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 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 168 155 193
Rank change year-on-year -13 +38 -7
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 330 236 208
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.64% 1.74% 1.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.96% 4.04% 3.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 242 177 145
10th Percentile £382 £400 £389
25th Percentile £450 £456 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £638
90th Percentile £753 £700 £723
England median daily rate £525 £506 £525
% change year-on-year +3.70% -3.57% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - £36.50 -
25th Percentile £61.00 £38.75 -
Median hourly rate £67.00 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +48.89% - -
75th Percentile £73.00 £51.25 -
90th Percentile - £53.50 -
England median hourly rate £72.00 £45.00 -
% change year-on-year +60.00% - -

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 8,335 5,844 6,589
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.50% 43.09% 40.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,680 4,001 4,772
10th Percentile £363 £337 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.93% -2.73% -4.35%
75th Percentile £645 £656 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £512 £525
% change year-on-year +2.49% -2.43% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 90 49
10th Percentile £18.90 £22.95 £20.40
25th Percentile £23.14 £24.83 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +7.67% -50.91%
75th Percentile £57.50 £46.00 £38.75
90th Percentile £76.93 £72.68 £59.20
England median hourly rate £35.36 £26.15 £25.00
% change year-on-year +35.22% +4.60% -22.62%

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 17 August 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 17 August 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 +1 39 £663 +6.00% 7
West London -11 17 £725 +39.08% 1
South London +4 15 £463 -25.64% 2
East London - 1 £500 - 1
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 35 (10.61%) Apache Airflow
2 24 (7.27%) Confluence
3 21 (6.36%) Apache Spark
4 13 (3.94%) Apache
5 6 (1.82%) CICS
6 2 (0.61%) nginx
6 2 (0.61%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.61%) PowerExchange
6 2 (0.61%) SAS
7 1 (0.30%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.30%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.91%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.91%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 330 (100.00%) AWS
2 326 (98.79%) Serverless
3 235 (71.21%) Amazon S3
4 100 (30.30%) Amazon EC2
5 99 (30.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 92 (27.88%) Amazon ECS
7 71 (21.52%) Amazon EKS
8 67 (20.30%) GitHub
9 53 (16.06%) AWS Step Functions
10 52 (15.76%) GitHub Actions
11 49 (14.85%) Amazon SQS
11 49 (14.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 48 (14.55%) AWS CloudFormation
13 40 (12.12%) Azure
14 35 (10.61%) Amazon EMR
15 31 (9.39%) Snowflake
16 29 (8.79%) dbt
16 29 (8.79%) Power Platform
17 28 (8.48%) Amazon EventBridge
18 23 (6.97%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.03%) Firewall
2 7 (2.12%) DNS
3 4 (1.21%) Network Security
3 4 (1.21%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.21%) VPN
3 4 (1.21%) WAN
4 3 (0.91%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (0.61%) HTTP
5 2 (0.61%) OpenVPN
6 1 (0.30%) BGP
6 1 (0.30%) Internet
6 1 (0.30%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (24.85%) Amazon RDS
2 70 (21.21%) Amazon Athena
3 66 (20.00%) DynamoDB
4 50 (15.15%) Amazon Redshift
5 29 (8.79%) Data Warehouse
5 29 (8.79%) Power BI
6 27 (8.18%) PostgreSQL
7 19 (5.76%) Amazon Aurora
8 17 (5.15%) Tableau
9 16 (4.85%) Metadata
10 15 (4.55%) SQL Server
11 12 (3.64%) NoSQL
12 11 (3.33%) Apache Iceberg
13 10 (3.03%) Db2
14 9 (2.73%) Data Lake
15 8 (2.42%) Amazon QuickSight
15 8 (2.42%) Delta Lake
16 7 (2.12%) Apache Hudi
16 7 (2.12%) BigQuery
16 7 (2.12%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 68 (20.61%) Jenkins
2 65 (19.70%) GitLab
3 61 (18.48%) Git
4 33 (10.00%) JIRA
5 13 (3.94%) Cucumber
6 12 (3.64%) Bitbucket
6 12 (3.64%) Cypress.io
7 6 (1.82%) JUnit
7 6 (1.82%) Selenium
8 5 (1.52%) Artifactory
8 5 (1.52%) Claude Code
8 5 (1.52%) Gatling
8 5 (1.52%) Mocha
8 5 (1.52%) Postman
9 4 (1.21%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 4 (1.21%) Mockito
9 4 (1.21%) MSTest
9 4 (1.21%) REST Assured
9 4 (1.21%) tSQLt
10 2 (0.61%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 77 (23.33%) Social Skills
2 63 (19.09%) Finance
3 45 (13.64%) Public Sector
4 27 (8.18%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (6.97%) Banking
6 8 (2.42%) Back Office
6 8 (2.42%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (2.42%) Law
7 6 (1.82%) Front Office
8 5 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (1.52%) Military
9 4 (1.21%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (0.91%) Marketing
11 2 (0.61%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.61%) Games
11 2 (0.61%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.61%) Local Government
11 2 (0.61%) Police
11 2 (0.61%) Retail
11 2 (0.61%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 79 (23.94%) AWS Engineer
2 72 (21.82%) Senior
3 62 (18.79%) Data Engineer
4 52 (15.76%) Developer
5 43 (13.03%) Lead
6 41 (12.42%) Architect
7 29 (8.79%) DevOps Engineer
8 27 (8.18%) AWS Developer
9 26 (7.88%) Software Engineer
10 23 (6.97%) AWS Data Engineer
10 23 (6.97%) Cloud Engineer
11 19 (5.76%) AWS Architect
12 17 (5.15%) Python Developer
13 16 (4.85%) Senior Data Engineer
14 15 (4.55%) Python Engineer
14 15 (4.55%) Senior Software Engineer
14 15 (4.55%) Technical Leader
15 14 (4.24%) Platform Engineer
16 12 (3.64%) AWS DevOps
17 11 (3.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (14.24%) React
2 39 (11.82%) RESTful
3 38 (11.52%) Kafka
4 36 (10.91%) PySpark
5 33 (10.00%) REST
6 30 (9.09%) FastAPI
7 27 (8.18%) Node.js
8 21 (6.36%) GraphQL
8 21 (6.36%) Spring Boot
9 20 (6.06%) Flask
9 20 (6.06%) Spring
10 18 (5.45%) .NET
11 15 (4.55%) Pandas
12 13 (3.94%) AWS CDK
12 13 (3.94%) Next.js
13 12 (3.64%) AngularJS
13 12 (3.64%) JSON
14 11 (3.33%) SOAP
14 11 (3.33%) Web Services
15 10 (3.03%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 82 (24.85%) Cloud Native
2 19 (5.76%) Distributed Systems
2 19 (5.76%) Product Ownership
3 12 (3.64%) AI Agents
4 9 (2.73%) Fixed Income
5 7 (2.12%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (2.12%) Hedge funds
5 7 (2.12%) Mainframe
5 7 (2.12%) Security Posture
6 6 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (1.82%) DataPower
6 6 (1.82%) NHS
6 6 (1.82%) Online Banking
7 5 (1.52%) Cloud Security Posture
7 5 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.21%) Distributed Computing
8 4 (1.21%) Equities
8 4 (1.21%) Legacy Code
8 4 (1.21%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.21%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 33 (10.00%) Linux
2 13 (3.94%) Unix
3 8 (2.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (1.82%) zOS
5 4 (1.21%) Windows
6 3 (0.91%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 198 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 131 (39.70%) Infrastructure as Code
3 124 (37.58%) DevOps
4 117 (35.45%) Agile
5 76 (23.03%) AI
6 65 (19.70%) Data Engineering
6 65 (19.70%) Data Pipeline
7 62 (18.79%) Software Engineering
8 59 (17.88%) Microservices
9 58 (17.58%) Test Automation
10 55 (16.67%) Event-Driven
11 54 (16.36%) Analytics
12 53 (16.06%) Containerisation
13 49 (14.85%) ETL
14 46 (13.94%) Migration
15 44 (13.33%) Platform Engineering
16 43 (13.03%) Technical Leadership
17 42 (12.73%) Data Modelling
18 41 (12.42%) Continuous Improvement
18 41 (12.42%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 209 (63.33%) Python
2 114 (34.55%) SQL
3 57 (17.27%) Java
4 51 (15.45%) TypeScript
5 36 (10.91%) JavaScript
6 33 (10.00%) Bash
7 28 (8.48%) C#
8 16 (4.85%) Shell Script
9 15 (4.55%) Scala
10 10 (3.03%) PowerShell
11 6 (1.82%) JCL
12 5 (1.52%) T-SQL
13 4 (1.21%) Cypher
13 4 (1.21%) Gremlin
13 4 (1.21%) PL/SQL
13 4 (1.21%) SPARQL
14 3 (0.91%) Bicep
15 2 (0.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 2 (0.61%) Go
15 2 (0.61%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 91 (27.58%) Security Cleared
2 81 (24.55%) SC Cleared
3 36 (10.91%) AWS Certification
4 16 (4.85%) BPSS Clearance
4 16 (4.85%) DV Cleared
5 15 (4.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 12 (3.64%) Degree
7 8 (2.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 8 (2.42%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 7 (2.12%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (0.91%) AWS Certified Developer
9 3 (0.91%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.91%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.61%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.30%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.30%) PhD
11 1 (0.30%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.30%) PMP
11 1 (0.30%) SAFe Agilist
11 1 (0.30%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (14.55%) Data Quality
2 21 (6.36%) QA
3 3 (0.91%) Accessibility
3 3 (0.91%) PMO
3 3 (0.91%) SLA
4 2 (0.61%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.30%) NIST
System Software
1 92 (27.88%) Docker
2 6 (1.82%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.91%) Squid
4 1 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 148 (44.85%) Terraform
2 71 (21.52%) Kubernetes
3 35 (10.61%) Grafana
4 27 (8.18%) Prometheus
5 24 (7.27%) Ansible
6 8 (2.42%) Kibana
6 8 (2.42%) Puppet
7 5 (1.52%) Salt
8 3 (0.91%) Packer
9 2 (0.61%) Argo
9 2 (0.61%) Control-M
9 2 (0.61%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.61%) Istio
9 2 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.30%) Consul
10 1 (0.30%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.30%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 16 (4.85%) Microsoft
2 14 (4.24%) Informatica
2 14 (4.24%) Splunk
3 10 (3.03%) Databricks
4 9 (2.73%) Oracle
5 6 (1.82%) ServiceNow
6 5 (1.52%) Red Hat
7 4 (1.21%) Fortinet
7 4 (1.21%) OpenAI
7 4 (1.21%) Sybase
8 3 (0.91%) Brio
8 3 (0.91%) Dynatrace
8 3 (0.91%) PagerDuty
8 3 (0.91%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.61%) Charles River
9 2 (0.61%) Confluent
9 2 (0.61%) Murex
9 2 (0.61%) Qualys
10 1 (0.30%) CheckPoint
10 1 (0.30%) Trend Micro