AWS Lambda Contract Job Trends in London

AWS Lambda
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring AWS Lambda skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 153 206 181
Rank change year-on-year +53 -25 -11
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 255 199 272
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.80% 1.26% 1.38%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.06% 3.08% 3.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 145 197
10th Percentile £374 £415 £406
25th Percentile £419 £489 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -14.58% +14.29% -16.67%
75th Percentile £636 £775 £631
90th Percentile £691 £838 £713
England median daily rate £500 £551 £538
% change year-on-year -9.17% +2.42% -10.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £42.50 - -
Median hourly rate £45.00 - -
75th Percentile £47.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £45.00 - £77.50

All Cloud Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 6,276 6,454 7,634
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.26% 40.73% 38.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,264 4,387 5,619
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
25th Percentile £425 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 119 40 68
10th Percentile £18.25 £23.33 £18.65
25th Percentile £22.75 £24.33 £21.25
Median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £37.75
Median % change year-on-year -27.23% -7.28% +37.27%
75th Percentile £45.88 £59.25 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.03 £74.13
England median hourly rate £25.47 £32.75 £26.50
% change year-on-year -22.23% +23.58% +17.78%

AWS Lambda
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

AWS Lambda job vacancy trend in London

AWS Lambda
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

AWS Lambda
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Lambda in London over the 6 months to 29 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Lambda in London

AWS Lambda
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing AWS Lambda.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing AWS Lambda

AWS Lambda
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 29 November 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
Central London +24 35 £575 +11.38% 15
South London +1 6 £621 - 3
West London -13 4 £650 +4.00% 4
AWS Lambda
England

AWS Lambda
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 15 (5.88%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (5.49%) Apache Spark
3 10 (3.92%) Confluence
4 9 (3.53%) Apache
5 5 (1.96%) CMS
5 5 (1.96%) Headless CMS
6 4 (1.57%) nginx
7 1 (0.39%) CICS
7 1 (0.39%) Jupyter
Applications
1 3 (1.18%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.39%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 254 (99.61%) AWS
1 254 (99.61%) Serverless
2 160 (62.75%) Amazon S3
3 82 (32.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 65 (25.49%) Amazon ECS
5 59 (23.14%) AWS CloudFormation
6 56 (21.96%) GitHub
7 55 (21.57%) Amazon EC2
8 39 (15.29%) GitHub Actions
9 35 (13.73%) Amazon EKS
10 29 (11.37%) AWS Step Functions
10 29 (11.37%) Snowflake
11 26 (10.20%) Amazon Kinesis
11 26 (10.20%) Amazon SQS
12 23 (9.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 22 (8.63%) AWS Fargate
14 20 (7.84%) Amazon EMR
14 20 (7.84%) Azure
15 17 (6.67%) Amazon Cognito
16 13 (5.10%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.14%) VPN
2 7 (2.75%) DNS
3 5 (1.96%) OpenLDAP
4 4 (1.57%) Firewall
4 4 (1.57%) SSL
5 2 (0.78%) DHCP
5 2 (0.78%) Kerberos
5 2 (0.78%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.39%) DKIM
6 1 (0.39%) NAS
6 1 (0.39%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (0.39%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (23.53%) Amazon RDS
2 58 (22.75%) DynamoDB
3 40 (15.69%) PostgreSQL
4 29 (11.37%) Amazon Athena
5 25 (9.80%) Amazon Redshift
6 21 (8.24%) Data Warehouse
7 19 (7.45%) Amazon Aurora
8 18 (7.06%) Relational Database
9 13 (5.10%) Tableau
10 10 (3.92%) Data Lake
11 9 (3.53%) NoSQL
12 8 (3.14%) Metadata
13 7 (2.75%) Power BI
13 7 (2.75%) RDBMS
14 6 (2.35%) Amazon QuickSight
14 6 (2.35%) Big Data
14 6 (2.35%) Redis
15 5 (1.96%) Apache Iceberg
15 5 (1.96%) DB2
15 5 (1.96%) Redshift Spectrum
Development Applications
1 40 (15.69%) Git
2 35 (13.73%) Jenkins
3 30 (11.76%) GitLab
4 18 (7.06%) JIRA
5 10 (3.92%) JUnit
6 9 (3.53%) Cypress.io
7 8 (3.14%) Cucumber
8 5 (1.96%) Maven
9 4 (1.57%) Postman
10 3 (1.18%) Bitbucket
10 3 (1.18%) Selenium
10 3 (1.18%) Visual Studio Code
11 2 (0.78%) CircleCI
11 2 (0.78%) REST Assured
11 2 (0.78%) Serenity BDD
11 2 (0.78%) SoapUI
11 2 (0.78%) Sonatype Nexus
12 1 (0.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.39%) MLflow
12 1 (0.39%) RStudio
General
1 68 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 33 (12.94%) Public Sector
3 29 (11.37%) Finance
4 26 (10.20%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (5.88%) Banking
6 6 (2.35%) Front Office
7 5 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (1.96%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.18%) Marketing
9 2 (0.78%) Aviation
9 2 (0.78%) Digital Healthcare
9 2 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.78%) Military
9 2 (0.78%) Private Banking
9 2 (0.78%) Publishing
10 1 (0.39%) Advertising
10 1 (0.39%) Games
10 1 (0.39%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.39%) Police
Job Titles
1 51 (20.00%) Developer
2 50 (19.61%) AWS Engineer
3 44 (17.25%) Senior
4 37 (14.51%) DevOps Engineer
5 26 (10.20%) Architect
6 25 (9.80%) Data Engineer
7 24 (9.41%) Lead
8 20 (7.84%) Software Engineer
9 18 (7.06%) AWS DevOps
10 17 (6.67%) AWS Developer
11 13 (5.10%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 13 (5.10%) Java Developer
11 13 (5.10%) Python Engineer
12 10 (3.92%) AWS Data Engineer
12 10 (3.92%) Full-Stack Developer
12 10 (3.92%) Senior Developer
13 9 (3.53%) Snowflake Engineer
14 8 (3.14%) AWS Architect
14 8 (3.14%) Cloud Engineer
14 8 (3.14%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (21.96%) Node.js
2 37 (14.51%) Kafka
3 36 (14.12%) React
4 26 (10.20%) RESTful
5 20 (7.84%) Spring
6 19 (7.45%) Spring Boot
7 17 (6.67%) REST
8 15 (5.88%) OAuth
9 13 (5.10%) AngularJS
9 13 (5.10%) AWS CDK
9 13 (5.10%) Jest
10 11 (4.31%) GraphQL
11 10 (3.92%) CSS
12 9 (3.53%) boto
12 9 (3.53%) pytest
13 8 (3.14%) JSON
13 8 (3.14%) JWT
13 8 (3.14%) PySpark
14 7 (2.75%) Next.js
14 7 (2.75%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 54 (21.18%) Cloud Native
2 21 (8.24%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (4.71%) Data Protection Act
4 11 (4.31%) Product Ownership
5 7 (2.75%) Distributed Architecture
5 7 (2.75%) Mobile App
6 6 (2.35%) Mainframe
7 5 (1.96%) DataPower
7 5 (1.96%) Replication
8 4 (1.57%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.57%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.18%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.18%) Derivative
9 3 (1.18%) Equities
9 3 (1.18%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (0.78%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.78%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.78%) Equity Derivative
10 2 (0.78%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.78%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 19 (7.45%) Linux
2 3 (1.18%) Unix
3 2 (0.78%) Windows
4 1 (0.39%) AIX
4 1 (0.39%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (0.39%) Android
4 1 (0.39%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.39%) Solaris
4 1 (0.39%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (54.12%) CI/CD
2 113 (44.31%) DevOps
3 72 (28.24%) Agile
3 72 (28.24%) Infrastructure as Code
4 66 (25.88%) Microservices
5 45 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
6 41 (16.08%) Data Pipeline
7 38 (14.90%) Analytics
7 38 (14.90%) Containerisation
8 36 (14.12%) Data Modelling
8 36 (14.12%) Software Engineering
9 35 (13.73%) Data Engineering
9 35 (13.73%) Event-Driven
10 30 (11.76%) Full-Stack Development
10 30 (11.76%) Observability
11 29 (11.37%) ETL
12 28 (10.98%) Mentoring
13 27 (10.59%) AI
14 25 (9.80%) Test Automation
15 23 (9.02%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 141 (55.29%) Python
2 65 (25.49%) SQL
3 54 (21.18%) Java
4 44 (17.25%) TypeScript
5 36 (14.12%) JavaScript
6 19 (7.45%) Bash
7 10 (3.92%) Go
8 7 (2.75%) Shell Script
9 6 (2.35%) JSX
9 6 (2.35%) Korn
9 6 (2.35%) Ruby
10 5 (1.96%) PowerShell
11 4 (1.57%) Groovy
11 4 (1.57%) Scala
12 3 (1.18%) C#
13 2 (0.78%) Bicep
13 2 (0.78%) C++
13 2 (0.78%) Perl
13 2 (0.78%) PromQL
13 2 (0.78%) R
Qualifications
1 71 (27.84%) Security Cleared
2 60 (23.53%) SC Cleared
3 30 (11.76%) AWS Certification
4 13 (5.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 8 (3.14%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (3.14%) Degree
6 6 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 4 (1.57%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.18%) AWS Certified Developer
8 3 (1.18%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.78%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (8.24%) QA
2 15 (5.88%) Data Quality
3 8 (3.14%) GDPR
4 7 (2.75%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.57%) WCAG
6 2 (0.78%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.39%) GxP
7 1 (0.39%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.39%) NCSC
System Software
1 60 (23.53%) Docker
2 5 (1.96%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.78%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.39%) HDFS
4 1 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 88 (34.51%) Terraform
2 56 (21.96%) Kubernetes
3 12 (4.71%) Ansible
4 11 (4.31%) Prometheus
5 10 (3.92%) Grafana
6 4 (1.57%) Rancher
7 3 (1.18%) ITRS Geneos
7 3 (1.18%) Kibana
8 2 (0.78%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.78%) SELinux
8 2 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.39%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.39%) Packer
9 1 (0.39%) Puppet
Vendors
1 16 (6.27%) Microsoft
2 13 (5.10%) Databricks
2 13 (5.10%) ServiceNow
3 7 (2.75%) CA Agile Central
4 6 (2.35%) Dynatrace
4 6 (2.35%) IBM
5 5 (1.96%) Atlassian
5 5 (1.96%) Oracle
5 5 (1.96%) Sybase
6 4 (1.57%) Pega
6 4 (1.57%) Splunk
7 3 (1.18%) Cloudera
7 3 (1.18%) Google
7 3 (1.18%) OpenAI
7 3 (1.18%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.78%) Avaloq
8 2 (0.78%) Cisco
9 1 (0.39%) Genesys
9 1 (0.39%) Murex
9 1 (0.39%) NetApp