AWS Lambda Contracts in the UK excluding London

AWS Lambda
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 204 253 214
Rank change year-on-year +49 -39 +30
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 140 141 248
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.08% 0.70% 1.07%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.41% 2.68% 3.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 114 212
10th Percentile £400 £400 £413
25th Percentile £450 £439 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £494 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.21% -1.20% -4.76%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £575
90th Percentile £612 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -6.67%

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 4,101 5,271 7,673
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.69% 26.00% 33.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,863 3,743 5,665
10th Percentile £236 £213 £250
25th Percentile £381 £375 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 158 262 222
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.30 £15.00 £16.51
Median hourly rate £20.11 £17.72 £25.87
Median % change year-on-year +13.46% -31.49% +31.80%
75th Percentile £33.80 £27.25 £64.88
90th Percentile £69.50 £65.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £21.37 £35.00
% change year-on-year +28.69% -38.94% +56.25%

AWS Lambda
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing AWS Lambda as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Lambda in the UK excluding London

AWS Lambda
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS Lambda in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for AWS Lambda in the UK excluding London

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 20 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Lambda in the UK excluding London

AWS Lambda
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing AWS Lambda in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for AWS Lambda in the UK excluding London

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 20 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
Scotland 0 54 £500 +5.26% 23
North of England +19 44 £486 +2.37% 159
North West +11 27 £485 -4.90% 77
South East +43 13 £500 -20.00% 124
Midlands +22 13 £455 +1.00% 28
South West +41 12 £550 - 49
Yorkshire +21 10 £500 +81.82% 58
West Midlands +10 8 £450 - 17
North East 0 8 £440 - 26
East of England +27 5 £525 -16.00% 20
East Midlands +11 5 £459 +2.00% 9
Northern Ireland -9 1 £500 -16.67% 17
Wales - 1 - - 5
AWS Lambda
UK

AWS Lambda
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (2.86%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (2.86%) Confluence
2 3 (2.14%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.43%) GeoServer
3 2 (1.43%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.71%) Apache
4 1 (0.71%) CMS
4 1 (0.71%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.71%) Oracle Workflow
Business Applications
1 2 (1.43%) NetSuite
1 2 (1.43%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (1.43%) SAP PM
2 1 (0.71%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 137 (97.86%) AWS
1 137 (97.86%) Serverless
2 91 (65.00%) Amazon S3
3 37 (26.43%) AWS CloudFormation
3 37 (26.43%) GitHub
4 30 (21.43%) Amazon EC2
5 28 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 24 (17.14%) GitHub Actions
7 23 (16.43%) AWS CodePipeline
8 22 (15.71%) Amazon SQS
9 19 (13.57%) Amazon ECS
10 15 (10.71%) Amazon Cognito
11 14 (10.00%) AWS CodeBuild
12 13 (9.29%) OpenShift
13 12 (8.57%) Amazon EKS
14 11 (7.86%) Azure
15 10 (7.14%) Amazon GuardDuty
15 10 (7.14%) AWS Step Functions
15 10 (7.14%) Route 53
15 10 (7.14%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.71%) Firewall
2 6 (4.29%) DNS
3 3 (2.14%) SSL
3 3 (2.14%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.43%) SMS
4 2 (1.43%) VPN
5 1 (0.71%) DHCP
5 1 (0.71%) FTP
5 1 (0.71%) HTTP
5 1 (0.71%) Network Security
5 1 (0.71%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (22.14%) DynamoDB
2 30 (21.43%) PostgreSQL
3 29 (20.71%) Amazon RDS
4 22 (15.71%) Amazon Aurora
5 15 (10.71%) Relational Database
6 13 (9.29%) Data Warehouse
6 13 (9.29%) Oracle Database
7 12 (8.57%) MongoDB
8 11 (7.86%) Amazon Redshift
9 10 (7.14%) Amazon Athena
10 9 (6.43%) MySQL
10 9 (6.43%) NoSQL
11 8 (5.71%) GIS
12 5 (3.57%) Elasticsearch
13 4 (2.86%) Big Data
13 4 (2.86%) Data Lake
13 4 (2.86%) Metadata
13 4 (2.86%) Parquet
14 3 (2.14%) DocumentDB
14 3 (2.14%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 33 (23.57%) Jenkins
2 14 (10.00%) GitLab
3 12 (8.57%) Git
4 10 (7.14%) Cypress.io
5 9 (6.43%) Storybook
6 7 (5.00%) JIRA
7 4 (2.86%) Artifactory
8 3 (2.14%) Bitbucket
8 3 (2.14%) Selenium
8 3 (2.14%) webpack
9 2 (1.43%) Ant
9 2 (1.43%) Cucumber
9 2 (1.43%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.71%) Appium
10 1 (0.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.71%) Mockito
10 1 (0.71%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.71%) Toad
10 1 (0.71%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.71%) Zephyr
General
1 37 (26.43%) Social Skills
2 32 (22.86%) Public Sector
3 10 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (7.14%) Finance
4 7 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (2.14%) Banking
6 2 (1.43%) Aviation
6 2 (1.43%) Back Office
6 2 (1.43%) Health Technology
6 2 (1.43%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (0.71%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.71%) Legal
Job Titles
1 47 (33.57%) Developer
2 21 (15.00%) AWS Engineer
3 19 (13.57%) Architect
4 16 (11.43%) AWS Developer
4 16 (11.43%) Cloud Engineer
4 16 (11.43%) Senior
4 16 (11.43%) Software Engineer
5 14 (10.00%) Data Engineer
6 13 (9.29%) Software Developer
7 8 (5.71%) DevOps Engineer
7 8 (5.71%) Java Developer
7 8 (5.71%) Platform Engineer
7 8 (5.71%) Solutions Architect
8 7 (5.00%) Lead
8 7 (5.00%) Senior Developer
9 6 (4.29%) Python Developer
9 6 (4.29%) React Developer
10 5 (3.57%) Cloud Architect
10 5 (3.57%) Cloud Developer
10 5 (3.57%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (28.57%) AWS CDK
2 28 (20.00%) React
3 24 (17.14%) Node.js
4 19 (13.57%) Kafka
5 16 (11.43%) RESTful
6 14 (10.00%) JSON
7 10 (7.14%) CSS
7 10 (7.14%) Spring
7 10 (7.14%) Spring Boot
8 9 (6.43%) Jest
8 9 (6.43%) REST
8 9 (6.43%) Tailwind CSS
9 7 (5.00%) PostGIS
10 6 (4.29%) GraphQL
11 5 (3.57%) ActiveMQ
11 5 (3.57%) AWS Amplify
11 5 (3.57%) Next.js
11 5 (3.57%) OAuth
12 4 (2.86%) Django
12 4 (2.86%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 23 (16.43%) Cloud Native
2 8 (5.71%) Public Cloud
3 6 (4.29%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (3.57%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.86%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.14%) NHS
7 2 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.43%) IoT
7 2 (1.43%) SCADA
8 1 (0.71%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.71%) Blockchain
8 1 (0.71%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.71%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (0.71%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.71%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.71%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.71%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.00%) Linux
2 2 (1.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (1.43%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.71%) Unix
3 1 (0.71%) Windows
3 1 (0.71%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (61.43%) CI/CD
2 55 (39.29%) Agile
3 51 (36.43%) DevOps
4 42 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 33 (23.57%) Problem-Solving
6 29 (20.71%) Microservices
7 27 (19.29%) Containerisation
8 24 (17.14%) Scrum
9 22 (15.71%) ETL
9 22 (15.71%) Migration
10 21 (15.00%) Full-Stack Development
10 21 (15.00%) Software Engineering
11 20 (14.29%) Test Automation
12 19 (13.57%) TDD
13 18 (12.86%) Data Pipeline
14 16 (11.43%) Computer Science
14 16 (11.43%) Data Engineering
14 16 (11.43%) Data Migration
15 15 (10.71%) Event-Driven
15 15 (10.71%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 80 (57.14%) Python
2 38 (27.14%) SQL
3 35 (25.00%) Java
4 29 (20.71%) TypeScript
5 22 (15.71%) JavaScript
6 11 (7.86%) Bash
7 5 (3.57%) Groovy
7 5 (3.57%) Scala
8 4 (2.86%) Shell Script
9 3 (2.14%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.43%) Bicep
10 2 (1.43%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (1.43%) R
10 2 (1.43%) Ruby
11 1 (0.71%) Natural
11 1 (0.71%) Perl
11 1 (0.71%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 18 (12.86%) AWS Certification
2 16 (11.43%) Computer Science Degree
2 16 (11.43%) Degree
2 16 (11.43%) Security Cleared
3 15 (10.71%) SC Cleared
4 9 (6.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (2.14%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 3 (2.14%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.14%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.71%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.71%) OCP
6 1 (0.71%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (0.71%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (0.71%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.86%) Data Quality
2 7 (5.00%) Disclosure Scotland
2 7 (5.00%) QA
3 6 (4.29%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.86%) GDPR
5 3 (2.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.71%) NIST
6 1 (0.71%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.71%) SLA
6 1 (0.71%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.71%) WCAG
System Software
1 43 (30.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 30 (21.43%) Terraform
2 25 (17.86%) Kubernetes
3 15 (10.71%) Grafana
4 13 (9.29%) Ansible
5 5 (3.57%) Prometheus
6 4 (2.86%) Progress Chef
7 3 (2.14%) Kibana
8 1 (0.71%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.71%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.71%) Puppet
Vendors
1 22 (15.71%) Oracle
2 5 (3.57%) Databricks
3 4 (2.86%) Microsoft
3 4 (2.86%) MuleSoft
4 3 (2.14%) Atlassian
4 3 (2.14%) Informatica
4 3 (2.14%) StreamSets
4 3 (2.14%) Virgin Media
5 2 (1.43%) Brio
5 2 (1.43%) Imperva
5 2 (1.43%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.43%) SAP
5 2 (1.43%) Splunk
6 1 (0.71%) IBM
6 1 (0.71%) New Relic
6 1 (0.71%) Okta
6 1 (0.71%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.71%) Talend
6 1 (0.71%) VMware