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 10 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 181 171 217
Rank change year-on-year -10 +46 -30
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 333 224 188
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.64% 1.66% 1.16%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.99% 3.83% 2.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 245 166 133
10th Percentile £389 £403 £375
25th Percentile £450 £461 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £528 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.27% +0.48% -2.33%
75th Percentile £650 £600 £650
90th Percentile £763 £678 £738
England median daily rate £515 £500 £535
% change year-on-year +3.00% -6.54% +1.90%
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 £72.00 £45.00 -
% change year-on-year +60.00% - -

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 8,356 5,848 6,649
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.12% 43.31% 41.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,712 3,977 4,689
10th Percentile £360 £342 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £529 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.55% -3.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +4.90% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 94 50
10th Percentile £18.44 £23.00 £21.80
25th Percentile £23.08 £25.15 £23.80
Median hourly rate £34.23 £31.00 £30.30
Median % change year-on-year +10.42% +2.33% -31.15%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £47.72
90th Percentile £78.75 £78.75 £67.03
England median hourly rate £33.99 £26.30 £30.73
% change year-on-year +29.24% -14.42% -6.87%

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 10 September 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 10 September 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 -15 37 £688 +3.77% 15
West London -5 20 £725 +68.10% 3
South London +2 16 £463 -25.64%
East London - 1 £500 - 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 35 (10.51%) Apache Airflow
2 26 (7.81%) Confluence
3 19 (5.71%) Apache Spark
4 13 (3.90%) Apache
5 4 (1.20%) CICS
5 4 (1.20%) SAS
6 3 (0.90%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.60%) PowerExchange
8 1 (0.30%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.30%) nginx
8 1 (0.30%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.30%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.30%) WebLogic Portal
Applications
1 4 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.90%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.60%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.30%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.30%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 333 (100.00%) AWS
2 329 (98.80%) Serverless
3 240 (72.07%) Amazon S3
4 104 (31.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 97 (29.13%) Amazon EC2
6 94 (28.23%) Amazon ECS
7 74 (22.22%) GitHub
8 73 (21.92%) Amazon EKS
9 60 (18.02%) GitHub Actions
10 56 (16.82%) AWS Step Functions
11 53 (15.92%) Amazon SQS
12 49 (14.71%) AWS CloudFormation
13 47 (14.11%) Azure
14 44 (13.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 35 (10.51%) Amazon EventBridge
16 34 (10.21%) Amazon EMR
17 29 (8.71%) dbt
18 28 (8.41%) Power Platform
19 27 (8.11%) Snowflake
20 20 (6.01%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.40%) Firewall
2 6 (1.80%) DNS
3 4 (1.20%) Network Security
3 4 (1.20%) WAN
4 3 (0.90%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.90%) VPN
5 2 (0.60%) HTTP
5 2 (0.60%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.30%) BGP
6 1 (0.30%) Internet
6 1 (0.30%) OpenVPN
6 1 (0.30%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (25.23%) Amazon RDS
2 67 (20.12%) Amazon Athena
3 63 (18.92%) DynamoDB
4 46 (13.81%) Amazon Redshift
5 34 (10.21%) Data Warehouse
6 28 (8.41%) PostgreSQL
6 28 (8.41%) Power BI
7 21 (6.31%) Amazon Aurora
8 18 (5.41%) Metadata
9 15 (4.50%) NoSQL
9 15 (4.50%) Tableau
10 13 (3.90%) SQL Server
11 10 (3.00%) Apache Iceberg
12 9 (2.70%) Data Lake
12 9 (2.70%) MongoDB
13 8 (2.40%) Amazon QuickSight
13 8 (2.40%) Big Data
13 8 (2.40%) BigQuery
13 8 (2.40%) Relational Database
14 7 (2.10%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 68 (20.42%) Jenkins
2 67 (20.12%) Git
3 59 (17.72%) GitLab
4 33 (9.91%) JIRA
5 15 (4.50%) Cucumber
6 12 (3.60%) Cypress.io
7 11 (3.30%) Bitbucket
8 9 (2.70%) Selenium
9 6 (1.80%) Mockito
10 5 (1.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 5 (1.50%) Claude Code
10 5 (1.50%) Gatling
10 5 (1.50%) JUnit
10 5 (1.50%) Postman
10 5 (1.50%) REST Assured
11 4 (1.20%) Artifactory
11 4 (1.20%) Maven
11 4 (1.20%) Mocha
12 3 (0.90%) MSTest
12 3 (0.90%) tSQLt
General
1 82 (24.62%) Social Skills
2 61 (18.32%) Finance
3 49 (14.71%) Public Sector
4 31 (9.31%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (7.21%) Banking
6 10 (3.00%) Back Office
7 9 (2.70%) Law
8 8 (2.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (2.10%) Front Office
10 6 (1.80%) Military
11 5 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.90%) Marketing
13 3 (0.90%) Police
14 2 (0.60%) Games
14 2 (0.60%) Local Government
14 2 (0.60%) Retail
14 2 (0.60%) Telecoms
15 1 (0.30%) Billing
15 1 (0.30%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 75 (22.52%) AWS Engineer
2 73 (21.92%) Senior
3 69 (20.72%) Data Engineer
4 49 (14.71%) Developer
4 49 (14.71%) Lead
5 41 (12.31%) Architect
6 27 (8.11%) DevOps Engineer
7 26 (7.81%) Software Engineer
8 24 (7.21%) AWS Data Engineer
9 23 (6.91%) AWS Developer
10 21 (6.31%) Cloud Engineer
10 21 (6.31%) Technical Leader
11 19 (5.71%) AWS Architect
11 19 (5.71%) Senior Data Engineer
12 15 (4.50%) Platform Engineer
12 15 (4.50%) Python Developer
12 15 (4.50%) Senior Software Engineer
13 13 (3.90%) Python Engineer
14 11 (3.30%) AWS DevOps
14 11 (3.30%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 153 (45.95%) Terraform
2 49 (14.71%) React
3 40 (12.01%) Kafka
4 38 (11.41%) PySpark
4 38 (11.41%) RESTful
5 37 (11.11%) REST
6 35 (10.51%) FastAPI
7 30 (9.01%) Node.js
8 24 (7.21%) Spring Boot
9 23 (6.91%) GraphQL
9 23 (6.91%) Spring
10 21 (6.31%) Flask
11 18 (5.41%) .NET
12 15 (4.50%) Pandas
13 14 (4.20%) AWS CDK
13 14 (4.20%) Next.js
14 12 (3.60%) Playwright
15 11 (3.30%) AngularJS
16 10 (3.00%) JSON
17 9 (2.70%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 92 (27.63%) Cloud Native
2 24 (7.21%) Product Ownership
3 21 (6.31%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (4.50%) AI Agents
5 8 (2.40%) Fixed Income
6 7 (2.10%) Hedge funds
6 7 (2.10%) Security Posture
7 6 (1.80%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (1.50%) Cloud Security Posture
8 5 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.50%) Mainframe
8 5 (1.50%) NHS
8 5 (1.50%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.20%) DataPower
9 4 (1.20%) Enterprise Cloud
9 4 (1.20%) Legacy Code
9 4 (1.20%) Low-Code
9 4 (1.20%) Online Banking
9 4 (1.20%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 35 (10.51%) Linux
2 14 (4.20%) Unix
3 8 (2.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.20%) Windows
4 4 (1.20%) zOS
5 3 (0.90%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 209 (62.76%) CI/CD
2 146 (43.84%) Infrastructure as Code
3 134 (40.24%) DevOps
4 132 (39.64%) Agile
5 80 (24.02%) AI
6 69 (20.72%) Data Engineering
6 69 (20.72%) Software Engineering
7 68 (20.42%) Data Pipeline
8 66 (19.82%) Event-Driven
8 66 (19.82%) Test Automation
9 63 (18.92%) Containerisation
10 59 (17.72%) Microservices
11 57 (17.12%) Analytics
12 54 (16.22%) Technical Leadership
13 53 (15.92%) Continuous Improvement
14 52 (15.62%) Observability
15 51 (15.32%) ETL
16 50 (15.02%) Data Modelling
17 47 (14.11%) Platform Engineering
18 45 (13.51%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 210 (63.06%) Python
2 113 (33.93%) SQL
3 57 (17.12%) Java
4 56 (16.82%) TypeScript
5 36 (10.81%) JavaScript
6 33 (9.91%) Bash
7 26 (7.81%) C#
8 17 (5.11%) Scala
8 17 (5.11%) Shell Script
9 10 (3.00%) PowerShell
10 5 (1.50%) PL/SQL
11 4 (1.20%) Cypher
11 4 (1.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 4 (1.20%) Gremlin
11 4 (1.20%) JCL
11 4 (1.20%) SPARQL
11 4 (1.20%) T-SQL
12 3 (0.90%) Bicep
12 3 (0.90%) Groovy
13 2 (0.60%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 100 (30.03%) Security Cleared
2 91 (27.33%) SC Cleared
3 36 (10.81%) AWS Certification
4 17 (5.11%) BPSS Clearance
4 17 (5.11%) DV Cleared
5 14 (4.20%) Degree
6 13 (3.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 9 (2.70%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 8 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (2.10%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 3 (0.90%) DBS Check
10 3 (0.90%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.60%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 1 (0.30%) ISEB
12 1 (0.30%) ISTQB
12 1 (0.30%) PhD
12 1 (0.30%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.30%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (16.52%) Data Quality
2 33 (9.91%) QA
3 3 (0.90%) Accessibility
3 3 (0.90%) PMO
4 2 (0.60%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 97 (29.13%) Docker
2 5 (1.50%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.60%) Squid
4 1 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 72 (21.62%) Kubernetes
2 34 (10.21%) Grafana
3 26 (7.81%) Ansible
3 26 (7.81%) Prometheus
4 8 (2.40%) Kibana
5 7 (2.10%) Puppet
6 4 (1.20%) Salt
7 3 (0.90%) Packer
8 2 (0.60%) Argo
8 2 (0.60%) Control-M
8 2 (0.60%) Istio
9 1 (0.30%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.30%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.30%) ITRS Geneos
9 1 (0.30%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.30%) Oracle RMAN
9 1 (0.30%) Rancher
9 1 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 19 (5.71%) Microsoft
2 15 (4.50%) Informatica
3 14 (4.20%) Oracle
4 13 (3.90%) Splunk
5 12 (3.60%) Databricks
6 6 (1.80%) OpenAI
6 6 (1.80%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.20%) Red Hat
8 3 (0.90%) Brio
8 3 (0.90%) Dynatrace
8 3 (0.90%) Fortinet
8 3 (0.90%) PagerDuty
8 3 (0.90%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.60%) Confluent
9 2 (0.60%) Sybase
10 1 (0.30%) Charles River
10 1 (0.30%) CheckPoint
10 1 (0.30%) Google
10 1 (0.30%) Murex
10 1 (0.30%) Teradata