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

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 87 104
Rank change year-on-year -14 +17 +19
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 36 31 20
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.59% 1.73% 0.96%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.85% 4.29% 2.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 23 13
10th Percentile £455 £425 £488
25th Percentile £531 £466 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £675 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +35.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £763 £781 £563
90th Percentile £875 £800 £598
Central London median daily rate £700 £675 £500
% change year-on-year +3.70% +35.00% +1.27%

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 936 722 845
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.27% 40.31% 40.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 665 492 563
10th Percentile £363 £341 £400
25th Percentile £456 £435 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year - -2.65% -1.74%
75th Percentile £660 £670 £675
90th Percentile £755 £756 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £564
% change year-on-year - -2.44% +0.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 12 3
10th Percentile £19.45 £23.84 -
25th Percentile £22.50 £26.23 -
Median hourly rate £24.00 £34.33 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.08% +27.13% -10.74%
75th Percentile £41.25 £58.96 £59.75
90th Percentile £67.00 £86.43 £79.40
Central London median hourly rate £32.50 £34.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -4.41% -2.86% +15.70%

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 13 September 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 (11.11%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (5.56%) Apache
2 2 (5.56%) Apache Spark
2 2 (5.56%) CICS
2 2 (5.56%) Confluence
3 1 (2.78%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 36 (100.00%) AWS
1 36 (100.00%) Serverless
2 28 (77.78%) Amazon S3
3 11 (30.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 10 (27.78%) GitHub
5 9 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
6 7 (19.44%) Amazon Kinesis
6 7 (19.44%) AWS Step Functions
6 7 (19.44%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (16.67%) Amazon EventBridge
7 6 (16.67%) Amazon SQS
8 5 (13.89%) Amazon Bedrock
8 5 (13.89%) Amazon EMR
8 5 (13.89%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (13.89%) dbt
8 5 (13.89%) SaaS
9 4 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (11.11%) Amazon SageMaker
9 4 (11.11%) Azure
9 4 (11.11%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.78%) Firewall
1 1 (2.78%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (41.67%) Amazon Athena
2 12 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (27.78%) Amazon Redshift
4 9 (25.00%) DynamoDB
5 5 (13.89%) Metadata
6 4 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (11.11%) Delta Lake
6 4 (11.11%) Power BI
7 2 (5.56%) BigQuery
7 2 (5.56%) Data Lake
7 2 (5.56%) Data Mining
7 2 (5.56%) Db2
7 2 (5.56%) Electronic Patient Records
7 2 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (2.78%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (2.78%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (2.78%) Data Vault
8 1 (2.78%) Parquet
8 1 (2.78%) Relational Database
8 1 (2.78%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 11 (30.56%) GitLab
2 6 (16.67%) Bitbucket
2 6 (16.67%) Git
2 6 (16.67%) JIRA
3 3 (8.33%) Cucumber
3 3 (8.33%) Jenkins
3 3 (8.33%) JUnit
3 3 (8.33%) Mockito
3 3 (8.33%) Postman
4 2 (5.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (2.78%) Artifactory
General
1 18 (50.00%) Finance
2 11 (30.56%) Social Skills
3 9 (25.00%) Banking
4 7 (19.44%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (16.67%) Public Sector
6 5 (13.89%) Back Office
7 2 (5.56%) Front Office
7 2 (5.56%) Military
8 1 (2.78%) Billing
8 1 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (2.78%) Law
8 1 (2.78%) Marketing
8 1 (2.78%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (2.78%) Police
Job Titles
1 14 (38.89%) AWS Engineer
2 10 (27.78%) Data Engineer
2 10 (27.78%) Senior
3 7 (19.44%) AWS Data Engineer
4 6 (16.67%) Architect
5 5 (13.89%) Senior Data Engineer
6 4 (11.11%) Lead
7 3 (8.33%) Automation Engineer
7 3 (8.33%) Data Architect
7 3 (8.33%) Workflow Engineer
8 2 (5.56%) GCP Data Engineer
8 2 (5.56%) GCP Engineer
8 2 (5.56%) Platform Architect
8 2 (5.56%) Software Engineer
8 2 (5.56%) Technical Architect
9 1 (2.78%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 1 (2.78%) Cloud Engineer
9 1 (2.78%) Full-Stack Developer
9 1 (2.78%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 1 (2.78%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (36.11%) Terraform
2 6 (16.67%) PySpark
3 5 (13.89%) SOAP
4 4 (11.11%) .NET
4 4 (11.11%) ActiveMQ
4 4 (11.11%) Kafka
4 4 (11.11%) Node.js
4 4 (11.11%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (11.11%) Spring
4 4 (11.11%) Spring Boot
5 3 (8.33%) Gherkin
5 3 (8.33%) WireMock
5 3 (8.33%) YAML
6 2 (5.56%) Jest
6 2 (5.56%) JSON
6 2 (5.56%) React
6 2 (5.56%) RESTful
6 2 (5.56%) Web Services
6 2 (5.56%) WSDL
7 1 (2.78%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 14 (38.89%) Cloud Native
2 2 (5.56%) AI Agents
2 2 (5.56%) DataPower
2 2 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (5.56%) Mainframe
2 2 (5.56%) Online Banking
2 2 (5.56%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.78%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.78%) NHS
3 1 (2.78%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.78%) Over-the-Top Content
3 1 (2.78%) PropTech
3 1 (2.78%) Smart Meter
3 1 (2.78%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.56%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (61.11%) CI/CD
2 17 (47.22%) Data Engineering
3 15 (41.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 12 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
5 11 (30.56%) AI
6 10 (27.78%) Agile
6 10 (27.78%) Analytics
6 10 (27.78%) Data Modelling
6 10 (27.78%) DevOps
6 10 (27.78%) Event-Driven
7 9 (25.00%) Data Governance
8 8 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
9 7 (19.44%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 7 (19.44%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (19.44%) Stakeholder Management
9 7 (19.44%) Test Automation
10 6 (16.67%) Containerisation
10 6 (16.67%) ETL
10 6 (16.67%) Machine Learning
10 6 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 19 (52.78%) Python
2 15 (41.67%) SQL
3 7 (19.44%) C#
4 5 (13.89%) Java
5 4 (11.11%) TypeScript
6 3 (8.33%) JavaScript
7 2 (5.56%) Bash
7 2 (5.56%) Bicep
7 2 (5.56%) JCL
7 2 (5.56%) Shell Script
8 1 (2.78%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (8.33%) SC Cleared
1 3 (8.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.56%) DBS Check
3 1 (2.78%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.78%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (22.22%) Data Quality
2 3 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 7 (19.44%) Docker
2 1 (2.78%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.56%) Ansible
2 2 (5.56%) Grafana
3 1 (2.78%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.78%) Puppet
3 1 (2.78%) Salt
Vendors
1 5 (13.89%) Databricks
2 4 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.56%) OpenAI
4 1 (2.78%) Fortinet
4 1 (2.78%) Informatica
4 1 (2.78%) Oracle
4 1 (2.78%) Teradata