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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 171 156 198
Rank change year-on-year -15 +42 -11
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 339 234 202
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.68% 1.72% 1.24%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.07% 4.03% 3.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 248 175 141
10th Percentile £381 £400 £400
25th Percentile £450 £444 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £613 £625
90th Percentile £751 £700 £688
England median daily rate £515 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.98% -3.81% -
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 8,334 5,812 6,591
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.34% 42.82% 40.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,685 3,993 4,780
10th Percentile £363 £338 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £533 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.84% -3.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £645 £658 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 86 52
10th Percentile £19.10 £23.00 £20.65
25th Percentile £23.50 £24.83 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £29.25
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% -0.62% -46.82%
75th Percentile £55.00 £46.00 £41.19
90th Percentile £76.05 £69.75 £65.65
England median hourly rate £35.50 £26.00 £24.59
% change year-on-year +36.54% +5.73% -23.92%

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 11 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 11 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 -11 40 £650 +4.00% 13
South London +8 21 £463 -25.64% 3
West London -10 17 £725 +39.08% 3
East London - 1 £500 - 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 36 (10.62%) Apache Airflow
2 24 (7.08%) Confluence
3 20 (5.90%) Apache Spark
4 14 (4.13%) Apache
5 6 (1.77%) CICS
6 2 (0.59%) nginx
6 2 (0.59%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.59%) SAS
7 1 (0.29%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.29%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (2.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.88%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.88%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 339 (100.00%) AWS
2 335 (98.82%) Serverless
3 240 (70.80%) Amazon S3
4 108 (31.86%) Amazon EC2
5 105 (30.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 95 (28.02%) Amazon ECS
7 76 (22.42%) Amazon EKS
8 70 (20.65%) GitHub
9 56 (16.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 54 (15.93%) GitHub Actions
11 53 (15.63%) AWS Step Functions
12 51 (15.04%) AWS CloudFormation
13 50 (14.75%) Amazon SQS
14 38 (11.21%) Azure
15 34 (10.03%) Amazon EMR
16 30 (8.85%) Power Platform
17 29 (8.55%) Snowflake
18 28 (8.26%) Amazon EventBridge
18 28 (8.26%) dbt
19 23 (6.78%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.95%) Firewall
2 7 (2.06%) DNS
3 4 (1.18%) Network Security
3 4 (1.18%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.18%) VPN
3 4 (1.18%) WAN
4 3 (0.88%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (0.59%) HTTP
5 2 (0.59%) OpenVPN
6 1 (0.29%) 4G
6 1 (0.29%) 5G
6 1 (0.29%) BGP
6 1 (0.29%) Internet
6 1 (0.29%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (25.37%) Amazon RDS
2 69 (20.35%) Amazon Athena
3 68 (20.06%) DynamoDB
4 52 (15.34%) Amazon Redshift
5 30 (8.85%) Power BI
6 27 (7.96%) Data Warehouse
6 27 (7.96%) PostgreSQL
7 19 (5.60%) Amazon Aurora
7 19 (5.60%) Tableau
8 16 (4.72%) Metadata
8 16 (4.72%) SQL Server
9 13 (3.83%) NoSQL
10 11 (3.24%) Data Lake
11 10 (2.95%) Apache Iceberg
12 9 (2.65%) Db2
13 8 (2.36%) Amazon QuickSight
13 8 (2.36%) Apache Hudi
13 8 (2.36%) Delta Lake
14 7 (2.06%) MongoDB
14 7 (2.06%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 70 (20.65%) Jenkins
2 67 (19.76%) GitLab
3 60 (17.70%) Git
4 33 (9.73%) JIRA
5 14 (4.13%) Bitbucket
5 14 (4.13%) Cucumber
6 13 (3.83%) Cypress.io
7 6 (1.77%) JUnit
7 6 (1.77%) Mocha
8 5 (1.47%) Artifactory
8 5 (1.47%) Claude Code
8 5 (1.47%) Gatling
8 5 (1.47%) MSTest
8 5 (1.47%) Postman
8 5 (1.47%) Selenium
8 5 (1.47%) tSQLt
9 4 (1.18%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 4 (1.18%) Mockito
9 4 (1.18%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.59%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 84 (24.78%) Social Skills
2 67 (19.76%) Finance
3 51 (15.04%) Public Sector
4 32 (9.44%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (6.78%) Banking
6 8 (2.36%) Back Office
6 8 (2.36%) Law
7 7 (2.06%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (1.77%) Front Office
9 5 (1.47%) Military
10 4 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.88%) Marketing
11 3 (0.88%) 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 79 (23.30%) AWS Engineer
2 76 (22.42%) Senior
3 59 (17.40%) Data Engineer
4 52 (15.34%) Developer
5 44 (12.98%) Lead
6 40 (11.80%) Architect
7 28 (8.26%) DevOps Engineer
8 27 (7.96%) AWS Developer
8 27 (7.96%) Software Engineer
9 23 (6.78%) Cloud Engineer
10 22 (6.49%) AWS Data Engineer
11 19 (5.60%) AWS Architect
12 17 (5.01%) Python Developer
12 17 (5.01%) Senior Data Engineer
13 16 (4.72%) Senior Software Engineer
13 16 (4.72%) Technical Leader
14 15 (4.42%) Python Engineer
15 13 (3.83%) Analyst
15 13 (3.83%) Platform Engineer
16 12 (3.54%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (14.16%) React
2 40 (11.80%) RESTful
3 38 (11.21%) Kafka
4 35 (10.32%) PySpark
5 34 (10.03%) REST
6 30 (8.85%) FastAPI
7 29 (8.55%) Node.js
8 22 (6.49%) GraphQL
9 21 (6.19%) Spring Boot
10 20 (5.90%) Flask
10 20 (5.90%) Spring
11 19 (5.60%) .NET
12 16 (4.72%) AWS CDK
13 15 (4.42%) Pandas
14 14 (4.13%) Next.js
15 13 (3.83%) AngularJS
16 12 (3.54%) JSON
17 11 (3.24%) CSS
17 11 (3.24%) HTML
17 11 (3.24%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 83 (24.48%) Cloud Native
2 20 (5.90%) Product Ownership
3 19 (5.60%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (3.24%) AI Agents
5 9 (2.65%) Fixed Income
6 7 (2.06%) Greenfield Project
6 7 (2.06%) Hedge funds
6 7 (2.06%) Security Posture
7 6 (1.77%) DataPower
7 6 (1.77%) Mainframe
7 6 (1.77%) NHS
7 6 (1.77%) Online Banking
8 5 (1.47%) Cloud Security Posture
8 5 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.47%) 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 (0.88%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 35 (10.32%) Linux
2 15 (4.42%) Unix
3 8 (2.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (1.77%) zOS
5 4 (1.18%) Windows
6 3 (0.88%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.29%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 203 (59.88%) CI/CD
2 132 (38.94%) Infrastructure as Code
3 129 (38.05%) DevOps
4 125 (36.87%) Agile
5 76 (22.42%) AI
6 64 (18.88%) Data Engineering
6 64 (18.88%) Data Pipeline
7 62 (18.29%) Software Engineering
8 60 (17.70%) Microservices
9 58 (17.11%) Test Automation
10 57 (16.81%) Event-Driven
11 56 (16.52%) Containerisation
12 54 (15.93%) ETL
13 53 (15.63%) Analytics
14 47 (13.86%) Migration
15 46 (13.57%) Continuous Improvement
15 46 (13.57%) Data Modelling
15 46 (13.57%) Platform Engineering
16 42 (12.39%) Problem-Solving
17 41 (12.09%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 212 (62.54%) Python
2 118 (34.81%) SQL
3 57 (16.81%) Java
4 53 (15.63%) TypeScript
5 38 (11.21%) JavaScript
6 34 (10.03%) Bash
7 29 (8.55%) C#
8 20 (5.90%) Shell Script
9 15 (4.42%) Scala
10 10 (2.95%) PowerShell
11 6 (1.77%) JCL
11 6 (1.77%) T-SQL
12 5 (1.47%) SPARQL
13 4 (1.18%) Cypher
13 4 (1.18%) Gremlin
14 3 (0.88%) Bicep
15 2 (0.59%) C
15 2 (0.59%) Go
15 2 (0.59%) Groovy
15 2 (0.59%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 100 (29.50%) Security Cleared
2 89 (26.25%) SC Cleared
3 36 (10.62%) AWS Certification
4 16 (4.72%) BPSS Clearance
4 16 (4.72%) DV Cleared
5 14 (4.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 12 (3.54%) Degree
7 8 (2.36%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 8 (2.36%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 7 (2.06%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.18%) DBS Check
10 3 (0.88%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (0.88%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.59%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.29%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.29%) PhD
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 49 (14.45%) Data Quality
2 21 (6.19%) QA
3 7 (2.06%) PMO
4 4 (1.18%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.18%) SLA
5 2 (0.59%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.29%) NIST
6 1 (0.29%) WCAG
System Software
1 95 (28.02%) Docker
2 6 (1.77%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.88%) Squid
4 1 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 150 (44.25%) Terraform
2 72 (21.24%) Kubernetes
3 34 (10.03%) Grafana
4 26 (7.67%) Prometheus
5 23 (6.78%) Ansible
6 8 (2.36%) Puppet
7 7 (2.06%) Kibana
8 5 (1.47%) Salt
9 3 (0.88%) Packer
10 2 (0.59%) Argo
10 2 (0.59%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.59%) Istio
10 2 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.29%) Consul
11 1 (0.29%) Control-M
11 1 (0.29%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.29%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 15 (4.42%) Microsoft
2 14 (4.13%) Splunk
3 12 (3.54%) Informatica
4 8 (2.36%) Databricks
5 7 (2.06%) Oracle
6 6 (1.77%) ServiceNow
7 5 (1.47%) Red Hat
8 4 (1.18%) Fortinet
8 4 (1.18%) OpenAI
8 4 (1.18%) Sybase
9 3 (0.88%) Brio
9 3 (0.88%) Dynatrace
9 3 (0.88%) PagerDuty
9 3 (0.88%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.59%) Charles River
10 2 (0.59%) Confluent
10 2 (0.59%) Murex
10 2 (0.59%) Netlify
10 2 (0.59%) Qualys
11 1 (0.29%) Denodo