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 23 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 102 123 116
Rank change year-on-year +21 -7 +25
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 26 15 37
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.39% 0.64% 1.21%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.43% 1.59% 2.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 9 23
10th Percentile £453 £418 £401
25th Percentile £526 £428 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year +38.46% +2.63% -13.64%
75th Percentile £794 £556 £631
90th Percentile £800 £618 £688
London median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -17.65%

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 758 943 1,243
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 40.62% 40.20% 40.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 551 622 853
10th Percentile £325 £388 £326
25th Percentile £431 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £560 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% +1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £662 £675 £688
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
London median daily rate £525 £550 £551
% change year-on-year -4.55% -0.14% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 4 8
10th Percentile £18.87 £29.40 £15.58
25th Percentile £24.61 £33.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +68.67% +1.22%
75th Percentile £54.46 £49.38 £40.69
90th Percentile £65.57 £75.25 £49.88
London median hourly rate £26.30 £32.50 £40.50
% change year-on-year -19.08% -19.75% +23.66%

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 23 October 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 23 October 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 +21 26 £675 +34.00% 56
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 (7.69%) Confluence
2 1 (3.85%) CICS
2 1 (3.85%) CMS
2 1 (3.85%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 26 (100.00%) AWS
1 26 (100.00%) Serverless
2 18 (69.23%) Amazon S3
3 12 (46.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 6 (23.08%) Amazon ECS
4 6 (23.08%) AWS Step Functions
5 5 (19.23%) Amazon Cognito
5 5 (19.23%) Amazon SQS
5 5 (19.23%) Snowflake
6 4 (15.38%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (15.38%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (15.38%) Amazon EventBridge
6 4 (15.38%) Datadog
6 4 (15.38%) GitHub
6 4 (15.38%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (11.54%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (7.69%) Azure
8 2 (7.69%) Fastly
8 2 (7.69%) Heroku
8 2 (7.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (11.54%) DNS
2 1 (3.85%) DKIM
2 1 (3.85%) NAS
2 1 (3.85%) OpenLDAP
2 1 (3.85%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (3.85%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (34.62%) DynamoDB
2 5 (19.23%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (3.85%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (3.85%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (3.85%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (3.85%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (3.85%) GIS
4 1 (3.85%) Metadata
4 1 (3.85%) Parquet
4 1 (3.85%) Pinecone
4 1 (3.85%) Power BI
4 1 (3.85%) Relational Database
4 1 (3.85%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (3.85%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (11.54%) Git
1 3 (11.54%) JIRA
2 1 (3.85%) GitLab
2 1 (3.85%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.85%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 4 (15.38%) Social Skills
2 3 (11.54%) Banking
2 3 (11.54%) Front Office
2 3 (11.54%) Investment Banking
2 3 (11.54%) Public Sector
3 2 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (7.69%) Finance
4 1 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (15.38%) Developer
1 4 (15.38%) Lead
1 4 (15.38%) Python Engineer
1 4 (15.38%) Software Design Engineer
1 4 (15.38%) Software Engineer
2 3 (11.54%) Architect
2 3 (11.54%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (11.54%) Senior
3 2 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (7.69%) Data Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) AWS Data Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) AWS Developer
4 1 (3.85%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (3.85%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (3.85%) Digital Architect
4 1 (3.85%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) Salesforce Developer
4 1 (3.85%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (26.92%) AngularJS
2 6 (23.08%) Node.js
2 6 (23.08%) React
3 4 (15.38%) .NET
3 4 (15.38%) GraphQL
3 4 (15.38%) OpenTelemetry
3 4 (15.38%) WebSockets
4 2 (7.69%) AWS CDK
4 2 (7.69%) CSS
4 2 (7.69%) Flask
4 2 (7.69%) HTML
4 2 (7.69%) REST
4 2 (7.69%) RESTful
4 2 (7.69%) SQLAlchemy
5 1 (3.85%) Faiss
5 1 (3.85%) FastAPI
5 1 (3.85%) Flake8
5 1 (3.85%) LangChain
5 1 (3.85%) LangGraph
5 1 (3.85%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 7 (26.92%) Cloud Native
2 2 (7.69%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.85%) AI Agents
3 1 (3.85%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.85%) Data Fabric
3 1 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.85%) Mainframe
3 1 (3.85%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.85%) NHS
3 1 (3.85%) Public Cloud
3 1 (3.85%) Virtual Team
3 1 (3.85%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.85%) AIX
1 1 (3.85%) Android
1 1 (3.85%) Apple iOS
1 1 (3.85%) Linux
1 1 (3.85%) Solaris
1 1 (3.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (46.15%) CI/CD
2 10 (38.46%) DevOps
2 10 (38.46%) Event-Driven
3 9 (34.62%) Infrastructure as Code
3 9 (34.62%) Software Engineering
4 8 (30.77%) Agile
4 8 (30.77%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 8 (30.77%) Observability
5 7 (26.92%) User Experience
6 6 (23.08%) Data Pipeline
6 6 (23.08%) Mentoring
7 5 (19.23%) Full-Stack Development
7 5 (19.23%) Technical Leadership
8 4 (15.38%) Clean Code
8 4 (15.38%) Code Quality
8 4 (15.38%) Deployment Automation
8 4 (15.38%) Performance Optimisation
9 3 (11.54%) Containerisation
9 3 (11.54%) Matrix Organization
9 3 (11.54%) Performance Attribution
Programming Languages
1 15 (57.69%) Python
2 6 (23.08%) Java
2 6 (23.08%) SQL
3 5 (19.23%) JavaScript
4 3 (11.54%) TypeScript
5 2 (7.69%) Bash
6 1 (3.85%) Apex Code
6 1 (3.85%) COBOL
6 1 (3.85%) Go
6 1 (3.85%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 5 (19.23%) SC Cleared
1 5 (19.23%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.69%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.54%) GDPR
2 2 (7.69%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.85%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 1 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (3.85%) NCSC
3 1 (3.85%) QA
System Software
1 2 (7.69%) Docker
2 1 (3.85%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (19.23%) Terraform
2 4 (15.38%) Prometheus
3 2 (7.69%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (3.85%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (19.23%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.85%) Atlassian
2 1 (3.85%) NetApp
2 1 (3.85%) Salesforce