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 26 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 72 79
Rank change year-on-year -6 +7 -11
Contract jobs citing Serverless 59 46 48
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.44% 2.63% 2.24%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.32% 6.14% 5.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 35 33
10th Percentile £409 £425 £413
25th Percentile £458 £488 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £600 £523
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +14.83% -15.73%
75th Percentile £679 £726 £575
90th Percentile £788 £800 £678
Central London median daily rate £575 £600 £511
% change year-on-year -4.17% +17.36% -16.87%

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 933 749 883
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 38.52% 42.75% 41.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 638 481 617
10th Percentile £350 £365 £363
25th Percentile £456 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £670 £663
90th Percentile £750 £751 £771
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £538
% change year-on-year - +2.23% -6.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 13 7
10th Percentile £22.38 £23.93 £12.75
25th Percentile £29.00 £24.66 £17.00
Median hourly rate £51.44 £42.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +21.04% +88.89% -66.67%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.57 £27.00
90th Percentile £75.35 £97.75 £36.30
Central London median hourly rate £57.77 £34.65 £22.50
% change year-on-year +66.71% +54.00% -57.14%

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 26 June 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 4 (6.78%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (6.78%) CICS
2 3 (5.08%) Confluence
2 3 (5.08%) Palantir Foundry
3 1 (1.69%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 2 (3.39%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 46 (77.97%) AWS
2 39 (66.10%) AWS Lambda
3 26 (44.07%) Amazon S3
4 19 (32.20%) Azure
5 15 (25.42%) GitHub
6 12 (20.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 11 (18.64%) Azure Functions
8 10 (16.95%) Power Platform
9 9 (15.25%) Amazon EC2
9 9 (15.25%) AWS CloudFormation
10 8 (13.56%) Amazon SQS
11 7 (11.86%) Amazon Bedrock
12 6 (10.17%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (10.17%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (8.47%) Amazon ECS
13 5 (8.47%) Amazon EMR
13 5 (8.47%) Amazon Kinesis
13 5 (8.47%) Azure Logic Apps
13 5 (8.47%) SaaS
14 4 (6.78%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.39%) Firewall
2 1 (1.69%) FTP
2 1 (1.69%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (25.42%) DynamoDB
2 12 (20.34%) Amazon Athena
3 11 (18.64%) Amazon Redshift
4 9 (15.25%) Amazon RDS
5 8 (13.56%) Power BI
6 5 (8.47%) Db2
7 4 (6.78%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (6.78%) Metadata
8 3 (5.08%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (3.39%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (3.39%) Data Lake
9 2 (3.39%) Data Mining
9 2 (3.39%) Delta Lake
9 2 (3.39%) Electronic Patient Records
9 2 (3.39%) NoSQL
9 2 (3.39%) Pinecone
9 2 (3.39%) Snowflake Schema
9 2 (3.39%) Tableau
10 1 (1.69%) Apache Iceberg
10 1 (1.69%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 18 (30.51%) Git
2 12 (20.34%) GitLab
3 11 (18.64%) JIRA
4 9 (15.25%) Jenkins
5 7 (11.86%) JUnit
6 5 (8.47%) Cucumber
6 5 (8.47%) Mockito
6 5 (8.47%) Postman
7 1 (1.69%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (1.69%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.69%) Cypress.io
7 1 (1.69%) Jasmine
7 1 (1.69%) Karma Test Runner
7 1 (1.69%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 21 (35.59%) Finance
2 11 (18.64%) Banking
2 11 (18.64%) Social Skills
3 9 (15.25%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.39%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.39%) Military
5 1 (1.69%) Billing
5 1 (1.69%) Law
5 1 (1.69%) Legal
5 1 (1.69%) Marketing
5 1 (1.69%) Police
Job Titles
1 13 (22.03%) Architect
2 8 (13.56%) AWS Engineer
2 8 (13.56%) Developer
2 8 (13.56%) Senior
3 7 (11.86%) Data Engineer
4 6 (10.17%) Cloud Architect
5 5 (8.47%) Automation Engineer
5 5 (8.47%) AWS Architect
6 4 (6.78%) Lead
6 4 (6.78%) Platform Architect
7 3 (5.08%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 3 (5.08%) Data Architect
7 3 (5.08%) Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (5.08%) Workflow Engineer
8 2 (3.39%) AWS Data Engineer
8 2 (3.39%) AWS Infrastructure Architect
8 2 (3.39%) Azure Engineer
8 2 (3.39%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 2 (3.39%) Java Developer
8 2 (3.39%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (16.95%) SOAP
2 9 (15.25%) Kafka
3 8 (13.56%) PySpark
3 8 (13.56%) RESTful
3 8 (13.56%) Spring
3 8 (13.56%) Spring Boot
4 7 (11.86%) .NET
5 6 (10.17%) React
6 5 (8.47%) Gherkin
6 5 (8.47%) WireMock
6 5 (8.47%) YAML
7 4 (6.78%) JSON
7 4 (6.78%) REST
7 4 (6.78%) Web Services
7 4 (6.78%) WSDL
8 3 (5.08%) boto
8 3 (5.08%) Node.js
8 3 (5.08%) OAuth
9 2 (3.39%) Flask
9 2 (3.39%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 18 (30.51%) Cloud Native
2 4 (6.78%) DataPower
2 4 (6.78%) Mainframe
2 4 (6.78%) Online Banking
3 3 (5.08%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.39%) AI Agents
4 2 (3.39%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (3.39%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (3.39%) NHS
4 2 (3.39%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.39%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.69%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.69%) IoT
5 1 (1.69%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.69%) Replication
5 1 (1.69%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.78%) zOS
2 2 (3.39%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (55.93%) CI/CD
2 26 (44.07%) DevOps
3 23 (38.98%) Infrastructure as Code
4 17 (28.81%) Agile
4 17 (28.81%) AI
5 16 (27.12%) Data Engineering
6 15 (25.42%) Analytics
7 13 (22.03%) Containerisation
7 13 (22.03%) Test Automation
8 11 (18.64%) Migration
9 9 (15.25%) LLM
9 9 (15.25%) Performance Tuning
9 9 (15.25%) Roadmaps
10 8 (13.56%) Business Intelligence
10 8 (13.56%) Generative AI
11 7 (11.86%) Data Modelling
11 7 (11.86%) ETL
11 7 (11.86%) Event-Driven
11 7 (11.86%) Machine Learning
11 7 (11.86%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 28 (47.46%) Python
2 21 (35.59%) SQL
3 12 (20.34%) C#
4 9 (15.25%) Java
5 7 (11.86%) TypeScript
6 6 (10.17%) JavaScript
7 4 (6.78%) Bicep
7 4 (6.78%) JCL
7 4 (6.78%) Shell Script
8 2 (3.39%) Bash
9 1 (1.69%) Korn
9 1 (1.69%) Scala
Qualifications
1 8 (13.56%) SC Cleared
1 8 (13.56%) Security Cleared
2 3 (5.08%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (3.39%) AWS Certification
3 2 (3.39%) DBS Check
4 1 (1.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 1 (1.69%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (1.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.69%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.69%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.47%) Data Quality
1 5 (8.47%) QA
2 4 (6.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (6.78%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.69%) GDPR
3 1 (1.69%) NCSC
3 1 (1.69%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (23.73%) Docker
2 3 (5.08%) Active Directory
3 2 (3.39%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 22 (37.29%) Terraform
2 16 (27.12%) Kubernetes
3 4 (6.78%) Grafana
4 3 (5.08%) Prometheus
5 2 (3.39%) Ansible
6 1 (1.69%) Istio
6 1 (1.69%) Kustomize
6 1 (1.69%) linkerd
6 1 (1.69%) Puppet
6 1 (1.69%) Salt
6 1 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (16.95%) Microsoft
2 7 (11.86%) Databricks
3 3 (5.08%) Foundry
3 3 (5.08%) OpenAI
3 3 (5.08%) Palantir
4 2 (3.39%) Oracle
4 2 (3.39%) Splunk
5 1 (1.69%) Fortinet
5 1 (1.69%) Informatica
5 1 (1.69%) SAP
5 1 (1.69%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.69%) Sybase