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

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 80 64
Rank change year-on-year -2 -16 +13
Contract jobs citing Serverless 48 40 64
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.43% 2.19% 2.71%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.83% 5.27% 7.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 33 38
10th Percentile £316 £434 £404
25th Percentile £359 £490 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% +9.52% -3.89%
75th Percentile £621 £700 £625
90th Percentile £683 £820 £729
Central London median daily rate £503 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -12.48% +9.52% -3.23%

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 823 759 897
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.65% 41.63% 37.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 592 485 635
10th Percentile £338 £400 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £748
Central London median daily rate £525 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -7.08% +2.73% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 11
10th Percentile £31.88 £28.98 £12.75
25th Percentile £39.44 £35.46 £17.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £47.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +150.00% -55.81%
75th Percentile £55.94 £118.13 £36.25
90th Percentile £66.53 £159.75 £50.25
Central London median hourly rate £40.50 £35.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year +15.71% +84.21% -45.71%

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 1 March 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 3 (6.25%) Palantir Foundry
2 2 (4.17%) Apache
2 2 (4.17%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (4.17%) CICS
3 1 (2.08%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.08%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 40 (83.33%) AWS
2 38 (79.17%) AWS Lambda
3 22 (45.83%) Amazon S3
4 17 (35.42%) Azure
4 17 (35.42%) GitHub
5 14 (29.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 9 (18.75%) AWS CloudFormation
6 9 (18.75%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (18.75%) GitHub Actions
7 8 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
7 8 (16.67%) Azure Functions
8 6 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (10.42%) AWS Fargate
9 5 (10.42%) Power Platform
10 4 (8.33%) Amazon ECR
10 4 (8.33%) Apigee
10 4 (8.33%) AWS CodePipeline
10 4 (8.33%) Snowflake
11 3 (6.25%) Amazon Bedrock
11 3 (6.25%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.25%) DNS
2 1 (2.08%) DKIM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (29.17%) DynamoDB
2 6 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (10.42%) Amazon Athena
3 5 (10.42%) Amazon Redshift
3 5 (10.42%) Power BI
4 4 (8.33%) CockroachDB
5 3 (6.25%) Data Lake
5 3 (6.25%) DB2
5 3 (6.25%) Metadata
6 2 (4.17%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (4.17%) Delta Lake
6 2 (4.17%) NoSQL
6 2 (4.17%) Pinecone
6 2 (4.17%) Tableau
7 1 (2.08%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (2.08%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (2.08%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (2.08%) Relational Database
7 1 (2.08%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 12 (25.00%) Git
2 5 (10.42%) GitLab
2 5 (10.42%) Jenkins
3 4 (8.33%) JIRA
4 3 (6.25%) JUnit
5 2 (4.17%) Cucumber
5 2 (4.17%) Mockito
5 2 (4.17%) Postman
6 1 (2.08%) Bitbucket
6 1 (2.08%) Terragrunt
6 1 (2.08%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 7 (14.58%) Banking
2 5 (10.42%) Finance
2 5 (10.42%) Public Sector
3 4 (8.33%) Social Skills
4 2 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (4.17%) Front Office
4 2 (4.17%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (18.75%) Data Engineer
2 8 (16.67%) Developer
2 8 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 6 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
4 5 (10.42%) Senior
5 4 (8.33%) Architect
5 4 (8.33%) Python Engineer
6 3 (6.25%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 3 (6.25%) AWS DevOps
6 3 (6.25%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 3 (6.25%) Cloud Architect
6 3 (6.25%) Lead
6 3 (6.25%) Senior Data Engineer
7 2 (4.17%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 2 (4.17%) Apigee Engineer
7 2 (4.17%) Automation Engineer
7 2 (4.17%) AWS Developer
7 2 (4.17%) Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (4.17%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 1 (2.08%) Integration Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (22.92%) Node.js
2 7 (14.58%) boto
2 7 (14.58%) React
3 5 (10.42%) Kafka
3 5 (10.42%) OAuth
3 5 (10.42%) PySpark
4 4 (8.33%) .NET
4 4 (8.33%) JWT
4 4 (8.33%) REST
4 4 (8.33%) RESTful
4 4 (8.33%) SOAP
4 4 (8.33%) Spring
4 4 (8.33%) Spring Boot
5 3 (6.25%) AngularJS
5 3 (6.25%) AWS CDK
5 3 (6.25%) Flask
5 3 (6.25%) HTML
5 3 (6.25%) LangGraph
5 3 (6.25%) Model Context Protocol
5 3 (6.25%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 13 (27.08%) Cloud Native
2 5 (10.42%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (4.17%) AI Agents
4 2 (4.17%) Data Structures
4 2 (4.17%) DataPower
4 2 (4.17%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (4.17%) Mainframe
4 2 (4.17%) Management Information System
4 2 (4.17%) Online Banking
4 2 (4.17%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.08%) Data Fabric
5 1 (2.08%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.25%) Linux
2 2 (4.17%) zOS
3 1 (2.08%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (52.08%) CI/CD
2 22 (45.83%) DevOps
3 20 (41.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 12 (25.00%) Analytics
5 10 (20.83%) AI
5 10 (20.83%) Data Pipeline
5 10 (20.83%) Performance Tuning
6 9 (18.75%) Agile
6 9 (18.75%) ETL
6 9 (18.75%) Event-Driven
7 8 (16.67%) Microservices
8 7 (14.58%) Full-Stack Development
9 6 (12.50%) Data Engineering
9 6 (12.50%) Data Modelling
9 6 (12.50%) Observability
9 6 (12.50%) Workflow
10 5 (10.42%) Containerisation
10 5 (10.42%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 5 (10.42%) Semantic Search
10 5 (10.42%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 32 (66.67%) Python
2 23 (47.92%) SQL
3 9 (18.75%) Java
4 8 (16.67%) JavaScript
5 4 (8.33%) C#
5 4 (8.33%) TypeScript
6 3 (6.25%) Shell Script
7 2 (4.17%) Bicep
7 2 (4.17%) JCL
8 1 (2.08%) Apex Code
8 1 (2.08%) Bash
8 1 (2.08%) Go
8 1 (2.08%) PHP
8 1 (2.08%) Ruby
8 1 (2.08%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 16 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 16 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.25%) AWS Certification
3 2 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.08%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (2.08%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (2.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (16.67%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.08%) GDPR
2 1 (2.08%) HMG Security Policy Framework
2 1 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.08%) NCSC
System Software
1 9 (18.75%) Docker
2 2 (4.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (39.58%) Terraform
2 8 (16.67%) Kubernetes
3 4 (8.33%) Ansible
4 1 (2.08%) Kibana
4 1 (2.08%) Opsgenie
4 1 (2.08%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (14.58%) Microsoft
2 6 (12.50%) Databricks
3 3 (6.25%) Foundry
3 3 (6.25%) Palantir
4 2 (4.17%) OpenAI
4 2 (4.17%) SAP
5 1 (2.08%) Amplitude
5 1 (2.08%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.08%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.08%) Sybase