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 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 150 131 171
Rank change year-on-year -19 +40 -2
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 330 254 256
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.87% 2.02% 1.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.34% 4.77% 3.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 234 199 197
10th Percentile £355 £410 £400
25th Percentile £426 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.82% +15.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £625 £788 £588
90th Percentile £700 £838 £675
England median daily rate £513 £550 £511
% change year-on-year -6.82% +7.58% -11.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.00 - -
Median hourly rate £67.00 £35.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +91.43% - -
75th Percentile £73.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £76.00 £35.00 -
% change year-on-year +117.14% - -

All Cloud Computing 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 7,600 5,326 6,678
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.04% 42.40% 37.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,239 3,698 4,925
10th Percentile £350 £356 £341
25th Percentile £425 £440 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £671 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 53 72
10th Percentile £19.23 £22.53 £17.78
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.66 £21.06
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +16.28% -37.50%
75th Percentile £51.46 £53.75 £38.28
90th Percentile £71.00 £72.50 £62.13
England median hourly rate £45.00 £26.45 £20.77
% change year-on-year +70.13% +27.35% -35.70%

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 April 2026.

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 April 2026. 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 +3 43 £535 +5.94% 19
South London -3 21 £500 +5.26% 1
West London -29 5 £675 +19.47% 2
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 30 (9.09%) Apache Airflow
2 25 (7.58%) Apache Spark
3 16 (4.85%) Confluence
4 10 (3.03%) Apache
5 9 (2.73%) nginx
6 4 (1.21%) CICS
7 2 (0.61%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.30%) SAS
Applications
1 10 (3.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.21%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.61%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 330 (100.00%) AWS
2 326 (98.79%) Serverless
3 237 (71.82%) Amazon S3
4 101 (30.61%) Amazon EC2
5 100 (30.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 93 (28.18%) Amazon ECS
7 85 (25.76%) GitHub
8 80 (24.24%) AWS CloudFormation
9 75 (22.73%) Amazon EKS
10 68 (20.61%) GitHub Actions
11 65 (19.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 55 (16.67%) AWS Step Functions
13 34 (10.30%) Amazon Kinesis
14 33 (10.00%) Amazon SQS
14 33 (10.00%) Azure
15 27 (8.18%) AWS CodePipeline
16 26 (7.88%) Snowflake
17 24 (7.27%) Route 53
18 23 (6.97%) Amazon EMR
19 21 (6.36%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 24 (7.27%) DNS
2 16 (4.85%) Firewall
3 12 (3.64%) TCP/IP
3 12 (3.64%) VPN
4 9 (2.73%) OpenVPN
5 6 (1.82%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (0.61%) Kerberos
6 2 (0.61%) Network Security
7 1 (0.30%) 4G
7 1 (0.30%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (21.82%) Amazon RDS
2 56 (16.97%) Amazon Redshift
3 54 (16.36%) Amazon Athena
3 54 (16.36%) DynamoDB
4 44 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
5 26 (7.88%) Amazon Aurora
5 26 (7.88%) Tableau
6 20 (6.06%) Power BI
7 17 (5.15%) NoSQL
8 15 (4.55%) Data Lake
9 14 (4.24%) Big Data
9 14 (4.24%) Data Warehouse
10 13 (3.94%) Amazon QuickSight
10 13 (3.94%) Apache Iceberg
10 13 (3.94%) Metadata
11 11 (3.33%) Elasticsearch
12 10 (3.03%) SQL Server
13 9 (2.73%) Data Vault
14 8 (2.42%) Apache Hudi
14 8 (2.42%) DB2
Development Applications
1 65 (19.70%) GitLab
2 64 (19.39%) Jenkins
3 61 (18.48%) Git
4 26 (7.88%) JIRA
5 16 (4.85%) Bitbucket
6 12 (3.64%) Cucumber
7 11 (3.33%) Cypress.io
8 9 (2.73%) JUnit
9 7 (2.12%) SonarQube
10 5 (1.52%) Postman
10 5 (1.52%) Selenium
10 5 (1.52%) Snyk
11 4 (1.21%) Artifactory
11 4 (1.21%) Mocha
11 4 (1.21%) Mockito
11 4 (1.21%) Terragrunt
12 3 (0.91%) MSTest
12 3 (0.91%) Sonatype Nexus
12 3 (0.91%) tSQLt
12 3 (0.91%) Vite
General
1 86 (26.06%) Social Skills
2 55 (16.67%) Finance
3 53 (16.06%) Public Sector
4 37 (11.21%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (5.76%) Documentation Skills
6 18 (5.45%) Banking
7 5 (1.52%) Front Office
8 4 (1.21%) Police
9 3 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (0.91%) Investment Banking
9 3 (0.91%) Law
9 3 (0.91%) Military
9 3 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.61%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.61%) Games
10 2 (0.61%) Local Government
10 2 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.61%) Retail
10 2 (0.61%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.30%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 68 (20.61%) AWS Engineer
2 66 (20.00%) Developer
3 60 (18.18%) Data Engineer
4 50 (15.15%) Architect
4 50 (15.15%) Senior
5 33 (10.00%) Lead
6 29 (8.79%) DevOps Engineer
7 27 (8.18%) AWS Architect
7 27 (8.18%) AWS Developer
8 22 (6.67%) AWS Data Engineer
9 19 (5.76%) AWS DevOps
10 17 (5.15%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 17 (5.15%) Cloud Engineer
10 17 (5.15%) Data Architect
11 16 (4.85%) Python Developer
11 16 (4.85%) Software Engineer
12 14 (4.24%) Analyst
12 14 (4.24%) Python Engineer
13 13 (3.94%) Java Engineer
13 13 (3.94%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (17.58%) Kafka
2 45 (13.64%) RESTful
3 44 (13.33%) React
4 38 (11.52%) Node.js
5 31 (9.39%) Spring Boot
6 29 (8.79%) Spring
7 27 (8.18%) PySpark
8 20 (6.06%) OAuth
9 18 (5.45%) boto
9 18 (5.45%) Pandas
10 17 (5.15%) CSS
11 15 (4.55%) FastAPI
11 15 (4.55%) REST
12 13 (3.94%) AWS CDK
12 13 (3.94%) Flask
12 13 (3.94%) OpenID
13 12 (3.64%) AngularJS
13 12 (3.64%) HTML
14 11 (3.33%) .NET
14 11 (3.33%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 78 (23.64%) Cloud Native
2 19 (5.76%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (3.64%) Product Ownership
4 7 (2.12%) DataPower
4 7 (2.12%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (2.12%) Mainframe
5 6 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (1.82%) Hedge funds
5 6 (1.82%) PACS
5 6 (1.82%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 5 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (1.52%) Equities
7 4 (1.21%) Algorithms
7 4 (1.21%) Derivative
7 4 (1.21%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (1.21%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.21%) Online Banking
7 4 (1.21%) Virtual Team
8 3 (0.91%) Data Structures
8 3 (0.91%) Equity Derivative
Operating Systems
1 36 (10.91%) Linux
2 15 (4.55%) Unix
3 4 (1.21%) zOS
4 1 (0.30%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (0.30%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 195 (59.09%) CI/CD
2 133 (40.30%) DevOps
3 128 (38.79%) Infrastructure as Code
4 86 (26.06%) Agile
5 77 (23.33%) Microservices
6 61 (18.48%) Data Pipeline
7 59 (17.88%) ETL
7 59 (17.88%) Problem-Solving
8 58 (17.58%) Containerisation
9 56 (16.97%) Analytics
10 55 (16.67%) Data Engineering
11 52 (15.76%) Data Modelling
12 46 (13.94%) Event-Driven
13 42 (12.73%) Software Engineering
14 41 (12.42%) AI
15 39 (11.82%) Observability
16 37 (11.21%) Continuous Improvement
16 37 (11.21%) Test Automation
17 30 (9.09%) Performance Tuning
18 29 (8.79%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 197 (59.70%) Python
2 110 (33.33%) SQL
3 65 (19.70%) Java
4 37 (11.21%) JavaScript
5 33 (10.00%) TypeScript
6 26 (7.88%) C#
7 22 (6.67%) Bash
8 20 (6.06%) Shell Script
9 15 (4.55%) Scala
10 8 (2.42%) PowerShell
10 8 (2.42%) Ruby
11 6 (1.82%) Go
12 4 (1.21%) Bicep
12 4 (1.21%) JCL
13 3 (0.91%) C++
13 3 (0.91%) JSX
13 3 (0.91%) Korn
13 3 (0.91%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.61%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.61%) Perl
Qualifications
1 116 (35.15%) Security Cleared
2 105 (31.82%) SC Cleared
3 30 (9.09%) AWS Certification
4 13 (3.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 10 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
5 10 (3.03%) Degree
6 9 (2.73%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 7 (2.12%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (2.12%) Master's Degree
8 5 (1.52%) DV Cleared
9 4 (1.21%) AWS Certified Developer
9 4 (1.21%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (1.21%) PhD
10 1 (0.30%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.30%) CEH
10 1 (0.30%) CISSP
10 1 (0.30%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.30%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.30%) PMP
10 1 (0.30%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (9.39%) Data Quality
2 18 (5.45%) QA
3 8 (2.42%) NIST
4 7 (2.12%) PMO
5 6 (1.82%) ISO 20022
6 5 (1.52%) GDPR
7 4 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (1.21%) PCI DSS
7 4 (1.21%) SLA
8 3 (0.91%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.61%) WCAG
10 1 (0.30%) GRC
System Software
1 98 (29.70%) Docker
2 9 (2.73%) Squid
3 4 (1.21%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.61%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.30%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 166 (50.30%) Terraform
2 81 (24.55%) Kubernetes
3 32 (9.70%) Grafana
4 27 (8.18%) Prometheus
5 16 (4.85%) Ansible
6 12 (3.64%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (2.73%) FortiGate
7 9 (2.73%) Kibana
8 7 (2.12%) Consul
9 3 (0.91%) ITRS Geneos
9 3 (0.91%) Karpenter
9 3 (0.91%) Puppet
9 3 (0.91%) Salt
10 2 (0.61%) Opsgenie
11 1 (0.30%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.30%) Rancher
Vendors
1 17 (5.15%) Microsoft
2 15 (4.55%) Databricks
3 12 (3.64%) Splunk
4 11 (3.33%) Dynatrace
5 9 (2.73%) Confluent
5 9 (2.73%) Red Hat
6 8 (2.42%) OpenAI
7 7 (2.12%) Atlassian
8 6 (1.82%) Oracle
9 5 (1.52%) Sybase
10 4 (1.21%) IBM
10 4 (1.21%) Qualys
10 4 (1.21%) Tenable
11 3 (0.91%) AVEVA
11 3 (0.91%) Cloudera
11 3 (0.91%) Fortinet
11 3 (0.91%) Netlify
11 3 (0.91%) ServiceNow
12 2 (0.61%) Salesforce
12 2 (0.61%) SAP