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

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 151 193
Rank change year-on-year +3 +42 -11
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 357 242 230
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.86% 1.90% 1.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.44% 4.42% 3.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 257 183 168
10th Percentile £370 £400 £375
25th Percentile £450 £453 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £630 £628 £593
90th Percentile £738 £800 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £516
% change year-on-year - +1.69% -6.14%
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 £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 8,045 5,478 6,955
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.98% 43.02% 39.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,527 3,713 5,110
10th Percentile £360 £350 £350
25th Percentile £437 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £788
England median daily rate £518 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.49% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 73 67
10th Percentile £21.68 £22.60 £19.11
25th Percentile £27.00 £24.66 £22.04
Median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £26.97
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% +18.65% -47.38%
75th Percentile £55.75 £48.75 £38.75
90th Percentile £77.47 £67.50 £56.00
England median hourly rate £42.59 £25.15 £22.00
% change year-on-year +69.35% +14.32% -31.89%

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 27 June 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 27 June 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 -7 40 £588 +6.82% 11
South London +8 21 £500 -19.35%
West London -21 14 £738 +30.53% 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 34 (9.52%) Apache Airflow
2 27 (7.56%) Confluence
3 21 (5.88%) Apache Spark
4 11 (3.08%) Apache
5 9 (2.52%) nginx
6 6 (1.68%) CICS
7 2 (0.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.56%) SAS
8 1 (0.28%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.28%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (2.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.12%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.56%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 357 (100.00%) AWS
2 353 (98.88%) Serverless
3 263 (73.67%) Amazon S3
4 121 (33.89%) Amazon EC2
5 108 (30.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 94 (26.33%) Amazon ECS
7 88 (24.65%) Amazon EKS
8 77 (21.57%) GitHub
9 69 (19.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 66 (18.49%) AWS CloudFormation
11 60 (16.81%) GitHub Actions
12 51 (14.29%) AWS Step Functions
13 50 (14.01%) Amazon SQS
14 37 (10.36%) Azure
15 35 (9.80%) Amazon EMR
16 30 (8.40%) Power Platform
17 28 (7.84%) dbt
18 27 (7.56%) Amazon Kinesis
19 25 (7.00%) Snowflake
20 23 (6.44%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 19 (5.32%) DNS
2 18 (5.04%) Firewall
3 12 (3.36%) TCP/IP
4 11 (3.08%) VPN
5 9 (2.52%) OpenVPN
6 5 (1.40%) Network Security
7 4 (1.12%) WAN
8 3 (0.84%) Reverse Proxy
9 1 (0.28%) 4G
9 1 (0.28%) 5G
9 1 (0.28%) BGP
9 1 (0.28%) HTTP
9 1 (0.28%) Internet
9 1 (0.28%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (22.69%) Amazon RDS
2 71 (19.89%) Amazon Athena
3 66 (18.49%) DynamoDB
4 64 (17.93%) Amazon Redshift
5 37 (10.36%) PostgreSQL
6 30 (8.40%) Power BI
7 24 (6.72%) Amazon Aurora
7 24 (6.72%) Data Warehouse
8 22 (6.16%) Tableau
9 17 (4.76%) SQL Server
10 15 (4.20%) NoSQL
11 13 (3.64%) Metadata
12 12 (3.36%) Data Lake
13 11 (3.08%) Apache Iceberg
13 11 (3.08%) Elasticsearch
14 10 (2.80%) Amazon QuickSight
14 10 (2.80%) Db2
14 10 (2.80%) MongoDB
15 9 (2.52%) Big Data
16 8 (2.24%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 71 (19.89%) GitLab
2 70 (19.61%) Jenkins
3 66 (18.49%) Git
4 37 (10.36%) JIRA
5 17 (4.76%) Cucumber
6 15 (4.20%) Bitbucket
7 10 (2.80%) Cypress.io
7 10 (2.80%) JUnit
8 7 (1.96%) Mocha
8 7 (1.96%) SonarQube
9 6 (1.68%) Artifactory
9 6 (1.68%) MSTest
9 6 (1.68%) Postman
9 6 (1.68%) tSQLt
10 5 (1.40%) Gatling
10 5 (1.40%) Mockito
10 5 (1.40%) REST Assured
11 4 (1.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (1.12%) Selenium
12 3 (0.84%) Snyk
General
1 96 (26.89%) Social Skills
2 63 (17.65%) Finance
3 58 (16.25%) Public Sector
4 29 (8.12%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (5.04%) Banking
6 17 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (1.96%) Law
8 5 (1.40%) Military
9 4 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (0.84%) Back Office
10 3 (0.84%) Front Office
10 3 (0.84%) Police
10 3 (0.84%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.56%) Billing
11 2 (0.56%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.56%) Games
11 2 (0.56%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.56%) Local Government
11 2 (0.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 78 (21.85%) AWS Engineer
2 65 (18.21%) Data Engineer
3 63 (17.65%) Senior
4 56 (15.69%) Developer
5 51 (14.29%) Architect
6 47 (13.17%) Lead
7 30 (8.40%) DevOps Engineer
8 27 (7.56%) AWS Architect
9 26 (7.28%) AWS Developer
10 25 (7.00%) Software Engineer
11 22 (6.16%) AWS Data Engineer
12 21 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
13 18 (5.04%) Python Developer
14 17 (4.76%) AWS DevOps
15 15 (4.20%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 15 (4.20%) Python Engineer
16 14 (3.92%) Data Architect
17 13 (3.64%) Analyst
17 13 (3.64%) Senior Software Engineer
17 13 (3.64%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (16.81%) Kafka
2 49 (13.73%) React
3 48 (13.45%) RESTful
4 36 (10.08%) PySpark
5 29 (8.12%) Node.js
5 29 (8.12%) REST
6 28 (7.84%) Spring Boot
7 26 (7.28%) FastAPI
8 25 (7.00%) Spring
9 20 (5.60%) .NET
10 19 (5.32%) GraphQL
11 18 (5.04%) Flask
12 14 (3.92%) AngularJS
12 14 (3.92%) Next.js
12 14 (3.92%) OAuth
12 14 (3.92%) Pandas
13 13 (3.64%) AWS CDK
13 13 (3.64%) CSS
13 13 (3.64%) OpenID
13 13 (3.64%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 90 (25.21%) Cloud Native
2 18 (5.04%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (4.20%) Product Ownership
4 8 (2.24%) Fixed Income
5 7 (1.96%) AI Agents
5 7 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (1.96%) Hedge funds
6 6 (1.68%) DataPower
6 6 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (1.68%) Mainframe
6 6 (1.68%) NHS
6 6 (1.68%) Online Banking
7 5 (1.40%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.40%) Security Posture
8 4 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.12%) Distributed Computing
8 4 (1.12%) Equities
8 4 (1.12%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.12%) PACS
8 4 (1.12%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 29 (8.12%) Linux
2 15 (4.20%) Unix
3 6 (1.68%) zOS
4 5 (1.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.12%) Windows
6 3 (0.84%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.28%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 214 (59.94%) CI/CD
2 143 (40.06%) DevOps
3 138 (38.66%) Infrastructure as Code
4 118 (33.05%) Agile
5 72 (20.17%) AI
6 68 (19.05%) Microservices
7 66 (18.49%) Data Engineering
8 64 (17.93%) Data Pipeline
9 57 (15.97%) Containerisation
9 57 (15.97%) Event-Driven
10 56 (15.69%) Test Automation
11 55 (15.41%) Analytics
11 55 (15.41%) ETL
11 55 (15.41%) Problem-Solving
12 53 (14.85%) Software Engineering
13 44 (12.32%) Data Modelling
14 43 (12.04%) Platform Engineering
15 42 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
16 41 (11.48%) Observability
17 40 (11.20%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 216 (60.50%) Python
2 120 (33.61%) SQL
3 66 (18.49%) Java
4 47 (13.17%) TypeScript
5 40 (11.20%) JavaScript
6 33 (9.24%) C#
7 29 (8.12%) Bash
8 19 (5.32%) Shell Script
9 17 (4.76%) Scala
10 9 (2.52%) PowerShell
11 7 (1.96%) T-SQL
12 6 (1.68%) JCL
13 5 (1.40%) Go
14 4 (1.12%) Bicep
14 4 (1.12%) SPARQL
15 3 (0.84%) Cypher
15 3 (0.84%) Gremlin
16 2 (0.56%) C
17 1 (0.28%) C++
17 1 (0.28%) SHACL
Qualifications
1 109 (30.53%) Security Cleared
2 100 (28.01%) SC Cleared
3 33 (9.24%) AWS Certification
4 15 (4.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 14 (3.92%) Degree
6 13 (3.64%) BPSS Clearance
7 12 (3.36%) DV Cleared
8 9 (2.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 9 (2.52%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (2.24%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 5 (1.40%) Master's Degree
11 4 (1.12%) AWS Certified Developer
11 4 (1.12%) DBS Check
12 3 (0.84%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.28%) Azure Certification
13 1 (0.28%) PhD
13 1 (0.28%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.28%) PMP
13 1 (0.28%) SAFe Agilist
13 1 (0.28%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (12.61%) Data Quality
2 21 (5.88%) QA
3 7 (1.96%) PMO
4 6 (1.68%) NIST
5 4 (1.12%) ISO 20022
5 4 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.12%) PCI DSS
5 4 (1.12%) SLA
6 3 (0.84%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.28%) GDPR
7 1 (0.28%) GRC
7 1 (0.28%) WCAG
System Software
1 103 (28.85%) Docker
2 10 (2.80%) Squid
3 7 (1.96%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 174 (48.74%) Terraform
2 85 (23.81%) Kubernetes
3 38 (10.64%) Grafana
4 34 (9.52%) Prometheus
5 20 (5.60%) Ansible
6 10 (2.80%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (2.52%) FortiGate
8 8 (2.24%) Puppet
9 7 (1.96%) Consul
10 5 (1.40%) Kibana
10 5 (1.40%) Salt
11 3 (0.84%) Packer
12 1 (0.28%) Control-M
12 1 (0.28%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 14 (3.92%) Microsoft
1 14 (3.92%) Splunk
2 12 (3.36%) Informatica
2 12 (3.36%) Red Hat
3 10 (2.80%) Dynatrace
4 9 (2.52%) Databricks
5 8 (2.24%) OpenAI
6 7 (1.96%) Atlassian
6 7 (1.96%) Sybase
7 5 (1.40%) Confluent
7 5 (1.40%) Oracle
8 4 (1.12%) Fortinet
8 4 (1.12%) Salesforce
9 3 (0.84%) AVEVA
9 3 (0.84%) Brio
9 3 (0.84%) Netlify
9 3 (0.84%) PagerDuty
9 3 (0.84%) Qualys
9 3 (0.84%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.56%) Tenable