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

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 178 158
Rank change year-on-year +45 -20 +16
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 291 203 262
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.02% 1.45% 1.46%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.56% 3.51% 3.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 209 157 194
10th Percentile £367 £433 £400
25th Percentile £414 £488 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.87% +15.00% -18.37%
75th Percentile £650 £788 £588
90th Percentile £690 £838 £713
England median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 6,387 5,782 6,761
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.37% 41.20% 37.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,384 3,881 4,978
10th Percentile £343 £350 £329
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 £775 £763
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 46 65
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.76 £17.40
25th Percentile £22.73 £23.80 £20.50
Median hourly rate £26.50 £30.80 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.95% -12.01% +35.42%
75th Percentile £54.88 £47.72 £58.75
90th Percentile £77.92 £64.38 £68.80
England median hourly rate £30.00 £28.75 £22.50
% change year-on-year +4.35% +27.78% -0.32%

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 16 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 16 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 +25 43 £530 +2.66% 19
South London -2 8 £533 +12.11% 8
West London -14 7 £650 +4.00% 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 16 (5.50%) Apache Airflow
2 15 (5.15%) Apache Spark
3 11 (3.78%) Confluence
4 7 (2.41%) Apache
5 2 (0.69%) nginx
6 1 (0.34%) Jupyter
Applications
1 6 (2.06%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 290 (99.66%) AWS
1 290 (99.66%) Serverless
2 183 (62.89%) Amazon S3
3 87 (29.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 79 (27.15%) GitHub
5 73 (25.09%) Amazon ECS
6 69 (23.71%) AWS CloudFormation
7 63 (21.65%) GitHub Actions
8 58 (19.93%) Amazon EC2
9 47 (16.15%) Amazon EKS
10 39 (13.40%) AWS Step Functions
11 35 (12.03%) Amazon Kinesis
12 29 (9.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 27 (9.28%) Snowflake
14 26 (8.93%) Azure
15 23 (7.90%) Amazon SQS
16 19 (6.53%) Amazon EventBridge
17 18 (6.19%) Amazon EMR
18 17 (5.84%) AWS Fargate
19 15 (5.15%) Amazon MSK
Communications & Networking
1 16 (5.50%) DNS
2 5 (1.72%) OpenLDAP
2 5 (1.72%) VPN
3 3 (1.03%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (0.69%) Firewall
4 2 (0.69%) Kerberos
4 2 (0.69%) SSL
5 1 (0.34%) DKIM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (22.68%) Amazon RDS
2 54 (18.56%) DynamoDB
3 47 (16.15%) PostgreSQL
4 41 (14.09%) Amazon Athena
5 38 (13.06%) Amazon Redshift
6 28 (9.62%) Amazon Aurora
7 18 (6.19%) Data Warehouse
8 17 (5.84%) Tableau
9 14 (4.81%) NoSQL
9 14 (4.81%) Relational Database
10 12 (4.12%) Apache Iceberg
10 12 (4.12%) Metadata
11 10 (3.44%) Amazon QuickSight
11 10 (3.44%) Data Lake
12 9 (3.09%) Redis
13 8 (2.75%) Big Data
13 8 (2.75%) MySQL
13 8 (2.75%) Pinecone
14 7 (2.41%) Power BI
15 6 (2.06%) CockroachDB
Development Applications
1 47 (16.15%) Git
1 47 (16.15%) GitLab
2 45 (15.46%) Jenkins
3 19 (6.53%) JIRA
4 9 (3.09%) Cypress.io
5 6 (2.06%) JUnit
6 5 (1.72%) Cucumber
7 4 (1.37%) Bitbucket
7 4 (1.37%) Snyk
7 4 (1.37%) Terragrunt
8 3 (1.03%) Postman
8 3 (1.03%) Selenium
8 3 (1.03%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (0.69%) Serenity BDD
9 2 (0.69%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.69%) Storybook
10 1 (0.34%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.34%) MLflow
10 1 (0.34%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.34%) SoapUI
General
1 71 (24.40%) Social Skills
2 38 (13.06%) Public Sector
3 30 (10.31%) Finance
4 24 (8.25%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (5.50%) Banking
6 8 (2.75%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (2.41%) Front Office
8 5 (1.72%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.69%) Digital Healthcare
11 2 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.69%) Marketing
11 2 (0.69%) Military
11 2 (0.69%) 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 57 (19.59%) Developer
2 52 (17.87%) AWS Engineer
3 43 (14.78%) Senior
4 42 (14.43%) DevOps Engineer
5 39 (13.40%) Data Engineer
6 38 (13.06%) Architect
7 27 (9.28%) Lead
8 20 (6.87%) Software Engineer
9 19 (6.53%) AWS DevOps
10 17 (5.84%) AWS Architect
10 17 (5.84%) AWS Developer
10 17 (5.84%) Python Engineer
11 15 (5.15%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 14 (4.81%) Full-Stack Developer
13 13 (4.47%) Cloud Architect
14 11 (3.78%) AWS Data Engineer
14 11 (3.78%) Cloud Engineer
14 11 (3.78%) Data Architect
15 10 (3.44%) Java Developer
15 10 (3.44%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (20.62%) Kafka
2 58 (19.93%) Node.js
3 45 (15.46%) React
4 34 (11.68%) RESTful
5 24 (8.25%) REST
5 24 (8.25%) Spring Boot
6 23 (7.90%) Spring
7 20 (6.87%) boto
8 19 (6.53%) OAuth
9 17 (5.84%) AngularJS
10 16 (5.50%) AWS CDK
11 15 (5.15%) CSS
12 12 (4.12%) Next.js
13 11 (3.78%) PySpark
13 11 (3.78%) pytest
14 9 (3.09%) Elastic Stack
14 9 (3.09%) FastAPI
14 9 (3.09%) HTML
14 9 (3.09%) JSON
15 8 (2.75%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 69 (23.71%) Cloud Native
2 27 (9.28%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (3.78%) Data Protection Act
4 9 (3.09%) Product Ownership
5 7 (2.41%) Mobile App
6 5 (1.72%) DataPower
6 5 (1.72%) Distributed Architecture
6 5 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (1.72%) Mainframe
6 5 (1.72%) Replication
7 4 (1.37%) Data Structures
7 4 (1.37%) Derivative
7 4 (1.37%) Equities
7 4 (1.37%) PACS
7 4 (1.37%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 4 (1.37%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.03%) Equity Derivative
8 3 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.69%) Algorithms
9 2 (0.69%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 22 (7.56%) Linux
2 3 (1.03%) Unix
3 1 (0.34%) Android
3 1 (0.34%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.34%) VMS
3 1 (0.34%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 171 (58.76%) CI/CD
2 120 (41.24%) DevOps
3 99 (34.02%) Infrastructure as Code
4 76 (26.12%) Microservices
5 73 (25.09%) Agile
6 54 (18.56%) Data Pipeline
7 49 (16.84%) Event-Driven
8 46 (15.81%) Analytics
9 45 (15.46%) Containerisation
10 44 (15.12%) Data Engineering
10 44 (15.12%) Data Modelling
11 43 (14.78%) Observability
11 43 (14.78%) Problem-Solving
12 38 (13.06%) ETL
13 35 (12.03%) AI
13 35 (12.03%) Software Engineering
14 31 (10.65%) Full-Stack Development
15 28 (9.62%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 26 (8.93%) Design Patterns
17 23 (7.90%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 167 (57.39%) Python
2 79 (27.15%) SQL
3 57 (19.59%) Java
4 44 (15.12%) TypeScript
5 41 (14.09%) JavaScript
6 22 (7.56%) Bash
7 10 (3.44%) Go
8 8 (2.75%) Ruby
8 8 (2.75%) Shell Script
9 6 (2.06%) C#
9 6 (2.06%) JSX
9 6 (2.06%) Korn
9 6 (2.06%) PowerShell
10 5 (1.72%) Scala
11 4 (1.37%) Groovy
12 3 (1.03%) Bicep
12 3 (1.03%) C++
13 2 (0.69%) Perl
13 2 (0.69%) R
14 1 (0.34%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 89 (30.58%) Security Cleared
2 79 (27.15%) SC Cleared
3 28 (9.62%) AWS Certification
4 11 (3.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 10 (3.44%) Degree
6 7 (2.41%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (2.06%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 5 (1.72%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.72%) Master's Degree
8 5 (1.72%) MCP
9 4 (1.37%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (1.03%) PhD
11 2 (0.69%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.34%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.34%) CEH
12 1 (0.34%) CISSP
12 1 (0.34%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (8.25%) QA
2 18 (6.19%) Data Quality
3 8 (2.75%) Accessibility
3 8 (2.75%) GDPR
4 7 (2.41%) NIST
5 5 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.37%) ISO 20022
6 4 (1.37%) PCI DSS
7 3 (1.03%) 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 74 (25.43%) Docker
2 5 (1.72%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.69%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.34%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 119 (40.89%) Terraform
2 77 (26.46%) Kubernetes
3 16 (5.50%) Ansible
4 10 (3.44%) Grafana
4 10 (3.44%) Prometheus
5 6 (2.06%) Kibana
6 5 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (1.37%) Rancher
8 3 (1.03%) ITRS Geneos
8 3 (1.03%) Karpenter
9 2 (0.69%) Opsgenie
9 2 (0.69%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.34%) Puppet
Vendors
1 19 (6.53%) Microsoft
2 13 (4.47%) Databricks
3 8 (2.75%) ServiceNow
4 7 (2.41%) Confluent
5 6 (2.06%) Dynatrace
5 6 (2.06%) IBM
6 5 (1.72%) Atlassian
6 5 (1.72%) OpenAI
6 5 (1.72%) Salesforce
6 5 (1.72%) Sybase
7 4 (1.37%) Oracle
8 3 (1.03%) Cloudera
8 3 (1.03%) Qualys
8 3 (1.03%) Tenable
9 2 (0.69%) Avaloq
9 2 (0.69%) CA Agile Central
9 2 (0.69%) Cisco
9 2 (0.69%) Google
9 2 (0.69%) SAP
9 2 (0.69%) Splunk