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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 183 169 233
Rank change year-on-year -14 +64 -33
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 325 218 168
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.60% 1.62% 1.03%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.91% 3.73% 2.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 244 158 119
10th Percentile £400 £404 £396
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - -
75th Percentile £675 £600 £662
90th Percentile £771 £675 £738
England median daily rate £514 £500 £538
% change year-on-year +2.75% -6.98% -
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 8,306 5,844 6,677
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 40.85% 43.35% 40.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,713 3,981 4,616
10th Percentile £359 £344 £350
25th Percentile £449 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £533 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -3.18% -3.72%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £501 £533
% change year-on-year +4.90% -6.10% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 95 43
10th Percentile £17.60 £22.70 £22.00
25th Percentile £22.94 £25.15 £23.98
Median hourly rate £28.55 £28.50 £30.59
Median % change year-on-year +0.18% -6.83% -23.53%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.13 £46.68
90th Percentile £78.75 £78.75 £65.55
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £34.47
% change year-on-year +29.22% -27.03% +4.44%

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 26 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 26 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 37 £688 +1.85% 17
West London -9 21 £725 +68.10% 4
South London +2 14 £450 -27.65%
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 (11.08%) Apache Airflow
2 22 (6.77%) Confluence
3 19 (5.85%) Apache Spark
4 12 (3.69%) Apache
5 4 (1.23%) SAS
6 3 (0.92%) CICS
7 2 (0.62%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.62%) PowerExchange
8 1 (0.31%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.31%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.31%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.31%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.31%) WebLogic Portal
Applications
1 3 (0.92%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.62%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.31%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.31%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 325 (100.00%) AWS
2 321 (98.77%) Serverless
3 229 (70.46%) Amazon S3
4 102 (31.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 91 (28.00%) Amazon EC2
6 88 (27.08%) Amazon ECS
7 78 (24.00%) Amazon EKS
8 73 (22.46%) GitHub
9 60 (18.46%) GitHub Actions
10 55 (16.92%) Amazon SQS
11 53 (16.31%) AWS Step Functions
12 50 (15.38%) AWS CloudFormation
13 48 (14.77%) Azure
14 39 (12.00%) Amazon EventBridge
15 38 (11.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 34 (10.46%) Amazon EMR
17 30 (9.23%) dbt
17 30 (9.23%) Snowflake
18 24 (7.38%) Power Platform
19 20 (6.15%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.85%) Firewall
2 4 (1.23%) DNS
2 4 (1.23%) WAN
3 3 (0.92%) HTTP
3 3 (0.92%) Network Security
4 2 (0.62%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (0.62%) VPN
5 1 (0.31%) BGP
5 1 (0.31%) Internet
5 1 (0.31%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (25.23%) Amazon RDS
2 65 (20.00%) Amazon Athena
3 58 (17.85%) DynamoDB
4 45 (13.85%) Amazon Redshift
5 36 (11.08%) Data Warehouse
6 29 (8.92%) PostgreSQL
7 24 (7.38%) Power BI
8 21 (6.46%) Amazon Aurora
9 17 (5.23%) Metadata
9 17 (5.23%) NoSQL
10 13 (4.00%) SQL Server
11 12 (3.69%) Tableau
12 10 (3.08%) Data Lake
12 10 (3.08%) MongoDB
13 9 (2.77%) Amazon QuickSight
13 9 (2.77%) Apache Iceberg
14 8 (2.46%) BigQuery
14 8 (2.46%) Delta Lake
14 8 (2.46%) Relational Database
15 7 (2.15%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 70 (21.54%) Jenkins
2 66 (20.31%) Git
3 61 (18.77%) GitLab
4 27 (8.31%) JIRA
5 18 (5.54%) Cucumber
6 13 (4.00%) Bitbucket
7 11 (3.38%) Cypress.io
8 10 (3.08%) Selenium
9 8 (2.46%) Maven
9 8 (2.46%) Mockito
10 7 (2.15%) JUnit
11 6 (1.85%) REST Assured
12 5 (1.54%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 5 (1.54%) Claude Code
12 5 (1.54%) Gatling
12 5 (1.54%) Postman
13 4 (1.23%) Artifactory
13 4 (1.23%) Mocha
14 3 (0.92%) Gradle
14 3 (0.92%) MSTest
General
1 78 (24.00%) Social Skills
2 54 (16.62%) Finance
3 44 (13.54%) Public Sector
4 28 (8.62%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (7.69%) Banking
6 12 (3.69%) Back Office
7 11 (3.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (2.77%) Law
9 8 (2.46%) Front Office
10 7 (2.15%) Military
11 4 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (1.23%) Police
12 3 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.92%) Marketing
13 2 (0.62%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.62%) Local Government
13 2 (0.62%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.31%) Games
14 1 (0.31%) Retail
14 1 (0.31%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 79 (24.31%) AWS Engineer
2 72 (22.15%) Data Engineer
2 72 (22.15%) Senior
3 50 (15.38%) Lead
4 41 (12.62%) Developer
5 38 (11.69%) Architect
6 32 (9.85%) DevOps Engineer
7 27 (8.31%) Software Engineer
8 24 (7.38%) AWS Data Engineer
9 22 (6.77%) Cloud Engineer
9 22 (6.77%) Technical Leader
10 20 (6.15%) Senior Data Engineer
11 17 (5.23%) AWS Architect
11 17 (5.23%) AWS Developer
12 15 (4.62%) Senior Software Engineer
13 14 (4.31%) AWS DevOps
13 14 (4.31%) Platform Engineer
14 13 (4.00%) Python Engineer
15 12 (3.69%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 11 (3.38%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 151 (46.46%) Terraform
2 46 (14.15%) Kafka
3 43 (13.23%) React
3 43 (13.23%) REST
4 35 (10.77%) PySpark
4 35 (10.77%) RESTful
5 34 (10.46%) FastAPI
6 30 (9.23%) Node.js
7 25 (7.69%) GraphQL
8 24 (7.38%) Spring Boot
9 23 (7.08%) Spring
10 20 (6.15%) .NET
11 18 (5.54%) Flask
12 14 (4.31%) Pandas
13 13 (4.00%) AWS CDK
13 13 (4.00%) Playwright
14 12 (3.69%) Next.js
15 10 (3.08%) AngularJS
15 10 (3.08%) SOAP
16 9 (2.77%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 99 (30.46%) Cloud Native
2 25 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
3 24 (7.38%) Product Ownership
4 17 (5.23%) AI Agents
5 8 (2.46%) Fixed Income
6 7 (2.15%) Onboarding
6 7 (2.15%) Security Posture
7 6 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.54%) Cloud Security Posture
8 5 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (1.54%) Hedge funds
8 5 (1.54%) NHS
9 4 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.23%) Low-Code
9 4 (1.23%) Mainframe
9 4 (1.23%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.23%) Taxonomies
10 3 (0.92%) DataPower
10 3 (0.92%) Online Banking
10 3 (0.92%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 37 (11.38%) Linux
2 13 (4.00%) Unix
3 8 (2.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.92%) Windows
4 3 (0.92%) Windows Server 2019
4 3 (0.92%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 214 (65.85%) CI/CD
2 150 (46.15%) Infrastructure as Code
3 141 (43.38%) DevOps
4 130 (40.00%) Agile
5 81 (24.92%) AI
6 76 (23.38%) Data Engineering
7 73 (22.46%) Event-Driven
8 69 (21.23%) Data Pipeline
9 68 (20.92%) Software Engineering
10 67 (20.62%) Containerisation
11 66 (20.31%) Test Automation
12 60 (18.46%) Microservices
12 60 (18.46%) Observability
13 56 (17.23%) Technical Leadership
14 54 (16.62%) Analytics
14 54 (16.62%) Continuous Improvement
14 54 (16.62%) Data Modelling
15 49 (15.08%) ETL
15 49 (15.08%) Platform Engineering
16 47 (14.46%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 207 (63.69%) Python
2 108 (33.23%) SQL
3 57 (17.54%) Java
4 50 (15.38%) TypeScript
5 36 (11.08%) Bash
6 35 (10.77%) JavaScript
7 24 (7.38%) C#
8 17 (5.23%) Shell Script
9 16 (4.92%) Scala
10 10 (3.08%) PowerShell
11 5 (1.54%) Groovy
11 5 (1.54%) Kotlin
11 5 (1.54%) PL/SQL
12 4 (1.23%) Cypher
12 4 (1.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 4 (1.23%) Gremlin
12 4 (1.23%) SPARQL
12 4 (1.23%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.92%) Bicep
13 3 (0.92%) JCL
Qualifications
1 99 (30.46%) Security Cleared
2 91 (28.00%) SC Cleared
3 38 (11.69%) AWS Certification
4 19 (5.85%) DV Cleared
5 17 (5.23%) BPSS Clearance
6 14 (4.31%) Degree
7 13 (4.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 9 (2.77%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 8 (2.46%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 8 (2.46%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (0.92%) DBS Check
10 3 (0.92%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 2 (0.62%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (0.62%) ISEB
11 2 (0.62%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.62%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.62%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.31%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.31%) SAFe Agilist
12 1 (0.31%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (17.54%) Data Quality
2 36 (11.08%) QA
3 3 (0.92%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.62%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 101 (31.08%) Docker
2 5 (1.54%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.31%) Squid
3 1 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 77 (23.69%) Kubernetes
2 35 (10.77%) Grafana
3 28 (8.62%) Prometheus
4 27 (8.31%) Ansible
5 8 (2.46%) Kibana
6 7 (2.15%) Puppet
7 4 (1.23%) Salt
8 3 (0.92%) Packer
8 3 (0.92%) Rancher
9 2 (0.62%) Argo
9 2 (0.62%) Control-M
9 2 (0.62%) Istio
9 2 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.31%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.31%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (0.31%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.31%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 21 (6.46%) Microsoft
2 16 (4.92%) Oracle
3 14 (4.31%) Informatica
4 13 (4.00%) Databricks
5 11 (3.38%) Splunk
6 8 (2.46%) ServiceNow
7 7 (2.15%) OpenAI
8 4 (1.23%) Dynatrace
8 4 (1.23%) Red Hat
9 3 (0.92%) Brio
9 3 (0.92%) Fortinet
9 3 (0.92%) PagerDuty
9 3 (0.92%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.62%) Confluent
10 2 (0.62%) Sybase
11 1 (0.31%) Braze
11 1 (0.31%) Denodo
11 1 (0.31%) Murex
11 1 (0.31%) Netlify
11 1 (0.31%) Teradata