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 27 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 81 59
Rank change year-on-year +2 -22 +22
Contract jobs citing Serverless 46 40 79
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.49% 1.96% 3.16%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.01% 5.02% 7.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 29 46
10th Percentile £332 £452 £403
25th Percentile £363 £510 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.57% +9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £675 £738 £679
90th Percentile £695 £850 £731
Central London median daily rate £540 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -6.09% +4.55% -

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 766 797 1,009
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.47% 39.01% 40.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 576 511 727
10th Percentile £325 £400 £363
25th Percentile £419 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 7
10th Percentile £26.41 - -
25th Percentile £32.13 £77.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate £37.25 £85.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -56.18% +347.37% -7.32%
75th Percentile £41.89 £92.50 £43.38
90th Percentile £44.72 - £58.75
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -27.23% +84.21% -7.32%

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 27 December 2025.

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 2 (4.35%) Apache
1 2 (4.35%) Confluence
2 1 (2.17%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.17%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.17%) CICS
Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Aladdin
1 1 (2.17%) Fidessa
1 1 (2.17%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 39 (84.78%) AWS
1 39 (84.78%) AWS Lambda
2 25 (54.35%) Amazon S3
3 15 (32.61%) Azure
4 14 (30.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 14 (30.43%) GitHub
5 11 (23.91%) Amazon ECS
5 11 (23.91%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (15.22%) AWS CloudFormation
6 7 (15.22%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (15.22%) Azure Functions
7 6 (13.04%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (10.87%) AWS Fargate
9 4 (8.70%) Amazon ECR
9 4 (8.70%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (8.70%) Apigee
9 4 (8.70%) AWS CodePipeline
9 4 (8.70%) AWS Step Functions
9 4 (8.70%) Snowflake
10 3 (6.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (10.87%) DNS
2 1 (2.17%) DKIM
2 1 (2.17%) NAS
2 1 (2.17%) OpenLDAP
2 1 (2.17%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (2.17%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (26.09%) DynamoDB
2 6 (13.04%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (8.70%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (6.52%) Amazon Athena
4 3 (6.52%) CockroachDB
4 3 (6.52%) Data Lake
4 3 (6.52%) Metadata
4 3 (6.52%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (6.52%) SQL Server
5 2 (4.35%) Airbyte
5 2 (4.35%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (4.35%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (4.35%) Delta Lake
5 2 (4.35%) Pinecone
5 2 (4.35%) Power BI
5 2 (4.35%) Relational Database
5 2 (4.35%) Tableau
6 1 (2.17%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (2.17%) Data Hub
6 1 (2.17%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 7 (15.22%) Git
2 3 (6.52%) Jenkins
2 3 (6.52%) JIRA
3 2 (4.35%) GitLab
4 1 (2.17%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.17%) Terragrunt
4 1 (2.17%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 5 (10.87%) Public Sector
1 5 (10.87%) Social Skills
2 4 (8.70%) Banking
2 4 (8.70%) Finance
2 4 (8.70%) Investment Banking
3 3 (6.52%) Front Office
4 2 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.17%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (21.74%) DevOps Engineer
2 9 (19.57%) Developer
3 7 (15.22%) AWS Engineer
3 7 (15.22%) Data Engineer
4 6 (13.04%) Python Engineer
5 5 (10.87%) Architect
5 5 (10.87%) Senior
6 4 (8.70%) AWS DevOps
6 4 (8.70%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 4 (8.70%) Lead
7 3 (6.52%) Integration Developer
8 2 (4.35%) Apigee Engineer
8 2 (4.35%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 2 (4.35%) Cloud Architect
8 2 (4.35%) Full-Stack Developer
8 2 (4.35%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 2 (4.35%) Senior Data Engineer
9 1 (2.17%) Cloud Engineer
9 1 (2.17%) Digital Architect
9 1 (2.17%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (28.26%) Node.js
2 9 (19.57%) React
3 7 (15.22%) OAuth
4 6 (13.04%) .NET
4 6 (13.04%) REST
5 5 (10.87%) boto
6 4 (8.70%) AngularJS
6 4 (8.70%) AWS CDK
6 4 (8.70%) FastAPI
6 4 (8.70%) HTML
6 4 (8.70%) JWT
6 4 (8.70%) RESTful
7 3 (6.52%) CSS
7 3 (6.52%) Flask
8 2 (4.35%) LangGraph
8 2 (4.35%) NumPy
8 2 (4.35%) OAuth2
8 2 (4.35%) Pandas
8 2 (4.35%) PySpark
8 2 (4.35%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 12 (26.09%) Cloud Native
2 6 (13.04%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (8.70%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (6.52%) Product Ownership
5 2 (4.35%) AI Agents
5 2 (4.35%) Data Structures
5 2 (4.35%) Management Information System
6 1 (2.17%) Data Centre
6 1 (2.17%) Data Fabric
6 1 (2.17%) Derivative
6 1 (2.17%) Fixed Income
6 1 (2.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (2.17%) Mainframe
6 1 (2.17%) NHS
6 1 (2.17%) Public Cloud
6 1 (2.17%) Virtual Team
6 1 (2.17%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.70%) Linux
2 1 (2.17%) AIX
2 1 (2.17%) Android
2 1 (2.17%) Apple iOS
2 1 (2.17%) Solaris
2 1 (2.17%) Unix
2 1 (2.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (52.17%) CI/CD
2 20 (43.48%) DevOps
3 17 (36.96%) Infrastructure as Code
4 13 (28.26%) Agile
5 11 (23.91%) Analytics
6 10 (21.74%) Data Pipeline
6 10 (21.74%) Event-Driven
6 10 (21.74%) Microservices
7 8 (17.39%) Full-Stack Development
7 8 (17.39%) Observability
8 7 (15.22%) Containerisation
8 7 (15.22%) ETL
8 7 (15.22%) Software Engineering
9 5 (10.87%) AI
9 5 (10.87%) Data Modelling
9 5 (10.87%) Design Patterns
9 5 (10.87%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 5 (10.87%) Performance Tuning
9 5 (10.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 4 (8.70%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 29 (63.04%) Python
2 18 (39.13%) SQL
3 9 (19.57%) JavaScript
4 8 (17.39%) Java
5 5 (10.87%) TypeScript
6 3 (6.52%) C#
7 2 (4.35%) Bash
7 2 (4.35%) Go
8 1 (2.17%) Apex Code
8 1 (2.17%) Bicep
8 1 (2.17%) COBOL
8 1 (2.17%) PHP
8 1 (2.17%) Ruby
8 1 (2.17%) Shell Script
8 1 (2.17%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 17 (36.96%) SC Cleared
1 17 (36.96%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.35%) AWS Certification
2 2 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (2.17%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.04%) Data Quality
2 3 (6.52%) GDPR
3 1 (2.17%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 1 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.17%) MiFID
3 1 (2.17%) NCSC
3 1 (2.17%) QA
System Software
1 8 (17.39%) Docker
2 1 (2.17%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 17 (36.96%) Terraform
2 4 (8.70%) Ansible
2 4 (8.70%) Kubernetes
3 3 (6.52%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (2.17%) Kibana
4 1 (2.17%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 11 (23.91%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.52%) Databricks
3 2 (4.35%) SAP
4 1 (2.17%) Amplitude
4 1 (2.17%) Atlassian
4 1 (2.17%) NetApp
4 1 (2.17%) OpenAI
4 1 (2.17%) Portware
4 1 (2.17%) Salesforce