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

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 149 144 179
Rank change year-on-year -5 +35 -4
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 335 234 245
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.84% 1.93% 1.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.37% 4.53% 3.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 240 183 187
10th Percentile £355 £400 £379
25th Percentile £450 £456 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -14.24%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £588
90th Percentile £725 £838 £653
England median daily rate £525 £525 £510
% change year-on-year - +2.94% -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 £75.50 £35.00 -
% change year-on-year +115.71% - -

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 7,665 5,164 6,774
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.10% 42.67% 38.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,305 3,535 5,006
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £430 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £513 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -1.44% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 54 67
10th Percentile £20.86 £22.71 £17.16
25th Percentile £26.76 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.04 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.27% +11.67% -50.48%
75th Percentile £54.13 £42.81 £38.75
90th Percentile £74.25 £67.50 £56.00
England median hourly rate £39.50 £25.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +54.90% +19.33% -38.76%

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 May 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 May 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 -2 44 £613 +21.29% 8
South London +2 22 £500 +3.90%
West London -27 12 £725 +28.32% 2
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 30 (8.96%) Apache Airflow
2 22 (6.57%) Apache Spark
3 18 (5.37%) Confluence
4 10 (2.99%) Apache
5 9 (2.69%) nginx
6 6 (1.79%) CICS
7 2 (0.60%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.30%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.30%) SAS
Applications
1 10 (2.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.79%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.60%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 335 (100.00%) AWS
2 331 (98.81%) Serverless
3 238 (71.04%) Amazon S3
4 110 (32.84%) Amazon EC2
5 96 (28.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 86 (25.67%) Amazon ECS
7 81 (24.18%) GitHub
8 80 (23.88%) Amazon EKS
9 67 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
10 66 (19.70%) GitHub Actions
11 62 (18.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 53 (15.82%) AWS Step Functions
13 44 (13.13%) Amazon SQS
14 31 (9.25%) Amazon Kinesis
15 27 (8.06%) Azure
16 24 (7.16%) AWS CodePipeline
16 24 (7.16%) Snowflake
17 23 (6.87%) Amazon EventBridge
18 22 (6.57%) Amazon EMR
19 21 (6.27%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 25 (7.46%) DNS
2 14 (4.18%) Firewall
3 12 (3.58%) TCP/IP
4 10 (2.99%) VPN
5 9 (2.69%) OpenVPN
6 5 (1.49%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (0.60%) Network Security
8 1 (0.30%) 4G
8 1 (0.30%) 5G
8 1 (0.30%) HTTP
8 1 (0.30%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (21.19%) Amazon RDS
2 63 (18.81%) DynamoDB
3 55 (16.42%) Amazon Athena
4 51 (15.22%) Amazon Redshift
5 38 (11.34%) PostgreSQL
6 28 (8.36%) Amazon Aurora
7 23 (6.87%) Tableau
8 16 (4.78%) NoSQL
9 15 (4.48%) Apache Iceberg
9 15 (4.48%) Power BI
10 14 (4.18%) SQL Server
11 13 (3.88%) Metadata
12 12 (3.58%) Data Warehouse
13 11 (3.28%) Big Data
13 11 (3.28%) Elasticsearch
14 10 (2.99%) Amazon QuickSight
14 10 (2.99%) DB2
15 9 (2.69%) Data Lake
15 9 (2.69%) Data Vault
15 9 (2.69%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 64 (19.10%) Jenkins
2 60 (17.91%) GitLab
3 56 (16.72%) Git
4 25 (7.46%) JIRA
5 15 (4.48%) Bitbucket
5 15 (4.48%) Cucumber
6 10 (2.99%) JUnit
7 9 (2.69%) Cypress.io
8 7 (2.09%) SonarQube
9 5 (1.49%) Mocha
9 5 (1.49%) MSTest
9 5 (1.49%) Postman
9 5 (1.49%) Snyk
9 5 (1.49%) tSQLt
10 4 (1.19%) Artifactory
10 4 (1.19%) Gatling
10 4 (1.19%) Mockito
10 4 (1.19%) REST Assured
10 4 (1.19%) Selenium
10 4 (1.19%) Terragrunt
General
1 90 (26.87%) Social Skills
2 52 (15.52%) Finance
3 47 (14.03%) Public Sector
4 31 (9.25%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (5.37%) Documentation Skills
6 16 (4.78%) Banking
7 4 (1.19%) Front Office
7 4 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (1.19%) Police
8 3 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (0.90%) Investment Banking
8 3 (0.90%) Law
8 3 (0.90%) Military
8 3 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (0.90%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.60%) Billing
9 2 (0.60%) Games
9 2 (0.60%) Local Government
9 2 (0.60%) Marketing
9 2 (0.60%) Retail
Job Titles
1 68 (20.30%) Developer
2 64 (19.10%) AWS Engineer
3 59 (17.61%) Data Engineer
4 52 (15.52%) Senior
5 49 (14.63%) Architect
6 43 (12.84%) Lead
7 29 (8.66%) AWS Architect
7 29 (8.66%) AWS Developer
8 24 (7.16%) DevOps Engineer
9 20 (5.97%) AWS Data Engineer
9 20 (5.97%) Python Developer
10 19 (5.67%) Software Engineer
11 18 (5.37%) Data Architect
12 16 (4.78%) Cloud Engineer
12 16 (4.78%) Python Engineer
13 14 (4.18%) Analyst
13 14 (4.18%) Full-Stack Developer
14 12 (3.58%) AWS DevOps
14 12 (3.58%) Senior Developer
15 11 (3.28%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (18.81%) Kafka
2 47 (14.03%) React
2 47 (14.03%) RESTful
3 30 (8.96%) Spring Boot
4 29 (8.66%) PySpark
5 27 (8.06%) Node.js
5 27 (8.06%) Spring
6 25 (7.46%) REST
7 21 (6.27%) FastAPI
8 18 (5.37%) AngularJS
8 18 (5.37%) Pandas
9 17 (5.07%) .NET
9 17 (5.07%) boto
9 17 (5.07%) Flask
10 16 (4.78%) OAuth
11 15 (4.48%) CSS
12 14 (4.18%) AWS CDK
12 14 (4.18%) HTML
12 14 (4.18%) Next.js
13 13 (3.88%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 82 (24.48%) Cloud Native
2 16 (4.78%) Product Ownership
3 14 (4.18%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (2.09%) Hedge funds
5 6 (1.79%) DataPower
5 6 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (1.79%) Mainframe
5 6 (1.79%) Online Banking
5 6 (1.79%) PACS
5 6 (1.79%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 5 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (1.49%) Equities
6 5 (1.49%) Fixed Income
6 5 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (1.49%) NHS
7 4 (1.19%) AI Agents
7 4 (1.19%) Algorithms
7 4 (1.19%) Distributed Computing
8 3 (0.90%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 30 (8.96%) Linux
2 16 (4.78%) Unix
3 6 (1.79%) zOS
4 1 (0.30%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (0.30%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 192 (57.31%) CI/CD
2 125 (37.31%) Infrastructure as Code
3 120 (35.82%) DevOps
4 95 (28.36%) Agile
5 67 (20.00%) Microservices
6 57 (17.01%) Data Pipeline
7 54 (16.12%) Containerisation
8 53 (15.82%) ETL
8 53 (15.82%) Event-Driven
9 51 (15.22%) Data Engineering
10 50 (14.93%) Problem-Solving
11 49 (14.63%) Analytics
12 47 (14.03%) AI
13 44 (13.13%) Data Modelling
14 43 (12.84%) Software Engineering
15 42 (12.54%) Test Automation
16 40 (11.94%) Observability
17 38 (11.34%) Continuous Improvement
18 35 (10.45%) Migration
19 34 (10.15%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 193 (57.61%) Python
2 109 (32.54%) SQL
3 67 (20.00%) Java
4 40 (11.94%) JavaScript
5 39 (11.64%) TypeScript
6 33 (9.85%) C#
7 19 (5.67%) Bash
7 19 (5.67%) Shell Script
8 18 (5.37%) Scala
9 8 (2.39%) PowerShell
10 6 (1.79%) Go
10 6 (1.79%) JCL
11 5 (1.49%) T-SQL
12 4 (1.19%) Bicep
12 4 (1.19%) Ruby
13 2 (0.60%) C++
13 2 (0.60%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.30%) PHP
14 1 (0.30%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 103 (30.75%) Security Cleared
2 94 (28.06%) SC Cleared
3 23 (6.87%) AWS Certification
4 12 (3.58%) Degree
5 10 (2.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 10 (2.99%) BPSS Clearance
6 9 (2.69%) DV Cleared
7 6 (1.79%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 6 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (1.49%) Master's Degree
9 4 (1.19%) AWS Certified Developer
9 4 (1.19%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (0.90%) PhD
11 2 (0.60%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.30%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 1 (0.30%) CISSP
12 1 (0.30%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.30%) PMP
12 1 (0.30%) SAFe Agilist
12 1 (0.30%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (8.36%) Data Quality
2 19 (5.67%) QA
3 8 (2.39%) NIST
4 7 (2.09%) PMO
5 6 (1.79%) ISO 20022
6 4 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.19%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.19%) SLA
7 2 (0.60%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.60%) GDPR
8 1 (0.30%) GRC
8 1 (0.30%) WCAG
System Software
1 97 (28.96%) Docker
2 9 (2.69%) Squid
3 4 (1.19%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 156 (46.57%) Terraform
2 82 (24.48%) Kubernetes
3 34 (10.15%) Grafana
4 29 (8.66%) Prometheus
5 13 (3.88%) Ansible
6 12 (3.58%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (2.69%) FortiGate
7 9 (2.69%) Kibana
8 7 (2.09%) Consul
9 3 (0.90%) Karpenter
9 3 (0.90%) Puppet
9 3 (0.90%) Salt
10 2 (0.60%) Opsgenie
11 1 (0.30%) Control-M
11 1 (0.30%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 16 (4.78%) Microsoft
2 13 (3.88%) Splunk
3 10 (2.99%) Databricks
3 10 (2.99%) Dynatrace
4 9 (2.69%) Confluent
4 9 (2.69%) Red Hat
5 7 (2.09%) Atlassian
5 7 (2.09%) OpenAI
6 6 (1.79%) Sybase
7 5 (1.49%) Oracle
7 5 (1.49%) Qualys
7 5 (1.49%) Salesforce
8 4 (1.19%) Tenable
9 3 (0.90%) AVEVA
9 3 (0.90%) Brio
9 3 (0.90%) Fortinet
9 3 (0.90%) Netlify
10 2 (0.60%) Informatica
10 2 (0.60%) SAP
10 2 (0.60%) ServiceNow