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 27 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 71 78
Rank change year-on-year -14 +7 -8
Contract jobs citing Serverless 53 48 47
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.23% 2.55% 2.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.64% 6.11% 5.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 35 31
10th Percentile £450 £425 £456
25th Percentile £472 £488 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +19.05% -16.00%
75th Percentile £706 £751 £614
90th Percentile £830 £800 £788
Central London median daily rate £600 £625 £525
% change year-on-year -4.00% +19.05% -16.00%

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 939 785 857
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 39.42% 41.62% 41.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 649 512 596
10th Percentile £350 £363 £375
25th Percentile £463 £456 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £671
90th Percentile £750 £756 £752
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 14 4
10th Percentile £19.48 £24.02 £17.03
25th Percentile £22.67 £25.18 £23.44
Median hourly rate £33.75 £38.58 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.51% +42.87% -36.47%
75th Percentile £63.68 £63.37 £43.38
90th Percentile £75.18 £96.63 £72.85
Central London median hourly rate £37.50 £34.65 £27.00
% change year-on-year +8.23% +28.33% -22.86%

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 27 July 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 (7.55%) CICS
2 3 (5.66%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (5.66%) Confluence
3 1 (1.89%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.89%) Palantir Foundry
Business Applications
1 2 (3.77%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 43 (81.13%) AWS
2 38 (71.70%) AWS Lambda
3 27 (50.94%) Amazon S3
4 14 (26.42%) Azure
5 13 (24.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 13 (24.53%) GitHub
6 10 (18.87%) Amazon EC2
7 9 (16.98%) Amazon SQS
8 8 (15.09%) AWS CloudFormation
8 8 (15.09%) Azure Functions
8 8 (15.09%) Power Platform
9 7 (13.21%) Amazon Kinesis
9 7 (13.21%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (11.32%) AWS Step Functions
11 5 (9.43%) Amazon Bedrock
11 5 (9.43%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (9.43%) Amazon EMR
11 5 (9.43%) Azure Logic Apps
11 5 (9.43%) SaaS
12 4 (7.55%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.77%) Firewall
2 1 (1.89%) FTP
2 1 (1.89%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (28.30%) DynamoDB
2 13 (24.53%) Amazon Athena
3 11 (20.75%) Amazon Redshift
4 10 (18.87%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (11.32%) Power BI
6 5 (9.43%) Db2
7 4 (7.55%) Metadata
8 3 (5.66%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (5.66%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (3.77%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (3.77%) Data Lake
9 2 (3.77%) Data Mining
9 2 (3.77%) Delta Lake
9 2 (3.77%) Electronic Patient Records
9 2 (3.77%) NoSQL
9 2 (3.77%) Snowflake Schema
9 2 (3.77%) Tableau
10 1 (1.89%) Apache Iceberg
10 1 (1.89%) Pinecone
10 1 (1.89%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 13 (24.53%) GitLab
2 12 (22.64%) Git
3 10 (18.87%) JIRA
4 8 (15.09%) Jenkins
5 6 (11.32%) JUnit
6 4 (7.55%) Cucumber
6 4 (7.55%) Mockito
6 4 (7.55%) Postman
7 3 (5.66%) Bitbucket
8 1 (1.89%) Artifactory
8 1 (1.89%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (1.89%) Cypress.io
8 1 (1.89%) Jasmine
8 1 (1.89%) Karma Test Runner
8 1 (1.89%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 21 (39.62%) Finance
2 11 (20.75%) Social Skills
3 9 (16.98%) Banking
4 8 (15.09%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.77%) Back Office
5 2 (3.77%) Military
6 1 (1.89%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.89%) Billing
6 1 (1.89%) Law
6 1 (1.89%) Legal
6 1 (1.89%) Marketing
6 1 (1.89%) Police
Job Titles
1 11 (20.75%) Architect
2 10 (18.87%) AWS Engineer
2 10 (18.87%) Senior
3 8 (15.09%) Developer
4 7 (13.21%) Data Engineer
5 5 (9.43%) AWS Architect
6 4 (7.55%) Automation Engineer
6 4 (7.55%) Cloud Architect
6 4 (7.55%) Lead
6 4 (7.55%) Platform Architect
7 3 (5.66%) AWS Data Engineer
7 3 (5.66%) Data Architect
7 3 (5.66%) Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (5.66%) Senior Data Engineer
7 3 (5.66%) Software Engineer
7 3 (5.66%) Workflow Engineer
8 2 (3.77%) Azure Engineer
8 2 (3.77%) Cloud Engineer
8 2 (3.77%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
8 2 (3.77%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (16.98%) SOAP
2 8 (15.09%) RESTful
3 7 (13.21%) .NET
3 7 (13.21%) Kafka
3 7 (13.21%) Spring
3 7 (13.21%) Spring Boot
4 6 (11.32%) PySpark
5 5 (9.43%) React
6 4 (7.55%) Gherkin
6 4 (7.55%) JSON
6 4 (7.55%) Node.js
6 4 (7.55%) REST
6 4 (7.55%) Web Services
6 4 (7.55%) WireMock
6 4 (7.55%) WSDL
6 4 (7.55%) YAML
7 3 (5.66%) OAuth
8 2 (3.77%) ActiveMQ
8 2 (3.77%) CSS
8 2 (3.77%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 17 (32.08%) Cloud Native
2 4 (7.55%) DataPower
2 4 (7.55%) Mainframe
2 4 (7.55%) Online Banking
3 3 (5.66%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.77%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (3.77%) NHS
4 2 (3.77%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.89%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.89%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.89%) IoT
5 1 (1.89%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.89%) Replication
5 1 (1.89%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.55%) zOS
2 2 (3.77%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (54.72%) CI/CD
2 21 (39.62%) DevOps
3 20 (37.74%) Infrastructure as Code
4 16 (30.19%) Data Engineering
5 15 (28.30%) AI
6 14 (26.42%) Agile
7 13 (24.53%) Analytics
7 13 (24.53%) Containerisation
8 12 (22.64%) Test Automation
9 9 (16.98%) Migration
9 9 (16.98%) Roadmaps
10 8 (15.09%) Business Intelligence
10 8 (15.09%) Data Modelling
10 8 (15.09%) Data Pipeline
10 8 (15.09%) Event-Driven
11 7 (13.21%) Machine Learning
11 7 (13.21%) Performance Tuning
12 6 (11.32%) ETL
12 6 (11.32%) Problem-Solving
12 6 (11.32%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 24 (45.28%) Python
2 19 (35.85%) SQL
3 11 (20.75%) C#
4 8 (15.09%) Java
5 7 (13.21%) TypeScript
6 6 (11.32%) JavaScript
7 4 (7.55%) JCL
7 4 (7.55%) Shell Script
8 3 (5.66%) Bicep
9 2 (3.77%) Bash
10 1 (1.89%) Korn
10 1 (1.89%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (11.32%) SC Cleared
1 6 (11.32%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.77%) AWS Certification
2 2 (3.77%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (3.77%) DBS Check
3 1 (1.89%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 1 (1.89%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (1.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (1.89%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.89%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.43%) QA
2 4 (7.55%) Data Quality
2 4 (7.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (7.55%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.89%) GDPR
3 1 (1.89%) NCSC
3 1 (1.89%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (24.53%) Docker
2 3 (5.66%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.89%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 20 (37.74%) Terraform
2 13 (24.53%) Kubernetes
3 4 (7.55%) Grafana
4 3 (5.66%) Prometheus
5 2 (3.77%) Ansible
6 1 (1.89%) Istio
6 1 (1.89%) Kustomize
6 1 (1.89%) linkerd
6 1 (1.89%) Puppet
6 1 (1.89%) Salt
6 1 (1.89%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (18.87%) Microsoft
2 5 (9.43%) Databricks
3 2 (3.77%) OpenAI
3 2 (3.77%) Oracle
3 2 (3.77%) Splunk
4 1 (1.89%) Fortinet
4 1 (1.89%) Foundry
4 1 (1.89%) Informatica
4 1 (1.89%) Palantir
4 1 (1.89%) SAP
4 1 (1.89%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.89%) Sybase