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 8 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 176 155 198
Rank change year-on-year -21 +43 -10
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 338 238 207
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.67% 1.75% 1.28%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.02% 4.09% 3.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 245 178 144
10th Percentile £381 £400 £400
25th Percentile £450 £448 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £516
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% +6.54% -6.14%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £621
90th Percentile £752 £729 £675
England median daily rate £515 £506 £525
% change year-on-year +1.73% -3.57% -2.55%
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 8,409 5,812 6,613
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.46% 42.81% 40.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,733 3,994 4,801
10th Percentile £363 £338 £350
25th Percentile £448 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £533 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.84% -3.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £645 £659 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 86 52
10th Percentile £19.15 £22.75 £20.65
25th Percentile £24.38 £24.77 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £29.25
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% -0.62% -48.00%
75th Percentile £55.00 £46.00 £41.19
90th Percentile £75.70 £69.75 £65.65
England median hourly rate £35.50 £26.00 £23.80
% change year-on-year +36.54% +9.24% -29.79%

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 8 August 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 8 August 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 -10 40 £650 +4.00% 15
South London +2 20 £463 -25.64% 3
West London -13 17 £725 +28.32% 2
East London - 1 £500 -
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 36 (10.65%) Apache Airflow
2 24 (7.10%) Confluence
3 20 (5.92%) Apache Spark
4 14 (4.14%) Apache
5 6 (1.78%) CICS
6 3 (0.89%) nginx
7 2 (0.59%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.59%) SAS
8 1 (0.30%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.30%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (2.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.89%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.89%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 338 (100.00%) AWS
2 334 (98.82%) Serverless
3 241 (71.30%) Amazon S3
4 109 (32.25%) Amazon EC2
5 105 (31.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 93 (27.51%) Amazon ECS
7 75 (22.19%) Amazon EKS
8 68 (20.12%) GitHub
9 56 (16.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 53 (15.68%) AWS Step Functions
11 52 (15.38%) AWS CloudFormation
11 52 (15.38%) GitHub Actions
12 49 (14.50%) Amazon SQS
13 39 (11.54%) Azure
14 35 (10.36%) Amazon EMR
15 30 (8.88%) Power Platform
16 29 (8.58%) dbt
16 29 (8.58%) Snowflake
17 27 (7.99%) Amazon EventBridge
18 22 (6.51%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.25%) Firewall
2 8 (2.37%) DNS
3 5 (1.48%) TCP/IP
3 5 (1.48%) VPN
4 4 (1.18%) Network Security
4 4 (1.18%) WAN
5 3 (0.89%) OpenVPN
5 3 (0.89%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (0.59%) HTTP
7 1 (0.30%) 4G
7 1 (0.30%) 5G
7 1 (0.30%) BGP
7 1 (0.30%) Internet
7 1 (0.30%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (24.85%) Amazon RDS
2 69 (20.41%) Amazon Athena
3 68 (20.12%) DynamoDB
4 53 (15.68%) Amazon Redshift
5 30 (8.88%) Power BI
6 28 (8.28%) PostgreSQL
7 26 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
8 19 (5.62%) Amazon Aurora
8 19 (5.62%) Tableau
9 16 (4.73%) Metadata
9 16 (4.73%) SQL Server
10 12 (3.55%) NoSQL
11 11 (3.25%) Data Lake
12 10 (2.96%) Apache Iceberg
13 9 (2.66%) Db2
14 8 (2.37%) Amazon QuickSight
14 8 (2.37%) Apache Hudi
14 8 (2.37%) Delta Lake
14 8 (2.37%) MongoDB
15 7 (2.07%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 67 (19.82%) Jenkins
2 65 (19.23%) GitLab
3 61 (18.05%) Git
4 33 (9.76%) JIRA
5 14 (4.14%) Bitbucket
5 14 (4.14%) Cucumber
6 13 (3.85%) Cypress.io
7 6 (1.78%) JUnit
7 6 (1.78%) Mocha
8 5 (1.48%) Artifactory
8 5 (1.48%) Claude Code
8 5 (1.48%) Gatling
8 5 (1.48%) MSTest
8 5 (1.48%) Postman
8 5 (1.48%) Selenium
8 5 (1.48%) tSQLt
9 4 (1.18%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 4 (1.18%) Mockito
9 4 (1.18%) REST Assured
10 3 (0.89%) SonarQube
General
1 84 (24.85%) Social Skills
2 66 (19.53%) Finance
3 50 (14.79%) Public Sector
4 32 (9.47%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (6.80%) Banking
6 8 (2.37%) Back Office
6 8 (2.37%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (2.07%) Law
8 6 (1.78%) Front Office
9 5 (1.48%) Military
10 4 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.89%) Marketing
11 3 (0.89%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.59%) Billing
12 2 (0.59%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.59%) Games
12 2 (0.59%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.59%) Local Government
12 2 (0.59%) Retail
Job Titles
1 80 (23.67%) AWS Engineer
2 72 (21.30%) Senior
3 59 (17.46%) Data Engineer
4 53 (15.68%) Developer
5 45 (13.31%) Lead
6 41 (12.13%) Architect
7 27 (7.99%) AWS Developer
7 27 (7.99%) DevOps Engineer
8 26 (7.69%) Software Engineer
9 23 (6.80%) AWS Data Engineer
9 23 (6.80%) Cloud Engineer
10 19 (5.62%) AWS Architect
11 17 (5.03%) Python Developer
12 16 (4.73%) Senior Data Engineer
12 16 (4.73%) Technical Leader
13 15 (4.44%) Python Engineer
13 15 (4.44%) Senior Software Engineer
14 13 (3.85%) Analyst
14 13 (3.85%) Platform Engineer
15 12 (3.55%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (14.50%) React
2 41 (12.13%) RESTful
3 38 (11.24%) Kafka
4 35 (10.36%) PySpark
5 32 (9.47%) REST
6 30 (8.88%) Node.js
7 29 (8.58%) FastAPI
8 22 (6.51%) GraphQL
9 21 (6.21%) Spring Boot
10 20 (5.92%) Spring
11 19 (5.62%) .NET
11 19 (5.62%) Flask
12 16 (4.73%) AWS CDK
13 15 (4.44%) Pandas
14 14 (4.14%) Next.js
15 13 (3.85%) AngularJS
16 12 (3.55%) JSON
17 11 (3.25%) CSS
17 11 (3.25%) HTML
17 11 (3.25%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 81 (23.96%) Cloud Native
2 19 (5.62%) Product Ownership
3 17 (5.03%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (3.25%) AI Agents
5 8 (2.37%) Fixed Income
6 7 (2.07%) Greenfield Project
6 7 (2.07%) Hedge funds
6 7 (2.07%) Security Posture
7 6 (1.78%) DataPower
7 6 (1.78%) Mainframe
7 6 (1.78%) NHS
7 6 (1.78%) Online Banking
8 5 (1.48%) Cloud Security Posture
8 5 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.48%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.18%) Distributed Computing
9 4 (1.18%) Equities
9 4 (1.18%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.18%) Taxonomies
10 3 (0.89%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 32 (9.47%) Linux
2 15 (4.44%) Unix
3 8 (2.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (1.78%) zOS
5 4 (1.18%) Windows
6 3 (0.89%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.30%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 200 (59.17%) CI/CD
2 132 (39.05%) Infrastructure as Code
3 126 (37.28%) DevOps
4 122 (36.09%) Agile
5 75 (22.19%) AI
6 64 (18.93%) Data Engineering
6 64 (18.93%) Data Pipeline
7 60 (17.75%) Microservices
7 60 (17.75%) Software Engineering
8 57 (16.86%) Test Automation
9 55 (16.27%) Event-Driven
10 54 (15.98%) Containerisation
11 53 (15.68%) ETL
12 52 (15.38%) Analytics
13 47 (13.91%) Migration
14 46 (13.61%) Data Modelling
15 45 (13.31%) Continuous Improvement
15 45 (13.31%) Platform Engineering
16 43 (12.72%) Problem-Solving
17 41 (12.13%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 211 (62.43%) Python
2 118 (34.91%) SQL
3 56 (16.57%) Java
4 53 (15.68%) TypeScript
5 39 (11.54%) JavaScript
6 33 (9.76%) Bash
7 30 (8.88%) C#
8 20 (5.92%) Shell Script
9 15 (4.44%) Scala
10 10 (2.96%) PowerShell
11 6 (1.78%) JCL
11 6 (1.78%) T-SQL
12 5 (1.48%) SPARQL
13 4 (1.18%) Cypher
13 4 (1.18%) Gremlin
14 3 (0.89%) Bicep
14 3 (0.89%) Go
15 2 (0.59%) C
15 2 (0.59%) Groovy
15 2 (0.59%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 99 (29.29%) Security Cleared
2 88 (26.04%) SC Cleared
3 35 (10.36%) AWS Certification
4 15 (4.44%) BPSS Clearance
5 14 (4.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 14 (4.14%) DV Cleared
6 12 (3.55%) Degree
7 8 (2.37%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 8 (2.37%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 7 (2.07%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.18%) DBS Check
10 3 (0.89%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (0.89%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.59%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.30%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.30%) PhD
12 1 (0.30%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.30%) PMP
12 1 (0.30%) SAFe Agilist
12 1 (0.30%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (14.50%) Data Quality
2 20 (5.92%) QA
3 7 (2.07%) PMO
4 4 (1.18%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.18%) SLA
5 2 (0.59%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.30%) NIST
6 1 (0.30%) WCAG
System Software
1 93 (27.51%) Docker
2 6 (1.78%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.18%) Squid
4 1 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 149 (44.08%) Terraform
2 70 (20.71%) Kubernetes
3 34 (10.06%) Grafana
4 26 (7.69%) Prometheus
5 23 (6.80%) Ansible
6 8 (2.37%) Puppet
7 6 (1.78%) Kibana
8 5 (1.48%) Salt
9 3 (0.89%) FortiGate
9 3 (0.89%) Packer
9 3 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.59%) Argo
10 2 (0.59%) Consul
10 2 (0.59%) Istio
11 1 (0.30%) Control-M
11 1 (0.30%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 14 (4.14%) Microsoft
1 14 (4.14%) Splunk
2 12 (3.55%) Informatica
3 8 (2.37%) Databricks
4 7 (2.07%) Oracle
5 6 (1.78%) Red Hat
5 6 (1.78%) ServiceNow
6 5 (1.48%) OpenAI
7 4 (1.18%) Dynatrace
7 4 (1.18%) Fortinet
7 4 (1.18%) Sybase
8 3 (0.89%) Brio
8 3 (0.89%) PagerDuty
8 3 (0.89%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.59%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.59%) Charles River
9 2 (0.59%) Confluent
9 2 (0.59%) Murex
9 2 (0.59%) Netlify
9 2 (0.59%) Qualys