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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 155 193 189
Rank change year-on-year +38 -4 -31
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 242 232 357
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.85% 1.32% 1.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.30% 3.30% 3.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 170 276
10th Percentile £400 £375 £431
25th Percentile £451 £425 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £625 £588 £650
90th Percentile £800 £675 £725
England median daily rate £525 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £36.50 - -
25th Percentile £38.75 - -
Median hourly rate £45.00 - £35.00
75th Percentile £51.25 - -
90th Percentile £53.50 - -
England median hourly rate £45.00 - £35.00
% change year-on-year - - -53.33%

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 5,627 7,027 10,006
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.93% 39.87% 39.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,810 5,163 7,376
10th Percentile £350 £350 £370
25th Percentile £425 £450 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £663 £675 £695
90th Percentile £788 £788 £788
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 63 74
10th Percentile £22.80 £18.22 £19.25
25th Percentile £25.15 £22.04 £25.00
Median hourly rate £31.50 £26.00 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +21.15% -53.78% +32.35%
75th Percentile £48.75 £38.44 £78.75
90th Percentile £67.50 £57.00 £89.49
England median hourly rate £25.15 £22.00 £32.30
% change year-on-year +14.32% -31.89% +50.23%

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 3 July 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing AWS Lambda in London over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 3 July 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 +6 27 £550 +10.00% 90
West London +19 13 £565 -5.83% 6
South London -3 6 £620 +24.00% 3
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 30 (12.40%) Apache Spark
2 25 (10.33%) Apache
3 23 (9.50%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (2.48%) CMS
5 5 (2.07%) Headless CMS
6 3 (1.24%) BizTalk Server
6 3 (1.24%) nginx
7 2 (0.83%) Confluence
8 1 (0.41%) JBoss
8 1 (0.41%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 1 (0.41%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 241 (99.59%) AWS
2 240 (99.17%) Serverless
3 134 (55.37%) Amazon S3
4 75 (30.99%) AWS CloudFormation
5 58 (23.97%) Amazon EC2
6 47 (19.42%) Amazon ECS
7 45 (18.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 45 (18.60%) Amazon SQS
8 36 (14.88%) Amazon EKS
9 35 (14.46%) AWS Step Functions
9 35 (14.46%) GitHub
10 25 (10.33%) dbt
11 24 (9.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 22 (9.09%) Amazon Cognito
13 21 (8.68%) OpenShift
14 16 (6.61%) Amazon Kinesis
15 13 (5.37%) Amazon EventBridge
15 13 (5.37%) AWS CodePipeline
15 13 (5.37%) AWS Fargate
16 11 (4.55%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.13%) VPN
2 9 (3.72%) HTTP
3 8 (3.31%) Firewall
4 7 (2.89%) DNS
5 5 (2.07%) SSL
6 4 (1.65%) DHCP
6 4 (1.65%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.83%) HTTPS
7 2 (0.83%) Network Security
7 2 (0.83%) SSH
7 2 (0.83%) VLAN
8 1 (0.41%) Broadband
8 1 (0.41%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.41%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (0.41%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.41%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (27.69%) DynamoDB
2 57 (23.55%) Amazon RDS
3 43 (17.77%) Amazon Athena
4 21 (8.68%) PostgreSQL
5 20 (8.26%) Amazon Redshift
5 20 (8.26%) NoSQL
6 17 (7.02%) Apache Iceberg
7 15 (6.20%) Apache Arrow
7 15 (6.20%) Apache Ignite
7 15 (6.20%) Data Warehouse
7 15 (6.20%) Dremio
8 13 (5.37%) Relational Database
8 13 (5.37%) Tableau
9 9 (3.72%) Big Data
10 8 (3.31%) Data Lake
11 7 (2.89%) MongoDB
12 6 (2.48%) Amazon Aurora
12 6 (2.48%) DocumentDB
12 6 (2.48%) Power BI
12 6 (2.48%) Redis
Development Applications
1 32 (13.22%) Jenkins
2 30 (12.40%) Git
3 19 (7.85%) Artifactory
4 15 (6.20%) GitLab
5 14 (5.79%) Cypress.io
6 12 (4.96%) Cucumber
7 8 (3.31%) JUnit
8 7 (2.89%) git-flow
9 6 (2.48%) Maven
9 6 (2.48%) SonarQube
10 4 (1.65%) Bitbucket
10 4 (1.65%) Gradle
10 4 (1.65%) Postman
11 3 (1.24%) Mocha
11 3 (1.24%) Sonatype Nexus
11 3 (1.24%) Visual Studio Code
12 1 (0.41%) JIRA
12 1 (0.41%) Mockito
12 1 (0.41%) Selenium
12 1 (0.41%) SoapUI
General
1 45 (18.60%) Social Skills
2 39 (16.12%) Public Sector
3 30 (12.40%) Finance
4 26 (10.74%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (7.02%) Front Office
6 7 (2.89%) Banking
7 4 (1.65%) Publishing
8 3 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.24%) Retail
9 2 (0.83%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (0.83%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.83%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.83%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.41%) Aviation
10 1 (0.41%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.41%) Marketing
10 1 (0.41%) Police
Job Titles
1 72 (29.75%) AWS Engineer
2 60 (24.79%) Developer
3 47 (19.42%) Data Engineer
4 41 (16.94%) Senior
5 34 (14.05%) DevOps Engineer
6 28 (11.57%) Architect
7 26 (10.74%) AWS DevOps
8 25 (10.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 23 (9.50%) AWS Architect
9 23 (9.50%) AWS Developer
10 19 (7.85%) Python Engineer
11 18 (7.44%) Java Developer
12 17 (7.02%) AWS Data Engineer
12 17 (7.02%) Software Engineer
13 15 (6.20%) Senior Developer
14 13 (5.37%) Lead
15 11 (4.55%) Cloud Engineer
15 11 (4.55%) Full-Stack Developer
16 10 (4.13%) Senior Java Developer
17 9 (3.72%) JavaScript Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (20.66%) Node.js
2 43 (17.77%) React
3 41 (16.94%) Kafka
4 29 (11.98%) GraphQL
5 22 (9.09%) AWS CDK
6 20 (8.26%) PySpark
7 18 (7.44%) Spring
8 16 (6.61%) J2EE
9 15 (6.20%) Jest
10 14 (5.79%) REST
11 13 (5.37%) Spring Boot
11 13 (5.37%) WebSockets
12 11 (4.55%) Redux
12 11 (4.55%) RESTful
13 9 (3.72%) Next.js
14 7 (2.89%) CSS
14 7 (2.89%) JSON
14 7 (2.89%) Lambda Expressions
14 7 (2.89%) OAuth
14 7 (2.89%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 31 (12.81%) Cloud Native
2 18 (7.44%) Greenfield Project
3 8 (3.31%) Data Protection Act
4 7 (2.89%) Onboarding
5 5 (2.07%) Algorithms
5 5 (2.07%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (2.07%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.65%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.24%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.24%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.24%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.24%) TWAP
7 3 (1.24%) Vector Graphics
7 3 (1.24%) Video\Live Streaming
7 3 (1.24%) VWAP
8 2 (0.83%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (0.83%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.41%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.41%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (0.41%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 17 (7.02%) Linux
2 5 (2.07%) Unix
3 3 (1.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.83%) Amazon Linux
4 2 (0.83%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (47.52%) CI/CD
2 96 (39.67%) DevOps
3 76 (31.40%) Agile
4 56 (23.14%) Infrastructure as Code
5 48 (19.83%) Problem-Solving
6 42 (17.36%) Containerisation
6 42 (17.36%) Mentoring
7 39 (16.12%) Software Engineering
8 38 (15.70%) Microservices
9 35 (14.46%) High Availability
10 33 (13.64%) Open Source
11 30 (12.40%) Clean Code
12 28 (11.57%) Data Engineering
13 27 (11.16%) Test Automation
14 23 (9.50%) ETL
14 23 (9.50%) Stakeholder Management
15 22 (9.09%) Data Pipeline
15 22 (9.09%) Full-Stack Development
16 21 (8.68%) Continuous Integration
17 20 (8.26%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 112 (46.28%) Python
2 58 (23.97%) Java
3 54 (22.31%) TypeScript
4 52 (21.49%) JavaScript
5 42 (17.36%) SQL
6 23 (9.50%) Go
7 13 (5.37%) Bash
8 8 (3.31%) Scala
8 8 (3.31%) T-SQL
9 7 (2.89%) Shell Script
10 6 (2.48%) C#
11 5 (2.07%) C++
12 4 (1.65%) PowerShell
13 3 (1.24%) CodeQL
13 3 (1.24%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.83%) Perl
14 2 (0.83%) Ruby
14 2 (0.83%) Rust
15 1 (0.41%) Groovy
15 1 (0.41%) PHP
Qualifications
1 71 (29.34%) Security Cleared
2 69 (28.51%) SC Cleared
3 61 (25.21%) AWS Certification
4 30 (12.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 11 (4.55%) Degree
6 4 (1.65%) AWS Certified Developer
6 4 (1.65%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.24%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (1.24%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.83%) CCIE
8 2 (0.83%) CCNP
8 2 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.83%) OCP
8 2 (0.83%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.41%) CEH
9 1 (0.41%) CISSP
9 1 (0.41%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.55%) QA
2 10 (4.13%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.07%) GDPR
3 5 (2.07%) NIST
4 4 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.65%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.24%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.83%) WCAG
7 1 (0.41%) HIPAA
System Software
1 54 (22.31%) Docker
2 2 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.41%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.41%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 86 (35.54%) Terraform
2 63 (26.03%) Kubernetes
3 16 (6.61%) Ansible
4 15 (6.20%) Prometheus
5 8 (3.31%) Grafana
6 2 (0.83%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.83%) Kibana
6 2 (0.83%) Packer
6 2 (0.83%) Puppet
6 2 (0.83%) SELinux
6 2 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.41%) Apache Ranger
7 1 (0.41%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 8 (3.31%) CA Agile Central
1 8 (3.31%) Microsoft
1 8 (3.31%) Oracle
2 6 (2.48%) ServiceNow
3 4 (1.65%) Splunk
4 3 (1.24%) MuleSoft
4 3 (1.24%) Pega
4 3 (1.24%) Qualys
4 3 (1.24%) Tenable
5 2 (0.83%) Cisco
5 2 (0.83%) Cloudera
5 2 (0.83%) Databricks
5 2 (0.83%) Google
5 2 (0.83%) Sybase
5 2 (0.83%) Virgin Media
5 2 (0.83%) VMware
6 1 (0.41%) Confluent
6 1 (0.41%) IBM
6 1 (0.41%) Rollbar
6 1 (0.41%) Salesforce