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

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 186 174 225
Rank change year-on-year -12 +51 -24
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 323 215 171
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.59% 1.60% 1.06%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.87% 3.67% 2.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 245 151 121
10th Percentile £403 £406 £413
25th Percentile £450 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -2.33% +2.38%
75th Percentile £688 £619 £669
90th Percentile £775 £680 £738
England median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +2.33%
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 8,337 5,855 6,632
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 40.96% 43.44% 40.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,747 3,968 4,569
10th Percentile £360 £341 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% -3.64% -3.51%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £505 £530
% change year-on-year +3.96% -4.72% -3.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 95 42
10th Percentile £17.60 £22.50 £23.80
25th Percentile £22.65 £25.15 £24.16
Median hourly rate £28.55 £28.50 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year +0.18% -8.80% -22.84%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £47.72
90th Percentile £78.75 £79.50 £65.78
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +7.99%

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 2 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 2 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 -22 38 £675 - 19
West London -8 22 £725 +68.10% 4
South London 0 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 (10.84%) Apache Airflow
2 23 (7.12%) Confluence
3 19 (5.88%) Apache Spark
4 12 (3.72%) Apache
5 4 (1.24%) SAS
6 3 (0.93%) CICS
7 2 (0.62%) PowerExchange
8 1 (0.31%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.31%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.31%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.31%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.31%) WebLogic Portal
Applications
1 3 (0.93%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.62%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.31%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.31%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 323 (100.00%) AWS
2 319 (98.76%) Serverless
3 229 (70.90%) Amazon S3
4 104 (32.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 92 (28.48%) Amazon EC2
5 92 (28.48%) Amazon ECS
6 80 (24.77%) Amazon EKS
7 73 (22.60%) GitHub
8 61 (18.89%) GitHub Actions
9 54 (16.72%) Amazon SQS
10 52 (16.10%) AWS CloudFormation
11 51 (15.79%) AWS Step Functions
12 47 (14.55%) Azure
13 39 (12.07%) Amazon EventBridge
13 39 (12.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 34 (10.53%) Amazon EMR
15 30 (9.29%) dbt
15 30 (9.29%) Snowflake
16 23 (7.12%) Power Platform
17 20 (6.19%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.86%) Firewall
2 4 (1.24%) DNS
2 4 (1.24%) WAN
3 3 (0.93%) HTTP
3 3 (0.93%) Network Security
4 2 (0.62%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (0.62%) VPN
5 1 (0.31%) BGP
5 1 (0.31%) Internet
5 1 (0.31%) OpenLDAP
5 1 (0.31%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (26.01%) Amazon RDS
2 64 (19.81%) Amazon Athena
3 58 (17.96%) DynamoDB
4 44 (13.62%) Amazon Redshift
5 36 (11.15%) Data Warehouse
6 28 (8.67%) PostgreSQL
7 23 (7.12%) Power BI
8 21 (6.50%) Amazon Aurora
9 17 (5.26%) Metadata
9 17 (5.26%) NoSQL
10 14 (4.33%) SQL Server
11 12 (3.72%) Tableau
12 10 (3.10%) Data Lake
12 10 (3.10%) MongoDB
13 9 (2.79%) Amazon QuickSight
13 9 (2.79%) Apache Iceberg
14 8 (2.48%) BigQuery
14 8 (2.48%) Delta Lake
14 8 (2.48%) Relational Database
15 7 (2.17%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 71 (21.98%) Jenkins
2 68 (21.05%) Git
3 63 (19.50%) GitLab
4 28 (8.67%) JIRA
5 18 (5.57%) Cucumber
6 13 (4.02%) Bitbucket
7 11 (3.41%) Cypress.io
8 10 (3.10%) Selenium
9 9 (2.79%) Maven
10 8 (2.48%) Mockito
11 7 (2.17%) JUnit
12 6 (1.86%) REST Assured
13 5 (1.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 5 (1.55%) Claude Code
13 5 (1.55%) Gatling
13 5 (1.55%) Postman
14 4 (1.24%) Artifactory
14 4 (1.24%) Gradle
14 4 (1.24%) Mocha
15 3 (0.93%) tSQLt
General
1 77 (23.84%) Social Skills
2 55 (17.03%) Finance
3 45 (13.93%) Public Sector
4 29 (8.98%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (8.05%) Banking
6 13 (4.02%) Back Office
7 11 (3.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (2.79%) Law
9 8 (2.48%) Front Office
10 7 (2.17%) Military
11 4 (1.24%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.24%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (1.24%) Police
12 3 (0.93%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.93%) Marketing
13 2 (0.62%) Local Government
13 2 (0.62%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.31%) Games
14 1 (0.31%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.31%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 79 (24.46%) AWS Engineer
2 72 (22.29%) Senior
3 71 (21.98%) Data Engineer
4 50 (15.48%) Lead
5 40 (12.38%) Developer
6 39 (12.07%) Architect
7 32 (9.91%) DevOps Engineer
8 28 (8.67%) Software Engineer
9 23 (7.12%) AWS Data Engineer
10 22 (6.81%) Cloud Engineer
10 22 (6.81%) Technical Leader
11 20 (6.19%) Senior Data Engineer
12 18 (5.57%) AWS Architect
13 15 (4.64%) AWS Developer
13 15 (4.64%) Senior Software Engineer
14 14 (4.33%) AWS DevOps
14 14 (4.33%) Platform Engineer
14 14 (4.33%) Python Engineer
15 12 (3.72%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 11 (3.41%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 152 (47.06%) Terraform
2 46 (14.24%) Kafka
3 45 (13.93%) REST
4 41 (12.69%) React
5 35 (10.84%) FastAPI
5 35 (10.84%) RESTful
6 33 (10.22%) PySpark
7 28 (8.67%) Node.js
8 25 (7.74%) GraphQL
9 24 (7.43%) Spring Boot
10 23 (7.12%) Spring
11 20 (6.19%) .NET
12 18 (5.57%) Flask
13 14 (4.33%) AWS CDK
14 13 (4.02%) Playwright
15 12 (3.72%) Pandas
16 11 (3.41%) AngularJS
16 11 (3.41%) Next.js
17 10 (3.10%) pytest
17 10 (3.10%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 102 (31.58%) Cloud Native
2 27 (8.36%) Distributed Systems
3 24 (7.43%) Product Ownership
4 17 (5.26%) AI Agents
5 8 (2.48%) Fixed Income
5 8 (2.48%) Onboarding
6 7 (2.17%) Security Posture
7 6 (1.86%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.55%) Cloud Security Posture
8 5 (1.55%) NHS
9 4 (1.24%) Hedge funds
9 4 (1.24%) Low-Code
9 4 (1.24%) Mainframe
9 4 (1.24%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.24%) Taxonomies
10 3 (0.93%) Distributed Computing
10 3 (0.93%) Legacy Applications
10 3 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (0.93%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (0.93%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 36 (11.15%) Linux
2 12 (3.72%) Unix
3 8 (2.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.93%) Windows
4 3 (0.93%) Windows Server 2019
4 3 (0.93%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 217 (67.18%) CI/CD
2 154 (47.68%) Infrastructure as Code
3 143 (44.27%) DevOps
4 133 (41.18%) Agile
5 84 (26.01%) AI
6 77 (23.84%) Data Engineering
7 75 (23.22%) Event-Driven
8 70 (21.67%) Containerisation
9 67 (20.74%) Data Pipeline
9 67 (20.74%) Software Engineering
9 67 (20.74%) Test Automation
10 64 (19.81%) Observability
11 60 (18.58%) Microservices
12 57 (17.65%) Technical Leadership
13 54 (16.72%) Continuous Improvement
14 53 (16.41%) Analytics
14 53 (16.41%) Data Modelling
15 49 (15.17%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 49 (15.17%) Platform Engineering
16 47 (14.55%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 207 (64.09%) Python
2 106 (32.82%) SQL
3 55 (17.03%) Java
4 48 (14.86%) TypeScript
5 36 (11.15%) Bash
6 35 (10.84%) JavaScript
7 23 (7.12%) C#
8 16 (4.95%) Shell Script
9 15 (4.64%) Scala
10 10 (3.10%) PowerShell
11 5 (1.55%) Groovy
11 5 (1.55%) Kotlin
11 5 (1.55%) PL/SQL
12 4 (1.24%) Cypher
12 4 (1.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 4 (1.24%) Gremlin
12 4 (1.24%) SPARQL
12 4 (1.24%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.93%) Bicep
13 3 (0.93%) JCL
Qualifications
1 98 (30.34%) Security Cleared
2 91 (28.17%) SC Cleared
3 39 (12.07%) AWS Certification
4 20 (6.19%) DV Cleared
5 17 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
6 14 (4.33%) Degree
7 13 (4.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 9 (2.79%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 8 (2.48%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 8 (2.48%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (0.93%) DBS Check
10 3 (0.93%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 2 (0.62%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (0.62%) ISEB
11 2 (0.62%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.62%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.62%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.31%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.31%) SAFe Agilist
12 1 (0.31%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (17.65%) Data Quality
2 36 (11.15%) QA
3 3 (0.93%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.62%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 103 (31.89%) Docker
2 6 (1.86%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.31%) Squid
3 1 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 80 (24.77%) Kubernetes
2 34 (10.53%) Grafana
3 28 (8.67%) Ansible
3 28 (8.67%) Prometheus
4 8 (2.48%) Kibana
5 7 (2.17%) Puppet
6 4 (1.24%) Salt
7 3 (0.93%) Packer
7 3 (0.93%) Rancher
8 2 (0.62%) Argo
8 2 (0.62%) Control-M
8 2 (0.62%) Istio
8 2 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.31%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.31%) ITRS Geneos
9 1 (0.31%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.31%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 20 (6.19%) Microsoft
2 15 (4.64%) Oracle
3 14 (4.33%) Informatica
4 13 (4.02%) Databricks
5 11 (3.41%) Splunk
6 8 (2.48%) ServiceNow
7 7 (2.17%) OpenAI
8 4 (1.24%) Dynatrace
8 4 (1.24%) Red Hat
9 3 (0.93%) Brio
9 3 (0.93%) Fortinet
9 3 (0.93%) PagerDuty
9 3 (0.93%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.62%) Confluent
10 2 (0.62%) Sybase
11 1 (0.31%) Atlassian
11 1 (0.31%) Charles River
11 1 (0.31%) CheckPoint
11 1 (0.31%) Murex
11 1 (0.31%) Qualys