AWS Lambda Contract Job Trends in Central London

AWS Lambda
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring AWS Lambda skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 99 116 113
Rank change year-on-year +17 -3 +32
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 30 16 38
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.59% 0.69% 1.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.86% 1.73% 3.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 10 24
10th Percentile £356 £418 £400
25th Percentile £439 £441 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £516 £475
Median % change year-on-year +18.64% +8.68% -11.63%
75th Percentile £688 £580 £591
90th Percentile £800 £603 £681
London median daily rate £520 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -5.45% +4.76% -16.00%

All Cloud Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 778 923 1,213
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.32% 39.63% 40.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 569 607 845
10th Percentile £349 £400 £336
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £678
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 4 11
10th Percentile £18.65 £29.40 -
25th Percentile £24.61 £33.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £28.50 £35.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.57% +84.21% -7.32%
75th Percentile £49.83 £49.38 £43.38
90th Percentile £62.04 £75.25 £52.50
London median hourly rate £25.74 £32.50 £38.00
% change year-on-year -20.82% -14.47% +47.03%

AWS Lambda
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

AWS Lambda job vacancy trend in Central London

AWS Lambda
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing AWS Lambda

AWS Lambda
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Lambda in Central London over the 6 months to 9 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Lambda in Central London

AWS Lambda
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 9 November 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
City of London +24 30 £613 +17.79% 138
AWS Lambda
London

AWS Lambda
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (6.67%) Confluence
2 1 (3.33%) Apache
2 1 (3.33%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (3.33%) CICS
2 1 (3.33%) CMS
2 1 (3.33%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 30 (100.00%) AWS
1 30 (100.00%) Serverless
2 21 (70.00%) Amazon S3
3 14 (46.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 9 (30.00%) Amazon ECS
5 8 (26.67%) GitHub
6 6 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (16.67%) AWS Step Functions
7 5 (16.67%) Azure
7 5 (16.67%) Snowflake
8 4 (13.33%) Amazon Cognito
8 4 (13.33%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (13.33%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (13.33%) Amazon SQS
8 4 (13.33%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (13.33%) AWS Fargate
9 3 (10.00%) Amazon EventBridge
9 3 (10.00%) Apigee
9 3 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (10.00%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.00%) DNS
2 1 (3.33%) DKIM
2 1 (3.33%) NAS
2 1 (3.33%) OpenLDAP
2 1 (3.33%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (3.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (36.67%) DynamoDB
2 5 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (6.67%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (6.67%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (6.67%) Relational Database
5 1 (3.33%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (3.33%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (3.33%) Data Lake
5 1 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (3.33%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (3.33%) GIS
5 1 (3.33%) Metadata
5 1 (3.33%) MySQL
5 1 (3.33%) NoSQL
5 1 (3.33%) Parquet
5 1 (3.33%) Power BI
5 1 (3.33%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (3.33%) SQL Server
5 1 (3.33%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (10.00%) Git
1 3 (10.00%) JIRA
2 1 (3.33%) GitLab
2 1 (3.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.33%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 4 (13.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (10.00%) Banking
2 3 (10.00%) Front Office
2 3 (10.00%) Investment Banking
2 3 (10.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (6.67%) Finance
4 1 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (13.33%) AWS Engineer
2 4 (13.33%) Developer
2 4 (13.33%) Lead
2 4 (13.33%) Python Engineer
2 4 (13.33%) Senior
3 3 (10.00%) Architect
3 3 (10.00%) Data Engineer
3 3 (10.00%) Software Design Engineer
3 3 (10.00%) Software Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Apigee Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) AWS DevOps
4 2 (6.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Senior Data Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) AWS Data Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) AWS Developer
5 1 (3.33%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Cloud Native Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Digital Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (30.00%) Node.js
2 6 (20.00%) AngularJS
2 6 (20.00%) React
3 4 (13.33%) .NET
3 4 (13.33%) OAuth
4 3 (10.00%) AWS CDK
4 3 (10.00%) GraphQL
4 3 (10.00%) JWT
4 3 (10.00%) OpenTelemetry
4 3 (10.00%) WebSockets
5 2 (6.67%) CSS
5 2 (6.67%) Flask
5 2 (6.67%) HTML
5 2 (6.67%) REST
5 2 (6.67%) RESTful
5 2 (6.67%) SQLAlchemy
6 1 (3.33%) ActiveMQ
6 1 (3.33%) LDAP
6 1 (3.33%) SAML
6 1 (3.33%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 9 (30.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (6.67%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.33%) AI Agents
4 1 (3.33%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.33%) Data Fabric
4 1 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.33%) Mainframe
4 1 (3.33%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.33%) NHS
4 1 (3.33%) Public Cloud
4 1 (3.33%) Virtual Team
4 1 (3.33%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.67%) Linux
2 1 (3.33%) AIX
2 1 (3.33%) Android
2 1 (3.33%) Apple iOS
2 1 (3.33%) Solaris
2 1 (3.33%) Unix
2 1 (3.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (46.67%) CI/CD
2 12 (40.00%) DevOps
3 11 (36.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 10 (33.33%) Event-Driven
5 9 (30.00%) Agile
6 8 (26.67%) Software Engineering
7 7 (23.33%) Analytics
7 7 (23.33%) Data Pipeline
7 7 (23.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 7 (23.33%) Observability
8 6 (20.00%) User Experience
9 5 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
9 5 (16.67%) Mentoring
10 4 (13.33%) Code Quality
10 4 (13.33%) Containerisation
10 4 (13.33%) Microservices
10 4 (13.33%) Technical Leadership
11 3 (10.00%) Design Patterns
11 3 (10.00%) Matrix Organization
11 3 (10.00%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 19 (63.33%) Python
2 8 (26.67%) SQL
3 7 (23.33%) Java
4 5 (16.67%) JavaScript
5 3 (10.00%) TypeScript
6 2 (6.67%) Bash
7 1 (3.33%) Apex Code
7 1 (3.33%) COBOL
7 1 (3.33%) Go
7 1 (3.33%) Shell Script
7 1 (3.33%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 8 (26.67%) SC Cleared
1 8 (26.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.67%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.00%) Data Quality
1 3 (10.00%) GDPR
2 1 (3.33%) HMG Security Policy Framework
2 1 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.33%) NCSC
2 1 (3.33%) QA
System Software
1 5 (16.67%) Docker
2 1 (3.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (30.00%) Terraform
2 3 (10.00%) Ansible
2 3 (10.00%) Prometheus
3 2 (6.67%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (3.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.33%) Atlassian
2 1 (3.33%) NetApp
2 1 (3.33%) Salesforce