Hybrid/Remote AWS Lambda Contract Job Trends

AWS Lambda
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring AWS Lambda skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 182 144 191
Rank change year-on-year -38 +47 -14
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 224 172 147
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.66% 1.78% 1.18%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.11% 4.17% 3.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 188 120 100
10th Percentile £405 £368 £424
25th Percentile £450 £425 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -
75th Percentile £671 £575 £600
90th Percentile £788 £640 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £505 £513
% change year-on-year +3.96% -1.46% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £39.82 - -
25th Percentile £60.93 - -
Median hourly rate £73.83 - -
75th Percentile £75.50 - -
90th Percentile £76.40 - -
UK median hourly rate £72.33 £45.00 -
% change year-on-year +60.73% - -

All Cloud Computing 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 5,453 4,129 4,717
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 40.41% 42.75% 37.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,684 2,813 3,211
10th Percentile £358 £335 £340
25th Percentile £431 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £648
90th Percentile £713 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 184 53 41
10th Percentile £16.97 £20.30 £18.50
25th Percentile £26.52 £24.77 £26.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £37.50 £36.69
Median % change year-on-year +73.33% +2.21% -24.74%
75th Percentile £76.00 £65.25 £62.50
90th Percentile £82.25 £76.50 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +19.28% -28.14% +6.06%

AWS Lambda
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing AWS Lambda and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

AWS Lambda job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

AWS Lambda
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing AWS Lambda.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing AWS Lambda

AWS Lambda
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing AWS Lambda over the 6 months to 8 October 2026.

AWS Lambda daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

AWS Lambda
Hourly Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing AWS Lambda.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing AWS Lambda

AWS Lambda
Hourly Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing AWS Lambda over the 6 months to 8 October 2026.

AWS Lambda hourly rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid working options

AWS Lambda
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 23 (10.27%) Confluence
2 18 (8.04%) Apache Airflow
3 14 (6.25%) Apache Spark
4 12 (5.36%) Apache
5 6 (2.68%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 6 (2.68%) WebLogic
5 6 (2.68%) WebLogic Portal
6 5 (2.23%) SAS
7 2 (0.89%) CICS
8 1 (0.45%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (2.68%) Oracle EBS
1 6 (2.68%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (0.45%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 224 (100.00%) AWS
2 219 (97.77%) Serverless
3 140 (62.50%) Amazon S3
4 84 (37.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 59 (26.34%) Amazon EC2
5 59 (26.34%) Amazon EKS
6 57 (25.45%) GitHub
7 56 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
7 56 (25.00%) Amazon EventBridge
8 55 (24.55%) Amazon SQS
9 51 (22.77%) AWS CloudFormation
10 45 (20.09%) GitHub Actions
11 38 (16.96%) AWS Step Functions
12 37 (16.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 31 (13.84%) Amazon EMR
14 29 (12.95%) Azure
15 23 (10.27%) SaaS
16 19 (8.48%) dbt
17 17 (7.59%) Power Platform
18 15 (6.70%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.79%) Firewall
2 3 (1.34%) Network Security
2 3 (1.34%) SMS
3 2 (0.89%) OpenLDAP
3 2 (0.89%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.45%) BGP
4 1 (0.45%) HTTP
4 1 (0.45%) VPN
4 1 (0.45%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (29.46%) DynamoDB
2 62 (27.68%) Amazon RDS
3 35 (15.63%) Amazon Athena
4 33 (14.73%) Amazon Aurora
5 32 (14.29%) Amazon Redshift
6 26 (11.61%) MySQL
7 19 (8.48%) Data Warehouse
8 17 (7.59%) PostgreSQL
8 17 (7.59%) Power BI
9 11 (4.91%) Big Data
9 11 (4.91%) NoSQL
10 9 (4.02%) MongoDB
10 9 (4.02%) Oracle Database
11 8 (3.57%) Metadata
12 7 (3.13%) Apache Iceberg
13 6 (2.68%) Data Lake
13 6 (2.68%) Oracle Database 10g
13 6 (2.68%) Oracle Database 11g
13 6 (2.68%) Oracle Database 12c
14 5 (2.23%) Presto
Development Applications
1 57 (25.45%) Git
1 57 (25.45%) GitLab
2 46 (20.54%) Jenkins
3 25 (11.16%) JIRA
4 19 (8.48%) Claude Code
5 10 (4.46%) Cucumber
5 10 (4.46%) Cypress.io
6 6 (2.68%) REST Assured
7 5 (2.23%) Postman
7 5 (2.23%) Selenium
8 4 (1.79%) Bitbucket
8 4 (1.79%) Flyway
8 4 (1.79%) JUnit
9 3 (1.34%) Artifactory
9 3 (1.34%) Gatling
9 3 (1.34%) JMeter
9 3 (1.34%) Maven
9 3 (1.34%) Mockito
9 3 (1.34%) Oracle APEX
10 2 (0.89%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 56 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 50 (22.32%) Public Sector
3 21 (9.38%) Finance
4 11 (4.91%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (4.91%) Banking
5 7 (3.13%) Military
6 4 (1.79%) Legal
6 4 (1.79%) Police
7 3 (1.34%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (0.89%) iGaming
8 2 (0.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (0.89%) Law
8 2 (0.89%) Local Government
8 2 (0.89%) Publishing
9 1 (0.45%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.45%) Marketing
9 1 (0.45%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.45%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 73 (32.59%) AWS Engineer
2 67 (29.91%) Senior
3 36 (16.07%) Data Engineer
4 31 (13.84%) Developer
5 27 (12.05%) Architect
5 27 (12.05%) DevOps Engineer
6 19 (8.48%) Lambda Engineer
7 18 (8.04%) Lead
8 17 (7.59%) Python Engineer
9 16 (7.14%) AWS Architect
9 16 (7.14%) Software Engineer
10 15 (6.70%) AWS DevOps
11 14 (6.25%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 12 (5.36%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 12 (5.36%) Cloud Engineer
13 11 (4.91%) Senior DevOps
13 11 (4.91%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 10 (4.46%) AWS Developer
14 10 (4.46%) AWS Software Engineer
14 10 (4.46%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 120 (53.57%) Terraform
2 46 (20.54%) REST
3 34 (15.18%) AWS CDK
4 33 (14.73%) .NET
5 26 (11.61%) RESTful
6 22 (9.82%) Node.js
6 22 (9.82%) PySpark
7 20 (8.93%) Kafka
8 17 (7.59%) FastAPI
9 16 (7.14%) React
10 12 (5.36%) Flask
11 10 (4.46%) GraphQL
11 10 (4.46%) Spring
11 10 (4.46%) Spring Boot
12 8 (3.57%) .NET Core
12 8 (3.57%) Playwright
13 7 (3.13%) CSS
13 7 (3.13%) HTML
13 7 (3.13%) LangChain
13 7 (3.13%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 69 (30.80%) Cloud Native
2 31 (13.84%) Distributed Systems
3 27 (12.05%) Product Ownership
4 11 (4.91%) Onboarding
5 10 (4.46%) AI Agents
6 8 (3.57%) IVR
7 7 (3.13%) PropTech
8 6 (2.68%) Autonomous Agent
8 6 (2.68%) Clustering
9 5 (2.23%) NHS
10 4 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (0.89%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.89%) Distributed Computing
11 2 (0.89%) Enterprise Cloud
11 2 (0.89%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (0.89%) Legacy Applications
11 2 (0.89%) Legacy Code
11 2 (0.89%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (0.89%) Mainframe
11 2 (0.89%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 23 (10.27%) Linux
2 14 (6.25%) Unix
3 2 (0.89%) zOS
4 1 (0.45%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 160 (71.43%) CI/CD
2 109 (48.66%) Infrastructure as Code
3 100 (44.64%) DevOps
4 89 (39.73%) Agile
5 80 (35.71%) Event-Driven
6 62 (27.68%) AI
7 60 (26.79%) Microservices
8 57 (25.45%) Observability
9 46 (20.54%) Containerisation
10 45 (20.09%) Test Automation
11 42 (18.75%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 39 (17.41%) Data Engineering
13 38 (16.96%) Software Engineering
14 32 (14.29%) Mentoring
14 32 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
15 31 (13.84%) API Design
16 29 (12.95%) Data Pipeline
17 28 (12.50%) Data Modelling
17 28 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
18 26 (11.61%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 114 (50.89%) Python
2 59 (26.34%) SQL
3 34 (15.18%) TypeScript
4 28 (12.50%) C#
4 28 (12.50%) JavaScript
5 27 (12.05%) Java
6 20 (8.93%) Bash
7 9 (4.02%) Scala
8 8 (3.57%) PL/SQL
8 8 (3.57%) PowerShell
8 8 (3.57%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.89%) Go
9 2 (0.89%) JCL
10 1 (0.45%) C
10 1 (0.45%) Cypher
10 1 (0.45%) Gremlin
10 1 (0.45%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.45%) SHACL
10 1 (0.45%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 80 (35.71%) Security Cleared
2 76 (33.93%) SC Cleared
3 30 (13.39%) AWS Certification
4 19 (8.48%) BPSS Clearance
5 16 (7.14%) DV Cleared
6 11 (4.91%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 8 (3.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (2.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 3 (1.34%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.34%) DBS Check
9 3 (1.34%) Degree
10 2 (0.89%) ISEB
10 2 (0.89%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.89%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.89%) SAFe Agilist
11 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.45%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.45%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.45%) PMP
11 1 (0.45%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (12.50%) Data Quality
2 14 (6.25%) QA
3 4 (1.79%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.89%) GDPR
5 1 (0.45%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.45%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.45%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.45%) WCAG
System Software
1 68 (30.36%) Docker
2 4 (1.79%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.89%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.45%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 61 (27.23%) Kubernetes
2 30 (13.39%) Grafana
3 22 (9.82%) Prometheus
4 19 (8.48%) Ansible
5 6 (2.68%) Kibana
5 6 (2.68%) Oracle RMAN
6 4 (1.79%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 3 (1.34%) Puppet
8 2 (0.89%) Salt
9 1 (0.45%) Argo
9 1 (0.45%) Istio
9 1 (0.45%) Packer
9 1 (0.45%) Podman
9 1 (0.45%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (6.25%) Oracle
2 12 (5.36%) Informatica
3 10 (4.46%) Splunk
4 7 (3.13%) Microsoft
5 6 (2.68%) Databricks
5 6 (2.68%) OpenAI
6 5 (2.23%) Salesforce
6 5 (2.23%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.34%) Fortinet
7 3 (1.34%) Google
8 2 (0.89%) Atlassian
8 2 (0.89%) Brio
8 2 (0.89%) Tenable
9 1 (0.45%) Ab Initio
9 1 (0.45%) CheckPoint
9 1 (0.45%) Confluent
9 1 (0.45%) Denodo
9 1 (0.45%) Foundry
9 1 (0.45%) New Relic
9 1 (0.45%) Teradata