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 18 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 149 163
Rank change year-on-year +8 +14 +2
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 320 241 265
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.95% 1.88% 1.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.44% 4.47% 3.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 229 187 203
10th Percentile £350 £413 £400
25th Percentile £413 £463 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.87% +15.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £625 £788 £588
90th Percentile £700 £838 £694
England median daily rate £505 £550 £510
% change year-on-year -8.18% +7.84% -13.92%

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 7,203 5,390 6,778
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.84% 42.05% 37.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,932 3,737 4,978
10th Percentile £350 £356 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £768
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 109 43 77
10th Percentile £18.20 £22.27 £17.47
25th Percentile £24.00 £23.99 £21.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.24
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +10.79% -25.03%
75th Percentile £50.75 £55.50 £50.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £72.50 £63.00
England median hourly rate £37.54 £26.81 £21.37
% change year-on-year +40.01% +25.47% -14.52%

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 18 March 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 18 March 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 +16 43 £510 +2.00% 27
South London -1 22 £505 +6.32% 1
West London -21 4 £650 -16.13% 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 25 (7.81%) Apache Airflow
2 20 (6.25%) Apache Spark
3 12 (3.75%) Confluence
4 11 (3.44%) Apache
5 8 (2.50%) nginx
6 2 (0.63%) CICS
7 1 (0.31%) Jupyter
Applications
1 8 (2.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.88%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.63%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 320 (100.00%) AWS
1 320 (100.00%) Serverless
2 213 (66.56%) Amazon S3
3 95 (29.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 90 (28.13%) Amazon EC2
5 84 (26.25%) GitHub
6 82 (25.63%) Amazon ECS
7 80 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
8 78 (24.38%) Amazon EKS
9 64 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
10 59 (18.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 46 (14.38%) AWS Step Functions
12 32 (10.00%) Azure
12 32 (10.00%) Snowflake
13 31 (9.69%) Amazon Kinesis
14 27 (8.44%) Amazon SQS
15 26 (8.13%) AWS CodePipeline
16 22 (6.88%) Amazon EMR
16 22 (6.88%) Route 53
17 17 (5.31%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 21 (6.56%) DNS
2 12 (3.75%) Firewall
3 11 (3.44%) VPN
4 9 (2.81%) TCP/IP
5 8 (2.50%) OpenVPN
6 4 (1.25%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (0.63%) Kerberos
7 2 (0.63%) Network Security
8 1 (0.31%) 4G
8 1 (0.31%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (23.13%) Amazon RDS
2 52 (16.25%) DynamoDB
3 50 (15.63%) Amazon Redshift
4 48 (15.00%) PostgreSQL
5 43 (13.44%) Amazon Athena
6 22 (6.88%) Amazon Aurora
6 22 (6.88%) Tableau
7 18 (5.63%) Data Warehouse
8 16 (5.00%) NoSQL
8 16 (5.00%) Power BI
9 15 (4.69%) Apache Iceberg
10 13 (4.06%) Data Lake
11 11 (3.44%) Metadata
11 11 (3.44%) Relational Database
12 10 (3.13%) Amazon QuickSight
12 10 (3.13%) Redis
13 9 (2.81%) Big Data
13 9 (2.81%) DB2
13 9 (2.81%) Elasticsearch
13 9 (2.81%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 61 (19.06%) GitLab
2 58 (18.13%) Jenkins
3 56 (17.50%) Git
4 21 (6.56%) JIRA
5 16 (5.00%) Bitbucket
6 12 (3.75%) JUnit
7 11 (3.44%) Cucumber
8 8 (2.50%) Cypress.io
9 7 (2.19%) SonarQube
10 5 (1.56%) Postman
10 5 (1.56%) Snyk
11 4 (1.25%) Mocha
11 4 (1.25%) Mockito
11 4 (1.25%) Terragrunt
12 3 (0.94%) MSTest
12 3 (0.94%) Selenium
12 3 (0.94%) Sonatype Nexus
12 3 (0.94%) tSQLt
12 3 (0.94%) Vite
13 2 (0.63%) MLflow
General
1 87 (27.19%) Social Skills
2 56 (17.50%) Public Sector
3 50 (15.63%) Finance
4 33 (10.31%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (6.56%) Banking
6 18 (5.63%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (1.88%) Front Office
8 5 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.25%) Investment Banking
10 3 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.63%) Military
11 2 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.63%) Police
11 2 (0.63%) Private Banking
11 2 (0.63%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.31%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.31%) Games
12 1 (0.31%) Law
12 1 (0.31%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 59 (18.44%) AWS Engineer
1 59 (18.44%) Developer
2 52 (16.25%) Data Engineer
3 46 (14.38%) Architect
4 45 (14.06%) Senior
5 38 (11.88%) DevOps Engineer
6 28 (8.75%) Lead
7 24 (7.50%) AWS Architect
8 23 (7.19%) AWS DevOps
9 19 (5.94%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 18 (5.63%) AWS Developer
10 18 (5.63%) Software Engineer
11 15 (4.69%) AWS Data Engineer
11 15 (4.69%) Python Engineer
12 14 (4.38%) Cloud Engineer
13 13 (4.06%) Analyst
13 13 (4.06%) Lead Data Engineer
13 13 (4.06%) Snowflake Engineer
14 12 (3.75%) Data Architect
15 11 (3.44%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (19.69%) Kafka
2 48 (15.00%) Node.js
3 42 (13.13%) React
4 38 (11.88%) RESTful
5 30 (9.38%) Spring Boot
6 28 (8.75%) Spring
7 22 (6.88%) OAuth
8 19 (5.94%) REST
9 18 (5.63%) boto
9 18 (5.63%) PySpark
10 17 (5.31%) AngularJS
11 16 (5.00%) AWS CDK
11 16 (5.00%) CSS
12 12 (3.75%) JWT
12 12 (3.75%) OpenID
13 11 (3.44%) .NET
14 10 (3.13%) FastAPI
15 9 (2.81%) Flask
15 9 (2.81%) JSON
15 9 (2.81%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 79 (24.69%) Cloud Native
2 24 (7.50%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (3.13%) Product Ownership
4 7 (2.19%) DataPower
4 7 (2.19%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (2.19%) Mainframe
5 6 (1.88%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (1.88%) Equities
6 5 (1.56%) Derivative
6 5 (1.56%) Distributed Architecture
6 5 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.25%) Algorithms
7 4 (1.25%) Data Structures
7 4 (1.25%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (1.25%) Mobile App
7 4 (1.25%) PACS
7 4 (1.25%) Replication
7 4 (1.25%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 3 (0.94%) Fixed Income
8 3 (0.94%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 29 (9.06%) Linux
2 7 (2.19%) Unix
3 2 (0.63%) Windows
3 2 (0.63%) zOS
4 1 (0.31%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (0.31%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 191 (59.69%) CI/CD
2 131 (40.94%) DevOps
3 119 (37.19%) Infrastructure as Code
4 81 (25.31%) Agile
5 73 (22.81%) Microservices
6 64 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
7 61 (19.06%) Data Pipeline
8 57 (17.81%) Data Engineering
9 55 (17.19%) ETL
10 53 (16.56%) Data Modelling
11 52 (16.25%) Containerisation
12 49 (15.31%) Analytics
13 45 (14.06%) Event-Driven
14 44 (13.75%) Observability
15 35 (10.94%) AI
16 34 (10.63%) Continuous Improvement
16 34 (10.63%) Performance Tuning
17 32 (10.00%) Test Automation
18 30 (9.38%) Design Patterns
18 30 (9.38%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 182 (56.88%) Python
2 104 (32.50%) SQL
3 56 (17.50%) Java
4 35 (10.94%) JavaScript
4 35 (10.94%) TypeScript
5 24 (7.50%) Bash
6 16 (5.00%) C#
7 14 (4.38%) Shell Script
8 8 (2.50%) PowerShell
8 8 (2.50%) Ruby
9 7 (2.19%) Scala
10 6 (1.88%) Go
10 6 (1.88%) JSX
10 6 (1.88%) Korn
11 3 (0.94%) Bicep
11 3 (0.94%) C++
11 3 (0.94%) Groovy
11 3 (0.94%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.63%) JCL
12 2 (0.63%) Perl
Qualifications
1 112 (35.00%) Security Cleared
2 98 (30.63%) SC Cleared
3 34 (10.63%) AWS Certification
4 13 (4.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 11 (3.44%) Degree
6 9 (2.81%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 8 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (2.50%) Master's Degree
8 5 (1.56%) DV Cleared
9 4 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.25%) PhD
10 3 (0.94%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (0.94%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.31%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.31%) CEH
11 1 (0.31%) CISSP
11 1 (0.31%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.31%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.31%) PMP
11 1 (0.31%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (9.06%) Data Quality
2 21 (6.56%) QA
3 8 (2.50%) Accessibility
3 8 (2.50%) NIST
4 5 (1.56%) GDPR
4 5 (1.56%) PMO
5 4 (1.25%) ISO 20022
5 4 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.25%) PCI DSS
5 4 (1.25%) SLA
5 4 (1.25%) WCAG
6 1 (0.31%) GRC
6 1 (0.31%) GxP
System Software
1 91 (28.44%) Docker
2 8 (2.50%) Squid
3 3 (0.94%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.63%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.63%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.31%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 152 (47.50%) Terraform
2 78 (24.38%) Kubernetes
3 24 (7.50%) Prometheus
4 20 (6.25%) Grafana
5 19 (5.94%) Ansible
6 11 (3.44%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (2.50%) FortiGate
8 7 (2.19%) Consul
9 6 (1.88%) Kibana
10 3 (0.94%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (0.94%) Karpenter
10 3 (0.94%) Rancher
11 2 (0.63%) Opsgenie
12 1 (0.31%) HP Fortify
12 1 (0.31%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.31%) Puppet
12 1 (0.31%) Salt
Vendors
1 20 (6.25%) Microsoft
2 15 (4.69%) Databricks
3 13 (4.06%) Dynatrace
4 8 (2.50%) OpenAI
4 8 (2.50%) Red Hat
4 8 (2.50%) ServiceNow
4 8 (2.50%) Sybase
5 7 (2.19%) Atlassian
5 7 (2.19%) Confluent
6 6 (1.88%) IBM
7 4 (1.25%) Qualys
7 4 (1.25%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.25%) Splunk
7 4 (1.25%) Tenable
8 3 (0.94%) AVEVA
8 3 (0.94%) Cloudera
9 2 (0.63%) Avaloq
9 2 (0.63%) CA Agile Central
9 2 (0.63%) Murex
9 2 (0.63%) Oracle