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

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 96 86
Rank change year-on-year +7 -10 +58
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 37 16 42
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.96% 0.86% 1.76%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.81% 2.13% 4.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 13 25
10th Percentile £313 £421 £389
25th Percentile £356 £458 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - -11.11%
75th Percentile £638 £556 £563
90th Percentile £688 £588 £618
Central London median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -6.67%

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 769 752 921
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 40.75% 40.41% 38.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 574 473 661
10th Percentile £338 £400 £363
25th Percentile £419 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 12
10th Percentile £26.66 - £13.18
25th Percentile £34.19 £46.25 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.64 £47.50 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -14.44% +128.92% -17.00%
75th Percentile £46.11 £48.75 £40.69
90th Percentile £49.83 - £50.10
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £20.75
% change year-on-year -27.23% +68.67% -11.70%

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 6 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 (5.41%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.70%) Apache
2 1 (2.70%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 37 (100.00%) AWS
1 37 (100.00%) Serverless
2 22 (59.46%) Amazon S3
3 12 (32.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 10 (27.03%) GitHub
5 8 (21.62%) Amazon ECS
6 7 (18.92%) AWS CloudFormation
6 7 (18.92%) Azure
7 6 (16.22%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (13.51%) Snowflake
9 4 (10.81%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (10.81%) Amazon ECR
9 4 (10.81%) Apigee
9 4 (10.81%) AWS Fargate
9 4 (10.81%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (8.11%) Amazon Bedrock
10 3 (8.11%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (8.11%) Anthropic Claude
10 3 (8.11%) AWS CodePipeline
10 3 (8.11%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.81%) DNS
2 1 (2.70%) DKIM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (29.73%) DynamoDB
2 5 (13.51%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (10.81%) Amazon Athena
3 4 (10.81%) Amazon Redshift
3 4 (10.81%) CockroachDB
4 3 (8.11%) Metadata
5 2 (5.41%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (5.41%) Data Lake
5 2 (5.41%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (5.41%) Pinecone
5 2 (5.41%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (2.70%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (2.70%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (2.70%) GIS
6 1 (2.70%) MySQL
6 1 (2.70%) NoSQL
6 1 (2.70%) Power BI
6 1 (2.70%) Relational Database
6 1 (2.70%) Star Schema
6 1 (2.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (21.62%) Git
2 3 (8.11%) Jenkins
2 3 (8.11%) JIRA
3 2 (5.41%) GitLab
4 1 (2.70%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.70%) Cucumber
4 1 (2.70%) JUnit
4 1 (2.70%) Mockito
4 1 (2.70%) Postman
4 1 (2.70%) Terragrunt
4 1 (2.70%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 5 (13.51%) Banking
1 5 (13.51%) Public Sector
2 3 (8.11%) Front Office
2 3 (8.11%) Investment Banking
3 2 (5.41%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (5.41%) Finance
3 2 (5.41%) Social Skills
4 1 (2.70%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (24.32%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (18.92%) Data Engineer
3 6 (16.22%) AWS Engineer
3 6 (16.22%) Developer
4 4 (10.81%) Lead
4 4 (10.81%) Senior
5 3 (8.11%) Architect
5 3 (8.11%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) AWS DevOps
5 3 (8.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) Python Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Apigee Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Cloud Architect
6 2 (5.41%) Senior Data Engineer
7 1 (2.70%) AWS Data Engineer
7 1 (2.70%) Cloud Engineer
7 1 (2.70%) Kafka Engineer
7 1 (2.70%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 1 (2.70%) Snowflake Data Engineer
7 1 (2.70%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (32.43%) Node.js
2 7 (18.92%) React
3 6 (16.22%) boto
4 5 (13.51%) OAuth
5 4 (10.81%) .NET
5 4 (10.81%) AngularJS
5 4 (10.81%) HTML
5 4 (10.81%) JWT
5 4 (10.81%) Kafka
5 4 (10.81%) REST
6 3 (8.11%) AWS CDK
6 3 (8.11%) CSS
6 3 (8.11%) LangGraph
6 3 (8.11%) Model Context Protocol
7 2 (5.41%) NumPy
7 2 (5.41%) Pandas
7 2 (5.41%) Spring
7 2 (5.41%) Spring Boot
8 1 (2.70%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (2.70%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 11 (29.73%) Cloud Native
2 5 (13.51%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (10.81%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (5.41%) Data Structures
4 2 (5.41%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.70%) Data Fabric
5 1 (2.70%) NHS
5 1 (2.70%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.70%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.11%) Linux
2 1 (2.70%) Android
2 1 (2.70%) Apple iOS
2 1 (2.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (51.35%) CI/CD
2 15 (40.54%) Infrastructure as Code
3 13 (35.14%) DevOps
4 10 (27.03%) Data Pipeline
4 10 (27.03%) Event-Driven
5 8 (21.62%) Analytics
5 8 (21.62%) Microservices
6 7 (18.92%) Agile
7 6 (16.22%) Data Modelling
7 6 (16.22%) ETL
8 5 (13.51%) AI
8 5 (13.51%) Containerisation
8 5 (13.51%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 5 (13.51%) Full-Stack Development
8 5 (13.51%) Observability
8 5 (13.51%) Performance Tuning
8 5 (13.51%) Semantic Search
8 5 (13.51%) Software Engineering
8 5 (13.51%) Workflow
9 4 (10.81%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 25 (67.57%) Python
2 13 (35.14%) SQL
3 9 (24.32%) Java
4 7 (18.92%) JavaScript
5 3 (8.11%) TypeScript
6 2 (5.41%) Bash
7 1 (2.70%) Apex Code
7 1 (2.70%) C#
7 1 (2.70%) Go
7 1 (2.70%) PHP
7 1 (2.70%) Ruby
7 1 (2.70%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.70%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 13 (35.14%) SC Cleared
1 13 (35.14%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.41%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (16.22%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.41%) GDPR
3 1 (2.70%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 1 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.70%) NCSC
System Software
1 8 (21.62%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (35.14%) Terraform
2 4 (10.81%) Ansible
2 4 (10.81%) Kubernetes
3 2 (5.41%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (2.70%) Kibana
4 1 (2.70%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 8 (21.62%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.41%) SAP
3 1 (2.70%) Amplitude
3 1 (2.70%) Databricks
3 1 (2.70%) Salesforce