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

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 83 106 98
Rank change year-on-year +23 -8 +58
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 35 18 39
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.93% 0.87% 1.52%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.64% 2.21% 3.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 11 21
10th Percentile £352 £428 £400
25th Percentile £398 £469 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £513 £475
Median % change year-on-year +9.76% +7.89% -16.48%
75th Percentile £678 £572 £588
90th Percentile £699 £588 £638
Central London median daily rate £580 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +13.17% -2.38% -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 754 815 1,047
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.68% 39.28% 40.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 573 516 753
10th Percentile £333 £400 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £668 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £765 £775
Central London median daily rate £530 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -7.83% +4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 8
10th Percentile £32.30 £32.05 -
25th Percentile £35.88 £39.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.78 £56.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -27.18% +169.88% +1.22%
75th Percentile £52.13 £76.13 £40.69
90th Percentile £60.28 £85.95 £56.25
Central London median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £20.75
% change year-on-year -2.86% +68.67% +1.22%

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 16 December 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 (5.71%) Confluence
2 1 (2.86%) Apache
2 1 (2.86%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.86%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 35 (100.00%) AWS
1 35 (100.00%) Serverless
2 21 (60.00%) Amazon S3
3 14 (40.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 12 (34.29%) GitHub
5 11 (31.43%) Amazon ECS
6 9 (25.71%) GitHub Actions
7 8 (22.86%) Azure
8 7 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (14.29%) AWS Fargate
9 5 (14.29%) Snowflake
10 4 (11.43%) Amazon ECR
10 4 (11.43%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (11.43%) Apigee
10 4 (11.43%) AWS CodePipeline
10 4 (11.43%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (8.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 2 (5.71%) AWS Step Functions
12 2 (5.71%) Fastly
Communications & Networking
1 5 (14.29%) DNS
2 1 (2.86%) DKIM
2 1 (2.86%) NAS
2 1 (2.86%) OpenLDAP
2 1 (2.86%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (2.86%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (28.57%) DynamoDB
2 5 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (8.57%) Amazon Athena
3 3 (8.57%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (5.71%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (5.71%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.86%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (2.86%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (2.86%) Data Lake
5 1 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.86%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (2.86%) GIS
5 1 (2.86%) Metadata
5 1 (2.86%) MySQL
5 1 (2.86%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.86%) Parquet
5 1 (2.86%) Power BI
5 1 (2.86%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (2.86%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.86%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (11.43%) Git
2 3 (8.57%) JIRA
3 2 (5.71%) GitLab
3 2 (5.71%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.86%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.86%) Terragrunt
4 1 (2.86%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 5 (14.29%) Public Sector
2 3 (8.57%) Banking
2 3 (8.57%) Front Office
2 3 (8.57%) Investment Banking
2 3 (8.57%) Social Skills
3 2 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (5.71%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (5.71%) Finance
4 1 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
3 6 (17.14%) Senior
4 5 (14.29%) Developer
4 5 (14.29%) Python Engineer
5 4 (11.43%) Architect
5 4 (11.43%) AWS DevOps
5 4 (11.43%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 4 (11.43%) Data Engineer
5 4 (11.43%) Lead
6 3 (8.57%) Senior Data Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Apigee Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Cloud Architect
8 1 (2.86%) Applications Developer
8 1 (2.86%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 1 (2.86%) Infrastructure Architect
8 1 (2.86%) Salesforce Developer
8 1 (2.86%) Site Engineer
8 1 (2.86%) Software Engineer
8 1 (2.86%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (37.14%) Node.js
2 6 (17.14%) React
3 4 (11.43%) .NET
3 4 (11.43%) AWS CDK
3 4 (11.43%) JWT
3 4 (11.43%) OAuth
4 3 (8.57%) AngularJS
5 2 (5.71%) boto
5 2 (5.71%) CSS
5 2 (5.71%) Flask
5 2 (5.71%) HTML
5 2 (5.71%) REST
5 2 (5.71%) RESTful
5 2 (5.71%) SQLAlchemy
6 1 (2.86%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (2.86%) FastAPI
6 1 (2.86%) LDAP
6 1 (2.86%) OpenAPI
6 1 (2.86%) pytest
6 1 (2.86%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 11 (31.43%) Cloud Native
2 5 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (11.43%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (5.71%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.86%) AI Agents
5 1 (2.86%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.86%) Data Fabric
5 1 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.86%) Mainframe
5 1 (2.86%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.86%) NHS
5 1 (2.86%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.86%) Virtual Team
5 1 (2.86%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 4 (11.43%) Linux
2 1 (2.86%) AIX
2 1 (2.86%) Android
2 1 (2.86%) Apple iOS
2 1 (2.86%) Solaris
2 1 (2.86%) Unix
2 1 (2.86%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (54.29%) CI/CD
2 15 (42.86%) DevOps
3 14 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 9 (25.71%) Agile
5 8 (22.86%) Analytics
5 8 (22.86%) Microservices
6 7 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
6 7 (20.00%) Event-Driven
6 7 (20.00%) Software Engineering
7 6 (17.14%) Containerisation
7 6 (17.14%) Observability
8 5 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
9 4 (11.43%) Code Quality
9 4 (11.43%) Design Patterns
9 4 (11.43%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 3 (8.57%) Cloud Security
10 3 (8.57%) Data Transformation
10 3 (8.57%) Portfolio Management
10 3 (8.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 3 (8.57%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (60.00%) Python
2 9 (25.71%) SQL
3 7 (20.00%) Java
4 5 (14.29%) JavaScript
5 3 (8.57%) TypeScript
6 2 (5.71%) Bash
6 2 (5.71%) Go
7 1 (2.86%) Apex Code
7 1 (2.86%) COBOL
7 1 (2.86%) PHP
7 1 (2.86%) Ruby
7 1 (2.86%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.86%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 14 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 14 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.71%) AWS Certification
2 2 (5.71%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.86%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.57%) Data Quality
1 3 (8.57%) GDPR
2 1 (2.86%) HMG Security Policy Framework
2 1 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.86%) NCSC
2 1 (2.86%) QA
System Software
1 7 (20.00%) Docker
2 1 (2.86%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 15 (42.86%) Terraform
2 4 (11.43%) Ansible
2 4 (11.43%) Kubernetes
3 2 (5.71%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (2.86%) Kibana
4 1 (2.86%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 8 (22.86%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.86%) Atlassian
2 1 (2.86%) Databricks
2 1 (2.86%) NetApp
2 1 (2.86%) Salesforce