AWS Lambda Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

AWS Lambda
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 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 196 198 251
Rank change year-on-year +2 +53 +9
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 231 172 162
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 1.29% 1.09% 0.80%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.98% 3.52% 2.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 116 136
10th Percentile £358 £403 £381
25th Percentile £400 £436 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £523
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.31% +1.01%
75th Percentile £544 £588 £600
90th Percentile £624 £685 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,798 4,883 6,328
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.47% 30.82% 31.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,979 3,159 4,587
10th Percentile £225 £250 £222
25th Percentile £375 £386 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -0.10%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £657 £675 £681
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 121 213
10th Percentile £13.95 £16.75 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.25 £20.30 £16.25
Median hourly rate £22.50 £27.13 £21.05
Median % change year-on-year -17.05% +28.86% +9.27%
75th Percentile £48.34 £46.18 £46.18
90th Percentile £75.23 £69.75 £77.50
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 the UK excluding London

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

AWS Lambda job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

AWS Lambda
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing AWS Lambda.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing AWS Lambda

AWS Lambda
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Lambda in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Lambda in the UK excluding London

AWS Lambda
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing AWS Lambda.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing AWS Lambda

AWS Lambda
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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
North of England +10 96 £500 - 52
Scotland -3 52 £459 -2.45% 9
Yorkshire -6 45 £500 - 28
North West +4 42 £443 -6.84% 20
South East -3 27 £425 -25.27% 43
Midlands -22 25 £390 -12.75% 22
East of England +1 16 £506 +1.25% 16
West Midlands -18 14 £425 -12.82% 13
South West -32 13 £575 -11.54% 25
East Midlands -15 11 £380 -14.99% 8
North East 0 10 £506 -17.01% 4
Northern Ireland -5 3 - - 1
AWS Lambda
UK

AWS Lambda
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 15 (6.49%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (5.63%) Apache Spark
3 12 (5.19%) Apache
4 5 (2.16%) nginx
5 4 (1.73%) Confluence
6 1 (0.43%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.43%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 5 (2.16%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.73%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 231 (100.00%) AWS
2 229 (99.13%) Serverless
3 122 (52.81%) Amazon S3
4 89 (38.53%) AWS CloudFormation
5 75 (32.47%) Amazon ECS
6 66 (28.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 63 (27.27%) Amazon EC2
8 49 (21.21%) Amazon SQS
9 47 (20.35%) GitHub
10 42 (18.18%) Amazon EKS
11 40 (17.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 29 (12.55%) AWS Step Functions
12 29 (12.55%) Azure
12 29 (12.55%) GitHub Actions
13 28 (12.12%) Amazon EventBridge
14 17 (7.36%) Amazon SageMaker
14 17 (7.36%) AWS Fargate
14 17 (7.36%) Datadog
15 14 (6.06%) Amazon EMR
16 13 (5.63%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 15 (6.49%) Firewall
2 11 (4.76%) DNS
3 4 (1.73%) DHCP
3 4 (1.73%) HTTP
4 3 (1.30%) Network Security
5 2 (0.87%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (0.87%) VPN
6 1 (0.43%) iSCSI
6 1 (0.43%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.43%) LAN
6 1 (0.43%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (0.43%) VLAN
6 1 (0.43%) VSAN
6 1 (0.43%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (27.71%) Amazon RDS
2 52 (22.51%) DynamoDB
3 40 (17.32%) PostgreSQL
4 26 (11.26%) Amazon Aurora
4 26 (11.26%) Relational Database
5 23 (9.96%) Amazon Athena
5 23 (9.96%) Amazon Redshift
5 23 (9.96%) NoSQL
6 14 (6.06%) Redis
7 12 (5.19%) DocumentDB
8 11 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
8 11 (4.76%) MongoDB
9 10 (4.33%) MySQL
10 8 (3.46%) RDBMS
11 7 (3.03%) Data Lake
12 6 (2.60%) Couchbase
13 5 (2.16%) BigQuery
13 5 (2.16%) Delta Lake
14 4 (1.73%) Big Data
14 4 (1.73%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 51 (22.08%) Jenkins
2 50 (21.65%) Git
3 36 (15.58%) GitLab
4 29 (12.55%) JIRA
5 19 (8.23%) SonarQube
6 13 (5.63%) Bitbucket
7 10 (4.33%) Cypress.io
7 10 (4.33%) Maven
7 10 (4.33%) MLflow
7 10 (4.33%) Sonatype Nexus
8 8 (3.46%) Gradle
9 7 (3.03%) Selenium
10 5 (2.16%) Cucumber
10 5 (2.16%) SonarLint
11 3 (1.30%) Mocha
11 3 (1.30%) Mockito
12 2 (0.87%) Visual Studio Code
12 2 (0.87%) webpack
13 1 (0.43%) git-flow
13 1 (0.43%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 67 (29.00%) Public Sector
2 46 (19.91%) Social Skills
3 30 (12.99%) Finance
4 12 (5.19%) Banking
5 11 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (1.73%) Digital Healthcare
7 1 (0.43%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.43%) Health Technology
7 1 (0.43%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.43%) Legal
7 1 (0.43%) Military
7 1 (0.43%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (0.43%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 52 (22.51%) Developer
2 49 (21.21%) AWS Engineer
3 34 (14.72%) Architect
4 23 (9.96%) DevOps Engineer
4 23 (9.96%) Lead
5 21 (9.09%) Senior
6 20 (8.66%) Software Engineer
7 18 (7.79%) Data Engineer
8 14 (6.06%) AWS DevOps
8 14 (6.06%) Java Developer
9 13 (5.63%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 12 (5.19%) AWS Developer
10 12 (5.19%) Platform Engineer
11 11 (4.76%) Full-Stack Developer
11 11 (4.76%) Python Engineer
11 11 (4.76%) Technical Architect
12 10 (4.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 10 (4.33%) AWS Architect
12 10 (4.33%) Solutions Architect
12 10 (4.33%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (25.97%) Node.js
2 50 (21.65%) React
3 36 (15.58%) REST
4 29 (12.55%) AWS CDK
5 28 (12.12%) RESTful
6 24 (10.39%) Kafka
7 21 (9.09%) Spring Boot
8 19 (8.23%) PyTorch
9 18 (7.79%) GraphQL
9 18 (7.79%) OAuth
10 17 (7.36%) Spring
11 14 (6.06%) JWT
11 14 (6.06%) Pandas
12 13 (5.63%) FastAPI
12 13 (5.63%) Hugging Face
12 13 (5.63%) NumPy
13 12 (5.19%) HTML
14 11 (4.76%) Django
15 10 (4.33%) PySpark
15 10 (4.33%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 40 (17.32%) Cloud Native
2 12 (5.19%) NHS
3 11 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
4 9 (3.90%) Algorithms
4 9 (3.90%) Product Ownership
5 8 (3.46%) IVR
6 7 (3.03%) Replication
7 6 (2.60%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (2.16%) Data Structures
8 5 (2.16%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (2.16%) N-Tier
8 5 (2.16%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.30%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.87%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (0.87%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (0.87%) Public Cloud
11 1 (0.43%) AI Agents
11 1 (0.43%) Data Centre
11 1 (0.43%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 32 (13.85%) Linux
2 7 (3.03%) Unix
3 5 (2.16%) Windows
4 3 (1.30%) Amazon Linux
5 2 (0.87%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.43%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.43%) SUSE
6 1 (0.43%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (51.95%) CI/CD
2 100 (43.29%) Agile
2 100 (43.29%) DevOps
3 95 (41.13%) Infrastructure as Code
4 79 (34.20%) Microservices
5 73 (31.60%) Containerisation
6 40 (17.32%) Software Engineering
7 39 (16.88%) AI
8 36 (15.58%) TDD
9 34 (14.72%) Problem-Solving
10 33 (14.29%) Mentoring
10 33 (14.29%) Migration
11 32 (13.85%) Full-Stack Development
12 31 (13.42%) Data Pipeline
13 29 (12.55%) Machine Learning
13 29 (12.55%) Test Automation
14 28 (12.12%) ETL
14 28 (12.12%) Event-Driven
15 27 (11.69%) Data Engineering
16 25 (10.82%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 143 (61.90%) Python
2 60 (25.97%) Java
3 45 (19.48%) SQL
4 38 (16.45%) TypeScript
5 23 (9.96%) JavaScript
6 18 (7.79%) PowerShell
7 12 (5.19%) Ruby
8 11 (4.76%) Bash
9 8 (3.46%) Perl
9 8 (3.46%) Shell Script
10 6 (2.60%) Go
11 3 (1.30%) C
11 3 (1.30%) C#
12 2 (0.87%) Groovy
13 1 (0.43%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.43%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 33 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 32 (13.85%) AWS Certification
3 22 (9.52%) SC Cleared
4 13 (5.63%) Degree
5 12 (5.19%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (4.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 9 (3.90%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (3.90%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.30%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (0.87%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (0.43%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.43%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.43%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (8.23%) GDPR
2 16 (6.93%) Accessibility
3 10 (4.33%) QA
4 8 (3.46%) WCAG
5 7 (3.03%) Data Quality
5 7 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (3.03%) PCI DSS
6 5 (2.16%) HIPAA
7 3 (1.30%) Disclosure Scotland
7 3 (1.30%) PMO
8 2 (0.87%) NIST
8 2 (0.87%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.43%) NCSC
System Software
1 81 (35.06%) Docker
2 6 (2.60%) Virtual Servers
3 5 (2.16%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.30%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.43%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 102 (44.16%) Terraform
2 67 (29.00%) Kubernetes
3 26 (11.26%) Grafana
4 17 (7.36%) Prometheus
5 14 (6.06%) Ansible
6 7 (3.03%) Progress Chef
7 5 (2.16%) Puppet
8 4 (1.73%) Packer
9 3 (1.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.87%) Control-M
10 2 (0.87%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.43%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.43%) Nagios
11 1 (0.43%) PowerCLI
11 1 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.43%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 15 (6.49%) Oracle
2 12 (5.19%) Microsoft
3 9 (3.90%) Databricks
4 8 (3.46%) Pega
5 6 (2.60%) Confluent
5 6 (2.60%) Gigya
5 6 (2.60%) IBM
6 5 (2.16%) Avaya
6 5 (2.16%) Cisco
6 5 (2.16%) Dynatrace
6 5 (2.16%) Genesys
6 5 (2.16%) Splunk
7 4 (1.73%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.73%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.73%) StreamSets
8 3 (1.30%) AppDynamics
8 3 (1.30%) CloudEndure
8 3 (1.30%) Ping Identity
8 3 (1.30%) Sage
9 2 (0.87%) Google