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

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 92 110
Rank change year-on-year -10 +18 +13
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 35 30 16
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.61% 1.74% 0.76%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.88% 4.32% 1.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 22 10
10th Percentile £450 £425 £479
25th Percentile £513 £506 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £675 £523
Median % change year-on-year - +29.19% +10.00%
75th Percentile £763 £794 £581
90th Percentile £875 £800 £614
Central London median daily rate £675 £675 £520
% change year-on-year - +29.81% +9.47%

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 901 694 825
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.52% 40.21% 39.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 640 493 537
10th Percentile £350 £340 £393
25th Percentile £456 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £660 £668 £675
90th Percentile £763 £758 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £563
% change year-on-year - -2.22% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 9 3
10th Percentile £18.33 £22.30 -
25th Percentile £20.25 £26.75 -
Median hourly rate £23.58 £34.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.65% +25.93% +30.12%
75th Percentile £38.69 £56.75 £59.75
90th Percentile £66.00 £70.21 £79.40
Central London median hourly rate £30.00 £34.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -11.76% -2.86% +68.67%

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 7 October 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 5 (14.29%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (8.57%) Apache
3 2 (5.71%) Apache Spark
3 2 (5.71%) Confluence
4 1 (2.86%) CICS
4 1 (2.86%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 35 (100.00%) AWS
1 35 (100.00%) Serverless
2 28 (80.00%) Amazon S3
3 11 (31.43%) GitHub
4 10 (28.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 10 (28.57%) Amazon EC2
5 9 (25.71%) GitHub Actions
6 8 (22.86%) Amazon EventBridge
6 8 (22.86%) Amazon Kinesis
6 8 (22.86%) AWS Step Functions
7 7 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
8 6 (17.14%) dbt
9 5 (14.29%) Amazon Bedrock
9 5 (14.29%) Amazon EMR
9 5 (14.29%) Amazon SQS
9 5 (14.29%) SaaS
10 4 (11.43%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (11.43%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (11.43%) Azure
10 4 (11.43%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.86%) Firewall
1 1 (2.86%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (45.71%) Amazon Athena
2 12 (34.29%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (28.57%) Amazon Redshift
4 6 (17.14%) DynamoDB
5 5 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (11.43%) Delta Lake
6 4 (11.43%) Metadata
6 4 (11.43%) Power BI
7 2 (5.71%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (5.71%) Amazon QuickSight
7 2 (5.71%) Apache Iceberg
7 2 (5.71%) BigQuery
7 2 (5.71%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (5.71%) Relational Database
8 1 (2.86%) Data Mining
8 1 (2.86%) Hadoop
8 1 (2.86%) NoSQL
8 1 (2.86%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (2.86%) SQL Server
8 1 (2.86%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (31.43%) GitLab
2 8 (22.86%) Bitbucket
3 6 (17.14%) Git
4 5 (14.29%) JIRA
5 3 (8.57%) Jenkins
6 2 (5.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (5.71%) Cucumber
6 2 (5.71%) JUnit
6 2 (5.71%) Mockito
6 2 (5.71%) Postman
7 1 (2.86%) Artifactory
7 1 (2.86%) CircleCI
7 1 (2.86%) Gradle
7 1 (2.86%) Maven
General
1 19 (54.29%) Finance
2 11 (31.43%) Social Skills
3 9 (25.71%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (25.71%) Banking
4 8 (22.86%) Back Office
5 5 (14.29%) Public Sector
6 3 (8.57%) Front Office
7 2 (5.71%) Investment Banking
7 2 (5.71%) Military
7 2 (5.71%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (2.86%) Billing
8 1 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (2.86%) Law
8 1 (2.86%) Marketing
8 1 (2.86%) Police
Job Titles
1 16 (45.71%) AWS Engineer
2 13 (37.14%) Data Engineer
3 12 (34.29%) Senior
4 9 (25.71%) AWS Data Engineer
5 6 (17.14%) Senior Data Engineer
6 4 (11.43%) Architect
7 3 (8.57%) Lead
7 3 (8.57%) Workflow Engineer
8 2 (5.71%) Automation Engineer
8 2 (5.71%) Cloud Engineer
8 2 (5.71%) Data Architect
8 2 (5.71%) GCP Data Engineer
8 2 (5.71%) GCP Engineer
8 2 (5.71%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 2 (5.71%) Software Engineer
9 1 (2.86%) Analyst
9 1 (2.86%) Data Analyst
9 1 (2.86%) Developer
9 1 (2.86%) Senior Developer
9 1 (2.86%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (42.86%) Terraform
2 7 (20.00%) PySpark
3 6 (17.14%) ActiveMQ
3 6 (17.14%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (11.43%) .NET
5 3 (8.57%) Kafka
5 3 (8.57%) SOAP
5 3 (8.57%) Spring
5 3 (8.57%) Spring Boot
6 2 (5.71%) Gherkin
6 2 (5.71%) Jest
6 2 (5.71%) Node.js
6 2 (5.71%) RESTful
6 2 (5.71%) WireMock
6 2 (5.71%) YAML
7 1 (2.86%) AngularJS
7 1 (2.86%) Bootstrap
7 1 (2.86%) Express.js
7 1 (2.86%) OAuth2
7 1 (2.86%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 13 (37.14%) Cloud Native
2 3 (8.57%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (5.71%) AI Agents
3 2 (5.71%) Product Ownership
3 2 (5.71%) PropTech
4 1 (2.86%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.86%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.86%) DataPower
4 1 (2.86%) Derivative
4 1 (2.86%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.86%) Mainframe
4 1 (2.86%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.86%) Online Banking
4 1 (2.86%) Over-the-Top Content
4 1 (2.86%) Reference Data
4 1 (2.86%) Smart Meter
4 1 (2.86%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.86%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (65.71%) CI/CD
2 18 (51.43%) Data Engineering
3 17 (48.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 15 (42.86%) Data Pipeline
5 13 (37.14%) Data Modelling
6 11 (31.43%) AI
6 11 (31.43%) Analytics
6 11 (31.43%) Event-Driven
7 10 (28.57%) Agile
8 9 (25.71%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 8 (22.86%) Data Governance
9 8 (22.86%) DevOps
9 8 (22.86%) ETL
10 7 (20.00%) Containerisation
10 7 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
10 7 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
10 7 (20.00%) Test Automation
11 6 (17.14%) Machine Learning
11 6 (17.14%) Performance Tuning
11 6 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 21 (60.00%) Python
2 18 (51.43%) SQL
3 6 (17.14%) C#
4 3 (8.57%) Java
4 3 (8.57%) JavaScript
4 3 (8.57%) TypeScript
5 2 (5.71%) Bash
6 1 (2.86%) Bicep
6 1 (2.86%) JCL
6 1 (2.86%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (8.57%) SC Cleared
1 3 (8.57%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.71%) AWS Certification
2 2 (5.71%) DBS Check
3 1 (2.86%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 1 (2.86%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (2.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (28.57%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.71%) QA
System Software
1 7 (20.00%) Docker
2 1 (2.86%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.71%) Ansible
2 2 (5.71%) Grafana
3 1 (2.86%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.86%) Puppet
3 1 (2.86%) Salt
Vendors
1 4 (11.43%) Databricks
1 4 (11.43%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.86%) Fortinet
2 1 (2.86%) Informatica
2 1 (2.86%) OpenAI
2 1 (2.86%) Oracle
2 1 (2.86%) Teradata