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 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 99 126
Rank change year-on-year +5 +27 -28
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 27 27 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.52% 1.27% 1.24%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.59% 3.08% 3.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 20 25
10th Percentile - £413 £431
25th Percentile £425 £470 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -16.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £788 £563 £750
90th Percentile £800 £593 -
Central London median daily rate £550 £500 £600
% change year-on-year +10.00% -16.67% -7.69%

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 752 877 1,402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 42.27% 41.15% 40.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 485 615 908
10th Percentile £363 £363 £286
25th Percentile £463 £450 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £591
Median % change year-on-year - -6.98% +2.83%
75th Percentile £669 £675 £700
90th Percentile £751 £772 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 6 10
10th Percentile £24.02 £12.75 £20.35
25th Percentile £25.18 £14.88 £38.13
Median hourly rate £38.58 £24.75 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +55.86% -63.33% +35.00%
75th Percentile £63.37 £27.00 £88.30
90th Percentile £96.63 £38.63 -
Central London median hourly rate £34.65 £24.75 £52.50
% change year-on-year +40.00% -52.86% +26.51%

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 2 July 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 (3.70%) Apache
1 1 (3.70%) Apache Spark
1 1 (3.70%) CMS
1 1 (3.70%) Confluence
1 1 (3.70%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 27 (100.00%) AWS
1 27 (100.00%) Serverless
2 13 (48.15%) Amazon S3
3 11 (40.74%) Amazon SQS
4 8 (29.63%) Amazon Cognito
4 8 (29.63%) AWS Step Functions
5 7 (25.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 6 (22.22%) Amazon EKS
6 6 (22.22%) Amazon EventBridge
6 6 (22.22%) GitHub
7 5 (18.52%) Datadog
8 3 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (7.41%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (7.41%) SaaS
9 2 (7.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (3.70%) Amazon EMR
10 1 (3.70%) AWS CodePipeline
10 1 (3.70%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 3 (11.11%) VPN
2 2 (7.41%) DHCP
2 2 (7.41%) DNS
2 2 (7.41%) TCP/IP
3 1 (3.70%) Firewall
3 1 (3.70%) HTTP
3 1 (3.70%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (40.74%) DynamoDB
2 6 (22.22%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (18.52%) Amazon Athena
3 5 (18.52%) DocumentDB
3 5 (18.52%) Redis
4 2 (7.41%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (7.41%) NoSQL
4 2 (7.41%) Tableau
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (3.70%) Data Lake
5 1 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (3.70%) MongoDB
5 1 (3.70%) MySQL
5 1 (3.70%) Parquet
5 1 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (3.70%) Relational Database
5 1 (3.70%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 6 (22.22%) Git
2 5 (18.52%) SonarQube
3 1 (3.70%) CircleCI
3 1 (3.70%) GitLab
3 1 (3.70%) JIRA
General
1 10 (37.04%) Public Sector
2 4 (14.81%) Finance
3 3 (11.11%) Social Skills
4 2 (7.41%) Banking
5 1 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.70%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (3.70%) Financial Institution
5 1 (3.70%) Investment Banking
5 1 (3.70%) Retail
5 1 (3.70%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (25.93%) Software Engineer
2 6 (22.22%) Data Engineer
3 5 (18.52%) AWS Engineer
3 5 (18.52%) JavaScript Engineer
4 4 (14.81%) Software Design Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) AWS Data Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) AWS DevOps
5 2 (7.41%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Developer
5 2 (7.41%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Lead
5 2 (7.41%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Principal Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Principal Software Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) AWS Architect
6 1 (3.70%) AWS Developer
6 1 (3.70%) Node.js Developer
6 1 (3.70%) Senior
6 1 (3.70%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (44.44%) Node.js
2 9 (33.33%) React
3 7 (25.93%) GraphQL
4 5 (18.52%) AngularJS
4 5 (18.52%) OpenTelemetry
4 5 (18.52%) WebSockets
5 3 (11.11%) AWS CDK
5 3 (11.11%) Kafka
6 2 (7.41%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (7.41%) Jest
7 1 (3.70%) OAuth
7 1 (3.70%) OAuth2
7 1 (3.70%) OpenID
7 1 (3.70%) RESTful
7 1 (3.70%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.41%) Greenfield Project
1 2 (7.41%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (3.70%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.41%) Linux
1 2 (7.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (44.44%) CI/CD
1 12 (44.44%) DevOps
2 11 (40.74%) Infrastructure as Code
3 9 (33.33%) Microservices
3 9 (33.33%) Software Engineering
4 7 (25.93%) Agile
5 6 (22.22%) Deployment Automation
5 6 (22.22%) Mentoring
5 6 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
6 5 (18.52%) Clean Code
6 5 (18.52%) Event-Driven
6 5 (18.52%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 5 (18.52%) Observability
6 5 (18.52%) Performance Optimisation
6 5 (18.52%) User Experience
7 4 (14.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 3 (11.11%) Cloud Security
8 3 (11.11%) Containerisation
8 3 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
9 2 (7.41%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 13 (48.15%) Python
2 11 (40.74%) JavaScript
3 3 (11.11%) Shell Script
3 3 (11.11%) SQL
3 3 (11.11%) TypeScript
4 2 (7.41%) Go
4 2 (7.41%) Perl
4 2 (7.41%) Rust
5 1 (3.70%) Bash
5 1 (3.70%) Java
5 1 (3.70%) Scala
Qualifications
1 12 (44.44%) SC Cleared
1 12 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 3 (11.11%) AWS Certification
3 2 (7.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (3.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (3.70%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.41%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (14.81%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (37.04%) Terraform
2 8 (29.63%) Kubernetes
3 5 (18.52%) Prometheus
4 2 (7.41%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (3.70%) Salesforce