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

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 167 160 190
Rank change year-on-year -7 +30 -3
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 337 242 210
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.67% 1.78% 1.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.04% 4.14% 3.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 245 181 146
10th Percentile £381 £400 £400
25th Percentile £450 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £516
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% +6.54% -6.14%
75th Percentile £638 £630 £618
90th Percentile £752 £750 £675
England median daily rate £522 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +3.32% -3.81% -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 £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 8,347 5,846 6,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.46% 42.92% 40.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,700 4,015 4,830
10th Percentile £363 £339 £350
25th Percentile £448 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £645 £660 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 85 52
10th Percentile £19.40 £22.70 £20.65
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.77 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £27.75
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +4.76% -48.37%
75th Percentile £56.63 £46.75 £41.19
90th Percentile £75.70 £67.50 £65.65
England median hourly rate £37.24 £25.15 £23.80
% change year-on-year +48.07% +5.67% -29.79%

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 5 August 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 5 August 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 -1 40 £650 +4.00% 19
South London -1 18 £463 -25.64% 2
West London -14 17 £725 +28.32% 2
East London - 1 £500 -
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 35 (10.39%) Apache Airflow
2 24 (7.12%) Confluence
3 20 (5.93%) Apache Spark
4 14 (4.15%) Apache
5 6 (1.78%) CICS
6 4 (1.19%) nginx
7 2 (0.59%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.59%) SAS
8 1 (0.30%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.30%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (2.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.89%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.89%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 337 (100.00%) AWS
2 333 (98.81%) Serverless
3 240 (71.22%) Amazon S3
4 111 (32.94%) Amazon EC2
5 106 (31.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 94 (27.89%) Amazon ECS
7 76 (22.55%) Amazon EKS
8 67 (19.88%) GitHub
9 58 (17.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 53 (15.73%) AWS Step Functions
11 52 (15.43%) AWS CloudFormation
12 51 (15.13%) GitHub Actions
13 48 (14.24%) Amazon SQS
14 38 (11.28%) Azure
15 35 (10.39%) Amazon EMR
16 30 (8.90%) Power Platform
17 29 (8.61%) dbt
18 27 (8.01%) Amazon EventBridge
18 27 (8.01%) Snowflake
19 22 (6.53%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.56%) Firewall
2 10 (2.97%) DNS
3 7 (2.08%) TCP/IP
4 6 (1.78%) VPN
5 4 (1.19%) Network Security
5 4 (1.19%) OpenVPN
5 4 (1.19%) WAN
6 3 (0.89%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (0.59%) HTTP
8 1 (0.30%) 4G
8 1 (0.30%) 5G
8 1 (0.30%) BGP
8 1 (0.30%) Internet
8 1 (0.30%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (24.63%) Amazon RDS
2 69 (20.47%) Amazon Athena
3 68 (20.18%) DynamoDB
4 53 (15.73%) Amazon Redshift
5 30 (8.90%) Power BI
6 28 (8.31%) PostgreSQL
7 24 (7.12%) Data Warehouse
8 19 (5.64%) Amazon Aurora
8 19 (5.64%) Tableau
9 16 (4.75%) SQL Server
10 15 (4.45%) Metadata
11 11 (3.26%) Data Lake
11 11 (3.26%) NoSQL
12 10 (2.97%) Apache Iceberg
13 9 (2.67%) Db2
14 8 (2.37%) Amazon QuickSight
14 8 (2.37%) Apache Hudi
14 8 (2.37%) Delta Lake
14 8 (2.37%) MongoDB
15 7 (2.08%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 66 (19.58%) Jenkins
2 65 (19.29%) GitLab
3 59 (17.51%) Git
4 33 (9.79%) JIRA
5 14 (4.15%) Cucumber
6 13 (3.86%) Bitbucket
6 13 (3.86%) Cypress.io
7 6 (1.78%) JUnit
7 6 (1.78%) Mocha
8 5 (1.48%) Artifactory
8 5 (1.48%) Claude Code
8 5 (1.48%) Gatling
8 5 (1.48%) MSTest
8 5 (1.48%) Postman
8 5 (1.48%) tSQLt
9 4 (1.19%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 4 (1.19%) Mockito
9 4 (1.19%) REST Assured
9 4 (1.19%) Selenium
10 3 (0.89%) SonarQube
General
1 84 (24.93%) Social Skills
2 66 (19.58%) Finance
3 51 (15.13%) Public Sector
4 32 (9.50%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (6.53%) Banking
6 9 (2.67%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (2.37%) Back Office
7 8 (2.37%) Law
8 6 (1.78%) Front Office
9 5 (1.48%) Military
10 4 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.89%) Marketing
11 3 (0.89%) Police
11 3 (0.89%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.59%) Billing
12 2 (0.59%) Games
12 2 (0.59%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.59%) Local Government
12 2 (0.59%) Retail
Job Titles
1 79 (23.44%) AWS Engineer
2 71 (21.07%) Senior
3 57 (16.91%) Data Engineer
4 54 (16.02%) Developer
5 44 (13.06%) Lead
6 43 (12.76%) Architect
7 27 (8.01%) AWS Developer
8 26 (7.72%) DevOps Engineer
9 25 (7.42%) Software Engineer
10 23 (6.82%) AWS Data Engineer
10 23 (6.82%) Cloud Engineer
11 21 (6.23%) AWS Architect
12 17 (5.04%) Python Developer
13 16 (4.75%) Senior Data Engineer
13 16 (4.75%) Technical Leader
14 15 (4.45%) Python Engineer
15 14 (4.15%) Senior Software Engineer
16 13 (3.86%) Analyst
17 12 (3.56%) Platform Engineer
18 11 (3.26%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (14.24%) React
2 41 (12.17%) RESTful
3 37 (10.98%) Kafka
4 34 (10.09%) PySpark
5 32 (9.50%) REST
6 30 (8.90%) Node.js
7 29 (8.61%) FastAPI
8 22 (6.53%) GraphQL
9 21 (6.23%) Spring Boot
10 20 (5.93%) Spring
11 19 (5.64%) Flask
12 18 (5.34%) .NET
13 16 (4.75%) AWS CDK
14 15 (4.45%) Pandas
15 14 (4.15%) Next.js
16 13 (3.86%) AngularJS
17 12 (3.56%) JSON
18 11 (3.26%) CSS
18 11 (3.26%) HTML
18 11 (3.26%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 80 (23.74%) Cloud Native
2 19 (5.64%) Product Ownership
3 17 (5.04%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (3.26%) AI Agents
5 8 (2.37%) Fixed Income
6 7 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
6 7 (2.08%) Hedge funds
6 7 (2.08%) Security Posture
7 6 (1.78%) DataPower
7 6 (1.78%) Mainframe
7 6 (1.78%) NHS
7 6 (1.78%) Online Banking
8 5 (1.48%) Cloud Security Posture
8 5 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.48%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.19%) Distributed Computing
9 4 (1.19%) Equities
9 4 (1.19%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.19%) Taxonomies
10 3 (0.89%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 30 (8.90%) Linux
2 15 (4.45%) Unix
3 8 (2.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (1.78%) zOS
5 4 (1.19%) Windows
6 3 (0.89%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.30%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 198 (58.75%) CI/CD
2 130 (38.58%) Infrastructure as Code
3 125 (37.09%) DevOps
4 120 (35.61%) Agile
5 74 (21.96%) AI
6 63 (18.69%) Data Pipeline
7 62 (18.40%) Data Engineering
8 61 (18.10%) Microservices
9 58 (17.21%) Software Engineering
10 57 (16.91%) Test Automation
11 54 (16.02%) Event-Driven
12 53 (15.73%) Containerisation
13 51 (15.13%) Analytics
13 51 (15.13%) ETL
14 46 (13.65%) Migration
15 45 (13.35%) Problem-Solving
16 44 (13.06%) Data Modelling
16 44 (13.06%) Platform Engineering
17 43 (12.76%) Continuous Improvement
18 41 (12.17%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 208 (61.72%) Python
2 115 (34.12%) SQL
3 57 (16.91%) Java
4 53 (15.73%) TypeScript
5 38 (11.28%) JavaScript
6 33 (9.79%) Bash
7 30 (8.90%) C#
8 20 (5.93%) Shell Script
9 15 (4.45%) Scala
10 10 (2.97%) PowerShell
11 6 (1.78%) JCL
11 6 (1.78%) T-SQL
12 5 (1.48%) SPARQL
13 4 (1.19%) Cypher
13 4 (1.19%) Gremlin
14 3 (0.89%) Bicep
14 3 (0.89%) Go
15 2 (0.59%) C
15 2 (0.59%) Groovy
15 2 (0.59%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 100 (29.67%) Security Cleared
2 89 (26.41%) SC Cleared
3 35 (10.39%) AWS Certification
4 14 (4.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 14 (4.15%) BPSS Clearance
4 14 (4.15%) DV Cleared
5 12 (3.56%) Degree
6 8 (2.37%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 8 (2.37%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 7 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.19%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.89%) AWS Certified Developer
9 3 (0.89%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.59%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.30%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.30%) PhD
11 1 (0.30%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.30%) PMP
11 1 (0.30%) SAFe Agilist
11 1 (0.30%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (13.95%) Data Quality
2 19 (5.64%) QA
3 7 (2.08%) PMO
4 4 (1.19%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.19%) SLA
5 2 (0.59%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.30%) NIST
6 1 (0.30%) WCAG
System Software
1 91 (27.00%) Docker
2 6 (1.78%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.48%) Squid
4 1 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 147 (43.62%) Terraform
2 71 (21.07%) Kubernetes
3 34 (10.09%) Grafana
4 26 (7.72%) Prometheus
5 22 (6.53%) Ansible
6 8 (2.37%) Puppet
7 5 (1.48%) Kibana
7 5 (1.48%) Salt
8 4 (1.19%) FortiGate
8 4 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.89%) Packer
10 2 (0.59%) Argo
10 2 (0.59%) Consul
10 2 (0.59%) Istio
11 1 (0.30%) Control-M
11 1 (0.30%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 14 (4.15%) Splunk
2 12 (3.56%) Informatica
2 12 (3.56%) Microsoft
3 8 (2.37%) Databricks
4 7 (2.08%) Oracle
4 7 (2.08%) Red Hat
5 6 (1.78%) ServiceNow
6 5 (1.48%) Dynatrace
6 5 (1.48%) OpenAI
7 4 (1.19%) Fortinet
7 4 (1.19%) Sybase
8 3 (0.89%) Brio
8 3 (0.89%) PagerDuty
8 3 (0.89%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.59%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.59%) Charles River
9 2 (0.59%) Confluent
9 2 (0.59%) Murex
9 2 (0.59%) Netlify
9 2 (0.59%) Qualys