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 30 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 155 204 183
Rank change year-on-year +49 -21 -11
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 251 198 272
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.78% 1.25% 1.38%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.03% 3.08% 3.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 145 197
10th Percentile £375 £415 £406
25th Percentile £419 £489 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -14.58% +14.29% -16.67%
75th Percentile £638 £775 £625
90th Percentile £695 £838 £713
England median daily rate £500 £551 £538
% change year-on-year -9.17% +2.42% -10.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £42.50 - -
Median hourly rate £45.00 - -
75th Percentile £47.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £45.00 - £77.50

All Cloud 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 6,221 6,435 7,607
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.15% 40.76% 38.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,224 4,380 5,592
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
25th Percentile £425 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 118 40 66
10th Percentile £18.25 £23.33 £18.47
25th Percentile £22.63 £24.33 £21.25
Median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £37.75
Median % change year-on-year -27.23% -7.28% +30.17%
75th Percentile £45.94 £59.25 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.03 £74.38
England median hourly rate £25.47 £32.00 £25.45
% change year-on-year -20.41% +25.74% +13.11%

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 30 November 2025.

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 30 November 2025. 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 +25 35 £575 +11.38% 16
South London +3 6 £621 - 3
West London -9 4 £650 +4.00% 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 15 (5.98%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (5.58%) Apache Spark
3 10 (3.98%) Confluence
4 9 (3.59%) Apache
5 5 (1.99%) CMS
5 5 (1.99%) Headless CMS
6 3 (1.20%) nginx
7 1 (0.40%) CICS
7 1 (0.40%) Jupyter
Applications
1 3 (1.20%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 250 (99.60%) AWS
1 250 (99.60%) Serverless
2 157 (62.55%) Amazon S3
3 80 (31.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 63 (25.10%) Amazon ECS
5 57 (22.71%) AWS CloudFormation
6 56 (22.31%) GitHub
7 54 (21.51%) Amazon EC2
8 39 (15.54%) GitHub Actions
9 35 (13.94%) Amazon EKS
10 29 (11.55%) AWS Step Functions
10 29 (11.55%) Snowflake
11 24 (9.56%) Amazon Kinesis
11 24 (9.56%) Amazon SQS
12 23 (9.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 20 (7.97%) Amazon EMR
13 20 (7.97%) AWS Fargate
13 20 (7.97%) Azure
14 17 (6.77%) Amazon Cognito
15 13 (5.18%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.19%) VPN
2 7 (2.79%) DNS
3 5 (1.99%) OpenLDAP
4 4 (1.59%) Firewall
4 4 (1.59%) SSL
5 2 (0.80%) DHCP
5 2 (0.80%) Kerberos
5 2 (0.80%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.40%) DKIM
6 1 (0.40%) NAS
6 1 (0.40%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (23.51%) Amazon RDS
2 55 (21.91%) DynamoDB
3 38 (15.14%) PostgreSQL
4 29 (11.55%) Amazon Athena
5 25 (9.96%) Amazon Redshift
6 21 (8.37%) Data Warehouse
7 19 (7.57%) Amazon Aurora
8 18 (7.17%) Relational Database
9 13 (5.18%) Tableau
10 10 (3.98%) Data Lake
11 8 (3.19%) Metadata
11 8 (3.19%) NoSQL
12 7 (2.79%) Power BI
12 7 (2.79%) RDBMS
13 6 (2.39%) Amazon QuickSight
13 6 (2.39%) Big Data
13 6 (2.39%) Redis
14 5 (1.99%) Apache Iceberg
14 5 (1.99%) DB2
14 5 (1.99%) Redshift Spectrum
Development Applications
1 40 (15.94%) Git
2 34 (13.55%) Jenkins
3 30 (11.95%) GitLab
4 18 (7.17%) JIRA
5 9 (3.59%) Cypress.io
6 8 (3.19%) JUnit
7 6 (2.39%) Cucumber
8 4 (1.59%) Postman
9 3 (1.20%) Bitbucket
9 3 (1.20%) Maven
9 3 (1.20%) Selenium
9 3 (1.20%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (0.80%) CircleCI
10 2 (0.80%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.80%) Serenity BDD
10 2 (0.80%) SoapUI
10 2 (0.80%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.40%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.40%) MLflow
11 1 (0.40%) RStudio
General
1 68 (27.09%) Social Skills
2 33 (13.15%) Public Sector
3 29 (11.55%) Finance
4 26 (10.36%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (5.98%) Banking
6 6 (2.39%) Front Office
7 5 (1.99%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (1.99%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.20%) Marketing
9 2 (0.80%) Digital Healthcare
9 2 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.80%) Military
9 2 (0.80%) Private Banking
9 2 (0.80%) Publishing
10 1 (0.40%) Aviation
10 1 (0.40%) Games
10 1 (0.40%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.40%) Police
10 1 (0.40%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 50 (19.92%) AWS Engineer
2 48 (19.12%) Developer
3 44 (17.53%) Senior
4 37 (14.74%) DevOps Engineer
5 26 (10.36%) Architect
6 25 (9.96%) Data Engineer
7 24 (9.56%) Lead
8 20 (7.97%) Software Engineer
9 18 (7.17%) AWS DevOps
10 15 (5.98%) AWS Developer
11 13 (5.18%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 13 (5.18%) Java Developer
11 13 (5.18%) Python Engineer
12 10 (3.98%) AWS Data Engineer
12 10 (3.98%) Senior Developer
13 9 (3.59%) Snowflake Engineer
14 8 (3.19%) AWS Architect
14 8 (3.19%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 8 (3.19%) Java Engineer
14 8 (3.19%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (22.31%) Node.js
2 37 (14.74%) Kafka
3 36 (14.34%) React
4 26 (10.36%) RESTful
5 19 (7.57%) Spring Boot
6 18 (7.17%) Spring
7 17 (6.77%) REST
8 15 (5.98%) OAuth
9 13 (5.18%) AngularJS
9 13 (5.18%) AWS CDK
10 11 (4.38%) GraphQL
10 11 (4.38%) Jest
11 10 (3.98%) CSS
12 9 (3.59%) boto
12 9 (3.59%) pytest
13 8 (3.19%) JSON
13 8 (3.19%) JWT
13 8 (3.19%) PySpark
14 7 (2.79%) LDAP
14 7 (2.79%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 53 (21.12%) Cloud Native
2 21 (8.37%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (4.78%) Data Protection Act
4 11 (4.38%) Product Ownership
5 7 (2.79%) Distributed Architecture
5 7 (2.79%) Mobile App
6 6 (2.39%) Mainframe
7 5 (1.99%) DataPower
7 5 (1.99%) Replication
8 4 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.59%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.20%) Derivative
9 3 (1.20%) Equities
9 3 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (0.80%) AI Agents
10 2 (0.80%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.80%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.80%) Equity Derivative
10 2 (0.80%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (0.40%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 18 (7.17%) Linux
2 3 (1.20%) Unix
3 2 (0.80%) Windows
4 1 (0.40%) AIX
4 1 (0.40%) Android
4 1 (0.40%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.40%) Solaris
4 1 (0.40%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (54.58%) CI/CD
2 111 (44.22%) DevOps
3 72 (28.69%) Infrastructure as Code
4 70 (27.89%) Agile
5 66 (26.29%) Microservices
6 44 (17.53%) Problem-Solving
7 41 (16.33%) Data Pipeline
8 38 (15.14%) Analytics
9 36 (14.34%) Containerisation
9 36 (14.34%) Data Modelling
10 35 (13.94%) Data Engineering
10 35 (13.94%) Event-Driven
10 35 (13.94%) Software Engineering
11 30 (11.95%) Observability
12 29 (11.55%) ETL
13 28 (11.16%) Full-Stack Development
13 28 (11.16%) Mentoring
14 26 (10.36%) AI
15 23 (9.16%) Migration
15 23 (9.16%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 137 (54.58%) Python
2 64 (25.50%) SQL
3 52 (20.72%) Java
4 42 (16.73%) TypeScript
5 36 (14.34%) JavaScript
6 19 (7.57%) Bash
7 10 (3.98%) Go
8 7 (2.79%) Shell Script
9 6 (2.39%) JSX
9 6 (2.39%) Korn
9 6 (2.39%) Ruby
10 4 (1.59%) Groovy
10 4 (1.59%) Scala
11 3 (1.20%) C#
11 3 (1.20%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.80%) Bicep
12 2 (0.80%) C++
12 2 (0.80%) Perl
12 2 (0.80%) PromQL
12 2 (0.80%) R
Qualifications
1 70 (27.89%) Security Cleared
2 59 (23.51%) SC Cleared
3 30 (11.95%) AWS Certification
4 13 (5.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 8 (3.19%) Degree
6 6 (2.39%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (2.39%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 4 (1.59%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.20%) AWS Certified Developer
8 3 (1.20%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.80%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (7.57%) QA
2 15 (5.98%) Data Quality
3 8 (3.19%) GDPR
4 7 (2.79%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.59%) WCAG
6 2 (0.80%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.40%) GxP
7 1 (0.40%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.40%) NCSC
System Software
1 58 (23.11%) Docker
2 5 (1.99%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.80%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.40%) HDFS
4 1 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 87 (34.66%) Terraform
2 56 (22.31%) Kubernetes
3 12 (4.78%) Ansible
4 11 (4.38%) Prometheus
5 10 (3.98%) Grafana
6 4 (1.59%) Rancher
7 3 (1.20%) ITRS Geneos
8 2 (0.80%) Kibana
8 2 (0.80%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.80%) SELinux
8 2 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.40%) Puppet
Vendors
1 16 (6.37%) Microsoft
2 13 (5.18%) Databricks
3 11 (4.38%) ServiceNow
4 6 (2.39%) Dynatrace
4 6 (2.39%) IBM
5 5 (1.99%) Atlassian
5 5 (1.99%) CA Agile Central
5 5 (1.99%) Oracle
5 5 (1.99%) Sybase
6 4 (1.59%) Pega
6 4 (1.59%) Splunk
7 3 (1.20%) Cloudera
7 3 (1.20%) Google
7 3 (1.20%) OpenAI
7 3 (1.20%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.80%) Avaloq
8 2 (0.80%) Cisco
9 1 (0.40%) Genesys
9 1 (0.40%) Murex
9 1 (0.40%) NetApp