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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 170 160 191
Rank change year-on-year -10 +31 -5
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 332 235 218
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.67% 1.73% 1.30%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.03% 4.04% 3.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 240 176 152
10th Percentile £380 £400 £378
25th Percentile £450 £461 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.45% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £638 £630 £600
90th Percentile £739 £788 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%
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 £75.00 £45.00 -
% change year-on-year +66.67% - -

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 8,244 5,822 6,788
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.48% 42.84% 40.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,619 3,982 4,957
10th Percentile £363 £344 £350
25th Percentile £447 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.47% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £749 £775 £800
England median daily rate £523 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.05% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 82 60
10th Percentile £19.50 £22.55 £20.00
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.83 £22.24
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +7.67% -50.91%
75th Percentile £55.19 £47.50 £40.75
90th Percentile £74.63 £67.50 £66.10
England median hourly rate £39.00 £25.15 £22.00
% change year-on-year +55.07% +14.32% -36.96%

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 24 July 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 24 July 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 -8 38 £625 - 9
South London 0 17 £463 -25.64% 1
West London -8 17 £725 +28.32% 5
East London - 1 £500 - 1
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 33 (9.94%) Apache Airflow
2 24 (7.23%) Confluence
3 21 (6.33%) Apache Spark
4 12 (3.61%) Apache
5 6 (1.81%) CICS
6 4 (1.20%) nginx
7 2 (0.60%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.60%) SAS
8 1 (0.30%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.30%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (3.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.90%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.90%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 332 (100.00%) AWS
2 328 (98.80%) Serverless
3 238 (71.69%) Amazon S3
4 108 (32.53%) Amazon EC2
5 104 (31.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 91 (27.41%) Amazon ECS
7 74 (22.29%) Amazon EKS
8 66 (19.88%) GitHub
9 58 (17.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 53 (15.96%) AWS CloudFormation
11 51 (15.36%) AWS Step Functions
12 50 (15.06%) GitHub Actions
13 49 (14.76%) Amazon SQS
14 37 (11.14%) Azure
15 35 (10.54%) Amazon EMR
16 30 (9.04%) Power Platform
17 29 (8.73%) dbt
18 24 (7.23%) Snowflake
19 23 (6.93%) Amazon EventBridge
20 22 (6.63%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.92%) Firewall
2 10 (3.01%) DNS
3 7 (2.11%) TCP/IP
4 6 (1.81%) VPN
5 5 (1.51%) Network Security
6 4 (1.20%) OpenVPN
6 4 (1.20%) WAN
7 3 (0.90%) Reverse Proxy
8 2 (0.60%) HTTP
9 1 (0.30%) 4G
9 1 (0.30%) 5G
9 1 (0.30%) BGP
9 1 (0.30%) Internet
9 1 (0.30%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (23.80%) Amazon RDS
2 67 (20.18%) DynamoDB
3 66 (19.88%) Amazon Athena
4 57 (17.17%) Amazon Redshift
5 30 (9.04%) Power BI
6 28 (8.43%) PostgreSQL
7 23 (6.93%) Data Warehouse
8 20 (6.02%) Tableau
9 19 (5.72%) Amazon Aurora
10 17 (5.12%) SQL Server
11 13 (3.92%) Metadata
12 12 (3.61%) Data Lake
13 10 (3.01%) NoSQL
14 9 (2.71%) Db2
14 9 (2.71%) MongoDB
15 8 (2.41%) Amazon QuickSight
15 8 (2.41%) Apache Hudi
15 8 (2.41%) Apache Iceberg
15 8 (2.41%) Big Data
15 8 (2.41%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 66 (19.88%) Jenkins
2 65 (19.58%) GitLab
3 59 (17.77%) Git
4 33 (9.94%) JIRA
5 15 (4.52%) Cucumber
6 13 (3.92%) Cypress.io
7 12 (3.61%) Bitbucket
8 7 (2.11%) JUnit
8 7 (2.11%) Mocha
9 6 (1.81%) Artifactory
9 6 (1.81%) MSTest
9 6 (1.81%) tSQLt
10 5 (1.51%) Gatling
10 5 (1.51%) Postman
10 5 (1.51%) REST Assured
11 4 (1.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (1.20%) Mockito
11 4 (1.20%) Selenium
12 3 (0.90%) Claude Code
12 3 (0.90%) SonarQube
General
1 85 (25.60%) Social Skills
2 62 (18.67%) Finance
3 55 (16.57%) Public Sector
4 30 (9.04%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (5.42%) Banking
6 10 (3.01%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (2.41%) Law
8 6 (1.81%) Back Office
9 5 (1.51%) Front Office
9 5 (1.51%) Military
10 4 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.90%) Police
11 3 (0.90%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.60%) Billing
12 2 (0.60%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.60%) Games
12 2 (0.60%) Local Government
12 2 (0.60%) Marketing
12 2 (0.60%) Retail
Job Titles
1 75 (22.59%) AWS Engineer
2 68 (20.48%) Senior
3 54 (16.27%) Data Engineer
4 53 (15.96%) Developer
5 45 (13.55%) Lead
6 43 (12.95%) Architect
7 26 (7.83%) AWS Developer
7 26 (7.83%) DevOps Engineer
7 26 (7.83%) Software Engineer
8 21 (6.33%) Cloud Engineer
9 20 (6.02%) AWS Architect
9 20 (6.02%) AWS Data Engineer
10 17 (5.12%) Python Developer
11 16 (4.82%) Technical Leader
12 15 (4.52%) Senior Software Engineer
13 14 (4.22%) Python Engineer
13 14 (4.22%) Senior Data Engineer
14 13 (3.92%) Analyst
15 12 (3.61%) AWS DevOps
16 11 (3.31%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (15.06%) React
2 42 (12.65%) RESTful
3 38 (11.45%) Kafka
4 36 (10.84%) PySpark
5 32 (9.64%) REST
6 30 (9.04%) Node.js
7 29 (8.73%) FastAPI
8 22 (6.63%) GraphQL
9 21 (6.33%) Spring Boot
10 19 (5.72%) .NET
10 19 (5.72%) Flask
11 18 (5.42%) Spring
12 15 (4.52%) AWS CDK
12 15 (4.52%) Pandas
13 13 (3.92%) AngularJS
13 13 (3.92%) Next.js
14 12 (3.61%) CSS
14 12 (3.61%) HTML
14 12 (3.61%) JSON
14 12 (3.61%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 77 (23.19%) Cloud Native
2 18 (5.42%) Product Ownership
3 17 (5.12%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (3.01%) AI Agents
5 9 (2.71%) Fixed Income
6 8 (2.41%) Security Posture
7 7 (2.11%) Greenfield Project
7 7 (2.11%) Hedge funds
8 6 (1.81%) DataPower
8 6 (1.81%) Mainframe
8 6 (1.81%) NHS
8 6 (1.81%) Online Banking
9 5 (1.51%) Cloud Security Posture
9 5 (1.51%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.51%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.51%) Equities
9 5 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.51%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.20%) Distributed Computing
10 4 (1.20%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 31 (9.34%) Linux
2 15 (4.52%) Unix
3 8 (2.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (1.81%) zOS
5 4 (1.20%) Windows
6 3 (0.90%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.30%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 199 (59.94%) CI/CD
2 132 (39.76%) Infrastructure as Code
3 128 (38.55%) DevOps
4 119 (35.84%) Agile
5 75 (22.59%) AI
6 63 (18.98%) Data Engineering
7 62 (18.67%) Microservices
8 59 (17.77%) Data Pipeline
9 57 (17.17%) Software Engineering
9 57 (17.17%) Test Automation
10 52 (15.66%) Containerisation
10 52 (15.66%) ETL
11 51 (15.36%) Analytics
11 51 (15.36%) Event-Driven
12 45 (13.55%) Problem-Solving
13 43 (12.95%) Data Modelling
13 43 (12.95%) Migration
14 41 (12.35%) Continuous Improvement
14 41 (12.35%) Platform Engineering
14 41 (12.35%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 208 (62.65%) Python
2 113 (34.04%) SQL
3 57 (17.17%) Java
4 51 (15.36%) TypeScript
5 40 (12.05%) JavaScript
6 33 (9.94%) Bash
7 31 (9.34%) C#
8 20 (6.02%) Shell Script
9 16 (4.82%) Scala
10 10 (3.01%) PowerShell
11 7 (2.11%) T-SQL
12 6 (1.81%) JCL
13 5 (1.51%) SPARQL
14 4 (1.20%) Cypher
14 4 (1.20%) Go
14 4 (1.20%) Gremlin
15 3 (0.90%) Bicep
16 2 (0.60%) C
16 2 (0.60%) Groovy
17 1 (0.30%) Haskell
Qualifications
1 100 (30.12%) Security Cleared
2 91 (27.41%) SC Cleared
3 32 (9.64%) AWS Certification
4 14 (4.22%) DV Cleared
5 13 (3.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 13 (3.92%) BPSS Clearance
5 13 (3.92%) Degree
6 8 (2.41%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 8 (2.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 8 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.20%) DBS Check
7 4 (1.20%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.90%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.30%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.30%) PhD
10 1 (0.30%) SAFe Agilist
10 1 (0.30%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (13.55%) Data Quality
2 17 (5.12%) QA
3 7 (2.11%) PMO
4 4 (1.20%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.20%) SLA
5 2 (0.60%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.30%) GDPR
6 1 (0.30%) GRC
6 1 (0.30%) NIST
6 1 (0.30%) WCAG
System Software
1 91 (27.41%) Docker
2 7 (2.11%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.51%) Squid
4 1 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 149 (44.88%) Terraform
2 70 (21.08%) Kubernetes
3 34 (10.24%) Grafana
4 26 (7.83%) Prometheus
5 23 (6.93%) Ansible
6 8 (2.41%) Puppet
7 5 (1.51%) Kibana
7 5 (1.51%) Salt
8 4 (1.20%) FortiGate
8 4 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.90%) Packer
10 2 (0.60%) Consul
10 2 (0.60%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.30%) Argo
11 1 (0.30%) Control-M
11 1 (0.30%) Istio
Vendors
1 14 (4.22%) Splunk
2 13 (3.92%) Microsoft
3 12 (3.61%) Informatica
4 8 (2.41%) Databricks
5 7 (2.11%) Red Hat
6 6 (1.81%) OpenAI
6 6 (1.81%) Oracle
6 6 (1.81%) ServiceNow
7 5 (1.51%) Dynatrace
7 5 (1.51%) Sybase
8 4 (1.20%) Fortinet
9 3 (0.90%) Brio
9 3 (0.90%) Netlify
9 3 (0.90%) PagerDuty
9 3 (0.90%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.60%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.60%) Charles River
10 2 (0.60%) Confluent
10 2 (0.60%) Google
10 2 (0.60%) Murex