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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 202 178 147
Rank change year-on-year -24 -31 -50
Contract jobs citing AWS Lambda 151 340 800
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.03% 1.40% 1.81%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.81% 3.57% 4.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 272 575
10th Percentile £415 £425 £425
25th Percentile £450 £460 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £545
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -4.59% +3.81%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £700
90th Percentile £625 £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 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 5,369 9,537 18,208
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.66% 39.34% 41.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,890 7,113 13,635
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 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 84 134 154
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.24 £15.10
25th Percentile £17.43 £21.26 £20.75
Median hourly rate £26.00 £53.68 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -51.56% +26.29% +21.43%
75th Percentile £53.19 £70.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £75.59
UK median hourly rate £21.46 £37.75 £22.00
% change year-on-year -43.15% +71.59% +0.32%

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 2 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 (5.96%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (3.97%) Apache
3 4 (2.65%) Confluence
4 2 (1.32%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.32%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (0.66%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.66%) GeoServer
Applications
1 1 (0.66%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (3.31%) Payment Gateway
1 5 (3.31%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.66%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.66%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 148 (98.01%) AWS
2 146 (96.69%) Serverless
3 91 (60.26%) Amazon S3
4 54 (35.76%) AWS CloudFormation
5 48 (31.79%) Amazon EC2
6 41 (27.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 29 (19.21%) Amazon ECS
8 21 (13.91%) Azure
9 20 (13.25%) AWS Step Functions
10 18 (11.92%) Amazon SQS
11 17 (11.26%) OpenShift
12 14 (9.27%) AWS Fargate
13 13 (8.61%) Amazon EKS
13 13 (8.61%) Route 53
13 13 (8.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 12 (7.95%) Amazon EMR
15 11 (7.28%) AWS CloudTrail
16 10 (6.62%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 10 (6.62%) dbt
16 10 (6.62%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.96%) Firewall
2 3 (1.99%) DHCP
2 3 (1.99%) DNS
2 3 (1.99%) LAN
2 3 (1.99%) Network Security
2 3 (1.99%) OpenLDAP
2 3 (1.99%) WLAN
3 1 (0.66%) FTP
3 1 (0.66%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (26.49%) Amazon RDS
2 35 (23.18%) PostgreSQL
3 25 (16.56%) DynamoDB
4 24 (15.89%) Amazon Redshift
5 21 (13.91%) Amazon Aurora
6 20 (13.25%) Amazon Athena
7 17 (11.26%) MongoDB
8 15 (9.93%) Data Warehouse
9 10 (6.62%) Elasticsearch
10 6 (3.97%) Amazon QuickSight
11 5 (3.31%) InfluxDB
11 5 (3.31%) Informix
11 5 (3.31%) NoSQL
11 5 (3.31%) RDBMS
11 5 (3.31%) Relational Database
12 4 (2.65%) Big Data
12 4 (2.65%) Hadoop
12 4 (2.65%) Oracle Database
13 3 (1.99%) Apache Hive
13 3 (1.99%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 23 (15.23%) Jenkins
2 21 (13.91%) Git
3 19 (12.58%) GitLab
4 8 (5.30%) JIRA
5 5 (3.31%) Artifactory
5 5 (3.31%) CircleCI
6 4 (2.65%) Selenium
7 3 (1.99%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.99%) Cypress.io
7 3 (1.99%) Maven
7 3 (1.99%) webpack
8 2 (1.32%) Bitbucket
8 2 (1.32%) git-flow
8 2 (1.32%) Snyk
8 2 (1.32%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (0.66%) Gradle
9 1 (0.66%) JUnit
9 1 (0.66%) Protractor
9 1 (0.66%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.66%) TeamCity
General
1 28 (18.54%) Public Sector
2 18 (11.92%) Social Skills
3 6 (3.97%) Finance
4 4 (2.65%) Marketing
4 4 (2.65%) Retail
5 3 (1.99%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (1.99%) Banking
6 1 (0.66%) Advertising
6 1 (0.66%) Dutch Language
6 1 (0.66%) Front Office
6 1 (0.66%) Health Technology
6 1 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 47 (31.13%) Developer
2 37 (24.50%) AWS Engineer
3 27 (17.88%) Senior
4 26 (17.22%) DevOps Engineer
5 24 (15.89%) AWS DevOps
6 23 (15.23%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 19 (12.58%) Lead
8 13 (8.61%) Data Engineer
9 12 (7.95%) Full Stack Developer
10 11 (7.28%) Software Engineer
11 10 (6.62%) Architect
12 8 (5.30%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 8 (5.30%) Platform Engineer
13 7 (4.64%) Cloud Engineer
13 7 (4.64%) Java Developer
14 6 (3.97%) AWS Architect
14 6 (3.97%) Senior Developer
14 6 (3.97%) Senior Software Engineer
14 6 (3.97%) Software Developer
15 5 (3.31%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (21.85%) AWS CDK
2 30 (19.87%) React
3 28 (18.54%) Node.js
4 15 (9.93%) REST
5 12 (7.95%) OAuth
6 11 (7.28%) CSS
6 11 (7.28%) HTML
7 10 (6.62%) PySpark
8 9 (5.96%) GraphQL
9 8 (5.30%) RESTful
10 7 (4.64%) .NET
11 6 (3.97%) AWS SAM
11 6 (3.97%) RabbitMQ
11 6 (3.97%) Spring
12 5 (3.31%) OAuth2
12 5 (3.31%) Spring Boot
13 4 (2.65%) Elastic Stack
13 4 (2.65%) Kafka
13 4 (2.65%) Next.js
13 4 (2.65%) SpaCy
Miscellaneous
1 14 (9.27%) Legacy Systems
2 10 (6.62%) Cloud Native
3 6 (3.97%) Public Cloud
4 5 (3.31%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (3.31%) Replication
5 4 (2.65%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 4 (2.65%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.99%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.99%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.32%) Data Fabric
7 2 (1.32%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.32%) Hackathon
7 2 (1.32%) IoT
7 2 (1.32%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (1.32%) Life Science
7 2 (1.32%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.32%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.32%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.32%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 26 (17.22%) Linux
2 11 (7.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (3.97%) Ubuntu
3 6 (3.97%) Unix
4 4 (2.65%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (41.72%) CI/CD
2 56 (37.09%) Agile
3 54 (35.76%) Infrastructure as Code
4 53 (35.10%) DevOps
5 27 (17.88%) ETL
6 23 (15.23%) Full Stack Development
6 23 (15.23%) Microservices
6 23 (15.23%) Test Automation
7 19 (12.58%) Mentoring
7 19 (12.58%) Software Engineering
8 18 (11.92%) Kanban
9 17 (11.26%) Analytics
9 17 (11.26%) Scrum
10 16 (10.60%) Containerisation
11 14 (9.27%) Coaching
11 14 (9.27%) Data Modelling
11 14 (9.27%) Data Pipeline
11 14 (9.27%) High Availability
12 13 (8.61%) Data Management
12 13 (8.61%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 72 (47.68%) Python
2 48 (31.79%) TypeScript
3 40 (26.49%) JavaScript
4 33 (21.85%) SQL
5 22 (14.57%) Java
6 19 (12.58%) Bash
7 10 (6.62%) Go
8 7 (4.64%) Scala
9 6 (3.97%) Groovy
10 5 (3.31%) C#
10 5 (3.31%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.32%) C++
11 2 (1.32%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.32%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.66%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.66%) Perl
12 1 (0.66%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.66%) Ruby
12 1 (0.66%) Rust
Qualifications
1 24 (15.89%) SC Cleared
1 24 (15.89%) Security Cleared
2 11 (7.28%) AWS Certification
3 7 (4.64%) Degree
4 5 (3.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.99%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 3 (1.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.32%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.66%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (10.60%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.32%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (1.32%) GDPR
2 2 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.32%) QA
2 2 (1.32%) SLA
3 1 (0.66%) Data Quality
System Software
1 42 (27.81%) Docker
2 4 (2.65%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.66%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 44 (29.14%) Terraform
2 43 (28.48%) Kubernetes
3 27 (17.88%) Grafana
4 20 (13.25%) Ansible
5 8 (5.30%) Kibana
6 3 (1.99%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.32%) Puppet
7 2 (1.32%) Salt
8 1 (0.66%) Argo
8 1 (0.66%) logstash
8 1 (0.66%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (7.28%) Oracle
2 8 (5.30%) Salesforce
3 6 (3.97%) Ab Initio
4 5 (3.31%) Microsoft
4 5 (3.31%) VMware
5 4 (2.65%) Red Hat
6 3 (1.99%) MuleSoft
6 3 (1.99%) Palo Alto
6 3 (1.99%) Splunk
7 2 (1.32%) Commvault
7 2 (1.32%) Confluent
7 2 (1.32%) Databricks
7 2 (1.32%) Google
7 2 (1.32%) IBM
7 2 (1.32%) Informatica
7 2 (1.32%) Qualys
7 2 (1.32%) SaltStack
7 2 (1.32%) SAP
7 2 (1.32%) StreamSets
8 1 (0.66%) NEC