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 3 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 147 132 171
Rank change year-on-year -15 +39 0
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 319 258 255
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.80% 2.05% 1.43%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.20% 4.84% 3.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 229 205 196
10th Percentile £356 £404 £400
25th Percentile £430 £456 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £565 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.22% +13.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £625 £775 £588
90th Percentile £700 £838 £675
England median daily rate £518 £540 £510
% change year-on-year -4.17% +5.88% -11.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.00 - -
Median hourly rate £67.00 £35.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +91.43% - -
75th Percentile £73.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £76.00 £35.00 -
% change year-on-year +117.14% - -

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 7,601 5,326 6,773
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.79% 42.37% 38.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,244 3,707 5,000
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £438 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 52 70
10th Percentile £19.56 £22.42 £17.63
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.66 £21.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £30.21 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.52% +20.83% -37.50%
75th Percentile £52.96 £50.00 £37.34
90th Percentile £72.00 £73.13 £59.13
England median hourly rate £46.90 £25.98 £20.77
% change year-on-year +80.56% +25.06% -31.90%

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 3 May 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 3 May 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 +3 42 £550 +8.91% 25
South London +1 21 £500 +5.26% 1
West London -31 7 £713 +26.11% 3
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 27 (8.46%) Apache Airflow
2 23 (7.21%) Apache Spark
3 16 (5.02%) Confluence
4 10 (3.13%) Apache
5 9 (2.82%) nginx
6 4 (1.25%) CICS
7 2 (0.63%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.31%) SAS
Applications
1 10 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.25%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.63%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 319 (100.00%) AWS
2 315 (98.75%) Serverless
3 230 (72.10%) Amazon S3
4 101 (31.66%) Amazon EC2
5 97 (30.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 92 (28.84%) Amazon ECS
7 78 (24.45%) AWS CloudFormation
8 77 (24.14%) GitHub
9 75 (23.51%) Amazon EKS
10 64 (20.06%) GitHub Actions
10 64 (20.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 53 (16.61%) AWS Step Functions
12 33 (10.34%) Amazon SQS
13 32 (10.03%) Amazon Kinesis
14 31 (9.72%) Azure
15 27 (8.46%) AWS CodePipeline
16 24 (7.52%) Route 53
17 23 (7.21%) Snowflake
18 21 (6.58%) Amazon EMR
18 21 (6.58%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 25 (7.84%) DNS
2 15 (4.70%) Firewall
3 12 (3.76%) TCP/IP
3 12 (3.76%) VPN
4 9 (2.82%) OpenVPN
5 6 (1.88%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (0.63%) Kerberos
6 2 (0.63%) Network Security
7 1 (0.31%) 4G
7 1 (0.31%) 5G
7 1 (0.31%) HTTP
7 1 (0.31%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (21.32%) Amazon RDS
2 54 (16.93%) Amazon Athena
2 54 (16.93%) DynamoDB
3 53 (16.61%) Amazon Redshift
4 39 (12.23%) PostgreSQL
5 26 (8.15%) Amazon Aurora
6 24 (7.52%) Tableau
7 18 (5.64%) Power BI
8 16 (5.02%) NoSQL
9 14 (4.39%) Big Data
10 13 (4.08%) Apache Iceberg
10 13 (4.08%) Data Lake
10 13 (4.08%) Metadata
11 12 (3.76%) Data Warehouse
12 11 (3.45%) Amazon QuickSight
12 11 (3.45%) Elasticsearch
13 10 (3.13%) SQL Server
14 9 (2.82%) Data Vault
15 8 (2.51%) Apache Hudi
15 8 (2.51%) DB2
Development Applications
1 63 (19.75%) GitLab
1 63 (19.75%) Jenkins
2 56 (17.55%) Git
3 24 (7.52%) JIRA
4 15 (4.70%) Bitbucket
5 12 (3.76%) Cucumber
6 9 (2.82%) JUnit
7 7 (2.19%) Cypress.io
7 7 (2.19%) SonarQube
8 5 (1.57%) Postman
8 5 (1.57%) Selenium
8 5 (1.57%) Snyk
9 4 (1.25%) Artifactory
9 4 (1.25%) Mocha
9 4 (1.25%) Mockito
9 4 (1.25%) Terragrunt
10 3 (0.94%) MSTest
10 3 (0.94%) tSQLt
10 3 (0.94%) Vite
11 2 (0.63%) MLflow
General
1 83 (26.02%) Social Skills
2 52 (16.30%) Finance
2 52 (16.30%) Public Sector
3 33 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (5.96%) Documentation Skills
5 17 (5.33%) Banking
6 5 (1.57%) Front Office
7 4 (1.25%) Police
8 3 (0.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (0.94%) Investment Banking
8 3 (0.94%) Law
8 3 (0.94%) Military
8 3 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (0.63%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.63%) Games
9 2 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.63%) Local Government
9 2 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.63%) Retail
9 2 (0.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 66 (20.69%) Developer
2 64 (20.06%) AWS Engineer
3 57 (17.87%) Data Engineer
4 50 (15.67%) Senior
5 49 (15.36%) Architect
6 34 (10.66%) Lead
7 27 (8.46%) AWS Architect
7 27 (8.46%) AWS Developer
7 27 (8.46%) DevOps Engineer
8 20 (6.27%) AWS Data Engineer
9 18 (5.64%) AWS DevOps
10 17 (5.33%) Data Architect
11 16 (5.02%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 16 (5.02%) Cloud Engineer
11 16 (5.02%) Python Developer
12 14 (4.39%) Analyst
12 14 (4.39%) Java Engineer
12 14 (4.39%) Python Engineer
12 14 (4.39%) Software Engineer
13 13 (4.08%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (17.55%) Kafka
2 41 (12.85%) React
2 41 (12.85%) RESTful
3 31 (9.72%) Node.js
3 31 (9.72%) Spring Boot
4 29 (9.09%) Spring
5 26 (8.15%) PySpark
6 18 (5.64%) boto
6 18 (5.64%) OAuth
6 18 (5.64%) Pandas
7 16 (5.02%) FastAPI
8 15 (4.70%) REST
9 14 (4.39%) AWS CDK
10 13 (4.08%) CSS
10 13 (4.08%) Flask
10 13 (4.08%) OpenID
11 12 (3.76%) AngularJS
11 12 (3.76%) HTML
12 11 (3.45%) .NET
12 11 (3.45%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 76 (23.82%) Cloud Native
2 17 (5.33%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (3.45%) Product Ownership
4 7 (2.19%) DataPower
4 7 (2.19%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (2.19%) Mainframe
5 6 (1.88%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (1.88%) Hedge funds
5 6 (1.88%) PACS
5 6 (1.88%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 5 (1.57%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (1.57%) Equities
7 4 (1.25%) Algorithms
7 4 (1.25%) Derivative
7 4 (1.25%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.25%) Online Banking
8 3 (0.94%) Data Structures
8 3 (0.94%) Equity Derivative
8 3 (0.94%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 34 (10.66%) Linux
2 15 (4.70%) Unix
3 4 (1.25%) zOS
4 1 (0.31%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (0.31%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 188 (58.93%) CI/CD
2 132 (41.38%) DevOps
3 126 (39.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 82 (25.71%) Agile
5 75 (23.51%) Microservices
6 57 (17.87%) Containerisation
6 57 (17.87%) Data Pipeline
6 57 (17.87%) Problem-Solving
7 56 (17.55%) ETL
8 53 (16.61%) Data Engineering
9 50 (15.67%) Analytics
10 48 (15.05%) Data Modelling
11 46 (14.42%) Event-Driven
12 41 (12.85%) AI
12 41 (12.85%) Observability
13 38 (11.91%) Software Engineering
14 36 (11.29%) Test Automation
15 35 (10.97%) Continuous Improvement
16 29 (9.09%) Migration
16 29 (9.09%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 190 (59.56%) Python
2 101 (31.66%) SQL
3 64 (20.06%) Java
4 33 (10.34%) JavaScript
5 31 (9.72%) TypeScript
6 26 (8.15%) C#
7 22 (6.90%) Bash
8 19 (5.96%) Shell Script
9 15 (4.70%) Scala
10 7 (2.19%) PowerShell
10 7 (2.19%) Ruby
11 6 (1.88%) Go
12 4 (1.25%) Bicep
12 4 (1.25%) JCL
13 3 (0.94%) C++
13 3 (0.94%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.63%) Korn
14 2 (0.63%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.31%) Groovy
15 1 (0.31%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 109 (34.17%) Security Cleared
2 99 (31.03%) SC Cleared
3 27 (8.46%) AWS Certification
4 13 (4.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 10 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
5 10 (3.13%) Degree
6 9 (2.82%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 7 (2.19%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (2.19%) Master's Degree
8 5 (1.57%) DV Cleared
9 4 (1.25%) AWS Certified Developer
9 4 (1.25%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (1.25%) PhD
10 1 (0.31%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.31%) CEH
10 1 (0.31%) CISSP
10 1 (0.31%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.31%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.31%) PMP
10 1 (0.31%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (9.09%) Data Quality
2 18 (5.64%) QA
3 8 (2.51%) NIST
4 7 (2.19%) PMO
5 6 (1.88%) ISO 20022
6 4 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.25%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.25%) SLA
7 3 (0.94%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.94%) GDPR
8 2 (0.63%) WCAG
9 1 (0.31%) GRC
System Software
1 95 (29.78%) Docker
2 9 (2.82%) Squid
3 4 (1.25%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.94%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.31%) HDFS
5 1 (0.31%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 163 (51.10%) Terraform
2 80 (25.08%) Kubernetes
3 32 (10.03%) Grafana
4 27 (8.46%) Prometheus
5 14 (4.39%) Ansible
6 12 (3.76%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (2.82%) FortiGate
7 9 (2.82%) Kibana
8 7 (2.19%) Consul
9 3 (0.94%) ITRS Geneos
9 3 (0.94%) Karpenter
9 3 (0.94%) Puppet
9 3 (0.94%) Salt
10 2 (0.63%) Opsgenie
11 1 (0.31%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.31%) Rancher
Vendors
1 16 (5.02%) Microsoft
2 13 (4.08%) Databricks
3 12 (3.76%) Splunk
4 11 (3.45%) Dynatrace
5 9 (2.82%) Confluent
5 9 (2.82%) Red Hat
6 8 (2.51%) OpenAI
7 7 (2.19%) Atlassian
8 5 (1.57%) Oracle
8 5 (1.57%) Sybase
9 4 (1.25%) IBM
9 4 (1.25%) Qualys
9 4 (1.25%) Tenable
10 3 (0.94%) AVEVA
10 3 (0.94%) Cloudera
10 3 (0.94%) Fortinet
10 3 (0.94%) Netlify
10 3 (0.94%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.63%) Informatica
11 2 (0.63%) SAP