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

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 179 169
Rank change year-on-year +47 -10 +3
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 278 197 267
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.97% 1.40% 1.47%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.45% 3.42% 3.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 200 151 196
10th Percentile £368 £436 £403
25th Percentile £414 £492 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £600 £519
Median % change year-on-year -14.58% +15.66% -16.33%
75th Percentile £650 £788 £606
90th Percentile £700 £838 £713
England median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -12.50%

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 6,248 5,761 6,856
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.29% 41.02% 37.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,270 3,871 5,068
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
25th Percentile £425 £454 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £640 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £765
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 44 66
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.56 £17.50
25th Percentile £24.13 £23.80 £20.69
Median hourly rate £26.40 £30.80 £35.32
Median % change year-on-year -14.27% -12.80% +36.64%
75th Percentile £55.44 £46.90 £58.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £64.63 £71.25
England median hourly rate £27.50 £28.46 £22.50
% change year-on-year -3.36% +26.47% -

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 11 January 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 11 January 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 +14 41 £558 +7.21% 27
South London -4 7 £550 +17.33% 6
West London -12 7 £650 +4.00% 5
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 (5.40%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (5.04%) Apache Spark
3 11 (3.96%) Confluence
4 7 (2.52%) Apache
5 2 (0.72%) nginx
6 1 (0.36%) CICS
6 1 (0.36%) Jupyter
Applications
1 6 (2.16%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 277 (99.64%) AWS
1 277 (99.64%) Serverless
2 175 (62.95%) Amazon S3
3 83 (29.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 77 (27.70%) GitHub
5 68 (24.46%) Amazon ECS
6 61 (21.94%) AWS CloudFormation
7 60 (21.58%) GitHub Actions
8 56 (20.14%) Amazon EC2
9 45 (16.19%) Amazon EKS
10 38 (13.67%) AWS Step Functions
11 33 (11.87%) Amazon Kinesis
12 28 (10.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 26 (9.35%) Azure
13 26 (9.35%) Snowflake
14 22 (7.91%) Amazon SQS
15 18 (6.47%) Amazon EventBridge
16 17 (6.12%) Amazon EMR
17 16 (5.76%) AWS Fargate
18 13 (4.68%) Amazon MSK
Communications & Networking
1 16 (5.76%) DNS
2 5 (1.80%) OpenLDAP
2 5 (1.80%) VPN
3 3 (1.08%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (0.72%) Firewall
4 2 (0.72%) Kerberos
4 2 (0.72%) SSL
5 1 (0.36%) DKIM
5 1 (0.36%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (23.38%) Amazon RDS
2 52 (18.71%) DynamoDB
3 45 (16.19%) PostgreSQL
4 38 (13.67%) Amazon Athena
5 34 (12.23%) Amazon Redshift
6 28 (10.07%) Amazon Aurora
7 18 (6.47%) Data Warehouse
8 16 (5.76%) Tableau
9 15 (5.40%) Relational Database
10 12 (4.32%) Metadata
10 12 (4.32%) NoSQL
11 11 (3.96%) Apache Iceberg
12 10 (3.60%) Data Lake
12 10 (3.60%) Redis
13 9 (3.24%) Amazon QuickSight
14 8 (2.88%) MySQL
15 7 (2.52%) Big Data
15 7 (2.52%) Pinecone
15 7 (2.52%) Power BI
16 5 (1.80%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 45 (16.19%) Git
1 45 (16.19%) GitLab
2 44 (15.83%) Jenkins
3 19 (6.83%) JIRA
4 9 (3.24%) Cypress.io
5 5 (1.80%) Cucumber
6 4 (1.44%) Bitbucket
6 4 (1.44%) JUnit
6 4 (1.44%) Terragrunt
7 3 (1.08%) Postman
7 3 (1.08%) Selenium
7 3 (1.08%) Snyk
7 3 (1.08%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (0.72%) CircleCI
8 2 (0.72%) Serenity BDD
8 2 (0.72%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.72%) Storybook
9 1 (0.36%) MLflow
9 1 (0.36%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.36%) RStudio
General
1 67 (24.10%) Social Skills
2 37 (13.31%) Public Sector
3 30 (10.79%) Finance
4 25 (8.99%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (5.76%) Banking
6 8 (2.88%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (2.52%) Front Office
8 5 (1.80%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.08%) Marketing
10 3 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.72%) Digital Healthcare
11 2 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.72%) Military
11 2 (0.72%) Private Banking
12 1 (0.36%) Advertising
12 1 (0.36%) Aviation
12 1 (0.36%) Games
12 1 (0.36%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.36%) Police
Job Titles
1 55 (19.78%) Developer
2 49 (17.63%) AWS Engineer
3 42 (15.11%) Senior
4 40 (14.39%) DevOps Engineer
5 38 (13.67%) Architect
6 35 (12.59%) Data Engineer
7 26 (9.35%) Lead
8 20 (7.19%) Software Engineer
9 17 (6.12%) AWS Architect
9 17 (6.12%) AWS DevOps
9 17 (6.12%) Python Engineer
10 16 (5.76%) AWS Developer
11 14 (5.04%) Full-Stack Developer
12 13 (4.68%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 13 (4.68%) Cloud Architect
13 11 (3.96%) AWS Data Engineer
14 10 (3.60%) Cloud Engineer
14 10 (3.60%) Data Architect
15 9 (3.24%) Snowflake Engineer
16 8 (2.88%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (21.22%) Node.js
2 51 (18.35%) Kafka
3 46 (16.55%) React
4 30 (10.79%) RESTful
5 24 (8.63%) REST
6 19 (6.83%) OAuth
6 19 (6.83%) Spring Boot
7 18 (6.47%) boto
7 18 (6.47%) Spring
8 17 (6.12%) AngularJS
9 15 (5.40%) AWS CDK
9 15 (5.40%) CSS
10 12 (4.32%) Next.js
11 11 (3.96%) pytest
12 10 (3.60%) PySpark
13 9 (3.24%) Elastic Stack
13 9 (3.24%) FastAPI
13 9 (3.24%) HTML
13 9 (3.24%) JSON
14 8 (2.88%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 62 (22.30%) Cloud Native
2 27 (9.71%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (3.96%) Data Protection Act
4 9 (3.24%) Product Ownership
5 7 (2.52%) Mobile App
6 6 (2.16%) Mainframe
7 5 (1.80%) DataPower
7 5 (1.80%) Distributed Architecture
7 5 (1.80%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (1.80%) Replication
8 4 (1.44%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.44%) Derivative
8 4 (1.44%) Equities
8 4 (1.44%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.08%) Equity Derivative
9 3 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.08%) PACS
9 3 (1.08%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 2 (0.72%) AI Agents
10 2 (0.72%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 23 (8.27%) Linux
2 3 (1.08%) Unix
3 2 (0.72%) Windows
4 1 (0.36%) AIX
4 1 (0.36%) Android
4 1 (0.36%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.36%) Solaris
4 1 (0.36%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (56.47%) CI/CD
2 114 (41.01%) DevOps
3 94 (33.81%) Infrastructure as Code
4 71 (25.54%) Microservices
5 68 (24.46%) Agile
6 51 (18.35%) Data Pipeline
7 43 (15.47%) Analytics
7 43 (15.47%) Event-Driven
8 42 (15.11%) Data Modelling
9 41 (14.75%) Containerisation
9 41 (14.75%) Data Engineering
9 41 (14.75%) Observability
9 41 (14.75%) Problem-Solving
10 35 (12.59%) ETL
10 35 (12.59%) Software Engineering
11 33 (11.87%) AI
11 33 (11.87%) Full-Stack Development
12 25 (8.99%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 24 (8.63%) Design Patterns
14 23 (8.27%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 160 (57.55%) Python
2 76 (27.34%) SQL
3 50 (17.99%) Java
4 45 (16.19%) TypeScript
5 42 (15.11%) JavaScript
6 21 (7.55%) Bash
7 10 (3.60%) Go
8 9 (3.24%) Ruby
9 8 (2.88%) Shell Script
10 6 (2.16%) C#
10 6 (2.16%) JSX
10 6 (2.16%) Korn
10 6 (2.16%) PowerShell
11 4 (1.44%) Groovy
11 4 (1.44%) Scala
12 3 (1.08%) C++
13 2 (0.72%) Bicep
13 2 (0.72%) Perl
13 2 (0.72%) R
14 1 (0.36%) PromQL
Qualifications
1 85 (30.58%) Security Cleared
2 75 (26.98%) SC Cleared
3 26 (9.35%) AWS Certification
4 10 (3.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 10 (3.60%) Degree
5 7 (2.52%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (2.52%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (2.16%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 5 (1.80%) DV Cleared
7 5 (1.80%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.08%) AWS Certified Developer
8 3 (1.08%) MCP
8 3 (1.08%) PhD
9 2 (0.72%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.36%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.36%) CEH
10 1 (0.36%) CISSP
10 1 (0.36%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (7.55%) QA
2 17 (6.12%) Data Quality
3 8 (2.88%) Accessibility
3 8 (2.88%) GDPR
4 6 (2.16%) NIST
5 5 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.44%) PCI DSS
7 3 (1.08%) ISO 20022
7 3 (1.08%) WCAG
8 1 (0.36%) GxP
8 1 (0.36%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.36%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 1 (0.36%) NCSC
System Software
1 69 (24.82%) Docker
2 5 (1.80%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.72%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.36%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 112 (40.29%) Terraform
2 70 (25.18%) Kubernetes
3 16 (5.76%) Ansible
4 11 (3.96%) Grafana
5 9 (3.24%) Prometheus
6 6 (2.16%) Kibana
7 5 (1.80%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (1.44%) Rancher
9 3 (1.08%) ITRS Geneos
9 3 (1.08%) Karpenter
10 2 (0.72%) Opsgenie
10 2 (0.72%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.36%) Puppet
Vendors
1 19 (6.83%) Microsoft
2 13 (4.68%) Databricks
3 8 (2.88%) ServiceNow
4 6 (2.16%) Confluent
4 6 (2.16%) Dynatrace
4 6 (2.16%) IBM
5 5 (1.80%) Atlassian
5 5 (1.80%) OpenAI
6 4 (1.44%) Oracle
6 4 (1.44%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.08%) Cloudera
7 3 (1.08%) Splunk
7 3 (1.08%) Sybase
8 2 (0.72%) Avaloq
8 2 (0.72%) CA Agile Central
8 2 (0.72%) Cisco
8 2 (0.72%) Google
8 2 (0.72%) Qualys
8 2 (0.72%) SAP
8 2 (0.72%) Tenable