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 30 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 167 159 193
Rank change year-on-year -8 +34 -9
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 336 237 216
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.68% 1.74% 1.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.04% 4.07% 3.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 243 176 148
10th Percentile £381 £400 £400
25th Percentile £450 £461 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £506
Median % change year-on-year - +8.64% -7.95%
75th Percentile £638 £626 £603
90th Percentile £748 £775 £675
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
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 8,308 5,829 6,662
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.50% 42.87% 40.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,679 3,994 4,860
10th Percentile £363 £340 £350
25th Percentile £447 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £536 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.09% -2.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £644 £660 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £512 £525
% change year-on-year +2.49% -2.43% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 83 53
10th Percentile £19.38 £22.60 £20.80
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.77 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +2.00% -44.39%
75th Percentile £55.56 £45.63 £40.75
90th Percentile £75.88 £67.11 £65.30
England median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £22.00
% change year-on-year +49.11% +14.32% -33.33%

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 30 July 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 30 July 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 39 £625 - 7
South London -5 17 £463 -25.64%
West London -11 17 £725 +28.32% 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 35 (10.42%) Apache Airflow
2 24 (7.14%) Confluence
3 21 (6.25%) Apache Spark
4 13 (3.87%) Apache
5 6 (1.79%) CICS
6 4 (1.19%) nginx
7 2 (0.60%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.60%) SAS
8 1 (0.30%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.30%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (2.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.89%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.89%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 336 (100.00%) AWS
2 332 (98.81%) Serverless
3 240 (71.43%) Amazon S3
4 109 (32.44%) Amazon EC2
5 104 (30.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 90 (26.79%) Amazon ECS
7 74 (22.02%) Amazon EKS
8 66 (19.64%) GitHub
9 58 (17.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 53 (15.77%) AWS CloudFormation
10 53 (15.77%) AWS Step Functions
11 50 (14.88%) GitHub Actions
12 49 (14.58%) Amazon SQS
13 39 (11.61%) Azure
14 36 (10.71%) Amazon EMR
15 30 (8.93%) dbt
15 30 (8.93%) Power Platform
16 26 (7.74%) Snowflake
17 25 (7.44%) Amazon EventBridge
18 22 (6.55%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.87%) Firewall
2 10 (2.98%) DNS
3 7 (2.08%) TCP/IP
4 6 (1.79%) VPN
5 4 (1.19%) Network Security
5 4 (1.19%) OpenVPN
5 4 (1.19%) WAN
6 3 (0.89%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (0.60%) HTTP
8 1 (0.30%) 4G
8 1 (0.30%) 5G
8 1 (0.30%) BGP
8 1 (0.30%) Internet
8 1 (0.30%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (23.81%) Amazon RDS
2 68 (20.24%) Amazon Athena
2 68 (20.24%) DynamoDB
3 57 (16.96%) Amazon Redshift
4 30 (8.93%) Power BI
5 28 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
6 24 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
7 19 (5.65%) Amazon Aurora
7 19 (5.65%) Tableau
8 17 (5.06%) SQL Server
9 14 (4.17%) Metadata
10 12 (3.57%) Data Lake
11 10 (2.98%) NoSQL
12 9 (2.68%) Apache Iceberg
12 9 (2.68%) Db2
13 8 (2.38%) Amazon QuickSight
13 8 (2.38%) Apache Hudi
13 8 (2.38%) Big Data
13 8 (2.38%) Delta Lake
13 8 (2.38%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 66 (19.64%) Jenkins
2 65 (19.35%) GitLab
3 59 (17.56%) Git
4 33 (9.82%) JIRA
5 15 (4.46%) Cucumber
6 13 (3.87%) Cypress.io
7 12 (3.57%) Bitbucket
8 7 (2.08%) JUnit
8 7 (2.08%) Mocha
9 6 (1.79%) Artifactory
9 6 (1.79%) MSTest
9 6 (1.79%) tSQLt
10 5 (1.49%) Gatling
10 5 (1.49%) Postman
10 5 (1.49%) REST Assured
11 4 (1.19%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (1.19%) Claude Code
11 4 (1.19%) Mockito
11 4 (1.19%) Selenium
12 3 (0.89%) SonarQube
General
1 87 (25.89%) Social Skills
2 64 (19.05%) Finance
3 54 (16.07%) Public Sector
4 32 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (6.25%) Banking
6 9 (2.68%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (2.38%) Law
8 7 (2.08%) Back Office
9 6 (1.79%) Front Office
10 5 (1.49%) Military
11 4 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.89%) Marketing
12 3 (0.89%) Police
12 3 (0.89%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.60%) Billing
13 2 (0.60%) Games
13 2 (0.60%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.60%) Local Government
13 2 (0.60%) Retail
Job Titles
1 78 (23.21%) AWS Engineer
2 71 (21.13%) Senior
3 57 (16.96%) Data Engineer
4 52 (15.48%) Developer
5 45 (13.39%) Lead
6 44 (13.10%) Architect
7 26 (7.74%) AWS Developer
7 26 (7.74%) DevOps Engineer
7 26 (7.74%) Software Engineer
8 22 (6.55%) AWS Data Engineer
8 22 (6.55%) Cloud Engineer
9 21 (6.25%) AWS Architect
10 17 (5.06%) Python Developer
11 16 (4.76%) Technical Leader
12 15 (4.46%) Python Engineer
12 15 (4.46%) Senior Data Engineer
12 15 (4.46%) Senior Software Engineer
13 13 (3.87%) Analyst
14 12 (3.57%) AWS DevOps
14 12 (3.57%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (14.58%) React
2 41 (12.20%) RESTful
3 38 (11.31%) Kafka
4 36 (10.71%) PySpark
5 32 (9.52%) REST
6 29 (8.63%) FastAPI
6 29 (8.63%) Node.js
7 22 (6.55%) GraphQL
8 20 (5.95%) Spring Boot
9 19 (5.65%) .NET
9 19 (5.65%) Flask
10 17 (5.06%) Spring
11 16 (4.76%) AWS CDK
12 15 (4.46%) Pandas
13 14 (4.17%) Next.js
14 13 (3.87%) AngularJS
15 12 (3.57%) CSS
15 12 (3.57%) HTML
15 12 (3.57%) JSON
15 12 (3.57%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 79 (23.51%) Cloud Native
2 18 (5.36%) Product Ownership
3 17 (5.06%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (3.27%) AI Agents
5 9 (2.68%) Fixed Income
6 8 (2.38%) Security Posture
7 7 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
7 7 (2.08%) Hedge funds
8 6 (1.79%) DataPower
8 6 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (1.79%) Mainframe
8 6 (1.79%) NHS
8 6 (1.79%) Online Banking
9 5 (1.49%) Cloud Security Posture
9 5 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.49%) Equities
10 4 (1.19%) Distributed Computing
10 4 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.19%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.19%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 30 (8.93%) Linux
2 15 (4.46%) Unix
3 8 (2.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (1.79%) zOS
5 4 (1.19%) Windows
6 3 (0.89%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.30%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 200 (59.52%) CI/CD
2 132 (39.29%) Infrastructure as Code
3 126 (37.50%) DevOps
4 118 (35.12%) Agile
5 75 (22.32%) AI
6 65 (19.35%) Data Engineering
7 62 (18.45%) Data Pipeline
8 61 (18.15%) Microservices
9 58 (17.26%) Software Engineering
10 56 (16.67%) Test Automation
11 54 (16.07%) ETL
11 54 (16.07%) Event-Driven
12 52 (15.48%) Analytics
12 52 (15.48%) Containerisation
13 46 (13.69%) Problem-Solving
14 45 (13.39%) Data Modelling
15 44 (13.10%) Migration
16 42 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
17 41 (12.20%) Platform Engineering
17 41 (12.20%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 211 (62.80%) Python
2 115 (34.23%) SQL
3 56 (16.67%) Java
4 53 (15.77%) TypeScript
5 39 (11.61%) JavaScript
6 34 (10.12%) Bash
7 31 (9.23%) C#
8 20 (5.95%) Shell Script
9 16 (4.76%) Scala
10 10 (2.98%) PowerShell
11 7 (2.08%) T-SQL
12 6 (1.79%) JCL
13 5 (1.49%) SPARQL
14 4 (1.19%) Cypher
14 4 (1.19%) Gremlin
15 3 (0.89%) Bicep
15 3 (0.89%) Go
16 2 (0.60%) C
16 2 (0.60%) Groovy
17 1 (0.30%) Haskell
Qualifications
1 101 (30.06%) Security Cleared
2 92 (27.38%) SC Cleared
3 33 (9.82%) AWS Certification
4 14 (4.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 14 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
4 14 (4.17%) DV Cleared
5 12 (3.57%) Degree
6 8 (2.38%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 8 (2.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 7 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.19%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.89%) AWS Certified Developer
9 3 (0.89%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.30%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.30%) PhD
11 1 (0.30%) SAFe Agilist
11 1 (0.30%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (14.29%) Data Quality
2 18 (5.36%) QA
3 7 (2.08%) PMO
4 4 (1.19%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.19%) SLA
5 2 (0.60%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.30%) GDPR
6 1 (0.30%) NIST
6 1 (0.30%) WCAG
System Software
1 90 (26.79%) Docker
2 7 (2.08%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.49%) Squid
4 1 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 149 (44.35%) Terraform
2 71 (21.13%) Kubernetes
3 35 (10.42%) Grafana
4 27 (8.04%) Prometheus
5 23 (6.85%) Ansible
6 8 (2.38%) Puppet
7 5 (1.49%) Kibana
7 5 (1.49%) Salt
8 4 (1.19%) FortiGate
8 4 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.89%) Packer
10 2 (0.60%) Argo
10 2 (0.60%) Consul
10 2 (0.60%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.60%) Istio
11 1 (0.30%) Control-M
Vendors
1 14 (4.17%) Splunk
2 13 (3.87%) Microsoft
3 12 (3.57%) Informatica
4 8 (2.38%) Databricks
5 7 (2.08%) Red Hat
6 6 (1.79%) OpenAI
6 6 (1.79%) Oracle
6 6 (1.79%) ServiceNow
7 5 (1.49%) Dynatrace
7 5 (1.49%) Sybase
8 4 (1.19%) Fortinet
9 3 (0.89%) Brio
9 3 (0.89%) PagerDuty
9 3 (0.89%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.60%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.60%) Charles River
10 2 (0.60%) Confluent
10 2 (0.60%) Google
10 2 (0.60%) Murex
10 2 (0.60%) Qualys