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

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 136 136 165
Rank change year-on-year 0 +29 +3
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 346 261 271
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.99% 2.06% 1.51%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.60% 4.83% 4.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 247 204 209
10th Percentile £353 £413 £400
25th Percentile £414 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.87% +15.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £613 £788 £588
90th Percentile £700 £838 £675
England median daily rate £513 £550 £510
% change year-on-year -6.82% +7.84% -11.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.00 - -
Median hourly rate £67.00 £35.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +91.43% - -
75th Percentile £73.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £76.00 £35.00 -
% change year-on-year +117.14% - -

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 7,525 5,407 6,717
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.33% 42.58% 37.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,175 3,760 4,950
10th Percentile £350 £356 £331
25th Percentile £425 £439 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £664 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 53 77
10th Percentile £20.01 £22.27 £17.78
25th Percentile £25.31 £24.66 £21.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +11.81% -25.71%
75th Percentile £51.81 £53.75 £40.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £72.50 £61.00
England median hourly rate £45.00 £26.75 £20.77
% change year-on-year +68.22% +28.79% -24.47%

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 18 April 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 18 April 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 +5 47 £510 - 23
South London 0 23 £500 +5.26%
West London -32 5 £675 +0.75% 2
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 34 (9.83%) Apache Airflow
2 28 (8.09%) Apache Spark
3 15 (4.34%) Confluence
4 14 (4.05%) Apache
5 9 (2.60%) nginx
6 4 (1.16%) CICS
7 2 (0.58%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 10 (2.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.16%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.58%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 346 (100.00%) AWS
2 342 (98.84%) Serverless
3 247 (71.39%) Amazon S3
4 106 (30.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 101 (29.19%) Amazon EC2
6 97 (28.03%) Amazon ECS
7 86 (24.86%) GitHub
8 85 (24.57%) AWS CloudFormation
9 75 (21.68%) Amazon EKS
10 66 (19.08%) GitHub Actions
11 65 (18.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 59 (17.05%) AWS Step Functions
13 37 (10.69%) Azure
14 36 (10.40%) Amazon Kinesis
14 36 (10.40%) Amazon SQS
15 29 (8.38%) Snowflake
16 26 (7.51%) AWS CodePipeline
17 24 (6.94%) Route 53
18 23 (6.65%) Amazon EMR
19 21 (6.07%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 24 (6.94%) DNS
2 16 (4.62%) Firewall
3 12 (3.47%) TCP/IP
3 12 (3.47%) VPN
4 9 (2.60%) OpenVPN
5 6 (1.73%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (0.58%) Kerberos
6 2 (0.58%) Network Security
7 1 (0.29%) 4G
7 1 (0.29%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (21.97%) Amazon RDS
2 61 (17.63%) Amazon Athena
3 60 (17.34%) DynamoDB
4 59 (17.05%) Amazon Redshift
5 48 (13.87%) PostgreSQL
6 30 (8.67%) Tableau
7 26 (7.51%) Amazon Aurora
8 20 (5.78%) Power BI
9 19 (5.49%) Data Warehouse
10 18 (5.20%) NoSQL
11 15 (4.34%) Data Lake
12 14 (4.05%) Amazon QuickSight
12 14 (4.05%) Big Data
12 14 (4.05%) Metadata
13 12 (3.47%) Apache Iceberg
14 11 (3.18%) DB2
14 11 (3.18%) Elasticsearch
15 10 (2.89%) MySQL
16 9 (2.60%) SQL Server
16 9 (2.60%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 65 (18.79%) GitLab
2 63 (18.21%) Git
3 62 (17.92%) Jenkins
4 27 (7.80%) JIRA
5 16 (4.62%) Bitbucket
6 12 (3.47%) JUnit
7 11 (3.18%) Cucumber
7 11 (3.18%) Cypress.io
8 7 (2.02%) SonarQube
9 5 (1.45%) Postman
9 5 (1.45%) Selenium
9 5 (1.45%) Snyk
10 4 (1.16%) Artifactory
10 4 (1.16%) Mocha
10 4 (1.16%) Mockito
10 4 (1.16%) Terragrunt
11 3 (0.87%) MSTest
11 3 (0.87%) Sonatype Nexus
11 3 (0.87%) tSQLt
11 3 (0.87%) Vite
General
1 92 (26.59%) Social Skills
2 57 (16.47%) Public Sector
3 53 (15.32%) Finance
4 41 (11.85%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (6.07%) Documentation Skills
6 19 (5.49%) Banking
7 5 (1.45%) Front Office
8 4 (1.16%) Police
9 3 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (0.87%) Investment Banking
9 3 (0.87%) Law
9 3 (0.87%) Military
9 3 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.58%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.58%) Games
10 2 (0.58%) Local Government
10 2 (0.58%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.58%) Retail
10 2 (0.58%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.29%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 70 (20.23%) Developer
2 67 (19.36%) AWS Engineer
3 63 (18.21%) Data Engineer
4 56 (16.18%) Senior
5 50 (14.45%) Architect
6 36 (10.40%) DevOps Engineer
7 33 (9.54%) Lead
8 28 (8.09%) AWS Developer
9 27 (7.80%) AWS Architect
10 22 (6.36%) AWS Data Engineer
11 21 (6.07%) AWS DevOps
12 18 (5.20%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 17 (4.91%) Analyst
13 17 (4.91%) Cloud Engineer
13 17 (4.91%) Data Architect
14 15 (4.34%) Full-Stack Developer
14 15 (4.34%) Senior Developer
14 15 (4.34%) Software Engineer
15 14 (4.05%) Python Developer
15 14 (4.05%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (17.63%) Kafka
2 44 (12.72%) React
3 43 (12.43%) Node.js
3 43 (12.43%) RESTful
4 34 (9.83%) Spring Boot
5 32 (9.25%) Spring
6 27 (7.80%) PySpark
7 23 (6.65%) OAuth
8 18 (5.20%) boto
9 17 (4.91%) CSS
10 16 (4.62%) AWS CDK
10 16 (4.62%) Pandas
11 15 (4.34%) REST
12 13 (3.76%) AngularJS
12 13 (3.76%) FastAPI
12 13 (3.76%) OpenID
13 12 (3.47%) HTML
13 12 (3.47%) JWT
14 11 (3.18%) Flask
14 11 (3.18%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 78 (22.54%) Cloud Native
2 21 (6.07%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (3.47%) Product Ownership
4 9 (2.60%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (2.31%) DataPower
5 8 (2.31%) Mainframe
6 6 (1.73%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (1.73%) PACS
6 6 (1.73%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 5 (1.45%) Equities
8 4 (1.16%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.16%) Derivative
8 4 (1.16%) Hedge funds
8 4 (1.16%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.16%) Online Banking
9 3 (0.87%) Data Structures
9 3 (0.87%) Equity Derivative
9 3 (0.87%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 33 (9.54%) Linux
2 13 (3.76%) Unix
3 4 (1.16%) zOS
4 1 (0.29%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (0.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 199 (57.51%) CI/CD
2 140 (40.46%) DevOps
3 135 (39.02%) Infrastructure as Code
4 92 (26.59%) Agile
5 79 (22.83%) Microservices
6 64 (18.50%) Problem-Solving
7 63 (18.21%) Data Pipeline
8 62 (17.92%) ETL
9 59 (17.05%) Containerisation
10 58 (16.76%) Analytics
11 56 (16.18%) Data Engineering
12 54 (15.61%) Data Modelling
13 46 (13.29%) Event-Driven
14 40 (11.56%) Observability
14 40 (11.56%) Software Engineering
15 39 (11.27%) AI
16 37 (10.69%) Test Automation
17 36 (10.40%) Continuous Improvement
18 33 (9.54%) Performance Tuning
19 32 (9.25%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 203 (58.67%) Python
2 119 (34.39%) SQL
3 67 (19.36%) Java
4 38 (10.98%) JavaScript
5 34 (9.83%) TypeScript
6 23 (6.65%) C#
7 22 (6.36%) Bash
8 19 (5.49%) Shell Script
9 17 (4.91%) Scala
10 8 (2.31%) Ruby
11 7 (2.02%) PowerShell
12 6 (1.73%) Go
13 4 (1.16%) Bicep
13 4 (1.16%) JCL
13 4 (1.16%) Korn
14 3 (0.87%) C++
14 3 (0.87%) JSX
14 3 (0.87%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.58%) Kotlin
15 2 (0.58%) Perl
Qualifications
1 124 (35.84%) Security Cleared
2 112 (32.37%) SC Cleared
3 29 (8.38%) AWS Certification
4 12 (3.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 10 (2.89%) BPSS Clearance
5 10 (2.89%) Degree
6 9 (2.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 7 (2.02%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (2.02%) Master's Degree
8 5 (1.45%) DV Cleared
9 4 (1.16%) AWS Certified Developer
9 4 (1.16%) PhD
10 3 (0.87%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.29%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.29%) CEH
11 1 (0.29%) CISSP
11 1 (0.29%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.29%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.29%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.29%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (9.54%) Data Quality
2 20 (5.78%) QA
3 8 (2.31%) NIST
4 7 (2.02%) PMO
5 6 (1.73%) ISO 20022
6 5 (1.45%) GDPR
7 4 (1.16%) Accessibility
7 4 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (1.16%) PCI DSS
7 4 (1.16%) SLA
8 2 (0.58%) WCAG
9 1 (0.29%) GRC
9 1 (0.29%) GxP
System Software
1 100 (28.90%) Docker
2 9 (2.60%) Squid
3 4 (1.16%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.87%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.58%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.29%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 174 (50.29%) Terraform
2 82 (23.70%) Kubernetes
3 32 (9.25%) Grafana
4 28 (8.09%) Prometheus
5 20 (5.78%) Ansible
6 12 (3.47%) Single Sign-On
7 10 (2.89%) Kibana
8 9 (2.60%) FortiGate
9 7 (2.02%) Consul
10 3 (0.87%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (0.87%) Karpenter
10 3 (0.87%) Puppet
10 3 (0.87%) Salt
11 2 (0.58%) Opsgenie
11 2 (0.58%) Rancher
12 1 (0.29%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 21 (6.07%) Microsoft
2 16 (4.62%) Databricks
3 12 (3.47%) Dynatrace
3 12 (3.47%) Splunk
4 9 (2.60%) Confluent
4 9 (2.60%) Red Hat
5 8 (2.31%) OpenAI
5 8 (2.31%) Sybase
6 7 (2.02%) Atlassian
7 6 (1.73%) ServiceNow
8 5 (1.45%) IBM
8 5 (1.45%) Oracle
9 4 (1.16%) Qualys
9 4 (1.16%) Tenable
10 3 (0.87%) AVEVA
10 3 (0.87%) Cloudera
10 3 (0.87%) Fortinet
10 3 (0.87%) Netlify
11 2 (0.58%) CA Agile Central
11 2 (0.58%) Salesforce