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

6 months to
10 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 72 72
Rank change year-on-year -3 0 +1
Contract jobs citing Serverless 56 45 55
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.43% 2.56% 2.52%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.21% 5.94% 6.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 33 36
10th Percentile £337 £425 £413
25th Percentile £411 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £524
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +14.56% -12.71%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £578
90th Percentile £695 £798 £744
Central London median daily rate £575 £545 £524
% change year-on-year +5.50% +4.06% -12.71%

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 902 758 859
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 39.06% 43.14% 39.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 624 484 603
10th Percentile £350 £363 £363
25th Percentile £450 £458 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% - -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £669 £668
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £530
% change year-on-year - +3.77% -7.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 7 6
10th Percentile £20.67 £24.66 £12.75
25th Percentile £25.81 £29.64 £14.88
Median hourly rate £40.64 £42.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.38% +88.89% -73.24%
75th Percentile £57.83 £74.38 £26.19
90th Percentile £75.18 £135.00 £38.63
Central London median hourly rate £40.64 £34.83 £22.50
% change year-on-year +16.70% +54.78% -72.99%

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 10 May 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 (7.14%) CICS
2 3 (5.36%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (5.36%) Palantir Foundry
3 2 (3.57%) Confluence
4 1 (1.79%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (1.79%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 45 (80.36%) AWS
2 40 (71.43%) AWS Lambda
3 26 (46.43%) Amazon S3
4 18 (32.14%) Azure
5 15 (26.79%) GitHub
6 13 (23.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 9 (16.07%) Azure Functions
8 8 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
8 8 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
8 8 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
10 6 (10.71%) Amazon Bedrock
10 6 (10.71%) AWS Step Functions
11 5 (8.93%) Amazon SQS
11 5 (8.93%) AWS CodePipeline
11 5 (8.93%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (8.93%) Power Platform
12 4 (7.14%) Amazon Kinesis
12 4 (7.14%) Azure Key Vault
12 4 (7.14%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.57%) DNS
1 2 (3.57%) Firewall
2 1 (1.79%) FTP
2 1 (1.79%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (30.36%) DynamoDB
2 9 (16.07%) Amazon Redshift
3 8 (14.29%) Amazon Athena
4 7 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (10.71%) Metadata
6 5 (8.93%) DB2
7 4 (7.14%) CockroachDB
7 4 (7.14%) Data Lake
7 4 (7.14%) Power BI
8 3 (5.36%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (5.36%) Delta Lake
9 2 (3.57%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (3.57%) Data Mining
9 2 (3.57%) Electronic Patient Records
9 2 (3.57%) Pinecone
9 2 (3.57%) Snowflake Schema
9 2 (3.57%) Tableau
10 1 (1.79%) Apache Iceberg
10 1 (1.79%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 1 (1.79%) Data Hub
Development Applications
1 14 (25.00%) Git
2 10 (17.86%) GitLab
3 6 (10.71%) Jenkins
3 6 (10.71%) JIRA
4 4 (7.14%) JUnit
5 3 (5.36%) Cucumber
5 3 (5.36%) Mockito
5 3 (5.36%) Postman
6 1 (1.79%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.79%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.79%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.79%) Terragrunt
General
1 13 (23.21%) Finance
2 9 (16.07%) Public Sector
2 9 (16.07%) Social Skills
3 8 (14.29%) Banking
4 1 (1.79%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.79%) Law
4 1 (1.79%) Legal
4 1 (1.79%) Military
4 1 (1.79%) Police
Job Titles
1 11 (19.64%) Architect
2 9 (16.07%) Data Engineer
3 7 (12.50%) Developer
3 7 (12.50%) Senior
4 5 (8.93%) AWS Engineer
4 5 (8.93%) Cloud Architect
5 4 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (5.36%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 3 (5.36%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 3 (5.36%) Automation Engineer
6 3 (5.36%) AWS Architect
6 3 (5.36%) Data Architect
6 3 (5.36%) Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (5.36%) Python Engineer
7 2 (3.57%) AWS DevOps
7 2 (3.57%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 2 (3.57%) AWS Infrastructure Architect
7 2 (3.57%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 2 (3.57%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 2 (3.57%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (16.07%) PySpark
2 8 (14.29%) Kafka
2 8 (14.29%) SOAP
3 7 (12.50%) boto
3 7 (12.50%) React
4 6 (10.71%) Node.js
4 6 (10.71%) RESTful
4 6 (10.71%) Spring
4 6 (10.71%) Spring Boot
5 5 (8.93%) JSON
5 5 (8.93%) REST
6 4 (7.14%) Web Services
6 4 (7.14%) WSDL
7 3 (5.36%) Flask
7 3 (5.36%) Gherkin
7 3 (5.36%) LangGraph
7 3 (5.36%) Model Context Protocol
7 3 (5.36%) OAuth
7 3 (5.36%) WireMock
7 3 (5.36%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (26.79%) Cloud Native
2 4 (7.14%) DataPower
2 4 (7.14%) Mainframe
2 4 (7.14%) Online Banking
3 3 (5.36%) AI Agents
3 3 (5.36%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.57%) Data Structures
4 2 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.57%) NHS
4 2 (3.57%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.79%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.79%) IoT
5 1 (1.79%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.79%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.79%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.14%) zOS
2 2 (3.57%) Linux
2 2 (3.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (55.36%) CI/CD
2 28 (50.00%) DevOps
3 25 (44.64%) Infrastructure as Code
4 17 (30.36%) AI
5 13 (23.21%) Analytics
6 12 (21.43%) Data Engineering
7 11 (19.64%) Agile
7 11 (19.64%) Containerisation
7 11 (19.64%) Performance Tuning
8 10 (17.86%) ETL
8 10 (17.86%) LLM
8 10 (17.86%) Observability
9 9 (16.07%) Event-Driven
10 8 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
10 8 (14.29%) Generative AI
10 8 (14.29%) Migration
10 8 (14.29%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
10 8 (14.29%) Test Automation
11 7 (12.50%) Integration Patterns
11 7 (12.50%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 32 (57.14%) Python
2 22 (39.29%) SQL
3 7 (12.50%) Java
3 7 (12.50%) JavaScript
4 6 (10.71%) TypeScript
5 5 (8.93%) Bicep
6 4 (7.14%) C#
6 4 (7.14%) JCL
6 4 (7.14%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.79%) Bash
7 1 (1.79%) Go
7 1 (1.79%) PHP
7 1 (1.79%) Ruby
7 1 (1.79%) Scala
Qualifications
1 15 (26.79%) SC Cleared
1 15 (26.79%) Security Cleared
2 3 (5.36%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (3.57%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.79%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (1.79%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (1.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.79%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (14.29%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.57%) PCI DSS
2 2 (3.57%) QA
3 1 (1.79%) GDPR
3 1 (1.79%) NCSC
3 1 (1.79%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (21.43%) Docker
2 2 (3.57%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.57%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 22 (39.29%) Terraform
2 13 (23.21%) Kubernetes
3 3 (5.36%) Grafana
3 3 (5.36%) Prometheus
4 2 (3.57%) Ansible
4 2 (3.57%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.79%) Istio
5 1 (1.79%) Kibana
5 1 (1.79%) Kustomize
5 1 (1.79%) linkerd
5 1 (1.79%) Opsgenie
5 1 (1.79%) Puppet
5 1 (1.79%) Salt
Vendors
1 8 (14.29%) Databricks
2 7 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 4 (7.14%) OpenAI
4 3 (5.36%) Foundry
4 3 (5.36%) Palantir
4 3 (5.36%) SAP
5 2 (3.57%) Oracle
5 2 (3.57%) Splunk
6 1 (1.79%) Amplitude
6 1 (1.79%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.79%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.79%) Sybase