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

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 94 91
Rank change year-on-year -1 -3 +34
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 39 25 35
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.69% 1.43% 1.60%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.32% 3.30% 4.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 19 25
10th Percentile £313 - £413
25th Percentile £363 £425 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £588
90th Percentile £683 £790 £698
Central London median daily rate £575 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +15.00% -4.76% -11.76%

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 902 758 860
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 39.17% 43.44% 39.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 625 485 608
10th Percentile £350 £369 £363
25th Percentile £450 £459 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.36% - -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £669 £671
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £530
% change year-on-year - +3.77% -7.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 7 6
10th Percentile £20.67 £24.66 £12.75
25th Percentile £25.81 £29.64 £14.88
Median hourly rate £40.64 £42.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.38% +88.89% -73.24%
75th Percentile £57.83 £74.38 £26.19
90th Percentile £75.18 £135.00 £38.63
Central London median hourly rate £39.00 £34.83 £22.50
% change year-on-year +11.99% +54.78% -72.73%

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 May 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 (10.26%) CICS
2 3 (7.69%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (5.13%) Confluence
4 1 (2.56%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 39 (100.00%) AWS
1 39 (100.00%) Serverless
2 26 (66.67%) Amazon S3
3 13 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 9 (23.08%) GitHub
5 8 (20.51%) Amazon EC2
5 8 (20.51%) AWS CloudFormation
6 7 (17.95%) Amazon ECS
7 6 (15.38%) Amazon Bedrock
7 6 (15.38%) AWS Step Functions
8 5 (12.82%) AWS CodePipeline
8 5 (12.82%) Azure
8 5 (12.82%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (10.26%) Amazon Kinesis
9 4 (10.26%) Amazon SQS
10 3 (7.69%) Amazon EMR
10 3 (7.69%) Amazon SageMaker
10 3 (7.69%) dbt
10 3 (7.69%) Snowflake
10 3 (7.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.13%) DNS
2 1 (2.56%) Firewall
2 1 (2.56%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (43.59%) DynamoDB
2 9 (23.08%) Amazon Redshift
3 8 (20.51%) Amazon Athena
4 7 (17.95%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (15.38%) Metadata
6 5 (12.82%) DB2
7 4 (10.26%) CockroachDB
8 3 (7.69%) Data Lake
9 2 (5.13%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (5.13%) Data Mining
9 2 (5.13%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (5.13%) Delta Lake
9 2 (5.13%) Electronic Patient Records
9 2 (5.13%) Pinecone
9 2 (5.13%) Snowflake Schema
9 2 (5.13%) Tableau
10 1 (2.56%) Apache Iceberg
10 1 (2.56%) Data Hub
10 1 (2.56%) Data Vault
10 1 (2.56%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (28.21%) Git
2 10 (25.64%) GitLab
3 6 (15.38%) Jenkins
3 6 (15.38%) JIRA
4 4 (10.26%) JUnit
5 3 (7.69%) Cucumber
5 3 (7.69%) Mockito
5 3 (7.69%) Postman
6 1 (2.56%) Artifactory
6 1 (2.56%) Bitbucket
6 1 (2.56%) Cypress.io
6 1 (2.56%) Terragrunt
General
1 9 (23.08%) Finance
2 8 (20.51%) Banking
2 8 (20.51%) Social Skills
3 7 (17.95%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.56%) Law
4 1 (2.56%) Military
4 1 (2.56%) Police
Job Titles
1 8 (20.51%) Data Engineer
2 7 (17.95%) Developer
3 6 (15.38%) Senior
4 5 (12.82%) Architect
5 4 (10.26%) AWS Engineer
5 4 (10.26%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (7.69%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 3 (7.69%) Automation Engineer
6 3 (7.69%) Data Architect
6 3 (7.69%) Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (5.13%) AWS DevOps
7 2 (5.13%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Platform Architect
7 2 (5.13%) Senior Data Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Site Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Snowflake Data Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Snowflake Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Software Developer
8 1 (2.56%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (20.51%) Kafka
2 7 (17.95%) boto
2 7 (17.95%) SOAP
3 6 (15.38%) Node.js
3 6 (15.38%) RESTful
3 6 (15.38%) Spring
3 6 (15.38%) Spring Boot
4 5 (12.82%) JSON
4 5 (12.82%) PySpark
4 5 (12.82%) React
5 4 (10.26%) Web Services
5 4 (10.26%) WSDL
6 3 (7.69%) Gherkin
6 3 (7.69%) LangGraph
6 3 (7.69%) Model Context Protocol
6 3 (7.69%) REST
6 3 (7.69%) WireMock
6 3 (7.69%) YAML
7 2 (5.13%) NumPy
7 2 (5.13%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 9 (23.08%) Cloud Native
2 4 (10.26%) DataPower
2 4 (10.26%) Mainframe
2 4 (10.26%) Online Banking
3 3 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (5.13%) Data Structures
4 2 (5.13%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (5.13%) NHS
5 1 (2.56%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (2.56%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.26%) zOS
2 2 (5.13%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (56.41%) CI/CD
2 16 (41.03%) Infrastructure as Code
3 13 (33.33%) DevOps
4 12 (30.77%) AI
5 8 (20.51%) Agile
5 8 (20.51%) Containerisation
5 8 (20.51%) Event-Driven
5 8 (20.51%) Performance Tuning
6 7 (17.95%) Data Engineering
6 7 (17.95%) ETL
6 7 (17.95%) Generative AI
6 7 (17.95%) LLM
6 7 (17.95%) Microservices
7 6 (15.38%) Analytics
7 6 (15.38%) Data Pipeline
7 6 (15.38%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
7 6 (15.38%) Technical Leadership
8 5 (12.82%) Batch Processing
8 5 (12.82%) Integration Patterns
8 5 (12.82%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 26 (66.67%) Python
2 15 (38.46%) SQL
3 7 (17.95%) Java
4 5 (12.82%) JavaScript
5 4 (10.26%) JCL
5 4 (10.26%) Shell Script
5 4 (10.26%) TypeScript
6 3 (7.69%) C#
7 2 (5.13%) Bicep
8 1 (2.56%) Bash
8 1 (2.56%) Go
8 1 (2.56%) PHP
8 1 (2.56%) Ruby
8 1 (2.56%) Scala
Qualifications
1 10 (25.64%) SC Cleared
1 10 (25.64%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.13%) AWS Certification
2 2 (5.13%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.56%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (2.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (2.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (17.95%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.13%) QA
3 1 (2.56%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (28.21%) Docker
2 1 (2.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 15 (38.46%) Terraform
2 8 (20.51%) Kubernetes
3 2 (5.13%) Ansible
3 2 (5.13%) Grafana
3 2 (5.13%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.56%) Kibana
4 1 (2.56%) Opsgenie
4 1 (2.56%) Puppet
4 1 (2.56%) Salt
4 1 (2.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (12.82%) Microsoft
2 4 (10.26%) Databricks
3 2 (5.13%) OpenAI
3 2 (5.13%) SAP
3 2 (5.13%) Splunk
4 1 (2.56%) Amplitude
4 1 (2.56%) Fortinet
4 1 (2.56%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.56%) Sybase