Serverless Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Serverless Computing
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Serverless skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 84 62
Rank change year-on-year +4 -22 +22
Contract jobs citing Serverless 46 35 73
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.44% 1.89% 3.04%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.94% 4.65% 7.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 30 44
10th Percentile £316 £427 £400
25th Percentile £359 £494 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -23.91% +9.52% -6.67%
75th Percentile £621 £729 £647
90th Percentile £683 £844 £725
Central London median daily rate £488 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -15.22% +9.52% -6.67%

All Cloud Computing Skills
City of London

Serverless falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 774 753 921
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.10% 40.59% 38.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 575 471 659
10th Percentile £339 £400 £363
25th Percentile £420 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £744
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 12
10th Percentile £27.83 - £13.18
25th Percentile £35.88 £46.25 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.78 £47.50 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -14.15% +128.92% -17.00%
75th Percentile £49.83 £48.75 £40.69
90th Percentile £55.19 - £50.10
Central London median hourly rate £29.74 £35.00 £20.75
% change year-on-year -15.04% +68.67% -17.00%

Serverless
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Serverless relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Serverless job vacancy trend in the City of London

Serverless
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Serverless.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Serverless

Serverless
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Serverless in the City of London over the 6 months to 8 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Serverless in the City of London

Serverless
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (4.35%) Apache
1 2 (4.35%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (4.35%) Palantir Foundry
2 1 (2.17%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.17%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 39 (84.78%) AWS
2 37 (80.43%) AWS Lambda
3 22 (47.83%) Amazon S3
4 16 (34.78%) Azure
5 15 (32.61%) GitHub
6 12 (26.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 9 (19.57%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (19.57%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (17.39%) Amazon ECS
8 8 (17.39%) Azure Functions
9 7 (15.22%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (10.87%) Snowflake
11 4 (8.70%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (8.70%) Amazon ECR
11 4 (8.70%) Apigee
11 4 (8.70%) AWS Fargate
11 4 (8.70%) Power Platform
12 3 (6.52%) Amazon EKS
12 3 (6.52%) AWS CodePipeline
12 3 (6.52%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.70%) DNS
2 1 (2.17%) DKIM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (23.91%) DynamoDB
2 5 (10.87%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (8.70%) Amazon Athena
3 4 (8.70%) Amazon Redshift
3 4 (8.70%) CockroachDB
3 4 (8.70%) Power BI
4 3 (6.52%) Data Lake
4 3 (6.52%) Metadata
5 2 (4.35%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (4.35%) Delta Lake
5 2 (4.35%) Pinecone
5 2 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (4.35%) Tableau
6 1 (2.17%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (2.17%) GIS
6 1 (2.17%) MySQL
6 1 (2.17%) NoSQL
6 1 (2.17%) SQL Server
6 1 (2.17%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 10 (21.74%) Git
2 4 (8.70%) Jenkins
3 3 (6.52%) JIRA
4 2 (4.35%) GitLab
5 1 (2.17%) Bitbucket
5 1 (2.17%) Cucumber
5 1 (2.17%) JUnit
5 1 (2.17%) Mockito
5 1 (2.17%) Postman
5 1 (2.17%) Terragrunt
5 1 (2.17%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 6 (13.04%) Public Sector
2 5 (10.87%) Banking
3 3 (6.52%) Front Office
3 3 (6.52%) Investment Banking
4 2 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (4.35%) Finance
4 2 (4.35%) Social Skills
5 1 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (19.57%) DevOps Engineer
2 8 (17.39%) Data Engineer
3 7 (15.22%) Developer
4 6 (13.04%) AWS Engineer
5 5 (10.87%) Architect
5 5 (10.87%) Python Engineer
6 4 (8.70%) Cloud Architect
6 4 (8.70%) Lead
6 4 (8.70%) Senior
7 3 (6.52%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 3 (6.52%) AWS DevOps
7 3 (6.52%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 2 (4.35%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 2 (4.35%) Apigee Engineer
8 2 (4.35%) Full-Stack Developer
8 2 (4.35%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 2 (4.35%) Senior Data Engineer
9 1 (2.17%) AWS Software Engineer
9 1 (2.17%) Azure Developer
9 1 (2.17%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (26.09%) Node.js
2 9 (19.57%) React
3 6 (13.04%) boto
4 5 (10.87%) .NET
4 5 (10.87%) OAuth
5 4 (8.70%) AngularJS
5 4 (8.70%) HTML
5 4 (8.70%) JWT
5 4 (8.70%) Kafka
5 4 (8.70%) PySpark
5 4 (8.70%) REST
6 3 (6.52%) AWS CDK
6 3 (6.52%) CSS
6 3 (6.52%) Flask
6 3 (6.52%) LangGraph
6 3 (6.52%) Model Context Protocol
6 3 (6.52%) Next.js
7 2 (4.35%) Django
7 2 (4.35%) NumPy
7 2 (4.35%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 13 (28.26%) Cloud Native
2 5 (10.87%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (8.70%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (6.52%) Public Cloud
5 2 (4.35%) AI Agents
5 2 (4.35%) Data Structures
5 2 (4.35%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (4.35%) Management Information System
6 1 (2.17%) Data Fabric
6 1 (2.17%) NHS
6 1 (2.17%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.52%) Linux
2 1 (2.17%) Android
2 1 (2.17%) Apple iOS
2 1 (2.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (54.35%) CI/CD
2 21 (45.65%) DevOps
3 19 (41.30%) Infrastructure as Code
4 12 (26.09%) Analytics
5 11 (23.91%) Data Pipeline
6 10 (21.74%) Agile
6 10 (21.74%) Event-Driven
7 8 (17.39%) ETL
7 8 (17.39%) Full-Stack Development
7 8 (17.39%) Microservices
8 7 (15.22%) AI
8 7 (15.22%) Observability
8 7 (15.22%) Performance Tuning
9 6 (13.04%) Data Modelling
9 6 (13.04%) Workflow
10 5 (10.87%) Containerisation
10 5 (10.87%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 5 (10.87%) LLM
10 5 (10.87%) Semantic Search
10 5 (10.87%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 30 (65.22%) Python
2 19 (41.30%) SQL
3 10 (21.74%) JavaScript
4 9 (19.57%) Java
5 5 (10.87%) TypeScript
6 3 (6.52%) C#
7 2 (4.35%) Bash
7 2 (4.35%) Bicep
8 1 (2.17%) Apex Code
8 1 (2.17%) Go
8 1 (2.17%) PHP
8 1 (2.17%) Ruby
8 1 (2.17%) Shell Script
8 1 (2.17%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 17 (36.96%) SC Cleared
1 17 (36.96%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.35%) AWS Certification
2 2 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (15.22%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.35%) GDPR
3 1 (2.17%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 1 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.17%) NCSC
System Software
1 8 (17.39%) Docker
2 1 (2.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 18 (39.13%) Terraform
2 6 (13.04%) Kubernetes
3 4 (8.70%) Ansible
4 2 (4.35%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (2.17%) Kibana
5 1 (2.17%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 8 (17.39%) Microsoft
2 5 (10.87%) Databricks
3 2 (4.35%) Foundry
3 2 (4.35%) OpenAI
3 2 (4.35%) Palantir
3 2 (4.35%) SAP
4 1 (2.17%) Amplitude
4 1 (2.17%) Salesforce