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

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 178 157 205
Rank change year-on-year -21 +48 -8
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 326 235 201
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.62% 1.76% 1.24%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.93% 4.06% 3.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 238 181 138
10th Percentile £384 £400 £379
25th Percentile £450 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -
75th Percentile £650 £625 £647
90th Percentile £756 £688 £738
England median daily rate £525 £509 £525
% change year-on-year +3.19% -3.10% -
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 £72.00 £45.00 -
% change year-on-year +60.00% - -

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 8,291 5,782 6,643
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.30% 43.23% 40.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,664 3,958 4,756
10th Percentile £363 £338 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.89% -3.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £644 £652 £675
90th Percentile £749 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 89 46
10th Percentile £19.25 £22.90 £21.00
25th Percentile £23.50 £25.01 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £28.25
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +2.90% -43.50%
75th Percentile £57.50 £43.75 £40.25
90th Percentile £78.55 £68.40 £61.75
England median hourly rate £35.00 £26.15 £27.50
% change year-on-year +33.84% -4.91% -16.67%

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 26 August 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 26 August 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 -11 37 £650 +4.00% 6
West London -4 18 £725 +51.80% 7
South London -2 12 £463 -25.64% 1
East London - 1 £500 - 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 37 (11.35%) Apache Airflow
2 26 (7.98%) Confluence
3 20 (6.13%) Apache Spark
4 12 (3.68%) Apache
5 5 (1.53%) CICS
6 3 (0.92%) SAS
7 2 (0.61%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.61%) PowerExchange
8 1 (0.31%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.31%) nginx
8 1 (0.31%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.92%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.92%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 326 (100.00%) AWS
2 322 (98.77%) Serverless
3 234 (71.78%) Amazon S3
4 99 (30.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 94 (28.83%) Amazon EC2
6 88 (26.99%) Amazon ECS
7 71 (21.78%) Amazon EKS
8 67 (20.55%) GitHub
9 55 (16.87%) AWS Step Functions
10 52 (15.95%) GitHub Actions
11 51 (15.64%) Amazon SQS
12 47 (14.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 46 (14.11%) AWS CloudFormation
14 43 (13.19%) Azure
15 35 (10.74%) Amazon EMR
16 31 (9.51%) Amazon EventBridge
16 31 (9.51%) dbt
16 31 (9.51%) Snowflake
17 29 (8.90%) Power Platform
18 23 (7.06%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.45%) Firewall
2 6 (1.84%) DNS
3 4 (1.23%) Network Security
3 4 (1.23%) WAN
4 3 (0.92%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.92%) VPN
5 2 (0.61%) HTTP
5 2 (0.61%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.31%) BGP
6 1 (0.31%) Internet
6 1 (0.31%) OpenVPN
6 1 (0.31%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (24.23%) Amazon RDS
2 68 (20.86%) Amazon Athena
3 63 (19.33%) DynamoDB
4 49 (15.03%) Amazon Redshift
5 32 (9.82%) Data Warehouse
6 29 (8.90%) Power BI
7 26 (7.98%) PostgreSQL
8 19 (5.83%) Amazon Aurora
9 17 (5.21%) Metadata
10 16 (4.91%) Tableau
11 14 (4.29%) SQL Server
12 11 (3.37%) Apache Iceberg
12 11 (3.37%) NoSQL
13 9 (2.76%) Data Lake
14 8 (2.45%) Big Data
14 8 (2.45%) BigQuery
14 8 (2.45%) Delta Lake
14 8 (2.45%) Relational Database
15 7 (2.15%) Db2
15 7 (2.15%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 66 (20.25%) Jenkins
2 63 (19.33%) Git
2 63 (19.33%) GitLab
3 34 (10.43%) JIRA
4 13 (3.99%) Cypress.io
5 12 (3.68%) Cucumber
6 10 (3.07%) Bitbucket
7 8 (2.45%) Selenium
8 5 (1.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 5 (1.53%) Claude Code
8 5 (1.53%) Gatling
8 5 (1.53%) Postman
8 5 (1.53%) REST Assured
9 4 (1.23%) Artifactory
9 4 (1.23%) Mocha
10 3 (0.92%) JUnit
10 3 (0.92%) Mockito
10 3 (0.92%) MSTest
10 3 (0.92%) tSQLt
11 2 (0.61%) JMeter
General
1 78 (23.93%) Social Skills
2 58 (17.79%) Finance
3 50 (15.34%) Public Sector
4 27 (8.28%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (6.75%) Banking
6 8 (2.45%) Back Office
6 8 (2.45%) Law
7 6 (1.84%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (1.84%) Front Office
7 6 (1.84%) Military
8 5 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (0.92%) Marketing
10 3 (0.92%) Police
11 2 (0.61%) Games
11 2 (0.61%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.61%) Local Government
11 2 (0.61%) Retail
11 2 (0.61%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.31%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 73 (22.39%) AWS Engineer
2 70 (21.47%) Senior
3 65 (19.94%) Data Engineer
4 49 (15.03%) Developer
5 44 (13.50%) Architect
5 44 (13.50%) Lead
6 26 (7.98%) DevOps Engineer
6 26 (7.98%) Software Engineer
7 23 (7.06%) AWS Data Engineer
7 23 (7.06%) AWS Developer
8 22 (6.75%) Cloud Engineer
9 21 (6.44%) AWS Architect
10 16 (4.91%) Senior Data Engineer
10 16 (4.91%) Technical Leader
11 15 (4.60%) Python Developer
11 15 (4.60%) Senior Software Engineer
12 14 (4.29%) Platform Engineer
13 13 (3.99%) Python Engineer
14 12 (3.68%) Lead DevOps
15 11 (3.37%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 152 (46.63%) Terraform
2 49 (15.03%) React
3 38 (11.66%) PySpark
4 37 (11.35%) Kafka
5 34 (10.43%) REST
5 34 (10.43%) RESTful
6 31 (9.51%) FastAPI
7 29 (8.90%) Node.js
8 21 (6.44%) GraphQL
9 19 (5.83%) Flask
9 19 (5.83%) Spring Boot
10 18 (5.52%) Spring
11 17 (5.21%) .NET
12 15 (4.60%) Pandas
13 13 (3.99%) Next.js
14 12 (3.68%) AWS CDK
15 11 (3.37%) AngularJS
15 11 (3.37%) JSON
15 11 (3.37%) Playwright
16 10 (3.07%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 86 (26.38%) Cloud Native
2 20 (6.13%) Distributed Systems
2 20 (6.13%) Product Ownership
3 13 (3.99%) AI Agents
4 9 (2.76%) Fixed Income
5 7 (2.15%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (2.15%) Hedge funds
5 7 (2.15%) Security Posture
6 6 (1.84%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (1.84%) Mainframe
6 6 (1.84%) NHS
7 5 (1.53%) Cloud Security Posture
7 5 (1.53%) DataPower
7 5 (1.53%) Online Banking
8 4 (1.23%) Distributed Computing
8 4 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.23%) Equities
8 4 (1.23%) Legacy Code
8 4 (1.23%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.23%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 33 (10.12%) Linux
2 14 (4.29%) Unix
3 8 (2.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.53%) zOS
5 4 (1.23%) Windows
6 3 (0.92%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 201 (61.66%) CI/CD
2 137 (42.02%) Infrastructure as Code
3 123 (37.73%) DevOps
4 120 (36.81%) Agile
5 78 (23.93%) AI
6 68 (20.86%) Data Engineering
7 67 (20.55%) Data Pipeline
8 63 (19.33%) Software Engineering
9 60 (18.40%) Test Automation
10 58 (17.79%) Event-Driven
11 56 (17.18%) Analytics
12 55 (16.87%) Containerisation
12 55 (16.87%) Microservices
13 50 (15.34%) ETL
14 46 (14.11%) Migration
14 46 (14.11%) Platform Engineering
15 45 (13.80%) Data Modelling
15 45 (13.80%) Observability
15 45 (13.80%) Technical Leadership
16 43 (13.19%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 208 (63.80%) Python
2 113 (34.66%) SQL
3 55 (16.87%) TypeScript
4 52 (15.95%) Java
5 37 (11.35%) JavaScript
6 32 (9.82%) Bash
7 26 (7.98%) C#
8 17 (5.21%) Shell Script
9 15 (4.60%) Scala
10 10 (3.07%) PowerShell
11 5 (1.53%) JCL
12 4 (1.23%) Cypher
12 4 (1.23%) Gremlin
12 4 (1.23%) PL/SQL
12 4 (1.23%) SPARQL
12 4 (1.23%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.92%) Bicep
13 3 (0.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.61%) C
14 2 (0.61%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 94 (28.83%) Security Cleared
2 85 (26.07%) SC Cleared
3 35 (10.74%) AWS Certification
4 16 (4.91%) BPSS Clearance
4 16 (4.91%) DV Cleared
5 15 (4.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 13 (3.99%) Degree
7 9 (2.76%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 7 (2.15%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 7 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (0.92%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.92%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.61%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.61%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.31%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.31%) ISEB
11 1 (0.31%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.31%) PMP
11 1 (0.31%) SAFe Agilist
11 1 (0.31%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (15.95%) Data Quality
2 24 (7.36%) QA
3 3 (0.92%) Accessibility
3 3 (0.92%) PMO
3 3 (0.92%) SLA
4 2 (0.61%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 92 (28.22%) Docker
2 5 (1.53%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.61%) Squid
4 1 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 68 (20.86%) Kubernetes
2 33 (10.12%) Grafana
3 25 (7.67%) Ansible
3 25 (7.67%) Prometheus
4 8 (2.45%) Kibana
5 7 (2.15%) Puppet
6 4 (1.23%) Salt
7 3 (0.92%) Packer
8 2 (0.61%) Argo
8 2 (0.61%) Control-M
8 2 (0.61%) Istio
9 1 (0.31%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.31%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.31%) ITRS Geneos
9 1 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 19 (5.83%) Microsoft
2 16 (4.91%) Splunk
3 15 (4.60%) Informatica
4 10 (3.07%) Databricks
4 10 (3.07%) Oracle
5 5 (1.53%) ServiceNow
6 4 (1.23%) OpenAI
6 4 (1.23%) Red Hat
7 3 (0.92%) Brio
7 3 (0.92%) Fortinet
7 3 (0.92%) PagerDuty
7 3 (0.92%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.61%) Charles River
8 2 (0.61%) Confluent
8 2 (0.61%) Dynatrace
8 2 (0.61%) Murex
8 2 (0.61%) Sybase
9 1 (0.31%) Braze
9 1 (0.31%) Denodo
9 1 (0.31%) Netlify