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

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 147 133 160
Rank change year-on-year -14 +27 -4
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 332 257 272
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.96% 2.04% 1.51%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.48% 4.80% 4.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 239 201 208
10th Percentile £350 £413 £394
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 £586
90th Percentile £690 £838 £657
England median daily rate £513 £550 £511
% change year-on-year -6.82% +7.58% -11.09%

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 7,407 5,352 6,762
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.65% 42.50% 37.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,088 3,739 4,947
10th Percentile £350 £356 £325
25th Percentile £425 £438 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £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 101 51 77
10th Percentile £18.00 £22.27 £17.47
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.66 £21.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +11.81% -25.71%
75th Percentile £50.75 £54.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £67.50 £61.00
England median hourly rate £42.69 £26.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +61.08% +26.19% -18.69%

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 3 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 3 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 +3 44 £520 +4.00% 34
South London +2 23 £500 +5.26% 1
West London -29 4 £650 -16.13% 2
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 26 (7.83%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (5.72%) Apache Spark
3 13 (3.92%) Confluence
4 12 (3.61%) Apache
5 9 (2.71%) nginx
6 3 (0.90%) CICS
7 2 (0.60%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.30%) Jupyter
Applications
1 10 (3.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.20%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.60%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 332 (100.00%) AWS
1 332 (100.00%) Serverless
2 227 (68.37%) Amazon S3
3 105 (31.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 99 (29.82%) Amazon EC2
5 90 (27.11%) Amazon ECS
6 87 (26.20%) GitHub
7 83 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
8 79 (23.80%) Amazon EKS
9 66 (19.88%) GitHub Actions
10 62 (18.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 53 (15.96%) AWS Step Functions
12 37 (11.14%) Azure
13 33 (9.94%) Amazon SQS
14 32 (9.64%) Amazon Kinesis
15 29 (8.73%) Snowflake
16 26 (7.83%) AWS CodePipeline
17 24 (7.23%) Route 53
18 20 (6.02%) Amazon EventBridge
18 20 (6.02%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 24 (7.23%) DNS
2 14 (4.22%) Firewall
3 12 (3.61%) TCP/IP
3 12 (3.61%) VPN
4 9 (2.71%) OpenVPN
5 4 (1.20%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (0.60%) Kerberos
6 2 (0.60%) Network Security
7 1 (0.30%) 4G
7 1 (0.30%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (23.49%) Amazon RDS
2 58 (17.47%) DynamoDB
3 51 (15.36%) Amazon Redshift
4 49 (14.76%) Amazon Athena
5 44 (13.25%) PostgreSQL
6 26 (7.83%) Tableau
7 20 (6.02%) Data Warehouse
7 20 (6.02%) Power BI
8 19 (5.72%) Amazon Aurora
9 14 (4.22%) Data Lake
9 14 (4.22%) Metadata
10 13 (3.92%) NoSQL
11 10 (3.01%) Amazon QuickSight
11 10 (3.01%) Apache Iceberg
11 10 (3.01%) DB2
11 10 (3.01%) Elasticsearch
11 10 (3.01%) MySQL
11 10 (3.01%) Redis
12 8 (2.41%) Big Data
12 8 (2.41%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 61 (18.37%) Git
1 61 (18.37%) GitLab
2 59 (17.77%) Jenkins
3 25 (7.53%) JIRA
4 16 (4.82%) Bitbucket
5 12 (3.61%) JUnit
6 11 (3.31%) Cucumber
7 10 (3.01%) Cypress.io
8 7 (2.11%) SonarQube
9 5 (1.51%) Postman
9 5 (1.51%) Snyk
10 4 (1.20%) Mocha
10 4 (1.20%) Mockito
10 4 (1.20%) Selenium
10 4 (1.20%) Terragrunt
11 3 (0.90%) MSTest
11 3 (0.90%) Sonatype Nexus
11 3 (0.90%) tSQLt
11 3 (0.90%) Vite
12 2 (0.60%) Artifactory
General
1 92 (27.71%) Social Skills
2 58 (17.47%) Public Sector
3 50 (15.06%) Finance
4 37 (11.14%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (6.63%) Banking
6 20 (6.02%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (1.51%) Front Office
8 4 (1.20%) Investment Banking
9 3 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.60%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.60%) Games
10 2 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.60%) Police
10 2 (0.60%) Private Banking
10 2 (0.60%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.30%) Law
11 1 (0.30%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.30%) Military
11 1 (0.30%) Retail
Job Titles
1 67 (20.18%) Developer
2 61 (18.37%) AWS Engineer
3 54 (16.27%) Data Engineer
4 53 (15.96%) Senior
5 49 (14.76%) Architect
6 37 (11.14%) DevOps Engineer
7 28 (8.43%) Lead
8 25 (7.53%) AWS Architect
9 24 (7.23%) AWS Developer
10 23 (6.93%) AWS DevOps
11 19 (5.72%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 18 (5.42%) AWS Data Engineer
13 16 (4.82%) Analyst
14 15 (4.52%) Python Engineer
14 15 (4.52%) Senior Developer
14 15 (4.52%) Software Engineer
15 14 (4.22%) Cloud Engineer
16 13 (3.92%) Lead Data Engineer
16 13 (3.92%) Technical Architect
17 12 (3.61%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (18.07%) Kafka
2 47 (14.16%) Node.js
3 43 (12.95%) React
4 40 (12.05%) RESTful
5 33 (9.94%) Spring Boot
6 31 (9.34%) Spring
7 23 (6.93%) OAuth
7 23 (6.93%) PySpark
8 18 (5.42%) boto
8 18 (5.42%) REST
9 15 (4.52%) AngularJS
9 15 (4.52%) AWS CDK
10 14 (4.22%) CSS
11 13 (3.92%) OpenID
11 13 (3.92%) Pandas
12 12 (3.61%) FastAPI
12 12 (3.61%) JWT
13 11 (3.31%) Flask
14 10 (3.01%) LDAP
14 10 (3.01%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 79 (23.80%) Cloud Native
2 21 (6.33%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (2.71%) Product Ownership
4 8 (2.41%) DataPower
4 8 (2.41%) Mainframe
5 7 (2.11%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (1.51%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (1.51%) Equities
6 5 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.20%) Algorithms
7 4 (1.20%) Data Structures
7 4 (1.20%) Derivative
7 4 (1.20%) Distributed Architecture
7 4 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (1.20%) PACS
7 4 (1.20%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 4 (1.20%) Virtual Team
8 3 (0.90%) Equity Derivative
8 3 (0.90%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 30 (9.04%) Linux
2 9 (2.71%) Unix
3 3 (0.90%) zOS
4 2 (0.60%) Windows
5 1 (0.30%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (0.30%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 196 (59.04%) CI/CD
2 138 (41.57%) DevOps
3 124 (37.35%) Infrastructure as Code
4 85 (25.60%) Agile
5 79 (23.80%) Microservices
6 65 (19.58%) Problem-Solving
7 60 (18.07%) ETL
8 59 (17.77%) Containerisation
8 59 (17.77%) Data Pipeline
9 54 (16.27%) Data Engineering
10 51 (15.36%) Data Modelling
11 50 (15.06%) Analytics
12 44 (13.25%) Event-Driven
13 41 (12.35%) Observability
14 39 (11.75%) Continuous Improvement
15 35 (10.54%) AI
15 35 (10.54%) Software Engineering
16 33 (9.94%) Performance Tuning
17 30 (9.04%) Design Patterns
17 30 (9.04%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 185 (55.72%) Python
2 109 (32.83%) SQL
3 62 (18.67%) Java
4 37 (11.14%) TypeScript
5 33 (9.94%) JavaScript
6 24 (7.23%) Bash
7 19 (5.72%) C#
8 17 (5.12%) Shell Script
9 9 (2.71%) Scala
10 8 (2.41%) PowerShell
10 8 (2.41%) Ruby
11 7 (2.11%) Go
12 5 (1.51%) JSX
12 5 (1.51%) Korn
13 4 (1.20%) Bicep
14 3 (0.90%) C++
14 3 (0.90%) Groovy
14 3 (0.90%) JCL
14 3 (0.90%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.60%) Perl
Qualifications
1 120 (36.14%) Security Cleared
2 106 (31.93%) SC Cleared
3 30 (9.04%) AWS Certification
4 13 (3.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 11 (3.31%) Degree
6 9 (2.71%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 8 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (2.11%) Master's Degree
9 5 (1.51%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (1.51%) DV Cleared
10 4 (1.20%) PhD
11 3 (0.90%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (0.90%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.30%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.30%) CEH
12 1 (0.30%) CompTIA Security+
12 1 (0.30%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.30%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.30%) PMP
12 1 (0.30%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (9.04%) Data Quality
2 19 (5.72%) QA
3 8 (2.41%) NIST
4 7 (2.11%) PMO
5 5 (1.51%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.51%) GDPR
6 4 (1.20%) ISO 20022
6 4 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.20%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.20%) SLA
7 3 (0.90%) WCAG
8 1 (0.30%) GRC
8 1 (0.30%) GxP
System Software
1 96 (28.92%) Docker
2 9 (2.71%) Squid
3 3 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.60%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.60%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.30%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 163 (49.10%) Terraform
2 83 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 25 (7.53%) Prometheus
4 24 (7.23%) Grafana
5 20 (6.02%) Ansible
6 12 (3.61%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (2.71%) FortiGate
8 7 (2.11%) Consul
9 6 (1.81%) Kibana
10 3 (0.90%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (0.90%) Karpenter
10 3 (0.90%) Rancher
11 2 (0.60%) Opsgenie
12 1 (0.30%) HP Fortify
12 1 (0.30%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.30%) Puppet
12 1 (0.30%) Salt
Vendors
1 20 (6.02%) Microsoft
2 15 (4.52%) Databricks
3 14 (4.22%) Dynatrace
4 9 (2.71%) Red Hat
5 8 (2.41%) ServiceNow
5 8 (2.41%) Sybase
6 7 (2.11%) Atlassian
6 7 (2.11%) Confluent
6 7 (2.11%) OpenAI
7 6 (1.81%) IBM
7 6 (1.81%) Splunk
8 4 (1.20%) Oracle
8 4 (1.20%) Qualys
8 4 (1.20%) Tenable
9 3 (0.90%) AVEVA
9 3 (0.90%) Cloudera
9 3 (0.90%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.60%) Avaloq
10 2 (0.60%) Netlify
10 2 (0.60%) SAP