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

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 95 103
Rank change year-on-year -12 +8 +13
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 34 30 20
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.56% 1.72% 0.94%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.77% 4.27% 2.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 22 13
10th Percentile £455 £425 £483
25th Percentile £588 £506 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £688 £675 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% +35.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £763 £794 £563
90th Percentile £875 £800 £598
Central London median daily rate £675 £675 £500
% change year-on-year - +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 901 703 833
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.27% 40.40% 39.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 642 500 546
10th Percentile £350 £340 £392
25th Percentile £456 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year - -2.22% +0.45%
75th Percentile £660 £668 £675
90th Percentile £763 £750 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £560
% change year-on-year - -1.79% +1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 10 3
10th Percentile £18.33 £23.03 -
25th Percentile £20.25 £28.06 -
Median hourly rate £23.58 £38.25 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.35% +41.67% +30.12%
75th Percentile £38.69 £63.37 £59.75
90th Percentile £66.00 £89.88 £79.40
Central London median hourly rate £30.00 £38.25 £35.00
% change year-on-year -21.57% +9.29% +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 4 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 4 (11.76%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (5.88%) Apache
2 2 (5.88%) Apache Spark
2 2 (5.88%) Confluence
3 1 (2.94%) CICS
3 1 (2.94%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 34 (100.00%) AWS
1 34 (100.00%) Serverless
2 27 (79.41%) Amazon S3
3 11 (32.35%) GitHub
4 10 (29.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 10 (29.41%) Amazon EC2
5 9 (26.47%) GitHub Actions
6 8 (23.53%) Amazon EventBridge
6 8 (23.53%) Amazon Kinesis
6 8 (23.53%) AWS Step Functions
7 6 (17.65%) Amazon EKS
8 5 (14.71%) Amazon Bedrock
8 5 (14.71%) Amazon SQS
8 5 (14.71%) dbt
8 5 (14.71%) SaaS
9 4 (11.76%) Amazon EMR
9 4 (11.76%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (11.76%) Azure
9 4 (11.76%) Power Platform
10 3 (8.82%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.94%) Firewall
1 1 (2.94%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (47.06%) Amazon Athena
2 12 (35.29%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (26.47%) Amazon Redshift
4 6 (17.65%) DynamoDB
5 4 (11.76%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (11.76%) Delta Lake
5 4 (11.76%) Metadata
5 4 (11.76%) Power BI
6 2 (5.88%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (5.88%) Amazon QuickSight
6 2 (5.88%) BigQuery
6 2 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (5.88%) Relational Database
7 1 (2.94%) Data Lake
7 1 (2.94%) Data Vault
7 1 (2.94%) Db2
7 1 (2.94%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (2.94%) Parquet
7 1 (2.94%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (2.94%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (32.35%) GitLab
2 8 (23.53%) Bitbucket
3 6 (17.65%) Git
4 5 (14.71%) JIRA
5 3 (8.82%) Jenkins
6 2 (5.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (5.88%) Cucumber
6 2 (5.88%) JUnit
6 2 (5.88%) Mockito
6 2 (5.88%) Postman
7 1 (2.94%) Artifactory
7 1 (2.94%) Gradle
7 1 (2.94%) Maven
General
1 19 (55.88%) Finance
2 11 (32.35%) Social Skills
3 9 (26.47%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (26.47%) Banking
4 8 (23.53%) Back Office
5 5 (14.71%) Public Sector
6 3 (8.82%) Front Office
7 2 (5.88%) Investment Banking
7 2 (5.88%) Military
7 2 (5.88%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (2.94%) Billing
8 1 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (2.94%) Law
8 1 (2.94%) Marketing
8 1 (2.94%) Police
Job Titles
1 15 (44.12%) AWS Engineer
2 12 (35.29%) Data Engineer
2 12 (35.29%) Senior
3 8 (23.53%) AWS Data Engineer
4 6 (17.65%) Senior Data Engineer
5 4 (11.76%) Architect
6 3 (8.82%) Lead
6 3 (8.82%) Workflow Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) Automation Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) Data Architect
7 2 (5.88%) GCP Data Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) GCP Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) Software Engineer
8 1 (2.94%) Data Analyst
8 1 (2.94%) Enterprise Architect
8 1 (2.94%) Java Developer
8 1 (2.94%) Senior Developer
8 1 (2.94%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (41.18%) Terraform
2 6 (17.65%) ActiveMQ
2 6 (17.65%) PySpark
2 6 (17.65%) RabbitMQ
3 4 (11.76%) .NET
4 3 (8.82%) Kafka
4 3 (8.82%) SOAP
4 3 (8.82%) Spring
4 3 (8.82%) Spring Boot
5 2 (5.88%) Gherkin
5 2 (5.88%) Jest
5 2 (5.88%) Node.js
5 2 (5.88%) RESTful
5 2 (5.88%) WireMock
5 2 (5.88%) YAML
6 1 (2.94%) JPA
6 1 (2.94%) JSON
6 1 (2.94%) OAuth
6 1 (2.94%) REST
6 1 (2.94%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 13 (38.24%) Cloud Native
2 3 (8.82%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (5.88%) AI Agents
3 2 (5.88%) Product Ownership
3 2 (5.88%) PropTech
4 1 (2.94%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.94%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.94%) DataPower
4 1 (2.94%) Derivative
4 1 (2.94%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.94%) Mainframe
4 1 (2.94%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.94%) Online Banking
4 1 (2.94%) Over-the-Top Content
4 1 (2.94%) Reference Data
4 1 (2.94%) Smart Meter
4 1 (2.94%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.94%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (64.71%) CI/CD
2 18 (52.94%) Data Engineering
3 16 (47.06%) Infrastructure as Code
4 14 (41.18%) Data Pipeline
5 12 (35.29%) Data Modelling
6 11 (32.35%) Event-Driven
7 10 (29.41%) AI
7 10 (29.41%) Analytics
8 9 (26.47%) Agile
8 9 (26.47%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 8 (23.53%) Data Governance
9 8 (23.53%) DevOps
10 7 (20.59%) Containerisation
10 7 (20.59%) ETL
10 7 (20.59%) Platform Engineering
10 7 (20.59%) Stakeholder Management
10 7 (20.59%) Test Automation
11 6 (17.65%) Performance Tuning
11 6 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
12 5 (14.71%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 20 (58.82%) Python
2 17 (50.00%) SQL
3 6 (17.65%) C#
4 3 (8.82%) Java
4 3 (8.82%) JavaScript
4 3 (8.82%) TypeScript
5 2 (5.88%) Bash
6 1 (2.94%) Bicep
6 1 (2.94%) JCL
6 1 (2.94%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (8.82%) SC Cleared
1 3 (8.82%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.88%) AWS Certification
2 2 (5.88%) DBS Check
3 1 (2.94%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 1 (2.94%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (2.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (26.47%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.88%) QA
System Software
1 7 (20.59%) Docker
2 1 (2.94%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (14.71%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.88%) Ansible
2 2 (5.88%) Grafana
3 1 (2.94%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.94%) Puppet
3 1 (2.94%) Salt
Vendors
1 4 (11.76%) Databricks
1 4 (11.76%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.94%) Fortinet
2 1 (2.94%) Informatica
2 1 (2.94%) OpenAI
2 1 (2.94%) Oracle
2 1 (2.94%) Teradata