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

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 101 109
Rank change year-on-year 0 +8 +25
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 42 27 28
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.60% 1.34% 1.18%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.18% 3.19% 2.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 21 20
10th Percentile £353 - £413
25th Percentile £461 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.82% +10.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £725 £788 £544
90th Percentile £875 £800 £593
London median daily rate £525 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -9.09%

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 1,004 846 985
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 38.29% 42.09% 41.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 691 542 696
10th Percentile £338 £363 £363
25th Percentile £456 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £664 £653
90th Percentile £750 £750 £757
London median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 17 6
10th Percentile £19.87 £24.30 £12.75
25th Percentile £27.54 £26.45 £14.88
Median hourly rate £54.60 £34.65 £24.75
Median % change year-on-year +57.58% +40.00% -52.86%
75th Percentile £67.50 £56.75 £27.00
90th Percentile £76.58 £93.25 £38.63
London median hourly rate £35.50 £30.75 £26.97
% change year-on-year +15.45% +14.02% -50.96%

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 5 July 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 5 July 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 +1 41 £575 +4.55% 20
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 (9.52%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (9.52%) CICS
2 3 (7.14%) Confluence
3 1 (2.38%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 42 (100.00%) AWS
1 42 (100.00%) Serverless
2 28 (66.67%) Amazon S3
3 14 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 11 (26.19%) GitHub
5 10 (23.81%) Amazon EC2
6 9 (21.43%) Amazon SQS
7 8 (19.05%) AWS CloudFormation
8 7 (16.67%) Amazon Bedrock
9 6 (14.29%) Amazon Kinesis
9 6 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (11.90%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (11.90%) Amazon EMR
10 5 (11.90%) AWS Step Functions
10 5 (11.90%) Azure
11 4 (9.52%) Amazon SageMaker
11 4 (9.52%) dbt
11 4 (9.52%) Power Platform
11 4 (9.52%) SaaS
12 3 (7.14%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.38%) Firewall
1 1 (2.38%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (40.48%) DynamoDB
2 13 (30.95%) Amazon Athena
3 11 (26.19%) Amazon Redshift
4 10 (23.81%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (11.90%) Db2
6 4 (9.52%) Metadata
6 4 (9.52%) Power BI
7 3 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (4.76%) Data Lake
8 2 (4.76%) Data Mining
8 2 (4.76%) Delta Lake
8 2 (4.76%) Electronic Patient Records
8 2 (4.76%) Pinecone
8 2 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (4.76%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (4.76%) Tableau
9 1 (2.38%) Amazon QuickSight
9 1 (2.38%) Apache Iceberg
9 1 (2.38%) CockroachDB
9 1 (2.38%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 13 (30.95%) Git
1 13 (30.95%) GitLab
2 9 (21.43%) JIRA
3 7 (16.67%) Jenkins
4 6 (14.29%) JUnit
5 5 (11.90%) Cucumber
5 5 (11.90%) Mockito
5 5 (11.90%) Postman
6 2 (4.76%) Bitbucket
7 1 (2.38%) Artifactory
7 1 (2.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (2.38%) Cypress.io
General
1 15 (35.71%) Finance
2 11 (26.19%) Banking
3 10 (23.81%) Social Skills
4 7 (16.67%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.76%) Military
6 1 (2.38%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.38%) Back Office
6 1 (2.38%) Billing
6 1 (2.38%) Law
6 1 (2.38%) Police
Job Titles
1 9 (21.43%) AWS Engineer
1 9 (21.43%) Senior
2 7 (16.67%) Data Engineer
3 5 (11.90%) Architect
3 5 (11.90%) Automation Engineer
3 5 (11.90%) Developer
4 4 (9.52%) Lead
5 3 (7.14%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) Data Architect
5 3 (7.14%) Workflow Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) AWS Data Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (4.76%) Platform Architect
6 2 (4.76%) Senior Data Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Snowflake Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Software Engineer
7 1 (2.38%) GCP Data Engineer
7 1 (2.38%) GCP Engineer
7 1 (2.38%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (21.43%) Kafka
1 9 (21.43%) SOAP
2 7 (16.67%) Spring
2 7 (16.67%) Spring Boot
3 6 (14.29%) RESTful
4 5 (11.90%) Gherkin
4 5 (11.90%) Node.js
4 5 (11.90%) PySpark
4 5 (11.90%) WireMock
4 5 (11.90%) YAML
5 4 (9.52%) .NET
5 4 (9.52%) JSON
5 4 (9.52%) React
5 4 (9.52%) Web Services
5 4 (9.52%) WSDL
6 3 (7.14%) boto
7 2 (4.76%) Jest
7 2 (4.76%) LangGraph
7 2 (4.76%) Model Context Protocol
8 1 (2.38%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 12 (28.57%) Cloud Native
2 4 (9.52%) DataPower
2 4 (9.52%) Mainframe
2 4 (9.52%) Online Banking
3 2 (4.76%) NHS
4 1 (2.38%) AI Agents
4 1 (2.38%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.38%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.38%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 4 (9.52%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (54.76%) CI/CD
2 14 (33.33%) AI
3 13 (30.95%) Data Engineering
3 13 (30.95%) Infrastructure as Code
4 11 (26.19%) Agile
5 10 (23.81%) DevOps
5 10 (23.81%) Test Automation
6 8 (19.05%) Event-Driven
7 7 (16.67%) Analytics
7 7 (16.67%) Containerisation
7 7 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
7 7 (16.67%) Generative AI
7 7 (16.67%) LLM
7 7 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
8 6 (14.29%) Data Modelling
8 6 (14.29%) Machine Learning
8 6 (14.29%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
8 6 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
9 5 (11.90%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (11.90%) Webhook
Programming Languages
1 24 (57.14%) Python
2 15 (35.71%) SQL
3 9 (21.43%) C#
4 8 (19.05%) Java
5 5 (11.90%) TypeScript
6 4 (9.52%) JavaScript
6 4 (9.52%) JCL
6 4 (9.52%) Shell Script
7 3 (7.14%) Bicep
8 2 (4.76%) Bash
9 1 (2.38%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (9.52%) SC Cleared
1 4 (9.52%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.76%) AWS Certification
2 2 (4.76%) DBS Check
3 1 (2.38%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 1 (2.38%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (2.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.90%) Data Quality
2 3 (7.14%) QA
3 1 (2.38%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (30.95%) Docker
2 1 (2.38%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 15 (35.71%) Terraform
2 9 (21.43%) Kubernetes
3 3 (7.14%) Grafana
3 3 (7.14%) Prometheus
4 2 (4.76%) Ansible
5 1 (2.38%) Puppet
5 1 (2.38%) Salt
Vendors
1 5 (11.90%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.14%) Databricks
3 2 (4.76%) OpenAI
3 2 (4.76%) Splunk
4 1 (2.38%) Fortinet
4 1 (2.38%) Informatica
4 1 (2.38%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.38%) Sybase