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 30 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 81 68
Rank change year-on-year -4 -13 +4
Contract jobs citing Serverless 36 40 86
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.12% 1.91% 3.07%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.08% 4.80% 7.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 29 46
10th Percentile £349 £451 £413
25th Percentile £488 £511 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £593 £600
Median % change year-on-year +7.59% -1.25% +7.87%
75th Percentile £697 £704 £669
90th Percentile £800 £795 £725
Central London median daily rate £625 £584 £600
% change year-on-year +7.07% -2.71% +6.67%

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 708 833 1,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.60% 39.70% 40.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 523 537 780
10th Percentile £333 £400 £356
25th Percentile £432 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £664 £675 £683
90th Percentile £750 £765 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 8
10th Percentile £22.30 £32.05 £15.58
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 £40.69
90th Percentile £70.21 £85.95 £49.88
Central London median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £20.75
% change year-on-year -2.86% +68.67% +1.22%

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 30 October 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 (5.56%) Apache
1 2 (5.56%) Confluence
2 1 (2.78%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.78%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.78%) CICS
2 1 (2.78%) CMS
2 1 (2.78%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Aladdin
1 1 (2.78%) Fidessa
1 1 (2.78%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 29 (80.56%) AWS
1 29 (80.56%) AWS Lambda
2 21 (58.33%) Amazon S3
3 14 (38.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 11 (30.56%) Azure
5 8 (22.22%) Amazon ECS
6 7 (19.44%) GitHub
7 6 (16.67%) AWS Step Functions
7 6 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (13.89%) Amazon Cognito
8 5 (13.89%) Amazon SQS
8 5 (13.89%) Azure Functions
8 5 (13.89%) Snowflake
9 4 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (11.11%) Amazon EventBridge
9 4 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (11.11%) Datadog
10 3 (8.33%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.33%) DNS
2 1 (2.78%) DKIM
2 1 (2.78%) NAS
2 1 (2.78%) OpenLDAP
2 1 (2.78%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (2.78%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (30.56%) DynamoDB
2 5 (13.89%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (8.33%) SQL Server
4 2 (5.56%) Airbyte
4 2 (5.56%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (5.56%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (5.56%) NoSQL
4 2 (5.56%) Power BI
4 2 (5.56%) Relational Database
4 2 (5.56%) Tableau
5 1 (2.78%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (2.78%) Data Lake
5 1 (2.78%) Delta Lake
5 1 (2.78%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (2.78%) Metadata
5 1 (2.78%) MySQL
5 1 (2.78%) Parquet
5 1 (2.78%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 5 (13.89%) Git
2 3 (8.33%) JIRA
3 2 (5.56%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.78%) GitLab
4 1 (2.78%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 5 (13.89%) Finance
1 5 (13.89%) Social Skills
2 4 (11.11%) Banking
2 4 (11.11%) Investment Banking
3 3 (8.33%) Front Office
3 3 (8.33%) Public Sector
4 2 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.78%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (25.00%) Developer
2 5 (13.89%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (11.11%) Architect
3 4 (11.11%) Lead
3 4 (11.11%) Python Engineer
3 4 (11.11%) Senior
3 4 (11.11%) Software Design Engineer
3 4 (11.11%) Software Engineer
4 3 (8.33%) AWS Engineer
4 3 (8.33%) Azure Developer
4 3 (8.33%) Data Engineer
4 3 (8.33%) Integration Developer
5 2 (5.56%) AWS DevOps
5 2 (5.56%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Backend Developer
5 2 (5.56%) JavaScript Developer
5 2 (5.56%) NoSQL Developer
5 2 (5.56%) Senior Data Engineer
6 1 (2.78%) .NET Developer
6 1 (2.78%) Principal Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (22.22%) Node.js
2 7 (19.44%) AngularJS
3 6 (16.67%) .NET
3 6 (16.67%) React
4 5 (13.89%) OAuth
5 4 (11.11%) GraphQL
5 4 (11.11%) OpenTelemetry
5 4 (11.11%) RESTful
5 4 (11.11%) WebSockets
6 3 (8.33%) AWS CDK
6 3 (8.33%) FastAPI
6 3 (8.33%) OAuth2
6 3 (8.33%) REST
7 2 (5.56%) CSS
7 2 (5.56%) Flask
7 2 (5.56%) HTML
7 2 (5.56%) JWT
7 2 (5.56%) SQLAlchemy
8 1 (2.78%) Flake8
8 1 (2.78%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 9 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (8.33%) Product Ownership
3 2 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.78%) AI Agents
4 1 (2.78%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.78%) Data Fabric
4 1 (2.78%) Derivative
4 1 (2.78%) Fixed Income
4 1 (2.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.78%) Mainframe
4 1 (2.78%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.78%) NHS
4 1 (2.78%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.78%) Virtual Team
4 1 (2.78%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.78%) AIX
1 1 (2.78%) Android
1 1 (2.78%) Apple iOS
1 1 (2.78%) Linux
1 1 (2.78%) Solaris
1 1 (2.78%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (47.22%) CI/CD
2 15 (41.67%) DevOps
3 13 (36.11%) Agile
4 12 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 11 (30.56%) Event-Driven
6 9 (25.00%) Software Engineering
7 8 (22.22%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 8 (22.22%) Observability
8 7 (19.44%) Analytics
8 7 (19.44%) Data Pipeline
8 7 (19.44%) User Experience
9 6 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
9 6 (16.67%) Mentoring
10 5 (13.89%) Microservices
10 5 (13.89%) Performance Optimisation
10 5 (13.89%) Technical Leadership
11 4 (11.11%) Clean Code
11 4 (11.11%) Containerisation
11 4 (11.11%) Deployment Automation
11 4 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 21 (58.33%) Python
2 11 (30.56%) SQL
3 8 (22.22%) JavaScript
4 6 (16.67%) Java
5 5 (13.89%) TypeScript
6 3 (8.33%) C#
7 2 (5.56%) Bash
8 1 (2.78%) Apex Code
8 1 (2.78%) COBOL
8 1 (2.78%) Go
8 1 (2.78%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 8 (22.22%) SC Cleared
1 8 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.56%) AWS Certification
2 2 (5.56%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.33%) Data Quality
1 3 (8.33%) GDPR
2 1 (2.78%) HMG Security Policy Framework
2 1 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.78%) MiFID
2 1 (2.78%) NCSC
2 1 (2.78%) QA
System Software
1 4 (11.11%) Docker
2 1 (2.78%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (25.00%) Terraform
2 4 (11.11%) Prometheus
3 2 (5.56%) Ansible
3 2 (5.56%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (2.78%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.78%) Atlassian
2 1 (2.78%) Databricks
2 1 (2.78%) NetApp
2 1 (2.78%) Portware
2 1 (2.78%) Salesforce