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

6 months to
5 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 134 168
Rank change year-on-year -12 +34 -2
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 320 258 255
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.80% 2.05% 1.44%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.20% 4.84% 3.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 228 205 197
10th Percentile £356 £404 £400
25th Percentile £430 £456 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £565 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% +13.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £625 £775 £588
90th Percentile £700 £838 £675
England median daily rate £519 £540 £513
% change year-on-year -3.97% +5.37% -10.87%
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 £75.50 £35.00 -
% change year-on-year +115.71% - -

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 7,617 5,326 6,749
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.78% 42.37% 38.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,248 3,706 4,979
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 102 52 68
10th Percentile £19.41 £22.42 £17.32
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.66 £21.81
Median hourly rate £35.50 £30.21 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.52% +20.83% -40.21%
75th Percentile £53.35 £50.00 £38.13
90th Percentile £72.25 £73.13 £59.88
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.50 £20.77
% change year-on-year +84.31% +22.77% -35.70%

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 5 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 5 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 +2 43 £563 +11.39% 26
South London +1 21 £500 +5.26% 1
West London -31 7 £713 +26.11% 3
East London - 1 £500 - 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 27 (8.44%) Apache Airflow
2 25 (7.81%) Apache Spark
3 16 (5.00%) Confluence
4 10 (3.13%) Apache
5 9 (2.81%) 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
1 320 (100.00%) AWS
2 316 (98.75%) Serverless
3 231 (72.19%) Amazon S3
4 100 (31.25%) Amazon EC2
5 97 (30.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 90 (28.13%) Amazon ECS
7 74 (23.13%) Amazon EKS
7 74 (23.13%) AWS CloudFormation
7 74 (23.13%) GitHub
8 62 (19.38%) GitHub Actions
9 61 (19.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 53 (16.56%) AWS Step Functions
11 35 (10.94%) Amazon SQS
12 32 (10.00%) Amazon Kinesis
13 30 (9.38%) Azure
14 26 (8.13%) AWS CodePipeline
15 23 (7.19%) Snowflake
16 22 (6.88%) Amazon EMR
16 22 (6.88%) Route 53
17 21 (6.56%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 24 (7.50%) DNS
2 14 (4.38%) Firewall
3 12 (3.75%) TCP/IP
4 10 (3.13%) VPN
5 9 (2.81%) OpenVPN
6 5 (1.56%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (0.63%) Network Security
8 1 (0.31%) 4G
8 1 (0.31%) 5G
8 1 (0.31%) HTTP
8 1 (0.31%) Internet
8 1 (0.31%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (20.63%) Amazon RDS
2 56 (17.50%) Amazon Athena
3 55 (17.19%) Amazon Redshift
4 54 (16.88%) DynamoDB
5 39 (12.19%) PostgreSQL
6 26 (8.13%) Amazon Aurora
7 24 (7.50%) Tableau
8 18 (5.63%) Power BI
9 16 (5.00%) NoSQL
10 15 (4.69%) Apache Iceberg
10 15 (4.69%) Metadata
11 13 (4.06%) Big Data
11 13 (4.06%) Data Warehouse
12 12 (3.75%) Data Lake
12 12 (3.75%) SQL Server
13 11 (3.44%) Amazon QuickSight
13 11 (3.44%) Elasticsearch
14 9 (2.81%) Data Vault
15 8 (2.50%) Apache Hudi
15 8 (2.50%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 62 (19.38%) GitLab
2 60 (18.75%) Jenkins
3 54 (16.88%) Git
4 23 (7.19%) JIRA
5 14 (4.38%) Bitbucket
5 14 (4.38%) Cucumber
6 9 (2.81%) JUnit
7 7 (2.19%) Cypress.io
7 7 (2.19%) SonarQube
8 6 (1.88%) Mocha
9 5 (1.56%) MSTest
9 5 (1.56%) Postman
9 5 (1.56%) Selenium
9 5 (1.56%) Snyk
9 5 (1.56%) tSQLt
10 4 (1.25%) Artifactory
10 4 (1.25%) Mockito
10 4 (1.25%) Terragrunt
11 3 (0.94%) Vite
12 2 (0.63%) MLflow
General
1 85 (26.56%) Social Skills
2 54 (16.88%) Finance
3 51 (15.94%) Public Sector
4 34 (10.63%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (5.94%) Documentation Skills
6 16 (5.00%) Banking
7 5 (1.56%) Front Office
8 4 (1.25%) Police
9 3 (0.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (0.94%) Investment Banking
9 3 (0.94%) Law
9 3 (0.94%) Military
9 3 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.63%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.63%) Games
10 2 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.63%) Local Government
10 2 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.63%) Retail
10 2 (0.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 66 (20.63%) Developer
2 63 (19.69%) AWS Engineer
3 59 (18.44%) Data Engineer
4 53 (16.56%) Senior
5 50 (15.63%) Architect
6 34 (10.63%) Lead
7 27 (8.44%) AWS Architect
7 27 (8.44%) AWS Developer
8 26 (8.13%) DevOps Engineer
9 20 (6.25%) AWS Data Engineer
10 18 (5.63%) AWS DevOps
10 18 (5.63%) Data Architect
11 16 (5.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 16 (5.00%) Python Developer
11 16 (5.00%) Software Engineer
12 15 (4.69%) Cloud Engineer
13 14 (4.38%) Analyst
13 14 (4.38%) Java Engineer
13 14 (4.38%) Python Engineer
14 13 (4.06%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (18.13%) Kafka
2 43 (13.44%) RESTful
3 41 (12.81%) React
4 32 (10.00%) Spring Boot
5 30 (9.38%) Node.js
6 29 (9.06%) PySpark
6 29 (9.06%) Spring
7 18 (5.63%) boto
7 18 (5.63%) OAuth
7 18 (5.63%) Pandas
8 16 (5.00%) FastAPI
9 15 (4.69%) CSS
10 14 (4.38%) AngularJS
10 14 (4.38%) AWS CDK
10 14 (4.38%) HTML
10 14 (4.38%) REST
11 13 (4.06%) .NET
11 13 (4.06%) Flask
11 13 (4.06%) OpenID
12 11 (3.44%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 77 (24.06%) Cloud Native
2 17 (5.31%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (3.44%) Product Ownership
4 7 (2.19%) DataPower
4 7 (2.19%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (2.19%) Mainframe
5 6 (1.88%) Equities
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 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.25%) Algorithms
7 4 (1.25%) Derivative
7 4 (1.25%) Fixed Income
7 4 (1.25%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (1.25%) Online Banking
8 3 (0.94%) Data Structures
8 3 (0.94%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 32 (10.00%) Linux
2 15 (4.69%) Unix
3 4 (1.25%) zOS
4 1 (0.31%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (0.31%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 187 (58.44%) CI/CD
2 129 (40.31%) DevOps
3 125 (39.06%) Infrastructure as Code
4 83 (25.94%) Agile
5 76 (23.75%) Microservices
6 58 (18.13%) Problem-Solving
7 57 (17.81%) Containerisation
7 57 (17.81%) Data Pipeline
7 57 (17.81%) ETL
8 54 (16.88%) Data Engineering
9 52 (16.25%) Analytics
10 51 (15.94%) Data Modelling
11 48 (15.00%) Event-Driven
12 42 (13.13%) AI
13 40 (12.50%) Observability
13 40 (12.50%) Software Engineering
14 37 (11.56%) Test Automation
15 36 (11.25%) Continuous Improvement
16 31 (9.69%) Performance Tuning
17 29 (9.06%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 190 (59.38%) Python
2 105 (32.81%) SQL
3 64 (20.00%) Java
4 35 (10.94%) JavaScript
5 31 (9.69%) TypeScript
6 28 (8.75%) C#
7 22 (6.88%) Bash
8 19 (5.94%) Shell Script
9 15 (4.69%) Scala
10 6 (1.88%) Go
10 6 (1.88%) PowerShell
11 5 (1.56%) Ruby
11 5 (1.56%) T-SQL
12 4 (1.25%) Bicep
12 4 (1.25%) JCL
13 3 (0.94%) C++
14 2 (0.63%) Korn
14 2 (0.63%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.31%) Groovy
15 1 (0.31%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 109 (34.06%) Security Cleared
2 98 (30.63%) SC Cleared
3 26 (8.13%) AWS Certification
4 13 (4.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 10 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
5 10 (3.13%) Degree
6 9 (2.81%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 7 (2.19%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (2.19%) Master's Degree
8 5 (1.56%) 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 31 (9.69%) Data Quality
2 19 (5.94%) QA
3 8 (2.50%) 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 94 (29.38%) Docker
2 9 (2.81%) Squid
3 4 (1.25%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.31%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 160 (50.00%) Terraform
2 78 (24.38%) Kubernetes
3 32 (10.00%) Grafana
4 27 (8.44%) Prometheus
5 14 (4.38%) Ansible
6 12 (3.75%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (2.81%) FortiGate
7 9 (2.81%) 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 (5.00%) Microsoft
2 15 (4.69%) Databricks
3 12 (3.75%) Splunk
4 11 (3.44%) Dynatrace
5 9 (2.81%) Confluent
5 9 (2.81%) Red Hat
6 8 (2.50%) OpenAI
7 7 (2.19%) Atlassian
8 6 (1.88%) Sybase
9 4 (1.25%) IBM
9 4 (1.25%) Oracle
9 4 (1.25%) Qualys
9 4 (1.25%) Tenable
10 3 (0.94%) AVEVA
10 3 (0.94%) Fortinet
10 3 (0.94%) Netlify
10 3 (0.94%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.63%) Informatica
11 2 (0.63%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.63%) SAP