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

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 136 171
Rank change year-on-year -10 +35 +3
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 329 251 252
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.84% 2.03% 1.44%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.34% 4.78% 3.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 234 197 194
10th Percentile £355 £402 £400
25th Percentile £450 £456 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £625 £700 £588
90th Percentile £713 £838 £670
England median daily rate £519 £537 £510
% change year-on-year -3.44% +5.29% -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 £75.50 £35.00 -
% change year-on-year +115.71% - -

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 7,581 5,252 6,735
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.41% 42.38% 38.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,238 3,630 4,954
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 53 70
10th Percentile £20.84 £22.57 £17.63
25th Percentile £26.52 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +11.81% -48.00%
75th Percentile £53.75 £48.75 £38.75
90th Percentile £72.90 £72.50 £59.13
England median hourly rate £42.69 £25.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +67.39% +21.43% -35.19%

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 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 15 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 +10 45 £575 +15.00% 29
South London +4 22 £500 +3.90%
West London -24 10 £725 +28.32% 2
East London - 1 £500 - 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 27 (8.21%) Apache Airflow
2 24 (7.29%) Apache Spark
3 18 (5.47%) Confluence
4 10 (3.04%) Apache
5 9 (2.74%) nginx
6 4 (1.22%) CICS
7 2 (0.61%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.30%) SAS
Applications
1 10 (3.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.22%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.61%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 329 (100.00%) AWS
2 325 (98.78%) Serverless
3 239 (72.64%) Amazon S3
4 108 (32.83%) Amazon EC2
5 96 (29.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 94 (28.57%) Amazon ECS
7 79 (24.01%) Amazon EKS
7 79 (24.01%) GitHub
8 74 (22.49%) AWS CloudFormation
9 66 (20.06%) GitHub Actions
10 64 (19.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 53 (16.11%) AWS Step Functions
12 37 (11.25%) Amazon SQS
13 31 (9.42%) Amazon Kinesis
14 29 (8.81%) Azure
15 26 (7.90%) AWS CodePipeline
16 22 (6.69%) Route 53
17 21 (6.38%) Amazon EMR
17 21 (6.38%) Amazon EventBridge
17 21 (6.38%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 25 (7.60%) DNS
2 14 (4.26%) Firewall
3 12 (3.65%) TCP/IP
4 10 (3.04%) VPN
5 9 (2.74%) OpenVPN
6 5 (1.52%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (0.61%) 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%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (21.58%) Amazon RDS
2 56 (17.02%) Amazon Athena
3 55 (16.72%) DynamoDB
4 53 (16.11%) Amazon Redshift
5 40 (12.16%) PostgreSQL
6 28 (8.51%) Amazon Aurora
7 23 (6.99%) Tableau
8 16 (4.86%) NoSQL
8 16 (4.86%) Power BI
9 15 (4.56%) Apache Iceberg
10 14 (4.26%) Metadata
10 14 (4.26%) SQL Server
11 13 (3.95%) Big Data
12 12 (3.65%) Data Warehouse
13 11 (3.34%) Amazon QuickSight
13 11 (3.34%) Elasticsearch
14 10 (3.04%) Data Lake
15 9 (2.74%) Data Vault
15 9 (2.74%) Delta Lake
16 8 (2.43%) Apache Hudi
Development Applications
1 63 (19.15%) Jenkins
2 60 (18.24%) GitLab
3 57 (17.33%) Git
4 24 (7.29%) JIRA
5 15 (4.56%) Bitbucket
6 12 (3.65%) Cucumber
7 9 (2.74%) JUnit
8 7 (2.13%) Cypress.io
8 7 (2.13%) SonarQube
9 6 (1.82%) Mocha
10 5 (1.52%) MSTest
10 5 (1.52%) Postman
10 5 (1.52%) Snyk
10 5 (1.52%) tSQLt
11 4 (1.22%) Artifactory
11 4 (1.22%) Terragrunt
12 3 (0.91%) Mockito
12 3 (0.91%) Selenium
12 3 (0.91%) Vite
13 2 (0.61%) MLflow
General
1 86 (26.14%) Social Skills
2 56 (17.02%) Finance
3 50 (15.20%) Public Sector
4 35 (10.64%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (5.47%) Documentation Skills
6 15 (4.56%) Banking
7 5 (1.52%) Front Office
8 4 (1.22%) Police
9 3 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (0.91%) Investment Banking
9 3 (0.91%) Law
9 3 (0.91%) Military
9 3 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.61%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.61%) Games
10 2 (0.61%) Local Government
10 2 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.61%) Retail
10 2 (0.61%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 69 (20.97%) Developer
2 62 (18.84%) AWS Engineer
3 58 (17.63%) Data Engineer
4 53 (16.11%) Senior
5 48 (14.59%) Architect
6 37 (11.25%) Lead
7 28 (8.51%) AWS Developer
8 27 (8.21%) AWS Architect
9 24 (7.29%) DevOps Engineer
10 19 (5.78%) AWS Data Engineer
10 19 (5.78%) Software Engineer
11 18 (5.47%) Data Architect
12 17 (5.17%) Python Developer
13 16 (4.86%) AWS DevOps
13 16 (4.86%) Cloud Engineer
14 14 (4.26%) Analyst
14 14 (4.26%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 14 (4.26%) Full-Stack Developer
14 14 (4.26%) Python Engineer
15 12 (3.65%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (17.93%) Kafka
2 44 (13.37%) RESTful
3 42 (12.77%) React
4 31 (9.42%) Spring Boot
5 30 (9.12%) PySpark
6 29 (8.81%) Node.js
7 28 (8.51%) Spring
8 19 (5.78%) Pandas
8 19 (5.78%) REST
9 18 (5.47%) boto
9 18 (5.47%) FastAPI
10 17 (5.17%) OAuth
11 16 (4.86%) .NET
12 15 (4.56%) CSS
13 14 (4.26%) AngularJS
13 14 (4.26%) AWS CDK
13 14 (4.26%) Flask
13 14 (4.26%) HTML
14 13 (3.95%) OpenID
15 12 (3.65%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 81 (24.62%) Cloud Native
2 20 (6.08%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (4.26%) Product Ownership
4 7 (2.13%) Hedge funds
5 6 (1.82%) DataPower
5 6 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (1.82%) Equities
5 6 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (1.82%) Mainframe
5 6 (1.82%) PACS
5 6 (1.82%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 5 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (1.52%) Fixed Income
6 5 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (1.52%) NHS
7 4 (1.22%) Algorithms
7 4 (1.22%) Derivative
7 4 (1.22%) Distributed Computing
7 4 (1.22%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (1.22%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 34 (10.33%) Linux
2 16 (4.86%) Unix
3 4 (1.22%) zOS
4 1 (0.30%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (0.30%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 196 (59.57%) CI/CD
2 129 (39.21%) Infrastructure as Code
3 128 (38.91%) DevOps
4 87 (26.44%) Agile
5 74 (22.49%) Microservices
6 59 (17.93%) Data Pipeline
7 58 (17.63%) Containerisation
7 58 (17.63%) Problem-Solving
8 54 (16.41%) ETL
9 53 (16.11%) Data Engineering
10 51 (15.50%) Event-Driven
11 49 (14.89%) Analytics
12 47 (14.29%) Data Modelling
13 45 (13.68%) AI
14 43 (13.07%) Observability
15 42 (12.77%) Software Engineering
16 41 (12.46%) Test Automation
17 37 (11.25%) Continuous Improvement
18 31 (9.42%) Platform Engineering
19 30 (9.12%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 195 (59.27%) Python
2 104 (31.61%) SQL
3 66 (20.06%) Java
4 36 (10.94%) JavaScript
4 36 (10.94%) TypeScript
5 32 (9.73%) C#
6 23 (6.99%) Bash
7 19 (5.78%) Shell Script
8 15 (4.56%) Scala
9 8 (2.43%) PowerShell
10 6 (1.82%) Go
11 5 (1.52%) Ruby
11 5 (1.52%) T-SQL
12 4 (1.22%) Bicep
12 4 (1.22%) JCL
13 3 (0.91%) C++
14 2 (0.61%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.30%) Groovy
15 1 (0.30%) PHP
15 1 (0.30%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 106 (32.22%) Security Cleared
2 96 (29.18%) SC Cleared
3 26 (7.90%) AWS Certification
4 13 (3.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 13 (3.95%) Degree
5 9 (2.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 8 (2.43%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (2.13%) Master's Degree
8 5 (1.52%) DV Cleared
9 4 (1.22%) AWS Certified Developer
9 4 (1.22%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (1.22%) PhD
10 2 (0.61%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.30%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 1 (0.30%) CISSP
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 30 (9.12%) Data Quality
2 17 (5.17%) QA
3 8 (2.43%) NIST
4 7 (2.13%) PMO
5 6 (1.82%) ISO 20022
6 4 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.22%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.22%) SLA
7 2 (0.61%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.61%) GDPR
8 1 (0.30%) GRC
8 1 (0.30%) WCAG
System Software
1 97 (29.48%) Docker
2 9 (2.74%) Squid
3 4 (1.22%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.30%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 161 (48.94%) Terraform
2 80 (24.32%) Kubernetes
3 33 (10.03%) Grafana
4 28 (8.51%) Prometheus
5 13 (3.95%) Ansible
6 12 (3.65%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (2.74%) FortiGate
7 9 (2.74%) Kibana
8 7 (2.13%) Consul
9 3 (0.91%) ITRS Geneos
9 3 (0.91%) Karpenter
9 3 (0.91%) Puppet
9 3 (0.91%) Salt
10 2 (0.61%) Opsgenie
11 1 (0.30%) Control-M
11 1 (0.30%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.30%) Rancher
Vendors
1 17 (5.17%) Microsoft
2 13 (3.95%) Databricks
3 12 (3.65%) Splunk
4 11 (3.34%) Dynatrace
5 9 (2.74%) Confluent
5 9 (2.74%) Red Hat
6 8 (2.43%) OpenAI
7 7 (2.13%) Atlassian
8 6 (1.82%) Sybase
9 5 (1.52%) Oracle
9 5 (1.52%) Qualys
10 4 (1.22%) Salesforce
10 4 (1.22%) ServiceNow
10 4 (1.22%) Tenable
11 3 (0.91%) AVEVA
11 3 (0.91%) Brio
11 3 (0.91%) Fortinet
11 3 (0.91%) IBM
11 3 (0.91%) Netlify
12 2 (0.61%) Informatica