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

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 91 92
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 +24
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 42 26 32
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.78% 1.54% 1.49%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.66% 3.59% 3.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 20 23
10th Percentile £313 - £413
25th Percentile £458 £425 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £505 £500
Median % change year-on-year +13.86% +1.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £563
90th Percentile £875 £800 £599
Central London median daily rate £575 £515 £500
% change year-on-year +11.65% +3.00% -13.04%

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 901 725 862
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 38.26% 42.92% 40.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 623 461 598
10th Percentile £350 £363 £363
25th Percentile £456 £455 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £546
Median % change year-on-year - +0.69% -8.96%
75th Percentile £650 £670 £650
90th Percentile £750 £751 £750
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £535
% change year-on-year - +2.80% -8.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 10 6
10th Percentile £20.51 £23.03 £12.75
25th Percentile £23.16 £24.66 £14.88
Median hourly rate £51.44 £31.58 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +62.91% +40.33% -72.73%
75th Percentile £65.00 £47.50 £26.19
90th Percentile £75.35 £108.75 £38.63
Central London median hourly rate £51.44 £28.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year +80.49% +26.67% -66.67%

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 5 June 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 (9.52%) CICS
2 3 (7.14%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (4.76%) Confluence
4 1 (2.38%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 42 (100.00%) AWS
1 42 (100.00%) Serverless
2 27 (64.29%) Amazon S3
3 12 (28.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 9 (21.43%) Amazon EC2
5 8 (19.05%) Amazon SQS
5 8 (19.05%) GitHub
6 7 (16.67%) Amazon Bedrock
7 6 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
7 6 (14.29%) AWS Step Functions
8 5 (11.90%) Amazon EMR
8 5 (11.90%) Amazon Kinesis
8 5 (11.90%) Azure
9 4 (9.52%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (9.52%) Amazon SageMaker
9 4 (9.52%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (9.52%) Power Platform
9 4 (9.52%) SaaS
10 3 (7.14%) dbt
10 3 (7.14%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.38%) DNS
1 1 (2.38%) Firewall
1 1 (2.38%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (38.10%) DynamoDB
2 11 (26.19%) Amazon Redshift
3 10 (23.81%) Amazon Athena
4 8 (19.05%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (14.29%) Metadata
6 5 (11.90%) Db2
7 4 (9.52%) CockroachDB
7 4 (9.52%) Power BI
8 3 (7.14%) Data Lake
8 3 (7.14%) Pinecone
9 2 (4.76%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (4.76%) Data Mining
9 2 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (4.76%) Delta Lake
9 2 (4.76%) Electronic Patient Records
9 2 (4.76%) Snowflake Schema
9 2 (4.76%) Tableau
10 1 (2.38%) Amazon QuickSight
10 1 (2.38%) NoSQL
10 1 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (26.19%) Git
1 11 (26.19%) GitLab
2 7 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 7 (16.67%) JIRA
3 5 (11.90%) JUnit
4 4 (9.52%) Cucumber
4 4 (9.52%) Mockito
4 4 (9.52%) Postman
5 1 (2.38%) Artifactory
5 1 (2.38%) Cypress.io
5 1 (2.38%) Terragrunt
General
1 11 (26.19%) Finance
2 10 (23.81%) Banking
2 10 (23.81%) Social Skills
3 7 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.38%) Billing
4 1 (2.38%) Law
4 1 (2.38%) Military
4 1 (2.38%) Police
Job Titles
1 9 (21.43%) Data Engineer
2 7 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
2 7 (16.67%) Developer
2 7 (16.67%) Senior
3 6 (14.29%) Architect
4 4 (9.52%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 4 (9.52%) Automation Engineer
4 4 (9.52%) Lead
5 3 (7.14%) Data Architect
5 3 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (7.14%) Workflow Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) AWS Architect
6 2 (4.76%) AWS Data Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Platform Architect
6 2 (4.76%) Senior Data Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Snowflake Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Software Developer
7 1 (2.38%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 1 (2.38%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (21.43%) Kafka
2 8 (19.05%) SOAP
3 7 (16.67%) Spring
3 7 (16.67%) Spring Boot
4 6 (14.29%) boto
4 6 (14.29%) PySpark
4 6 (14.29%) RESTful
5 5 (11.90%) JSON
5 5 (11.90%) React
6 4 (9.52%) .NET
6 4 (9.52%) Gherkin
6 4 (9.52%) Web Services
6 4 (9.52%) WireMock
6 4 (9.52%) WSDL
6 4 (9.52%) YAML
7 3 (7.14%) LangGraph
7 3 (7.14%) Model Context Protocol
7 3 (7.14%) Node.js
7 3 (7.14%) REST
8 2 (4.76%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 10 (23.81%) Cloud Native
2 4 (9.52%) DataPower
2 4 (9.52%) Mainframe
2 4 (9.52%) Online Banking
3 2 (4.76%) Data Structures
3 2 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (4.76%) NHS
4 1 (2.38%) AI Agents
4 1 (2.38%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.38%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.38%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.38%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 4 (9.52%) zOS
2 1 (2.38%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (45.24%) CI/CD
2 14 (33.33%) AI
3 13 (30.95%) Infrastructure as Code
4 10 (23.81%) Data Engineering
5 9 (21.43%) Agile
5 9 (21.43%) DevOps
5 9 (21.43%) Event-Driven
6 8 (19.05%) Data Pipeline
6 8 (19.05%) ETL
6 8 (19.05%) Generative AI
6 8 (19.05%) LLM
7 7 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
7 7 (16.67%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
8 6 (14.29%) Analytics
8 6 (14.29%) Containerisation
8 6 (14.29%) Data Modelling
8 6 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
8 6 (14.29%) Test Automation
9 5 (11.90%) Data Governance
9 5 (11.90%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 25 (59.52%) Python
2 16 (38.10%) SQL
3 8 (19.05%) C#
3 8 (19.05%) Java
4 5 (11.90%) JavaScript
5 4 (9.52%) JCL
5 4 (9.52%) Shell Script
5 4 (9.52%) TypeScript
6 2 (4.76%) Bicep
7 1 (2.38%) Bash
7 1 (2.38%) Go
7 1 (2.38%) PHP
7 1 (2.38%) Scala
Qualifications
1 5 (11.90%) SC Cleared
1 5 (11.90%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.76%) AWS Certification
2 2 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (4.76%) DBS Check
3 1 (2.38%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 1 (2.38%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (2.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (16.67%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.76%) QA
3 1 (2.38%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (26.19%) Docker
2 1 (2.38%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (26.19%) Terraform
2 7 (16.67%) Kubernetes
3 2 (4.76%) Ansible
3 2 (4.76%) Grafana
3 2 (4.76%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.38%) Kibana
4 1 (2.38%) Puppet
4 1 (2.38%) Salt
4 1 (2.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (11.90%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.14%) Databricks
3 2 (4.76%) OpenAI
3 2 (4.76%) SAP
3 2 (4.76%) Splunk
4 1 (2.38%) Amplitude
4 1 (2.38%) Fortinet
4 1 (2.38%) Informatica
4 1 (2.38%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.38%) Sybase