AWS Lambda Contracts in the Thames Valley

AWS Lambda
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 91 141 146
Rank change year-on-year +50 +5 +3
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 11 4 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.73% 0.15% 0.17%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.15% 0.53% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 5
10th Percentile - - £418
25th Percentile - - £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £470
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +27.66% -3.09%
75th Percentile - £700 £575
90th Percentile - £760 -
South East median daily rate £500 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -16.67% +4.35% +14.94%

All Cloud Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 511 755 844
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 33.82% 28.11% 28.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 338 515 615
10th Percentile £304 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.50% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £606 £608 £625
90th Percentile £663 £675 £700
South East median daily rate £501 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +0.10% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 30 20
10th Percentile £20.96 £15.99 £18.42
25th Percentile £28.05 £19.37 £21.49
Median hourly rate £32.05 £42.50 £30.23
Median % change year-on-year -24.59% +40.59% +43.95%
75th Percentile £47.15 £59.95 £59.25
90th Percentile £76.51 £61.60 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £28.50 £22.36 £24.50
% change year-on-year +27.47% -8.74% +16.39%

AWS Lambda
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS Lambda in the Thames Valley

AWS Lambda
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS Lambda in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for AWS Lambda in the Thames Valley

AWS Lambda
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley 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
Berkshire +39 11 £500 -16.67% 21
AWS Lambda
South East

AWS Lambda
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 11 (100.00%) AWS
2 10 (90.91%) Serverless
3 8 (72.73%) GitHub
4 4 (36.36%) Amazon S3
5 1 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (9.09%) Amazon Cognito
5 1 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (9.09%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (9.09%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
5 1 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (9.09%) SonarCloud
5 1 (9.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) DynamoDB
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (9.09%) MongoDB
2 1 (9.09%) MySQL
2 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (9.09%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Artifactory
1 1 (9.09%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (63.64%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) AWS Developer
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Developer
2 1 (9.09%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (9.09%) Full-Stack Java Developer
2 1 (9.09%) Full-Stack Python Developer
2 1 (9.09%) Java Developer
2 1 (9.09%) Python Developer
2 1 (9.09%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (54.55%) JSON
2 1 (9.09%) AWS CDK
2 1 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (9.09%) GraphQL
2 1 (9.09%) Node.js
2 1 (9.09%) OAuth
2 1 (9.09%) React
2 1 (9.09%) REST
2 1 (9.09%) Serverless Framework
2 1 (9.09%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) CI/CD
2 6 (54.55%) Collaborative Working
2 6 (54.55%) DevOps
2 6 (54.55%) Scrum
3 3 (27.27%) High Availability
4 1 (9.09%) API Integration
4 1 (9.09%) API Management
4 1 (9.09%) Containerisation
4 1 (9.09%) DevSecOps
4 1 (9.09%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (9.09%) Microservices
4 1 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 7 (63.64%) Python
2 1 (9.09%) Java
2 1 (9.09%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (54.55%) QA
System Software
1 7 (63.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Ansible
1 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
1 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Virgin Media
2 1 (9.09%) New Relic