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

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 164 213 184
Rank change year-on-year +49 -29 -17
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 235 177 272
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.69% 1.13% 1.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.81% 2.76% 3.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 124 191
10th Percentile £381 £413 £406
25th Percentile £436 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +4.76% -16.00%
75th Percentile £631 £709 £628
90th Percentile £688 £788 £710
England median daily rate £500 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -9.09% +2.33% -10.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £43.75 - -
25th Percentile £45.63 - -
Median hourly rate £50.00 - -
75th Percentile £53.13 - -
90th Percentile £54.25 - -
England median hourly rate £50.00 - £77.50
% change year-on-year - - +3.33%

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 6,165 6,417 7,885
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.32% 40.96% 38.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,168 4,355 5,805
10th Percentile £350 £350 £337
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £788 £775
England median daily rate £500 £535 £525
% change year-on-year -6.54% +1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 118 36 70
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.50 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.19 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £25.74 £33.75 £38.38
Median % change year-on-year -23.75% -12.05% +39.55%
75th Percentile £41.25 £56.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £71.13 £85.16
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% +27.27% +22.22%

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 8 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 8 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 +18 30 £613 +19.51% 151
South London - 7 £622 - 2
West London -9 4 - - 3
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 14 (5.96%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (5.11%) Apache Spark
3 11 (4.68%) Confluence
4 8 (3.40%) Apache
5 5 (2.13%) CMS
5 5 (2.13%) Headless CMS
5 5 (2.13%) nginx
6 1 (0.43%) CICS
6 1 (0.43%) JBoss
6 1 (0.43%) Jupyter
Applications
1 3 (1.28%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 234 (99.57%) AWS
1 234 (99.57%) Serverless
2 151 (64.26%) Amazon S3
3 72 (30.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 54 (22.98%) Amazon EC2
4 54 (22.98%) Amazon ECS
5 53 (22.55%) AWS CloudFormation
6 50 (21.28%) GitHub
7 33 (14.04%) GitHub Actions
8 29 (12.34%) Amazon SQS
9 28 (11.91%) Amazon EKS
9 28 (11.91%) Amazon Kinesis
10 27 (11.49%) AWS Step Functions
11 25 (10.64%) Snowflake
12 23 (9.79%) AWS Fargate
13 20 (8.51%) Amazon EMR
14 19 (8.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 18 (7.66%) Amazon Cognito
16 14 (5.96%) Azure
17 12 (5.11%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.98%) DNS
1 7 (2.98%) VPN
2 5 (2.13%) OpenLDAP
3 4 (1.70%) Firewall
3 4 (1.70%) SSL
4 2 (0.85%) DHCP
4 2 (0.85%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (0.85%) SSH
5 1 (0.43%) DKIM
5 1 (0.43%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.43%) NAS
5 1 (0.43%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (25.96%) DynamoDB
2 56 (23.83%) Amazon RDS
3 39 (16.60%) PostgreSQL
4 25 (10.64%) Amazon Athena
5 23 (9.79%) Amazon Redshift
6 20 (8.51%) Data Warehouse
7 18 (7.66%) Relational Database
8 16 (6.81%) Amazon Aurora
9 14 (5.96%) Tableau
10 9 (3.83%) NoSQL
11 7 (2.98%) Data Lake
11 7 (2.98%) Metadata
11 7 (2.98%) Power BI
11 7 (2.98%) RDBMS
12 5 (2.13%) Amazon QuickSight
12 5 (2.13%) Apache Iceberg
12 5 (2.13%) DB2
12 5 (2.13%) Redis
12 5 (2.13%) Redshift Spectrum
13 4 (1.70%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 38 (16.17%) Git
2 34 (14.47%) Jenkins
3 20 (8.51%) GitLab
4 18 (7.66%) JIRA
5 11 (4.68%) JUnit
6 10 (4.26%) Cucumber
6 10 (4.26%) Cypress.io
7 7 (2.98%) Maven
8 4 (1.70%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (1.28%) Bitbucket
9 3 (1.28%) Postman
10 2 (0.85%) CircleCI
10 2 (0.85%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.85%) Selenium
10 2 (0.85%) SoapUI
10 2 (0.85%) Visual Studio Code
11 1 (0.43%) Ant
11 1 (0.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.43%) git-flow
11 1 (0.43%) Mockito
General
1 60 (25.53%) Social Skills
2 27 (11.49%) Public Sector
3 24 (10.21%) Finance
4 22 (9.36%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (4.68%) Banking
6 5 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (1.70%) Front Office
7 4 (1.70%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.28%) Marketing
9 2 (0.85%) Aviation
9 2 (0.85%) Digital Healthcare
9 2 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.85%) Private Banking
9 2 (0.85%) Publishing
10 1 (0.43%) Advertising
10 1 (0.43%) Games
10 1 (0.43%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.43%) Military
10 1 (0.43%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 46 (19.57%) Developer
2 44 (18.72%) AWS Engineer
3 42 (17.87%) Senior
4 33 (14.04%) DevOps Engineer
5 23 (9.79%) Architect
5 23 (9.79%) Data Engineer
6 22 (9.36%) Lead
7 19 (8.09%) Software Engineer
8 17 (7.23%) AWS Developer
9 13 (5.53%) Full-Stack Developer
9 13 (5.53%) Java Developer
10 12 (5.11%) AWS DevOps
11 11 (4.68%) Python Engineer
12 9 (3.83%) AWS Data Engineer
12 9 (3.83%) Cloud Engineer
12 9 (3.83%) Senior Developer
13 8 (3.40%) AWS Architect
13 8 (3.40%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 8 (3.40%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 7 (2.98%) JavaScript Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (23.40%) Node.js
2 38 (16.17%) React
3 34 (14.47%) Kafka
4 22 (9.36%) RESTful
5 21 (8.94%) Spring
6 18 (7.66%) REST
7 15 (6.38%) AWS CDK
7 15 (6.38%) GraphQL
8 14 (5.96%) AngularJS
8 14 (5.96%) Jest
8 14 (5.96%) OAuth
8 14 (5.96%) Spring Boot
9 11 (4.68%) CSS
10 8 (3.40%) boto
10 8 (3.40%) Next.js
10 8 (3.40%) pytest
11 7 (2.98%) JWT
11 7 (2.98%) LDAP
11 7 (2.98%) OAuth2
11 7 (2.98%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 49 (20.85%) Cloud Native
2 15 (6.38%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (5.53%) Data Protection Act
4 11 (4.68%) Product Ownership
5 7 (2.98%) Distributed Architecture
5 7 (2.98%) Mobile App
6 4 (1.70%) Onboarding
6 4 (1.70%) Replication
7 3 (1.28%) AI Agents
7 3 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.28%) Mainframe
7 3 (1.28%) Virtual Team
8 2 (0.85%) DataPower
8 2 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.43%) Data Fabric
9 1 (0.43%) Derivative
9 1 (0.43%) NHS
9 1 (0.43%) Reference Data
9 1 (0.43%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 15 (6.38%) Linux
2 2 (0.85%) Amazon Linux
2 2 (0.85%) Unix
2 2 (0.85%) Windows
3 1 (0.43%) AIX
3 1 (0.43%) Android
3 1 (0.43%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.43%) Solaris
3 1 (0.43%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (50.64%) CI/CD
2 98 (41.70%) DevOps
3 77 (32.77%) Agile
4 64 (27.23%) Infrastructure as Code
5 51 (21.70%) Microservices
6 40 (17.02%) Problem-Solving
7 34 (14.47%) Data Pipeline
7 34 (14.47%) Software Engineering
8 33 (14.04%) Full-Stack Development
9 32 (13.62%) Analytics
10 31 (13.19%) Containerisation
10 31 (13.19%) Event-Driven
11 30 (12.77%) Data Modelling
11 30 (12.77%) Mentoring
12 27 (11.49%) Data Engineering
12 27 (11.49%) Observability
13 26 (11.06%) ETL
14 23 (9.79%) Test Automation
15 22 (9.36%) AI
15 22 (9.36%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 128 (54.47%) Python
2 58 (24.68%) SQL
3 48 (20.43%) Java
4 46 (19.57%) TypeScript
5 38 (16.17%) JavaScript
6 16 (6.81%) Bash
7 10 (4.26%) Go
8 7 (2.98%) PowerShell
9 6 (2.55%) JSX
10 5 (2.13%) Ruby
10 5 (2.13%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.70%) Korn
11 4 (1.70%) Scala
12 3 (1.28%) Groovy
13 2 (0.85%) CodeQL
13 2 (0.85%) Perl
13 2 (0.85%) PromQL
13 2 (0.85%) R
14 1 (0.43%) Bicep
14 1 (0.43%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 63 (26.81%) Security Cleared
2 54 (22.98%) SC Cleared
3 30 (12.77%) AWS Certification
4 10 (4.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 8 (3.40%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (2.55%) Degree
7 5 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.28%) AWS Certified Developer
8 3 (1.28%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.43%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (8.09%) QA
2 12 (5.11%) Data Quality
3 8 (3.40%) GDPR
4 7 (2.98%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.70%) WCAG
6 2 (0.85%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.43%) GxP
7 1 (0.43%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.43%) NCSC
7 1 (0.43%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 55 (23.40%) Docker
2 5 (2.13%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.85%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 76 (32.34%) Terraform
2 47 (20.00%) Kubernetes
3 14 (5.96%) Ansible
4 11 (4.68%) Prometheus
5 10 (4.26%) Grafana
6 4 (1.70%) Kibana
7 3 (1.28%) Rancher
7 3 (1.28%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.85%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.85%) Packer
8 2 (0.85%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.85%) SELinux
9 1 (0.43%) Puppet
Vendors
1 14 (5.96%) Microsoft
2 12 (5.11%) ServiceNow
3 10 (4.26%) CA Agile Central
4 8 (3.40%) Databricks
5 6 (2.55%) Oracle
6 5 (2.13%) Atlassian
6 5 (2.13%) Dynatrace
6 5 (2.13%) Sybase
7 4 (1.70%) Pega
7 4 (1.70%) Splunk
8 3 (1.28%) Google
8 3 (1.28%) IBM
8 3 (1.28%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.85%) Avaloq
9 2 (0.85%) Cisco
9 2 (0.85%) Cloudera
9 2 (0.85%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.43%) NetApp
10 1 (0.43%) Sage
10 1 (0.43%) StreamSets