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

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 140 168 171
Rank change year-on-year +28 +3 -9
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 313 204 257
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.00% 1.51% 1.40%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.56% 3.63% 3.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 162 194
10th Percentile £356 £425 £400
25th Percentile £414 £483 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £575 £506
Median % change year-on-year -10.87% +13.58% -15.63%
75th Percentile £626 £788 £588
90th Percentile £700 £838 £709
England median daily rate £513 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -6.82% +4.76% -12.50%

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 6,870 5,621 6,856
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.93% 41.49% 37.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,704 3,775 5,050
10th Percentile £348 £355 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £443
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 £763
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 99 51 80
10th Percentile £18.00 £22.27 £17.00
25th Percentile £21.46 £23.99 £21.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £34.00 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% +11.48% -10.29%
75th Percentile £52.96 £57.25 £53.56
90th Percentile £70.50 £73.75 £62.63
England median hourly rate £37.50 £27.50 £21.64
% change year-on-year +36.36% +27.08% -13.44%

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 February 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 February 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 +18 42 £500 -1.96% 20
South London -1 20 £515 +8.42% 10
West London -17 7 £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 19 (6.07%) Apache Airflow
2 17 (5.43%) Apache Spark
3 10 (3.19%) Confluence
4 9 (2.88%) Apache
5 7 (2.24%) nginx
6 1 (0.32%) Jupyter
Applications
1 7 (2.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.92%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.32%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 313 (100.00%) AWS
1 313 (100.00%) Serverless
2 205 (65.50%) Amazon S3
3 94 (30.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 81 (25.88%) Amazon ECS
5 79 (25.24%) Amazon EC2
5 79 (25.24%) GitHub
6 78 (24.92%) AWS CloudFormation
7 69 (22.04%) Amazon EKS
8 62 (19.81%) GitHub Actions
9 51 (16.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 40 (12.78%) AWS Step Functions
11 35 (11.18%) Amazon Kinesis
12 30 (9.58%) Azure
13 28 (8.95%) Snowflake
14 24 (7.67%) Amazon SQS
15 22 (7.03%) Amazon EMR
15 22 (7.03%) AWS CodePipeline
16 20 (6.39%) Route 53
17 16 (5.11%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 22 (7.03%) DNS
2 12 (3.83%) VPN
3 10 (3.19%) Firewall
4 8 (2.56%) TCP/IP
5 7 (2.24%) OpenVPN
6 3 (0.96%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (0.64%) Kerberos
7 2 (0.64%) SSL
8 1 (0.32%) 4G
8 1 (0.32%) 5G
8 1 (0.32%) DKIM
8 1 (0.32%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (22.04%) Amazon RDS
2 51 (16.29%) DynamoDB
3 45 (14.38%) PostgreSQL
4 44 (14.06%) Amazon Redshift
5 40 (12.78%) Amazon Athena
6 21 (6.71%) Amazon Aurora
6 21 (6.71%) Tableau
7 18 (5.75%) Data Warehouse
8 17 (5.43%) NoSQL
9 14 (4.47%) Power BI
10 13 (4.15%) Apache Iceberg
11 12 (3.83%) Data Lake
12 11 (3.51%) Relational Database
13 10 (3.19%) Redis
14 9 (2.88%) Amazon QuickSight
14 9 (2.88%) Metadata
14 9 (2.88%) MySQL
15 8 (2.56%) Big Data
15 8 (2.56%) Elasticsearch
16 7 (2.24%) DB2
Development Applications
1 56 (17.89%) Jenkins
2 51 (16.29%) GitLab
3 46 (14.70%) Git
4 18 (5.75%) JIRA
5 13 (4.15%) Bitbucket
6 10 (3.19%) Cypress.io
6 10 (3.19%) JUnit
7 8 (2.56%) Cucumber
8 6 (1.92%) SonarQube
9 5 (1.60%) Snyk
10 4 (1.28%) Terragrunt
11 3 (0.96%) Mocha
11 3 (0.96%) Postman
11 3 (0.96%) Selenium
11 3 (0.96%) Visual Studio Code
11 3 (0.96%) Vite
12 2 (0.64%) Maven
12 2 (0.64%) Mockito
12 2 (0.64%) MSTest
12 2 (0.64%) tSQLt
General
1 85 (27.16%) Social Skills
2 52 (16.61%) Public Sector
3 40 (12.78%) Finance
4 31 (9.90%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (5.75%) Banking
6 15 (4.79%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (2.24%) Front Office
8 5 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (1.60%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.64%) Military
11 2 (0.64%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.64%) Police
11 2 (0.64%) Private Banking
12 1 (0.32%) Billing
12 1 (0.32%) Games
12 1 (0.32%) Law
12 1 (0.32%) Marketing
12 1 (0.32%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 58 (18.53%) AWS Engineer
2 56 (17.89%) Developer
3 49 (15.65%) Data Engineer
4 46 (14.70%) Architect
5 45 (14.38%) Senior
6 38 (12.14%) DevOps Engineer
7 34 (10.86%) Lead
8 22 (7.03%) AWS Architect
9 21 (6.71%) AWS DevOps
9 21 (6.71%) Software Engineer
10 17 (5.43%) AWS Developer
10 17 (5.43%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 15 (4.79%) AWS Data Engineer
12 14 (4.47%) Cloud Architect
12 14 (4.47%) Cloud Engineer
13 13 (4.15%) Lead Data Engineer
13 13 (4.15%) Python Engineer
14 12 (3.83%) Java Engineer
14 12 (3.83%) Senior Developer
14 12 (3.83%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (21.09%) Kafka
2 55 (17.57%) Node.js
3 45 (14.38%) React
4 33 (10.54%) RESTful
5 27 (8.63%) Spring Boot
6 25 (7.99%) Spring
7 21 (6.71%) OAuth
8 19 (6.07%) AngularJS
8 19 (6.07%) REST
9 18 (5.75%) AWS CDK
10 17 (5.43%) CSS
11 15 (4.79%) boto
12 13 (4.15%) PySpark
13 12 (3.83%) JWT
14 11 (3.51%) .NET
14 11 (3.51%) OpenID
15 10 (3.19%) Next.js
16 9 (2.88%) Elastic Stack
16 9 (2.88%) HTML
17 8 (2.56%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 73 (23.32%) Cloud Native
2 26 (8.31%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (3.19%) Data Protection Act
4 8 (2.56%) Product Ownership
5 6 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (1.60%) DataPower
6 5 (1.60%) Distributed Architecture
6 5 (1.60%) Equities
6 5 (1.60%) Mainframe
7 4 (1.28%) Algorithms
7 4 (1.28%) Data Structures
7 4 (1.28%) Derivative
7 4 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.28%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.28%) Mobile App
7 4 (1.28%) PACS
7 4 (1.28%) Replication
7 4 (1.28%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 3 (0.96%) Equity Derivative
8 3 (0.96%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 27 (8.63%) Linux
2 5 (1.60%) Unix
3 1 (0.32%) Amazon Linux
3 1 (0.32%) VMS
3 1 (0.32%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 180 (57.51%) CI/CD
2 128 (40.89%) DevOps
3 111 (35.46%) Infrastructure as Code
4 81 (25.88%) Agile
5 74 (23.64%) Microservices
6 61 (19.49%) Data Pipeline
7 56 (17.89%) Problem-Solving
8 52 (16.61%) Data Modelling
9 51 (16.29%) Data Engineering
10 50 (15.97%) Containerisation
10 50 (15.97%) Event-Driven
11 48 (15.34%) Analytics
11 48 (15.34%) ETL
12 41 (13.10%) Observability
13 35 (11.18%) AI
13 35 (11.18%) Software Engineering
14 31 (9.90%) Performance Tuning
15 30 (9.58%) Continuous Improvement
16 29 (9.27%) Design Patterns
17 27 (8.63%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 174 (55.59%) Python
2 95 (30.35%) SQL
3 61 (19.49%) Java
4 40 (12.78%) JavaScript
5 37 (11.82%) TypeScript
6 22 (7.03%) Bash
7 11 (3.51%) C#
7 11 (3.51%) Shell Script
8 7 (2.24%) PowerShell
8 7 (2.24%) Ruby
9 6 (1.92%) JSX
9 6 (1.92%) Korn
9 6 (1.92%) Scala
10 5 (1.60%) Go
11 3 (0.96%) Bicep
11 3 (0.96%) C++
11 3 (0.96%) Groovy
12 2 (0.64%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.64%) Perl
12 2 (0.64%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 109 (34.82%) Security Cleared
2 97 (30.99%) SC Cleared
3 32 (10.22%) AWS Certification
4 11 (3.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 9 (2.88%) Degree
6 8 (2.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 7 (2.24%) Master's Degree
8 6 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (1.60%) DV Cleared
10 3 (0.96%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.96%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (0.96%) PhD
11 1 (0.32%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.32%) CEH
11 1 (0.32%) CISSP
11 1 (0.32%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.32%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.32%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.32%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (7.99%) Data Quality
2 20 (6.39%) QA
3 9 (2.88%) Accessibility
4 8 (2.56%) NIST
5 7 (2.24%) GDPR
6 5 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (1.28%) ISO 20022
7 4 (1.28%) PCI DSS
7 4 (1.28%) PMO
7 4 (1.28%) WCAG
8 1 (0.32%) GRC
8 1 (0.32%) GxP
8 1 (0.32%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 1 (0.32%) NCSC
8 1 (0.32%) SLA
System Software
1 82 (26.20%) Docker
2 7 (2.24%) Squid
3 3 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.64%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.32%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.32%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 138 (44.09%) Terraform
2 79 (25.24%) Kubernetes
3 18 (5.75%) Prometheus
4 16 (5.11%) Ansible
5 14 (4.47%) Grafana
6 11 (3.51%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (2.24%) FortiGate
8 6 (1.92%) Consul
8 6 (1.92%) Kibana
9 3 (0.96%) ITRS Geneos
9 3 (0.96%) Karpenter
9 3 (0.96%) Rancher
10 2 (0.64%) Opsgenie
11 1 (0.32%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.32%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 21 (6.71%) Microsoft
2 14 (4.47%) Databricks
3 12 (3.83%) Dynatrace
4 8 (2.56%) OpenAI
4 8 (2.56%) ServiceNow
4 8 (2.56%) Sybase
5 7 (2.24%) Confluent
5 7 (2.24%) IBM
5 7 (2.24%) Red Hat
6 6 (1.92%) Atlassian
7 5 (1.60%) Salesforce
8 4 (1.28%) Qualys
8 4 (1.28%) Tenable
9 3 (0.96%) AVEVA
9 3 (0.96%) Cloudera
9 3 (0.96%) Google
10 2 (0.64%) Avaloq
10 2 (0.64%) CA Agile Central
10 2 (0.64%) Cisco
10 2 (0.64%) Oracle