AWS Lambda Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

AWS Lambda
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 120 184 165
Rank change year-on-year +64 -19 -7
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 213 167 400
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.15% 1.09% 1.55%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.41% 3.01% 3.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 135 305
10th Percentile £400 £415 £434
25th Percentile £462 £459 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £506 £525
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -3.62% -4.55%
75th Percentile £731 £575 £638
90th Percentile £838 £656 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 - £35.00
% change year-on-year - - -43.09%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 3,940 5,557 10,236
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 39.78% 36.21% 39.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,887 3,982 7,514
10th Percentile £351 £350 £373
25th Percentile £425 £430 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £738 £743
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 89 125
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £16.43
25th Percentile £25.25 £17.00 £21.31
Median hourly rate £35.00 £26.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.62% -52.73% +83.33%
75th Percentile £70.63 £50.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £92.50 £64.37 £78.40
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

AWS Lambda
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing AWS Lambda as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

AWS Lambda trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

AWS Lambda
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing AWS Lambda.

AWS Lambda daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

AWS Lambda
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing AWS Lambda over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

AWS Lambda daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

AWS Lambda
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing AWS Lambda.

AWS Lambda hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

AWS Lambda
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 32 (15.02%) Apache Spark
2 30 (14.08%) Apache
3 28 (13.15%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.41%) Confluence
5 2 (0.94%) GeoServer
5 2 (0.94%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.47%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.47%) CMS
6 1 (0.47%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 2 (0.94%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.47%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.47%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 213 (100.00%) AWS
2 211 (99.06%) Serverless
3 115 (53.99%) Amazon S3
4 70 (32.86%) AWS CloudFormation
5 63 (29.58%) Amazon ECS
6 47 (22.07%) Amazon SQS
7 44 (20.66%) Amazon EC2
8 41 (19.25%) GitHub
9 36 (16.90%) OpenShift
10 30 (14.08%) Amazon EKS
11 28 (13.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 28 (13.15%) dbt
12 22 (10.33%) AWS CodePipeline
13 16 (7.51%) AWS Step Functions
14 13 (6.10%) GitHub Actions
15 12 (5.63%) Amazon SageMaker
16 11 (5.16%) Amazon Cognito
16 11 (5.16%) AWS CodeBuild
16 11 (5.16%) AWS Fargate
17 10 (4.69%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.23%) Firewall
1 9 (4.23%) HTTP
2 2 (0.94%) SSL
2 2 (0.94%) VPN
3 1 (0.47%) DHCP
3 1 (0.47%) DNS
3 1 (0.47%) FTP
3 1 (0.47%) Network Security
3 1 (0.47%) SMS
3 1 (0.47%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (25.82%) Amazon RDS
2 44 (20.66%) DynamoDB
3 43 (20.19%) Amazon Athena
4 32 (15.02%) PostgreSQL
5 28 (13.15%) Apache Arrow
5 28 (13.15%) Apache Iceberg
5 28 (13.15%) Apache Ignite
5 28 (13.15%) Dremio
6 27 (12.68%) Amazon Redshift
7 15 (7.04%) Data Warehouse
8 11 (5.16%) NoSQL
9 10 (4.69%) Amazon Aurora
9 10 (4.69%) Oracle Database
10 9 (4.23%) MySQL
11 7 (3.29%) Big Data
11 7 (3.29%) MongoDB
11 7 (3.29%) Relational Database
12 6 (2.82%) DocumentDB
12 6 (2.82%) Redis
13 5 (2.35%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 34 (15.96%) Jenkins
2 31 (14.55%) Artifactory
3 24 (11.27%) Git
4 20 (9.39%) GitLab
5 12 (5.63%) Cypress.io
6 8 (3.76%) SonarQube
7 7 (3.29%) Bitbucket
8 5 (2.35%) git-flow
8 5 (2.35%) JIRA
9 3 (1.41%) Mocha
9 3 (1.41%) Postman
9 3 (1.41%) Storybook
9 3 (1.41%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (0.94%) Gradle
10 2 (0.94%) Maven
11 1 (0.47%) Ant
11 1 (0.47%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.47%) MLflow
11 1 (0.47%) Mockito
11 1 (0.47%) Toad
General
1 50 (23.47%) Public Sector
2 44 (20.66%) Finance
3 38 (17.84%) Social Skills
4 37 (17.37%) Front Office
5 24 (11.27%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (8.92%) Banking
7 6 (2.82%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.41%) Military
9 2 (0.94%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (0.94%) Electronics
9 2 (0.94%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.94%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.94%) Marketing
9 2 (0.94%) Retail
9 2 (0.94%) Retail Banking
9 2 (0.94%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.47%) Aviation
10 1 (0.47%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.47%) Legal
10 1 (0.47%) Police
Job Titles
1 74 (34.74%) AWS Engineer
2 55 (25.82%) DevOps Engineer
3 49 (23.00%) Developer
4 45 (21.13%) AWS DevOps
4 45 (21.13%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 45 (21.13%) Data Engineer
5 38 (17.84%) Python Engineer
6 35 (16.43%) Senior
7 34 (15.96%) Architect
8 24 (11.27%) AWS Architect
9 16 (7.51%) AWS Developer
10 11 (5.16%) Cloud Engineer
10 11 (5.16%) Full-Stack Developer
10 11 (5.16%) Senior DevOps
10 11 (5.16%) Software Engineer
11 10 (4.69%) Node.js Developer
11 10 (4.69%) Senior Developer
11 10 (4.69%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 9 (4.23%) DevOps Manager
12 9 (4.23%) Finance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (25.82%) Node.js
1 55 (25.82%) React
2 43 (20.19%) Kafka
3 41 (19.25%) AWS CDK
4 35 (16.43%) PySpark
5 28 (13.15%) J2EE
6 19 (8.92%) GraphQL
7 17 (7.98%) REST
8 15 (7.04%) JSON
8 15 (7.04%) RESTful
9 12 (5.63%) Jest
9 12 (5.63%) Redux
10 11 (5.16%) CSS
10 11 (5.16%) Next.js
11 10 (4.69%) Spring Boot
12 9 (4.23%) WebSockets
13 8 (3.76%) HTML
13 8 (3.76%) Pandas
14 7 (3.29%) Lambda Expressions
14 7 (3.29%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 14 (6.57%) Cloud Native
2 10 (4.69%) Public Cloud
3 8 (3.76%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (2.35%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (1.88%) Algorithms
5 4 (1.88%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.41%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.41%) Mobile App
6 3 (1.41%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.41%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.41%) Vector Graphics
7 1 (0.47%) Blockchain
7 1 (0.47%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.47%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.47%) TWAP
7 1 (0.47%) Video on Demand
7 1 (0.47%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 12 (5.63%) Linux
2 3 (1.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (1.41%) Ubuntu
2 3 (1.41%) Unix
3 1 (0.47%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (62.44%) CI/CD
2 102 (47.89%) DevOps
3 90 (42.25%) Agile
4 55 (25.82%) Software Engineering
5 46 (21.60%) Open Source
6 45 (21.13%) Containerisation
7 44 (20.66%) Infrastructure as Code
8 41 (19.25%) Data Engineering
9 39 (18.31%) Problem-Solving
10 38 (17.84%) Microservices
10 38 (17.84%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 37 (17.37%) Asset Management
12 30 (14.08%) Full-Stack Development
13 28 (13.15%) High Availability
14 25 (11.74%) Test Automation
15 23 (10.80%) Data Pipeline
15 23 (10.80%) Mentoring
16 21 (9.86%) Scrum
17 19 (8.92%) ETL
17 19 (8.92%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 122 (57.28%) Python
2 57 (26.76%) Java
3 54 (25.35%) JavaScript
4 49 (23.00%) TypeScript
5 38 (17.84%) SQL
6 35 (16.43%) Go
7 15 (7.04%) Bash
8 7 (3.29%) T-SQL
9 4 (1.88%) R
9 4 (1.88%) Scala
10 3 (1.41%) Groovy
11 2 (0.94%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.94%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.47%) C#
12 1 (0.47%) C++
12 1 (0.47%) Natural
12 1 (0.47%) Perl
12 1 (0.47%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.47%) Ruby
12 1 (0.47%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 53 (24.88%) Security Cleared
2 52 (24.41%) SC Cleared
3 49 (23.00%) AWS Certification
4 29 (13.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 16 (7.51%) Degree
6 12 (5.63%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.88%) OCP
7 4 (1.88%) Oracle Certification
8 2 (0.94%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.47%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.69%) QA
2 7 (3.29%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.88%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.88%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.47%) GDPR
4 1 (0.47%) NIST
4 1 (0.47%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.47%) SLA
4 1 (0.47%) SOC 2
System Software
1 83 (38.97%) Docker
Systems Management
1 82 (38.50%) Terraform
2 72 (33.80%) Kubernetes
3 19 (8.92%) Ansible
4 15 (7.04%) Grafana
5 10 (4.69%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.41%) Kibana
7 2 (0.94%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.47%) Argo
8 1 (0.47%) Consul
8 1 (0.47%) Istio
8 1 (0.47%) linkerd
8 1 (0.47%) Puppet
Vendors
1 16 (7.51%) Oracle
2 5 (2.35%) Databricks
3 4 (1.88%) Atlassian
3 4 (1.88%) MuleSoft
4 3 (1.41%) Imperva
4 3 (1.41%) Microsoft
4 3 (1.41%) New Relic
4 3 (1.41%) Salesforce
5 2 (0.94%) Alteryx
5 2 (0.94%) Google
5 2 (0.94%) Red Hat
5 2 (0.94%) Sage
5 2 (0.94%) SAP
5 2 (0.94%) Splunk
6 1 (0.47%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.47%) Okta
6 1 (0.47%) Qualys
6 1 (0.47%) Talend
6 1 (0.47%) VMware
6 1 (0.47%) Zuora