AWS Lambda Contracts

AWS Lambda
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for AWS Lambda skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited AWS Lambda over the 6 months to 8 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 240 198 185
Rank change year-on-year -42 -13 -49
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 429 754 1,366
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.99% 1.35% 1.55%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.06% 3.71% 4.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 321 593 976
10th Percentile £400 £425 £425
25th Percentile £425 £463 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £693
90th Percentile £656 £713 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £494 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -1.20% -4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 5
10th Percentile - - £60.95
25th Percentile - - £65.00
Median hourly rate - £35.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year - -53.33% +172.73%
75th Percentile - - £77.50
90th Percentile - - £79.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £75.00
% change year-on-year - - +199.22%

All Cloud Skills
UK

AWS Lambda is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 14,031 20,309 33,859
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.41% 36.46% 38.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,917 14,688 24,753
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £634 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 350 329 386
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.89
25th Percentile £16.06 £20.00 £15.34
Median hourly rate £21.50 £39.55 £22.20
Median % change year-on-year -45.64% +78.15% +1.56%
75th Percentile £43.75 £70.00 £53.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.00 £68.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.00 £27.83 £19.25
% change year-on-year -31.73% +44.59% -3.76%

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 8 June 2024.

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 16 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 8 June 2024. 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 -26 327 £510 -9.33% 153
London -14 239 £500 -13.04% 75
Work from Home -20 147 £500 -3.85% 79
UK excluding London -52 139 £494 -1.20% 85
Scotland -20 58 £472 -0.58% 5
North of England +19 41 £450 -21.74% 42
North West +18 31 £475 -14.61% 25
South East -3 14 £650 +20.93% 7
South West +7 11 £550 -8.71% 10
Midlands +12 8 £500 - 16
East Midlands +8 6 £450 -10.00% 6
North East +15 5 - - 3
Yorkshire +6 5 £275 -49.43% 14
Northern Ireland - 5 £638 - 3
East of England +1 4 £625 +4.17% 4
West Midlands +6 2 £550 +4.76% 10

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 26 (6.06%) Apache Airflow
2 20 (4.66%) Apache
3 17 (3.96%) Apache Spark
4 8 (1.86%) Anypoint
5 6 (1.40%) Confluence
6 5 (1.17%) BizTalk Server
7 3 (0.70%) GeoServer
7 3 (0.70%) nginx
8 2 (0.47%) Drupal
8 2 (0.47%) SAS
9 1 (0.23%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.23%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (0.70%) MS Visio
1 3 (0.70%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (1.63%) NEC Housing
2 5 (1.17%) Payment Gateway
2 5 (1.17%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (0.70%) Endur
3 3 (0.70%) Shopify
4 1 (0.23%) Aareon QL
4 1 (0.23%) MIS ActiveH
4 1 (0.23%) OPENHousing
Cloud Services
1 425 (99.07%) AWS
2 423 (98.60%) Serverless
3 221 (51.52%) Amazon S3
4 139 (32.40%) Amazon EC2
5 107 (24.94%) AWS CloudFormation
6 87 (20.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 62 (14.45%) AWS Step Functions
8 51 (11.89%) Azure
9 46 (10.72%) OpenShift
10 45 (10.49%) Amazon ECS
11 44 (10.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 41 (9.56%) Amazon SQS
13 27 (6.29%) Amazon EKS
13 27 (6.29%) Amazon EMR
13 27 (6.29%) Snowflake
14 25 (5.83%) Amazon MSK
15 23 (5.36%) Amazon Kinesis
15 23 (5.36%) GitHub
16 19 (4.43%) Amazon SageMaker
16 19 (4.43%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.80%) Firewall
2 10 (2.33%) Network Security
3 9 (2.10%) AMQP
4 7 (1.63%) FTP
5 6 (1.40%) DHCP
5 6 (1.40%) DNS
6 4 (0.93%) OpenLDAP
7 3 (0.70%) HTTP
7 3 (0.70%) LAN
7 3 (0.70%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.70%) WLAN
8 2 (0.47%) SSL
9 1 (0.23%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (23.54%) Amazon RDS
2 77 (17.95%) Amazon Redshift
3 70 (16.32%) PostgreSQL
4 69 (16.08%) DynamoDB
5 44 (10.26%) Amazon Athena
6 42 (9.79%) Amazon Aurora
7 37 (8.62%) Data Warehouse
8 35 (8.16%) MongoDB
9 34 (7.93%) NoSQL
10 23 (5.36%) Relational Database
11 22 (5.13%) Big Data
11 22 (5.13%) Parquet
12 16 (3.73%) Data Lake
13 14 (3.26%) Elasticsearch
13 14 (3.26%) InfluxDB
14 13 (3.03%) MySQL
15 9 (2.10%) Amazon QuickSight
15 9 (2.10%) Tableau
16 8 (1.86%) Informix
16 8 (1.86%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 74 (17.25%) Git
2 55 (12.82%) Jenkins
3 42 (9.79%) GitLab
4 25 (5.83%) JIRA
5 13 (3.03%) Cypress.io
6 10 (2.33%) Bitbucket
7 7 (1.63%) Maven
7 7 (1.63%) TeamCity
8 6 (1.40%) Artifactory
8 6 (1.40%) CircleCI
9 5 (1.17%) Cucumber
10 4 (0.93%) Gradle
10 4 (0.93%) JUnit
10 4 (0.93%) Postman
10 4 (0.93%) Selenium
10 4 (0.93%) Sourcetree
11 3 (0.70%) kappa
11 3 (0.70%) Mocha
11 3 (0.70%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.70%) webpack
General
1 65 (15.15%) Public Sector
2 64 (14.92%) Social Skills
3 37 (8.62%) Finance
4 17 (3.96%) Banking
5 14 (3.26%) Retail
6 13 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (1.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (1.63%) Marketing
8 7 (1.63%) Pharmaceutical
9 5 (1.17%) Manufacturing
9 5 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (0.93%) Front Office
10 4 (0.93%) Publishing
11 3 (0.70%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.70%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.47%) Billing
12 2 (0.47%) Health Technology
12 2 (0.47%) Legal
13 1 (0.23%) Advertising
13 1 (0.23%) Law
Job Titles
1 131 (30.54%) Developer
2 76 (17.72%) Data Engineer
3 68 (15.85%) AWS Engineer
4 62 (14.45%) DevOps Engineer
5 57 (13.29%) Senior
6 48 (11.19%) Lead
7 47 (10.96%) AWS DevOps
8 37 (8.62%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 32 (7.46%) Architect
10 31 (7.23%) Java Developer
11 24 (5.59%) Software Engineer
12 22 (5.13%) AWS Developer
13 21 (4.90%) AWS Architect
13 21 (4.90%) Cloud Engineer
13 21 (4.90%) Full Stack Developer
14 17 (3.96%) Platform Engineer
14 17 (3.96%) Senior Developer
15 16 (3.73%) AWS Data Engineer
16 15 (3.50%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 15 (3.50%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (16.55%) Node.js
1 71 (16.55%) React
2 59 (13.75%) AWS CDK
3 41 (9.56%) Kafka
4 33 (7.69%) REST
5 26 (6.06%) .NET
6 25 (5.83%) JSON
6 25 (5.83%) RESTful
6 25 (5.83%) Spring
7 23 (5.36%) GraphQL
7 23 (5.36%) OAuth
8 22 (5.13%) RabbitMQ
9 20 (4.66%) PySpark
10 19 (4.43%) Apache Avro
11 18 (4.20%) CSS
11 18 (4.20%) HTML
12 17 (3.96%) OAuth2
13 16 (3.73%) Spring Boot
14 15 (3.50%) .NET Core
15 13 (3.03%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 24 (5.59%) Legacy Systems
2 22 (5.13%) Cloud Native
3 17 (3.96%) Public Cloud
4 16 (3.73%) Greenfield Project
5 9 (2.10%) Linux Command Line
5 9 (2.10%) Product Ownership
6 8 (1.86%) Replication
7 7 (1.63%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (1.63%) Market Risk
8 6 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (1.40%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (1.17%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.17%) Data Structures
9 5 (1.17%) Onboarding
10 4 (0.93%) Credit Risk
10 4 (0.93%) Data Centre
10 4 (0.93%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 4 (0.93%) Life Science
11 3 (0.70%) IoT
11 3 (0.70%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 42 (9.79%) Linux
2 15 (3.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (1.86%) Unix
3 8 (1.86%) Windows
4 7 (1.63%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 169 (39.39%) CI/CD
2 150 (34.97%) DevOps
3 130 (30.30%) Agile
4 112 (26.11%) Infrastructure as Code
5 83 (19.35%) Microservices
6 75 (17.48%) ETL
7 68 (15.85%) Software Engineering
8 62 (14.45%) Data Pipeline
9 57 (13.29%) Containerisation
10 50 (11.66%) Data Modelling
11 48 (11.19%) Scrum
12 46 (10.72%) Test Automation
13 45 (10.49%) Full Stack Development
14 37 (8.62%) Kanban
15 33 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
15 33 (7.69%) TDD
16 31 (7.23%) Migration
17 30 (6.99%) Machine Learning
17 30 (6.99%) Mentoring
18 29 (6.76%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 237 (55.24%) Python
2 139 (32.40%) SQL
3 101 (23.54%) TypeScript
4 93 (21.68%) Java
5 85 (19.81%) JavaScript
6 39 (9.09%) Bash
7 22 (5.13%) Go
8 18 (4.20%) Shell Script
9 12 (2.80%) Scala
10 11 (2.56%) C#
11 9 (2.10%) Groovy
12 5 (1.17%) C++
12 5 (1.17%) PL/SQL
12 5 (1.17%) Ruby
12 5 (1.17%) T-SQL
13 4 (0.93%) C
13 4 (0.93%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.70%) PowerShell
14 3 (0.70%) VBA
15 2 (0.47%) Lua
Qualifications
1 95 (22.14%) Security Cleared
2 80 (18.65%) SC Cleared
3 33 (7.69%) AWS Certification
4 23 (5.36%) Degree
5 19 (4.43%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (2.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 11 (2.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 11 (2.56%) DV Cleared
7 5 (1.17%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (1.17%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.47%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (0.47%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (0.23%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (0.23%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (6.53%) Accessibility
2 20 (4.66%) QA
3 14 (3.26%) Data Quality
4 8 (1.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.93%) Disclosure Scotland
5 4 (0.93%) GDPR
6 3 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.70%) ISO 22301
7 2 (0.47%) SLA
8 1 (0.23%) NCSC
System Software
1 114 (26.57%) Docker
2 5 (1.17%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.93%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.23%) Ceph
5 1 (0.23%) NFS
Systems Management
1 134 (31.24%) Terraform
2 121 (28.21%) Kubernetes
3 55 (12.82%) Grafana
4 53 (12.35%) Ansible
5 13 (3.03%) Prometheus
6 11 (2.56%) Progress Chef
7 10 (2.33%) Kibana
8 9 (2.10%) Docker Swarm
9 4 (0.93%) Podman
10 3 (0.70%) HP Fortify
10 3 (0.70%) Puppet
11 2 (0.47%) Salt
12 1 (0.23%) Argo
12 1 (0.23%) Consul
12 1 (0.23%) Hadoop YARN
12 1 (0.23%) logstash
12 1 (0.23%) Mesos
12 1 (0.23%) Packer
Vendors
1 33 (7.69%) Oracle
2 19 (4.43%) Salesforce
3 18 (4.20%) Microsoft
4 15 (3.50%) SAP
5 13 (3.03%) MuleSoft
6 10 (2.33%) Ab Initio
6 10 (2.33%) Google
7 9 (2.10%) Informatica
8 8 (1.86%) Red Hat
8 8 (1.86%) Talend
9 7 (1.63%) NEC
9 7 (1.63%) WSO2
10 6 (1.40%) VMware
11 5 (1.17%) Splunk
12 4 (0.93%) Commvault
12 4 (0.93%) Databricks
12 4 (0.93%) Palo Alto
12 4 (0.93%) Sage
13 3 (0.70%) Confluent
13 3 (0.70%) Genesys