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 29 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 84 65
Rank change year-on-year +8 -19 +21
Contract jobs citing Serverless 49 34 71
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.61% 1.81% 2.95%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.34% 4.52% 7.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 27 45
10th Percentile £318 £424 £400
25th Percentile £363 £498 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% +9.52% -6.67%
75th Percentile £638 £721 £650
90th Percentile £688 £863 £725
Central London median daily rate £503 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -12.48% +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 773 752 929
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.20% 40.02% 38.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 577 478 674
10th Percentile £347 £400 £363
25th Percentile £419 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -6.78%
75th Percentile £653 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 11
10th Percentile £26.66 - -
25th Percentile £34.19 - £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.64 - £22.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -10.00%
75th Percentile £46.11 - £43.38
90th Percentile £49.83 - £50.25
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -27.23% +55.56% -4.26%

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 29 January 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 2 (4.08%) Apache
1 2 (4.08%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.04%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.04%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 42 (85.71%) AWS
2 40 (81.63%) AWS Lambda
3 24 (48.98%) Amazon S3
4 16 (32.65%) Azure
4 16 (32.65%) GitHub
5 13 (26.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 10 (20.41%) Amazon ECS
6 10 (20.41%) GitHub Actions
7 9 (18.37%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (16.33%) AWS CloudFormation
8 8 (16.33%) Azure Functions
9 5 (10.20%) AWS Fargate
9 5 (10.20%) Snowflake
10 4 (8.16%) Amazon Bedrock
10 4 (8.16%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (8.16%) Amazon ECR
10 4 (8.16%) Apigee
10 4 (8.16%) AWS Step Functions
10 4 (8.16%) Power Platform
11 3 (6.12%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (10.20%) DNS
2 1 (2.04%) DKIM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (26.53%) DynamoDB
2 5 (10.20%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (8.16%) Amazon Athena
3 4 (8.16%) Amazon Redshift
3 4 (8.16%) CockroachDB
3 4 (8.16%) Power BI
4 3 (6.12%) Data Lake
4 3 (6.12%) Metadata
4 3 (6.12%) Pinecone
4 3 (6.12%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (4.08%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (4.08%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (4.08%) Delta Lake
5 2 (4.08%) Tableau
6 1 (2.04%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (2.04%) Data Hub
6 1 (2.04%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (2.04%) GIS
6 1 (2.04%) MySQL
6 1 (2.04%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 10 (20.41%) Git
2 4 (8.16%) Jenkins
3 3 (6.12%) JIRA
4 2 (4.08%) GitLab
5 1 (2.04%) Bitbucket
5 1 (2.04%) Cucumber
5 1 (2.04%) JUnit
5 1 (2.04%) Mockito
5 1 (2.04%) Postman
5 1 (2.04%) Terragrunt
5 1 (2.04%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 6 (12.24%) Public Sector
2 5 (10.20%) Banking
3 3 (6.12%) Front Office
3 3 (6.12%) Investment Banking
3 3 (6.12%) Social Skills
4 2 (4.08%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.08%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (4.08%) Finance
5 1 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (18.37%) DevOps Engineer
2 8 (16.33%) Data Engineer
3 7 (14.29%) Developer
4 6 (12.24%) AWS Engineer
4 6 (12.24%) Python Engineer
5 5 (10.20%) Architect
5 5 (10.20%) Senior
6 4 (8.16%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 4 (8.16%) Cloud Architect
6 4 (8.16%) Lead
7 3 (6.12%) AWS DevOps
7 3 (6.12%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 3 (6.12%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 2 (4.08%) Apigee Engineer
8 2 (4.08%) Full-Stack Developer
8 2 (4.08%) Senior Data Engineer
9 1 (2.04%) Integration Developer
9 1 (2.04%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
9 1 (2.04%) Senior DevOps
9 1 (2.04%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (26.53%) Node.js
2 10 (20.41%) React
3 6 (12.24%) boto
4 5 (10.20%) .NET
4 5 (10.20%) OAuth
5 4 (8.16%) AngularJS
5 4 (8.16%) AWS CDK
5 4 (8.16%) Flask
5 4 (8.16%) HTML
5 4 (8.16%) JWT
5 4 (8.16%) Kafka
5 4 (8.16%) LangGraph
5 4 (8.16%) PySpark
5 4 (8.16%) REST
6 3 (6.12%) CSS
6 3 (6.12%) FastAPI
6 3 (6.12%) Next.js
7 2 (4.08%) Pandas
7 2 (4.08%) RESTful
7 2 (4.08%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 14 (28.57%) Cloud Native
2 5 (10.20%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (8.16%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (6.12%) AI Agents
4 3 (6.12%) Public Cloud
5 2 (4.08%) Data Structures
5 2 (4.08%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (4.08%) Management Information System
5 2 (4.08%) Product Ownership
6 1 (2.04%) Data Fabric
6 1 (2.04%) NHS
6 1 (2.04%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.12%) Linux
2 1 (2.04%) Android
2 1 (2.04%) Apple iOS
2 1 (2.04%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 23 (46.94%) DevOps
3 20 (40.82%) Infrastructure as Code
4 13 (26.53%) Analytics
5 12 (24.49%) Agile
6 11 (22.45%) Data Pipeline
6 11 (22.45%) Event-Driven
7 9 (18.37%) Full-Stack Development
7 9 (18.37%) Observability
8 8 (16.33%) AI
8 8 (16.33%) ETL
8 8 (16.33%) Microservices
9 7 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
9 7 (14.29%) Software Engineering
10 6 (12.24%) Containerisation
10 6 (12.24%) Data Modelling
10 6 (12.24%) LLM
10 6 (12.24%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
10 6 (12.24%) Workflow
11 5 (10.20%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 32 (65.31%) Python
2 19 (38.78%) SQL
3 10 (20.41%) JavaScript
4 9 (18.37%) Java
5 6 (12.24%) TypeScript
6 3 (6.12%) C#
7 2 (4.08%) Bash
7 2 (4.08%) Bicep
8 1 (2.04%) Apex Code
8 1 (2.04%) Go
8 1 (2.04%) PHP
8 1 (2.04%) Ruby
8 1 (2.04%) Shell Script
8 1 (2.04%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 17 (34.69%) SC Cleared
1 17 (34.69%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.12%) MCP
3 2 (4.08%) AWS Certification
3 2 (4.08%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.04%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (14.29%) Data Quality
2 3 (6.12%) GDPR
3 1 (2.04%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 1 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.04%) NCSC
System Software
1 9 (18.37%) Docker
2 1 (2.04%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 20 (40.82%) Terraform
2 6 (12.24%) Kubernetes
3 4 (8.16%) Ansible
4 3 (6.12%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (2.04%) Kibana
5 1 (2.04%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 8 (16.33%) Microsoft
2 5 (10.20%) Databricks
3 2 (4.08%) Foundry
3 2 (4.08%) OpenAI
3 2 (4.08%) Palantir
3 2 (4.08%) SAP
4 1 (2.04%) Amplitude
4 1 (2.04%) Salesforce