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

6 months to
6 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 155 149 188
Rank change year-on-year -6 +39 0
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 351 242 236
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.81% 1.82% 1.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.33% 4.23% 3.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 253 182 172
10th Percentile £355 £400 £376
25th Percentile £450 £451 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £595
90th Percentile £738 £800 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £520
% change year-on-year - +0.96% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - £36.50 -
25th Percentile £61.00 £38.75 -
Median hourly rate £67.00 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +48.89% - -
75th Percentile £73.00 £51.25 -
90th Percentile - £53.50 -
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 8,113 5,715 7,043
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.77% 43.02% 40.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,572 3,869 5,164
10th Percentile £360 £350 £350
25th Percentile £438 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £788
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 78 65
10th Percentile £19.50 £22.85 £18.67
25th Percentile £26.19 £25.15 £22.08
Median hourly rate £35.50 £30.75 £26.97
Median % change year-on-year +15.45% +14.02% -50.96%
75th Percentile £55.19 £48.44 £38.75
90th Percentile £76.93 £67.50 £60.50
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £22.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% +14.32% -33.33%

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 July 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 July 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 +3 42 £588 +6.82% 24
South London +9 20 £500 -19.35%
West London -20 14 £725 +28.32% 8
East London - 1 £500 -
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 35 (9.97%) Apache Airflow
2 27 (7.69%) Confluence
3 21 (5.98%) Apache Spark
4 11 (3.13%) Apache
5 9 (2.56%) nginx
6 6 (1.71%) CICS
7 2 (0.57%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.57%) SAS
8 1 (0.28%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.28%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (2.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.14%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.57%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 351 (100.00%) AWS
2 347 (98.86%) Serverless
3 258 (73.50%) Amazon S3
4 121 (34.47%) Amazon EC2
5 107 (30.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 94 (26.78%) Amazon ECS
7 85 (24.22%) Amazon EKS
8 74 (21.08%) GitHub
9 67 (19.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 62 (17.66%) AWS CloudFormation
11 57 (16.24%) GitHub Actions
12 49 (13.96%) AWS Step Functions
13 48 (13.68%) Amazon SQS
14 36 (10.26%) Amazon EMR
14 36 (10.26%) Azure
15 30 (8.55%) Power Platform
16 28 (7.98%) dbt
17 26 (7.41%) Snowflake
18 23 (6.55%) Amazon Bedrock
19 22 (6.27%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 18 (5.13%) Firewall
2 16 (4.56%) DNS
3 12 (3.42%) TCP/IP
4 11 (3.13%) VPN
5 9 (2.56%) OpenVPN
6 5 (1.42%) Network Security
7 4 (1.14%) WAN
8 3 (0.85%) Reverse Proxy
9 1 (0.28%) 4G
9 1 (0.28%) 5G
9 1 (0.28%) BGP
9 1 (0.28%) HTTP
9 1 (0.28%) Internet
9 1 (0.28%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (22.79%) Amazon RDS
2 69 (19.66%) Amazon Athena
3 65 (18.52%) DynamoDB
4 61 (17.38%) Amazon Redshift
5 32 (9.12%) PostgreSQL
6 30 (8.55%) Power BI
7 25 (7.12%) Data Warehouse
8 21 (5.98%) Tableau
9 20 (5.70%) Amazon Aurora
10 17 (4.84%) SQL Server
11 12 (3.42%) Data Lake
11 12 (3.42%) Metadata
11 12 (3.42%) NoSQL
12 11 (3.13%) Elasticsearch
13 10 (2.85%) Db2
13 10 (2.85%) MongoDB
14 9 (2.56%) Amazon QuickSight
14 9 (2.56%) Apache Iceberg
14 9 (2.56%) Big Data
15 8 (2.28%) Apache Hudi
Development Applications
1 69 (19.66%) GitLab
2 68 (19.37%) Jenkins
3 65 (18.52%) Git
4 37 (10.54%) JIRA
5 16 (4.56%) Bitbucket
5 16 (4.56%) Cucumber
6 10 (2.85%) Cypress.io
6 10 (2.85%) JUnit
7 7 (1.99%) Mocha
7 7 (1.99%) SonarQube
8 6 (1.71%) Artifactory
8 6 (1.71%) MSTest
8 6 (1.71%) Postman
8 6 (1.71%) tSQLt
9 5 (1.42%) Gatling
9 5 (1.42%) Mockito
9 5 (1.42%) REST Assured
10 4 (1.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 4 (1.14%) Selenium
11 3 (0.85%) Vite
General
1 94 (26.78%) Social Skills
2 63 (17.95%) Finance
3 57 (16.24%) Public Sector
4 28 (7.98%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (5.41%) Banking
6 17 (4.84%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (1.99%) Law
8 5 (1.42%) Military
9 4 (1.14%) Back Office
9 4 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (0.85%) Front Office
10 3 (0.85%) Police
10 3 (0.85%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.57%) Billing
11 2 (0.57%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.57%) Games
11 2 (0.57%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.57%) Local Government
11 2 (0.57%) Retail
Job Titles
1 78 (22.22%) AWS Engineer
2 65 (18.52%) Senior
3 63 (17.95%) Data Engineer
4 52 (14.81%) Developer
5 48 (13.68%) Lead
6 46 (13.11%) Architect
7 31 (8.83%) DevOps Engineer
8 25 (7.12%) AWS Developer
8 25 (7.12%) Software Engineer
9 23 (6.55%) AWS Architect
10 22 (6.27%) AWS Data Engineer
10 22 (6.27%) Cloud Engineer
11 17 (4.84%) AWS DevOps
11 17 (4.84%) Python Developer
12 15 (4.27%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 14 (3.99%) Python Engineer
13 14 (3.99%) Technical Leader
14 13 (3.70%) Analyst
14 13 (3.70%) Senior Data Engineer
14 13 (3.70%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (15.95%) Kafka
2 47 (13.39%) React
3 45 (12.82%) RESTful
4 36 (10.26%) PySpark
5 29 (8.26%) Node.js
6 26 (7.41%) REST
7 25 (7.12%) FastAPI
7 25 (7.12%) Spring Boot
8 22 (6.27%) Spring
9 19 (5.41%) .NET
9 19 (5.41%) GraphQL
10 17 (4.84%) Flask
11 14 (3.99%) Pandas
12 13 (3.70%) AWS CDK
12 13 (3.70%) SOAP
13 12 (3.42%) AngularJS
13 12 (3.42%) Next.js
13 12 (3.42%) Web Services
14 11 (3.13%) CSS
14 11 (3.13%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 89 (25.36%) Cloud Native
2 15 (4.27%) Distributed Systems
2 15 (4.27%) Product Ownership
3 8 (2.28%) Fixed Income
4 7 (1.99%) AI Agents
4 7 (1.99%) Greenfield Project
4 7 (1.99%) Hedge funds
4 7 (1.99%) Security Posture
5 6 (1.71%) DataPower
5 6 (1.71%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (1.71%) Mainframe
5 6 (1.71%) NHS
5 6 (1.71%) Online Banking
6 5 (1.42%) Cloud Security Posture
6 5 (1.42%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.14%) Distributed Computing
7 4 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.14%) Equities
7 4 (1.14%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 32 (9.12%) Linux
2 15 (4.27%) Unix
3 7 (1.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (1.71%) zOS
5 4 (1.14%) Windows
6 3 (0.85%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.28%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 211 (60.11%) CI/CD
2 140 (39.89%) DevOps
3 134 (38.18%) Infrastructure as Code
4 116 (33.05%) Agile
5 73 (20.80%) AI
6 66 (18.80%) Data Engineering
7 64 (18.23%) Microservices
8 63 (17.95%) Data Pipeline
9 56 (15.95%) Event-Driven
9 56 (15.95%) Test Automation
10 55 (15.67%) Containerisation
11 54 (15.38%) ETL
12 53 (15.10%) Analytics
12 53 (15.10%) Problem-Solving
13 52 (14.81%) Software Engineering
14 43 (12.25%) Continuous Improvement
14 43 (12.25%) Data Modelling
14 43 (12.25%) Platform Engineering
15 40 (11.40%) Migration
16 38 (10.83%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 216 (61.54%) Python
2 117 (33.33%) SQL
3 63 (17.95%) Java
4 47 (13.39%) TypeScript
5 39 (11.11%) JavaScript
6 32 (9.12%) Bash
6 32 (9.12%) C#
7 19 (5.41%) Shell Script
8 17 (4.84%) Scala
9 11 (3.13%) PowerShell
10 7 (1.99%) T-SQL
11 6 (1.71%) JCL
12 5 (1.42%) Go
13 4 (1.14%) Bicep
13 4 (1.14%) SPARQL
14 3 (0.85%) Cypher
14 3 (0.85%) Gremlin
15 2 (0.57%) C
16 1 (0.28%) C++
16 1 (0.28%) Haskell
Qualifications
1 107 (30.48%) Security Cleared
2 98 (27.92%) SC Cleared
3 33 (9.40%) AWS Certification
4 15 (4.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 14 (3.99%) Degree
6 13 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (3.13%) DV Cleared
8 9 (2.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 9 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (2.28%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 5 (1.42%) Master's Degree
11 4 (1.14%) AWS Certified Developer
11 4 (1.14%) DBS Check
12 3 (0.85%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.28%) Azure Certification
13 1 (0.28%) PhD
13 1 (0.28%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.28%) PMP
13 1 (0.28%) SAFe Agilist
13 1 (0.28%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (13.11%) Data Quality
2 18 (5.13%) QA
3 7 (1.99%) PMO
4 4 (1.14%) SLA
5 3 (0.85%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.85%) ISO 20022
5 3 (0.85%) NIST
6 1 (0.28%) GDPR
6 1 (0.28%) GRC
6 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.28%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.28%) WCAG
System Software
1 99 (28.21%) Docker
2 10 (2.85%) Squid
3 7 (1.99%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 168 (47.86%) Terraform
2 82 (23.36%) Kubernetes
3 38 (10.83%) Grafana
4 34 (9.69%) Prometheus
5 22 (6.27%) Ansible
6 9 (2.56%) FortiGate
6 9 (2.56%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (2.28%) Puppet
8 7 (1.99%) Consul
9 5 (1.42%) Kibana
9 5 (1.42%) Salt
10 3 (0.85%) Packer
11 1 (0.28%) Control-M
11 1 (0.28%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 14 (3.99%) Microsoft
1 14 (3.99%) Splunk
2 12 (3.42%) Informatica
2 12 (3.42%) Red Hat
3 10 (2.85%) Dynatrace
4 9 (2.56%) Databricks
5 7 (1.99%) Atlassian
5 7 (1.99%) OpenAI
5 7 (1.99%) Sybase
6 5 (1.42%) Oracle
6 5 (1.42%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.14%) Fortinet
7 4 (1.14%) Salesforce
8 3 (0.85%) AVEVA
8 3 (0.85%) Brio
8 3 (0.85%) Confluent
8 3 (0.85%) Netlify
8 3 (0.85%) PagerDuty
8 3 (0.85%) Qualys
9 2 (0.57%) Tenable