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

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 144 163
Rank change year-on-year +3 +19 -13
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 325 247 269
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.93% 1.96% 1.49%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.40% 4.61% 3.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 231 192 207
10th Percentile £350 £413 £393
25th Percentile £413 £463 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.87% +15.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £619 £788 £588
90th Percentile £688 £838 £685
England median daily rate £513 £550 £510
% change year-on-year -6.82% +7.84% -11.30%

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 7,378 5,363 6,773
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.78% 42.46% 37.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,054 3,755 4,966
10th Percentile £350 £356 £325
25th Percentile £425 £440 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 52 79
10th Percentile £18.08 £22.27 £17.62
25th Percentile £23.55 £24.66 £21.63
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.24
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +10.79% -25.03%
75th Percentile £51.10 £54.13 £51.88
90th Percentile £72.50 £67.50 £62.75
England median hourly rate £40.25 £27.19 £21.00
% change year-on-year +48.05% +29.46% -17.58%

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 28 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 28 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 +9 42 £510 +2.00% 34
South London +2 23 £500 +5.26% 1
West London -20 4 £650 -16.13% 2
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 (7.69%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (5.85%) Apache Spark
3 14 (4.31%) Confluence
4 12 (3.69%) Apache
5 9 (2.77%) nginx
6 3 (0.92%) CICS
7 2 (0.62%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.31%) Jupyter
Applications
1 10 (3.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.23%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.31%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 325 (100.00%) AWS
1 325 (100.00%) Serverless
2 220 (67.69%) Amazon S3
3 99 (30.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 98 (30.15%) Amazon EC2
5 87 (26.77%) Amazon ECS
6 85 (26.15%) GitHub
7 79 (24.31%) Amazon EKS
7 79 (24.31%) AWS CloudFormation
8 64 (19.69%) GitHub Actions
9 62 (19.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 51 (15.69%) AWS Step Functions
11 34 (10.46%) Azure
12 31 (9.54%) Amazon SQS
13 30 (9.23%) Amazon Kinesis
14 28 (8.62%) Snowflake
15 26 (8.00%) AWS CodePipeline
16 24 (7.38%) Route 53
17 22 (6.77%) Amazon EMR
18 19 (5.85%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 24 (7.38%) DNS
2 14 (4.31%) Firewall
3 12 (3.69%) TCP/IP
3 12 (3.69%) VPN
4 9 (2.77%) OpenVPN
5 4 (1.23%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (0.62%) Kerberos
6 2 (0.62%) Network Security
7 1 (0.31%) 4G
7 1 (0.31%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (23.08%) Amazon RDS
2 58 (17.85%) DynamoDB
3 51 (15.69%) PostgreSQL
4 48 (14.77%) Amazon Redshift
5 44 (13.54%) Amazon Athena
6 23 (7.08%) Amazon Aurora
6 23 (7.08%) Tableau
7 19 (5.85%) Data Warehouse
7 19 (5.85%) Power BI
8 15 (4.62%) Apache Iceberg
8 15 (4.62%) NoSQL
9 13 (4.00%) Data Lake
9 13 (4.00%) Metadata
9 13 (4.00%) Relational Database
10 11 (3.38%) MySQL
11 10 (3.08%) Amazon QuickSight
11 10 (3.08%) DB2
11 10 (3.08%) Elasticsearch
11 10 (3.08%) Redis
12 8 (2.46%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 61 (18.77%) GitLab
2 59 (18.15%) Git
3 57 (17.54%) Jenkins
4 25 (7.69%) JIRA
5 16 (4.92%) Bitbucket
6 12 (3.69%) JUnit
7 11 (3.38%) Cucumber
8 9 (2.77%) Cypress.io
9 7 (2.15%) SonarQube
10 5 (1.54%) Postman
10 5 (1.54%) Snyk
11 4 (1.23%) Mocha
11 4 (1.23%) Mockito
11 4 (1.23%) Terragrunt
12 3 (0.92%) MSTest
12 3 (0.92%) Selenium
12 3 (0.92%) Sonatype Nexus
12 3 (0.92%) tSQLt
12 3 (0.92%) Vite
13 2 (0.62%) MLflow
General
1 91 (28.00%) Social Skills
2 56 (17.23%) Public Sector
3 53 (16.31%) Finance
4 35 (10.77%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (6.46%) Banking
6 20 (6.15%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.23%) Front Office
9 3 (0.92%) Investment Banking
9 3 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.62%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.62%) Games
10 2 (0.62%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.62%) Police
10 2 (0.62%) Private Banking
10 2 (0.62%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.31%) Law
11 1 (0.31%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.31%) Marketing
11 1 (0.31%) Military
Job Titles
1 66 (20.31%) Developer
2 57 (17.54%) AWS Engineer
3 53 (16.31%) Data Engineer
4 52 (16.00%) Senior
5 47 (14.46%) Architect
6 35 (10.77%) DevOps Engineer
7 27 (8.31%) Lead
8 25 (7.69%) AWS Architect
9 22 (6.77%) AWS Developer
9 22 (6.77%) AWS DevOps
10 18 (5.54%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 16 (4.92%) AWS Data Engineer
11 16 (4.92%) Software Engineer
12 15 (4.62%) Analyst
12 15 (4.62%) Python Engineer
12 15 (4.62%) Senior Developer
13 14 (4.31%) Cloud Engineer
14 13 (4.00%) Full-Stack Developer
14 13 (4.00%) Lead Data Engineer
15 12 (3.69%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (18.77%) Kafka
2 46 (14.15%) Node.js
3 42 (12.92%) React
4 39 (12.00%) RESTful
5 32 (9.85%) Spring Boot
6 30 (9.23%) Spring
7 23 (7.08%) OAuth
8 22 (6.77%) PySpark
9 19 (5.85%) REST
10 18 (5.54%) boto
11 16 (4.92%) AWS CDK
12 15 (4.62%) AngularJS
12 15 (4.62%) CSS
13 13 (4.00%) OpenID
14 12 (3.69%) FastAPI
14 12 (3.69%) JWT
15 11 (3.38%) Flask
15 11 (3.38%) Pandas
16 10 (3.08%) JSON
16 10 (3.08%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 76 (23.38%) Cloud Native
2 21 (6.46%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (2.46%) DataPower
3 8 (2.46%) Mainframe
3 8 (2.46%) Product Ownership
4 7 (2.15%) Data Protection Act
4 7 (2.15%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (1.54%) Equities
5 5 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.23%) Algorithms
6 4 (1.23%) Data Structures
6 4 (1.23%) Derivative
6 4 (1.23%) Distributed Architecture
6 4 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (1.23%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (1.23%) PACS
6 4 (1.23%) Replication
6 4 (1.23%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 3 (0.92%) Equity Derivative
7 3 (0.92%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 30 (9.23%) Linux
2 8 (2.46%) Unix
3 3 (0.92%) zOS
4 2 (0.62%) Windows
5 1 (0.31%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (0.31%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 191 (58.77%) CI/CD
2 130 (40.00%) DevOps
3 118 (36.31%) Infrastructure as Code
4 83 (25.54%) Agile
5 76 (23.38%) Microservices
6 68 (20.92%) Problem-Solving
7 60 (18.46%) Data Pipeline
8 58 (17.85%) ETL
9 56 (17.23%) Containerisation
9 56 (17.23%) Data Engineering
10 53 (16.31%) Data Modelling
11 50 (15.38%) Analytics
12 44 (13.54%) Event-Driven
12 44 (13.54%) Observability
13 37 (11.38%) Continuous Improvement
14 35 (10.77%) AI
14 35 (10.77%) Performance Tuning
15 33 (10.15%) Software Engineering
16 32 (9.85%) Test Automation
17 30 (9.23%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 185 (56.92%) Python
2 106 (32.62%) SQL
3 59 (18.15%) Java
4 37 (11.38%) TypeScript
5 34 (10.46%) JavaScript
6 24 (7.38%) Bash
7 17 (5.23%) C#
8 16 (4.92%) Shell Script
9 9 (2.77%) Scala
10 8 (2.46%) PowerShell
10 8 (2.46%) Ruby
11 6 (1.85%) Go
12 5 (1.54%) JSX
12 5 (1.54%) Korn
13 3 (0.92%) Bicep
13 3 (0.92%) C++
13 3 (0.92%) Groovy
13 3 (0.92%) JCL
13 3 (0.92%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.62%) Perl
Qualifications
1 116 (35.69%) Security Cleared
2 102 (31.38%) SC Cleared
3 31 (9.54%) AWS Certification
4 13 (4.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 10 (3.08%) Degree
6 9 (2.77%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 7 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (2.15%) Master's Degree
8 5 (1.54%) DV Cleared
9 4 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.23%) PhD
10 3 (0.92%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (0.92%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.31%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.31%) CEH
11 1 (0.31%) CISSP
11 1 (0.31%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.31%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.31%) PMP
11 1 (0.31%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (9.23%) Data Quality
2 21 (6.46%) QA
3 8 (2.46%) NIST
4 7 (2.15%) Accessibility
4 7 (2.15%) PMO
5 5 (1.54%) GDPR
6 4 (1.23%) ISO 20022
6 4 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.23%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.23%) SLA
7 3 (0.92%) WCAG
8 1 (0.31%) GRC
8 1 (0.31%) GxP
System Software
1 93 (28.62%) Docker
2 9 (2.77%) Squid
3 3 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.62%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.62%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.31%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 158 (48.62%) Terraform
2 78 (24.00%) Kubernetes
3 25 (7.69%) Prometheus
4 23 (7.08%) Grafana
5 20 (6.15%) Ansible
6 12 (3.69%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (2.77%) FortiGate
8 7 (2.15%) Consul
9 6 (1.85%) Kibana
10 3 (0.92%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (0.92%) Karpenter
10 3 (0.92%) Rancher
11 2 (0.62%) 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 19 (5.85%) Microsoft
2 15 (4.62%) Databricks
3 14 (4.31%) Dynatrace
4 9 (2.77%) Red Hat
5 8 (2.46%) ServiceNow
5 8 (2.46%) Sybase
6 7 (2.15%) Atlassian
6 7 (2.15%) Confluent
7 6 (1.85%) IBM
7 6 (1.85%) OpenAI
7 6 (1.85%) Splunk
8 4 (1.23%) Oracle
8 4 (1.23%) Qualys
8 4 (1.23%) Tenable
9 3 (0.92%) AVEVA
9 3 (0.92%) Cloudera
9 3 (0.92%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.62%) Avaloq
10 2 (0.62%) CA Agile Central
10 2 (0.62%) SAP