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 6 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 144 188
Rank change year-on-year -2 +44 -27
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 344 243 237
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.85% 2.00% 1.35%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.38% 4.64% 3.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 248 186 178
10th Percentile £354 £400 £375
25th Percentile £450 £455 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £626 £631 £588
90th Percentile £738 £838 £657
England median daily rate £519 £525 £510
% change year-on-year -1.09% +2.94% -7.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £37.00 -
25th Percentile £61.00 £40.00 -
Median hourly rate £67.00 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +48.89% - -
75th Percentile £73.00 £50.00 -
90th Percentile - £53.00 -
England median hourly rate £75.00 £45.00 -
% change year-on-year +66.67% - -

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 7,857 5,240 6,834
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.31% 43.17% 39.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,423 3,548 5,021
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £665 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £513 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 62 69
10th Percentile £21.02 £22.29 £17.47
25th Percentile £26.88 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +11.81% -50.48%
75th Percentile £55.81 £42.81 £38.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £66.95 £58.50
England median hourly rate £42.69 £25.50 £21.46
% change year-on-year +67.39% +18.83% -38.69%

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 6 June 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 6 June 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 0 43 £575 +11.65% 23
South London +3 21 £500 +3.90%
West London -21 13 £738 +30.53% 2
East London - 1 £500 - 1
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 31 (9.01%) Apache Airflow
2 21 (6.10%) Apache Spark
2 21 (6.10%) Confluence
3 9 (2.62%) Apache
3 9 (2.62%) nginx
4 6 (1.74%) CICS
5 2 (0.58%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (0.58%) SAS
6 1 (0.29%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 10 (2.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.74%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.58%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 344 (100.00%) AWS
2 340 (98.84%) Serverless
3 247 (71.80%) Amazon S3
4 118 (34.30%) Amazon EC2
5 102 (29.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 86 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
7 85 (24.71%) Amazon ECS
8 80 (23.26%) GitHub
9 67 (19.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 65 (18.90%) GitHub Actions
11 64 (18.60%) AWS CloudFormation
12 56 (16.28%) AWS Step Functions
13 46 (13.37%) Amazon SQS
14 33 (9.59%) Amazon Kinesis
15 32 (9.30%) Azure
16 26 (7.56%) Amazon EMR
17 24 (6.98%) Amazon EventBridge
18 23 (6.69%) Snowflake
19 22 (6.40%) Route 53
20 21 (6.10%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 24 (6.98%) DNS
2 15 (4.36%) Firewall
3 12 (3.49%) TCP/IP
4 10 (2.91%) VPN
5 9 (2.62%) OpenVPN
6 4 (1.16%) Reverse Proxy
7 3 (0.87%) Network Security
8 1 (0.29%) 4G
8 1 (0.29%) 5G
8 1 (0.29%) HTTP
8 1 (0.29%) Internet
8 1 (0.29%) SSL
8 1 (0.29%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (23.26%) Amazon RDS
2 65 (18.90%) DynamoDB
3 61 (17.73%) Amazon Athena
4 56 (16.28%) Amazon Redshift
5 38 (11.05%) PostgreSQL
6 27 (7.85%) Amazon Aurora
7 23 (6.69%) Tableau
8 21 (6.10%) Power BI
9 17 (4.94%) SQL Server
10 15 (4.36%) Apache Iceberg
10 15 (4.36%) NoSQL
11 14 (4.07%) Data Warehouse
12 13 (3.78%) Metadata
13 11 (3.20%) Amazon QuickSight
13 11 (3.20%) Big Data
13 11 (3.20%) Elasticsearch
14 10 (2.91%) Db2
15 9 (2.62%) Data Vault
16 8 (2.33%) Data Lake
16 8 (2.33%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 67 (19.48%) Jenkins
2 65 (18.90%) GitLab
3 57 (16.57%) Git
4 28 (8.14%) JIRA
5 17 (4.94%) Cucumber
6 14 (4.07%) Bitbucket
7 9 (2.62%) Cypress.io
7 9 (2.62%) JUnit
8 7 (2.03%) Mocha
8 7 (2.03%) SonarQube
9 6 (1.74%) MSTest
9 6 (1.74%) tSQLt
10 5 (1.45%) Artifactory
10 5 (1.45%) Gatling
10 5 (1.45%) Postman
10 5 (1.45%) REST Assured
10 5 (1.45%) Snyk
11 4 (1.16%) Mockito
11 4 (1.16%) Selenium
11 4 (1.16%) Terragrunt
General
1 95 (27.62%) Social Skills
2 57 (16.57%) Finance
3 49 (14.24%) Public Sector
4 28 (8.14%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (5.23%) Documentation Skills
6 16 (4.65%) Banking
7 5 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (1.45%) Law
8 4 (1.16%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (0.87%) Back Office
9 3 (0.87%) Police
9 3 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (0.87%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.58%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.58%) Front Office
10 2 (0.58%) Games
10 2 (0.58%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.58%) Local Government
10 2 (0.58%) Military
10 2 (0.58%) Retail
Job Titles
1 67 (19.48%) AWS Engineer
2 65 (18.90%) Developer
3 63 (18.31%) Data Engineer
4 54 (15.70%) Senior
5 52 (15.12%) Architect
6 46 (13.37%) Lead
7 31 (9.01%) AWS Architect
8 29 (8.43%) AWS Developer
9 26 (7.56%) DevOps Engineer
10 23 (6.69%) Software Engineer
11 21 (6.10%) AWS Data Engineer
12 20 (5.81%) Python Developer
13 18 (5.23%) Data Architect
14 17 (4.94%) Cloud Engineer
15 15 (4.36%) Full-Stack Developer
15 15 (4.36%) Python Engineer
16 14 (4.07%) Analyst
17 12 (3.49%) AWS DevOps
18 11 (3.20%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 11 (3.20%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (17.44%) Kafka
2 49 (14.24%) React
3 48 (13.95%) RESTful
4 31 (9.01%) PySpark
5 29 (8.43%) Node.js
6 28 (8.14%) Spring Boot
7 26 (7.56%) REST
8 25 (7.27%) Spring
9 24 (6.98%) FastAPI
10 19 (5.52%) AngularJS
11 18 (5.23%) .NET
11 18 (5.23%) Flask
12 16 (4.65%) CSS
12 16 (4.65%) OAuth
13 15 (4.36%) boto
13 15 (4.36%) HTML
13 15 (4.36%) Next.js
13 15 (4.36%) Pandas
14 14 (4.07%) AWS CDK
15 13 (3.78%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 89 (25.87%) Cloud Native
2 16 (4.65%) Product Ownership
3 15 (4.36%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (2.33%) Fixed Income
5 7 (2.03%) Hedge funds
6 6 (1.74%) DataPower
6 6 (1.74%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (1.74%) Mainframe
6 6 (1.74%) Online Banking
6 6 (1.74%) PACS
6 6 (1.74%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 5 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.45%) NHS
8 4 (1.16%) AI Agents
8 4 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.16%) Distributed Computing
8 4 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.16%) Equities
8 4 (1.16%) Security Posture
9 3 (0.87%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 29 (8.43%) Linux
2 15 (4.36%) Unix
3 6 (1.74%) zOS
4 2 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.58%) Windows
5 1 (0.29%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 201 (58.43%) CI/CD
2 134 (38.95%) Infrastructure as Code
3 128 (37.21%) DevOps
4 104 (30.23%) Agile
5 65 (18.90%) Microservices
6 60 (17.44%) Data Pipeline
7 57 (16.57%) ETL
8 55 (15.99%) Event-Driven
9 54 (15.70%) AI
10 53 (15.41%) Containerisation
10 53 (15.41%) Data Engineering
10 53 (15.41%) Problem-Solving
11 50 (14.53%) Analytics
11 50 (14.53%) Test Automation
12 49 (14.24%) Software Engineering
13 47 (13.66%) Data Modelling
14 43 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
15 42 (12.21%) Observability
16 36 (10.47%) Migration
17 35 (10.17%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 201 (58.43%) Python
2 112 (32.56%) SQL
3 67 (19.48%) Java
4 43 (12.50%) JavaScript
5 42 (12.21%) TypeScript
6 32 (9.30%) C#
7 24 (6.98%) Bash
8 19 (5.52%) Scala
9 18 (5.23%) Shell Script
10 10 (2.91%) PowerShell
11 7 (2.03%) T-SQL
12 6 (1.74%) Go
12 6 (1.74%) JCL
13 4 (1.16%) Bicep
14 2 (0.58%) Ruby
15 1 (0.29%) C
15 1 (0.29%) Groovy
15 1 (0.29%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.29%) PHP
15 1 (0.29%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 106 (30.81%) Security Cleared
2 97 (28.20%) SC Cleared
3 27 (7.85%) AWS Certification
4 14 (4.07%) Degree
5 12 (3.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 12 (3.49%) BPSS Clearance
6 10 (2.91%) DV Cleared
7 9 (2.62%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (1.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 4 (1.16%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 4 (1.16%) AWS Certified Developer
9 4 (1.16%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.87%) DBS Check
10 3 (0.87%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.58%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.29%) CompTIA Security+
12 1 (0.29%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.29%) PMP
12 1 (0.29%) SAFe Agilist
12 1 (0.29%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (9.01%) Data Quality
2 20 (5.81%) QA
3 8 (2.33%) NIST
4 7 (2.03%) PMO
5 6 (1.74%) ISO 20022
6 4 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.16%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.16%) SLA
7 2 (0.58%) GDPR
8 1 (0.29%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.29%) GRC
8 1 (0.29%) WCAG
System Software
1 96 (27.91%) Docker
2 10 (2.91%) Squid
3 6 (1.74%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 166 (48.26%) Terraform
2 81 (23.55%) Kubernetes
3 35 (10.17%) Grafana
4 32 (9.30%) Prometheus
5 18 (5.23%) Ansible
6 12 (3.49%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (2.62%) FortiGate
7 9 (2.62%) Kibana
8 7 (2.03%) Consul
9 5 (1.45%) Puppet
10 4 (1.16%) Salt
11 3 (0.87%) Karpenter
12 1 (0.29%) Control-M
12 1 (0.29%) HP Fortify
12 1 (0.29%) Packer
Vendors
1 14 (4.07%) Microsoft
2 13 (3.78%) Splunk
3 10 (2.91%) Dynatrace
3 10 (2.91%) Red Hat
4 9 (2.62%) Confluent
4 9 (2.62%) Databricks
5 7 (2.03%) Atlassian
5 7 (2.03%) OpenAI
5 7 (2.03%) Sybase
6 5 (1.45%) Informatica
6 5 (1.45%) Oracle
6 5 (1.45%) Qualys
6 5 (1.45%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.16%) Tenable
8 3 (0.87%) AVEVA
8 3 (0.87%) Brio
8 3 (0.87%) Fortinet
8 3 (0.87%) Netlify
9 2 (0.58%) Google
9 2 (0.58%) ServiceNow