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

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 143 135 174
Rank change year-on-year -8 +39 -11
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 328 253 249
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.83% 2.02% 1.42%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.32% 4.76% 3.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 238 198 189
10th Percentile £363 £403 £400
25th Percentile £450 £457 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £629 £700 £588
90th Percentile £713 £838 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £510
% change year-on-year - +2.94% -11.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.00 - -
Median hourly rate £67.00 £35.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +91.43% - -
75th Percentile £73.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £75.50 £35.00 -
% change year-on-year +115.71% - -

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 7,595 5,317 6,756
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.31% 42.50% 38.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,257 3,671 4,982
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 53 70
10th Percentile £20.82 £22.57 £17.63
25th Percentile £26.76 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +11.81% -45.26%
75th Percentile £52.96 £48.75 £38.75
90th Percentile £73.00 £72.50 £59.13
England median hourly rate £41.78 £25.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +63.84% +19.33% -37.15%

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 May 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 18 May 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 +4 45 £580 +16.00% 26
South London +5 22 £500 +3.90%
West London -26 10 £725 +28.32% 2
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 27 (8.23%) Apache Airflow
2 23 (7.01%) Apache Spark
3 18 (5.49%) Confluence
4 10 (3.05%) Apache
5 9 (2.74%) nginx
6 4 (1.22%) CICS
7 2 (0.61%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.30%) SAS
Applications
1 10 (3.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.22%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.61%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 328 (100.00%) AWS
2 324 (98.78%) Serverless
3 235 (71.65%) Amazon S3
4 107 (32.62%) Amazon EC2
5 91 (27.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 89 (27.13%) Amazon ECS
7 78 (23.78%) Amazon EKS
7 78 (23.78%) GitHub
8 72 (21.95%) AWS CloudFormation
9 66 (20.12%) GitHub Actions
10 61 (18.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 52 (15.85%) AWS Step Functions
12 38 (11.59%) Amazon SQS
13 31 (9.45%) Amazon Kinesis
14 28 (8.54%) Azure
15 25 (7.62%) AWS CodePipeline
16 22 (6.71%) Route 53
17 21 (6.40%) Amazon EMR
17 21 (6.40%) Snowflake
18 20 (6.10%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 25 (7.62%) DNS
2 14 (4.27%) Firewall
3 12 (3.66%) TCP/IP
4 10 (3.05%) VPN
5 9 (2.74%) OpenVPN
6 5 (1.52%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (0.61%) Network Security
8 1 (0.30%) 4G
8 1 (0.30%) 5G
8 1 (0.30%) HTTP
8 1 (0.30%) Internet
8 1 (0.30%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (21.65%) Amazon RDS
2 56 (17.07%) Amazon Athena
3 54 (16.46%) DynamoDB
4 53 (16.16%) Amazon Redshift
5 40 (12.20%) PostgreSQL
6 29 (8.84%) Amazon Aurora
7 23 (7.01%) Tableau
8 16 (4.88%) NoSQL
8 16 (4.88%) Power BI
9 15 (4.57%) Apache Iceberg
10 14 (4.27%) Metadata
10 14 (4.27%) SQL Server
11 12 (3.66%) Big Data
11 12 (3.66%) Data Warehouse
12 11 (3.35%) Amazon QuickSight
12 11 (3.35%) Elasticsearch
13 10 (3.05%) Data Lake
14 9 (2.74%) Data Vault
14 9 (2.74%) Delta Lake
15 8 (2.44%) Redis
Development Applications
1 59 (17.99%) Jenkins
2 57 (17.38%) Git
2 57 (17.38%) GitLab
3 24 (7.32%) JIRA
4 15 (4.57%) Bitbucket
5 11 (3.35%) Cucumber
6 9 (2.74%) JUnit
7 7 (2.13%) Cypress.io
7 7 (2.13%) SonarQube
8 6 (1.83%) Mocha
9 5 (1.52%) MSTest
9 5 (1.52%) Snyk
9 5 (1.52%) tSQLt
10 4 (1.22%) Artifactory
10 4 (1.22%) Postman
10 4 (1.22%) Terragrunt
11 3 (0.91%) Mockito
11 3 (0.91%) Vite
12 2 (0.61%) MLflow
12 2 (0.61%) Storybook
General
1 85 (25.91%) Social Skills
2 52 (15.85%) Finance
2 52 (15.85%) Public Sector
3 35 (10.67%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (5.49%) Documentation Skills
5 14 (4.27%) Banking
6 5 (1.52%) Front Office
7 4 (1.22%) Police
8 3 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (0.91%) Investment Banking
8 3 (0.91%) Law
8 3 (0.91%) Military
8 3 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (0.61%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.61%) Games
9 2 (0.61%) Local Government
9 2 (0.61%) Marketing
9 2 (0.61%) Retail
9 2 (0.61%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 72 (21.95%) Developer
2 64 (19.51%) AWS Engineer
3 58 (17.68%) Data Engineer
4 53 (16.16%) Senior
5 47 (14.33%) Architect
6 36 (10.98%) Lead
7 30 (9.15%) AWS Developer
8 27 (8.23%) AWS Architect
9 23 (7.01%) DevOps Engineer
10 21 (6.40%) Software Engineer
11 19 (5.79%) AWS Data Engineer
11 19 (5.79%) Python Developer
12 18 (5.49%) Data Architect
13 16 (4.88%) Cloud Engineer
13 16 (4.88%) Python Engineer
14 14 (4.27%) Analyst
14 14 (4.27%) AWS DevOps
14 14 (4.27%) Full-Stack Developer
15 13 (3.96%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 12 (3.66%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (18.90%) Kafka
2 46 (14.02%) React
3 43 (13.11%) RESTful
4 30 (9.15%) PySpark
4 30 (9.15%) Spring Boot
5 29 (8.84%) Node.js
6 27 (8.23%) Spring
7 21 (6.40%) REST
8 20 (6.10%) FastAPI
9 19 (5.79%) Pandas
10 18 (5.49%) boto
11 17 (5.18%) .NET
12 16 (4.88%) AngularJS
12 16 (4.88%) Flask
12 16 (4.88%) OAuth
13 15 (4.57%) CSS
14 14 (4.27%) AWS CDK
14 14 (4.27%) HTML
14 14 (4.27%) Next.js
15 13 (3.96%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 80 (24.39%) Cloud Native
2 15 (4.57%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (4.27%) Product Ownership
4 7 (2.13%) Hedge funds
5 6 (1.83%) DataPower
5 6 (1.83%) Equities
5 6 (1.83%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (1.83%) Mainframe
5 6 (1.83%) PACS
5 6 (1.83%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 5 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (1.52%) Fixed Income
6 5 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (1.52%) NHS
7 4 (1.22%) AI Agents
7 4 (1.22%) Algorithms
7 4 (1.22%) Derivative
7 4 (1.22%) Distributed Computing
7 4 (1.22%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 31 (9.45%) Linux
2 16 (4.88%) Unix
3 4 (1.22%) zOS
4 1 (0.30%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (0.30%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 192 (58.54%) CI/CD
2 127 (38.72%) Infrastructure as Code
3 123 (37.50%) DevOps
4 87 (26.52%) Agile
5 68 (20.73%) Microservices
6 58 (17.68%) Data Pipeline
7 57 (17.38%) Containerisation
8 54 (16.46%) ETL
8 54 (16.46%) Problem-Solving
9 52 (15.85%) Data Engineering
10 50 (15.24%) Event-Driven
11 48 (14.63%) Analytics
12 47 (14.33%) Data Modelling
13 44 (13.41%) AI
14 43 (13.11%) Software Engineering
15 39 (11.89%) Observability
15 39 (11.89%) Test Automation
16 34 (10.37%) Continuous Improvement
17 31 (9.45%) Migration
18 30 (9.15%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 192 (58.54%) Python
2 105 (32.01%) SQL
3 61 (18.60%) Java
4 39 (11.89%) TypeScript
5 37 (11.28%) JavaScript
6 33 (10.06%) C#
7 20 (6.10%) Bash
8 19 (5.79%) Shell Script
9 15 (4.57%) Scala
10 8 (2.44%) PowerShell
11 6 (1.83%) Go
12 5 (1.52%) Ruby
12 5 (1.52%) T-SQL
13 4 (1.22%) Bicep
13 4 (1.22%) JCL
14 3 (0.91%) C++
15 2 (0.61%) Kotlin
16 1 (0.30%) Groovy
16 1 (0.30%) PHP
16 1 (0.30%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 107 (32.62%) Security Cleared
2 97 (29.57%) SC Cleared
3 23 (7.01%) AWS Certification
4 12 (3.66%) Degree
5 10 (3.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 8 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (2.13%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.83%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 6 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (1.83%) Master's Degree
9 4 (1.22%) AWS Certified Developer
9 4 (1.22%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (1.22%) PhD
10 2 (0.61%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.30%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 1 (0.30%) CISSP
11 1 (0.30%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.30%) PMP
11 1 (0.30%) SAFe Agilist
11 1 (0.30%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (9.15%) Data Quality
2 15 (4.57%) QA
3 8 (2.44%) NIST
4 7 (2.13%) PMO
5 6 (1.83%) ISO 20022
6 4 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.22%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.22%) SLA
7 2 (0.61%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.61%) GDPR
8 1 (0.30%) GRC
8 1 (0.30%) WCAG
System Software
1 96 (29.27%) Docker
2 9 (2.74%) Squid
3 4 (1.22%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.30%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 159 (48.48%) Terraform
2 80 (24.39%) Kubernetes
3 33 (10.06%) Grafana
4 28 (8.54%) Prometheus
5 13 (3.96%) Ansible
6 12 (3.66%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (2.74%) FortiGate
7 9 (2.74%) Kibana
8 7 (2.13%) Consul
9 3 (0.91%) Karpenter
9 3 (0.91%) Puppet
9 3 (0.91%) Salt
10 2 (0.61%) Opsgenie
11 1 (0.30%) Control-M
11 1 (0.30%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.30%) Rancher
Vendors
1 17 (5.18%) Microsoft
2 12 (3.66%) Databricks
2 12 (3.66%) Splunk
3 11 (3.35%) Dynatrace
4 9 (2.74%) Confluent
4 9 (2.74%) Red Hat
5 8 (2.44%) OpenAI
6 7 (2.13%) Atlassian
7 6 (1.83%) Sybase
8 5 (1.52%) Oracle
8 5 (1.52%) Qualys
8 5 (1.52%) Salesforce
9 4 (1.22%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.22%) Tenable
10 3 (0.91%) AVEVA
10 3 (0.91%) Brio
10 3 (0.91%) Fortinet
10 3 (0.91%) IBM
10 3 (0.91%) Netlify
11 2 (0.61%) Informatica