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 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 87 88
Rank change year-on-year +7 +1 -28
Contract jobs citing Serverless 60 38 43
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.77% 2.20% 2.03%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.64% 5.38% 5.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 28 32
10th Percentile £410 £425 £430
25th Percentile £459 £497 £497
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £638 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +10.87% -4.17%
75th Percentile £738 £719 £650
90th Percentile £795 £800 £788
Central London median daily rate £590 £625 £575
% change year-on-year -5.60% +8.70% -4.17%

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 903 706 842
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.69% 40.86% 39.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 643 514 548
10th Percentile £350 £343 £392
25th Percentile £456 £457 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year - -2.65% +2.73%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £763 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £561
% change year-on-year - -2.00% +2.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 8 3
10th Percentile £17.40 £21.58 -
25th Percentile £19.50 £26.00 -
Median hourly rate £23.16 £34.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.88% +25.93% +20.00%
75th Percentile £31.00 £58.96 £59.75
90th Percentile £46.00 £72.53 £79.40
Central London median hourly rate £27.00 £34.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -20.59% -2.86% +55.56%

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 14 October 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 5 (8.33%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (5.00%) Apache
2 3 (5.00%) Apache Spark
2 3 (5.00%) SharePoint
3 2 (3.33%) CMS
3 2 (3.33%) Confluence
3 2 (3.33%) Umbraco
4 1 (1.67%) CICS
4 1 (1.67%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (6.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (3.33%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 40 (66.67%) AWS
2 33 (55.00%) AWS Lambda
3 26 (43.33%) Amazon S3
4 23 (38.33%) Azure
5 18 (30.00%) GitHub
6 17 (28.33%) Azure Functions
7 13 (21.67%) Power Platform
8 12 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 9 (15.00%) Amazon EC2
10 9 (15.00%) Azure Logic Apps
10 9 (15.00%) GitHub Actions
11 8 (13.33%) Amazon EventBridge
11 8 (13.33%) Amazon Kinesis
11 8 (13.33%) AWS Step Functions
11 8 (13.33%) Azure Service Bus
12 7 (11.67%) Amazon EKS
12 7 (11.67%) AWS CloudFormation
12 7 (11.67%) Power Automate
12 7 (11.67%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.67%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (23.33%) Amazon Athena
2 12 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (15.00%) Amazon Redshift
4 7 (11.67%) Power BI
5 6 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (10.00%) DynamoDB
6 5 (8.33%) Delta Lake
7 4 (6.67%) Metadata
8 3 (5.00%) MongoDB
8 3 (5.00%) NoSQL
8 3 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (5.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (3.33%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (3.33%) Apache Iceberg
9 2 (3.33%) BigQuery
9 2 (3.33%) Parquet
9 2 (3.33%) Relational Database
10 1 (1.67%) Data Vault
10 1 (1.67%) Electronic Patient Records
10 1 (1.67%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 11 (18.33%) Git
2 10 (16.67%) GitLab
3 8 (13.33%) Bitbucket
3 8 (13.33%) JIRA
4 5 (8.33%) Jenkins
5 3 (5.00%) JUnit
6 2 (3.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (3.33%) Cucumber
6 2 (3.33%) Mockito
6 2 (3.33%) Postman
6 2 (3.33%) Visual Studio
6 2 (3.33%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (1.67%) CircleCI
7 1 (1.67%) Gradle
7 1 (1.67%) Jasmine
7 1 (1.67%) JMeter
7 1 (1.67%) Karma Test Runner
7 1 (1.67%) Maven
7 1 (1.67%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 23 (38.33%) Finance
2 14 (23.33%) Social Skills
3 13 (21.67%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (15.00%) Banking
5 8 (13.33%) Back Office
6 7 (11.67%) Public Sector
7 4 (6.67%) Marketing
8 3 (5.00%) Front Office
9 2 (3.33%) Investment Banking
9 2 (3.33%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (1.67%) Billing
10 1 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.67%) Legal
10 1 (1.67%) Military
10 1 (1.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (26.67%) AWS Engineer
1 16 (26.67%) Senior
2 15 (25.00%) Data Engineer
3 12 (20.00%) Developer
4 10 (16.67%) Architect
5 9 (15.00%) AWS Data Engineer
6 7 (11.67%) Senior Data Engineer
7 6 (10.00%) AWS Architect
8 5 (8.33%) Cloud Architect
9 4 (6.67%) Dynamics 365 Developer
9 4 (6.67%) Lead
10 3 (5.00%) Automation Engineer
10 3 (5.00%) Platform Architect
10 3 (5.00%) Power Platform Developer
10 3 (5.00%) Workflow Engineer
11 2 (3.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 2 (3.33%) Azure Developer
11 2 (3.33%) Data Architect
11 2 (3.33%) Platform Engineer
11 2 (3.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (30.00%) Terraform
2 13 (21.67%) .NET
3 8 (13.33%) REST
4 7 (11.67%) PySpark
5 6 (10.00%) ActiveMQ
5 6 (10.00%) RabbitMQ
6 5 (8.33%) RESTful
7 4 (6.67%) Kafka
7 4 (6.67%) Node.js
7 4 (6.67%) SOAP
7 4 (6.67%) Spring
7 4 (6.67%) Spring Boot
8 3 (5.00%) AngularJS
8 3 (5.00%) HTML5 Canvas
8 3 (5.00%) JSON
8 3 (5.00%) Middleware
8 3 (5.00%) React
9 2 (3.33%) ASP.NET Web API
9 2 (3.33%) Bootstrap
9 2 (3.33%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 24 (40.00%) Cloud Native
2 5 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (6.67%) AI Agents
3 4 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (6.67%) Onboarding
4 3 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (5.00%) Low-Code
5 2 (3.33%) Product Ownership
5 2 (3.33%) PropTech
5 2 (3.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (1.67%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.67%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.67%) DataPower
6 1 (1.67%) Derivative
6 1 (1.67%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.67%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.67%) Online Banking
6 1 (1.67%) Over-the-Top Content
6 1 (1.67%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.00%) Unix
1 3 (5.00%) Windows
2 1 (1.67%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (63.33%) CI/CD
2 26 (43.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 25 (41.67%) DevOps
4 22 (36.67%) Agile
5 19 (31.67%) Data Engineering
6 18 (30.00%) Data Modelling
7 17 (28.33%) Event-Driven
8 16 (26.67%) Analytics
8 16 (26.67%) Data Pipeline
9 14 (23.33%) AI
9 14 (23.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 13 (21.67%) Containerisation
11 12 (20.00%) Test Automation
12 11 (18.33%) Problem-Solving
13 10 (16.67%) Integration Patterns
13 10 (16.67%) Migration
13 10 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
14 9 (15.00%) Business Intelligence
14 9 (15.00%) Roadmaps
14 9 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 26 (43.33%) Python
2 23 (38.33%) SQL
3 16 (26.67%) C#
4 9 (15.00%) JavaScript
4 9 (15.00%) TypeScript
5 4 (6.67%) Java
6 2 (3.33%) Bicep
7 1 (1.67%) Bash
7 1 (1.67%) C
7 1 (1.67%) JCL
7 1 (1.67%) Korn
7 1 (1.67%) Scala
7 1 (1.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 6 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.00%) AWS Certification
3 3 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (3.33%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 1 (1.67%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (1.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.67%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.67%) CISA
5 1 (1.67%) CompTIA CySA+
5 1 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.67%) Degree
5 1 (1.67%) GSEC
5 1 (1.67%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (20.00%) Data Quality
2 5 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (8.33%) PCI DSS
2 5 (8.33%) QA
3 3 (5.00%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.67%) GDPR
4 1 (1.67%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (16.67%) Docker
2 1 (1.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.67%) Ansible
2 1 (1.67%) Grafana
2 1 (1.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 19 (31.67%) Microsoft
2 8 (13.33%) Databricks
3 3 (5.00%) OpenAI
4 2 (3.33%) Adyen
4 2 (3.33%) Foundry
4 2 (3.33%) Oracle
4 2 (3.33%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.67%) Google
5 1 (1.67%) IBM
5 1 (1.67%) Informatica
5 1 (1.67%) New Relic
5 1 (1.67%) Teradata
5 1 (1.67%) UiPath