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 25 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 134 166
Rank change year-on-year -7 +32 +2
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 333 257 261
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.90% 2.02% 1.46%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.39% 4.76% 3.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 237 202 200
10th Percentile £353 £408 £400
25th Percentile £413 £459 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.87% +15.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £613 £788 £588
90th Percentile £700 £838 £675
England median daily rate £513 £550 £511
% change year-on-year -6.82% +7.58% -11.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.00 - -
Median hourly rate £67.00 £35.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +91.43% - -
75th Percentile £73.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £76.00 £35.00 -
% change year-on-year +117.14% - -

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 7,577 5,404 6,714
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.20% 42.40% 37.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,222 3,754 4,947
10th Percentile £350 £358 £331
25th Percentile £425 £440 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £503 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.19% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 54 77
10th Percentile £19.23 £22.27 £17.78
25th Percentile £25.36 £24.66 £21.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +11.81% -30.20%
75th Percentile £52.96 £53.75 £40.63
90th Percentile £72.50 £71.88 £61.00
England median hourly rate £45.00 £26.45 £20.99
% change year-on-year +70.13% +26.04% -30.05%

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 25 April 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 25 April 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 +2 46 £520 +2.97% 18
South London +5 22 £500 +5.26% 1
West London -31 5 £675 +19.47% 2
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 32 (9.61%) Apache Airflow
2 26 (7.81%) Apache Spark
3 15 (4.50%) Confluence
4 12 (3.60%) Apache
5 9 (2.70%) nginx
6 4 (1.20%) CICS
7 2 (0.60%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 10 (3.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.20%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.60%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 333 (100.00%) AWS
2 329 (98.80%) Serverless
3 240 (72.07%) Amazon S3
4 101 (30.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 99 (29.73%) Amazon EC2
6 95 (28.53%) Amazon ECS
7 86 (25.83%) GitHub
8 81 (24.32%) AWS CloudFormation
9 75 (22.52%) Amazon EKS
10 67 (20.12%) GitHub Actions
11 65 (19.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 56 (16.82%) AWS Step Functions
13 36 (10.81%) Azure
14 33 (9.91%) Amazon Kinesis
14 33 (9.91%) Amazon SQS
15 27 (8.11%) AWS CodePipeline
16 26 (7.81%) Snowflake
17 24 (7.21%) Route 53
18 22 (6.61%) Amazon EMR
19 21 (6.31%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 24 (7.21%) DNS
2 16 (4.80%) Firewall
3 12 (3.60%) TCP/IP
3 12 (3.60%) VPN
4 9 (2.70%) OpenVPN
5 6 (1.80%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (0.60%) Kerberos
6 2 (0.60%) Network Security
7 1 (0.30%) 4G
7 1 (0.30%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (21.32%) Amazon RDS
2 57 (17.12%) Amazon Redshift
3 56 (16.82%) DynamoDB
4 55 (16.52%) Amazon Athena
5 45 (13.51%) PostgreSQL
6 26 (7.81%) Tableau
7 25 (7.51%) Amazon Aurora
8 19 (5.71%) Power BI
9 18 (5.41%) NoSQL
10 15 (4.50%) Data Lake
10 15 (4.50%) Data Warehouse
11 14 (4.20%) Amazon QuickSight
11 14 (4.20%) Big Data
12 13 (3.90%) Metadata
13 12 (3.60%) Apache Iceberg
14 11 (3.30%) Elasticsearch
15 10 (3.00%) SQL Server
16 9 (2.70%) Data Vault
16 9 (2.70%) MySQL
16 9 (2.70%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 63 (18.92%) GitLab
2 62 (18.62%) Jenkins
3 61 (18.32%) Git
4 25 (7.51%) JIRA
5 16 (4.80%) Bitbucket
6 12 (3.60%) Cucumber
7 11 (3.30%) Cypress.io
8 9 (2.70%) JUnit
9 7 (2.10%) SonarQube
10 5 (1.50%) Postman
10 5 (1.50%) Selenium
10 5 (1.50%) Snyk
11 4 (1.20%) Artifactory
11 4 (1.20%) Mocha
11 4 (1.20%) Mockito
11 4 (1.20%) Terragrunt
12 3 (0.90%) MSTest
12 3 (0.90%) Sonatype Nexus
12 3 (0.90%) tSQLt
12 3 (0.90%) Vite
General
1 86 (25.83%) Social Skills
2 54 (16.22%) Finance
3 53 (15.92%) Public Sector
4 38 (11.41%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (6.01%) Documentation Skills
6 18 (5.41%) Banking
7 5 (1.50%) Front Office
8 4 (1.20%) Police
9 3 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (0.90%) Investment Banking
9 3 (0.90%) Law
9 3 (0.90%) Military
9 3 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.60%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.60%) Games
10 2 (0.60%) Local Government
10 2 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.60%) Retail
10 2 (0.60%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.30%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 67 (20.12%) AWS Engineer
2 66 (19.82%) Developer
3 60 (18.02%) Data Engineer
4 50 (15.02%) Architect
4 50 (15.02%) Senior
5 34 (10.21%) DevOps Engineer
6 32 (9.61%) Lead
7 27 (8.11%) AWS Architect
8 26 (7.81%) AWS Developer
9 21 (6.31%) AWS Data Engineer
10 20 (6.01%) AWS DevOps
11 18 (5.41%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 17 (5.11%) Cloud Engineer
12 17 (5.11%) Data Architect
13 16 (4.80%) Software Engineer
14 15 (4.50%) Python Developer
15 14 (4.20%) Analyst
15 14 (4.20%) Full-Stack Developer
15 14 (4.20%) Python Engineer
16 13 (3.90%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (17.12%) Kafka
2 44 (13.21%) React
2 44 (13.21%) RESTful
3 42 (12.61%) Node.js
4 31 (9.31%) Spring Boot
5 29 (8.71%) Spring
6 27 (8.11%) PySpark
7 24 (7.21%) OAuth
8 18 (5.41%) boto
9 17 (5.11%) CSS
9 17 (5.11%) Pandas
10 16 (4.80%) REST
11 15 (4.50%) AWS CDK
12 14 (4.20%) FastAPI
13 13 (3.90%) JWT
13 13 (3.90%) OpenID
14 12 (3.60%) AngularJS
14 12 (3.60%) Flask
14 12 (3.60%) HTML
15 11 (3.30%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 77 (23.12%) Cloud Native
2 22 (6.61%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (3.60%) Product Ownership
4 9 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (2.10%) DataPower
5 7 (2.10%) Mainframe
6 6 (1.80%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (1.80%) PACS
6 6 (1.80%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 5 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (1.50%) Equities
7 5 (1.50%) Hedge funds
8 4 (1.20%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.20%) Derivative
8 4 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.20%) Online Banking
8 4 (1.20%) Virtual Team
9 3 (0.90%) Equity Derivative
9 3 (0.90%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 34 (10.21%) Linux
2 14 (4.20%) Unix
3 4 (1.20%) zOS
4 1 (0.30%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (0.30%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 197 (59.16%) CI/CD
2 136 (40.84%) DevOps
3 132 (39.64%) Infrastructure as Code
4 87 (26.13%) Agile
5 78 (23.42%) Microservices
6 61 (18.32%) Data Pipeline
7 60 (18.02%) ETL
7 60 (18.02%) Problem-Solving
8 59 (17.72%) Containerisation
9 58 (17.42%) Analytics
10 55 (16.52%) Data Engineering
11 52 (15.62%) Data Modelling
12 47 (14.11%) Event-Driven
13 42 (12.61%) Software Engineering
14 41 (12.31%) AI
15 38 (11.41%) Observability
16 37 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
16 37 (11.11%) Test Automation
17 32 (9.61%) Performance Tuning
18 29 (8.71%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 199 (59.76%) Python
2 111 (33.33%) SQL
3 65 (19.52%) Java
4 37 (11.11%) JavaScript
5 33 (9.91%) TypeScript
6 25 (7.51%) C#
7 21 (6.31%) Bash
8 19 (5.71%) Shell Script
9 16 (4.80%) Scala
10 8 (2.40%) Ruby
11 7 (2.10%) PowerShell
12 6 (1.80%) Go
13 4 (1.20%) Bicep
13 4 (1.20%) JCL
14 3 (0.90%) C++
14 3 (0.90%) JSX
14 3 (0.90%) Korn
14 3 (0.90%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.60%) Kotlin
15 2 (0.60%) Perl
Qualifications
1 118 (35.44%) Security Cleared
2 107 (32.13%) SC Cleared
3 30 (9.01%) AWS Certification
4 13 (3.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 10 (3.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 10 (3.00%) Degree
6 9 (2.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 7 (2.10%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (2.10%) Master's Degree
8 5 (1.50%) DV Cleared
9 4 (1.20%) AWS Certified Developer
9 4 (1.20%) PhD
10 3 (0.90%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.30%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.30%) CEH
11 1 (0.30%) CISSP
11 1 (0.30%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.30%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.30%) PMP
11 1 (0.30%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (9.61%) Data Quality
2 18 (5.41%) QA
3 8 (2.40%) NIST
4 7 (2.10%) PMO
5 6 (1.80%) ISO 20022
6 5 (1.50%) GDPR
7 4 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (1.20%) PCI DSS
7 4 (1.20%) SLA
8 3 (0.90%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.60%) WCAG
10 1 (0.30%) GRC
System Software
1 100 (30.03%) Docker
2 9 (2.70%) Squid
3 4 (1.20%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.60%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.30%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 170 (51.05%) Terraform
2 80 (24.02%) Kubernetes
3 31 (9.31%) Grafana
4 27 (8.11%) Prometheus
5 19 (5.71%) Ansible
6 12 (3.60%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (2.70%) FortiGate
7 9 (2.70%) Kibana
8 7 (2.10%) Consul
9 3 (0.90%) ITRS Geneos
9 3 (0.90%) Karpenter
9 3 (0.90%) Puppet
9 3 (0.90%) Salt
10 2 (0.60%) Opsgenie
11 1 (0.30%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.30%) Rancher
Vendors
1 18 (5.41%) Microsoft
2 15 (4.50%) Databricks
3 12 (3.60%) Splunk
4 10 (3.00%) Dynatrace
5 9 (2.70%) Confluent
5 9 (2.70%) Red Hat
6 8 (2.40%) OpenAI
7 7 (2.10%) Atlassian
8 5 (1.50%) Oracle
8 5 (1.50%) Sybase
9 4 (1.20%) IBM
9 4 (1.20%) Qualys
9 4 (1.20%) Tenable
10 3 (0.90%) AVEVA
10 3 (0.90%) Cloudera
10 3 (0.90%) Fortinet
10 3 (0.90%) Netlify
10 3 (0.90%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.60%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.60%) SAP