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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 232 197 185
Rank change year-on-year -35 -12 -49
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 433 750 1,343
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.01% 1.34% 1.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.10% 3.67% 3.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 328 586 961
10th Percentile £400 £425 £425
25th Percentile £425 £463 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £688
90th Percentile £650 £713 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £498 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -0.50% -4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 5
10th Percentile - - £60.95
25th Percentile - - £65.00
Median hourly rate - £35.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year - -53.33% +172.73%
75th Percentile - - £77.50
90th Percentile - - £79.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £75.00
% change year-on-year - - +199.22%

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 13,969 20,420 33,677
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.44% 36.43% 38.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,924 14,777 24,579
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 £634 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £746 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +9.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 345 332 392
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £16.06 £19.00 £15.47
Median hourly rate £21.46 £38.78 £22.40
Median % change year-on-year -44.66% +73.10% +2.47%
75th Percentile £42.50 £68.94 £54.00
90th Percentile £69.80 £78.00 £69.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.80 £27.83 £19.25
% change year-on-year -36.04% +44.57% -3.75%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 -24 331 £510 -8.31% 163
London +7 244 £500 -13.04% 84
Work from Home -19 151 £500 -3.85% 84
UK excluding London -55 137 £498 -0.50% 90
Scotland -24 58 £475 -0.42% 9
North of England +18 41 £450 -16.28% 39
North West +23 31 £475 -11.63% 21
South East +1 13 £625 +25.00% 7
South West -1 11 £550 -8.33% 10
Midlands +17 6 £500 - 19
Yorkshire +9 6 £275 -49.43% 14
Northern Ireland - 6 £600 - 4
North East +14 4 - - 4
East Midlands +8 4 £450 -10.00% 5
East of England +1 4 £625 +11.11% 3
West Midlands +12 2 £550 +29.41% 14

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 27 (6.24%) Apache Airflow
2 21 (4.85%) Apache
3 18 (4.16%) Apache Spark
4 8 (1.85%) Anypoint
5 7 (1.62%) BizTalk Server
6 6 (1.39%) Confluence
7 3 (0.69%) GeoServer
7 3 (0.69%) nginx
8 2 (0.46%) Drupal
8 2 (0.46%) SAS
9 1 (0.23%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.23%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (0.69%) MS Visio
1 3 (0.69%) Trello
2 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (1.62%) NEC Housing
2 5 (1.15%) Payment Gateway
2 5 (1.15%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (0.69%) Shopify
4 2 (0.46%) Endur
5 1 (0.23%) Aareon QL
5 1 (0.23%) MIS ActiveH
5 1 (0.23%) OPENHousing
Cloud Services
1 428 (98.85%) AWS
2 426 (98.38%) Serverless
3 220 (50.81%) Amazon S3
4 137 (31.64%) Amazon EC2
5 106 (24.48%) AWS CloudFormation
6 85 (19.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 63 (14.55%) AWS Step Functions
8 54 (12.47%) Azure
9 47 (10.85%) Amazon ECS
10 45 (10.39%) OpenShift
10 45 (10.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 43 (9.93%) Amazon SQS
12 29 (6.70%) Amazon EMR
13 27 (6.24%) Snowflake
14 26 (6.00%) Amazon EKS
15 24 (5.54%) Amazon MSK
15 24 (5.54%) GitHub
16 21 (4.85%) Amazon Kinesis
17 20 (4.62%) Amazon SageMaker
18 19 (4.39%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.77%) Firewall
2 10 (2.31%) Network Security
3 9 (2.08%) AMQP
4 7 (1.62%) FTP
5 6 (1.39%) DHCP
5 6 (1.39%) DNS
6 4 (0.92%) OpenLDAP
7 3 (0.69%) HTTP
7 3 (0.69%) LAN
7 3 (0.69%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.69%) WLAN
8 2 (0.46%) SSL
9 1 (0.23%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (23.33%) Amazon RDS
2 79 (18.24%) Amazon Redshift
3 68 (15.70%) DynamoDB
3 68 (15.70%) PostgreSQL
4 43 (9.93%) Amazon Athena
5 42 (9.70%) Amazon Aurora
6 38 (8.78%) Data Warehouse
7 35 (8.08%) MongoDB
8 34 (7.85%) NoSQL
9 23 (5.31%) Big Data
9 23 (5.31%) Relational Database
10 22 (5.08%) Parquet
11 16 (3.70%) Data Lake
12 13 (3.00%) InfluxDB
12 13 (3.00%) MySQL
13 12 (2.77%) Elasticsearch
14 9 (2.08%) Amazon QuickSight
14 9 (2.08%) Tableau
15 8 (1.85%) Azure SQL Database
15 8 (1.85%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 72 (16.63%) Git
2 55 (12.70%) Jenkins
3 43 (9.93%) GitLab
4 25 (5.77%) JIRA
5 12 (2.77%) Cypress.io
6 10 (2.31%) Bitbucket
7 7 (1.62%) Maven
7 7 (1.62%) TeamCity
8 6 (1.39%) Artifactory
8 6 (1.39%) CircleCI
8 6 (1.39%) Cucumber
9 5 (1.15%) Selenium
10 4 (0.92%) JUnit
10 4 (0.92%) Postman
10 4 (0.92%) Sourcetree
11 3 (0.69%) kappa
11 3 (0.69%) Mocha
11 3 (0.69%) Mockito
11 3 (0.69%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.69%) webpack
General
1 65 (15.01%) Public Sector
2 59 (13.63%) Social Skills
3 37 (8.55%) Finance
4 18 (4.16%) Banking
5 14 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (3.00%) Retail
7 7 (1.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (1.62%) Marketing
7 7 (1.62%) Pharmaceutical
8 5 (1.15%) Manufacturing
8 5 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (0.69%) Front Office
9 3 (0.69%) Investment Banking
9 3 (0.69%) Publishing
10 2 (0.46%) Billing
10 2 (0.46%) Health Technology
10 2 (0.46%) Legal
11 1 (0.23%) Advertising
11 1 (0.23%) Law
Job Titles
1 135 (31.18%) Developer
2 77 (17.78%) Data Engineer
3 69 (15.94%) AWS Engineer
4 61 (14.09%) DevOps Engineer
5 57 (13.16%) Senior
6 51 (11.78%) Lead
7 49 (11.32%) AWS DevOps
8 38 (8.78%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 33 (7.62%) Architect
9 33 (7.62%) Java Developer
10 23 (5.31%) Full Stack Developer
11 22 (5.08%) AWS Architect
11 22 (5.08%) AWS Developer
11 22 (5.08%) Cloud Engineer
11 22 (5.08%) Software Engineer
12 17 (3.93%) Senior Developer
13 16 (3.70%) Platform Engineer
14 15 (3.46%) AWS Data Engineer
14 15 (3.46%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 15 (3.46%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (16.40%) Node.js
2 70 (16.17%) React
3 57 (13.16%) AWS CDK
4 41 (9.47%) Kafka
5 35 (8.08%) REST
6 27 (6.24%) .NET
7 25 (5.77%) JSON
7 25 (5.77%) Spring
8 24 (5.54%) GraphQL
8 24 (5.54%) OAuth
8 24 (5.54%) RESTful
9 22 (5.08%) RabbitMQ
10 19 (4.39%) Apache Avro
10 19 (4.39%) PySpark
11 17 (3.93%) .NET Core
11 17 (3.93%) CSS
11 17 (3.93%) HTML
11 17 (3.93%) OAuth2
11 17 (3.93%) Spring Boot
12 12 (2.77%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 26 (6.00%) Legacy Systems
2 24 (5.54%) Cloud Native
3 17 (3.93%) Public Cloud
4 16 (3.70%) Greenfield Project
5 9 (2.08%) Linux Command Line
5 9 (2.08%) Product Ownership
6 7 (1.62%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (1.62%) Replication
7 6 (1.39%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (1.39%) Market Risk
7 6 (1.39%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.15%) Algorithms
8 5 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.15%) Data Structures
9 4 (0.92%) Credit Risk
9 4 (0.92%) Data Centre
9 4 (0.92%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 4 (0.92%) Life Science
10 3 (0.69%) Legacy Applications
10 3 (0.69%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 42 (9.70%) Linux
2 14 (3.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 10 (2.31%) Windows
4 9 (2.08%) Unix
5 7 (1.62%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.23%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (0.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 173 (39.95%) CI/CD
2 148 (34.18%) DevOps
3 133 (30.72%) Agile
4 112 (25.87%) Infrastructure as Code
5 86 (19.86%) Microservices
6 75 (17.32%) ETL
7 68 (15.70%) Software Engineering
8 64 (14.78%) Data Pipeline
9 55 (12.70%) Containerisation
10 52 (12.01%) Data Modelling
11 48 (11.09%) Scrum
12 46 (10.62%) Full Stack Development
12 46 (10.62%) Test Automation
13 36 (8.31%) Kanban
14 34 (7.85%) Problem-Solving
15 32 (7.39%) Migration
15 32 (7.39%) TDD
15 32 (7.39%) Technical Leadership
16 31 (7.16%) Machine Learning
16 31 (7.16%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 242 (55.89%) Python
2 141 (32.56%) SQL
3 97 (22.40%) TypeScript
4 92 (21.25%) Java
5 87 (20.09%) JavaScript
6 41 (9.47%) Bash
7 26 (6.00%) Go
8 18 (4.16%) Shell Script
9 12 (2.77%) Scala
10 11 (2.54%) C#
11 7 (1.62%) C++
11 7 (1.62%) Groovy
11 7 (1.62%) PL/SQL
11 7 (1.62%) T-SQL
12 5 (1.15%) C
12 5 (1.15%) Ruby
13 4 (0.92%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.69%) Perl
14 3 (0.69%) PowerShell
15 2 (0.46%) Lua
Qualifications
1 100 (23.09%) Security Cleared
2 85 (19.63%) SC Cleared
3 35 (8.08%) AWS Certification
4 23 (5.31%) Degree
5 19 (4.39%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (2.77%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 12 (2.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 11 (2.54%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (1.15%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.69%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (0.46%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 1 (0.23%) CTC Cleared
12 1 (0.23%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (6.24%) Accessibility
2 18 (4.16%) QA
3 13 (3.00%) Data Quality
4 8 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.92%) Disclosure Scotland
5 4 (0.92%) GDPR
6 3 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.69%) ISO 22301
7 2 (0.46%) SLA
8 1 (0.23%) NCSC
System Software
1 115 (26.56%) Docker
2 5 (1.15%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.92%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.23%) Ceph
5 1 (0.23%) NFS
Systems Management
1 137 (31.64%) Terraform
2 125 (28.87%) Kubernetes
3 54 (12.47%) Grafana
4 50 (11.55%) Ansible
5 13 (3.00%) Prometheus
6 11 (2.54%) Kibana
6 11 (2.54%) Progress Chef
7 9 (2.08%) Docker Swarm
8 4 (0.92%) Podman
9 3 (0.69%) HP Fortify
9 3 (0.69%) Puppet
10 2 (0.46%) Salt
11 1 (0.23%) Argo
11 1 (0.23%) Consul
11 1 (0.23%) Hadoop YARN
11 1 (0.23%) logstash
11 1 (0.23%) Mesos
11 1 (0.23%) Packer
Vendors
1 34 (7.85%) Oracle
2 19 (4.39%) Microsoft
2 19 (4.39%) Salesforce
3 15 (3.46%) MuleSoft
3 15 (3.46%) SAP
4 10 (2.31%) Ab Initio
4 10 (2.31%) Google
5 9 (2.08%) Informatica
6 8 (1.85%) Talend
7 7 (1.62%) NEC
7 7 (1.62%) Red Hat
7 7 (1.62%) WSO2
8 6 (1.39%) Splunk
8 6 (1.39%) VMware
9 5 (1.15%) Sage
10 4 (0.92%) Commvault
10 4 (0.92%) Databricks
10 4 (0.92%) Palo Alto
11 3 (0.69%) Confluent
11 3 (0.69%) Genesys