Serverless Contracts in the City of London

Serverless Computing
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Serverless skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Serverless over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 73 73
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 -23
Contract jobs citing Serverless 47 54 118
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 2.68% 2.46% 3.24%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.20% 6.33% 8.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 35 55
10th Percentile £425 £394 £468
25th Percentile £464 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -12.50% -7.69%
75th Percentile £700 £569 £750
90th Percentile £815 £698 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% -7.69%

All Cloud 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 758 853 1,389
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 43.17% 38.83% 38.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 487 606 942
10th Percentile £375 £363 £313
25th Percentile £463 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £669 £669 £713
90th Percentile £743 £763 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £538 £575
% change year-on-year +2.33% -6.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 7
10th Percentile £24.66 £12.75 £44.75
25th Percentile £29.64 £14.88 £65.57
Median hourly rate £42.50 £22.50 £84.09
Median % change year-on-year +88.89% -73.24% +388.40%
75th Percentile £74.38 £26.19 £88.30
90th Percentile £135.00 £38.63 -
Central London median hourly rate £34.83 £22.50 £82.50
% change year-on-year +54.78% -72.73% +379.16%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Serverless as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Serverless in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Serverless in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Serverless in the City of London

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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 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Serverless in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.13%) Apache
1 1 (2.13%) Apache Spark
1 1 (2.13%) BizTalk Server
1 1 (2.13%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 3 (6.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.13%) Endur
2 1 (2.13%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 32 (68.09%) AWS
2 25 (53.19%) AWS Lambda
3 18 (38.30%) Azure
4 10 (21.28%) Amazon S3
5 8 (17.02%) Amazon SQS
6 7 (14.89%) Azure Functions
7 6 (12.77%) Azure AKS
7 6 (12.77%) PaaS
8 5 (10.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 5 (10.64%) Amazon EKS
8 5 (10.64%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (10.64%) GitHub
8 5 (10.64%) Power Platform
9 4 (8.51%) AWS Step Functions
9 4 (8.51%) Azure Logic Apps
9 4 (8.51%) Azure Sentinel
9 4 (8.51%) Azure Service Bus
9 4 (8.51%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (8.51%) SaaS
10 3 (6.38%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 6 (12.77%) Firewall
2 4 (8.51%) VPN
3 2 (4.26%) DHCP
3 2 (4.26%) DNS
3 2 (4.26%) TCP/IP
4 1 (2.13%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (14.89%) DynamoDB
2 6 (12.77%) Amazon Athena
2 6 (12.77%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (10.64%) DocumentDB
3 5 (10.64%) NoSQL
3 5 (10.64%) Redis
4 4 (8.51%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (6.38%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (6.38%) Tableau
6 2 (4.26%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (4.26%) Data Lake
6 2 (4.26%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (4.26%) MongoDB
7 1 (2.13%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (2.13%) BigQuery
7 1 (2.13%) MySQL
7 1 (2.13%) Oracle Database
7 1 (2.13%) Parquet
7 1 (2.13%) Power BI
7 1 (2.13%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (12.77%) Git
2 5 (10.64%) SonarQube
3 2 (4.26%) GitLab
4 1 (2.13%) CircleCI
4 1 (2.13%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.13%) JIRA
General
1 13 (27.66%) Public Sector
2 9 (19.15%) Finance
3 5 (10.64%) Social Skills
4 2 (4.26%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.26%) Banking
5 1 (2.13%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (2.13%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.13%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.13%) Military
5 1 (2.13%) Retail
5 1 (2.13%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (23.40%) Architect
2 7 (14.89%) Developer
3 6 (12.77%) Azure Architect
3 6 (12.77%) Data Engineer
3 6 (12.77%) Senior
4 5 (10.64%) Cloud Architect
4 5 (10.64%) JavaScript Engineer
4 5 (10.64%) Lead
4 5 (10.64%) Solutions Architect
5 4 (8.51%) AWS Engineer
5 4 (8.51%) Software Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) AWS Architect
6 3 (6.38%) Cloud Solutions Architect
6 3 (6.38%) Security Architect
6 3 (6.38%) Senior Architect
6 3 (6.38%) Technical Leader
7 2 (4.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (4.26%) Principal Engineer
7 2 (4.26%) Principal Software Engineer
7 2 (4.26%) Security Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (29.79%) Node.js
2 10 (21.28%) React
3 6 (12.77%) .NET
4 4 (8.51%) Kafka
5 3 (6.38%) AWS CDK
5 3 (6.38%) GraphQL
6 2 (4.26%) ARM Templates
6 2 (4.26%) Azure Blueprints
6 2 (4.26%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (4.26%) Jest
6 2 (4.26%) RESTful
7 1 (2.13%) .NET Core
7 1 (2.13%) AngularJS
7 1 (2.13%) JSON
7 1 (2.13%) NumPy
7 1 (2.13%) OpenCV
7 1 (2.13%) PySpark
7 1 (2.13%) PyTorch
7 1 (2.13%) SciPy
7 1 (2.13%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 11 (23.40%) Cloud Native
2 4 (8.51%) Public Cloud
3 3 (6.38%) Low-Code
4 2 (4.26%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (4.26%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (4.26%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (4.26%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (4.26%) Reinsurance
5 1 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.13%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.51%) Linux
2 3 (6.38%) Windows
3 2 (4.26%) Unix
3 2 (4.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (51.06%) DevOps
2 19 (40.43%) CI/CD
2 19 (40.43%) Microservices
3 16 (34.04%) Infrastructure as Code
4 11 (23.40%) Agile
5 10 (21.28%) Containerisation
6 7 (14.89%) Cloud Security
7 6 (12.77%) Software Engineering
8 5 (10.64%) Migration
8 5 (10.64%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (10.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 5 (10.64%) Technical Leadership
9 4 (8.51%) Analytics
9 4 (8.51%) CRM
9 4 (8.51%) Cybersecurity
9 4 (8.51%) Enterprise Architecture
9 4 (8.51%) High Availability
9 4 (8.51%) Requirements Gathering
9 4 (8.51%) Service-Level Objective
9 4 (8.51%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 14 (29.79%) JavaScript
1 14 (29.79%) Python
2 10 (21.28%) SQL
3 6 (12.77%) TypeScript
4 5 (10.64%) Bicep
5 4 (8.51%) PowerShell
6 3 (6.38%) Go
6 3 (6.38%) Shell Script
7 2 (4.26%) C#
7 2 (4.26%) Perl
7 2 (4.26%) Rust
8 1 (2.13%) Bash
8 1 (2.13%) C++
8 1 (2.13%) Java
8 1 (2.13%) PL/SQL
8 1 (2.13%) Scala
8 1 (2.13%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (34.04%) Security Cleared
2 15 (31.91%) SC Cleared
3 5 (10.64%) AWS Certification
4 4 (8.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (6.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (4.26%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (2.13%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (2.13%) Degree
7 1 (2.13%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.51%) GDPR
2 2 (4.26%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.26%) SOC 2
3 1 (2.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (2.13%) HIPAA
3 1 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.13%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (12.77%) Docker
2 3 (6.38%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (4.26%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 20 (42.55%) Terraform
2 16 (34.04%) Kubernetes
3 6 (12.77%) Ansible
4 1 (2.13%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 12 (25.53%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.26%) Oracle
2 2 (4.26%) Splunk
3 1 (2.13%) AppDynamics
3 1 (2.13%) Google
3 1 (2.13%) MuleSoft
3 1 (2.13%) Okta
3 1 (2.13%) OpenLink
3 1 (2.13%) Salesforce