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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 149 186 167
Rank change year-on-year +37 -19 +2
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 266 204 268
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.84% 1.37% 1.44%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.17% 3.34% 3.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 189 156 193
10th Percentile £368 £438 £406
25th Percentile £414 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.87% +15.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £650 £788 £625
90th Percentile £700 £838 £713
England median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -12.50%

All Cloud 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 6,373 6,110 7,094
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.08% 41.01% 38.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,343 4,130 5,239
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
25th Percentile £425 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.17%
75th Percentile £644 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £770
England median daily rate £500 £526 £525
% change year-on-year -4.94% +0.19% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 43 64
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £17.30
25th Percentile £23.50 £23.80 £20.19
Median hourly rate £26.30 £31.50 £36.57
Median % change year-on-year -16.51% -13.85% +19.89%
75th Percentile £50.63 £54.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £65.00 £73.38
England median hourly rate £27.21 £29.00 £24.31
% change year-on-year -6.17% +19.32% +8.02%

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 December 2025.

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 December 2025. 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 +28 42 £558 +7.21% 42
South London +1 6 £586 +25.01% 3
West London -15 6 £650 +4.00% 6
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 17 (6.39%) Apache Airflow
2 16 (6.02%) Apache Spark
3 11 (4.14%) Confluence
4 9 (3.38%) Apache
5 2 (0.75%) nginx
6 1 (0.38%) CICS
6 1 (0.38%) Jupyter
Applications
1 5 (1.88%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.38%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 265 (99.62%) AWS
1 265 (99.62%) Serverless
2 163 (61.28%) Amazon S3
3 80 (30.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 70 (26.32%) GitHub
5 63 (23.68%) Amazon ECS
6 57 (21.43%) AWS CloudFormation
7 53 (19.92%) Amazon EC2
7 53 (19.92%) GitHub Actions
8 38 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
9 37 (13.91%) AWS Step Functions
10 28 (10.53%) Snowflake
11 27 (10.15%) Amazon Kinesis
12 26 (9.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 25 (9.40%) Azure
14 20 (7.52%) Amazon EMR
15 19 (7.14%) Amazon SQS
16 17 (6.39%) Amazon EventBridge
17 16 (6.02%) AWS Fargate
18 12 (4.51%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.51%) DNS
2 6 (2.26%) VPN
3 5 (1.88%) OpenLDAP
4 3 (1.13%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (0.75%) Firewall
5 2 (0.75%) Kerberos
5 2 (0.75%) SSL
6 1 (0.38%) DKIM
6 1 (0.38%) NAS
6 1 (0.38%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (22.93%) Amazon RDS
2 50 (18.80%) DynamoDB
3 39 (14.66%) PostgreSQL
4 37 (13.91%) Amazon Athena
5 34 (12.78%) Amazon Redshift
6 23 (8.65%) Amazon Aurora
7 21 (7.89%) Data Warehouse
8 15 (5.64%) Relational Database
8 15 (5.64%) Tableau
9 11 (4.14%) Data Lake
9 11 (4.14%) Metadata
10 9 (3.38%) Apache Iceberg
11 8 (3.01%) Amazon QuickSight
11 8 (3.01%) Big Data
11 8 (3.01%) NoSQL
12 7 (2.63%) Power BI
13 6 (2.26%) Pinecone
13 6 (2.26%) Redis
14 5 (1.88%) RDBMS
15 4 (1.50%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 44 (16.54%) Git
2 39 (14.66%) GitLab
2 39 (14.66%) Jenkins
3 19 (7.14%) JIRA
4 9 (3.38%) Cypress.io
5 4 (1.50%) Bitbucket
5 4 (1.50%) Cucumber
5 4 (1.50%) JUnit
5 4 (1.50%) Terragrunt
6 3 (1.13%) Postman
6 3 (1.13%) Selenium
6 3 (1.13%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (0.75%) CircleCI
7 2 (0.75%) Serenity BDD
7 2 (0.75%) Snyk
7 2 (0.75%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.38%) MLflow
8 1 (0.38%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.38%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.38%) Storybook
General
1 66 (24.81%) Social Skills
2 37 (13.91%) Public Sector
3 29 (10.90%) Finance
4 25 (9.40%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (6.02%) Banking
6 7 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (2.63%) Front Office
7 5 (1.88%) Investment Banking
8 4 (1.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.13%) Marketing
10 2 (0.75%) Digital Healthcare
10 2 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.75%) Military
10 2 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.75%) Private Banking
11 1 (0.38%) Advertising
11 1 (0.38%) Aviation
11 1 (0.38%) Games
11 1 (0.38%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.38%) Police
Job Titles
1 50 (18.80%) AWS Engineer
1 50 (18.80%) Developer
2 43 (16.17%) Senior
3 41 (15.41%) DevOps Engineer
4 33 (12.41%) Architect
5 32 (12.03%) Data Engineer
6 24 (9.02%) Lead
7 20 (7.52%) Software Engineer
8 18 (6.77%) AWS DevOps
9 17 (6.39%) Python Engineer
10 15 (5.64%) AWS Developer
11 14 (5.26%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 13 (4.89%) AWS Architect
13 12 (4.51%) Full-Stack Developer
14 11 (4.14%) AWS Data Engineer
15 10 (3.76%) Cloud Architect
16 9 (3.38%) Snowflake Engineer
17 8 (3.01%) Cloud Engineer
17 8 (3.01%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 8 (3.01%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (21.80%) Node.js
2 44 (16.54%) Kafka
3 43 (16.17%) React
4 26 (9.77%) RESTful
5 20 (7.52%) REST
6 16 (6.02%) AngularJS
6 16 (6.02%) AWS CDK
7 15 (5.64%) boto
7 15 (5.64%) Spring Boot
8 14 (5.26%) Spring
9 13 (4.89%) CSS
9 13 (4.89%) OAuth
10 11 (4.14%) PySpark
11 10 (3.76%) Next.js
11 10 (3.76%) pytest
12 9 (3.38%) Elastic Stack
12 9 (3.38%) GraphQL
12 9 (3.38%) JSON
13 8 (3.01%) HTML
13 8 (3.01%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 57 (21.43%) Cloud Native
2 23 (8.65%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (4.14%) Data Protection Act
4 9 (3.38%) Product Ownership
5 7 (2.63%) Mobile App
6 6 (2.26%) Mainframe
7 5 (1.88%) DataPower
7 5 (1.88%) Distributed Architecture
7 5 (1.88%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (1.88%) Replication
8 4 (1.50%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.50%) Derivative
8 4 (1.50%) Equities
8 4 (1.50%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.13%) Equity Derivative
9 3 (1.13%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (0.75%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.75%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.75%) PACS
10 2 (0.75%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 22 (8.27%) Linux
2 3 (1.13%) Unix
3 2 (0.75%) Windows
4 1 (0.38%) AIX
4 1 (0.38%) Android
4 1 (0.38%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.38%) Solaris
4 1 (0.38%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (56.77%) CI/CD
2 112 (42.11%) DevOps
3 91 (34.21%) Infrastructure as Code
4 67 (25.19%) Agile
5 66 (24.81%) Microservices
6 48 (18.05%) Data Pipeline
7 44 (16.54%) Analytics
8 41 (15.41%) Data Engineering
8 41 (15.41%) Data Modelling
8 41 (15.41%) Problem-Solving
9 40 (15.04%) Containerisation
10 39 (14.66%) Event-Driven
11 37 (13.91%) Observability
12 36 (13.53%) ETL
13 35 (13.16%) Software Engineering
14 31 (11.65%) Full-Stack Development
15 30 (11.28%) AI
16 23 (8.65%) Migration
17 21 (7.89%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 21 (7.89%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 155 (58.27%) Python
2 72 (27.07%) SQL
3 47 (17.67%) Java
4 43 (16.17%) TypeScript
5 40 (15.04%) JavaScript
6 20 (7.52%) Bash
7 10 (3.76%) Go
8 9 (3.38%) Ruby
9 8 (3.01%) Shell Script
10 6 (2.26%) JSX
10 6 (2.26%) Korn
11 5 (1.88%) PowerShell
11 5 (1.88%) Scala
12 4 (1.50%) C#
12 4 (1.50%) Groovy
13 3 (1.13%) C++
14 2 (0.75%) Bicep
14 2 (0.75%) Perl
14 2 (0.75%) R
15 1 (0.38%) PromQL
Qualifications
1 82 (30.83%) Security Cleared
2 72 (27.07%) SC Cleared
3 27 (10.15%) AWS Certification
4 11 (4.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 10 (3.76%) Degree
6 7 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (2.26%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 5 (1.88%) Master's Degree
9 4 (1.50%) DV Cleared
10 3 (1.13%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (1.13%) PhD
11 2 (0.75%) MCP
12 1 (0.38%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.38%) CEH
12 1 (0.38%) CISSP
12 1 (0.38%) CompTIA Security+
12 1 (0.38%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (6.77%) Data Quality
2 17 (6.39%) QA
3 9 (3.38%) GDPR
4 8 (3.01%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.13%) WCAG
6 2 (0.75%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.75%) ISO 20022
6 2 (0.75%) NIST
7 1 (0.38%) GxP
7 1 (0.38%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.38%) NCSC
System Software
1 63 (23.68%) Docker
2 5 (1.88%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.13%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.75%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.38%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 105 (39.47%) Terraform
2 64 (24.06%) Kubernetes
3 16 (6.02%) Ansible
4 11 (4.14%) Grafana
5 10 (3.76%) Prometheus
6 6 (2.26%) Kibana
7 4 (1.50%) Rancher
7 4 (1.50%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (1.13%) ITRS Geneos
8 3 (1.13%) Karpenter
9 2 (0.75%) Opsgenie
9 2 (0.75%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.38%) Puppet
Vendors
1 19 (7.14%) Microsoft
2 14 (5.26%) Databricks
3 8 (3.01%) ServiceNow
4 6 (2.26%) Dynatrace
4 6 (2.26%) IBM
5 5 (1.88%) Atlassian
6 4 (1.50%) Confluent
6 4 (1.50%) Oracle
6 4 (1.50%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.13%) Cloudera
7 3 (1.13%) Google
7 3 (1.13%) OpenAI
7 3 (1.13%) Splunk
7 3 (1.13%) Sybase
8 2 (0.75%) Avaloq
8 2 (0.75%) CA Agile Central
8 2 (0.75%) Cisco
8 2 (0.75%) Qualys
8 2 (0.75%) SAP
8 2 (0.75%) Tenable