AWS Lambda Contracts in Central London

AWS Lambda
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring AWS Lambda skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited AWS Lambda over the 6 months leading up to 26 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 104 126
Rank change year-on-year +4 +22 -36
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 26 29 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.34% 1.22% 1.17%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.16% 2.96% 2.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 22 25
10th Percentile - £413 £431
25th Percentile £425 £461 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -16.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £788 £563 £750
90th Percentile £800 £591 -
London median daily rate £550 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -12.00%

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 824 981 1,495
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 42.39% 41.27% 40.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 526 694 975
10th Percentile £363 £363 £275
25th Percentile £456 £450 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £580
Median % change year-on-year +2.23% -7.24% +0.87%
75th Percentile £669 £650 £700
90th Percentile £750 £763 £800
London median daily rate £540 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 7 11
10th Percentile £22.75 £12.75 £21.25
25th Percentile £24.66 £17.00 £30.00
Median hourly rate £34.65 £22.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +54.00% -57.14% +54.41%
75th Percentile £56.75 £27.00 £88.30
90th Percentile £93.25 £36.30 -
London median hourly rate £30.54 £26.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year +17.44% -50.48% +19.86%

AWS Lambda
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing AWS Lambda as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Lambda in Central London

AWS Lambda
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS Lambda in Central London.

Daily rate trend for AWS Lambda in Central London

AWS Lambda
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Lambda in Central London over the 6 months to 26 June 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 26 June 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 +8 26 £550 +10.00% 73
AWS Lambda
London

AWS Lambda
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.85%) Apache
1 1 (3.85%) Apache Spark
1 1 (3.85%) CMS
1 1 (3.85%) Confluence
1 1 (3.85%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 26 (100.00%) AWS
1 26 (100.00%) Serverless
2 12 (46.15%) Amazon S3
3 11 (42.31%) Amazon SQS
4 8 (30.77%) Amazon Cognito
4 8 (30.77%) AWS Step Functions
5 6 (23.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 6 (23.08%) Amazon EKS
5 6 (23.08%) Amazon EventBridge
6 5 (19.23%) Datadog
6 5 (19.23%) GitHub
7 3 (11.54%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (7.69%) SaaS
9 1 (3.85%) Amazon EMR
9 1 (3.85%) AWS Fargate
9 1 (3.85%) Snowflake
9 1 (3.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.69%) DHCP
1 2 (7.69%) DNS
1 2 (7.69%) TCP/IP
1 2 (7.69%) VPN
2 1 (3.85%) Firewall
2 1 (3.85%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (42.31%) DynamoDB
2 5 (19.23%) Amazon Athena
2 5 (19.23%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (19.23%) DocumentDB
2 5 (19.23%) Redis
3 2 (7.69%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (7.69%) NoSQL
3 2 (7.69%) Tableau
4 1 (3.85%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (3.85%) Data Lake
4 1 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (3.85%) MongoDB
4 1 (3.85%) MySQL
4 1 (3.85%) Parquet
4 1 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (3.85%) Relational Database
4 1 (3.85%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 6 (23.08%) Git
2 5 (19.23%) SonarQube
3 1 (3.85%) CircleCI
3 1 (3.85%) GitLab
3 1 (3.85%) JIRA
General
1 10 (38.46%) Public Sector
2 4 (15.38%) Finance
3 3 (11.54%) Social Skills
4 2 (7.69%) Banking
5 1 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.85%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (3.85%) Financial Institution
5 1 (3.85%) Investment Banking
5 1 (3.85%) Retail
5 1 (3.85%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (26.92%) Software Engineer
2 6 (23.08%) Data Engineer
3 5 (19.23%) JavaScript Engineer
4 4 (15.38%) AWS Engineer
4 4 (15.38%) Software Design Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) AWS Data Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Lead
5 2 (7.69%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Principal Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Principal Software Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Architect
6 1 (3.85%) AWS Architect
6 1 (3.85%) AWS Developer
6 1 (3.85%) Designer
6 1 (3.85%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Node.js Developer
6 1 (3.85%) Senior
6 1 (3.85%) Solutions Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (46.15%) Node.js
2 9 (34.62%) React
3 7 (26.92%) GraphQL
4 5 (19.23%) AngularJS
4 5 (19.23%) OpenTelemetry
4 5 (19.23%) WebSockets
5 3 (11.54%) AWS CDK
5 3 (11.54%) Kafka
6 2 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (7.69%) Jest
7 1 (3.85%) OAuth
7 1 (3.85%) OAuth2
7 1 (3.85%) OpenID
7 1 (3.85%) RESTful
7 1 (3.85%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.69%) Greenfield Project
1 2 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (3.85%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.69%) Linux
1 2 (7.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (42.31%) CI/CD
1 11 (42.31%) DevOps
2 10 (38.46%) Infrastructure as Code
3 9 (34.62%) Microservices
3 9 (34.62%) Software Engineering
4 6 (23.08%) Agile
4 6 (23.08%) Deployment Automation
4 6 (23.08%) Mentoring
4 6 (23.08%) Technical Leadership
5 5 (19.23%) Clean Code
5 5 (19.23%) Event-Driven
5 5 (19.23%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 5 (19.23%) Observability
5 5 (19.23%) Performance Optimisation
5 5 (19.23%) User Experience
6 4 (15.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 3 (11.54%) Containerisation
7 3 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (7.69%) Cloud Security
8 2 (7.69%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 13 (50.00%) Python
2 11 (42.31%) JavaScript
3 3 (11.54%) Shell Script
3 3 (11.54%) SQL
3 3 (11.54%) TypeScript
4 2 (7.69%) Go
4 2 (7.69%) Perl
4 2 (7.69%) Rust
5 1 (3.85%) Bash
5 1 (3.85%) Java
5 1 (3.85%) Scala
Qualifications
1 11 (42.31%) SC Cleared
1 11 (42.31%) Security Cleared
2 3 (11.54%) AWS Certification
3 2 (7.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (3.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.69%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (15.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (34.62%) Terraform
2 8 (30.77%) Kubernetes
3 5 (19.23%) Prometheus
4 2 (7.69%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (3.85%) Salesforce