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

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 142 139 176
Rank change year-on-year -3 +37 -2
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 358 245 239
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.90% 1.99% 1.35%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.51% 4.63% 3.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 258 188 179
10th Percentile £355 £400 £375
25th Percentile £450 £456 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £625 £627 £588
90th Percentile £738 £811 £662
England median daily rate £519 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -1.09% +2.44% -6.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £37.00 -
25th Percentile £61.00 £40.00 -
Median hourly rate £67.00 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +48.89% - -
75th Percentile £73.00 £50.00 -
90th Percentile - £53.00 -
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 7,932 5,297 6,923
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.05% 43.04% 39.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,447 3,593 5,091
10th Percentile £356 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £664 £675
90th Percentile £750 £785 £780
England median daily rate £513 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 66 68
10th Percentile £20.84 £22.50 £17.32
25th Percentile £26.52 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £30.54 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.26% +17.44% -50.48%
75th Percentile £55.94 £48.44 £38.75
90th Percentile £76.23 £70.63 £55.75
England median hourly rate £39.50 £25.33 £21.50
% change year-on-year +55.97% +17.79% -36.10%

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 14 June 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 14 June 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 0 45 £575 +10.58% 16
South London +7 21 £500 +3.90%
West London -21 13 £738 +30.53% 5
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 33 (9.22%) Apache Airflow
2 23 (6.42%) Confluence
3 21 (5.87%) Apache Spark
4 9 (2.51%) Apache
4 9 (2.51%) nginx
5 6 (1.68%) CICS
6 2 (0.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.56%) SAS
7 1 (0.28%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 10 (2.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.68%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.56%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 358 (100.00%) AWS
2 354 (98.88%) Serverless
3 263 (73.46%) Amazon S3
4 121 (33.80%) Amazon EC2
5 106 (29.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 86 (24.02%) Amazon ECS
6 86 (24.02%) Amazon EKS
7 79 (22.07%) GitHub
8 66 (18.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 65 (18.16%) AWS CloudFormation
10 64 (17.88%) GitHub Actions
11 57 (15.92%) AWS Step Functions
12 46 (12.85%) Amazon SQS
13 34 (9.50%) Amazon Kinesis
13 34 (9.50%) Azure
14 30 (8.38%) Amazon EMR
15 25 (6.98%) Amazon Bedrock
15 25 (6.98%) Power Platform
15 25 (6.98%) Snowflake
16 23 (6.42%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 20 (5.59%) DNS
2 16 (4.47%) Firewall
3 12 (3.35%) TCP/IP
4 10 (2.79%) VPN
5 9 (2.51%) OpenVPN
6 4 (1.12%) Network Security
7 3 (0.84%) Reverse Proxy
8 2 (0.56%) WAN
9 1 (0.28%) 4G
9 1 (0.28%) 5G
9 1 (0.28%) HTTP
9 1 (0.28%) Internet
9 1 (0.28%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (22.35%) Amazon RDS
2 72 (20.11%) Amazon Athena
3 67 (18.72%) Amazon Redshift
4 65 (18.16%) DynamoDB
5 39 (10.89%) PostgreSQL
6 28 (7.82%) Amazon Aurora
7 25 (6.98%) Power BI
8 23 (6.42%) Tableau
9 20 (5.59%) Data Warehouse
10 17 (4.75%) SQL Server
11 15 (4.19%) Apache Iceberg
11 15 (4.19%) NoSQL
12 14 (3.91%) Metadata
13 13 (3.63%) Data Lake
14 11 (3.07%) Amazon QuickSight
14 11 (3.07%) Big Data
14 11 (3.07%) Elasticsearch
15 10 (2.79%) Db2
16 9 (2.51%) Data Vault
17 8 (2.23%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 69 (19.27%) GitLab
2 67 (18.72%) Jenkins
3 63 (17.60%) Git
4 31 (8.66%) JIRA
5 17 (4.75%) Cucumber
6 14 (3.91%) Bitbucket
7 9 (2.51%) Cypress.io
7 9 (2.51%) JUnit
8 7 (1.96%) Mocha
8 7 (1.96%) SonarQube
9 6 (1.68%) MSTest
9 6 (1.68%) tSQLt
10 5 (1.40%) Artifactory
10 5 (1.40%) Gatling
10 5 (1.40%) Postman
10 5 (1.40%) REST Assured
11 4 (1.12%) Mockito
11 4 (1.12%) Selenium
11 4 (1.12%) Snyk
12 3 (0.84%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 96 (26.82%) Social Skills
2 59 (16.48%) Finance
3 56 (15.64%) Public Sector
4 28 (7.82%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (4.75%) Banking
5 17 (4.75%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (1.96%) Law
7 5 (1.40%) Military
8 4 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (0.84%) Back Office
9 3 (0.84%) Police
9 3 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (0.84%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.56%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.56%) Front Office
10 2 (0.56%) Games
10 2 (0.56%) Local Government
10 2 (0.56%) Marketing
10 2 (0.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 74 (20.67%) AWS Engineer
2 67 (18.72%) Data Engineer
3 63 (17.60%) Developer
4 60 (16.76%) Senior
5 51 (14.25%) Architect
6 46 (12.85%) Lead
7 31 (8.66%) DevOps Engineer
8 29 (8.10%) AWS Architect
9 28 (7.82%) AWS Developer
10 24 (6.70%) Software Engineer
11 21 (5.87%) AWS Data Engineer
12 20 (5.59%) Python Developer
13 19 (5.31%) Cloud Engineer
14 18 (5.03%) Data Architect
15 16 (4.47%) AWS DevOps
16 15 (4.19%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 15 (4.19%) Python Engineer
17 14 (3.91%) Full-Stack Developer
18 13 (3.63%) Analyst
18 13 (3.63%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (17.04%) Kafka
2 49 (13.69%) React
3 48 (13.41%) RESTful
4 34 (9.50%) PySpark
5 29 (8.10%) Node.js
6 28 (7.82%) REST
6 28 (7.82%) Spring Boot
7 25 (6.98%) Spring
8 24 (6.70%) FastAPI
9 18 (5.03%) .NET
9 18 (5.03%) AngularJS
9 18 (5.03%) Flask
10 17 (4.75%) OAuth
11 16 (4.47%) CSS
12 15 (4.19%) AWS CDK
12 15 (4.19%) boto
12 15 (4.19%) GraphQL
12 15 (4.19%) HTML
12 15 (4.19%) Next.js
12 15 (4.19%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 92 (25.70%) Cloud Native
2 16 (4.47%) Product Ownership
3 15 (4.19%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (2.23%) Fixed Income
5 7 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (1.96%) Hedge funds
6 6 (1.68%) DataPower
6 6 (1.68%) Mainframe
6 6 (1.68%) Online Banking
6 6 (1.68%) PACS
6 6 (1.68%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 5 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.40%) NHS
7 5 (1.40%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.12%) AI Agents
8 4 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.12%) Distributed Computing
8 4 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.12%) Equities
8 4 (1.12%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 29 (8.10%) Linux
2 15 (4.19%) Unix
3 6 (1.68%) zOS
4 3 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.84%) Windows
5 2 (0.56%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.28%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 213 (59.50%) CI/CD
2 139 (38.83%) Infrastructure as Code
3 137 (38.27%) DevOps
4 108 (30.17%) Agile
5 67 (18.72%) Microservices
6 66 (18.44%) AI
6 66 (18.44%) Data Pipeline
7 64 (17.88%) Data Engineering
8 59 (16.48%) Containerisation
9 57 (15.92%) ETL
10 56 (15.64%) Event-Driven
11 55 (15.36%) Analytics
12 54 (15.08%) Problem-Solving
12 54 (15.08%) Test Automation
13 52 (14.53%) Software Engineering
14 48 (13.41%) Data Modelling
15 44 (12.29%) Continuous Improvement
16 41 (11.45%) Observability
17 39 (10.89%) Platform Engineering
18 38 (10.61%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 215 (60.06%) Python
2 121 (33.80%) SQL
3 66 (18.44%) Java
4 43 (12.01%) TypeScript
5 42 (11.73%) JavaScript
6 32 (8.94%) C#
7 25 (6.98%) Bash
8 19 (5.31%) Scala
9 18 (5.03%) Shell Script
10 10 (2.79%) PowerShell
11 7 (1.96%) T-SQL
12 6 (1.68%) Go
12 6 (1.68%) JCL
13 4 (1.12%) Bicep
14 1 (0.28%) C
14 1 (0.28%) Groovy
14 1 (0.28%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.28%) PHP
14 1 (0.28%) Ruby
14 1 (0.28%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 110 (30.73%) Security Cleared
2 101 (28.21%) SC Cleared
3 33 (9.22%) AWS Certification
4 15 (4.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 14 (3.91%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (3.63%) Degree
7 12 (3.35%) DV Cleared
8 9 (2.51%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 8 (2.23%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (1.96%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 4 (1.12%) AWS Certified Developer
11 4 (1.12%) DBS Check
11 4 (1.12%) Master's Degree
12 3 (0.84%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.28%) CEH
13 1 (0.28%) CISSP
13 1 (0.28%) CompTIA Security+
13 1 (0.28%) PhD
13 1 (0.28%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.28%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (11.45%) Data Quality
2 21 (5.87%) QA
3 7 (1.96%) NIST
3 7 (1.96%) PMO
4 6 (1.68%) ISO 20022
5 4 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.12%) PCI DSS
5 4 (1.12%) SLA
6 1 (0.28%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.28%) GDPR
6 1 (0.28%) GRC
6 1 (0.28%) WCAG
System Software
1 100 (27.93%) Docker
2 10 (2.79%) Squid
3 6 (1.68%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 176 (49.16%) Terraform
2 82 (22.91%) Kubernetes
3 37 (10.34%) Grafana
4 33 (9.22%) Prometheus
5 18 (5.03%) Ansible
6 12 (3.35%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (2.51%) FortiGate
8 7 (1.96%) Consul
9 6 (1.68%) Kibana
9 6 (1.68%) Puppet
10 4 (1.12%) Salt
11 2 (0.56%) Packer
12 1 (0.28%) Control-M
12 1 (0.28%) HP Fortify
12 1 (0.28%) Karpenter
Vendors
1 13 (3.63%) Microsoft
1 13 (3.63%) Splunk
2 11 (3.07%) Red Hat
3 10 (2.79%) Dynatrace
4 9 (2.51%) Confluent
4 9 (2.51%) Databricks
5 8 (2.23%) Informatica
6 7 (1.96%) Atlassian
6 7 (1.96%) OpenAI
6 7 (1.96%) Sybase
7 5 (1.40%) Oracle
8 4 (1.12%) Qualys
8 4 (1.12%) Salesforce
9 3 (0.84%) AVEVA
9 3 (0.84%) Brio
9 3 (0.84%) Fortinet
9 3 (0.84%) Netlify
9 3 (0.84%) Tenable
10 2 (0.56%) PagerDuty
10 2 (0.56%) ServiceNow