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

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 90 92
Rank change year-on-year -1 +2 +31
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 42 26 37
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.85% 1.47% 1.67%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.65% 3.43% 4.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 20 27
10th Percentile £313 - £413
25th Percentile £356 £425 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -11.76%
75th Percentile £588 £628 £581
90th Percentile £673 £653 £678
Central London median daily rate £520 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +2.97% -3.81% -11.02%

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 904 758 862
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 39.77% 42.85% 38.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 633 487 612
10th Percentile £350 £375 £363
25th Percentile £450 £463 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £669 £671
90th Percentile £750 £743 £750
Central London median daily rate £538 £550 £536
% change year-on-year -2.27% +2.56% -6.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 7 8
10th Percentile £20.51 £24.66 £12.75
25th Percentile £33.75 £29.64 £17.39
Median hourly rate £40.78 £42.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.05% +88.89% -72.99%
75th Percentile £59.72 £74.38 £32.81
90th Percentile £75.35 £135.00 £57.30
Central London median hourly rate £39.00 £34.83 £22.50
% change year-on-year +11.99% +54.78% -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 26 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 (9.52%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (9.52%) CICS
2 2 (4.76%) Confluence
3 1 (2.38%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 42 (100.00%) AWS
1 42 (100.00%) Serverless
2 28 (66.67%) Amazon S3
3 16 (38.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 13 (30.95%) GitHub
5 10 (23.81%) Amazon ECS
6 9 (21.43%) AWS CloudFormation
7 8 (19.05%) Amazon EC2
7 8 (19.05%) Azure
8 7 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (14.29%) AWS Step Functions
10 5 (11.90%) Amazon Bedrock
10 5 (11.90%) AWS CodePipeline
10 5 (11.90%) AWS Fargate
11 4 (9.52%) Amazon ECR
11 4 (9.52%) Amazon Kinesis
11 4 (9.52%) Amazon SQS
11 4 (9.52%) Apigee
11 4 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (7.14%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.76%) DNS
2 1 (2.38%) Firewall
2 1 (2.38%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (45.24%) DynamoDB
2 8 (19.05%) Amazon Athena
2 8 (19.05%) Amazon Redshift
3 7 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (11.90%) DB2
4 5 (11.90%) Metadata
5 4 (9.52%) CockroachDB
5 4 (9.52%) Data Lake
6 2 (4.76%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (4.76%) Amazon QuickSight
6 2 (4.76%) Data Mining
6 2 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (4.76%) Electronic Patient Records
6 2 (4.76%) NoSQL
6 2 (4.76%) Pinecone
6 2 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (4.76%) Tableau
7 1 (2.38%) Data Hub
7 1 (2.38%) Data Vault
7 1 (2.38%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 11 (26.19%) Git
2 10 (23.81%) GitLab
3 6 (14.29%) Jenkins
3 6 (14.29%) JIRA
4 4 (9.52%) JUnit
5 3 (7.14%) Cucumber
5 3 (7.14%) Mockito
5 3 (7.14%) Postman
6 1 (2.38%) Artifactory
6 1 (2.38%) Bitbucket
6 1 (2.38%) Cypress.io
6 1 (2.38%) Terragrunt
General
1 8 (19.05%) Banking
1 8 (19.05%) Finance
2 7 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 7 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 2 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.38%) Law
4 1 (2.38%) Military
4 1 (2.38%) Police
Job Titles
1 8 (19.05%) Data Engineer
2 7 (16.67%) Developer
2 7 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (16.67%) Senior
3 6 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
4 4 (9.52%) Architect
5 3 (7.14%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) Automation Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) AWS DevOps
5 3 (7.14%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (7.14%) Senior Data Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Apigee Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Data Architect
6 2 (4.76%) Platform Architect
6 2 (4.76%) Site Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (21.43%) Node.js
2 7 (16.67%) boto
2 7 (16.67%) Kafka
2 7 (16.67%) SOAP
3 6 (14.29%) RESTful
3 6 (14.29%) Spring
3 6 (14.29%) Spring Boot
4 5 (11.90%) JSON
4 5 (11.90%) OAuth
4 5 (11.90%) React
5 4 (9.52%) JWT
5 4 (9.52%) Web Services
5 4 (9.52%) WSDL
6 3 (7.14%) Gherkin
6 3 (7.14%) LangGraph
6 3 (7.14%) Model Context Protocol
6 3 (7.14%) PySpark
6 3 (7.14%) REST
6 3 (7.14%) WireMock
6 3 (7.14%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (26.19%) Cloud Native
2 5 (11.90%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (11.90%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (9.52%) DataPower
3 4 (9.52%) Mainframe
3 4 (9.52%) Online Banking
4 2 (4.76%) Data Structures
4 2 (4.76%) NHS
5 1 (2.38%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (9.52%) zOS
2 3 (7.14%) Linux
3 1 (2.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (59.52%) CI/CD
2 19 (45.24%) Infrastructure as Code
3 16 (38.10%) DevOps
4 11 (26.19%) AI
5 10 (23.81%) Performance Tuning
6 9 (21.43%) Agile
6 9 (21.43%) Analytics
7 8 (19.05%) Containerisation
7 8 (19.05%) Event-Driven
7 8 (19.05%) Microservices
8 7 (16.67%) ETL
9 6 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
9 6 (14.29%) Generative AI
9 6 (14.29%) LLM
10 5 (11.90%) Batch Processing
10 5 (11.90%) Data Modelling
10 5 (11.90%) Integration Patterns
10 5 (11.90%) Observability
10 5 (11.90%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
10 5 (11.90%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 29 (69.05%) Python
2 15 (35.71%) SQL
3 8 (19.05%) Java
4 5 (11.90%) JavaScript
4 5 (11.90%) Shell Script
5 4 (9.52%) JCL
5 4 (9.52%) TypeScript
6 3 (7.14%) C#
7 2 (4.76%) Bicep
8 1 (2.38%) Bash
8 1 (2.38%) Go
8 1 (2.38%) PHP
8 1 (2.38%) Ruby
8 1 (2.38%) Scala
Qualifications
1 13 (30.95%) SC Cleared
1 13 (30.95%) 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 13 (30.95%) Docker
2 1 (2.38%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 19 (45.24%) Terraform
2 8 (19.05%) Kubernetes
3 5 (11.90%) Ansible
4 2 (4.76%) Grafana
4 2 (4.76%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.38%) Kibana
5 1 (2.38%) Opsgenie
5 1 (2.38%) Puppet
5 1 (2.38%) Salt
5 1 (2.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (14.29%) 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