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

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 69 78
Rank change year-on-year -3 +9 -4
Contract jobs citing Serverless 58 47 55
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.61% 2.67% 2.47%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.47% 6.19% 6.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 35 36
10th Percentile £343 £425 £397
25th Percentile £381 £478 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £625 £525
Median % change year-on-year -18.96% +19.05% -13.79%
75th Percentile £621 £719 £566
90th Percentile £678 £815 £688
Central London median daily rate £525 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -12.50% +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 897 759 863
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 40.33% 43.10% 38.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 633 489 609
10th Percentile £350 £386 £363
25th Percentile £450 £463 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £557 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.80% +1.33% -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £670 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £753
Central London median daily rate £538 £555 £538
% change year-on-year -3.15% +3.16% -6.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 7 8
10th Percentile £33.72 £24.66 £12.75
25th Percentile £39.53 £29.64 £17.39
Median hourly rate £48.22 £42.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.46% +88.89% -72.99%
75th Percentile £63.54 £74.38 £32.81
90th Percentile £75.53 £135.00 £57.30
Central London median hourly rate £40.64 £34.83 £22.50
% change year-on-year +16.70% +54.78% -66.67%

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 19 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 (6.90%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (6.90%) CICS
2 3 (5.17%) Palantir Foundry
3 2 (3.45%) Confluence
4 1 (1.72%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (1.72%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 48 (82.76%) AWS
2 43 (74.14%) AWS Lambda
3 28 (48.28%) Amazon S3
4 21 (36.21%) Azure
5 19 (32.76%) GitHub
6 16 (27.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 10 (17.24%) Amazon ECS
7 10 (17.24%) GitHub Actions
8 9 (15.52%) AWS CloudFormation
8 9 (15.52%) Azure Functions
9 8 (13.79%) Amazon EC2
9 8 (13.79%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (12.07%) AWS Step Functions
11 5 (8.62%) Amazon Bedrock
11 5 (8.62%) AWS CodePipeline
11 5 (8.62%) AWS Fargate
11 5 (8.62%) Power Platform
12 4 (6.90%) Amazon ECR
12 4 (6.90%) Anthropic Claude
12 4 (6.90%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.45%) DNS
1 2 (3.45%) Firewall
2 1 (1.72%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (32.76%) DynamoDB
2 9 (15.52%) Amazon Athena
3 8 (13.79%) Amazon Redshift
4 7 (12.07%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (8.62%) Data Lake
5 5 (8.62%) DB2
5 5 (8.62%) Metadata
6 4 (6.90%) CockroachDB
6 4 (6.90%) Power BI
7 3 (5.17%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (3.45%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (3.45%) Amazon QuickSight
8 2 (3.45%) Data Mining
8 2 (3.45%) Electronic Patient Records
8 2 (3.45%) NoSQL
8 2 (3.45%) Pinecone
8 2 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (3.45%) Relational Database
8 2 (3.45%) Star Schema
8 2 (3.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (24.14%) Git
2 10 (17.24%) GitLab
3 6 (10.34%) Jenkins
3 6 (10.34%) JIRA
4 4 (6.90%) JUnit
5 3 (5.17%) Cucumber
5 3 (5.17%) Mockito
5 3 (5.17%) Postman
6 1 (1.72%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.72%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.72%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.72%) Terragrunt
General
1 11 (18.97%) Finance
2 10 (17.24%) Public Sector
3 8 (13.79%) Banking
3 8 (13.79%) Social Skills
4 2 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.72%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.72%) Law
5 1 (1.72%) Military
5 1 (1.72%) Police
Job Titles
1 10 (17.24%) Data Engineer
2 9 (15.52%) Architect
3 7 (12.07%) Developer
3 7 (12.07%) DevOps Engineer
3 7 (12.07%) Senior
4 6 (10.34%) AWS Engineer
5 5 (8.62%) Cloud Architect
6 3 (5.17%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 3 (5.17%) Automation Engineer
6 3 (5.17%) AWS Architect
6 3 (5.17%) AWS DevOps
6 3 (5.17%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 3 (5.17%) Cloud Engineer
6 3 (5.17%) Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (5.17%) Python Engineer
6 3 (5.17%) Senior Data Engineer
7 2 (3.45%) AWS Infrastructure Architect
7 2 (3.45%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 2 (3.45%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 2 (3.45%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (15.52%) Node.js
2 7 (12.07%) boto
2 7 (12.07%) Kafka
2 7 (12.07%) PySpark
2 7 (12.07%) React
2 7 (12.07%) SOAP
3 6 (10.34%) OAuth
3 6 (10.34%) RESTful
3 6 (10.34%) Spring
3 6 (10.34%) Spring Boot
4 5 (8.62%) JSON
5 4 (6.90%) JWT
5 4 (6.90%) REST
5 4 (6.90%) Web Services
5 4 (6.90%) WSDL
6 3 (5.17%) Flask
6 3 (5.17%) Gherkin
6 3 (5.17%) LangGraph
6 3 (5.17%) Model Context Protocol
6 3 (5.17%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 17 (29.31%) Cloud Native
2 5 (8.62%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (8.62%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (6.90%) DataPower
3 4 (6.90%) Mainframe
3 4 (6.90%) Online Banking
4 2 (3.45%) AI Agents
4 2 (3.45%) Data Structures
4 2 (3.45%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.45%) NHS
4 2 (3.45%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.72%) IoT
5 1 (1.72%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.72%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.72%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.90%) zOS
2 3 (5.17%) Linux
3 2 (3.45%) Windows
4 1 (1.72%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (56.90%) CI/CD
2 30 (51.72%) DevOps
3 28 (48.28%) Infrastructure as Code
4 16 (27.59%) AI
5 15 (25.86%) Analytics
6 12 (20.69%) Performance Tuning
7 11 (18.97%) Agile
7 11 (18.97%) Containerisation
8 10 (17.24%) Data Engineering
8 10 (17.24%) ETL
9 9 (15.52%) Event-Driven
9 9 (15.52%) LLM
9 9 (15.52%) Observability
10 8 (13.79%) Data Pipeline
10 8 (13.79%) Microservices
10 8 (13.79%) Migration
11 7 (12.07%) Generative AI
11 7 (12.07%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
11 7 (12.07%) Test Automation
12 6 (10.34%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 35 (60.34%) Python
2 22 (37.93%) SQL
3 8 (13.79%) Java
4 7 (12.07%) JavaScript
5 6 (10.34%) TypeScript
6 5 (8.62%) Bicep
6 5 (8.62%) Shell Script
7 4 (6.90%) JCL
8 3 (5.17%) C#
9 1 (1.72%) Bash
9 1 (1.72%) Go
9 1 (1.72%) PHP
9 1 (1.72%) Ruby
9 1 (1.72%) Scala
Qualifications
1 19 (32.76%) SC Cleared
1 19 (32.76%) Security Cleared
2 3 (5.17%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (3.45%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.72%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (1.72%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (1.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.72%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (13.79%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.45%) PCI DSS
2 2 (3.45%) QA
3 1 (1.72%) NCSC
3 1 (1.72%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (24.14%) Docker
2 2 (3.45%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.45%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 26 (44.83%) Terraform
2 13 (22.41%) Kubernetes
3 5 (8.62%) Ansible
4 3 (5.17%) Grafana
4 3 (5.17%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.72%) Istio
5 1 (1.72%) Kibana
5 1 (1.72%) Kustomize
5 1 (1.72%) linkerd
5 1 (1.72%) Opsgenie
5 1 (1.72%) Puppet
5 1 (1.72%) Salt
5 1 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (13.79%) Microsoft
2 7 (12.07%) Databricks
3 4 (6.90%) OpenAI
4 3 (5.17%) Foundry
4 3 (5.17%) Palantir
4 3 (5.17%) SAP
5 2 (3.45%) Splunk
6 1 (1.72%) Amplitude
6 1 (1.72%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.72%) Oracle
6 1 (1.72%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.72%) Sybase