (10.00%) Go
4 1 (10.00%) Groovy
4 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (30.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) GDPR
1 2 (20.00%) HIPAA
1 2 (20.00%) SOC 2
2 1 (10.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (10.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (60.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (70.00%) Terraform
2 6 (60.00%) Kubernetes
3 4 (40.00%) Grafana
4 2 (20.00%) Prometheus
5 1 (10.00%) Ansible
5 1 (10.00%) Packer
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Blue Prism
1 1 (10.00%) UiPath