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 24 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 143 179
Rank change year-on-year +5 +36 -4
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 339 240 245
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.86% 1.96% 1.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.41% 4.61% 3.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 245 189 187
10th Percentile £356 £400 £379
25th Percentile £450 £455 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £588
90th Percentile £725 £838 £657
England median daily rate £525 £525 £510
% change year-on-year - +2.94% -11.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.00 - -
Median hourly rate £67.00 £35.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +91.43% - -
75th Percentile £73.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £75.50 £35.00 -
% change year-on-year +115.71% - -

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 7,687 5,211 6,760
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.12% 42.66% 38.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,317 3,580 4,988
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £513 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -1.44% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 53 68
10th Percentile £20.87 £22.57 £17.32
25th Percentile £26.88 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +11.81% -50.48%
75th Percentile £53.94 £43.75 £38.75
90th Percentile £73.23 £67.50 £55.75
England median hourly rate £39.50 £25.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +54.90% +19.33% -37.15%

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 24 May 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 24 May 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 +4 45 £600 +18.81% 10
South London -1 22 £500 +3.90%
West London -28 12 £725 +28.32% 2
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 29 (8.55%) Apache Airflow
2 22 (6.49%) Apache Spark
3 18 (5.31%) Confluence
4 10 (2.95%) Apache
5 9 (2.65%) nginx
6 4 (1.18%) CICS
7 2 (0.59%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.29%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.29%) SAS
Applications
1 10 (2.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.77%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.59%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 339 (100.00%) AWS
2 335 (98.82%) Serverless
3 241 (71.09%) Amazon S3
4 110 (32.45%) Amazon EC2
5 96 (28.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 89 (26.25%) Amazon ECS
7 83 (24.48%) GitHub
8 79 (23.30%) Amazon EKS
9 70 (20.65%) AWS CloudFormation
10 68 (20.06%) GitHub Actions
11 61 (17.99%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 55 (16.22%) AWS Step Functions
13 44 (12.98%) Amazon SQS
14 31 (9.14%) Amazon Kinesis
15 28 (8.26%) Azure
16 25 (7.37%) AWS CodePipeline
17 23 (6.78%) Amazon EventBridge
17 23 (6.78%) Snowflake
18 22 (6.49%) Amazon EMR
19 21 (6.19%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 25 (7.37%) DNS
2 14 (4.13%) Firewall
3 12 (3.54%) TCP/IP
4 10 (2.95%) VPN
5 9 (2.65%) OpenVPN
6 5 (1.47%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (0.59%) Network Security
8 1 (0.29%) 4G
8 1 (0.29%) 5G
8 1 (0.29%) HTTP
8 1 (0.29%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (21.53%) Amazon RDS
2 61 (17.99%) DynamoDB
3 57 (16.81%) Amazon Athena
4 53 (15.63%) Amazon Redshift
5 39 (11.50%) PostgreSQL
6 28 (8.26%) Amazon Aurora
7 23 (6.78%) Tableau
8 16 (4.72%) NoSQL
9 15 (4.42%) Apache Iceberg
9 15 (4.42%) Power BI
9 15 (4.42%) SQL Server
10 13 (3.83%) Metadata
11 12 (3.54%) Data Warehouse
12 11 (3.24%) Big Data
12 11 (3.24%) Elasticsearch
13 10 (2.95%) Amazon QuickSight
14 9 (2.65%) Data Lake
14 9 (2.65%) Data Vault
14 9 (2.65%) Delta Lake
15 8 (2.36%) Apache Hudi
Development Applications
1 63 (18.58%) Jenkins
2 59 (17.40%) Git
3 57 (16.81%) GitLab
4 25 (7.37%) JIRA
5 15 (4.42%) Bitbucket
5 15 (4.42%) Cucumber
6 10 (2.95%) JUnit
7 9 (2.65%) Cypress.io
8 7 (2.06%) SonarQube
9 5 (1.47%) Mocha
9 5 (1.47%) MSTest
9 5 (1.47%) Postman
9 5 (1.47%) Snyk
9 5 (1.47%) tSQLt
10 4 (1.18%) Artifactory
10 4 (1.18%) Gatling
10 4 (1.18%) Mockito
10 4 (1.18%) REST Assured
10 4 (1.18%) Selenium
10 4 (1.18%) Terragrunt
General
1 89 (26.25%) Social Skills
2 52 (15.34%) Finance
3 50 (14.75%) Public Sector
4 33 (9.73%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (5.31%) Documentation Skills
6 14 (4.13%) Banking
7 4 (1.18%) Front Office
7 4 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (1.18%) Police
8 3 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (0.88%) Investment Banking
8 3 (0.88%) Law
8 3 (0.88%) Military
8 3 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (0.59%) Billing
9 2 (0.59%) Games
9 2 (0.59%) Local Government
9 2 (0.59%) Marketing
9 2 (0.59%) Retail
9 2 (0.59%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 69 (20.35%) Developer
2 65 (19.17%) AWS Engineer
3 59 (17.40%) Data Engineer
4 52 (15.34%) Senior
5 50 (14.75%) Architect
6 43 (12.68%) Lead
7 31 (9.14%) AWS Developer
8 29 (8.55%) AWS Architect
9 25 (7.37%) DevOps Engineer
10 20 (5.90%) AWS Data Engineer
10 20 (5.90%) Python Developer
10 20 (5.90%) Software Engineer
11 18 (5.31%) Data Architect
12 16 (4.72%) Cloud Engineer
12 16 (4.72%) Python Engineer
13 14 (4.13%) Analyst
13 14 (4.13%) Full-Stack Developer
14 13 (3.83%) AWS DevOps
15 12 (3.54%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 12 (3.54%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (18.58%) Kafka
2 47 (13.86%) React
3 46 (13.57%) RESTful
4 31 (9.14%) PySpark
4 31 (9.14%) Spring Boot
5 29 (8.55%) Node.js
6 28 (8.26%) Spring
7 25 (7.37%) REST
8 21 (6.19%) FastAPI
9 18 (5.31%) .NET
9 18 (5.31%) AngularJS
9 18 (5.31%) boto
9 18 (5.31%) Pandas
10 17 (5.01%) Flask
11 16 (4.72%) OAuth
12 15 (4.42%) CSS
13 14 (4.13%) AWS CDK
13 14 (4.13%) HTML
13 14 (4.13%) Next.js
14 13 (3.83%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 83 (24.48%) Cloud Native
2 16 (4.72%) Product Ownership
3 15 (4.42%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (2.06%) Hedge funds
5 6 (1.77%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (1.77%) PACS
5 6 (1.77%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 5 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (1.47%) Equities
6 5 (1.47%) Fixed Income
6 5 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (1.47%) NHS
7 4 (1.18%) AI Agents
7 4 (1.18%) Algorithms
7 4 (1.18%) DataPower
7 4 (1.18%) Distributed Computing
7 4 (1.18%) Mainframe
7 4 (1.18%) Online Banking
8 3 (0.88%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 31 (9.14%) Linux
2 16 (4.72%) Unix
3 4 (1.18%) zOS
4 1 (0.29%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (0.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 197 (58.11%) CI/CD
2 127 (37.46%) Infrastructure as Code
3 123 (36.28%) DevOps
4 96 (28.32%) Agile
5 70 (20.65%) Microservices
6 58 (17.11%) Data Pipeline
7 56 (16.52%) Containerisation
8 55 (16.22%) ETL
9 54 (15.93%) Event-Driven
10 53 (15.63%) Data Engineering
11 51 (15.04%) Problem-Solving
12 49 (14.45%) AI
12 49 (14.45%) Analytics
13 46 (13.57%) Data Modelling
14 44 (12.98%) Software Engineering
15 43 (12.68%) Test Automation
16 40 (11.80%) Observability
17 38 (11.21%) Continuous Improvement
18 34 (10.03%) Migration
19 33 (9.73%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 194 (57.23%) Python
2 109 (32.15%) SQL
3 68 (20.06%) Java
4 40 (11.80%) JavaScript
4 40 (11.80%) TypeScript
5 34 (10.03%) C#
6 19 (5.60%) Bash
7 18 (5.31%) Scala
8 17 (5.01%) Shell Script
9 8 (2.36%) PowerShell
10 6 (1.77%) Go
11 5 (1.47%) Ruby
11 5 (1.47%) T-SQL
12 4 (1.18%) Bicep
12 4 (1.18%) JCL
13 2 (0.59%) C++
13 2 (0.59%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.29%) PHP
14 1 (0.29%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 107 (31.56%) Security Cleared
2 97 (28.61%) SC Cleared
3 23 (6.78%) AWS Certification
4 12 (3.54%) Degree
5 10 (2.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 10 (2.95%) BPSS Clearance
6 9 (2.65%) DV Cleared
7 6 (1.77%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 6 (1.77%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (1.47%) Master's Degree
9 4 (1.18%) AWS Certified Developer
9 4 (1.18%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (0.88%) PhD
11 2 (0.59%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.29%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 1 (0.29%) CISSP
12 1 (0.29%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.29%) PMP
12 1 (0.29%) SAFe Agilist
12 1 (0.29%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (8.85%) Data Quality
2 20 (5.90%) QA
3 8 (2.36%) NIST
4 7 (2.06%) PMO
5 6 (1.77%) ISO 20022
6 4 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.18%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.18%) SLA
7 2 (0.59%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.59%) GDPR
8 1 (0.29%) GRC
8 1 (0.29%) WCAG
System Software
1 97 (28.61%) Docker
2 9 (2.65%) Squid
3 4 (1.18%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 158 (46.61%) Terraform
2 83 (24.48%) Kubernetes
3 33 (9.73%) Grafana
4 28 (8.26%) Prometheus
5 13 (3.83%) Ansible
6 12 (3.54%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (2.65%) FortiGate
7 9 (2.65%) Kibana
8 7 (2.06%) Consul
9 3 (0.88%) Karpenter
9 3 (0.88%) Puppet
9 3 (0.88%) Salt
10 2 (0.59%) Opsgenie
11 1 (0.29%) Control-M
11 1 (0.29%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 17 (5.01%) Microsoft
2 12 (3.54%) Splunk
3 10 (2.95%) Databricks
3 10 (2.95%) Dynatrace
4 9 (2.65%) Confluent
4 9 (2.65%) Red Hat
5 8 (2.36%) OpenAI
6 7 (2.06%) Atlassian
7 6 (1.77%) Sybase
8 5 (1.47%) Oracle
8 5 (1.47%) Qualys
8 5 (1.47%) Salesforce
9 4 (1.18%) Tenable
10 3 (0.88%) AVEVA
10 3 (0.88%) Brio
10 3 (0.88%) Fortinet
10 3 (0.88%) Netlify
11 2 (0.59%) Informatica
11 2 (0.59%) SAP
11 2 (0.59%) ServiceNow