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

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 193 172 232
Rank change year-on-year -21 +60 -30
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 305 210 162
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.51% 1.57% 1.00%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.71% 3.59% 2.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 231 146 115
10th Percentile £400 £409 £405
25th Percentile £450 £464 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% - -
75th Percentile £688 £629 £671
90th Percentile £775 £678 £738
England median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +3.53%
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 £72.66 £45.00 -
% change year-on-year +61.47% - -

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 8,226 5,850 6,616
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 40.81% 43.63% 40.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,669 3,967 4,558
10th Percentile £360 £350 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% -3.64% -3.08%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +4.48% -4.29% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 96 41
10th Percentile £17.60 £22.50 £23.80
25th Percentile £22.65 £25.12 £24.15
Median hourly rate £28.55 £27.95 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.15% -9.84% -23.46%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £44.61
90th Percentile £78.75 £79.38 £66.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +6.87%

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 October 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 October 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 36 £675 - 20
West London -4 22 £725 +68.10% 3
South London +1 14 £450 -27.65%
East London - 1 £500 - 4
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 (11.48%) Apache Airflow
2 23 (7.54%) Confluence
3 19 (6.23%) Apache Spark
4 12 (3.93%) Apache
5 4 (1.31%) SAS
6 3 (0.98%) CICS
7 2 (0.66%) PowerExchange
8 1 (0.33%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.33%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.33%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.33%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.33%) WebLogic Portal
Applications
1 3 (0.98%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.33%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.33%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 305 (100.00%) AWS
2 301 (98.69%) Serverless
3 213 (69.84%) Amazon S3
4 94 (30.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 90 (29.51%) Amazon EC2
6 89 (29.18%) Amazon ECS
7 79 (25.90%) Amazon EKS
8 72 (23.61%) GitHub
9 60 (19.67%) GitHub Actions
10 52 (17.05%) Amazon SQS
11 48 (15.74%) AWS Step Functions
12 46 (15.08%) AWS CloudFormation
13 44 (14.43%) Azure
14 38 (12.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 36 (11.80%) Amazon EventBridge
16 32 (10.49%) Amazon EMR
17 28 (9.18%) dbt
18 27 (8.85%) Snowflake
19 22 (7.21%) Power Platform
20 20 (6.56%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.97%) Firewall
2 4 (1.31%) DNS
2 4 (1.31%) WAN
3 3 (0.98%) HTTP
3 3 (0.98%) Network Security
4 2 (0.66%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (0.66%) VPN
5 1 (0.33%) BGP
5 1 (0.33%) Internet
5 1 (0.33%) OpenLDAP
5 1 (0.33%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (26.56%) Amazon RDS
2 57 (18.69%) Amazon Athena
3 56 (18.36%) DynamoDB
4 42 (13.77%) Amazon Redshift
5 35 (11.48%) Data Warehouse
6 28 (9.18%) PostgreSQL
7 22 (7.21%) Power BI
8 21 (6.89%) Amazon Aurora
9 17 (5.57%) NoSQL
10 16 (5.25%) Metadata
11 13 (4.26%) SQL Server
12 10 (3.28%) MongoDB
13 9 (2.95%) Amazon QuickSight
13 9 (2.95%) Apache Iceberg
13 9 (2.95%) Data Lake
14 8 (2.62%) BigQuery
14 8 (2.62%) Delta Lake
14 8 (2.62%) Relational Database
15 7 (2.30%) Big Data
16 6 (1.97%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 71 (23.28%) Jenkins
2 67 (21.97%) Git
3 63 (20.66%) GitLab
4 28 (9.18%) JIRA
5 18 (5.90%) Cucumber
6 13 (4.26%) Bitbucket
7 10 (3.28%) Cypress.io
8 9 (2.95%) Maven
8 9 (2.95%) Selenium
9 8 (2.62%) Mockito
10 7 (2.30%) JUnit
11 6 (1.97%) REST Assured
12 5 (1.64%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 5 (1.64%) Claude Code
12 5 (1.64%) Gatling
12 5 (1.64%) Postman
13 4 (1.31%) Artifactory
13 4 (1.31%) Gradle
13 4 (1.31%) Mocha
14 3 (0.98%) tSQLt
General
1 72 (23.61%) Social Skills
2 54 (17.70%) Finance
3 41 (13.44%) Public Sector
4 25 (8.20%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (8.20%) Banking
5 13 (4.26%) Back Office
6 11 (3.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (2.95%) Law
8 7 (2.30%) Front Office
8 7 (2.30%) Military
9 4 (1.31%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.31%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.31%) Police
10 3 (0.98%) Marketing
11 2 (0.66%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.66%) Local Government
11 2 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.33%) Games
12 1 (0.33%) Retail
12 1 (0.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 75 (24.59%) AWS Engineer
2 70 (22.95%) Senior
3 66 (21.64%) Data Engineer
4 48 (15.74%) Lead
5 36 (11.80%) Architect
5 36 (11.80%) Developer
6 30 (9.84%) DevOps Engineer
7 28 (9.18%) Software Engineer
8 22 (7.21%) Cloud Engineer
8 22 (7.21%) Technical Leader
9 21 (6.89%) AWS Data Engineer
10 19 (6.23%) Senior Data Engineer
11 18 (5.90%) AWS Architect
12 15 (4.92%) Senior Software Engineer
13 14 (4.59%) Python Engineer
14 13 (4.26%) AWS DevOps
14 13 (4.26%) Platform Engineer
15 12 (3.93%) AWS Developer
16 11 (3.61%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 11 (3.61%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 142 (46.56%) Terraform
2 46 (15.08%) Kafka
3 45 (14.75%) REST
4 39 (12.79%) React
5 35 (11.48%) FastAPI
6 33 (10.82%) RESTful
7 29 (9.51%) PySpark
8 25 (8.20%) GraphQL
9 24 (7.87%) Node.js
10 23 (7.54%) Spring Boot
11 22 (7.21%) Spring
12 19 (6.23%) .NET
13 18 (5.90%) Flask
14 13 (4.26%) AWS CDK
14 13 (4.26%) Playwright
15 11 (3.61%) Next.js
16 10 (3.28%) AngularJS
16 10 (3.28%) pytest
16 10 (3.28%) SOAP
17 9 (2.95%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 97 (31.80%) Cloud Native
2 26 (8.52%) Distributed Systems
3 23 (7.54%) Product Ownership
4 17 (5.57%) AI Agents
5 8 (2.62%) Onboarding
6 7 (2.30%) Fixed Income
6 7 (2.30%) Security Posture
7 6 (1.97%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.64%) Cloud Security Posture
9 4 (1.31%) Hedge funds
9 4 (1.31%) Low-Code
9 4 (1.31%) Mainframe
9 4 (1.31%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.31%) NHS
9 4 (1.31%) Taxonomies
10 3 (0.98%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (0.98%) DataPower
10 3 (0.98%) Equities
10 3 (0.98%) Online Banking
10 3 (0.98%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 36 (11.80%) Linux
2 12 (3.93%) Unix
3 8 (2.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.98%) Windows
4 3 (0.98%) Windows Server 2019
4 3 (0.98%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 210 (68.85%) CI/CD
2 142 (46.56%) Infrastructure as Code
3 134 (43.93%) DevOps
4 127 (41.64%) Agile
5 79 (25.90%) AI
6 72 (23.61%) Event-Driven
7 71 (23.28%) Data Engineering
8 67 (21.97%) Test Automation
9 65 (21.31%) Containerisation
10 64 (20.98%) Data Pipeline
10 64 (20.98%) Observability
10 64 (20.98%) Software Engineering
11 56 (18.36%) Microservices
12 52 (17.05%) Continuous Improvement
12 52 (17.05%) Technical Leadership
13 49 (16.07%) Analytics
14 48 (15.74%) Data Modelling
14 48 (15.74%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 47 (15.41%) Platform Engineering
16 45 (14.75%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 199 (65.25%) Python
2 101 (33.11%) SQL
3 51 (16.72%) Java
4 48 (15.74%) TypeScript
5 36 (11.80%) Bash
6 33 (10.82%) JavaScript
7 22 (7.21%) C#
8 16 (5.25%) Shell Script
9 15 (4.92%) Scala
10 10 (3.28%) PowerShell
11 5 (1.64%) Groovy
11 5 (1.64%) Kotlin
11 5 (1.64%) PL/SQL
12 4 (1.31%) Cypher
12 4 (1.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 4 (1.31%) Gremlin
12 4 (1.31%) SPARQL
12 4 (1.31%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.98%) JCL
14 2 (0.66%) C
Qualifications
1 90 (29.51%) Security Cleared
2 83 (27.21%) SC Cleared
3 38 (12.46%) AWS Certification
4 20 (6.56%) DV Cleared
5 16 (5.25%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (4.26%) Degree
7 12 (3.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 9 (2.95%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 8 (2.62%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 7 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (0.98%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.98%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 2 (0.66%) ISEB
12 2 (0.66%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.66%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.66%) Master's Degree
13 1 (0.33%) AWS Certified Developer
13 1 (0.33%) Azure Certification
13 1 (0.33%) PMP
13 1 (0.33%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (17.70%) Data Quality
2 36 (11.80%) QA
3 3 (0.98%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.66%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 100 (32.79%) Docker
2 6 (1.97%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.33%) Squid
3 1 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 73 (23.93%) Kubernetes
2 33 (10.82%) Grafana
3 28 (9.18%) Ansible
3 28 (9.18%) Prometheus
4 8 (2.62%) Kibana
5 7 (2.30%) Puppet
6 4 (1.31%) Salt
7 3 (0.98%) Packer
7 3 (0.98%) Rancher
8 2 (0.66%) Argo
8 2 (0.66%) Control-M
8 2 (0.66%) Istio
8 2 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.33%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.33%) ITRS Geneos
9 1 (0.33%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.33%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 19 (6.23%) Microsoft
2 15 (4.92%) Oracle
3 14 (4.59%) Informatica
4 12 (3.93%) Databricks
5 11 (3.61%) Splunk
6 8 (2.62%) ServiceNow
7 6 (1.97%) OpenAI
8 4 (1.31%) Dynatrace
8 4 (1.31%) Red Hat
9 3 (0.98%) Brio
9 3 (0.98%) Fortinet
9 3 (0.98%) PagerDuty
9 3 (0.98%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.66%) Confluent
10 2 (0.66%) Sybase
11 1 (0.33%) Atlassian
11 1 (0.33%) Charles River
11 1 (0.33%) CheckPoint
11 1 (0.33%) Murex
11 1 (0.33%) Qualys