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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 76 83
Rank change year-on-year -9 +7 -19
Contract jobs citing Serverless 58 49 49
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.38% 2.63% 2.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.14% 6.19% 5.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 36 33
10th Percentile £413 £425 £413
25th Percentile £464 £482 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £600 £523
Median % change year-on-year -2.08% +14.83% -16.40%
75th Percentile £688 £751 £614
90th Percentile £796 £800 £678
Central London median daily rate £588 £600 £511
% change year-on-year -2.08% +17.36% -18.20%

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 944 791 893
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 38.82% 42.48% 41.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 654 514 622
10th Percentile £350 £363 £363
25th Percentile £456 £455 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £751 £763
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 14 6
10th Percentile £19.50 £24.02 £12.75
25th Percentile £22.83 £25.18 £16.31
Median hourly rate £37.50 £38.58 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.79% +42.87% -60.00%
75th Percentile £62.36 £63.37 £44.44
90th Percentile £75.00 £96.63 £71.38
Central London median hourly rate £51.44 £34.65 £27.00
% change year-on-year +48.46% +28.33% -48.57%

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 15 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 (6.90%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (6.90%) CICS
2 3 (5.17%) Confluence
2 3 (5.17%) Palantir Foundry
3 1 (1.72%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 2 (3.45%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 46 (79.31%) AWS
2 40 (68.97%) AWS Lambda
3 29 (50.00%) Amazon S3
4 17 (29.31%) Azure
5 16 (27.59%) GitHub
6 14 (24.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 11 (18.97%) Amazon EC2
8 10 (17.24%) Azure Functions
8 10 (17.24%) Power Platform
9 9 (15.52%) Amazon SQS
10 8 (13.79%) AWS CloudFormation
11 7 (12.07%) Amazon Kinesis
11 7 (12.07%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (10.34%) AWS Step Functions
13 5 (8.62%) Amazon Bedrock
13 5 (8.62%) Amazon ECS
13 5 (8.62%) Amazon EMR
13 5 (8.62%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (8.62%) Azure Logic Apps
13 5 (8.62%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.45%) Firewall
2 1 (1.72%) FTP
2 1 (1.72%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (27.59%) DynamoDB
2 14 (24.14%) Amazon Athena
3 11 (18.97%) Amazon RDS
3 11 (18.97%) Amazon Redshift
4 8 (13.79%) Power BI
5 5 (8.62%) Db2
6 4 (6.90%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (6.90%) Metadata
7 3 (5.17%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (3.45%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (3.45%) Data Lake
8 2 (3.45%) Data Mining
8 2 (3.45%) Delta Lake
8 2 (3.45%) Electronic Patient Records
8 2 (3.45%) NoSQL
8 2 (3.45%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (3.45%) Tableau
9 1 (1.72%) Apache Iceberg
9 1 (1.72%) Pinecone
9 1 (1.72%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 16 (27.59%) Git
2 14 (24.14%) GitLab
3 11 (18.97%) JIRA
4 9 (15.52%) Jenkins
5 7 (12.07%) JUnit
6 5 (8.62%) Cucumber
6 5 (8.62%) Mockito
6 5 (8.62%) Postman
7 3 (5.17%) Bitbucket
8 1 (1.72%) Artifactory
8 1 (1.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (1.72%) Cypress.io
8 1 (1.72%) Jasmine
8 1 (1.72%) Karma Test Runner
8 1 (1.72%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 23 (39.66%) Finance
2 11 (18.97%) Banking
2 11 (18.97%) Social Skills
3 8 (13.79%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.45%) Back Office
4 2 (3.45%) Military
5 1 (1.72%) Billing
5 1 (1.72%) Law
5 1 (1.72%) Legal
5 1 (1.72%) Marketing
5 1 (1.72%) Police
Job Titles
1 12 (20.69%) Architect
2 10 (17.24%) AWS Engineer
2 10 (17.24%) Senior
3 8 (13.79%) Data Engineer
3 8 (13.79%) Developer
4 5 (8.62%) Automation Engineer
4 5 (8.62%) AWS Architect
4 5 (8.62%) Cloud Architect
5 4 (6.90%) Lead
5 4 (6.90%) Platform Architect
6 3 (5.17%) AWS Data Engineer
6 3 (5.17%) Data Architect
6 3 (5.17%) Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (5.17%) Senior Data Engineer
6 3 (5.17%) Software Engineer
6 3 (5.17%) Workflow Engineer
7 2 (3.45%) Infrastructure Architect
7 2 (3.45%) Snowflake Data Engineer
7 2 (3.45%) Snowflake Engineer
7 2 (3.45%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (17.24%) SOAP
2 9 (15.52%) Kafka
3 8 (13.79%) PySpark
3 8 (13.79%) RESTful
3 8 (13.79%) Spring
3 8 (13.79%) Spring Boot
4 7 (12.07%) .NET
5 5 (8.62%) Gherkin
5 5 (8.62%) React
5 5 (8.62%) WireMock
5 5 (8.62%) YAML
6 4 (6.90%) JSON
6 4 (6.90%) Node.js
6 4 (6.90%) REST
6 4 (6.90%) Web Services
6 4 (6.90%) WSDL
7 3 (5.17%) OAuth
8 2 (3.45%) ActiveMQ
8 2 (3.45%) CSS
8 2 (3.45%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (32.76%) Cloud Native
2 4 (6.90%) DataPower
2 4 (6.90%) Mainframe
2 4 (6.90%) Online Banking
3 3 (5.17%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (3.45%) NHS
4 2 (3.45%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.45%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.72%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.72%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.72%) IoT
5 1 (1.72%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.72%) Replication
5 1 (1.72%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.90%) zOS
2 2 (3.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (55.17%) CI/CD
2 24 (41.38%) DevOps
3 21 (36.21%) Infrastructure as Code
4 18 (31.03%) Data Engineering
5 16 (27.59%) Agile
6 15 (25.86%) AI
6 15 (25.86%) Analytics
7 13 (22.41%) Containerisation
7 13 (22.41%) Test Automation
8 10 (17.24%) Migration
9 9 (15.52%) Data Modelling
9 9 (15.52%) Data Pipeline
9 9 (15.52%) Event-Driven
9 9 (15.52%) Roadmaps
10 8 (13.79%) Business Intelligence
10 8 (13.79%) Performance Tuning
11 7 (12.07%) ETL
11 7 (12.07%) Machine Learning
11 7 (12.07%) Problem-Solving
12 6 (10.34%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 27 (46.55%) Python
2 22 (37.93%) SQL
3 12 (20.69%) C#
4 9 (15.52%) Java
5 7 (12.07%) TypeScript
6 6 (10.34%) JavaScript
7 4 (6.90%) JCL
7 4 (6.90%) Shell Script
8 3 (5.17%) Bicep
9 2 (3.45%) Bash
10 1 (1.72%) Korn
10 1 (1.72%) Scala
Qualifications
1 7 (12.07%) SC Cleared
1 7 (12.07%) Security Cleared
2 3 (5.17%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (3.45%) AWS Certification
3 2 (3.45%) DBS Check
4 1 (1.72%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 1 (1.72%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (1.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.72%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.72%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.62%) Data Quality
1 5 (8.62%) QA
2 4 (6.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (6.90%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.72%) GDPR
3 1 (1.72%) NCSC
3 1 (1.72%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (24.14%) Docker
2 3 (5.17%) Active Directory
3 2 (3.45%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 22 (37.93%) Terraform
2 15 (25.86%) Kubernetes
3 4 (6.90%) Grafana
4 3 (5.17%) Prometheus
5 2 (3.45%) Ansible
6 1 (1.72%) Istio
6 1 (1.72%) Kustomize
6 1 (1.72%) linkerd
6 1 (1.72%) Puppet
6 1 (1.72%) Salt
6 1 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (17.24%) Microsoft
2 7 (12.07%) Databricks
3 3 (5.17%) Foundry
3 3 (5.17%) Palantir
4 2 (3.45%) OpenAI
4 2 (3.45%) Oracle
4 2 (3.45%) Splunk
5 1 (1.72%) Fortinet
5 1 (1.72%) Informatica
5 1 (1.72%) SAP
5 1 (1.72%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.72%) Sybase