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 7 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 138 158
Rank change year-on-year -3 +20 +4
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 340 260 278
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.97% 2.05% 1.55%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.53% 4.82% 4.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 246 203 213
10th Percentile £350 £413 £400
25th Percentile £413 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.87% +15.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £613 £788 £588
90th Percentile £694 £838 £656
England median daily rate £513 £550 £510
% change year-on-year -6.82% +7.84% -11.30%

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 7,498 5,393 6,736
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.49% 42.49% 37.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,159 3,767 4,924
10th Percentile £350 £356 £325
25th Percentile £425 £440 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £664 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 52 78
10th Percentile £18.03 £22.27 £17.55
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.66 £21.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +11.81% -25.71%
75th Percentile £50.75 £55.38 £49.00
90th Percentile £69.94 £73.13 £60.75
England median hourly rate £42.59 £26.48 £20.77
% change year-on-year +60.88% +27.47% -21.56%

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 7 April 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 7 April 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 +3 43 £520 +4.00% 34
South London 0 23 £500 +5.26% 1
West London -28 4 £650 -2.99% 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 26 (7.65%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (5.59%) Apache Spark
3 13 (3.82%) Confluence
4 12 (3.53%) Apache
5 9 (2.65%) nginx
6 3 (0.88%) CICS
7 2 (0.59%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.29%) Jupyter
Applications
1 10 (2.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.18%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.59%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 340 (100.00%) AWS
1 340 (100.00%) Serverless
2 235 (69.12%) Amazon S3
3 109 (32.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 101 (29.71%) Amazon EC2
5 90 (26.47%) Amazon ECS
6 88 (25.88%) GitHub
7 85 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
8 79 (23.24%) Amazon EKS
9 67 (19.71%) GitHub Actions
10 64 (18.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 53 (15.59%) AWS Step Functions
12 36 (10.59%) Azure
13 34 (10.00%) Amazon SQS
14 33 (9.71%) Amazon Kinesis
15 30 (8.82%) Snowflake
16 26 (7.65%) AWS CodePipeline
17 25 (7.35%) Route 53
18 21 (6.18%) Amazon EventBridge
19 20 (5.88%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 24 (7.06%) DNS
2 14 (4.12%) Firewall
3 12 (3.53%) TCP/IP
3 12 (3.53%) VPN
4 9 (2.65%) OpenVPN
5 4 (1.18%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (0.59%) Kerberos
6 2 (0.59%) Network Security
7 1 (0.29%) 4G
7 1 (0.29%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (23.24%) Amazon RDS
2 59 (17.35%) DynamoDB
3 52 (15.29%) Amazon Athena
4 51 (15.00%) Amazon Redshift
5 45 (13.24%) PostgreSQL
6 29 (8.53%) Tableau
7 20 (5.88%) Amazon Aurora
7 20 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
7 20 (5.88%) Power BI
8 14 (4.12%) Data Lake
9 13 (3.82%) Metadata
9 13 (3.82%) NoSQL
10 10 (2.94%) Amazon QuickSight
10 10 (2.94%) Apache Iceberg
10 10 (2.94%) DB2
10 10 (2.94%) Elasticsearch
10 10 (2.94%) MySQL
10 10 (2.94%) Redis
11 8 (2.35%) Big Data
11 8 (2.35%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 62 (18.24%) Git
1 62 (18.24%) GitLab
2 60 (17.65%) Jenkins
3 25 (7.35%) JIRA
4 16 (4.71%) Bitbucket
5 12 (3.53%) JUnit
6 11 (3.24%) Cucumber
7 10 (2.94%) Cypress.io
8 7 (2.06%) SonarQube
9 5 (1.47%) Postman
9 5 (1.47%) Snyk
10 4 (1.18%) Mocha
10 4 (1.18%) Mockito
10 4 (1.18%) Selenium
10 4 (1.18%) Terragrunt
11 3 (0.88%) MSTest
11 3 (0.88%) Sonatype Nexus
11 3 (0.88%) tSQLt
11 3 (0.88%) Vite
12 2 (0.59%) MLflow
General
1 94 (27.65%) Social Skills
2 58 (17.06%) Public Sector
3 52 (15.29%) Finance
4 39 (11.47%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (6.47%) Banking
6 20 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (1.47%) Front Office
8 4 (1.18%) Investment Banking
9 3 (0.88%) Games
9 3 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.59%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.59%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.59%) Police
10 2 (0.59%) Private Banking
10 2 (0.59%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.29%) Billing
11 1 (0.29%) French Language
11 1 (0.29%) Marketing
11 1 (0.29%) Retail
Job Titles
1 69 (20.29%) Developer
2 62 (18.24%) AWS Engineer
3 57 (16.76%) Data Engineer
4 55 (16.18%) Senior
5 49 (14.41%) Architect
6 37 (10.88%) DevOps Engineer
7 29 (8.53%) Lead
8 26 (7.65%) AWS Developer
9 25 (7.35%) AWS Architect
10 23 (6.76%) AWS DevOps
11 19 (5.59%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 18 (5.29%) AWS Data Engineer
13 17 (5.00%) Analyst
14 15 (4.41%) Python Engineer
14 15 (4.41%) Senior Developer
14 15 (4.41%) Software Engineer
15 14 (4.12%) Cloud Engineer
15 14 (4.12%) Lead Data Engineer
16 13 (3.82%) Full-Stack Developer
16 13 (3.82%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (17.65%) Kafka
2 49 (14.41%) Node.js
3 44 (12.94%) React
4 41 (12.06%) RESTful
5 33 (9.71%) Spring Boot
6 31 (9.12%) Spring
7 25 (7.35%) PySpark
8 23 (6.76%) OAuth
9 18 (5.29%) boto
10 17 (5.00%) AWS CDK
10 17 (5.00%) REST
11 16 (4.71%) Pandas
12 15 (4.41%) AngularJS
13 14 (4.12%) CSS
14 13 (3.82%) FastAPI
14 13 (3.82%) OpenID
15 12 (3.53%) Flask
15 12 (3.53%) JWT
16 10 (2.94%) .NET
16 10 (2.94%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 79 (23.24%) Cloud Native
2 21 (6.18%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (2.65%) Product Ownership
4 8 (2.35%) DataPower
4 8 (2.35%) Mainframe
5 7 (2.06%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (1.47%) Equities
6 5 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.18%) Algorithms
7 4 (1.18%) Data Structures
7 4 (1.18%) Derivative
7 4 (1.18%) Distributed Architecture
7 4 (1.18%) Hedge funds
7 4 (1.18%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (1.18%) PACS
7 4 (1.18%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 4 (1.18%) Virtual Team
8 3 (0.88%) Equity Derivative
Operating Systems
1 31 (9.12%) Linux
2 10 (2.94%) Unix
3 3 (0.88%) zOS
4 2 (0.59%) Windows
5 1 (0.29%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (0.29%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 199 (58.53%) CI/CD
2 140 (41.18%) DevOps
3 129 (37.94%) Infrastructure as Code
4 87 (25.59%) Agile
5 81 (23.82%) Microservices
6 66 (19.41%) Problem-Solving
7 61 (17.94%) Data Pipeline
8 60 (17.65%) ETL
9 59 (17.35%) Containerisation
10 56 (16.47%) Data Engineering
11 54 (15.88%) Analytics
12 53 (15.59%) Data Modelling
13 45 (13.24%) Event-Driven
14 42 (12.35%) Observability
15 39 (11.47%) Continuous Improvement
16 38 (11.18%) AI
17 36 (10.59%) Software Engineering
18 33 (9.71%) Performance Tuning
19 31 (9.12%) Migration
20 30 (8.82%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 191 (56.18%) Python
2 110 (32.35%) SQL
3 62 (18.24%) Java
4 38 (11.18%) TypeScript
5 33 (9.71%) JavaScript
6 25 (7.35%) Bash
7 21 (6.18%) C#
8 18 (5.29%) Shell Script
9 9 (2.65%) Scala
10 8 (2.35%) PowerShell
10 8 (2.35%) Ruby
11 7 (2.06%) Go
12 5 (1.47%) JSX
12 5 (1.47%) Korn
13 4 (1.18%) Bicep
14 3 (0.88%) C++
14 3 (0.88%) Groovy
14 3 (0.88%) JCL
14 3 (0.88%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.59%) Perl
Qualifications
1 124 (36.47%) Security Cleared
2 110 (32.35%) SC Cleared
3 31 (9.12%) AWS Certification
4 14 (4.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 11 (3.24%) Degree
6 9 (2.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 8 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (2.06%) Master's Degree
9 5 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (1.47%) DV Cleared
10 4 (1.18%) AWS Certified Developer
10 4 (1.18%) PhD
11 3 (0.88%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.29%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.29%) CEH
12 1 (0.29%) CISSP
12 1 (0.29%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.29%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.29%) PMP
12 1 (0.29%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (9.12%) Data Quality
2 19 (5.59%) QA
3 8 (2.35%) NIST
4 7 (2.06%) PMO
5 5 (1.47%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.47%) GDPR
6 4 (1.18%) ISO 20022
6 4 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.18%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.18%) SLA
7 3 (0.88%) WCAG
8 1 (0.29%) GRC
8 1 (0.29%) GxP
System Software
1 97 (28.53%) Docker
2 9 (2.65%) Squid
3 3 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.59%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.59%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.29%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 168 (49.41%) Terraform
2 85 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 25 (7.35%) Prometheus
4 24 (7.06%) Grafana
5 20 (5.88%) Ansible
6 12 (3.53%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (2.65%) FortiGate
8 7 (2.06%) Consul
9 6 (1.76%) Kibana
10 3 (0.88%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (0.88%) Karpenter
10 3 (0.88%) Rancher
11 2 (0.59%) Opsgenie
12 1 (0.29%) HP Fortify
12 1 (0.29%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.29%) Puppet
12 1 (0.29%) Salt
Vendors
1 19 (5.59%) Microsoft
2 15 (4.41%) Databricks
3 14 (4.12%) Dynatrace
4 9 (2.65%) Red Hat
5 8 (2.35%) ServiceNow
5 8 (2.35%) Sybase
6 7 (2.06%) Atlassian
6 7 (2.06%) Confluent
6 7 (2.06%) OpenAI
7 6 (1.76%) IBM
7 6 (1.76%) Splunk
8 4 (1.18%) Oracle
8 4 (1.18%) Qualys
8 4 (1.18%) Tenable
9 3 (0.88%) AVEVA
9 3 (0.88%) Cloudera
9 3 (0.88%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.59%) Avaloq
10 2 (0.59%) CA Agile Central
10 2 (0.59%) SAP