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

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 177 162 220
Rank change year-on-year -15 +58 -28
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 334 218 185
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.65% 1.62% 1.14%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.01% 3.75% 2.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 246 162 132
10th Percentile £390 £407 £375
25th Percentile £450 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £528 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.27% +0.48% -
75th Percentile £650 £600 £652
90th Percentile £763 £675 £738
England median daily rate £524 £500 £535
% change year-on-year +4.75% -6.54% +1.90%
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 8,319 5,817 6,710
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.12% 43.24% 41.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,682 3,953 4,716
10th Percentile £360 £340 £350
25th Percentile £447 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.89% -3.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.95% -4.71% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 94 48
10th Percentile £18.30 £23.00 £22.00
25th Percentile £23.08 £25.15 £24.06
Median hourly rate £32.81 £31.00 £30.80
Median % change year-on-year +5.84% +0.67% -35.17%
75th Percentile £55.63 £47.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £78.75 £69.08
England median hourly rate £33.99 £26.30 £31.75
% change year-on-year +29.24% -17.17% -3.79%

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 13 September 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 13 September 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 -19 36 £700 +3.70% 19
West London -8 20 £725 +68.10% 2
South London +1 15 £463 -25.64%
East London - 1 £500 - 4
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 (10.48%) Apache Airflow
2 25 (7.49%) Confluence
3 18 (5.39%) Apache Spark
4 13 (3.89%) Apache
5 4 (1.20%) CICS
5 4 (1.20%) SAS
6 3 (0.90%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.60%) PowerExchange
8 1 (0.30%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.30%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.30%) nginx
8 1 (0.30%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.30%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.30%) WebLogic Portal
Applications
1 3 (0.90%) Chatbot
1 3 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.60%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.30%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.30%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 334 (100.00%) AWS
2 330 (98.80%) Serverless
3 239 (71.56%) Amazon S3
4 104 (31.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 97 (29.04%) Amazon EC2
6 93 (27.84%) Amazon ECS
7 76 (22.75%) Amazon EKS
8 74 (22.16%) GitHub
9 60 (17.96%) GitHub Actions
10 56 (16.77%) AWS Step Functions
11 52 (15.57%) Amazon SQS
12 50 (14.97%) AWS CloudFormation
13 47 (14.07%) Azure
14 44 (13.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 35 (10.48%) Amazon EventBridge
16 34 (10.18%) Amazon EMR
17 30 (8.98%) dbt
18 27 (8.08%) Power Platform
18 27 (8.08%) Snowflake
19 20 (5.99%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.40%) Firewall
2 6 (1.80%) DNS
3 4 (1.20%) Network Security
3 4 (1.20%) WAN
4 3 (0.90%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.90%) VPN
5 2 (0.60%) HTTP
5 2 (0.60%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.30%) BGP
6 1 (0.30%) Internet
6 1 (0.30%) OpenVPN
6 1 (0.30%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (25.15%) Amazon RDS
2 67 (20.06%) Amazon Athena
3 62 (18.56%) DynamoDB
4 45 (13.47%) Amazon Redshift
5 34 (10.18%) Data Warehouse
6 29 (8.68%) PostgreSQL
7 27 (8.08%) Power BI
8 22 (6.59%) Amazon Aurora
9 18 (5.39%) Metadata
10 15 (4.49%) NoSQL
11 14 (4.19%) Tableau
12 13 (3.89%) SQL Server
13 10 (2.99%) Apache Iceberg
14 9 (2.69%) Data Lake
14 9 (2.69%) MongoDB
14 9 (2.69%) Relational Database
15 8 (2.40%) Amazon QuickSight
15 8 (2.40%) BigQuery
16 7 (2.10%) Data Vault
16 7 (2.10%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 69 (20.66%) Jenkins
2 68 (20.36%) Git
3 59 (17.66%) GitLab
4 32 (9.58%) JIRA
5 15 (4.49%) Cucumber
6 12 (3.59%) Cypress.io
7 11 (3.29%) Bitbucket
8 9 (2.69%) Selenium
9 6 (1.80%) Mockito
10 5 (1.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 5 (1.50%) Claude Code
10 5 (1.50%) Gatling
10 5 (1.50%) JUnit
10 5 (1.50%) Postman
10 5 (1.50%) REST Assured
11 4 (1.20%) Artifactory
11 4 (1.20%) Maven
11 4 (1.20%) Mocha
12 3 (0.90%) MSTest
12 3 (0.90%) tSQLt
General
1 83 (24.85%) Social Skills
2 60 (17.96%) Finance
3 48 (14.37%) Public Sector
4 30 (8.98%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (7.19%) Banking
6 10 (2.99%) Back Office
7 9 (2.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (2.69%) Law
8 7 (2.10%) Front Office
8 7 (2.10%) Military
9 5 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.90%) Marketing
11 3 (0.90%) Police
12 2 (0.60%) Games
12 2 (0.60%) Local Government
12 2 (0.60%) Retail
12 2 (0.60%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.30%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.30%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 76 (22.75%) AWS Engineer
2 74 (22.16%) Senior
3 68 (20.36%) Data Engineer
4 49 (14.67%) Lead
5 48 (14.37%) Developer
6 42 (12.57%) Architect
7 28 (8.38%) DevOps Engineer
8 27 (8.08%) Software Engineer
9 24 (7.19%) AWS Data Engineer
10 23 (6.89%) AWS Developer
11 21 (6.29%) Cloud Engineer
11 21 (6.29%) Technical Leader
12 20 (5.99%) AWS Architect
13 19 (5.69%) Senior Data Engineer
14 15 (4.49%) Platform Engineer
14 15 (4.49%) Python Developer
14 15 (4.49%) Senior Software Engineer
15 14 (4.19%) Python Engineer
16 12 (3.59%) AWS DevOps
17 11 (3.29%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 155 (46.41%) Terraform
2 48 (14.37%) React
3 40 (11.98%) Kafka
4 39 (11.68%) RESTful
5 38 (11.38%) PySpark
6 37 (11.08%) REST
7 36 (10.78%) FastAPI
8 30 (8.98%) Node.js
9 23 (6.89%) GraphQL
9 23 (6.89%) Spring Boot
10 22 (6.59%) Spring
11 21 (6.29%) Flask
12 18 (5.39%) .NET
13 17 (5.09%) Pandas
14 14 (4.19%) AWS CDK
14 14 (4.19%) Next.js
15 12 (3.59%) Playwright
16 11 (3.29%) AngularJS
17 10 (2.99%) JSON
18 9 (2.69%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 91 (27.25%) Cloud Native
2 24 (7.19%) Product Ownership
3 21 (6.29%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (4.49%) AI Agents
5 8 (2.40%) Fixed Income
6 7 (2.10%) Hedge funds
6 7 (2.10%) Security Posture
7 6 (1.80%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (1.80%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.50%) Cloud Security Posture
8 5 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.50%) Mainframe
8 5 (1.50%) NHS
9 4 (1.20%) DataPower
9 4 (1.20%) Enterprise Cloud
9 4 (1.20%) Legacy Code
9 4 (1.20%) Low-Code
9 4 (1.20%) Online Banking
9 4 (1.20%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 35 (10.48%) Linux
2 14 (4.19%) Unix
3 8 (2.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.20%) Windows
4 4 (1.20%) zOS
5 3 (0.90%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 211 (63.17%) CI/CD
2 148 (44.31%) Infrastructure as Code
3 138 (41.32%) DevOps
4 132 (39.52%) Agile
5 81 (24.25%) AI
6 70 (20.96%) Software Engineering
7 69 (20.66%) Data Engineering
7 69 (20.66%) Data Pipeline
8 67 (20.06%) Event-Driven
8 67 (20.06%) Test Automation
9 66 (19.76%) Containerisation
10 60 (17.96%) Microservices
11 57 (17.07%) Analytics
12 54 (16.17%) Observability
12 54 (16.17%) Technical Leadership
13 51 (15.27%) Continuous Improvement
14 50 (14.97%) Data Modelling
14 50 (14.97%) ETL
15 48 (14.37%) Platform Engineering
16 44 (13.17%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 211 (63.17%) Python
2 112 (33.53%) SQL
3 57 (17.07%) Java
4 55 (16.47%) TypeScript
5 36 (10.78%) JavaScript
6 34 (10.18%) Bash
7 26 (7.78%) C#
8 17 (5.09%) Shell Script
9 16 (4.79%) Scala
10 10 (2.99%) PowerShell
11 5 (1.50%) PL/SQL
12 4 (1.20%) Cypher
12 4 (1.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 4 (1.20%) Gremlin
12 4 (1.20%) Groovy
12 4 (1.20%) JCL
12 4 (1.20%) SPARQL
12 4 (1.20%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.90%) Bicep
13 3 (0.90%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 103 (30.84%) Security Cleared
2 94 (28.14%) SC Cleared
3 37 (11.08%) AWS Certification
4 18 (5.39%) DV Cleared
5 17 (5.09%) BPSS Clearance
6 14 (4.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 14 (4.19%) Degree
7 9 (2.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 8 (2.40%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 8 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (0.90%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.90%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.60%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 1 (0.30%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.30%) PhD
11 1 (0.30%) SAFe Agilist
11 1 (0.30%) SnowPro
11 1 (0.30%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (16.17%) Data Quality
2 34 (10.18%) QA
3 3 (0.90%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.60%) ISO 20022
4 2 (0.60%) PMO
System Software
1 101 (30.24%) Docker
2 5 (1.50%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.60%) Squid
4 1 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 76 (22.75%) Kubernetes
2 35 (10.48%) Grafana
3 27 (8.08%) Prometheus
4 26 (7.78%) Ansible
5 8 (2.40%) Kibana
6 7 (2.10%) Puppet
7 4 (1.20%) Salt
8 3 (0.90%) Packer
9 2 (0.60%) Argo
9 2 (0.60%) Control-M
9 2 (0.60%) Istio
9 2 (0.60%) Rancher
10 1 (0.30%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.30%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.30%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (0.30%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.30%) Oracle RMAN
10 1 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (5.99%) Microsoft
2 15 (4.49%) Informatica
3 14 (4.19%) Oracle
4 13 (3.89%) Splunk
5 12 (3.59%) Databricks
6 7 (2.10%) ServiceNow
7 6 (1.80%) OpenAI
8 4 (1.20%) Dynatrace
8 4 (1.20%) Red Hat
9 3 (0.90%) Brio
9 3 (0.90%) Fortinet
9 3 (0.90%) PagerDuty
9 3 (0.90%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.60%) Confluent
10 2 (0.60%) Sybase
11 1 (0.30%) Braze
11 1 (0.30%) CheckPoint
11 1 (0.30%) Denodo
11 1 (0.30%) Murex
11 1 (0.30%) Netlify