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

6 months to
27 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 174 171
Rank change year-on-year +40 -3 +4
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 298 206 261
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.03% 1.50% 1.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.60% 3.63% 3.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 213 161 195
10th Percentile £363 £425 £400
25th Percentile £414 £481 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £575 £513
Median % change year-on-year -10.87% +12.20% -14.58%
75th Percentile £638 £788 £588
90th Percentile £698 £838 £713
England median daily rate £513 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -6.82% +4.76% -12.50%

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 6,478 5,678 6,897
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.22% 41.41% 37.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,444 3,777 5,115
10th Percentile £348 £356 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £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 46 74
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £17.85
25th Percentile £21.46 £23.80 £21.44
Median hourly rate £28.88 £29.80 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.07% -5.41% +14.55%
75th Percentile £54.88 £47.72 £53.44
90th Percentile £76.00 £64.38 £61.75
England median hourly rate £31.93 £27.50 £23.22
% change year-on-year +16.11% +18.46% -3.27%

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 27 January 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 27 January 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 44 £520 +1.71% 22
South London 0 11 £519 +9.17% 11
West London -15 7 £650 +10.64% 4
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 (5.70%) Apache Airflow
2 15 (5.03%) Apache Spark
3 10 (3.36%) Confluence
4 7 (2.35%) Apache
4 7 (2.35%) nginx
5 1 (0.34%) Jupyter
Applications
1 6 (2.01%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 298 (100.00%) AWS
1 298 (100.00%) Serverless
2 193 (64.77%) Amazon S3
3 85 (28.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 78 (26.17%) Amazon ECS
5 77 (25.84%) GitHub
6 74 (24.83%) AWS CloudFormation
7 65 (21.81%) Amazon EC2
8 60 (20.13%) GitHub Actions
9 59 (19.80%) Amazon EKS
10 40 (13.42%) AWS Step Functions
11 38 (12.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 35 (11.74%) Amazon Kinesis
13 28 (9.40%) Snowflake
14 26 (8.72%) Azure
15 23 (7.72%) Amazon SQS
16 19 (6.38%) Amazon EventBridge
17 18 (6.04%) Amazon EMR
18 17 (5.70%) Route 53
19 16 (5.37%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 21 (7.05%) DNS
2 10 (3.36%) VPN
3 7 (2.35%) Firewall
4 5 (1.68%) OpenVPN
4 5 (1.68%) TCP/IP
5 3 (1.01%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (0.67%) Kerberos
6 2 (0.67%) SSL
7 1 (0.34%) DKIM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (22.15%) Amazon RDS
2 53 (17.79%) DynamoDB
3 47 (15.77%) PostgreSQL
4 40 (13.42%) Amazon Athena
5 37 (12.42%) Amazon Redshift
6 23 (7.72%) Amazon Aurora
7 19 (6.38%) Data Warehouse
8 17 (5.70%) Tableau
9 14 (4.70%) NoSQL
10 13 (4.36%) Relational Database
11 12 (4.03%) Apache Iceberg
12 10 (3.36%) Amazon QuickSight
12 10 (3.36%) Data Lake
12 10 (3.36%) Redis
13 8 (2.68%) Big Data
13 8 (2.68%) Metadata
13 8 (2.68%) MySQL
14 7 (2.35%) Power BI
15 6 (2.01%) CockroachDB
15 6 (2.01%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 50 (16.78%) Jenkins
2 47 (15.77%) Git
2 47 (15.77%) GitLab
3 19 (6.38%) JIRA
4 9 (3.02%) Bitbucket
4 9 (3.02%) Cypress.io
5 7 (2.35%) JUnit
6 6 (2.01%) Cucumber
7 5 (1.68%) SonarQube
8 4 (1.34%) Postman
8 4 (1.34%) Snyk
8 4 (1.34%) Terragrunt
9 3 (1.01%) Selenium
9 3 (1.01%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (0.67%) Mockito
10 2 (0.67%) Serenity BDD
10 2 (0.67%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.67%) Storybook
10 2 (0.67%) Vite
11 1 (0.34%) REST Assured
General
1 77 (25.84%) Social Skills
2 41 (13.76%) Public Sector
3 31 (10.40%) Finance
4 24 (8.05%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (6.04%) Banking
6 12 (4.03%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (2.35%) Front Office
8 5 (1.68%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.67%) Digital Healthcare
11 2 (0.67%) Marketing
11 2 (0.67%) Military
11 2 (0.67%) Private Banking
12 1 (0.34%) Advertising
12 1 (0.34%) Aviation
12 1 (0.34%) Games
12 1 (0.34%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.34%) Police
Job Titles
1 56 (18.79%) AWS Engineer
2 55 (18.46%) Developer
3 45 (15.10%) Data Engineer
4 42 (14.09%) Architect
4 42 (14.09%) Senior
5 41 (13.76%) DevOps Engineer
6 29 (9.73%) Lead
7 22 (7.38%) AWS DevOps
8 21 (7.05%) Software Engineer
9 20 (6.71%) AWS Architect
10 18 (6.04%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 15 (5.03%) AWS Developer
11 15 (5.03%) Cloud Architect
11 15 (5.03%) Python Engineer
12 14 (4.70%) AWS Data Engineer
12 14 (4.70%) Cloud Engineer
12 14 (4.70%) Full-Stack Developer
13 12 (4.03%) Lead Data Engineer
13 12 (4.03%) Technical Architect
14 11 (3.69%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (21.48%) Kafka
2 56 (18.79%) Node.js
3 45 (15.10%) React
4 31 (10.40%) RESTful
5 23 (7.72%) Spring Boot
6 22 (7.38%) Spring
7 21 (7.05%) OAuth
8 18 (6.04%) REST
9 17 (5.70%) AngularJS
10 16 (5.37%) AWS CDK
11 15 (5.03%) boto
11 15 (5.03%) CSS
12 12 (4.03%) Next.js
13 11 (3.69%) PySpark
14 10 (3.36%) JWT
15 9 (3.02%) Elastic Stack
15 9 (3.02%) FastAPI
15 9 (3.02%) HTML
15 9 (3.02%) JSON
15 9 (3.02%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 76 (25.50%) Cloud Native
2 27 (9.06%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (3.69%) Data Protection Act
4 9 (3.02%) Product Ownership
5 5 (1.68%) DataPower
5 5 (1.68%) Distributed Architecture
5 5 (1.68%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (1.68%) Mainframe
5 5 (1.68%) Mobile App
5 5 (1.68%) Replication
6 4 (1.34%) Data Structures
6 4 (1.34%) Derivative
6 4 (1.34%) Equities
6 4 (1.34%) Management Information System
6 4 (1.34%) PACS
6 4 (1.34%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 4 (1.34%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.01%) Equity Derivative
7 3 (1.01%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (0.67%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 23 (7.72%) 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
1 176 (59.06%) CI/CD
2 127 (42.62%) DevOps
3 105 (35.23%) Infrastructure as Code
4 73 (24.50%) Agile
5 71 (23.83%) Microservices
6 58 (19.46%) Data Pipeline
7 49 (16.44%) Containerisation
7 49 (16.44%) Event-Driven
7 49 (16.44%) Problem-Solving
8 45 (15.10%) Analytics
8 45 (15.10%) Data Modelling
9 44 (14.77%) Data Engineering
10 42 (14.09%) Observability
11 40 (13.42%) ETL
12 37 (12.42%) Software Engineering
13 34 (11.41%) AI
14 30 (10.07%) Full-Stack Development
15 27 (9.06%) Design Patterns
16 26 (8.72%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 26 (8.72%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 169 (56.71%) Python
2 81 (27.18%) SQL
3 54 (18.12%) Java
4 42 (14.09%) TypeScript
5 40 (13.42%) JavaScript
6 22 (7.38%) Bash
7 8 (2.68%) C#
7 8 (2.68%) Shell Script
8 7 (2.35%) PowerShell
8 7 (2.35%) Ruby
9 6 (2.01%) JSX
9 6 (2.01%) Korn
10 5 (1.68%) Go
10 5 (1.68%) Scala
11 4 (1.34%) Groovy
12 3 (1.01%) Bicep
12 3 (1.01%) C++
13 2 (0.67%) Perl
13 2 (0.67%) R
14 1 (0.34%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 97 (32.55%) Security Cleared
2 86 (28.86%) SC Cleared
3 30 (10.07%) AWS Certification
4 11 (3.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 11 (3.69%) Degree
5 8 (2.68%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 8 (2.68%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (2.35%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.68%) DV Cleared
7 5 (1.68%) MCP
8 3 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.01%) ITIL Certification
8 3 (1.01%) PhD
9 2 (0.67%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.34%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.34%) CEH
10 1 (0.34%) CISSP
10 1 (0.34%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.34%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.34%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (6.38%) Data Quality
2 18 (6.04%) QA
3 8 (2.68%) Accessibility
3 8 (2.68%) GDPR
4 7 (2.35%) NIST
5 5 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.34%) ISO 20022
6 4 (1.34%) PCI DSS
7 3 (1.01%) WCAG
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 83 (27.85%) Docker
2 5 (1.68%) Squid
3 3 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.67%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.34%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 133 (44.63%) Terraform
2 78 (26.17%) Kubernetes
3 17 (5.70%) Prometheus
4 16 (5.37%) Ansible
5 14 (4.70%) Grafana
6 10 (3.36%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (2.01%) Kibana
8 5 (1.68%) Consul
8 5 (1.68%) FortiGate
9 4 (1.34%) Rancher
10 3 (1.01%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (1.01%) Karpenter
11 2 (0.67%) Opsgenie
11 2 (0.67%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.34%) Puppet
Vendors
1 20 (6.71%) Microsoft
2 14 (4.70%) Databricks
3 11 (3.69%) Dynatrace
4 8 (2.68%) ServiceNow
5 7 (2.35%) Confluent
6 6 (2.01%) IBM
6 6 (2.01%) OpenAI
7 5 (1.68%) Atlassian
7 5 (1.68%) Red Hat
7 5 (1.68%) Salesforce
7 5 (1.68%) Sybase
8 3 (1.01%) AVEVA
8 3 (1.01%) Cloudera
8 3 (1.01%) Oracle
8 3 (1.01%) Qualys
8 3 (1.01%) Tenable
9 2 (0.67%) Avaloq
9 2 (0.67%) CA Agile Central
9 2 (0.67%) Cisco
9 2 (0.67%) SAP