AWS Lambda Contract Job Trends

AWS Lambda
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring AWS Lambda skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 197 174 221
Rank change year-on-year -23 +47 -31
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 637 467 476
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.39% 1.60% 1.08%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.81% 4.21% 3.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 461 364 368
10th Percentile £350 £400 £381
25th Percentile £402 £454 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £575
90th Percentile £675 £838 £657
UK excluding London median daily rate £484 £500 £498
% change year-on-year -3.25% +0.50% -0.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 0
10th Percentile £71.13 - -
25th Percentile £74.00 - -
Median hourly rate £78.50 - -
75th Percentile £81.00 - -
90th Percentile £95.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £78.50 - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 16,733 11,092 14,285
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 36.56% 37.96% 32.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,425 7,746 10,122
10th Percentile £313 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.40% -0.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £634
90th Percentile £702 £725 £730
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £490
% change year-on-year - -3.06% -2.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 473 236 343
10th Percentile £15.30 £15.72 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.25 £19.99 £16.03
Median hourly rate £40.00 £27.43 £20.97
Median % change year-on-year +45.85% +30.78% -27.69%
75th Percentile £67.50 £46.30 £35.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.88 £61.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.46 £23.00 £17.70
% change year-on-year +97.65% +29.94% -22.20%

AWS Lambda
Job Vacancy Trend

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

AWS Lambda job vacancy trend in the UK

AWS Lambda
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

AWS Lambda
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Lambda over the 6 months to 11 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Lambda in the UK

AWS Lambda
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

AWS Lambda
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing AWS Lambda over the 6 months to 11 April 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for AWS Lambda in the UK

AWS Lambda
Top 17 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 11 April 2026. 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
England -9 517 £509 -7.50% 188
London -8 336 £513 -10.87% 91
UK excluding London -41 203 £484 -3.25% 116
Work from Home -38 194 £513 -6.82% 100
North of England -22 81 £500 +5.26% 39
Scotland -8 37 £400 -20.00% 6
North West -13 37 £525 +31.25% 22
Midlands -39 36 £466 +4.90% 10
Yorkshire -24 33 £500 - 13
West Midlands -42 25 £481 +6.94% 8
South East -52 19 £563 +12.50% 31
South West -27 17 £546 -16.00% 18
North East -13 11 £475 +1.60% 4
East Midlands -35 11 £423 +4.19% 2
East of England -22 9 £575 +15.00% 12
Wales -8 3 £475 +18.75%
Northern Ireland -3 1 - -

AWS Lambda
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 43 (6.75%) Apache Spark
2 39 (6.12%) Apache Airflow
3 28 (4.40%) Apache
4 23 (3.61%) Confluence
5 10 (1.57%) nginx
6 3 (0.47%) CICS
7 2 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.31%) WebLogic
7 2 (0.31%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.16%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.16%) Camunda
8 1 (0.16%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.16%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (1.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.78%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.31%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 4 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.31%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.16%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.16%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 634 (99.53%) AWS
1 634 (99.53%) Serverless
2 402 (63.11%) Amazon S3
3 211 (33.12%) Amazon ECS
4 201 (31.55%) Amazon EC2
5 192 (30.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 173 (27.16%) AWS CloudFormation
7 166 (26.06%) GitHub
8 160 (25.12%) Amazon EKS
9 125 (19.62%) GitHub Actions
10 112 (17.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 106 (16.64%) AWS Step Functions
12 81 (12.72%) Amazon SQS
13 75 (11.77%) Azure
14 55 (8.63%) Amazon EventBridge
15 52 (8.16%) AWS CodePipeline
16 46 (7.22%) Amazon Kinesis
17 42 (6.59%) Snowflake
18 41 (6.44%) AWS Fargate
19 40 (6.28%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 37 (5.81%) Firewall
2 32 (5.02%) DNS
3 17 (2.67%) VPN
4 12 (1.88%) TCP/IP
5 11 (1.73%) Reverse Proxy
6 9 (1.41%) OpenVPN
7 7 (1.10%) Network Security
8 6 (0.94%) HTTP
9 3 (0.47%) Kerberos
10 2 (0.31%) SSL
11 1 (0.16%) 4G
11 1 (0.16%) 5G
11 1 (0.16%) AMQP
11 1 (0.16%) BGP
11 1 (0.16%) CTI
11 1 (0.16%) LAN
11 1 (0.16%) SMS
11 1 (0.16%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 150 (23.55%) Amazon RDS
2 134 (21.04%) DynamoDB
3 80 (12.56%) Amazon Athena
4 72 (11.30%) PostgreSQL
5 70 (10.99%) Amazon Redshift
6 44 (6.91%) NoSQL
6 44 (6.91%) Relational Database
7 37 (5.81%) Data Warehouse
8 32 (5.02%) Amazon Aurora
8 32 (5.02%) Tableau
9 31 (4.87%) Power BI
10 25 (3.92%) Metadata
11 24 (3.77%) MySQL
12 23 (3.61%) Data Lake
13 17 (2.67%) MongoDB
13 17 (2.67%) Redis
14 16 (2.51%) Big Data
15 15 (2.35%) DocumentDB
16 14 (2.20%) Amazon QuickSight
17 13 (2.04%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 132 (20.72%) GitLab
2 119 (18.68%) Git
3 116 (18.21%) Jenkins
4 48 (7.54%) JIRA
5 30 (4.71%) Bitbucket
6 17 (2.67%) Cucumber
7 14 (2.20%) JUnit
7 14 (2.20%) SonarQube
8 13 (2.04%) Cypress.io
9 11 (1.73%) Sonatype Nexus
10 10 (1.57%) MLflow
11 9 (1.41%) Maven
11 9 (1.41%) Selenium
12 7 (1.10%) Mocha
12 7 (1.10%) Mockito
13 6 (0.94%) Gradle
13 6 (0.94%) Postman
14 5 (0.78%) Artifactory
14 5 (0.78%) Snyk
15 4 (0.63%) NUnit
General
1 141 (22.14%) Social Skills
2 125 (19.62%) Public Sector
3 88 (13.81%) Finance
4 53 (8.32%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (4.71%) Banking
6 27 (4.24%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (0.78%) Front Office
7 5 (0.78%) Health Technology
7 5 (0.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (0.78%) Military
7 5 (0.78%) Police
8 4 (0.63%) Investment Banking
8 4 (0.63%) Law
8 4 (0.63%) Telecoms
9 3 (0.47%) Legal
9 3 (0.47%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (0.47%) Retail
10 2 (0.31%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.31%) Games
10 2 (0.31%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 148 (23.23%) Developer
2 131 (20.57%) AWS Engineer
3 90 (14.13%) Senior
4 87 (13.66%) Architect
5 81 (12.72%) Data Engineer
6 69 (10.83%) DevOps Engineer
7 51 (8.01%) Lead
8 42 (6.59%) AWS Developer
9 41 (6.44%) AWS Architect
10 40 (6.28%) AWS DevOps
11 37 (5.81%) Java Developer
12 34 (5.34%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 33 (5.18%) Full-Stack Developer
14 30 (4.71%) AWS Data Engineer
14 30 (4.71%) Cloud Engineer
14 30 (4.71%) Software Engineer
15 28 (4.40%) Python Engineer
16 25 (3.92%) Senior Developer
17 23 (3.61%) Python Developer
18 22 (3.45%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (17.74%) Node.js
2 94 (14.76%) Kafka
3 88 (13.81%) React
4 79 (12.40%) Spring Boot
5 78 (12.24%) Spring
6 72 (11.30%) RESTful
7 54 (8.48%) REST
8 45 (7.06%) OAuth
8 45 (7.06%) PySpark
9 40 (6.28%) AWS CDK
10 30 (4.71%) AngularJS
11 28 (4.40%) JWT
12 25 (3.92%) GraphQL
13 22 (3.45%) boto
14 21 (3.30%) Next.js
15 20 (3.14%) .NET
15 20 (3.14%) FastAPI
15 20 (3.14%) JSON
15 20 (3.14%) Pandas
16 18 (2.83%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 137 (21.51%) Cloud Native
2 40 (6.28%) Distributed Systems
3 23 (3.61%) NHS
3 23 (3.61%) Product Ownership
4 13 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
5 12 (1.88%) Algorithms
6 11 (1.73%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (1.41%) AI Agents
7 9 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
8 8 (1.26%) DataPower
8 8 (1.26%) Mainframe
9 7 (1.10%) Data Structures
9 7 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
9 7 (1.10%) IVR
10 6 (0.94%) Hybrid Cloud
11 5 (0.78%) Derivative
11 5 (0.78%) Equities
11 5 (0.78%) Onboarding
11 5 (0.78%) Replication
11 5 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 62 (9.73%) Linux
2 15 (2.35%) Unix
3 4 (0.63%) Amazon Linux
4 3 (0.47%) Windows
4 3 (0.47%) zOS
5 1 (0.16%) Android
5 1 (0.16%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.16%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.16%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.16%) VMS
5 1 (0.16%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 379 (59.50%) CI/CD
2 272 (42.70%) DevOps
3 260 (40.82%) Infrastructure as Code
4 171 (26.84%) Agile
5 164 (25.75%) Microservices
6 147 (23.08%) Containerisation
7 110 (17.27%) Data Pipeline
8 106 (16.64%) Observability
9 103 (16.17%) Problem-Solving
10 100 (15.70%) ETL
11 98 (15.38%) Analytics
12 94 (14.76%) Data Engineering
13 92 (14.44%) Event-Driven
14 90 (14.13%) Data Modelling
15 82 (12.87%) AI
16 72 (11.30%) Software Engineering
16 72 (11.30%) Test Automation
17 71 (11.15%) Migration
18 65 (10.20%) Full-Stack Development
19 63 (9.89%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 355 (55.73%) Python
2 161 (25.27%) SQL
3 144 (22.61%) Java
4 88 (13.81%) TypeScript
5 60 (9.42%) JavaScript
6 49 (7.69%) Bash
7 29 (4.55%) C#
8 25 (3.92%) Shell Script
9 24 (3.77%) PowerShell
10 21 (3.30%) Ruby
11 16 (2.51%) Go
12 12 (1.88%) Scala
13 9 (1.41%) Perl
14 7 (1.10%) Bicep
14 7 (1.10%) Groovy
14 7 (1.10%) Kotlin
15 5 (0.78%) Korn
16 4 (0.63%) T-SQL
17 3 (0.47%) C++
17 3 (0.47%) JCL
Qualifications
1 196 (30.77%) Security Cleared
2 163 (25.59%) SC Cleared
3 53 (8.32%) AWS Certification
4 24 (3.77%) BPSS Clearance
5 22 (3.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 15 (2.35%) DV Cleared
7 14 (2.20%) Degree
8 12 (1.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 8 (1.26%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (1.10%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.63%) AWS Certified Developer
11 4 (0.63%) PhD
12 3 (0.47%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 3 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (0.47%) SAFe Agilist
13 2 (0.31%) PMI Certification
14 1 (0.16%) CEH
14 1 (0.16%) CompTIA Security+
14 1 (0.16%) DBS Check
14 1 (0.16%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (8.01%) Data Quality
2 35 (5.49%) QA
3 18 (2.83%) GDPR
4 17 (2.67%) Accessibility
5 15 (2.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (1.88%) PCI DSS
7 10 (1.57%) NIST
7 10 (1.57%) PMO
8 9 (1.41%) WCAG
9 4 (0.63%) HIPAA
9 4 (0.63%) ISO 20022
9 4 (0.63%) SLA
10 3 (0.47%) Disclosure Scotland
10 3 (0.47%) NCSC
11 2 (0.31%) GxP
12 1 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.16%) GRC
12 1 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.16%) SOC 2
System Software
1 196 (30.77%) Docker
2 10 (1.57%) Squid
3 7 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.94%) Active Directory
4 6 (0.94%) Virtual Servers
5 3 (0.47%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 313 (49.14%) Terraform
2 170 (26.69%) Kubernetes
3 71 (11.15%) Grafana
4 66 (10.36%) Prometheus
5 43 (6.75%) Ansible
6 12 (1.88%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (1.41%) FortiGate
8 7 (1.10%) Consul
8 7 (1.10%) Kibana
8 7 (1.10%) Puppet
9 6 (0.94%) Progress Chef
10 5 (0.78%) Rancher
11 4 (0.63%) Salt
12 3 (0.47%) Docker Swarm
12 3 (0.47%) HP Fortify
12 3 (0.47%) ITRS Geneos
12 3 (0.47%) Karpenter
12 3 (0.47%) Packer
13 2 (0.31%) Argo
13 2 (0.31%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 45 (7.06%) Databricks
2 34 (5.34%) Microsoft
3 16 (2.51%) Dynatrace
4 15 (2.35%) ServiceNow
4 15 (2.35%) Splunk
5 13 (2.04%) Oracle
6 9 (1.41%) Red Hat
7 8 (1.26%) Confluent
7 8 (1.26%) IBM
7 8 (1.26%) Informatica
7 8 (1.26%) Salesforce
7 8 (1.26%) Sybase
8 7 (1.10%) Atlassian
8 7 (1.10%) OpenAI
8 7 (1.10%) SAP
9 6 (0.94%) Cisco
9 6 (0.94%) Genesys
10 5 (0.78%) Ab Initio
10 5 (0.78%) Avaya
10 5 (0.78%) Teradata