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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 178 171 223
Rank change year-on-year -7 +52 -26
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 330 215 167
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.62% 1.61% 1.04%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.96% 3.70% 2.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 247 158 117
10th Percentile £400 £411 £379
25th Percentile £450 £464 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - -
75th Percentile £675 £600 £656
90th Percentile £768 £675 £738
England median daily rate £519 £500 £538
% change year-on-year +3.75% -6.98% +2.38%
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 £72.33 £45.00 -
% change year-on-year +60.73% - -

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 8,343 5,803 6,574
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 40.98% 43.39% 41.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,737 3,954 4,577
10th Percentile £360 £343 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £546 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.02% -3.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £500 £530
% change year-on-year +5.00% -5.66% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 93 44
10th Percentile £17.60 £23.00 £22.00
25th Percentile £23.08 £25.15 £24.06
Median hourly rate £29.28 £30.00 £30.80
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% -2.58% -21.04%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £78.75 £65.33
England median hourly rate £33.99 £26.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.73% -25.71% +6.06%

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 23 September 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 23 September 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 -13 38 £688 +1.85% 21
West London -8 21 £725 +68.10% 4
South London +3 14 £463 -25.64%
East London - 1 £500 - 5
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 37 (11.21%) Apache Airflow
2 22 (6.67%) Confluence
3 18 (5.45%) Apache Spark
4 13 (3.94%) Apache
5 4 (1.21%) CICS
5 4 (1.21%) SAS
6 3 (0.91%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.61%) PowerExchange
8 1 (0.30%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.30%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.30%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.30%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.30%) WebLogic Portal
Applications
1 3 (0.91%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.61%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.30%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.30%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 330 (100.00%) AWS
2 326 (98.79%) Serverless
3 232 (70.30%) Amazon S3
4 104 (31.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 92 (27.88%) Amazon EC2
6 91 (27.58%) Amazon ECS
7 79 (23.94%) Amazon EKS
8 74 (22.42%) GitHub
9 60 (18.18%) GitHub Actions
10 56 (16.97%) AWS Step Functions
11 53 (16.06%) Amazon SQS
12 51 (15.45%) AWS CloudFormation
13 47 (14.24%) Azure
14 40 (12.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 38 (11.52%) Amazon EventBridge
16 34 (10.30%) Amazon EMR
17 30 (9.09%) dbt
18 29 (8.79%) Snowflake
19 25 (7.58%) Power Platform
20 20 (6.06%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.12%) Firewall
2 4 (1.21%) DNS
2 4 (1.21%) WAN
3 3 (0.91%) Network Security
4 2 (0.61%) HTTP
4 2 (0.61%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (0.61%) VPN
5 1 (0.30%) BGP
5 1 (0.30%) Internet
5 1 (0.30%) SSL
5 1 (0.30%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (25.45%) Amazon RDS
2 65 (19.70%) Amazon Athena
3 60 (18.18%) DynamoDB
4 44 (13.33%) Amazon Redshift
5 36 (10.91%) Data Warehouse
6 29 (8.79%) PostgreSQL
7 25 (7.58%) Power BI
8 22 (6.67%) Amazon Aurora
9 18 (5.45%) Metadata
10 16 (4.85%) NoSQL
11 13 (3.94%) SQL Server
11 13 (3.94%) Tableau
12 10 (3.03%) Data Lake
12 10 (3.03%) MongoDB
13 9 (2.73%) Amazon QuickSight
13 9 (2.73%) Apache Iceberg
13 9 (2.73%) Relational Database
14 8 (2.42%) BigQuery
15 7 (2.12%) Big Data
15 7 (2.12%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 70 (21.21%) Jenkins
2 67 (20.30%) Git
3 62 (18.79%) GitLab
4 27 (8.18%) JIRA
5 17 (5.15%) Cucumber
6 13 (3.94%) Bitbucket
7 10 (3.03%) Cypress.io
8 9 (2.73%) Selenium
9 8 (2.42%) Maven
9 8 (2.42%) Mockito
10 7 (2.12%) JUnit
11 5 (1.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 5 (1.52%) Claude Code
11 5 (1.52%) Gatling
11 5 (1.52%) REST Assured
12 4 (1.21%) Artifactory
12 4 (1.21%) Mocha
12 4 (1.21%) Postman
13 3 (0.91%) Gradle
13 3 (0.91%) MSTest
General
1 82 (24.85%) Social Skills
2 58 (17.58%) Finance
3 44 (13.33%) Public Sector
4 30 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (7.88%) Banking
6 12 (3.64%) Back Office
7 11 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (2.73%) Law
9 8 (2.42%) Front Office
10 7 (2.12%) Military
11 4 (1.21%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.21%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.91%) Marketing
12 3 (0.91%) Police
13 2 (0.61%) Games
13 2 (0.61%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.61%) Local Government
13 2 (0.61%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.30%) Billing
14 1 (0.30%) Retail
Job Titles
1 80 (24.24%) AWS Engineer
2 75 (22.73%) Senior
3 73 (22.12%) Data Engineer
4 49 (14.85%) Lead
5 44 (13.33%) Developer
6 38 (11.52%) Architect
7 31 (9.39%) DevOps Engineer
8 26 (7.88%) Software Engineer
9 25 (7.58%) AWS Data Engineer
10 22 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
10 22 (6.67%) Technical Leader
11 21 (6.36%) Senior Data Engineer
12 19 (5.76%) AWS Developer
13 17 (5.15%) AWS Architect
14 15 (4.55%) Senior Software Engineer
15 14 (4.24%) AWS DevOps
15 14 (4.24%) Platform Engineer
16 13 (3.94%) Python Engineer
17 12 (3.64%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 12 (3.64%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 151 (45.76%) Terraform
2 45 (13.64%) Kafka
2 45 (13.64%) React
3 42 (12.73%) REST
4 37 (11.21%) PySpark
4 37 (11.21%) RESTful
5 35 (10.61%) FastAPI
6 31 (9.39%) Node.js
7 25 (7.58%) GraphQL
7 25 (7.58%) Spring Boot
8 24 (7.27%) Spring
9 19 (5.76%) .NET
9 19 (5.76%) Flask
10 15 (4.55%) Pandas
11 14 (4.24%) Next.js
12 13 (3.94%) AWS CDK
13 12 (3.64%) Playwright
14 11 (3.33%) SOAP
15 10 (3.03%) AngularJS
15 10 (3.03%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 98 (29.70%) Cloud Native
2 24 (7.27%) Product Ownership
3 23 (6.97%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (4.85%) AI Agents
5 8 (2.42%) Fixed Income
6 7 (2.12%) Security Posture
7 6 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (1.82%) Hedge funds
7 6 (1.82%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.52%) Cloud Security Posture
8 5 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.52%) Mainframe
8 5 (1.52%) NHS
9 4 (1.21%) DataPower
9 4 (1.21%) Legacy Code
9 4 (1.21%) Low-Code
9 4 (1.21%) Online Banking
9 4 (1.21%) Taxonomies
10 3 (0.91%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 36 (10.91%) Linux
2 13 (3.94%) Unix
3 8 (2.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.21%) zOS
5 3 (0.91%) Windows
5 3 (0.91%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 214 (64.85%) CI/CD
2 148 (44.85%) Infrastructure as Code
3 141 (42.73%) DevOps
4 132 (40.00%) Agile
5 80 (24.24%) AI
6 75 (22.73%) Data Engineering
7 74 (22.42%) Event-Driven
8 70 (21.21%) Data Pipeline
9 69 (20.91%) Software Engineering
10 68 (20.61%) Containerisation
11 64 (19.39%) Test Automation
12 61 (18.48%) Microservices
13 58 (17.58%) Observability
14 56 (16.97%) Analytics
14 56 (16.97%) Technical Leadership
15 55 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
16 54 (16.36%) Data Modelling
17 51 (15.45%) ETL
18 48 (14.55%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 48 (14.55%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 210 (63.64%) Python
2 111 (33.64%) SQL
3 58 (17.58%) Java
4 51 (15.45%) TypeScript
5 36 (10.91%) Bash
6 35 (10.61%) JavaScript
7 25 (7.58%) C#
8 18 (5.45%) Shell Script
9 16 (4.85%) Scala
10 10 (3.03%) PowerShell
11 5 (1.52%) Groovy
11 5 (1.52%) PL/SQL
12 4 (1.21%) Cypher
12 4 (1.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 4 (1.21%) Gremlin
12 4 (1.21%) JCL
12 4 (1.21%) Kotlin
12 4 (1.21%) SPARQL
12 4 (1.21%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.91%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 100 (30.30%) Security Cleared
2 92 (27.88%) SC Cleared
3 38 (11.52%) AWS Certification
4 18 (5.45%) DV Cleared
5 17 (5.15%) BPSS Clearance
6 14 (4.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 14 (4.24%) Degree
7 9 (2.73%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 8 (2.42%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 8 (2.42%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (0.91%) AWS Certified Developer
9 3 (0.91%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.91%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 2 (0.61%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.61%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.30%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.30%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.30%) PMP
11 1 (0.30%) SAFe Agilist
11 1 (0.30%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (17.27%) Data Quality
2 36 (10.91%) QA
3 3 (0.91%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.61%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.30%) PMO
System Software
1 103 (31.21%) Docker
2 5 (1.52%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.30%) Squid
3 1 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 77 (23.33%) Kubernetes
2 35 (10.61%) Grafana
3 28 (8.48%) Prometheus
4 27 (8.18%) Ansible
5 8 (2.42%) Kibana
6 7 (2.12%) Puppet
7 4 (1.21%) Salt
8 3 (0.91%) Packer
8 3 (0.91%) Rancher
9 2 (0.61%) Argo
9 2 (0.61%) Control-M
9 2 (0.61%) Istio
9 2 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.30%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.30%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (0.30%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.30%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 20 (6.06%) Microsoft
2 17 (5.15%) Oracle
3 15 (4.55%) Informatica
4 13 (3.94%) Databricks
5 11 (3.33%) Splunk
6 8 (2.42%) ServiceNow
7 7 (2.12%) OpenAI
8 4 (1.21%) Dynatrace
8 4 (1.21%) Red Hat
9 3 (0.91%) Brio
9 3 (0.91%) Fortinet
9 3 (0.91%) PagerDuty
9 3 (0.91%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.61%) Confluent
10 2 (0.61%) Sybase
11 1 (0.30%) Charles River
11 1 (0.30%) CheckPoint
11 1 (0.30%) Murex
11 1 (0.30%) Qualys
11 1 (0.30%) Trend Micro