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

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 140 163 163
Rank change year-on-year +23 0 -3
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 296 210 255
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.97% 1.56% 1.37%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.45% 3.74% 3.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 208 167 193
10th Percentile £356 £425 £400
25th Percentile £413 £472 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% +10.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £638 £788 £585
90th Percentile £700 £838 £712
England median daily rate £513 £550 £513
% change year-on-year -6.82% +7.32% -14.58%

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 6,645 5,611 6,924
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.30% 41.69% 37.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,549 3,723 5,124
10th Percentile £347 £354 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £638 £673 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £763
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 48 77
10th Percentile £18.09 £22.27 £17.47
25th Percentile £21.23 £24.09 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.65 £32.75 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.36% +7.38% +3.39%
75th Percentile £55.88 £56.50 £53.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £69.38 £61.00
England median hourly rate £35.91 £27.50 £22.15
% change year-on-year +30.58% +24.15% -11.40%

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 10 February 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 10 February 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 +16 41 £500 -1.96% 22
South London -3 11 £519 +9.17% 12
West London -14 7 £650 +10.64% 10
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 18 (6.08%) Apache Airflow
2 15 (5.07%) Apache Spark
3 10 (3.38%) Confluence
4 7 (2.36%) Apache
5 6 (2.03%) nginx
6 1 (0.34%) Jupyter
Applications
1 6 (2.03%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 296 (100.00%) AWS
1 296 (100.00%) Serverless
2 189 (63.85%) Amazon S3
3 84 (28.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 77 (26.01%) Amazon ECS
5 73 (24.66%) GitHub
6 72 (24.32%) AWS CloudFormation
7 66 (22.30%) Amazon EC2
8 63 (21.28%) Amazon EKS
9 58 (19.59%) GitHub Actions
10 41 (13.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 39 (13.18%) AWS Step Functions
12 34 (11.49%) Amazon Kinesis
13 28 (9.46%) Azure
13 28 (9.46%) Snowflake
14 21 (7.09%) Amazon EMR
14 21 (7.09%) Amazon SQS
15 19 (6.42%) Route 53
16 17 (5.74%) Amazon EventBridge
17 16 (5.41%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 21 (7.09%) DNS
2 11 (3.72%) VPN
3 9 (3.04%) Firewall
4 7 (2.36%) TCP/IP
5 6 (2.03%) OpenVPN
6 3 (1.01%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (0.68%) Kerberos
7 2 (0.68%) SSL
8 1 (0.34%) DKIM
8 1 (0.34%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (21.28%) Amazon RDS
2 49 (16.55%) DynamoDB
3 46 (15.54%) PostgreSQL
4 40 (13.51%) Amazon Redshift
5 39 (13.18%) Amazon Athena
6 23 (7.77%) Amazon Aurora
7 17 (5.74%) Data Warehouse
8 16 (5.41%) Tableau
9 14 (4.73%) NoSQL
10 12 (4.05%) Apache Iceberg
11 11 (3.72%) Data Lake
11 11 (3.72%) Relational Database
12 10 (3.38%) Redis
13 9 (3.04%) Amazon QuickSight
13 9 (3.04%) MySQL
14 8 (2.70%) Big Data
14 8 (2.70%) Metadata
14 8 (2.70%) Power BI
15 7 (2.36%) Elasticsearch
15 7 (2.36%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 52 (17.57%) Jenkins
2 48 (16.22%) GitLab
3 47 (15.88%) Git
4 18 (6.08%) JIRA
5 9 (3.04%) Bitbucket
5 9 (3.04%) Cypress.io
6 8 (2.70%) JUnit
7 7 (2.36%) Cucumber
8 5 (1.69%) SonarQube
9 4 (1.35%) Snyk
9 4 (1.35%) Terragrunt
10 3 (1.01%) Postman
10 3 (1.01%) Selenium
10 3 (1.01%) Visual Studio Code
11 2 (0.68%) Maven
11 2 (0.68%) Mocha
11 2 (0.68%) Mockito
11 2 (0.68%) Serenity BDD
11 2 (0.68%) Storybook
11 2 (0.68%) Vite
General
1 78 (26.35%) Social Skills
2 43 (14.53%) Public Sector
3 33 (11.15%) Finance
4 26 (8.78%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (6.08%) Banking
6 14 (4.73%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (2.36%) Front Office
8 5 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (1.69%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.68%) Military
10 2 (0.68%) Police
10 2 (0.68%) Private Banking
11 1 (0.34%) Aviation
11 1 (0.34%) Games
11 1 (0.34%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.34%) Law
11 1 (0.34%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 55 (18.58%) Developer
2 53 (17.91%) AWS Engineer
3 46 (15.54%) Data Engineer
4 45 (15.20%) Architect
5 40 (13.51%) Senior
6 39 (13.18%) DevOps Engineer
7 30 (10.14%) Lead
8 22 (7.43%) AWS Architect
9 21 (7.09%) AWS DevOps
9 21 (7.09%) Software Engineer
10 16 (5.41%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 15 (5.07%) AWS Developer
11 15 (5.07%) Cloud Architect
12 14 (4.73%) Cloud Engineer
12 14 (4.73%) Full-Stack Developer
13 13 (4.39%) AWS Data Engineer
13 13 (4.39%) Python Engineer
14 12 (4.05%) Java Engineer
14 12 (4.05%) Lead Data Engineer
14 12 (4.05%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (21.62%) Kafka
2 53 (17.91%) Node.js
3 44 (14.86%) React
4 29 (9.80%) RESTful
5 25 (8.45%) Spring Boot
6 23 (7.77%) Spring
7 20 (6.76%) OAuth
8 18 (6.08%) AngularJS
8 18 (6.08%) REST
9 16 (5.41%) CSS
10 15 (5.07%) boto
11 14 (4.73%) AWS CDK
12 12 (4.05%) PySpark
13 11 (3.72%) JWT
13 11 (3.72%) Next.js
14 10 (3.38%) OpenID
15 9 (3.04%) .NET
15 9 (3.04%) Elastic Stack
16 8 (2.70%) HTML
16 8 (2.70%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 71 (23.99%) Cloud Native
2 26 (8.78%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (3.38%) Data Protection Act
4 7 (2.36%) Product Ownership
5 6 (2.03%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (1.69%) DataPower
6 5 (1.69%) Distributed Architecture
6 5 (1.69%) Equities
6 5 (1.69%) Mainframe
6 5 (1.69%) Replication
7 4 (1.35%) Algorithms
7 4 (1.35%) Data Structures
7 4 (1.35%) Derivative
7 4 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.35%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.35%) Mobile App
7 4 (1.35%) PACS
7 4 (1.35%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 3 (1.01%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.01%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 24 (8.11%) Linux
2 3 (1.01%) Unix
3 1 (0.34%) Android
3 1 (0.34%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.34%) VMS
3 1 (0.34%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 174 (58.78%) CI/CD
2 123 (41.55%) DevOps
3 107 (36.15%) Infrastructure as Code
4 70 (23.65%) Microservices
5 69 (23.31%) Agile
6 58 (19.59%) Data Pipeline
7 50 (16.89%) Problem-Solving
8 48 (16.22%) Data Engineering
8 48 (16.22%) Event-Driven
9 47 (15.88%) Analytics
9 47 (15.88%) Data Modelling
10 46 (15.54%) Containerisation
11 42 (14.19%) Observability
12 41 (13.85%) ETL
13 35 (11.82%) Software Engineering
14 33 (11.15%) AI
15 28 (9.46%) Full-Stack Development
16 27 (9.12%) Design Patterns
16 27 (9.12%) Performance Tuning
17 26 (8.78%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 166 (56.08%) Python
2 82 (27.70%) SQL
3 57 (19.26%) Java
4 39 (13.18%) TypeScript
5 38 (12.84%) JavaScript
6 22 (7.43%) Bash
7 9 (3.04%) C#
8 8 (2.70%) Shell Script
9 7 (2.36%) PowerShell
9 7 (2.36%) Ruby
10 6 (2.03%) JSX
10 6 (2.03%) Korn
10 6 (2.03%) Scala
11 5 (1.69%) Go
12 4 (1.35%) Groovy
13 3 (1.01%) Bicep
13 3 (1.01%) C++
14 2 (0.68%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.68%) Perl
15 1 (0.34%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 98 (33.11%) Security Cleared
2 88 (29.73%) SC Cleared
3 30 (10.14%) AWS Certification
4 11 (3.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 9 (3.04%) Degree
6 8 (2.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 7 (2.36%) Master's Degree
8 6 (2.03%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.35%) DV Cleared
10 3 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (1.01%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (1.01%) PhD
11 2 (0.68%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.34%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.34%) CEH
12 1 (0.34%) CISSP
12 1 (0.34%) CompTIA Security+
12 1 (0.34%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.34%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (7.09%) Data Quality
2 19 (6.42%) QA
3 8 (2.70%) Accessibility
3 8 (2.70%) GDPR
4 7 (2.36%) NIST
5 5 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.35%) ISO 20022
6 4 (1.35%) PCI DSS
7 3 (1.01%) WCAG
8 1 (0.34%) GRC
8 1 (0.34%) GxP
8 1 (0.34%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.34%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 1 (0.34%) NCSC
System Software
1 77 (26.01%) Docker
2 6 (2.03%) Squid
3 3 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.68%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.34%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.34%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 132 (44.59%) Terraform
2 77 (26.01%) Kubernetes
3 18 (6.08%) Prometheus
4 16 (5.41%) Ansible
5 14 (4.73%) Grafana
6 10 (3.38%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (2.03%) FortiGate
7 6 (2.03%) Kibana
8 5 (1.69%) Consul
9 4 (1.35%) Rancher
10 3 (1.01%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (1.01%) Karpenter
11 2 (0.68%) Opsgenie
12 1 (0.34%) HP Fortify
12 1 (0.34%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 21 (7.09%) Microsoft
2 14 (4.73%) Databricks
3 12 (4.05%) Dynatrace
4 8 (2.70%) ServiceNow
5 7 (2.36%) Confluent
5 7 (2.36%) IBM
5 7 (2.36%) OpenAI
6 6 (2.03%) Red Hat
6 6 (2.03%) Sybase
7 5 (1.69%) Atlassian
7 5 (1.69%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.01%) AVEVA
8 3 (1.01%) Cloudera
8 3 (1.01%) Google
8 3 (1.01%) Qualys
8 3 (1.01%) Tenable
9 2 (0.68%) Avaloq
9 2 (0.68%) CA Agile Central
9 2 (0.68%) Cisco
9 2 (0.68%) SAP