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

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 99 102
Rank change year-on-year +3 +3 +34
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 40 25 29
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.54% 1.30% 1.22%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.96% 3.07% 2.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 20 22
10th Percentile £447 - £413
25th Percentile £466 £425 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £555 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.86% +11.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £716 £791 £563
90th Percentile £875 £800 £591
London median daily rate £525 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -10.11%

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 1,010 815 977
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 38.77% 42.45% 41.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 692 523 693
10th Percentile £350 £363 £363
25th Percentile £459 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year - +2.33% -7.73%
75th Percentile £650 £669 £650
90th Percentile £749 £751 £763
London median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 16 7
10th Percentile £23.16 £22.50 £12.75
25th Percentile £31.38 £24.66 £17.00
Median hourly rate £57.77 £31.86 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +81.31% +41.60% -57.14%
75th Percentile £70.00 £55.51 £27.00
90th Percentile £76.75 £94.38 £36.30
London median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £26.49
% change year-on-year +10.94% +20.82% -48.32%

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 June 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 23 June 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 0 39 £575 +3.60% 8
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 (10.00%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (10.00%) CICS
2 3 (7.50%) Confluence
3 1 (2.50%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 40 (100.00%) AWS
1 40 (100.00%) Serverless
2 26 (65.00%) Amazon S3
3 13 (32.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 10 (25.00%) GitHub
5 9 (22.50%) Amazon EC2
6 8 (20.00%) Amazon SQS
6 8 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
7 7 (17.50%) Amazon Bedrock
8 5 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
8 5 (12.50%) Amazon EMR
8 5 (12.50%) Amazon Kinesis
8 5 (12.50%) Azure
8 5 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (10.00%) Amazon SageMaker
9 4 (10.00%) AWS Step Functions
9 4 (10.00%) dbt
9 4 (10.00%) Power Platform
9 4 (10.00%) SaaS
10 3 (7.50%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.50%) Firewall
1 1 (2.50%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (40.00%) DynamoDB
2 12 (30.00%) Amazon Athena
3 11 (27.50%) Amazon Redshift
4 9 (22.50%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (12.50%) Db2
6 4 (10.00%) Metadata
6 4 (10.00%) Power BI
7 3 (7.50%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (5.00%) Data Lake
8 2 (5.00%) Data Mining
8 2 (5.00%) Delta Lake
8 2 (5.00%) Electronic Patient Records
8 2 (5.00%) Pinecone
8 2 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (5.00%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (5.00%) Tableau
9 1 (2.50%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (2.50%) Amazon QuickSight
9 1 (2.50%) CockroachDB
9 1 (2.50%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 13 (32.50%) Git
2 12 (30.00%) GitLab
3 9 (22.50%) JIRA
4 7 (17.50%) Jenkins
5 6 (15.00%) JUnit
6 5 (12.50%) Cucumber
6 5 (12.50%) Mockito
6 5 (12.50%) Postman
7 1 (2.50%) Artifactory
7 1 (2.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (2.50%) Bitbucket
7 1 (2.50%) Cypress.io
General
1 14 (35.00%) Finance
2 11 (27.50%) Banking
3 10 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 7 (17.50%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.00%) Military
6 1 (2.50%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.50%) Billing
6 1 (2.50%) Law
6 1 (2.50%) Police
Job Titles
1 8 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
1 8 (20.00%) Senior
2 7 (17.50%) Data Engineer
3 5 (12.50%) Architect
3 5 (12.50%) Automation Engineer
3 5 (12.50%) Developer
4 4 (10.00%) Lead
5 3 (7.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Data Architect
5 3 (7.50%) Workflow Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) AWS Data Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (5.00%) Platform Architect
6 2 (5.00%) Senior Data Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Snowflake Engineer
7 1 (2.50%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 1 (2.50%) Gen AI Engineer
7 1 (2.50%) Kafka Engineer
7 1 (2.50%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (22.50%) Kafka
1 9 (22.50%) SOAP
2 7 (17.50%) Spring
2 7 (17.50%) Spring Boot
3 6 (15.00%) RESTful
4 5 (12.50%) Gherkin
4 5 (12.50%) PySpark
4 5 (12.50%) WireMock
4 5 (12.50%) YAML
5 4 (10.00%) .NET
5 4 (10.00%) JSON
5 4 (10.00%) Node.js
5 4 (10.00%) React
5 4 (10.00%) Web Services
5 4 (10.00%) WSDL
6 3 (7.50%) boto
7 2 (5.00%) LangGraph
7 2 (5.00%) Model Context Protocol
8 1 (2.50%) Jest
8 1 (2.50%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 10 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 4 (10.00%) DataPower
2 4 (10.00%) Mainframe
2 4 (10.00%) Online Banking
3 2 (5.00%) NHS
4 1 (2.50%) AI Agents
4 1 (2.50%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.50%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.50%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (52.50%) CI/CD
2 13 (32.50%) AI
3 12 (30.00%) Data Engineering
3 12 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 11 (27.50%) Agile
5 10 (25.00%) DevOps
6 9 (22.50%) Test Automation
7 7 (17.50%) Analytics
7 7 (17.50%) Containerisation
7 7 (17.50%) Event-Driven
7 7 (17.50%) Generative AI
7 7 (17.50%) LLM
7 7 (17.50%) Performance Tuning
8 6 (15.00%) Data Pipeline
8 6 (15.00%) Machine Learning
8 6 (15.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
8 6 (15.00%) Technical Leadership
9 5 (12.50%) BDD
9 5 (12.50%) Data Governance
9 5 (12.50%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 23 (57.50%) Python
2 14 (35.00%) SQL
3 9 (22.50%) C#
4 8 (20.00%) Java
5 4 (10.00%) JCL
5 4 (10.00%) Shell Script
5 4 (10.00%) TypeScript
6 3 (7.50%) Bicep
6 3 (7.50%) JavaScript
7 2 (5.00%) Bash
8 1 (2.50%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.00%) AWS Certification
2 2 (5.00%) DBS Check
3 1 (2.50%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 1 (2.50%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (2.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (12.50%) Data Quality
2 3 (7.50%) QA
3 1 (2.50%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (32.50%) Docker
2 1 (2.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (35.00%) Terraform
2 9 (22.50%) Kubernetes
3 3 (7.50%) Grafana
3 3 (7.50%) Prometheus
4 2 (5.00%) Ansible
5 1 (2.50%) Puppet
5 1 (2.50%) Salt
Vendors
1 5 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.50%) Databricks
3 2 (5.00%) OpenAI
3 2 (5.00%) Splunk
4 1 (2.50%) Fortinet
4 1 (2.50%) Informatica
4 1 (2.50%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.50%) Sybase