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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 180 163 221
Rank change year-on-year -17 +58 -27
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 330 220 175
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.63% 1.64% 1.08%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.98% 3.78% 2.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 244 162 121
10th Percentile £400 £407 £381
25th Percentile £450 £463 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £528 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.27% +0.48% -
75th Percentile £661 £600 £650
90th Percentile £763 £675 £738
England median daily rate £525 £500 £536
% change year-on-year +5.00% -6.76% +2.14%
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 8,282 5,820 6,661
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.03% 43.33% 41.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,667 3,960 4,663
10th Percentile £360 £340 £350
25th Percentile £448 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.93% -2.73% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +4.90% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 94 48
10th Percentile £17.88 £23.00 £22.00
25th Percentile £23.08 £25.15 £24.06
Median hourly rate £30.00 £31.00 £30.80
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +0.67% -23.01%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £78.75 £69.08
England median hourly rate £33.99 £26.30 £33.00
% change year-on-year +29.24% -20.30% -

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 16 September 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 16 September 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 -23 36 £700 +3.70% 24
West London -8 21 £725 +68.10% 2
South London +4 15 £463 -25.64%
East London - 1 £500 - 4
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 36 (10.91%) Apache Airflow
2 24 (7.27%) Confluence
3 18 (5.45%) Apache Spark
4 13 (3.94%) Apache
5 4 (1.21%) CICS
5 4 (1.21%) SAS
6 3 (0.91%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.61%) PowerExchange
8 1 (0.30%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.30%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.30%) nginx
8 1 (0.30%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.30%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.30%) WebLogic Portal
Applications
1 3 (0.91%) Chatbot
1 3 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.61%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.30%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.30%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 330 (100.00%) AWS
2 326 (98.79%) Serverless
3 236 (71.52%) Amazon S3
4 103 (31.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 94 (28.48%) Amazon EC2
6 92 (27.88%) Amazon ECS
7 75 (22.73%) Amazon EKS
8 71 (21.52%) GitHub
9 58 (17.58%) AWS Step Functions
9 58 (17.58%) GitHub Actions
10 53 (16.06%) Amazon SQS
11 49 (14.85%) AWS CloudFormation
12 45 (13.64%) Azure
13 43 (13.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 37 (11.21%) Amazon EventBridge
15 34 (10.30%) Amazon EMR
16 30 (9.09%) dbt
17 28 (8.48%) Snowflake
18 27 (8.18%) Power Platform
19 20 (6.06%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.42%) Firewall
2 6 (1.82%) DNS
3 4 (1.21%) WAN
4 3 (0.91%) Network Security
4 3 (0.91%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.91%) VPN
5 2 (0.61%) HTTP
5 2 (0.61%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.30%) BGP
6 1 (0.30%) Internet
6 1 (0.30%) OpenVPN
6 1 (0.30%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (25.15%) Amazon RDS
2 66 (20.00%) Amazon Athena
3 62 (18.79%) DynamoDB
4 44 (13.33%) Amazon Redshift
5 35 (10.61%) Data Warehouse
6 29 (8.79%) PostgreSQL
7 27 (8.18%) Power BI
8 21 (6.36%) Amazon Aurora
9 18 (5.45%) Metadata
10 15 (4.55%) NoSQL
11 14 (4.24%) Tableau
12 13 (3.94%) SQL Server
13 9 (2.73%) Apache Iceberg
13 9 (2.73%) Data Lake
13 9 (2.73%) MongoDB
13 9 (2.73%) Relational Database
14 8 (2.42%) Amazon QuickSight
14 8 (2.42%) BigQuery
15 7 (2.12%) Big Data
15 7 (2.12%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 67 (20.30%) Git
2 66 (20.00%) Jenkins
3 58 (17.58%) GitLab
4 30 (9.09%) JIRA
5 14 (4.24%) Cucumber
6 12 (3.64%) Bitbucket
6 12 (3.64%) Cypress.io
7 9 (2.73%) Selenium
8 5 (1.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 5 (1.52%) Claude Code
8 5 (1.52%) Gatling
8 5 (1.52%) Maven
8 5 (1.52%) Mockito
8 5 (1.52%) REST Assured
9 4 (1.21%) Artifactory
9 4 (1.21%) JUnit
9 4 (1.21%) Mocha
9 4 (1.21%) Postman
10 3 (0.91%) MSTest
10 3 (0.91%) tSQLt
General
1 83 (25.15%) Social Skills
2 59 (17.88%) Finance
3 46 (13.94%) Public Sector
4 31 (9.39%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (7.27%) Banking
6 11 (3.33%) Back Office
7 9 (2.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (2.73%) Law
8 8 (2.42%) Front Office
9 7 (2.12%) Military
10 5 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.21%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.91%) Marketing
12 3 (0.91%) Police
13 2 (0.61%) Games
13 2 (0.61%) Local Government
13 2 (0.61%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.30%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.30%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.30%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 75 (22.73%) AWS Engineer
2 74 (22.42%) Senior
3 70 (21.21%) Data Engineer
4 50 (15.15%) Lead
5 47 (14.24%) Developer
6 40 (12.12%) Architect
7 28 (8.48%) DevOps Engineer
8 26 (7.88%) Software Engineer
9 24 (7.27%) AWS Data Engineer
10 22 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
10 22 (6.67%) Technical Leader
11 21 (6.36%) AWS Developer
12 20 (6.06%) Senior Data Engineer
13 19 (5.76%) AWS Architect
14 15 (4.55%) Platform Engineer
14 15 (4.55%) Senior Software Engineer
15 13 (3.94%) Python Developer
15 13 (3.94%) Python Engineer
16 12 (3.64%) AWS DevOps
17 11 (3.33%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 152 (46.06%) Terraform
2 47 (14.24%) React
3 41 (12.42%) Kafka
4 38 (11.52%) REST
4 38 (11.52%) RESTful
5 37 (11.21%) PySpark
6 35 (10.61%) FastAPI
7 31 (9.39%) Node.js
8 23 (6.97%) GraphQL
8 23 (6.97%) Spring Boot
9 22 (6.67%) Spring
10 19 (5.76%) Flask
11 18 (5.45%) .NET
12 16 (4.85%) Pandas
13 14 (4.24%) AWS CDK
14 13 (3.94%) Next.js
15 12 (3.64%) Playwright
16 10 (3.03%) AngularJS
16 10 (3.03%) JSON
17 9 (2.73%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 94 (28.48%) Cloud Native
2 23 (6.97%) Product Ownership
3 22 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (4.55%) AI Agents
5 8 (2.42%) Fixed Income
6 7 (2.12%) Security Posture
7 6 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (1.82%) Hedge funds
7 6 (1.82%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.52%) Cloud Security Posture
8 5 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.52%) Mainframe
8 5 (1.52%) NHS
9 4 (1.21%) DataPower
9 4 (1.21%) Legacy Code
9 4 (1.21%) Low-Code
9 4 (1.21%) Online Banking
9 4 (1.21%) Taxonomies
10 3 (0.91%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 33 (10.00%) Linux
2 13 (3.94%) Unix
3 8 (2.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.21%) zOS
5 3 (0.91%) Windows
5 3 (0.91%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 209 (63.33%) CI/CD
2 146 (44.24%) Infrastructure as Code
3 138 (41.82%) DevOps
4 131 (39.70%) Agile
5 80 (24.24%) AI
6 72 (21.82%) Data Engineering
7 70 (21.21%) Event-Driven
7 70 (21.21%) Software Engineering
8 69 (20.91%) Data Pipeline
9 66 (20.00%) Containerisation
10 65 (19.70%) Test Automation
11 60 (18.18%) Microservices
12 56 (16.97%) Analytics
12 56 (16.97%) Technical Leadership
13 55 (16.67%) Observability
14 54 (16.36%) Continuous Improvement
15 52 (15.76%) Data Modelling
15 52 (15.76%) ETL
16 47 (14.24%) Platform Engineering
17 45 (13.64%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 210 (63.64%) Python
2 111 (33.64%) SQL
3 57 (17.27%) Java
4 56 (16.97%) TypeScript
5 36 (10.91%) JavaScript
6 34 (10.30%) Bash
7 24 (7.27%) C#
8 16 (4.85%) Scala
8 16 (4.85%) Shell Script
9 9 (2.73%) PowerShell
10 5 (1.52%) PL/SQL
11 4 (1.21%) Cypher
11 4 (1.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 4 (1.21%) Gremlin
11 4 (1.21%) Groovy
11 4 (1.21%) JCL
11 4 (1.21%) SPARQL
11 4 (1.21%) T-SQL
12 3 (0.91%) Bicep
12 3 (0.91%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 100 (30.30%) Security Cleared
2 92 (27.88%) SC Cleared
3 36 (10.91%) AWS Certification
4 17 (5.15%) BPSS Clearance
4 17 (5.15%) DV Cleared
5 13 (3.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 13 (3.94%) Degree
6 9 (2.73%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 8 (2.42%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 7 (2.12%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (0.91%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.61%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.61%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.61%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 1 (0.30%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.30%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.30%) PMP
11 1 (0.30%) SAFe Agilist
11 1 (0.30%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (16.97%) Data Quality
2 35 (10.61%) QA
3 3 (0.91%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.61%) ISO 20022
4 2 (0.61%) PMO
System Software
1 99 (30.00%) Docker
2 5 (1.52%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.61%) Squid
4 1 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 74 (22.42%) Kubernetes
2 35 (10.61%) Grafana
3 27 (8.18%) Prometheus
4 26 (7.88%) Ansible
5 8 (2.42%) Kibana
6 7 (2.12%) Puppet
7 4 (1.21%) Salt
8 3 (0.91%) Packer
9 2 (0.61%) Argo
9 2 (0.61%) Control-M
9 2 (0.61%) Istio
9 2 (0.61%) Rancher
10 1 (0.30%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.30%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.30%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (0.30%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.30%) Oracle RMAN
10 1 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (6.06%) Microsoft
2 15 (4.55%) Informatica
3 14 (4.24%) Oracle
4 13 (3.94%) Splunk
5 12 (3.64%) Databricks
6 7 (2.12%) ServiceNow
7 6 (1.82%) OpenAI
8 4 (1.21%) Dynatrace
8 4 (1.21%) Red Hat
9 3 (0.91%) Brio
9 3 (0.91%) Fortinet
9 3 (0.91%) PagerDuty
9 3 (0.91%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.61%) Confluent
10 2 (0.61%) Sybase
11 1 (0.30%) Braze
11 1 (0.30%) CheckPoint
11 1 (0.30%) Denodo
11 1 (0.30%) Murex
11 1 (0.30%) Netlify