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 12 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 74 73
Rank change year-on-year -3 -1 0
Contract jobs citing Serverless 56 44 51
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.54% 2.52% 2.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.24% 5.85% 5.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 32 32
10th Percentile £343 £425 £413
25th Percentile £381 £484 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £625 £525
Median % change year-on-year -18.96% +19.05% -13.79%
75th Percentile £621 £709 £578
90th Percentile £678 £821 £749
Central London median daily rate £523 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -12.92% +14.29% -13.15%

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 898 752 869
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 40.76% 43.07% 38.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 635 484 609
10th Percentile £350 £376 £361
25th Percentile £450 £463 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £638 £671 £667
90th Percentile £750 £738 £763
Central London median daily rate £538 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -2.27% +2.23% -6.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 7 8
10th Percentile £33.72 £24.66 £12.75
25th Percentile £39.53 £29.64 £15.94
Median hourly rate £48.22 £42.50 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year +13.46% +104.82% -74.85%
75th Percentile £63.54 £74.38 £30.38
90th Percentile £75.53 £135.00 £57.30
Central London median hourly rate £40.64 £34.83 £20.75
% change year-on-year +16.70% +67.83% -60.48%

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 12 April 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 (7.14%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (5.36%) CICS
2 3 (5.36%) Palantir Foundry
3 2 (3.57%) Confluence
4 1 (1.79%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (1.79%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 46 (82.14%) AWS
2 41 (73.21%) AWS Lambda
3 27 (48.21%) Amazon S3
4 20 (35.71%) Azure
5 19 (33.93%) GitHub
6 15 (26.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 10 (17.86%) Amazon ECS
7 10 (17.86%) GitHub Actions
8 9 (16.07%) Azure Functions
9 8 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
9 8 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
9 8 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (10.71%) AWS Step Functions
11 5 (8.93%) AWS CodePipeline
11 5 (8.93%) AWS Fargate
11 5 (8.93%) Power Platform
12 4 (7.14%) Amazon SQS
12 4 (7.14%) Apigee
12 4 (7.14%) Azure Key Vault
12 4 (7.14%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.57%) DNS
1 2 (3.57%) Firewall
2 1 (1.79%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (32.14%) DynamoDB
2 9 (16.07%) Amazon Athena
3 7 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (12.50%) Amazon Redshift
4 4 (7.14%) CockroachDB
4 4 (7.14%) Data Lake
4 4 (7.14%) DB2
4 4 (7.14%) Metadata
4 4 (7.14%) Power BI
5 3 (5.36%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (3.57%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (3.57%) Amazon QuickSight
6 2 (3.57%) NoSQL
6 2 (3.57%) Pinecone
6 2 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (3.57%) Relational Database
6 2 (3.57%) Star Schema
6 2 (3.57%) Tableau
7 1 (1.79%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.79%) Data Hub
Development Applications
1 14 (25.00%) Git
2 9 (16.07%) GitLab
3 6 (10.71%) Jenkins
3 6 (10.71%) JIRA
4 4 (7.14%) JUnit
5 3 (5.36%) Cucumber
5 3 (5.36%) Mockito
5 3 (5.36%) Postman
6 1 (1.79%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.79%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.79%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.79%) Terragrunt
General
1 10 (17.86%) Finance
2 9 (16.07%) Public Sector
3 7 (12.50%) Banking
3 7 (12.50%) Social Skills
4 2 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.79%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.79%) Law
5 1 (1.79%) Military
5 1 (1.79%) Police
Job Titles
1 10 (17.86%) Data Engineer
2 8 (14.29%) Architect
3 7 (12.50%) Developer
3 7 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 7 (12.50%) Senior
4 6 (10.71%) AWS Engineer
5 5 (8.93%) Cloud Architect
6 3 (5.36%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 3 (5.36%) Automation Engineer
6 3 (5.36%) AWS Architect
6 3 (5.36%) AWS DevOps
6 3 (5.36%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 3 (5.36%) Cloud Engineer
6 3 (5.36%) Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (5.36%) Python Engineer
6 3 (5.36%) Senior Data Engineer
7 2 (3.57%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 2 (3.57%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 2 (3.57%) Snowflake Data Engineer
7 2 (3.57%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (16.07%) Node.js
2 7 (12.50%) boto
2 7 (12.50%) Kafka
2 7 (12.50%) PySpark
2 7 (12.50%) React
3 6 (10.71%) OAuth
3 6 (10.71%) SOAP
3 6 (10.71%) Spring
3 6 (10.71%) Spring Boot
4 5 (8.93%) RESTful
5 4 (7.14%) JSON
5 4 (7.14%) JWT
5 4 (7.14%) REST
6 3 (5.36%) Flask
6 3 (5.36%) Gherkin
6 3 (5.36%) LangGraph
6 3 (5.36%) Model Context Protocol
6 3 (5.36%) Web Services
6 3 (5.36%) WireMock
6 3 (5.36%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 16 (28.57%) Cloud Native
2 5 (8.93%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (8.93%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (5.36%) DataPower
3 3 (5.36%) Mainframe
3 3 (5.36%) Online Banking
4 2 (3.57%) AI Agents
4 2 (3.57%) Data Structures
4 2 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.57%) NHS
4 2 (3.57%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.79%) IoT
5 1 (1.79%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.79%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.79%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.36%) Linux
1 3 (5.36%) zOS
2 2 (3.57%) Windows
3 1 (1.79%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 29 (51.79%) DevOps
3 27 (48.21%) Infrastructure as Code
4 14 (25.00%) AI
4 14 (25.00%) Analytics
5 11 (19.64%) Agile
5 11 (19.64%) Performance Tuning
6 10 (17.86%) Containerisation
6 10 (17.86%) ETL
7 9 (16.07%) Data Engineering
7 9 (16.07%) Observability
8 8 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
8 8 (14.29%) Event-Driven
8 8 (14.29%) LLM
8 8 (14.29%) Microservices
8 8 (14.29%) Migration
9 7 (12.50%) Test Automation
10 6 (10.71%) Data Modelling
10 6 (10.71%) Validation
10 6 (10.71%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 34 (60.71%) Python
2 21 (37.50%) SQL
3 8 (14.29%) Java
4 7 (12.50%) JavaScript
5 6 (10.71%) TypeScript
6 4 (7.14%) Bicep
6 4 (7.14%) Shell Script
7 3 (5.36%) C#
7 3 (5.36%) JCL
8 1 (1.79%) Bash
8 1 (1.79%) Go
8 1 (1.79%) PHP
8 1 (1.79%) Ruby
8 1 (1.79%) Scala
Qualifications
1 19 (33.93%) SC Cleared
1 19 (33.93%) Security Cleared
2 3 (5.36%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (3.57%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.79%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (1.79%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (1.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.79%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (14.29%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.57%) PCI DSS
2 2 (3.57%) QA
3 1 (1.79%) NCSC
3 1 (1.79%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (25.00%) Docker
2 2 (3.57%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.57%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 25 (44.64%) Terraform
2 13 (23.21%) Kubernetes
3 5 (8.93%) Ansible
4 3 (5.36%) Grafana
4 3 (5.36%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.79%) Istio
5 1 (1.79%) Kibana
5 1 (1.79%) Kustomize
5 1 (1.79%) linkerd
5 1 (1.79%) Opsgenie
5 1 (1.79%) Puppet
5 1 (1.79%) Salt
5 1 (1.79%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 6 (10.71%) Databricks
3 3 (5.36%) Foundry
3 3 (5.36%) OpenAI
3 3 (5.36%) Palantir
3 3 (5.36%) SAP
4 2 (3.57%) Splunk
5 1 (1.79%) Amplitude
5 1 (1.79%) Fortinet
5 1 (1.79%) Oracle
5 1 (1.79%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.79%) Sybase