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

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 148 183
Rank change year-on-year +3 +35 -6
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 338 233 243
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.84% 1.93% 1.39%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.35% 4.50% 3.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 243 182 186
10th Percentile £355 £400 £378
25th Percentile £450 £456 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -14.24%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £588
90th Percentile £725 £838 £653
England median daily rate £525 £525 £510
% change year-on-year - +2.94% -11.30%
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 £75.00 £35.00 -
% change year-on-year +114.29% - -

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 7,765 5,180 6,791
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.32% 42.87% 38.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,366 3,537 5,025
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £428 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £638 £673 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £513 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -1.44% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 57 67
10th Percentile £20.87 £22.27 £17.16
25th Percentile £27.00 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +11.81% -50.48%
75th Percentile £55.75 £43.75 £38.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £67.50 £56.00
England median hourly rate £39.50 £25.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +54.90% +19.33% -38.58%

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 28 May 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 28 May 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 44 £613 +20.10% 10
South London +2 22 £500 +3.90%
West London -24 13 £725 +28.32% 2
East London - 1 £500 - 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 29 (8.58%) Apache Airflow
2 21 (6.21%) Apache Spark
3 18 (5.33%) Confluence
4 9 (2.66%) Apache
4 9 (2.66%) nginx
5 6 (1.78%) CICS
6 2 (0.59%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.30%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.30%) SAS
Applications
1 10 (2.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.78%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.59%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 338 (100.00%) AWS
2 334 (98.82%) Serverless
3 240 (71.01%) Amazon S3
4 113 (33.43%) Amazon EC2
5 99 (29.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 87 (25.74%) Amazon ECS
7 82 (24.26%) Amazon EKS
7 82 (24.26%) GitHub
8 68 (20.12%) AWS CloudFormation
9 67 (19.82%) GitHub Actions
10 64 (18.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 53 (15.68%) AWS Step Functions
12 44 (13.02%) Amazon SQS
13 31 (9.17%) Amazon Kinesis
14 27 (7.99%) Azure
15 24 (7.10%) AWS CodePipeline
15 24 (7.10%) Snowflake
16 23 (6.80%) Amazon EventBridge
17 22 (6.51%) Amazon EMR
18 21 (6.21%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 26 (7.69%) DNS
2 15 (4.44%) Firewall
3 12 (3.55%) TCP/IP
4 10 (2.96%) VPN
5 9 (2.66%) OpenVPN
6 5 (1.48%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (0.59%) Network Security
8 1 (0.30%) 4G
8 1 (0.30%) 5G
8 1 (0.30%) HTTP
8 1 (0.30%) Internet
8 1 (0.30%) SSL
8 1 (0.30%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (21.89%) Amazon RDS
2 65 (19.23%) DynamoDB
3 54 (15.98%) Amazon Athena
4 51 (15.09%) Amazon Redshift
5 37 (10.95%) PostgreSQL
6 27 (7.99%) Amazon Aurora
7 23 (6.80%) Tableau
8 16 (4.73%) NoSQL
9 15 (4.44%) Apache Iceberg
9 15 (4.44%) Power BI
10 14 (4.14%) SQL Server
11 13 (3.85%) Metadata
12 11 (3.25%) Big Data
12 11 (3.25%) Data Warehouse
12 11 (3.25%) Elasticsearch
13 10 (2.96%) Amazon QuickSight
13 10 (2.96%) DB2
14 9 (2.66%) Data Vault
15 8 (2.37%) Apache Hudi
15 8 (2.37%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 67 (19.82%) Jenkins
2 60 (17.75%) GitLab
3 57 (16.86%) Git
4 25 (7.40%) JIRA
5 16 (4.73%) Cucumber
6 15 (4.44%) Bitbucket
7 9 (2.66%) Cypress.io
7 9 (2.66%) JUnit
8 7 (2.07%) SonarQube
9 6 (1.78%) Mocha
10 5 (1.48%) Gatling
10 5 (1.48%) MSTest
10 5 (1.48%) Postman
10 5 (1.48%) REST Assured
10 5 (1.48%) Snyk
10 5 (1.48%) tSQLt
11 4 (1.18%) Artifactory
11 4 (1.18%) Mockito
11 4 (1.18%) Selenium
11 4 (1.18%) Terragrunt
General
1 91 (26.92%) Social Skills
2 53 (15.68%) Finance
3 47 (13.91%) Public Sector
4 30 (8.88%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (5.33%) Documentation Skills
6 16 (4.73%) Banking
7 4 (1.18%) Front Office
7 4 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (0.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (0.89%) Investment Banking
8 3 (0.89%) Law
8 3 (0.89%) Police
8 3 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (0.89%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.59%) Back Office
9 2 (0.59%) Billing
9 2 (0.59%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.59%) Games
9 2 (0.59%) Military
9 2 (0.59%) Retail
Job Titles
1 67 (19.82%) Developer
2 66 (19.53%) AWS Engineer
3 59 (17.46%) Data Engineer
4 51 (15.09%) Senior
5 50 (14.79%) Architect
6 44 (13.02%) Lead
7 30 (8.88%) AWS Architect
8 29 (8.58%) AWS Developer
9 25 (7.40%) DevOps Engineer
10 20 (5.92%) AWS Data Engineer
10 20 (5.92%) Python Developer
11 19 (5.62%) Software Engineer
12 18 (5.33%) Data Architect
13 17 (5.03%) Cloud Engineer
14 16 (4.73%) Python Engineer
15 15 (4.44%) Full-Stack Developer
16 14 (4.14%) Analyst
17 12 (3.55%) AWS DevOps
17 12 (3.55%) Senior Developer
18 11 (3.25%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (18.34%) Kafka
2 48 (14.20%) React
3 47 (13.91%) RESTful
4 29 (8.58%) Node.js
5 28 (8.28%) PySpark
5 28 (8.28%) Spring Boot
6 25 (7.40%) Spring
7 24 (7.10%) REST
8 22 (6.51%) FastAPI
9 18 (5.33%) AngularJS
9 18 (5.33%) Pandas
10 17 (5.03%) .NET
10 17 (5.03%) boto
10 17 (5.03%) Flask
11 16 (4.73%) OAuth
12 15 (4.44%) CSS
12 15 (4.44%) Next.js
13 14 (4.14%) AWS CDK
13 14 (4.14%) HTML
14 13 (3.85%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 83 (24.56%) Cloud Native
2 16 (4.73%) Product Ownership
3 14 (4.14%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (2.07%) Hedge funds
5 6 (1.78%) DataPower
5 6 (1.78%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (1.78%) Mainframe
5 6 (1.78%) Online Banking
5 6 (1.78%) PACS
5 6 (1.78%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 5 (1.48%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (1.48%) Equities
6 5 (1.48%) Fixed Income
6 5 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (1.48%) NHS
7 4 (1.18%) AI Agents
7 4 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.18%) Distributed Computing
8 3 (0.89%) Derivative
8 3 (0.89%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 33 (9.76%) Linux
2 16 (4.73%) Unix
3 6 (1.78%) zOS
4 2 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.59%) Windows
5 1 (0.30%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 195 (57.69%) CI/CD
2 129 (38.17%) Infrastructure as Code
3 122 (36.09%) DevOps
4 98 (28.99%) Agile
5 64 (18.93%) Microservices
6 56 (16.57%) Data Pipeline
7 53 (15.68%) ETL
8 52 (15.38%) Containerisation
9 51 (15.09%) Event-Driven
10 50 (14.79%) Data Engineering
10 50 (14.79%) Problem-Solving
11 49 (14.50%) Analytics
12 47 (13.91%) AI
13 45 (13.31%) Software Engineering
14 44 (13.02%) Data Modelling
14 44 (13.02%) Test Automation
15 41 (12.13%) Observability
16 39 (11.54%) Continuous Improvement
17 34 (10.06%) Migration
17 34 (10.06%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 196 (57.99%) Python
2 107 (31.66%) SQL
3 65 (19.23%) Java
4 41 (12.13%) JavaScript
4 41 (12.13%) TypeScript
5 33 (9.76%) C#
6 22 (6.51%) Bash
7 19 (5.62%) Scala
7 19 (5.62%) Shell Script
8 11 (3.25%) PowerShell
9 6 (1.78%) Go
9 6 (1.78%) JCL
10 5 (1.48%) T-SQL
11 4 (1.18%) Bicep
11 4 (1.18%) Ruby
12 2 (0.59%) C++
13 1 (0.30%) Groovy
13 1 (0.30%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.30%) PHP
13 1 (0.30%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 103 (30.47%) Security Cleared
2 94 (27.81%) SC Cleared
3 24 (7.10%) AWS Certification
4 13 (3.85%) Degree
5 10 (2.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 10 (2.96%) BPSS Clearance
6 9 (2.66%) DV Cleared
7 7 (2.07%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (1.78%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 6 (1.78%) Master's Degree
9 4 (1.18%) AWS Certified Developer
9 4 (1.18%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (0.89%) PhD
11 2 (0.59%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.30%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 1 (0.30%) CISSP
12 1 (0.30%) CompTIA Security+
12 1 (0.30%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.30%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.30%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (8.28%) Data Quality
2 19 (5.62%) QA
3 8 (2.37%) NIST
4 7 (2.07%) PMO
5 6 (1.78%) ISO 20022
6 4 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.18%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.18%) SLA
7 2 (0.59%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.59%) GDPR
8 1 (0.30%) GRC
8 1 (0.30%) WCAG
System Software
1 97 (28.70%) Docker
2 10 (2.96%) Squid
3 5 (1.48%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.89%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 161 (47.63%) Terraform
2 82 (24.26%) Kubernetes
3 34 (10.06%) Grafana
4 29 (8.58%) Prometheus
5 15 (4.44%) Ansible
6 12 (3.55%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (2.66%) FortiGate
7 9 (2.66%) Kibana
8 7 (2.07%) Consul
9 4 (1.18%) Puppet
10 3 (0.89%) Karpenter
10 3 (0.89%) Salt
11 2 (0.59%) Opsgenie
12 1 (0.30%) Control-M
12 1 (0.30%) HP Fortify
12 1 (0.30%) Packer
Vendors
1 16 (4.73%) Microsoft
2 13 (3.85%) Splunk
3 10 (2.96%) Dynatrace
3 10 (2.96%) Red Hat
4 9 (2.66%) Confluent
4 9 (2.66%) Databricks
5 7 (2.07%) Atlassian
5 7 (2.07%) OpenAI
6 6 (1.78%) Sybase
7 5 (1.48%) Oracle
7 5 (1.48%) Qualys
7 5 (1.48%) Salesforce
8 4 (1.18%) Tenable
9 3 (0.89%) AVEVA
9 3 (0.89%) Brio
9 3 (0.89%) Fortinet
9 3 (0.89%) Netlify
10 2 (0.59%) Google
10 2 (0.59%) Informatica
10 2 (0.59%) ServiceNow