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 4 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 163 193 182
Rank change year-on-year +30 -11 -6
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 248 198 264
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.73% 1.26% 1.38%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.93% 3.08% 3.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 145 190
10th Percentile £375 £421 £413
25th Percentile £419 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -14.58% +14.29% -16.00%
75th Percentile £644 £788 £630
90th Percentile £698 £838 £714
England median daily rate £500 £575 £538
% change year-on-year -13.04% +6.98% -10.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £42.50 - -
Median hourly rate £45.00 - -
75th Percentile £47.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £45.00 - £77.50

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 6,310 6,434 7,386
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.93% 40.92% 38.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,286 4,388 5,431
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
25th Percentile £424 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.06%
75th Percentile £648 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 119 38 64
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.81 £18.28
25th Percentile £23.00 £23.98 £21.25
Median hourly rate £26.00 £35.00 £37.75
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% -7.28% +23.77%
75th Percentile £46.38 £58.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £65.30 £74.63
England median hourly rate £26.30 £32.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -17.81% +28.00% +11.11%

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 4 December 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 4 December 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 +20 35 £575 +11.38% 12
South London 0 6 £621 - 4
West London -14 4 £650 +4.00% 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 15 (6.05%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (5.65%) Apache Spark
3 10 (4.03%) Confluence
4 9 (3.63%) Apache
5 3 (1.21%) nginx
6 1 (0.40%) CICS
6 1 (0.40%) CMS
6 1 (0.40%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.40%) Jupyter
Applications
1 3 (1.21%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 247 (99.60%) AWS
1 247 (99.60%) Serverless
2 152 (61.29%) Amazon S3
3 79 (31.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 61 (24.60%) Amazon ECS
5 59 (23.79%) AWS CloudFormation
6 58 (23.39%) GitHub
7 54 (21.77%) Amazon EC2
8 41 (16.53%) GitHub Actions
9 31 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
10 29 (11.69%) Snowflake
11 28 (11.29%) AWS Step Functions
12 24 (9.68%) Amazon Kinesis
13 23 (9.27%) Amazon SQS
13 23 (9.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 20 (8.06%) Amazon EMR
14 20 (8.06%) AWS Fargate
14 20 (8.06%) Azure
15 12 (4.84%) Amazon Cognito
15 12 (4.84%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.63%) DNS
2 8 (3.23%) VPN
3 5 (2.02%) OpenLDAP
4 4 (1.61%) Firewall
4 4 (1.61%) SSL
5 3 (1.21%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (0.81%) DHCP
6 2 (0.81%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.40%) DKIM
7 1 (0.40%) NAS
7 1 (0.40%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (23.79%) Amazon RDS
2 50 (20.16%) DynamoDB
3 38 (15.32%) PostgreSQL
4 29 (11.69%) Amazon Athena
5 25 (10.08%) Amazon Redshift
6 21 (8.47%) Data Warehouse
7 19 (7.66%) Amazon Aurora
8 18 (7.26%) Relational Database
9 13 (5.24%) Tableau
10 10 (4.03%) Data Lake
11 8 (3.23%) Metadata
11 8 (3.23%) NoSQL
12 7 (2.82%) Power BI
12 7 (2.82%) RDBMS
13 6 (2.42%) Amazon QuickSight
13 6 (2.42%) Big Data
13 6 (2.42%) Redis
14 5 (2.02%) Apache Iceberg
14 5 (2.02%) DB2
14 5 (2.02%) Redshift Spectrum
Development Applications
1 42 (16.94%) Git
2 34 (13.71%) Jenkins
3 30 (12.10%) GitLab
4 18 (7.26%) JIRA
5 9 (3.63%) Cypress.io
6 8 (3.23%) JUnit
7 6 (2.42%) Cucumber
8 4 (1.61%) Postman
9 3 (1.21%) Bitbucket
9 3 (1.21%) Maven
9 3 (1.21%) Selenium
9 3 (1.21%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (0.81%) CircleCI
10 2 (0.81%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.81%) Serenity BDD
10 2 (0.81%) SoapUI
10 2 (0.81%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.40%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.40%) MLflow
11 1 (0.40%) RStudio
General
1 67 (27.02%) Social Skills
2 35 (14.11%) Public Sector
3 29 (11.69%) Finance
4 26 (10.48%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (6.05%) Banking
6 6 (2.42%) Front Office
7 5 (2.02%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (2.02%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.21%) Marketing
9 2 (0.81%) Digital Healthcare
9 2 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.81%) Military
9 2 (0.81%) Private Banking
10 1 (0.40%) Advertising
10 1 (0.40%) Aviation
10 1 (0.40%) Games
10 1 (0.40%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.40%) Police
10 1 (0.40%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 51 (20.56%) AWS Engineer
2 48 (19.35%) Developer
3 44 (17.74%) Senior
4 37 (14.92%) DevOps Engineer
5 26 (10.48%) Architect
6 25 (10.08%) Data Engineer
6 25 (10.08%) Lead
7 19 (7.66%) Software Engineer
8 18 (7.26%) AWS DevOps
9 15 (6.05%) AWS Developer
10 14 (5.65%) Python Engineer
11 13 (5.24%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 13 (5.24%) Java Developer
12 10 (4.03%) AWS Data Engineer
12 10 (4.03%) Senior Developer
13 9 (3.63%) Snowflake Engineer
14 8 (3.23%) AWS Architect
14 8 (3.23%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 8 (3.23%) Java Engineer
14 8 (3.23%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (22.58%) Node.js
2 37 (14.92%) Kafka
3 36 (14.52%) React
4 26 (10.48%) RESTful
5 19 (7.66%) Spring Boot
6 18 (7.26%) Spring
7 17 (6.85%) REST
8 13 (5.24%) AWS CDK
9 12 (4.84%) AngularJS
10 11 (4.44%) Jest
10 11 (4.44%) OAuth
11 10 (4.03%) CSS
11 10 (4.03%) GraphQL
12 9 (3.63%) boto
12 9 (3.63%) pytest
13 8 (3.23%) JSON
13 8 (3.23%) JWT
13 8 (3.23%) PySpark
14 7 (2.82%) LDAP
14 7 (2.82%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 51 (20.56%) Cloud Native
2 21 (8.47%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (4.84%) Data Protection Act
4 11 (4.44%) Product Ownership
5 7 (2.82%) Mobile App
6 6 (2.42%) Mainframe
7 5 (2.02%) DataPower
7 5 (2.02%) Distributed Architecture
7 5 (2.02%) Replication
8 4 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.61%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.21%) Derivative
9 3 (1.21%) Equities
9 3 (1.21%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (0.81%) AI Agents
10 2 (0.81%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.81%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.81%) Equity Derivative
10 2 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (0.40%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 20 (8.06%) Linux
2 3 (1.21%) Unix
3 2 (0.81%) Windows
4 1 (0.40%) AIX
4 1 (0.40%) Android
4 1 (0.40%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.40%) Solaris
4 1 (0.40%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (55.65%) CI/CD
2 111 (44.76%) DevOps
3 73 (29.44%) Infrastructure as Code
4 70 (28.23%) Agile
5 66 (26.61%) Microservices
6 44 (17.74%) Problem-Solving
7 41 (16.53%) Data Pipeline
8 38 (15.32%) Analytics
8 38 (15.32%) Containerisation
9 36 (14.52%) Data Modelling
10 35 (14.11%) Data Engineering
11 34 (13.71%) Event-Driven
11 34 (13.71%) Software Engineering
12 31 (12.50%) Observability
13 29 (11.69%) ETL
14 28 (11.29%) Full-Stack Development
15 26 (10.48%) AI
16 23 (9.27%) Mentoring
16 23 (9.27%) Migration
16 23 (9.27%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 138 (55.65%) Python
2 64 (25.81%) SQL
3 52 (20.97%) Java
4 42 (16.94%) TypeScript
5 36 (14.52%) JavaScript
6 19 (7.66%) Bash
7 10 (4.03%) Go
8 8 (3.23%) Ruby
9 7 (2.82%) Shell Script
10 6 (2.42%) JSX
10 6 (2.42%) Korn
11 4 (1.61%) Groovy
11 4 (1.61%) Scala
12 3 (1.21%) C#
12 3 (1.21%) PowerShell
13 2 (0.81%) Bicep
13 2 (0.81%) C++
13 2 (0.81%) Perl
13 2 (0.81%) PromQL
13 2 (0.81%) R
Qualifications
1 71 (28.63%) Security Cleared
2 60 (24.19%) SC Cleared
3 26 (10.48%) AWS Certification
4 11 (4.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 8 (3.23%) Degree
6 6 (2.42%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (2.42%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.61%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 4 (1.61%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.21%) AWS Certified Developer
8 3 (1.21%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.81%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (7.66%) QA
2 15 (6.05%) Data Quality
3 8 (3.23%) Accessibility
3 8 (3.23%) GDPR
4 4 (1.61%) WCAG
5 2 (0.81%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.40%) GxP
6 1 (0.40%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 1 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.40%) NCSC
System Software
1 58 (23.39%) Docker
2 5 (2.02%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.81%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.40%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 89 (35.89%) Terraform
2 58 (23.39%) Kubernetes
3 12 (4.84%) Ansible
4 10 (4.03%) Grafana
4 10 (4.03%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.61%) Rancher
6 3 (1.21%) ITRS Geneos
7 2 (0.81%) Kibana
7 2 (0.81%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.81%) SELinux
7 2 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.40%) Puppet
Vendors
1 16 (6.45%) Microsoft
2 13 (5.24%) Databricks
3 11 (4.44%) ServiceNow
4 6 (2.42%) Dynatrace
4 6 (2.42%) IBM
5 5 (2.02%) Atlassian
5 5 (2.02%) CA Agile Central
5 5 (2.02%) Oracle
5 5 (2.02%) Sybase
6 4 (1.61%) Pega
6 4 (1.61%) Splunk
7 3 (1.21%) Cloudera
7 3 (1.21%) Google
7 3 (1.21%) OpenAI
7 3 (1.21%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.81%) Avaloq
8 2 (0.81%) Cisco
9 1 (0.40%) Genesys
9 1 (0.40%) Murex
9 1 (0.40%) NetApp