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 15 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 167 207 187
Rank change year-on-year +40 -20 -16
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 236 183 268
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.68% 1.16% 1.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.78% 2.84% 3.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 131 189
10th Percentile £379 £413 £406
25th Percentile £427 £475 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% +4.76% -16.00%
75th Percentile £630 £738 £638
90th Percentile £688 £788 £713
England median daily rate £500 £550 £539
% change year-on-year -9.09% +2.09% -10.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £43.75 - -
25th Percentile £45.63 - -
Median hourly rate £50.00 - -
75th Percentile £53.13 - -
90th Percentile £54.25 - -
England median hourly rate £50.00 - £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 6,237 6,434 7,812
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.46% 40.91% 38.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,222 4,383 5,741
10th Percentile £350 £350 £330
25th Percentile £425 £450 £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 £763 £788 £775
England median daily rate £500 £535 £525
% change year-on-year -6.54% +1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 122 34 71
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.78 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £25.74 £35.00 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.47% -7.89% +50.50%
75th Percentile £41.25 £55.25 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.13 £65.33 £85.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £30.86
% change year-on-year -28.14% +13.42% +40.27%

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 15 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 15 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 +26 30 £613 +18.64% 81
South London - 6 £621 - 1
West London -12 4 - - 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 14 (5.93%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (5.08%) Apache Spark
3 11 (4.66%) Confluence
4 7 (2.97%) Apache
5 5 (2.12%) CMS
5 5 (2.12%) Headless CMS
5 5 (2.12%) nginx
6 1 (0.42%) CICS
6 1 (0.42%) JBoss
6 1 (0.42%) Jupyter
Applications
1 3 (1.27%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.42%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 235 (99.58%) AWS
1 235 (99.58%) Serverless
2 150 (63.56%) Amazon S3
3 75 (31.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 54 (22.88%) Amazon EC2
4 54 (22.88%) Amazon ECS
4 54 (22.88%) AWS CloudFormation
5 52 (22.03%) GitHub
6 33 (13.98%) GitHub Actions
7 29 (12.29%) Amazon EKS
8 28 (11.86%) Amazon Kinesis
8 28 (11.86%) Amazon SQS
9 27 (11.44%) AWS Step Functions
9 27 (11.44%) Snowflake
10 23 (9.75%) AWS Fargate
11 21 (8.90%) Amazon EMR
12 19 (8.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 18 (7.63%) Amazon Cognito
14 15 (6.36%) Azure
15 12 (5.08%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.97%) DNS
1 7 (2.97%) VPN
2 5 (2.12%) OpenLDAP
3 4 (1.69%) Firewall
3 4 (1.69%) SSL
4 2 (0.85%) DHCP
4 2 (0.85%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (0.85%) SSH
5 1 (0.42%) DKIM
5 1 (0.42%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.42%) NAS
5 1 (0.42%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (25.85%) DynamoDB
2 55 (23.31%) Amazon RDS
3 38 (16.10%) PostgreSQL
4 25 (10.59%) Amazon Athena
5 24 (10.17%) Amazon Redshift
6 20 (8.47%) Data Warehouse
7 18 (7.63%) Relational Database
8 16 (6.78%) Amazon Aurora
9 13 (5.51%) Tableau
10 9 (3.81%) NoSQL
11 8 (3.39%) Data Lake
12 7 (2.97%) Metadata
12 7 (2.97%) RDBMS
13 6 (2.54%) Power BI
14 5 (2.12%) Amazon QuickSight
14 5 (2.12%) Apache Iceberg
14 5 (2.12%) DB2
14 5 (2.12%) Redis
14 5 (2.12%) Redshift Spectrum
15 4 (1.69%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 36 (15.25%) Git
2 33 (13.98%) Jenkins
3 24 (10.17%) GitLab
4 18 (7.63%) JIRA
5 11 (4.66%) JUnit
6 10 (4.24%) Cucumber
6 10 (4.24%) Cypress.io
7 7 (2.97%) Maven
8 4 (1.69%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (1.27%) Bitbucket
9 3 (1.27%) Postman
10 2 (0.85%) CircleCI
10 2 (0.85%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.85%) Selenium
10 2 (0.85%) SoapUI
10 2 (0.85%) Visual Studio Code
11 1 (0.42%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.42%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.42%) Gradle
11 1 (0.42%) Mockito
General
1 62 (26.27%) Social Skills
2 28 (11.86%) Public Sector
3 24 (10.17%) Finance
4 20 (8.47%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (5.08%) Banking
6 5 (2.12%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (1.69%) Front Office
7 4 (1.69%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.27%) Marketing
9 2 (0.85%) Aviation
9 2 (0.85%) Digital Healthcare
9 2 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.85%) Private Banking
9 2 (0.85%) Publishing
10 1 (0.42%) Advertising
10 1 (0.42%) Games
10 1 (0.42%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.42%) Military
10 1 (0.42%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 47 (19.92%) Developer
2 45 (19.07%) AWS Engineer
3 42 (17.80%) Senior
4 34 (14.41%) DevOps Engineer
5 24 (10.17%) Architect
6 23 (9.75%) Data Engineer
7 22 (9.32%) Lead
8 19 (8.05%) Software Engineer
9 17 (7.20%) AWS Developer
10 14 (5.93%) AWS DevOps
11 13 (5.51%) Full-Stack Developer
11 13 (5.51%) Java Developer
12 11 (4.66%) Python Engineer
13 10 (4.24%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 9 (3.81%) AWS Data Engineer
14 9 (3.81%) Senior Developer
15 8 (3.39%) AWS Architect
15 8 (3.39%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 8 (3.39%) Snowflake Engineer
16 7 (2.97%) JavaScript Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (22.88%) Node.js
2 37 (15.68%) React
3 35 (14.83%) Kafka
4 22 (9.32%) RESTful
5 20 (8.47%) Spring
6 17 (7.20%) REST
7 15 (6.36%) GraphQL
8 14 (5.93%) AngularJS
8 14 (5.93%) Jest
8 14 (5.93%) OAuth
8 14 (5.93%) Spring Boot
9 13 (5.51%) AWS CDK
10 11 (4.66%) CSS
11 8 (3.39%) boto
11 8 (3.39%) Next.js
11 8 (3.39%) pytest
12 7 (2.97%) JWT
12 7 (2.97%) LDAP
12 7 (2.97%) OAuth2
12 7 (2.97%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 48 (20.34%) Cloud Native
2 15 (6.36%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (4.66%) Data Protection Act
3 11 (4.66%) Product Ownership
4 7 (2.97%) Distributed Architecture
4 7 (2.97%) Mobile App
5 4 (1.69%) Mainframe
5 4 (1.69%) Replication
5 4 (1.69%) Virtual Team
6 3 (1.27%) AI Agents
6 3 (1.27%) DataPower
6 3 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.27%) Onboarding
7 2 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.42%) Data Fabric
8 1 (0.42%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.42%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.42%) Mobile Banking
8 1 (0.42%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.42%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 15 (6.36%) Linux
2 2 (0.85%) Amazon Linux
2 2 (0.85%) Unix
2 2 (0.85%) Windows
3 1 (0.42%) AIX
3 1 (0.42%) Android
3 1 (0.42%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.42%) Solaris
3 1 (0.42%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (51.69%) CI/CD
2 101 (42.80%) DevOps
3 76 (32.20%) Agile
4 63 (26.69%) Infrastructure as Code
5 51 (21.61%) Microservices
6 38 (16.10%) Problem-Solving
7 37 (15.68%) Data Pipeline
8 34 (14.41%) Analytics
8 34 (14.41%) Software Engineering
9 33 (13.98%) Full-Stack Development
10 32 (13.56%) Data Modelling
11 31 (13.14%) Containerisation
11 31 (13.14%) Event-Driven
12 30 (12.71%) Mentoring
13 29 (12.29%) Data Engineering
14 28 (11.86%) ETL
15 27 (11.44%) Observability
16 23 (9.75%) AI
16 23 (9.75%) Test Automation
17 22 (9.32%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 129 (54.66%) Python
2 60 (25.42%) SQL
3 47 (19.92%) Java
4 46 (19.49%) TypeScript
5 36 (15.25%) JavaScript
6 16 (6.78%) Bash
7 10 (4.24%) Go
8 7 (2.97%) PowerShell
9 6 (2.54%) JSX
9 6 (2.54%) Korn
9 6 (2.54%) Shell Script
10 5 (2.12%) Ruby
11 4 (1.69%) Scala
12 3 (1.27%) Groovy
13 2 (0.85%) Bicep
13 2 (0.85%) CodeQL
13 2 (0.85%) Perl
13 2 (0.85%) PromQL
13 2 (0.85%) R
14 1 (0.42%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 62 (26.27%) Security Cleared
2 53 (22.46%) SC Cleared
3 30 (12.71%) AWS Certification
4 10 (4.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 9 (3.81%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (2.54%) Degree
7 5 (2.12%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.27%) AWS Certified Developer
8 3 (1.27%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.42%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.42%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (8.47%) QA
2 12 (5.08%) Data Quality
3 8 (3.39%) GDPR
4 7 (2.97%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.69%) WCAG
6 2 (0.85%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.42%) GxP
7 1 (0.42%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.42%) NCSC
7 1 (0.42%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 54 (22.88%) Docker
2 5 (2.12%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.85%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 79 (33.47%) Terraform
2 48 (20.34%) Kubernetes
3 14 (5.93%) Ansible
4 11 (4.66%) Prometheus
5 10 (4.24%) Grafana
6 4 (1.69%) Kibana
7 3 (1.27%) Rancher
7 3 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.85%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.85%) Packer
8 2 (0.85%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.85%) SELinux
9 1 (0.42%) Puppet
Vendors
1 13 (5.51%) Microsoft
2 12 (5.08%) ServiceNow
3 10 (4.24%) CA Agile Central
4 9 (3.81%) Databricks
5 6 (2.54%) Oracle
6 5 (2.12%) Atlassian
6 5 (2.12%) Dynatrace
6 5 (2.12%) Sybase
7 4 (1.69%) IBM
7 4 (1.69%) Pega
7 4 (1.69%) Splunk
8 3 (1.27%) Google
8 3 (1.27%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.85%) Avaloq
9 2 (0.85%) Cisco
9 2 (0.85%) Cloudera
9 2 (0.85%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.42%) Genesys
10 1 (0.42%) Murex
10 1 (0.42%) StreamSets