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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 71 75
Rank change year-on-year -7 +4 -5
Contract jobs citing Serverless 61 45 51
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.52% 2.60% 2.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.55% 6.09% 5.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 34 34
10th Percentile £348 £425 £413
25th Percentile £455 £488 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £613 £524
Median % change year-on-year -8.16% +16.95% -14.00%
75th Percentile £679 £738 £588
90th Percentile £788 £800 £723
Central London median daily rate £575 £613 £523
% change year-on-year -6.12% +17.22% -13.56%

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 932 739 887
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 38.43% 42.77% 40.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 633 474 621
10th Percentile £350 £363 £363
25th Percentile £456 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £674 £660
90th Percentile £750 £759 £763
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £538
% change year-on-year - +2.28% -8.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 12 7
10th Percentile £22.38 £23.84 £12.75
25th Percentile £29.00 £24.66 £17.00
Median hourly rate £51.44 £38.58 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +33.35% +71.44% -72.73%
75th Percentile £65.00 £71.37 £27.00
90th Percentile £75.35 £98.88 £36.30
Central London median hourly rate £57.77 £31.86 £22.50
% change year-on-year +81.31% +41.60% -66.67%

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 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 (6.56%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (6.56%) CICS
2 3 (4.92%) Confluence
2 3 (4.92%) Palantir Foundry
3 1 (1.64%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (1.64%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 50 (81.97%) AWS
2 43 (70.49%) AWS Lambda
3 30 (49.18%) Amazon S3
4 17 (27.87%) Azure
5 15 (24.59%) GitHub
6 12 (19.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 9 (14.75%) Amazon EC2
7 9 (14.75%) AWS CloudFormation
7 9 (14.75%) Azure Functions
8 8 (13.11%) Amazon Bedrock
8 8 (13.11%) Amazon SQS
8 8 (13.11%) Power Platform
9 7 (11.48%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (9.84%) AWS Step Functions
11 5 (8.20%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (8.20%) Amazon EMR
11 5 (8.20%) Amazon Kinesis
11 5 (8.20%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (8.20%) SaaS
12 4 (6.56%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.28%) Firewall
2 1 (1.64%) FTP
2 1 (1.64%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (27.87%) DynamoDB
2 13 (21.31%) Amazon Redshift
3 12 (19.67%) Amazon Athena
4 9 (14.75%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (11.48%) Power BI
6 6 (9.84%) Metadata
7 5 (8.20%) Db2
8 4 (6.56%) CockroachDB
8 4 (6.56%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (4.92%) Data Lake
9 3 (4.92%) Pinecone
10 2 (3.28%) Data Mining
10 2 (3.28%) Delta Lake
10 2 (3.28%) Electronic Patient Records
10 2 (3.28%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (3.28%) Snowflake Schema
10 2 (3.28%) Tableau
11 1 (1.64%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (1.64%) NoSQL
11 1 (1.64%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 17 (27.87%) Git
2 12 (19.67%) GitLab
3 11 (18.03%) JIRA
4 9 (14.75%) Jenkins
5 6 (9.84%) JUnit
6 5 (8.20%) Cucumber
6 5 (8.20%) Mockito
6 5 (8.20%) Postman
7 1 (1.64%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.64%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (1.64%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.64%) Cypress.io
General
1 21 (34.43%) Finance
2 11 (18.03%) Banking
2 11 (18.03%) Social Skills
3 9 (14.75%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.28%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.28%) Military
5 1 (1.64%) Billing
5 1 (1.64%) Law
5 1 (1.64%) Legal
5 1 (1.64%) Police
Job Titles
1 13 (21.31%) Architect
2 10 (16.39%) Data Engineer
3 9 (14.75%) AWS Engineer
4 8 (13.11%) Senior
5 6 (9.84%) Cloud Architect
6 5 (8.20%) Automation Engineer
6 5 (8.20%) AWS Architect
6 5 (8.20%) Developer
7 4 (6.56%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 4 (6.56%) Lead
7 4 (6.56%) Platform Architect
8 3 (4.92%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 3 (4.92%) AWS Data Engineer
8 3 (4.92%) Data Architect
8 3 (4.92%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 3 (4.92%) Workflow Engineer
9 2 (3.28%) Azure Engineer
9 2 (3.28%) Infrastructure Architect
9 2 (3.28%) Senior Data Engineer
9 2 (3.28%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (16.39%) SOAP
2 9 (14.75%) Kafka
2 9 (14.75%) PySpark
3 8 (13.11%) React
4 7 (11.48%) Spring
4 7 (11.48%) Spring Boot
5 6 (9.84%) boto
5 6 (9.84%) RESTful
6 5 (8.20%) .NET
6 5 (8.20%) Gherkin
6 5 (8.20%) REST
6 5 (8.20%) WireMock
6 5 (8.20%) YAML
7 4 (6.56%) JSON
7 4 (6.56%) Web Services
7 4 (6.56%) WSDL
8 3 (4.92%) Flask
8 3 (4.92%) LangGraph
8 3 (4.92%) Node.js
8 3 (4.92%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 17 (27.87%) Cloud Native
2 4 (6.56%) DataPower
2 4 (6.56%) Mainframe
2 4 (6.56%) Online Banking
3 3 (4.92%) AI Agents
3 3 (4.92%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.28%) Data Structures
4 2 (3.28%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (3.28%) NHS
4 2 (3.28%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.64%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.64%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.64%) IoT
5 1 (1.64%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.64%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.64%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.64%) Replication
5 1 (1.64%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.56%) zOS
2 2 (3.28%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (54.10%) CI/CD
2 25 (40.98%) DevOps
3 24 (39.34%) Infrastructure as Code
4 20 (32.79%) AI
5 16 (26.23%) Data Engineering
6 15 (24.59%) Agile
6 15 (24.59%) Analytics
7 13 (21.31%) Test Automation
8 12 (19.67%) Containerisation
9 11 (18.03%) LLM
9 11 (18.03%) Migration
9 11 (18.03%) Performance Tuning
10 10 (16.39%) Data Pipeline
10 10 (16.39%) ETL
11 9 (14.75%) Data Modelling
11 9 (14.75%) Event-Driven
11 9 (14.75%) Generative AI
11 9 (14.75%) Observability
11 9 (14.75%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
11 9 (14.75%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 33 (54.10%) Python
2 24 (39.34%) SQL
3 10 (16.39%) C#
4 8 (13.11%) Java
5 7 (11.48%) TypeScript
6 6 (9.84%) JavaScript
7 5 (8.20%) Bicep
8 4 (6.56%) JCL
8 4 (6.56%) Shell Script
9 2 (3.28%) Bash
10 1 (1.64%) Korn
10 1 (1.64%) Scala
Qualifications
1 8 (13.11%) SC Cleared
1 8 (13.11%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.28%) AWS Certification
2 2 (3.28%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (3.28%) DBS Check
3 1 (1.64%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 1 (1.64%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (1.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (1.64%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (13.11%) Data Quality
2 4 (6.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (6.56%) PCI DSS
2 4 (6.56%) QA
3 1 (1.64%) GDPR
3 1 (1.64%) NCSC
3 1 (1.64%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (21.31%) Docker
2 2 (3.28%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.28%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 22 (36.07%) Terraform
2 15 (24.59%) Kubernetes
3 4 (6.56%) Grafana
4 3 (4.92%) Prometheus
5 2 (3.28%) Ansible
5 2 (3.28%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.64%) Istio
6 1 (1.64%) Kustomize
6 1 (1.64%) linkerd
6 1 (1.64%) Puppet
6 1 (1.64%) Salt
Vendors
1 7 (11.48%) Databricks
1 7 (11.48%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.56%) OpenAI
3 3 (4.92%) Foundry
3 3 (4.92%) Palantir
3 3 (4.92%) SAP
4 2 (3.28%) Oracle
4 2 (3.28%) Splunk
5 1 (1.64%) Amplitude
5 1 (1.64%) Fortinet
5 1 (1.64%) Informatica
5 1 (1.64%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.64%) Sybase