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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 86 64
Rank change year-on-year +6 -22 +9
Contract jobs citing Serverless 41 43 93
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 2.37% 2.04% 3.09%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.88% 5.06% 7.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 31 47
10th Percentile £425 £475 £420
25th Percentile £488 £500 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £738 £631 £694
90th Percentile £800 £788 £738
Central London median daily rate £625 £563 £600
% change year-on-year +11.11% -6.25% +4.35%

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 697 850 1,247
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 40.27% 40.32% 41.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 484 560 847
10th Percentile £335 £384 £325
25th Percentile £435 £472 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £565
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -0.44% -1.74%
75th Percentile £668 £675 £688
90th Percentile £750 £775 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £560 £555
% change year-on-year -1.79% +0.86% -3.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 3 6
10th Percentile £23.75 - £14.63
25th Percentile £25.71 - £17.00
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year +25.93% +30.12% -17.00%
75th Percentile £61.16 £59.75 £34.44
90th Percentile £88.75 £79.40 £45.25
Central London median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £20.75
% change year-on-year -2.86% +68.67% -17.00%

Serverless
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

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 21 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Serverless in the City of London

Serverless
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 2 (4.88%) Confluence
2 1 (2.44%) CICS
2 1 (2.44%) CMS
2 1 (2.44%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Aladdin
1 1 (2.44%) Fidessa
1 1 (2.44%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (2.44%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 33 (80.49%) AWS
2 31 (75.61%) AWS Lambda
3 18 (43.90%) Amazon S3
4 13 (31.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 11 (26.83%) Amazon SQS
6 8 (19.51%) Azure
7 7 (17.07%) AWS Step Functions
8 6 (14.63%) Amazon Cognito
8 6 (14.63%) Amazon ECS
8 6 (14.63%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (12.20%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (12.20%) Amazon EventBridge
9 5 (12.20%) Datadog
9 5 (12.20%) GitHub
9 5 (12.20%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (9.76%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (9.76%) Snowflake
11 2 (4.88%) Azure Functions
11 2 (4.88%) Fastly
11 2 (4.88%) Heroku
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.32%) DNS
2 1 (2.44%) DKIM
2 1 (2.44%) NAS
2 1 (2.44%) OpenLDAP
2 1 (2.44%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (2.44%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (29.27%) DynamoDB
2 6 (14.63%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (12.20%) DocumentDB
3 5 (12.20%) Redis
4 3 (7.32%) NoSQL
4 3 (7.32%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (4.88%) Airbyte
5 2 (4.88%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (4.88%) Parquet
5 2 (4.88%) SQL Server
6 1 (2.44%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (2.44%) BigQuery
6 1 (2.44%) Data Lake
6 1 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (2.44%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (2.44%) GIS
6 1 (2.44%) Pinecone
6 1 (2.44%) Power BI
6 1 (2.44%) Relational Database
6 1 (2.44%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 10 (24.39%) Git
2 5 (12.20%) SonarQube
3 3 (7.32%) JIRA
4 2 (4.88%) GitLab
5 1 (2.44%) CircleCI
5 1 (2.44%) Jenkins
5 1 (2.44%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 7 (17.07%) Finance
1 7 (17.07%) Social Skills
2 6 (14.63%) Public Sector
3 3 (7.32%) Banking
3 3 (7.32%) Investment Banking
4 2 (4.88%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.88%) Front Office
5 1 (2.44%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (21.95%) Developer
2 6 (14.63%) Architect
2 6 (14.63%) Software Engineer
3 5 (12.20%) JavaScript Engineer
3 5 (12.20%) Senior
4 4 (9.76%) Software Design Engineer
5 3 (7.32%) AWS Engineer
5 3 (7.32%) Backend Developer
5 3 (7.32%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (7.32%) JavaScript Developer
5 3 (7.32%) Lead
5 3 (7.32%) Python Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) AWS DevOps
6 2 (4.88%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) Azure Developer
6 2 (4.88%) Integration Developer
6 2 (4.88%) NoSQL Developer
6 2 (4.88%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (2.44%) Data Engineer
7 1 (2.44%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (34.15%) Node.js
2 13 (31.71%) React
3 7 (17.07%) AngularJS
4 6 (14.63%) GraphQL
4 6 (14.63%) RESTful
5 5 (12.20%) OpenTelemetry
5 5 (12.20%) WebSockets
6 3 (7.32%) .NET
6 3 (7.32%) FastAPI
6 3 (7.32%) OAuth
6 3 (7.32%) OAuth2
7 2 (4.88%) AWS CDK
7 2 (4.88%) CSS
7 2 (4.88%) Flask
7 2 (4.88%) HTML
7 2 (4.88%) REST
7 2 (4.88%) SQLAlchemy
8 1 (2.44%) boto
8 1 (2.44%) Kafka
8 1 (2.44%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.07%) Cloud Native
2 3 (7.32%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.88%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (4.88%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (4.88%) Virtual Team
4 1 (2.44%) AI Agents
4 1 (2.44%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.44%) Derivative
4 1 (2.44%) Fixed Income
4 1 (2.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.44%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.44%) Mainframe
4 1 (2.44%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.44%) NHS
4 1 (2.44%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.44%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.44%) AIX
1 1 (2.44%) Android
1 1 (2.44%) Apple iOS
1 1 (2.44%) Linux
1 1 (2.44%) Solaris
1 1 (2.44%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (41.46%) CI/CD
2 14 (34.15%) DevOps
3 13 (31.71%) Microservices
4 12 (29.27%) Agile
5 11 (26.83%) Event-Driven
5 11 (26.83%) Infrastructure as Code
5 11 (26.83%) Software Engineering
6 9 (21.95%) Observability
7 8 (19.51%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 8 (19.51%) User Experience
8 7 (17.07%) Full-Stack Development
8 7 (17.07%) Mentoring
8 7 (17.07%) Technical Leadership
9 6 (14.63%) Clean Code
9 6 (14.63%) Performance Optimisation
10 5 (12.20%) Code Quality
10 5 (12.20%) Deployment Automation
11 4 (9.76%) Data Pipeline
11 4 (9.76%) Design Patterns
11 4 (9.76%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 17 (41.46%) Python
2 15 (36.59%) JavaScript
3 9 (21.95%) TypeScript
4 8 (19.51%) SQL
5 4 (9.76%) Java
6 3 (7.32%) Bash
7 2 (4.88%) Go
8 1 (2.44%) Apex Code
8 1 (2.44%) C#
8 1 (2.44%) COBOL
8 1 (2.44%) Rust
8 1 (2.44%) Shell Script
8 1 (2.44%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 10 (24.39%) SC Cleared
1 10 (24.39%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.88%) AWS Certification
2 2 (4.88%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (2.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.44%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.76%) GDPR
2 1 (2.44%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.44%) HMG Security Policy Framework
2 1 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.44%) MiFID
2 1 (2.44%) NCSC
2 1 (2.44%) QA
System Software
1 2 (4.88%) Docker
2 1 (2.44%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (24.39%) Terraform
2 5 (12.20%) Prometheus
3 3 (7.32%) Kubernetes
4 2 (4.88%) Ansible
4 2 (4.88%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (12.20%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.88%) Salesforce
3 1 (2.44%) Atlassian
3 1 (2.44%) Google
3 1 (2.44%) NetApp
3 1 (2.44%) Okta
3 1 (2.44%) Portware