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 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 173 218 191
Rank change year-on-year +45 -27 +10
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 462 462 827
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.58% 1.06% 1.39%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.20% 3.28% 3.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 363 355 633
10th Percentile £400 £400 £425
25th Percentile £456 £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 £830 £675 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -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 11,005 14,070 22,025
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.59% 32.30% 36.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,639 9,993 15,919
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 £633 £650
90th Percentile £731 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 346 350
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.02 £18.50
Median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%
75th Percentile £47.58 £35.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £61.60 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £17.72 £24.62
% change year-on-year +21.11% -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 1 May 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 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
England +59 353 £550 +7.32% 1,009
London +30 257 £575 +15.00% 289
Work from Home +64 213 £550 +8.70% 793
UK excluding London +45 130 £500 - 827
Scotland +3 54 £500 +5.26% 37
North of England +14 38 £480 -2.54% 224
North West +8 25 £475 -6.86% 118
South East +48 14 £500 -16.67% 215
South West +42 11 £550 - 101
Midlands +28 11 £455 +1.00% 144
North East +5 8 £468 - 29
West Midlands +19 6 £450 - 78
East Midlands +11 5 £459 +2.00% 55
Yorkshire +7 5 £500 +81.82% 82
East of England +25 2 £588 -9.62% 108
Wales - 2 £400 - 20
Northern Ireland -13 1 £500 -16.67% 13

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 (10.61%) Apache Spark
2 41 (8.87%) Apache
3 38 (8.23%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.52%) Confluence
5 6 (1.30%) BizTalk Server
6 4 (0.87%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.43%) CMS
7 2 (0.43%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.22%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 2 (0.43%) NetSuite
1 2 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.22%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 460 (99.57%) AWS
2 455 (98.48%) Serverless
3 276 (59.74%) Amazon S3
4 129 (27.92%) AWS CloudFormation
5 115 (24.89%) Amazon EC2
6 89 (19.26%) Amazon ECS
7 87 (18.83%) Amazon SQS
8 81 (17.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 74 (16.02%) GitHub
10 55 (11.90%) Amazon EKS
11 51 (11.04%) OpenShift
12 43 (9.31%) AWS CodePipeline
12 43 (9.31%) AWS Step Functions
13 35 (7.58%) dbt
14 31 (6.71%) GitHub Actions
15 29 (6.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 28 (6.06%) Amazon Cognito
17 25 (5.41%) Azure
18 21 (4.55%) AWS CodeBuild
18 21 (4.55%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (3.03%) Firewall
2 13 (2.81%) HTTP
3 10 (2.16%) DNS
3 10 (2.16%) VPN
4 6 (1.30%) 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 (0.43%) HTTPS
7 2 (0.43%) 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 (26.41%) Amazon RDS
2 101 (21.86%) DynamoDB
3 92 (19.91%) Amazon Athena
4 66 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
5 53 (11.47%) Amazon Redshift
6 40 (8.66%) NoSQL
7 34 (7.36%) Data Warehouse
8 30 (6.49%) Apache Iceberg
9 28 (6.06%) Apache Arrow
9 28 (6.06%) Apache Ignite
9 28 (6.06%) Dremio
10 26 (5.63%) Amazon Aurora
10 26 (5.63%) Relational Database
11 23 (4.98%) Big Data
12 22 (4.76%) MongoDB
12 22 (4.76%) Oracle Database
13 21 (4.55%) Tableau
14 19 (4.11%) Data Lake
15 17 (3.68%) MySQL
16 10 (2.16%) Redis
Development Applications
1 66 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 43 (9.31%) Git
3 42 (9.09%) Artifactory
4 41 (8.87%) GitLab
5 20 (4.33%) Cypress.io
6 10 (2.16%) JIRA
6 10 (2.16%) SonarQube
7 9 (1.95%) Bitbucket
8 8 (1.73%) git-flow
9 6 (1.30%) Cucumber
10 5 (1.08%) Gradle
10 5 (1.08%) Storybook
11 4 (0.87%) Postman
11 4 (0.87%) Selenium
11 4 (0.87%) Visual Studio Code
12 3 (0.65%) Mocha
12 3 (0.65%) webpack
13 2 (0.43%) Ant
13 2 (0.43%) Maven
13 2 (0.43%) Mockito
General
1 89 (19.26%) Public Sector
2 78 (16.88%) Social Skills
3 69 (14.94%) Finance
4 45 (9.74%) Front Office
5 32 (6.93%) Analytical Skills
6 22 (4.76%) Banking
7 11 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (1.30%) Military
9 4 (0.87%) Investment Banking
9 4 (0.87%) Marketing
9 4 (0.87%) Retail
10 3 (0.65%) Financial Institution
10 3 (0.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.43%) Aviation
11 2 (0.43%) Back Office
11 2 (0.43%) Electronics
11 2 (0.43%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.43%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.43%) Publishing
11 2 (0.43%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 134 (29.00%) AWS Engineer
2 116 (25.11%) Developer
3 96 (20.78%) Data Engineer
4 84 (18.18%) DevOps Engineer
5 73 (15.80%) Senior
6 64 (13.85%) AWS DevOps
6 64 (13.85%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 58 (12.55%) Architect
8 46 (9.96%) Python Engineer
9 36 (7.79%) AWS Developer
10 31 (6.71%) AWS Architect
11 30 (6.49%) Software Engineer
12 29 (6.28%) Senior Developer
13 24 (5.19%) AWS Data Engineer
13 24 (5.19%) Lead
14 23 (4.98%) Cloud Engineer
15 22 (4.76%) Java Developer
16 21 (4.55%) Full-Stack Developer
17 15 (3.25%) Platform Engineer
17 15 (3.25%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (19.48%) Node.js
2 80 (17.32%) React
3 77 (16.67%) Kafka
4 70 (15.15%) AWS CDK
5 46 (9.96%) PySpark
6 33 (7.14%) J2EE
7 31 (6.71%) JSON
8 29 (6.28%) GraphQL
8 29 (6.28%) RESTful
9 25 (5.41%) REST
10 21 (4.55%) Spring Boot
11 19 (4.11%) Spring
12 18 (3.90%) Pandas
13 16 (3.46%) Jest
14 15 (3.25%) NumPy
15 14 (3.03%) CSS
16 13 (2.81%) Next.js
16 13 (2.81%) Redux
16 13 (2.81%) WebSockets
17 12 (2.60%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 42 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 20 (4.33%) Greenfield Project
3 16 (3.46%) Public Cloud
4 12 (2.60%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (1.73%) Algorithms
5 8 (1.73%) Data Protection Act
5 8 (1.73%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (1.73%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (1.73%) Onboarding
6 6 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (1.30%) Mobile App
7 5 (1.08%) Product Ownership
7 5 (1.08%) 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 (0.43%) Omics
Operating Systems
1 29 (6.28%) Linux
2 13 (2.81%) Unix
3 7 (1.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (1.30%) Windows
5 3 (0.65%) Android
5 3 (0.65%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.65%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 247 (53.46%) CI/CD
2 199 (43.07%) DevOps
3 163 (35.28%) Agile
4 114 (24.68%) Infrastructure as Code
5 89 (19.26%) Microservices
5 89 (19.26%) Software Engineering
6 83 (17.97%) Containerisation
7 76 (16.45%) Problem-Solving
8 63 (13.64%) Data Engineering
9 57 (12.34%) Data Pipeline
10 56 (12.12%) ETL
10 56 (12.12%) Full-Stack Development
11 53 (11.47%) Open Source
12 48 (10.39%) High Availability
13 45 (9.74%) Asset Management
14 44 (9.52%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 43 (9.31%) Test Automation
16 38 (8.23%) Mentoring
17 37 (8.01%) Event-Driven
18 35 (7.58%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 270 (58.44%) Python
2 110 (23.81%) Java
2 110 (23.81%) SQL
3 93 (20.13%) JavaScript
4 81 (17.53%) TypeScript
5 49 (10.61%) Go
6 31 (6.71%) Bash
7 14 (3.03%) T-SQL
8 12 (2.60%) Scala
9 9 (1.95%) PL/SQL
9 9 (1.95%) Shell Script
10 8 (1.73%) C#
10 8 (1.73%) C++
11 7 (1.52%) Groovy
12 6 (1.30%) Perl
12 6 (1.30%) R
13 5 (1.08%) Ruby
14 3 (0.65%) Dart
14 3 (0.65%) PHP
14 3 (0.65%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 121 (26.19%) Security Cleared
2 116 (25.11%) SC Cleared
3 86 (18.61%) AWS Certification
4 45 (9.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 35 (7.58%) Degree
6 21 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (1.73%) AWS Certified Developer
8 7 (1.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 6 (1.30%) OCP
9 6 (1.30%) Oracle Certification
10 5 (1.08%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.43%) CCIE
11 2 (0.43%) CCNP
11 2 (0.43%) 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 (4.76%) Data Quality
2 15 (3.25%) QA
3 7 (1.52%) Disclosure Scotland
4 6 (1.30%) GDPR
5 5 (1.08%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.08%) NIST
6 4 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.87%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.65%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.43%) WCAG
9 1 (0.22%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.22%) SLA
System Software
1 141 (30.52%) Docker
2 2 (0.43%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.43%) HDFS
2 2 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.22%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 177 (38.31%) Terraform
2 144 (31.17%) Kubernetes
3 38 (8.23%) Ansible
4 26 (5.63%) Grafana
5 23 (4.98%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.08%) Kibana
7 4 (0.87%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.65%) Puppet
8 3 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.22%) Apache Ranger
9 1 (0.22%) Argo
9 1 (0.22%) Consul
9 1 (0.22%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.22%) Istio
9 1 (0.22%) linkerd
9 1 (0.22%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 40 (8.66%) Oracle
2 13 (2.81%) Microsoft
3 12 (2.60%) Databricks
3 12 (2.60%) MuleSoft
4 10 (2.16%) Splunk
5 5 (1.08%) Atlassian
5 5 (1.08%) Salesforce
5 5 (1.08%) Virgin Media
6 4 (0.87%) Cloudera
6 4 (0.87%) Google
6 4 (0.87%) New Relic
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 (0.43%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.43%) Sage