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 23 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 93 94
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 +30
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 39 25 28
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.61% 1.45% 1.30%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.18% 3.39% 3.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 20 21
10th Percentile £446 - £413
25th Percentile £463 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £555 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.60% +11.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £725 £791 £563
90th Percentile £875 £800 £593
Central London median daily rate £588 £555 £500
% change year-on-year +5.86% +11.00% -16.67%

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 934 738 880
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 38.61% 42.71% 40.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 638 475 617
10th Percentile £350 £364 £363
25th Percentile £456 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £656
90th Percentile £750 £754 £768
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £538
% change year-on-year - +2.33% -7.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 12 7
10th Percentile £22.38 £23.84 £12.75
25th Percentile £29.00 £24.66 £17.00
Median hourly rate £51.44 £38.58 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +33.35% +71.44% -66.67%
75th Percentile £65.00 £71.37 £27.00
90th Percentile £75.35 £98.88 £36.30
Central London median hourly rate £57.77 £31.86 £22.50
% change year-on-year +81.31% +41.60% -57.14%

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 23 June 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 (10.26%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (10.26%) CICS
2 3 (7.69%) Confluence
3 1 (2.56%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 39 (100.00%) AWS
1 39 (100.00%) Serverless
2 26 (66.67%) Amazon S3
3 12 (30.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 9 (23.08%) Amazon EC2
4 9 (23.08%) GitHub
5 8 (20.51%) Amazon SQS
6 7 (17.95%) Amazon Bedrock
6 7 (17.95%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (12.82%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (12.82%) Amazon EMR
7 5 (12.82%) Amazon Kinesis
8 4 (10.26%) Amazon SageMaker
8 4 (10.26%) AWS Step Functions
8 4 (10.26%) Azure
8 4 (10.26%) dbt
8 4 (10.26%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (10.26%) Power Platform
8 4 (10.26%) SaaS
9 3 (7.69%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.56%) Firewall
1 1 (2.56%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (38.46%) DynamoDB
2 12 (30.77%) Amazon Athena
3 11 (28.21%) Amazon Redshift
4 9 (23.08%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (12.82%) Db2
6 4 (10.26%) Metadata
6 4 (10.26%) Power BI
7 3 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (5.13%) Data Lake
8 2 (5.13%) Data Mining
8 2 (5.13%) Delta Lake
8 2 (5.13%) Electronic Patient Records
8 2 (5.13%) Pinecone
8 2 (5.13%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (5.13%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (5.13%) Tableau
9 1 (2.56%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (2.56%) Amazon QuickSight
9 1 (2.56%) CockroachDB
9 1 (2.56%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 13 (33.33%) Git
2 12 (30.77%) GitLab
3 9 (23.08%) JIRA
4 7 (17.95%) Jenkins
5 6 (15.38%) JUnit
6 5 (12.82%) Cucumber
6 5 (12.82%) Mockito
6 5 (12.82%) Postman
7 1 (2.56%) Artifactory
7 1 (2.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (2.56%) Bitbucket
7 1 (2.56%) Cypress.io
General
1 14 (35.90%) Finance
2 11 (28.21%) Banking
3 10 (25.64%) Social Skills
4 7 (17.95%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.13%) Military
6 1 (2.56%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.56%) Billing
6 1 (2.56%) Law
6 1 (2.56%) Police
Job Titles
1 8 (20.51%) AWS Engineer
1 8 (20.51%) Senior
2 7 (17.95%) Data Engineer
3 5 (12.82%) Architect
3 5 (12.82%) Automation Engineer
3 5 (12.82%) Developer
4 4 (10.26%) Lead
5 3 (7.69%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) Data Architect
5 3 (7.69%) Workflow Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) AWS Data Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (5.13%) Platform Architect
6 2 (5.13%) Senior Data Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Snowflake Engineer
7 1 (2.56%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 1 (2.56%) Gen AI Engineer
7 1 (2.56%) Kafka Engineer
7 1 (2.56%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (23.08%) Kafka
1 9 (23.08%) SOAP
2 7 (17.95%) Spring
2 7 (17.95%) Spring Boot
3 6 (15.38%) RESTful
4 5 (12.82%) Gherkin
4 5 (12.82%) PySpark
4 5 (12.82%) WireMock
4 5 (12.82%) YAML
5 4 (10.26%) .NET
5 4 (10.26%) JSON
5 4 (10.26%) React
5 4 (10.26%) Web Services
5 4 (10.26%) WSDL
6 3 (7.69%) boto
6 3 (7.69%) Node.js
7 2 (5.13%) LangGraph
7 2 (5.13%) Model Context Protocol
8 1 (2.56%) Jest
8 1 (2.56%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 9 (23.08%) Cloud Native
2 4 (10.26%) DataPower
2 4 (10.26%) Mainframe
2 4 (10.26%) Online Banking
3 2 (5.13%) NHS
4 1 (2.56%) AI Agents
4 1 (2.56%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.56%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.56%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.26%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (51.28%) CI/CD
2 13 (33.33%) AI
3 12 (30.77%) Data Engineering
3 12 (30.77%) Infrastructure as Code
4 11 (28.21%) Agile
5 9 (23.08%) DevOps
5 9 (23.08%) Test Automation
6 7 (17.95%) Analytics
6 7 (17.95%) Containerisation
6 7 (17.95%) Generative AI
6 7 (17.95%) LLM
6 7 (17.95%) Performance Tuning
7 6 (15.38%) Data Pipeline
7 6 (15.38%) Event-Driven
7 6 (15.38%) Machine Learning
7 6 (15.38%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
7 6 (15.38%) Technical Leadership
8 5 (12.82%) BDD
8 5 (12.82%) Data Governance
8 5 (12.82%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 23 (58.97%) Python
2 14 (35.90%) SQL
3 9 (23.08%) C#
4 8 (20.51%) Java
5 4 (10.26%) JCL
5 4 (10.26%) Shell Script
5 4 (10.26%) TypeScript
6 3 (7.69%) JavaScript
7 2 (5.13%) Bash
7 2 (5.13%) Bicep
8 1 (2.56%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (10.26%) SC Cleared
1 4 (10.26%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.13%) AWS Certification
2 2 (5.13%) DBS Check
3 1 (2.56%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 1 (2.56%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (2.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (12.82%) Data Quality
2 3 (7.69%) QA
3 1 (2.56%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (30.77%) Docker
2 1 (2.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (33.33%) Terraform
2 8 (20.51%) Kubernetes
3 3 (7.69%) Grafana
4 2 (5.13%) Ansible
4 2 (5.13%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.56%) Puppet
5 1 (2.56%) Salt
Vendors
1 5 (12.82%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.69%) Databricks
3 2 (5.13%) OpenAI
3 2 (5.13%) Splunk
4 1 (2.56%) Fortinet
4 1 (2.56%) Informatica
4 1 (2.56%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.56%) Sybase