AWS Lambda Contracts

AWS Lambda
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 179 227 189
Rank change year-on-year +48 -38 +13
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 459 462 826
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.57% 1.06% 1.38%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.17% 3.28% 3.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 360 356 633
10th Percentile £400 £400 £425
25th Percentile £454 £431 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £625 £588 £638
90th Percentile £838 £675 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £499 £500
% change year-on-year +0.25% -0.25% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £35.00 - £35.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Cloud 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 10,997 14,094 22,029
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.61% 32.33% 36.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,640 10,005 15,924
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £634 £650
90th Percentile £734 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 348 350
10th Percentile £15.28 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.05 £18.50
Median hourly rate £27.43 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.60% -40.00% +62.79%
75th Percentile £48.56 £35.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £62.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.53 £17.72 £24.62
% change year-on-year +21.47% -28.03% +31.31%

AWS Lambda
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing AWS Lambda as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Lambda in the UK

AWS Lambda
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for AWS Lambda in the UK

AWS Lambda
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Lambda over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Lambda in the UK

AWS Lambda
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing AWS Lambda.

Hourly rate trend for AWS Lambda in the UK

AWS Lambda
Top 17 Contract 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 30 April 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
England +56 355 £550 +7.32% 396
London +37 259 £575 +15.00% 221
Work from Home +71 211 £550 +8.70% 244
UK excluding London +31 125 £500 +0.25% 187
Scotland -4 50 £500 +5.26% 12
North of England +21 37 £475 -5.00% 81
North West +1 24 £475 -6.86% 51
South East +46 14 £500 -16.67% 38
South West +41 11 £550 - 25
Midlands +30 11 £455 +1.00% 19
North East +5 8 £468 - 8
West Midlands +21 6 £450 - 13
Yorkshire +13 5 £500 +81.82% 24
East Midlands +11 5 £459 +2.00% 6
East of England +27 2 £588 -6.00% 8
Wales - 2 £400 - 4
Northern Ireland -13 1 £500 -16.67% 3

AWS Lambda
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 49 (10.68%) Apache Spark
2 41 (8.93%) Apache
3 38 (8.28%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.31%) BizTalk Server
4 6 (1.31%) Confluence
5 4 (0.87%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.44%) CMS
6 2 (0.44%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.22%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 2 (0.44%) NetSuite
1 2 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.22%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 458 (99.78%) AWS
2 452 (98.47%) Serverless
3 276 (60.13%) Amazon S3
4 130 (28.32%) AWS CloudFormation
5 115 (25.05%) Amazon EC2
6 89 (19.39%) Amazon ECS
7 87 (18.95%) Amazon SQS
8 84 (18.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 71 (15.47%) GitHub
10 55 (11.98%) Amazon EKS
11 51 (11.11%) OpenShift
12 43 (9.37%) AWS Step Functions
13 39 (8.50%) AWS CodePipeline
14 35 (7.63%) dbt
15 30 (6.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 27 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
17 26 (5.66%) Amazon Cognito
18 24 (5.23%) Azure
19 21 (4.58%) Amazon SageMaker
19 21 (4.58%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (3.05%) Firewall
2 13 (2.83%) HTTP
3 10 (2.18%) DNS
3 10 (2.18%) VPN
4 6 (1.31%) TCP/IP
5 4 (0.87%) DHCP
5 4 (0.87%) SSL
6 3 (0.65%) Network Security
6 3 (0.65%) SMS
7 2 (0.44%) HTTPS
7 2 (0.44%) VLAN
8 1 (0.22%) Broadband
8 1 (0.22%) FTP
8 1 (0.22%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.22%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (0.22%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (26.58%) Amazon RDS
2 102 (22.22%) DynamoDB
3 93 (20.26%) Amazon Athena
4 66 (14.38%) PostgreSQL
5 54 (11.76%) Amazon Redshift
6 41 (8.93%) NoSQL
7 34 (7.41%) Data Warehouse
8 30 (6.54%) Apache Iceberg
9 28 (6.10%) Apache Arrow
9 28 (6.10%) Apache Ignite
9 28 (6.10%) Dremio
10 25 (5.45%) Relational Database
11 23 (5.01%) Big Data
12 22 (4.79%) MongoDB
12 22 (4.79%) Oracle Database
13 21 (4.58%) Amazon Aurora
13 21 (4.58%) Tableau
14 20 (4.36%) Data Lake
15 15 (3.27%) MySQL
16 11 (2.40%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 65 (14.16%) Jenkins
2 44 (9.59%) Git
3 42 (9.15%) Artifactory
4 41 (8.93%) GitLab
5 17 (3.70%) Cypress.io
6 10 (2.18%) JIRA
7 9 (1.96%) Bitbucket
7 9 (1.96%) SonarQube
8 8 (1.74%) git-flow
9 6 (1.31%) Cucumber
10 5 (1.09%) Gradle
11 4 (0.87%) Postman
11 4 (0.87%) Visual Studio Code
12 3 (0.65%) Mocha
12 3 (0.65%) Selenium
12 3 (0.65%) webpack
13 2 (0.44%) Ant
13 2 (0.44%) Maven
13 2 (0.44%) Mockito
14 1 (0.22%) WebDriver
General
1 89 (19.39%) Public Sector
2 79 (17.21%) Social Skills
3 69 (15.03%) Finance
4 45 (9.80%) Front Office
5 32 (6.97%) Analytical Skills
6 22 (4.79%) Banking
7 11 (2.40%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (1.31%) Military
9 4 (0.87%) Investment Banking
9 4 (0.87%) Marketing
9 4 (0.87%) Retail
9 4 (0.87%) Telecoms
10 3 (0.65%) Financial Institution
10 3 (0.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.44%) Aviation
11 2 (0.44%) Back Office
11 2 (0.44%) Electronics
11 2 (0.44%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.44%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.44%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 135 (29.41%) AWS Engineer
2 114 (24.84%) Developer
3 96 (20.92%) Data Engineer
4 84 (18.30%) DevOps Engineer
5 72 (15.69%) Senior
6 64 (13.94%) AWS DevOps
6 64 (13.94%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 56 (12.20%) Architect
8 47 (10.24%) Python Engineer
9 36 (7.84%) AWS Developer
10 31 (6.75%) AWS Architect
11 30 (6.54%) Software Engineer
12 29 (6.32%) Senior Developer
13 25 (5.45%) Lead
14 24 (5.23%) AWS Data Engineer
14 24 (5.23%) Cloud Engineer
15 22 (4.79%) Java Developer
16 21 (4.58%) Full-Stack Developer
17 15 (3.27%) Platform Engineer
17 15 (3.27%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (19.17%) Node.js
2 77 (16.78%) Kafka
3 74 (16.12%) React
4 67 (14.60%) AWS CDK
5 46 (10.02%) PySpark
6 33 (7.19%) J2EE
7 32 (6.97%) JSON
8 28 (6.10%) RESTful
9 25 (5.45%) GraphQL
10 24 (5.23%) REST
11 21 (4.58%) Spring Boot
12 19 (4.14%) Spring
13 18 (3.92%) Pandas
14 15 (3.27%) NumPy
15 13 (2.83%) Next.js
15 13 (2.83%) Redux
15 13 (2.83%) WebSockets
16 12 (2.61%) SciPy
17 11 (2.40%) scikit-learn
17 11 (2.40%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 42 (9.15%) Cloud Native
2 20 (4.36%) Greenfield Project
3 17 (3.70%) Public Cloud
4 12 (2.61%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (1.74%) Algorithms
5 8 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
5 8 (1.74%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (1.74%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (1.74%) Onboarding
6 6 (1.31%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (1.31%) Mobile App
7 5 (1.09%) Product Ownership
7 5 (1.09%) Tandem
8 4 (0.87%) Data Structures
8 4 (0.87%) TWAP
8 4 (0.87%) VWAP
9 3 (0.65%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 3 (0.65%) Vector Graphics
9 3 (0.65%) Video\Live Streaming
10 2 (0.44%) Omics
Operating Systems
1 29 (6.32%) Linux
2 13 (2.83%) Unix
3 7 (1.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.09%) Windows
5 3 (0.65%) Android
5 3 (0.65%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.65%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 244 (53.16%) CI/CD
2 201 (43.79%) DevOps
3 163 (35.51%) Agile
4 111 (24.18%) Infrastructure as Code
5 89 (19.39%) Software Engineering
6 85 (18.52%) Microservices
7 83 (18.08%) Containerisation
8 77 (16.78%) Problem-Solving
9 64 (13.94%) Data Engineering
10 59 (12.85%) ETL
11 57 (12.42%) Data Pipeline
12 53 (11.55%) Open Source
13 49 (10.68%) Full-Stack Development
14 48 (10.46%) High Availability
15 45 (9.80%) Asset Management
16 44 (9.59%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 40 (8.71%) Test Automation
18 39 (8.50%) Mentoring
19 38 (8.28%) Event-Driven
20 37 (8.06%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 272 (59.26%) Python
2 112 (24.40%) Java
3 111 (24.18%) SQL
4 92 (20.04%) JavaScript
5 74 (16.12%) TypeScript
6 49 (10.68%) Go
7 30 (6.54%) Bash
8 14 (3.05%) T-SQL
9 12 (2.61%) Scala
10 9 (1.96%) PL/SQL
10 9 (1.96%) Shell Script
11 8 (1.74%) C#
11 8 (1.74%) C++
12 7 (1.53%) Groovy
13 6 (1.31%) Perl
13 6 (1.31%) R
14 4 (0.87%) Ruby
15 3 (0.65%) PHP
15 3 (0.65%) PowerShell
15 3 (0.65%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 121 (26.36%) Security Cleared
2 116 (25.27%) SC Cleared
3 87 (18.95%) AWS Certification
4 45 (9.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 35 (7.63%) Degree
6 21 (4.58%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (1.74%) AWS Certified Developer
8 7 (1.53%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 6 (1.31%) OCP
9 6 (1.31%) Oracle Certification
10 5 (1.09%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.44%) CCIE
11 2 (0.44%) CCNP
11 2 (0.44%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.22%) CEH
12 1 (0.22%) CISSP
12 1 (0.22%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.22%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (4.79%) Data Quality
2 15 (3.27%) QA
3 7 (1.53%) Disclosure Scotland
4 6 (1.31%) GDPR
5 5 (1.09%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.09%) NIST
6 4 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.87%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.65%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.44%) WCAG
9 1 (0.22%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.22%) SLA
System Software
1 141 (30.72%) Docker
2 2 (0.44%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.44%) HDFS
2 2 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.22%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 177 (38.56%) Terraform
2 143 (31.15%) Kubernetes
3 38 (8.28%) Ansible
4 26 (5.66%) Grafana
5 23 (5.01%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.09%) Kibana
7 3 (0.65%) Progress Chef
7 3 (0.65%) Puppet
7 3 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.22%) Apache Ranger
8 1 (0.22%) Argo
8 1 (0.22%) Consul
8 1 (0.22%) Istio
8 1 (0.22%) linkerd
8 1 (0.22%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 39 (8.50%) Oracle
2 13 (2.83%) Microsoft
3 12 (2.61%) Databricks
3 12 (2.61%) MuleSoft
4 10 (2.18%) Splunk
5 5 (1.09%) Atlassian
5 5 (1.09%) Salesforce
5 5 (1.09%) Virgin Media
6 4 (0.87%) Cloudera
6 4 (0.87%) Google
7 3 (0.65%) Imperva
7 3 (0.65%) Informatica
7 3 (0.65%) Qualys
7 3 (0.65%) StreamSets
7 3 (0.65%) Talend
7 3 (0.65%) Tenable
7 3 (0.65%) VMware
8 2 (0.44%) Cisco
8 2 (0.44%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.44%) Sage