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 25 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 95 103
Rank change year-on-year -4 +8 +28
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 38 30 21
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.64% 1.65% 1.01%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.08% 4.00% 2.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 23 13
10th Percentile £455 £425 £488
25th Percentile £503 £461 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £663 £625 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.00% +25.00% -1.23%
75th Percentile £753 £781 £563
90th Percentile £875 £800 £599
Central London median daily rate £663 £625 £500
% change year-on-year +6.00% +25.00% -1.23%

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 931 750 833
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 40.18% 41.37% 40.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 654 500 571
10th Percentile £371 £339 £383
25th Percentile £463 £435 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £551
Median % change year-on-year - -0.09% -4.26%
75th Percentile £656 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £757 £763
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 12 3
10th Percentile £19.48 £23.84 -
25th Percentile £22.67 £26.23 -
Median hourly rate £27.00 £34.33 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.34% +27.13% -10.74%
75th Percentile £59.06 £58.96 £59.75
90th Percentile £75.18 £86.43 £79.40
Central London median hourly rate £35.00 £34.00 £27.00
% change year-on-year +2.94% +25.93% -10.74%

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 25 August 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 (10.53%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (10.53%) Confluence
2 3 (7.89%) CICS
3 1 (2.63%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 38 (100.00%) AWS
1 38 (100.00%) Serverless
2 28 (73.68%) Amazon S3
3 11 (28.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 10 (26.32%) GitHub
5 9 (23.68%) Amazon EC2
6 8 (21.05%) Amazon SQS
7 7 (18.42%) Amazon Kinesis
7 7 (18.42%) AWS Step Functions
7 7 (18.42%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (15.79%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (13.16%) Amazon Bedrock
9 5 (13.16%) Amazon ECS
9 5 (13.16%) Amazon EMR
9 5 (13.16%) dbt
9 5 (13.16%) Power Platform
9 5 (13.16%) SaaS
10 4 (10.53%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (10.53%) Amazon EventBridge
10 4 (10.53%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.63%) Firewall
1 1 (2.63%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (36.84%) Amazon Athena
2 12 (31.58%) DynamoDB
3 11 (28.95%) Amazon Redshift
4 10 (26.32%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (13.16%) Power BI
6 4 (10.53%) Metadata
7 3 (7.89%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (7.89%) Db2
8 2 (5.26%) BigQuery
8 2 (5.26%) Data Lake
8 2 (5.26%) Data Mining
8 2 (5.26%) Delta Lake
8 2 (5.26%) Electronic Patient Records
8 2 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (5.26%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (5.26%) Tableau
9 1 (2.63%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (2.63%) Amazon QuickSight
9 1 (2.63%) Data Vault
9 1 (2.63%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (31.58%) GitLab
2 8 (21.05%) Git
2 8 (21.05%) JIRA
3 5 (13.16%) Bitbucket
4 4 (10.53%) Jenkins
5 3 (7.89%) Cucumber
5 3 (7.89%) JUnit
5 3 (7.89%) Mockito
5 3 (7.89%) Postman
6 2 (5.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (2.63%) Artifactory
7 1 (2.63%) Cypress.io
General
1 15 (39.47%) Finance
2 10 (26.32%) Social Skills
3 7 (18.42%) Banking
3 7 (18.42%) Public Sector
4 3 (7.89%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (7.89%) Back Office
5 2 (5.26%) Military
6 1 (2.63%) Billing
6 1 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.63%) Law
6 1 (2.63%) Marketing
6 1 (2.63%) Police
Job Titles
1 12 (31.58%) AWS Engineer
2 9 (23.68%) Senior
3 8 (21.05%) Data Engineer
4 6 (15.79%) Architect
5 5 (13.16%) AWS Data Engineer
6 4 (10.53%) Developer
6 4 (10.53%) Lead
7 3 (7.89%) Automation Engineer
7 3 (7.89%) Data Architect
7 3 (7.89%) Senior Data Engineer
7 3 (7.89%) Workflow Engineer
8 2 (5.26%) Full-Stack Developer
8 2 (5.26%) GCP Data Engineer
8 2 (5.26%) GCP Engineer
8 2 (5.26%) Platform Architect
8 2 (5.26%) Software Engineer
8 2 (5.26%) Technical Architect
9 1 (2.63%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 1 (2.63%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
9 1 (2.63%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (42.11%) Terraform
2 6 (15.79%) SOAP
3 5 (13.16%) Kafka
3 5 (13.16%) PySpark
4 4 (10.53%) .NET
4 4 (10.53%) Node.js
4 4 (10.53%) React
4 4 (10.53%) RESTful
4 4 (10.53%) Spring
4 4 (10.53%) Spring Boot
5 3 (7.89%) ActiveMQ
5 3 (7.89%) Gherkin
5 3 (7.89%) JSON
5 3 (7.89%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (7.89%) Web Services
5 3 (7.89%) WireMock
5 3 (7.89%) WSDL
5 3 (7.89%) YAML
6 2 (5.26%) Jest
7 1 (2.63%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 11 (28.95%) Cloud Native
2 3 (7.89%) DataPower
2 3 (7.89%) Mainframe
2 3 (7.89%) Online Banking
3 2 (5.26%) AI Agents
3 2 (5.26%) NHS
4 1 (2.63%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.63%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.63%) Over-the-Top Content
4 1 (2.63%) Smart Meter
4 1 (2.63%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.89%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (52.63%) CI/CD
2 14 (36.84%) Data Engineering
2 14 (36.84%) Infrastructure as Code
3 12 (31.58%) AI
4 10 (26.32%) Agile
4 10 (26.32%) DevOps
5 9 (23.68%) Data Pipeline
5 9 (23.68%) Test Automation
6 8 (21.05%) Analytics
6 8 (21.05%) Data Modelling
6 8 (21.05%) Event-Driven
7 6 (15.79%) Business Intelligence
7 6 (15.79%) Containerisation
7 6 (15.79%) Data Governance
7 6 (15.79%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 6 (15.79%) LLM
7 6 (15.79%) Machine Learning
7 6 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (15.79%) Technical Leadership
8 5 (13.16%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 23 (60.53%) Python
2 15 (39.47%) SQL
3 7 (18.42%) C#
4 6 (15.79%) TypeScript
5 5 (13.16%) Java
5 5 (13.16%) JavaScript
6 3 (7.89%) JCL
6 3 (7.89%) Shell Script
7 2 (5.26%) Bash
7 2 (5.26%) Bicep
8 1 (2.63%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (10.53%) SC Cleared
1 4 (10.53%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.26%) DBS Check
3 1 (2.63%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.63%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 1 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.53%) Data Quality
2 3 (7.89%) QA
3 1 (2.63%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (23.68%) Docker
2 1 (2.63%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (15.79%) Kubernetes
2 3 (7.89%) Grafana
3 2 (5.26%) Ansible
3 2 (5.26%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.63%) Puppet
4 1 (2.63%) Salt
Vendors
1 6 (15.79%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.89%) Databricks
3 2 (5.26%) OpenAI
3 2 (5.26%) Splunk
4 1 (2.63%) Fortinet
4 1 (2.63%) Informatica