AWS Lambda Contract Job Trends in Reading

AWS Lambda
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring AWS Lambda skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 69 96
Rank change year-on-year -18 +27 -12
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 1 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.100% 0.15% 0.084%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.35% 0.45% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £613 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - £800
Median % change year-on-year - - +66.67%
75th Percentile £638 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £600
% change year-on-year -5.00% -16.67% +25.00%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 288 221 382
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 28.66% 33.95% 32.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 226 144 274
10th Percentile £274 £354 £384
25th Percentile £413 £409 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £638
90th Percentile £670 £663 £688
Berkshire median daily rate £488 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -11.36% +4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 3 7
10th Percentile £72.38 £26.80 £56.50
25th Percentile £80.81 £27.63 £56.58
Median hourly rate £83.25 £29.00 £58.30
Median % change year-on-year +187.07% -50.26% -10.65%
75th Percentile £96.88 £53.10 £59.95
90th Percentile £101.65 £67.55 £60.61
Berkshire median hourly rate £81.50 £42.50 £58.30
% change year-on-year +91.76% -27.10% +153.48%

AWS Lambda
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing AWS Lambda relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading.

AWS Lambda job vacancy trend in Reading

AWS Lambda
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing AWS Lambda.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing AWS Lambda

AWS Lambda
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Migration Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Site Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform