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 17 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 182 224 200
Rank change year-on-year +42 -24 -28
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 208 165 275
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.55% 1.03% 1.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.55% 2.51% 3.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 146 115 200
10th Percentile £413 £405 £412
25th Percentile £463 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -16.00%
75th Percentile £630 £675 £638
90th Percentile £688 £738 £701
England median daily rate £500 £550 £539
% change year-on-year -9.09% +2.09% -10.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £43.75 - -
25th Percentile £45.63 - -
Median hourly rate £50.00 - -
75th Percentile £53.13 - -
90th Percentile £54.25 - -
England median hourly rate £50.00 - £77.50
% change year-on-year - - +3.33%

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 5,863 6,580 8,138
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.75% 41.13% 39.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,980 4,512 6,020
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -3.02%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £775
England median daily rate £503 £530 £540
% change year-on-year -5.19% -1.85% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 38 61
10th Percentile £21.00 £23.26 £18.00
25th Percentile £24.57 £23.80 £22.75
Median hourly rate £26.30 £32.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.81% -20.99% +15.71%
75th Percentile £47.31 £52.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £79.88 £69.08 £90.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £32.30
% change year-on-year -28.14% +8.36% +43.56%

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 17 October 2025.

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 17 October 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 +13 27 £675 +29.81% 33
West London 0 5 £385 -38.40% 1
South London - 5 £622 - 1
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 11 (5.29%) Confluence
2 8 (3.85%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (3.37%) Apache Spark
4 5 (2.40%) CMS
4 5 (2.40%) Headless CMS
4 5 (2.40%) nginx
5 4 (1.92%) Apache
6 1 (0.48%) CICS
6 1 (0.48%) JBoss
6 1 (0.48%) Jupyter
Applications
1 3 (1.44%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.48%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 207 (99.52%) AWS
1 207 (99.52%) Serverless
2 134 (64.42%) Amazon S3
3 61 (29.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 52 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
5 45 (21.63%) AWS CloudFormation
6 44 (21.15%) Amazon ECS
7 36 (17.31%) GitHub
8 29 (13.94%) Amazon SQS
8 29 (13.94%) AWS Step Functions
9 25 (12.02%) GitHub Actions
10 24 (11.54%) Amazon Kinesis
11 22 (10.58%) Amazon EKS
12 21 (10.10%) Snowflake
13 20 (9.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 18 (8.65%) Amazon Cognito
15 17 (8.17%) Amazon EMR
16 15 (7.21%) AWS Fargate
17 13 (6.25%) Amazon EventBridge
18 11 (5.29%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.37%) VPN
2 6 (2.88%) DNS
2 6 (2.88%) SSL
3 5 (2.40%) Firewall
3 5 (2.40%) OpenLDAP
4 2 (0.96%) DHCP
4 2 (0.96%) SSH
5 1 (0.48%) DKIM
5 1 (0.48%) NAS
5 1 (0.48%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (0.48%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.48%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (26.92%) DynamoDB
2 47 (22.60%) Amazon RDS
3 29 (13.94%) PostgreSQL
4 21 (10.10%) Amazon Athena
5 17 (8.17%) Amazon Redshift
6 15 (7.21%) Amazon Aurora
7 14 (6.73%) Data Warehouse
7 14 (6.73%) Relational Database
8 10 (4.81%) NoSQL
9 9 (4.33%) Tableau
10 5 (2.40%) Apache Iceberg
10 5 (2.40%) Metadata
10 5 (2.40%) Power BI
10 5 (2.40%) Redis
11 4 (1.92%) Pinecone
11 4 (1.92%) RDBMS
12 3 (1.44%) Big Data
12 3 (1.44%) BigQuery
12 3 (1.44%) Data Lake
12 3 (1.44%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 31 (14.90%) Jenkins
2 30 (14.42%) Git
3 15 (7.21%) GitLab
4 12 (5.77%) JIRA
5 9 (4.33%) Cucumber
5 9 (4.33%) Cypress.io
6 8 (3.85%) JUnit
7 7 (3.37%) Maven
8 3 (1.44%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.96%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.96%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.96%) git-flow
9 2 (0.96%) Gradle
9 2 (0.96%) Postman
9 2 (0.96%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.96%) SoapUI
9 2 (0.96%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.48%) Ant
10 1 (0.48%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.48%) Bitbucket
General
1 47 (22.60%) Social Skills
2 22 (10.58%) Public Sector
3 20 (9.62%) Finance
4 13 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (3.37%) Banking
6 4 (1.92%) Front Office
6 4 (1.92%) Investment Banking
7 3 (1.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.44%) Marketing
7 3 (1.44%) Publishing
8 2 (0.96%) Aviation
8 2 (0.96%) Digital Healthcare
8 2 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.48%) Advertising
9 1 (0.48%) Games
9 1 (0.48%) Military
9 1 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.48%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 45 (21.63%) Developer
2 40 (19.23%) AWS Engineer
3 34 (16.35%) Senior
4 23 (11.06%) DevOps Engineer
5 21 (10.10%) Architect
6 19 (9.13%) Lead
7 17 (8.17%) AWS Developer
7 17 (8.17%) Software Engineer
8 16 (7.69%) Data Engineer
9 12 (5.77%) Java Developer
10 11 (5.29%) Full-Stack Developer
10 11 (5.29%) Python Engineer
11 9 (4.33%) AWS Architect
11 9 (4.33%) AWS DevOps
12 8 (3.85%) Cloud Architect
12 8 (3.85%) Cloud Engineer
13 7 (3.37%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 6 (2.88%) AWS Data Engineer
14 6 (2.88%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 6 (2.88%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (20.19%) Node.js
2 35 (16.83%) React
3 30 (14.42%) Kafka
4 20 (9.62%) GraphQL
5 18 (8.65%) REST
6 17 (8.17%) Spring
7 16 (7.69%) RESTful
8 14 (6.73%) AngularJS
8 14 (6.73%) AWS CDK
9 10 (4.81%) Jest
9 10 (4.81%) Spring Boot
10 9 (4.33%) Next.js
11 8 (3.85%) boto
11 8 (3.85%) pytest
12 7 (3.37%) CSS
12 7 (3.37%) LDAP
12 7 (3.37%) OAuth
12 7 (3.37%) OAuth2
13 6 (2.88%) OpenID
13 6 (2.88%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 49 (23.56%) Cloud Native
2 14 (6.73%) Data Protection Act
3 10 (4.81%) Product Ownership
4 8 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (2.88%) Mobile App
6 5 (2.40%) Distributed Architecture
6 5 (2.40%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (1.92%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.44%) AI Agents
8 3 (1.44%) Replication
9 2 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.96%) Mainframe
9 2 (0.96%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.48%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.48%) Data Fabric
10 1 (0.48%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.48%) DataPower
10 1 (0.48%) Mobile Banking
10 1 (0.48%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.48%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 10 (4.81%) Linux
2 2 (0.96%) Amazon Linux
3 1 (0.48%) AIX
3 1 (0.48%) Android
3 1 (0.48%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.48%) Solaris
3 1 (0.48%) Unix
3 1 (0.48%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (49.52%) CI/CD
2 85 (40.87%) DevOps
3 71 (34.13%) Agile
4 53 (25.48%) Infrastructure as Code
5 39 (18.75%) Microservices
6 37 (17.79%) Mentoring
7 33 (15.87%) Problem-Solving
8 32 (15.38%) Software Engineering
9 30 (14.42%) Event-Driven
10 29 (13.94%) Full-Stack Development
11 27 (12.98%) Containerisation
12 26 (12.50%) Observability
13 24 (11.54%) Data Engineering
13 24 (11.54%) Data Pipeline
14 23 (11.06%) Test Automation
15 22 (10.58%) AI
15 22 (10.58%) Clean Code
15 22 (10.58%) Data Modelling
15 22 (10.58%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 22 (10.58%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 111 (53.37%) Python
2 45 (21.63%) TypeScript
3 44 (21.15%) Java
4 40 (19.23%) JavaScript
4 40 (19.23%) SQL
5 15 (7.21%) Bash
6 10 (4.81%) Go
7 4 (1.92%) PowerShell
7 4 (1.92%) Shell Script
8 3 (1.44%) CodeQL
8 3 (1.44%) JSX
9 2 (0.96%) Groovy
9 2 (0.96%) Korn
9 2 (0.96%) PromQL
9 2 (0.96%) R
9 2 (0.96%) Ruby
9 2 (0.96%) Scala
10 1 (0.48%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.48%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.48%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 46 (22.12%) Security Cleared
2 40 (19.23%) SC Cleared
3 30 (14.42%) AWS Certification
4 11 (5.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 7 (3.37%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (3.37%) Degree
6 5 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.44%) AWS Certified Developer
7 3 (1.44%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.96%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.48%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (8.17%) QA
2 8 (3.85%) Data Quality
3 6 (2.88%) GDPR
4 5 (2.40%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.44%) HIPAA
5 3 (1.44%) WCAG
6 2 (0.96%) NIST
6 2 (0.96%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.96%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.48%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.48%) NCSC
System Software
1 44 (21.15%) Docker
2 5 (2.40%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 61 (29.33%) Terraform
2 42 (20.19%) Kubernetes
3 12 (5.77%) Prometheus
4 9 (4.33%) Grafana
5 7 (3.37%) Ansible
6 3 (1.44%) Kibana
6 3 (1.44%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.96%) FortiGate
7 2 (0.96%) Packer
7 2 (0.96%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.96%) Rancher
7 2 (0.96%) SELinux
8 1 (0.48%) Puppet
Vendors
1 13 (6.25%) Microsoft
2 9 (4.33%) ServiceNow
3 8 (3.85%) CA Agile Central
4 5 (2.40%) Atlassian
5 4 (1.92%) Oracle
5 4 (1.92%) Pega
5 4 (1.92%) Splunk
6 3 (1.44%) Databricks
6 3 (1.44%) Dynatrace
6 3 (1.44%) Google
6 3 (1.44%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.96%) Cisco
7 2 (0.96%) IBM
7 2 (0.96%) OpenAI
7 2 (0.96%) Qualys
7 2 (0.96%) Sybase
7 2 (0.96%) Tenable
8 1 (0.48%) Genesys
8 1 (0.48%) Murex
8 1 (0.48%) NetApp