AWS Lambda Contracts with Work from Home Options

AWS Lambda
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for AWS Lambda skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited AWS Lambda over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 196 168 152
Rank change year-on-year -28 -16 -48
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 156 383 778
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.03% 1.52% 1.76%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.87% 3.86% 4.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 296 561
10th Percentile £418 £437 £419
25th Percentile £456 £468 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.62% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £688
90th Percentile £650 £700 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -4.76% -8.70% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £35.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year - -43.09% +82.22%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

AWS Lambda is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,438 9,928 18,314
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.02% 39.52% 41.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,910 7,301 13,707
10th Percentile £350 £370 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £743 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 126 169
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.25 £14.85
25th Percentile £17.00 £21.08 £19.25
Median hourly rate £26.00 £54.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -51.85% +66.15% -17.72%
75th Percentile £50.25 £70.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £72.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -40.00% +59.09% -2.22%

AWS Lambda
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing AWS Lambda as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

AWS Lambda trend for jobs with a WFH option

AWS Lambda
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing AWS Lambda.

AWS Lambda daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

AWS Lambda
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing AWS Lambda over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

AWS Lambda daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

AWS Lambda
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing AWS Lambda.

AWS Lambda hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

AWS Lambda
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (3.21%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.56%) Confluence
3 2 (1.28%) Apache
3 2 (1.28%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.28%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (0.64%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.64%) GeoServer
Applications
1 1 (0.64%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (3.21%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (1.92%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.64%) NEC Housing
3 1 (0.64%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 153 (98.08%) AWS
2 151 (96.79%) Serverless
3 89 (57.05%) Amazon S3
4 51 (32.69%) Amazon EC2
5 47 (30.13%) AWS CloudFormation
6 44 (28.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 34 (21.79%) Amazon ECS
8 23 (14.74%) AWS Step Functions
9 21 (13.46%) Azure
10 17 (10.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 16 (10.26%) Amazon SQS
12 15 (9.62%) Amazon EKS
12 15 (9.62%) CloudFront
12 15 (9.62%) OpenShift
12 15 (9.62%) Route 53
13 14 (8.97%) Amazon Kinesis
14 12 (7.69%) AWS Fargate
15 11 (7.05%) Amazon EventBridge
16 10 (6.41%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 10 (6.41%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.77%) Firewall
2 3 (1.92%) DHCP
2 3 (1.92%) DNS
2 3 (1.92%) LAN
2 3 (1.92%) Network Security
2 3 (1.92%) OpenLDAP
2 3 (1.92%) WLAN
3 1 (0.64%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
2 32 (20.51%) PostgreSQL
3 29 (18.59%) DynamoDB
4 22 (14.10%) Amazon Redshift
5 18 (11.54%) Amazon Aurora
6 17 (10.90%) MongoDB
7 15 (9.62%) Amazon Athena
8 13 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
9 10 (6.41%) Elasticsearch
10 6 (3.85%) MySQL
11 5 (3.21%) Big Data
11 5 (3.21%) Data Lake
11 5 (3.21%) InfluxDB
11 5 (3.21%) Informix
11 5 (3.21%) NoSQL
11 5 (3.21%) RDBMS
11 5 (3.21%) Relational Database
12 4 (2.56%) Amazon QuickSight
12 4 (2.56%) Hadoop
12 4 (2.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 23 (14.74%) Jenkins
2 18 (11.54%) GitLab
3 17 (10.90%) Git
4 10 (6.41%) JIRA
5 8 (5.13%) Maven
6 7 (4.49%) Cypress.io
7 6 (3.85%) Protractor
8 5 (3.21%) Artifactory
9 4 (2.56%) Selenium
10 3 (1.92%) CircleCI
10 3 (1.92%) Cucumber
10 3 (1.92%) webpack
11 2 (1.28%) Bitbucket
11 2 (1.28%) git-flow
11 2 (1.28%) Snyk
11 2 (1.28%) Visual Studio Code
12 1 (0.64%) Gradle
12 1 (0.64%) JUnit
12 1 (0.64%) REST Assured
12 1 (0.64%) TeamCity
General
1 26 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 24 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 8 (5.13%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (5.13%) Finance
4 5 (3.21%) Banking
4 5 (3.21%) Retail
5 4 (2.56%) Marketing
6 1 (0.64%) Advertising
6 1 (0.64%) Dutch Language
6 1 (0.64%) Front Office
6 1 (0.64%) Health Technology
6 1 (0.64%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (0.64%) Investment Banking
6 1 (0.64%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (0.64%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 48 (30.77%) Developer
2 45 (28.85%) AWS Engineer
3 29 (18.59%) Senior
4 28 (17.95%) DevOps Engineer
5 26 (16.67%) AWS DevOps
6 25 (16.03%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 18 (11.54%) Data Engineer
7 18 (11.54%) Lead
8 11 (7.05%) Architect
9 10 (6.41%) Full Stack Developer
10 9 (5.77%) AWS Data Engineer
10 9 (5.77%) Java Developer
10 9 (5.77%) Software Engineer
11 8 (5.13%) AWS Developer
11 8 (5.13%) Cloud Engineer
11 8 (5.13%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 8 (5.13%) Platform Engineer
11 8 (5.13%) Software Developer
12 7 (4.49%) AWS Architect
13 6 (3.85%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (20.51%) AWS CDK
1 32 (20.51%) Node.js
2 27 (17.31%) React
3 13 (8.33%) REST
4 11 (7.05%) OAuth
4 11 (7.05%) PySpark
5 9 (5.77%) CSS
5 9 (5.77%) GraphQL
5 9 (5.77%) HTML
6 8 (5.13%) Jest
7 7 (4.49%) .NET
7 7 (4.49%) AngularJS
8 6 (3.85%) AWS SAM
8 6 (3.85%) Kafka
8 6 (3.85%) RabbitMQ
8 6 (3.85%) RESTful
9 5 (3.21%) Spring
10 4 (2.56%) Elastic Stack
10 4 (2.56%) Next.js
10 4 (2.56%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 12 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
2 10 (6.41%) Cloud Native
3 6 (3.85%) Public Cloud
4 5 (3.21%) Replication
5 4 (2.56%) Data Structures
5 4 (2.56%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.92%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.92%) IoT
6 3 (1.92%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.92%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.28%) Data Fabric
7 2 (1.28%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 2 (1.28%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.28%) Hackathon
7 2 (1.28%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (1.28%) Life Science
7 2 (1.28%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.28%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.28%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.28%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 26 (16.67%) Linux
2 11 (7.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (3.85%) Ubuntu
3 6 (3.85%) Unix
3 6 (3.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (44.23%) CI/CD
2 57 (36.54%) Agile
3 55 (35.26%) DevOps
4 53 (33.97%) Infrastructure as Code
5 25 (16.03%) ETL
6 23 (14.74%) Microservices
6 23 (14.74%) Test Automation
7 22 (14.10%) Mentoring
8 19 (12.18%) Full Stack Development
9 17 (10.90%) Analytics
9 17 (10.90%) Kanban
9 17 (10.90%) Software Engineering
10 16 (10.26%) Scrum
11 15 (9.62%) Containerisation
12 14 (8.97%) Coaching
12 14 (8.97%) Data Management
12 14 (8.97%) High Availability
13 13 (8.33%) Data Modelling
13 13 (8.33%) Data Pipeline
14 12 (7.69%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 77 (49.36%) Python
2 47 (30.13%) TypeScript
3 38 (24.36%) JavaScript
4 28 (17.95%) Java
5 27 (17.31%) SQL
6 20 (12.82%) Bash
7 14 (8.97%) Go
8 6 (3.85%) Groovy
9 5 (3.21%) C#
9 5 (3.21%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.92%) Scala
11 2 (1.28%) C++
11 2 (1.28%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.28%) R
11 2 (1.28%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.64%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.64%) Perl
12 1 (0.64%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.64%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 23 (14.74%) SC Cleared
1 23 (14.74%) Security Cleared
2 10 (6.41%) AWS Certification
3 5 (3.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 5 (3.21%) Degree
4 3 (1.92%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 3 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.64%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (8.97%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.28%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.28%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (1.28%) GDPR
2 2 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.28%) QA
2 2 (1.28%) SLA
System Software
1 40 (25.64%) Docker
2 4 (2.56%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.28%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 47 (30.13%) Terraform
2 42 (26.92%) Kubernetes
3 24 (15.38%) Grafana
4 22 (14.10%) Ansible
5 8 (5.13%) Kibana
6 5 (3.21%) Progress Chef
7 4 (2.56%) Puppet
8 2 (1.28%) Consul
8 2 (1.28%) Packer
8 2 (1.28%) Salt
9 1 (0.64%) logstash
9 1 (0.64%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (7.05%) Oracle
2 6 (3.85%) Salesforce
3 5 (3.21%) Microsoft
3 5 (3.21%) VMware
4 4 (2.56%) Red Hat
5 3 (1.92%) MuleSoft
5 3 (1.92%) Palo Alto
5 3 (1.92%) Splunk
6 2 (1.28%) Ab Initio
6 2 (1.28%) Commvault
6 2 (1.28%) Confluent
6 2 (1.28%) Databricks
6 2 (1.28%) Google
6 2 (1.28%) IBM
6 2 (1.28%) Informatica
6 2 (1.28%) Qualys
6 2 (1.28%) SaltStack
6 2 (1.28%) SAP
6 2 (1.28%) StreamSets
7 1 (0.64%) Adobe