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

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 103 89
Rank change year-on-year +20 -14 +61
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 38 17 41
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.11% 0.89% 1.68%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.09% 2.28% 4.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 11 24
10th Percentile £343 £428 £400
25th Percentile £363 £469 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £675 £572 £578
90th Percentile £688 £588 £638
Central London median daily rate £558 £520 £525
% change year-on-year +7.21% -0.95% -4.55%

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 746 744 958
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.42% 38.91% 39.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 555 472 701
10th Percentile £340 £406 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -5.98%
75th Percentile £666 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £762 £744
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 9
10th Percentile £25.49 - -
25th Percentile £32.50 £77.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.50 £85.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -52.35% +277.78% +12.50%
75th Percentile £41.94 £92.50 £38.00
90th Percentile £45.28 - £53.75
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -27.23% +55.56% +9.76%

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 11 January 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 2 (5.26%) Confluence
2 1 (2.63%) Apache
2 1 (2.63%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.63%) CICS
Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 38 (100.00%) AWS
1 38 (100.00%) Serverless
2 24 (63.16%) Amazon S3
3 13 (34.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 11 (28.95%) Amazon ECS
4 11 (28.95%) GitHub
5 8 (21.05%) Azure
5 8 (21.05%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (18.42%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (13.16%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (13.16%) AWS Fargate
8 4 (10.53%) Amazon ECR
8 4 (10.53%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (10.53%) Apigee
8 4 (10.53%) AWS Step Functions
8 4 (10.53%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (10.53%) Snowflake
9 3 (7.89%) AWS CodePipeline
10 2 (5.26%) Fastly
10 2 (5.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (13.16%) DNS
2 1 (2.63%) DKIM
2 1 (2.63%) NAS
2 1 (2.63%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (31.58%) DynamoDB
2 5 (13.16%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (10.53%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (7.89%) Amazon Athena
4 3 (7.89%) CockroachDB
4 3 (7.89%) Metadata
4 3 (7.89%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (5.26%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (5.26%) Data Lake
5 2 (5.26%) Pinecone
5 2 (5.26%) Relational Database
6 1 (2.63%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (2.63%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (2.63%) Data Hub
6 1 (2.63%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (2.63%) MySQL
6 1 (2.63%) NoSQL
6 1 (2.63%) Power BI
6 1 (2.63%) SQL Server
6 1 (2.63%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (13.16%) Git
2 3 (7.89%) JIRA
3 2 (5.26%) GitLab
3 2 (5.26%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.63%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.63%) Terragrunt
4 1 (2.63%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 5 (13.16%) Public Sector
2 4 (10.53%) Social Skills
3 3 (7.89%) Banking
3 3 (7.89%) Front Office
3 3 (7.89%) Investment Banking
4 2 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.63%) Finance
5 1 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (23.68%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (15.79%) AWS Engineer
2 6 (15.79%) Data Engineer
2 6 (15.79%) Developer
3 5 (13.16%) Python Engineer
3 5 (13.16%) Senior
4 4 (10.53%) Architect
4 4 (10.53%) Lead
5 3 (7.89%) AWS DevOps
5 3 (7.89%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Apigee Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Cloud Architect
6 2 (5.26%) Senior Data Engineer
7 1 (2.63%) AWS Architect
7 1 (2.63%) AWS Developer
7 1 (2.63%) Cloud Engineer
7 1 (2.63%) Digital Architect
7 1 (2.63%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 1 (2.63%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (34.21%) Node.js
2 8 (21.05%) React
3 5 (13.16%) boto
3 5 (13.16%) OAuth
3 5 (13.16%) REST
4 4 (10.53%) .NET
4 4 (10.53%) AngularJS
4 4 (10.53%) AWS CDK
4 4 (10.53%) HTML
4 4 (10.53%) JWT
5 3 (7.89%) CSS
6 2 (5.26%) Flask
6 2 (5.26%) Kafka
6 2 (5.26%) LangGraph
6 2 (5.26%) NumPy
6 2 (5.26%) Pandas
6 2 (5.26%) RESTful
6 2 (5.26%) SQLAlchemy
7 1 (2.63%) Faiss
7 1 (2.63%) Zustand
Miscellaneous
1 11 (28.95%) Cloud Native
2 5 (13.16%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (10.53%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (5.26%) Data Structures
4 2 (5.26%) Management Information System
4 2 (5.26%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.63%) AI Agents
5 1 (2.63%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.63%) Data Fabric
5 1 (2.63%) Mainframe
5 1 (2.63%) NHS
5 1 (2.63%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.63%) Virtual Team
5 1 (2.63%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.53%) Linux
2 1 (2.63%) AIX
2 1 (2.63%) Android
2 1 (2.63%) Apple iOS
2 1 (2.63%) Solaris
2 1 (2.63%) Unix
2 1 (2.63%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 15 (39.47%) DevOps
3 14 (36.84%) Infrastructure as Code
4 10 (26.32%) Event-Driven
5 9 (23.68%) Analytics
5 9 (23.68%) Data Pipeline
5 9 (23.68%) Microservices
6 8 (21.05%) Agile
7 7 (18.42%) Containerisation
7 7 (18.42%) Observability
7 7 (18.42%) Software Engineering
8 6 (15.79%) Full-Stack Development
9 5 (13.16%) Data Modelling
9 5 (13.16%) ETL
9 5 (13.16%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 4 (10.53%) AI
10 4 (10.53%) Code Quality
10 4 (10.53%) Performance Tuning
10 4 (10.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 4 (10.53%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 25 (65.79%) Python
2 13 (34.21%) SQL
3 8 (21.05%) Java
4 7 (18.42%) JavaScript
5 4 (10.53%) TypeScript
6 2 (5.26%) Bash
6 2 (5.26%) Go
7 1 (2.63%) Apex Code
7 1 (2.63%) COBOL
7 1 (2.63%) PHP
7 1 (2.63%) Ruby
7 1 (2.63%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.63%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 14 (36.84%) SC Cleared
1 14 (36.84%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.26%) AWS Certification
2 2 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (2.63%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.16%) Data Quality
2 3 (7.89%) GDPR
3 1 (2.63%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 1 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.63%) NCSC
3 1 (2.63%) QA
System Software
1 8 (21.05%) Docker
2 1 (2.63%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (36.84%) Terraform
2 4 (10.53%) Ansible
2 4 (10.53%) Kubernetes
3 3 (7.89%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (2.63%) Kibana
4 1 (2.63%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 8 (21.05%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.26%) SAP
3 1 (2.63%) Amplitude
3 1 (2.63%) Atlassian
3 1 (2.63%) Databricks
3 1 (2.63%) NetApp
3 1 (2.63%) Salesforce