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

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 96 98
Rank change year-on-year -3 +2 +29
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 42 28 35
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.71% 1.40% 1.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.33% 3.23% 3.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 22 25
10th Percentile £313 £425 £413
25th Percentile £363 £433 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +13.86% -3.81% -11.76%
75th Percentile £650 £634 £588
90th Percentile £678 £773 £698
London median daily rate £519 £563 £500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +12.50% -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 970 866 957
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 39.51% 43.30% 39.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 674 561 690
10th Percentile £350 £363 £350
25th Percentile £450 £458 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £533
Median % change year-on-year - +3.29% -7.39%
75th Percentile £650 £664 £650
90th Percentile £750 £738 £751
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 12 8
10th Percentile £19.41 £24.66 £12.75
25th Percentile £22.58 £26.00 £17.39
Median hourly rate £39.00 £34.83 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.99% +54.78% -72.73%
75th Percentile £54.05 £45.00 £24.56
90th Percentile £73.47 £94.88 £33.98
London median hourly rate £35.50 £31.35 £25.00
% change year-on-year +13.26% +25.38% -42.70%

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 May 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 May 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 +5 38 £520 +4.00% 14
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 (9.52%) CICS
2 3 (7.14%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (4.76%) Confluence
4 1 (2.38%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 42 (100.00%) AWS
1 42 (100.00%) Serverless
2 28 (66.67%) Amazon S3
3 14 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 10 (23.81%) Amazon ECS
4 10 (23.81%) GitHub
5 9 (21.43%) AWS CloudFormation
6 8 (19.05%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (14.29%) AWS CodePipeline
7 6 (14.29%) AWS Step Functions
7 6 (14.29%) Azure
7 6 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (11.90%) Amazon Bedrock
9 4 (9.52%) Amazon Kinesis
9 4 (9.52%) Amazon SQS
10 3 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (7.14%) Amazon SageMaker
10 3 (7.14%) Anthropic Claude
10 3 (7.14%) dbt
10 3 (7.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.76%) DNS
2 1 (2.38%) Firewall
2 1 (2.38%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (40.48%) DynamoDB
2 8 (19.05%) Amazon Athena
2 8 (19.05%) Amazon Redshift
3 7 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (14.29%) Metadata
5 5 (11.90%) DB2
6 4 (9.52%) CockroachDB
7 3 (7.14%) Data Lake
8 2 (4.76%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (4.76%) Data Mining
8 2 (4.76%) Electronic Patient Records
8 2 (4.76%) Pinecone
8 2 (4.76%) Tableau
9 1 (2.38%) Apache Iceberg
9 1 (2.38%) Data Vault
9 1 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (2.38%) Delta Lake
9 1 (2.38%) NoSQL
9 1 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (2.38%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 14 (33.33%) Git
2 10 (23.81%) GitLab
3 9 (21.43%) Jenkins
4 6 (14.29%) JIRA
5 4 (9.52%) JUnit
6 3 (7.14%) Cucumber
6 3 (7.14%) Mockito
6 3 (7.14%) Postman
7 1 (2.38%) Artifactory
7 1 (2.38%) Bitbucket
7 1 (2.38%) Cypress.io
7 1 (2.38%) Terragrunt
General
1 12 (28.57%) Finance
2 11 (26.19%) Banking
3 8 (19.05%) Social Skills
4 7 (16.67%) Public Sector
5 3 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (7.14%) Front Office
6 1 (2.38%) Law
6 1 (2.38%) Military
6 1 (2.38%) Police
Job Titles
1 10 (23.81%) Developer
2 7 (16.67%) Data Engineer
3 6 (14.29%) Senior
4 5 (11.90%) Architect
5 4 (9.52%) AWS Engineer
5 4 (9.52%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) Automation Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) Data Architect
6 3 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (7.14%) Quantitative Developer
7 2 (4.76%) AWS DevOps
7 2 (4.76%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Platform Architect
7 2 (4.76%) Senior Data Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Site Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Snowflake Data Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Snowflake Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (19.05%) Kafka
2 7 (16.67%) boto
2 7 (16.67%) Node.js
2 7 (16.67%) SOAP
3 6 (14.29%) RESTful
3 6 (14.29%) Spring
3 6 (14.29%) Spring Boot
4 5 (11.90%) JSON
4 5 (11.90%) NumPy
4 5 (11.90%) Pandas
4 5 (11.90%) React
5 4 (9.52%) PySpark
5 4 (9.52%) Web Services
5 4 (9.52%) WSDL
6 3 (7.14%) Gherkin
6 3 (7.14%) LangGraph
6 3 (7.14%) REST
6 3 (7.14%) SciPy
6 3 (7.14%) WireMock
6 3 (7.14%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (23.81%) Cloud Native
2 4 (9.52%) DataPower
2 4 (9.52%) Mainframe
2 4 (9.52%) Online Banking
3 3 (7.14%) Derivative
3 3 (7.14%) Equities
3 3 (7.14%) Equity Derivative
4 2 (4.76%) Data Structures
4 2 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (4.76%) NHS
5 1 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.38%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (9.52%) zOS
2 2 (4.76%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (61.90%) CI/CD
2 17 (40.48%) DevOps
3 16 (38.10%) Infrastructure as Code
4 11 (26.19%) AI
5 9 (21.43%) Analytics
5 9 (21.43%) Event-Driven
6 8 (19.05%) Agile
6 8 (19.05%) Containerisation
6 8 (19.05%) Performance Tuning
7 7 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 7 (16.67%) Microservices
8 6 (14.29%) Data Engineering
8 6 (14.29%) ETL
8 6 (14.29%) Generative AI
8 6 (14.29%) LLM
8 6 (14.29%) Observability
8 6 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
9 5 (11.90%) Batch Processing
9 5 (11.90%) Data Pipeline
9 5 (11.90%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 28 (66.67%) Python
2 14 (33.33%) SQL
3 7 (16.67%) Java
4 6 (14.29%) C#
5 5 (11.90%) JavaScript
6 4 (9.52%) JCL
6 4 (9.52%) Shell Script
6 4 (9.52%) TypeScript
7 3 (7.14%) Bicep
7 3 (7.14%) C++
8 1 (2.38%) Bash
8 1 (2.38%) Go
8 1 (2.38%) PHP
8 1 (2.38%) Ruby
8 1 (2.38%) Scala
Qualifications
1 10 (23.81%) SC Cleared
1 10 (23.81%) Security Cleared
2 3 (7.14%) Degree
2 3 (7.14%) Master's Degree
2 3 (7.14%) PhD
3 2 (4.76%) AWS Certification
3 2 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.38%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (2.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (2.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (16.67%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.76%) QA
3 1 (2.38%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (35.71%) Docker
2 1 (2.38%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 16 (38.10%) Terraform
2 12 (28.57%) Kubernetes
3 3 (7.14%) Prometheus
4 2 (4.76%) Ansible
4 2 (4.76%) Grafana
5 1 (2.38%) Kibana
5 1 (2.38%) Opsgenie
5 1 (2.38%) Puppet
5 1 (2.38%) Salt
5 1 (2.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (11.90%) Microsoft
2 4 (9.52%) Databricks
3 2 (4.76%) OpenAI
3 2 (4.76%) SAP
3 2 (4.76%) Splunk
4 1 (2.38%) Amplitude
4 1 (2.38%) Fortinet
4 1 (2.38%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.38%) Sybase