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

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 73 74
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 -6
Contract jobs citing Serverless 62 45 51
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.58% 2.64% 2.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.78% 6.07% 5.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 33 34
10th Percentile £358 £425 £413
25th Percentile £456 £488 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £600 £524
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +14.56% -14.00%
75th Percentile £676 £700 £572
90th Percentile £763 £800 £723
Central London median daily rate £575 £600 £523
% change year-on-year -4.17% +14.83% -13.56%

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 914 741 879
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 38.10% 43.49% 40.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 628 475 611
10th Percentile £350 £363 £363
25th Percentile £456 £456 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £543
Median % change year-on-year - +1.38% -9.58%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £751 £750
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £538
% change year-on-year - +2.33% -8.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 11 6
10th Percentile £20.51 £23.75 £12.75
25th Percentile £23.16 £24.66 £14.88
Median hourly rate £51.44 £34.65 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +48.46% +54.00% -72.73%
75th Percentile £65.00 £68.75 £26.19
90th Percentile £75.35 £100.00 £38.63
Central London median hourly rate £54.60 £28.79 £22.50
% change year-on-year +89.69% +27.93% -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 11 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 (6.45%) CICS
2 3 (4.84%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (4.84%) Palantir Foundry
3 2 (3.23%) Confluence
4 1 (1.61%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (1.61%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 51 (82.26%) AWS
2 44 (70.97%) AWS Lambda
3 29 (46.77%) Amazon S3
4 17 (27.42%) Azure
5 14 (22.58%) GitHub
6 11 (17.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 9 (14.52%) Amazon EC2
7 9 (14.52%) Azure Functions
8 8 (12.90%) Amazon Bedrock
8 8 (12.90%) Amazon SQS
8 8 (12.90%) AWS CloudFormation
8 8 (12.90%) Power Platform
9 7 (11.29%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (9.68%) AWS Step Functions
11 5 (8.06%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (8.06%) Amazon EMR
11 5 (8.06%) Amazon Kinesis
11 5 (8.06%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (8.06%) SaaS
12 4 (6.45%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.23%) Firewall
2 1 (1.61%) FTP
2 1 (1.61%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (27.42%) DynamoDB
2 12 (19.35%) Amazon Redshift
3 11 (17.74%) Amazon Athena
4 8 (12.90%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (11.29%) Power BI
6 6 (9.68%) Metadata
7 5 (8.06%) Db2
8 4 (6.45%) CockroachDB
9 3 (4.84%) Amazon Aurora
9 3 (4.84%) Data Lake
9 3 (4.84%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (4.84%) Pinecone
10 2 (3.23%) Data Mining
10 2 (3.23%) Delta Lake
10 2 (3.23%) Electronic Patient Records
10 2 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (3.23%) Snowflake Schema
10 2 (3.23%) Tableau
11 1 (1.61%) Amazon QuickSight
11 1 (1.61%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 16 (25.81%) Git
2 11 (17.74%) GitLab
3 9 (14.52%) JIRA
4 8 (12.90%) Jenkins
5 5 (8.06%) JUnit
6 4 (6.45%) Cucumber
6 4 (6.45%) Mockito
6 4 (6.45%) Postman
7 1 (1.61%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.61%) Cypress.io
General
1 19 (30.65%) Finance
2 11 (17.74%) Social Skills
3 10 (16.13%) Banking
3 10 (16.13%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.23%) Military
5 1 (1.61%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.61%) Billing
5 1 (1.61%) Law
5 1 (1.61%) Legal
5 1 (1.61%) Police
Job Titles
1 13 (20.97%) Architect
2 9 (14.52%) Data Engineer
2 9 (14.52%) Senior
3 8 (12.90%) AWS Engineer
4 7 (11.29%) Developer
5 6 (9.68%) Cloud Architect
6 5 (8.06%) AWS Architect
7 4 (6.45%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 4 (6.45%) Automation Engineer
7 4 (6.45%) Lead
7 4 (6.45%) Platform Architect
8 3 (4.84%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 3 (4.84%) Data Architect
8 3 (4.84%) Full-Stack Developer
8 3 (4.84%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 3 (4.84%) Python Engineer
8 3 (4.84%) Workflow Engineer
9 2 (3.23%) Infrastructure Architect
9 2 (3.23%) Software Developer
9 2 (3.23%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (14.52%) Kafka
1 9 (14.52%) PySpark
1 9 (14.52%) React
1 9 (14.52%) SOAP
2 7 (11.29%) Spring
2 7 (11.29%) Spring Boot
3 6 (9.68%) boto
3 6 (9.68%) REST
3 6 (9.68%) RESTful
4 5 (8.06%) .NET
4 5 (8.06%) JSON
5 4 (6.45%) Gherkin
5 4 (6.45%) Node.js
5 4 (6.45%) Web Services
5 4 (6.45%) WireMock
5 4 (6.45%) WSDL
5 4 (6.45%) YAML
6 3 (4.84%) Flask
6 3 (4.84%) LangGraph
6 3 (4.84%) Model Context Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 17 (27.42%) Cloud Native
2 4 (6.45%) DataPower
2 4 (6.45%) Mainframe
2 4 (6.45%) Online Banking
3 3 (4.84%) AI Agents
3 3 (4.84%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.23%) Data Structures
4 2 (3.23%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (3.23%) NHS
4 2 (3.23%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.61%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.61%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.61%) IoT
5 1 (1.61%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.61%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.61%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.61%) Replication
5 1 (1.61%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.45%) zOS
2 2 (3.23%) Windows
3 1 (1.61%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (53.23%) CI/CD
2 26 (41.94%) DevOps
3 24 (38.71%) Infrastructure as Code
4 20 (32.26%) AI
5 15 (24.19%) Data Engineering
6 14 (22.58%) Analytics
7 13 (20.97%) Agile
7 13 (20.97%) Containerisation
8 11 (17.74%) LLM
8 11 (17.74%) Migration
8 11 (17.74%) Test Automation
9 10 (16.13%) ETL
9 10 (16.13%) Event-Driven
9 10 (16.13%) Performance Tuning
10 9 (14.52%) Data Pipeline
10 9 (14.52%) Generative AI
10 9 (14.52%) Observability
10 9 (14.52%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
10 9 (14.52%) Roadmaps
11 8 (12.90%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 33 (53.23%) Python
2 24 (38.71%) SQL
3 9 (14.52%) C#
4 8 (12.90%) Java
5 7 (11.29%) JavaScript
5 7 (11.29%) TypeScript
6 5 (8.06%) Bicep
7 4 (6.45%) JCL
7 4 (6.45%) Shell Script
8 2 (3.23%) Bash
9 1 (1.61%) Go
9 1 (1.61%) Korn
9 1 (1.61%) PHP
9 1 (1.61%) Scala
Qualifications
1 10 (16.13%) SC Cleared
1 10 (16.13%) Security Cleared
2 3 (4.84%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (3.23%) AWS Certification
3 2 (3.23%) DBS Check
4 1 (1.61%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 1 (1.61%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (1.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.61%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.29%) Data Quality
2 4 (6.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (6.45%) PCI DSS
2 4 (6.45%) QA
3 1 (1.61%) GDPR
3 1 (1.61%) NCSC
3 1 (1.61%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (20.97%) Docker
2 2 (3.23%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.23%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 22 (35.48%) Terraform
2 14 (22.58%) Kubernetes
3 4 (6.45%) Grafana
4 3 (4.84%) Prometheus
5 2 (3.23%) Ansible
5 2 (3.23%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.61%) Istio
6 1 (1.61%) Kustomize
6 1 (1.61%) linkerd
6 1 (1.61%) Puppet
6 1 (1.61%) Salt
Vendors
1 7 (11.29%) Databricks
2 6 (9.68%) Microsoft
3 4 (6.45%) OpenAI
4 3 (4.84%) Foundry
4 3 (4.84%) Palantir
4 3 (4.84%) SAP
5 2 (3.23%) Oracle
5 2 (3.23%) Splunk
6 1 (1.61%) Amplitude
6 1 (1.61%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.61%) Informatica
6 1 (1.61%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.61%) Sybase