AWS Lambda Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

AWS Lambda
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring AWS Lambda skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 63 54
Rank change year-on-year +1 -9 +22
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 15 9 18
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 2.00% 1.27% 2.13%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.12% 4.69% 7.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 6 16
10th Percentile £320 £363 £344
25th Percentile £360 £385 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £403 £409 £468
Median % change year-on-year -1.59% -12.56% -6.92%
75th Percentile £540 £440 £514
90th Percentile £569 £472 £606
Scotland median daily rate £510 £475 £470
% change year-on-year +7.37% +1.17% -6.98%

All Cloud Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 293 192 256
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 39.01% 27.08% 30.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 201 126 179
10th Percentile £320 £312 £359
25th Percentile £412 £360 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +14.12% -15.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £513 £636
90th Percentile £639 £622 £723
Scotland median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
Median hourly rate £15.09 £19.00 £13.16
Median % change year-on-year -20.58% +44.38% -
Scotland median hourly rate £15.09 £22.00 £17.72
% change year-on-year -31.41% +24.15% -

AWS Lambda
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing AWS Lambda relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

AWS Lambda job vacancy trend in Glasgow

AWS Lambda
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing AWS Lambda.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing AWS Lambda

AWS Lambda
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Lambda in Glasgow over the 6 months to 2 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Lambda in Glasgow

AWS Lambda
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow 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 3 (20.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (6.67%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 15 (100.00%) AWS
1 15 (100.00%) Serverless
2 10 (66.67%) Amazon S3
2 10 (66.67%) AWS CloudFormation
3 7 (46.67%) Amazon EC2
4 6 (40.00%) Amazon SQS
5 5 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
5 5 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (20.00%) Amazon MSK
6 3 (20.00%) Amazon SageMaker
6 3 (20.00%) AWS CloudTrail
6 3 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (13.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (13.33%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (13.33%) GitHub
8 1 (6.67%) Amazon EventBridge
8 1 (6.67%) Datadog
8 1 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (20.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (20.00%) Amazon Athena
2 3 (20.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 3 (20.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (20.00%) DynamoDB
2 3 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (13.33%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (6.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (46.67%) Jenkins
2 6 (40.00%) Git
3 4 (26.67%) JIRA
4 3 (20.00%) Bitbucket
4 3 (20.00%) GitLab
4 3 (20.00%) MLflow
4 3 (20.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 6 (40.00%) Banking
1 6 (40.00%) Finance
2 4 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (20.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (6.67%) Digital Healthcare
4 1 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Architect
2 4 (26.67%) AWS Architect
2 4 (26.67%) AWS Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Senior
3 3 (20.00%) AWS Data Architect
3 3 (20.00%) Data Architect
3 3 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Senior DevOps
3 3 (20.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) AWS Developer
5 1 (6.67%) AWS Solution Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Cloud Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Junior
5 1 (6.67%) Junior Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (40.00%) Node.js
2 3 (20.00%) AWS CDK
2 3 (20.00%) scikit-learn
2 3 (20.00%) TensorFlow
3 2 (13.33%) JSON
3 2 (13.33%) OAuth
3 2 (13.33%) PyTorch
3 2 (13.33%) REST
3 2 (13.33%) RESTful
3 2 (13.33%) Torch
4 1 (6.67%) ActiveMQ
4 1 (6.67%) HTML
4 1 (6.67%) J2EE
4 1 (6.67%) NumPy
4 1 (6.67%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (6.67%) SOAP
4 1 (6.67%) Spring
4 1 (6.67%) Spring Boot
4 1 (6.67%) SQLAlchemy
4 1 (6.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Algorithms
1 3 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
1 3 (20.00%) Distributed Computing
2 2 (13.33%) Cloud Native
3 1 (6.67%) Data Structures
3 1 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) Containerisation
2 8 (53.33%) DevOps
2 8 (53.33%) Microservices
3 6 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 6 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (33.33%) Data Protection
5 4 (26.67%) Agile
5 4 (26.67%) Machine Learning
5 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (20.00%) Cloud Security
6 3 (20.00%) Data Modelling
6 3 (20.00%) Data Strategy
6 3 (20.00%) Data Visualisation
6 3 (20.00%) Feature Engineering
6 3 (20.00%) Roadmaps
6 3 (20.00%) Statistical Analysis
6 3 (20.00%) Statistical Modelling
6 3 (20.00%) Strategic Roadmap
6 3 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
6 3 (20.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 14 (93.33%) Python
2 6 (40.00%) Java
3 3 (20.00%) Perl
3 3 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 3 (20.00%) Ruby
4 2 (13.33%) JavaScript
5 1 (6.67%) C#
5 1 (6.67%) Go
Qualifications
1 7 (46.67%) AWS Certification
2 5 (33.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (13.33%) Degree
4 1 (6.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) Accessibility
2 1 (6.67%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 8 (53.33%) Docker
2 2 (13.33%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 7 (46.67%) Terraform
2 5 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (6.67%) Grafana
3 1 (6.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Oracle
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.67%) Pega