AWS Lambda Contracts with Work from Home Options

AWS Lambda
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 195 162 160
Rank change year-on-year -33 -2 -56
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 167 405 758
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.08% 1.56% 1.71%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.98% 3.95% 4.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 308 554
10th Percentile £415 £434 £419
25th Percentile £461 £468 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.62% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £688
90th Percentile £656 £700 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £538 £575
% change year-on-year -6.98% -6.52% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £35.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year - -43.09% +82.22%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,595 10,266 18,459
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.27% 39.44% 41.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,992 7,528 13,778
10th Percentile £350 £371 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £725 £743 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 127 174
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.45 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.00 £21.31 £19.00
Median hourly rate £26.00 £55.00 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year -52.73% +91.30% -17.86%
75th Percentile £53.19 £70.00 £62.15
90th Percentile £62.45 £81.00 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -40.00% +62.79% -4.44%

AWS Lambda
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing AWS Lambda as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

AWS Lambda trend for jobs with a WFH option

AWS Lambda
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing AWS Lambda over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

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 a work from home option 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 4 (2.40%) Confluence
2 3 (1.80%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.20%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (0.60%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.60%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.60%) GeoServer
Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (2.99%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.60%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.60%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.60%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 164 (98.20%) AWS
2 162 (97.01%) Serverless
3 96 (57.49%) Amazon S3
4 55 (32.93%) Amazon EC2
5 52 (31.14%) AWS CloudFormation
6 43 (25.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 34 (20.36%) Amazon ECS
8 22 (13.17%) Azure
9 20 (11.98%) AWS Step Functions
9 20 (11.98%) OpenShift
10 18 (10.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 16 (9.58%) CloudFront
12 15 (8.98%) Amazon EKS
12 15 (8.98%) Amazon SQS
12 15 (8.98%) Route 53
13 14 (8.38%) Amazon Kinesis
13 14 (8.38%) AWS Fargate
14 11 (6.59%) Amazon EventBridge
15 10 (5.99%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 10 (5.99%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.99%) Firewall
2 3 (1.80%) DHCP
2 3 (1.80%) DNS
2 3 (1.80%) LAN
2 3 (1.80%) Network Security
2 3 (1.80%) OpenLDAP
2 3 (1.80%) WLAN
3 1 (0.60%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (25.75%) Amazon RDS
2 37 (22.16%) PostgreSQL
3 29 (17.37%) DynamoDB
4 24 (14.37%) Amazon Aurora
5 22 (13.17%) Amazon Redshift
6 17 (10.18%) MongoDB
7 13 (7.78%) Amazon Athena
8 12 (7.19%) Data Warehouse
9 10 (5.99%) Elasticsearch
10 7 (4.19%) MySQL
11 5 (2.99%) Big Data
11 5 (2.99%) Data Lake
11 5 (2.99%) InfluxDB
11 5 (2.99%) Informix
11 5 (2.99%) NoSQL
12 4 (2.40%) Amazon QuickSight
12 4 (2.40%) Oracle Database
12 4 (2.40%) RDBMS
12 4 (2.40%) Relational Database
12 4 (2.40%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 26 (15.57%) Jenkins
2 18 (10.78%) Git
2 18 (10.78%) GitLab
3 12 (7.19%) Cypress.io
4 9 (5.39%) JIRA
5 8 (4.79%) Maven
6 6 (3.59%) Protractor
7 5 (2.99%) Artifactory
8 4 (2.40%) Selenium
9 3 (1.80%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.80%) webpack
10 2 (1.20%) Bitbucket
10 2 (1.20%) git-flow
10 2 (1.20%) Snyk
10 2 (1.20%) Visual Studio Code
11 1 (0.60%) CircleCI
11 1 (0.60%) Gradle
11 1 (0.60%) JUnit
11 1 (0.60%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.60%) TeamCity
General
1 33 (19.76%) Public Sector
2 26 (15.57%) Social Skills
3 10 (5.99%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (5.39%) Finance
5 7 (4.19%) Retail
6 6 (3.59%) Banking
7 4 (2.40%) Marketing
8 2 (1.20%) Health Technology
8 2 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.20%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.60%) Advertising
9 1 (0.60%) Front Office
9 1 (0.60%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 54 (32.34%) Developer
2 47 (28.14%) AWS Engineer
3 30 (17.96%) DevOps Engineer
4 28 (16.77%) AWS DevOps
5 27 (16.17%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 27 (16.17%) Senior
6 21 (12.57%) Data Engineer
7 18 (10.78%) Lead
8 14 (8.38%) Architect
8 14 (8.38%) Full Stack Developer
9 10 (5.99%) AWS Data Engineer
9 10 (5.99%) AWS Developer
10 9 (5.39%) AWS Architect
10 9 (5.39%) Java Developer
11 8 (4.79%) Cloud Engineer
11 8 (4.79%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 8 (4.79%) Platform Engineer
11 8 (4.79%) Software Developer
12 7 (4.19%) Software Engineer
13 6 (3.59%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (23.35%) AWS CDK
2 33 (19.76%) React
3 30 (17.96%) Node.js
4 17 (10.18%) REST
5 16 (9.58%) CSS
5 16 (9.58%) HTML
6 14 (8.38%) OAuth
7 9 (5.39%) GraphQL
7 9 (5.39%) PySpark
7 9 (5.39%) Spring
8 8 (4.79%) Jest
8 8 (4.79%) Spring Boot
9 7 (4.19%) .NET
9 7 (4.19%) AngularJS
9 7 (4.19%) AWS SAM
9 7 (4.19%) OAuth2
10 6 (3.59%) Kafka
10 6 (3.59%) RabbitMQ
10 6 (3.59%) Spring Security
11 4 (2.40%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 11 (6.59%) Legacy Systems
2 9 (5.39%) Cloud Native
3 7 (4.19%) Public Cloud
4 5 (2.99%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (2.99%) Replication
5 4 (2.40%) Data Centre
5 4 (2.40%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.80%) IoT
6 3 (1.80%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.80%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.20%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.20%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 2 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.20%) Hackathon
7 2 (1.20%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (1.20%) Life Science
7 2 (1.20%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.20%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.20%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.20%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 26 (15.57%) Linux
2 11 (6.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (4.19%) Unix
3 7 (4.19%) Windows
4 6 (3.59%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (43.11%) CI/CD
2 62 (37.13%) Agile
2 62 (37.13%) DevOps
3 58 (34.73%) Infrastructure as Code
4 29 (17.37%) Microservices
5 28 (16.77%) Test Automation
6 24 (14.37%) ETL
7 23 (13.77%) Mentoring
8 22 (13.17%) Full Stack Development
9 21 (12.57%) Analytics
10 18 (10.78%) Kanban
11 17 (10.18%) Data Modelling
12 16 (9.58%) Containerisation
12 16 (9.58%) Scrum
12 16 (9.58%) Software Engineering
13 15 (8.98%) Coaching
13 15 (8.98%) High Availability
13 15 (8.98%) Unit Testing
14 14 (8.38%) Roadmaps
14 14 (8.38%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 84 (50.30%) Python
2 53 (31.74%) TypeScript
3 42 (25.15%) JavaScript
4 32 (19.16%) Java
5 30 (17.96%) SQL
6 20 (11.98%) Bash
7 14 (8.38%) Go
8 6 (3.59%) Groovy
9 5 (2.99%) C#
9 5 (2.99%) Shell Script
10 4 (2.40%) R
11 2 (1.20%) C++
11 2 (1.20%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.20%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.60%) Perl
12 1 (0.60%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.60%) Ruby
12 1 (0.60%) Rust
12 1 (0.60%) Scala
Qualifications
1 25 (14.97%) SC Cleared
1 25 (14.97%) Security Cleared
2 11 (6.59%) AWS Certification
3 5 (2.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 4 (2.40%) Degree
5 3 (1.80%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.60%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (11.98%) Accessibility
2 4 (2.40%) Disclosure Scotland
3 3 (1.80%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.20%) GDPR
4 2 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.20%) QA
4 2 (1.20%) SLA
System Software
1 45 (26.95%) Docker
2 4 (2.40%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 48 (28.74%) Terraform
2 42 (25.15%) Kubernetes
3 28 (16.77%) Grafana
4 23 (13.77%) Ansible
5 8 (4.79%) Kibana
6 6 (3.59%) Progress Chef
7 5 (2.99%) Puppet
8 3 (1.80%) Consul
8 3 (1.80%) Packer
9 2 (1.20%) Salt
10 1 (0.60%) logstash
10 1 (0.60%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (6.59%) Oracle
2 5 (2.99%) Microsoft
2 5 (2.99%) VMware
3 4 (2.40%) Red Hat
4 3 (1.80%) MuleSoft
4 3 (1.80%) Palo Alto
4 3 (1.80%) Salesforce
4 3 (1.80%) Splunk
5 2 (1.20%) Commvault
5 2 (1.20%) Confluent
5 2 (1.20%) Databricks
5 2 (1.20%) Google
5 2 (1.20%) IBM
5 2 (1.20%) Informatica
5 2 (1.20%) Qualys
5 2 (1.20%) SaltStack
5 2 (1.20%) SAP
5 2 (1.20%) StreamSets
6 1 (0.60%) Adobe
6 1 (0.60%) Sitecore