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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 110 127
Rank change year-on-year +22 +17 +8
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 31 20 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.76% 0.95% 1.04%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.38% 2.36% 2.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 13 19
10th Percentile £425 £488 £410
25th Percentile £466 £490 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +35.00% +5.26% -20.83%
75th Percentile £781 £563 £631
90th Percentile £800 £598 £653
Central London median daily rate £675 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +35.00% -2.44% -14.58%

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 708 847 1,243
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 40.16% 40.37% 41.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 489 562 846
10th Percentile £339 £388 £325
25th Percentile £435 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £564 £570
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -1.10% -0.87%
75th Percentile £669 £675 £688
90th Percentile £751 £775 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £560 £563
% change year-on-year -1.79% -0.44% -2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 3 6
10th Percentile £23.84 - £14.63
25th Percentile £26.23 - £17.00
Median hourly rate £34.33 £27.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year +27.13% +30.12% -38.97%
75th Percentile £58.96 £59.75 £34.44
90th Percentile £86.43 £79.40 £45.25
Central London median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £20.75
% change year-on-year -2.86% +68.67% -37.59%

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
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 18 September 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 2 (6.45%) Confluence
2 1 (3.23%) CICS
2 1 (3.23%) CMS
2 1 (3.23%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 31 (100.00%) AWS
1 31 (100.00%) Serverless
2 18 (58.06%) Amazon S3
3 13 (41.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 11 (35.48%) Amazon SQS
5 7 (22.58%) AWS Step Functions
6 6 (19.35%) Amazon Cognito
6 6 (19.35%) Amazon ECS
6 6 (19.35%) Amazon EKS
7 5 (16.13%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (16.13%) Amazon EventBridge
7 5 (16.13%) Datadog
7 5 (16.13%) GitHub
7 5 (16.13%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (12.90%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (9.68%) Snowflake
10 2 (6.45%) Fastly
10 2 (6.45%) Heroku
10 2 (6.45%) SaaS
10 2 (6.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.68%) DNS
2 1 (3.23%) DKIM
2 1 (3.23%) NAS
2 1 (3.23%) OpenLDAP
2 1 (3.23%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (3.23%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (38.71%) DynamoDB
2 6 (19.35%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (16.13%) DocumentDB
3 5 (16.13%) Redis
4 2 (6.45%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (3.23%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (3.23%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (3.23%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (3.23%) GIS
5 1 (3.23%) Parquet
5 1 (3.23%) Pinecone
5 1 (3.23%) Relational Database
5 1 (3.23%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (3.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (25.81%) Git
2 5 (16.13%) SonarQube
3 3 (9.68%) JIRA
4 2 (6.45%) GitLab
5 1 (3.23%) CircleCI
5 1 (3.23%) Jenkins
5 1 (3.23%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 6 (19.35%) Public Sector
2 5 (16.13%) Social Skills
3 3 (9.68%) Finance
4 2 (6.45%) Banking
4 2 (6.45%) Front Office
4 2 (6.45%) Investment Banking
5 1 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (19.35%) Software Engineer
2 5 (16.13%) JavaScript Engineer
3 4 (12.90%) Architect
3 4 (12.90%) Software Design Engineer
4 3 (9.68%) AWS Engineer
4 3 (9.68%) Developer
4 3 (9.68%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (9.68%) Lead
4 3 (9.68%) Python Engineer
4 3 (9.68%) Senior
5 2 (6.45%) AWS DevOps
5 2 (6.45%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) AWS Architect
6 1 (3.23%) AWS Data Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) Cloud Architect
6 1 (3.23%) Data Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) Digital Architect
6 1 (3.23%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (38.71%) Node.js
1 12 (38.71%) React
2 7 (22.58%) AngularJS
3 6 (19.35%) GraphQL
4 5 (16.13%) OpenTelemetry
4 5 (16.13%) WebSockets
5 3 (9.68%) RESTful
6 2 (6.45%) .NET
6 2 (6.45%) AWS CDK
6 2 (6.45%) CSS
6 2 (6.45%) Flask
6 2 (6.45%) HTML
6 2 (6.45%) SQLAlchemy
7 1 (3.23%) Faiss
7 1 (3.23%) FastAPI
7 1 (3.23%) Flake8
7 1 (3.23%) LangChain
7 1 (3.23%) LangGraph
7 1 (3.23%) Lightning Web Components
7 1 (3.23%) mypy
Miscellaneous
1 6 (19.35%) Cloud Native
2 2 (6.45%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (6.45%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.23%) AI Agents
3 1 (3.23%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.23%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (3.23%) Mainframe
3 1 (3.23%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.23%) NHS
3 1 (3.23%) Public Cloud
3 1 (3.23%) Virtual Team
3 1 (3.23%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.23%) AIX
1 1 (3.23%) Android
1 1 (3.23%) Apple iOS
1 1 (3.23%) Linux
1 1 (3.23%) Solaris
1 1 (3.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (48.39%) CI/CD
2 11 (35.48%) DevOps
2 11 (35.48%) Software Engineering
3 10 (32.26%) Event-Driven
3 10 (32.26%) Infrastructure as Code
4 9 (29.03%) Microservices
4 9 (29.03%) Observability
5 8 (25.81%) Agile
5 8 (25.81%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 8 (25.81%) User Experience
6 7 (22.58%) Mentoring
7 6 (19.35%) Technical Leadership
8 5 (16.13%) Clean Code
8 5 (16.13%) Deployment Automation
8 5 (16.13%) Full-Stack Development
8 5 (16.13%) Performance Optimisation
9 4 (12.90%) Code Quality
9 4 (12.90%) Data Pipeline
10 3 (9.68%) Containerisation
10 3 (9.68%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 15 (48.39%) Python
2 12 (38.71%) JavaScript
3 4 (12.90%) Java
3 4 (12.90%) SQL
3 4 (12.90%) TypeScript
4 3 (9.68%) Bash
5 2 (6.45%) Go
6 1 (3.23%) Apex Code
6 1 (3.23%) COBOL
6 1 (3.23%) Rust
6 1 (3.23%) Shell Script
6 1 (3.23%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 10 (32.26%) SC Cleared
1 10 (32.26%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.45%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (3.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (3.23%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.68%) GDPR
2 1 (3.23%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.23%) HMG Security Policy Framework
2 1 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.23%) NCSC
2 1 (3.23%) QA
System Software
1 2 (6.45%) Docker
2 1 (3.23%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (29.03%) Terraform
2 5 (16.13%) Prometheus
3 3 (9.68%) Kubernetes
4 2 (6.45%) Ansible
4 2 (6.45%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (6.45%) Microsoft
1 2 (6.45%) Salesforce
2 1 (3.23%) Atlassian
2 1 (3.23%) NetApp