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

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 176 170 210
Rank change year-on-year -6 +40 -15
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 333 222 177
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.64% 1.65% 1.09%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.99% 3.81% 2.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 248 165 122
10th Percentile £400 £409 £383
25th Percentile £450 £463 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - -
75th Percentile £672 £600 £650
90th Percentile £766 £675 £738
England median daily rate £525 £500 £530
% change year-on-year +5.00% -5.66% +0.95%
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 £72.33 £45.00 -
% change year-on-year +60.73% - -

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 8,348 5,834 6,731
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.00% 43.32% 41.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,734 3,973 4,699
10th Percentile £360 £340 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.83% -3.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 94 46
10th Percentile £17.60 £23.00 £22.00
25th Percentile £23.08 £25.15 £24.16
Median hourly rate £29.28 £31.00 £30.80
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +0.67% -23.49%
75th Percentile £57.50 £51.00 £52.50
90th Percentile £78.75 £78.75 £71.13
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 19 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 19 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 -18 38 £688 +1.85% 23
West London -8 21 £725 +68.10% 4
South London +2 14 £463 -25.64%
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 36 (10.81%) Apache Airflow
2 24 (7.21%) Confluence
3 18 (5.41%) Apache Spark
4 13 (3.90%) Apache
5 4 (1.20%) CICS
5 4 (1.20%) SAS
6 3 (0.90%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.60%) 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 (0.90%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.60%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.30%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.30%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 333 (100.00%) AWS
2 329 (98.80%) Serverless
3 236 (70.87%) Amazon S3
4 104 (31.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 94 (28.23%) Amazon EC2
6 92 (27.63%) Amazon ECS
7 78 (23.42%) Amazon EKS
8 74 (22.22%) GitHub
9 60 (18.02%) GitHub Actions
10 58 (17.42%) AWS Step Functions
11 54 (16.22%) Amazon SQS
12 49 (14.71%) AWS CloudFormation
13 47 (14.11%) Azure
14 42 (12.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 37 (11.11%) Amazon EventBridge
16 34 (10.21%) Amazon EMR
17 30 (9.01%) dbt
18 28 (8.41%) Snowflake
19 25 (7.51%) Power Platform
20 20 (6.01%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.40%) Firewall
2 6 (1.80%) DNS
3 4 (1.20%) WAN
4 3 (0.90%) Network Security
4 3 (0.90%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.90%) VPN
5 2 (0.60%) HTTP
5 2 (0.60%) 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 85 (25.53%) Amazon RDS
2 67 (20.12%) Amazon Athena
3 63 (18.92%) DynamoDB
4 44 (13.21%) Amazon Redshift
5 35 (10.51%) Data Warehouse
6 31 (9.31%) PostgreSQL
7 25 (7.51%) Power BI
8 22 (6.61%) Amazon Aurora
9 18 (5.41%) Metadata
10 16 (4.80%) NoSQL
11 13 (3.90%) SQL Server
11 13 (3.90%) Tableau
12 10 (3.00%) Data Lake
12 10 (3.00%) MongoDB
13 9 (2.70%) Amazon QuickSight
13 9 (2.70%) Apache Iceberg
13 9 (2.70%) Relational Database
14 8 (2.40%) BigQuery
15 7 (2.10%) Big Data
15 7 (2.10%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 68 (20.42%) Git
1 68 (20.42%) Jenkins
2 60 (18.02%) GitLab
3 30 (9.01%) JIRA
4 17 (5.11%) Cucumber
5 13 (3.90%) Bitbucket
6 12 (3.60%) Cypress.io
7 9 (2.70%) Selenium
8 8 (2.40%) Maven
8 8 (2.40%) Mockito
9 7 (2.10%) JUnit
10 5 (1.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 5 (1.50%) Claude Code
10 5 (1.50%) Gatling
10 5 (1.50%) REST Assured
11 4 (1.20%) Artifactory
11 4 (1.20%) Mocha
11 4 (1.20%) Postman
12 3 (0.90%) Gradle
12 3 (0.90%) MSTest
General
1 83 (24.92%) Social Skills
2 59 (17.72%) Finance
3 44 (13.21%) Public Sector
4 30 (9.01%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (7.51%) Banking
6 12 (3.60%) Back Office
7 11 (3.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (2.70%) Law
9 8 (2.40%) Front Office
10 7 (2.10%) Military
11 5 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.90%) Marketing
13 3 (0.90%) Police
14 2 (0.60%) Games
14 2 (0.60%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.60%) Local Government
14 2 (0.60%) Pharmaceutical
15 1 (0.30%) Financial Institution
15 1 (0.30%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 79 (23.72%) AWS Engineer
2 75 (22.52%) Senior
3 72 (21.62%) Data Engineer
4 50 (15.02%) Lead
5 47 (14.11%) Developer
6 40 (12.01%) Architect
7 29 (8.71%) DevOps Engineer
8 26 (7.81%) Software Engineer
9 25 (7.51%) AWS Data Engineer
10 22 (6.61%) Cloud Engineer
10 22 (6.61%) Technical Leader
11 21 (6.31%) Senior Data Engineer
12 20 (6.01%) AWS Developer
13 19 (5.71%) AWS Architect
14 15 (4.50%) Senior Software Engineer
15 14 (4.20%) Platform Engineer
16 13 (3.90%) AWS DevOps
16 13 (3.90%) Python Developer
16 13 (3.90%) Python Engineer
17 11 (3.30%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 154 (46.25%) Terraform
2 46 (13.81%) React
3 43 (12.91%) Kafka
4 41 (12.31%) REST
5 37 (11.11%) PySpark
5 37 (11.11%) RESTful
6 35 (10.51%) FastAPI
7 31 (9.31%) Node.js
8 25 (7.51%) Spring Boot
9 24 (7.21%) GraphQL
9 24 (7.21%) Spring
10 19 (5.71%) .NET
10 19 (5.71%) Flask
11 15 (4.50%) Pandas
12 13 (3.90%) AWS CDK
12 13 (3.90%) Next.js
13 12 (3.60%) Playwright
14 11 (3.30%) SOAP
15 10 (3.00%) AngularJS
15 10 (3.00%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 95 (28.53%) Cloud Native
2 23 (6.91%) Product Ownership
3 22 (6.61%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (4.80%) AI Agents
5 8 (2.40%) Fixed Income
6 7 (2.10%) Security Posture
7 6 (1.80%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (1.80%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (1.80%) Hedge funds
7 6 (1.80%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.50%) Cloud Security Posture
8 5 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.50%) Mainframe
8 5 (1.50%) NHS
9 4 (1.20%) DataPower
9 4 (1.20%) Legacy Code
9 4 (1.20%) Low-Code
9 4 (1.20%) Online Banking
9 4 (1.20%) Taxonomies
10 3 (0.90%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 35 (10.51%) Linux
2 13 (3.90%) Unix
3 8 (2.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.20%) zOS
5 3 (0.90%) Windows
5 3 (0.90%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 211 (63.36%) CI/CD
2 148 (44.44%) Infrastructure as Code
3 140 (42.04%) DevOps
4 132 (39.64%) Agile
5 81 (24.32%) AI
6 74 (22.22%) Data Engineering
7 72 (21.62%) Event-Driven
8 69 (20.72%) Data Pipeline
8 69 (20.72%) Software Engineering
9 67 (20.12%) Containerisation
10 66 (19.82%) Test Automation
11 59 (17.72%) Microservices
12 58 (17.42%) Observability
13 56 (16.82%) Analytics
13 56 (16.82%) Technical Leadership
14 54 (16.22%) Continuous Improvement
15 53 (15.92%) Data Modelling
16 50 (15.02%) ETL
17 47 (14.11%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 47 (14.11%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 211 (63.36%) Python
2 111 (33.33%) SQL
3 59 (17.72%) Java
4 54 (16.22%) TypeScript
5 36 (10.81%) JavaScript
6 35 (10.51%) Bash
7 25 (7.51%) C#
8 18 (5.41%) Shell Script
9 17 (5.11%) Scala
10 9 (2.70%) PowerShell
11 5 (1.50%) Groovy
11 5 (1.50%) PL/SQL
12 4 (1.20%) Cypher
12 4 (1.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 4 (1.20%) Gremlin
12 4 (1.20%) JCL
12 4 (1.20%) Kotlin
12 4 (1.20%) SPARQL
12 4 (1.20%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.90%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 101 (30.33%) Security Cleared
2 93 (27.93%) SC Cleared
3 37 (11.11%) AWS Certification
4 17 (5.11%) BPSS Clearance
4 17 (5.11%) DV Cleared
5 14 (4.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 14 (4.20%) Degree
6 9 (2.70%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 8 (2.40%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 8 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (0.90%) AWS Certified Developer
8 3 (0.90%) DBS Check
8 3 (0.90%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.60%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.30%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.30%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.30%) PMP
10 1 (0.30%) SAFe Agilist
10 1 (0.30%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (16.82%) Data Quality
2 37 (11.11%) QA
3 3 (0.90%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.60%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.30%) PMO
System Software
1 101 (30.33%) Docker
2 5 (1.50%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.60%) Squid
4 1 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 76 (22.82%) Kubernetes
2 36 (10.81%) Grafana
3 29 (8.71%) Prometheus
4 26 (7.81%) Ansible
5 8 (2.40%) Kibana
6 7 (2.10%) Puppet
7 4 (1.20%) Salt
8 3 (0.90%) Packer
8 3 (0.90%) Rancher
8 3 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.60%) Argo
9 2 (0.60%) Control-M
9 2 (0.60%) Istio
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
Vendors
1 20 (6.01%) Microsoft
2 17 (5.11%) Oracle
3 15 (4.50%) Informatica
4 13 (3.90%) Databricks
4 13 (3.90%) Splunk
5 8 (2.40%) ServiceNow
6 7 (2.10%) OpenAI
7 5 (1.50%) Dynatrace
7 5 (1.50%) Red Hat
8 3 (0.90%) Brio
8 3 (0.90%) Fortinet
8 3 (0.90%) PagerDuty
8 3 (0.90%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.60%) Confluent
9 2 (0.60%) Sybase
10 1 (0.30%) Charles River
10 1 (0.30%) CheckPoint
10 1 (0.30%) Murex
10 1 (0.30%) Qualys
10 1 (0.30%) Trend Micro