AWS Lambda Contracts in the South East

AWS Lambda
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 145 193 202
Rank change year-on-year +48 +9 +7
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 14 12 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.47% 0.22% 0.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.54% 0.87% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 11 19
10th Percentile £484 £518 £423
25th Percentile - £583 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +4.35% +14.94%
75th Percentile - £734 £588
90th Percentile £636 £744 -
England median daily rate £550 £513 £575
% change year-on-year +7.32% -10.87% -

All Cloud Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 911 1,373 1,705
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 30.27% 24.70% 29.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 622 924 1,252
10th Percentile £280 £250 £252
25th Percentile £403 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.10% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £635
90th Percentile £663 £675 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 52 52
10th Percentile £16.78 £16.25 £17.72
25th Percentile £16.95 £17.80 £18.25
Median hourly rate £28.50 £22.36 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.47% -8.74% +16.39%
75th Percentile £47.58 £52.38 £67.81
90th Percentile £75.05 £61.59 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
% change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%

AWS Lambda
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing AWS Lambda as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Lambda in the South East

AWS Lambda
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS Lambda in the South East.

Daily rate trend for AWS Lambda in the South East

AWS Lambda
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for AWS Lambda in the South East

AWS Lambda
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East 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
Thames Valley +50 11 £500 -16.67% 23
Berkshire +39 11 £500 -16.67% 5
Hampshire +24 3 £580 -17.14% 4
AWS Lambda
England

AWS Lambda
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Cloud Services
1 14 (100.00%) AWS
2 13 (92.86%) Serverless
3 8 (57.14%) GitHub
4 7 (50.00%) Amazon S3
5 4 (28.57%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (14.29%) PaaS
6 2 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (7.14%) Amazon Cognito
7 1 (7.14%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (7.14%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (7.14%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
7 1 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (7.14%) SonarCloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) DynamoDB
2 2 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (7.14%) MongoDB
3 1 (7.14%) MySQL
3 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (7.14%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) GitLab
2 1 (7.14%) Artifactory
2 1 (7.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) AWS Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Full-Stack Python Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Java Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Lead
3 1 (7.14%) Python Developer
3 1 (7.14%) React Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Senior
3 1 (7.14%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (7.14%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (42.86%) JSON
2 1 (7.14%) AWS CDK
2 1 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (7.14%) GraphQL
2 1 (7.14%) Node.js
2 1 (7.14%) OAuth
2 1 (7.14%) React
2 1 (7.14%) REST
2 1 (7.14%) Serverless Framework
2 1 (7.14%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (71.43%) CI/CD
2 8 (57.14%) DevOps
3 6 (42.86%) Collaborative Working
3 6 (42.86%) Scrum
4 3 (21.43%) High Availability
5 2 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
5 2 (14.29%) Containerisation
5 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (14.29%) Machine Learning
5 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (14.29%) Software Delivery
5 2 (14.29%) Software Engineering
6 1 (7.14%) API Integration
6 1 (7.14%) API Management
6 1 (7.14%) Collaborative Culture
6 1 (7.14%) Cost Management
6 1 (7.14%) DevSecOps
6 1 (7.14%) Full-Stack Development
6 1 (7.14%) Microservices
6 1 (7.14%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 9 (64.29%) Python
2 1 (7.14%) Java
2 1 (7.14%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
1 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (42.86%) QA
System Software
1 9 (64.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) Kubernetes
2 2 (14.29%) Terraform
3 1 (7.14%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Virgin Media
2 1 (7.14%) New Relic