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 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 197 176 154
Rank change year-on-year -21 -22 -51
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 160 365 775
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.06% 1.45% 1.76%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.94% 3.67% 4.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 282 555
10th Percentile £415 £433 £425
25th Percentile £456 £463 £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 £650 £700 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -4.76% -8.70% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £65.75
25th Percentile - - £66.88
Median hourly rate - £35.00 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year - -51.72% +114.81%
75th Percentile - - £76.88
90th Percentile - - £77.25
UK median hourly rate - £35.00 £72.50
% change year-on-year - -51.72% +114.81%

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 5,438 9,941 18,241
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.15% 39.46% 41.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,918 7,341 13,631
10th Percentile £350 £370 £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 £640
90th Percentile £738 £743 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 129 176
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.25 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.00 £21.00 £20.56
Median hourly rate £26.00 £54.00 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -51.85% +52.11% -11.25%
75th Percentile £50.25 £70.00 £65.54
90th Percentile £72.00 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.40
% change year-on-year -38.94% +56.25% -0.44%

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 12 May 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 9 (5.63%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (3.75%) Apache
3 4 (2.50%) Confluence
4 2 (1.25%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.25%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (0.63%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.63%) GeoServer
Applications
1 1 (0.63%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (3.13%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (2.50%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.63%) NEC Housing
3 1 (0.63%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 157 (98.13%) AWS
2 155 (96.88%) Serverless
3 93 (58.13%) Amazon S3
4 50 (31.25%) Amazon EC2
5 48 (30.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 45 (28.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 33 (20.63%) Amazon ECS
8 24 (15.00%) AWS Step Functions
9 21 (13.13%) Azure
10 17 (10.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 16 (10.00%) Amazon SQS
12 15 (9.38%) Amazon EKS
12 15 (9.38%) CloudFront
12 15 (9.38%) OpenShift
12 15 (9.38%) Route 53
13 14 (8.75%) Amazon Kinesis
14 13 (8.13%) Amazon EMR
15 12 (7.50%) AWS Fargate
15 12 (7.50%) dbt
16 11 (6.88%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.63%) Firewall
2 3 (1.88%) DHCP
2 3 (1.88%) DNS
2 3 (1.88%) LAN
2 3 (1.88%) Network Security
2 3 (1.88%) OpenLDAP
2 3 (1.88%) WLAN
3 1 (0.63%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (24.38%) Amazon RDS
2 32 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
3 30 (18.75%) DynamoDB
4 26 (16.25%) Amazon Redshift
5 19 (11.88%) Amazon Athena
6 18 (11.25%) Amazon Aurora
7 17 (10.63%) Data Warehouse
7 17 (10.63%) MongoDB
8 10 (6.25%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (3.75%) MySQL
10 5 (3.13%) Big Data
10 5 (3.13%) Data Lake
10 5 (3.13%) InfluxDB
10 5 (3.13%) Informix
10 5 (3.13%) NoSQL
10 5 (3.13%) RDBMS
10 5 (3.13%) Relational Database
11 4 (2.50%) Amazon QuickSight
11 4 (2.50%) Hadoop
11 4 (2.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 23 (14.38%) Jenkins
2 21 (13.13%) Git
3 18 (11.25%) GitLab
4 10 (6.25%) JIRA
5 8 (5.00%) Maven
6 7 (4.38%) Cypress.io
7 6 (3.75%) Protractor
8 5 (3.13%) Artifactory
9 4 (2.50%) CircleCI
9 4 (2.50%) Selenium
10 3 (1.88%) Cucumber
10 3 (1.88%) webpack
11 2 (1.25%) Bitbucket
11 2 (1.25%) git-flow
11 2 (1.25%) Snyk
11 2 (1.25%) Visual Studio Code
12 1 (0.63%) Gradle
12 1 (0.63%) JUnit
12 1 (0.63%) REST Assured
12 1 (0.63%) TeamCity
General
1 26 (16.25%) Public Sector
2 24 (15.00%) Social Skills
3 8 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (5.00%) Finance
4 5 (3.13%) Banking
4 5 (3.13%) Retail
5 4 (2.50%) Marketing
6 1 (0.63%) Advertising
6 1 (0.63%) Dutch Language
6 1 (0.63%) Front Office
6 1 (0.63%) Health Technology
6 1 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (0.63%) Investment Banking
6 1 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 48 (30.00%) Developer
2 45 (28.13%) AWS Engineer
3 30 (18.75%) Senior
4 28 (17.50%) DevOps Engineer
5 26 (16.25%) AWS DevOps
6 25 (15.63%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 19 (11.88%) Lead
8 18 (11.25%) Data Engineer
9 12 (7.50%) Architect
10 10 (6.25%) Full Stack Developer
10 10 (6.25%) Software Engineer
11 9 (5.63%) AWS Data Engineer
11 9 (5.63%) Java Developer
12 8 (5.00%) AWS Architect
12 8 (5.00%) AWS Developer
12 8 (5.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 8 (5.00%) Platform Engineer
12 8 (5.00%) Software Developer
13 7 (4.38%) Cloud Engineer
14 6 (3.75%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (20.63%) Node.js
2 32 (20.00%) AWS CDK
3 27 (16.88%) React
4 15 (9.38%) PySpark
5 13 (8.13%) REST
6 11 (6.88%) OAuth
7 9 (5.63%) CSS
7 9 (5.63%) GraphQL
7 9 (5.63%) HTML
8 8 (5.00%) Jest
9 7 (4.38%) .NET
9 7 (4.38%) AngularJS
9 7 (4.38%) RESTful
10 6 (3.75%) AWS SAM
10 6 (3.75%) Kafka
10 6 (3.75%) RabbitMQ
11 5 (3.13%) Spring
12 4 (2.50%) Elastic Stack
12 4 (2.50%) Next.js
12 4 (2.50%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 13 (8.13%) Legacy Systems
2 10 (6.25%) Cloud Native
3 6 (3.75%) Public Cloud
4 5 (3.13%) Replication
5 4 (2.50%) Data Structures
5 4 (2.50%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.88%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.88%) IoT
6 3 (1.88%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.88%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.25%) Data Fabric
7 2 (1.25%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 2 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.25%) Hackathon
7 2 (1.25%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (1.25%) Life Science
7 2 (1.25%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.25%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.25%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.25%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 25 (15.63%) Linux
2 11 (6.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (3.75%) Ubuntu
3 6 (3.75%) Unix
4 5 (3.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (43.75%) CI/CD
2 61 (38.13%) Agile
3 55 (34.38%) DevOps
4 53 (33.13%) Infrastructure as Code
5 30 (18.75%) ETL
6 23 (14.38%) Microservices
6 23 (14.38%) Test Automation
7 22 (13.75%) Mentoring
8 20 (12.50%) Full Stack Development
9 18 (11.25%) Software Engineering
10 17 (10.63%) Analytics
10 17 (10.63%) Data Modelling
10 17 (10.63%) Data Pipeline
10 17 (10.63%) Kanban
11 16 (10.00%) Scrum
12 15 (9.38%) Containerisation
12 15 (9.38%) Data Management
13 14 (8.75%) Coaching
13 14 (8.75%) Data Engineering
13 14 (8.75%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 81 (50.63%) Python
2 47 (29.38%) TypeScript
3 39 (24.38%) JavaScript
4 32 (20.00%) SQL
5 28 (17.50%) Java
6 19 (11.88%) Bash
7 14 (8.75%) Go
8 7 (4.38%) Scala
9 6 (3.75%) Groovy
10 5 (3.13%) C#
10 5 (3.13%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.25%) C++
11 2 (1.25%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.25%) R
11 2 (1.25%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.63%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.63%) Perl
12 1 (0.63%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.63%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 23 (14.38%) SC Cleared
1 23 (14.38%) Security Cleared
2 10 (6.25%) AWS Certification
3 5 (3.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 5 (3.13%) Degree
4 3 (1.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 3 (1.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.63%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (8.75%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.25%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.25%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (1.25%) GDPR
2 2 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.25%) QA
2 2 (1.25%) SLA
System Software
1 40 (25.00%) Docker
2 4 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 46 (28.75%) Terraform
2 42 (26.25%) Kubernetes
3 24 (15.00%) Grafana
4 22 (13.75%) Ansible
5 8 (5.00%) Kibana
6 5 (3.13%) Progress Chef
7 4 (2.50%) Puppet
8 2 (1.25%) Consul
8 2 (1.25%) Packer
8 2 (1.25%) Salt
9 1 (0.63%) logstash
9 1 (0.63%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (6.88%) Oracle
2 7 (4.38%) Salesforce
3 6 (3.75%) Ab Initio
4 5 (3.13%) Microsoft
4 5 (3.13%) VMware
5 4 (2.50%) Red Hat
6 3 (1.88%) MuleSoft
6 3 (1.88%) Palo Alto
6 3 (1.88%) Splunk
7 2 (1.25%) Commvault
7 2 (1.25%) Confluent
7 2 (1.25%) Databricks
7 2 (1.25%) Google
7 2 (1.25%) IBM
7 2 (1.25%) Informatica
7 2 (1.25%) Qualys
7 2 (1.25%) SaltStack
7 2 (1.25%) SAP
7 2 (1.25%) StreamSets
8 1 (0.63%) NEC