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 2 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 83 81
Rank change year-on-year +2 -2 -12
Contract jobs citing Serverless 58 47 48
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.42% 2.49% 2.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.10% 5.96% 5.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 33 31
10th Percentile £418 £425 £456
25th Percentile £464 £488 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +14.29% -16.00%
75th Percentile £688 £751 £614
90th Percentile £796 £800 £788
Central London median daily rate £575 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -4.17% +14.29% -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 951 789 851
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 39.61% 41.81% 41.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 655 514 592
10th Percentile £353 £363 £375
25th Percentile £456 £454 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £652 £667 £675
90th Percentile £750 £762 £763
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 14 3
10th Percentile £19.48 £24.02 -
25th Percentile £22.67 £25.18 -
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 £59.75
90th Percentile £75.18 £96.63 £79.40
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 2 August 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%) CICS
2 3 (5.17%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (5.17%) Confluence
3 1 (1.72%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.72%) Palantir Foundry
3 1 (1.72%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (5.17%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 44 (75.86%) AWS
2 39 (67.24%) AWS Lambda
3 28 (48.28%) Amazon S3
4 17 (29.31%) Azure
5 14 (24.14%) GitHub
6 13 (22.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 11 (18.97%) Azure Functions
7 11 (18.97%) Power Platform
8 10 (17.24%) Amazon EC2
9 9 (15.52%) Amazon SQS
10 8 (13.79%) AWS CloudFormation
11 7 (12.07%) Amazon Kinesis
11 7 (12.07%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (12.07%) Azure Logic Apps
11 7 (12.07%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (12.07%) SaaS
12 6 (10.34%) AWS Step Functions
13 5 (8.62%) Amazon Bedrock
13 5 (8.62%) Amazon ECS
13 5 (8.62%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.45%) Firewall
2 1 (1.72%) FTP
2 1 (1.72%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (25.86%) DynamoDB
2 14 (24.14%) Amazon Athena
3 11 (18.97%) Amazon Redshift
4 10 (17.24%) Amazon RDS
5 8 (13.79%) Power BI
6 5 (8.62%) Db2
7 4 (6.90%) Metadata
8 3 (5.17%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (5.17%) NoSQL
8 3 (5.17%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (3.45%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (3.45%) Data Lake
9 2 (3.45%) Data Mining
9 2 (3.45%) Delta Lake
9 2 (3.45%) Electronic Patient Records
9 2 (3.45%) MongoDB
9 2 (3.45%) Snowflake Schema
9 2 (3.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (3.45%) Tableau
10 1 (1.72%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 13 (22.41%) Git
1 13 (22.41%) GitLab
2 10 (17.24%) JIRA
3 8 (13.79%) Jenkins
4 6 (10.34%) JUnit
5 4 (6.90%) Cucumber
5 4 (6.90%) Mockito
5 4 (6.90%) Postman
6 3 (5.17%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.72%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (1.72%) Cypress.io
7 1 (1.72%) Jasmine
7 1 (1.72%) JMeter
7 1 (1.72%) Karma Test Runner
7 1 (1.72%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (1.72%) Visual Studio
7 1 (1.72%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 22 (37.93%) Finance
2 13 (22.41%) Social Skills
3 9 (15.52%) Banking
3 9 (15.52%) Public Sector
4 4 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (5.17%) Marketing
6 2 (3.45%) Back Office
6 2 (3.45%) Military
7 1 (1.72%) Billing
7 1 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.72%) Law
7 1 (1.72%) Legal
7 1 (1.72%) Police
7 1 (1.72%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (18.97%) Architect
1 11 (18.97%) Senior
2 10 (17.24%) AWS Engineer
2 10 (17.24%) Developer
3 7 (12.07%) Data Engineer
4 5 (8.62%) AWS Architect
5 4 (6.90%) Automation Engineer
5 4 (6.90%) 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%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (3.45%) Infrastructure Architect
7 2 (3.45%) Java Developer
7 2 (3.45%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (15.52%) SOAP
2 8 (13.79%) .NET
2 8 (13.79%) RESTful
3 7 (12.07%) Kafka
3 7 (12.07%) Spring
3 7 (12.07%) Spring Boot
4 6 (10.34%) PySpark
4 6 (10.34%) React
4 6 (10.34%) REST
5 5 (8.62%) JSON
5 5 (8.62%) Node.js
6 4 (6.90%) Gherkin
6 4 (6.90%) Web Services
6 4 (6.90%) WireMock
6 4 (6.90%) WSDL
6 4 (6.90%) YAML
7 3 (5.17%) OAuth
8 2 (3.45%) ActiveMQ
8 2 (3.45%) CSS
8 2 (3.45%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (29.31%) 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%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (3.45%) NHS
4 2 (3.45%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.72%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.72%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.72%) IoT
5 1 (1.72%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.72%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.72%) Replication
5 1 (1.72%) Smart Meter
5 1 (1.72%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.90%) zOS
2 2 (3.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (53.45%) CI/CD
2 24 (41.38%) DevOps
3 21 (36.21%) Infrastructure as Code
4 17 (29.31%) Agile
5 16 (27.59%) Data Engineering
6 15 (25.86%) AI
7 14 (24.14%) Analytics
8 13 (22.41%) Containerisation
8 13 (22.41%) Test Automation
9 10 (17.24%) Business Intelligence
9 10 (17.24%) Data Modelling
9 10 (17.24%) Migration
10 9 (15.52%) Event-Driven
10 9 (15.52%) Integration Patterns
10 9 (15.52%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (15.52%) Roadmaps
11 8 (13.79%) Data Pipeline
11 8 (13.79%) Performance Tuning
12 7 (12.07%) Machine Learning
12 7 (12.07%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 24 (41.38%) Python
2 21 (36.21%) SQL
3 12 (20.69%) C#
4 9 (15.52%) TypeScript
5 8 (13.79%) Java
5 8 (13.79%) JavaScript
6 4 (6.90%) Bicep
6 4 (6.90%) JCL
6 4 (6.90%) Shell Script
7 2 (3.45%) Bash
8 1 (1.72%) Korn
8 1 (1.72%) Scala
Qualifications
1 9 (15.52%) Security Cleared
2 8 (13.79%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.45%) AWS Certification
3 2 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
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
4 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.34%) QA
2 5 (8.62%) Data Quality
3 4 (6.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (6.90%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.72%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.72%) GDPR
4 1 (1.72%) NCSC
4 1 (1.72%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (22.41%) Docker
2 3 (5.17%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.72%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 20 (34.48%) Terraform
2 13 (22.41%) 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 12 (20.69%) Microsoft
2 5 (8.62%) Databricks
3 2 (3.45%) OpenAI
3 2 (3.45%) Oracle
3 2 (3.45%) ServiceNow
3 2 (3.45%) Splunk
4 1 (1.72%) Fortinet
4 1 (1.72%) Foundry
4 1 (1.72%) Informatica
4 1 (1.72%) New Relic
4 1 (1.72%) Palantir
4 1 (1.72%) SAP
4 1 (1.72%) Sybase