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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 153 193
Rank change year-on-year +14 +40 -17
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 356 240 235
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.88% 1.93% 1.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.47% 4.49% 3.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 257 183 174
10th Percentile £355 £400 £375
25th Percentile £450 £453 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £625 £629 £588
90th Percentile £738 £800 £670
England median daily rate £525 £525 £513
% change year-on-year - +2.44% -6.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £37.00 -
25th Percentile £61.00 £40.00 -
Median hourly rate £67.00 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +48.89% - -
75th Percentile £73.00 £50.00 -
90th Percentile - £53.00 -
England median hourly rate £75.00 £45.00 -
% change year-on-year +66.67% - -

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 7,961 5,341 6,947
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.04% 42.99% 39.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,464 3,627 5,108
10th Percentile £356 £350 £350
25th Percentile £430 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -5.17%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £788
England median daily rate £513 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 68 70
10th Percentile £20.85 £22.50 £17.63
25th Percentile £26.52 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £30.54 £26.49
Median % change year-on-year +16.26% +15.29% -49.55%
75th Percentile £55.38 £48.75 £38.75
90th Percentile £76.05 £69.38 £55.25
England median hourly rate £39.50 £25.08 £21.50
% change year-on-year +57.50% +16.65% -36.10%

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 June 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 June 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 £563 +8.17% 10
South London +8 21 £500 +2.56%
West London -24 13 £750 +32.74% 1
East London - 1 £500 - 1
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 33 (9.27%) Apache Airflow
2 26 (7.30%) Confluence
3 20 (5.62%) Apache Spark
4 9 (2.53%) Apache
4 9 (2.53%) nginx
5 6 (1.69%) CICS
6 2 (0.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.56%) SAS
7 1 (0.28%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 10 (2.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.69%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.56%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 356 (100.00%) AWS
2 352 (98.88%) Serverless
3 264 (74.16%) Amazon S3
4 123 (34.55%) Amazon EC2
5 107 (30.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 89 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
7 87 (24.44%) Amazon EKS
8 77 (21.63%) GitHub
9 66 (18.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 65 (18.26%) AWS CloudFormation
11 62 (17.42%) GitHub Actions
12 54 (15.17%) AWS Step Functions
13 49 (13.76%) Amazon SQS
14 36 (10.11%) Azure
15 32 (8.99%) Amazon EMR
16 30 (8.43%) Amazon Kinesis
17 26 (7.30%) dbt
17 26 (7.30%) Power Platform
18 25 (7.02%) Amazon Bedrock
19 24 (6.74%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 19 (5.34%) DNS
2 17 (4.78%) Firewall
3 12 (3.37%) TCP/IP
4 11 (3.09%) VPN
5 9 (2.53%) OpenVPN
6 5 (1.40%) Network Security
7 3 (0.84%) Reverse Proxy
7 3 (0.84%) WAN
8 1 (0.28%) 4G
8 1 (0.28%) 5G
8 1 (0.28%) BGP
8 1 (0.28%) HTTP
8 1 (0.28%) Internet
8 1 (0.28%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (22.75%) Amazon RDS
2 71 (19.94%) Amazon Athena
3 67 (18.82%) Amazon Redshift
4 66 (18.54%) DynamoDB
5 39 (10.96%) PostgreSQL
6 26 (7.30%) Amazon Aurora
6 26 (7.30%) Power BI
7 23 (6.46%) Data Warehouse
8 22 (6.18%) Tableau
9 17 (4.78%) SQL Server
10 15 (4.21%) Metadata
10 15 (4.21%) NoSQL
11 13 (3.65%) Apache Iceberg
11 13 (3.65%) Data Lake
12 11 (3.09%) Amazon QuickSight
12 11 (3.09%) Elasticsearch
13 10 (2.81%) Db2
14 9 (2.53%) Big Data
14 9 (2.53%) MongoDB
15 8 (2.25%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 71 (19.94%) GitLab
2 68 (19.10%) Jenkins
3 66 (18.54%) Git
4 34 (9.55%) JIRA
5 17 (4.78%) Cucumber
6 15 (4.21%) Bitbucket
7 9 (2.53%) Cypress.io
7 9 (2.53%) JUnit
8 7 (1.97%) Mocha
8 7 (1.97%) SonarQube
9 6 (1.69%) Artifactory
9 6 (1.69%) MSTest
9 6 (1.69%) tSQLt
10 5 (1.40%) Gatling
10 5 (1.40%) Postman
10 5 (1.40%) REST Assured
11 4 (1.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (1.12%) Mockito
11 4 (1.12%) Selenium
11 4 (1.12%) Snyk
General
1 96 (26.97%) Social Skills
2 61 (17.13%) Finance
3 58 (16.29%) Public Sector
4 29 (8.15%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (4.78%) Banking
5 17 (4.78%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (1.97%) Law
7 5 (1.40%) Military
8 4 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (0.84%) Back Office
9 3 (0.84%) Front Office
9 3 (0.84%) Police
9 3 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (0.84%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.56%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.56%) Games
10 2 (0.56%) Local Government
10 2 (0.56%) Marketing
10 2 (0.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 77 (21.63%) AWS Engineer
2 67 (18.82%) Data Engineer
3 62 (17.42%) Developer
4 60 (16.85%) Senior
5 49 (13.76%) Architect
6 47 (13.20%) Lead
7 30 (8.43%) DevOps Engineer
8 28 (7.87%) AWS Developer
9 27 (7.58%) AWS Architect
9 27 (7.58%) Software Engineer
10 22 (6.18%) AWS Data Engineer
11 20 (5.62%) Cloud Engineer
11 20 (5.62%) Python Developer
12 17 (4.78%) AWS DevOps
12 17 (4.78%) Python Engineer
13 16 (4.49%) Data Architect
14 15 (4.21%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 14 (3.93%) Full-Stack Developer
16 13 (3.65%) Analyst
16 13 (3.65%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (16.85%) Kafka
2 51 (14.33%) React
3 48 (13.48%) RESTful
4 34 (9.55%) PySpark
5 31 (8.71%) REST
6 28 (7.87%) FastAPI
6 28 (7.87%) Node.js
6 28 (7.87%) Spring Boot
7 25 (7.02%) Spring
8 20 (5.62%) Flask
9 19 (5.34%) .NET
10 18 (5.06%) AngularJS
11 17 (4.78%) OAuth
12 16 (4.49%) CSS
12 16 (4.49%) GraphQL
12 16 (4.49%) Next.js
12 16 (4.49%) Pandas
13 15 (4.21%) boto
13 15 (4.21%) HTML
14 13 (3.65%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 91 (25.56%) Cloud Native
2 18 (5.06%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (4.49%) Product Ownership
4 8 (2.25%) Fixed Income
5 7 (1.97%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (1.97%) Hedge funds
6 6 (1.69%) AI Agents
6 6 (1.69%) DataPower
6 6 (1.69%) Mainframe
6 6 (1.69%) Online Banking
7 5 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.40%) NHS
7 5 (1.40%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.40%) PACS
7 5 (1.40%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 4 (1.12%) Distributed Computing
8 4 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.12%) Equities
8 4 (1.12%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.12%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 27 (7.58%) Linux
2 15 (4.21%) Unix
3 6 (1.69%) zOS
4 3 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.84%) Windows
5 2 (0.56%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.28%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 212 (59.55%) CI/CD
2 140 (39.33%) DevOps
2 140 (39.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 114 (32.02%) Agile
4 71 (19.94%) AI
5 69 (19.38%) Microservices
6 65 (18.26%) Data Pipeline
7 64 (17.98%) Data Engineering
8 61 (17.13%) Containerisation
9 60 (16.85%) Event-Driven
10 55 (15.45%) Analytics
10 55 (15.45%) ETL
10 55 (15.45%) Problem-Solving
10 55 (15.45%) Software Engineering
10 55 (15.45%) Test Automation
11 48 (13.48%) Data Modelling
12 43 (12.08%) Continuous Improvement
12 43 (12.08%) Platform Engineering
13 40 (11.24%) Observability
14 38 (10.67%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 219 (61.52%) Python
2 121 (33.99%) SQL
3 66 (18.54%) Java
4 45 (12.64%) TypeScript
5 42 (11.80%) JavaScript
6 33 (9.27%) C#
7 27 (7.58%) Bash
8 18 (5.06%) Scala
8 18 (5.06%) Shell Script
9 9 (2.53%) PowerShell
10 7 (1.97%) T-SQL
11 6 (1.69%) JCL
12 5 (1.40%) Go
13 4 (1.12%) Bicep
14 2 (0.56%) C
14 2 (0.56%) SPARQL
15 1 (0.28%) C++
15 1 (0.28%) Groovy
15 1 (0.28%) Haskell
15 1 (0.28%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 109 (30.62%) Security Cleared
2 100 (28.09%) SC Cleared
3 33 (9.27%) AWS Certification
4 15 (4.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 14 (3.93%) DV Cleared
6 13 (3.65%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (3.65%) Degree
7 9 (2.53%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 8 (2.25%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 8 (2.25%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.12%) AWS Certified Developer
9 4 (1.12%) DBS Check
9 4 (1.12%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.84%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.28%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.28%) PhD
11 1 (0.28%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.28%) PMP
11 1 (0.28%) SAFe Agilist
11 1 (0.28%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (12.36%) Data Quality
2 21 (5.90%) QA
3 7 (1.97%) PMO
4 6 (1.69%) NIST
5 5 (1.40%) ISO 20022
6 4 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.12%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.12%) SLA
7 2 (0.56%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.28%) GDPR
8 1 (0.28%) GRC
8 1 (0.28%) WCAG
System Software
1 105 (29.49%) Docker
2 10 (2.81%) Squid
3 7 (1.97%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 176 (49.44%) Terraform
2 85 (23.88%) Kubernetes
3 38 (10.67%) Grafana
4 34 (9.55%) Prometheus
5 18 (5.06%) Ansible
6 12 (3.37%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (2.53%) FortiGate
8 7 (1.97%) Consul
8 7 (1.97%) Puppet
9 5 (1.40%) Kibana
9 5 (1.40%) Salt
10 2 (0.56%) Packer
11 1 (0.28%) Control-M
11 1 (0.28%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 14 (3.93%) Microsoft
1 14 (3.93%) Splunk
2 11 (3.09%) Red Hat
3 10 (2.81%) Dynatrace
3 10 (2.81%) Informatica
4 9 (2.53%) Databricks
5 7 (1.97%) Atlassian
5 7 (1.97%) Confluent
5 7 (1.97%) OpenAI
5 7 (1.97%) Sybase
6 5 (1.40%) Oracle
7 4 (1.12%) Fortinet
7 4 (1.12%) Salesforce
8 3 (0.84%) AVEVA
8 3 (0.84%) Brio
8 3 (0.84%) Netlify
8 3 (0.84%) Qualys
9 2 (0.56%) PagerDuty
9 2 (0.56%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.56%) Tenable