AWS Lambda Contracts in England

AWS Lambda
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 186 245 232
Rank change year-on-year +59 -13 -29
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 353 354 587
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.45% 0.95% 1.16%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.90% 2.99% 3.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 277 266 449
10th Percentile £400 £391 £425
25th Percentile £455 £425 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £513 £575
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% -10.87% -
75th Percentile £675 £591 £663
90th Percentile £838 £675 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £35.00 - £35.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 - £35.00
% change year-on-year - - -43.09%

All Cloud Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 9,062 11,852 18,481
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.21% 31.87% 36.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,341 8,544 13,518
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £669
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 194 321 311
10th Percentile £15.03 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.85 £18.25
Median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
Median % change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%
75th Percentile £40.50 £32.50 £65.75
90th Percentile £73.38 £61.60 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

AWS Lambda
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS Lambda in England

AWS Lambda
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for AWS Lambda in England

AWS Lambda
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Lambda in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Lambda in England

AWS Lambda
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing AWS Lambda in England.

Hourly rate trend for AWS Lambda in England

AWS Lambda
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS Lambda within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +30 257 £575 +15.00% 261
North of England +14 38 £480 -2.54% 97
North West +8 25 £475 -6.86% 62
South East +48 14 £500 -16.67% 79
South West +42 11 £550 - 28
Midlands +28 11 £455 +1.00% 24
North East +5 8 £468 - 13
West Midlands +19 6 £450 - 14
East Midlands +11 5 £459 +2.00% 7
Yorkshire +7 5 £500 +81.82% 27
East of England +25 2 £588 -9.62% 12
AWS Lambda
UK

AWS Lambda
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 48 (13.60%) Apache Spark
2 40 (11.33%) Apache
3 37 (10.48%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.98%) Confluence
5 6 (1.70%) BizTalk Server
6 3 (0.85%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.57%) CMS
8 1 (0.28%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 2 (0.57%) NetSuite
1 2 (0.57%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.28%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 351 (99.43%) AWS
2 349 (98.87%) Serverless
3 189 (53.54%) Amazon S3
4 95 (26.91%) AWS CloudFormation
5 86 (24.36%) Amazon EC2
6 71 (20.11%) Amazon SQS
7 69 (19.55%) Amazon ECS
8 66 (18.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 52 (14.73%) GitHub
10 42 (11.90%) Amazon EKS
11 37 (10.48%) OpenShift
12 35 (9.92%) dbt
13 34 (9.63%) AWS Step Functions
14 26 (7.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 20 (5.67%) AWS CodePipeline
16 19 (5.38%) GitHub Actions
17 17 (4.82%) Amazon Kinesis
17 17 (4.82%) Azure
18 15 (4.25%) Amazon EMR
18 15 (4.25%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.40%) HTTP
2 9 (2.55%) Firewall
2 9 (2.55%) VPN
3 8 (2.27%) DNS
4 5 (1.42%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.85%) DHCP
5 3 (0.85%) SSL
6 2 (0.57%) HTTPS
6 2 (0.57%) Network Security
6 2 (0.57%) SMS
6 2 (0.57%) VLAN
7 1 (0.28%) Broadband
7 1 (0.28%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.28%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (26.06%) Amazon RDS
2 80 (22.66%) Amazon Athena
3 75 (21.25%) DynamoDB
4 42 (11.90%) Amazon Redshift
5 40 (11.33%) PostgreSQL
6 30 (8.50%) Apache Iceberg
7 28 (7.93%) Apache Arrow
7 28 (7.93%) Apache Ignite
7 28 (7.93%) Dremio
8 27 (7.65%) NoSQL
9 21 (5.95%) Tableau
10 20 (5.67%) Big Data
10 20 (5.67%) Relational Database
11 18 (5.10%) MongoDB
12 16 (4.53%) Data Warehouse
13 14 (3.97%) Amazon Aurora
13 14 (3.97%) Data Lake
14 12 (3.40%) Oracle Database
15 11 (3.12%) MySQL
16 9 (2.55%) Redis
Development Applications
1 47 (13.31%) Jenkins
2 38 (10.76%) Artifactory
3 29 (8.22%) Git
4 23 (6.52%) GitLab
5 13 (3.68%) Cypress.io
6 8 (2.27%) git-flow
6 8 (2.27%) JIRA
6 8 (2.27%) SonarQube
7 6 (1.70%) Bitbucket
8 5 (1.42%) Cucumber
8 5 (1.42%) Gradle
9 4 (1.13%) Postman
9 4 (1.13%) Visual Studio Code
10 3 (0.85%) Mocha
10 3 (0.85%) Selenium
11 2 (0.57%) Maven
12 1 (0.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.28%) Mockito
12 1 (0.28%) SpecFlow
12 1 (0.28%) WebDriver
General
1 65 (18.41%) Public Sector
2 63 (17.85%) Social Skills
3 61 (17.28%) Finance
4 45 (12.75%) Front Office
5 29 (8.22%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (5.38%) Banking
7 11 (3.12%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (1.70%) Military
9 4 (1.13%) Retail
10 3 (0.85%) Financial Institution
10 3 (0.85%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.57%) Aviation
11 2 (0.57%) Back Office
11 2 (0.57%) Corporate Banking
11 2 (0.57%) Marketing
11 2 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.57%) Publishing
11 2 (0.57%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.28%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.28%) Police
Job Titles
1 114 (32.29%) AWS Engineer
2 80 (22.66%) Developer
3 76 (21.53%) Data Engineer
4 71 (20.11%) DevOps Engineer
5 63 (17.85%) Senior
6 60 (17.00%) AWS DevOps
6 60 (17.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 45 (12.75%) Architect
8 44 (12.46%) Python Engineer
9 27 (7.65%) AWS Architect
10 25 (7.08%) AWS Developer
10 25 (7.08%) Software Engineer
11 24 (6.80%) AWS Data Engineer
12 23 (6.52%) Lead
12 23 (6.52%) Senior Developer
13 18 (5.10%) Java Developer
14 15 (4.25%) Full-Stack Developer
15 14 (3.97%) Cloud Engineer
16 12 (3.40%) Senior DevOps
16 12 (3.40%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (19.83%) Kafka
2 67 (18.98%) Node.js
3 54 (15.30%) React
4 39 (11.05%) PySpark
5 33 (9.35%) J2EE
6 31 (8.78%) AWS CDK
7 22 (6.23%) GraphQL
8 20 (5.67%) RESTful
9 18 (5.10%) JSON
10 15 (4.25%) REST
11 14 (3.97%) NumPy
12 13 (3.68%) Redux
13 12 (3.40%) Pandas
13 12 (3.40%) Spring Boot
14 11 (3.12%) Jest
14 11 (3.12%) SciPy
14 11 (3.12%) WebSockets
15 10 (2.83%) Next.js
15 10 (2.83%) pydantic
15 10 (2.83%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 25 (7.08%) Cloud Native
2 19 (5.38%) Greenfield Project
3 13 (3.68%) Public Cloud
4 8 (2.27%) Algorithms
4 8 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (2.27%) Onboarding
5 7 (1.98%) Data Protection Act
5 7 (1.98%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (1.42%) Product Ownership
6 5 (1.42%) Tandem
7 4 (1.13%) Data Structures
7 4 (1.13%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (1.13%) TWAP
7 4 (1.13%) VWAP
8 3 (0.85%) Mobile App
8 3 (0.85%) Vector Graphics
8 3 (0.85%) Video\Live Streaming
9 2 (0.57%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (0.57%) NHS
9 2 (0.57%) Omics
Operating Systems
1 24 (6.80%) Linux
2 12 (3.40%) Unix
3 6 (1.70%) Windows
4 4 (1.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.28%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 183 (51.84%) CI/CD
2 154 (43.63%) DevOps
3 121 (34.28%) Agile
4 82 (23.23%) Software Engineering
5 75 (21.25%) Infrastructure as Code
6 62 (17.56%) Containerisation
7 61 (17.28%) Microservices
8 55 (15.58%) Problem-Solving
9 54 (15.30%) Data Engineering
10 52 (14.73%) Open Source
11 45 (12.75%) Asset Management
12 43 (12.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 40 (11.33%) Data Pipeline
13 40 (11.33%) ETL
14 36 (10.20%) High Availability
15 35 (9.92%) Mentoring
16 32 (9.07%) Full-Stack Development
17 28 (7.93%) Artificial Intelligence
18 26 (7.37%) Data Science
18 26 (7.37%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 201 (56.94%) Python
2 90 (25.50%) Java
3 82 (23.23%) SQL
4 73 (20.68%) JavaScript
5 58 (16.43%) TypeScript
6 45 (12.75%) Go
7 18 (5.10%) Bash
8 13 (3.68%) T-SQL
9 12 (3.40%) Scala
10 8 (2.27%) C++
10 8 (2.27%) PL/SQL
11 7 (1.98%) C#
12 6 (1.70%) R
12 6 (1.70%) Shell Script
13 5 (1.42%) Perl
14 3 (0.85%) PHP
14 3 (0.85%) Ruby
15 2 (0.57%) Groovy
15 2 (0.57%) Lua
15 2 (0.57%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 103 (29.18%) Security Cleared
2 99 (28.05%) SC Cleared
3 69 (19.55%) AWS Certification
4 40 (11.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 19 (5.38%) Degree
6 8 (2.27%) AWS Certified Developer
7 7 (1.98%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 7 (1.98%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (1.42%) DV Cleared
9 4 (1.13%) OCP
9 4 (1.13%) Oracle Certification
10 2 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.57%) CCIE
10 2 (0.57%) CCNP
10 2 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.28%) CEH
11 1 (0.28%) CISSP
11 1 (0.28%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.28%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (4.53%) Data Quality
2 10 (2.83%) QA
3 5 (1.42%) GDPR
3 5 (1.42%) NIST
4 4 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.85%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.85%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.57%) WCAG
7 1 (0.28%) HIPAA
System Software
1 110 (31.16%) Docker
2 2 (0.57%) HDFS
2 2 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.28%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.28%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 150 (42.49%) Terraform
2 116 (32.86%) Kubernetes
3 25 (7.08%) Ansible
4 15 (4.25%) Prometheus
5 10 (2.83%) Grafana
6 2 (0.57%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.57%) Puppet
7 1 (0.28%) Apache Ranger
7 1 (0.28%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.28%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 28 (7.93%) Oracle
2 11 (3.12%) Microsoft
2 11 (3.12%) MuleSoft
3 9 (2.55%) Splunk
4 6 (1.70%) Databricks
5 5 (1.42%) Salesforce
5 5 (1.42%) Virgin Media
6 4 (1.13%) Cloudera
6 4 (1.13%) Google
7 3 (0.85%) Atlassian
7 3 (0.85%) Qualys
7 3 (0.85%) Tenable
7 3 (0.85%) VMware
8 2 (0.57%) Alteryx
8 2 (0.57%) Cisco
8 2 (0.57%) Informatica
8 2 (0.57%) Sage
8 2 (0.57%) StreamSets
8 2 (0.57%) Talend
9 1 (0.28%) New Relic