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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 96 109 130
Rank change year-on-year +13 +21 +10
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 31 21 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.59% 0.91% 1.03%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.01% 2.23% 2.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 14 21
10th Percentile £425 £466 £413
25th Percentile £466 £490 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +35.00% -2.44% -14.58%
75th Percentile £781 £561 £638
90th Percentile £800 £596 £700
London median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -19.23%

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 773 941 1,351
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 39.62% 40.56% 42.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 531 637 930
10th Percentile £333 £388 £325
25th Percentile £425 £473 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £560 £563
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% -0.44% -2.17%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £750 £763 £788
London median daily rate £533 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -3.09% -4.35% -0.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 5 6
10th Percentile £20.82 - £14.63
25th Percentile £25.56 £27.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +68.67% -37.59%
75th Percentile £54.46 - £34.44
90th Percentile £79.48 £69.50 £45.25
London median hourly rate £31.00 £30.80 £40.50
% change year-on-year +0.67% -23.96% +15.71%

AWS Lambda
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing AWS Lambda as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Lambda 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 +22 31 £675 +35.00% 18
AWS Lambda
London

AWS Lambda
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 2 (6.45%) Confluence
2 1 (3.23%) CICS
2 1 (3.23%) CMS
2 1 (3.23%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 31 (100.00%) AWS
1 31 (100.00%) Serverless
2 18 (58.06%) Amazon S3
3 13 (41.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 11 (35.48%) Amazon SQS
5 7 (22.58%) AWS Step Functions
6 6 (19.35%) Amazon Cognito
6 6 (19.35%) Amazon ECS
6 6 (19.35%) Amazon EKS
7 5 (16.13%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (16.13%) Amazon EventBridge
7 5 (16.13%) Datadog
7 5 (16.13%) GitHub
7 5 (16.13%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (12.90%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (9.68%) Snowflake
10 2 (6.45%) Fastly
10 2 (6.45%) Heroku
10 2 (6.45%) SaaS
10 2 (6.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.68%) DNS
2 1 (3.23%) DKIM
2 1 (3.23%) NAS
2 1 (3.23%) OpenLDAP
2 1 (3.23%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (3.23%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (38.71%) DynamoDB
2 6 (19.35%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (16.13%) DocumentDB
3 5 (16.13%) Redis
4 2 (6.45%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (3.23%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (3.23%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (3.23%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (3.23%) GIS
5 1 (3.23%) Parquet
5 1 (3.23%) Pinecone
5 1 (3.23%) Relational Database
5 1 (3.23%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (3.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (25.81%) Git
2 5 (16.13%) SonarQube
3 3 (9.68%) JIRA
4 2 (6.45%) GitLab
5 1 (3.23%) CircleCI
5 1 (3.23%) Jenkins
5 1 (3.23%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 6 (19.35%) Public Sector
2 5 (16.13%) Social Skills
3 3 (9.68%) Finance
4 2 (6.45%) Banking
4 2 (6.45%) Front Office
4 2 (6.45%) Investment Banking
5 1 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (19.35%) Software Engineer
2 5 (16.13%) JavaScript Engineer
3 4 (12.90%) Architect
3 4 (12.90%) Software Design Engineer
4 3 (9.68%) AWS Engineer
4 3 (9.68%) Developer
4 3 (9.68%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (9.68%) Lead
4 3 (9.68%) Python Engineer
4 3 (9.68%) Senior
5 2 (6.45%) AWS DevOps
5 2 (6.45%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) AWS Architect
6 1 (3.23%) AWS Data Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) Cloud Architect
6 1 (3.23%) Data Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) Digital Architect
6 1 (3.23%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (38.71%) Node.js
1 12 (38.71%) React
2 7 (22.58%) AngularJS
3 6 (19.35%) GraphQL
4 5 (16.13%) OpenTelemetry
4 5 (16.13%) WebSockets
5 3 (9.68%) RESTful
6 2 (6.45%) .NET
6 2 (6.45%) AWS CDK
6 2 (6.45%) CSS
6 2 (6.45%) Flask
6 2 (6.45%) HTML
6 2 (6.45%) SQLAlchemy
7 1 (3.23%) Faiss
7 1 (3.23%) FastAPI
7 1 (3.23%) Flake8
7 1 (3.23%) LangChain
7 1 (3.23%) LangGraph
7 1 (3.23%) Lightning Web Components
7 1 (3.23%) mypy
Miscellaneous
1 6 (19.35%) Cloud Native
2 2 (6.45%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (6.45%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.23%) AI Agents
3 1 (3.23%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.23%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (3.23%) Mainframe
3 1 (3.23%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.23%) NHS
3 1 (3.23%) Public Cloud
3 1 (3.23%) Virtual Team
3 1 (3.23%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.23%) AIX
1 1 (3.23%) Android
1 1 (3.23%) Apple iOS
1 1 (3.23%) Linux
1 1 (3.23%) Solaris
1 1 (3.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (48.39%) CI/CD
2 11 (35.48%) DevOps
2 11 (35.48%) Software Engineering
3 10 (32.26%) Event-Driven
3 10 (32.26%) Infrastructure as Code
4 9 (29.03%) Microservices
4 9 (29.03%) Observability
5 8 (25.81%) Agile
5 8 (25.81%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 8 (25.81%) User Experience
6 7 (22.58%) Mentoring
7 6 (19.35%) Technical Leadership
8 5 (16.13%) Clean Code
8 5 (16.13%) Deployment Automation
8 5 (16.13%) Full-Stack Development
8 5 (16.13%) Performance Optimisation
9 4 (12.90%) Code Quality
9 4 (12.90%) Data Pipeline
10 3 (9.68%) Containerisation
10 3 (9.68%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 15 (48.39%) Python
2 12 (38.71%) JavaScript
3 4 (12.90%) Java
3 4 (12.90%) SQL
3 4 (12.90%) TypeScript
4 3 (9.68%) Bash
5 2 (6.45%) Go
6 1 (3.23%) Apex Code
6 1 (3.23%) COBOL
6 1 (3.23%) Rust
6 1 (3.23%) Shell Script
6 1 (3.23%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 10 (32.26%) SC Cleared
1 10 (32.26%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.45%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (3.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (3.23%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.68%) GDPR
2 1 (3.23%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.23%) HMG Security Policy Framework
2 1 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.23%) NCSC
2 1 (3.23%) QA
System Software
1 2 (6.45%) Docker
2 1 (3.23%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (29.03%) Terraform
2 5 (16.13%) Prometheus
3 3 (9.68%) Kubernetes
4 2 (6.45%) Ansible
4 2 (6.45%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (6.45%) Microsoft
1 2 (6.45%) Salesforce
2 1 (3.23%) Atlassian
2 1 (3.23%) NetApp