AWS Lambda Contract Job Trends in the City of London

AWS Lambda
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring AWS Lambda skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 99 107
Rank change year-on-year 0 +8 +18
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 40 29 22
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.68% 1.54% 1.06%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.21% 3.74% 2.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 22 14
10th Percentile £455 £425 £488
25th Percentile £488 £469 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £625 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +25.00% -5.88%
75th Percentile £756 £784 £556
90th Percentile £875 £800 £598
Central London median daily rate £650 £625 £500
% change year-on-year +4.00% +25.00% -5.88%

All Cloud Computing Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 949 776 840
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 39.89% 41.25% 40.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 653 513 587
10th Percentile £363 £355 £383
25th Percentile £460 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £653 £669 £675
90th Percentile £750 £755 £765
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 13 3
10th Percentile £19.45 £23.93 -
25th Percentile £22.50 £24.66 -
Median hourly rate £30.00 £34.65 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.42% +28.33% -22.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.57 £59.75
90th Percentile £75.35 £97.75 £79.40
Central London median hourly rate £36.25 £34.33 £27.00
% change year-on-year +5.61% +27.13% -22.86%

AWS Lambda
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing AWS Lambda relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

AWS Lambda job vacancy trend in the City of London

AWS Lambda
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing AWS Lambda.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing AWS Lambda

AWS Lambda
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Lambda in the City of London over the 6 months to 10 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Lambda in the City of London

AWS Lambda
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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%) CICS
2 3 (7.50%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (7.50%) Confluence
3 1 (2.50%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 40 (100.00%) AWS
1 40 (100.00%) Serverless
2 29 (72.50%) Amazon S3
3 14 (35.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 11 (27.50%) Amazon EC2
4 11 (27.50%) GitHub
5 9 (22.50%) Amazon SQS
6 8 (20.00%) Amazon Kinesis
7 7 (17.50%) AWS Step Functions
7 7 (17.50%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (15.00%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (12.50%) Amazon Bedrock
9 5 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
9 5 (12.50%) Amazon EMR
9 5 (12.50%) Power Platform
9 5 (12.50%) SaaS
10 4 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (10.00%) Amazon EventBridge
10 4 (10.00%) Azure
10 4 (10.00%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.50%) Firewall
1 1 (2.50%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (37.50%) Amazon Athena
1 15 (37.50%) DynamoDB
2 11 (27.50%) Amazon RDS
2 11 (27.50%) Amazon Redshift
3 5 (12.50%) Db2
3 5 (12.50%) Power BI
4 4 (10.00%) Metadata
5 2 (5.00%) Data Lake
5 2 (5.00%) Data Mining
5 2 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (5.00%) Delta Lake
5 2 (5.00%) Electronic Patient Records
5 2 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (5.00%) Snowflake Schema
5 2 (5.00%) Tableau
6 1 (2.50%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (2.50%) BigQuery
6 1 (2.50%) Data Vault
6 1 (2.50%) NoSQL
6 1 (2.50%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 14 (35.00%) GitLab
2 9 (22.50%) Git
3 8 (20.00%) JIRA
4 6 (15.00%) Jenkins
5 5 (12.50%) JUnit
6 4 (10.00%) Bitbucket
6 4 (10.00%) Cucumber
6 4 (10.00%) Mockito
6 4 (10.00%) Postman
7 1 (2.50%) Artifactory
7 1 (2.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (2.50%) Cypress.io
General
1 16 (40.00%) Finance
2 11 (27.50%) Social Skills
3 9 (22.50%) Banking
4 7 (17.50%) Public Sector
5 3 (7.50%) Back Office
6 2 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (5.00%) Military
7 1 (2.50%) Billing
7 1 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.50%) Law
7 1 (2.50%) Marketing
7 1 (2.50%) Police
Job Titles
1 11 (27.50%) AWS Engineer
1 11 (27.50%) Senior
2 8 (20.00%) Data Engineer
3 5 (12.50%) Architect
3 5 (12.50%) Developer
4 4 (10.00%) Automation Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) AWS Data Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) Lead
4 4 (10.00%) Senior Data Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Data Architect
5 3 (7.50%) Workflow Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (5.00%) Platform Architect
6 2 (5.00%) Software Engineer
7 1 (2.50%) Analyst
7 1 (2.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 1 (2.50%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
7 1 (2.50%) Senior DevOps
7 1 (2.50%) Technical Architect
7 1 (2.50%) z/OS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (20.00%) SOAP
2 7 (17.50%) Kafka
3 6 (15.00%) RESTful
3 6 (15.00%) Spring
3 6 (15.00%) Spring Boot
4 5 (12.50%) PySpark
5 4 (10.00%) .NET
5 4 (10.00%) Gherkin
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%) WireMock
5 4 (10.00%) WSDL
5 4 (10.00%) YAML
6 3 (7.50%) ActiveMQ
6 3 (7.50%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (5.00%) Jest
8 1 (2.50%) JWT
8 1 (2.50%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 11 (27.50%) 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%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.50%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 14 (35.00%) Data Engineering
3 13 (32.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 12 (30.00%) AI
5 10 (25.00%) Agile
6 9 (22.50%) DevOps
6 9 (22.50%) Test Automation
7 8 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
7 8 (20.00%) Event-Driven
8 7 (17.50%) Analytics
8 7 (17.50%) Containerisation
8 7 (17.50%) Data Modelling
9 6 (15.00%) Business Intelligence
9 6 (15.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 6 (15.00%) Machine Learning
9 6 (15.00%) Performance Tuning
9 6 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (15.00%) Technical Leadership
10 5 (12.50%) Generative AI
10 5 (12.50%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 23 (57.50%) Python
2 17 (42.50%) SQL
3 8 (20.00%) C#
4 7 (17.50%) Java
5 5 (12.50%) TypeScript
6 4 (10.00%) JavaScript
6 4 (10.00%) JCL
6 4 (10.00%) Shell Script
7 2 (5.00%) Bash
7 2 (5.00%) Bicep
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 4 (10.00%) Data Quality
2 3 (7.50%) QA
3 1 (2.50%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (27.50%) Docker
2 1 (2.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 15 (37.50%) Terraform
2 7 (17.50%) Kubernetes
3 3 (7.50%) Grafana
4 2 (5.00%) Ansible
4 2 (5.00%) Prometheus
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