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 20 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.
| 6 months to 20 Oct 2026 |
Same period 2025 | Same period 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | 197 | 174 | 224 |
| Rank change year-on-year | -23 | +50 | -34 |
| Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda | 303 | 205 | 163 |
| As % of all contract jobs in London | 1.48% | 1.54% | 1.03% |
| As % of the Cloud Services category | 3.61% | 3.53% | 2.51% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 234 | 143 | 114 |
| 10th Percentile | £402 | £413 | £404 |
| 25th Percentile | £450 | £463 | £456 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | £555 | £525 | £550 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +5.71% | -4.55% | +4.76% |
| 75th Percentile | £686 | £630 | £675 |
| 90th Percentile | £775 | £688 | £784 |
| England median daily rate | £524 | £500 | £550 |
| % change year-on-year | +4.75% | -9.09% | +2.33% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Median hourly rate | - | £50.00 | - |
| England median hourly rate | £73.83 | £50.00 | - |
| % change year-on-year | +47.66% | - | - |
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.
| 6 months to 20 Oct 2026 |
Same period 2025 | Same period 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills | 8,395 | 5,810 | 6,499 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London | 41.06% | 43.71% | 41.03% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 5,811 | 3,933 | 4,440 |
| 10th Percentile | £363 | £350 | £350 |
| 25th Percentile | £450 | £425 | £450 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | £550 | £525 | £550 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +4.76% | -4.55% | -1.79% |
| 75th Percentile | £650 | £650 | £675 |
| 90th Percentile | £750 | £775 | £800 |
| England median daily rate | £525 | £500 | £530 |
| % change year-on-year | +5.00% | -5.66% | -1.40% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted | 93 | 102 | 39 |
| 10th Percentile | £17.85 | £21.00 | £23.44 |
| 25th Percentile | £21.72 | £24.57 | £23.80 |
| Median hourly rate | £28.40 | £26.30 | £32.50 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +7.97% | -19.08% | -19.75% |
| 75th Percentile | £57.50 | £47.31 | £51.25 |
| 90th Percentile | £78.75 | £79.88 | £68.05 |
| England median hourly rate | £32.50 | £25.15 | £35.00 |
| % change year-on-year | +29.22% | -28.14% | +27.27% |
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 Daily Rate Trend in London
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 20 October 2026.
AWS Lambda Hourly Rate Trend in London
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 20 October 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 | -14 | 36 | £675 | - | 20 |
| West London | -3 | 22 | £725 | +88.31% | 7 |
| South London | 0 | 15 | £438 | -29.66% | 1 |
| East London | - | 1 | £500 | - | 4 |
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AWS Lambda Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category
The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.
Cloud Services
| Rank | Skill | Share | Job Ads |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AWS | 99.7% | 302 |
| 1 | Serverless | 99.7% | 302 |
| 3 | Amazon S3 | 68.0% | 206 |
| 4 | Amazon CloudWatch | 33.3% | 101 |
| 5 | Amazon ECS | 32.3% | 98 |
| 6 | Amazon EC2 | 30.7% | 93 |
| 7 | Amazon EKS | 28.7% | 87 |
| 8 | GitHub | 24.1% | 73 |
| 9 | GitHub Actions | 19.8% | 60 |
| 10 | AWS CloudFormation | 18.2% | 55 |
| 11 | Amazon SQS | 17.8% | 54 |
| 12 | Azure | 14.9% | 45 |
| 13 | AWS Step Functions | 13.9% | 42 |
| 14 | Virtual Private Cloud | 12.9% | 39 |
| 15 | Amazon EventBridge | 12.2% | 37 |
| 16 | dbt | 9.2% | 28 |
| 17 | Amazon EMR | 8.9% | 27 |
| 17 | Snowflake | 8.9% | 27 |
| 19 | Power Platform | 7.6% | 23 |
| 20 | Datadog | 6.6% | 20 |