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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 195 177 229
Rank change year-on-year -18 +52 -37
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 309 210 163
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.53% 1.57% 1.01%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.74% 3.59% 2.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 235 144 116
10th Percentile £403 £408 £406
25th Percentile £450 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £525 £544
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £688 £630 £674
90th Percentile £775 £679 £738
England median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +1.85%
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 £72.66 £45.00 -
% change year-on-year +61.47% - -

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 8,270 5,849 6,595
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 40.92% 43.67% 40.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,710 3,957 4,544
10th Percentile £360 £350 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% -3.64% -2.96%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +4.48% -4.29% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 97 41
10th Percentile £17.60 £22.50 £23.80
25th Percentile £22.65 £25.01 £24.15
Median hourly rate £28.55 £27.40 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.20% -11.61% -23.46%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £44.61
90th Percentile £78.75 £79.25 £66.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +8.29%

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 8 October 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 8 October 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 -13 37 £675 - 22
West London +1 23 £725 +88.31% 3
South London +2 15 £438 -29.66%
East London - 1 £500 - 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 36 (11.65%) Apache Airflow
2 23 (7.44%) Confluence
3 19 (6.15%) Apache Spark
4 13 (4.21%) Apache
5 4 (1.29%) SAS
6 3 (0.97%) CICS
7 2 (0.65%) PowerExchange
8 1 (0.32%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.32%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.32%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.32%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.32%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.32%) WebLogic Portal
Applications
1 3 (0.97%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.65%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.32%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.32%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.32%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 309 (100.00%) AWS
2 305 (98.71%) Serverless
3 217 (70.23%) Amazon S3
4 97 (31.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 94 (30.42%) Amazon ECS
6 91 (29.45%) Amazon EC2
7 82 (26.54%) Amazon EKS
8 73 (23.62%) GitHub
9 61 (19.74%) GitHub Actions
10 52 (16.83%) Amazon SQS
11 48 (15.53%) AWS Step Functions
12 47 (15.21%) AWS CloudFormation
13 45 (14.56%) Azure
14 39 (12.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 36 (11.65%) Amazon EventBridge
16 33 (10.68%) Amazon EMR
17 29 (9.39%) dbt
18 28 (9.06%) Snowflake
19 23 (7.44%) Power Platform
20 19 (6.15%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.94%) Firewall
2 4 (1.29%) DNS
2 4 (1.29%) WAN
3 3 (0.97%) HTTP
3 3 (0.97%) Network Security
4 2 (0.65%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (0.65%) VPN
5 1 (0.32%) BGP
5 1 (0.32%) Internet
5 1 (0.32%) OpenLDAP
5 1 (0.32%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (26.86%) Amazon RDS
2 59 (19.09%) DynamoDB
3 58 (18.77%) Amazon Athena
4 43 (13.92%) Amazon Redshift
5 37 (11.97%) Data Warehouse
6 27 (8.74%) PostgreSQL
7 23 (7.44%) Power BI
8 20 (6.47%) Amazon Aurora
9 18 (5.83%) NoSQL
10 16 (5.18%) Metadata
11 12 (3.88%) SQL Server
12 10 (3.24%) Apache Iceberg
12 10 (3.24%) MongoDB
13 9 (2.91%) Amazon QuickSight
13 9 (2.91%) Data Lake
14 8 (2.59%) BigQuery
14 8 (2.59%) Delta Lake
14 8 (2.59%) Relational Database
15 7 (2.27%) Big Data
16 6 (1.94%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 72 (23.30%) Jenkins
2 68 (22.01%) Git
3 64 (20.71%) GitLab
4 28 (9.06%) JIRA
5 18 (5.83%) Cucumber
6 13 (4.21%) Bitbucket
7 10 (3.24%) Cypress.io
8 9 (2.91%) Maven
8 9 (2.91%) Selenium
9 8 (2.59%) Mockito
10 7 (2.27%) JUnit
11 6 (1.94%) REST Assured
12 5 (1.62%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 5 (1.62%) Claude Code
12 5 (1.62%) Gatling
12 5 (1.62%) Postman
13 4 (1.29%) Artifactory
13 4 (1.29%) Gradle
13 4 (1.29%) Mocha
14 3 (0.97%) tSQLt
General
1 73 (23.62%) Social Skills
2 54 (17.48%) Finance
3 41 (13.27%) Public Sector
4 27 (8.74%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (8.09%) Banking
6 13 (4.21%) Back Office
7 12 (3.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (2.91%) Law
9 7 (2.27%) Front Office
9 7 (2.27%) Military
10 4 (1.29%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.29%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.29%) Marketing
10 4 (1.29%) Police
11 2 (0.65%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.65%) Local Government
11 2 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.32%) Billing
12 1 (0.32%) Retail
12 1 (0.32%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 76 (24.60%) AWS Engineer
2 71 (22.98%) Senior
3 66 (21.36%) Data Engineer
4 48 (15.53%) Lead
5 38 (12.30%) Architect
6 34 (11.00%) Developer
7 32 (10.36%) DevOps Engineer
8 28 (9.06%) Software Engineer
9 23 (7.44%) Technical Leader
10 22 (7.12%) AWS Data Engineer
10 22 (7.12%) Cloud Engineer
11 20 (6.47%) AWS Architect
12 18 (5.83%) Senior Data Engineer
13 15 (4.85%) Python Engineer
13 15 (4.85%) Senior Software Engineer
14 14 (4.53%) AWS DevOps
15 12 (3.88%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 11 (3.56%) Lead DevOps
16 11 (3.56%) Senior DevOps
16 11 (3.56%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 146 (47.25%) Terraform
2 46 (14.89%) REST
3 45 (14.56%) Kafka
4 38 (12.30%) React
5 35 (11.33%) FastAPI
6 32 (10.36%) RESTful
7 30 (9.71%) PySpark
8 25 (8.09%) GraphQL
9 23 (7.44%) Node.js
9 23 (7.44%) Spring Boot
10 22 (7.12%) Spring
11 20 (6.47%) .NET
12 17 (5.50%) Flask
13 13 (4.21%) AWS CDK
13 13 (4.21%) Playwright
14 11 (3.56%) Next.js
14 11 (3.56%) pytest
15 10 (3.24%) AngularJS
15 10 (3.24%) SOAP
16 9 (2.91%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 99 (32.04%) Cloud Native
2 27 (8.74%) Distributed Systems
3 23 (7.44%) Product Ownership
4 17 (5.50%) AI Agents
5 9 (2.91%) Onboarding
6 7 (2.27%) Fixed Income
6 7 (2.27%) Security Posture
7 6 (1.94%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.62%) Cloud Security Posture
9 4 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.29%) Low-Code
9 4 (1.29%) Mainframe
9 4 (1.29%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.29%) NHS
9 4 (1.29%) Taxonomies
10 3 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (0.97%) DataPower
10 3 (0.97%) Equities
10 3 (0.97%) Hedge funds
10 3 (0.97%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 36 (11.65%) Linux
2 11 (3.56%) Unix
3 8 (2.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.29%) Windows
5 3 (0.97%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (0.97%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 215 (69.58%) CI/CD
2 146 (47.25%) Infrastructure as Code
3 139 (44.98%) DevOps
4 130 (42.07%) Agile
5 82 (26.54%) AI
6 73 (23.62%) Data Engineering
6 73 (23.62%) Event-Driven
7 68 (22.01%) Containerisation
7 68 (22.01%) Test Automation
8 66 (21.36%) Observability
9 65 (21.04%) Data Pipeline
10 63 (20.39%) Software Engineering
11 58 (18.77%) Microservices
12 54 (17.48%) Continuous Improvement
12 54 (17.48%) Technical Leadership
13 50 (16.18%) Data Modelling
14 49 (15.86%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 48 (15.53%) Analytics
16 47 (15.21%) ETL
17 46 (14.89%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 201 (65.05%) Python
2 103 (33.33%) SQL
3 52 (16.83%) Java
4 50 (16.18%) TypeScript
5 36 (11.65%) Bash
6 33 (10.68%) JavaScript
7 20 (6.47%) C#
8 15 (4.85%) Scala
8 15 (4.85%) Shell Script
9 11 (3.56%) PowerShell
10 5 (1.62%) Groovy
10 5 (1.62%) Kotlin
10 5 (1.62%) PL/SQL
11 4 (1.29%) Cypher
11 4 (1.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 4 (1.29%) Gremlin
11 4 (1.29%) SPARQL
11 4 (1.29%) T-SQL
12 3 (0.97%) JCL
13 2 (0.65%) Go
Qualifications
1 90 (29.13%) Security Cleared
2 83 (26.86%) SC Cleared
3 39 (12.62%) AWS Certification
4 20 (6.47%) DV Cleared
5 16 (5.18%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (4.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 13 (4.21%) Degree
7 9 (2.91%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 9 (2.91%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 7 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (0.97%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.97%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 2 (0.65%) ISEB
10 2 (0.65%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.65%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.65%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.32%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.32%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.32%) SAFe Agilist
11 1 (0.32%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (18.12%) Data Quality
2 36 (11.65%) QA
3 3 (0.97%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.65%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 102 (33.01%) Docker
2 7 (2.27%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.32%) Squid
3 1 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 76 (24.60%) Kubernetes
2 33 (10.68%) Grafana
3 29 (9.39%) Ansible
4 28 (9.06%) Prometheus
5 8 (2.59%) Kibana
5 8 (2.59%) Puppet
6 4 (1.29%) Salt
7 3 (0.97%) Packer
7 3 (0.97%) Rancher
8 2 (0.65%) Argo
8 2 (0.65%) Control-M
8 2 (0.65%) Istio
8 2 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.32%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.32%) ITRS Geneos
9 1 (0.32%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.32%) Oracle RMAN
9 1 (0.32%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 21 (6.80%) Microsoft
2 15 (4.85%) Oracle
3 14 (4.53%) Informatica
4 12 (3.88%) Databricks
5 11 (3.56%) Splunk
6 8 (2.59%) ServiceNow
7 6 (1.94%) OpenAI
8 4 (1.29%) Dynatrace
8 4 (1.29%) Red Hat
9 3 (0.97%) Brio
9 3 (0.97%) Fortinet
9 3 (0.97%) PagerDuty
9 3 (0.97%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.65%) Confluent
10 2 (0.65%) Google
10 2 (0.65%) Sybase
11 1 (0.32%) Braze
11 1 (0.32%) Denodo
11 1 (0.32%) New Relic
11 1 (0.32%) Palo Alto