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 26 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 77 82
Rank change year-on-year +3 +5 -8
Contract jobs citing Serverless 59 45 42
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.54% 2.49% 2.03%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.34% 6.07% 5.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 32 30
10th Percentile £419 £425 £473
25th Percentile £464 £488 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £544
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +14.94% -12.30%
75th Percentile £725 £719 £622
90th Percentile £774 £800 £788
Central London median daily rate £575 £625 £538
% change year-on-year -8.00% +16.28% -12.60%

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 931 741 835
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 40.13% 41.08% 40.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 655 495 573
10th Percentile £371 £336 £383
25th Percentile £460 £435 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £551
Median % change year-on-year - -0.09% -4.26%
75th Percentile £656 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £759 £767
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 12 3
10th Percentile £19.48 £23.84 -
25th Percentile £22.67 £26.23 -
Median hourly rate £27.00 £34.33 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.34% +27.13% -10.74%
75th Percentile £59.06 £58.96 £59.75
90th Percentile £75.18 £86.43 £79.40
Central London median hourly rate £35.00 £34.00 £27.00
% change year-on-year +2.94% +25.93% -10.74%

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 26 August 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 3 (5.08%) CICS
3 2 (3.39%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.69%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (5.08%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (6.78%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 43 (72.88%) AWS
2 37 (62.71%) AWS Lambda
3 28 (47.46%) Amazon S3
4 19 (32.20%) Azure
5 14 (23.73%) Azure Functions
5 14 (23.73%) GitHub
6 13 (22.03%) Power Platform
7 11 (18.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 10 (16.95%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (15.25%) Amazon EC2
9 9 (15.25%) Azure Logic Apps
10 8 (13.56%) Amazon SQS
10 8 (13.56%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (11.86%) Amazon Kinesis
11 7 (11.86%) AWS CloudFormation
11 7 (11.86%) AWS Step Functions
11 7 (11.86%) Azure Service Bus
11 7 (11.86%) Power Automate
11 7 (11.86%) SaaS
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 14 (23.73%) Amazon Athena
2 12 (20.34%) DynamoDB
3 11 (18.64%) Amazon Redshift
4 10 (16.95%) Amazon RDS
5 8 (13.56%) Power BI
6 4 (6.78%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (6.78%) Metadata
7 3 (5.08%) Db2
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 Mining
8 2 (3.39%) Delta Lake
8 2 (3.39%) Electronic Patient Records
8 2 (3.39%) MongoDB
8 2 (3.39%) Relational Database
8 2 (3.39%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (3.39%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (20.34%) Git
1 12 (20.34%) GitLab
2 10 (16.95%) JIRA
3 6 (10.17%) Jenkins
4 5 (8.47%) Bitbucket
5 4 (6.78%) JUnit
6 3 (5.08%) Cucumber
6 3 (5.08%) Mockito
6 3 (5.08%) Postman
7 2 (3.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (3.39%) Visual Studio
7 2 (3.39%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (1.69%) Artifactory
8 1 (1.69%) Cypress.io
8 1 (1.69%) Jasmine
8 1 (1.69%) JMeter
8 1 (1.69%) Karma Test Runner
8 1 (1.69%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 22 (37.29%) Finance
2 13 (22.03%) Social Skills
3 11 (18.64%) Public Sector
4 7 (11.86%) Banking
5 6 (10.17%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (6.78%) Marketing
7 3 (5.08%) Back Office
8 2 (3.39%) Military
9 1 (1.69%) Billing
9 1 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.69%) Law
9 1 (1.69%) Legal
9 1 (1.69%) Police
9 1 (1.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (22.03%) Architect
2 12 (20.34%) AWS Engineer
3 11 (18.64%) Developer
3 11 (18.64%) Senior
4 8 (13.56%) Data Engineer
5 6 (10.17%) AWS Architect
6 5 (8.47%) AWS Data Engineer
6 5 (8.47%) Cloud Architect
6 5 (8.47%) Lead
7 4 (6.78%) Dynamics 365 Developer
7 4 (6.78%) Platform Architect
8 3 (5.08%) Automation Engineer
8 3 (5.08%) Data Architect
8 3 (5.08%) Full-Stack Developer
8 3 (5.08%) Platform Engineer
8 3 (5.08%) Power Platform Developer
8 3 (5.08%) Senior Data Engineer
8 3 (5.08%) Software Engineer
8 3 (5.08%) Workflow Engineer
9 2 (3.39%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (33.90%) Terraform
2 10 (16.95%) .NET
3 7 (11.86%) REST
3 7 (11.86%) SOAP
4 6 (10.17%) React
5 5 (8.47%) Kafka
5 5 (8.47%) Node.js
5 5 (8.47%) PySpark
5 5 (8.47%) RESTful
5 5 (8.47%) Spring
5 5 (8.47%) Spring Boot
6 4 (6.78%) JSON
7 3 (5.08%) ActiveMQ
7 3 (5.08%) Gherkin
7 3 (5.08%) HTML5 Canvas
7 3 (5.08%) OAuth
7 3 (5.08%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (5.08%) Web Services
7 3 (5.08%) WSDL
7 3 (5.08%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (32.20%) Cloud Native
2 4 (6.78%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (5.08%) DataPower
3 3 (5.08%) Mainframe
3 3 (5.08%) Onboarding
3 3 (5.08%) Online Banking
4 2 (3.39%) AI Agents
4 2 (3.39%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.39%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (3.39%) Low-Code
4 2 (3.39%) NHS
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%) Mobile App
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 3 (5.08%) Windows
1 3 (5.08%) zOS
2 1 (1.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (54.24%) CI/CD
2 27 (45.76%) DevOps
3 22 (37.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 20 (33.90%) Agile
5 16 (27.12%) Data Engineering
6 15 (25.42%) Analytics
7 14 (23.73%) AI
7 14 (23.73%) Test Automation
8 13 (22.03%) Containerisation
8 13 (22.03%) Data Modelling
9 10 (16.95%) Business Intelligence
9 10 (16.95%) Event-Driven
9 10 (16.95%) Integration Patterns
9 10 (16.95%) Migration
9 10 (16.95%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (16.95%) Roadmaps
10 9 (15.25%) Data Pipeline
11 8 (13.56%) Performance Tuning
12 7 (11.86%) Machine Learning
12 7 (11.86%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 23 (38.98%) Python
2 20 (33.90%) SQL
3 13 (22.03%) C#
4 11 (18.64%) TypeScript
5 10 (16.95%) JavaScript
6 6 (10.17%) Java
7 4 (6.78%) Bicep
8 3 (5.08%) JCL
8 3 (5.08%) Shell Script
9 2 (3.39%) Bash
10 1 (1.69%) Korn
10 1 (1.69%) Scala
Qualifications
1 11 (18.64%) Security Cleared
2 9 (15.25%) 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 7 (11.86%) QA
2 6 (10.17%) Data Quality
3 5 (8.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (8.47%) PCI DSS
4 3 (5.08%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.69%) GDPR
5 1 (1.69%) NCSC
5 1 (1.69%) SLA
5 1 (1.69%) WCAG
System Software
1 11 (18.64%) Docker
2 3 (5.08%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (20.34%) Kubernetes
2 4 (6.78%) Grafana
3 3 (5.08%) Prometheus
4 2 (3.39%) Ansible
5 1 (1.69%) Istio
5 1 (1.69%) Kustomize
5 1 (1.69%) linkerd
5 1 (1.69%) Puppet
5 1 (1.69%) Salt
5 1 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (27.12%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.78%) Databricks
3 2 (3.39%) OpenAI
3 2 (3.39%) Oracle
3 2 (3.39%) ServiceNow
3 2 (3.39%) Splunk
4 1 (1.69%) Fortinet
4 1 (1.69%) Informatica
4 1 (1.69%) New Relic
4 1 (1.69%) SAP