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

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 142 169 166
Rank change year-on-year +27 -3 +10
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 284 197 267
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.00% 1.42% 1.47%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.54% 3.46% 3.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 203 151 197
10th Percentile £368 £436 £400
25th Percentile £414 £492 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £600 £513
Median % change year-on-year -14.58% +17.07% -16.33%
75th Percentile £647 £788 £600
90th Percentile £698 £838 £713
England median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -12.50%

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 6,261 5,690 6,850
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.18% 41.07% 37.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,278 3,819 5,049
10th Percentile £345 £350 £325
25th Percentile £425 £451 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £763
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 43 65
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.45 £17.40
25th Percentile £24.13 £23.80 £20.50
Median hourly rate £26.40 £30.59 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.70% -12.60% +32.46%
75th Percentile £55.44 £44.56 £58.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £63.50 £68.80
England median hourly rate £27.50 £28.21 £22.50
% change year-on-year -2.50% +25.36% -0.07%

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 13 January 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 13 January 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 41 £530 +1.92% 24
South London -1 7 £550 +17.33% 6
West London -11 7 £650 +4.00% 5
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 15 (5.28%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (4.93%) Apache Spark
3 11 (3.87%) Confluence
4 7 (2.46%) Apache
5 2 (0.70%) nginx
6 1 (0.35%) Jupyter
Applications
1 6 (2.11%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 283 (99.65%) AWS
1 283 (99.65%) Serverless
2 180 (63.38%) Amazon S3
3 84 (29.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 79 (27.82%) GitHub
5 70 (24.65%) Amazon ECS
6 65 (22.89%) AWS CloudFormation
7 62 (21.83%) GitHub Actions
8 57 (20.07%) Amazon EC2
9 45 (15.85%) Amazon EKS
10 39 (13.73%) AWS Step Functions
11 35 (12.32%) Amazon Kinesis
12 28 (9.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 27 (9.51%) Snowflake
14 25 (8.80%) Azure
15 23 (8.10%) Amazon SQS
16 19 (6.69%) Amazon EventBridge
17 18 (6.34%) AWS Fargate
18 17 (5.99%) Amazon EMR
19 14 (4.93%) Amazon MSK
Communications & Networking
1 16 (5.63%) DNS
2 5 (1.76%) OpenLDAP
2 5 (1.76%) VPN
3 3 (1.06%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (0.70%) Firewall
4 2 (0.70%) Kerberos
4 2 (0.70%) SSL
5 1 (0.35%) DKIM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (23.24%) Amazon RDS
2 53 (18.66%) DynamoDB
3 47 (16.55%) PostgreSQL
4 39 (13.73%) Amazon Athena
5 35 (12.32%) Amazon Redshift
6 29 (10.21%) Amazon Aurora
7 18 (6.34%) Data Warehouse
8 17 (5.99%) Tableau
9 14 (4.93%) NoSQL
9 14 (4.93%) Relational Database
10 12 (4.23%) Apache Iceberg
10 12 (4.23%) Metadata
11 10 (3.52%) Amazon QuickSight
11 10 (3.52%) Data Lake
11 10 (3.52%) Redis
12 8 (2.82%) MySQL
12 8 (2.82%) Pinecone
13 7 (2.46%) Big Data
13 7 (2.46%) Power BI
14 6 (2.11%) CockroachDB
Development Applications
1 46 (16.20%) Git
2 45 (15.85%) GitLab
2 45 (15.85%) Jenkins
3 19 (6.69%) JIRA
4 9 (3.17%) Cypress.io
5 6 (2.11%) JUnit
6 5 (1.76%) Cucumber
7 4 (1.41%) Bitbucket
7 4 (1.41%) Terragrunt
8 3 (1.06%) Postman
8 3 (1.06%) Selenium
8 3 (1.06%) Snyk
8 3 (1.06%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (0.70%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.70%) Serenity BDD
9 2 (0.70%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.70%) Storybook
10 1 (0.35%) MLflow
10 1 (0.35%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.35%) SoapUI
General
1 67 (23.59%) Social Skills
2 37 (13.03%) Public Sector
3 30 (10.56%) Finance
4 24 (8.45%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (5.63%) Banking
6 8 (2.82%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (2.46%) Front Office
8 5 (1.76%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.06%) Marketing
10 3 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.70%) Digital Healthcare
11 2 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.70%) Military
11 2 (0.70%) Private Banking
12 1 (0.35%) Advertising
12 1 (0.35%) Aviation
12 1 (0.35%) Games
12 1 (0.35%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.35%) Police
Job Titles
1 57 (20.07%) Developer
2 50 (17.61%) AWS Engineer
3 44 (15.49%) Senior
4 41 (14.44%) DevOps Engineer
5 38 (13.38%) Architect
6 36 (12.68%) Data Engineer
7 27 (9.51%) Lead
8 20 (7.04%) Software Engineer
9 18 (6.34%) AWS DevOps
10 17 (5.99%) AWS Architect
10 17 (5.99%) AWS Developer
10 17 (5.99%) Python Engineer
11 14 (4.93%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 14 (4.93%) Full-Stack Developer
12 13 (4.58%) Cloud Architect
13 11 (3.87%) AWS Data Engineer
13 11 (3.87%) Cloud Engineer
13 11 (3.87%) Data Architect
14 10 (3.52%) Java Developer
14 10 (3.52%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (20.77%) Node.js
2 56 (19.72%) Kafka
3 46 (16.20%) React
4 32 (11.27%) RESTful
5 24 (8.45%) REST
6 22 (7.75%) Spring Boot
7 21 (7.39%) Spring
8 19 (6.69%) boto
8 19 (6.69%) OAuth
9 17 (5.99%) AngularJS
10 15 (5.28%) AWS CDK
10 15 (5.28%) CSS
11 12 (4.23%) Next.js
12 11 (3.87%) pytest
13 10 (3.52%) PySpark
14 9 (3.17%) Elastic Stack
14 9 (3.17%) FastAPI
14 9 (3.17%) HTML
14 9 (3.17%) JSON
15 8 (2.82%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 64 (22.54%) Cloud Native
2 27 (9.51%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (3.87%) Data Protection Act
4 9 (3.17%) Product Ownership
5 7 (2.46%) Mobile App
6 5 (1.76%) DataPower
6 5 (1.76%) Distributed Architecture
6 5 (1.76%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (1.76%) Mainframe
6 5 (1.76%) Replication
7 4 (1.41%) Data Structures
7 4 (1.41%) Derivative
7 4 (1.41%) Equities
7 4 (1.41%) PACS
7 4 (1.41%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 4 (1.41%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.06%) Equity Derivative
8 3 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.70%) Algorithms
9 2 (0.70%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 22 (7.75%) Linux
2 3 (1.06%) Unix
3 1 (0.35%) Android
3 1 (0.35%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.35%) VMS
3 1 (0.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (57.04%) CI/CD
2 116 (40.85%) DevOps
3 95 (33.45%) Infrastructure as Code
4 74 (26.06%) Microservices
5 71 (25.00%) Agile
6 51 (17.96%) Data Pipeline
7 46 (16.20%) Event-Driven
8 45 (15.85%) Analytics
9 43 (15.14%) Containerisation
9 43 (15.14%) Data Modelling
10 42 (14.79%) Observability
10 42 (14.79%) Problem-Solving
11 41 (14.44%) Data Engineering
12 35 (12.32%) ETL
12 35 (12.32%) Software Engineering
13 34 (11.97%) AI
14 33 (11.62%) Full-Stack Development
15 27 (9.51%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 26 (9.15%) Design Patterns
17 23 (8.10%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 162 (57.04%) Python
2 77 (27.11%) SQL
3 54 (19.01%) Java
4 45 (15.85%) TypeScript
5 42 (14.79%) JavaScript
6 21 (7.39%) Bash
7 10 (3.52%) Go
8 9 (3.17%) Ruby
9 8 (2.82%) Shell Script
10 6 (2.11%) C#
10 6 (2.11%) JSX
10 6 (2.11%) Korn
10 6 (2.11%) PowerShell
11 4 (1.41%) Groovy
11 4 (1.41%) Scala
12 3 (1.06%) C++
13 2 (0.70%) Bicep
13 2 (0.70%) Perl
13 2 (0.70%) R
14 1 (0.35%) PromQL
Qualifications
1 85 (29.93%) Security Cleared
2 75 (26.41%) SC Cleared
3 27 (9.51%) AWS Certification
4 11 (3.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 10 (3.52%) Degree
6 7 (2.46%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (2.46%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (2.11%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 5 (1.76%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.76%) Master's Degree
9 4 (1.41%) AWS Certified Developer
9 4 (1.41%) MCP
10 3 (1.06%) PhD
11 2 (0.70%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.35%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.35%) CEH
12 1 (0.35%) CISSP
12 1 (0.35%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (7.75%) QA
2 17 (5.99%) Data Quality
3 8 (2.82%) Accessibility
3 8 (2.82%) GDPR
4 6 (2.11%) NIST
5 5 (1.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.41%) ISO 20022
6 4 (1.41%) PCI DSS
7 3 (1.06%) WCAG
8 1 (0.35%) GxP
8 1 (0.35%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.35%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 1 (0.35%) NCSC
System Software
1 72 (25.35%) Docker
2 5 (1.76%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.06%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.70%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.35%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 114 (40.14%) Terraform
2 73 (25.70%) Kubernetes
3 16 (5.63%) Ansible
4 11 (3.87%) Grafana
5 9 (3.17%) Prometheus
6 6 (2.11%) Kibana
7 5 (1.76%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (1.41%) Rancher
9 3 (1.06%) ITRS Geneos
9 3 (1.06%) Karpenter
10 2 (0.70%) Opsgenie
10 2 (0.70%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.35%) Puppet
Vendors
1 19 (6.69%) Microsoft
2 13 (4.58%) Databricks
3 8 (2.82%) ServiceNow
4 7 (2.46%) Confluent
5 6 (2.11%) Dynatrace
5 6 (2.11%) IBM
6 5 (1.76%) Atlassian
6 5 (1.76%) OpenAI
6 5 (1.76%) Salesforce
6 5 (1.76%) Sybase
7 4 (1.41%) Oracle
8 3 (1.06%) Cloudera
8 3 (1.06%) Splunk
9 2 (0.70%) Avaloq
9 2 (0.70%) CA Agile Central
9 2 (0.70%) Cisco
9 2 (0.70%) Google
9 2 (0.70%) Qualys
9 2 (0.70%) SAP
9 2 (0.70%) Tenable