AWS Lambda Contract Job Trends in Wales

AWS Lambda
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wales requiring AWS Lambda skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 40 -
Rank change year-on-year -6 - -
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 2 5 0
As % of all contract jobs in Wales 0.45% 1.36% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.65% 3.65% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £466 - -
25th Percentile £472 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £400 -
Median % change year-on-year +21.88% - -
75th Percentile £497 - -
90th Percentile £499 - -
UK median daily rate £510 £524 £510
% change year-on-year -2.67% +2.75% -11.30%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Wales

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 Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 121 137 138
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 27.31% 37.13% 32.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 110 114
10th Percentile £170 £187 £180
25th Percentile £290 £253 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £425 £388
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +9.68% -22.50%
75th Percentile £553 £550 £560
90th Percentile £713 £626 £633
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 7 3
10th Percentile £18.25 £24.25 £12.73
25th Percentile £19.50 £28.13 £12.96
Median hourly rate £21.00 £37.28 £13.33
Median % change year-on-year -43.67% +179.67% -15.22%
75th Percentile £21.50 £41.25 £84.67
90th Percentile £30.00 - £127.47
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £24.86
% change year-on-year +9.09% +10.64% +7.71%

AWS Lambda
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

AWS Lambda job vacancy trend in Wales

AWS Lambda
Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing AWS Lambda

AWS Lambda
Contract Job Locations in Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 25 January 2026. 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
West Wales - 2 £488 - 1
AWS Lambda
UK

AWS Lambda
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales 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 2 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (50.00%) CloudFront
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (50.00%) DynamoDB
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Architect
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Solution Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Payments Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Payments Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Digital Wallet
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) API Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Due Diligence
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Software Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Technology Roadmap
2 1 (50.00%) Thought Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
2 1 (50.00%) User Experience
2 1 (50.00%) UX Design
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform