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

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 79 85
Rank change year-on-year -11 +6 -16
Contract jobs citing Serverless 58 42 44
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.56% 2.38% 2.12%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.21% 5.90% 5.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 31 32
10th Percentile £419 £425 £476
25th Percentile £464 £488 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £586 £625 £563
Median % change year-on-year -6.24% +11.11% -6.25%
75th Percentile £738 £738 £628
90th Percentile £775 £800 £788
Central London median daily rate £600 £625 £550
% change year-on-year -4.00% +13.64% -8.33%

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 934 712 842
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.25% 40.41% 40.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 665 492 558
10th Percentile £363 £341 £394
25th Percentile £456 £435 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year - -2.65% -0.88%
75th Percentile £656 £669 £675
90th Percentile £755 £750 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £563
% change year-on-year - -2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 12 3
10th Percentile £19.45 £23.84 -
25th Percentile £22.50 £26.23 -
Median hourly rate £24.00 £34.33 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.08% +27.13% +30.12%
75th Percentile £41.25 £58.96 £59.75
90th Percentile £67.00 £86.43 £79.40
Central London median hourly rate £32.50 £34.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -4.41% -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 17 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 (6.90%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (3.45%) Apache
2 2 (3.45%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.45%) CICS
2 2 (3.45%) CMS
2 2 (3.45%) Confluence
2 2 (3.45%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.45%) Umbraco
3 1 (1.72%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (5.17%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (6.90%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (3.45%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 41 (70.69%) AWS
2 37 (63.79%) AWS Lambda
3 29 (50.00%) Amazon S3
4 21 (36.21%) Azure
5 16 (27.59%) Azure Functions
6 15 (25.86%) GitHub
7 12 (20.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 12 (20.69%) Power Platform
8 10 (17.24%) Amazon EC2
8 10 (17.24%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (17.24%) GitHub Actions
9 9 (15.52%) Amazon Kinesis
9 9 (15.52%) AWS Step Functions
9 9 (15.52%) Azure Logic Apps
10 8 (13.79%) Amazon EventBridge
10 8 (13.79%) Azure Service Bus
11 7 (12.07%) AWS CloudFormation
11 7 (12.07%) Power Automate
11 7 (12.07%) SaaS
12 6 (10.34%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.45%) Firewall
2 1 (1.72%) FTP
2 1 (1.72%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (27.59%) Amazon Athena
2 13 (22.41%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (17.24%) Amazon Redshift
4 8 (13.79%) DynamoDB
5 7 (12.07%) Power BI
6 5 (8.62%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (8.62%) Metadata
7 4 (6.90%) Delta Lake
8 3 (5.17%) NoSQL
8 3 (5.17%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (5.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (3.45%) Amazon QuickSight
9 2 (3.45%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (3.45%) BigQuery
9 2 (3.45%) Data Lake
9 2 (3.45%) Data Mining
9 2 (3.45%) Db2
9 2 (3.45%) Electronic Patient Records
9 2 (3.45%) MongoDB
10 1 (1.72%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 12 (20.69%) GitLab
2 9 (15.52%) Git
3 8 (13.79%) Bitbucket
4 7 (12.07%) JIRA
5 4 (6.90%) Jenkins
6 3 (5.17%) JUnit
7 2 (3.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (3.45%) Cucumber
7 2 (3.45%) Mockito
7 2 (3.45%) Postman
7 2 (3.45%) Visual Studio
7 2 (3.45%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (1.72%) Artifactory
8 1 (1.72%) Jasmine
8 1 (1.72%) JMeter
8 1 (1.72%) Karma Test Runner
8 1 (1.72%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 24 (41.38%) Finance
2 16 (27.59%) Social Skills
3 11 (18.97%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (17.24%) Public Sector
5 9 (15.52%) Banking
6 7 (12.07%) Back Office
7 4 (6.90%) Marketing
8 3 (5.17%) Front Office
9 2 (3.45%) Military
9 2 (3.45%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (1.72%) Billing
10 1 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.72%) Investment Banking
10 1 (1.72%) Law
10 1 (1.72%) Legal
10 1 (1.72%) Police
10 1 (1.72%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (25.86%) AWS Engineer
2 14 (24.14%) Senior
3 12 (20.69%) Data Engineer
4 11 (18.97%) Architect
4 11 (18.97%) Developer
5 8 (13.79%) AWS Data Engineer
6 6 (10.34%) Senior Data Engineer
7 5 (8.62%) Lead
8 4 (6.90%) AWS Architect
8 4 (6.90%) Dynamics 365 Developer
8 4 (6.90%) Platform Architect
9 3 (5.17%) Cloud Architect
9 3 (5.17%) Cloud Engineer
9 3 (5.17%) Data Architect
9 3 (5.17%) Power Platform Developer
9 3 (5.17%) Workflow Engineer
10 2 (3.45%) Automation Engineer
10 2 (3.45%) GCP Data Engineer
10 2 (3.45%) GCP Engineer
10 2 (3.45%) Power Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (34.48%) Terraform
2 13 (22.41%) .NET
3 8 (13.79%) REST
4 6 (10.34%) ActiveMQ
4 6 (10.34%) PySpark
4 6 (10.34%) RabbitMQ
5 5 (8.62%) Node.js
5 5 (8.62%) SOAP
6 4 (6.90%) React
6 4 (6.90%) RESTful
6 4 (6.90%) Spring
6 4 (6.90%) Spring Boot
7 3 (5.17%) HTML5 Canvas
7 3 (5.17%) JSON
7 3 (5.17%) Kafka
8 2 (3.45%) .NET Framework
8 2 (3.45%) AngularJS
8 2 (3.45%) Gherkin
8 2 (3.45%) OAuth
8 2 (3.45%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (37.93%) Cloud Native
2 5 (8.62%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (6.90%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (5.17%) Onboarding
5 2 (3.45%) AI Agents
5 2 (3.45%) DataPower
5 2 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (3.45%) Low-Code
5 2 (3.45%) Mainframe
5 2 (3.45%) Online Banking
5 2 (3.45%) Product Ownership
5 2 (3.45%) PropTech
5 2 (3.45%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (1.72%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.72%) IoT
6 1 (1.72%) NHS
6 1 (1.72%) Over-the-Top Content
6 1 (1.72%) Replication
6 1 (1.72%) Smart Meter
6 1 (1.72%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.45%) zOS
2 1 (1.72%) Unix
2 1 (1.72%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (65.52%) CI/CD
2 26 (44.83%) Infrastructure as Code
3 24 (41.38%) DevOps
4 20 (34.48%) Data Engineering
5 19 (32.76%) Agile
6 17 (29.31%) Analytics
6 17 (29.31%) Data Modelling
6 17 (29.31%) Event-Driven
7 14 (24.14%) Data Pipeline
8 12 (20.69%) AI
8 12 (20.69%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 12 (20.69%) Integration Patterns
9 11 (18.97%) Containerisation
9 11 (18.97%) Problem-Solving
9 11 (18.97%) Test Automation
10 10 (17.24%) Performance Tuning
11 9 (15.52%) Business Intelligence
11 9 (15.52%) Data Governance
12 8 (13.79%) ETL
12 8 (13.79%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 24 (41.38%) Python
2 21 (36.21%) SQL
3 15 (25.86%) C#
4 9 (15.52%) TypeScript
5 8 (13.79%) JavaScript
6 5 (8.62%) Java
7 4 (6.90%) Bicep
8 2 (3.45%) Bash
8 2 (3.45%) JCL
8 2 (3.45%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.72%) Korn
9 1 (1.72%) Scala
Qualifications
1 9 (15.52%) Security Cleared
2 7 (12.07%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.17%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (3.45%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (3.45%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.72%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 1 (1.72%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (1.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.72%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.72%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (18.97%) Data Quality
2 7 (12.07%) QA
3 3 (5.17%) Accessibility
3 3 (5.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (5.17%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.72%) GDPR
4 1 (1.72%) NCSC
4 1 (1.72%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (12.07%) Docker
2 3 (5.17%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (15.52%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.45%) Ansible
2 2 (3.45%) Grafana
3 1 (1.72%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.72%) Puppet
3 1 (1.72%) Salt
3 1 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (29.31%) Microsoft
2 6 (10.34%) Databricks
3 3 (5.17%) Oracle
4 2 (3.45%) Adyen
4 2 (3.45%) OpenAI
4 2 (3.45%) ServiceNow
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%) Teradata