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

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 158 209 184
Rank change year-on-year +51 -25 -14
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 240 180 272
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.72% 1.16% 1.35%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.88% 2.84% 3.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 129 195
10th Percentile £375 £413 £406
25th Percentile £419 £475 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.59% +4.76% -16.00%
75th Percentile £631 £738 £634
90th Percentile £696 £788 £713
England median daily rate £500 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -9.09% +2.33% -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
% change year-on-year - - +3.33%

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 6,188 6,341 7,765
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.29% 40.90% 38.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,188 4,306 5,697
10th Percentile £350 £350 £330
25th Percentile £425 £450 £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 £535 £525
% change year-on-year -6.54% +1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 124 34 68
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.78 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £25.74 £35.00 £38.38
Median % change year-on-year -26.47% -8.79% +51.98%
75th Percentile £42.44 £55.25 £60.94
90th Percentile £76.88 £65.33 £85.47
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £28.61
% change year-on-year -28.14% +22.33% +30.05%

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 18 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 18 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 +15 31 £575 +11.38% 89
South London - 6 £621 - 1
West London -14 4 - - 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 14 (5.83%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (5.00%) Apache Spark
3 11 (4.58%) Confluence
4 7 (2.92%) Apache
5 5 (2.08%) CMS
5 5 (2.08%) Headless CMS
5 5 (2.08%) nginx
6 1 (0.42%) CICS
6 1 (0.42%) JBoss
6 1 (0.42%) Jupyter
Applications
1 3 (1.25%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.42%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 239 (99.58%) AWS
1 239 (99.58%) Serverless
2 155 (64.58%) Amazon S3
3 79 (32.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 60 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
5 56 (23.33%) Amazon EC2
6 54 (22.50%) AWS CloudFormation
7 53 (22.08%) GitHub
8 34 (14.17%) GitHub Actions
9 33 (13.75%) Amazon EKS
10 28 (11.67%) Amazon SQS
10 28 (11.67%) AWS Step Functions
11 27 (11.25%) Amazon Kinesis
11 27 (11.25%) Snowflake
12 24 (10.00%) AWS Fargate
13 22 (9.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 20 (8.33%) Amazon EMR
15 18 (7.50%) Amazon Cognito
16 16 (6.67%) Azure
17 13 (5.42%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.92%) DNS
1 7 (2.92%) VPN
2 5 (2.08%) OpenLDAP
3 4 (1.67%) Firewall
3 4 (1.67%) SSL
4 2 (0.83%) DHCP
4 2 (0.83%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (0.83%) SSH
5 1 (0.42%) DKIM
5 1 (0.42%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.42%) NAS
5 1 (0.42%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (25.42%) DynamoDB
2 57 (23.75%) Amazon RDS
3 38 (15.83%) PostgreSQL
4 25 (10.42%) Amazon Athena
5 24 (10.00%) Amazon Redshift
6 20 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
7 17 (7.08%) Relational Database
8 16 (6.67%) Amazon Aurora
9 13 (5.42%) Tableau
10 8 (3.33%) Data Lake
10 8 (3.33%) NoSQL
11 7 (2.92%) Metadata
11 7 (2.92%) RDBMS
12 6 (2.50%) Power BI
13 5 (2.08%) Amazon QuickSight
13 5 (2.08%) Apache Iceberg
13 5 (2.08%) Big Data
13 5 (2.08%) DB2
13 5 (2.08%) Redis
13 5 (2.08%) Redshift Spectrum
Development Applications
1 36 (15.00%) Git
2 34 (14.17%) Jenkins
3 26 (10.83%) GitLab
4 18 (7.50%) JIRA
5 11 (4.58%) JUnit
6 10 (4.17%) Cucumber
7 9 (3.75%) Cypress.io
8 7 (2.92%) Maven
9 4 (1.67%) Postman
9 4 (1.67%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (1.25%) Bitbucket
10 3 (1.25%) Selenium
11 2 (0.83%) CircleCI
11 2 (0.83%) REST Assured
11 2 (0.83%) Serenity BDD
11 2 (0.83%) SoapUI
11 2 (0.83%) Visual Studio Code
12 1 (0.42%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.42%) Mockito
12 1 (0.42%) RStudio
General
1 63 (26.25%) Social Skills
2 28 (11.67%) Public Sector
3 27 (11.25%) Finance
4 20 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (5.42%) Banking
6 5 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (1.67%) Front Office
7 4 (1.67%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.25%) Marketing
9 2 (0.83%) Aviation
9 2 (0.83%) Digital Healthcare
9 2 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.83%) Private Banking
9 2 (0.83%) Publishing
10 1 (0.42%) Advertising
10 1 (0.42%) Games
10 1 (0.42%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.42%) Military
10 1 (0.42%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 45 (18.75%) AWS Engineer
2 44 (18.33%) Developer
3 41 (17.08%) Senior
4 35 (14.58%) DevOps Engineer
5 25 (10.42%) Architect
6 24 (10.00%) Lead
7 23 (9.58%) Data Engineer
8 19 (7.92%) Software Engineer
9 17 (7.08%) AWS Developer
10 16 (6.67%) AWS DevOps
11 13 (5.42%) Full-Stack Developer
12 12 (5.00%) Java Developer
13 11 (4.58%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 11 (4.58%) Python Engineer
14 9 (3.75%) AWS Data Engineer
14 9 (3.75%) Senior Developer
15 8 (3.33%) AWS Architect
15 8 (3.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 8 (3.33%) Snowflake Engineer
16 7 (2.92%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (22.08%) Node.js
2 36 (15.00%) React
3 35 (14.58%) Kafka
4 24 (10.00%) RESTful
5 21 (8.75%) Spring
6 17 (7.08%) REST
7 15 (6.25%) OAuth
7 15 (6.25%) Spring Boot
8 14 (5.83%) AngularJS
8 14 (5.83%) GraphQL
8 14 (5.83%) Jest
9 13 (5.42%) AWS CDK
10 11 (4.58%) CSS
11 9 (3.75%) pytest
12 8 (3.33%) boto
12 8 (3.33%) JWT
13 7 (2.92%) LDAP
13 7 (2.92%) Next.js
13 7 (2.92%) OAuth2
13 7 (2.92%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 51 (21.25%) Cloud Native
2 20 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (4.58%) Data Protection Act
3 11 (4.58%) Product Ownership
4 7 (2.92%) Distributed Architecture
4 7 (2.92%) Mobile App
5 4 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (1.67%) Mainframe
5 4 (1.67%) Replication
5 4 (1.67%) Virtual Team
6 3 (1.25%) AI Agents
6 3 (1.25%) DataPower
6 3 (1.25%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (1.25%) Onboarding
7 2 (0.83%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.42%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.42%) Data Fabric
8 1 (0.42%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.42%) Mobile Banking
8 1 (0.42%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 18 (7.50%) Linux
2 2 (0.83%) Amazon Linux
2 2 (0.83%) Unix
2 2 (0.83%) Windows
3 1 (0.42%) AIX
3 1 (0.42%) Android
3 1 (0.42%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.42%) Solaris
3 1 (0.42%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (52.50%) CI/CD
2 106 (44.17%) DevOps
3 75 (31.25%) Agile
4 66 (27.50%) Infrastructure as Code
5 58 (24.17%) Microservices
6 40 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
7 37 (15.42%) Data Pipeline
8 35 (14.58%) Analytics
8 35 (14.58%) Containerisation
9 34 (14.17%) Event-Driven
9 34 (14.17%) Software Engineering
10 33 (13.75%) Full-Stack Development
11 32 (13.33%) Data Modelling
12 30 (12.50%) Data Engineering
12 30 (12.50%) Observability
13 29 (12.08%) Mentoring
14 28 (11.67%) ETL
15 25 (10.42%) Clean Code
15 25 (10.42%) Test Automation
16 23 (9.58%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 132 (55.00%) Python
2 60 (25.00%) SQL
3 52 (21.67%) Java
4 45 (18.75%) TypeScript
5 35 (14.58%) JavaScript
6 18 (7.50%) Bash
7 10 (4.17%) Go
8 7 (2.92%) PowerShell
9 6 (2.50%) JSX
9 6 (2.50%) Korn
9 6 (2.50%) Shell Script
10 5 (2.08%) Ruby
11 4 (1.67%) Scala
12 3 (1.25%) Groovy
13 2 (0.83%) Bicep
13 2 (0.83%) CodeQL
13 2 (0.83%) Perl
13 2 (0.83%) PromQL
13 2 (0.83%) R
14 1 (0.42%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 63 (26.25%) Security Cleared
2 54 (22.50%) SC Cleared
3 33 (13.75%) AWS Certification
4 13 (5.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 9 (3.75%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (2.50%) Degree
7 4 (1.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (1.25%) AWS Certified Developer
8 3 (1.25%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.83%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (9.17%) QA
2 12 (5.00%) Data Quality
3 8 (3.33%) GDPR
4 7 (2.92%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.67%) WCAG
6 2 (0.83%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.42%) GxP
7 1 (0.42%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.42%) NCSC
System Software
1 56 (23.33%) Docker
2 5 (2.08%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.83%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 81 (33.75%) Terraform
2 49 (20.42%) Kubernetes
3 12 (5.00%) Ansible
4 11 (4.58%) Prometheus
5 9 (3.75%) Grafana
6 4 (1.67%) Kibana
7 3 (1.25%) ITRS Geneos
7 3 (1.25%) Rancher
7 3 (1.25%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.83%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.83%) Packer
8 2 (0.83%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.83%) SELinux
9 1 (0.42%) Puppet
Vendors
1 13 (5.42%) Microsoft
2 12 (5.00%) ServiceNow
3 10 (4.17%) CA Agile Central
3 10 (4.17%) Databricks
4 6 (2.50%) Oracle
5 5 (2.08%) Atlassian
5 5 (2.08%) Dynatrace
5 5 (2.08%) Sybase
6 4 (1.67%) IBM
6 4 (1.67%) Pega
6 4 (1.67%) Splunk
7 3 (1.25%) Google
7 3 (1.25%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.83%) Avaloq
8 2 (0.83%) Cisco
8 2 (0.83%) Cloudera
8 2 (0.83%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.42%) NetApp
9 1 (0.42%) Sage
9 1 (0.42%) StreamSets