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 3 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 76 72
Rank change year-on-year -4 -4 +2
Contract jobs citing Serverless 54 48 55
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.34% 2.73% 2.51%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.95% 6.30% 6.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 36 36
10th Percentile £334 £425 £397
25th Percentile £403 £464 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £600 £513
Median % change year-on-year -12.92% +17.07% -16.94%
75th Percentile £647 £713 £578
90th Percentile £683 £813 £744
Central London median daily rate £538 £588 £513
% change year-on-year -8.51% +14.63% -15.22%

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 907 762 858
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 39.38% 43.39% 39.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 630 490 612
10th Percentile £350 £375 £363
25th Percentile £450 £460 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £669 £671
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £538
% change year-on-year - +2.33% -6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 7 6
10th Percentile £20.67 £24.66 £12.75
25th Percentile £25.81 £29.64 £14.88
Median hourly rate £40.64 £42.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.38% +88.89% -73.24%
75th Percentile £57.83 £74.38 £26.19
90th Percentile £75.18 £135.00 £38.63
Central London median hourly rate £39.00 £34.83 £22.50
% change year-on-year +11.99% +54.78% -72.73%

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 3 May 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 (7.41%) CICS
2 3 (5.56%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (5.56%) Palantir Foundry
3 2 (3.70%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.85%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 43 (79.63%) AWS
2 38 (70.37%) AWS Lambda
3 25 (46.30%) Amazon S3
4 19 (35.19%) Azure
5 16 (29.63%) GitHub
6 14 (25.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 9 (16.67%) Azure Functions
7 9 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (14.81%) Amazon EC2
8 8 (14.81%) Amazon ECS
8 8 (14.81%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (11.11%) AWS Step Functions
9 6 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (9.26%) Amazon Bedrock
10 5 (9.26%) AWS CodePipeline
10 5 (9.26%) Power Platform
11 4 (7.41%) Amazon Kinesis
11 4 (7.41%) Anthropic Claude
11 4 (7.41%) Azure Key Vault
11 4 (7.41%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.70%) DNS
1 2 (3.70%) Firewall
2 1 (1.85%) FTP
2 1 (1.85%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (31.48%) DynamoDB
2 7 (12.96%) Amazon Athena
2 7 (12.96%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (12.96%) Amazon Redshift
3 5 (9.26%) DB2
3 5 (9.26%) Metadata
4 4 (7.41%) CockroachDB
4 4 (7.41%) Data Lake
4 4 (7.41%) Power BI
5 2 (3.70%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (3.70%) Data Mining
5 2 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (3.70%) Electronic Patient Records
5 2 (3.70%) Pinecone
5 2 (3.70%) Tableau
6 1 (1.85%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.85%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (1.85%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.85%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 14 (25.93%) Git
2 10 (18.52%) GitLab
3 6 (11.11%) Jenkins
3 6 (11.11%) JIRA
4 4 (7.41%) JUnit
5 3 (5.56%) Cucumber
5 3 (5.56%) Mockito
5 3 (5.56%) Postman
6 1 (1.85%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.85%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.85%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.85%) Terragrunt
General
1 12 (22.22%) Finance
2 9 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 8 (14.81%) Banking
3 8 (14.81%) Social Skills
4 1 (1.85%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (1.85%) Law
4 1 (1.85%) Legal
4 1 (1.85%) Military
4 1 (1.85%) Police
Job Titles
1 10 (18.52%) Architect
2 8 (14.81%) Data Engineer
3 7 (12.96%) Developer
4 6 (11.11%) Senior
5 5 (9.26%) Cloud Architect
5 5 (9.26%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (7.41%) AWS Engineer
7 3 (5.56%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 3 (5.56%) Automation Engineer
7 3 (5.56%) AWS Architect
7 3 (5.56%) Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (5.56%) Python Engineer
8 2 (3.70%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 2 (3.70%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 2 (3.70%) AWS Infrastructure Architect
8 2 (3.70%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 2 (3.70%) Senior Data Engineer
8 2 (3.70%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 2 (3.70%) Snowflake Data Engineer
8 2 (3.70%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (14.81%) SOAP
2 7 (12.96%) boto
2 7 (12.96%) Kafka
2 7 (12.96%) Node.js
2 7 (12.96%) PySpark
2 7 (12.96%) React
3 6 (11.11%) RESTful
3 6 (11.11%) Spring
3 6 (11.11%) Spring Boot
4 5 (9.26%) JSON
4 5 (9.26%) REST
5 4 (7.41%) OAuth
5 4 (7.41%) Web Services
5 4 (7.41%) WSDL
6 3 (5.56%) Flask
6 3 (5.56%) Gherkin
6 3 (5.56%) LangGraph
6 3 (5.56%) Model Context Protocol
6 3 (5.56%) WireMock
6 3 (5.56%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (27.78%) Cloud Native
2 4 (7.41%) DataPower
2 4 (7.41%) Mainframe
2 4 (7.41%) Online Banking
3 3 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (3.70%) AI Agents
4 2 (3.70%) Data Structures
4 2 (3.70%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.70%) NHS
4 2 (3.70%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.85%) IoT
5 1 (1.85%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.85%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.85%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.41%) zOS
2 2 (3.70%) Linux
2 2 (3.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (59.26%) CI/CD
2 29 (53.70%) DevOps
3 26 (48.15%) Infrastructure as Code
4 16 (29.63%) AI
5 13 (24.07%) Analytics
6 11 (20.37%) Agile
6 11 (20.37%) Performance Tuning
7 10 (18.52%) Containerisation
7 10 (18.52%) Data Engineering
7 10 (18.52%) Observability
8 9 (16.67%) ETL
8 9 (16.67%) LLM
9 8 (14.81%) Event-Driven
9 8 (14.81%) Migration
9 8 (14.81%) Test Automation
10 7 (12.96%) Data Pipeline
10 7 (12.96%) Generative AI
10 7 (12.96%) Integration Patterns
10 7 (12.96%) Microservices
10 7 (12.96%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 31 (57.41%) Python
2 20 (37.04%) SQL
3 7 (12.96%) Java
3 7 (12.96%) JavaScript
4 6 (11.11%) TypeScript
5 5 (9.26%) Bicep
6 4 (7.41%) JCL
6 4 (7.41%) Shell Script
7 3 (5.56%) C#
8 1 (1.85%) Bash
8 1 (1.85%) Go
8 1 (1.85%) PHP
8 1 (1.85%) Ruby
8 1 (1.85%) Scala
Qualifications
1 16 (29.63%) SC Cleared
1 16 (29.63%) Security Cleared
2 3 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (3.70%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.85%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (1.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (1.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.85%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.96%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.70%) PCI DSS
2 2 (3.70%) QA
3 1 (1.85%) GDPR
3 1 (1.85%) NCSC
3 1 (1.85%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (22.22%) Docker
2 2 (3.70%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.70%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 23 (42.59%) Terraform
2 13 (24.07%) Kubernetes
3 3 (5.56%) Ansible
3 3 (5.56%) Grafana
3 3 (5.56%) Prometheus
4 2 (3.70%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.85%) Istio
5 1 (1.85%) Kibana
5 1 (1.85%) Kustomize
5 1 (1.85%) linkerd
5 1 (1.85%) Opsgenie
5 1 (1.85%) Puppet
5 1 (1.85%) Salt
Vendors
1 7 (12.96%) Databricks
1 7 (12.96%) Microsoft
2 4 (7.41%) OpenAI
3 3 (5.56%) Foundry
3 3 (5.56%) Palantir
3 3 (5.56%) SAP
4 2 (3.70%) Oracle
4 2 (3.70%) Splunk
5 1 (1.85%) Amplitude
5 1 (1.85%) Fortinet
5 1 (1.85%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.85%) Sybase