AWS Lambda Contracts in Scotland

AWS Lambda
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 67 50
Rank change year-on-year +3 -17 +71
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 54 64 144
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 3.32% 2.89% 5.03%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.37% 8.67% 13.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 58 128
10th Percentile £421 £413 £413
25th Percentile £453 £439 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £479
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -0.84% -8.76%
75th Percentile £550 £509 £513
90th Percentile £596 £538 £550
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -8.70%

All Cloud Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 645 738 1,034
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 39.69% 33.29% 36.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 440 504 774
10th Percentile £305 £258 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% - -
75th Percentile £538 £550 £550
90th Percentile £600 £659 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 10 11
10th Percentile £21.84 £15.39 £18.25
25th Percentile £22.50 £15.69 £45.00
Median hourly rate £24.09 £17.00 £60.55
Median % change year-on-year +41.71% -71.92% +65.89%
75th Percentile £27.91 £17.67 £66.50
90th Percentile £28.38 £24.85 £76.00
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

AWS Lambda
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS Lambda in Scotland

AWS Lambda
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for AWS Lambda in Scotland

AWS Lambda
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Lambda in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Lambda in Scotland

AWS Lambda
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 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
Edinburgh +4 35 £494 +7.27% 5
Glasgow -4 8 £455 -9.64% 2
Lanarkshire +6 7 £525 +23.53%
AWS Lambda
UK

AWS Lambda
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 2 (3.70%) GeoServer
2 1 (1.85%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 54 (100.00%) AWS
2 52 (96.30%) Serverless
3 47 (87.04%) Amazon S3
4 20 (37.04%) AWS CloudFormation
5 15 (27.78%) AWS CodePipeline
6 12 (22.22%) OpenShift
7 11 (20.37%) Amazon Cognito
8 10 (18.52%) Amazon EC2
8 10 (18.52%) Amazon ECS
8 10 (18.52%) GitHub
9 9 (16.67%) Route 53
10 8 (14.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 7 (12.96%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 7 (12.96%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 7 (12.96%) AWS CodeBuild
11 7 (12.96%) AWS Step Functions
12 6 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
12 6 (11.11%) AWS CloudTrail
12 6 (11.11%) AWS CodeDeploy
12 6 (11.11%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.41%) Firewall
2 1 (1.85%) DNS
2 1 (1.85%) FTP
2 1 (1.85%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (1.85%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (22.22%) Amazon Aurora
2 12 (22.22%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (22.22%) DynamoDB
3 9 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (16.67%) Oracle Database
4 7 (12.96%) Amazon Athena
5 6 (11.11%) Parquet
5 6 (11.11%) Relational Database
6 5 (9.26%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (9.26%) NoSQL
7 4 (7.41%) GIS
8 3 (5.56%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (5.56%) MongoDB
8 3 (5.56%) MySQL
9 2 (3.70%) Big Data
9 2 (3.70%) InfluxDB
10 1 (1.85%) Apache Hive
10 1 (1.85%) Hadoop
10 1 (1.85%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 10 (18.52%) Jenkins
2 9 (16.67%) GitLab
3 7 (12.96%) Cypress.io
4 5 (9.26%) Storybook
5 4 (7.41%) Git
6 3 (5.56%) Artifactory
7 2 (3.70%) Ant
7 2 (3.70%) webpack
8 1 (1.85%) JIRA
8 1 (1.85%) Mockito
8 1 (1.85%) Selenium
8 1 (1.85%) Toad
8 1 (1.85%) Zephyr
General
1 18 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 13 (24.07%) Social Skills
3 6 (11.11%) Finance
4 2 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.70%) Banking
5 1 (1.85%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 22 (40.74%) Developer
2 11 (20.37%) AWS Engineer
3 9 (16.67%) AWS Developer
3 9 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
4 8 (14.81%) Architect
4 8 (14.81%) Data Engineer
5 6 (11.11%) Cloud Developer
6 4 (7.41%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 4 (7.41%) Platform Engineer
6 4 (7.41%) Software Developer
6 4 (7.41%) Software Engineer
7 3 (5.56%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 3 (5.56%) Cloud Architect
7 3 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (5.56%) Senior
7 3 (5.56%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 3 (5.56%) Senior Developer
8 2 (3.70%) AWS Architect
8 2 (3.70%) Python Engineer
8 2 (3.70%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (61.11%) AWS CDK
2 14 (25.93%) React
3 9 (16.67%) JSON
4 6 (11.11%) Node.js
4 6 (11.11%) PostGIS
4 6 (11.11%) REST
4 6 (11.11%) Spring
4 6 (11.11%) Spring Boot
5 5 (9.26%) CSS
5 5 (9.26%) Jest
5 5 (9.26%) Tailwind CSS
6 4 (7.41%) OAuth
6 4 (7.41%) RESTful
7 3 (5.56%) JSON Schema
7 3 (5.56%) Next.js
7 3 (5.56%) TypeORM
8 2 (3.70%) GraphQL
8 2 (3.70%) Hibernate
8 2 (3.70%) RabbitMQ
9 1 (1.85%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (25.93%) Cloud Native
2 5 (9.26%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.85%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.70%) Linux
1 2 (3.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (3.70%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (55.56%) CI/CD
2 20 (37.04%) Agile
2 20 (37.04%) DevOps
2 20 (37.04%) Infrastructure as Code
3 14 (25.93%) Kanban
3 14 (25.93%) Migration
3 14 (25.93%) Scrum
4 12 (22.22%) Microservices
4 12 (22.22%) Test Automation
5 11 (20.37%) Human-Centred Design
5 11 (20.37%) Inclusive Design
5 11 (20.37%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (18.52%) Data Migration
7 9 (16.67%) Computer Science
7 9 (16.67%) Data Engineering
7 9 (16.67%) ETL
7 9 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
8 8 (14.81%) Data Transformation
8 8 (14.81%) TDD
9 7 (12.96%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 32 (59.26%) Python
2 19 (35.19%) SQL
3 16 (29.63%) TypeScript
4 12 (22.22%) JavaScript
5 10 (18.52%) Java
6 8 (14.81%) Bash
7 4 (7.41%) Groovy
8 1 (1.85%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.85%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (22.22%) AWS Certification
2 9 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 9 (16.67%) Degree
3 4 (7.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.85%) OCP
4 1 (1.85%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (1.85%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.96%) Disclosure Scotland
2 5 (9.26%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.85%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.85%) GDPR
3 1 (1.85%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.85%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (22.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (18.52%) Grafana
2 8 (14.81%) Kubernetes
3 5 (9.26%) Ansible
4 3 (5.56%) Kibana
5 2 (3.70%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.85%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (20.37%) Oracle
2 2 (3.70%) Imperva
2 2 (3.70%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.85%) Atlassian
3 1 (1.85%) IBM
3 1 (1.85%) Informatica
3 1 (1.85%) MuleSoft
3 1 (1.85%) Okta
3 1 (1.85%) StreamSets
3 1 (1.85%) Talend