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

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 138 155
Rank change year-on-year -6 +17 +7
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 339 255 280
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.95% 2.02% 1.56%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.49% 4.75% 4.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 244 201 215
10th Percentile £350 £413 £400
25th Percentile £413 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.87% +15.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £613 £788 £588
90th Percentile £696 £838 £658
England median daily rate £503 £550 £510
% change year-on-year -8.64% +7.84% -11.30%

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 7,542 5,373 6,757
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.48% 42.46% 37.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,191 3,740 4,941
10th Percentile £350 £356 £325
25th Percentile £425 £440 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.14%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 51 77
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £17.47
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.66 £21.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +11.81% -25.71%
75th Percentile £50.75 £54.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £71.50 £73.75 £61.00
England median hourly rate £42.69 £26.50 £20.77
% change year-on-year +61.08% +27.59% -22.33%

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 10 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 10 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 +16 45 £510 +2.00% 34
South London +1 23 £500 +5.26% 1
West London -30 4 £650 -2.99% 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 26 (7.67%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (5.60%) Apache Spark
3 13 (3.83%) Confluence
4 12 (3.54%) Apache
5 9 (2.65%) nginx
6 3 (0.88%) CICS
7 2 (0.59%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 10 (2.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.18%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.59%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 339 (100.00%) AWS
1 339 (100.00%) Serverless
2 234 (69.03%) Amazon S3
3 107 (31.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 102 (30.09%) Amazon EC2
5 89 (26.25%) Amazon ECS
6 85 (25.07%) GitHub
7 84 (24.78%) AWS CloudFormation
8 79 (23.30%) Amazon EKS
9 66 (19.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 64 (18.88%) GitHub Actions
11 53 (15.63%) AWS Step Functions
12 36 (10.62%) Azure
13 34 (10.03%) Amazon SQS
14 33 (9.73%) Amazon Kinesis
15 30 (8.85%) Snowflake
16 26 (7.67%) AWS CodePipeline
17 24 (7.08%) Route 53
18 21 (6.19%) Amazon EventBridge
19 20 (5.90%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 24 (7.08%) DNS
2 16 (4.72%) Firewall
3 12 (3.54%) TCP/IP
3 12 (3.54%) VPN
4 9 (2.65%) OpenVPN
5 6 (1.77%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (0.59%) Kerberos
6 2 (0.59%) Network Security
7 1 (0.29%) 4G
7 1 (0.29%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (22.42%) Amazon RDS
2 58 (17.11%) DynamoDB
3 54 (15.93%) Amazon Athena
4 53 (15.63%) Amazon Redshift
5 42 (12.39%) PostgreSQL
6 30 (8.85%) Tableau
7 20 (5.90%) Amazon Aurora
7 20 (5.90%) Data Warehouse
7 20 (5.90%) Power BI
8 14 (4.13%) Data Lake
9 13 (3.83%) Metadata
9 13 (3.83%) NoSQL
10 12 (3.54%) Amazon QuickSight
11 11 (3.24%) Elasticsearch
11 11 (3.24%) MySQL
12 10 (2.95%) Apache Iceberg
12 10 (2.95%) DB2
12 10 (2.95%) Redis
13 8 (2.36%) Big Data
13 8 (2.36%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 63 (18.58%) GitLab
2 60 (17.70%) Git
3 58 (17.11%) Jenkins
4 25 (7.37%) JIRA
5 16 (4.72%) Bitbucket
6 12 (3.54%) JUnit
7 11 (3.24%) Cucumber
8 9 (2.65%) Cypress.io
9 7 (2.06%) SonarQube
10 5 (1.47%) Postman
10 5 (1.47%) Snyk
11 4 (1.18%) Artifactory
11 4 (1.18%) Mocha
11 4 (1.18%) Mockito
11 4 (1.18%) Selenium
11 4 (1.18%) Terragrunt
12 3 (0.88%) MSTest
12 3 (0.88%) Sonatype Nexus
12 3 (0.88%) tSQLt
12 3 (0.88%) Vite
General
1 94 (27.73%) Social Skills
2 59 (17.40%) Public Sector
3 52 (15.34%) Finance
4 39 (11.50%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (6.19%) Banking
5 21 (6.19%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (1.47%) Front Office
7 4 (1.18%) Investment Banking
7 4 (1.18%) Police
8 3 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (0.88%) Law
8 3 (0.88%) Military
8 3 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (0.59%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.59%) Games
9 2 (0.59%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.59%) Private Banking
9 2 (0.59%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.29%) French Language
10 1 (0.29%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 68 (20.06%) Developer
2 63 (18.58%) AWS Engineer
3 58 (17.11%) Data Engineer
4 55 (16.22%) Senior
5 50 (14.75%) Architect
6 36 (10.62%) DevOps Engineer
7 31 (9.14%) Lead
8 26 (7.67%) AWS Architect
8 26 (7.67%) AWS Developer
9 22 (6.49%) AWS DevOps
10 19 (5.60%) AWS Data Engineer
11 18 (5.31%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 17 (5.01%) Analyst
13 16 (4.72%) Cloud Engineer
14 15 (4.42%) Python Engineer
14 15 (4.42%) Senior Developer
15 14 (4.13%) Lead Data Engineer
15 14 (4.13%) Software Engineer
16 13 (3.83%) Data Architect
16 13 (3.83%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (17.99%) Kafka
2 48 (14.16%) Node.js
3 42 (12.39%) React
4 39 (11.50%) RESTful
5 34 (10.03%) Spring Boot
6 32 (9.44%) Spring
7 26 (7.67%) PySpark
8 23 (6.78%) OAuth
9 18 (5.31%) boto
10 16 (4.72%) AWS CDK
10 16 (4.72%) Pandas
10 16 (4.72%) REST
11 15 (4.42%) AngularJS
12 13 (3.83%) OpenID
13 12 (3.54%) CSS
13 12 (3.54%) FastAPI
13 12 (3.54%) JWT
14 11 (3.24%) Flask
15 10 (2.95%) .NET
15 10 (2.95%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 78 (23.01%) Cloud Native
2 21 (6.19%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (2.65%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (2.36%) DataPower
4 8 (2.36%) Mainframe
4 8 (2.36%) Product Ownership
5 5 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (1.47%) Equities
5 5 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.18%) Algorithms
6 4 (1.18%) Data Structures
6 4 (1.18%) Derivative
6 4 (1.18%) Hedge funds
6 4 (1.18%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (1.18%) PACS
6 4 (1.18%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 4 (1.18%) Virtual Team
7 3 (0.88%) Equity Derivative
7 3 (0.88%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 30 (8.85%) Linux
2 10 (2.95%) Unix
3 3 (0.88%) zOS
4 2 (0.59%) Windows
5 1 (0.29%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (0.29%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 198 (58.41%) CI/CD
2 141 (41.59%) DevOps
3 131 (38.64%) Infrastructure as Code
4 85 (25.07%) Agile
5 81 (23.89%) Microservices
6 66 (19.47%) Problem-Solving
7 61 (17.99%) Data Pipeline
7 61 (17.99%) ETL
8 60 (17.70%) Containerisation
9 57 (16.81%) Data Engineering
10 56 (16.52%) Analytics
11 53 (15.63%) Data Modelling
12 45 (13.27%) Event-Driven
13 42 (12.39%) Observability
14 39 (11.50%) Continuous Improvement
15 38 (11.21%) AI
16 34 (10.03%) Software Engineering
17 33 (9.73%) Performance Tuning
18 31 (9.14%) Migration
19 30 (8.85%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 192 (56.64%) Python
2 108 (31.86%) SQL
3 62 (18.29%) Java
4 34 (10.03%) TypeScript
5 31 (9.14%) JavaScript
6 26 (7.67%) Bash
7 21 (6.19%) C#
8 18 (5.31%) Shell Script
9 9 (2.65%) Scala
10 8 (2.36%) PowerShell
10 8 (2.36%) Ruby
11 6 (1.77%) Go
12 5 (1.47%) Korn
13 4 (1.18%) Bicep
14 3 (0.88%) C++
14 3 (0.88%) Groovy
14 3 (0.88%) JCL
14 3 (0.88%) JSX
14 3 (0.88%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.59%) Perl
Qualifications
1 125 (36.87%) Security Cleared
2 111 (32.74%) SC Cleared
3 31 (9.14%) AWS Certification
4 14 (4.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 10 (2.95%) Degree
6 9 (2.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 7 (2.06%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (2.06%) Master's Degree
8 5 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (1.47%) DV Cleared
9 4 (1.18%) AWS Certified Developer
9 4 (1.18%) PhD
10 3 (0.88%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.29%) CEH
11 1 (0.29%) CISSP
11 1 (0.29%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.29%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.29%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.29%) PMP
11 1 (0.29%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (9.44%) Data Quality
2 20 (5.90%) QA
3 8 (2.36%) NIST
4 7 (2.06%) PMO
5 5 (1.47%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.47%) GDPR
6 4 (1.18%) ISO 20022
6 4 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.18%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.18%) SLA
7 3 (0.88%) WCAG
8 1 (0.29%) GRC
8 1 (0.29%) GxP
System Software
1 97 (28.61%) Docker
2 9 (2.65%) Squid
3 4 (1.18%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.59%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.29%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 170 (50.15%) Terraform
2 86 (25.37%) Kubernetes
3 27 (7.96%) Prometheus
4 26 (7.67%) Grafana
5 23 (6.78%) Ansible
6 12 (3.54%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (2.65%) FortiGate
8 7 (2.06%) Consul
9 6 (1.77%) Kibana
10 3 (0.88%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (0.88%) Karpenter
10 3 (0.88%) Puppet
10 3 (0.88%) Rancher
10 3 (0.88%) Salt
11 2 (0.59%) Opsgenie
12 1 (0.29%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 21 (6.19%) Microsoft
2 15 (4.42%) Databricks
3 14 (4.13%) Dynatrace
4 9 (2.65%) Red Hat
5 8 (2.36%) ServiceNow
5 8 (2.36%) Sybase
6 7 (2.06%) Atlassian
6 7 (2.06%) Confluent
6 7 (2.06%) OpenAI
7 6 (1.77%) IBM
7 6 (1.77%) Splunk
8 4 (1.18%) Oracle
8 4 (1.18%) Qualys
8 4 (1.18%) Tenable
9 3 (0.88%) AVEVA
9 3 (0.88%) Cloudera
9 3 (0.88%) Fortinet
9 3 (0.88%) Netlify
9 3 (0.88%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.59%) CA Agile Central