AWS Lambda Contract Job Trends in Scotland

AWS Lambda
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring AWS Lambda skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 59 75
Rank change year-on-year -3 +16 -6
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 52 61 69
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 3.31% 3.55% 2.86%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.78% 10.36% 9.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 50 63
10th Percentile £358 £409 £400
25th Percentile £400 £427 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £470 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.45% -1.05% -2.86%
75th Percentile £525 £513 £538
90th Percentile £540 £550 £545
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -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 592 589 764
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 37.68% 34.24% 31.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 371 362 528
10th Percentile £315 £269 £313
25th Percentile £413 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £477
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.71% +0.47%
75th Percentile £575 £529 £575
90th Percentile £625 £614 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 15 4
10th Percentile £11.84 £18.31 -
25th Percentile £12.71 £19.97 £15.42
Median hourly rate £31.95 £23.00 £16.57
Median % change year-on-year +38.92% +38.81% -6.49%
75th Percentile £52.50 £24.18 £21.42
90th Percentile £57.00 £26.32 £28.07
UK median hourly rate £25.74 £29.00 £25.69
% change year-on-year -11.26% +12.88% +14.18%

AWS Lambda
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

AWS Lambda job vacancy trend in Scotland

AWS Lambda
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

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

AWS Lambda
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Lambda in Scotland over the 6 months to 13 December 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 13 December 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
Glasgow +14 31 £401 -1.96% 4
Edinburgh -9 21 £523 +8.91% 4
AWS Lambda
UK

AWS Lambda
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 8 (15.38%) Apache Spark
2 7 (13.46%) Apache
3 6 (11.54%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.92%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (1.92%) nginx
Business Applications
1 4 (7.69%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 52 (100.00%) AWS
1 52 (100.00%) Serverless
2 39 (75.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 35 (67.31%) Amazon S3
4 20 (38.46%) Amazon ECS
5 18 (34.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 16 (30.77%) Amazon EKS
7 14 (26.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 12 (23.08%) Amazon SQS
9 11 (21.15%) Amazon EC2
10 8 (15.38%) AWS Step Functions
11 7 (13.46%) Amazon EventBridge
11 7 (13.46%) Amazon SageMaker
11 7 (13.46%) OpenShift
12 6 (11.54%) Amazon Kinesis
12 6 (11.54%) Amazon MSK
13 4 (7.69%) Textract
14 3 (5.77%) AWS CloudTrail
15 2 (3.85%) Dagster
15 2 (3.85%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 7 (13.46%) Firewall
2 3 (5.77%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (25.00%) Amazon Athena
1 13 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (23.08%) Amazon Aurora
3 10 (19.23%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (13.46%) DynamoDB
5 5 (9.62%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (9.62%) Delta Lake
6 3 (5.77%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (3.85%) Data Lake
8 1 (1.92%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (1.92%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (25.00%) GitLab
1 13 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 10 (19.23%) Git
2 10 (19.23%) MLflow
3 8 (15.38%) JIRA
4 7 (13.46%) Bitbucket
4 7 (13.46%) Cypress.io
4 7 (13.46%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 19 (36.54%) Public Sector
2 18 (34.62%) Finance
3 8 (15.38%) Banking
4 3 (5.77%) Social Skills
5 2 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.92%) Digital Healthcare
6 1 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.92%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.92%) Legal
Job Titles
1 10 (19.23%) Architect
2 9 (17.31%) Developer
3 8 (15.38%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 8 (15.38%) AWS Architect
3 8 (15.38%) AWS Engineer
3 8 (15.38%) DevOps Engineer
3 8 (15.38%) Senior
4 6 (11.54%) Lead
4 6 (11.54%) Technical Leader
5 4 (7.69%) Python Engineer
6 3 (5.77%) AWS Data Architect
6 3 (5.77%) AWS Solution Architect
6 3 (5.77%) Cloud Engineer
6 3 (5.77%) Data Architect
6 3 (5.77%) Data Engineer
6 3 (5.77%) Senior DevOps
6 3 (5.77%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 3 (5.77%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (3.85%) AWS Developer
7 2 (3.85%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (38.46%) AWS CDK
2 16 (30.77%) Node.js
3 14 (26.92%) PyTorch
4 9 (17.31%) Pandas
4 9 (17.31%) React
4 9 (17.31%) SQLAlchemy
5 8 (15.38%) FastAPI
5 8 (15.38%) Hugging Face
5 8 (15.38%) NumPy
5 8 (15.38%) OAuth
5 8 (15.38%) OpenCV
5 8 (15.38%) REST
6 7 (13.46%) PySpark
7 6 (11.54%) boto
7 6 (11.54%) HTML
8 5 (9.62%) CSS
8 5 (9.62%) JWT
9 4 (7.69%) SpaCy
10 3 (5.77%) Next.js
10 3 (5.77%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 8 (15.38%) Algorithms
2 6 (11.54%) IVR
2 6 (11.54%) NHS
3 5 (9.62%) Cloud Native
4 4 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (7.69%) Data Structures
5 3 (5.77%) Distributed Computing
5 3 (5.77%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (3.85%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.92%) Derivative
7 1 (1.92%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (13.46%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (57.69%) Infrastructure as Code
2 24 (46.15%) Agile
2 24 (46.15%) CI/CD
3 21 (40.38%) DevOps
4 18 (34.62%) AI
4 18 (34.62%) Machine Learning
5 17 (32.69%) Containerisation
6 16 (30.77%) Microservices
7 15 (28.85%) Migration
8 12 (23.08%) TDD
9 11 (21.15%) Kanban
9 11 (21.15%) Scrum
10 10 (19.23%) OCR
10 10 (19.23%) Roadmaps
11 9 (17.31%) Analytics
11 9 (17.31%) API Development
11 9 (17.31%) Continuous Improvement
11 9 (17.31%) Data Pipeline
11 9 (17.31%) LLM
11 9 (17.31%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 42 (80.77%) Python
2 14 (26.92%) Java
3 12 (23.08%) TypeScript
4 6 (11.54%) Perl
4 6 (11.54%) PowerShell
4 6 (11.54%) Ruby
5 5 (9.62%) SQL
6 3 (5.77%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.92%) C#
7 1 (1.92%) Go
Qualifications
1 14 (26.92%) AWS Certification
2 6 (11.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (3.85%) Degree
3 2 (3.85%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.92%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (21.15%) Accessibility
2 6 (11.54%) GDPR
2 6 (11.54%) PCI DSS
3 5 (9.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (5.77%) Data Quality
4 3 (5.77%) Disclosure Scotland
4 3 (5.77%) HIPAA
4 3 (5.77%) PMO
System Software
1 17 (32.69%) Docker
2 4 (7.69%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 17 (32.69%) Kubernetes
2 15 (28.85%) Terraform
3 13 (25.00%) Grafana
4 1 (1.92%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (11.54%) Databricks
2 5 (9.62%) Avaya
2 5 (9.62%) Cisco
2 5 (9.62%) Genesys
2 5 (9.62%) Oracle
3 4 (7.69%) Pega
3 4 (7.69%) Salesforce
3 4 (7.69%) ServiceNow
4 3 (5.77%) Microsoft