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

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 100 88
Rank change year-on-year +8 -12 +41
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 39 18 41
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.96% 0.98% 1.74%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.72% 2.35% 4.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 15 24
10th Percentile £313 £422 £402
25th Percentile £353 £460 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £451 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.75% -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £641 £588 £566
90th Percentile £688 £638 £623
Central London median daily rate £510 £510 £525
% change year-on-year - -2.86% -2.33%

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 827 765 896
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.60% 41.62% 38.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 596 492 640
10th Percentile £334 £400 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 11
10th Percentile £31.88 £28.98 £12.75
25th Percentile £39.44 £35.46 £17.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £47.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +150.00% -55.81%
75th Percentile £55.94 £118.13 £36.25
90th Percentile £66.53 £159.75 £50.25
Central London median hourly rate £40.50 £35.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year +15.71% +84.21% -45.71%

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 27 February 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 2 (5.13%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (5.13%) CICS
2 1 (2.56%) Apache
2 1 (2.56%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 39 (100.00%) AWS
1 39 (100.00%) Serverless
2 22 (56.41%) Amazon S3
3 14 (35.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 11 (28.21%) GitHub
5 9 (23.08%) AWS CloudFormation
6 8 (20.51%) Amazon ECS
7 7 (17.95%) Azure
8 6 (15.38%) Amazon EC2
8 6 (15.38%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (12.82%) AWS Fargate
10 4 (10.26%) Amazon ECR
10 4 (10.26%) Apigee
10 4 (10.26%) AWS CodePipeline
10 4 (10.26%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (10.26%) Snowflake
11 3 (7.69%) Amazon Bedrock
11 3 (7.69%) Anthropic Claude
11 3 (7.69%) AWS Step Functions
12 2 (5.13%) AWS CodeBuild
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.26%) DNS
2 1 (2.56%) DKIM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (35.90%) DynamoDB
2 6 (15.38%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (12.82%) Amazon Athena
3 5 (12.82%) Amazon Redshift
4 4 (10.26%) CockroachDB
5 3 (7.69%) DB2
5 3 (7.69%) Metadata
6 2 (5.13%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (5.13%) Data Lake
6 2 (5.13%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (5.13%) NoSQL
6 2 (5.13%) Pinecone
6 2 (5.13%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (2.56%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (2.56%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (2.56%) GIS
7 1 (2.56%) Power BI
7 1 (2.56%) Relational Database
7 1 (2.56%) Star Schema
7 1 (2.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (23.08%) Git
2 5 (12.82%) GitLab
3 4 (10.26%) Jenkins
3 4 (10.26%) JIRA
4 3 (7.69%) JUnit
5 2 (5.13%) Cucumber
5 2 (5.13%) Mockito
5 2 (5.13%) Postman
6 1 (2.56%) Bitbucket
6 1 (2.56%) Terragrunt
6 1 (2.56%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 7 (17.95%) Banking
2 5 (12.82%) Finance
3 4 (10.26%) Public Sector
3 4 (10.26%) Social Skills
4 2 (5.13%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (5.13%) Front Office
4 2 (5.13%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.56%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (20.51%) Data Engineer
1 8 (20.51%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (17.95%) Developer
3 6 (15.38%) AWS Engineer
3 6 (15.38%) Senior
4 3 (7.69%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 3 (7.69%) AWS DevOps
4 3 (7.69%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 3 (7.69%) Lead
4 3 (7.69%) Python Engineer
4 3 (7.69%) Senior Data Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) Apigee Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) Architect
5 2 (5.13%) Automation Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) AWS Developer
6 1 (2.56%) AWS Data Engineer
6 1 (2.56%) Kafka Engineer
6 1 (2.56%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 1 (2.56%) Snowflake Engineer
6 1 (2.56%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (28.21%) Node.js
2 7 (17.95%) boto
3 5 (12.82%) Kafka
3 5 (12.82%) OAuth
3 5 (12.82%) React
4 4 (10.26%) JWT
4 4 (10.26%) REST
4 4 (10.26%) RESTful
4 4 (10.26%) SOAP
4 4 (10.26%) Spring
4 4 (10.26%) Spring Boot
5 3 (7.69%) .NET
5 3 (7.69%) AngularJS
5 3 (7.69%) AWS CDK
5 3 (7.69%) HTML
5 3 (7.69%) JSON
5 3 (7.69%) LangGraph
5 3 (7.69%) Model Context Protocol
6 2 (5.13%) Gherkin
6 2 (5.13%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (28.21%) Cloud Native
2 5 (12.82%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (10.26%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (5.13%) Data Structures
4 2 (5.13%) DataPower
4 2 (5.13%) Mainframe
4 2 (5.13%) Management Information System
4 2 (5.13%) Online Banking
5 1 (2.56%) Data Fabric
5 1 (2.56%) NHS
5 1 (2.56%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.69%) Linux
2 2 (5.13%) zOS
3 1 (2.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (48.72%) CI/CD
2 15 (38.46%) Infrastructure as Code
3 13 (33.33%) DevOps
4 9 (23.08%) Event-Driven
5 8 (20.51%) Analytics
5 8 (20.51%) Data Pipeline
5 8 (20.51%) Microservices
5 8 (20.51%) Performance Tuning
6 7 (17.95%) Agile
6 7 (17.95%) AI
6 7 (17.95%) ETL
7 6 (15.38%) Data Modelling
8 5 (12.82%) Containerisation
8 5 (12.82%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 5 (12.82%) Observability
8 5 (12.82%) Semantic Search
8 5 (12.82%) Validation
8 5 (12.82%) Workflow
9 4 (10.26%) Design Patterns
9 4 (10.26%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 27 (69.23%) Python
2 16 (41.03%) SQL
3 9 (23.08%) Java
4 5 (12.82%) JavaScript
5 3 (7.69%) Shell Script
6 2 (5.13%) C#
6 2 (5.13%) JCL
6 2 (5.13%) TypeScript
7 1 (2.56%) Apex Code
7 1 (2.56%) Bash
7 1 (2.56%) Go
7 1 (2.56%) PHP
7 1 (2.56%) Ruby
7 1 (2.56%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 12 (30.77%) SC Cleared
1 12 (30.77%) Security Cleared
2 3 (7.69%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.56%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (2.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (2.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (17.95%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.13%) GDPR
3 1 (2.56%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 1 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.56%) NCSC
System Software
1 9 (23.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (33.33%) Terraform
2 6 (15.38%) Kubernetes
3 4 (10.26%) Ansible
4 2 (5.13%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (2.56%) Kibana
5 1 (2.56%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 7 (17.95%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.13%) SAP
3 1 (2.56%) Amplitude
3 1 (2.56%) Databricks
3 1 (2.56%) Salesforce
3 1 (2.56%) ServiceNow
3 1 (2.56%) Sybase