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 20 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 78 86
Rank change year-on-year -8 +8 -23
Contract jobs citing Serverless 59 41 43
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.63% 2.34% 2.04%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.39% 5.82% 5.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 31 31
10th Percentile £423 £425 £475
25th Percentile £463 £488 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £738 £738 £631
90th Percentile £775 £800 £788
Central London median daily rate £600 £625 £563
% change year-on-year -4.00% +11.11% -6.25%

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 924 705 859
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.23% 40.31% 40.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 660 490 566
10th Percentile £363 £332 £380
25th Percentile £456 £434 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year - -2.22% -1.32%
75th Percentile £660 £667 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £560
% change year-on-year - -1.79% -0.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 11 3
10th Percentile £18.33 £23.75 -
25th Percentile £20.25 £25.71 -
Median hourly rate £23.58 £34.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.65% +25.93% +30.12%
75th Percentile £38.69 £61.16 £59.75
90th Percentile £66.00 £88.75 £79.40
Central London median hourly rate £30.00 £34.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -11.76% -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 20 September 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
2 2 (3.39%) Apache
2 2 (3.39%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.39%) CICS
2 2 (3.39%) CMS
2 2 (3.39%) Confluence
2 2 (3.39%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.39%) Umbraco
3 1 (1.69%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (5.08%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (6.78%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (3.39%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 42 (71.19%) AWS
2 36 (61.02%) AWS Lambda
3 28 (47.46%) Amazon S3
4 23 (38.98%) Azure
5 17 (28.81%) GitHub
6 16 (27.12%) Azure Functions
7 11 (18.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 11 (18.64%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (18.64%) Power Platform
8 10 (16.95%) Amazon EC2
8 10 (16.95%) Azure Logic Apps
8 10 (16.95%) GitHub Actions
9 9 (15.25%) Amazon Kinesis
9 9 (15.25%) AWS Step Functions
10 8 (13.56%) Amazon EventBridge
10 8 (13.56%) AWS CloudFormation
10 8 (13.56%) Azure Service Bus
11 7 (11.86%) Amazon Bedrock
11 7 (11.86%) Power Automate
11 7 (11.86%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.39%) Firewall
2 1 (1.69%) FTP
2 1 (1.69%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (27.12%) Amazon Athena
2 12 (20.34%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (16.95%) Amazon Redshift
4 7 (11.86%) DynamoDB
4 7 (11.86%) Power BI
5 5 (8.47%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (8.47%) Delta Lake
5 5 (8.47%) Metadata
6 3 (5.08%) MongoDB
6 3 (5.08%) NoSQL
6 3 (5.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (3.39%) Amazon QuickSight
7 2 (3.39%) BigQuery
7 2 (3.39%) Data Lake
7 2 (3.39%) Data Mining
7 2 (3.39%) Db2
7 2 (3.39%) Electronic Patient Records
7 2 (3.39%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (1.69%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (1.69%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 12 (20.34%) GitLab
2 10 (16.95%) Git
3 8 (13.56%) Bitbucket
4 7 (11.86%) JIRA
5 4 (6.78%) Jenkins
6 3 (5.08%) JUnit
7 2 (3.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (3.39%) Cucumber
7 2 (3.39%) Mockito
7 2 (3.39%) Postman
7 2 (3.39%) Visual Studio
7 2 (3.39%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (1.69%) Artifactory
8 1 (1.69%) Jasmine
8 1 (1.69%) JMeter
8 1 (1.69%) Karma Test Runner
8 1 (1.69%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 23 (38.98%) Finance
2 16 (27.12%) Social Skills
3 12 (20.34%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (16.95%) Public Sector
5 9 (15.25%) Banking
6 7 (11.86%) Back Office
7 4 (6.78%) Marketing
8 3 (5.08%) Front Office
9 2 (3.39%) Military
9 2 (3.39%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (1.69%) Billing
10 1 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.69%) Investment Banking
10 1 (1.69%) Law
10 1 (1.69%) Legal
10 1 (1.69%) Police
10 1 (1.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (27.12%) Senior
2 15 (25.42%) AWS Engineer
3 13 (22.03%) Data Engineer
4 11 (18.64%) Architect
5 10 (16.95%) Developer
6 8 (13.56%) AWS Data Engineer
7 7 (11.86%) Senior Data Engineer
8 4 (6.78%) AWS Architect
8 4 (6.78%) Dynamics 365 Developer
8 4 (6.78%) Lead
8 4 (6.78%) Platform Architect
9 3 (5.08%) Automation Engineer
9 3 (5.08%) Cloud Architect
9 3 (5.08%) Cloud Engineer
9 3 (5.08%) Data Architect
9 3 (5.08%) Power Platform Developer
9 3 (5.08%) Workflow Engineer
10 2 (3.39%) Azure Developer
10 2 (3.39%) Azure Engineer
10 2 (3.39%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (32.20%) Terraform
2 13 (22.03%) .NET
3 8 (13.56%) REST
4 6 (10.17%) ActiveMQ
4 6 (10.17%) PySpark
4 6 (10.17%) RabbitMQ
5 5 (8.47%) SOAP
6 4 (6.78%) Node.js
6 4 (6.78%) React
6 4 (6.78%) RESTful
6 4 (6.78%) Spring
6 4 (6.78%) Spring Boot
7 3 (5.08%) HTML5 Canvas
7 3 (5.08%) JSON
7 3 (5.08%) Kafka
7 3 (5.08%) Middleware
8 2 (3.39%) CSS
8 2 (3.39%) HTML
8 2 (3.39%) Web Services
8 2 (3.39%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 22 (37.29%) Cloud Native
2 5 (8.47%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (6.78%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (5.08%) AI Agents
4 3 (5.08%) Low-Code
4 3 (5.08%) Onboarding
5 2 (3.39%) DataPower
5 2 (3.39%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (3.39%) Mainframe
5 2 (3.39%) Online Banking
5 2 (3.39%) Product Ownership
5 2 (3.39%) PropTech
5 2 (3.39%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (1.69%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.69%) IoT
6 1 (1.69%) NHS
6 1 (1.69%) Over-the-Top Content
6 1 (1.69%) Smart Meter
6 1 (1.69%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.39%) zOS
2 1 (1.69%) Unix
2 1 (1.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (66.10%) CI/CD
2 25 (42.37%) DevOps
2 25 (42.37%) Infrastructure as Code
3 20 (33.90%) Agile
3 20 (33.90%) Data Engineering
4 18 (30.51%) Data Modelling
4 18 (30.51%) Event-Driven
5 17 (28.81%) Analytics
6 15 (25.42%) Data Pipeline
7 13 (22.03%) AI
7 13 (22.03%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 12 (20.34%) Integration Patterns
8 12 (20.34%) Problem-Solving
9 11 (18.64%) Containerisation
9 11 (18.64%) Test Automation
10 10 (16.95%) Performance Tuning
11 9 (15.25%) Business Intelligence
11 9 (15.25%) Data Governance
11 9 (15.25%) Stakeholder Management
12 8 (13.56%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 26 (44.07%) Python
2 21 (35.59%) SQL
3 15 (25.42%) C#
4 8 (13.56%) JavaScript
4 8 (13.56%) TypeScript
5 4 (6.78%) Bicep
5 4 (6.78%) Java
6 2 (3.39%) Bash
6 2 (3.39%) JCL
6 2 (3.39%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.69%) Korn
7 1 (1.69%) Scala
Qualifications
1 9 (15.25%) Security Cleared
2 7 (11.86%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.08%) AWS Certification
3 3 (5.08%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (3.39%) Azure Certification
4 2 (3.39%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (3.39%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 1 (1.69%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (1.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.69%) CISA
5 1 (1.69%) CompTIA CySA+
5 1 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.69%) Degree
5 1 (1.69%) GSEC
5 1 (1.69%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (20.34%) Data Quality
2 6 (10.17%) QA
3 3 (5.08%) Accessibility
3 3 (5.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (5.08%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.69%) GDPR
4 1 (1.69%) NCSC
4 1 (1.69%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (15.25%) Docker
2 3 (5.08%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (18.64%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.39%) Ansible
2 2 (3.39%) Grafana
3 1 (1.69%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.69%) Puppet
3 1 (1.69%) Salt
3 1 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 19 (32.20%) Microsoft
2 8 (13.56%) Databricks
3 3 (5.08%) OpenAI
3 3 (5.08%) Oracle
4 2 (3.39%) Adyen
4 2 (3.39%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.69%) Fortinet
5 1 (1.69%) Foundry
5 1 (1.69%) Google
5 1 (1.69%) IBM
5 1 (1.69%) Informatica
5 1 (1.69%) New Relic
5 1 (1.69%) SAP
5 1 (1.69%) Teradata
5 1 (1.69%) UiPath