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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 184 257 235
Rank change year-on-year +73 -22 -38
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 357 337 548
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.47% 0.93% 1.13%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.96% 2.90% 3.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 274 254 425
10th Percentile £400 £387 £430
25th Percentile £450 £425 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £510 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.12% -11.30% -1.29%
75th Percentile £631 £591 £663
90th Percentile £838 £675 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -7.89%
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 - - -51.72%

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 9,008 11,638 17,628
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.11% 32.01% 36.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,246 8,390 12,914
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £415 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £630 £638 £669
90th Percentile £738 £744 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 197 323 293
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.80 £15.85 £18.25
Median hourly rate £25.50 £21.00 £32.30
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% -34.98% +50.23%
75th Percentile £37.50 £34.38 £67.50
90th Percentile £73.00 £65.75 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £27.43 £21.37 £35.00
% change year-on-year +28.33% -38.94% +56.25%

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 16 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 16 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 +28 251 £550 +10.00% 354
North of England +21 44 £486 -1.27% 115
North West +3 27 £485 -4.90% 65
South East +51 13 £500 -20.00% 111
Midlands +21 13 £455 +1.00% 19
South West +40 12 £550 - 35
Yorkshire +18 10 £500 +81.82% 36
West Midlands +17 8 £450 - 10
North East +4 8 £440 - 17
East of England +26 5 £525 -16.00% 18
East Midlands +10 5 £459 +2.00% 7
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 45 (12.61%) Apache Spark
2 39 (10.92%) Apache Airflow
3 38 (10.64%) Apache
4 7 (1.96%) Confluence
5 6 (1.68%) BizTalk Server
6 3 (0.84%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.56%) CMS
8 1 (0.28%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
Business Applications
1 2 (0.56%) NetSuite
1 2 (0.56%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (0.56%) SAP PM
2 1 (0.28%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 353 (98.88%) AWS
1 353 (98.88%) Serverless
2 182 (50.98%) Amazon S3
3 89 (24.93%) AWS CloudFormation
4 79 (22.13%) Amazon EC2
5 68 (19.05%) Amazon SQS
6 66 (18.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 64 (17.93%) Amazon ECS
8 60 (16.81%) GitHub
9 45 (12.61%) Amazon EKS
10 39 (10.92%) AWS Step Functions
11 36 (10.08%) dbt
12 32 (8.96%) OpenShift
13 29 (8.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 26 (7.28%) GitHub Actions
15 20 (5.60%) AWS CodePipeline
16 19 (5.32%) Azure
17 18 (5.04%) Amazon EventBridge
18 17 (4.76%) Amazon Cognito
19 16 (4.48%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.36%) Firewall
1 12 (3.36%) HTTP
2 10 (2.80%) DNS
2 10 (2.80%) VPN
3 7 (1.96%) TCP/IP
4 5 (1.40%) SSL
5 3 (0.84%) DHCP
5 3 (0.84%) Network Security
5 3 (0.84%) SMS
6 2 (0.56%) HTTPS
6 2 (0.56%) VLAN
7 1 (0.28%) Broadband
7 1 (0.28%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.28%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (23.81%) Amazon RDS
2 80 (22.41%) DynamoDB
3 74 (20.73%) Amazon Athena
4 43 (12.04%) PostgreSQL
5 39 (10.92%) Amazon Redshift
6 29 (8.12%) NoSQL
7 28 (7.84%) Apache Iceberg
8 26 (7.28%) Apache Arrow
8 26 (7.28%) Apache Ignite
8 26 (7.28%) Dremio
9 21 (5.88%) Big Data
9 21 (5.88%) MongoDB
9 21 (5.88%) Relational Database
10 19 (5.32%) Tableau
11 18 (5.04%) Data Warehouse
12 15 (4.20%) Amazon Aurora
12 15 (4.20%) Oracle Database
13 14 (3.92%) MySQL
14 13 (3.64%) Data Lake
15 10 (2.80%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 51 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 37 (10.36%) Git
3 33 (9.24%) Artifactory
4 21 (5.88%) GitLab
5 14 (3.92%) Cypress.io
6 8 (2.24%) git-flow
6 8 (2.24%) JIRA
6 8 (2.24%) SonarQube
7 6 (1.68%) Bitbucket
8 5 (1.40%) Cucumber
8 5 (1.40%) Gradle
9 4 (1.12%) Postman
9 4 (1.12%) Visual Studio Code
10 3 (0.84%) Mocha
10 3 (0.84%) Selenium
11 2 (0.56%) Maven
11 2 (0.56%) MLflow
12 1 (0.28%) IBM UrbanCode
12 1 (0.28%) REST Assured
12 1 (0.28%) Storybook
General
1 67 (18.77%) Social Skills
2 64 (17.93%) Public Sector
3 50 (14.01%) Finance
4 35 (9.80%) Front Office
5 32 (8.96%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (3.64%) Banking
7 11 (3.08%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (1.68%) Military
9 4 (1.12%) Retail
10 3 (0.84%) Financial Institution
10 3 (0.84%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.56%) Aviation
11 2 (0.56%) Back Office
11 2 (0.56%) Corporate Banking
11 2 (0.56%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.56%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.56%) Marketing
11 2 (0.56%) Publishing
11 2 (0.56%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.28%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 103 (28.85%) AWS Engineer
2 85 (23.81%) Developer
3 73 (20.45%) Data Engineer
4 62 (17.37%) DevOps Engineer
5 58 (16.25%) Senior
6 50 (14.01%) AWS DevOps
7 49 (13.73%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 45 (12.61%) Architect
9 37 (10.36%) Python Engineer
10 27 (7.56%) AWS Architect
10 27 (7.56%) Software Engineer
11 26 (7.28%) AWS Developer
12 24 (6.72%) Lead
13 22 (6.16%) AWS Data Engineer
13 22 (6.16%) Senior Developer
14 18 (5.04%) Java Developer
15 15 (4.20%) Full-Stack Developer
16 14 (3.92%) Cloud Engineer
16 14 (3.92%) Solutions Architect
17 12 (3.36%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (20.17%) Node.js
2 70 (19.61%) Kafka
3 56 (15.69%) React
4 38 (10.64%) PySpark
5 32 (8.96%) AWS CDK
6 28 (7.84%) J2EE
7 26 (7.28%) GraphQL
8 21 (5.88%) RESTful
9 18 (5.04%) JSON
10 16 (4.48%) REST
11 14 (3.92%) NumPy
11 14 (3.92%) Redux
12 12 (3.36%) Pandas
12 12 (3.36%) Spring Boot
12 12 (3.36%) WebSockets
13 11 (3.08%) .NET
13 11 (3.08%) Jest
13 11 (3.08%) SciPy
13 11 (3.08%) Spring
13 11 (3.08%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 32 (8.96%) Cloud Native
2 20 (5.60%) Greenfield Project
3 13 (3.64%) Public Cloud
4 10 (2.80%) Data Protection Act
5 9 (2.52%) Onboarding
6 8 (2.24%) Algorithms
6 8 (2.24%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (1.96%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (1.40%) Product Ownership
9 4 (1.12%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (1.12%) TWAP
9 4 (1.12%) VWAP
10 3 (0.84%) Mobile App
10 3 (0.84%) NHS
10 3 (0.84%) Vector Graphics
10 3 (0.84%) Video\Live Streaming
11 2 (0.56%) IoT
11 2 (0.56%) SCADA
11 2 (0.56%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 22 (6.16%) Linux
2 12 (3.36%) Unix
3 6 (1.68%) Windows
4 3 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.28%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 180 (50.42%) CI/CD
2 146 (40.90%) DevOps
3 121 (33.89%) Agile
4 77 (21.57%) Infrastructure as Code
5 74 (20.73%) Software Engineering
6 66 (18.49%) Problem-Solving
7 64 (17.93%) Containerisation
8 59 (16.53%) Microservices
9 54 (15.13%) Data Engineering
10 47 (13.17%) Open Source
11 43 (12.04%) ETL
12 40 (11.20%) High Availability
13 39 (10.92%) Data Pipeline
13 39 (10.92%) Mentoring
14 34 (9.52%) Asset Management
14 34 (9.52%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 32 (8.96%) Artificial Intelligence
15 32 (8.96%) Full-Stack Development
16 26 (7.28%) Data Science
16 26 (7.28%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 200 (56.02%) Python
2 87 (24.37%) SQL
3 86 (24.09%) Java
4 71 (19.89%) JavaScript
5 60 (16.81%) TypeScript
6 40 (11.20%) Go
7 18 (5.04%) Bash
8 13 (3.64%) T-SQL
9 12 (3.36%) Scala
10 8 (2.24%) C++
10 8 (2.24%) PL/SQL
10 8 (2.24%) Shell Script
11 7 (1.96%) C#
12 6 (1.68%) R
13 5 (1.40%) Perl
14 3 (0.84%) PHP
14 3 (0.84%) Ruby
15 2 (0.56%) Groovy
15 2 (0.56%) Lua
15 2 (0.56%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 104 (29.13%) Security Cleared
2 100 (28.01%) SC Cleared
3 70 (19.61%) AWS Certification
4 39 (10.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 22 (6.16%) Degree
6 10 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (2.24%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 7 (1.96%) AWS Certified Developer
9 6 (1.68%) DV Cleared
10 4 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.12%) OCP
10 4 (1.12%) Oracle Certification
11 2 (0.56%) CCIE
11 2 (0.56%) CCNP
11 2 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.28%) CEH
12 1 (0.28%) CISSP
12 1 (0.28%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.28%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (5.88%) Data Quality
2 11 (3.08%) QA
3 8 (2.24%) GDPR
4 7 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.68%) NIST
6 4 (1.12%) SOC 2
7 3 (0.84%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.56%) WCAG
9 1 (0.28%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.28%) HIPAA
System Software
1 102 (28.57%) Docker
2 2 (0.56%) HDFS
2 2 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.28%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.28%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 142 (39.78%) Terraform
2 106 (29.69%) Kubernetes
3 28 (7.84%) Ansible
4 18 (5.04%) Prometheus
5 12 (3.36%) Grafana
6 3 (0.84%) Progress Chef
6 3 (0.84%) Puppet
7 1 (0.28%) Apache Ranger
7 1 (0.28%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.28%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.28%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 32 (8.96%) Oracle
2 16 (4.48%) Microsoft
3 11 (3.08%) MuleSoft
4 9 (2.52%) Splunk
5 7 (1.96%) Databricks
6 5 (1.40%) Salesforce
6 5 (1.40%) Virgin Media
7 4 (1.12%) Google
8 3 (0.84%) Atlassian
8 3 (0.84%) Cloudera
8 3 (0.84%) Informatica
8 3 (0.84%) Qualys
8 3 (0.84%) StreamSets
8 3 (0.84%) Tenable
8 3 (0.84%) VMware
9 2 (0.56%) Alteryx
9 2 (0.56%) Brio
9 2 (0.56%) Cisco
9 2 (0.56%) Sage
9 2 (0.56%) SAP