Serverless Contract Job Trends in London

Serverless Computing
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Serverless skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 89 85
Rank change year-on-year +3 -4 +2
Contract jobs citing Serverless 522 378 455
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.19% 2.94% 2.50%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.28% 7.00% 6.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 385 286 332
10th Percentile £356 £405 £400
25th Percentile £414 £450 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% +4.76% -16.00%
75th Percentile £630 £775 £626
90th Percentile £700 £838 £750
England median daily rate £505 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -8.18% +4.76% -12.50%

All Cloud Computing Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 7,175 5,402 6,773
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.79% 41.95% 37.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,928 3,738 4,977
10th Percentile £350 £356 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £670 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £768
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 43 76
10th Percentile £18.18 £22.27 £17.39
25th Percentile £23.55 £23.99 £21.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £27.98
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +3.90% -20.06%
75th Percentile £51.10 £55.50 £51.06
90th Percentile £72.50 £72.50 £63.13
England median hourly rate £37.58 £26.00 £21.19
% change year-on-year +44.54% +22.73% -15.26%

Serverless
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Serverless relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Serverless job vacancy trend in London

Serverless
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Serverless.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Serverless

Serverless
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Serverless in London over the 6 months to 17 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Serverless in London

Serverless
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Serverless.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Serverless

Serverless
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Serverless within the London region over the 6 months to 17 March 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +9 58 £523 -9.13% 50
South London +3 27 £500 +2.56% 2
West London -26 6 £550 +34.47% 4
East London +3 3 £540 -6.09% 3
Serverless
England

Serverless
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 28 (5.36%) Apache Airflow
2 27 (5.17%) Apache Spark
3 25 (4.79%) Apache
4 18 (3.45%) Confluence
5 17 (3.26%) SharePoint
6 11 (2.11%) HCL Notes
7 10 (1.92%) Mendix
8 8 (1.53%) nginx
8 8 (1.53%) Palantir Foundry
9 2 (0.38%) CICS
9 2 (0.38%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.19%) FileNet
10 1 (0.19%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 8 (1.53%) Chatbot
1 8 (1.53%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 16 (3.07%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.38%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 373 (71.46%) AWS
2 320 (61.30%) AWS Lambda
3 218 (41.76%) Amazon S3
4 196 (37.55%) Azure
5 127 (24.33%) Azure Functions
6 118 (22.61%) GitHub
7 95 (18.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 94 (18.01%) Amazon EC2
9 89 (17.05%) Amazon ECS
10 86 (16.48%) AWS CloudFormation
11 80 (15.33%) Amazon EKS
11 80 (15.33%) GitHub Actions
12 77 (14.75%) Azure DevOps
13 72 (13.79%) Azure Logic Apps
13 72 (13.79%) Power Platform
14 59 (11.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 49 (9.39%) Azure Service Bus
16 47 (9.00%) AWS Step Functions
17 37 (7.09%) Snowflake
18 36 (6.90%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 23 (4.41%) DNS
2 16 (3.07%) VPN
3 15 (2.87%) Firewall
4 9 (1.72%) TCP/IP
5 8 (1.53%) Network Security
5 8 (1.53%) OpenVPN
6 6 (1.15%) SMS
7 4 (0.77%) HTTP
7 4 (0.77%) Reverse Proxy
8 3 (0.57%) WAN
9 2 (0.38%) Kerberos
9 2 (0.38%) LAN
9 2 (0.38%) MPLS
10 1 (0.19%) 4G
10 1 (0.19%) 5G
10 1 (0.19%) NaaS
10 1 (0.19%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (14.18%) Amazon RDS
2 55 (10.54%) DynamoDB
3 54 (10.34%) PostgreSQL
4 50 (9.58%) Amazon Redshift
5 46 (8.81%) Power BI
6 43 (8.24%) Amazon Athena
7 34 (6.51%) Data Lake
8 30 (5.75%) NoSQL
9 25 (4.79%) Data Warehouse
10 24 (4.60%) Tableau
11 22 (4.21%) Amazon Aurora
12 20 (3.83%) Redis
13 18 (3.45%) Azure SQL Database
13 18 (3.45%) Big Data
14 15 (2.87%) Apache Iceberg
14 15 (2.87%) Elasticsearch
15 14 (2.68%) Relational Database
15 14 (2.68%) SQL Server
16 13 (2.49%) Metadata
17 11 (2.11%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 85 (16.28%) Git
2 68 (13.03%) GitLab
3 66 (12.64%) Jenkins
4 32 (6.13%) JIRA
5 17 (3.26%) Bitbucket
5 17 (3.26%) JUnit
6 11 (2.11%) Cucumber
7 9 (1.72%) Mockito
8 8 (1.53%) Cypress.io
8 8 (1.53%) MLflow
8 8 (1.53%) SonarQube
9 6 (1.15%) Visual Studio Code
9 6 (1.15%) Vite
10 5 (0.96%) Liquibase
10 5 (0.96%) MSTest
10 5 (0.96%) Postman
10 5 (0.96%) Snyk
11 4 (0.77%) Mocha
11 4 (0.77%) Terragrunt
12 3 (0.57%) Spinnaker
General
1 128 (24.52%) Social Skills
2 88 (16.86%) Public Sector
3 81 (15.52%) Finance
4 45 (8.62%) Analytical Skills
5 38 (7.28%) Banking
6 20 (3.83%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (2.68%) Marketing
8 11 (2.11%) Financial Institution
9 6 (1.15%) Front Office
9 6 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (1.15%) Investment Banking
10 4 (0.77%) Retail
11 3 (0.57%) Billing
11 3 (0.57%) Military
11 3 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (0.57%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.38%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.38%) Law
12 2 (0.38%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.38%) Police
Job Titles
1 123 (23.56%) Developer
2 76 (14.56%) Architect
3 70 (13.41%) Senior
4 69 (13.22%) Data Engineer
5 62 (11.88%) AWS Engineer
6 39 (7.47%) Lead
7 38 (7.28%) DevOps Engineer
8 32 (6.13%) Cloud Engineer
9 30 (5.75%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 30 (5.75%) Software Engineer
10 29 (5.56%) AWS Architect
11 23 (4.41%) AWS DevOps
12 22 (4.21%) Cloud Architect
13 21 (4.02%) Azure Engineer
14 20 (3.83%) Python Engineer
15 19 (3.64%) AWS Developer
15 19 (3.64%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 16 (3.07%) Full-Stack Developer
16 16 (3.07%) Power Platform Developer
16 16 (3.07%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (15.52%) Kafka
2 78 (14.94%) Node.js
3 75 (14.37%) React
4 71 (13.60%) .NET
5 58 (11.11%) RESTful
6 43 (8.24%) REST
7 38 (7.28%) OAuth
8 30 (5.75%) Spring
8 30 (5.75%) Spring Boot
9 29 (5.56%) AngularJS
9 29 (5.56%) PySpark
10 25 (4.79%) CSS
11 23 (4.41%) OpenID
12 21 (4.02%) FastAPI
13 20 (3.83%) Model Context Protocol
14 19 (3.64%) LangChain
15 18 (3.45%) boto
15 18 (3.45%) HTML
15 18 (3.45%) JSON
16 17 (3.26%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 132 (25.29%) Cloud Native
2 35 (6.70%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (4.02%) Product Ownership
4 16 (3.07%) AI Agents
5 14 (2.68%) Legacy Systems
6 11 (2.11%) Enterprise Software
6 11 (2.11%) Low-Code
7 9 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
8 7 (1.34%) DataPower
8 7 (1.34%) Mainframe
8 7 (1.34%) Mobile App
9 6 (1.15%) Algorithms
9 6 (1.15%) Data Structures
9 6 (1.15%) Equities
9 6 (1.15%) Replication
9 6 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (0.96%) Derivative
10 5 (0.96%) Distributed Architecture
11 4 (0.77%) PACS
Operating Systems
1 34 (6.51%) Linux
2 7 (1.34%) Unix
3 6 (1.15%) Windows
4 4 (0.77%) VMS
5 2 (0.38%) zOS
6 1 (0.19%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 310 (59.39%) CI/CD
2 242 (46.36%) DevOps
3 174 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 150 (28.74%) Agile
5 128 (24.52%) Microservices
6 100 (19.16%) Problem-Solving
7 96 (18.39%) Containerisation
8 95 (18.20%) AI
9 85 (16.28%) Data Modelling
10 79 (15.13%) Analytics
11 75 (14.37%) Data Pipeline
12 74 (14.18%) Event-Driven
13 69 (13.22%) Data Engineering
14 68 (13.03%) Observability
15 65 (12.45%) ETL
16 64 (12.26%) Software Engineering
17 57 (10.92%) Test Automation
18 55 (10.54%) Business Intelligence
19 50 (9.58%) Mentoring
20 48 (9.20%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 257 (49.23%) Python
2 183 (35.06%) SQL
3 85 (16.28%) C#
3 85 (16.28%) JavaScript
4 74 (14.18%) Java
5 68 (13.03%) TypeScript
6 30 (5.75%) Bash
7 24 (4.60%) Bicep
8 16 (3.07%) PowerShell
9 14 (2.68%) Shell Script
10 12 (2.30%) Ruby
11 11 (2.11%) Formula Language
11 11 (2.11%) Go
11 11 (2.11%) LotusScript
12 9 (1.72%) C++
13 8 (1.53%) Scala
14 7 (1.34%) Korn
15 6 (1.15%) JSX
16 4 (0.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 4 (0.77%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 156 (29.89%) Security Cleared
2 130 (24.90%) SC Cleared
3 35 (6.70%) AWS Certification
4 22 (4.21%) Azure Certification
5 21 (4.02%) Degree
6 17 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
7 15 (2.87%) DV Cleared
8 13 (2.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 10 (1.92%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 9 (1.72%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 9 (1.72%) Master's Degree
11 8 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
12 6 (1.15%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (0.77%) PhD
14 3 (0.57%) AWS Certified Developer
14 3 (0.57%) ITIL Certification
14 3 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
15 1 (0.19%) CompTIA Security+
15 1 (0.19%) DBS Check
15 1 (0.19%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (7.28%) Data Quality
2 27 (5.17%) QA
3 15 (2.87%) GDPR
4 11 (2.11%) Accessibility
4 11 (2.11%) NIST
5 8 (1.53%) PCI DSS
6 6 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.96%) PMO
8 4 (0.77%) HIPAA
8 4 (0.77%) ISO 20022
8 4 (0.77%) SLA
8 4 (0.77%) WCAG
9 2 (0.38%) EU AI Act
9 2 (0.38%) FedRAMP
9 2 (0.38%) GRC
10 1 (0.19%) Government Security Classifications
10 1 (0.19%) GxP
10 1 (0.19%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.19%) NIST 800
System Software
1 131 (25.10%) Docker
2 17 (3.26%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.53%) Squid
4 5 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.38%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.19%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 219 (41.95%) Terraform
2 124 (23.75%) Kubernetes
3 30 (5.75%) Prometheus
4 28 (5.36%) Grafana
5 26 (4.98%) Ansible
6 15 (2.87%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (1.53%) FortiGate
8 7 (1.34%) Consul
9 6 (1.15%) Kibana
10 4 (0.77%) Istio
10 4 (0.77%) linkerd
11 3 (0.57%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (0.57%) Karpenter
11 3 (0.57%) Kustomize
11 3 (0.57%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.57%) Puppet
11 3 (0.57%) Rancher
12 2 (0.38%) Knative
12 2 (0.38%) Opsgenie
13 1 (0.19%) Amdocs OSS
Vendors
1 88 (16.86%) Microsoft
2 37 (7.09%) Databricks
3 36 (6.90%) OpenAI
4 16 (3.07%) Oracle
5 15 (2.87%) Dynatrace
6 13 (2.49%) Foundry
7 12 (2.30%) Google
8 11 (2.11%) Lotus
8 11 (2.11%) ServiceNow
9 10 (1.92%) Kofax
10 8 (1.53%) Cloudera
10 8 (1.53%) Palantir
10 8 (1.53%) Red Hat
10 8 (1.53%) Sybase
11 7 (1.34%) Atlassian
11 7 (1.34%) Confluent
12 6 (1.15%) IBM
12 6 (1.15%) Salesforce
13 5 (0.96%) Splunk
14 4 (0.77%) Qualys