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

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 134 168
Rank change year-on-year -10 +34 -2
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 315 258 255
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.78% 2.05% 1.44%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.17% 4.84% 3.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 225 205 197
10th Percentile £356 £404 £400
25th Percentile £430 £456 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £565 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.96% +13.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £625 £775 £588
90th Percentile £700 £838 £675
England median daily rate £519 £540 £513
% change year-on-year -3.97% +5.37% -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 £76.00 £35.00 -
% change year-on-year +117.14% - -

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 7,552 5,326 6,749
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.74% 42.37% 38.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,201 3,706 4,979
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £438 £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 52 68
10th Percentile £19.41 £22.42 £17.32
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.66 £21.81
Median hourly rate £35.50 £30.21 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.52% +20.83% -40.21%
75th Percentile £53.35 £50.00 £38.13
90th Percentile £72.25 £73.13 £59.88
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.50 £20.77
% change year-on-year +84.31% +22.77% -35.70%

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 4 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 4 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 -2 42 £550 +8.91% 26
South London +1 21 £500 +5.26% 1
West London -27 7 £713 +26.11% 3
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 (8.57%) Apache Airflow
2 23 (7.30%) Apache Spark
3 16 (5.08%) Confluence
4 10 (3.17%) Apache
5 9 (2.86%) nginx
6 4 (1.27%) CICS
7 2 (0.63%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.32%) SAS
Applications
1 10 (3.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.27%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.63%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 315 (100.00%) AWS
2 311 (98.73%) Serverless
3 228 (72.38%) Amazon S3
4 98 (31.11%) Amazon EC2
5 97 (30.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 90 (28.57%) Amazon ECS
7 74 (23.49%) AWS CloudFormation
7 74 (23.49%) GitHub
8 72 (22.86%) Amazon EKS
9 62 (19.68%) GitHub Actions
10 61 (19.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 53 (16.83%) AWS Step Functions
12 33 (10.48%) Amazon SQS
13 32 (10.16%) Amazon Kinesis
14 30 (9.52%) Azure
15 26 (8.25%) AWS CodePipeline
16 23 (7.30%) Snowflake
17 22 (6.98%) Route 53
18 21 (6.67%) Amazon EMR
18 21 (6.67%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 24 (7.62%) DNS
2 14 (4.44%) Firewall
3 12 (3.81%) TCP/IP
4 10 (3.17%) VPN
5 9 (2.86%) OpenVPN
6 5 (1.59%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (0.63%) Network Security
8 1 (0.32%) 4G
8 1 (0.32%) 5G
8 1 (0.32%) HTTP
8 1 (0.32%) Internet
8 1 (0.32%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (20.95%) Amazon RDS
2 54 (17.14%) Amazon Athena
2 54 (17.14%) DynamoDB
3 53 (16.83%) Amazon Redshift
4 38 (12.06%) PostgreSQL
5 26 (8.25%) Amazon Aurora
6 24 (7.62%) Tableau
7 18 (5.71%) Power BI
8 16 (5.08%) NoSQL
9 13 (4.13%) Apache Iceberg
9 13 (4.13%) Big Data
9 13 (4.13%) Metadata
10 12 (3.81%) Data Lake
10 12 (3.81%) Data Warehouse
11 11 (3.49%) Amazon QuickSight
11 11 (3.49%) Elasticsearch
12 10 (3.17%) SQL Server
13 9 (2.86%) Data Vault
14 8 (2.54%) Apache Hudi
14 8 (2.54%) DB2
Development Applications
1 62 (19.68%) GitLab
2 60 (19.05%) Jenkins
3 54 (17.14%) Git
4 23 (7.30%) JIRA
5 14 (4.44%) Bitbucket
6 12 (3.81%) Cucumber
7 9 (2.86%) JUnit
8 7 (2.22%) Cypress.io
8 7 (2.22%) SonarQube
9 5 (1.59%) Postman
9 5 (1.59%) Selenium
9 5 (1.59%) Snyk
10 4 (1.27%) Artifactory
10 4 (1.27%) Mocha
10 4 (1.27%) Mockito
10 4 (1.27%) Terragrunt
11 3 (0.95%) MSTest
11 3 (0.95%) tSQLt
11 3 (0.95%) Vite
12 2 (0.63%) MLflow
General
1 83 (26.35%) Social Skills
2 51 (16.19%) Finance
2 51 (16.19%) Public Sector
3 33 (10.48%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (6.03%) Documentation Skills
5 16 (5.08%) Banking
6 5 (1.59%) Front Office
7 4 (1.27%) Police
8 3 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (0.95%) Investment Banking
8 3 (0.95%) Law
8 3 (0.95%) Military
8 3 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (0.63%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.63%) Games
9 2 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.63%) Local Government
9 2 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.63%) Retail
9 2 (0.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 66 (20.95%) Developer
2 63 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
3 57 (18.10%) Data Engineer
4 50 (15.87%) Senior
5 49 (15.56%) Architect
6 34 (10.79%) Lead
7 27 (8.57%) AWS Architect
7 27 (8.57%) AWS Developer
8 26 (8.25%) DevOps Engineer
9 20 (6.35%) AWS Data Engineer
10 18 (5.71%) AWS DevOps
11 17 (5.40%) Data Architect
12 16 (5.08%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 16 (5.08%) Python Developer
13 15 (4.76%) Cloud Engineer
14 14 (4.44%) Analyst
14 14 (4.44%) Java Engineer
14 14 (4.44%) Python Engineer
14 14 (4.44%) Software Engineer
15 13 (4.13%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (17.78%) Kafka
2 41 (13.02%) React
2 41 (13.02%) RESTful
3 31 (9.84%) Spring Boot
4 30 (9.52%) Node.js
5 29 (9.21%) Spring
6 26 (8.25%) PySpark
7 18 (5.71%) boto
7 18 (5.71%) OAuth
7 18 (5.71%) Pandas
8 16 (5.08%) FastAPI
9 14 (4.44%) AWS CDK
9 14 (4.44%) REST
10 13 (4.13%) CSS
10 13 (4.13%) Flask
10 13 (4.13%) OpenID
11 12 (3.81%) AngularJS
11 12 (3.81%) HTML
12 11 (3.49%) .NET
12 11 (3.49%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 76 (24.13%) Cloud Native
2 17 (5.40%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (3.49%) Product Ownership
4 7 (2.22%) DataPower
4 7 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (2.22%) Mainframe
5 6 (1.90%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (1.90%) Hedge funds
5 6 (1.90%) PACS
5 6 (1.90%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 5 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (1.59%) Equities
7 4 (1.27%) Algorithms
7 4 (1.27%) Derivative
7 4 (1.27%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.27%) Online Banking
8 3 (0.95%) Data Structures
8 3 (0.95%) Equity Derivative
8 3 (0.95%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 32 (10.16%) Linux
2 15 (4.76%) Unix
3 4 (1.27%) zOS
4 1 (0.32%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (0.32%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 185 (58.73%) CI/CD
2 129 (40.95%) DevOps
3 125 (39.68%) Infrastructure as Code
4 82 (26.03%) Agile
5 74 (23.49%) Microservices
6 57 (18.10%) Problem-Solving
7 56 (17.78%) Data Pipeline
7 56 (17.78%) ETL
8 55 (17.46%) Containerisation
9 52 (16.51%) Data Engineering
10 50 (15.87%) Analytics
11 48 (15.24%) Data Modelling
12 46 (14.60%) Event-Driven
13 41 (13.02%) AI
14 40 (12.70%) Observability
15 38 (12.06%) Software Engineering
16 36 (11.43%) Test Automation
17 35 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
18 29 (9.21%) Migration
18 29 (9.21%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 186 (59.05%) Python
2 101 (32.06%) SQL
3 63 (20.00%) Java
4 33 (10.48%) JavaScript
5 31 (9.84%) TypeScript
6 26 (8.25%) C#
7 22 (6.98%) Bash
8 19 (6.03%) Shell Script
9 15 (4.76%) Scala
10 6 (1.90%) Go
10 6 (1.90%) PowerShell
11 5 (1.59%) Ruby
12 4 (1.27%) Bicep
12 4 (1.27%) JCL
13 3 (0.95%) C++
13 3 (0.95%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.63%) Korn
14 2 (0.63%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.32%) Groovy
15 1 (0.32%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 108 (34.29%) Security Cleared
2 98 (31.11%) SC Cleared
3 26 (8.25%) AWS Certification
4 13 (4.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 10 (3.17%) BPSS Clearance
5 10 (3.17%) Degree
6 9 (2.86%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 7 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (2.22%) Master's Degree
8 5 (1.59%) DV Cleared
9 4 (1.27%) AWS Certified Developer
9 4 (1.27%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (1.27%) PhD
10 1 (0.32%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.32%) CEH
10 1 (0.32%) CISSP
10 1 (0.32%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.32%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.32%) PMP
10 1 (0.32%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (9.21%) Data Quality
2 18 (5.71%) QA
3 8 (2.54%) NIST
4 7 (2.22%) PMO
5 6 (1.90%) ISO 20022
6 4 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.27%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.27%) SLA
7 3 (0.95%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.95%) GDPR
8 2 (0.63%) WCAG
9 1 (0.32%) GRC
System Software
1 92 (29.21%) Docker
2 9 (2.86%) Squid
3 4 (1.27%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.32%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 160 (50.79%) Terraform
2 78 (24.76%) Kubernetes
3 32 (10.16%) Grafana
4 27 (8.57%) Prometheus
5 14 (4.44%) Ansible
6 12 (3.81%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (2.86%) FortiGate
7 9 (2.86%) Kibana
8 7 (2.22%) Consul
9 3 (0.95%) ITRS Geneos
9 3 (0.95%) Karpenter
9 3 (0.95%) Puppet
9 3 (0.95%) Salt
10 2 (0.63%) Opsgenie
11 1 (0.32%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.32%) Rancher
Vendors
1 16 (5.08%) Microsoft
2 13 (4.13%) Databricks
3 12 (3.81%) Splunk
4 11 (3.49%) Dynatrace
5 9 (2.86%) Confluent
5 9 (2.86%) Red Hat
6 8 (2.54%) OpenAI
7 7 (2.22%) Atlassian
8 5 (1.59%) Sybase
9 4 (1.27%) IBM
9 4 (1.27%) Oracle
9 4 (1.27%) Qualys
9 4 (1.27%) Tenable
10 3 (0.95%) AVEVA
10 3 (0.95%) Fortinet
10 3 (0.95%) Netlify
10 3 (0.95%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.63%) Informatica
11 2 (0.63%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.63%) SAP