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

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 141 162
Rank change year-on-year -3 +21 -2
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 324 250 265
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.95% 1.97% 1.46%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.44% 4.67% 3.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 230 195 204
10th Percentile £350 £413 £400
25th Percentile £413 £463 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.87% +15.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £625 £788 £588
90th Percentile £700 £838 £692
England median daily rate £513 £550 £510
% change year-on-year -6.82% +7.84% -11.30%

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 7,301 5,355 6,770
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.84% 42.29% 37.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,005 3,736 4,965
10th Percentile £350 £356 £325
25th Percentile £425 £440 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £770
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 48 79
10th Percentile £18.10 £22.27 £17.62
25th Percentile £24.00 £24.54 £21.63
Median hourly rate £35.50 £30.21 £29.72
Median % change year-on-year +17.52% +1.64% -15.09%
75th Percentile £50.75 £55.38 £51.88
90th Percentile £72.50 £69.38 £64.40
England median hourly rate £39.75 £26.81 £21.00
% change year-on-year +48.25% +27.68% -16.00%

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 25 March 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 25 March 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 +15 42 £520 +4.00% 31
South London +2 23 £500 +5.26% 1
West London -23 4 £650 -16.13% 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 24 (7.41%) Apache Airflow
2 20 (6.17%) Apache Spark
3 14 (4.32%) Confluence
4 11 (3.40%) Apache
5 9 (2.78%) nginx
6 2 (0.62%) CICS
7 1 (0.31%) Jupyter
Applications
1 10 (3.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.23%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.62%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 324 (100.00%) AWS
1 324 (100.00%) Serverless
2 222 (68.52%) Amazon S3
3 99 (30.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 98 (30.25%) Amazon EC2
5 87 (26.85%) Amazon ECS
5 87 (26.85%) GitHub
6 79 (24.38%) Amazon EKS
6 79 (24.38%) AWS CloudFormation
7 66 (20.37%) GitHub Actions
8 62 (19.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 49 (15.12%) AWS Step Functions
10 33 (10.19%) Azure
11 31 (9.57%) Snowflake
12 30 (9.26%) Amazon Kinesis
13 29 (8.95%) Amazon SQS
14 26 (8.02%) AWS CodePipeline
15 24 (7.41%) Route 53
16 22 (6.79%) Amazon EMR
17 18 (5.56%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 24 (7.41%) DNS
2 14 (4.32%) Firewall
3 12 (3.70%) TCP/IP
3 12 (3.70%) VPN
4 9 (2.78%) OpenVPN
5 4 (1.23%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (0.62%) Kerberos
6 2 (0.62%) Network Security
7 1 (0.31%) 4G
7 1 (0.31%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (23.46%) Amazon RDS
2 55 (16.98%) DynamoDB
3 50 (15.43%) PostgreSQL
4 48 (14.81%) Amazon Redshift
5 43 (13.27%) Amazon Athena
6 23 (7.10%) Amazon Aurora
6 23 (7.10%) Tableau
7 19 (5.86%) Data Warehouse
8 18 (5.56%) Power BI
9 15 (4.63%) Apache Iceberg
9 15 (4.63%) NoSQL
10 13 (4.01%) Data Lake
10 13 (4.01%) Metadata
11 11 (3.40%) Relational Database
12 10 (3.09%) Amazon QuickSight
12 10 (3.09%) Elasticsearch
12 10 (3.09%) Redis
13 9 (2.78%) Big Data
13 9 (2.78%) DB2
13 9 (2.78%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 61 (18.83%) GitLab
2 60 (18.52%) Git
3 58 (17.90%) Jenkins
4 24 (7.41%) JIRA
5 16 (4.94%) Bitbucket
6 12 (3.70%) JUnit
7 11 (3.40%) Cucumber
8 10 (3.09%) Cypress.io
9 7 (2.16%) SonarQube
10 5 (1.54%) Postman
10 5 (1.54%) Snyk
11 4 (1.23%) Mocha
11 4 (1.23%) Mockito
11 4 (1.23%) Terragrunt
12 3 (0.93%) MSTest
12 3 (0.93%) Selenium
12 3 (0.93%) Sonatype Nexus
12 3 (0.93%) tSQLt
12 3 (0.93%) Vite
13 2 (0.62%) MLflow
General
1 89 (27.47%) Social Skills
2 57 (17.59%) Public Sector
3 53 (16.36%) Finance
4 35 (10.80%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (6.48%) Banking
6 20 (6.17%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (1.85%) Front Office
8 5 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.23%) Investment Banking
10 3 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.62%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.62%) Games
11 2 (0.62%) Military
11 2 (0.62%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.62%) Police
11 2 (0.62%) Private Banking
11 2 (0.62%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.31%) Law
12 1 (0.31%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.31%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 65 (20.06%) Developer
2 57 (17.59%) AWS Engineer
3 53 (16.36%) Data Engineer
4 49 (15.12%) Senior
5 47 (14.51%) Architect
6 35 (10.80%) DevOps Engineer
7 28 (8.64%) Lead
8 25 (7.72%) AWS Architect
9 22 (6.79%) AWS DevOps
10 21 (6.48%) AWS Developer
11 18 (5.56%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 18 (5.56%) Software Engineer
12 16 (4.94%) AWS Data Engineer
13 15 (4.63%) Analyst
13 15 (4.63%) Python Engineer
14 14 (4.32%) Cloud Engineer
14 14 (4.32%) Senior Developer
15 13 (4.01%) Full-Stack Developer
15 13 (4.01%) Lead Data Engineer
15 13 (4.01%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (19.14%) Kafka
2 46 (14.20%) Node.js
3 43 (13.27%) React
4 39 (12.04%) RESTful
5 30 (9.26%) Spring Boot
6 28 (8.64%) Spring
7 22 (6.79%) OAuth
8 20 (6.17%) PySpark
9 19 (5.86%) REST
10 18 (5.56%) boto
11 16 (4.94%) AngularJS
11 16 (4.94%) AWS CDK
11 16 (4.94%) CSS
12 13 (4.01%) OpenID
13 12 (3.70%) FastAPI
13 12 (3.70%) JWT
14 11 (3.40%) Flask
15 10 (3.09%) .NET
15 10 (3.09%) LDAP
15 10 (3.09%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 79 (24.38%) Cloud Native
2 22 (6.79%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (2.47%) Product Ownership
4 7 (2.16%) DataPower
4 7 (2.16%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (2.16%) Mainframe
5 6 (1.85%) Equities
6 5 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (1.54%) Derivative
6 5 (1.54%) Distributed Architecture
6 5 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.23%) Algorithms
7 4 (1.23%) Data Structures
7 4 (1.23%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (1.23%) PACS
7 4 (1.23%) Replication
7 4 (1.23%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 3 (0.93%) Equity Derivative
8 3 (0.93%) Fixed Income
8 3 (0.93%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 30 (9.26%) Linux
2 8 (2.47%) Unix
3 2 (0.62%) Windows
3 2 (0.62%) zOS
4 1 (0.31%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (0.31%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 193 (59.57%) CI/CD
2 129 (39.81%) DevOps
3 119 (36.73%) Infrastructure as Code
4 83 (25.62%) Agile
5 73 (22.53%) Microservices
6 68 (20.99%) Problem-Solving
7 63 (19.44%) Data Pipeline
8 58 (17.90%) Data Engineering
9 57 (17.59%) ETL
10 54 (16.67%) Containerisation
11 53 (16.36%) Data Modelling
12 50 (15.43%) Analytics
13 46 (14.20%) Event-Driven
14 45 (13.89%) Observability
15 36 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
16 35 (10.80%) AI
17 34 (10.49%) Performance Tuning
17 34 (10.49%) Test Automation
18 33 (10.19%) Software Engineering
19 30 (9.26%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 186 (57.41%) Python
2 108 (33.33%) SQL
3 56 (17.28%) Java
4 37 (11.42%) TypeScript
5 35 (10.80%) JavaScript
6 24 (7.41%) Bash
7 17 (5.25%) C#
8 15 (4.63%) Shell Script
9 8 (2.47%) PowerShell
9 8 (2.47%) Ruby
9 8 (2.47%) Scala
10 6 (1.85%) Go
10 6 (1.85%) JSX
10 6 (1.85%) Korn
11 3 (0.93%) Bicep
11 3 (0.93%) C++
11 3 (0.93%) Groovy
11 3 (0.93%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.62%) JCL
12 2 (0.62%) Perl
Qualifications
1 115 (35.49%) Security Cleared
2 102 (31.48%) SC Cleared
3 31 (9.57%) AWS Certification
4 13 (4.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 11 (3.40%) Degree
6 9 (2.78%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 8 (2.47%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (2.47%) Master's Degree
8 5 (1.54%) DV Cleared
9 4 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.23%) PhD
10 3 (0.93%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (0.93%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.31%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.31%) CEH
11 1 (0.31%) CISSP
11 1 (0.31%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.31%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.31%) PMP
11 1 (0.31%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (9.26%) Data Quality
2 22 (6.79%) QA
3 8 (2.47%) Accessibility
3 8 (2.47%) NIST
4 7 (2.16%) PMO
5 5 (1.54%) GDPR
6 4 (1.23%) ISO 20022
6 4 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.23%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.23%) SLA
6 4 (1.23%) WCAG
7 1 (0.31%) GRC
7 1 (0.31%) GxP
System Software
1 92 (28.40%) Docker
2 9 (2.78%) Squid
3 3 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.62%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.62%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.31%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 157 (48.46%) Terraform
2 78 (24.07%) Kubernetes
3 25 (7.72%) Prometheus
4 22 (6.79%) Grafana
5 20 (6.17%) Ansible
6 12 (3.70%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (2.78%) FortiGate
8 7 (2.16%) Consul
9 6 (1.85%) Kibana
10 3 (0.93%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (0.93%) Karpenter
10 3 (0.93%) Rancher
11 2 (0.62%) Opsgenie
12 1 (0.31%) HP Fortify
12 1 (0.31%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.31%) Puppet
12 1 (0.31%) Salt
Vendors
1 19 (5.86%) Microsoft
2 16 (4.94%) Databricks
3 14 (4.32%) Dynatrace
4 9 (2.78%) Red Hat
5 8 (2.47%) ServiceNow
5 8 (2.47%) Sybase
6 7 (2.16%) Atlassian
6 7 (2.16%) Confluent
7 6 (1.85%) IBM
7 6 (1.85%) OpenAI
7 6 (1.85%) Splunk
8 4 (1.23%) Qualys
8 4 (1.23%) Tenable
9 3 (0.93%) AVEVA
9 3 (0.93%) Cloudera
9 3 (0.93%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.62%) CA Agile Central
10 2 (0.62%) Murex
10 2 (0.62%) Oracle
10 2 (0.62%) SAP