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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 160 159 193
Rank change year-on-year -1 +34 -2
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 342 233 222
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.73% 1.72% 1.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.17% 4.01% 3.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 248 176 157
10th Percentile £375 £400 £375
25th Percentile £450 £456 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.18% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £638 £631 £594
90th Percentile £741 £788 £674
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -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 £75.00 £45.00 -
% change year-on-year +66.67% - -

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 8,198 5,812 6,852
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.44% 42.87% 40.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,588 3,964 5,014
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £446 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.93% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.34% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 82 60
10th Percentile £19.50 £22.55 £20.00
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.83 £22.24
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.99
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +7.73% -49.80%
75th Percentile £54.88 £46.56 £40.75
90th Percentile £74.88 £67.31 £66.10
England median hourly rate £39.27 £25.15 £22.00
% change year-on-year +56.14% +14.32% -36.96%

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 21 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 21 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 -4 39 £625 - 15
South London +2 20 £500 -19.61% 1
West London -6 17 £725 +28.32% 2
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 (10.23%) Apache Airflow
2 28 (8.19%) Confluence
3 21 (6.14%) Apache Spark
4 12 (3.51%) Apache
5 9 (2.63%) nginx
6 6 (1.75%) CICS
7 2 (0.58%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.58%) SAS
8 1 (0.29%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.29%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (2.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.17%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.88%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 342 (100.00%) AWS
2 338 (98.83%) Serverless
3 250 (73.10%) Amazon S3
4 115 (33.63%) Amazon EC2
5 103 (30.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 88 (25.73%) Amazon ECS
7 78 (22.81%) Amazon EKS
8 66 (19.30%) GitHub
9 63 (18.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 53 (15.50%) AWS CloudFormation
11 52 (15.20%) AWS Step Functions
12 50 (14.62%) GitHub Actions
13 49 (14.33%) Amazon SQS
14 38 (11.11%) Azure
15 35 (10.23%) Amazon EMR
16 30 (8.77%) Power Platform
17 29 (8.48%) dbt
18 26 (7.60%) Snowflake
19 23 (6.73%) Amazon EventBridge
20 22 (6.43%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 18 (5.26%) Firewall
2 15 (4.39%) DNS
3 12 (3.51%) TCP/IP
4 11 (3.22%) VPN
5 9 (2.63%) OpenVPN
6 5 (1.46%) Network Security
7 4 (1.17%) WAN
8 3 (0.88%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (0.58%) HTTP
10 1 (0.29%) 4G
10 1 (0.29%) 5G
10 1 (0.29%) BGP
10 1 (0.29%) Internet
10 1 (0.29%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (23.10%) Amazon RDS
2 68 (19.88%) DynamoDB
3 66 (19.30%) Amazon Athena
4 57 (16.67%) Amazon Redshift
5 30 (8.77%) Power BI
6 28 (8.19%) PostgreSQL
7 25 (7.31%) Data Warehouse
8 20 (5.85%) Tableau
9 19 (5.56%) Amazon Aurora
10 17 (4.97%) SQL Server
11 13 (3.80%) Metadata
12 12 (3.51%) Data Lake
13 11 (3.22%) Elasticsearch
14 9 (2.63%) Db2
14 9 (2.63%) MongoDB
14 9 (2.63%) NoSQL
15 8 (2.34%) Amazon QuickSight
15 8 (2.34%) Apache Iceberg
15 8 (2.34%) Big Data
15 8 (2.34%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 66 (19.30%) GitLab
2 65 (19.01%) Jenkins
3 61 (17.84%) Git
4 37 (10.82%) JIRA
5 17 (4.97%) Bitbucket
6 15 (4.39%) Cucumber
7 13 (3.80%) Cypress.io
8 8 (2.34%) SonarQube
9 7 (2.05%) JUnit
9 7 (2.05%) Mocha
10 6 (1.75%) Artifactory
10 6 (1.75%) MSTest
10 6 (1.75%) tSQLt
11 5 (1.46%) Gatling
11 5 (1.46%) Postman
11 5 (1.46%) REST Assured
12 4 (1.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 4 (1.17%) Mockito
12 4 (1.17%) Selenium
13 3 (0.88%) Claude Code
General
1 89 (26.02%) Social Skills
2 64 (18.71%) Finance
3 56 (16.37%) Public Sector
4 30 (8.77%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (5.56%) Banking
6 16 (4.68%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (2.05%) Law
8 6 (1.75%) Back Office
9 5 (1.46%) Front Office
9 5 (1.46%) Military
10 4 (1.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.17%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.88%) Police
11 3 (0.88%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.58%) Billing
12 2 (0.58%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.58%) Games
12 2 (0.58%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.58%) Local Government
12 2 (0.58%) Retail
Job Titles
1 77 (22.51%) AWS Engineer
2 67 (19.59%) Senior
3 58 (16.96%) Data Engineer
4 53 (15.50%) Developer
5 47 (13.74%) Architect
6 46 (13.45%) Lead
7 27 (7.89%) DevOps Engineer
8 26 (7.60%) AWS Developer
8 26 (7.60%) Software Engineer
9 22 (6.43%) AWS Architect
9 22 (6.43%) AWS Data Engineer
10 20 (5.85%) Cloud Engineer
11 17 (4.97%) Python Developer
12 16 (4.68%) Technical Leader
13 14 (4.09%) Python Engineer
13 14 (4.09%) Senior Data Engineer
13 14 (4.09%) Senior Software Engineer
14 13 (3.80%) Analyst
14 13 (3.80%) AWS DevOps
15 11 (3.22%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (14.62%) React
2 42 (12.28%) Kafka
3 41 (11.99%) RESTful
4 36 (10.53%) PySpark
5 30 (8.77%) Node.js
6 29 (8.48%) REST
7 28 (8.19%) FastAPI
8 22 (6.43%) GraphQL
9 20 (5.85%) .NET
9 20 (5.85%) Spring Boot
10 18 (5.26%) Flask
11 16 (4.68%) Spring
12 15 (4.39%) AWS CDK
12 15 (4.39%) Pandas
13 13 (3.80%) AngularJS
13 13 (3.80%) Next.js
14 12 (3.51%) CSS
14 12 (3.51%) HTML
14 12 (3.51%) JSON
14 12 (3.51%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 80 (23.39%) Cloud Native
2 16 (4.68%) Distributed Systems
2 16 (4.68%) Product Ownership
3 10 (2.92%) AI Agents
4 9 (2.63%) Fixed Income
5 8 (2.34%) Security Posture
6 7 (2.05%) Greenfield Project
6 7 (2.05%) Hedge funds
7 6 (1.75%) DataPower
7 6 (1.75%) Mainframe
7 6 (1.75%) NHS
7 6 (1.75%) Online Banking
8 5 (1.46%) Cloud Security Posture
8 5 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.46%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.46%) Equities
8 5 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.46%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.17%) Distributed Computing
9 4 (1.17%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 32 (9.36%) Linux
2 15 (4.39%) Unix
3 8 (2.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (1.75%) zOS
5 4 (1.17%) Windows
6 3 (0.88%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.29%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 200 (58.48%) CI/CD
2 133 (38.89%) DevOps
3 131 (38.30%) Infrastructure as Code
4 117 (34.21%) Agile
5 76 (22.22%) AI
6 66 (19.30%) Data Engineering
7 63 (18.42%) Data Pipeline
8 60 (17.54%) Microservices
9 55 (16.08%) Software Engineering
9 55 (16.08%) Test Automation
10 54 (15.79%) ETL
11 52 (15.20%) Analytics
11 52 (15.20%) Event-Driven
12 50 (14.62%) Problem-Solving
13 49 (14.33%) Containerisation
14 45 (13.16%) Data Modelling
15 43 (12.57%) Migration
16 42 (12.28%) Continuous Improvement
17 41 (11.99%) Platform Engineering
17 41 (11.99%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 212 (61.99%) Python
2 115 (33.63%) SQL
3 56 (16.37%) Java
4 51 (14.91%) TypeScript
5 40 (11.70%) JavaScript
6 33 (9.65%) Bash
7 32 (9.36%) C#
8 20 (5.85%) Shell Script
9 16 (4.68%) Scala
10 11 (3.22%) PowerShell
11 7 (2.05%) T-SQL
12 6 (1.75%) JCL
13 5 (1.46%) SPARQL
14 4 (1.17%) Cypher
14 4 (1.17%) Go
14 4 (1.17%) Gremlin
15 3 (0.88%) Bicep
16 2 (0.58%) C
16 2 (0.58%) Groovy
17 1 (0.29%) Haskell
Qualifications
1 104 (30.41%) Security Cleared
2 95 (27.78%) SC Cleared
3 32 (9.36%) AWS Certification
4 13 (3.80%) BPSS Clearance
4 13 (3.80%) Degree
5 12 (3.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 12 (3.51%) DV Cleared
6 8 (2.34%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 8 (2.34%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 8 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.17%) DBS Check
7 4 (1.17%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.88%) AWS Certified Developer
8 3 (0.88%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.29%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.29%) PhD
9 1 (0.29%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.29%) PMP
9 1 (0.29%) SAFe Agilist
9 1 (0.29%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (14.04%) Data Quality
2 15 (4.39%) QA
3 7 (2.05%) PMO
4 4 (1.17%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.17%) SLA
5 2 (0.58%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.29%) GDPR
6 1 (0.29%) GRC
6 1 (0.29%) NIST
6 1 (0.29%) WCAG
System Software
1 91 (26.61%) Docker
2 10 (2.92%) Squid
3 7 (2.05%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 155 (45.32%) Terraform
2 74 (21.64%) Kubernetes
3 38 (11.11%) Grafana
4 30 (8.77%) Prometheus
5 23 (6.73%) Ansible
6 9 (2.63%) FortiGate
6 9 (2.63%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (2.34%) Puppet
8 7 (2.05%) Consul
9 5 (1.46%) Kibana
9 5 (1.46%) Salt
10 3 (0.88%) Packer
11 2 (0.58%) HP Fortify
12 1 (0.29%) Control-M
Vendors
1 14 (4.09%) Microsoft
1 14 (4.09%) Splunk
2 12 (3.51%) Informatica
2 12 (3.51%) Red Hat
3 10 (2.92%) Dynatrace
4 9 (2.63%) Databricks
5 7 (2.05%) Atlassian
5 7 (2.05%) OpenAI
6 6 (1.75%) ServiceNow
7 5 (1.46%) Oracle
7 5 (1.46%) Sybase
8 4 (1.17%) Fortinet
9 3 (0.88%) Brio
9 3 (0.88%) Netlify
9 3 (0.88%) PagerDuty
9 3 (0.88%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.58%) Charles River
10 2 (0.58%) Confluent
10 2 (0.58%) Murex
10 2 (0.58%) Qualys