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 29 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 92 90
Rank change year-on-year +2 -2 +38
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 39 26 36
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.71% 1.48% 1.63%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.32% 3.44% 4.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 20 26
10th Percentile £313 - £413
25th Percentile £363 £425 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% -13.14%
75th Percentile £597 £628 £584
90th Percentile £678 £653 £688
Central London median daily rate £535 £505 £513
% change year-on-year +5.94% -1.46% -9.09%

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 902 755 858
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 39.54% 42.92% 38.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 628 483 606
10th Percentile £350 £375 £363
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.09% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £669 £675
90th Percentile £750 £748 £763
Central London median daily rate £540 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -1.86% +2.37% -6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 7 8
10th Percentile £20.67 £24.66 £12.75
25th Percentile £25.81 £29.64 £17.39
Median hourly rate £40.64 £42.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.38% +88.89% -73.24%
75th Percentile £57.83 £74.38 £32.81
90th Percentile £75.18 £135.00 £57.30
Central London median hourly rate £37.50 £34.83 £22.50
% change year-on-year +7.68% +54.78% -72.73%

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 29 April 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%) CICS
2 3 (7.69%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (5.13%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 39 (100.00%) AWS
1 39 (100.00%) Serverless
2 25 (64.10%) Amazon S3
3 14 (35.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 11 (28.21%) GitHub
5 8 (20.51%) Amazon EC2
5 8 (20.51%) Amazon ECS
5 8 (20.51%) AWS CloudFormation
6 6 (15.38%) AWS Step Functions
6 6 (15.38%) Azure
6 6 (15.38%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (12.82%) Amazon Bedrock
7 5 (12.82%) AWS CodePipeline
8 4 (10.26%) Amazon Kinesis
8 4 (10.26%) Amazon SQS
9 3 (7.69%) Amazon SageMaker
9 3 (7.69%) Anthropic Claude
9 3 (7.69%) AWS Fargate
9 3 (7.69%) Snowflake
9 3 (7.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.13%) DNS
2 1 (2.56%) Firewall
2 1 (2.56%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (43.59%) DynamoDB
2 7 (17.95%) Amazon Athena
2 7 (17.95%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (17.95%) Amazon Redshift
3 5 (12.82%) DB2
3 5 (12.82%) Metadata
4 4 (10.26%) CockroachDB
5 3 (7.69%) Data Lake
6 2 (5.13%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (5.13%) Data Mining
6 2 (5.13%) Electronic Patient Records
6 2 (5.13%) NoSQL
6 2 (5.13%) Pinecone
6 2 (5.13%) Tableau
7 1 (2.56%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (2.56%) Data Hub
7 1 (2.56%) Data Vault
7 1 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (2.56%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 11 (28.21%) Git
2 10 (25.64%) GitLab
3 6 (15.38%) Jenkins
3 6 (15.38%) JIRA
4 4 (10.26%) JUnit
5 3 (7.69%) Cucumber
5 3 (7.69%) Mockito
5 3 (7.69%) Postman
6 1 (2.56%) Artifactory
6 1 (2.56%) Bitbucket
6 1 (2.56%) Cypress.io
6 1 (2.56%) Terragrunt
General
1 8 (20.51%) Banking
1 8 (20.51%) Finance
2 7 (17.95%) Public Sector
2 7 (17.95%) Social Skills
3 1 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (2.56%) Law
3 1 (2.56%) Military
3 1 (2.56%) Police
Job Titles
1 7 (17.95%) Data Engineer
1 7 (17.95%) Developer
2 6 (15.38%) Senior
3 5 (12.82%) AWS Engineer
3 5 (12.82%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (10.26%) Architect
5 3 (7.69%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) Automation Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (5.13%) AWS DevOps
6 2 (5.13%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Data Architect
6 2 (5.13%) Platform Architect
6 2 (5.13%) Senior Data Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Site Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Snowflake Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (17.95%) boto
1 7 (17.95%) Kafka
1 7 (17.95%) Node.js
1 7 (17.95%) SOAP
2 6 (15.38%) RESTful
2 6 (15.38%) Spring
2 6 (15.38%) Spring Boot
3 5 (12.82%) JSON
3 5 (12.82%) React
4 4 (10.26%) Web Services
4 4 (10.26%) WSDL
5 3 (7.69%) Gherkin
5 3 (7.69%) LangGraph
5 3 (7.69%) Model Context Protocol
5 3 (7.69%) OAuth
5 3 (7.69%) PySpark
5 3 (7.69%) REST
5 3 (7.69%) WireMock
5 3 (7.69%) YAML
6 2 (5.13%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 10 (25.64%) Cloud Native
2 4 (10.26%) DataPower
2 4 (10.26%) Mainframe
2 4 (10.26%) Online Banking
3 3 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (5.13%) Data Structures
4 2 (5.13%) NHS
5 1 (2.56%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.26%) zOS
2 3 (7.69%) Linux
3 1 (2.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (58.97%) CI/CD
2 17 (43.59%) Infrastructure as Code
3 14 (35.90%) DevOps
4 11 (28.21%) AI
5 8 (20.51%) Agile
5 8 (20.51%) Performance Tuning
6 7 (17.95%) Containerisation
6 7 (17.95%) Event-Driven
6 7 (17.95%) Microservices
7 6 (15.38%) Analytics
7 6 (15.38%) ETL
7 6 (15.38%) Generative AI
7 6 (15.38%) LLM
8 5 (12.82%) Batch Processing
8 5 (12.82%) Data Engineering
8 5 (12.82%) Integration Patterns
8 5 (12.82%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
8 5 (12.82%) Semantic Search
8 5 (12.82%) Technical Leadership
8 5 (12.82%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 26 (66.67%) Python
2 14 (35.90%) SQL
3 8 (20.51%) Java
4 5 (12.82%) JavaScript
4 5 (12.82%) Shell Script
5 4 (10.26%) JCL
5 4 (10.26%) TypeScript
6 3 (7.69%) C#
7 2 (5.13%) Bicep
8 1 (2.56%) Bash
8 1 (2.56%) Go
8 1 (2.56%) PHP
8 1 (2.56%) Ruby
8 1 (2.56%) Scala
Qualifications
1 11 (28.21%) SC Cleared
1 11 (28.21%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.13%) AWS Certification
2 2 (5.13%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.56%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (2.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (2.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.38%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.13%) QA
3 1 (2.56%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (28.21%) Docker
2 1 (2.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 16 (41.03%) Terraform
2 8 (20.51%) Kubernetes
3 3 (7.69%) Ansible
4 2 (5.13%) Grafana
4 2 (5.13%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.56%) Kibana
5 1 (2.56%) Opsgenie
5 1 (2.56%) Puppet
5 1 (2.56%) Salt
5 1 (2.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.69%) Databricks
3 2 (5.13%) OpenAI
3 2 (5.13%) SAP
3 2 (5.13%) Splunk
4 1 (2.56%) Amplitude
4 1 (2.56%) Fortinet
4 1 (2.56%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.56%) Sybase