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 24 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 90 94
Rank change year-on-year +3 +4 +32
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 42 25 32
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.80% 1.49% 1.48%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.66% 3.45% 3.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 20 23
10th Percentile £313 - £413
25th Percentile £422 £425 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% - -16.67%
75th Percentile £684 £638 £563
90th Percentile £875 £800 £599
Central London median daily rate £600 £505 £500
% change year-on-year +18.81% +1.00% -15.97%

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 902 724 870
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 38.61% 43.10% 40.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 628 457 608
10th Percentile £350 £363 £363
25th Percentile £450 £456 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £543
Median % change year-on-year - +1.38% -9.58%
75th Percentile £650 £669 £657
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £530
% change year-on-year - +3.77% -7.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 8 6
10th Percentile £20.35 £24.39 £12.75
25th Percentile £22.58 £24.66 £14.88
Median hourly rate £44.47 £38.58 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.28% +71.44% -72.73%
75th Percentile £63.54 £61.56 £26.19
90th Percentile £75.53 £126.25 £38.63
Central London median hourly rate £44.47 £29.07 £22.50
% change year-on-year +52.98% +29.20% -66.67%

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 24 May 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 (9.52%) CICS
2 3 (7.14%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (4.76%) Confluence
4 1 (2.38%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 42 (100.00%) AWS
1 42 (100.00%) Serverless
2 26 (61.90%) Amazon S3
3 13 (30.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 9 (21.43%) Amazon EC2
4 9 (21.43%) GitHub
5 8 (19.05%) Amazon SQS
5 8 (19.05%) AWS CloudFormation
6 6 (14.29%) Amazon Bedrock
6 6 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
6 6 (14.29%) AWS Step Functions
7 5 (11.90%) AWS CodePipeline
7 5 (11.90%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (9.52%) Amazon Kinesis
8 4 (9.52%) SaaS
9 3 (7.14%) Amazon EMR
9 3 (7.14%) Amazon SageMaker
9 3 (7.14%) dbt
9 3 (7.14%) Snowflake
9 3 (7.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.76%) DNS
2 1 (2.38%) Firewall
2 1 (2.38%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (40.48%) DynamoDB
2 9 (21.43%) Amazon Redshift
3 8 (19.05%) Amazon Athena
3 8 (19.05%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (14.29%) Metadata
5 5 (11.90%) DB2
6 4 (9.52%) CockroachDB
7 3 (7.14%) Data Lake
8 2 (4.76%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (4.76%) Data Mining
8 2 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (4.76%) Delta Lake
8 2 (4.76%) Electronic Patient Records
8 2 (4.76%) Pinecone
8 2 (4.76%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (4.76%) Tableau
9 1 (2.38%) Apache Iceberg
9 1 (2.38%) Data Hub
9 1 (2.38%) NoSQL
9 1 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (28.57%) Git
2 11 (26.19%) GitLab
3 7 (16.67%) Jenkins
3 7 (16.67%) JIRA
4 5 (11.90%) JUnit
5 4 (9.52%) Cucumber
5 4 (9.52%) Mockito
5 4 (9.52%) Postman
6 1 (2.38%) Artifactory
6 1 (2.38%) Bitbucket
6 1 (2.38%) Cypress.io
6 1 (2.38%) Terragrunt
General
1 10 (23.81%) Finance
2 9 (21.43%) Banking
3 8 (19.05%) Social Skills
4 7 (16.67%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.38%) Billing
5 1 (2.38%) Law
5 1 (2.38%) Military
5 1 (2.38%) Police
Job Titles
1 8 (19.05%) Data Engineer
2 7 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
2 7 (16.67%) Developer
3 6 (14.29%) Senior
4 5 (11.90%) Architect
5 4 (9.52%) Automation Engineer
5 4 (9.52%) Lead
6 3 (7.14%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) Data Architect
6 3 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (7.14%) Workflow Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) AWS Data Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Platform Architect
7 2 (4.76%) Site Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Snowflake Data Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Snowflake Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Software Developer
8 1 (2.38%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (21.43%) Kafka
2 8 (19.05%) SOAP
3 7 (16.67%) boto
3 7 (16.67%) Spring
3 7 (16.67%) Spring Boot
4 6 (14.29%) RESTful
5 5 (11.90%) JSON
5 5 (11.90%) PySpark
5 5 (11.90%) React
6 4 (9.52%) .NET
6 4 (9.52%) Gherkin
6 4 (9.52%) Node.js
6 4 (9.52%) Web Services
6 4 (9.52%) WireMock
6 4 (9.52%) WSDL
6 4 (9.52%) YAML
7 3 (7.14%) LangGraph
7 3 (7.14%) Model Context Protocol
7 3 (7.14%) REST
8 2 (4.76%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 8 (19.05%) Cloud Native
2 4 (9.52%) DataPower
2 4 (9.52%) Mainframe
2 4 (9.52%) Online Banking
3 2 (4.76%) Data Structures
3 2 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (4.76%) NHS
4 1 (2.38%) AI Agents
4 1 (2.38%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.38%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.38%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.38%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 4 (9.52%) zOS
2 2 (4.76%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 15 (35.71%) Infrastructure as Code
3 12 (28.57%) AI
4 10 (23.81%) DevOps
5 9 (21.43%) Agile
6 8 (19.05%) Data Engineering
6 8 (19.05%) Event-Driven
7 7 (16.67%) Containerisation
7 7 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
7 7 (16.67%) ETL
7 7 (16.67%) Generative AI
7 7 (16.67%) LLM
7 7 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
8 6 (14.29%) Analytics
8 6 (14.29%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
8 6 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
8 6 (14.29%) Test Automation
9 5 (11.90%) Batch Processing
9 5 (11.90%) Integration Patterns
9 5 (11.90%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 25 (59.52%) Python
2 15 (35.71%) SQL
3 8 (19.05%) C#
3 8 (19.05%) Java
4 5 (11.90%) JavaScript
5 4 (9.52%) JCL
5 4 (9.52%) Shell Script
5 4 (9.52%) TypeScript
6 2 (4.76%) Bicep
7 1 (2.38%) Bash
7 1 (2.38%) Go
7 1 (2.38%) PHP
7 1 (2.38%) Ruby
7 1 (2.38%) Scala
Qualifications
1 7 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 7 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.76%) AWS Certification
2 2 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.38%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (2.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (2.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (16.67%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.76%) QA
3 1 (2.38%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (26.19%) Docker
2 1 (2.38%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (30.95%) Terraform
2 8 (19.05%) Kubernetes
3 2 (4.76%) Ansible
3 2 (4.76%) Grafana
3 2 (4.76%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.38%) Kibana
4 1 (2.38%) Opsgenie
4 1 (2.38%) Puppet
4 1 (2.38%) Salt
4 1 (2.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (11.90%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.14%) Databricks
3 2 (4.76%) OpenAI
3 2 (4.76%) SAP
3 2 (4.76%) Splunk
4 1 (2.38%) Amplitude
4 1 (2.38%) Fortinet
4 1 (2.38%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.38%) Sybase