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 6 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 101 96
Rank change year-on-year +5 -5 +28
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 43 25 36
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.83% 1.26% 1.44%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.42% 2.90% 3.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 19 26
10th Percentile £319 £424 £413
25th Percentile £363 £443 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -6.87%
75th Percentile £650 £559 £575
90th Percentile £666 £638 £688
London median daily rate £513 £575 £500
% change year-on-year -10.87% +15.00% -16.67%

All Cloud Computing 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 973 861 966
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.39% 43.48% 38.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 694 562 683
10th Percentile £350 £375 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year - +1.85% -6.09%
75th Percentile £650 £664 £650
90th Percentile £749 £725 £749
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 11 11
10th Percentile £20.82 £24.66 £12.75
25th Percentile £25.47 £25.56 £17.97
Median hourly rate £40.50 £34.65 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.88% +54.00% -57.14%
75th Percentile £49.83 £41.88 £36.25
90th Percentile £59.72 £100.00 £50.25
London median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.00
% change year-on-year +22.12% +11.81% -25.71%

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 6 April 2026.

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 6 April 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
City of London +2 39 £500 - 32
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 4 (9.30%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (6.98%) CICS
3 2 (4.65%) Confluence
4 1 (2.33%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 43 (100.00%) AWS
1 43 (100.00%) Serverless
2 28 (65.12%) Amazon S3
3 16 (37.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 14 (32.56%) GitHub
5 13 (30.23%) Amazon ECS
6 9 (20.93%) AWS CloudFormation
7 8 (18.60%) Azure
7 8 (18.60%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (16.28%) Amazon EC2
9 6 (13.95%) AWS CodePipeline
9 6 (13.95%) AWS Step Functions
10 5 (11.63%) AWS Fargate
10 5 (11.63%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (9.30%) Amazon Bedrock
11 4 (9.30%) Amazon ECR
11 4 (9.30%) Amazon SQS
11 4 (9.30%) Apigee
12 3 (6.98%) Amazon EKS
12 3 (6.98%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.65%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (44.19%) DynamoDB
2 7 (16.28%) Amazon Athena
2 7 (16.28%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (13.95%) Amazon Redshift
4 4 (9.30%) CockroachDB
4 4 (9.30%) DB2
4 4 (9.30%) Metadata
5 3 (6.98%) Data Lake
6 2 (4.65%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (4.65%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (4.65%) NoSQL
6 2 (4.65%) Pinecone
6 2 (4.65%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (2.33%) Data Hub
7 1 (2.33%) Data Mining
7 1 (2.33%) Data Vault
7 1 (2.33%) MySQL
7 1 (2.33%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (2.33%) Star Schema
7 1 (2.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (30.23%) Git
2 9 (20.93%) Jenkins
3 8 (18.60%) GitLab
4 6 (13.95%) JIRA
5 4 (9.30%) JUnit
6 3 (6.98%) Cucumber
6 3 (6.98%) Mockito
6 3 (6.98%) Postman
7 1 (2.33%) Bitbucket
7 1 (2.33%) Cypress.io
7 1 (2.33%) Terragrunt
General
1 10 (23.26%) Banking
1 10 (23.26%) Finance
2 5 (11.63%) Public Sector
2 5 (11.63%) Social Skills
3 3 (6.98%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (6.98%) Front Office
4 2 (4.65%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (23.26%) Developer
2 9 (20.93%) Data Engineer
3 7 (16.28%) DevOps Engineer
4 6 (13.95%) AWS Engineer
4 6 (13.95%) Senior
5 3 (6.98%) Architect
5 3 (6.98%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 3 (6.98%) Automation Engineer
5 3 (6.98%) AWS DevOps
5 3 (6.98%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 3 (6.98%) Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (6.98%) Quantitative Developer
5 3 (6.98%) Senior Data Engineer
6 2 (4.65%) Apigee Engineer
6 2 (4.65%) Site Engineer
6 2 (4.65%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 2 (4.65%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 2 (4.65%) Snowflake Engineer
6 2 (4.65%) Software Developer
7 1 (2.33%) Kafka Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (23.26%) Node.js
2 7 (16.28%) boto
2 7 (16.28%) Kafka
3 6 (13.95%) SOAP
3 6 (13.95%) Spring
3 6 (13.95%) Spring Boot
4 5 (11.63%) NumPy
4 5 (11.63%) OAuth
4 5 (11.63%) Pandas
4 5 (11.63%) React
4 5 (11.63%) RESTful
5 4 (9.30%) JSON
5 4 (9.30%) JWT
6 3 (6.98%) AWS CDK
6 3 (6.98%) Gherkin
6 3 (6.98%) LangGraph
6 3 (6.98%) Model Context Protocol
6 3 (6.98%) REST
6 3 (6.98%) SciPy
6 3 (6.98%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (25.58%) Cloud Native
2 5 (11.63%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (9.30%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (6.98%) DataPower
4 3 (6.98%) Derivative
4 3 (6.98%) Equities
4 3 (6.98%) Equity Derivative
4 3 (6.98%) Mainframe
4 3 (6.98%) Online Banking
5 2 (4.65%) Data Structures
5 2 (4.65%) NHS
6 1 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (2.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.98%) Linux
1 3 (6.98%) zOS
2 1 (2.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (62.79%) CI/CD
2 18 (41.86%) DevOps
3 17 (39.53%) Infrastructure as Code
4 10 (23.26%) Analytics
5 9 (20.93%) Performance Tuning
6 8 (18.60%) Agile
6 8 (18.60%) AI
6 8 (18.60%) Event-Driven
6 8 (18.60%) Microservices
7 7 (16.28%) ETL
8 6 (13.95%) Containerisation
8 6 (13.95%) Data Pipeline
8 6 (13.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 6 (13.95%) Observability
9 5 (11.63%) Data Modelling
9 5 (11.63%) Generative AI
9 5 (11.63%) Semantic Search
9 5 (11.63%) Test Automation
9 5 (11.63%) Validation
9 5 (11.63%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 29 (67.44%) Python
2 14 (32.56%) SQL
3 8 (18.60%) Java
4 6 (13.95%) C#
5 5 (11.63%) JavaScript
6 4 (9.30%) Shell Script
6 4 (9.30%) TypeScript
7 3 (6.98%) C++
7 3 (6.98%) JCL
8 2 (4.65%) Bicep
9 1 (2.33%) Go
9 1 (2.33%) PHP
9 1 (2.33%) Ruby
9 1 (2.33%) Scala
Qualifications
1 12 (27.91%) SC Cleared
1 12 (27.91%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.98%) Degree
2 3 (6.98%) Master's Degree
2 3 (6.98%) PhD
3 2 (4.65%) AWS Certification
3 2 (4.65%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.33%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (2.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (2.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.95%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.33%) QA
2 1 (2.33%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (37.21%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (41.86%) Terraform
2 11 (25.58%) Kubernetes
3 4 (9.30%) Ansible
4 2 (4.65%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.33%) Grafana
5 1 (2.33%) Kibana
5 1 (2.33%) Opsgenie
5 1 (2.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (11.63%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.65%) Databricks
2 2 (4.65%) SAP
2 2 (4.65%) Splunk
3 1 (2.33%) Amplitude
3 1 (2.33%) OpenAI
3 1 (2.33%) ServiceNow
3 1 (2.33%) Sybase