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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 173 160 207
Rank change year-on-year -13 +47 -15
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 331 219 195
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.65% 1.66% 1.22%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.00% 3.82% 2.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 245 165 140
10th Percentile £383 £403 £375
25th Percentile £450 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £530 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% +0.95% -2.33%
75th Percentile £650 £600 £641
90th Percentile £763 £678 £738
England median daily rate £513 £500 £535
% change year-on-year +2.50% -6.54% +1.90%
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 £72.00 £45.00 -
% change year-on-year +60.00% - -

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 8,272 5,730 6,584
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.23% 43.37% 41.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,666 3,912 4,684
10th Percentile £360 £340 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £541 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -3.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £647 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +4.90% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 94 51
10th Percentile £19.13 £23.00 £20.00
25th Percentile £23.14 £25.15 £23.80
Median hourly rate £34.62 £31.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.66% +3.33% -36.84%
75th Percentile £55.63 £47.50 £44.56
90th Percentile £78.65 £78.75 £66.00
England median hourly rate £34.18 £26.45 £30.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -11.83% -9.09%

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 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 4 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 -17 37 £663 -1.85% 13
West London -7 19 £725 +68.10% 5
South London 0 14 £463 -25.64%
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 36 (10.88%) Apache Airflow
2 27 (8.16%) Confluence
3 19 (5.74%) Apache Spark
4 13 (3.93%) Apache
5 4 (1.21%) CICS
5 4 (1.21%) SAS
6 3 (0.91%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.60%) PowerExchange
8 1 (0.30%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.30%) nginx
8 1 (0.30%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.30%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.30%) WebLogic Portal
Applications
1 4 (1.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.91%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.60%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.30%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.30%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 331 (100.00%) AWS
2 327 (98.79%) Serverless
3 238 (71.90%) Amazon S3
4 101 (30.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 93 (28.10%) Amazon EC2
5 93 (28.10%) Amazon ECS
6 71 (21.45%) GitHub
7 70 (21.15%) Amazon EKS
8 58 (17.52%) AWS Step Functions
9 57 (17.22%) GitHub Actions
10 54 (16.31%) Amazon SQS
11 49 (14.80%) AWS CloudFormation
12 46 (13.90%) Azure
13 44 (13.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 35 (10.57%) Amazon EMR
15 34 (10.27%) Amazon EventBridge
16 30 (9.06%) dbt
17 28 (8.46%) Power Platform
17 28 (8.46%) Snowflake
18 20 (6.04%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.42%) Firewall
2 6 (1.81%) DNS
3 4 (1.21%) Network Security
3 4 (1.21%) WAN
4 3 (0.91%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.91%) VPN
5 2 (0.60%) HTTP
5 2 (0.60%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.30%) BGP
6 1 (0.30%) Internet
6 1 (0.30%) OpenVPN
6 1 (0.30%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (24.47%) Amazon RDS
2 68 (20.54%) Amazon Athena
3 63 (19.03%) DynamoDB
4 46 (13.90%) Amazon Redshift
5 34 (10.27%) Data Warehouse
6 28 (8.46%) Power BI
7 27 (8.16%) PostgreSQL
8 21 (6.34%) Amazon Aurora
9 19 (5.74%) Metadata
10 15 (4.53%) Tableau
11 14 (4.23%) NoSQL
12 13 (3.93%) SQL Server
13 10 (3.02%) Apache Iceberg
14 9 (2.72%) Data Lake
15 8 (2.42%) Amazon QuickSight
15 8 (2.42%) Big Data
15 8 (2.42%) BigQuery
15 8 (2.42%) Delta Lake
15 8 (2.42%) MongoDB
15 8 (2.42%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 67 (20.24%) Git
2 66 (19.94%) Jenkins
3 58 (17.52%) GitLab
4 35 (10.57%) JIRA
5 14 (4.23%) Cucumber
6 13 (3.93%) Cypress.io
7 10 (3.02%) Bitbucket
8 9 (2.72%) Selenium
9 5 (1.51%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 5 (1.51%) Claude Code
9 5 (1.51%) Gatling
9 5 (1.51%) Mockito
9 5 (1.51%) Postman
9 5 (1.51%) REST Assured
10 4 (1.21%) Artifactory
10 4 (1.21%) JUnit
10 4 (1.21%) Mocha
11 3 (0.91%) Maven
11 3 (0.91%) MSTest
11 3 (0.91%) tSQLt
General
1 83 (25.08%) Social Skills
2 60 (18.13%) Finance
3 49 (14.80%) Public Sector
4 31 (9.37%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (7.25%) Banking
6 9 (2.72%) Back Office
6 9 (2.72%) Law
7 7 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (1.81%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (1.81%) Front Office
8 6 (1.81%) Military
9 4 (1.21%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (0.91%) Marketing
10 3 (0.91%) Police
11 2 (0.60%) Games
11 2 (0.60%) Local Government
11 2 (0.60%) Retail
11 2 (0.60%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.30%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.30%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 74 (22.36%) AWS Engineer
2 72 (21.75%) Senior
3 69 (20.85%) Data Engineer
4 49 (14.80%) Developer
5 46 (13.90%) Lead
6 42 (12.69%) Architect
7 27 (8.16%) DevOps Engineer
8 26 (7.85%) Software Engineer
9 23 (6.95%) AWS Data Engineer
9 23 (6.95%) AWS Developer
10 21 (6.34%) Cloud Engineer
11 19 (5.74%) AWS Architect
12 18 (5.44%) Senior Data Engineer
12 18 (5.44%) Technical Leader
13 15 (4.53%) Platform Engineer
13 15 (4.53%) Python Developer
13 15 (4.53%) Senior Software Engineer
14 13 (3.93%) Python Engineer
15 11 (3.32%) AWS DevOps
15 11 (3.32%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 154 (46.53%) Terraform
2 50 (15.11%) React
3 39 (11.78%) Kafka
3 39 (11.78%) PySpark
4 36 (10.88%) REST
4 36 (10.88%) RESTful
5 34 (10.27%) FastAPI
6 30 (9.06%) Node.js
7 22 (6.65%) GraphQL
8 21 (6.34%) Flask
8 21 (6.34%) Spring Boot
9 20 (6.04%) Spring
10 18 (5.44%) .NET
11 15 (4.53%) Pandas
12 14 (4.23%) AWS CDK
12 14 (4.23%) Next.js
13 12 (3.63%) Playwright
14 11 (3.32%) AngularJS
15 10 (3.02%) JSON
16 9 (2.72%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 90 (27.19%) Cloud Native
2 23 (6.95%) Product Ownership
3 21 (6.34%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (4.23%) AI Agents
5 8 (2.42%) Fixed Income
6 7 (2.11%) Hedge funds
6 7 (2.11%) Security Posture
7 6 (1.81%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (1.81%) NHS
8 5 (1.51%) Cloud Security Posture
8 5 (1.51%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.51%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.51%) Mainframe
8 5 (1.51%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.21%) DataPower
9 4 (1.21%) Enterprise Cloud
9 4 (1.21%) Legacy Code
9 4 (1.21%) Low-Code
9 4 (1.21%) Online Banking
9 4 (1.21%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 35 (10.57%) Linux
2 15 (4.53%) Unix
3 8 (2.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.21%) Windows
4 4 (1.21%) zOS
5 3 (0.91%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 206 (62.24%) CI/CD
2 144 (43.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 130 (39.27%) Agile
3 130 (39.27%) DevOps
4 80 (24.17%) AI
5 69 (20.85%) Data Engineering
6 68 (20.54%) Data Pipeline
7 67 (20.24%) Software Engineering
8 65 (19.64%) Test Automation
9 64 (19.34%) Event-Driven
10 59 (17.82%) Containerisation
11 57 (17.22%) Microservices
12 56 (16.92%) Analytics
13 51 (15.41%) Technical Leadership
14 50 (15.11%) Continuous Improvement
14 50 (15.11%) ETL
15 49 (14.80%) Data Modelling
15 49 (14.80%) Observability
16 48 (14.50%) Platform Engineering
17 45 (13.60%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 211 (63.75%) Python
2 114 (34.44%) SQL
3 57 (17.22%) TypeScript
4 54 (16.31%) Java
5 37 (11.18%) JavaScript
6 33 (9.97%) Bash
7 26 (7.85%) C#
8 17 (5.14%) Shell Script
9 16 (4.83%) Scala
10 10 (3.02%) PowerShell
11 5 (1.51%) 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%) SPARQL
12 4 (1.21%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.91%) Bicep
13 3 (0.91%) Groovy
14 2 (0.60%) C
Qualifications
1 98 (29.61%) Security Cleared
2 89 (26.89%) SC Cleared
3 35 (10.57%) AWS Certification
4 18 (5.44%) BPSS Clearance
5 17 (5.14%) DV Cleared
6 14 (4.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 13 (3.93%) Degree
8 9 (2.72%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 7 (2.11%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 7 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (0.91%) DBS Check
10 3 (0.91%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.60%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.30%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.30%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.30%) PMP
12 1 (0.30%) SAFe Agilist
12 1 (0.30%) SnowPro
12 1 (0.30%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (16.62%) Data Quality
2 30 (9.06%) QA
3 3 (0.91%) Accessibility
3 3 (0.91%) PMO
4 2 (0.60%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 93 (28.10%) Docker
2 5 (1.51%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.60%) Squid
4 1 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 71 (21.45%) Kubernetes
2 33 (9.97%) Grafana
3 26 (7.85%) Ansible
4 25 (7.55%) Prometheus
5 8 (2.42%) Kibana
6 7 (2.11%) Puppet
7 4 (1.21%) Salt
8 3 (0.91%) Packer
9 2 (0.60%) Argo
9 2 (0.60%) Control-M
9 2 (0.60%) Istio
10 1 (0.30%) FortiGate
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
10 1 (0.30%) Rancher
10 1 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 19 (5.74%) Microsoft
2 15 (4.53%) Informatica
3 14 (4.23%) Splunk
4 13 (3.93%) Databricks
4 13 (3.93%) Oracle
5 6 (1.81%) ServiceNow
6 5 (1.51%) OpenAI
7 4 (1.21%) Red Hat
8 3 (0.91%) Brio
8 3 (0.91%) Dynatrace
8 3 (0.91%) Fortinet
8 3 (0.91%) PagerDuty
8 3 (0.91%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.60%) Confluent
9 2 (0.60%) Sybase
10 1 (0.30%) Braze
10 1 (0.30%) CheckPoint
10 1 (0.30%) Denodo
10 1 (0.30%) Murex
10 1 (0.30%) Netlify