AWS Lambda Contracts in London

AWS Lambda
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring AWS Lambda skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited AWS Lambda over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 136 166 163
Rank change year-on-year +30 -3 -6
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 257 257 438
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.05% 1.44% 1.62%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.84% 3.81% 4.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 204 198 328
10th Percentile £406 £400 £438
25th Percentile £461 £425 £497
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -16.67% -2.04%
75th Percentile £788 £588 £696
90th Percentile £838 £675 £750
England median daily rate £550 £513 £575
% change year-on-year +7.32% -10.87% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £35.00 - £35.00
England median hourly rate £35.00 - £35.00
% change year-on-year - - -43.09%

All Cloud 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 5,314 6,744 10,546
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.35% 37.82% 39.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,693 4,977 7,700
10th Percentile £358 £350 £375
25th Percentile £440 £445 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year - -6.38% +2.17%
75th Percentile £673 £675 £695
90th Percentile £788 £775 £782
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 71 90
10th Percentile £22.40 £17.78 £20.00
25th Percentile £24.66 £21.25 £24.63
Median hourly rate £29.07 £25.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.28% -37.50% +1.27%
75th Percentile £53.75 £38.44 £70.00
90th Percentile £73.13 £58.75 £88.30
England median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
% change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%

AWS Lambda
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing AWS Lambda as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Lambda in London

AWS Lambda
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS Lambda in London.

Daily rate trend for AWS Lambda in London

AWS Lambda
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Lambda in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Lambda in London

AWS Lambda
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing AWS Lambda in London.

Hourly rate trend for AWS Lambda in London

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 1 May 2025. 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 -5 27 £500 -2.44% 28
West London +21 12 £565 -5.83% 7
South London +6 7 £475 -5.00% 1
AWS Lambda
England

AWS Lambda
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 43 (16.73%) Apache Spark
2 38 (14.79%) Apache
3 35 (13.62%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (2.33%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (0.39%) CMS
5 1 (0.39%) Confluence
5 1 (0.39%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 1 (0.39%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 256 (99.61%) AWS
2 255 (99.22%) Serverless
3 136 (52.92%) Amazon S3
4 73 (28.40%) AWS CloudFormation
5 58 (22.57%) Amazon EC2
6 56 (21.79%) Amazon ECS
7 51 (19.84%) Amazon SQS
8 36 (14.01%) OpenShift
9 35 (13.62%) dbt
10 34 (13.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 32 (12.45%) Amazon EKS
12 30 (11.67%) AWS Step Functions
13 28 (10.89%) GitHub
14 19 (7.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 13 (5.06%) Amazon SageMaker
15 13 (5.06%) AWS CodePipeline
16 12 (4.67%) Amazon Cognito
17 10 (3.89%) Amazon ECR
17 10 (3.89%) AWS CodeCommit
17 10 (3.89%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.50%) HTTP
2 8 (3.11%) Firewall
3 7 (2.72%) VPN
4 5 (1.95%) DNS
5 4 (1.56%) TCP/IP
6 3 (1.17%) SSL
7 2 (0.78%) DHCP
7 2 (0.78%) HTTPS
7 2 (0.78%) Network Security
7 2 (0.78%) VLAN
8 1 (0.39%) Broadband
8 1 (0.39%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (26.85%) Amazon Athena
1 69 (26.85%) Amazon RDS
2 49 (19.07%) DynamoDB
3 37 (14.40%) Amazon Redshift
4 30 (11.67%) Apache Iceberg
5 28 (10.89%) Apache Arrow
5 28 (10.89%) Apache Ignite
5 28 (10.89%) Dremio
6 24 (9.34%) PostgreSQL
7 21 (8.17%) Tableau
8 19 (7.39%) NoSQL
9 15 (5.84%) Big Data
10 13 (5.06%) Data Warehouse
11 12 (4.67%) Relational Database
12 11 (4.28%) Oracle Database
13 10 (3.89%) MongoDB
14 9 (3.50%) Data Lake
15 8 (3.11%) Amazon Aurora
16 7 (2.72%) Redis
17 6 (2.33%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 37 (14.40%) Artifactory
2 26 (10.12%) Jenkins
3 22 (8.56%) Git
4 15 (5.84%) GitLab
5 13 (5.06%) Cypress.io
6 6 (2.33%) git-flow
6 6 (2.33%) SonarQube
7 4 (1.56%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.17%) Bitbucket
8 3 (1.17%) Gradle
8 3 (1.17%) Mocha
8 3 (1.17%) Postman
8 3 (1.17%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (0.39%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.39%) IBM UrbanCode
9 1 (0.39%) JIRA
9 1 (0.39%) MLflow
9 1 (0.39%) Mockito
9 1 (0.39%) Selenium
General
1 56 (21.79%) Finance
2 51 (19.84%) Public Sector
3 45 (17.51%) Front Office
4 39 (15.18%) Social Skills
5 24 (9.34%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (6.23%) Banking
7 4 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (1.56%) Retail
8 3 (1.17%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.17%) Military
9 2 (0.78%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (0.78%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.78%) Marketing
9 2 (0.78%) Publishing
9 2 (0.78%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.39%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.39%) Police
Job Titles
1 99 (38.52%) AWS Engineer
2 68 (26.46%) Data Engineer
3 63 (24.51%) DevOps Engineer
4 57 (22.18%) AWS DevOps
4 57 (22.18%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 53 (20.62%) Developer
6 44 (17.12%) Senior
7 41 (15.95%) Python Engineer
8 32 (12.45%) Architect
9 22 (8.56%) AWS Architect
9 22 (8.56%) AWS Data Engineer
10 17 (6.61%) AWS Developer
11 16 (6.23%) Senior Developer
12 15 (5.84%) Lead
13 14 (5.45%) Software Engineer
14 12 (4.67%) Java Developer
15 9 (3.50%) Data Scientist
15 9 (3.50%) Finance Manager
15 9 (3.50%) Full-Stack Developer
15 9 (3.50%) JavaScript Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (20.62%) Kafka
2 47 (18.29%) Node.js
3 42 (16.34%) React
4 35 (13.62%) PySpark
5 33 (12.84%) J2EE
6 20 (7.78%) AWS CDK
6 20 (7.78%) GraphQL
7 11 (4.28%) REST
8 10 (3.89%) NumPy
8 10 (3.89%) Pandas
8 10 (3.89%) pydantic
8 10 (3.89%) PyTorch
8 10 (3.89%) Redux
8 10 (3.89%) scikit-learn
8 10 (3.89%) TensorFlow
9 9 (3.50%) JSON
9 9 (3.50%) OpenCV
9 9 (3.50%) RESTful
9 9 (3.50%) SciPy
9 9 (3.50%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 21 (8.17%) Cloud Native
2 17 (6.61%) Greenfield Project
3 8 (3.11%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (2.72%) Algorithms
5 5 (1.95%) Public Cloud
5 5 (1.95%) Tandem
6 4 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (1.56%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (1.56%) Onboarding
6 4 (1.56%) TWAP
6 4 (1.56%) VWAP
7 3 (1.17%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.17%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.17%) Vector Graphics
7 3 (1.17%) Video\Live Streaming
8 2 (0.78%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (0.78%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.39%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (0.39%) NHS
9 1 (0.39%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 17 (6.61%) Linux
2 9 (3.50%) Unix
3 5 (1.95%) Windows
4 4 (1.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (50.19%) CI/CD
2 118 (45.91%) DevOps
3 84 (32.68%) Agile
4 62 (24.12%) Software Engineering
5 53 (20.62%) Infrastructure as Code
6 51 (19.84%) Open Source
7 46 (17.90%) Microservices
8 45 (17.51%) Asset Management
9 43 (16.73%) Data Engineering
9 43 (16.73%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 38 (14.79%) Containerisation
11 36 (14.01%) Problem-Solving
12 31 (12.06%) High Availability
13 26 (10.12%) ETL
14 24 (9.34%) Mentoring
15 23 (8.95%) Data Pipeline
16 22 (8.56%) Full-Stack Development
16 22 (8.56%) Stakeholder Management
17 18 (7.00%) Artificial Intelligence
17 18 (7.00%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 147 (57.20%) Python
2 63 (24.51%) Java
3 60 (23.35%) JavaScript
4 59 (22.96%) SQL
5 47 (18.29%) TypeScript
6 45 (17.51%) Go
7 14 (5.45%) Bash
8 11 (4.28%) T-SQL
9 8 (3.11%) C++
9 8 (3.11%) Scala
10 7 (2.72%) C#
11 6 (2.33%) PL/SQL
12 4 (1.56%) Perl
12 4 (1.56%) Shell Script
13 3 (1.17%) PHP
14 2 (0.78%) Lua
14 2 (0.78%) PowerShell
14 2 (0.78%) R
14 2 (0.78%) Ruby
14 2 (0.78%) Rust
Qualifications
1 83 (32.30%) Security Cleared
2 82 (31.91%) SC Cleared
3 57 (22.18%) AWS Certification
4 32 (12.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 14 (5.45%) Degree
6 7 (2.72%) AWS Certified Developer
7 5 (1.95%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (1.17%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.78%) CCIE
9 2 (0.78%) CCNP
9 2 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.78%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.78%) OCP
9 2 (0.78%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.39%) CEH
10 1 (0.39%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.89%) Data Quality
2 5 (1.95%) GDPR
2 5 (1.95%) NIST
3 4 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.17%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.17%) QA
4 3 (1.17%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.39%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.39%) WCAG
System Software
1 73 (28.40%) Docker
2 2 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.39%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.39%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 117 (45.53%) Terraform
2 96 (37.35%) Kubernetes
3 17 (6.61%) Ansible
4 13 (5.06%) Prometheus
5 7 (2.72%) Grafana
6 2 (0.78%) Puppet
7 1 (0.39%) Apache Ranger
7 1 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.39%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 19 (7.39%) Oracle
2 9 (3.50%) Splunk
3 7 (2.72%) Microsoft
4 6 (2.33%) MuleSoft
5 4 (1.56%) Cloudera
6 3 (1.17%) Qualys
6 3 (1.17%) Tenable
7 2 (0.78%) Cisco
7 2 (0.78%) Databricks
7 2 (0.78%) Google
7 2 (0.78%) Informatica
7 2 (0.78%) Sage
7 2 (0.78%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.78%) StreamSets
7 2 (0.78%) Talend
7 2 (0.78%) Virgin Media
7 2 (0.78%) VMware
8 1 (0.39%) Confluent
8 1 (0.39%) Rollbar
8 1 (0.39%) Zuora