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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 225 186 198
Rank change year-on-year -39 +12 -56
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 463 826 1,275
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.06% 1.38% 1.44%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.29% 3.74% 3.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 357 633 931
10th Percentile £400 £425 £425
25th Percentile £431 £463 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -6.52% +9.52%
75th Percentile £588 £649 £688
90th Percentile £675 £725 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £498 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -0.50% -4.76% +12.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £58.25
Median hourly rate - £35.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year - -43.09% +82.22%
75th Percentile - - £64.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 14,090 22,105 34,276
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.35% 36.86% 38.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,000 15,975 24,909
10th Percentile £300 £325 £353
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £631 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £743 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -2.00% +1.01% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 347 359 429
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.40
25th Percentile £16.03 £18.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +62.79% -4.44%
75th Percentile £35.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £61.60 £76.40 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.72 £24.31 £18.75
% change year-on-year -27.11% +29.65% -5.06%

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 26 April 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 26 April 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 -14 355 £513 -10.87% 149
London -5 257 £500 -16.67% 72
Work from Home -32 167 £506 -3.62% 94
UK excluding London -11 151 £498 -0.50% 85
Scotland -15 65 £475 -0.84% 6
North of England +24 45 £500 -7.41% 30
North West +25 35 £510 -4.00% 15
South West +22 15 £550 -8.33% 18
South East +16 11 £600 +4.35% 13
East of England +17 8 £625 -3.85% 3
Yorkshire +12 7 £275 -53.19% 10
Northern Ireland - 6 £600 - 4
Midlands +20 4 £450 -10.00% 12
North East +21 3 - - 5
East Midlands +18 3 £450 -10.00% 4
West Midlands +27 1 - - 8

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 25 (5.40%) Apache Airflow
1 25 (5.40%) Apache Spark
2 22 (4.75%) Apache
3 9 (1.94%) BizTalk Server
4 7 (1.51%) Anypoint
5 6 (1.30%) Confluence
6 3 (0.65%) GeoServer
6 3 (0.65%) SAS
7 2 (0.43%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.22%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (0.65%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.22%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (1.51%) NEC Housing
2 5 (1.08%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.65%) Shopify
4 1 (0.22%) Aareon QL
4 1 (0.22%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.22%) Endur
4 1 (0.22%) MIS ActiveH
4 1 (0.22%) OPENHousing
4 1 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 459 (99.14%) AWS
2 455 (98.27%) Serverless
3 237 (51.19%) Amazon S3
4 152 (32.83%) Amazon EC2
5 115 (24.84%) AWS CloudFormation
6 93 (20.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 69 (14.90%) AWS Step Functions
8 56 (12.10%) Amazon ECS
8 56 (12.10%) Azure
9 51 (11.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 45 (9.72%) OpenShift
11 42 (9.07%) Amazon SQS
12 33 (7.13%) Amazon Kinesis
13 30 (6.48%) Amazon EMR
14 29 (6.26%) Amazon EKS
15 28 (6.05%) GitHub
16 27 (5.83%) AWS CodePipeline
17 25 (5.40%) CloudFront
18 24 (5.18%) Amazon SageMaker
19 22 (4.75%) Amazon MSK
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.81%) Firewall
2 10 (2.16%) Network Security
3 7 (1.51%) FTP
4 6 (1.30%) DHCP
4 6 (1.30%) DNS
5 5 (1.08%) AMQP
6 4 (0.86%) OpenLDAP
7 3 (0.65%) HTTP
7 3 (0.65%) LAN
7 3 (0.65%) SSL
7 3 (0.65%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.65%) WLAN
8 1 (0.22%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (0.22%) RTSP
8 1 (0.22%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (22.89%) Amazon RDS
2 80 (17.28%) Amazon Redshift
3 74 (15.98%) DynamoDB
4 70 (15.12%) PostgreSQL
5 49 (10.58%) Amazon Aurora
6 39 (8.42%) Amazon Athena
7 36 (7.78%) Data Warehouse
8 34 (7.34%) NoSQL
9 33 (7.13%) MongoDB
10 32 (6.91%) Big Data
11 22 (4.75%) Data Lake
12 21 (4.54%) Parquet
12 21 (4.54%) Relational Database
13 16 (3.46%) MySQL
14 12 (2.59%) Elasticsearch
14 12 (2.59%) InfluxDB
15 11 (2.38%) Tableau
16 10 (2.16%) RDBMS
17 9 (1.94%) Amazon QuickSight
17 9 (1.94%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 68 (14.69%) Git
2 60 (12.96%) Jenkins
3 44 (9.50%) GitLab
4 29 (6.26%) JIRA
5 21 (4.54%) Cypress.io
6 18 (3.89%) Maven
7 9 (1.94%) Bitbucket
8 8 (1.73%) Cucumber
8 8 (1.73%) Protractor
9 7 (1.51%) Artifactory
10 6 (1.30%) TeamCity
11 5 (1.08%) Selenium
12 4 (0.86%) JUnit
12 4 (0.86%) Mockito
12 4 (0.86%) Sourcetree
13 3 (0.65%) kappa
13 3 (0.65%) SonarQube
13 3 (0.65%) Sonatype Nexus
13 3 (0.65%) Terragrunt
13 3 (0.65%) webpack
General
1 80 (17.28%) Social Skills
2 71 (15.33%) Public Sector
3 42 (9.07%) Finance
4 25 (5.40%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (3.89%) Banking
6 17 (3.67%) Retail
7 7 (1.51%) Pharmaceutical
8 6 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (1.30%) Marketing
9 5 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.08%) Manufacturing
9 5 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (0.65%) Automotive
10 3 (0.65%) Front Office
10 3 (0.65%) Health Technology
10 3 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.43%) Billing
11 2 (0.43%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.43%) Legal
11 2 (0.43%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 137 (29.59%) Developer
2 99 (21.38%) Data Engineer
3 88 (19.01%) AWS Engineer
4 66 (14.25%) DevOps Engineer
5 53 (11.45%) AWS DevOps
5 53 (11.45%) Senior
6 50 (10.80%) Lead
7 42 (9.07%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 40 (8.64%) Architect
9 31 (6.70%) Java Developer
10 28 (6.05%) AWS Developer
11 27 (5.83%) Cloud Engineer
12 26 (5.62%) AWS Architect
12 26 (5.62%) AWS Data Engineer
13 24 (5.18%) Full Stack Developer
14 17 (3.67%) Platform Engineer
14 17 (3.67%) Software Engineer
15 15 (3.24%) Python Developer
15 15 (3.24%) Senior Developer
15 15 (3.24%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (15.77%) Node.js
2 70 (15.12%) React
3 64 (13.82%) AWS CDK
4 44 (9.50%) Kafka
5 37 (7.99%) REST
6 27 (5.83%) .NET
7 26 (5.62%) JSON
8 25 (5.40%) Spring
9 23 (4.97%) CSS
9 23 (4.97%) HTML
9 23 (4.97%) OAuth
10 22 (4.75%) .NET Core
11 21 (4.54%) GraphQL
11 21 (4.54%) Spring Boot
12 19 (4.10%) Apache Avro
12 19 (4.10%) RESTful
13 18 (3.89%) PySpark
14 17 (3.67%) RabbitMQ
15 16 (3.46%) OAuth2
16 15 (3.24%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 26 (5.62%) Cloud Native
1 26 (5.62%) Legacy Systems
2 18 (3.89%) Public Cloud
3 13 (2.81%) Greenfield Project
4 8 (1.73%) Data Structures
4 8 (1.73%) Linux Command Line
5 7 (1.51%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (1.51%) Replication
6 6 (1.30%) Algorithms
6 6 (1.30%) Data Centre
6 6 (1.30%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (1.30%) Product Ownership
7 5 (1.08%) Market Risk
7 5 (1.08%) Onboarding
8 4 (0.86%) Credit Risk
8 4 (0.86%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (0.86%) IoT
8 4 (0.86%) Life Science
9 3 (0.65%) Management Information System
9 3 (0.65%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 46 (9.94%) Linux
2 17 (3.67%) Windows
3 14 (3.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 12 (2.59%) Unix
5 7 (1.51%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.43%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.22%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 185 (39.96%) CI/CD
2 165 (35.64%) DevOps
3 146 (31.53%) Agile
4 119 (25.70%) Infrastructure as Code
5 85 (18.36%) Microservices
6 74 (15.98%) ETL
7 67 (14.47%) Data Pipeline
8 61 (13.17%) Data Modelling
9 59 (12.74%) Containerisation
10 56 (12.10%) Software Engineering
11 55 (11.88%) Test Automation
12 50 (10.80%) Scrum
13 44 (9.50%) Full Stack Development
14 42 (9.07%) Problem-Solving
15 38 (8.21%) Kanban
15 38 (8.21%) Mentoring
16 35 (7.56%) Technical Leadership
17 33 (7.13%) Analytics
18 30 (6.48%) TDD
19 29 (6.26%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 260 (56.16%) Python
2 145 (31.32%) SQL
3 101 (21.81%) TypeScript
4 94 (20.30%) Java
5 87 (18.79%) JavaScript
6 40 (8.64%) Bash
7 32 (6.91%) Go
8 19 (4.10%) Shell Script
9 11 (2.38%) C#
10 9 (1.94%) C++
10 9 (1.94%) PL/SQL
10 9 (1.94%) T-SQL
11 7 (1.51%) Groovy
12 6 (1.30%) Scala
13 5 (1.08%) C
13 5 (1.08%) Ruby
14 4 (0.86%) PowerShell
14 4 (0.86%) R
15 3 (0.65%) Perl
16 2 (0.43%) PHP
Qualifications
1 105 (22.68%) Security Cleared
2 90 (19.44%) SC Cleared
3 42 (9.07%) AWS Certification
4 24 (5.18%) Degree
5 19 (4.10%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (3.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 14 (3.02%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 11 (2.38%) DV Cleared
9 6 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (1.08%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (0.65%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.22%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 1 (0.22%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.22%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (6.70%) Accessibility
2 22 (4.75%) QA
3 13 (2.81%) Data Quality
4 6 (1.30%) Disclosure Scotland
5 5 (1.08%) GDPR
5 5 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.65%) ISO 22301
7 2 (0.43%) SLA
8 1 (0.22%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.22%) NCSC
8 1 (0.22%) NIST
System Software
1 107 (23.11%) Docker
2 5 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.65%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.43%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.22%) Ceph
5 1 (0.22%) HDFS
5 1 (0.22%) NFS
Systems Management
1 147 (31.75%) Terraform
2 116 (25.05%) Kubernetes
3 53 (11.45%) Ansible
4 51 (11.02%) Grafana
5 13 (2.81%) Progress Chef
6 11 (2.38%) Kibana
7 9 (1.94%) Prometheus
8 8 (1.73%) Docker Swarm
9 6 (1.30%) Puppet
10 4 (0.86%) Consul
10 4 (0.86%) Packer
11 3 (0.65%) HP Fortify
12 2 (0.43%) Hadoop YARN
12 2 (0.43%) Salt
13 1 (0.22%) logstash
13 1 (0.22%) Mesos
13 1 (0.22%) Podman
Vendors
1 35 (7.56%) Oracle
2 18 (3.89%) Microsoft
3 16 (3.46%) MuleSoft
4 15 (3.24%) SAP
5 13 (2.81%) Salesforce
6 12 (2.59%) Informatica
7 10 (2.16%) Talend
8 9 (1.94%) Google
9 7 (1.51%) NEC
9 7 (1.51%) Red Hat
9 7 (1.51%) Splunk
10 6 (1.30%) VMware
10 6 (1.30%) WSO2
11 5 (1.08%) Sage
12 4 (0.86%) Commvault
12 4 (0.86%) Databricks
12 4 (0.86%) Palo Alto
13 3 (0.65%) Confluent
13 3 (0.65%) Sitecore
13 3 (0.65%) Teradata