AWS Lambda Contracts in Edinburgh

AWS Lambda
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 22 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 40 31
Rank change year-on-year +5 -9 +13
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 33 33 88
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 5.20% 3.78% 7.36%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.64% 10.31% 18.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 28 75
10th Percentile £450 £409 £428
25th Percentile £463 £415 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £454 £479
Median % change year-on-year +8.87% -5.27% -7.88%
75th Percentile £538 £494 £508
90th Percentile £623 £507 £551
Scotland median daily rate £500 £466 £475
% change year-on-year +7.30% -1.89% -9.52%

All Cloud Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 261 320 484
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 41.10% 36.61% 40.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 201 374
10th Percentile £290 £213 £243
25th Percentile £425 £410 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £459 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.49% -3.37% -5.00%
75th Percentile £538 £573 £528
90th Percentile £593 £663 £598
Scotland median daily rate £475 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 1
10th Percentile - £15.94 -
25th Percentile £26.32 £16.50 -
Median hourly rate £27.35 £17.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +60.88% -4.06% -22.96%
75th Percentile £28.38 £18.03 -
90th Percentile - £20.81 -
Scotland median hourly rate £21.22 £17.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year +24.82% -70.43% +41.98%

AWS Lambda
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing AWS Lambda as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Lambda in Edinburgh

AWS Lambda
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS Lambda in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for AWS Lambda in Edinburgh

AWS Lambda
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Lambda in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 22 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Lambda in Edinburgh

AWS Lambda
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 2 (6.06%) GeoServer
2 1 (3.03%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 33 (100.00%) AWS
1 33 (100.00%) Serverless
2 29 (87.88%) Amazon S3
3 13 (39.39%) AWS CloudFormation
4 10 (30.30%) AWS CodePipeline
5 8 (24.24%) GitHub
5 8 (24.24%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (21.21%) Amazon Cognito
7 6 (18.18%) CloudFront
8 5 (15.15%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (12.12%) Amazon SQS
9 4 (12.12%) Route 53
10 3 (9.09%) AWS CodeBuild
10 3 (9.09%) Firebase
11 2 (6.06%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 2 (6.06%) AWS Step Functions
11 2 (6.06%) Azure
11 2 (6.06%) Azure Pipelines
11 2 (6.06%) OpenShift
11 2 (6.06%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.03%) DNS
1 1 (3.03%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (51.52%) Amazon Aurora
2 10 (30.30%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (27.27%) Oracle Database
4 7 (21.21%) Relational Database
5 6 (18.18%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (12.12%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (12.12%) GIS
7 3 (9.09%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (9.09%) MySQL
8 2 (6.06%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (3.03%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (3.03%) Apache Hive
9 1 (3.03%) DynamoDB
9 1 (3.03%) Hadoop
9 1 (3.03%) InfluxDB
9 1 (3.03%) Metadata
9 1 (3.03%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 10 (30.30%) Cypress.io
2 9 (27.27%) Jenkins
2 9 (27.27%) Storybook
3 2 (6.06%) Ant
3 2 (6.06%) GitLab
3 2 (6.06%) webpack
4 1 (3.03%) Artifactory
4 1 (3.03%) JIRA
4 1 (3.03%) Selenium
4 1 (3.03%) Zephyr
General
1 12 (36.36%) Public Sector
2 6 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 5 (15.15%) Finance
4 1 (3.03%) Banking
Job Titles
1 14 (42.42%) Developer
2 7 (21.21%) Architect
3 6 (18.18%) Cloud Engineer
4 5 (15.15%) React Developer
5 4 (12.12%) Software Developer
6 3 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (9.09%) Cloud Architect
6 3 (9.09%) Data Engineer
6 3 (9.09%) Software Engineer
7 2 (6.06%) AWS Developer
7 2 (6.06%) AWS Software Engineer
7 2 (6.06%) DevOps Engineer
8 1 (3.03%) AWS Architect
8 1 (3.03%) AWS DevOps
8 1 (3.03%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 1 (3.03%) Test Manager
8 1 (3.03%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (54.55%) AWS CDK
2 15 (45.45%) React
3 9 (27.27%) CSS
3 9 (27.27%) Tailwind CSS
4 8 (24.24%) Jest
5 6 (18.18%) Node.js
5 6 (18.18%) RESTful
6 5 (15.15%) Spring Boot
7 4 (12.12%) GraphQL
7 4 (12.12%) PostGIS
8 3 (9.09%) AWS Amplify
8 3 (9.09%) JSON
8 3 (9.09%) JSON Schema
8 3 (9.09%) Next.js
8 3 (9.09%) OAuth
8 3 (9.09%) Spring
8 3 (9.09%) TypeORM
9 2 (6.06%) Playwright
10 1 (3.03%) OpenAPI
10 1 (3.03%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 9 (27.27%) Cloud Native
2 4 (12.12%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.03%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (54.55%) CI/CD
2 14 (42.42%) Infrastructure as Code
3 11 (33.33%) Agile
4 9 (27.27%) Computer Science
4 9 (27.27%) DevOps
4 9 (27.27%) Full-Stack Development
4 9 (27.27%) Microservices
5 8 (24.24%) DevSecOps
5 8 (24.24%) ETL
5 8 (24.24%) Migration
6 7 (21.21%) Human-Centred Design
6 7 (21.21%) Inclusive Design
6 7 (21.21%) User Experience
7 6 (18.18%) Data Engineering
7 6 (18.18%) Data Pipeline
7 6 (18.18%) Performance Optimisation
7 6 (18.18%) Secure Coding
7 6 (18.18%) Test Automation
7 6 (18.18%) Workflow
8 5 (15.15%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 20 (60.61%) TypeScript
2 12 (36.36%) Python
3 9 (27.27%) JavaScript
4 8 (24.24%) Java
5 7 (21.21%) SQL
6 2 (6.06%) Bash
7 1 (3.03%) Groovy
7 1 (3.03%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (27.27%) Computer Science Degree
1 9 (27.27%) Degree
2 5 (15.15%) AWS Certification
3 4 (12.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (3.03%) OCP
4 1 (3.03%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (15.15%) Disclosure Scotland
2 3 (9.09%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.03%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (3.03%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (15.15%) Grafana
2 2 (6.06%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.03%) Ansible
3 1 (3.03%) Kibana
3 1 (3.03%) Prometheus
3 1 (3.03%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (30.30%) Oracle
2 1 (3.03%) IBM
2 1 (3.03%) Informatica
2 1 (3.03%) StreamSets