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 28 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 159 203 186
Rank change year-on-year +44 -17 -18
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 256 198 271
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.80% 1.24% 1.38%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.08% 3.06% 3.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 143 196
10th Percentile £373 £414 £406
25th Percentile £414 £488 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -11.30% +9.52% -16.33%
75th Percentile £630 £756 £633
90th Percentile £688 £835 £713
England median daily rate £500 £551 £538
% change year-on-year -9.17% +2.42% -10.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £43.75 - -
25th Percentile £45.63 - -
Median hourly rate £50.00 - -
75th Percentile £53.13 - -
90th Percentile £54.25 - -
England median hourly rate £50.00 - £77.50

All Cloud 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 6,275 6,477 7,585
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.17% 40.71% 38.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,252 4,403 5,576
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
25th Percentile £425 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 120 40 68
10th Percentile £18.25 £23.33 £18.65
25th Percentile £22.88 £24.33 £21.25
Median hourly rate £25.74 £35.00 £37.75
Median % change year-on-year -26.47% -7.28% +37.27%
75th Percentile £46.19 £59.25 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.03 £74.13
England median hourly rate £25.47 £32.75 £26.50
% change year-on-year -22.23% +23.58% +17.78%

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 28 November 2025.

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 28 November 2025. 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 +19 34 £563 +8.96% 14
South London -2 6 £621 - 2
West London -10 4 - - 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 15 (5.86%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (5.47%) Apache Spark
3 11 (4.30%) Confluence
4 9 (3.52%) Apache
5 5 (1.95%) CMS
5 5 (1.95%) Headless CMS
6 4 (1.56%) nginx
7 1 (0.39%) CICS
7 1 (0.39%) JBoss
7 1 (0.39%) Jupyter
Applications
1 3 (1.17%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.39%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 255 (99.61%) AWS
1 255 (99.61%) Serverless
2 162 (63.28%) Amazon S3
3 84 (32.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 66 (25.78%) Amazon ECS
5 60 (23.44%) AWS CloudFormation
6 57 (22.27%) Amazon EC2
7 55 (21.48%) GitHub
8 38 (14.84%) GitHub Actions
9 35 (13.67%) Amazon EKS
10 30 (11.72%) AWS Step Functions
11 27 (10.55%) Amazon Kinesis
11 27 (10.55%) Amazon SQS
11 27 (10.55%) Snowflake
12 24 (9.38%) AWS Fargate
13 23 (8.98%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 20 (7.81%) Amazon EMR
14 20 (7.81%) Azure
15 17 (6.64%) Amazon Cognito
16 12 (4.69%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.13%) VPN
2 7 (2.73%) DNS
3 5 (1.95%) OpenLDAP
4 4 (1.56%) Firewall
4 4 (1.56%) SSL
5 2 (0.78%) DHCP
5 2 (0.78%) Kerberos
5 2 (0.78%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.39%) DKIM
6 1 (0.39%) NAS
6 1 (0.39%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (0.39%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (24.22%) Amazon RDS
2 61 (23.83%) DynamoDB
3 42 (16.41%) PostgreSQL
4 29 (11.33%) Amazon Athena
5 26 (10.16%) Amazon Redshift
6 21 (8.20%) Data Warehouse
7 19 (7.42%) Amazon Aurora
8 18 (7.03%) Relational Database
9 13 (5.08%) Tableau
10 10 (3.91%) Data Lake
11 8 (3.13%) Metadata
11 8 (3.13%) NoSQL
12 7 (2.73%) Power BI
12 7 (2.73%) RDBMS
13 6 (2.34%) Amazon QuickSight
13 6 (2.34%) Big Data
13 6 (2.34%) Redis
14 5 (1.95%) Apache Iceberg
14 5 (1.95%) DB2
14 5 (1.95%) Redshift Spectrum
Development Applications
1 39 (15.23%) Git
2 34 (13.28%) Jenkins
3 30 (11.72%) GitLab
4 18 (7.03%) JIRA
5 12 (4.69%) JUnit
6 10 (3.91%) Cucumber
7 9 (3.52%) Cypress.io
8 7 (2.73%) Maven
9 4 (1.56%) Postman
10 3 (1.17%) Bitbucket
10 3 (1.17%) Selenium
11 2 (0.78%) CircleCI
11 2 (0.78%) REST Assured
11 2 (0.78%) Serenity BDD
11 2 (0.78%) SoapUI
11 2 (0.78%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.78%) Visual Studio Code
12 1 (0.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.39%) MLflow
12 1 (0.39%) RStudio
General
1 69 (26.95%) Social Skills
2 34 (13.28%) Public Sector
3 29 (11.33%) Finance
4 25 (9.77%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (5.08%) Banking
6 5 (1.95%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (1.95%) Front Office
7 4 (1.56%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.17%) Marketing
9 2 (0.78%) Aviation
9 2 (0.78%) Digital Healthcare
9 2 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.78%) Military
9 2 (0.78%) Private Banking
9 2 (0.78%) Publishing
10 1 (0.39%) Advertising
10 1 (0.39%) Games
10 1 (0.39%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.39%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 51 (19.92%) Developer
2 49 (19.14%) AWS Engineer
3 45 (17.58%) Senior
4 37 (14.45%) DevOps Engineer
5 26 (10.16%) Architect
6 25 (9.77%) Data Engineer
7 24 (9.38%) Lead
8 21 (8.20%) Software Engineer
9 19 (7.42%) AWS Developer
10 18 (7.03%) AWS DevOps
11 13 (5.08%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 12 (4.69%) Full-Stack Developer
12 12 (4.69%) Java Developer
12 12 (4.69%) Python Engineer
13 10 (3.91%) AWS Data Engineer
14 9 (3.52%) Java Engineer
14 9 (3.52%) Senior Developer
15 8 (3.13%) AWS Architect
15 8 (3.13%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 8 (3.13%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (22.27%) Node.js
2 37 (14.45%) Kafka
2 37 (14.45%) React
3 27 (10.55%) RESTful
4 23 (8.98%) Spring
5 18 (7.03%) Spring Boot
6 17 (6.64%) REST
7 15 (5.86%) Jest
7 15 (5.86%) OAuth
8 13 (5.08%) AngularJS
8 13 (5.08%) AWS CDK
8 13 (5.08%) GraphQL
9 11 (4.30%) CSS
10 9 (3.52%) boto
10 9 (3.52%) pytest
11 8 (3.13%) JSON
11 8 (3.13%) JWT
11 8 (3.13%) PySpark
12 7 (2.73%) Next.js
12 7 (2.73%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 54 (21.09%) Cloud Native
2 21 (8.20%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (4.69%) Data Protection Act
4 11 (4.30%) Product Ownership
5 7 (2.73%) Distributed Architecture
5 7 (2.73%) Mobile App
6 6 (2.34%) Mainframe
7 5 (1.95%) DataPower
7 5 (1.95%) Replication
8 4 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.56%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.17%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.17%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (0.78%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.78%) Derivative
10 2 (0.78%) Equities
10 2 (0.78%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.78%) Onboarding
11 1 (0.39%) Equity Derivative
11 1 (0.39%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 18 (7.03%) Linux
2 2 (0.78%) Unix
2 2 (0.78%) Windows
3 1 (0.39%) AIX
3 1 (0.39%) Amazon Linux
3 1 (0.39%) Android
3 1 (0.39%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.39%) Solaris
3 1 (0.39%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (54.30%) CI/CD
2 112 (43.75%) DevOps
3 76 (29.69%) Agile
4 72 (28.13%) Infrastructure as Code
5 65 (25.39%) Microservices
6 46 (17.97%) Problem-Solving
7 41 (16.02%) Data Pipeline
8 40 (15.63%) Containerisation
9 37 (14.45%) Analytics
9 37 (14.45%) Software Engineering
10 35 (13.67%) Data Modelling
10 35 (13.67%) Event-Driven
11 34 (13.28%) Data Engineering
12 32 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
13 30 (11.72%) ETL
13 30 (11.72%) Observability
14 29 (11.33%) Mentoring
15 28 (10.94%) Test Automation
16 26 (10.16%) AI
17 25 (9.77%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 141 (55.08%) Python
2 65 (25.39%) SQL
3 55 (21.48%) Java
4 47 (18.36%) TypeScript
5 37 (14.45%) JavaScript
6 19 (7.42%) Bash
7 10 (3.91%) Go
8 7 (2.73%) PowerShell
9 6 (2.34%) JSX
9 6 (2.34%) Korn
9 6 (2.34%) Ruby
9 6 (2.34%) Shell Script
10 4 (1.56%) Groovy
10 4 (1.56%) Scala
11 2 (0.78%) Bicep
11 2 (0.78%) C#
11 2 (0.78%) Perl
11 2 (0.78%) PromQL
11 2 (0.78%) R
12 1 (0.39%) C++
Qualifications
1 72 (28.13%) Security Cleared
2 61 (23.83%) SC Cleared
3 31 (12.11%) AWS Certification
4 13 (5.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 9 (3.52%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (2.73%) Degree
7 6 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 3 (1.17%) AWS Certified Developer
9 3 (1.17%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.17%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.39%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (8.59%) QA
2 15 (5.86%) Data Quality
3 8 (3.13%) GDPR
4 7 (2.73%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.56%) WCAG
6 2 (0.78%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.39%) GxP
7 1 (0.39%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.39%) NCSC
System Software
1 61 (23.83%) Docker
2 5 (1.95%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.78%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.39%) HDFS
4 1 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 88 (34.38%) Terraform
2 55 (21.48%) Kubernetes
3 12 (4.69%) Ansible
4 11 (4.30%) Prometheus
5 10 (3.91%) Grafana
6 4 (1.56%) Rancher
7 3 (1.17%) ITRS Geneos
7 3 (1.17%) Kibana
7 3 (1.17%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.78%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.78%) SELinux
9 1 (0.39%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.39%) Packer
9 1 (0.39%) Puppet
Vendors
1 15 (5.86%) Microsoft
2 14 (5.47%) ServiceNow
3 13 (5.08%) Databricks
4 10 (3.91%) CA Agile Central
5 6 (2.34%) Dynatrace
5 6 (2.34%) IBM
5 6 (2.34%) Oracle
6 5 (1.95%) Atlassian
6 5 (1.95%) Sybase
7 4 (1.56%) Pega
7 4 (1.56%) Splunk
8 3 (1.17%) Cloudera
8 3 (1.17%) Google
8 3 (1.17%) OpenAI
8 3 (1.17%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.78%) Avaloq
9 2 (0.78%) Cisco
10 1 (0.39%) Genesys
10 1 (0.39%) Murex
10 1 (0.39%) NetApp