Serverless Contracts in the City of London

Serverless Computing
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Serverless skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Serverless over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 77 66
Rank change year-on-year +4 -11 -10
Contract jobs citing Serverless 49 49 112
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 2.70% 2.30% 3.17%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.34% 5.54% 7.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 33 55
10th Percentile £425 £413 £478
25th Percentile £482 £475 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £523 £625
Median % change year-on-year +14.83% -16.40% -2.91%
75th Percentile £713 £600 £750
90th Percentile £800 £678 £825
Central London median daily rate £600 £511 £620
% change year-on-year +17.36% -17.54% -4.62%

All Cloud 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 773 885 1,439
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 42.52% 41.49% 40.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 499 617 930
10th Percentile £363 £363 £299
25th Percentile £461 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £591
Median % change year-on-year - -6.98% +2.83%
75th Percentile £669 £675 £700
90th Percentile £751 £765 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 5 10
10th Percentile £24.02 - £20.35
25th Percentile £25.18 £12.75 £38.13
Median hourly rate £38.58 £27.00 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +42.87% -60.00% +35.00%
75th Percentile £63.37 - £88.30
90th Percentile £96.63 £40.95 -
Central London median hourly rate £34.65 £27.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year +28.33% -48.57% +26.51%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Serverless as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Serverless in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Serverless in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Serverless in the City of London

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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 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Serverless in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.04%) Apache
1 1 (2.04%) Apache Spark
1 1 (2.04%) CMS
1 1 (2.04%) Confluence
1 1 (2.04%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Aladdin
1 1 (2.04%) Endur
1 1 (2.04%) Fidessa
1 1 (2.04%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (2.04%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 33 (67.35%) AWS
2 27 (55.10%) AWS Lambda
3 18 (36.73%) Azure
4 13 (26.53%) Amazon S3
5 11 (22.45%) Amazon SQS
6 8 (16.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 8 (16.33%) Amazon Cognito
6 8 (16.33%) AWS Step Functions
7 6 (12.24%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (12.24%) Amazon EventBridge
7 6 (12.24%) GitHub
7 6 (12.24%) PaaS
8 5 (10.20%) Azure AKS
8 5 (10.20%) Datadog
9 4 (8.16%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (8.16%) Azure Functions
9 4 (8.16%) Azure Logic Apps
9 4 (8.16%) Azure Sentinel
9 4 (8.16%) SaaS
10 3 (6.12%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.16%) Firewall
1 4 (8.16%) VPN
2 2 (4.08%) DHCP
2 2 (4.08%) DNS
2 2 (4.08%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.04%) HTTP
3 1 (2.04%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (22.45%) DynamoDB
2 7 (14.29%) NoSQL
3 6 (12.24%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (10.20%) Amazon Athena
4 5 (10.20%) DocumentDB
4 5 (10.20%) Redis
5 3 (6.12%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (4.08%) Airbyte
6 2 (4.08%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (4.08%) Data Lake
6 2 (4.08%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (4.08%) Parquet
6 2 (4.08%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (4.08%) SQL Server
6 2 (4.08%) Tableau
7 1 (2.04%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (2.04%) BigQuery
7 1 (2.04%) MySQL
7 1 (2.04%) Power BI
7 1 (2.04%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (16.33%) Git
2 5 (10.20%) SonarQube
3 1 (2.04%) CircleCI
3 1 (2.04%) GitLab
3 1 (2.04%) JIRA
General
1 13 (26.53%) Finance
2 10 (20.41%) Public Sector
3 7 (14.29%) Social Skills
4 3 (6.12%) Banking
5 2 (4.08%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.08%) Financial Institution
5 2 (4.08%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.04%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (2.04%) Retail
6 1 (2.04%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (22.45%) Architect
2 10 (20.41%) Developer
3 7 (14.29%) Software Engineer
4 6 (12.24%) Azure Architect
4 6 (12.24%) Data Engineer
4 6 (12.24%) Senior
5 5 (10.20%) AWS Engineer
5 5 (10.20%) Cloud Architect
5 5 (10.20%) JavaScript Engineer
5 5 (10.20%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (8.16%) Software Design Engineer
7 3 (6.12%) Backend Developer
7 3 (6.12%) Cloud Solutions Architect
7 3 (6.12%) JavaScript Developer
7 3 (6.12%) Senior Architect
8 2 (4.08%) AWS DevOps
8 2 (4.08%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 2 (4.08%) Azure Developer
8 2 (4.08%) Integration Developer
8 2 (4.08%) Senior Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (28.57%) Node.js
2 10 (20.41%) React
3 7 (14.29%) GraphQL
4 5 (10.20%) AngularJS
4 5 (10.20%) OpenTelemetry
4 5 (10.20%) WebSockets
5 4 (8.16%) RESTful
6 3 (6.12%) .NET
6 3 (6.12%) AWS CDK
6 3 (6.12%) Kafka
6 3 (6.12%) OAuth
6 3 (6.12%) OAuth2
7 2 (4.08%) ARM Templates
7 2 (4.08%) Azure Blueprints
7 2 (4.08%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (4.08%) FastAPI
7 2 (4.08%) Jest
8 1 (2.04%) .NET Core
8 1 (2.04%) PySpark
8 1 (2.04%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (20.41%) Cloud Native
2 4 (8.16%) Public Cloud
3 2 (4.08%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (4.08%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (4.08%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (4.08%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (4.08%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (4.08%) Reinsurance
4 1 (2.04%) Derivative
4 1 (2.04%) Fixed Income
4 1 (2.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.04%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.04%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.16%) Linux
2 2 (4.08%) Unix
2 2 (4.08%) Windows
2 2 (4.08%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (51.02%) DevOps
2 20 (40.82%) CI/CD
2 20 (40.82%) Infrastructure as Code
3 17 (34.69%) Microservices
4 15 (30.61%) Agile
5 9 (18.37%) Software Engineering
6 8 (16.33%) Containerisation
7 7 (14.29%) Cloud Security
7 7 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
8 6 (12.24%) Clean Code
8 6 (12.24%) Deployment Automation
8 6 (12.24%) Event-Driven
8 6 (12.24%) Mentoring
8 6 (12.24%) Performance Optimisation
9 5 (10.20%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 5 (10.20%) Observability
9 5 (10.20%) User Experience
10 4 (8.16%) Requirements Gathering
10 4 (8.16%) Service-Level Objective
Programming Languages
1 16 (32.65%) Python
2 15 (30.61%) JavaScript
3 9 (18.37%) SQL
4 8 (16.33%) TypeScript
5 4 (8.16%) Bicep
5 4 (8.16%) PowerShell
6 3 (6.12%) C#
6 3 (6.12%) Shell Script
7 2 (4.08%) Go
7 2 (4.08%) Perl
7 2 (4.08%) Rust
8 1 (2.04%) Bash
8 1 (2.04%) Java
8 1 (2.04%) Scala
Qualifications
1 13 (26.53%) SC Cleared
1 13 (26.53%) Security Cleared
2 4 (8.16%) AWS Certification
3 3 (6.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (4.08%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (4.08%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.04%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 1 (2.04%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.16%) GDPR
2 2 (4.08%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.08%) SOC 2
3 1 (2.04%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (2.04%) HIPAA
3 1 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.04%) MiFID
3 1 (2.04%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (10.20%) Docker
2 3 (6.12%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (4.08%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (36.73%) Terraform
2 11 (22.45%) Kubernetes
3 5 (10.20%) Ansible
3 5 (10.20%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 12 (24.49%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.04%) AppDynamics
2 1 (2.04%) Google
2 1 (2.04%) Okta
2 1 (2.04%) OpenLink
2 1 (2.04%) Portware
2 1 (2.04%) Salesforce
2 1 (2.04%) Splunk