AWS Lambda Contracts in London

AWS Lambda
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring AWS Lambda skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited AWS Lambda over the 6 months leading up to 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 137 181 175
Rank change year-on-year +44 -6 -17
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 240 244 397
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.98% 1.40% 1.54%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.64% 3.61% 3.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 189 186 304
10th Percentile £400 £378 £450
25th Percentile £455 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -16.67% -2.04%
75th Percentile £638 £588 £688
90th Percentile £838 £667 £750
England median daily rate £525 £511 £575
% change year-on-year +2.69% -11.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £35.00 - £35.00
England median hourly rate £35.00 - £35.00
% change year-on-year - - -53.33%

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 5,171 6,765 9,994
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.63% 38.86% 38.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,552 4,993 7,337
10th Percentile £356 £350 £375
25th Percentile £431 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £695
90th Percentile £788 £775 £788
England median daily rate £523 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.48% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 66 79
10th Percentile £22.57 £17.01 £19.79
25th Percentile £24.66 £22.00 £24.75
Median hourly rate £29.07 £25.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.00% -51.43% +31.25%
75th Percentile £43.75 £37.34 £77.50
90th Percentile £67.50 £56.25 £90.00
England median hourly rate £25.50 £21.37 £34.00
% change year-on-year +19.33% -37.15% +58.14%

AWS Lambda
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing AWS Lambda as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Lambda in London

AWS Lambda
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS Lambda in London.

Daily rate trend for AWS Lambda in London

AWS Lambda
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Lambda in London over the 6 months to 23 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Lambda in London

AWS Lambda
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing AWS Lambda in London.

Hourly rate trend for AWS Lambda in London

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 23 May 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 -2 27 £505 +1.00% 48
West London +23 12 £565 -5.83% 63
South London +4 7 £481 -3.75% 3
AWS Lambda
England

AWS Lambda
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 38 (15.83%) Apache Spark
2 33 (13.75%) Apache
3 32 (13.33%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.67%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (0.42%) CMS
5 1 (0.42%) Confluence
5 1 (0.42%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 1 (0.42%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 239 (99.58%) AWS
2 238 (99.17%) Serverless
3 124 (51.67%) Amazon S3
4 63 (26.25%) AWS CloudFormation
5 46 (19.17%) Amazon EC2
6 45 (18.75%) Amazon ECS
7 41 (17.08%) Amazon SQS
8 34 (14.17%) AWS Step Functions
9 32 (13.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 32 (13.33%) dbt
9 32 (13.33%) GitHub
10 30 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
11 29 (12.08%) OpenShift
12 19 (7.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 15 (6.25%) Amazon Cognito
14 12 (5.00%) AWS CodePipeline
15 11 (4.58%) Amazon SageMaker
16 10 (4.17%) Amazon EventBridge
17 9 (3.75%) Datadog
18 8 (3.33%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.75%) HTTP
2 7 (2.92%) Firewall
2 7 (2.92%) VPN
3 5 (2.08%) DNS
4 4 (1.67%) TCP/IP
5 3 (1.25%) SSL
6 2 (0.83%) DHCP
6 2 (0.83%) HTTPS
6 2 (0.83%) Network Security
6 2 (0.83%) VLAN
7 1 (0.42%) Broadband
7 1 (0.42%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.42%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (25.00%) Amazon Athena
2 54 (22.50%) Amazon RDS
2 54 (22.50%) DynamoDB
3 26 (10.83%) Apache Iceberg
4 24 (10.00%) Amazon Redshift
4 24 (10.00%) Apache Arrow
4 24 (10.00%) Apache Ignite
4 24 (10.00%) Dremio
5 23 (9.58%) PostgreSQL
6 19 (7.92%) NoSQL
7 18 (7.50%) Tableau
8 13 (5.42%) Data Warehouse
9 12 (5.00%) Big Data
9 12 (5.00%) Relational Database
10 9 (3.75%) Oracle Database
11 8 (3.33%) Data Lake
11 8 (3.33%) MongoDB
12 7 (2.92%) Amazon Aurora
13 6 (2.50%) Power BI
13 6 (2.50%) Redis
Development Applications
1 30 (12.50%) Artifactory
2 28 (11.67%) Jenkins
3 26 (10.83%) Git
4 14 (5.83%) Cypress.io
4 14 (5.83%) GitLab
5 7 (2.92%) git-flow
6 6 (2.50%) SonarQube
7 5 (2.08%) Cucumber
8 4 (1.67%) Gradle
9 3 (1.25%) Bitbucket
9 3 (1.25%) Mocha
9 3 (1.25%) Postman
9 3 (1.25%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (1.25%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.42%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.42%) JIRA
10 1 (0.42%) MLflow
10 1 (0.42%) Mockito
10 1 (0.42%) Selenium
10 1 (0.42%) Storybook
General
1 45 (18.75%) Public Sector
2 40 (16.67%) Finance
3 37 (15.42%) Social Skills
4 30 (12.50%) Front Office
5 24 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (3.33%) Banking
7 3 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (1.25%) Retail
8 2 (0.83%) Corporate Banking
8 2 (0.83%) Financial Institution
8 2 (0.83%) Investment Banking
8 2 (0.83%) Military
8 2 (0.83%) Publishing
8 2 (0.83%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.42%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.42%) Marketing
9 1 (0.42%) Police
Job Titles
1 79 (32.92%) AWS Engineer
2 61 (25.42%) Data Engineer
3 52 (21.67%) Developer
4 45 (18.75%) DevOps Engineer
5 38 (15.83%) Senior
6 37 (15.42%) AWS DevOps
6 37 (15.42%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 30 (12.50%) Python Engineer
8 29 (12.08%) Architect
9 22 (9.17%) AWS Architect
10 19 (7.92%) AWS Data Engineer
11 17 (7.08%) AWS Developer
12 15 (6.25%) Software Engineer
13 14 (5.83%) Lead
13 14 (5.83%) Senior Developer
14 12 (5.00%) Java Developer
15 9 (3.75%) JavaScript Engineer
16 8 (3.33%) Cloud Engineer
16 8 (3.33%) Data Scientist
16 8 (3.33%) Node.js Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (20.83%) Kafka
2 49 (20.42%) Node.js
3 42 (17.50%) React
4 30 (12.50%) PySpark
5 25 (10.42%) GraphQL
5 25 (10.42%) J2EE
6 22 (9.17%) AWS CDK
7 12 (5.00%) REST
8 11 (4.58%) Redux
8 11 (4.58%) WebSockets
9 10 (4.17%) RESTful
10 9 (3.75%) JSON
10 9 (3.75%) Next.js
10 9 (3.75%) NumPy
10 9 (3.75%) Pandas
10 9 (3.75%) pydantic
10 9 (3.75%) PyTorch
10 9 (3.75%) scikit-learn
10 9 (3.75%) TensorFlow
11 8 (3.33%) OpenCV
Miscellaneous
1 24 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 18 (7.50%) Greenfield Project
3 7 (2.92%) Algorithms
3 7 (2.92%) Data Protection Act
3 7 (2.92%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (2.08%) Onboarding
4 5 (2.08%) Public Cloud
5 4 (1.67%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (1.67%) TWAP
5 4 (1.67%) VWAP
6 3 (1.25%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.25%) Mobile App
6 3 (1.25%) Vector Graphics
6 3 (1.25%) Video\Live Streaming
7 2 (0.83%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.42%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.42%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.42%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.42%) N-Tier
8 1 (0.42%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 13 (5.42%) Linux
2 8 (3.33%) Unix
3 3 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (1.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (46.67%) CI/CD
2 99 (41.25%) DevOps
3 75 (31.25%) Agile
4 51 (21.25%) Infrastructure as Code
5 48 (20.00%) Software Engineering
6 43 (17.92%) Open Source
7 42 (17.50%) Problem-Solving
8 38 (15.83%) Data Engineering
8 38 (15.83%) Microservices
9 35 (14.58%) Containerisation
10 31 (12.92%) High Availability
10 31 (12.92%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 29 (12.08%) Asset Management
12 28 (11.67%) Mentoring
13 24 (10.00%) ETL
14 22 (9.17%) Data Pipeline
14 22 (9.17%) Stakeholder Management
15 20 (8.33%) Continuous Integration
16 19 (7.92%) Clean Code
17 18 (7.50%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 129 (53.75%) Python
2 55 (22.92%) Java
2 55 (22.92%) JavaScript
3 52 (21.67%) SQL
4 47 (19.58%) TypeScript
5 34 (14.17%) Go
6 11 (4.58%) Bash
7 9 (3.75%) T-SQL
8 7 (2.92%) C#
8 7 (2.92%) Scala
8 7 (2.92%) Shell Script
9 6 (2.50%) C++
10 4 (1.67%) Perl
10 4 (1.67%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.25%) CodeQL
11 3 (1.25%) PHP
12 2 (0.83%) Lua
12 2 (0.83%) Ruby
12 2 (0.83%) Rust
13 1 (0.42%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 78 (32.50%) Security Cleared
2 77 (32.08%) SC Cleared
3 55 (22.92%) AWS Certification
4 29 (12.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 12 (5.00%) Degree
6 6 (2.50%) AWS Certified Developer
7 3 (1.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (0.83%) CCIE
8 2 (0.83%) CCNP
8 2 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.83%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.83%) OCP
8 2 (0.83%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.42%) CEH
9 1 (0.42%) CISSP
9 1 (0.42%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.75%) Data Quality
2 6 (2.50%) QA
3 5 (2.08%) GDPR
3 5 (2.08%) NIST
4 4 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.67%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.25%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.42%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.42%) WCAG
System Software
1 57 (23.75%) Docker
2 2 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.42%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.42%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 95 (39.58%) Terraform
2 75 (31.25%) Kubernetes
3 16 (6.67%) Ansible
4 12 (5.00%) Prometheus
5 7 (2.92%) Grafana
6 2 (0.83%) Puppet
7 1 (0.42%) Apache Ranger
7 1 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.42%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 15 (6.25%) Oracle
2 9 (3.75%) Microsoft
3 7 (2.92%) Splunk
4 4 (1.67%) MuleSoft
5 3 (1.25%) Cloudera
5 3 (1.25%) Qualys
5 3 (1.25%) Tenable
6 2 (0.83%) Cisco
6 2 (0.83%) Databricks
6 2 (0.83%) Google
6 2 (0.83%) Virgin Media
6 2 (0.83%) VMware
7 1 (0.42%) Confluent
7 1 (0.42%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.42%) IBM
7 1 (0.42%) Informatica
7 1 (0.42%) Rollbar
7 1 (0.42%) Sage
7 1 (0.42%) StreamSets
7 1 (0.42%) Talend