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 5 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 71 72
Rank change year-on-year -3 +1 -9
Contract jobs citing Serverless 60 46 52
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.55% 2.72% 2.42%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.66% 6.34% 6.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 34 33
10th Percentile £358 £425 £413
25th Percentile £461 £488 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £523
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +14.83% -14.62%
75th Percentile £676 £700 £563
90th Percentile £763 £800 £728
Central London median daily rate £575 £573 £511
% change year-on-year +0.44% +11.98% -16.05%

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 901 725 862
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 38.26% 42.92% 40.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 623 461 598
10th Percentile £350 £363 £363
25th Percentile £456 £455 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £546
Median % change year-on-year - +0.69% -8.96%
75th Percentile £650 £670 £650
90th Percentile £750 £751 £750
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £535
% change year-on-year - +2.80% -8.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 10 6
10th Percentile £20.51 £23.03 £12.75
25th Percentile £23.16 £24.66 £14.88
Median hourly rate £51.44 £31.58 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +62.91% +40.33% -72.73%
75th Percentile £65.00 £47.50 £26.19
90th Percentile £75.35 £108.75 £38.63
Central London median hourly rate £51.44 £28.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year +80.49% +26.67% -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 5 June 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 (6.67%) CICS
2 3 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (5.00%) Palantir Foundry
3 2 (3.33%) Confluence
4 1 (1.67%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 49 (81.67%) AWS
2 42 (70.00%) AWS Lambda
3 27 (45.00%) Amazon S3
4 18 (30.00%) Azure
5 14 (23.33%) GitHub
6 12 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 9 (15.00%) Amazon EC2
7 9 (15.00%) Azure Functions
8 8 (13.33%) Amazon SQS
8 8 (13.33%) AWS CloudFormation
8 8 (13.33%) Power Platform
9 7 (11.67%) Amazon Bedrock
9 7 (11.67%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (10.00%) AWS Step Functions
11 5 (8.33%) Amazon EMR
11 5 (8.33%) Amazon Kinesis
11 5 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (8.33%) SaaS
12 4 (6.67%) Amazon SageMaker
12 4 (6.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.33%) Firewall
2 1 (1.67%) DNS
2 1 (1.67%) FTP
2 1 (1.67%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (26.67%) DynamoDB
2 11 (18.33%) Amazon Redshift
3 10 (16.67%) Amazon Athena
4 8 (13.33%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (11.67%) Power BI
6 6 (10.00%) Metadata
7 5 (8.33%) Db2
8 4 (6.67%) CockroachDB
9 3 (5.00%) Data Lake
9 3 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (5.00%) Pinecone
10 2 (3.33%) Amazon Aurora
10 2 (3.33%) Data Mining
10 2 (3.33%) Delta Lake
10 2 (3.33%) Electronic Patient Records
10 2 (3.33%) Snowflake Schema
10 2 (3.33%) Tableau
11 1 (1.67%) Amazon QuickSight
11 1 (1.67%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 1 (1.67%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 14 (23.33%) Git
2 11 (18.33%) GitLab
3 9 (15.00%) Jenkins
3 9 (15.00%) JIRA
4 5 (8.33%) JUnit
5 4 (6.67%) Cucumber
5 4 (6.67%) Mockito
5 4 (6.67%) Postman
6 1 (1.67%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.67%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.67%) Terragrunt
General
1 18 (30.00%) Finance
2 11 (18.33%) Social Skills
3 10 (16.67%) Banking
4 9 (15.00%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.67%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.67%) Billing
5 1 (1.67%) Law
5 1 (1.67%) Legal
5 1 (1.67%) Military
5 1 (1.67%) Police
Job Titles
1 14 (23.33%) Architect
2 9 (15.00%) Data Engineer
3 7 (11.67%) AWS Engineer
3 7 (11.67%) Cloud Architect
3 7 (11.67%) Developer
3 7 (11.67%) Senior
4 6 (10.00%) AWS Architect
5 4 (6.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 4 (6.67%) Automation Engineer
5 4 (6.67%) Lead
5 4 (6.67%) Platform Architect
6 3 (5.00%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 3 (5.00%) Data Architect
6 3 (5.00%) Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (5.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 3 (5.00%) Python Engineer
6 3 (5.00%) Workflow Engineer
7 2 (3.33%) Azure Engineer
7 2 (3.33%) Infrastructure Architect
7 2 (3.33%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (15.00%) Kafka
1 9 (15.00%) PySpark
1 9 (15.00%) SOAP
2 8 (13.33%) React
3 7 (11.67%) Spring
3 7 (11.67%) Spring Boot
4 6 (10.00%) boto
4 6 (10.00%) RESTful
5 5 (8.33%) .NET
5 5 (8.33%) JSON
5 5 (8.33%) REST
6 4 (6.67%) Gherkin
6 4 (6.67%) Web Services
6 4 (6.67%) WireMock
6 4 (6.67%) WSDL
6 4 (6.67%) YAML
7 3 (5.00%) Flask
7 3 (5.00%) LangGraph
7 3 (5.00%) Model Context Protocol
7 3 (5.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 18 (30.00%) Cloud Native
2 4 (6.67%) DataPower
2 4 (6.67%) Mainframe
2 4 (6.67%) Online Banking
3 3 (5.00%) AI Agents
3 3 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.33%) Data Structures
4 2 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (3.33%) NHS
4 2 (3.33%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.67%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.67%) IoT
5 1 (1.67%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.67%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.67%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.67%) Replication
5 1 (1.67%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.67%) zOS
2 2 (3.33%) Windows
3 1 (1.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (51.67%) CI/CD
2 25 (41.67%) DevOps
3 24 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 19 (31.67%) AI
5 14 (23.33%) Data Engineering
6 13 (21.67%) Agile
6 13 (21.67%) Analytics
7 11 (18.33%) Containerisation
7 11 (18.33%) LLM
7 11 (18.33%) Migration
8 10 (16.67%) ETL
8 10 (16.67%) Event-Driven
8 10 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
8 10 (16.67%) Test Automation
9 9 (15.00%) Data Pipeline
9 9 (15.00%) Generative AI
9 9 (15.00%) Observability
9 9 (15.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
9 9 (15.00%) Roadmaps
10 8 (13.33%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 31 (51.67%) Python
2 23 (38.33%) SQL
3 9 (15.00%) C#
4 8 (13.33%) Java
5 7 (11.67%) JavaScript
6 6 (10.00%) TypeScript
7 5 (8.33%) Bicep
8 4 (6.67%) JCL
8 4 (6.67%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.67%) Bash
9 1 (1.67%) Go
9 1 (1.67%) Korn
9 1 (1.67%) PHP
9 1 (1.67%) Scala
Qualifications
1 9 (15.00%) SC Cleared
1 9 (15.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (3.33%) AWS Certification
3 2 (3.33%) DBS Check
4 1 (1.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 1 (1.67%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (1.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.67%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.67%) Data Quality
2 4 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (6.67%) PCI DSS
3 3 (5.00%) QA
4 1 (1.67%) GDPR
4 1 (1.67%) NCSC
4 1 (1.67%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (20.00%) Docker
2 2 (3.33%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 20 (33.33%) Terraform
2 14 (23.33%) Kubernetes
3 3 (5.00%) Grafana
3 3 (5.00%) Prometheus
4 2 (3.33%) Ansible
4 2 (3.33%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.67%) Istio
5 1 (1.67%) Kibana
5 1 (1.67%) Kustomize
5 1 (1.67%) linkerd
5 1 (1.67%) Puppet
5 1 (1.67%) Salt
Vendors
1 7 (11.67%) Databricks
1 7 (11.67%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.67%) OpenAI
3 3 (5.00%) Foundry
3 3 (5.00%) Palantir
3 3 (5.00%) SAP
4 2 (3.33%) Oracle
4 2 (3.33%) Splunk
5 1 (1.67%) Amplitude
5 1 (1.67%) Fortinet
5 1 (1.67%) Informatica
5 1 (1.67%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.67%) Sybase