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 22 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 82 68
Rank change year-on-year +3 -14 +14
Contract jobs citing Serverless 46 39 64
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.36% 2.12% 2.69%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.74% 5.15% 7.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 34 38
10th Percentile £316 £437 £404
25th Percentile £359 £494 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% +9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £596 £703 £634
90th Percentile £673 £812 £729
Central London median daily rate £500 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -13.04% +9.52% -4.55%

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 801 758 905
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.03% 41.24% 37.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 586 483 643
10th Percentile £339 £400 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -7.17%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £745
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 11
10th Percentile £30.04 £57.88 £12.75
25th Percentile £39.34 £75.31 £17.00
Median hourly rate £42.89 £111.25 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -61.45% +485.53% -55.81%
75th Percentile £51.00 £152.81 £36.25
90th Percentile £55.94 £173.63 £50.25
Central London median hourly rate £32.99 £35.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -5.76% +84.21% -45.71%

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 22 February 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 3 (6.52%) Palantir Foundry
2 2 (4.35%) Apache
2 2 (4.35%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.17%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.17%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 38 (82.61%) AWS
2 36 (78.26%) AWS Lambda
3 22 (47.83%) Amazon S3
4 17 (36.96%) Azure
5 16 (34.78%) GitHub
6 12 (26.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 9 (19.57%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (19.57%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (17.39%) Amazon ECS
8 8 (17.39%) AWS CloudFormation
8 8 (17.39%) Azure Functions
9 5 (10.87%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (10.87%) AWS Fargate
9 5 (10.87%) Power Platform
10 4 (8.70%) Amazon ECR
10 4 (8.70%) Apigee
10 4 (8.70%) AWS CodePipeline
10 4 (8.70%) Snowflake
11 3 (6.52%) Amazon Bedrock
11 3 (6.52%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.70%) DNS
2 1 (2.17%) DKIM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (26.09%) DynamoDB
2 5 (10.87%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (10.87%) Amazon Redshift
2 5 (10.87%) Power BI
3 4 (8.70%) Amazon Athena
3 4 (8.70%) CockroachDB
4 3 (6.52%) Data Lake
4 3 (6.52%) Metadata
5 2 (4.35%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (4.35%) Delta Lake
5 2 (4.35%) NoSQL
5 2 (4.35%) Pinecone
5 2 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (4.35%) Tableau
6 1 (2.17%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (2.17%) Data Hub
6 1 (2.17%) DB2
6 1 (2.17%) GIS
6 1 (2.17%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 11 (23.91%) Git
2 5 (10.87%) Jenkins
3 3 (6.52%) JIRA
4 2 (4.35%) GitLab
4 2 (4.35%) JUnit
5 1 (2.17%) Bitbucket
5 1 (2.17%) Cucumber
5 1 (2.17%) Mockito
5 1 (2.17%) Postman
5 1 (2.17%) Terragrunt
5 1 (2.17%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 5 (10.87%) Public Sector
2 4 (8.70%) Banking
3 2 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (4.35%) Finance
3 2 (4.35%) Front Office
3 2 (4.35%) Investment Banking
3 2 (4.35%) Social Skills
4 1 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (19.57%) Data Engineer
2 8 (17.39%) DevOps Engineer
3 7 (15.22%) Developer
4 6 (13.04%) AWS Engineer
4 6 (13.04%) Senior
5 5 (10.87%) Architect
5 5 (10.87%) Python Engineer
6 4 (8.70%) Cloud Architect
7 3 (6.52%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 3 (6.52%) AWS DevOps
7 3 (6.52%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 3 (6.52%) Lead
7 3 (6.52%) Senior Data Engineer
8 2 (4.35%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 2 (4.35%) Apigee Engineer
8 2 (4.35%) AWS Developer
8 2 (4.35%) Full-Stack Developer
8 2 (4.35%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 1 (2.17%) AWS Architect
9 1 (2.17%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (23.91%) Node.js
2 7 (15.22%) React
3 6 (13.04%) boto
4 5 (10.87%) Kafka
4 5 (10.87%) OAuth
4 5 (10.87%) PySpark
5 4 (8.70%) .NET
5 4 (8.70%) JWT
5 4 (8.70%) REST
6 3 (6.52%) AngularJS
6 3 (6.52%) AWS CDK
6 3 (6.52%) Flask
6 3 (6.52%) HTML
6 3 (6.52%) LangGraph
6 3 (6.52%) Model Context Protocol
6 3 (6.52%) Next.js
6 3 (6.52%) Spring
6 3 (6.52%) Spring Boot
7 2 (4.35%) CSS
7 2 (4.35%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 13 (28.26%) Cloud Native
2 5 (10.87%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (8.70%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (6.52%) Public Cloud
5 2 (4.35%) AI Agents
5 2 (4.35%) Data Structures
5 2 (4.35%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (4.35%) Management Information System
6 1 (2.17%) Data Fabric
6 1 (2.17%) NHS
6 1 (2.17%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.52%) Linux
2 1 (2.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (56.52%) CI/CD
2 21 (45.65%) DevOps
3 19 (41.30%) Infrastructure as Code
4 13 (28.26%) Analytics
5 11 (23.91%) Data Pipeline
6 10 (21.74%) Agile
6 10 (21.74%) Event-Driven
7 9 (19.57%) ETL
7 9 (19.57%) Microservices
8 8 (17.39%) AI
8 8 (17.39%) Performance Tuning
9 7 (15.22%) Full-Stack Development
9 7 (15.22%) Observability
10 6 (13.04%) Containerisation
10 6 (13.04%) Data Engineering
10 6 (13.04%) Data Modelling
10 6 (13.04%) Workflow
11 5 (10.87%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 5 (10.87%) Semantic Search
11 5 (10.87%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 30 (65.22%) Python
2 21 (45.65%) SQL
3 9 (19.57%) Java
4 8 (17.39%) JavaScript
5 4 (8.70%) TypeScript
6 3 (6.52%) C#
7 2 (4.35%) Bicep
8 1 (2.17%) Apex Code
8 1 (2.17%) Bash
8 1 (2.17%) Go
8 1 (2.17%) PHP
8 1 (2.17%) Ruby
8 1 (2.17%) Shell Script
8 1 (2.17%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 16 (34.78%) SC Cleared
1 16 (34.78%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.52%) AWS Certification
3 2 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.17%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (2.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (2.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (17.39%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.35%) GDPR
3 1 (2.17%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 1 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.17%) NCSC
System Software
1 9 (19.57%) Docker
2 2 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 18 (39.13%) Terraform
2 7 (15.22%) Kubernetes
3 4 (8.70%) Ansible
4 2 (4.35%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (2.17%) Kibana
5 1 (2.17%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 7 (15.22%) Microsoft
2 6 (13.04%) Databricks
3 3 (6.52%) Foundry
3 3 (6.52%) Palantir
4 2 (4.35%) OpenAI
4 2 (4.35%) SAP
5 1 (2.17%) Amplitude
5 1 (2.17%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.17%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.17%) Sybase