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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 163 219 184
Rank change year-on-year +56 -35 -6
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 220 176 295
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.64% 1.08% 1.36%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.78% 2.63% 3.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 122 222
10th Percentile £406 £383 £413
25th Percentile £463 £438 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -19.23%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £638
90th Percentile £675 £738 £711
England median daily rate £500 £535 £525
% change year-on-year -6.54% +1.90% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £36.50 - -
25th Percentile £38.75 - -
Median hourly rate £45.00 - £35.00
75th Percentile £51.25 - -
90th Percentile £53.50 - -
England median hourly rate £45.00 - £77.50
% change year-on-year - - +3.33%

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 5,816 6,704 8,625
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.25% 41.16% 39.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,957 4,691 6,392
10th Percentile £339 £350 £358
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.09% -4.35% -0.86%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £780
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.71% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 46 63
10th Percentile £23.00 £22.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.16 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.00 £30.80 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.67% -23.96% +15.71%
75th Percentile £47.50 £52.50 £69.38
90th Percentile £78.75 £71.13 £89.31
England median hourly rate £26.00 £33.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -21.21% - +53.49%

AWS Lambda
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS Lambda 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 18 September 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing AWS Lambda in London over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for AWS Lambda in London

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 18 September 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 +13 31 £675 +35.00% 23
West London -2 8 £431 -29.58% 1
South London -4 4 £622 +38.22%
AWS Lambda
England

AWS Lambda
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 10 (4.55%) Confluence
2 7 (3.18%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (2.73%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.73%) CMS
4 5 (2.27%) Headless CMS
4 5 (2.27%) nginx
5 4 (1.82%) Apache
6 1 (0.45%) CICS
6 1 (0.45%) JBoss
6 1 (0.45%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 218 (99.09%) AWS
1 218 (99.09%) Serverless
2 147 (66.82%) Amazon S3
3 64 (29.09%) AWS CloudFormation
4 57 (25.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 56 (25.45%) Amazon EC2
6 41 (18.64%) Amazon ECS
7 39 (17.73%) Amazon SQS
8 35 (15.91%) GitHub
9 34 (15.45%) Amazon EKS
9 34 (15.45%) AWS Step Functions
10 22 (10.00%) Amazon Kinesis
10 22 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
11 20 (9.09%) Amazon Cognito
12 19 (8.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 14 (6.36%) AWS Fargate
13 14 (6.36%) Snowflake
14 13 (5.91%) Amazon EventBridge
15 11 (5.00%) Datadog
16 10 (4.55%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.64%) DNS
1 8 (3.64%) VPN
2 7 (3.18%) Firewall
2 7 (3.18%) SSL
3 5 (2.27%) HTTP
3 5 (2.27%) OpenLDAP
4 2 (0.91%) DHCP
4 2 (0.91%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.91%) SSH
4 2 (0.91%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.91%) VLAN
5 1 (0.45%) Broadband
5 1 (0.45%) DKIM
5 1 (0.45%) NAS
5 1 (0.45%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (0.45%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.45%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (29.55%) DynamoDB
2 59 (26.82%) Amazon RDS
3 19 (8.64%) Amazon Athena
3 19 (8.64%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (6.36%) Amazon Redshift
5 13 (5.91%) Data Warehouse
6 11 (5.00%) Amazon Aurora
7 9 (4.09%) NoSQL
7 9 (4.09%) Relational Database
8 8 (3.64%) Redis
8 8 (3.64%) Tableau
9 5 (2.27%) DocumentDB
9 5 (2.27%) Metadata
10 4 (1.82%) Pinecone
10 4 (1.82%) Power BI
11 3 (1.36%) BigQuery
11 3 (1.36%) Data Lake
11 3 (1.36%) Oracle Database
11 3 (1.36%) RDBMS
12 2 (0.91%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 30 (13.64%) Git
2 26 (11.82%) Jenkins
3 13 (5.91%) Cypress.io
4 12 (5.45%) GitLab
4 12 (5.45%) JIRA
5 10 (4.55%) Cucumber
6 8 (3.64%) JUnit
7 6 (2.73%) Maven
7 6 (2.73%) SonarQube
8 5 (2.27%) Postman
9 4 (1.82%) Bitbucket
9 4 (1.82%) Visual Studio Code
10 3 (1.36%) CircleCI
10 3 (1.36%) Mocha
10 3 (1.36%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.91%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.91%) git-flow
11 2 (0.91%) Gradle
11 2 (0.91%) REST Assured
11 2 (0.91%) SoapUI
General
1 52 (23.64%) Social Skills
2 36 (16.36%) Public Sector
3 26 (11.82%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (5.45%) Finance
5 3 (1.36%) Banking
5 3 (1.36%) Marketing
5 3 (1.36%) Publishing
6 2 (0.91%) Digital Healthcare
6 2 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (0.91%) Front Office
6 2 (0.91%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.45%) Advertising
7 1 (0.45%) Aviation
7 1 (0.45%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.45%) Police
7 1 (0.45%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 52 (23.64%) Developer
2 45 (20.45%) AWS Engineer
3 40 (18.18%) Senior
4 32 (14.55%) Architect
5 22 (10.00%) AWS Architect
5 22 (10.00%) AWS Developer
6 21 (9.55%) DevOps Engineer
7 18 (8.18%) Software Engineer
8 16 (7.27%) Lead
9 14 (6.36%) Java Developer
10 13 (5.91%) Full-Stack Developer
11 11 (5.00%) Data Engineer
11 11 (5.00%) Python Engineer
11 11 (5.00%) Senior Developer
12 10 (4.55%) JavaScript Engineer
13 9 (4.09%) Cloud Engineer
14 8 (3.64%) Cloud Architect
15 7 (3.18%) AWS DevOps
16 6 (2.73%) Senior Java Developer
16 6 (2.73%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (20.00%) Node.js
2 42 (19.09%) React
3 29 (13.18%) GraphQL
4 27 (12.27%) Kafka
5 18 (8.18%) REST
6 16 (7.27%) AWS CDK
6 16 (7.27%) Spring
7 13 (5.91%) RESTful
8 11 (5.00%) AngularJS
8 11 (5.00%) Jest
8 11 (5.00%) Next.js
9 10 (4.55%) Spring Boot
9 10 (4.55%) WebSockets
10 9 (4.09%) pytest
11 8 (3.64%) boto
11 8 (3.64%) OAuth
11 8 (3.64%) OpenTelemetry
12 7 (3.18%) HTML
12 7 (3.18%) LDAP
12 7 (3.18%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 39 (17.73%) Cloud Native
2 14 (6.36%) Data Protection Act
3 10 (4.55%) Greenfield Project
4 6 (2.73%) Mobile App
4 6 (2.73%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.27%) Onboarding
6 4 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.36%) AI Agents
7 3 (1.36%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.36%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.36%) Vector Graphics
8 2 (0.91%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.91%) Video\Live Streaming
9 1 (0.45%) Mainframe
9 1 (0.45%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.45%) NHS
9 1 (0.45%) Replication
9 1 (0.45%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.45%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.09%) Linux
2 3 (1.36%) Unix
3 2 (0.91%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (0.45%) AIX
4 1 (0.45%) Android
4 1 (0.45%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.45%) Solaris
4 1 (0.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (46.36%) CI/CD
2 82 (37.27%) DevOps
3 65 (29.55%) Agile
4 46 (20.91%) Microservices
5 45 (20.45%) Problem-Solving
6 44 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 41 (18.64%) Mentoring
8 40 (18.18%) Containerisation
9 31 (14.09%) Software Engineering
10 29 (13.18%) Full-Stack Development
11 28 (12.73%) High Availability
12 26 (11.82%) Clean Code
13 25 (11.36%) Event-Driven
14 24 (10.91%) Stakeholder Management
15 23 (10.45%) Test Automation
16 22 (10.00%) Observability
17 20 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence
17 20 (9.09%) Continuous Integration
17 20 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
18 19 (8.64%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 102 (46.36%) Python
2 53 (24.09%) JavaScript
3 46 (20.91%) TypeScript
4 43 (19.55%) Java
5 29 (13.18%) SQL
6 15 (6.82%) Bash
7 10 (4.55%) Go
8 5 (2.27%) Shell Script
9 4 (1.82%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.36%) CodeQL
11 2 (0.91%) C#
11 2 (0.91%) PromQL
11 2 (0.91%) Ruby
11 2 (0.91%) Scala
12 1 (0.45%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.45%) COBOL
12 1 (0.45%) Groovy
12 1 (0.45%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.45%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.45%) R
Qualifications
1 64 (29.09%) Security Cleared
2 62 (28.18%) SC Cleared
3 51 (23.18%) AWS Certification
4 27 (12.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 7 (3.18%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (2.27%) Degree
7 4 (1.82%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 4 (1.82%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.36%) AWS Certified Developer
8 3 (1.36%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.91%) CCIE
9 2 (0.91%) CCNP
9 2 (0.91%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (7.27%) QA
2 7 (3.18%) GDPR
3 6 (2.73%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.36%) HIPAA
4 3 (1.36%) NIST
4 3 (1.36%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.91%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.91%) WCAG
6 1 (0.45%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.45%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 1 (0.45%) NCSC
System Software
1 39 (17.73%) Docker
2 5 (2.27%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 60 (27.27%) Terraform
2 41 (18.64%) Kubernetes
3 12 (5.45%) Prometheus
4 8 (3.64%) Ansible
5 7 (3.18%) Grafana
6 3 (1.36%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.91%) FortiGate
7 2 (0.91%) Kibana
7 2 (0.91%) Packer
7 2 (0.91%) SELinux
8 1 (0.45%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.45%) Puppet
8 1 (0.45%) Rancher
Vendors
1 9 (4.09%) Microsoft
2 8 (3.64%) CA Agile Central
3 7 (3.18%) ServiceNow
4 5 (2.27%) Atlassian
4 5 (2.27%) Oracle
5 4 (1.82%) Cisco
5 4 (1.82%) Google
5 4 (1.82%) Pega
5 4 (1.82%) Splunk
6 3 (1.36%) Qualys
6 3 (1.36%) Tenable
7 2 (0.91%) Dynatrace
7 2 (0.91%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.91%) Sybase
7 2 (0.91%) Virgin Media
7 2 (0.91%) VMware
8 1 (0.45%) Databricks
8 1 (0.45%) IBM
8 1 (0.45%) Rollbar
8 1 (0.45%) StreamSets