AWS Lambda Contracts in the City of London

AWS Lambda
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring AWS Lambda skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited AWS Lambda over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 91 129
Rank change year-on-year -3 +38 -43
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 25 36 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.42% 1.64% 1.35%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.30% 4.22% 3.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 26 25
10th Percentile - £413 £425
25th Percentile £425 £488 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £590
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -13.14% -9.23%
75th Percentile £631 £584 £750
90th Percentile £668 £688 -
Central London median daily rate £500 £513 £564
% change year-on-year -2.44% -9.09% -13.27%

All Cloud 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 758 853 1,389
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 43.17% 38.83% 38.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 487 606 942
10th Percentile £375 £363 £313
25th Percentile £463 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £669 £669 £713
90th Percentile £743 £763 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £538 £575
% change year-on-year +2.33% -6.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 7
10th Percentile £24.66 £12.75 £44.75
25th Percentile £29.64 £14.88 £65.57
Median hourly rate £42.50 £22.50 £84.09
Median % change year-on-year +88.89% -73.24% +388.40%
75th Percentile £74.38 £26.19 £88.30
90th Percentile £135.00 £38.63 -
Central London median hourly rate £34.83 £22.50 £82.50
% change year-on-year +54.78% -72.73% +379.16%

AWS Lambda
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing AWS Lambda as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Lambda in the City of London

AWS Lambda
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS Lambda in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for AWS Lambda in the City of London

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 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Lambda in the City of London

AWS Lambda
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.00%) Apache
1 1 (4.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (4.00%) BizTalk Server
1 1 (4.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 25 (100.00%) AWS
1 25 (100.00%) Serverless
2 10 (40.00%) Amazon S3
3 8 (32.00%) Amazon SQS
4 5 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
4 5 (20.00%) GitHub
5 4 (16.00%) AWS Step Functions
6 3 (12.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (12.00%) Amazon Cognito
6 3 (12.00%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (12.00%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (8.00%) Amazon EventBridge
7 2 (8.00%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (8.00%) SaaS
8 1 (4.00%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (4.00%) AWS CodeCommit
8 1 (4.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (4.00%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (4.00%) Azure Storage
8 1 (4.00%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.00%) DHCP
1 2 (8.00%) DNS
1 2 (8.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (8.00%) VPN
2 1 (4.00%) Firewall
2 1 (4.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (28.00%) DynamoDB
2 6 (24.00%) Amazon Athena
2 6 (24.00%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (20.00%) DocumentDB
3 5 (20.00%) Redis
4 3 (12.00%) Tableau
5 2 (8.00%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (8.00%) MongoDB
5 2 (8.00%) NoSQL
5 2 (8.00%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (4.00%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (4.00%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (4.00%) Data Lake
6 1 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (4.00%) MySQL
6 1 (4.00%) Oracle Database
6 1 (4.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (24.00%) Git
2 5 (20.00%) SonarQube
3 2 (8.00%) GitLab
4 1 (4.00%) CircleCI
4 1 (4.00%) Jenkins
4 1 (4.00%) JIRA
General
1 12 (48.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (12.00%) Finance
3 2 (8.00%) Banking
3 2 (8.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.00%) Corporate Banking
4 1 (4.00%) Financial Institution
4 1 (4.00%) Investment Banking
4 1 (4.00%) Military
4 1 (4.00%) Retail
4 1 (4.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (24.00%) Data Engineer
2 5 (20.00%) JavaScript Engineer
3 4 (16.00%) AWS Engineer
3 4 (16.00%) Software Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) Developer
5 2 (8.00%) AWS DevOps
5 2 (8.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Lead
5 2 (8.00%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Principal Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Principal Software Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Algorithm Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) AWS Architect
6 1 (4.00%) AWS Data Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) AWS Developer
6 1 (4.00%) Data Scientist
6 1 (4.00%) Node.js Developer
6 1 (4.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (48.00%) Node.js
2 9 (36.00%) React
3 4 (16.00%) Kafka
4 3 (12.00%) AWS CDK
4 3 (12.00%) GraphQL
5 2 (8.00%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (8.00%) Jest
6 1 (4.00%) .NET Core
6 1 (4.00%) AngularJS
6 1 (4.00%) Blazor
6 1 (4.00%) NumPy
6 1 (4.00%) OpenCV
6 1 (4.00%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (4.00%) Pandas
6 1 (4.00%) pydantic
6 1 (4.00%) PyTorch
6 1 (4.00%) scikit-learn
6 1 (4.00%) SciPy
6 1 (4.00%) TensorFlow
6 1 (4.00%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (8.00%) Greenfield Project
1 2 (8.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.00%) Linux
1 2 (8.00%) Unix
2 1 (4.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (44.00%) Microservices
2 10 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 10 (40.00%) DevOps
3 8 (32.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (24.00%) Agile
4 6 (24.00%) Software Engineering
5 5 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 4 (16.00%) Containerisation
7 3 (12.00%) Continuous Delivery
7 3 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (12.00%) SDLC
7 3 (12.00%) SFIA
8 2 (8.00%) API Integration
8 2 (8.00%) Cloud Security
8 2 (8.00%) Data Science
8 2 (8.00%) Deployment Automation
8 2 (8.00%) Full-Stack Development
8 2 (8.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 2 (8.00%) Platform Engineering
8 2 (8.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 13 (52.00%) Python
2 12 (48.00%) JavaScript
3 6 (24.00%) SQL
4 3 (12.00%) Go
4 3 (12.00%) Shell Script
4 3 (12.00%) TypeScript
5 2 (8.00%) Perl
5 2 (8.00%) Rust
6 1 (4.00%) Bash
6 1 (4.00%) C++
6 1 (4.00%) Java
6 1 (4.00%) PL/SQL
6 1 (4.00%) Scala
6 1 (4.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (52.00%) SC Cleared
1 13 (52.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (12.00%) AWS Certification
3 2 (8.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (4.00%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (4.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Degree
4 1 (4.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (48.00%) Terraform
2 11 (44.00%) Kubernetes
3 3 (12.00%) Ansible
4 1 (4.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (8.00%) Oracle
2 1 (4.00%) MuleSoft
2 1 (4.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (4.00%) Splunk