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

6 months to
3 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 157 166
Rank change year-on-year +18 +9 0
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 312 220 254
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.96% 1.68% 1.39%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.46% 4.01% 3.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 170 191
10th Percentile £356 £418 £400
25th Percentile £413 £470 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.87% +15.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £625 £788 £588
90th Percentile £700 £838 £706
England median daily rate £513 £550 £513
% change year-on-year -6.82% +7.32% -13.87%

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 6,998 5,483 6,774
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.00% 41.89% 37.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,803 3,733 4,973
10th Percentile £350 £356 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £768
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 46 76
10th Percentile £18.00 £22.27 £17.00
25th Percentile £21.46 £24.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £30.21 £30.11
Median % change year-on-year +15.87% +0.32% -11.44%
75th Percentile £52.56 £55.63 £53.31
90th Percentile £72.75 £70.63 £63.13
England median hourly rate £40.00 £27.38 £21.37
% change year-on-year +46.12% +28.10% -14.52%

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 3 March 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 3 March 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 44 £530 +3.92% 28
South London -4 21 £509 +7.11% 11
West London -23 5 £650 -17.46% 12
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 23 (7.37%) Apache Airflow
2 17 (5.45%) Apache Spark
3 11 (3.53%) Confluence
4 9 (2.88%) Apache
5 8 (2.56%) nginx
6 2 (0.64%) CICS
7 1 (0.32%) Jupyter
Applications
1 7 (2.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.92%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.32%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 312 (100.00%) AWS
1 312 (100.00%) Serverless
2 206 (66.03%) Amazon S3
3 93 (29.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 87 (27.88%) Amazon EC2
5 79 (25.32%) Amazon ECS
5 79 (25.32%) AWS CloudFormation
6 77 (24.68%) GitHub
7 75 (24.04%) Amazon EKS
8 59 (18.91%) GitHub Actions
9 56 (17.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 40 (12.82%) AWS Step Functions
11 32 (10.26%) Amazon Kinesis
12 31 (9.94%) Snowflake
13 30 (9.62%) Azure
14 26 (8.33%) Amazon SQS
15 25 (8.01%) AWS CodePipeline
16 22 (7.05%) Amazon EMR
17 21 (6.73%) Route 53
18 16 (5.13%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 22 (7.05%) DNS
2 12 (3.85%) Firewall
3 11 (3.53%) VPN
4 9 (2.88%) TCP/IP
5 8 (2.56%) OpenVPN
6 4 (1.28%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (0.64%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.32%) 4G
8 1 (0.32%) 5G
8 1 (0.32%) DKIM
8 1 (0.32%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (21.79%) Amazon RDS
2 52 (16.67%) DynamoDB
3 47 (15.06%) Amazon Redshift
4 45 (14.42%) PostgreSQL
5 39 (12.50%) Amazon Athena
6 22 (7.05%) Tableau
7 21 (6.73%) Amazon Aurora
8 18 (5.77%) Data Warehouse
9 17 (5.45%) NoSQL
10 15 (4.81%) Power BI
11 13 (4.17%) Apache Iceberg
12 12 (3.85%) Data Lake
13 11 (3.53%) Relational Database
14 10 (3.21%) Amazon QuickSight
14 10 (3.21%) Metadata
14 10 (3.21%) Redis
15 9 (2.88%) DB2
15 9 (2.88%) Elasticsearch
15 9 (2.88%) MySQL
16 8 (2.56%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 57 (18.27%) GitLab
2 55 (17.63%) Jenkins
3 49 (15.71%) Git
4 19 (6.09%) JIRA
5 16 (5.13%) Bitbucket
6 11 (3.53%) JUnit
7 10 (3.21%) Cucumber
8 8 (2.56%) Cypress.io
9 7 (2.24%) SonarQube
10 5 (1.60%) Snyk
11 4 (1.28%) Mocha
11 4 (1.28%) Postman
11 4 (1.28%) Terragrunt
12 3 (0.96%) Mockito
12 3 (0.96%) MSTest
12 3 (0.96%) Selenium
12 3 (0.96%) tSQLt
12 3 (0.96%) Visual Studio Code
12 3 (0.96%) Vite
13 2 (0.64%) Storybook
General
1 85 (27.24%) Social Skills
2 51 (16.35%) Public Sector
3 45 (14.42%) Finance
4 31 (9.94%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (6.41%) Banking
6 17 (5.45%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (1.92%) Front Office
8 5 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.28%) Investment Banking
10 3 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.64%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.64%) Military
11 2 (0.64%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.64%) Police
11 2 (0.64%) Private Banking
12 1 (0.32%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.32%) Games
12 1 (0.32%) Law
12 1 (0.32%) Marketing
12 1 (0.32%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 61 (19.55%) AWS Engineer
2 56 (17.95%) Developer
3 50 (16.03%) Data Engineer
4 46 (14.74%) Senior
5 43 (13.78%) Architect
6 38 (12.18%) DevOps Engineer
7 31 (9.94%) Lead
8 23 (7.37%) AWS DevOps
9 22 (7.05%) AWS Architect
10 19 (6.09%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 18 (5.77%) AWS Developer
11 18 (5.77%) Software Engineer
12 15 (4.81%) AWS Data Engineer
12 15 (4.81%) Cloud Engineer
13 13 (4.17%) Lead Data Engineer
13 13 (4.17%) Python Engineer
13 13 (4.17%) Snowflake Engineer
14 12 (3.85%) Senior Developer
15 11 (3.53%) Analyst
15 11 (3.53%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (19.55%) Kafka
2 52 (16.67%) Node.js
3 41 (13.14%) React
4 36 (11.54%) RESTful
5 28 (8.97%) Spring Boot
6 26 (8.33%) Spring
7 21 (6.73%) OAuth
8 20 (6.41%) REST
9 18 (5.77%) AWS CDK
10 17 (5.45%) AngularJS
10 17 (5.45%) boto
10 17 (5.45%) CSS
11 14 (4.49%) PySpark
12 12 (3.85%) JWT
12 12 (3.85%) OpenID
13 11 (3.53%) .NET
14 9 (2.88%) Elastic Stack
14 9 (2.88%) HTML
14 9 (2.88%) JSON
14 9 (2.88%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 72 (23.08%) Cloud Native
2 26 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (3.21%) Data Protection Act
4 7 (2.24%) DataPower
4 7 (2.24%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (2.24%) Mainframe
4 7 (2.24%) Product Ownership
5 5 (1.60%) Distributed Architecture
5 5 (1.60%) Equities
6 4 (1.28%) Algorithms
6 4 (1.28%) Data Structures
6 4 (1.28%) Derivative
6 4 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.28%) Management Information System
6 4 (1.28%) Mobile App
6 4 (1.28%) PACS
6 4 (1.28%) Replication
6 4 (1.28%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 3 (0.96%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (0.96%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 27 (8.65%) Linux
2 5 (1.60%) Unix
3 2 (0.64%) zOS
4 1 (0.32%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (0.32%) VMS
4 1 (0.32%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 181 (58.01%) CI/CD
2 131 (41.99%) DevOps
3 111 (35.58%) Infrastructure as Code
4 75 (24.04%) Agile
5 73 (23.40%) Microservices
6 60 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
7 56 (17.95%) Data Pipeline
8 52 (16.67%) Data Modelling
9 51 (16.35%) Data Engineering
10 49 (15.71%) Containerisation
10 49 (15.71%) ETL
11 46 (14.74%) Analytics
12 44 (14.10%) Event-Driven
13 43 (13.78%) Observability
14 37 (11.86%) AI
15 34 (10.90%) Performance Tuning
16 32 (10.26%) Continuous Improvement
16 32 (10.26%) Software Engineering
17 28 (8.97%) Design Patterns
18 26 (8.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 179 (57.37%) Python
2 98 (31.41%) SQL
3 58 (18.59%) Java
4 35 (11.22%) JavaScript
5 34 (10.90%) TypeScript
6 24 (7.69%) Bash
7 13 (4.17%) C#
7 13 (4.17%) Shell Script
8 7 (2.24%) PowerShell
8 7 (2.24%) Ruby
9 6 (1.92%) Go
9 6 (1.92%) JSX
9 6 (1.92%) Korn
9 6 (1.92%) Scala
10 3 (0.96%) Bicep
10 3 (0.96%) C++
10 3 (0.96%) Groovy
10 3 (0.96%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.64%) JCL
11 2 (0.64%) Perl
Qualifications
1 106 (33.97%) Security Cleared
2 94 (30.13%) SC Cleared
3 34 (10.90%) AWS Certification
4 11 (3.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 10 (3.21%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 9 (2.88%) Degree
7 7 (2.24%) Master's Degree
8 6 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.28%) DV Cleared
10 3 (0.96%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.96%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (0.96%) PhD
11 1 (0.32%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.32%) CEH
11 1 (0.32%) CISSP
11 1 (0.32%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.32%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.32%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.32%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (8.01%) Data Quality
2 20 (6.41%) QA
3 9 (2.88%) Accessibility
4 8 (2.56%) NIST
5 6 (1.92%) GDPR
6 5 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (1.28%) ISO 20022
7 4 (1.28%) PCI DSS
7 4 (1.28%) PMO
7 4 (1.28%) SLA
7 4 (1.28%) WCAG
8 1 (0.32%) GRC
8 1 (0.32%) GxP
8 1 (0.32%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 1 (0.32%) NCSC
System Software
1 88 (28.21%) Docker
2 8 (2.56%) Squid
3 3 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.64%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.64%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.32%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 142 (45.51%) Terraform
2 77 (24.68%) Kubernetes
3 24 (7.69%) Prometheus
4 20 (6.41%) Grafana
5 18 (5.77%) Ansible
6 11 (3.53%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (2.56%) FortiGate
8 7 (2.24%) Consul
9 6 (1.92%) Kibana
10 3 (0.96%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (0.96%) Karpenter
10 3 (0.96%) Rancher
11 2 (0.64%) Opsgenie
12 1 (0.32%) HP Fortify
12 1 (0.32%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.32%) Puppet
12 1 (0.32%) Salt
Vendors
1 21 (6.73%) Microsoft
2 14 (4.49%) Databricks
3 13 (4.17%) Dynatrace
4 8 (2.56%) OpenAI
4 8 (2.56%) Red Hat
4 8 (2.56%) ServiceNow
4 8 (2.56%) Sybase
5 7 (2.24%) Atlassian
5 7 (2.24%) Confluent
6 6 (1.92%) IBM
7 5 (1.60%) Salesforce
8 4 (1.28%) Qualys
8 4 (1.28%) Tenable
9 3 (0.96%) AVEVA
9 3 (0.96%) Cloudera
9 3 (0.96%) Splunk
10 2 (0.64%) Avaloq
10 2 (0.64%) CA Agile Central
10 2 (0.64%) Oracle
10 2 (0.64%) SAP