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 15 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 190 180 224
Rank change year-on-year -10 +44 -29
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 309 209 163
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.51% 1.56% 1.01%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.67% 3.57% 2.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 236 145 115
10th Percentile £403 £413 £413
25th Percentile £450 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £688 £630 £675
90th Percentile £775 £685 £738
England median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +2.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £45.00 -
England median hourly rate £73.83 £45.00 -
% change year-on-year +64.07% - -

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 8,411 5,856 6,597
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.01% 43.77% 41.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,804 3,979 4,535
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £529 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.97% -3.82% -2.22%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +4.48% -4.29% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 102 41
10th Percentile £17.60 £21.10 £23.80
25th Percentile £22.79 £24.77 £24.15
Median hourly rate £30.00 £26.40 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -16.19% -28.41%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.31 £48.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £79.88 £66.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +8.36%

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 15 October 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 15 October 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 -20 38 £675 - 7
West London -1 23 £725 +88.31% 2
South London -1 15 £438 -29.66%
East London - 1 £500 - 3
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 31 (10.03%) Apache Airflow
2 24 (7.77%) Confluence
3 13 (4.21%) Apache Spark
4 12 (3.88%) Apache
5 4 (1.29%) SAS
6 3 (0.97%) CICS
7 2 (0.65%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.65%) PowerExchange
8 1 (0.32%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.32%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.32%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.32%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.32%) WebLogic Portal
Applications
1 3 (0.97%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.65%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.32%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.32%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.32%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 308 (99.68%) AWS
1 308 (99.68%) Serverless
2 213 (68.93%) Amazon S3
3 102 (33.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 97 (31.39%) Amazon ECS
5 93 (30.10%) Amazon EC2
6 85 (27.51%) Amazon EKS
7 74 (23.95%) GitHub
8 61 (19.74%) GitHub Actions
9 55 (17.80%) Amazon SQS
10 53 (17.15%) AWS CloudFormation
11 47 (15.21%) Azure
12 46 (14.89%) AWS Step Functions
13 39 (12.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 38 (12.30%) Amazon EventBridge
15 29 (9.39%) Amazon EMR
15 29 (9.39%) dbt
15 29 (9.39%) Snowflake
16 23 (7.44%) Power Platform
17 20 (6.47%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.29%) DNS
1 4 (1.29%) Firewall
1 4 (1.29%) WAN
2 3 (0.97%) HTTP
2 3 (0.97%) Network Security
3 2 (0.65%) VPN
4 1 (0.32%) BGP
4 1 (0.32%) Internet
4 1 (0.32%) OpenLDAP
4 1 (0.32%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (27.18%) Amazon RDS
2 62 (20.06%) DynamoDB
3 53 (17.15%) Amazon Athena
4 38 (12.30%) Amazon Redshift
5 37 (11.97%) Data Warehouse
6 26 (8.41%) PostgreSQL
7 23 (7.44%) Power BI
8 17 (5.50%) Metadata
9 15 (4.85%) Amazon Aurora
9 15 (4.85%) NoSQL
10 12 (3.88%) SQL Server
11 9 (2.91%) Apache Iceberg
11 9 (2.91%) Data Lake
12 8 (2.59%) BigQuery
12 8 (2.59%) Relational Database
13 7 (2.27%) Delta Lake
13 7 (2.27%) MongoDB
14 6 (1.94%) Amazon QuickSight
15 5 (1.62%) Db2
15 5 (1.62%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 68 (22.01%) Jenkins
2 67 (21.68%) Git
3 61 (19.74%) GitLab
4 29 (9.39%) JIRA
5 18 (5.83%) Cucumber
6 13 (4.21%) Bitbucket
7 10 (3.24%) Cypress.io
8 9 (2.91%) Maven
8 9 (2.91%) Selenium
9 8 (2.59%) Mockito
10 7 (2.27%) JUnit
11 6 (1.94%) REST Assured
12 5 (1.62%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 5 (1.62%) Claude Code
12 5 (1.62%) Gatling
12 5 (1.62%) Postman
13 4 (1.29%) Gradle
13 4 (1.29%) Mocha
14 3 (0.97%) MSTest
14 3 (0.97%) tSQLt
General
1 73 (23.62%) Social Skills
2 55 (17.80%) Finance
3 39 (12.62%) Public Sector
4 28 (9.06%) Banking
5 23 (7.44%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (4.21%) Back Office
7 11 (3.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (2.27%) Front Office
8 7 (2.27%) Law
9 5 (1.62%) Military
10 4 (1.29%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.29%) Marketing
11 3 (0.97%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.97%) Retail
11 3 (0.97%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.65%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.65%) Police
13 1 (0.32%) Billing
13 1 (0.32%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 72 (23.30%) AWS Engineer
2 71 (22.98%) Senior
3 61 (19.74%) Data Engineer
4 48 (15.53%) Lead
5 38 (12.30%) Architect
6 36 (11.65%) Developer
7 31 (10.03%) DevOps Engineer
8 28 (9.06%) Software Engineer
9 23 (7.44%) Technical Leader
10 20 (6.47%) AWS Architect
10 20 (6.47%) AWS Data Engineer
11 19 (6.15%) Cloud Engineer
12 17 (5.50%) Senior Data Engineer
13 16 (5.18%) Python Engineer
14 15 (4.85%) AWS DevOps
14 15 (4.85%) Senior Software Engineer
15 12 (3.88%) AWS Developer
15 12 (3.88%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 11 (3.56%) Platform Engineer
16 11 (3.56%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 144 (46.60%) Terraform
2 47 (15.21%) REST
3 46 (14.89%) Kafka
4 38 (12.30%) React
5 36 (11.65%) FastAPI
6 32 (10.36%) RESTful
7 29 (9.39%) PySpark
8 27 (8.74%) Spring Boot
9 26 (8.41%) GraphQL
9 26 (8.41%) Node.js
9 26 (8.41%) Spring
10 22 (7.12%) .NET
11 17 (5.50%) Flask
12 14 (4.53%) AWS CDK
13 13 (4.21%) Playwright
14 12 (3.88%) pytest
15 11 (3.56%) AngularJS
15 11 (3.56%) Next.js
16 10 (3.24%) RabbitMQ
16 10 (3.24%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 106 (34.30%) Cloud Native
2 30 (9.71%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (6.47%) Product Ownership
4 17 (5.50%) AI Agents
5 9 (2.91%) Onboarding
6 7 (2.27%) Fixed Income
6 7 (2.27%) Security Posture
7 5 (1.62%) Cloud Security Posture
7 5 (1.62%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (1.62%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.29%) Enterprise Cloud
8 4 (1.29%) Low-Code
8 4 (1.29%) Mainframe
8 4 (1.29%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.29%) NHS
8 4 (1.29%) Taxonomies
9 3 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (0.97%) Equities
9 3 (0.97%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (0.97%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 32 (10.36%) Linux
2 8 (2.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (2.27%) Unix
4 4 (1.29%) Windows
5 3 (0.97%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (0.97%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 215 (69.58%) CI/CD
2 143 (46.28%) Infrastructure as Code
3 142 (45.95%) DevOps
4 124 (40.13%) Agile
5 84 (27.18%) AI
6 77 (24.92%) Event-Driven
7 73 (23.62%) Data Engineering
8 69 (22.33%) Containerisation
8 69 (22.33%) Observability
9 66 (21.36%) Data Pipeline
10 65 (21.04%) Microservices
11 64 (20.71%) Test Automation
12 61 (19.74%) Software Engineering
13 60 (19.42%) Continuous Improvement
14 57 (18.45%) Technical Leadership
15 52 (16.83%) Data Modelling
16 51 (16.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 48 (15.53%) Migration
18 46 (14.89%) Analytics
19 45 (14.56%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 194 (62.78%) Python
2 96 (31.07%) SQL
3 54 (17.48%) TypeScript
4 52 (16.83%) Java
5 34 (11.00%) Bash
6 28 (9.06%) JavaScript
7 21 (6.80%) C#
8 15 (4.85%) Shell Script
9 11 (3.56%) PowerShell
10 8 (2.59%) Scala
11 5 (1.62%) Groovy
11 5 (1.62%) Kotlin
11 5 (1.62%) PL/SQL
12 4 (1.29%) Cypher
12 4 (1.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 4 (1.29%) Gremlin
12 4 (1.29%) SPARQL
12 4 (1.29%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.97%) JCL
14 2 (0.65%) Go
Qualifications
1 85 (27.51%) Security Cleared
2 79 (25.57%) SC Cleared
3 43 (13.92%) AWS Certification
4 20 (6.47%) DV Cleared
5 14 (4.53%) Degree
6 13 (4.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 11 (3.56%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (2.91%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 9 (2.91%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 7 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (0.97%) DBS Check
10 3 (0.97%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 2 (0.65%) ISEB
11 2 (0.65%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.65%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.65%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.65%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.65%) PMP
12 1 (0.32%) SAFe Agilist
12 1 (0.32%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (18.45%) Data Quality
2 37 (11.97%) QA
3 3 (0.97%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.32%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 101 (32.69%) Docker
2 5 (1.62%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.32%) Squid
3 1 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 76 (24.60%) Kubernetes
2 26 (8.41%) Ansible
2 26 (8.41%) Grafana
3 25 (8.09%) Prometheus
4 6 (1.94%) Puppet
5 3 (0.97%) Kibana
5 3 (0.97%) Packer
5 3 (0.97%) Rancher
6 2 (0.65%) Argo
6 2 (0.65%) Control-M
6 2 (0.65%) Istio
6 2 (0.65%) Salt
6 2 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.32%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.32%) ITRS Geneos
7 1 (0.32%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 1 (0.32%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (0.32%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 19 (6.15%) Microsoft
2 15 (4.85%) Oracle
3 14 (4.53%) Informatica
4 13 (4.21%) Databricks
5 8 (2.59%) ServiceNow
6 7 (2.27%) Splunk
7 6 (1.94%) OpenAI
8 4 (1.29%) Dynatrace
8 4 (1.29%) Red Hat
9 3 (0.97%) Brio
9 3 (0.97%) PagerDuty
9 3 (0.97%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.65%) Google
10 2 (0.65%) Sybase
11 1 (0.32%) Atlassian
11 1 (0.32%) CheckPoint
11 1 (0.32%) Fortinet
11 1 (0.32%) Murex
11 1 (0.32%) Qualys
11 1 (0.32%) Trend Micro