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 20 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 98 112 113
Rank change year-on-year +14 +1 +21
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 25 14 34
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.48% 0.66% 1.18%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.61% 1.67% 2.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 8 20
10th Percentile £473 £425 £400
25th Percentile £530 £449 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £504 £475
Median % change year-on-year +34.00% +6.05% -11.63%
75th Percentile £800 £564 £575
90th Percentile - £633 £638
Central London median daily rate £675 £488 £475
% change year-on-year +38.46% +2.63% -11.63%

All Cloud 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 692 836 1,172
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 40.95% 39.70% 40.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 503 543 796
10th Percentile £333 £397 £359
25th Percentile £443 £463 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% -4.35%
75th Percentile £669 £675 £688
90th Percentile £750 £767 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 8
10th Percentile £21.58 £32.05 £15.58
25th Percentile £26.00 £39.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £34.00 £56.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -39.29% +169.88% +1.22%
75th Percentile £58.96 £76.13 £40.69
90th Percentile £72.53 £85.95 £49.88
Central London median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £20.75
% change year-on-year -2.86% +68.67% +1.22%

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 20 October 2025.

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 (8.00%) Confluence
2 1 (4.00%) CICS
2 1 (4.00%) CMS
2 1 (4.00%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 25 (100.00%) AWS
1 25 (100.00%) Serverless
2 18 (72.00%) Amazon S3
3 12 (48.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 6 (24.00%) Amazon ECS
5 5 (20.00%) Amazon Cognito
5 5 (20.00%) Amazon SQS
5 5 (20.00%) AWS Step Functions
5 5 (20.00%) Snowflake
6 4 (16.00%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (16.00%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (16.00%) Amazon EventBridge
6 4 (16.00%) Datadog
6 4 (16.00%) GitHub
6 4 (16.00%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (12.00%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (8.00%) Azure
8 2 (8.00%) Fastly
8 2 (8.00%) Heroku
8 2 (8.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.00%) DNS
2 1 (4.00%) DKIM
2 1 (4.00%) NAS
2 1 (4.00%) OpenLDAP
2 1 (4.00%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (4.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (36.00%) DynamoDB
2 5 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (8.00%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (4.00%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (4.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (4.00%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (4.00%) GIS
4 1 (4.00%) Metadata
4 1 (4.00%) Parquet
4 1 (4.00%) Pinecone
4 1 (4.00%) Power BI
4 1 (4.00%) Relational Database
4 1 (4.00%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (4.00%) SQL Server
4 1 (4.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (12.00%) Git
1 3 (12.00%) JIRA
2 1 (4.00%) GitLab
2 1 (4.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.00%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 4 (16.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (12.00%) Banking
2 3 (12.00%) Front Office
2 3 (12.00%) Investment Banking
3 2 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.00%) Finance
3 2 (8.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (16.00%) Developer
1 4 (16.00%) Lead
1 4 (16.00%) Python Engineer
1 4 (16.00%) Software Design Engineer
1 4 (16.00%) Software Engineer
2 3 (12.00%) Architect
2 3 (12.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (12.00%) Senior
3 2 (8.00%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) AWS Developer
4 1 (4.00%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (4.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (4.00%) Data Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Designer
4 1 (4.00%) Digital Architect
4 1 (4.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 1 (4.00%) Salesforce Developer
4 1 (4.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (28.00%) AngularJS
2 6 (24.00%) Node.js
2 6 (24.00%) React
3 4 (16.00%) .NET
3 4 (16.00%) GraphQL
3 4 (16.00%) OpenTelemetry
3 4 (16.00%) WebSockets
4 2 (8.00%) AWS CDK
4 2 (8.00%) CSS
4 2 (8.00%) Flask
4 2 (8.00%) HTML
4 2 (8.00%) REST
4 2 (8.00%) RESTful
4 2 (8.00%) SQLAlchemy
5 1 (4.00%) ActiveMQ
5 1 (4.00%) Kafka
5 1 (4.00%) LDAP
5 1 (4.00%) OAuth
5 1 (4.00%) OpenID
5 1 (4.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (28.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (8.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.00%) AI Agents
3 1 (4.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.00%) Data Fabric
3 1 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.00%) Mainframe
3 1 (4.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.00%) NHS
3 1 (4.00%) Public Cloud
3 1 (4.00%) Virtual Team
3 1 (4.00%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.00%) AIX
1 1 (4.00%) Android
1 1 (4.00%) Apple iOS
1 1 (4.00%) Linux
1 1 (4.00%) Solaris
1 1 (4.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (48.00%) CI/CD
2 10 (40.00%) DevOps
2 10 (40.00%) Event-Driven
3 9 (36.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 9 (36.00%) Software Engineering
4 8 (32.00%) Agile
4 8 (32.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 8 (32.00%) Observability
5 7 (28.00%) User Experience
6 6 (24.00%) Data Pipeline
6 6 (24.00%) Mentoring
7 5 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
7 5 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
8 4 (16.00%) Clean Code
8 4 (16.00%) Code Quality
8 4 (16.00%) Deployment Automation
8 4 (16.00%) Performance Optimisation
9 3 (12.00%) Analytics
9 3 (12.00%) Microservices
9 3 (12.00%) Performance Attribution
Programming Languages
1 15 (60.00%) Python
2 6 (24.00%) Java
2 6 (24.00%) SQL
3 5 (20.00%) JavaScript
4 3 (12.00%) TypeScript
5 2 (8.00%) Bash
6 1 (4.00%) Apex Code
6 1 (4.00%) COBOL
6 1 (4.00%) Go
6 1 (4.00%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 4 (16.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (16.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.00%) GDPR
2 2 (8.00%) Data Quality
3 1 (4.00%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 1 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (4.00%) NCSC
3 1 (4.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (8.00%) Docker
2 1 (4.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (20.00%) Terraform
2 4 (16.00%) Prometheus
3 2 (8.00%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (4.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.00%) Atlassian
2 1 (4.00%) NetApp
2 1 (4.00%) Salesforce