Serverless Contracts in the City of London

Serverless Computing
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for Serverless skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Serverless over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 72 69 48
Rank change year-on-year -3 -21 +53
Contract jobs citing Serverless 55 110 201
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 2.54% 3.14% 4.78%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.42% 8.17% 11.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 53 148
10th Percentile £413 £476 £463
25th Percentile £475 £513 £536
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £609 £650
Median % change year-on-year -16.05% -6.31% +23.81%
75th Percentile £563 £750 £775
90th Percentile £746 £825 £813
Central London median daily rate £511 £600 £650
% change year-on-year -14.79% -7.69% +23.81%

All Cloud Skills
City of London

Serverless is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 857 1,346 1,807
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 39.58% 38.41% 42.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 601 900 1,443
10th Percentile £363 £313 £395
25th Percentile £430 £463 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £593 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.86% +3.04% +9.52%
75th Percentile £665 £700 £688
90th Percentile £763 £800 £774
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 8 9
10th Percentile £12.75 £28.18 -
25th Percentile £14.88 £47.19 £13.88
Median hourly rate £22.50 £83.30 £20.19
Median % change year-on-year -72.99% +312.66% +9.85%
75th Percentile £26.19 £88.30 £27.75
90th Percentile £38.63 - £68.50
Central London median hourly rate £22.50 £82.50 £22.34
% change year-on-year -72.73% +269.25% -0.70%

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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 17 May 2024.

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 7 (12.73%) BizTalk Server
2 2 (3.64%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.82%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.82%) NServiceBus
3 1 (1.82%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.82%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 37 (67.27%) AWS
2 35 (63.64%) AWS Lambda
3 28 (50.91%) Azure
4 23 (41.82%) Azure Functions
5 15 (27.27%) Amazon S3
6 13 (23.64%) Azure Service Bus
7 11 (20.00%) Azure Logic Apps
8 10 (18.18%) Amazon EC2
8 10 (18.18%) GitHub
9 8 (14.55%) AWS Step Functions
9 8 (14.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 8 (14.55%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (14.55%) Azure Storage
10 7 (12.73%) Amazon MSK
10 7 (12.73%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (10.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 5 (9.09%) Azure AKS
13 4 (7.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 4 (7.27%) Amazon EventBridge
13 4 (7.27%) Azure API Management
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (18.18%) Amazon RDS
1 10 (18.18%) Amazon Redshift
2 9 (16.36%) DynamoDB
3 8 (14.55%) NoSQL
3 8 (14.55%) Parquet
4 7 (12.73%) Azure SQL Database
4 7 (12.73%) MongoDB
5 4 (7.27%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (5.45%) RDBMS
6 3 (5.45%) Relational Database
6 3 (5.45%) SQL Server
6 3 (5.45%) Tableau
7 2 (3.64%) Big Data
8 1 (1.82%) Data Lake
8 1 (1.82%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.82%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (12.73%) Git
2 5 (9.09%) Cypress.io
2 5 (9.09%) JMeter
3 3 (5.45%) GitLab
4 2 (3.64%) Cucumber
4 2 (3.64%) Jenkins
4 2 (3.64%) REST Assured
4 2 (3.64%) Selenium
4 2 (3.64%) SonarQube
4 2 (3.64%) Visual Studio
5 1 (1.82%) CircleCI
5 1 (1.82%) git-flow
5 1 (1.82%) GoCD
5 1 (1.82%) Gradle
5 1 (1.82%) JIRA
5 1 (1.82%) Maven
5 1 (1.82%) Mockito
5 1 (1.82%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (1.82%) Terragrunt
5 1 (1.82%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 9 (16.36%) Public Sector
2 8 (14.55%) Social Skills
3 4 (7.27%) Finance
4 2 (3.64%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.82%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.82%) Back Office
5 1 (1.82%) Banking
5 1 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.82%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 19 (34.55%) Developer
2 12 (21.82%) Data Engineer
3 10 (18.18%) Full Stack Developer
4 7 (12.73%) Architect
5 6 (10.91%) Senior
6 4 (7.27%) AWS Architect
6 4 (7.27%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (7.27%) Platform Engineer
7 3 (5.45%) AWS Engineer
7 3 (5.45%) Cloud Engineer
8 2 (3.64%) .NET Developer
8 2 (3.64%) Azure Architect
8 2 (3.64%) Azure Developer
8 2 (3.64%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 2 (3.64%) Java Developer
8 2 (3.64%) Junior
8 2 (3.64%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 2 (3.64%) Software Developer
8 2 (3.64%) Software Engineer
8 2 (3.64%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (27.27%) Kafka
2 12 (21.82%) .NET
3 9 (16.36%) .NET Core
3 9 (16.36%) JSON
3 9 (16.36%) React
4 8 (14.55%) Blazor
5 7 (12.73%) Apache Avro
6 6 (10.91%) Node.js
7 2 (3.64%) .NET Framework
7 2 (3.64%) HTML
7 2 (3.64%) OAuth
7 2 (3.64%) OAuth2
7 2 (3.64%) RESTful
7 2 (3.64%) YAML
8 1 (1.82%) Flask
8 1 (1.82%) SAML
8 1 (1.82%) SignalR
8 1 (1.82%) Spring
8 1 (1.82%) Spring Boot
8 1 (1.82%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (25.45%) Cloud Native
2 9 (16.36%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (5.45%) Machine to Machine
3 3 (5.45%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.64%) Video on Demand
5 1 (1.82%) BYOD
5 1 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.82%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.82%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (14.55%) Windows
2 6 (10.91%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (43.64%) CI/CD
2 21 (38.18%) Microservices
3 19 (34.55%) DevOps
4 15 (27.27%) Agile
5 14 (25.45%) Software Engineering
6 12 (21.82%) Full Stack Development
7 11 (20.00%) SDLC
8 10 (18.18%) Front End Development
9 9 (16.36%) Continuous Improvement
9 9 (16.36%) ETL
10 8 (14.55%) Data Development
10 8 (14.55%) Data Ingestion
10 8 (14.55%) Multithreading
11 7 (12.73%) Architectural Design
11 7 (12.73%) Data Pipeline
11 7 (12.73%) SFIA
11 7 (12.73%) Technical Leadership
12 6 (10.91%) Platform Engineering
13 5 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
13 5 (9.09%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 37 (67.27%) Python
2 26 (47.27%) SQL
3 13 (23.64%) JavaScript
4 9 (16.36%) Go
5 7 (12.73%) C++
5 7 (12.73%) PL/SQL
5 7 (12.73%) T-SQL
6 5 (9.09%) C#
6 5 (9.09%) TypeScript
7 4 (7.27%) Java
8 3 (5.45%) Bash
8 3 (5.45%) PowerShell
9 2 (3.64%) Scala
10 1 (1.82%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (23.64%) SC Cleared
1 13 (23.64%) Security Cleared
2 6 (10.91%) AWS Certification
3 2 (3.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 2 (3.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (3.64%) Azure Certification
3 2 (3.64%) Degree
3 2 (3.64%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.82%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
4 1 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.64%) Data Quality
1 2 (3.64%) QA
2 1 (1.82%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 10 (18.18%) Docker
2 1 (1.82%) Ceph
2 1 (1.82%) NFS
Systems Management
1 22 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 15 (27.27%) Terraform
3 5 (9.09%) Argo
4 4 (7.27%) Ansible
5 2 (3.64%) Progress Chef
5 2 (3.64%) Puppet
6 1 (1.82%) Consul
6 1 (1.82%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (1.82%) Hadoop YARN
6 1 (1.82%) Mesos
6 1 (1.82%) Packer
Vendors
1 7 (12.73%) MuleSoft
1 7 (12.73%) Oracle
2 3 (5.45%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.82%) Black Duck
3 1 (1.82%) Databricks