AWS Lambda Contracts with Work from Home Options

AWS Lambda
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring AWS Lambda skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited AWS Lambda over the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 199 175 149
Rank change year-on-year -24 -26 -52
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 148 333 803
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.00% 1.39% 1.83%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.74% 3.54% 4.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 272 580
10th Percentile £415 £414 £431
25th Percentile £450 £459 £482
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.31% -5.00% +4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £700
90th Percentile £628 £700 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
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% +172.73%
75th Percentile - - £77.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £35.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year - -53.33% +172.73%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

AWS Lambda falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,402 9,416 18,029
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.61% 39.44% 41.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,898 7,013 13,524
10th Percentile £350 £363 £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 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 131 149
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.25 £15.03
25th Percentile £16.90 £21.28 £20.75
Median hourly rate £26.00 £50.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -48.00% +25.00% +41.02%
75th Percentile £50.19 £70.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £72.19 £75.00 £75.17
UK median hourly rate £21.50 £36.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -40.28% +63.64% +2.33%

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 13 June 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 (6.08%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (4.05%) Apache
3 4 (2.70%) Confluence
4 2 (1.35%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.35%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (0.68%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.68%) GeoServer
Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (3.38%) Payment Gateway
1 5 (3.38%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.68%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.68%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 146 (98.65%) AWS
2 143 (96.62%) Serverless
3 93 (62.84%) Amazon S3
4 57 (38.51%) AWS CloudFormation
5 49 (33.11%) Amazon EC2
6 41 (27.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 27 (18.24%) Amazon ECS
8 20 (13.51%) AWS Step Functions
9 19 (12.84%) Azure
9 19 (12.84%) OpenShift
10 16 (10.81%) Amazon SQS
11 14 (9.46%) AWS Fargate
12 13 (8.78%) Amazon EKS
12 13 (8.78%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 13 (8.78%) Route 53
13 12 (8.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 11 (7.43%) Amazon EMR
14 11 (7.43%) AWS CloudTrail
15 10 (6.76%) Amazon Kinesis
15 10 (6.76%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.41%) Firewall
2 3 (2.03%) DHCP
2 3 (2.03%) DNS
2 3 (2.03%) LAN
2 3 (2.03%) Network Security
2 3 (2.03%) OpenLDAP
2 3 (2.03%) WLAN
3 1 (0.68%) FTP
3 1 (0.68%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (27.03%) Amazon RDS
2 37 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
3 25 (16.89%) DynamoDB
4 24 (16.22%) Amazon Redshift
5 22 (14.86%) Amazon Aurora
6 20 (13.51%) Amazon Athena
7 18 (12.16%) MongoDB
8 15 (10.14%) Data Warehouse
9 12 (8.11%) Elasticsearch
10 7 (4.73%) Informix
11 6 (4.05%) Amazon QuickSight
11 6 (4.05%) InfluxDB
11 6 (4.05%) NoSQL
12 5 (3.38%) RDBMS
12 5 (3.38%) Relational Database
13 4 (2.70%) Big Data
13 4 (2.70%) Hadoop
14 3 (2.03%) Apache Hive
14 3 (2.03%) Data Lake
14 3 (2.03%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 23 (15.54%) Jenkins
2 20 (13.51%) Git
3 18 (12.16%) GitLab
4 8 (5.41%) JIRA
5 5 (3.38%) Artifactory
5 5 (3.38%) CircleCI
6 3 (2.03%) Selenium
7 2 (1.35%) Cucumber
7 2 (1.35%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.35%) git-flow
7 2 (1.35%) Maven
7 2 (1.35%) Snyk
7 2 (1.35%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (1.35%) webpack
8 1 (0.68%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.68%) Gradle
8 1 (0.68%) JUnit
8 1 (0.68%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.68%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.68%) TeamCity
General
1 28 (18.92%) Public Sector
2 21 (14.19%) Social Skills
3 7 (4.73%) Finance
4 6 (4.05%) Retail
5 4 (2.70%) Marketing
6 3 (2.03%) Banking
7 2 (1.35%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (0.68%) Advertising
8 1 (0.68%) Dutch Language
8 1 (0.68%) Front Office
8 1 (0.68%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 46 (31.08%) Developer
2 35 (23.65%) AWS Engineer
3 25 (16.89%) DevOps Engineer
3 25 (16.89%) Senior
4 22 (14.86%) AWS DevOps
4 22 (14.86%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 15 (10.14%) Lead
6 13 (8.78%) Data Engineer
7 12 (8.11%) Full Stack Developer
8 11 (7.43%) Architect
8 11 (7.43%) Software Engineer
9 9 (6.08%) Platform Engineer
10 8 (5.41%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 7 (4.73%) Cloud Engineer
11 7 (4.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (4.73%) Java Developer
12 6 (4.05%) AWS Architect
12 6 (4.05%) Senior Developer
12 6 (4.05%) Senior Software Engineer
12 6 (4.05%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (23.65%) AWS CDK
2 29 (19.59%) React
3 27 (18.24%) Node.js
4 13 (8.78%) REST
5 10 (6.76%) CSS
5 10 (6.76%) HTML
5 10 (6.76%) OAuth
5 10 (6.76%) PySpark
5 10 (6.76%) RESTful
6 8 (5.41%) GraphQL
7 7 (4.73%) .NET
7 7 (4.73%) Spring
8 6 (4.05%) AWS SAM
8 6 (4.05%) RabbitMQ
9 5 (3.38%) OAuth2
9 5 (3.38%) Spring Boot
10 4 (2.70%) Kafka
10 4 (2.70%) Next.js
10 4 (2.70%) SpaCy
11 3 (2.03%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 14 (9.46%) Legacy Systems
2 10 (6.76%) Cloud Native
3 7 (4.73%) Replication
4 6 (4.05%) Public Cloud
5 5 (3.38%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (2.70%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 3 (2.03%) Data Centre
7 3 (2.03%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.03%) Private Cloud
8 2 (1.35%) Data Fabric
8 2 (1.35%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.35%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.35%) Hackathon
8 2 (1.35%) IoT
8 2 (1.35%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (1.35%) Life Science
8 2 (1.35%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.35%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.35%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.35%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 25 (16.89%) Linux
2 12 (8.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (4.05%) Ubuntu
4 5 (3.38%) Unix
5 4 (2.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (39.19%) CI/CD
2 56 (37.84%) Agile
3 55 (37.16%) Infrastructure as Code
4 52 (35.14%) DevOps
5 27 (18.24%) ETL
6 23 (15.54%) Microservices
6 23 (15.54%) Test Automation
7 22 (14.86%) Full Stack Development
8 20 (13.51%) Kanban
9 19 (12.84%) Software Engineering
10 18 (12.16%) Mentoring
10 18 (12.16%) Scrum
11 16 (10.81%) Analytics
11 16 (10.81%) Containerisation
12 15 (10.14%) High Availability
13 14 (9.46%) Data Modelling
13 14 (9.46%) Data Pipeline
13 14 (9.46%) Roadmaps
14 13 (8.78%) Code Quality
14 13 (8.78%) Community of Practice
Programming Languages
1 69 (46.62%) Python
2 49 (33.11%) TypeScript
3 38 (25.68%) JavaScript
4 35 (23.65%) SQL
5 21 (14.19%) Java
6 17 (11.49%) Bash
7 8 (5.41%) Go
8 7 (4.73%) Scala
9 6 (4.05%) Groovy
10 5 (3.38%) C#
10 5 (3.38%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.35%) C++
11 2 (1.35%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.35%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.68%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.68%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.68%) Ruby
12 1 (0.68%) Rust
Qualifications
1 21 (14.19%) SC Cleared
1 21 (14.19%) Security Cleared
2 11 (7.43%) AWS Certification
3 6 (4.05%) Degree
4 4 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.03%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 3 (2.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (1.35%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.68%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (10.14%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.35%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (1.35%) GDPR
2 2 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.35%) QA
2 2 (1.35%) SLA
3 1 (0.68%) Data Quality
System Software
1 41 (27.70%) Docker
2 4 (2.70%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.68%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 43 (29.05%) Kubernetes
2 42 (28.38%) Terraform
3 28 (18.92%) Grafana
4 21 (14.19%) Ansible
5 8 (5.41%) Kibana
6 3 (2.03%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.35%) Puppet
7 2 (1.35%) Salt
8 1 (0.68%) Argo
8 1 (0.68%) logstash
8 1 (0.68%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 13 (8.78%) Oracle
2 8 (5.41%) Salesforce
3 6 (4.05%) Ab Initio
4 5 (3.38%) Red Hat
4 5 (3.38%) VMware
5 4 (2.70%) Microsoft
6 3 (2.03%) Commvault
6 3 (2.03%) MuleSoft
6 3 (2.03%) Palo Alto
7 2 (1.35%) Confluent
7 2 (1.35%) Databricks
7 2 (1.35%) Google
7 2 (1.35%) IBM
7 2 (1.35%) Informatica
7 2 (1.35%) Qualys
7 2 (1.35%) SaltStack
7 2 (1.35%) SAP
7 2 (1.35%) Splunk
7 2 (1.35%) StreamSets
8 1 (0.68%) Sitecore