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

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 218 191 201
Rank change year-on-year -27 +10 -55
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 462 827 1,285
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.06% 1.39% 1.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.28% 3.75% 3.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 355 633 935
10th Percentile £400 £425 £425
25th Percentile £431 £463 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -8.70% +9.52%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £688
90th Percentile £675 £713 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +15.38%
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 14,068 22,025 34,227
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.30% 36.91% 38.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,991 15,919 24,902
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £633 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £743 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 346 350 427
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.02 £18.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +62.79% -4.99%
75th Percentile £35.00 £66.00 £49.46
90th Percentile £61.60 £78.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.72 £24.62 £18.75
% change year-on-year -28.03% +31.31% -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 30 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 30 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 -13 354 £513 -10.87% 143
London -4 257 £500 -16.67% 70
Work from Home -19 167 £506 -3.62% 92
UK excluding London -21 149 £500 - 82
Scotland -17 64 £475 -0.84% 6
North of England +32 43 £493 -10.45% 30
North West +26 34 £510 -5.12% 13
South West +8 15 £550 -8.33% 14
South East +7 12 £600 +4.35% 13
East of England +12 7 £650 - 3
Yorkshire +18 6 £275 -53.19% 11
Northern Ireland - 6 £600 - 5
Midlands +27 5 £450 -10.00% 13
East Midlands +16 4 £450 -10.00% 4
North East +21 3 - - 6
West Midlands +24 1 - - 9

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 (5.41%) Apache Airflow
1 25 (5.41%) Apache Spark
2 22 (4.76%) Apache
3 9 (1.95%) BizTalk Server
4 7 (1.52%) Anypoint
5 6 (1.30%) Confluence
6 3 (0.65%) GeoServer
7 2 (0.43%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.43%) SAS
8 1 (0.22%) CMS
8 1 (0.22%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (0.65%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.22%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (1.52%) 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
1 458 (99.13%) AWS
2 454 (98.27%) Serverless
3 235 (50.87%) Amazon S3
4 151 (32.68%) Amazon EC2
5 114 (24.68%) AWS CloudFormation
6 92 (19.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 70 (15.15%) AWS Step Functions
8 56 (12.12%) Amazon ECS
8 56 (12.12%) Azure
9 51 (11.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 45 (9.74%) OpenShift
11 42 (9.09%) Amazon SQS
12 33 (7.14%) Amazon Kinesis
13 31 (6.71%) Amazon EKS
14 29 (6.28%) Amazon EMR
15 28 (6.06%) GitHub
16 26 (5.63%) AWS CodePipeline
17 25 (5.41%) Amazon SageMaker
18 24 (5.19%) CloudFront
19 22 (4.76%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.81%) Firewall
2 10 (2.16%) Network Security
3 7 (1.52%) FTP
4 6 (1.30%) AMQP
4 6 (1.30%) DHCP
4 6 (1.30%) DNS
5 4 (0.87%) OpenLDAP
6 3 (0.65%) HTTP
6 3 (0.65%) LAN
6 3 (0.65%) SSL
6 3 (0.65%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.65%) WLAN
7 1 (0.22%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.22%) RTSP
7 1 (0.22%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (22.73%) Amazon RDS
2 79 (17.10%) Amazon Redshift
3 71 (15.37%) DynamoDB
3 71 (15.37%) PostgreSQL
4 48 (10.39%) Amazon Aurora
5 40 (8.66%) Amazon Athena
6 36 (7.79%) Data Warehouse
7 34 (7.36%) MongoDB
7 34 (7.36%) NoSQL
8 32 (6.93%) Big Data
9 23 (4.98%) Relational Database
10 22 (4.76%) Data Lake
11 21 (4.55%) Parquet
12 16 (3.46%) MySQL
13 12 (2.60%) Elasticsearch
13 12 (2.60%) InfluxDB
14 11 (2.38%) RDBMS
15 10 (2.16%) Tableau
16 9 (1.95%) Amazon QuickSight
16 9 (1.95%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 68 (14.72%) Git
2 61 (13.20%) Jenkins
3 44 (9.52%) GitLab
4 30 (6.49%) JIRA
5 22 (4.76%) Cypress.io
6 18 (3.90%) Maven
7 9 (1.95%) Bitbucket
8 8 (1.73%) Cucumber
8 8 (1.73%) Protractor
9 7 (1.52%) Artifactory
10 6 (1.30%) TeamCity
11 5 (1.08%) Selenium
12 4 (0.87%) JUnit
12 4 (0.87%) Mockito
12 4 (0.87%) 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 81 (17.53%) Social Skills
2 70 (15.15%) Public Sector
3 43 (9.31%) Finance
4 24 (5.19%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (4.11%) Banking
6 17 (3.68%) Retail
7 7 (1.52%) Pharmaceutical
8 6 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (1.30%) Marketing
8 6 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.08%) Manufacturing
10 3 (0.65%) Automotive
10 3 (0.65%) Front Office
10 3 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (0.65%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.43%) Billing
11 2 (0.43%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.43%) Legal
11 2 (0.43%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 137 (29.65%) Developer
2 97 (21.00%) Data Engineer
3 87 (18.83%) AWS Engineer
4 64 (13.85%) DevOps Engineer
5 54 (11.69%) Senior
6 51 (11.04%) AWS DevOps
7 50 (10.82%) Lead
8 40 (8.66%) Architect
8 40 (8.66%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 32 (6.93%) Java Developer
10 28 (6.06%) AWS Developer
11 27 (5.84%) Cloud Engineer
12 26 (5.63%) AWS Architect
12 26 (5.63%) AWS Data Engineer
13 24 (5.19%) Full Stack Developer
14 17 (3.68%) Platform Engineer
14 17 (3.68%) Software Engineer
15 15 (3.25%) Python Developer
15 15 (3.25%) Senior Developer
15 15 (3.25%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (16.02%) Node.js
2 71 (15.37%) React
3 63 (13.64%) AWS CDK
4 44 (9.52%) Kafka
5 37 (8.01%) REST
6 27 (5.84%) .NET
7 26 (5.63%) JSON
8 25 (5.41%) Spring
9 24 (5.19%) OAuth
10 23 (4.98%) CSS
10 23 (4.98%) HTML
11 22 (4.76%) GraphQL
12 21 (4.55%) .NET Core
12 21 (4.55%) Spring Boot
13 19 (4.11%) Apache Avro
13 19 (4.11%) RESTful
14 18 (3.90%) PySpark
14 18 (3.90%) RabbitMQ
15 17 (3.68%) OAuth2
16 16 (3.46%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 27 (5.84%) Cloud Native
2 26 (5.63%) Legacy Systems
3 18 (3.90%) Public Cloud
4 13 (2.81%) Greenfield Project
5 8 (1.73%) Data Structures
5 8 (1.73%) Linux Command Line
6 7 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (1.52%) Product Ownership
6 7 (1.52%) Replication
7 6 (1.30%) Algorithms
7 6 (1.30%) Data Centre
7 6 (1.30%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (1.08%) Market Risk
8 5 (1.08%) Onboarding
9 4 (0.87%) Credit Risk
9 4 (0.87%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (0.87%) IoT
9 4 (0.87%) Life Science
10 3 (0.65%) Management Information System
10 3 (0.65%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 47 (10.17%) Linux
2 17 (3.68%) Windows
3 14 (3.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 12 (2.60%) Unix
5 7 (1.52%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.43%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.22%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 185 (40.04%) CI/CD
2 163 (35.28%) DevOps
3 148 (32.03%) Agile
4 118 (25.54%) Infrastructure as Code
5 86 (18.61%) Microservices
6 74 (16.02%) ETL
7 68 (14.72%) Data Pipeline
8 60 (12.99%) Data Modelling
9 58 (12.55%) Containerisation
10 56 (12.12%) Software Engineering
11 55 (11.90%) Test Automation
12 50 (10.82%) Scrum
13 43 (9.31%) Full Stack Development
14 40 (8.66%) Problem-Solving
15 38 (8.23%) Kanban
15 38 (8.23%) Mentoring
16 35 (7.58%) Technical Leadership
17 33 (7.14%) Analytics
18 30 (6.49%) Machine Learning
18 30 (6.49%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 261 (56.49%) Python
2 145 (31.39%) SQL
3 102 (22.08%) TypeScript
4 96 (20.78%) Java
5 88 (19.05%) JavaScript
6 40 (8.66%) Bash
7 33 (7.14%) Go
8 19 (4.11%) Shell Script
9 11 (2.38%) C#
10 9 (1.95%) C++
10 9 (1.95%) PL/SQL
10 9 (1.95%) T-SQL
11 7 (1.52%) Groovy
12 5 (1.08%) C
12 5 (1.08%) Ruby
12 5 (1.08%) Scala
13 4 (0.87%) PowerShell
13 4 (0.87%) R
14 3 (0.65%) Perl
15 2 (0.43%) PHP
Qualifications
1 105 (22.73%) Security Cleared
2 90 (19.48%) SC Cleared
3 41 (8.87%) AWS Certification
4 24 (5.19%) Degree
5 20 (4.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (3.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 14 (3.03%) 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 (6.71%) Accessibility
2 22 (4.76%) QA
3 12 (2.60%) Data Quality
4 6 (1.30%) Disclosure Scotland
4 6 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.08%) GDPR
6 3 (0.65%) ISO 22301
7 2 (0.43%) SLA
8 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.22%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.22%) NCSC
8 1 (0.22%) NIST
System Software
1 106 (22.94%) 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
1 146 (31.60%) Terraform
2 118 (25.54%) Kubernetes
3 53 (11.47%) Ansible
4 52 (11.26%) Grafana
5 13 (2.81%) Progress Chef
6 11 (2.38%) Kibana
7 10 (2.16%) Prometheus
8 8 (1.73%) Docker Swarm
9 6 (1.30%) Puppet
10 4 (0.87%) Consul
10 4 (0.87%) 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 34 (7.36%) Oracle
2 18 (3.90%) Microsoft
3 16 (3.46%) MuleSoft
4 15 (3.25%) SAP
5 13 (2.81%) Salesforce
6 11 (2.38%) Informatica
7 10 (2.16%) Talend
8 9 (1.95%) Google
9 7 (1.52%) NEC
9 7 (1.52%) Red Hat
9 7 (1.52%) Splunk
10 6 (1.30%) Sage
10 6 (1.30%) VMware
10 6 (1.30%) WSO2
11 4 (0.87%) Commvault
11 4 (0.87%) Databricks
11 4 (0.87%) Palo Alto
12 3 (0.65%) Adobe
12 3 (0.65%) Genesys
12 3 (0.65%) Sitecore