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

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 158 182
Rank change year-on-year +4 +24 +4
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 355 237 232
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.79% 1.74% 1.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.28% 4.06% 3.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 255 179 167
10th Percentile £355 £400 £375
25th Percentile £450 £456 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £590
90th Percentile £738 £800 £674
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -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 £75.00 £45.00 -
% change year-on-year +66.67% - -

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 8,297 5,838 7,025
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.75% 42.90% 40.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,695 3,972 5,146
10th Percentile £360 £350 £350
25th Percentile £440 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £788
England median daily rate £520 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 80 65
10th Percentile £19.50 £22.50 £20.00
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.92 £22.30
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.54 £26.97
Median % change year-on-year +20.20% +9.51% -52.05%
75th Percentile £55.00 £47.81 £38.75
90th Percentile £76.23 £67.50 £64.60
England median hourly rate £39.50 £25.15 £22.00
% change year-on-year +57.06% +14.32% -33.33%

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 12 July 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 12 July 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 43 £600 +4.35% 12
South London +7 21 £500 -19.35% 1
West London -12 16 £725 +28.32% 5
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 (9.86%) Apache Airflow
2 27 (7.61%) Confluence
3 21 (5.92%) Apache Spark
4 11 (3.10%) Apache
5 9 (2.54%) nginx
6 6 (1.69%) CICS
7 2 (0.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.56%) SAS
8 1 (0.28%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.28%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (2.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.13%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.85%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 355 (100.00%) AWS
2 351 (98.87%) Serverless
3 260 (73.24%) Amazon S3
4 122 (34.37%) Amazon EC2
5 108 (30.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 94 (26.48%) Amazon ECS
7 84 (23.66%) Amazon EKS
8 73 (20.56%) GitHub
9 66 (18.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 60 (16.90%) AWS CloudFormation
11 56 (15.77%) GitHub Actions
12 51 (14.37%) AWS Step Functions
13 48 (13.52%) Amazon SQS
14 36 (10.14%) Amazon EMR
14 36 (10.14%) Azure
15 30 (8.45%) Power Platform
16 28 (7.89%) dbt
17 27 (7.61%) Snowflake
18 23 (6.48%) Amazon Bedrock
19 22 (6.20%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 18 (5.07%) Firewall
2 15 (4.23%) DNS
3 12 (3.38%) TCP/IP
4 11 (3.10%) VPN
5 9 (2.54%) OpenVPN
6 5 (1.41%) Network Security
7 4 (1.13%) WAN
8 3 (0.85%) Reverse Proxy
9 1 (0.28%) 4G
9 1 (0.28%) 5G
9 1 (0.28%) BGP
9 1 (0.28%) HTTP
9 1 (0.28%) Internet
9 1 (0.28%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (23.38%) Amazon RDS
2 71 (20.00%) Amazon Athena
3 65 (18.31%) DynamoDB
4 61 (17.18%) Amazon Redshift
5 31 (8.73%) PostgreSQL
6 30 (8.45%) Power BI
7 25 (7.04%) Data Warehouse
8 21 (5.92%) Tableau
9 19 (5.35%) Amazon Aurora
10 17 (4.79%) SQL Server
11 12 (3.38%) Data Lake
11 12 (3.38%) Metadata
12 11 (3.10%) Elasticsearch
12 11 (3.10%) NoSQL
13 10 (2.82%) Db2
13 10 (2.82%) MongoDB
14 9 (2.54%) Amazon QuickSight
14 9 (2.54%) Apache Iceberg
14 9 (2.54%) Big Data
15 8 (2.25%) Apache Hudi
Development Applications
1 68 (19.15%) GitLab
1 68 (19.15%) Jenkins
2 65 (18.31%) Git
3 37 (10.42%) JIRA
4 17 (4.79%) Bitbucket
5 16 (4.51%) Cucumber
6 11 (3.10%) Cypress.io
7 10 (2.82%) JUnit
8 7 (1.97%) Mocha
8 7 (1.97%) SonarQube
9 6 (1.69%) Artifactory
9 6 (1.69%) MSTest
9 6 (1.69%) Postman
9 6 (1.69%) tSQLt
10 5 (1.41%) Gatling
10 5 (1.41%) Mockito
10 5 (1.41%) REST Assured
11 4 (1.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (1.13%) Selenium
12 3 (0.85%) Vite
General
1 96 (27.04%) Social Skills
2 66 (18.59%) Finance
3 57 (16.06%) Public Sector
4 29 (8.17%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (5.63%) Banking
6 16 (4.51%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (1.97%) Law
8 6 (1.69%) Back Office
9 5 (1.41%) Front Office
9 5 (1.41%) Military
10 4 (1.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.13%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.85%) Police
11 3 (0.85%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.56%) Billing
12 2 (0.56%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.56%) Games
12 2 (0.56%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.56%) Local Government
12 2 (0.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 82 (23.10%) AWS Engineer
2 68 (19.15%) Senior
3 65 (18.31%) Data Engineer
4 52 (14.65%) Developer
5 48 (13.52%) Lead
6 45 (12.68%) Architect
7 31 (8.73%) DevOps Engineer
8 25 (7.04%) AWS Developer
8 25 (7.04%) Software Engineer
9 23 (6.48%) AWS Data Engineer
10 22 (6.20%) AWS Architect
10 22 (6.20%) Cloud Engineer
11 17 (4.79%) AWS DevOps
11 17 (4.79%) Python Developer
12 15 (4.23%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 15 (4.23%) Technical Leader
13 14 (3.94%) Python Engineer
13 14 (3.94%) Senior Data Engineer
14 13 (3.66%) Analyst
14 13 (3.66%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (14.93%) Kafka
2 49 (13.80%) React
3 45 (12.68%) RESTful
4 36 (10.14%) PySpark
5 30 (8.45%) Node.js
6 26 (7.32%) FastAPI
7 25 (7.04%) REST
7 25 (7.04%) Spring Boot
8 22 (6.20%) Spring
9 20 (5.63%) .NET
9 20 (5.63%) GraphQL
10 17 (4.79%) Flask
11 14 (3.94%) Pandas
12 13 (3.66%) AWS CDK
12 13 (3.66%) Next.js
12 13 (3.66%) SOAP
13 12 (3.38%) AngularJS
13 12 (3.38%) Web Services
14 11 (3.10%) CSS
14 11 (3.10%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 91 (25.63%) Cloud Native
2 16 (4.51%) Product Ownership
3 15 (4.23%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (2.54%) Fixed Income
5 7 (1.97%) AI Agents
5 7 (1.97%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (1.97%) Hedge funds
5 7 (1.97%) Security Posture
6 6 (1.69%) DataPower
6 6 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (1.69%) Mainframe
6 6 (1.69%) NHS
6 6 (1.69%) Online Banking
7 5 (1.41%) Cloud Security Posture
7 5 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (1.41%) Equities
7 5 (1.41%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.13%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.13%) Distributed Computing
8 4 (1.13%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 31 (8.73%) Linux
2 15 (4.23%) Unix
3 7 (1.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (1.69%) zOS
5 4 (1.13%) Windows
6 3 (0.85%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.28%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 214 (60.28%) CI/CD
2 142 (40.00%) DevOps
3 136 (38.31%) Infrastructure as Code
4 120 (33.80%) Agile
5 73 (20.56%) AI
6 69 (19.44%) Data Engineering
7 66 (18.59%) Data Pipeline
8 64 (18.03%) Microservices
9 58 (16.34%) Test Automation
10 57 (16.06%) Event-Driven
11 56 (15.77%) Containerisation
11 56 (15.77%) ETL
12 54 (15.21%) Analytics
12 54 (15.21%) Problem-Solving
12 54 (15.21%) Software Engineering
13 46 (12.96%) Data Modelling
14 45 (12.68%) Continuous Improvement
15 43 (12.11%) Platform Engineering
16 40 (11.27%) Migration
17 39 (10.99%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 218 (61.41%) Python
2 119 (33.52%) SQL
3 63 (17.75%) Java
4 49 (13.80%) TypeScript
5 39 (10.99%) JavaScript
6 33 (9.30%) C#
7 31 (8.73%) Bash
8 19 (5.35%) Shell Script
9 17 (4.79%) Scala
10 10 (2.82%) PowerShell
11 7 (1.97%) T-SQL
12 6 (1.69%) JCL
13 5 (1.41%) Go
14 4 (1.13%) Bicep
14 4 (1.13%) SPARQL
15 3 (0.85%) Cypher
15 3 (0.85%) Gremlin
16 2 (0.56%) C
17 1 (0.28%) C++
17 1 (0.28%) Haskell
Qualifications
1 108 (30.42%) Security Cleared
2 99 (27.89%) SC Cleared
3 34 (9.58%) AWS Certification
4 15 (4.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 14 (3.94%) Degree
6 13 (3.66%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (3.10%) DV Cleared
8 9 (2.54%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 9 (2.54%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (2.25%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 5 (1.41%) Master's Degree
11 4 (1.13%) AWS Certified Developer
11 4 (1.13%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.56%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.28%) Azure Certification
13 1 (0.28%) PhD
13 1 (0.28%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.28%) PMP
13 1 (0.28%) SAFe Agilist
13 1 (0.28%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (13.24%) Data Quality
2 18 (5.07%) QA
3 7 (1.97%) PMO
4 4 (1.13%) SLA
5 3 (0.85%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.85%) ISO 20022
6 2 (0.56%) NIST
7 1 (0.28%) GDPR
7 1 (0.28%) GRC
7 1 (0.28%) WCAG
System Software
1 98 (27.61%) Docker
2 10 (2.82%) Squid
3 7 (1.97%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 166 (46.76%) Terraform
2 80 (22.54%) Kubernetes
3 38 (10.70%) Grafana
4 34 (9.58%) Prometheus
5 22 (6.20%) Ansible
6 9 (2.54%) FortiGate
6 9 (2.54%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (2.25%) Puppet
8 7 (1.97%) Consul
9 5 (1.41%) Kibana
9 5 (1.41%) Salt
10 3 (0.85%) Packer
11 1 (0.28%) Control-M
11 1 (0.28%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 14 (3.94%) Microsoft
1 14 (3.94%) Splunk
2 12 (3.38%) Informatica
2 12 (3.38%) Red Hat
3 10 (2.82%) Dynatrace
4 9 (2.54%) Databricks
5 7 (1.97%) Atlassian
5 7 (1.97%) OpenAI
5 7 (1.97%) Sybase
6 5 (1.41%) Oracle
6 5 (1.41%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.13%) Fortinet
7 4 (1.13%) Salesforce
8 3 (0.85%) AVEVA
8 3 (0.85%) Brio
8 3 (0.85%) Confluent
8 3 (0.85%) Netlify
8 3 (0.85%) PagerDuty
8 3 (0.85%) Qualys
9 2 (0.56%) Tenable