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 26 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 120 111
Rank change year-on-year +28 -9 +44
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 34 15 40
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.71% 0.63% 1.39%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.11% 1.60% 3.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 9 24
10th Percentile £349 £426 £400
25th Percentile £375 £481 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year +8.17% -0.95% -2.33%
75th Percentile £688 £588 £638
90th Percentile £788 £618 £700
London median daily rate £513 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -14.58% +14.29% -16.33%

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 828 940 1,174
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.65% 39.23% 40.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 611 614 836
10th Percentile £343 £396 £350
25th Percentile £428 £475 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £654 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 6 10
10th Percentile £18.65 £31.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.47 - £17.48
Median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +68.67% +1.22%
75th Percentile £49.83 - £34.44
90th Percentile £62.04 £63.75 £51.25
London median hourly rate £25.74 £35.00 £37.75
% change year-on-year -26.47% -7.28% +30.17%

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 26 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 26 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 +23 33 £550 +5.77% 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 2 (5.88%) Confluence
2 1 (2.94%) Apache
2 1 (2.94%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.94%) CICS
2 1 (2.94%) CMS
2 1 (2.94%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 34 (100.00%) AWS
1 34 (100.00%) Serverless
2 23 (67.65%) Amazon S3
3 14 (41.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 11 (32.35%) Amazon ECS
5 9 (26.47%) GitHub
6 7 (20.59%) Azure
7 6 (17.65%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (14.71%) AWS Fargate
8 5 (14.71%) Snowflake
9 4 (11.76%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (11.76%) Amazon ECR
9 4 (11.76%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (11.76%) Apigee
9 4 (11.76%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (11.76%) AWS Step Functions
9 4 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (8.82%) Amazon Cognito
10 3 (8.82%) Amazon SQS
11 2 (5.88%) Fastly
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.82%) DNS
2 1 (2.94%) DKIM
2 1 (2.94%) NAS
2 1 (2.94%) OpenLDAP
2 1 (2.94%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (2.94%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (32.35%) DynamoDB
2 5 (14.71%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (8.82%) Amazon Athena
3 3 (8.82%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (5.88%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (5.88%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.94%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (2.94%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (2.94%) Data Lake
5 1 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.94%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (2.94%) GIS
5 1 (2.94%) Metadata
5 1 (2.94%) MySQL
5 1 (2.94%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.94%) Parquet
5 1 (2.94%) Power BI
5 1 (2.94%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (2.94%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.94%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (11.76%) Git
2 3 (8.82%) JIRA
3 2 (5.88%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.94%) GitLab
4 1 (2.94%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 4 (11.76%) Banking
1 4 (11.76%) Front Office
1 4 (11.76%) Social Skills
2 3 (8.82%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (8.82%) Finance
2 3 (8.82%) Investment Banking
2 3 (8.82%) Public Sector
3 2 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (23.53%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (20.59%) AWS Engineer
3 5 (14.71%) Developer
3 5 (14.71%) Senior
4 4 (11.76%) AWS DevOps
4 4 (11.76%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 4 (11.76%) Data Engineer
4 4 (11.76%) Lead
4 4 (11.76%) Python Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) Architect
5 3 (8.82%) Senior Data Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) Software Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Apigee Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Software Design Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) Applications Developer
7 1 (2.94%) AWS Data Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) Infrastructure Architect
7 1 (2.94%) Quantitative Developer
7 1 (2.94%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (35.29%) Node.js
2 6 (17.65%) React
3 5 (14.71%) AngularJS
3 5 (14.71%) OAuth
4 4 (11.76%) .NET
4 4 (11.76%) JWT
5 3 (8.82%) AWS CDK
6 2 (5.88%) CSS
6 2 (5.88%) Flask
6 2 (5.88%) GraphQL
6 2 (5.88%) HTML
6 2 (5.88%) OpenTelemetry
6 2 (5.88%) REST
6 2 (5.88%) RESTful
6 2 (5.88%) SQLAlchemy
6 2 (5.88%) WebSockets
7 1 (2.94%) Kafka
7 1 (2.94%) NumPy
7 1 (2.94%) OpenID
7 1 (2.94%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 10 (29.41%) Cloud Native
2 4 (11.76%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (11.76%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (5.88%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.94%) AI Agents
4 1 (2.94%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.94%) Data Fabric
4 1 (2.94%) Derivative
4 1 (2.94%) Equities
4 1 (2.94%) Equity Derivative
4 1 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.94%) Mainframe
4 1 (2.94%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.94%) NHS
4 1 (2.94%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.94%) Virtual Team
4 1 (2.94%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.88%) Linux
2 1 (2.94%) AIX
2 1 (2.94%) Android
2 1 (2.94%) Apple iOS
2 1 (2.94%) Solaris
2 1 (2.94%) Unix
2 1 (2.94%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 16 (47.06%) DevOps
3 12 (35.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 9 (26.47%) Agile
4 9 (26.47%) Analytics
4 9 (26.47%) Event-Driven
4 9 (26.47%) Software Engineering
5 7 (20.59%) Data Pipeline
6 6 (17.65%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 6 (17.65%) Microservices
6 6 (17.65%) Observability
7 5 (14.71%) Containerisation
7 5 (14.71%) Full-Stack Development
7 5 (14.71%) User Experience
8 4 (11.76%) Code Quality
8 4 (11.76%) Design Patterns
8 4 (11.76%) Mentoring
9 3 (8.82%) Data Transformation
9 3 (8.82%) Performance Tuning
9 3 (8.82%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 21 (61.76%) Python
2 9 (26.47%) SQL
3 7 (20.59%) Java
4 5 (14.71%) JavaScript
5 3 (8.82%) TypeScript
6 2 (5.88%) Bash
7 1 (2.94%) Apex Code
7 1 (2.94%) C#
7 1 (2.94%) C++
7 1 (2.94%) COBOL
7 1 (2.94%) Go
7 1 (2.94%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.94%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 12 (35.29%) SC Cleared
1 12 (35.29%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.88%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.94%) Degree
3 1 (2.94%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.94%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.82%) Data Quality
1 3 (8.82%) GDPR
2 1 (2.94%) HMG Security Policy Framework
2 1 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.94%) NCSC
2 1 (2.94%) QA
System Software
1 7 (20.59%) Docker
2 1 (2.94%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (35.29%) Terraform
2 3 (8.82%) Ansible
2 3 (8.82%) Kubernetes
3 2 (5.88%) Prometheus
3 2 (5.88%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (17.65%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.94%) Atlassian
2 1 (2.94%) Databricks
2 1 (2.94%) NetApp
2 1 (2.94%) Salesforce