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 27 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 114 91
Rank change year-on-year +21 -23 +59
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 42 20 44
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 2.07% 0.86% 1.64%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.02% 2.19% 4.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 13 26
10th Percentile £343 £434 £400
25th Percentile £363 £481 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £558 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year +7.21% -0.95% -2.33%
75th Percentile £673 £556 £638
90th Percentile £688 £588 £719
London median daily rate £513 £575 £500
% change year-on-year -10.87% +15.00% -20.00%

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 837 912 1,077
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.21% 39.43% 40.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 625 599 786
10th Percentile £325 £385 £351
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £755
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 5 9
10th Percentile £18.87 - -
25th Percentile £23.15 - £17.00
Median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.23% +84.21% -7.32%
75th Percentile £38.88 - £38.00
90th Percentile £41.94 £69.50 £53.75
London median hourly rate £26.30 £31.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -16.51% -16.00% +22.95%

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 27 December 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 27 December 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 +17 39 £520 +1.46% 82
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 (4.76%) Confluence
2 1 (2.38%) Apache
2 1 (2.38%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.38%) CICS
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
3 14 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
4 12 (28.57%) GitHub
5 9 (21.43%) GitHub Actions
6 8 (19.05%) Azure
7 7 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
8 6 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (11.90%) AWS Fargate
10 4 (9.52%) Amazon ECR
10 4 (9.52%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (9.52%) Apigee
10 4 (9.52%) AWS CodePipeline
10 4 (9.52%) AWS Step Functions
10 4 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (9.52%) Snowflake
11 3 (7.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 2 (4.76%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 5 (11.90%) DNS
2 1 (2.38%) DKIM
2 1 (2.38%) NAS
2 1 (2.38%) OpenLDAP
2 1 (2.38%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (2.38%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (28.57%) DynamoDB
2 6 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (9.52%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (7.14%) Amazon Athena
4 3 (7.14%) CockroachDB
4 3 (7.14%) Metadata
4 3 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (4.76%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (4.76%) Data Lake
5 2 (4.76%) Pinecone
5 2 (4.76%) Relational Database
6 1 (2.38%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (2.38%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (2.38%) Data Hub
6 1 (2.38%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (2.38%) MySQL
6 1 (2.38%) NoSQL
6 1 (2.38%) Power BI
6 1 (2.38%) SQL Server
6 1 (2.38%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (19.05%) Git
2 5 (11.90%) Jenkins
3 3 (7.14%) JIRA
4 2 (4.76%) GitLab
5 1 (2.38%) Bitbucket
5 1 (2.38%) Terragrunt
5 1 (2.38%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 6 (14.29%) Banking
1 6 (14.29%) Front Office
2 5 (11.90%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (11.90%) Public Sector
3 4 (9.52%) Finance
3 4 (9.52%) Social Skills
4 3 (7.14%) Investment Banking
5 2 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (23.81%) DevOps Engineer
2 9 (21.43%) Developer
3 7 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
4 6 (14.29%) Data Engineer
5 5 (11.90%) Python Engineer
5 5 (11.90%) Senior
6 4 (9.52%) Architect
6 4 (9.52%) AWS DevOps
6 4 (9.52%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 4 (9.52%) Lead
7 3 (7.14%) Quantitative Developer
8 2 (4.76%) Apigee Engineer
8 2 (4.76%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 2 (4.76%) Cloud Architect
8 2 (4.76%) Senior Data Engineer
9 1 (2.38%) AWS Architect
9 1 (2.38%) AWS Developer
9 1 (2.38%) Cloud Engineer
9 1 (2.38%) Digital Architect
9 1 (2.38%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (30.95%) Node.js
2 8 (19.05%) React
3 5 (11.90%) boto
3 5 (11.90%) NumPy
3 5 (11.90%) OAuth
3 5 (11.90%) Pandas
3 5 (11.90%) REST
4 4 (9.52%) .NET
4 4 (9.52%) AngularJS
4 4 (9.52%) AWS CDK
4 4 (9.52%) HTML
4 4 (9.52%) JWT
5 3 (7.14%) CSS
5 3 (7.14%) SciPy
6 2 (4.76%) Flask
6 2 (4.76%) Kafka
6 2 (4.76%) LangGraph
6 2 (4.76%) RESTful
6 2 (4.76%) SQLAlchemy
7 1 (2.38%) Faiss
Miscellaneous
1 11 (26.19%) Cloud Native
2 5 (11.90%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (9.52%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (7.14%) Derivative
4 3 (7.14%) Equities
4 3 (7.14%) Equity Derivative
5 2 (4.76%) Data Structures
5 2 (4.76%) Management Information System
5 2 (4.76%) Product Ownership
6 1 (2.38%) AI Agents
6 1 (2.38%) Data Centre
6 1 (2.38%) Data Fabric
6 1 (2.38%) Mainframe
6 1 (2.38%) NHS
6 1 (2.38%) Public Cloud
6 1 (2.38%) Virtual Team
6 1 (2.38%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 4 (9.52%) Linux
2 1 (2.38%) AIX
2 1 (2.38%) Android
2 1 (2.38%) Apple iOS
2 1 (2.38%) Solaris
2 1 (2.38%) Unix
2 1 (2.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (54.76%) CI/CD
2 19 (45.24%) DevOps
3 15 (35.71%) Infrastructure as Code
4 12 (28.57%) Analytics
5 10 (23.81%) Event-Driven
6 9 (21.43%) Agile
6 9 (21.43%) Data Pipeline
6 9 (21.43%) Microservices
7 7 (16.67%) Containerisation
7 7 (16.67%) Observability
7 7 (16.67%) Software Engineering
8 6 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
9 5 (11.90%) Data Modelling
9 5 (11.90%) ETL
9 5 (11.90%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 4 (9.52%) AI
10 4 (9.52%) Code Quality
10 4 (9.52%) Performance Tuning
10 4 (9.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 4 (9.52%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 28 (66.67%) Python
2 13 (30.95%) SQL
3 8 (19.05%) Java
4 7 (16.67%) JavaScript
5 4 (9.52%) TypeScript
6 3 (7.14%) C#
6 3 (7.14%) C++
7 2 (4.76%) Bash
7 2 (4.76%) Go
8 1 (2.38%) Apex Code
8 1 (2.38%) COBOL
8 1 (2.38%) PHP
8 1 (2.38%) Ruby
8 1 (2.38%) Shell Script
8 1 (2.38%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 15 (35.71%) SC Cleared
1 15 (35.71%) 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 DevOps Engineer
4 1 (2.38%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.90%) Data Quality
2 3 (7.14%) GDPR
3 1 (2.38%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 1 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.38%) NCSC
3 1 (2.38%) QA
System Software
1 11 (26.19%) Docker
2 1 (2.38%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 15 (35.71%) Terraform
2 7 (16.67%) Kubernetes
3 4 (9.52%) Ansible
4 3 (7.14%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (2.38%) Kibana
5 1 (2.38%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 8 (19.05%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.76%) SAP
3 1 (2.38%) Amplitude
3 1 (2.38%) Atlassian
3 1 (2.38%) Databricks
3 1 (2.38%) NetApp
3 1 (2.38%) Salesforce