Serverless Contracts in London

Serverless Computing
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 91 87
Rank change year-on-year +3 -4 -8
Contract jobs citing Serverless 391 437 762
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 3.12% 2.45% 2.82%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.36% 6.48% 7.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 292 325 524
10th Percentile £405 £365 £443
25th Percentile £450 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £513 £600
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% -14.58% -
75th Percentile £741 £626 £700
90th Percentile £838 £765 £781
England median daily rate £550 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £47.00
25th Percentile - - £65.00
Median hourly rate £35.00 - £75.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £26.50 - £75.00
% change year-on-year - - +31.58%

All Cloud 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 5,314 6,744 10,546
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.35% 37.82% 39.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,693 4,977 7,700
10th Percentile £358 £350 £375
25th Percentile £440 £445 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year - -6.38% +2.17%
75th Percentile £673 £675 £695
90th Percentile £788 £775 £782
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 71 90
10th Percentile £22.40 £17.78 £20.00
25th Percentile £24.66 £21.25 £24.63
Median hourly rate £29.07 £25.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.28% -37.50% +1.27%
75th Percentile £53.75 £38.44 £70.00
90th Percentile £73.13 £58.75 £88.30
England median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
% change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%

Serverless
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Serverless in London

Serverless
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Serverless in London

Serverless
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Serverless in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Serverless in London

Serverless
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Serverless in London.

Hourly rate trend for Serverless in London

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 1 May 2025. 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 +1 49 £575 +9.52% 42
West London +22 14 £478 -11.14% 9
South London +1 11 £488 -3.70% 3
East London +15 1 £575 -23.33% 5
Serverless
England

Serverless
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 46 (11.76%) Apache Spark
2 41 (10.49%) Apache
3 36 (9.21%) Apache Airflow
4 12 (3.07%) SharePoint
5 11 (2.81%) Confluence
6 6 (1.53%) BizTalk Server
7 4 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.26%) CMS
8 1 (0.26%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 15 (3.84%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.77%) Endur
3 1 (0.26%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.26%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 300 (76.73%) AWS
2 255 (65.22%) AWS Lambda
3 138 (35.29%) Amazon S3
4 114 (29.16%) Azure
5 81 (20.72%) AWS CloudFormation
6 75 (19.18%) Azure Functions
7 63 (16.11%) Amazon ECS
8 61 (15.60%) Amazon EC2
9 52 (13.30%) Amazon SQS
10 42 (10.74%) Azure Logic Apps
11 40 (10.23%) Azure DevOps
11 40 (10.23%) OpenShift
12 39 (9.97%) Power Platform
13 37 (9.46%) Amazon EKS
13 37 (9.46%) GitHub
14 36 (9.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 35 (8.95%) dbt
16 32 (8.18%) PaaS
17 30 (7.67%) AWS Step Functions
18 28 (7.16%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 30 (7.67%) Firewall
2 18 (4.60%) VPN
3 9 (2.30%) HTTP
4 5 (1.28%) DNS
4 5 (1.28%) TCP/IP
5 4 (1.02%) SSL
6 3 (0.77%) Network Security
7 2 (0.51%) DHCP
7 2 (0.51%) HTTPS
7 2 (0.51%) Kerberos
7 2 (0.51%) VLAN
8 1 (0.26%) Broadband
8 1 (0.26%) Cisco ISE
8 1 (0.26%) IPsec
8 1 (0.26%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.26%) WAN
8 1 (0.26%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (18.16%) Amazon RDS
2 69 (17.65%) Amazon Athena
3 49 (12.53%) DynamoDB
4 39 (9.97%) NoSQL
5 38 (9.72%) Amazon Redshift
6 34 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
7 30 (7.67%) Apache Iceberg
8 28 (7.16%) Apache Arrow
8 28 (7.16%) Apache Ignite
8 28 (7.16%) Dremio
9 23 (5.88%) Power BI
10 21 (5.37%) Tableau
11 19 (4.86%) Big Data
11 19 (4.86%) Data Lake
12 17 (4.35%) Azure SQL Database
13 16 (4.09%) Relational Database
14 15 (3.84%) Data Warehouse
15 13 (3.32%) SQL Server
16 11 (2.81%) MongoDB
16 11 (2.81%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 37 (9.46%) Artifactory
2 34 (8.70%) Jenkins
3 28 (7.16%) Git
4 20 (5.12%) GitLab
5 12 (3.07%) Cypress.io
6 11 (2.81%) JIRA
7 7 (1.79%) Visual Studio Code
8 6 (1.53%) git-flow
8 6 (1.53%) SonarQube
9 4 (1.02%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.77%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (0.77%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.77%) Gradle
10 3 (0.77%) Mocha
10 3 (0.77%) Mockito
10 3 (0.77%) Postman
11 2 (0.51%) CircleCI
11 2 (0.51%) JMeter
11 2 (0.51%) JUnit
12 1 (0.26%) Visual Studio
General
1 80 (20.46%) Finance
2 66 (16.88%) Public Sector
2 66 (16.88%) Social Skills
3 45 (11.51%) Front Office
4 34 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (6.14%) Banking
6 10 (2.56%) Marketing
7 7 (1.79%) Retail
8 6 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.02%) Financial Institution
10 3 (0.77%) Investment Banking
10 3 (0.77%) Military
11 2 (0.51%) Corporate Banking
11 2 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.51%) Publishing
11 2 (0.51%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.26%) Billing
12 1 (0.26%) Police
Job Titles
1 102 (26.09%) AWS Engineer
2 89 (22.76%) Developer
3 76 (19.44%) Architect
4 75 (19.18%) Data Engineer
5 66 (16.88%) DevOps Engineer
5 66 (16.88%) Senior
6 58 (14.83%) AWS DevOps
6 58 (14.83%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 41 (10.49%) Python Engineer
8 25 (6.39%) AWS Architect
8 25 (6.39%) Senior Developer
9 24 (6.14%) Lead
10 23 (5.88%) AWS Data Engineer
11 21 (5.37%) AWS Developer
11 21 (5.37%) Azure Architect
12 19 (4.86%) Cloud Architect
12 19 (4.86%) Software Engineer
12 19 (4.86%) Solutions Architect
13 15 (3.84%) Java Developer
14 13 (3.32%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (14.83%) Kafka
2 55 (14.07%) Node.js
3 48 (12.28%) React
4 41 (10.49%) .NET
5 38 (9.72%) PySpark
6 34 (8.70%) J2EE
7 22 (5.63%) AWS CDK
7 22 (5.63%) GraphQL
8 18 (4.60%) JSON
8 18 (4.60%) REST
8 18 (4.60%) RESTful
9 17 (4.35%) HTML
10 15 (3.84%) CSS
11 14 (3.58%) .NET Core
11 14 (3.58%) .NET Framework
12 13 (3.32%) ARM Templates
12 13 (3.32%) Spring Boot
13 11 (2.81%) PyTorch
13 11 (2.81%) scikit-learn
13 11 (2.81%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 50 (12.79%) Cloud Native
2 19 (4.86%) Greenfield Project
3 10 (2.56%) Hybrid Cloud
3 10 (2.56%) Public Cloud
4 9 (2.30%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (1.79%) Algorithms
5 7 (1.79%) Onboarding
6 5 (1.28%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (1.28%) Mobile App
6 5 (1.28%) Product Ownership
6 5 (1.28%) Tandem
7 4 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.02%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (1.02%) TWAP
7 4 (1.02%) VWAP
8 3 (0.77%) Data Structures
8 3 (0.77%) Low-Code
8 3 (0.77%) Management Information System
8 3 (0.77%) Vector Graphics
8 3 (0.77%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 20 (5.12%) Linux
2 9 (2.30%) Unix
2 9 (2.30%) Windows
3 4 (1.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (1.02%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.51%) Android
4 2 (0.51%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.26%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 187 (47.83%) DevOps
2 178 (45.52%) CI/CD
3 128 (32.74%) Agile
4 96 (24.55%) Infrastructure as Code
5 79 (20.20%) Microservices
6 74 (18.93%) Software Engineering
7 61 (15.60%) Containerisation
8 57 (14.58%) Data Engineering
9 52 (13.30%) Open Source
9 52 (13.30%) Problem-Solving
10 48 (12.28%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 46 (11.76%) Asset Management
12 39 (9.97%) High Availability
13 38 (9.72%) ETL
14 37 (9.46%) Full-Stack Development
15 33 (8.44%) Stakeholder Management
16 30 (7.67%) Analytics
16 30 (7.67%) Data Pipeline
17 29 (7.42%) Event-Driven
17 29 (7.42%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 176 (45.01%) Python
2 90 (23.02%) SQL
3 87 (22.25%) JavaScript
4 77 (19.69%) Java
5 69 (17.65%) TypeScript
6 45 (11.51%) Go
7 32 (8.18%) C#
8 26 (6.65%) PowerShell
9 24 (6.14%) Bicep
10 17 (4.35%) Bash
11 11 (2.81%) T-SQL
12 10 (2.56%) Scala
13 8 (2.05%) C++
14 6 (1.53%) PL/SQL
14 6 (1.53%) Shell Script
15 4 (1.02%) Perl
16 3 (0.77%) PHP
17 2 (0.51%) Lua
17 2 (0.51%) R
17 2 (0.51%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 107 (27.37%) Security Cleared
2 102 (26.09%) SC Cleared
3 59 (15.09%) AWS Certification
4 34 (8.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 17 (4.35%) Degree
6 12 (3.07%) Azure Certification
7 7 (1.79%) AWS Certified Developer
7 7 (1.79%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 4 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.02%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.77%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.77%) OCP
9 3 (0.77%) Oracle Certification
10 2 (0.51%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 2 (0.51%) CCIE
10 2 (0.51%) CCNP
10 2 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.26%) CISSP
11 1 (0.26%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.07%) GDPR
2 10 (2.56%) Data Quality
3 8 (2.05%) QA
4 7 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.53%) SOC 2
6 5 (1.28%) NIST
7 4 (1.02%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.51%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.26%) HL7
9 1 (0.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 100 (25.58%) Docker
2 16 (4.09%) Active Directory
3 10 (2.56%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.51%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.26%) RACF
5 1 (0.26%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 165 (42.20%) Terraform
2 139 (35.55%) Kubernetes
3 21 (5.37%) Ansible
4 13 (3.32%) Prometheus
5 8 (2.05%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (1.79%) Grafana
7 2 (0.51%) Kibana
7 2 (0.51%) Puppet
8 1 (0.26%) Apache Ranger
8 1 (0.26%) Data Guard
8 1 (0.26%) Packer
8 1 (0.26%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 68 (17.39%) Microsoft
2 24 (6.14%) Oracle
3 19 (4.86%) Splunk
4 9 (2.30%) Google
5 8 (2.05%) Salesforce
6 7 (1.79%) Databricks
7 6 (1.53%) Cloudera
7 6 (1.53%) MuleSoft
8 3 (0.77%) AppDynamics
8 3 (0.77%) Cisco
8 3 (0.77%) Dynatrace
8 3 (0.77%) OpenLink
8 3 (0.77%) Qualys
8 3 (0.77%) SAP
8 3 (0.77%) Tenable
9 2 (0.51%) IBM
9 2 (0.51%) Informatica
9 2 (0.51%) StreamSets
9 2 (0.51%) Virgin Media
9 2 (0.51%) VMware