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 20 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 140 151 186
Rank change year-on-year +11 +35 -6
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 365 241 234
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.92% 1.93% 1.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.56% 4.49% 3.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 264 184 173
10th Percentile £357 £400 £375
25th Percentile £450 £450 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £625 £627 £588
90th Percentile £738 £800 £672
England median daily rate £522 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -0.62% +2.44% -6.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £37.00 -
25th Percentile £61.00 £40.00 -
Median hourly rate £67.00 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +48.89% - -
75th Percentile £73.00 £50.00 -
90th Percentile - £53.00 -
England median hourly rate £75.00 £45.00 -
% change year-on-year +66.67% - -

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 8,002 5,367 6,978
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.04% 42.92% 39.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,496 3,644 5,122
10th Percentile £358 £350 £350
25th Percentile £431 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -5.17%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £788
England median daily rate £515 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +0.49% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 67 70
10th Percentile £21.55 £22.80 £17.63
25th Percentile £27.75 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.61 £32.00 £26.49
Median % change year-on-year +11.27% +20.82% -49.55%
75th Percentile £56.19 £48.75 £38.75
90th Percentile £77.65 £70.00 £55.25
England median hourly rate £42.69 £25.33 £21.50
% change year-on-year +68.55% +17.79% -33.85%

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 20 June 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 20 June 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 +2 44 £575 +3.60% 9
South London +9 21 £500 +2.56%
West London -27 13 £750 +32.74% 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 33 (9.04%) Apache Airflow
2 27 (7.40%) Confluence
3 21 (5.75%) Apache Spark
4 10 (2.74%) Apache
5 9 (2.47%) nginx
6 6 (1.64%) CICS
7 2 (0.55%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.55%) SAS
8 1 (0.27%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.27%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (2.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.64%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.55%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 365 (100.00%) AWS
2 361 (98.90%) Serverless
3 272 (74.52%) Amazon S3
4 125 (34.25%) Amazon EC2
5 109 (29.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 92 (25.21%) Amazon ECS
7 90 (24.66%) Amazon EKS
8 79 (21.64%) GitHub
9 69 (18.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 67 (18.36%) AWS CloudFormation
11 62 (16.99%) GitHub Actions
12 56 (15.34%) AWS Step Functions
13 49 (13.42%) Amazon SQS
14 37 (10.14%) Azure
15 35 (9.59%) Amazon EMR
16 30 (8.22%) Amazon Kinesis
16 30 (8.22%) Power Platform
17 27 (7.40%) dbt
18 25 (6.85%) Amazon Bedrock
18 25 (6.85%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 19 (5.21%) DNS
2 18 (4.93%) Firewall
3 12 (3.29%) TCP/IP
4 11 (3.01%) VPN
5 9 (2.47%) OpenVPN
6 5 (1.37%) Network Security
7 4 (1.10%) WAN
8 3 (0.82%) Reverse Proxy
9 1 (0.27%) 4G
9 1 (0.27%) 5G
9 1 (0.27%) BGP
9 1 (0.27%) HTTP
9 1 (0.27%) Internet
9 1 (0.27%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (22.47%) Amazon RDS
2 74 (20.27%) Amazon Athena
3 68 (18.63%) Amazon Redshift
4 67 (18.36%) DynamoDB
5 39 (10.68%) PostgreSQL
6 30 (8.22%) Power BI
7 25 (6.85%) Amazon Aurora
8 24 (6.58%) Data Warehouse
9 23 (6.30%) Tableau
10 17 (4.66%) SQL Server
11 15 (4.11%) Metadata
11 15 (4.11%) NoSQL
12 13 (3.56%) Apache Iceberg
12 13 (3.56%) Data Lake
13 11 (3.01%) Amazon QuickSight
13 11 (3.01%) Elasticsearch
14 10 (2.74%) Db2
14 10 (2.74%) MongoDB
15 9 (2.47%) Big Data
16 8 (2.19%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 73 (20.00%) GitLab
2 70 (19.18%) Jenkins
3 69 (18.90%) Git
4 37 (10.14%) JIRA
5 18 (4.93%) Cucumber
6 15 (4.11%) Bitbucket
7 10 (2.74%) JUnit
8 9 (2.47%) Cypress.io
9 7 (1.92%) Mocha
9 7 (1.92%) SonarQube
10 6 (1.64%) Artifactory
10 6 (1.64%) MSTest
10 6 (1.64%) Postman
10 6 (1.64%) tSQLt
11 5 (1.37%) Gatling
11 5 (1.37%) Mockito
11 5 (1.37%) REST Assured
12 4 (1.10%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 4 (1.10%) Selenium
12 4 (1.10%) Snyk
General
1 97 (26.58%) Social Skills
2 62 (16.99%) Finance
3 60 (16.44%) Public Sector
4 30 (8.22%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (4.93%) Banking
6 17 (4.66%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (1.92%) Law
8 5 (1.37%) Military
9 4 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (0.82%) Back Office
10 3 (0.82%) Front Office
10 3 (0.82%) Police
10 3 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (0.82%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.55%) Billing
11 2 (0.55%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.55%) Games
11 2 (0.55%) Local Government
11 2 (0.55%) Retail
Job Titles
1 79 (21.64%) AWS Engineer
2 70 (19.18%) Data Engineer
3 62 (16.99%) Senior
4 61 (16.71%) Developer
5 51 (13.97%) Architect
6 47 (12.88%) Lead
7 30 (8.22%) DevOps Engineer
8 28 (7.67%) AWS Architect
8 28 (7.67%) AWS Developer
9 27 (7.40%) Software Engineer
10 23 (6.30%) AWS Data Engineer
11 21 (5.75%) Cloud Engineer
12 20 (5.48%) Python Developer
13 17 (4.66%) AWS DevOps
13 17 (4.66%) Python Engineer
14 16 (4.38%) Data Architect
15 15 (4.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 14 (3.84%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 13 (3.56%) Analyst
17 13 (3.56%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (16.71%) Kafka
2 51 (13.97%) React
3 48 (13.15%) RESTful
4 37 (10.14%) PySpark
5 30 (8.22%) REST
6 28 (7.67%) FastAPI
6 28 (7.67%) Node.js
6 28 (7.67%) Spring Boot
7 25 (6.85%) Spring
8 20 (5.48%) .NET
8 20 (5.48%) Flask
9 18 (4.93%) AngularJS
10 17 (4.66%) GraphQL
10 17 (4.66%) OAuth
11 16 (4.38%) CSS
11 16 (4.38%) Next.js
11 16 (4.38%) Pandas
12 15 (4.11%) boto
12 15 (4.11%) HTML
13 13 (3.56%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 92 (25.21%) Cloud Native
2 18 (4.93%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (4.38%) Product Ownership
4 8 (2.19%) Fixed Income
5 7 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (1.92%) Hedge funds
6 6 (1.64%) AI Agents
6 6 (1.64%) DataPower
6 6 (1.64%) Mainframe
6 6 (1.64%) NHS
6 6 (1.64%) Online Banking
7 5 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.37%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.37%) PACS
7 5 (1.37%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 4 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.10%) Distributed Computing
8 4 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.10%) Equities
8 4 (1.10%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 28 (7.67%) Linux
2 15 (4.11%) Unix
3 6 (1.64%) zOS
4 4 (1.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.10%) Windows
5 3 (0.82%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.27%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 218 (59.73%) CI/CD
2 143 (39.18%) DevOps
2 143 (39.18%) Infrastructure as Code
3 120 (32.88%) Agile
4 73 (20.00%) AI
5 68 (18.63%) Data Pipeline
5 68 (18.63%) Microservices
6 66 (18.08%) Data Engineering
7 60 (16.44%) Containerisation
8 59 (16.16%) Event-Driven
9 58 (15.89%) ETL
10 57 (15.62%) Analytics
10 57 (15.62%) Test Automation
11 56 (15.34%) Problem-Solving
12 55 (15.07%) Software Engineering
13 48 (13.15%) Data Modelling
14 44 (12.05%) Platform Engineering
15 43 (11.78%) Continuous Improvement
16 42 (11.51%) Observability
17 40 (10.96%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 224 (61.37%) Python
2 124 (33.97%) SQL
3 66 (18.08%) Java
4 47 (12.88%) TypeScript
5 42 (11.51%) JavaScript
6 34 (9.32%) C#
7 27 (7.40%) Bash
8 18 (4.93%) Scala
8 18 (4.93%) Shell Script
9 9 (2.47%) PowerShell
10 7 (1.92%) T-SQL
11 6 (1.64%) JCL
12 5 (1.37%) Go
13 4 (1.10%) Bicep
14 3 (0.82%) SPARQL
15 2 (0.55%) C
15 2 (0.55%) Cypher
15 2 (0.55%) Gremlin
16 1 (0.27%) C++
16 1 (0.27%) SHACL
Qualifications
1 112 (30.68%) Security Cleared
2 103 (28.22%) SC Cleared
3 33 (9.04%) AWS Certification
4 15 (4.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 14 (3.84%) Degree
5 14 (3.84%) DV Cleared
6 13 (3.56%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (2.47%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 9 (2.47%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (2.19%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 5 (1.37%) Master's Degree
10 4 (1.10%) AWS Certified Developer
10 4 (1.10%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.82%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.27%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.27%) PhD
12 1 (0.27%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.27%) PMP
12 1 (0.27%) SAFe Agilist
12 1 (0.27%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (12.88%) Data Quality
2 21 (5.75%) QA
3 7 (1.92%) PMO
4 6 (1.64%) NIST
5 5 (1.37%) ISO 20022
6 4 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.10%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.10%) SLA
7 2 (0.55%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.27%) GDPR
8 1 (0.27%) GRC
8 1 (0.27%) WCAG
System Software
1 105 (28.77%) Docker
2 10 (2.74%) Squid
3 7 (1.92%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 179 (49.04%) Terraform
2 86 (23.56%) Kubernetes
3 39 (10.68%) Grafana
4 35 (9.59%) Prometheus
5 19 (5.21%) Ansible
6 12 (3.29%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (2.47%) FortiGate
8 8 (2.19%) Puppet
9 7 (1.92%) Consul
10 5 (1.37%) Kibana
10 5 (1.37%) Salt
11 3 (0.82%) Packer
12 1 (0.27%) Control-M
12 1 (0.27%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 14 (3.84%) Microsoft
1 14 (3.84%) Splunk
2 12 (3.29%) Informatica
2 12 (3.29%) Red Hat
3 10 (2.74%) Dynatrace
4 9 (2.47%) Databricks
5 8 (2.19%) OpenAI
6 7 (1.92%) Atlassian
6 7 (1.92%) Confluent
6 7 (1.92%) Sybase
7 5 (1.37%) Oracle
8 4 (1.10%) Fortinet
8 4 (1.10%) Salesforce
9 3 (0.82%) AVEVA
9 3 (0.82%) Brio
9 3 (0.82%) Netlify
9 3 (0.82%) PagerDuty
9 3 (0.82%) Qualys
10 2 (0.55%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.55%) Tenable