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

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 178 165 207
Rank change year-on-year -13 +42 -15
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 333 231 198
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.65% 1.72% 1.22%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.99% 3.98% 2.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 244 176 142
10th Percentile £388 £403 £376
25th Percentile £450 £462 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% +2.38% -
75th Percentile £650 £600 £638
90th Percentile £763 £684 £738
England median daily rate £525 £500 £535
% change year-on-year +5.00% -6.54% +1.90%
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 8,347 5,811 6,653
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.28% 43.16% 41.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,708 3,979 4,762
10th Percentile £363 £340 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £645 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +4.48% -4.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 91 51
10th Percentile £19.15 £23.00 £20.00
25th Percentile £23.16 £25.08 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.00 £30.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% - -36.84%
75th Percentile £55.00 £47.13 £43.50
90th Percentile £76.42 £72.00 £62.50
England median hourly rate £34.23 £26.30 £30.00
% change year-on-year +30.15% -12.33% -9.09%

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 29 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 29 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 -9 38 £650 - 10
West London -7 19 £725 +51.80% 8
South London -3 14 £463 -25.64% 1
East London - 1 £500 - 3
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 38 (11.41%) Apache Airflow
2 26 (7.81%) Confluence
3 21 (6.31%) Apache Spark
4 13 (3.90%) Apache
5 4 (1.20%) CICS
5 4 (1.20%) SAS
6 2 (0.60%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.60%) PowerExchange
7 1 (0.30%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.30%) nginx
7 1 (0.30%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.90%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.90%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 333 (100.00%) AWS
2 329 (98.80%) Serverless
3 238 (71.47%) Amazon S3
4 102 (30.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 94 (28.23%) Amazon EC2
6 91 (27.33%) Amazon ECS
7 71 (21.32%) Amazon EKS
8 69 (20.72%) GitHub
9 57 (17.12%) AWS Step Functions
10 54 (16.22%) GitHub Actions
11 53 (15.92%) Amazon SQS
12 47 (14.11%) AWS CloudFormation
12 47 (14.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 44 (13.21%) Azure
14 35 (10.51%) Amazon EMR
15 33 (9.91%) Amazon EventBridge
16 32 (9.61%) dbt
16 32 (9.61%) Snowflake
17 29 (8.71%) Power Platform
18 23 (6.91%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.40%) Firewall
2 6 (1.80%) DNS
3 4 (1.20%) Network Security
3 4 (1.20%) WAN
4 3 (0.90%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.90%) VPN
5 2 (0.60%) HTTP
5 2 (0.60%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.30%) BGP
6 1 (0.30%) Internet
6 1 (0.30%) OpenVPN
6 1 (0.30%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (24.32%) Amazon RDS
2 69 (20.72%) Amazon Athena
3 63 (18.92%) DynamoDB
4 49 (14.71%) Amazon Redshift
5 34 (10.21%) Data Warehouse
6 29 (8.71%) Power BI
7 26 (7.81%) PostgreSQL
8 19 (5.71%) Amazon Aurora
8 19 (5.71%) Metadata
9 16 (4.80%) Tableau
10 14 (4.20%) SQL Server
11 13 (3.90%) NoSQL
12 11 (3.30%) Apache Iceberg
13 9 (2.70%) Data Lake
13 9 (2.70%) Delta Lake
14 8 (2.40%) Big Data
14 8 (2.40%) BigQuery
14 8 (2.40%) Data Vault
14 8 (2.40%) Relational Database
15 7 (2.10%) Apache Hudi
Development Applications
1 67 (20.12%) Jenkins
2 64 (19.22%) Git
3 61 (18.32%) GitLab
4 34 (10.21%) JIRA
5 13 (3.90%) Cucumber
5 13 (3.90%) Cypress.io
6 10 (3.00%) Bitbucket
7 9 (2.70%) Selenium
8 5 (1.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 5 (1.50%) Claude Code
8 5 (1.50%) Gatling
8 5 (1.50%) Postman
8 5 (1.50%) REST Assured
9 4 (1.20%) Artifactory
9 4 (1.20%) Mocha
9 4 (1.20%) Mockito
10 3 (0.90%) JUnit
10 3 (0.90%) MSTest
10 3 (0.90%) tSQLt
11 2 (0.60%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 80 (24.02%) Social Skills
2 59 (17.72%) Finance
3 49 (14.71%) Public Sector
4 30 (9.01%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (6.91%) Banking
6 9 (2.70%) Back Office
7 8 (2.40%) Law
8 7 (2.10%) Front Office
9 6 (1.80%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (1.80%) Military
10 5 (1.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.90%) Marketing
12 3 (0.90%) Police
13 2 (0.60%) Games
13 2 (0.60%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.60%) Local Government
13 2 (0.60%) Retail
13 2 (0.60%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.30%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 76 (22.82%) AWS Engineer
2 73 (21.92%) Senior
3 70 (21.02%) Data Engineer
4 48 (14.41%) Developer
5 47 (14.11%) Lead
6 44 (13.21%) Architect
7 26 (7.81%) DevOps Engineer
7 26 (7.81%) Software Engineer
8 24 (7.21%) AWS Data Engineer
9 23 (6.91%) AWS Developer
10 22 (6.61%) Cloud Engineer
11 21 (6.31%) AWS Architect
12 18 (5.41%) Senior Data Engineer
12 18 (5.41%) Technical Leader
13 15 (4.50%) Platform Engineer
13 15 (4.50%) Python Developer
13 15 (4.50%) Senior Software Engineer
14 13 (3.90%) Python Engineer
15 12 (3.60%) Lead DevOps
16 11 (3.30%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 156 (46.85%) Terraform
2 50 (15.02%) React
3 40 (12.01%) PySpark
4 37 (11.11%) Kafka
5 34 (10.21%) REST
5 34 (10.21%) RESTful
6 32 (9.61%) FastAPI
7 31 (9.31%) Node.js
8 21 (6.31%) GraphQL
9 20 (6.01%) Spring Boot
10 19 (5.71%) .NET
10 19 (5.71%) Flask
10 19 (5.71%) Spring
11 15 (4.50%) Pandas
12 13 (3.90%) AWS CDK
12 13 (3.90%) Next.js
13 12 (3.60%) Playwright
14 11 (3.30%) AngularJS
15 10 (3.00%) JSON
16 9 (2.70%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 91 (27.33%) Cloud Native
2 22 (6.61%) Product Ownership
3 20 (6.01%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (3.90%) AI Agents
5 9 (2.70%) Fixed Income
6 7 (2.10%) Greenfield Project
6 7 (2.10%) Hedge funds
6 7 (2.10%) Security Posture
7 6 (1.80%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (1.80%) NHS
8 5 (1.50%) Cloud Security Posture
8 5 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.50%) Mainframe
9 4 (1.20%) DataPower
9 4 (1.20%) Distributed Computing
9 4 (1.20%) Enterprise Cloud
9 4 (1.20%) Equities
9 4 (1.20%) Legacy Code
9 4 (1.20%) Low-Code
9 4 (1.20%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 34 (10.21%) Linux
2 14 (4.20%) Unix
3 8 (2.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.20%) Windows
4 4 (1.20%) zOS
5 3 (0.90%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 206 (61.86%) CI/CD
2 143 (42.94%) Infrastructure as Code
3 127 (38.14%) DevOps
4 125 (37.54%) Agile
5 78 (23.42%) AI
6 72 (21.62%) Data Engineering
7 69 (20.72%) Data Pipeline
8 66 (19.82%) Software Engineering
9 61 (18.32%) Event-Driven
9 61 (18.32%) Test Automation
10 58 (17.42%) Analytics
10 58 (17.42%) Containerisation
11 56 (16.82%) Microservices
12 53 (15.92%) ETL
13 49 (14.71%) Technical Leadership
14 48 (14.41%) Continuous Improvement
14 48 (14.41%) Data Modelling
14 48 (14.41%) Migration
14 48 (14.41%) Observability
14 48 (14.41%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 212 (63.66%) Python
2 115 (34.53%) SQL
3 57 (17.12%) TypeScript
4 53 (15.92%) Java
5 38 (11.41%) JavaScript
6 32 (9.61%) Bash
7 27 (8.11%) C#
8 16 (4.80%) Shell Script
9 15 (4.50%) Scala
10 10 (3.00%) PowerShell
11 4 (1.20%) Cypher
11 4 (1.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 4 (1.20%) Gremlin
11 4 (1.20%) JCL
11 4 (1.20%) PL/SQL
11 4 (1.20%) SPARQL
11 4 (1.20%) T-SQL
12 3 (0.90%) Bicep
13 2 (0.60%) C
13 2 (0.60%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 96 (28.83%) Security Cleared
2 86 (25.83%) SC Cleared
3 36 (10.81%) AWS Certification
4 16 (4.80%) BPSS Clearance
4 16 (4.80%) DV Cleared
5 15 (4.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 13 (3.90%) Degree
7 9 (2.70%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 7 (2.10%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 7 (2.10%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (0.90%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.90%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.60%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.30%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.30%) ISEB
11 1 (0.30%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.30%) PhD
11 1 (0.30%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.30%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (16.82%) Data Quality
2 27 (8.11%) QA
3 3 (0.90%) Accessibility
3 3 (0.90%) PMO
3 3 (0.90%) SLA
4 2 (0.60%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 94 (28.23%) Docker
2 5 (1.50%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.60%) Squid
4 1 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 69 (20.72%) Kubernetes
2 33 (9.91%) Grafana
3 26 (7.81%) Ansible
4 25 (7.51%) Prometheus
5 8 (2.40%) Kibana
6 7 (2.10%) Puppet
7 4 (1.20%) Salt
8 3 (0.90%) Packer
9 2 (0.60%) Argo
9 2 (0.60%) Control-M
9 2 (0.60%) Istio
10 1 (0.30%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.30%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.30%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 21 (6.31%) Microsoft
2 16 (4.80%) Splunk
3 15 (4.50%) Informatica
4 11 (3.30%) Databricks
4 11 (3.30%) Oracle
5 5 (1.50%) ServiceNow
6 4 (1.20%) OpenAI
6 4 (1.20%) Red Hat
7 3 (0.90%) Brio
7 3 (0.90%) Fortinet
7 3 (0.90%) PagerDuty
7 3 (0.90%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.60%) Charles River
8 2 (0.60%) Confluent
8 2 (0.60%) Dynatrace
8 2 (0.60%) Murex
8 2 (0.60%) Sybase
9 1 (0.30%) Denodo
9 1 (0.30%) Netlify
9 1 (0.30%) Palo Alto