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

6 months to
21 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 81 87
Rank change year-on-year +4 +6 -22
Contract jobs citing Serverless 64 35 39
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.99% 2.06% 1.85%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.05% 5.03% 4.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 25 28
10th Percentile £411 £444 £448
25th Percentile £458 £500 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £586 £650 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.85% +13.04% -4.17%
75th Percentile £738 £700 £692
90th Percentile £780 £800 £799
Central London median daily rate £580 £638 £575
% change year-on-year -9.02% +10.87% -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.

6 months to
21 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 908 696 836
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 42.45% 41.04% 39.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 642 507 543
10th Percentile £358 £330 £397
25th Percentile £456 £438 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year - -2.65% +2.73%
75th Percentile £662 £668 £675
90th Percentile £763 £750 £767
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £563
% change year-on-year - -2.22% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 8 2
10th Percentile £17.40 £21.58 £32.05
25th Percentile £19.50 £26.00 £39.63
Median hourly rate £23.16 £34.00 £56.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.88% -39.29% +169.88%
75th Percentile £31.00 £58.96 £76.13
90th Percentile £46.00 £72.53 £85.95
Central London median hourly rate £27.00 £34.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -20.59% -2.86% +68.67%

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 21 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 table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Cloud Services

RankSkillShareJob Ads
1AWS67.2%43
2AWS Lambda54.7%35
3Amazon S342.2%27
4Azure39.1%25
5Azure Functions29.7%19
5GitHub29.7%19
7Azure DevOps21.9%14
8Power Platform20.3%13
9Azure Logic Apps17.2%11
10Amazon CloudWatch15.6%10
10Amazon EC215.6%10
10Amazon EventBridge15.6%10
13AWS CloudFormation14.1%9
13GitHub Actions14.1%9
15Amazon ECS12.5%8
15Amazon EKS12.5%8
15Azure Service Bus12.5%8
18Amazon Kinesis10.9%7
18Amazon SQS10.9%7
18AWS Step Functions10.9%7
35 Serverless jobs in the City of London