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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 78 73
Rank change year-on-year -5 -5 +2
Contract jobs citing Serverless 58 47 44
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.46% 2.52% 2.12%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.20% 6.06% 5.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 33 31
10th Percentile £418 £425 £475
25th Percentile £464 £488 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £625 £538
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% +16.28% -13.31%
75th Percentile £716 £700 £619
90th Percentile £796 £800 £788
Central London median daily rate £588 £625 £531
% change year-on-year -6.00% +17.65% -13.62%

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 935 776 841
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 39.72% 41.59% 40.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 647 515 580
10th Percentile £363 £359 £383
25th Percentile £456 £445 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £654 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £754 £763
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 13 3
10th Percentile £19.45 £23.93 -
25th Percentile £22.50 £24.66 -
Median hourly rate £30.00 £34.65 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.42% +28.33% -28.95%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.57 £59.75
90th Percentile £75.35 £97.75 £79.40
Central London median hourly rate £36.25 £34.00 £27.00
% change year-on-year +6.62% +25.93% -28.95%

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 August 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 (6.90%) CICS
2 3 (5.17%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (5.17%) Confluence
3 2 (3.45%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.72%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (5.17%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (5.17%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 44 (75.86%) AWS
2 39 (67.24%) AWS Lambda
3 29 (50.00%) Amazon S3
4 17 (29.31%) Azure
5 15 (25.86%) GitHub
6 14 (24.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 12 (20.69%) Azure Functions
8 11 (18.97%) Amazon EC2
8 11 (18.97%) Power Platform
9 9 (15.52%) Amazon SQS
10 8 (13.79%) Amazon Kinesis
10 8 (13.79%) AWS CloudFormation
10 8 (13.79%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (13.79%) Azure Logic Apps
10 8 (13.79%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (12.07%) AWS Step Functions
11 7 (12.07%) SaaS
12 5 (8.62%) Amazon EMR
12 5 (8.62%) Azure Service Bus
12 5 (8.62%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.45%) Firewall
2 1 (1.72%) FTP
2 1 (1.72%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (25.86%) Amazon Athena
1 15 (25.86%) DynamoDB
2 11 (18.97%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (17.24%) Amazon Redshift
4 8 (13.79%) Power BI
5 5 (8.62%) Db2
6 4 (6.90%) Metadata
7 3 (5.17%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (5.17%) NoSQL
7 3 (5.17%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (3.45%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (3.45%) Data Lake
8 2 (3.45%) Data Mining
8 2 (3.45%) Delta Lake
8 2 (3.45%) Electronic Patient Records
8 2 (3.45%) MongoDB
8 2 (3.45%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (3.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (3.45%) Tableau
9 1 (1.72%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 14 (24.14%) GitLab
2 12 (20.69%) Git
3 10 (17.24%) JIRA
4 8 (13.79%) Jenkins
5 6 (10.34%) JUnit
6 4 (6.90%) Bitbucket
6 4 (6.90%) Cucumber
6 4 (6.90%) Mockito
6 4 (6.90%) Postman
7 1 (1.72%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (1.72%) Cypress.io
7 1 (1.72%) Jasmine
7 1 (1.72%) JMeter
7 1 (1.72%) Karma Test Runner
7 1 (1.72%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (1.72%) Visual Studio
7 1 (1.72%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 23 (39.66%) Finance
2 12 (20.69%) Social Skills
3 10 (17.24%) Public Sector
4 9 (15.52%) Banking
5 4 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (5.17%) Back Office
6 3 (5.17%) Marketing
7 2 (3.45%) Military
8 1 (1.72%) Billing
8 1 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.72%) Law
8 1 (1.72%) Legal
8 1 (1.72%) Police
8 1 (1.72%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (18.97%) Architect
1 11 (18.97%) AWS Engineer
1 11 (18.97%) Developer
1 11 (18.97%) Senior
2 7 (12.07%) Data Engineer
3 5 (8.62%) AWS Architect
4 4 (6.90%) Automation Engineer
4 4 (6.90%) AWS Data Engineer
4 4 (6.90%) Cloud Architect
4 4 (6.90%) Lead
4 4 (6.90%) Platform Architect
5 3 (5.17%) Data Architect
5 3 (5.17%) Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (5.17%) Platform Engineer
5 3 (5.17%) Senior Data Engineer
5 3 (5.17%) Software Engineer
5 3 (5.17%) Workflow Engineer
6 2 (3.45%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (3.45%) Java Developer
6 2 (3.45%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (15.52%) SOAP
2 8 (13.79%) .NET
2 8 (13.79%) RESTful
3 7 (12.07%) Kafka
3 7 (12.07%) Spring
3 7 (12.07%) Spring Boot
4 6 (10.34%) React
4 6 (10.34%) REST
5 5 (8.62%) JSON
5 5 (8.62%) Node.js
5 5 (8.62%) PySpark
6 4 (6.90%) Gherkin
6 4 (6.90%) Web Services
6 4 (6.90%) WireMock
6 4 (6.90%) WSDL
6 4 (6.90%) YAML
7 3 (5.17%) ActiveMQ
7 3 (5.17%) OAuth
7 3 (5.17%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (3.45%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 18 (31.03%) Cloud Native
2 4 (6.90%) DataPower
2 4 (6.90%) Mainframe
2 4 (6.90%) Online Banking
3 3 (5.17%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (3.45%) Low-Code
4 2 (3.45%) NHS
4 2 (3.45%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.72%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.72%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.72%) IoT
5 1 (1.72%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.72%) Replication
5 1 (1.72%) Smart Meter
5 1 (1.72%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.90%) zOS
2 2 (3.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (53.45%) CI/CD
2 24 (41.38%) DevOps
3 21 (36.21%) Infrastructure as Code
4 18 (31.03%) Agile
5 15 (25.86%) Data Engineering
6 14 (24.14%) AI
6 14 (24.14%) Analytics
6 14 (24.14%) Test Automation
7 13 (22.41%) Containerisation
8 12 (20.69%) Data Modelling
9 10 (17.24%) Business Intelligence
9 10 (17.24%) Event-Driven
10 9 (15.52%) Integration Patterns
10 9 (15.52%) Migration
10 9 (15.52%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (15.52%) Roadmaps
11 8 (13.79%) Data Pipeline
11 8 (13.79%) Performance Tuning
12 7 (12.07%) Machine Learning
13 6 (10.34%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 23 (39.66%) Python
2 20 (34.48%) SQL
3 12 (20.69%) C#
4 9 (15.52%) TypeScript
5 8 (13.79%) Java
5 8 (13.79%) JavaScript
6 4 (6.90%) Bicep
6 4 (6.90%) JCL
6 4 (6.90%) Shell Script
7 2 (3.45%) Bash
8 1 (1.72%) Korn
8 1 (1.72%) Scala
Qualifications
1 10 (17.24%) Security Cleared
2 9 (15.52%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.45%) AWS Certification
3 2 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (3.45%) DBS Check
4 1 (1.72%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 1 (1.72%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (1.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.72%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.72%) Degree
4 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.07%) QA
2 5 (8.62%) Data Quality
3 4 (6.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (6.90%) PCI DSS
4 2 (3.45%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.72%) GDPR
5 1 (1.72%) NCSC
5 1 (1.72%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (22.41%) Docker
2 3 (5.17%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 20 (34.48%) Terraform
2 13 (22.41%) Kubernetes
3 4 (6.90%) Grafana
4 3 (5.17%) Prometheus
5 2 (3.45%) Ansible
6 1 (1.72%) Istio
6 1 (1.72%) Kustomize
6 1 (1.72%) linkerd
6 1 (1.72%) Puppet
6 1 (1.72%) Salt
6 1 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (22.41%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.90%) Databricks
3 3 (5.17%) ServiceNow
4 2 (3.45%) OpenAI
4 2 (3.45%) Oracle
4 2 (3.45%) Splunk
5 1 (1.72%) Fortinet
5 1 (1.72%) Informatica
5 1 (1.72%) New Relic
5 1 (1.72%) SAP
5 1 (1.72%) Sybase