AWS Lambda Contract Job Trends in the South East

AWS Lambda
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring AWS Lambda skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 152 164 199
Rank change year-on-year +12 +35 +21
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 26 16 8
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.60% 0.42% 0.16%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.94% 1.37% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 12 7
10th Percentile £406 £425 £328
25th Percentile £408 £453 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -13.04% +9.52%
75th Percentile £463 £667 £588
90th Percentile £620 £813 £673
England median daily rate £500 £551 £525
% change year-on-year -9.17% +4.86% -12.50%

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 1,337 1,169 1,488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 30.95% 30.81% 29.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 933 793 1,034
10th Percentile £214 £262 £213
25th Percentile £363 £402 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.34% -1.90% -
75th Percentile £575 £638 £625
90th Percentile £670 £675 £688
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 18 35
10th Percentile £12.50 £17.45 £17.68
25th Percentile £14.75 £19.47 £19.87
Median hourly rate £19.50 £28.75 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.17% +6.48% +35.00%
75th Percentile £48.75 £51.25 £52.67
90th Percentile £92.30 £64.73 £76.67
England median hourly rate £26.30 £30.94 £23.24
% change year-on-year -14.99% +33.12% +3.29%

AWS Lambda
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

AWS Lambda job vacancy trend in the South East

AWS Lambda
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing AWS Lambda.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing AWS Lambda

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 14 December 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 14 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
Thames Valley +4 18 £425 -33.33% 13
Berkshire +6 12 £425 -15.00% 6
Buckinghamshire +8 6 £425 -40.87% 4
Hampshire -12 4 £650 +40.54% 3
Surrey -3 3 £410 - 3
AWS Lambda
England

AWS Lambda
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 3 (11.54%) Apache
1 3 (11.54%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.85%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 26 (100.00%) AWS
2 24 (92.31%) Serverless
3 15 (57.69%) Amazon S3
4 12 (46.15%) AWS CloudFormation
5 7 (26.92%) Azure
6 6 (23.08%) AWS Step Functions
6 6 (23.08%) GitHub
6 6 (23.08%) OCI
7 5 (19.23%) Amazon Bedrock
7 5 (19.23%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (19.23%) Amazon SageMaker
7 5 (19.23%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (19.23%) ChatGPT
8 4 (15.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (15.38%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (11.54%) Amazon Cognito
9 3 (11.54%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (7.69%) AWS Fargate
10 2 (7.69%) Textract
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (26.92%) Amazon RDS
1 7 (26.92%) Amazon Redshift
2 6 (23.08%) Amazon Athena
2 6 (23.08%) Couchbase
2 6 (23.08%) NoSQL
3 4 (15.38%) Big Data
3 4 (15.38%) Relational Database
4 3 (11.54%) MongoDB
4 3 (11.54%) MySQL
4 3 (11.54%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (7.69%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 6 (23.08%) Jenkins
1 6 (23.08%) JIRA
2 5 (19.23%) Git
3 4 (15.38%) Bitbucket
4 3 (11.54%) Gradle
4 3 (11.54%) Maven
5 1 (3.85%) git-flow
5 1 (3.85%) GitLab
General
1 8 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 3 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (11.54%) Public Sector
3 2 (7.69%) Banking
4 1 (3.85%) Digital Healthcare
4 1 (3.85%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (30.77%) Developer
2 7 (26.92%) Data Engineer
3 5 (19.23%) Data Scientist
3 5 (19.23%) Java Developer
3 5 (19.23%) Platform Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Architect
4 3 (11.54%) AWS Developer
4 3 (11.54%) AWS Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (7.69%) AWS Data Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Digital Architect
5 2 (7.69%) Digital Solutions Architect
5 2 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.85%) AWS Architect
6 1 (3.85%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 1 (3.85%) Full-Stack Python Developer
6 1 (3.85%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (23.08%) Kafka
2 5 (19.23%) Hugging Face
2 5 (19.23%) NumPy
2 5 (19.23%) Pandas
2 5 (19.23%) PyTorch
2 5 (19.23%) REST
2 5 (19.23%) RESTful
2 5 (19.23%) scikit-learn
3 4 (15.38%) Node.js
3 4 (15.38%) OAuth
3 4 (15.38%) React
3 4 (15.38%) SOAP
3 4 (15.38%) Spring
3 4 (15.38%) Spring Boot
4 3 (11.54%) AngularJS
4 3 (11.54%) GraphQL
4 3 (11.54%) Prophet
5 2 (7.69%) JSON
5 2 (7.69%) XML
6 1 (3.85%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (23.08%) Cloud Native
1 6 (23.08%) Replication
2 2 (7.69%) Distributed Architecture
2 2 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.85%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.85%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (26.92%) Linux
2 6 (23.08%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (69.23%) CI/CD
2 13 (50.00%) DevOps
3 12 (46.15%) Agile
3 12 (46.15%) Infrastructure as Code
4 10 (38.46%) Containerisation
4 10 (38.46%) High Availability
5 9 (34.62%) Microservices
6 7 (26.92%) Platform Engineering
7 6 (23.08%) Performance Tuning
7 6 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (23.08%) Security Patching
8 5 (19.23%) Actionable Insight
8 5 (19.23%) Data Science
8 5 (19.23%) LLM
8 5 (19.23%) Machine Learning
8 5 (19.23%) Scrum
8 5 (19.23%) Time Series Forecasting
9 4 (15.38%) A/B Testing
9 4 (15.38%) Data Engineering
9 4 (15.38%) OCR
Programming Languages
1 16 (61.54%) Python
2 8 (30.77%) Java
3 7 (26.92%) SQL
4 5 (19.23%) Shell Script
5 1 (3.85%) Bash
5 1 (3.85%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (15.38%) AWS Certification
2 3 (11.54%) Security Cleared
3 2 (7.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.85%) Degree
4 1 (3.85%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (23.08%) GDPR
2 2 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 7 (26.92%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (50.00%) Terraform
2 5 (19.23%) Kubernetes
3 4 (15.38%) Ansible
4 3 (11.54%) Prometheus
5 1 (3.85%) Grafana
5 1 (3.85%) Progress Chef
5 1 (3.85%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (23.08%) Confluent
1 6 (23.08%) IBM
2 3 (11.54%) Sage
3 1 (3.85%) JDA
3 1 (3.85%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.85%) Pega
3 1 (3.85%) Splunk