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

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 166 169
Rank change year-on-year +27 +3 -5
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 307 208 261
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.96% 1.57% 1.43%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.46% 3.77% 3.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 215 165 198
10th Percentile £356 £415 £400
25th Percentile £413 £469 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £506
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% +8.64% -15.63%
75th Percentile £625 £788 £588
90th Percentile £700 £838 £707
England median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -11.02%

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 6,878 5,514 6,837
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.89% 41.56% 37.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,727 3,728 5,040
10th Percentile £350 £356 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.14%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £768
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 51 81
10th Percentile £17.99 £22.27 £17.00
25th Percentile £21.46 £24.42 £21.25
Median hourly rate £33.75 £34.00 £29.72
Median % change year-on-year -0.74% +14.40% -7.84%
75th Percentile £51.81 £57.25 £53.25
90th Percentile £70.75 £73.75 £62.50
England median hourly rate £38.54 £27.50 £21.48
% change year-on-year +40.15% +28.03% -14.08%

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 24 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 24 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 +16 40 £500 -0.99% 19
South London -2 20 £515 +8.42% 4
West London -20 6 £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 (6.19%) Apache Airflow
2 17 (5.54%) Apache Spark
3 10 (3.26%) Confluence
4 9 (2.93%) Apache
5 7 (2.28%) nginx
6 1 (0.33%) Jupyter
Applications
1 7 (2.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.95%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 307 (100.00%) AWS
1 307 (100.00%) Serverless
2 204 (66.45%) Amazon S3
3 92 (29.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 80 (26.06%) Amazon EC2
4 80 (26.06%) Amazon ECS
5 79 (25.73%) AWS CloudFormation
6 76 (24.76%) GitHub
7 69 (22.48%) Amazon EKS
8 59 (19.22%) GitHub Actions
9 51 (16.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 40 (13.03%) AWS Step Functions
11 35 (11.40%) Amazon Kinesis
12 30 (9.77%) Azure
13 27 (8.79%) Snowflake
14 24 (7.82%) Amazon SQS
14 24 (7.82%) AWS CodePipeline
15 22 (7.17%) Amazon EMR
16 20 (6.51%) Route 53
17 16 (5.21%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 22 (7.17%) DNS
2 11 (3.58%) Firewall
2 11 (3.58%) VPN
3 8 (2.61%) TCP/IP
4 7 (2.28%) OpenVPN
5 4 (1.30%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (0.65%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.33%) 4G
7 1 (0.33%) 5G
7 1 (0.33%) DKIM
7 1 (0.33%) Network Security
7 1 (0.33%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (21.82%) Amazon RDS
2 53 (17.26%) DynamoDB
3 45 (14.66%) Amazon Redshift
3 45 (14.66%) PostgreSQL
4 38 (12.38%) Amazon Athena
5 21 (6.84%) Amazon Aurora
5 21 (6.84%) Tableau
6 18 (5.86%) Data Warehouse
7 17 (5.54%) NoSQL
8 14 (4.56%) Power BI
9 13 (4.23%) Apache Iceberg
10 12 (3.91%) Data Lake
11 11 (3.58%) Relational Database
12 10 (3.26%) Amazon QuickSight
12 10 (3.26%) Redis
13 9 (2.93%) Metadata
13 9 (2.93%) MySQL
14 8 (2.61%) Big Data
14 8 (2.61%) Elasticsearch
15 7 (2.28%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 55 (17.92%) Jenkins
2 49 (15.96%) GitLab
3 47 (15.31%) Git
4 18 (5.86%) JIRA
5 15 (4.89%) Bitbucket
6 10 (3.26%) JUnit
7 9 (2.93%) Cypress.io
8 8 (2.61%) Cucumber
9 6 (1.95%) SonarQube
10 5 (1.63%) Snyk
11 4 (1.30%) Terragrunt
12 3 (0.98%) Mocha
12 3 (0.98%) Postman
12 3 (0.98%) Selenium
12 3 (0.98%) Visual Studio Code
12 3 (0.98%) Vite
13 2 (0.65%) Artifactory
13 2 (0.65%) Maven
13 2 (0.65%) Mockito
13 2 (0.65%) MSTest
General
1 82 (26.71%) Social Skills
2 50 (16.29%) Public Sector
3 40 (13.03%) Finance
4 31 (10.10%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (5.54%) Banking
6 16 (5.21%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (1.95%) Front Office
8 5 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.30%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.65%) Military
10 2 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.65%) Police
10 2 (0.65%) Private Banking
11 1 (0.33%) Billing
11 1 (0.33%) Games
11 1 (0.33%) Law
11 1 (0.33%) Marketing
11 1 (0.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 59 (19.22%) AWS Engineer
2 53 (17.26%) Developer
3 49 (15.96%) Data Engineer
4 46 (14.98%) Architect
5 44 (14.33%) Senior
6 37 (12.05%) DevOps Engineer
7 31 (10.10%) Lead
8 22 (7.17%) AWS Architect
8 22 (7.17%) AWS DevOps
9 19 (6.19%) Software Engineer
10 18 (5.86%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 17 (5.54%) AWS Developer
12 15 (4.89%) AWS Data Engineer
12 15 (4.89%) Cloud Engineer
13 14 (4.56%) Cloud Architect
14 13 (4.23%) Lead Data Engineer
14 13 (4.23%) Python Engineer
15 12 (3.91%) Java Engineer
15 12 (3.91%) Senior Developer
15 12 (3.91%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (20.52%) Kafka
2 53 (17.26%) Node.js
3 42 (13.68%) React
4 33 (10.75%) RESTful
5 27 (8.79%) Spring Boot
6 25 (8.14%) Spring
7 21 (6.84%) OAuth
8 19 (6.19%) REST
9 18 (5.86%) AWS CDK
10 17 (5.54%) boto
11 16 (5.21%) AngularJS
11 16 (5.21%) CSS
12 13 (4.23%) PySpark
13 12 (3.91%) JWT
14 11 (3.58%) OpenID
15 10 (3.26%) .NET
16 9 (2.93%) Elastic Stack
16 9 (2.93%) Next.js
17 8 (2.61%) HTML
17 8 (2.61%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 72 (23.45%) Cloud Native
2 26 (8.47%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (3.26%) Data Protection Act
4 8 (2.61%) Product Ownership
5 7 (2.28%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (1.63%) DataPower
6 5 (1.63%) Distributed Architecture
6 5 (1.63%) Equities
6 5 (1.63%) Mainframe
7 4 (1.30%) Algorithms
7 4 (1.30%) Data Structures
7 4 (1.30%) Derivative
7 4 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.30%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.30%) Mobile App
7 4 (1.30%) PACS
7 4 (1.30%) Replication
7 4 (1.30%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 3 (0.98%) Equity Derivative
8 3 (0.98%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 27 (8.79%) Linux
2 5 (1.63%) Unix
3 1 (0.33%) Amazon Linux
3 1 (0.33%) VMS
3 1 (0.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 179 (58.31%) CI/CD
2 127 (41.37%) DevOps
3 110 (35.83%) Infrastructure as Code
4 79 (25.73%) Agile
5 76 (24.76%) Microservices
6 60 (19.54%) Data Pipeline
7 56 (18.24%) Problem-Solving
8 52 (16.94%) Data Modelling
9 51 (16.61%) Containerisation
9 51 (16.61%) Data Engineering
10 48 (15.64%) Analytics
10 48 (15.64%) ETL
10 48 (15.64%) Event-Driven
11 41 (13.36%) Observability
12 35 (11.40%) AI
13 32 (10.42%) Software Engineering
14 31 (10.10%) Performance Tuning
15 30 (9.77%) Continuous Improvement
16 29 (9.45%) Design Patterns
17 25 (8.14%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 173 (56.35%) Python
2 94 (30.62%) SQL
3 60 (19.54%) Java
4 35 (11.40%) JavaScript
4 35 (11.40%) TypeScript
5 23 (7.49%) Bash
6 11 (3.58%) C#
6 11 (3.58%) Shell Script
7 7 (2.28%) PowerShell
7 7 (2.28%) Ruby
8 6 (1.95%) JSX
8 6 (1.95%) Korn
8 6 (1.95%) Scala
9 5 (1.63%) Go
10 3 (0.98%) Bicep
10 3 (0.98%) C++
10 3 (0.98%) Groovy
11 2 (0.65%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.65%) Perl
11 2 (0.65%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 105 (34.20%) Security Cleared
2 93 (30.29%) SC Cleared
3 34 (11.07%) AWS Certification
4 11 (3.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 10 (3.26%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 9 (2.93%) Degree
7 7 (2.28%) Master's Degree
8 6 (1.95%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.30%) DV Cleared
10 3 (0.98%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.98%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (0.98%) PhD
11 1 (0.33%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.33%) CEH
11 1 (0.33%) CISSP
11 1 (0.33%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.33%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.33%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.33%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (8.14%) Data Quality
2 20 (6.51%) QA
3 9 (2.93%) Accessibility
4 8 (2.61%) NIST
5 7 (2.28%) GDPR
6 5 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (1.30%) ISO 20022
7 4 (1.30%) PCI DSS
7 4 (1.30%) PMO
7 4 (1.30%) WCAG
8 1 (0.33%) GRC
8 1 (0.33%) GxP
8 1 (0.33%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 1 (0.33%) NCSC
8 1 (0.33%) SLA
System Software
1 83 (27.04%) Docker
2 7 (2.28%) Squid
3 3 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.65%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.65%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.33%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 136 (44.30%) Terraform
2 76 (24.76%) Kubernetes
3 19 (6.19%) Prometheus
4 17 (5.54%) Ansible
5 15 (4.89%) Grafana
6 11 (3.58%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (2.28%) FortiGate
8 6 (1.95%) Consul
8 6 (1.95%) Kibana
9 3 (0.98%) ITRS Geneos
9 3 (0.98%) Karpenter
9 3 (0.98%) Rancher
10 2 (0.65%) Opsgenie
11 1 (0.33%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.33%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.33%) Puppet
11 1 (0.33%) Salt
Vendors
1 21 (6.84%) Microsoft
2 14 (4.56%) Databricks
3 12 (3.91%) Dynatrace
4 8 (2.61%) OpenAI
4 8 (2.61%) ServiceNow
4 8 (2.61%) Sybase
5 7 (2.28%) Confluent
5 7 (2.28%) IBM
5 7 (2.28%) Red Hat
6 6 (1.95%) Atlassian
7 5 (1.63%) Salesforce
8 4 (1.30%) Qualys
8 4 (1.30%) Tenable
9 3 (0.98%) AVEVA
9 3 (0.98%) Cloudera
10 2 (0.65%) Avaloq
10 2 (0.65%) CA Agile Central
10 2 (0.65%) Google
10 2 (0.65%) Oracle
10 2 (0.65%) SAP