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

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 108 93
Rank change year-on-year +19 -15 +47
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 44 18 44
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 2.12% 0.85% 1.67%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.19% 2.07% 4.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 14 28
10th Percentile £316 £421 £394
25th Percentile £359 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.71% -2.62% -6.67%
75th Percentile £651 £550 £578
90th Percentile £688 £588 £711
London median daily rate £513 £575 £513
% change year-on-year -10.87% +12.20% -14.58%

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 848 869 1,012
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 40.93% 40.95% 38.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 629 567 740
10th Percentile £349 £363 £350
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 £669 £675
90th Percentile £749 £738 £738
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 5 13
10th Percentile £18.87 £26.75 -
25th Percentile £23.15 - £17.00
Median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.23% +55.56% +2.27%
75th Percentile £41.85 - £38.00
90th Percentile £47.50 - £49.95
London median hourly rate £29.69 £29.80 £31.50
% change year-on-year -0.35% -5.41% +14.55%

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 28 January 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 28 January 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 +23 40 £475 -5.94% 15
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 (4.55%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.27%) Apache
2 1 (2.27%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 44 (100.00%) AWS
1 44 (100.00%) Serverless
2 27 (61.36%) Amazon S3
3 14 (31.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 13 (29.55%) Amazon ECS
5 12 (27.27%) GitHub
6 9 (20.45%) AWS CloudFormation
7 8 (18.18%) Azure
7 8 (18.18%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (11.36%) AWS Fargate
8 5 (11.36%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (11.36%) Snowflake
9 4 (9.09%) Amazon Bedrock
9 4 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (9.09%) Amazon ECR
9 4 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (9.09%) Apigee
9 4 (9.09%) AWS CodePipeline
9 4 (9.09%) AWS Step Functions
10 3 (6.82%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 5 (11.36%) DNS
2 1 (2.27%) DKIM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (31.82%) DynamoDB
2 5 (11.36%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (9.09%) Amazon Athena
3 4 (9.09%) Amazon Redshift
3 4 (9.09%) CockroachDB
4 3 (6.82%) Metadata
4 3 (6.82%) Pinecone
4 3 (6.82%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (4.55%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (4.55%) Data Lake
5 2 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (2.27%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (2.27%) Data Hub
6 1 (2.27%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (2.27%) GIS
6 1 (2.27%) MySQL
6 1 (2.27%) NoSQL
6 1 (2.27%) Power BI
6 1 (2.27%) Star Schema
6 1 (2.27%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (25.00%) Git
2 6 (13.64%) Jenkins
3 3 (6.82%) JIRA
4 2 (4.55%) GitLab
5 1 (2.27%) Bitbucket
5 1 (2.27%) Cucumber
5 1 (2.27%) JUnit
5 1 (2.27%) Mockito
5 1 (2.27%) Postman
5 1 (2.27%) Terragrunt
5 1 (2.27%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 8 (18.18%) Banking
2 6 (13.64%) Front Office
3 5 (11.36%) Finance
3 5 (11.36%) Public Sector
4 4 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (6.82%) Investment Banking
5 3 (6.82%) Social Skills
6 2 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (20.45%) Developer
1 9 (20.45%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (15.91%) Data Engineer
3 6 (13.64%) AWS Engineer
4 5 (11.36%) Senior
5 4 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 4 (9.09%) Lead
5 4 (9.09%) Python Engineer
6 3 (6.82%) Architect
6 3 (6.82%) AWS DevOps
6 3 (6.82%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 3 (6.82%) Quantitative Developer
7 2 (4.55%) Apigee Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) Cloud Architect
7 2 (4.55%) Senior Data Engineer
8 1 (2.27%) AWS Data Engineer
8 1 (2.27%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 1 (2.27%) Kafka Engineer
8 1 (2.27%) Snowflake Data Engineer
8 1 (2.27%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (31.82%) Node.js
2 8 (18.18%) React
3 6 (13.64%) boto
4 5 (11.36%) AWS CDK
4 5 (11.36%) NumPy
4 5 (11.36%) OAuth
4 5 (11.36%) Pandas
5 4 (9.09%) .NET
5 4 (9.09%) AngularJS
5 4 (9.09%) HTML
5 4 (9.09%) JWT
5 4 (9.09%) Kafka
5 4 (9.09%) LangGraph
5 4 (9.09%) REST
6 3 (6.82%) CSS
6 3 (6.82%) SciPy
7 2 (4.55%) Flask
7 2 (4.55%) RESTful
7 2 (4.55%) Spring Boot
7 2 (4.55%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 13 (29.55%) Cloud Native
2 5 (11.36%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (6.82%) Derivative
4 3 (6.82%) Equities
4 3 (6.82%) Equity Derivative
5 2 (4.55%) Data Structures
5 2 (4.55%) Management Information System
5 2 (4.55%) Product Ownership
6 1 (2.27%) AI Agents
6 1 (2.27%) Data Fabric
6 1 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (2.27%) NHS
6 1 (2.27%) Public Cloud
6 1 (2.27%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.82%) Linux
2 1 (2.27%) Android
2 1 (2.27%) Apple iOS
2 1 (2.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (59.09%) CI/CD
2 19 (43.18%) DevOps
3 16 (36.36%) Infrastructure as Code
4 12 (27.27%) Analytics
4 12 (27.27%) Event-Driven
5 10 (22.73%) Data Pipeline
6 9 (20.45%) Agile
7 8 (18.18%) Microservices
7 8 (18.18%) Observability
8 7 (15.91%) Software Engineering
9 6 (13.64%) AI
9 6 (13.64%) Containerisation
9 6 (13.64%) Data Modelling
9 6 (13.64%) ETL
9 6 (13.64%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 6 (13.64%) Full-Stack Development
10 5 (11.36%) Design Patterns
10 5 (11.36%) Performance Tuning
10 5 (11.36%) Semantic Search
10 5 (11.36%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 30 (68.18%) Python
2 13 (29.55%) SQL
3 9 (20.45%) Java
4 7 (15.91%) JavaScript
5 4 (9.09%) C#
5 4 (9.09%) TypeScript
6 3 (6.82%) C++
7 2 (4.55%) Bash
8 1 (2.27%) Apex Code
8 1 (2.27%) Bicep
8 1 (2.27%) Go
8 1 (2.27%) PHP
8 1 (2.27%) Ruby
8 1 (2.27%) Shell Script
8 1 (2.27%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 13 (29.55%) SC Cleared
1 13 (29.55%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.82%) Degree
2 3 (6.82%) Master's Degree
2 3 (6.82%) MCP
2 3 (6.82%) PhD
3 2 (4.55%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.27%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.64%) Data Quality
2 3 (6.82%) GDPR
3 1 (2.27%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 1 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.27%) NCSC
System Software
1 13 (29.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (36.36%) Terraform
2 8 (18.18%) Kubernetes
3 4 (9.09%) Ansible
4 3 (6.82%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (2.27%) Kibana
5 1 (2.27%) Opsgenie
5 1 (2.27%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.55%) SAP
3 1 (2.27%) Amplitude
3 1 (2.27%) Databricks
3 1 (2.27%) Salesforce