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

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 79 70
Rank change year-on-year +2 -9 +2
Contract jobs citing Serverless 53 40 58
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.55% 2.24% 2.47%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.15% 5.31% 6.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 31 37
10th Percentile £321 £428 £404
25th Percentile £363 £486 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -11.91% +9.52% -8.70%
75th Percentile £638 £719 £593
90th Percentile £669 £838 £730
Central London median daily rate £523 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -9.13% +9.52% -6.67%

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 862 753 902
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.42% 42.26% 38.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 617 490 635
10th Percentile £339 £393 £363
25th Percentile £436 £463 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £669 £675
90th Percentile £750 £738 £745
Central London median daily rate £538 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -2.27% +1.85% -6.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 9
10th Percentile £31.88 £28.98 £12.75
25th Percentile £39.44 £35.46 £17.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £47.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +111.11% -66.67%
75th Percentile £55.94 £118.13 £48.75
90th Percentile £66.53 £159.75 £54.95
Central London median hourly rate £40.50 £35.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year +15.71% +55.56% -48.57%

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 18 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 4 (7.55%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (5.66%) Palantir Foundry
3 2 (3.77%) Apache
3 2 (3.77%) CICS
3 2 (3.77%) Confluence
4 1 (1.89%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (1.89%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 43 (81.13%) AWS
2 39 (73.58%) AWS Lambda
3 25 (47.17%) Amazon S3
4 19 (35.85%) Azure
4 19 (35.85%) GitHub
5 14 (26.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 10 (18.87%) GitHub Actions
7 9 (16.98%) Amazon ECS
7 9 (16.98%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (16.98%) Azure Functions
8 8 (15.09%) AWS CloudFormation
9 7 (13.21%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (11.32%) Power Platform
11 5 (9.43%) AWS CodePipeline
11 5 (9.43%) AWS Fargate
11 5 (9.43%) AWS Step Functions
11 5 (9.43%) Snowflake
12 4 (7.55%) Amazon ECR
12 4 (7.55%) Anthropic Claude
12 4 (7.55%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.77%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (30.19%) DynamoDB
2 7 (13.21%) Amazon Athena
3 6 (11.32%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (11.32%) Amazon Redshift
3 6 (11.32%) Power BI
4 4 (7.55%) CockroachDB
4 4 (7.55%) Metadata
5 3 (5.66%) Data Lake
5 3 (5.66%) DB2
5 3 (5.66%) Tableau
6 2 (3.77%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (3.77%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (3.77%) Delta Lake
6 2 (3.77%) NoSQL
6 2 (3.77%) Pinecone
6 2 (3.77%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.89%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (1.89%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.89%) Data Hub
7 1 (1.89%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 14 (26.42%) Git
2 7 (13.21%) GitLab
2 7 (13.21%) Jenkins
3 5 (9.43%) JIRA
4 4 (7.55%) JUnit
5 3 (5.66%) Cucumber
5 3 (5.66%) Mockito
5 3 (5.66%) Postman
6 1 (1.89%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.89%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.89%) Terragrunt
General
1 8 (15.09%) Finance
2 7 (13.21%) Banking
3 6 (11.32%) Public Sector
4 4 (7.55%) Social Skills
5 2 (3.77%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.77%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.89%) Front Office
6 1 (1.89%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (18.87%) Data Engineer
2 9 (16.98%) Developer
3 8 (15.09%) DevOps Engineer
4 6 (11.32%) AWS Engineer
4 6 (11.32%) Senior
5 5 (9.43%) Architect
5 5 (9.43%) Cloud Architect
6 4 (7.55%) Python Engineer
7 3 (5.66%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 3 (5.66%) Automation Engineer
7 3 (5.66%) AWS Architect
7 3 (5.66%) AWS DevOps
7 3 (5.66%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 3 (5.66%) Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (5.66%) Senior Data Engineer
8 2 (3.77%) AWS Developer
8 2 (3.77%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
8 2 (3.77%) Infrastructure Architect
8 2 (3.77%) Software Developer
8 2 (3.77%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (16.98%) Node.js
2 7 (13.21%) boto
2 7 (13.21%) Kafka
2 7 (13.21%) React
3 6 (11.32%) OAuth
3 6 (11.32%) PySpark
4 5 (9.43%) SOAP
4 5 (9.43%) Spring
4 5 (9.43%) Spring Boot
5 4 (7.55%) JWT
5 4 (7.55%) REST
5 4 (7.55%) RESTful
6 3 (5.66%) .NET
6 3 (5.66%) AWS CDK
6 3 (5.66%) JSON
6 3 (5.66%) LangGraph
6 3 (5.66%) Model Context Protocol
6 3 (5.66%) Next.js
6 3 (5.66%) WireMock
6 3 (5.66%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (30.19%) Cloud Native
2 5 (9.43%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (7.55%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (3.77%) AI Agents
4 2 (3.77%) Data Structures
4 2 (3.77%) DataPower
4 2 (3.77%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (3.77%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.77%) Mainframe
4 2 (3.77%) Online Banking
4 2 (3.77%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.89%) Data Fabric
5 1 (1.89%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.89%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.89%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.66%) Linux
2 2 (3.77%) Windows
2 2 (3.77%) zOS
3 1 (1.89%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (52.83%) CI/CD
2 26 (49.06%) DevOps
3 23 (43.40%) Infrastructure as Code
4 13 (24.53%) Analytics
5 11 (20.75%) Agile
5 11 (20.75%) ETL
6 10 (18.87%) AI
6 10 (18.87%) Data Pipeline
6 10 (18.87%) Performance Tuning
7 8 (15.09%) Containerisation
7 8 (15.09%) Data Engineering
7 8 (15.09%) Observability
8 7 (13.21%) Event-Driven
8 7 (13.21%) Microservices
8 7 (13.21%) Migration
8 7 (13.21%) Test Automation
9 6 (11.32%) Data Modelling
9 6 (11.32%) Full-Stack Development
9 6 (11.32%) LLM
9 6 (11.32%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 35 (66.04%) Python
2 24 (45.28%) SQL
3 8 (15.09%) Java
3 8 (15.09%) JavaScript
4 5 (9.43%) C#
4 5 (9.43%) TypeScript
5 3 (5.66%) Shell Script
6 2 (3.77%) Bicep
6 2 (3.77%) JCL
7 1 (1.89%) Go
7 1 (1.89%) PHP
7 1 (1.89%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 17 (32.08%) SC Cleared
1 17 (32.08%) Security Cleared
2 3 (5.66%) AWS Certification
2 3 (5.66%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.89%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (1.89%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (1.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (15.09%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.77%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.89%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (24.53%) Docker
2 2 (3.77%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (39.62%) Terraform
2 11 (20.75%) Kubernetes
3 4 (7.55%) Ansible
4 2 (3.77%) Grafana
4 2 (3.77%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.89%) Istio
5 1 (1.89%) Kibana
5 1 (1.89%) Kustomize
5 1 (1.89%) linkerd
5 1 (1.89%) Opsgenie
5 1 (1.89%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (15.09%) Microsoft
2 6 (11.32%) Databricks
3 3 (5.66%) Foundry
3 3 (5.66%) Palantir
4 2 (3.77%) OpenAI
4 2 (3.77%) SAP
4 2 (3.77%) Splunk
5 1 (1.89%) Amplitude
5 1 (1.89%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.89%) Sybase