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

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 188 171 150
Rank change year-on-year -17 -21 -49
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 159 354 794
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.08% 1.43% 1.79%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.95% 3.61% 4.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 277 566
10th Percentile £415 £430 £425
25th Percentile £456 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% +3.81%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £688
90th Percentile £650 £700 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £563
% change year-on-year -4.76% -6.67% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - £66.50
25th Percentile - - £68.75
Median hourly rate - £35.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year - -53.33% +122.22%
75th Percentile - - £77.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £35.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year - -53.33% +122.22%

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 5,382 9,801 18,399
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.55% 39.55% 41.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,888 7,278 13,752
10th Percentile £350 £372 £375
25th Percentile £430 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £738 £744 £734
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 130 168
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.25 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.00 £21.30 £20.75
Median hourly rate £26.00 £54.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -51.85% +35.00% +2.07%
75th Percentile £50.94 £70.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £72.06 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -38.94% +59.09% -2.22%

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 20 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 (5.66%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (3.77%) Apache
3 4 (2.52%) Confluence
4 2 (1.26%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.26%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (0.63%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.63%) GeoServer
Applications
1 1 (0.63%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (3.14%) Payment Gateway
1 5 (3.14%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.63%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.63%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 156 (98.11%) AWS
2 154 (96.86%) Serverless
3 93 (58.49%) Amazon S3
4 52 (32.70%) AWS CloudFormation
5 51 (32.08%) Amazon EC2
6 46 (28.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 30 (18.87%) Amazon ECS
8 23 (14.47%) AWS Step Functions
9 21 (13.21%) Azure
10 17 (10.69%) Amazon SQS
10 17 (10.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 16 (10.06%) Amazon EKS
11 16 (10.06%) OpenShift
12 15 (9.43%) Route 53
13 13 (8.18%) Amazon EMR
13 13 (8.18%) AWS Fargate
14 12 (7.55%) CloudFront
15 11 (6.92%) Amazon Kinesis
15 11 (6.92%) dbt
16 10 (6.29%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.66%) Firewall
2 3 (1.89%) DHCP
2 3 (1.89%) DNS
2 3 (1.89%) LAN
2 3 (1.89%) Network Security
2 3 (1.89%) OpenLDAP
2 3 (1.89%) WLAN
3 1 (0.63%) FTP
3 1 (0.63%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (24.53%) Amazon RDS
2 34 (21.38%) PostgreSQL
3 28 (17.61%) DynamoDB
4 25 (15.72%) Amazon Redshift
5 20 (12.58%) Amazon Aurora
6 19 (11.95%) Amazon Athena
7 17 (10.69%) MongoDB
8 16 (10.06%) Data Warehouse
9 10 (6.29%) Elasticsearch
10 6 (3.77%) Big Data
10 6 (3.77%) MySQL
11 5 (3.14%) Amazon QuickSight
11 5 (3.14%) InfluxDB
11 5 (3.14%) Informix
11 5 (3.14%) NoSQL
11 5 (3.14%) RDBMS
11 5 (3.14%) Relational Database
12 4 (2.52%) Data Lake
12 4 (2.52%) Hadoop
12 4 (2.52%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 23 (14.47%) Jenkins
2 22 (13.84%) Git
3 17 (10.69%) GitLab
4 9 (5.66%) JIRA
5 5 (3.14%) Artifactory
5 5 (3.14%) CircleCI
5 5 (3.14%) Maven
6 4 (2.52%) Cypress.io
6 4 (2.52%) Selenium
7 3 (1.89%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.89%) Protractor
7 3 (1.89%) webpack
8 2 (1.26%) Bitbucket
8 2 (1.26%) git-flow
8 2 (1.26%) Snyk
8 2 (1.26%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (0.63%) Gradle
9 1 (0.63%) JUnit
9 1 (0.63%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.63%) TeamCity
General
1 27 (16.98%) Public Sector
2 22 (13.84%) Social Skills
3 8 (5.03%) Finance
4 5 (3.14%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (2.52%) Banking
5 4 (2.52%) Marketing
5 4 (2.52%) Retail
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 (30.19%) Developer
2 41 (25.79%) AWS Engineer
3 30 (18.87%) Senior
4 27 (16.98%) DevOps Engineer
5 25 (15.72%) AWS DevOps
6 24 (15.09%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 19 (11.95%) Lead
8 15 (9.43%) Data Engineer
9 12 (7.55%) Architect
10 11 (6.92%) Software Engineer
11 10 (6.29%) Full Stack Developer
12 8 (5.03%) AWS Architect
12 8 (5.03%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 8 (5.03%) Platform Engineer
13 7 (4.40%) AWS Developer
13 7 (4.40%) Cloud Engineer
13 7 (4.40%) Java Developer
14 6 (3.77%) AWS Data Engineer
14 6 (3.77%) Consultant
14 6 (3.77%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (21.38%) AWS CDK
2 31 (19.50%) Node.js
3 28 (17.61%) React
4 13 (8.18%) REST
5 12 (7.55%) PySpark
6 11 (6.92%) OAuth
7 9 (5.66%) CSS
7 9 (5.66%) GraphQL
7 9 (5.66%) HTML
8 8 (5.03%) RESTful
9 7 (4.40%) .NET
10 6 (3.77%) AWS SAM
10 6 (3.77%) RabbitMQ
11 5 (3.14%) Jest
11 5 (3.14%) Kafka
11 5 (3.14%) Spring
12 4 (2.52%) AngularJS
12 4 (2.52%) Next.js
12 4 (2.52%) OAuth2
12 4 (2.52%) SpaCy
Miscellaneous
1 14 (8.81%) Legacy Systems
2 10 (6.29%) Cloud Native
3 6 (3.77%) Public Cloud
4 5 (3.14%) Replication
5 4 (2.52%) Data Structures
5 4 (2.52%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.89%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.89%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 3 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.89%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.26%) Data Fabric
7 2 (1.26%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.26%) Hackathon
7 2 (1.26%) IoT
7 2 (1.26%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (1.26%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.26%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.26%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.26%) Video on Demand
8 1 (0.63%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 27 (16.98%) Linux
2 11 (6.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (3.77%) Ubuntu
3 6 (3.77%) Unix
4 5 (3.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (42.14%) CI/CD
2 58 (36.48%) Agile
3 56 (35.22%) Infrastructure as Code
4 54 (33.96%) DevOps
5 31 (19.50%) ETL
6 23 (14.47%) Microservices
7 22 (13.84%) Test Automation
8 21 (13.21%) Full Stack Development
8 21 (13.21%) Mentoring
9 19 (11.95%) Kanban
9 19 (11.95%) Software Engineering
10 18 (11.32%) Scrum
11 16 (10.06%) Analytics
11 16 (10.06%) Containerisation
11 16 (10.06%) Data Modelling
11 16 (10.06%) Data Pipeline
11 16 (10.06%) Machine Learning
12 15 (9.43%) Coaching
12 15 (9.43%) Data Management
13 14 (8.81%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 80 (50.31%) Python
2 49 (30.82%) TypeScript
3 40 (25.16%) JavaScript
4 32 (20.13%) SQL
5 24 (15.09%) Java
6 19 (11.95%) Bash
7 13 (8.18%) Go
8 7 (4.40%) Scala
8 7 (4.40%) Shell Script
9 6 (3.77%) Groovy
10 5 (3.14%) C#
11 2 (1.26%) C++
11 2 (1.26%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.26%) R
11 2 (1.26%) 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 22 (13.84%) SC Cleared
1 22 (13.84%) Security Cleared
2 11 (6.92%) AWS Certification
3 7 (4.40%) Degree
4 5 (3.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (1.89%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (1.26%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.26%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.63%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (9.43%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.26%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (1.26%) GDPR
2 2 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.26%) QA
2 2 (1.26%) SLA
3 1 (0.63%) Data Quality
System Software
1 41 (25.79%) Docker
2 4 (2.52%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 46 (28.93%) Terraform
2 44 (27.67%) Kubernetes
3 26 (16.35%) Grafana
4 21 (13.21%) Ansible
5 8 (5.03%) Kibana
6 5 (3.14%) Progress Chef
7 4 (2.52%) Puppet
8 2 (1.26%) Consul
8 2 (1.26%) Packer
8 2 (1.26%) Salt
9 1 (0.63%) Argo
9 1 (0.63%) logstash
9 1 (0.63%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (6.92%) Oracle
2 8 (5.03%) Salesforce
3 6 (3.77%) Ab Initio
4 5 (3.14%) Microsoft
4 5 (3.14%) VMware
5 4 (2.52%) Red Hat
6 3 (1.89%) MuleSoft
6 3 (1.89%) Palo Alto
6 3 (1.89%) Splunk
7 2 (1.26%) Commvault
7 2 (1.26%) Confluent
7 2 (1.26%) Databricks
7 2 (1.26%) Google
7 2 (1.26%) IBM
7 2 (1.26%) Informatica
7 2 (1.26%) Qualys
7 2 (1.26%) SaltStack
7 2 (1.26%) SAP
7 2 (1.26%) StreamSets
8 1 (0.63%) NEC