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 13 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 84 62
Rank change year-on-year +2 -22 +12
Contract jobs citing Serverless 37 39 86
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.10% 1.85% 3.14%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.03% 4.69% 7.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 28 47
10th Percentile £351 £499 £410
25th Percentile £447 £553 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £593 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.95% +7.73% -
75th Percentile £688 £738 £644
90th Percentile £800 £829 £725
Central London median daily rate £563 £593 £575
% change year-on-year -5.06% +3.04% +4.55%

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 735 831 1,117
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.81% 39.44% 40.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 546 537 776
10th Percentile £346 £400 £354
25th Percentile £430 £475 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £674 £675 £675
90th Percentile £758 £765 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 10
10th Percentile £22.30 £32.05 £16.53
25th Percentile £26.75 £39.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £34.00 £56.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -39.29% +169.88% +1.22%
75th Percentile £56.75 £76.13 £46.06
90th Percentile £70.21 £85.95 £54.63
Central London median hourly rate £28.50 £35.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -18.57% +84.21% -7.32%

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 13 November 2025.

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 2 (5.41%) Apache
1 2 (5.41%) Confluence
2 1 (2.70%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.70%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.70%) CICS
2 1 (2.70%) CMS
2 1 (2.70%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Aladdin
1 1 (2.70%) Fidessa
1 1 (2.70%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 30 (81.08%) AWS
1 30 (81.08%) AWS Lambda
2 21 (56.76%) Amazon S3
3 14 (37.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 12 (32.43%) Azure
5 9 (24.32%) Amazon ECS
5 9 (24.32%) GitHub
6 7 (18.92%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (13.51%) AWS Step Functions
7 5 (13.51%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (13.51%) Azure Functions
7 5 (13.51%) Snowflake
8 4 (10.81%) Amazon Cognito
8 4 (10.81%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (10.81%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (10.81%) Amazon SQS
8 4 (10.81%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (10.81%) AWS Fargate
9 3 (8.11%) Amazon ECR
9 3 (8.11%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.11%) DNS
2 1 (2.70%) DKIM
2 1 (2.70%) NAS
2 1 (2.70%) OpenLDAP
2 1 (2.70%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (2.70%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (29.73%) DynamoDB
2 5 (13.51%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (8.11%) NoSQL
3 3 (8.11%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (8.11%) SQL Server
4 2 (5.41%) Airbyte
4 2 (5.41%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (5.41%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (5.41%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (5.41%) Power BI
4 2 (5.41%) Relational Database
4 2 (5.41%) Tableau
5 1 (2.70%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (2.70%) Data Lake
5 1 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.70%) Delta Lake
5 1 (2.70%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (2.70%) Metadata
5 1 (2.70%) Parquet
5 1 (2.70%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 5 (13.51%) Git
2 3 (8.11%) JIRA
3 2 (5.41%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.70%) GitLab
4 1 (2.70%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 5 (13.51%) Finance
1 5 (13.51%) Social Skills
2 4 (10.81%) Banking
2 4 (10.81%) Investment Banking
3 3 (8.11%) Front Office
3 3 (8.11%) Public Sector
4 2 (5.41%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.41%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.70%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (24.32%) Developer
2 6 (16.22%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (10.81%) Architect
3 4 (10.81%) AWS Engineer
3 4 (10.81%) Lead
3 4 (10.81%) Python Engineer
3 4 (10.81%) Senior
4 3 (8.11%) Azure Developer
4 3 (8.11%) Data Engineer
4 3 (8.11%) Integration Developer
4 3 (8.11%) Software Design Engineer
4 3 (8.11%) Software Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Apigee Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) AWS DevOps
5 2 (5.41%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Backend Developer
5 2 (5.41%) JavaScript Developer
5 2 (5.41%) NoSQL Developer
5 2 (5.41%) Senior Data Engineer
6 1 (2.70%) Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (24.32%) Node.js
2 6 (16.22%) .NET
2 6 (16.22%) AngularJS
2 6 (16.22%) OAuth
2 6 (16.22%) React
3 4 (10.81%) RESTful
4 3 (8.11%) AWS CDK
4 3 (8.11%) FastAPI
4 3 (8.11%) GraphQL
4 3 (8.11%) JWT
4 3 (8.11%) OAuth2
4 3 (8.11%) OpenTelemetry
4 3 (8.11%) REST
4 3 (8.11%) WebSockets
5 2 (5.41%) CSS
5 2 (5.41%) Flask
5 2 (5.41%) HTML
5 2 (5.41%) SQLAlchemy
6 1 (2.70%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (2.70%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 10 (27.03%) Cloud Native
2 4 (10.81%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (8.11%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (8.11%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.70%) AI Agents
4 1 (2.70%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.70%) Data Fabric
4 1 (2.70%) Derivative
4 1 (2.70%) Fixed Income
4 1 (2.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.70%) Mainframe
4 1 (2.70%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.70%) NHS
4 1 (2.70%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.70%) Virtual Team
4 1 (2.70%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.41%) Linux
2 1 (2.70%) AIX
2 1 (2.70%) Android
2 1 (2.70%) Apple iOS
2 1 (2.70%) Solaris
2 1 (2.70%) Unix
2 1 (2.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (45.95%) CI/CD
2 15 (40.54%) DevOps
3 13 (35.14%) Agile
4 12 (32.43%) Infrastructure as Code
5 10 (27.03%) Event-Driven
6 8 (21.62%) Analytics
6 8 (21.62%) Software Engineering
7 7 (18.92%) Data Pipeline
7 7 (18.92%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 7 (18.92%) Observability
8 6 (16.22%) Full-Stack Development
8 6 (16.22%) User Experience
9 5 (13.51%) Mentoring
9 5 (13.51%) Microservices
10 4 (10.81%) Code Quality
10 4 (10.81%) Containerisation
10 4 (10.81%) Design Patterns
10 4 (10.81%) Performance Optimisation
10 4 (10.81%) Problem-Solving
10 4 (10.81%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 22 (59.46%) Python
2 12 (32.43%) SQL
3 8 (21.62%) JavaScript
4 7 (18.92%) Java
5 5 (13.51%) TypeScript
6 3 (8.11%) C#
7 2 (5.41%) Bash
8 1 (2.70%) Apex Code
8 1 (2.70%) COBOL
8 1 (2.70%) Go
8 1 (2.70%) Shell Script
8 1 (2.70%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 9 (24.32%) SC Cleared
1 9 (24.32%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.41%) AWS Certification
2 2 (5.41%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.11%) Data Quality
1 3 (8.11%) GDPR
2 1 (2.70%) HMG Security Policy Framework
2 1 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.70%) MiFID
2 1 (2.70%) NCSC
2 1 (2.70%) QA
System Software
1 5 (13.51%) Docker
2 1 (2.70%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (27.03%) Terraform
2 3 (8.11%) Ansible
2 3 (8.11%) Prometheus
3 2 (5.41%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (2.70%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (24.32%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.70%) Atlassian
2 1 (2.70%) Databricks
2 1 (2.70%) NetApp
2 1 (2.70%) Portware
2 1 (2.70%) Salesforce