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

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 138 171
Rank change year-on-year -3 +33 -1
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 322 260 255
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.81% 2.07% 1.44%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.23% 4.88% 3.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 228 206 197
10th Percentile £355 £404 £400
25th Percentile £431 £457 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £563 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +12.50% -16.67%
75th Percentile £625 £775 £588
90th Percentile £700 £838 £675
England median daily rate £519 £538 £513
% change year-on-year -3.53% +4.88% -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 7,606 5,330 6,749
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.71% 42.40% 38.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,240 3,707 4,979
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £439 £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 53 68
10th Percentile £19.41 £22.58 £17.32
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.66 £21.81
Median hourly rate £35.50 £31.35 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.26% +25.38% -42.70%
75th Percentile £53.35 £48.75 £38.13
90th Percentile £72.25 £72.50 £59.88
England median hourly rate £45.25 £26.45 £20.77
% change year-on-year +71.08% +27.35% -31.90%

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 6 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 6 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 -3 42 £575 +13.86% 19
South London +1 22 £500 +5.26% 1
West London -28 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 (8.39%) Apache Airflow
2 25 (7.76%) Apache Spark
3 17 (5.28%) Confluence
4 10 (3.11%) Apache
5 9 (2.80%) nginx
6 4 (1.24%) CICS
7 2 (0.62%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.31%) SAS
Applications
1 10 (3.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.24%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.62%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 322 (100.00%) AWS
2 318 (98.76%) Serverless
3 233 (72.36%) Amazon S3
4 102 (31.68%) Amazon EC2
5 97 (30.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 90 (27.95%) Amazon ECS
7 76 (23.60%) Amazon EKS
8 75 (23.29%) AWS CloudFormation
9 74 (22.98%) GitHub
10 63 (19.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 62 (19.25%) GitHub Actions
12 53 (16.46%) AWS Step Functions
13 34 (10.56%) Amazon SQS
14 32 (9.94%) Amazon Kinesis
15 30 (9.32%) Azure
16 27 (8.39%) AWS CodePipeline
17 23 (7.14%) Snowflake
18 22 (6.83%) Amazon EMR
18 22 (6.83%) Route 53
19 21 (6.52%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 25 (7.76%) DNS
2 14 (4.35%) Firewall
3 12 (3.73%) TCP/IP
4 10 (3.11%) VPN
5 9 (2.80%) OpenVPN
6 5 (1.55%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (0.62%) 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 (20.50%) Amazon RDS
2 56 (17.39%) Amazon Athena
3 55 (17.08%) Amazon Redshift
4 53 (16.46%) DynamoDB
5 39 (12.11%) PostgreSQL
6 26 (8.07%) Amazon Aurora
7 24 (7.45%) Tableau
8 18 (5.59%) Power BI
9 16 (4.97%) NoSQL
10 15 (4.66%) Apache Iceberg
10 15 (4.66%) Metadata
11 13 (4.04%) Big Data
11 13 (4.04%) Data Warehouse
12 12 (3.73%) Data Lake
12 12 (3.73%) SQL Server
13 11 (3.42%) Amazon QuickSight
13 11 (3.42%) Elasticsearch
14 9 (2.80%) Data Vault
15 8 (2.48%) Delta Lake
15 8 (2.48%) Redis
Development Applications
1 63 (19.57%) GitLab
2 61 (18.94%) Jenkins
3 54 (16.77%) Git
4 24 (7.45%) JIRA
5 15 (4.66%) Bitbucket
6 13 (4.04%) Cucumber
7 9 (2.80%) JUnit
8 7 (2.17%) Cypress.io
8 7 (2.17%) SonarQube
9 6 (1.86%) Mocha
10 5 (1.55%) MSTest
10 5 (1.55%) Postman
10 5 (1.55%) Snyk
10 5 (1.55%) tSQLt
11 4 (1.24%) Artifactory
11 4 (1.24%) Selenium
11 4 (1.24%) Terragrunt
12 3 (0.93%) Mockito
12 3 (0.93%) Vite
13 2 (0.62%) git-flow
General
1 86 (26.71%) Social Skills
2 54 (16.77%) Finance
3 51 (15.84%) Public Sector
4 35 (10.87%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (5.59%) Documentation Skills
6 16 (4.97%) Banking
7 5 (1.55%) Front Office
8 4 (1.24%) Police
9 3 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (0.93%) Investment Banking
9 3 (0.93%) Law
9 3 (0.93%) Military
9 3 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.62%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.62%) Games
10 2 (0.62%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.62%) Local Government
10 2 (0.62%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.62%) Retail
10 2 (0.62%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 66 (20.50%) Developer
2 63 (19.57%) AWS Engineer
3 59 (18.32%) Data Engineer
4 53 (16.46%) Senior
5 50 (15.53%) Architect
6 35 (10.87%) Lead
7 27 (8.39%) AWS Architect
7 27 (8.39%) AWS Developer
8 25 (7.76%) DevOps Engineer
9 20 (6.21%) AWS Data Engineer
10 18 (5.59%) AWS DevOps
10 18 (5.59%) Data Architect
11 16 (4.97%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 16 (4.97%) Cloud Engineer
11 16 (4.97%) Python Developer
11 16 (4.97%) Software Engineer
12 14 (4.35%) Analyst
12 14 (4.35%) Java Engineer
12 14 (4.35%) Python Engineer
13 13 (4.04%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (18.01%) Kafka
2 43 (13.35%) RESTful
3 40 (12.42%) React
4 32 (9.94%) Spring Boot
5 29 (9.01%) PySpark
5 29 (9.01%) Spring
6 28 (8.70%) Node.js
7 18 (5.59%) boto
7 18 (5.59%) Pandas
8 17 (5.28%) OAuth
9 16 (4.97%) FastAPI
10 15 (4.66%) CSS
10 15 (4.66%) REST
11 14 (4.35%) AngularJS
11 14 (4.35%) AWS CDK
11 14 (4.35%) HTML
12 13 (4.04%) .NET
12 13 (4.04%) Flask
12 13 (4.04%) OpenID
13 11 (3.42%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 77 (23.91%) Cloud Native
2 16 (4.97%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (3.73%) Product Ownership
4 7 (2.17%) DataPower
4 7 (2.17%) Mainframe
5 6 (1.86%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (1.86%) Equities
5 6 (1.86%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (1.86%) Hedge funds
5 6 (1.86%) PACS
5 6 (1.86%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 5 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.24%) Algorithms
7 4 (1.24%) Derivative
7 4 (1.24%) Fixed Income
7 4 (1.24%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (1.24%) Online Banking
8 3 (0.93%) Data Structures
8 3 (0.93%) Equity Derivative
Operating Systems
1 32 (9.94%) Linux
2 15 (4.66%) Unix
3 4 (1.24%) zOS
4 1 (0.31%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (0.31%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 188 (58.39%) CI/CD
2 128 (39.75%) DevOps
3 126 (39.13%) Infrastructure as Code
4 85 (26.40%) Agile
5 76 (23.60%) Microservices
6 59 (18.32%) Data Pipeline
7 58 (18.01%) Containerisation
7 58 (18.01%) Problem-Solving
8 57 (17.70%) ETL
9 54 (16.77%) Data Engineering
10 51 (15.84%) Analytics
10 51 (15.84%) Data Modelling
11 49 (15.22%) Event-Driven
12 42 (13.04%) AI
13 40 (12.42%) Observability
13 40 (12.42%) Software Engineering
14 37 (11.49%) Continuous Improvement
14 37 (11.49%) Test Automation
15 31 (9.63%) Performance Tuning
16 30 (9.32%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 191 (59.32%) Python
2 105 (32.61%) SQL
3 64 (19.88%) Java
4 35 (10.87%) JavaScript
5 31 (9.63%) TypeScript
6 28 (8.70%) C#
7 22 (6.83%) Bash
8 19 (5.90%) Shell Script
9 15 (4.66%) Scala
10 7 (2.17%) PowerShell
11 6 (1.86%) Go
12 5 (1.55%) Bicep
12 5 (1.55%) Ruby
12 5 (1.55%) T-SQL
13 4 (1.24%) JCL
14 3 (0.93%) C++
15 2 (0.62%) Korn
15 2 (0.62%) Kotlin
16 1 (0.31%) Groovy
16 1 (0.31%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 108 (33.54%) Security Cleared
2 98 (30.43%) SC Cleared
3 26 (8.07%) AWS Certification
4 13 (4.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 11 (3.42%) Degree
6 9 (2.80%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 9 (2.80%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (2.17%) Master's Degree
8 5 (1.55%) DV Cleared
9 4 (1.24%) AWS Certified Developer
9 4 (1.24%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (1.24%) PhD
10 2 (0.62%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.31%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.31%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.31%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.31%) PMP
11 1 (0.31%) SAFe Agilist
11 1 (0.31%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (9.63%) Data Quality
2 19 (5.90%) QA
3 8 (2.48%) NIST
4 7 (2.17%) PMO
5 6 (1.86%) ISO 20022
6 4 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.24%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.24%) SLA
7 3 (0.93%) GDPR
8 2 (0.62%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.31%) GRC
9 1 (0.31%) WCAG
System Software
1 94 (29.19%) Docker
2 9 (2.80%) Squid
3 4 (1.24%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.31%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 160 (49.69%) Terraform
2 79 (24.53%) Kubernetes
3 32 (9.94%) Grafana
4 27 (8.39%) Prometheus
5 13 (4.04%) Ansible
6 12 (3.73%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (2.80%) FortiGate
7 9 (2.80%) Kibana
8 7 (2.17%) Consul
9 3 (0.93%) ITRS Geneos
9 3 (0.93%) Karpenter
9 3 (0.93%) Puppet
9 3 (0.93%) Salt
10 2 (0.62%) Opsgenie
11 1 (0.31%) Control-M
11 1 (0.31%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.31%) Rancher
Vendors
1 17 (5.28%) Microsoft
2 15 (4.66%) Databricks
3 12 (3.73%) Splunk
4 11 (3.42%) Dynatrace
5 9 (2.80%) Confluent
5 9 (2.80%) Red Hat
6 8 (2.48%) OpenAI
7 7 (2.17%) Atlassian
8 6 (1.86%) Sybase
9 5 (1.55%) Oracle
10 4 (1.24%) IBM
10 4 (1.24%) Qualys
10 4 (1.24%) Tenable
11 3 (0.93%) AVEVA
11 3 (0.93%) Fortinet
11 3 (0.93%) Netlify
11 3 (0.93%) ServiceNow
12 2 (0.62%) Informatica
12 2 (0.62%) Salesforce
12 2 (0.62%) SAP