AWS Lambda Contracts in the City of London

AWS Lambda
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring AWS Lambda skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited AWS Lambda over the 6 months leading up to 25 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 98 97 130
Rank change year-on-year -1 +33 -39
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 25 28 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.44% 1.30% 1.25%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.35% 3.17% 3.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 21 25
10th Percentile - £413 £431
25th Percentile £425 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year +11.00% -16.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £791 £563 £750
90th Percentile £800 £593 -
Central London median daily rate £555 £500 £600
% change year-on-year +11.00% -16.67% -7.69%

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 746 883 1,378
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 42.87% 40.94% 40.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 478 619 889
10th Percentile £364 £363 £300
25th Percentile £459 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £670 £661 £700
90th Percentile £751 £769 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £538 £580
% change year-on-year +2.23% -7.24% +0.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 7 10
10th Percentile £23.93 £12.75 £20.35
25th Percentile £24.66 £17.00 £38.13
Median hourly rate £42.50 £22.50 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +88.89% -66.67% +76.47%
75th Percentile £65.57 £27.00 £88.30
90th Percentile £97.75 £36.30 -
Central London median hourly rate £34.65 £22.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year +54.00% -57.14% +54.41%

AWS Lambda
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing AWS Lambda as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Lambda in the City of London

AWS Lambda
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS Lambda in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for AWS Lambda in the City of London

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 25 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Lambda in the City of London

AWS Lambda
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.00%) Apache
1 1 (4.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (4.00%) CMS
1 1 (4.00%) Confluence
1 1 (4.00%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 25 (100.00%) AWS
1 25 (100.00%) Serverless
2 11 (44.00%) Amazon S3
2 11 (44.00%) Amazon SQS
3 8 (32.00%) Amazon Cognito
3 8 (32.00%) AWS Step Functions
4 6 (24.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 6 (24.00%) Amazon EKS
4 6 (24.00%) Amazon EventBridge
5 5 (20.00%) Datadog
5 5 (20.00%) GitHub
6 3 (12.00%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (8.00%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (8.00%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (8.00%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (8.00%) SaaS
8 1 (4.00%) Amazon EMR
8 1 (4.00%) AWS Fargate
8 1 (4.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.00%) DHCP
1 2 (8.00%) DNS
1 2 (8.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (8.00%) VPN
2 1 (4.00%) Firewall
2 1 (4.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (44.00%) DynamoDB
2 5 (20.00%) Amazon Athena
2 5 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (20.00%) DocumentDB
2 5 (20.00%) Redis
3 2 (8.00%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (8.00%) NoSQL
3 2 (8.00%) Tableau
4 1 (4.00%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (4.00%) Data Lake
4 1 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (4.00%) MongoDB
4 1 (4.00%) MySQL
4 1 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (4.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (24.00%) Git
2 5 (20.00%) SonarQube
3 1 (4.00%) CircleCI
3 1 (4.00%) GitLab
3 1 (4.00%) JIRA
General
1 10 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (12.00%) Finance
2 3 (12.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (8.00%) Banking
4 1 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.00%) Corporate Banking
4 1 (4.00%) Financial Institution
4 1 (4.00%) Investment Banking
4 1 (4.00%) Retail
4 1 (4.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (28.00%) Software Engineer
2 5 (20.00%) Data Engineer
2 5 (20.00%) JavaScript Engineer
3 4 (16.00%) Software Design Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Developer
5 2 (8.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Lead
5 2 (8.00%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Principal Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Principal Software Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Architect
6 1 (4.00%) AWS Architect
6 1 (4.00%) AWS Developer
6 1 (4.00%) AWS DevOps
6 1 (4.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Designer
6 1 (4.00%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Node.js Developer
6 1 (4.00%) Solutions Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (48.00%) Node.js
2 9 (36.00%) React
3 7 (28.00%) GraphQL
4 5 (20.00%) AngularJS
4 5 (20.00%) OpenTelemetry
4 5 (20.00%) WebSockets
5 3 (12.00%) AWS CDK
5 3 (12.00%) Kafka
6 2 (8.00%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (8.00%) Jest
7 1 (4.00%) OAuth
7 1 (4.00%) OAuth2
7 1 (4.00%) OpenID
7 1 (4.00%) RESTful
7 1 (4.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (4.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.00%) Linux
1 2 (8.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (44.00%) CI/CD
1 11 (44.00%) DevOps
2 10 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 9 (36.00%) Microservices
3 9 (36.00%) Software Engineering
4 6 (24.00%) Agile
4 6 (24.00%) Deployment Automation
4 6 (24.00%) Mentoring
4 6 (24.00%) Technical Leadership
5 5 (20.00%) Clean Code
5 5 (20.00%) Event-Driven
5 5 (20.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 5 (20.00%) Observability
5 5 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
5 5 (20.00%) User Experience
6 4 (16.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 3 (12.00%) Containerisation
7 3 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (8.00%) Cloud Security
8 2 (8.00%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 13 (52.00%) Python
2 11 (44.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (12.00%) Shell Script
3 3 (12.00%) SQL
3 3 (12.00%) TypeScript
4 2 (8.00%) Go
4 2 (8.00%) Perl
4 2 (8.00%) Rust
5 1 (4.00%) Bash
5 1 (4.00%) Java
5 1 (4.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 11 (44.00%) SC Cleared
1 11 (44.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (12.00%) AWS Certification
3 2 (8.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (4.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (16.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (36.00%) Terraform
2 8 (32.00%) Kubernetes
3 5 (20.00%) Prometheus
4 2 (8.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (4.00%) Salesforce