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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 110 99 112
Rank change year-on-year -11 +13 +3
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 36 29 17
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.50% 1.52% 0.73%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.62% 3.84% 1.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 22 11
10th Percentile £456 £425 £456
25th Percentile £548 £506 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £675 £520
Median % change year-on-year - +29.81% +9.47%
75th Percentile £756 £794 £575
90th Percentile £875 £800 £600
London median daily rate £565 £525 £531
% change year-on-year +7.62% -1.18% +1.19%

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 994 756 919
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.49% 39.73% 39.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 701 537 611
10th Percentile £331 £330 £396
25th Percentile £456 £433 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year - -2.22% +2.27%
75th Percentile £656 £660 £675
90th Percentile £763 £754 £775
London median daily rate £550 £530 £550
% change year-on-year +3.77% -3.64% -2.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 11 5
10th Percentile £19.30 £18.87 -
25th Percentile £22.50 £25.25 £27.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £34.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% -2.86% +68.67%
75th Percentile £63.75 £54.46 -
90th Percentile £73.00 £65.57 £69.50
London median hourly rate £28.55 £27.95 £31.00
% change year-on-year +2.15% -9.84% -23.46%

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 October 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 October 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 -14 34 £688 +1.85% 15
West End of London - 1 £580 -
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 (11.11%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (5.56%) Apache
2 2 (5.56%) Apache Spark
2 2 (5.56%) Confluence
3 1 (2.78%) CICS
3 1 (2.78%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 36 (100.00%) AWS
1 36 (100.00%) Serverless
2 27 (75.00%) Amazon S3
3 12 (33.33%) GitHub
4 10 (27.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 10 (27.78%) Amazon EC2
5 9 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
6 8 (22.22%) Amazon EventBridge
6 8 (22.22%) Amazon Kinesis
6 8 (22.22%) AWS Step Functions
7 6 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (16.67%) Amazon SQS
8 5 (13.89%) Amazon Bedrock
8 5 (13.89%) Azure
8 5 (13.89%) dbt
8 5 (13.89%) SaaS
9 4 (11.11%) Amazon EMR
9 4 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (11.11%) Power Platform
10 3 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.78%) Firewall
1 1 (2.78%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (44.44%) Amazon Athena
2 12 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (25.00%) Amazon Redshift
4 6 (16.67%) DynamoDB
5 4 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (11.11%) Delta Lake
5 4 (11.11%) Metadata
5 4 (11.11%) Power BI
6 2 (5.56%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (5.56%) Amazon QuickSight
6 2 (5.56%) BigQuery
6 2 (5.56%) Data Lake
6 2 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (5.56%) Relational Database
7 1 (2.78%) Apache Iceberg
7 1 (2.78%) Data Vault
7 1 (2.78%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (2.78%) Hadoop
7 1 (2.78%) Parquet
7 1 (2.78%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 11 (30.56%) GitLab
2 8 (22.22%) Bitbucket
3 6 (16.67%) Git
4 5 (13.89%) JIRA
5 3 (8.33%) Jenkins
6 2 (5.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (5.56%) Cucumber
6 2 (5.56%) JUnit
6 2 (5.56%) Mockito
6 2 (5.56%) Postman
7 1 (2.78%) Artifactory
7 1 (2.78%) Gradle
7 1 (2.78%) Maven
General
1 19 (52.78%) Finance
2 11 (30.56%) Social Skills
3 9 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (25.00%) Banking
4 8 (22.22%) Back Office
5 5 (13.89%) Public Sector
6 3 (8.33%) Front Office
7 2 (5.56%) Investment Banking
7 2 (5.56%) Military
7 2 (5.56%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (2.78%) Billing
8 1 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (2.78%) Law
8 1 (2.78%) Marketing
8 1 (2.78%) Police
Job Titles
1 15 (41.67%) AWS Engineer
2 14 (38.89%) Senior
3 13 (36.11%) Data Engineer
4 8 (22.22%) AWS Data Engineer
5 7 (19.44%) Senior Data Engineer
6 4 (11.11%) Architect
7 3 (8.33%) Lead
7 3 (8.33%) Workflow Engineer
8 2 (5.56%) Automation Engineer
8 2 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
8 2 (5.56%) Data Architect
8 2 (5.56%) GCP Data Engineer
8 2 (5.56%) GCP Engineer
8 2 (5.56%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 2 (5.56%) Software Engineer
9 1 (2.78%) Analyst
9 1 (2.78%) Data Analyst
9 1 (2.78%) Developer
9 1 (2.78%) Senior Developer
9 1 (2.78%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (41.67%) Terraform
2 7 (19.44%) PySpark
3 6 (16.67%) ActiveMQ
3 6 (16.67%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (11.11%) .NET
5 3 (8.33%) Kafka
5 3 (8.33%) Node.js
5 3 (8.33%) SOAP
5 3 (8.33%) Spring
5 3 (8.33%) Spring Boot
6 2 (5.56%) Gherkin
6 2 (5.56%) Jest
6 2 (5.56%) React
6 2 (5.56%) RESTful
6 2 (5.56%) WireMock
6 2 (5.56%) YAML
7 1 (2.78%) AngularJS
7 1 (2.78%) Bootstrap
7 1 (2.78%) Express.js
7 1 (2.78%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 13 (36.11%) Cloud Native
2 3 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (8.33%) Product Ownership
3 2 (5.56%) AI Agents
3 2 (5.56%) PropTech
4 1 (2.78%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.78%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.78%) DataPower
4 1 (2.78%) Derivative
4 1 (2.78%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.78%) Mainframe
4 1 (2.78%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.78%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.78%) Online Banking
4 1 (2.78%) Over-the-Top Content
4 1 (2.78%) Reference Data
4 1 (2.78%) Smart Meter
4 1 (2.78%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.78%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 19 (52.78%) Data Engineering
3 16 (44.44%) Infrastructure as Code
4 14 (38.89%) Data Pipeline
5 12 (33.33%) Data Modelling
6 11 (30.56%) AI
6 11 (30.56%) Event-Driven
7 10 (27.78%) Agile
7 10 (27.78%) Analytics
7 10 (27.78%) DevOps
8 9 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 8 (22.22%) Data Governance
10 7 (19.44%) Containerisation
10 7 (19.44%) ETL
10 7 (19.44%) Platform Engineering
10 7 (19.44%) Stakeholder Management
10 7 (19.44%) Test Automation
11 6 (16.67%) Machine Learning
11 6 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
11 6 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 21 (58.33%) Python
2 18 (50.00%) SQL
3 6 (16.67%) C#
4 4 (11.11%) JavaScript
4 4 (11.11%) TypeScript
5 3 (8.33%) Java
6 2 (5.56%) Bash
7 1 (2.78%) Bicep
7 1 (2.78%) JCL
7 1 (2.78%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (8.33%) SC Cleared
1 3 (8.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.56%) AWS Certification
2 2 (5.56%) DBS Check
3 1 (2.78%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 1 (2.78%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (2.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (25.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.56%) QA
System Software
1 8 (22.22%) Docker
2 1 (2.78%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.56%) Ansible
2 2 (5.56%) Grafana
3 1 (2.78%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.78%) Puppet
3 1 (2.78%) Salt
Vendors
1 5 (13.89%) Databricks
1 5 (13.89%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.78%) Fortinet
2 1 (2.78%) Informatica
2 1 (2.78%) OpenAI
2 1 (2.78%) Oracle
2 1 (2.78%) Teradata