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

6 months to
14 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 128 152
Rank change year-on-year -13 +24 +17
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 338 254 275
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.96% 2.01% 1.55%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.53% 4.71% 4.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 243 198 212
10th Percentile £351 £413 £400
25th Percentile £413 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.87% +15.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £613 £788 £588
90th Percentile £688 £838 £673
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 7,467 5,393 6,664
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.31% 42.63% 37.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,136 3,750 4,889
10th Percentile £350 £356 £331
25th Percentile £425 £441 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 52 76
10th Percentile £18.30 £22.27 £17.39
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.66 £21.06
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +11.81% -25.71%
75th Percentile £50.75 £54.13 £41.19
90th Percentile £69.87 £73.13 £61.25
England median hourly rate £42.69 £26.50 £20.77
% change year-on-year +61.08% +27.59% -24.47%

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 14 April 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 14 April 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 +8 45 £510 +0.99% 26
South London +4 23 £500 +5.26% 1
West London -28 4 £650 -2.99% 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 28 (8.28%) Apache Airflow
2 21 (6.21%) Apache Spark
3 13 (3.85%) Apache
3 13 (3.85%) Confluence
4 9 (2.66%) nginx
5 3 (0.89%) CICS
6 2 (0.59%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 10 (2.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.18%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.59%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 338 (100.00%) AWS
2 337 (99.70%) Serverless
3 235 (69.53%) Amazon S3
4 107 (31.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 102 (30.18%) Amazon EC2
6 90 (26.63%) Amazon ECS
7 85 (25.15%) GitHub
8 84 (24.85%) AWS CloudFormation
9 79 (23.37%) Amazon EKS
10 66 (19.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 64 (18.93%) GitHub Actions
12 53 (15.68%) AWS Step Functions
13 36 (10.65%) Azure
14 34 (10.06%) Amazon SQS
15 32 (9.47%) Amazon Kinesis
16 30 (8.88%) Snowflake
17 26 (7.69%) AWS CodePipeline
18 24 (7.10%) Route 53
19 21 (6.21%) Amazon EventBridge
20 20 (5.92%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 24 (7.10%) DNS
2 16 (4.73%) Firewall
3 12 (3.55%) TCP/IP
3 12 (3.55%) VPN
4 9 (2.66%) OpenVPN
5 6 (1.78%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (0.59%) Kerberos
6 2 (0.59%) Network Security
7 1 (0.30%) 4G
7 1 (0.30%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (22.49%) Amazon RDS
2 58 (17.16%) DynamoDB
3 55 (16.27%) Amazon Athena
4 54 (15.98%) Amazon Redshift
5 43 (12.72%) PostgreSQL
6 30 (8.88%) Tableau
7 21 (6.21%) Amazon Aurora
7 21 (6.21%) Data Warehouse
8 20 (5.92%) Power BI
9 14 (4.14%) Data Lake
9 14 (4.14%) NoSQL
10 13 (3.85%) Metadata
11 12 (3.55%) Amazon QuickSight
12 11 (3.25%) Elasticsearch
12 11 (3.25%) MySQL
13 10 (2.96%) Apache Iceberg
13 10 (2.96%) DB2
13 10 (2.96%) Redis
14 9 (2.66%) Big Data
14 9 (2.66%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 63 (18.64%) GitLab
2 61 (18.05%) Git
3 59 (17.46%) Jenkins
4 25 (7.40%) JIRA
5 16 (4.73%) Bitbucket
6 12 (3.55%) JUnit
7 11 (3.25%) Cucumber
8 9 (2.66%) Cypress.io
9 7 (2.07%) SonarQube
10 5 (1.48%) Postman
10 5 (1.48%) Snyk
11 4 (1.18%) Artifactory
11 4 (1.18%) Mocha
11 4 (1.18%) Mockito
11 4 (1.18%) Selenium
11 4 (1.18%) Terragrunt
12 3 (0.89%) MSTest
12 3 (0.89%) Sonatype Nexus
12 3 (0.89%) tSQLt
12 3 (0.89%) Vite
General
1 92 (27.22%) Social Skills
2 58 (17.16%) Public Sector
3 52 (15.38%) Finance
4 39 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (6.21%) Banking
5 21 (6.21%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (1.48%) Front Office
7 4 (1.18%) Investment Banking
7 4 (1.18%) Police
8 3 (0.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (0.89%) Law
8 3 (0.89%) Military
8 3 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (0.59%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.59%) Games
9 2 (0.59%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.59%) Private Banking
9 2 (0.59%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.30%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.30%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 68 (20.12%) Developer
2 63 (18.64%) AWS Engineer
3 58 (17.16%) Data Engineer
4 54 (15.98%) Senior
5 49 (14.50%) Architect
6 37 (10.95%) DevOps Engineer
7 31 (9.17%) Lead
8 26 (7.69%) AWS Architect
8 26 (7.69%) AWS Developer
9 22 (6.51%) AWS DevOps
10 19 (5.62%) AWS Data Engineer
11 18 (5.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 17 (5.03%) Analyst
13 16 (4.73%) Cloud Engineer
14 15 (4.44%) Python Engineer
14 15 (4.44%) Senior Developer
15 14 (4.14%) Lead Data Engineer
15 14 (4.14%) Software Engineer
16 13 (3.85%) Data Architect
16 13 (3.85%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (17.75%) Kafka
2 47 (13.91%) Node.js
3 41 (12.13%) React
4 39 (11.54%) RESTful
5 34 (10.06%) Spring Boot
6 32 (9.47%) Spring
7 26 (7.69%) PySpark
8 23 (6.80%) OAuth
9 18 (5.33%) boto
10 16 (4.73%) AWS CDK
10 16 (4.73%) Pandas
11 15 (4.44%) AngularJS
11 15 (4.44%) REST
12 13 (3.85%) CSS
12 13 (3.85%) OpenID
13 12 (3.55%) FastAPI
13 12 (3.55%) JWT
14 11 (3.25%) Flask
15 10 (2.96%) .NET
15 10 (2.96%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 78 (23.08%) Cloud Native
2 21 (6.21%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (2.66%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (2.37%) DataPower
4 8 (2.37%) Mainframe
5 7 (2.07%) Product Ownership
6 5 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (1.48%) Equities
6 5 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.18%) Algorithms
7 4 (1.18%) Data Structures
7 4 (1.18%) Derivative
7 4 (1.18%) Hedge funds
7 4 (1.18%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (1.18%) PACS
7 4 (1.18%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 4 (1.18%) Virtual Team
8 3 (0.89%) Distributed Architecture
8 3 (0.89%) Equity Derivative
Operating Systems
1 31 (9.17%) Linux
2 11 (3.25%) Unix
3 3 (0.89%) zOS
4 2 (0.59%) Windows
5 1 (0.30%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (0.30%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 197 (58.28%) CI/CD
2 142 (42.01%) DevOps
3 131 (38.76%) Infrastructure as Code
4 86 (25.44%) Agile
5 81 (23.96%) Microservices
6 66 (19.53%) Problem-Solving
7 62 (18.34%) Data Pipeline
8 61 (18.05%) Containerisation
8 61 (18.05%) ETL
9 56 (16.57%) Analytics
9 56 (16.57%) Data Engineering
10 52 (15.38%) Data Modelling
11 45 (13.31%) Event-Driven
12 42 (12.43%) Observability
13 38 (11.24%) AI
13 38 (11.24%) Continuous Improvement
14 34 (10.06%) Software Engineering
15 33 (9.76%) Performance Tuning
16 31 (9.17%) Migration
16 31 (9.17%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 193 (57.10%) Python
2 109 (32.25%) SQL
3 63 (18.64%) Java
4 33 (9.76%) TypeScript
5 32 (9.47%) JavaScript
6 26 (7.69%) Bash
7 21 (6.21%) C#
8 18 (5.33%) Shell Script
9 11 (3.25%) Scala
10 8 (2.37%) PowerShell
10 8 (2.37%) Ruby
11 6 (1.78%) Go
12 5 (1.48%) Korn
13 4 (1.18%) Bicep
14 3 (0.89%) C++
14 3 (0.89%) Groovy
14 3 (0.89%) JCL
14 3 (0.89%) JSX
14 3 (0.89%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.59%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 125 (36.98%) Security Cleared
2 112 (33.14%) SC Cleared
3 31 (9.17%) AWS Certification
4 14 (4.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 10 (2.96%) Degree
6 9 (2.66%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 7 (2.07%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (2.07%) Master's Degree
8 6 (1.78%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (1.48%) DV Cleared
10 4 (1.18%) AWS Certified Developer
10 4 (1.18%) PhD
11 3 (0.89%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.30%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.30%) CEH
12 1 (0.30%) CISSP
12 1 (0.30%) CompTIA Security+
12 1 (0.30%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.30%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.30%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (9.47%) Data Quality
2 20 (5.92%) QA
3 8 (2.37%) NIST
4 7 (2.07%) PMO
5 5 (1.48%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.48%) GDPR
6 4 (1.18%) ISO 20022
6 4 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.18%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.18%) SLA
7 3 (0.89%) WCAG
8 1 (0.30%) GRC
8 1 (0.30%) GxP
System Software
1 99 (29.29%) Docker
2 9 (2.66%) Squid
3 4 (1.18%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.89%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.59%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.30%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 171 (50.59%) Terraform
2 86 (25.44%) Kubernetes
3 27 (7.99%) Grafana
3 27 (7.99%) Prometheus
4 23 (6.80%) Ansible
5 12 (3.55%) Single Sign-On
6 9 (2.66%) FortiGate
7 7 (2.07%) Consul
7 7 (2.07%) Kibana
8 3 (0.89%) ITRS Geneos
8 3 (0.89%) Karpenter
8 3 (0.89%) Puppet
8 3 (0.89%) Rancher
8 3 (0.89%) Salt
9 2 (0.59%) Opsgenie
10 1 (0.30%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 21 (6.21%) Microsoft
2 15 (4.44%) Databricks
3 14 (4.14%) Dynatrace
4 9 (2.66%) Red Hat
5 8 (2.37%) ServiceNow
5 8 (2.37%) Sybase
6 7 (2.07%) Atlassian
6 7 (2.07%) Confluent
6 7 (2.07%) OpenAI
6 7 (2.07%) Splunk
7 6 (1.78%) IBM
8 4 (1.18%) Oracle
8 4 (1.18%) Qualys
8 4 (1.18%) Tenable
9 3 (0.89%) AVEVA
9 3 (0.89%) Cloudera
9 3 (0.89%) Fortinet
9 3 (0.89%) Netlify
10 2 (0.59%) Avaloq
10 2 (0.59%) CA Agile Central