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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 140 146 181
Rank change year-on-year +6 +35 -6
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 340 239 244
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.84% 1.96% 1.40%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.35% 4.58% 3.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 244 184 185
10th Percentile £352 £400 £378
25th Percentile £450 £454 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -14.24%
75th Percentile £632 £634 £588
90th Percentile £734 £838 £654
England median daily rate £525 £525 £510
% change year-on-year - +2.94% -11.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £37.00 -
25th Percentile £61.00 £40.00 -
Median hourly rate £67.00 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +48.89% - -
75th Percentile £73.00 £50.00 -
90th Percentile - £53.00 -
England median hourly rate £75.00 £45.00 -
% change year-on-year +66.67% - -

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 7,820 5,219 6,812
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.33% 42.89% 38.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,409 3,554 5,027
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% -0.91% -6.78%
75th Percentile £638 £671 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
England median daily rate £513 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -1.44% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 59 67
10th Percentile £20.88 £22.27 £17.16
25th Percentile £27.06 £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 £55.94 £45.63 £38.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £67.50 £56.00
England median hourly rate £39.75 £25.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +55.88% +19.33% -38.94%

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 30 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 30 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 +2 43 £600 +17.65% 9
South London +3 22 £500 +3.90%
West London -28 12 £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 31 (9.12%) Apache Airflow
2 21 (6.18%) Apache Spark
3 19 (5.59%) Confluence
4 9 (2.65%) Apache
4 9 (2.65%) nginx
5 6 (1.76%) CICS
6 2 (0.59%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.29%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.29%) SAS
Applications
1 10 (2.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.76%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.59%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 340 (100.00%) AWS
2 336 (98.82%) Serverless
3 244 (71.76%) Amazon S3
4 116 (34.12%) Amazon EC2
5 100 (29.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 88 (25.88%) Amazon ECS
7 83 (24.41%) Amazon EKS
8 82 (24.12%) GitHub
9 68 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
10 67 (19.71%) GitHub Actions
11 66 (19.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 55 (16.18%) AWS Step Functions
13 44 (12.94%) Amazon SQS
14 31 (9.12%) Amazon Kinesis
15 28 (8.24%) Azure
16 24 (7.06%) AWS CodePipeline
17 23 (6.76%) Snowflake
18 22 (6.47%) Amazon EMR
18 22 (6.47%) Amazon EventBridge
19 21 (6.18%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 26 (7.65%) DNS
2 15 (4.41%) Firewall
3 12 (3.53%) TCP/IP
4 10 (2.94%) VPN
5 9 (2.65%) OpenVPN
6 5 (1.47%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (0.59%) Network Security
8 1 (0.29%) 4G
8 1 (0.29%) 5G
8 1 (0.29%) HTTP
8 1 (0.29%) Internet
8 1 (0.29%) SSL
8 1 (0.29%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (22.65%) Amazon RDS
2 65 (19.12%) DynamoDB
3 57 (16.76%) Amazon Athena
4 53 (15.59%) Amazon Redshift
5 37 (10.88%) PostgreSQL
6 27 (7.94%) Amazon Aurora
7 23 (6.76%) Tableau
8 16 (4.71%) Power BI
8 16 (4.71%) SQL Server
9 15 (4.41%) Apache Iceberg
9 15 (4.41%) NoSQL
10 13 (3.82%) Metadata
11 12 (3.53%) Data Warehouse
12 11 (3.24%) Amazon QuickSight
12 11 (3.24%) Big Data
12 11 (3.24%) Elasticsearch
13 10 (2.94%) DB2
14 9 (2.65%) Data Vault
15 8 (2.35%) Data Lake
15 8 (2.35%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 67 (19.71%) Jenkins
2 62 (18.24%) GitLab
3 58 (17.06%) Git
4 26 (7.65%) JIRA
5 16 (4.71%) Bitbucket
5 16 (4.71%) Cucumber
6 9 (2.65%) Cypress.io
6 9 (2.65%) JUnit
7 7 (2.06%) SonarQube
8 6 (1.76%) Mocha
9 5 (1.47%) Artifactory
9 5 (1.47%) Gatling
9 5 (1.47%) MSTest
9 5 (1.47%) Postman
9 5 (1.47%) REST Assured
9 5 (1.47%) Snyk
9 5 (1.47%) tSQLt
10 4 (1.18%) Mockito
10 4 (1.18%) Selenium
10 4 (1.18%) Terragrunt
General
1 91 (26.76%) Social Skills
2 55 (16.18%) Finance
3 47 (13.82%) Public Sector
4 29 (8.53%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (5.29%) Documentation Skills
6 15 (4.41%) Banking
7 4 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (1.18%) Law
8 3 (0.88%) Back Office
8 3 (0.88%) Front Office
8 3 (0.88%) Police
8 3 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (0.88%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.59%) Billing
9 2 (0.59%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.59%) Games
9 2 (0.59%) Local Government
9 2 (0.59%) Military
9 2 (0.59%) Retail
Job Titles
1 66 (19.41%) AWS Engineer
2 65 (19.12%) Developer
3 61 (17.94%) Data Engineer
4 50 (14.71%) Architect
4 50 (14.71%) Senior
5 45 (13.24%) Lead
6 30 (8.82%) AWS Architect
7 29 (8.53%) AWS Developer
8 27 (7.94%) DevOps Engineer
9 21 (6.18%) AWS Data Engineer
9 21 (6.18%) Software Engineer
10 20 (5.88%) Python Developer
11 18 (5.29%) Data Architect
12 16 (4.71%) Cloud Engineer
13 15 (4.41%) Full-Stack Developer
13 15 (4.41%) Python Engineer
14 14 (4.12%) Analyst
15 12 (3.53%) AWS DevOps
16 11 (3.24%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 11 (3.24%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (17.94%) Kafka
2 48 (14.12%) React
3 47 (13.82%) RESTful
4 29 (8.53%) Node.js
5 28 (8.24%) PySpark
6 27 (7.94%) Spring Boot
7 25 (7.35%) REST
7 25 (7.35%) Spring
8 22 (6.47%) FastAPI
9 18 (5.29%) AngularJS
10 17 (5.00%) .NET
10 17 (5.00%) boto
10 17 (5.00%) Flask
11 16 (4.71%) OAuth
11 16 (4.71%) Pandas
12 15 (4.41%) CSS
12 15 (4.41%) Next.js
13 14 (4.12%) AWS CDK
13 14 (4.12%) HTML
14 13 (3.82%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 84 (24.71%) Cloud Native
2 16 (4.71%) Product Ownership
3 14 (4.12%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (2.06%) Hedge funds
5 6 (1.76%) DataPower
5 6 (1.76%) Fixed Income
5 6 (1.76%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (1.76%) Mainframe
5 6 (1.76%) Online Banking
5 6 (1.76%) PACS
5 6 (1.76%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 5 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (1.47%) NHS
7 4 (1.18%) AI Agents
7 4 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.18%) Distributed Computing
7 4 (1.18%) Equities
8 3 (0.88%) Onboarding
8 3 (0.88%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 32 (9.41%) Linux
2 15 (4.41%) Unix
3 6 (1.76%) zOS
4 2 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.59%) Windows
5 1 (0.29%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 200 (58.82%) CI/CD
2 133 (39.12%) Infrastructure as Code
3 125 (36.76%) DevOps
4 99 (29.12%) Agile
5 64 (18.82%) Microservices
6 57 (16.76%) Data Pipeline
7 54 (15.88%) ETL
8 53 (15.59%) Containerisation
9 51 (15.00%) Event-Driven
9 51 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
10 49 (14.41%) Data Engineering
11 48 (14.12%) AI
11 48 (14.12%) Analytics
12 47 (13.82%) Software Engineering
12 47 (13.82%) Test Automation
13 44 (12.94%) Data Modelling
14 42 (12.35%) Observability
15 40 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
16 35 (10.29%) Platform Engineering
17 34 (10.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 198 (58.24%) Python
2 108 (31.76%) SQL
3 65 (19.12%) Java
4 41 (12.06%) JavaScript
4 41 (12.06%) TypeScript
5 32 (9.41%) C#
6 24 (7.06%) Bash
7 19 (5.59%) Scala
8 18 (5.29%) Shell Script
9 11 (3.24%) PowerShell
10 6 (1.76%) Go
10 6 (1.76%) JCL
10 6 (1.76%) T-SQL
11 4 (1.18%) Bicep
11 4 (1.18%) Ruby
12 1 (0.29%) C
12 1 (0.29%) C++
12 1 (0.29%) Groovy
12 1 (0.29%) PHP
12 1 (0.29%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 104 (30.59%) Security Cleared
2 95 (27.94%) SC Cleared
3 25 (7.35%) AWS Certification
4 14 (4.12%) Degree
5 11 (3.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 10 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (2.65%) DV Cleared
8 8 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (2.06%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 5 (1.47%) Master's Degree
11 4 (1.18%) AWS Certified Developer
11 4 (1.18%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.59%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.59%) PhD
13 1 (0.29%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 1 (0.29%) CompTIA Security+
13 1 (0.29%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.29%) PMP
13 1 (0.29%) SAFe Agilist
13 1 (0.29%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (8.53%) Data Quality
2 19 (5.59%) QA
3 8 (2.35%) NIST
4 7 (2.06%) PMO
5 6 (1.76%) 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 (0.29%) GRC
8 1 (0.29%) WCAG
System Software
1 97 (28.53%) Docker
2 10 (2.94%) Squid
3 6 (1.76%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 164 (48.24%) Terraform
2 83 (24.41%) Kubernetes
3 35 (10.29%) Grafana
4 31 (9.12%) Prometheus
5 17 (5.00%) Ansible
6 12 (3.53%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (2.65%) FortiGate
7 9 (2.65%) Kibana
8 7 (2.06%) Consul
9 5 (1.47%) Puppet
10 4 (1.18%) Salt
11 3 (0.88%) Karpenter
12 2 (0.59%) Opsgenie
13 1 (0.29%) Control-M
13 1 (0.29%) HP Fortify
13 1 (0.29%) Packer
Vendors
1 15 (4.41%) Microsoft
2 13 (3.82%) Splunk
3 10 (2.94%) Dynatrace
3 10 (2.94%) Red Hat
4 9 (2.65%) Confluent
4 9 (2.65%) Databricks
5 7 (2.06%) Atlassian
5 7 (2.06%) OpenAI
6 6 (1.76%) Sybase
7 5 (1.47%) Oracle
7 5 (1.47%) Qualys
7 5 (1.47%) Salesforce
8 4 (1.18%) Tenable
9 3 (0.88%) AVEVA
9 3 (0.88%) Brio
9 3 (0.88%) Fortinet
9 3 (0.88%) Netlify
10 2 (0.59%) Informatica
10 2 (0.59%) SAP
10 2 (0.59%) ServiceNow