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 22 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 106 95
Rank change year-on-year +17 -11 +38
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 40 18 42
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.88% 0.86% 1.62%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.55% 2.08% 4.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 16 26
10th Percentile £313 £423 £403
25th Percentile £356 £461 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -3.81% -5.62%
75th Percentile £650 £537 £584
90th Percentile £674 £588 £719
London median daily rate £513 £550 £506
% change year-on-year -6.82% +8.64% -15.63%

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 880 867 987
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.30% 41.60% 37.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 644 564 706
10th Percentile £338 £375 £350
25th Percentile £432 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £749 £746 £745
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 8 13
10th Percentile £20.59 £26.72 £13.60
25th Percentile £25.47 £33.52 £17.00
Median hourly rate £32.99 £35.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.76% +84.21% -45.71%
75th Percentile £46.11 £38.44 £23.75
90th Percentile £52.92 £90.38 £49.95
London median hourly rate £32.50 £32.75 £30.50
% change year-on-year -0.76% +7.38% -10.29%

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 22 February 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 22 February 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 +16 36 £451 -8.61% 22
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 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.50%) Apache
2 1 (2.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 40 (100.00%) AWS
1 40 (100.00%) Serverless
2 25 (62.50%) Amazon S3
3 13 (32.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 11 (27.50%) Amazon ECS
4 11 (27.50%) GitHub
5 9 (22.50%) AWS CloudFormation
6 8 (20.00%) Azure
7 7 (17.50%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (12.50%) AWS CodePipeline
8 5 (12.50%) AWS Fargate
8 5 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (10.00%) Amazon ECR
9 4 (10.00%) Apigee
9 4 (10.00%) Snowflake
10 3 (7.50%) Amazon Bedrock
10 3 (7.50%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (7.50%) Anthropic Claude
10 3 (7.50%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.00%) DNS
2 1 (2.50%) DKIM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (32.50%) DynamoDB
2 5 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (12.50%) Amazon Redshift
3 4 (10.00%) Amazon Athena
3 4 (10.00%) CockroachDB
4 3 (7.50%) Metadata
5 2 (5.00%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (5.00%) Data Lake
5 2 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (5.00%) NoSQL
5 2 (5.00%) Pinecone
5 2 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (2.50%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (2.50%) DB2
6 1 (2.50%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (2.50%) GIS
6 1 (2.50%) MySQL
6 1 (2.50%) Power BI
6 1 (2.50%) Star Schema
6 1 (2.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (27.50%) Git
2 7 (17.50%) Jenkins
3 3 (7.50%) JIRA
4 2 (5.00%) GitLab
4 2 (5.00%) JUnit
5 1 (2.50%) Bitbucket
5 1 (2.50%) Cucumber
5 1 (2.50%) Mockito
5 1 (2.50%) Postman
5 1 (2.50%) Terragrunt
5 1 (2.50%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 7 (17.50%) Banking
2 5 (12.50%) Finance
2 5 (12.50%) Front Office
3 4 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (5.00%) Investment Banking
4 2 (5.00%) Social Skills
5 1 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (22.50%) Developer
2 8 (20.00%) Data Engineer
2 8 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 6 (15.00%) AWS Engineer
3 6 (15.00%) Senior
4 3 (7.50%) Architect
4 3 (7.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 3 (7.50%) AWS DevOps
4 3 (7.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 3 (7.50%) Lead
4 3 (7.50%) Python Engineer
4 3 (7.50%) Quantitative Developer
4 3 (7.50%) Senior Data Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) Apigee Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) AWS Developer
5 2 (5.00%) Cloud Architect
6 1 (2.50%) AWS Data Engineer
6 1 (2.50%) Cloud Native Engineer
6 1 (2.50%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 1 (2.50%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (30.00%) Node.js
2 6 (15.00%) boto
3 5 (12.50%) Kafka
3 5 (12.50%) NumPy
3 5 (12.50%) OAuth
3 5 (12.50%) Pandas
3 5 (12.50%) React
4 4 (10.00%) AWS CDK
4 4 (10.00%) JWT
4 4 (10.00%) REST
5 3 (7.50%) .NET
5 3 (7.50%) AngularJS
5 3 (7.50%) HTML
5 3 (7.50%) LangGraph
5 3 (7.50%) Model Context Protocol
5 3 (7.50%) SciPy
5 3 (7.50%) Spring
5 3 (7.50%) Spring Boot
6 2 (5.00%) CSS
6 2 (5.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 12 (30.00%) Cloud Native
2 5 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (7.50%) Derivative
4 3 (7.50%) Equities
4 3 (7.50%) Equity Derivative
5 2 (5.00%) Data Structures
5 2 (5.00%) Management Information System
6 1 (2.50%) Data Fabric
6 1 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (2.50%) NHS
6 1 (2.50%) Product Ownership
6 1 (2.50%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.50%) Linux
2 1 (2.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (57.50%) CI/CD
2 16 (40.00%) DevOps
3 14 (35.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 11 (27.50%) Analytics
4 11 (27.50%) Event-Driven
5 9 (22.50%) Data Pipeline
5 9 (22.50%) Microservices
6 7 (17.50%) Agile
6 7 (17.50%) ETL
7 6 (15.00%) Containerisation
7 6 (15.00%) Data Modelling
7 6 (15.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 6 (15.00%) Observability
7 6 (15.00%) Performance Tuning
8 5 (12.50%) AI
8 5 (12.50%) Design Patterns
8 5 (12.50%) Semantic Search
8 5 (12.50%) Validation
8 5 (12.50%) Workflow
9 4 (10.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 27 (67.50%) Python
2 14 (35.00%) SQL
3 9 (22.50%) Java
4 5 (12.50%) JavaScript
5 4 (10.00%) C#
6 3 (7.50%) C++
7 2 (5.00%) TypeScript
8 1 (2.50%) Apex Code
8 1 (2.50%) Bash
8 1 (2.50%) Bicep
8 1 (2.50%) Go
8 1 (2.50%) PHP
8 1 (2.50%) Ruby
8 1 (2.50%) Shell Script
8 1 (2.50%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 12 (30.00%) SC Cleared
1 12 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (7.50%) AWS Certification
2 3 (7.50%) Degree
2 3 (7.50%) Master's Degree
2 3 (7.50%) PhD
3 1 (2.50%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (2.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (2.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (17.50%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.00%) GDPR
3 1 (2.50%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 1 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.50%) NCSC
System Software
1 13 (32.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (32.50%) Terraform
2 9 (22.50%) Kubernetes
3 4 (10.00%) Ansible
4 2 (5.00%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (2.50%) Kibana
5 1 (2.50%) Opsgenie
5 1 (2.50%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (17.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.00%) SAP
3 1 (2.50%) Amplitude
3 1 (2.50%) Databricks
3 1 (2.50%) Salesforce
3 1 (2.50%) ServiceNow
3 1 (2.50%) Sybase