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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 108 111
Rank change year-on-year +15 +3 +30
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 30 16 36
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.73% 0.75% 1.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.16% 1.91% 3.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 10 22
10th Percentile £356 £427 £400
25th Percentile £439 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £516 £463
Median % change year-on-year +18.64% +11.62% -12.94%
75th Percentile £688 £580 £566
90th Percentile £800 £603 £636
Central London median daily rate £613 £513 £475
% change year-on-year +19.51% +7.89% -11.63%

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 721 836 1,130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.46% 39.38% 40.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 532 539 780
10th Percentile £351 £400 £350
25th Percentile £429 £472 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £668 £675 £680
90th Percentile £750 £754 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 10
10th Percentile £22.30 £32.05 £16.53
25th Percentile £26.75 £39.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £34.00 £56.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -39.29% +169.88% +1.22%
75th Percentile £56.75 £76.13 £46.06
90th Percentile £70.21 £85.95 £54.63
Central London median hourly rate £31.25 £35.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -10.71% +84.21% -7.32%

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 November 2025.

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 (6.67%) Confluence
2 1 (3.33%) Apache
2 1 (3.33%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (3.33%) CICS
2 1 (3.33%) CMS
2 1 (3.33%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 30 (100.00%) AWS
1 30 (100.00%) Serverless
2 21 (70.00%) Amazon S3
3 14 (46.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 9 (30.00%) Amazon ECS
5 8 (26.67%) GitHub
6 6 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (16.67%) AWS Step Functions
7 5 (16.67%) Azure
7 5 (16.67%) Snowflake
8 4 (13.33%) Amazon Cognito
8 4 (13.33%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (13.33%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (13.33%) Amazon SQS
8 4 (13.33%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (13.33%) AWS Fargate
9 3 (10.00%) Amazon EventBridge
9 3 (10.00%) Apigee
9 3 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (10.00%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.00%) DNS
2 1 (3.33%) DKIM
2 1 (3.33%) NAS
2 1 (3.33%) OpenLDAP
2 1 (3.33%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (3.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (36.67%) DynamoDB
2 5 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (6.67%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (6.67%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (6.67%) Relational Database
5 1 (3.33%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (3.33%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (3.33%) Data Lake
5 1 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (3.33%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (3.33%) GIS
5 1 (3.33%) Metadata
5 1 (3.33%) MySQL
5 1 (3.33%) NoSQL
5 1 (3.33%) Parquet
5 1 (3.33%) Power BI
5 1 (3.33%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (3.33%) SQL Server
5 1 (3.33%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (10.00%) Git
1 3 (10.00%) JIRA
2 1 (3.33%) GitLab
2 1 (3.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.33%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 4 (13.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (10.00%) Banking
2 3 (10.00%) Front Office
2 3 (10.00%) Investment Banking
2 3 (10.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (6.67%) Finance
4 1 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (13.33%) AWS Engineer
2 4 (13.33%) Developer
2 4 (13.33%) Lead
2 4 (13.33%) Python Engineer
2 4 (13.33%) Senior
3 3 (10.00%) Architect
3 3 (10.00%) Data Engineer
3 3 (10.00%) Software Design Engineer
3 3 (10.00%) Software Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Apigee Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) AWS DevOps
4 2 (6.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Senior Data Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) AWS Data Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) AWS Developer
5 1 (3.33%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Cloud Native Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Digital Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (30.00%) Node.js
2 6 (20.00%) AngularJS
2 6 (20.00%) React
3 4 (13.33%) .NET
3 4 (13.33%) OAuth
4 3 (10.00%) AWS CDK
4 3 (10.00%) GraphQL
4 3 (10.00%) JWT
4 3 (10.00%) OpenTelemetry
4 3 (10.00%) WebSockets
5 2 (6.67%) CSS
5 2 (6.67%) Flask
5 2 (6.67%) HTML
5 2 (6.67%) REST
5 2 (6.67%) RESTful
5 2 (6.67%) SQLAlchemy
6 1 (3.33%) ActiveMQ
6 1 (3.33%) LDAP
6 1 (3.33%) SAML
6 1 (3.33%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 9 (30.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (6.67%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.33%) AI Agents
4 1 (3.33%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.33%) Data Fabric
4 1 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.33%) Mainframe
4 1 (3.33%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.33%) NHS
4 1 (3.33%) Public Cloud
4 1 (3.33%) Virtual Team
4 1 (3.33%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.67%) Linux
2 1 (3.33%) AIX
2 1 (3.33%) Android
2 1 (3.33%) Apple iOS
2 1 (3.33%) Solaris
2 1 (3.33%) Unix
2 1 (3.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (46.67%) CI/CD
2 12 (40.00%) DevOps
3 11 (36.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 10 (33.33%) Event-Driven
5 9 (30.00%) Agile
6 8 (26.67%) Software Engineering
7 7 (23.33%) Analytics
7 7 (23.33%) Data Pipeline
7 7 (23.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 7 (23.33%) Observability
8 6 (20.00%) User Experience
9 5 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
9 5 (16.67%) Mentoring
10 4 (13.33%) Code Quality
10 4 (13.33%) Containerisation
10 4 (13.33%) Microservices
10 4 (13.33%) Technical Leadership
11 3 (10.00%) Design Patterns
11 3 (10.00%) Matrix Organization
11 3 (10.00%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 19 (63.33%) Python
2 8 (26.67%) SQL
3 7 (23.33%) Java
4 5 (16.67%) JavaScript
5 3 (10.00%) TypeScript
6 2 (6.67%) Bash
7 1 (3.33%) Apex Code
7 1 (3.33%) COBOL
7 1 (3.33%) Go
7 1 (3.33%) Shell Script
7 1 (3.33%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 8 (26.67%) SC Cleared
1 8 (26.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.67%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.00%) Data Quality
1 3 (10.00%) GDPR
2 1 (3.33%) HMG Security Policy Framework
2 1 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.33%) NCSC
2 1 (3.33%) QA
System Software
1 5 (16.67%) Docker
2 1 (3.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (30.00%) Terraform
2 3 (10.00%) Ansible
2 3 (10.00%) Prometheus
3 2 (6.67%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (3.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.33%) Atlassian
2 1 (3.33%) NetApp
2 1 (3.33%) Salesforce