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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 71 84
Rank change year-on-year -10 +13 -16
Contract jobs citing Serverless 59 44 41
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.60% 2.49% 1.99%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.31% 6.15% 5.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 31 31
10th Percentile £419 £425 £475
25th Percentile £464 £488 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £572 £625 £538
Median % change year-on-year -8.48% +16.28% -14.00%
75th Percentile £725 £738 £631
90th Percentile £775 £800 £788
Central London median daily rate £572 £625 £538
% change year-on-year -8.48% +16.28% -14.00%

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 935 716 816
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.15% 40.59% 39.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 666 485 555
10th Percentile £363 £336 £383
25th Percentile £460 £435 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £560
Median % change year-on-year - -1.79% -2.61%
75th Percentile £656 £668 £675
90th Percentile £750 £759 £766
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £552
% change year-on-year - -0.32% -2.13%
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% -10.74%
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 £31.00
% change year-on-year -4.41% +9.68% +2.48%

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 4 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 (6.78%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (6.78%) Confluence
2 2 (3.39%) Apache
2 2 (3.39%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.39%) CICS
2 2 (3.39%) CMS
2 2 (3.39%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.39%) Umbraco
3 1 (1.69%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (5.08%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (6.78%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (3.39%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 41 (69.49%) AWS
2 37 (62.71%) AWS Lambda
3 29 (49.15%) Amazon S3
4 21 (35.59%) Azure
5 16 (27.12%) Azure Functions
6 14 (23.73%) GitHub
7 12 (20.34%) Power Platform
8 10 (16.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 10 (16.95%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (15.25%) Azure Logic Apps
10 8 (13.56%) Amazon EC2
10 8 (13.56%) Amazon SQS
10 8 (13.56%) AWS Step Functions
10 8 (13.56%) Azure Service Bus
10 8 (13.56%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (11.86%) AWS CloudFormation
11 7 (11.86%) Power Automate
11 7 (11.86%) SaaS
12 6 (10.17%) Dynamics 365
12 6 (10.17%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.39%) Firewall
2 1 (1.69%) FTP
2 1 (1.69%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (25.42%) Amazon Athena
2 11 (18.64%) Amazon RDS
2 11 (18.64%) DynamoDB
3 10 (16.95%) Amazon Redshift
4 7 (11.86%) Power BI
5 5 (8.47%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (8.47%) Metadata
6 4 (6.78%) Delta Lake
7 3 (5.08%) NoSQL
7 3 (5.08%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (5.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (3.39%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (3.39%) BigQuery
8 2 (3.39%) Data Lake
8 2 (3.39%) Data Mining
8 2 (3.39%) Db2
8 2 (3.39%) Electronic Patient Records
8 2 (3.39%) MongoDB
8 2 (3.39%) Relational Database
9 1 (1.69%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 12 (20.34%) Git
2 10 (16.95%) GitLab
2 10 (16.95%) JIRA
3 5 (8.47%) Bitbucket
3 5 (8.47%) Jenkins
4 4 (6.78%) JUnit
5 3 (5.08%) Cucumber
5 3 (5.08%) Mockito
5 3 (5.08%) Postman
6 2 (3.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (3.39%) Visual Studio
6 2 (3.39%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (1.69%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.69%) Cypress.io
7 1 (1.69%) Jasmine
7 1 (1.69%) JMeter
7 1 (1.69%) Karma Test Runner
7 1 (1.69%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 23 (38.98%) Finance
2 16 (27.12%) Social Skills
3 11 (18.64%) Public Sector
4 9 (15.25%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (15.25%) Banking
5 4 (6.78%) Back Office
5 4 (6.78%) Marketing
6 2 (3.39%) Military
7 1 (1.69%) Billing
7 1 (1.69%) Front Office
7 1 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.69%) Law
7 1 (1.69%) Legal
7 1 (1.69%) Police
7 1 (1.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (22.03%) AWS Engineer
1 13 (22.03%) Developer
2 12 (20.34%) Senior
3 11 (18.64%) Architect
4 9 (15.25%) Data Engineer
5 6 (10.17%) AWS Data Engineer
6 5 (8.47%) Lead
7 4 (6.78%) AWS Architect
7 4 (6.78%) Dynamics 365 Developer
7 4 (6.78%) Platform Architect
7 4 (6.78%) Senior Data Engineer
8 3 (5.08%) Automation Engineer
8 3 (5.08%) Cloud Architect
8 3 (5.08%) Data Architect
8 3 (5.08%) Full-Stack Developer
8 3 (5.08%) Power Platform Developer
8 3 (5.08%) Software Engineer
8 3 (5.08%) Workflow Engineer
9 2 (3.39%) GCP Engineer
9 2 (3.39%) Power Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (32.20%) Terraform
2 13 (22.03%) .NET
3 8 (13.56%) REST
4 6 (10.17%) PySpark
4 6 (10.17%) React
4 6 (10.17%) SOAP
5 5 (8.47%) Node.js
5 5 (8.47%) Spring
5 5 (8.47%) Spring Boot
6 4 (6.78%) Kafka
6 4 (6.78%) RESTful
7 3 (5.08%) ActiveMQ
7 3 (5.08%) Gherkin
7 3 (5.08%) HTML5 Canvas
7 3 (5.08%) JSON
7 3 (5.08%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (5.08%) WireMock
7 3 (5.08%) YAML
8 2 (3.39%) Jest
8 2 (3.39%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 22 (37.29%) Cloud Native
2 5 (8.47%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (5.08%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (5.08%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.39%) AI Agents
4 2 (3.39%) DataPower
4 2 (3.39%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.39%) Low-Code
4 2 (3.39%) Mainframe
4 2 (3.39%) NHS
4 2 (3.39%) Online Banking
4 2 (3.39%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.39%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (1.69%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.69%) IoT
5 1 (1.69%) Over-the-Top Content
5 1 (1.69%) Replication
5 1 (1.69%) Smart Meter
5 1 (1.69%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.39%) zOS
2 1 (1.69%) Unix
2 1 (1.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (61.02%) CI/CD
2 25 (42.37%) DevOps
2 25 (42.37%) Infrastructure as Code
3 22 (37.29%) Agile
4 18 (30.51%) Data Engineering
5 16 (27.12%) Analytics
6 14 (23.73%) Data Modelling
6 14 (23.73%) Event-Driven
6 14 (23.73%) Test Automation
7 13 (22.03%) AI
8 11 (18.64%) Data Pipeline
8 11 (18.64%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (16.95%) Containerisation
9 10 (16.95%) Integration Patterns
10 9 (15.25%) Business Intelligence
10 9 (15.25%) Data Governance
10 9 (15.25%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 8 (13.56%) Migration
11 8 (13.56%) Performance Tuning
11 8 (13.56%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 24 (40.68%) Python
2 19 (32.20%) SQL
3 16 (27.12%) C#
4 11 (18.64%) TypeScript
5 10 (16.95%) JavaScript
6 6 (10.17%) Java
7 4 (6.78%) Bicep
8 2 (3.39%) Bash
8 2 (3.39%) JCL
8 2 (3.39%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.69%) Korn
9 1 (1.69%) Scala
Qualifications
1 10 (16.95%) Security Cleared
2 8 (13.56%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.08%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (5.08%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (3.39%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.69%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 1 (1.69%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.69%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (15.25%) Data Quality
2 7 (11.86%) QA
3 3 (5.08%) Accessibility
3 3 (5.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (5.08%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.69%) GDPR
4 1 (1.69%) NCSC
4 1 (1.69%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (13.56%) Docker
2 3 (5.08%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (18.64%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.39%) Ansible
2 2 (3.39%) Grafana
3 1 (1.69%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.69%) Puppet
3 1 (1.69%) Salt
3 1 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (28.81%) Microsoft
2 6 (10.17%) Databricks
3 3 (5.08%) Oracle
4 2 (3.39%) Adyen
4 2 (3.39%) OpenAI
4 2 (3.39%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.69%) Fortinet
5 1 (1.69%) Informatica
5 1 (1.69%) New Relic
5 1 (1.69%) SAP
5 1 (1.69%) Splunk
5 1 (1.69%) Teradata